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I started working in the Internet 'industry' back in 1997, selling firstly modems, then into large scale portals via, brochureware sites, intranets, a bit of ecommerce, database stuff and so on. So it makes me qualified from both a hands-on perspective as well as an interested observer into the trends and hooks onto which firstly 'experts' and then the masses are determined to hang their entire strategies from.
The conversations I enjoy most are the wanky ones account directors, heads of digital and media agencies have with their clients which currently start something like:
'It's all about social. Without social, you are nothing.'
Which is, of course true, BUT it is delivered with the portentous authority of an Internet oracle whose words are dismissed at one's peril. Of course, they do a great sales job and after all, Mr. willing client is prepared to listen to the consultant or agency as they are the expert. However, how can anyone be an expert in the true sense of the word given the lack of historical evidence or a crystal ball?
The point I'm struggling to make is that for at least the last decade and certainly since the post web 2.0 cliche, every start up and therefore 'next-best-thing' has become the be all and end all of online marketing. In the beginning you had cynics who felt the Internet itself was a fad and resisted it; some businesses still holding out until relatively recently, including large retail companies. Nowadays I think you'd be hard pushed to find many of those still in business and even if they still held those beliefs they'd likely be keeping them to themselves for fear of the ridicule and damage to their reputation if they soapboxed them.
Recently I watched the Zuckerberg documentary where Martin Sorrell, a hugely successful man who started and runs WPP one of the most successful advertising companies in the world, appeared to dismiss the social channel almost out of hand and that it could never compete with his version of advertising.
As it happens I don't agree and whilst the beginning of this post may seem to contradict the last paragraph, the point is that neither he, nor Zuckerberg knows what will be what. Arguably Sorrell is an expert in the old world of marketing / advertising whereas Zuckerberg can arguably purport to be one of the new world given the billions his company is generating, but neither can accurately predict the future.
And therein lies the rub. That no one has ever been 100% able to predict the future, there has always been and will always be conjecture and speculation about what will take off and flop and what will provide real traction and a place to spend precious budgets. Yet, throughout the rise of internet technologies, platforms and networks there has been a goldrush each and every time, clients willing to handover their cash to the (highly paid) saviours of their business.
In the beginning, it was all about getting to the party, i.e. a website. Then when sales didn't go through the roof as foretold (granted by people like me), those experts would tell them to slap their URL on anything which moved. So they reprinted stationery, sign wrote their vans, sent leaflets and so on. And things started to happen. Then they started collecting data, sending emails even. And that worked too. Then SEO came along and they optimised. And whaddya know, more people found them, bought stuff and subscribed for emails. All of sudden this was a serious channel and smart companies invested in CRM (sorry, eCRM) and many flourish today. However, you will have seen trends where companies firstly rebranded to be their web address (remember http://www.iceland.co.uk/?) and then ditched the www. part and just used the rest of the URL, without realising that lots of people were still playing catchup and many browsers wouldn't show anything without the prefix. Then, so as to arrogantly suggest their SEO was better than anyone else's, they would simply say 'search Wendy's' without realising that Burger King were bidding of that search term and were duly sending traffic to a competitor.
And now, such as almost the overwhelming trend among larger brands, the majority doesn't bother with anything other than a facebook.com/ address. It's like saying the Zuck, 'here you go, here's all my eggs, fill up your basket, while I spend millions driving data to your platform so you can better sell to my competitors.'.
Clearly these brands hire much more intelligent people than me and their agencies are filled with bright young things, but to me this is doing two fairly major things. Firstly, it serves to negate much of the hard work which was done in the early days in terms of optimising their own site thus cannibalising their traffic and secondly, it screams to the world that Facebook in a way is the Internet. Which is bollocks. Facebook is incredible, a phenomenon, truly the most important development online since Google, but it is not the Internet. God forbid. However it is becoming an internet within the Internet.
As a purist, I believe the Internet should be open; that's the reason it achieved such profound penetration in a very short space of time. Links are everything and in the same way I hope the Times' paywall fails and explodes spectacularly in Murdoch face, I hope that organisations can see that Facebook is just another channel of their overall strategy and not the entire strategy. Instead of weaving from new thing to new thing, these should be experimented with, optimised, tested and if successful, integrated. And I'm sure lots of this will have been done for many companies but not all.
Take a look at this article on how US companies are rushing to shut their Facebook stores. I called this from the start. I said Facebook was not a shopping destination, more that users had flocked there and returned because it was a social experience, a place to hang out, to share stuff and so on. I think when folk share and recommend product that is an incredibly powerful driver for businesses and I do think FB ads are a valid acquisition tool but why is it better that we check-out there too? Surely you want some of your customer's experience to be within your own environment. You wouldn't have your flagship store interior designed and 'retail-optimised' only to sell everything from a warehouse just 'cos that's where happened to hip at the time. Anyway I'm glad this trend seems to happening as it shows how these enterprises acted first and thought second; of course they were held up as forward thinking and progressive and were showing first mover initiative, but those who've been casually observing will be enjoying this. Having kept their powder dry, they are able to see that perhaps Fcommerce (like every other next-best-thing) isn't the best thing since, well, Facebook.
So it seems for now that where Facebook is concerned, people like to hang out at the mall but prefer to shop on the high street.
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]]>Selling new tech will always have that issue to a point, but I think Internet access has made us less naive as well as better informed; more of us now can see how a concept could take off and are far less cynical. That bedroom developers are spitting out code which gets funded, shows that at least the next generation are more willing to take risks because they understand how to leverage the world which is around them. I'm struggling to find a pre-nineties analogy to explain this better. I suppose if you'd been in the building industry your whole life, the process of building is altogether less remarkable than it would be layperson. The difference is that you'd need to be a builder first, you certainly wouldn't have been surrounded by the subject from the moment you could put your sticky fingers over your dad's iPhone. 5 year old kids in the school my friend teaches at are designing websites; three years ago, that may have surprised me; today no one would question it. My computer GCSE (I got a C) taught me about buffers, CPUs, disk drives an so on, which was all pretty useless when you consider what's important now. Tech specs were all the rage five years ago when hard drive size mattered and RAM decided whether you could actually use you PC or not, but the iPad has shown us that processing power is not that important for the masses and the cloud is about to show us we don't need anywhere of our own to store stuff.
