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14.40 Wonderful, wicked and...er.. WOW! from Wigan, who dispensed with that game in four thrilling first half minutes. Everton hugely disappointing. Frankly, that's their season over. Wigan march on to Wembley, where they will lose to a team from Manchester. A great shame, but they'll always have Goodison. Ready for a change in competition? Head over to Lucy Kinder's Premier League clockwatch on the other side. Thanks for your company, I'll talk to you again soon.
90+2 min Great save by Joel Robles! Osman heads at goal from six yards, the keeper's at his best to maintain a clean sheet. The less said about Everton's attempt to do something with the rebound the better.
90 min Four minutes of addd time for Everton to think about a consolation goal. Wigan bring off Alcaraz, with Golobart on in his place.
88 min "One team in Wigan," sing the travelling support. They are correct. If you discount rugby league, obviously.
85 min ITV's Jim Beglin correctly awards man of the match to Arouna Kone. His game really picked up this afternoon after I described him as erratic. Coincidence?!?!?!??!?!? ... Yes.
83 min Barkley unleashes a dangerous shot from inside the area on the left-hand side. Wide.
81 min Figueroa, having a blinder, stands up to Barkley brilliantly in the box, judging the correct combination of strength to shut down a promising chance and timing to avoid giving away a penalty.
79 min Mirallas, Everton's man of the match, and therefore the 14th best player of the game, is replaced by Ross Barkley.
78 min Everton on the ball but it's all hopeful passes and steady Wigan defending. Here's Maynor Figueroa celebrating the opening goal of the game:
76 min Another Everton corner. This feels like a last-chance kinda deal. Mirallas misses everyone. That would be my stadium-leaving angry-seat-kicking moment if I was an Everton fan.
75 min Miyachi being stretchered off now. Or rather, stretchered round the pitch, as he was injured over the touchline. He looks in pain. Alas. Mirallas has the ball in the net, but as is usually the case after those words has been used, is offside. Here's punning's Graeme Whittaker:
Good afternoon Thom. I can already hear Roberto Martínez singing Wigana have a great party tonight.
73 min James McCarthur replaces the injured Miyachi for Wigan. Everton have a corner. Cleared, but Everton are still on the ball.
71 min Mirallas, one of few in blue to emerge with anything other than debt today, makes an English crowd-delighting slide tackle on Miyachi which leaves the Wigan player grounded on the sidelines. Baines eventually puts the ball out of play with Everton in a neutral position. Goodison is livid.
70 min Wigan are about 10 minutes away from having this wholly wrapped up. There was a vague sense that Everton were going to battle their way back into the game at the start of the half but they're yet to create anything of note.
68 min Fellaini being brought off by Everton, Gibson replacing him. Lots of booing, which ITV's commentators incorrectly surmise is for Fellaini, rather than for the fact that he's being brought off. Fellaini had not been good, but I don't think Everton would be booing their own player as he was substituted. Surely when someone's taken off that you want to be taken off you cheer?
66 min The crowd turning against Everton again. More poor passing, and Mucha has to charge out of his box to clear with Miyachi lurking. Here's Callum McManaman scoring Wigan's second:
64 min Everton opened up too easily with a disguised pass to Beausejour on the left. His cross towards Kone is cleaed behind for another corner. Everton clear sloppilly and Figueroa is able to shoot from just inside the area. Saved by Mucha.
61 min Another Everton corner, from the right this time. Jelavic is up and onto it in a promising position but Figueroa does enough to put him off. Figueroa's hurt his head and the game has been put on pause.
59 min Mirallas' cross from the right is cleared behind for an Everton corner. Baines' delivery is slightly disappointing. He's not been at his best from set pieces today. Which still makes him better at them than almost anyone in the world.
58 min Everton badly need a breakthrough soon. The crowd's goodwill, renewed at half-time by delicious Scouse Pies all round, is ebbing away. More so, given that Wigan have regained their shape and composure after a less surefooted opening to the second half.
56 min David Spence has had his say re: the question posed above
Where should the semis be played? On neutral grounds – definitely not Wembley, which tarnishes the final.
54 min No joy from the set piece for the visitors. I'm sure the scoreline will be a small consolation for them.
53 min Wigan corner, their first real moment of promise in this second half. Here's Marouane Fellaini looking appropriately sad a bit earlier:
50 min Excellent Leighton Baines with the free kick. Through a poorly-constructed Wigan wall, but straight at Robles, who saves. Fellaini striled a bouncing ball from 25 yards soon afterwards, not far wide.
48 min Goodison in commendably good voice after the shower they witnessed from the tem and the weather in the first half. Mirallas is fouled by Maloney. Everton free kick 30 yards out, Maloney booked, crowd roaring.