So here we are all grown up. The barrier to entry is so low all you need is a mobile and the youth of today will have never heard the high pitched squeal of analog web access, much less pay a penny a minute for it. So they, as we all are, are immersed in a digital world and it's easy to get ever sucked further into it. My job is particularly digital focussed but still, everyone I know is on Facebook – and if they're not, it's deliberate – most have a LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ account…a few are signed up to Klout, Quora, Delicious, foursquare and so on and even a lucky few have their Pinterest invite. The list goes on and I must be signed up to most of them and I could spend my whole day never doing any actual work.
The Internet has made us undoubtedly more efficient, better informed, more inquisitive but I think that we're in danger of becoming less productive. Posts are reposted, tweeted, pinned, located and shared, liked, commented on etc and most of it has zero value but each action takes time. As companies become less and less restrictive in terms of what staff can access (not wanting to stifle creativity), the more interactive time wasting opportunities present themselves. Not wanting to miss a single digital interaction, or an opportunity to add a witty comment or cynical observation (#justsayin) takes a lot of effort. None of which is bad, I'm a supporter of all this and I'm allowed (to an extent) to play with it all day, but having just spent an hour on Pinterest, which was fun but added nothing to my employer, I thought I'd write this! A lot of the content out there is just cycled between 5 or 6 content networks driven in part by our desire to be a sharer of interesting stuff; if we get props for posting something funny or insightful before anyone else then we're more followable and interesting and our clout (sorry Klout) improves. But a lot of it is just a massive waste of time and you could suffocate amongst it all.
Life was much simpler with a 480×640 resolution.
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We now have just shy of 800 Twitter fans and 1,500 Facebook 'likes'. As I said, tiny numbers, but they deliver more and more sales each week, so every fan does have a monetary value.
The cost beyond my time and some design was around £1,200 and that's been paid back time and again. The cost was based on the cost price to us of items we used for a competition. We delivered the majority of those followers via three promotions seeded by email and then the social platforms themselves.
The first was an email to our 'active' email database of around 5,000 subscribers. It was simply;
'like us on Facebook to win £1,000 to spend at Gift Library'
We had a 30% open rate (versus 24% averagely), a 10% click rate, meaning a click-to-open rate (my favourite metric) of 33% ish. And crucially, we had a click to engagement rate in the high 90%. O.K, it's easy to 'like' something but we still had to get people over the line. The £1,000 is pretty strong but we're having to cut through inbox clutter so time of send, richness of offer, ease of mechanic etc was all important to get right. Plus we had no idea how it would go. What was interesting was how quickly people acted and how obvious it was that companies don't seem to be blocking Facebook use as much as I thought they might be. Most of the likes happened during work hours, whereas I thought we'd get a decent click through rate followed by a staggered action rate as people went home, remembered the email and then acted on it. Anyway, that delivered us nearly 800 likes in a couple of days. Creative is below.
O.K, so it worked nicely and we were starting to join our email and social channels and we'd established a new, albeit fledgling sales channel. We made sure we welcomed our new fans and gave them all a nice little discount code to say 'thanks' and summarily converted a few prospects into actual customers.
Then we interviewed the winner and talked about what she'd spend the voucher on and blogged about it and then linked to that in the next email. And finally we got a photo of her in the necklace she chose and posted that on FB and Twitter, a site banner and linked to it from another email. The goodwill from the audience which didn't win the competition towards the winner was really nice and things like that help break down any 'them and us' people may feel exists.
From then until now, everything we do across the site, email, youtube, whatever is echoed on FB to ensure the message is consistent and so we're talking to customers and prospect wherever they happen to be.
Next up, Twitter. Ours is a very a visual product range. Selling in 140 characters is a challenge and a chore. We decided that although we'd use Twitter to push products, we're better off using it as a customer service and an added value channel. So we ask our followers questions or for product suggestions or we get them to ask our CEO style questions and so on. But we do get sales from it so we wanted more followers. Although the people who get Twitter are an engaged bunch, it's a tougher gig getting a retweet than a getting a like. The mechanic is more complex and lots of people won't read what you write or follow instructions! However after as much simplification as possible we came up with a fairly straight forward promo which went;
And we got a big jump in followers and more importantly, retweets. Over the period of the promo we went from 200 to 600 followers and we got around 250 retweets. Not bad for a bag which cost us £190 and retails for £500.
An excerpt from the email is below
And again we welcomed our new Tweeps with a discount code and told them how ready we were to listen to them and their problems, compliments, suggestions and so on. We asked the winner, who seemed ecstatic at the time, for a photo and although she promised to send one, never did. Boo to her!
And the final promo which launched today is designed to go one step further than 'liking us' which can almost be a throw away action in some ways. A 'share' is a big commitment from a user. It's a public display of affection for a brand. Our range isn't that sensitive, but by sharing, you're endorsing and depending on what the share is, it could say something about you. For instance, the social marketing dude at BMW probably has a much easier task than his or her counterpart at Anusol. Anyway, this one was again seeded by email after a soft launch on Facebook. Sent to both active and inactive email subscribers as well as promoted on Twitter and site banners, we produced some really nice creative promoting 'luxury his and hers stockings worth £1,200+ delivered in time for Christmas'. The creative itself, as you'll see, incorporates the mechanic as well as the prize; the idea being that once one of our fans (who know and trust us to an extent) has shared, the creative needed to be explicit enough to stand on its own two feet in order to go viral.
It's difficult to know how it'll pan out but after the first couple of hours, we'd generated 270+ shares and 220 new likes. The real shares figure will be much much higher as the only shares you able to view are those where the user has his or her share settings set to 'public'. It's shame as I believe FB are missing a trick. We, and presumably many other companies, would be happy to pay a monthly fee to know the depth their posts were shared to. What a powerful metric it would be to know the amplification and reach of a piece of content. Knowing that one offer got from fan to friend of fan to friend of friend of friend of fan and so on versus which which went no further would be key to optimising. Anyway, I'm sure there's a few bright sparks at FBHQ and they'll get it sooner rather than later!
And of course, we'll follow up the winner with interview, photo and soundbite and flog it to death via as many channels as possible!
Anyway, we'll see where it goes from here.
UPDATE: After 22 hours, we've reached 1,000 shares on the main picture, 160 on the album and 750 new 'likes of our page. The discrepancy between number of shares and new likes proves not everyone reads instructions but more, that you don't need to offer a huge incentive to get some serious traction. I think the fact the picture was very nicely designed and included both the prize AND the campaign mechanic has helped this have a somewhat viral effect. In the great scheme of things, these numbers are tiny but they will make a difference our little world. Consider that the Cool Hunter on Facebook gets an average of 1,000 odd shares per post via 500,000 fans, we did that with 1350 fans. Yesterday was a good day!
]]>I work in online marketing so I'm guilty of over scrutinising every email which comes to my inbox. But analyse them I do, whether it's Betfair trying to win me back or a mate sending a you tube link, I always think 'can I be arsed to click the link'. Whilst an email from a mate will have a higher open rate than the one from Betfair, actually Betfair's email is more likely to get a click.
The reason is the laziness familiarly affords. For a time, I used to work at Betfair as a consultant and I can tell you their CRM department was packed with bright young marketing grads continually optimising creative, A-B testing, automating and dynamically populating offers based on recency, frequency, monetary value etc, etc. All that equals a lot of effort and the results, whilst they would vary from campaign to campaign, were impressive.
'Amazing, check this out!' accompanied by a you tube link equals nearly zero effort from a pal. And because of that I almost always don't bother clicking until others on the initial email list start commenting and the thread builds intrigue. And still, there's a likelihood I'll not participate. There are a number of factors, not least that my IE is very slow and that's the browser my gmail comes to (my work stuff is all done in Chrome)…but it shows that no longer is only relevance key to generating the click(the metric all marketers used to evangelise about), but that buzz is becoming more and more important. We know how important peer group recommendation is for online conversion but in general banter, we want to be involved more when others are talking about it. And that's why I'll click a trending topic quicker than a link in an email from a mate. Ridiculous when you think about it – to click on something total strangers are harping on about than a hyper personal recommendation from a trusted friend.
I heard a quote somewhere which said 'Facebook is where you share less and less honestly with your friends, whereas Twitter is where you'll bear your soul to complete strangers'. I like that, it shows that something which 'trends' is doing so genuinely, or nearly so, and because of that it's more likely to be trusted.
And it goes deeper. Jeremy Clarkson was trending this morning and, although I saw it at number 10, I didn't click until he was at number five, which is the equivalent of the example above. And only then because I thought, perhaps he died. I didn't click until the discussion got deeper and more widespread. It just proves cutting through will get more and more difficult, with testing more and more important. A strong offer won't cut it anymore, to get clicks you'll need a combination of personalisation, recommendation, buzz and some luck but there's still no guarantees.
]]>And then came the internet and internet dating. Initially the same reservations were muted but kind of in the same way that people thought it was absurd to buy flights online or look for long lost friends. And now it is just the done thing. No stigma, no sniggers, it's just acceptable and the thriving online dating market is testament that, actually using technology to solve the problem makes a lot of sense. For ages lots of my single friends told me that the dilema was that whenever they went out, it was with the same people and meeting new people was not as easy it might seem. So having them find you and break the ice virtually, allowed you to maintain the regular social life and pick and choose before maybe embarking on the love life.
So up sprung loads of 'me too' dating sites and amazingly new ones seem to be getting funding even now – see zoosk.com – but My Single Friend put a great twist on things and solved the classic problem of false advertising. Lots of these sites suffered from over hyped profiles only for users to feel somewhat mis-sold to when it came to the actual date. Promises of Brad Pitt online turned out more like Dean Gaffney in the flesh and many awkward 90 minute dates had to be endured thereafter before agreeing 'we must do this again' and subsequently running to the nearest internet connection to delete the account. My Single Friend requires a friend to endorse the dater – sure, your best mate is hardly going to paint you as pox-ridden, miserly woman-hater, but it does at least mean you need at least one friend – something not all lonely hearts can boast.
Anyway, my mate Simon asked me to write his endorsement (he has more than one friend). Here's what I wrote:
"Simon's the life and soul of the party, he's first to put his hand up to organise it all, then make sure everyone's having a good time plus he's got a few cool party tricks as well. Always having a laugh and looking out for people, that's Simon. A true, loyal friend and he thinks about himself last. He always books the holidays, buys the tickets and keeps us all in check, but does it without having to seem to be in charge. Simon's just as happy belting out 'Mustang Sally' to a wedding crowd as he is giving advice and listening to other people's problems. My female friends all say he just keeps getting better looking, but I can't see it myself! A great bloke."
All true. He met the lovely Gemma through the site a couple of years ago and the wedding is in Cape Town on the 4th November this year. I'm taking all the credit.
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The episode is called "The Apartment," and is based on Foster's experiences when she lived on Parmac Road and had vivid dreams of the torture and murder of a woman. Foster has written a book about her experience, titled "Forgotten Burial: A Restless Spirit's Plea for Justice" available online at www.jodifoster.net and Lyon Books on Fifth Street.
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About Yasmin Gow
Growing up with two physical education teachers as parents, Yasmin has always led a pretty active life. She started practicing yoga at 12 years old and at around the same time she decided to be vegetarian. To this day, she is still eating plant-based, and has been teaching yoga for over a decade.
As mostly an ashtanga/vinyasa instructor, Yasmin has also studied therapeutic and Iyengar yoga, and is trained as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, instructing NHL hockey players as well as Olympic athletes over the years. In addition, she leads an innovative yoga teacher training and mentors other yoga teachers to reach great heights.