46 min Phil Neville the victim of the inevitable half-time substitution after a rotten first half. Anichebe replaces him. Everton kick off. Emailing's Richard Walker has taken exception to the half-time grub of choice at Goodison:
Scouse pie?! Yikes. What next? Ploughman's Stew? Cornish pastie casserole?? It's not right.
13.33 Well, I said it would be open. Sensational from Wigan, who had threatened to cut Everton open a couple of times before scoring three devastating goals, the second two taken flawlessly, in four minutes. Everton have been atrocious since going behind. Weak in the tackle, slow to close down, run ragged by Wigan doing one of their most passable Barcelona impressions to date. Excellent game. Doesn't feel over quite yet. See you in 15.
45+1 min Three minutes of added time. ITV's commentator suggests that Everton have a chance here because Sylvain Distin was part of that Manchester City comeback against Spurs several dozen years ago. I think that could be construed as clutching at straws.
45 min Wowzers, Mucha has to make another athletic save to tip Maloney's curling free kick over. Another Widan corner.
44 min Wigan free kick close about 25 yards out on the right-hand side. Here's David Moyes looking suitably haunted:
42 min Nothing doing from the corner. Everto need a goal before half-time. Instead they're giving the ball away cheaply and still failing to close Wigan down in any meaningful way.
41 min Phil Neville is lucky to escape with a yellow card after a frustrated, out-of-control tackle on Beausejour which sends the full back sprawling. Wigan now have a corner.
39 min Some bad news for Wigan, in amongst the glorious beginning of their traditional end-of-season metamorphasis into a world-beating football team: Callum McManaman has had to go off injured, Ryo Miyachi relaces him.
37 min Everton are in pieces here. Passes being misplaced all over the shop. A real sense that David Moyes' team were not taking this match anything like as seriously as they should have done. Wigan are the greatest team in the world, aren't they? Our friends at Opta would suggest so:
35 min I've not heard boos like this at Goodison since the Walter Smith era. Lots of people heading for the exits, although I imagine some of them are just getting ahead of the rush for a half-time Scouse Pie.
33 min GOAL!! Everton 0 Wigan 3 (Gomez)
This is astounding from Wigan. And really lazy defending from Everton. Kone exceptional in the build-up again, cutting in from the left and picking out Gomez not far from the box. His finish is glorious, curling past the man in front of him and sneaking inside the post. This is quite something.
31 min GOAL!! Everton 0 Wigan 2 (McManaman)
Superb from Wigan! Textbook hold-up play from Kone, who lays it right for the pacy McManaman. He's away! And finishes beautifully past Mucha! There can't have been more than a minute between the goals.
30 min GOAL!! Everton 0 Wigan 1 (Figueroa)
Proficient-enough corner, Figueroa gets away from an unattentive Osman and heads home past Mucha, stuck in traffic in front of goal.
30 min McCarthy! Great effort from a bouncing ball from the edge of the box, Mucha at full stretch to turn it round the post for a corner.
28 min Fellaini not having his best game, miscontrolling after a swift pass into his feet from Mirallas on the right. Is it fair to say the supremely-afroed Belgian has gone off the boil this season?
27 min It's raining at Goodison. I feel this is important information. It's been a zippy, urgent game. Both sides enjoying spells of promising attacking momentum, but Wigan look lots more incisive with it. Shame it's only the erratic Kone for them up front.
25 min Jelavic looking lively today. More than his record of only one goal in nearly 20 hours of football for Everton would have suggest. Fellaini nods on a high ball for the Croatian. Ambitious volley from Jelavic, no surprise to see it balloon over.
22 min There are few Premier League players I enjoy watching kick a stationery ball more than Leighton Baines. He puts in a typically dangerous cross from a free kick on the right, which Wigan defend well enough. Time for the day's first pertinent statistical tweet from our friends at Opta:
20 min Jelavic! Firm shot on the turn from outside the box, and Robles has to palm it away. Enjoyably open game. This is truly what "it" is all about.
19 min Wigan looking far more dangerous now. Coleman slips, allowing Maloney to head towards the byline. He seeks out Kone, but can only head wide. Here's your friend and mine Lee Brownlie:
Answer to your where should the FA Cup semis be played question; anywhere but Wembley! Wembley, aside from Internationals and other sporting occasions, should be for finals only for football clubs, the 'Holy Grail' to reach for smaller teams, to be in with a chance of winning - knowing glory - there, or falling as it were.. never just for being one of the last four teams! (Including my own team, Everton.)
16 min Beausejour takes, Alcaraz on the end of it, but his header drifts harmlessly wide.
15 min Everton looking somewhat shaken after Wigan's post-hitting exploits. Roberto Martinez's side attacked for that chance with impressive speed and neatness. Everton force a corner, but little comes of it. In response Wigan force one of their own, with Beasejour, Maloney and Gomez combining beautifully in the build-up.