Yasmin is also a writer, activist, and the creator of a top selling yoga DVD series, title Yoga Basics. In 2010, Yasmin became the first woman to break the Guinness World Record for the longest yoga marathon (32 hours), raising more than $15,000 for charity.
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- Producer of five acclaimed yoga DVDs
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- Founder of yoga studio, Om West Holistic Centre (2007-2012)
- Bachelor of Arts – Journalism & Communications, Concordia University
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Special needs teacher Debra Howard leads her students, including Brielle Johnson, 10, (left) and Makayla Burford, 8, (center) in a song about place value in their multi-grade class at Frankie McCullough Academy for Girls in Gary, Ind. Thursday April 11, 2013. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media
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Proposed increase or decrease in state funding:
Senate 2014 2015
Lake County
Hanover Central 4.7 1.9
River Forest -2.5 -2.2
Merrillville 2.3 1.1
Lake Central 2.1 1.2
Tri-Creek 1.0 0.6
Lake Ridge -1.1 -1.8
Crown Point 2.4 0.6
East Chicago -3.9 -1.2
Lake Station 2.6 0.4
Gary -7.6 -4.5
Griffith 1.2 1.5
Hammond 3.3 0.3
Highland 2.1 1.5
Hobart 1.7 0.3
Munster 2.4 1.4
Whiting -3.8 -2.4
Porter County
Boone Township 2.8 1.0
Duneland 2.1 0.7
East Porter 1.3 0.4
Porter Township -0.1 -0.4
Union Township -0.6 0.4
Portage Township 3.5 0.9
Valparaiso 2.9 1.5
Charter schools
School of the Dunes 0.0 -3.3
Thee Bowman 8.9 8.4
Gary Lighthouse 2.4 -3.4
21st Century 4.6 -2.4
EC Urban Enterprise 6.1 1.9
EC Lighthouse 6.0 -1.3
W. Gary Lighthouse 3.6 0.0
Aspire -1.6 -1.7
Hammond Academy 7.8 1.3
Discovery 12.6 6.1
Gary Middle College* 90.0 -5.5
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Hanover Central 4.4 2.0
River Forest -2.3 -2.0
Merrillville 2.0 1.2
Lake Central 1.8 1.3
Tri-Creek 0.7 0.7
Lake Ridge -0.7 -1.7
Crown Point 2.1 0.8
East Chicago -2.1 -1.4
Lake Station 2.3 0.5
Gary -5.1 -4.4
Griffith 2.4 0.9
Hammond 3.1 0.4
Highland 2.4 1.1
Hobart 1.4 0.4
Munster 2.5 1.1
Whiting -3.3 -1.7
Porter County
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Duneland 1.8 0.8
East Porter 1.1 0.5
Porter Township -0.2 -0.4
Union Township 0.8 0.1
Portage Township 3.2 1.0
Valparaiso 2.6 1.6
Charter schools
School of the Dunes -3.8 -1.9
Thea Bowman 10.1 8.5
Gary Lighthouse -0.5 -2.3
21st Century 0.6 -1.2
EC Urban Enterprise 6.0 2.3
EC Lighthouse 2.8 -0.2
W. Gary Lighthouse 2.6 0.8
Aspire -0.6 -1.2
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Both House and Senate versions of the biennium budget under consideration in the General Assembly appear to favor charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools, local educators say.
For example, Gary Community School Corp. is facing decreases of 7.6 percent in the Senate's 2014 budget and 5.1 percent in the House budget.
A Gary charter school, Thea Bowman Leadership Academy, is set to receive an additional 8.9 percent under the House budget and 10.1 percent under the House budget for 2014.
The complex state funding formula takes several factors into consideration for funding, including enrollment, poverty, special education, honors courses and full-day kindergarten. Now that both chambers have budgets, lawmakers will spend the remaining days of the session hashing out a final budget before the session ends April 29.
But not all charters are winners. Charter School of the Dunes in Gary is facing negative funding in both House and Senate budgets.
In Porter County, Discovery Charter School, near Chesterton, is the big winner with a proposed 12.6 percent increase from the Senate in 2014 and 12.3 percent in the House budget. The school opened with 312 students in 2010 and is projected to have 470 students next year. After Discovery, the highest increase is 3.5 percent for Portage Township Schools in 2014 in the Senate budget.
East Porter is looking at slight increases in both budgets of 1.3 percent from the Senate and 1.1 percent from the House in 2014.
East Porter Superintendent Rod Gardin said the Senate version would provide a $162,000 increase, but his district's health insurance increased $140,000 last year and other costs such as fuel and utilities are rising.
"The increases they're proposing just barely keeps pace with one area. ... We really need a true 2 or 3 percent increase."
Programs being cut
Gary School Board member Nellie Moore, who chairs the district's budget and finance committee, said it's struggling now to retain staff levels and programs.
"We really have our backs against the wall in terms of what we can cut and still provide a quality education for our students. We don't have many more buildings that we can close," she said.
Moore said the district has already sacrificed popular summer foreign language and science programs, as well as summer band.
"This is a state legislature that's gung-ho on charters and faith-based schools. They're doing everything they can to undermine public schools and to encourage vouchers."
Four other Lake County districts — River Forest, Lake Ridge, East Chicago and Whiting — join Gary in the negative funding club.
Under the Senate budget, River Forest would lose 2.5 percent in 2014 and 2.2 percent in 2015.
River Forest Superintendent James Rice said the district is saved by a successful employee health benefit plan that's held premiums down for six years. "It's enabled us to avoid layoffs and program cuts and shore up our reserves," he said.
In Munster, Superintendent Richard Sopko said his district, under the proposed budgets, will still have the lowest per pupil funding in Lake County. His district stands to gain 2.4 percent under the 2014 Senate budget and 2.5 percent under the House budget. It drops in 2015, however, to small increases of 1.4 percent and 1.1 percent.
Munster voters will decide May 7 whether they'll support a general fund referendum that will raise taxes to provide an additional $3 million a year to the school district for seven years.
Similar referendums are planned by the Boone Township schools in Hebron and in Union Township in Porter County.
Educators say the funding shortages harken back to 2008, when the state took over school funding, shifting it away from local property taxes. Since then, Sopko says, 70 percent of charter schools have fared above the state per-pupil average in spending, while 70 percent of traditional public schools have fallen below it.
Gardin said the move took control from local taxpayers and allowed the GOP-led state to dictate education funding.
"I think the state wanted to control public schools and the way to control was to cut off their money supply so they've been able to expand money for virtual, charter and voucher schools."


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Senior point guard Nia Jackson was named most valuable player of the Oregon women's basketball team at the team's annual awards banquet Sunday, following Saturday's loss to Oregon State in the Ducks' regular-season home finale.
Jackson, who won the award for the second straight year, has played through knee pain all season. She is averaging 9.1 points and 3.6 assists in 23.4 minutes per game for the Ducks, who close the regular season this week at Colorado on Thursday and Utah on Saturday.
The last UO woman to win or share team MVP honors in consecutive seasons was post Andrea Bills in 2004-05.
Amanda Johnson was named the Ducks' top offensive player and Jasmin Holliday was named both defensive MVP and most improved, as Oregon's three seniors shared the program's major awards. Holliday also was named most improved as a freshman in 2009.
Johnson, an academic all-American, was named Oregon's scholar-athlete of the year for the third time. Danielle Love, Laura Stanulis and Deanna Weaver also were acknowledged for their academics, as each maintained a grade-point average of at least 3.0.
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9 Healthy Thanksgiving Appetizers
by Dana Angelo White in Thanksgiving, November 16, 2012
Light bites are your best bet before a big holiday meal. Use fresh, seasonal ingredients to make something small but fabulous for your guests to enjoy before turkey time.
Sausage Skewers
Turkey or chicken sausage makes tasty finger food – add some pantry staples and viola! An elegant app for only 35 calories per piece.
Recipe: Antipasto Sausage Skewers (pictured above)
Gooey Cheese
So easy and delicious – who doesn't like warm cheese? Each ounce portion has 90 calories, 6 grams of protein and 5 percent of your daily calcium needs. Serve with apples, whole-grain pretzels and lots of veggies for dipping.
Recipe: Baked Brie
Savory Spread
Two simple steps – roast and puree for this tasty spread. Serve with crackers, carrot sticks or toasted bread.
Recipe: Roasted Eggplant Spread
Crunchy Chips
Pass on the greasy bagged chips and bake up a leafy green veggie. These crispy chips are extremely popular right now.
Recipe: Kale Chips
Farm Fresh
You may be able to still find fresh radishes at your local farmers' market – give 'em a scrub and plate them up.
Recipe: Radishes With Butter and Salt
Homemade Hummus
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Spicy Nuts
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Seasonal, gorgeous and delicious – all in 5 ingredients.
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Everyone involved is trying to do the right thing in a very difficult situation. We understand the frustration shared today by victims' families. That's why we have been advocating for them to have a greater voice in the process. We have also actively supported the 7/20 Recovery Committee to improve communication and the ongoing distribution of assistance. Families have received money and other services through the great generosity of others. They will receive more. A meeting is scheduled for Friday between families and the 7/20 Recovery Committee. We will continue to listen and do all we can to help ensure families get the support they need.
The families said that when they first became concerned that the donations were not going directly to the families, they offered Giving First a chance to explain how the victims' families would be more involved in the process. When their concerns were not properly addressed -- they even allege that, at one point, a Giving First leader suggested that they just start their own fund -- they decided to have a press conference last Friday, the 24th.
In response, Teves said, COVA's leadership asked that the group to delay the press conference to give them a chance to improve communication, and the families agreed. That Friday, the group of families received its first e-mail from COVA; it said that the organization had set up the 7/20 Recovery Committee but apparently made no mention of how victims might have a voice or input in the process as they said they had been promised.
At that point, the families decided to have the press conference after all, even though they're meeting with the organization on Friday. But they remain frustrated.
"Our loved ones have paid the ultimate price, but many others are still fighting for their lives and many of us will never be the same again. We are victims. We have knowledge that is unique and should be utilized," Teves said, adding that those who were actually in the theater and the families grieving need to be driving the decisions.
The conference was noteworthy in part because it was the first time all of these families had come together for a formal press conference. Some were meeting in person for the first time.
Responding to questions from reporters, family members went beyond concerns about the donations to talk about the difficult process of grieving.
"We just want to grieve. I'm sure all of us have spent nights and just days in bed," said Amanda Medek, sister of Micayla Medek, who died in the shooting. "How do you go to work after that?... If I get married, my little sister is not gonna be there to help me."
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The winds of insanity are blowing as the FFG World Championship Weekend draws nearer! If you want to survive the rise of the Ancient Ones, now is the perfect time to study the newly updated FAQ and Tournament Rules for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game. No matter what strange creature comes knocking at your door, you'll be armed and ready with the arcane knowledge contained in these documents.
Click the thumnails below to download the updated FAQ (pdf, 12.0 MB) and Tournament Rules (pdf, 3.0 MB). Then, read on for the developers' summary of the biggest updates these documents introduce.
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With the World Championship for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game fast approaching, the time for the official FAQ update is upon us.
Much of the new FAQ is clarification of how certain rules and card text are to be interpreted. The notable exception, however, involves the restricted list. Three cards were added to the list either because of their importance in repeatable loop decks or because they were prime enablers in degenerative decks. Meanwhile, Things in the Ground (Secrets of Arkham, 31) has received errata and been removed from the restricted list entirely. This card was originally added to the restricted list to combat run-away Ancient One swarm decks. They were simple to build, easy to pilot, and very difficult to combat. Things in the Ground now requires exhaustion and sacrifice of the card to use its ability. This puts a major damper down on abusive decks and instead allows the card to be part of a more synergistic and combo-focused deck, or used freely in more casual play.
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It's Friday and I need to see a little passionate controversy... something other than Connor's husband.
Any ideas?
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Are things a little slow on the 'other' forum?
I rarely go there... and seldom involve myself in any threads.
Well it's 4.30 here and I've opened a beer, just in the kitchen cooking for hubby's birthday. Our next door neighbour will arrive soon with a bottle of wine.
I've made the mistake of just checking my work emails, but that can now all wait until monday morning.
We could all go make troll accounts over on RA... Lol...
The ironic sense of humour failure from people like BIS, Scrape and Velcro would be a damp squib. They take their **** very seriously.
Plus some people are so dim over there they ban anyone new.
However I still like some of them and they're on my FB, so all covered on that score. How about somewhere new?
Although Velcro can actually be quite funny, he's just batting for the wrong side.
You need to friend me on FB.
I need a lunch decision. What sounds good?
Go for sushi!
Yuk, I hate fish in any form.
You have a 'dialog' I swear it should be spelled dialogue.
It should be dialogue... on either continent!
We have our meltdown topic! I'm just not sure how much I could creatively write about it.
Seems like everyone has left? Guess I need to go find some food...
It's a place where a bunch of people went after the last big clister**** software 'upgrade'... a bunch got so fed up they created a new forum on RunningAhead and that's where they play now.
Chicken salad for me, but then again I have had that 4 days this week. Maybe Regina can pick a controversial topic.
Then I wouldn't eat it if I were you.
I however, second sushi!
I think that most of us get your point.
Eclectic lunch...
1 Chicken fajita
2 California rolls
2 Surimi rolls
2 Spicy Surimi rolls
And an okra - cucumber - red pepper - lump crab meat salad
and are very bored of it.
Publix sub, if nearby
Yet you continue to read them. Are you really that bored?
It is a strange, new world...
It takes seconds to read, no time out of my life. Up your game.
A lot of people need to be upping their game up in here...
I just gave him access to my FB, there is no further comment to be made.
Let's go KK-it's only midnight there. Night is still young.
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I'm heading for a meltdown. My wife wants me to watch Prince of Tides with her.
Monk repeats here at 8:00.
Monk or Prince of Tides? Shoot me now.
I LOVE Monk, so does one of my daughters. Again, one. You need to give him a second chance RSX.
I liked him better in Wings. This is actually a mellow night. I'm just getting over a cold, and running 16 in the morning.
Hubby's birthday, couldn't spend it on the Internet
Worst meltdown thread ever.
If you don't care, don't read this.
I dont think you can ever induce a meltdown--it just happens organically, unexpectedly.
Smart man that RX.
We're an agreeable group mostly. HTR didn't get upset when I dissed Monk so I'm taking her off my list of potential meltdown candidates.


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Good to see something is going right in domestic cricket. But they need new pitches, coaches and good foreign recruits... Above all, they need to find out ways to make the tournament competitive.... Or else it will just be time wasting business as usual for the cricketers.
I think they need to increase the foreign Quota to 04 players, while the national team players will not be available, to keep the league competitive and in some standard.
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Monday, April 17, 2006 - Page updated at 11:31 AM Information in this article, originally published April 14, 2006, was corrected later that day. Sweet and Savory, a bakery/cafe in Mount Baker, is wheelchair accessible. An early version of this review said there were obstacles to access. Dining Deals At Sweet and Savory, the early bird gets the pain au chocolatSpecial to The Seattle Times Wander into Cynthia Brock's compact, cookbook-lined Mount Baker cafe and you won't want to leave. Certainly no one was in a hurry around noon one weekday as customers dallied over soup, a sandwich, a slice of quiche or a demitasse cup of French hot chocolate and their pastry of choice. Other than a list of coffee and chocolate drinks, there's no written menu. Baked goods and sandwiches reside in a tall glass case set front and center on a granite counter where vintage lamps line up opposite a handful of seats. Oversize baskets dangle above. A few small tables offer additional seating inside; more are outside. Come early for warm croissants stuffed with ham and Gruy�re, or petite pain au chocolat, their dark chocolate souls still soft. Brock rolls her own puff-pastry dough and makes bagels and sandwich buns from scratch. Her repertoire reflects the changing seasons: right now rhubarb is showing up in tarts and in coffee cake topped with cinnamon and walnut streusel.
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1418 31st Ave. S., Seattle; 206-325-2900 Bakery/cafe $ Hours: 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. No liquor / credit cards: MC, V / no obstacles to access. Rating: recommended. Back in 1993, Brock studied at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, but her peripatetic cooking career began in a Montana bakery long before that. After graduating from Portland's Western Culinary Institute, Brock cooked on fishing boats in Alaska and the Caribbean and worked as a private chef. Ten years ago, she opened the original Sweet and Savory, a cafe and catering kitchen located first on Bainbridge, then in Ballard. She moved again last October to this charming Mount Baker storefront and made pastry a priority, though she still does catering on the side. She leads a baker's life: up at 4 a.m. on weekdays, earlier on weekends. After the cafe closes at 2 p.m., she does the next morning's prep work. But caveat emptor: She says she is careful not to over bake. "When I'm out. I'm out." Check please: Curried potato soup: Ladled from a plastic container and warmed in a skillet, each bowlful is piping hot and fragrant with subtle spice. The potato gives it body, but the rough-textured broth sings of celery and onion, too. Quiche: Eggs, cream, butter and bacon meet in sublime proportion on an exquisitely flaky crust. Flavors rotate daily. Chicken sandwich: Shards of succulent thigh meat cut right from a freshly cooked bird are tucked between a soft but sturdy potato roll together with arugula and good Dijon. Apple-rhubarb tart: The fruit, well balanced between sweet and tart, is held in the embrace of a fragile pastry shell that shatters with each bite. French hot chocolate: This molten blend of chocolate, cream and spices really qualifies as dessert, especially when you assuage the chocolate's peppery tickle with spoonfuls of whipped cream that comes in a little bowl on the side. Other beverages include juices, Italian sodas and Caff� Vita coffee drinks. Itemized bill, meal for two Curried potato soup (bowl) $4.25 Quiche $3.75 Chicken sandwich $5.25 Apple-rhubarb tart $3.00 French hot chocolate $3.00 Tax $1.79 Total $21.04 Providence Cicero: firstname.lastname@example.com Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company Most read articles |


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I'm driving a 93 Pontiac Grand Am SE with a 6 cylinder engine. The car is up to 111,700 miles now. The car loves gas and eats it at every chance it can. Theres Still No Results in the things listed below to help solve the cars Gas wasting problem.
The thing's I've Completed as a Project are as is 1. Got a Oil change using High Mileage Oil. And added Engine Treatment with that. 2. Added Fuel Injection Cleaner. Normally do this a couple times a month. 3. Changed out the PCV Valve. 4. Changed the Oxygen Sensor. 5. Cleaned the Mass Air Flow Sensor. 6. Cleaned out the throttle body with Throttle body spray cleaner. 7. Replaced the Air Filter. 8. Had the Fuel Filter replaced a couple months ago. 9. The Spark plugs still got awhile before needing replaced. Any Idea's.... I did every KNOWN Gas Related problem to help save a little more on my mileage but still there is no damn increase in saving more Fuel for the Gallon. Also my Power Steering fluid is Leaking due to a problem with the Rack and Pinion bar being cracked or something. I have taken out 12 ounces of the power steering fluid with a Turkey Baster and added a 12 ounce bottle of Lucas Stop Leak power steering fluid made for old Rack and Pinion's so far the leak is going suicidal and is dripping less each time, But still may need another treatment. Can only imagine how long it has to last lol. |
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Miles Per Gallon. I'm not getting what the car should have anymore for the bang of the bucks. The car holds 15 gallons at most. I've had the car for awhile now and it never had this gas eating problem which only seems to be getting worse. I keep pondering is there a "LEAK" somewhere in the tank resevoir or somewhere in the fuel lines. Can only see that this may be a conclusion at most. Driving 15 miles with a full tank takes out about a quarter each and every time. Never had the problem awhile back driving 15 miles was NOTHING to that car now its Eating all the Gas for the 15 mile run I usually need to make. |
The car also from what I know hasn't had the O2 sensor replaced since I got the car at 86,000 miles. My Grandma gave me the car as a gift and I know they barely drove the car which is why the mileage was low and they never had anything changed out important such as O2 sensor, Pcv Valve, Spark Plug wires... and this for sure is going to be my next project once I figure out how the spark plug wires connect in the front of the engine the wires run underneath the engine cover in the front of the car and looks rather difficult while the back plugs are virtually the easiest to replace. I also have a cracked Valve Cover Gasket I've been driving with this problem for over 33,000 miles and yet there is little mess of oil and grime on the engine and doesn't seem to be causing problems and nor do I think it will. I don't lose any oil. |
Fill the tank. Check the mileage reading on the odometer. Run it till it's about out. Fill tank again. Subtract previous mileage reading from current one. Divide that by how many gallons you put in the car. Then post that number. Your 15 gallon tank and car wasting gas discriptions are meaningless. If it's leaking fuel, you'll smell it even if it's just a little. If you don't feel a misfire, the plugs and wires are doing their jobs so leave them alone. If it's burning gas as fast as you suspect it is, there ought to be visible emmissions...cloud of black smoke following you around. If you're going by what the gas guage says without checking, the problem could just be the gas guage. I've seen them read full for 200 miles then drop quickly to 1/4 tank, or drop quickly from full and stay at a quarter tank. If you're going to try to figure this kind of thing out on your own, you got to at least do the math for starters. |
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Yea I could be bugging out a little bit. It does seem as if it's taking time for the new O2 sensor to wear in a little to perform its job and yea I can see a big difference. Instead of the pressure pointing downward it's going back up to where its suppose to be at on the gauge instead of sucking it all the way down again., and the Gas that hasnt burned yet is being brought back into the system and being burned normally than being wasted. Seems my car was having a difficult time determining the air and fuel mixture and seems to be regulating normally now. |
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Redrawn school board district has minority majority, a first for Fayette
The Fayette County Board of Education on Jan. 9 unanimously approved a new map to be used for the coming school board voting districts, and it shows the county's first-ever district where minorities outnumber white residents, comprising northern Fayette County and parts of Fayetteville and Tyrone. [Click on the file link beneath this story to see the redrawn map of school board voting districts.]
Based on the previous map that required re-drawing after the 2010 Census, the new map will also lay out the boundaries for the new district voting methodology that will be used as a result of the lawsuit settlement with the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP.
As for the map itself, it shows only a small change from the look of the five districts during the past 10 years. The change was in the shrinking of the District 3 area that encompasses much of Peachtree City and followed the increase in the area's population.
Fayette's population in 2000 was 91,263. That number had increased by 16.8 percent in 2010 to 106,567.
The new map provided on the school system's website was accompanied by a population summary report that accounted for a district-by-district population breakdown that tallied the population in terms of black, all or part black and Hispanic.
The District 1 area includes most of Tyrone, the northern portion of Peachtree City and a portion of unincorporated Fayette County east of Tyrone. A breakdown by district shows District 1 with a population of 20,530. That number includes black residents totaling 1,929 or 9.4 percent, with all or part black residents totaling 2,114 or 10.3 percent and Hispanic residents total 1,266, or 6.17 percent. The white population in District 1 totals 83.33 percent.
The District 2 area includes Brooks, Woolsey and the large unincorporated area east of Peachtree City and south of Fayetteville and has a population totaling 21,789 residents. A small portion of the extreme south side of Peachtree City and portion of unincorporated Fayette immediately to the east of Peachtree City and south of Ga. Highway 54 have both been added to District 2 as a result of the census.
The District 2 population count is 21,789. Of that the white population totals 87.84 percent of residents while blacks make up 7.92 or 1,726 persons and all or part black total 1,822 residents or 8.36 percent. Hispanic residents in District 2 total 829 or 3.8 percent.
District 3 includes the majority of Peachtree City excluding some of the northern portions of the city and is home to 21,745 residents. The population count in the district shows white residents at 83.1 percent of the population, the black population at 1,723 residents or 7.92 percent, the all or part black population at 1,946 or 8.95 percent and the Hispanic population at 1,728 or 7.95 percent.
District 4 includes Fayetteville and portions of the unincorporated areas to the northeast, east, south and west. The district's population count shows white residents at 65.23 percent, the black population at 6,170 residents or 28.51 percent, the all or part black population at 6,458 residents or 29.85 percent and the Hispanic population at 1,064 residents or 4.92 percent.
District 5 includes the north portion of unincorporated Fayette County, a portion of the north side of Tyrone and a portion of the north side of Fayetteville. The population in District 5 totals 20,865 and includes white residents at 42.34 percent, the black population at 9,847 residents or 47.19 percent, the all or part black population at 10,158 residents or 48.68 percent and the Hispanic population at 1,873 residents or 8.98 percent.
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Had the lawsuit gone to court, THE BOE WOULD HAVE LOST! If the county suit goes to court, the BOC IS GOING TO LOSE! It's a DONE DEAL! There is absolutely no way Fayette County is going to prevail in this! What would you want the BOE to do? Run up endless legal costs only to have the Justice Department come in and tell the county how the districts MUST be drawn?
Every county of any size in Georgia has been under the Justice Department's jurisdiction per the Voting Rights Act since the 1960s -- including Coweta County to our west and Spalding to our South! Fayette avoided it at the time because, until recently, the minority population was so miniscule.
The BOE is simply doing what should have been done a long time ago ... it's regrettable that the NAACP had to come in and turn it into a racial matter.
This is an interesting article regarding the All or Part stuff about being 'black'.
How does FC determine the percentage difference between 'all black ' and 'all or part black'?
"Based on the previous map that required re-drawing after the 2010 Census..."
Just a guess.
District 5 includes the north portion of unincorporated Fayette County, a portion of the north side of Tyrone and a portion of the north side of Fayetteville. The population in District 5 totals 20,865 and includes white residents at 42.34 percent, the black population at 9,847 residents or 47.19 percent, the all or part black population at 10,158 residents or 48.68 percent and the Hispanic population at 1,873 residents or 8.98 percent
This is from the article..
"If Fayette County citizens voted in the 70's to switch from district voting to our current at large system, how can three people overturn a county wide vote? Can a new board switch to any system without consent from the people? Is voting just a joke?"
When Smith and Smola come up for re election...please don't forget this!
If race is the large issue that the BOE wanted to resolve without going to Court,I have a question. Why did they not select Bonnie Willis to fill that seat? Beyond the fact that she is a black woman, she is more qualified to hold that seat then several of the current board members?
If Fayette County citizens voted in the 70's to switch from district voting to our current at large system, how can three people overturn a county wide vote? Can a new board switch to any system without consent from the people? Is voting just a joke?
The BOE has no money. That problem was caused by Smith and Smola leadership. Getting back in control of the Board and re-election looks to be the driving force in this matter. It has nothing to do with race. The fix was in when the post was filled and we now see the result. I do think that power corrupts.
all is well now. Test scores will soar with students from this area. Attendance will be up, disciplinary problems with will be unheard of. Thanks Naacp, you saved us from ourselves.
On a side note, it's really not that big of a deal either way, but I still wonder why the Naacp chose one of the best Public School Systems in the State to pick a fight with. Makes me question their intentions.
Fayette county is lost. It's following the direction of bad examples such as Clayton, Fulton, DeKalb, etc.
Can't these bored housewives on the BoE understand what happens when dumb decisions like this are made?
Who's running that board anyway, NAACP or the bored housewives?
You should know by now the NAACP and all the followers(ie. Jesse Jackson) run this whole country. They're always trying to stir something up. Monica Pierson is the most prejudice person I've ever seen and shouldn't even be allowed to talk about certain issues, the way she acts. Yea, the country did the what was right regarding equal rights, but that wasn't enough. Too bad they don't do the same for the original Americans, the American Indian. That's who this country owes.
no believe it or not, there are other areas that don't refight the civil war on a daily basis.
They are white and normal...if this market turns ...I'm going to one of them.
Atlanta is the only area I've ever lived in that ever 5 years you have to move further out and loose home value because of the 'we will overcome' BS.
Atlanta is looking more like a crater with a burned out middle. Companies don't move here or start up here because of all the hiring laws that have become a liability. NC is growing and numerous other places... they have a different work pool to choose from.
One more nail in the coffin. Thank you Smith n Smola. Please don't lump all stay at home moms in with these two. There are intelligent Moms in the county and don't plot and scheme. (If these two only had a brain between them)
No one? Ok, who will be elected from District 5 next time? Someone who ran last time? Ok, who? And what difference does it make?
My goodness. Much ado about nothing.
Snolla has had her nose up the NAACCCPPPP's butt forever. The complection change is something she has wanted for years. She should have moved to clayton years ago when she complained Fayette was too white and she had second thoughts about putting her kids in school here. No doubt she will see to it that the new person is her flunky and the 3/2 amigo vote will be restored.
Business will now be back to 'the usual', onward and downward.
ps...you might want to look at who's hands are in the air voting for this in the picture...and who's looking at them. Snolla and Sniggers are back in power!


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About Me: For the forager, the seashore holds surprising culinary potential. In this authoritative, witty book John Wright takes us on a trip to the seaside. Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Edible Seashore is destined to join the other handbooks in the series as an indispensable household reference.
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Smoked pollack with sea beet
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This truly spectacular and luxurious starter is the clincher in any argument about whether raw Oysters are better than cooked Oysters – they aren't. When preparing the Gutweed, make sure you dry it very well and use a heavy-bottomed, deep pan to fry it in. It spits ferociously (to be honest, it explodes), so do take care!
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