11 min Wigan hit the post! Gorgeous shot from Maloney after drifting inside from the left, Everton keeper Mucha rooted, but the ball hits the inside of the post and bounces clear of the goal. So painfully close, that must have been a matter of single-figure centimetres.
8 min All Everton so far. They are absolutely desparate to earn the right to lose to a club from Manchester in this competition.
6 min Scharner takes a tonking in the face after Mirallas shoots, hard, from the edge of the box. That's gotta hurt. I hope it doesn't ruin Scharner's facial resemblance to Half Life favourite Gordon Freeman:
4 min Well-worked corner, Baines plays is short then gets it back in a more convetional crossing position. Inviting ball for Distin in the middle who tries to nick it in at the far post, but it's wide.
3 min Tasty atmosphere inside Goodison, which escalates marginally after Jelavic wins Everton's first corner.
1 min We are off. Wigan get us started with a kick-off made up entirely of FA Cup magic.
12.41 The teams are filing out of the tunnel. Everton play their silly little song.
12.38 We're on ITV for this afternoon's game. Roy Keane is not involved. This is almost certainly for the best. I thought he was somehow going to chin me on Tuesday night...
12.36 Today's retro highlights are brought to you by the year... er... 2010:
12.24 Here are the teams:
Everton: Mucha, Coleman, Heitinga, Distin, Baines, Mirallas, Neville, Osman, Pienaar, Fellaini, Jelavic.
Subs: Springthorpe,Gibson, Naismith, Hitzlsperger, Barkley, Anichebe, Duffy.
Wigan: Robles, Scharner, Alcaraz, Figueroa, Boyce, McCarthy, Gomez, Beausejour, McManaman, Kone, Maloney.
Subs: Al Habsi, Di Santo, Henriquez, McArthur, Stam, Golobart, Miyaichi.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)
12.20 Afternoon liveblog fans.
What better start to a Sunday could you possibly ask for than an FA Cup quarter final featuring two of the Premier League's most likable teams?
Who doesn't like Everton? Liverpool supporters, I suppose. But even they must have some dim admiration for David Moyes' grand tradition of low-spendin' over-achievin' team-spirtin' loveliness.
And Wigan, with their loyal band of 71 perma-patronised supporters, are paragons of nice-in-theory attractive football and reigning champions of the enduring question: Which Premier League club's manager would you most like to have lunch with?
You'd expect them to play with a little more freedom than they demonstrate in the league this afternoon. You'd also expect Everton to have enough about them to see them off.
I'm expecting an enjoyable football match. Let's be disappointed together over the next few hours.
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The construct of self-concept has been well documented in Western cultures, but self-concept research is limited in Indigenous communities. This study assessed the equivalence for Australian Indigenous and non Indigenous students of six dimensions of self-concept: Family, Self-Acceptance, General School, Academic Achievement, Peer, and Career. Primary and high school students (N=625) completed a survey providing data on the six self-concept dimensions, and self-rating of academic achievement. Results provide strong support for the factorial equivalence of the six dimensions of self. Scores on all dimensions increased with age for the Indigenous students but decreased for the non-Indigenous students. Family self-concept contributed significantly more to the prediction of academic achievement for the non-Indigenous students than for the Indigenous students.
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The Civil War is the only war in American history where the losers get better press than the winners. The Confederacy was bad idea based on a racist belief. Those who fought for it or sympathized with it aren't heroes.
I would watch the shit out of this show. What a fascinating idea for a program.
One of the best unproduced screenplays I've ever read — AMERICAN GOTHIC by Scott Smith (A Simple Plan) — is about this subject. I have a very hard time believing this will come anywhere near that script, regardless of how good of a writer Ron Nyswaner is (and he's obviously great). The story is simply better suited for a feature than an extended series. Too bad the feature world blew this with THE CONSPIRATOR. It's an incredible true story, and the fact that the characters are deeply flawed is a big reason why.
Oooh, a series? Booth's movements in the last couple years before the assasination are certainly fascinating material indeed. Complicated by the fact that supposedly he was a dead-ringer for Confederate superspy Thomas Hines, and the two were often mistaken for each other.
Heck, I know three or four people qualified to write or contribute to scripts for this series based on very credible historical incidents.
The Confederate Secret Service, and Booth's connections to it, is an area that generally only a few experts really understand even closely to fully (or at least as fully as we can) –and there is a ton of rich material there.


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The New Orleans rapper, who was nominated for 12 awards, was also named MVP of the Year and the Alltel Wireless People's Champ at the ceremony, which was hosted by T-Pain instead of scheduled host, comedian Katt Williams.
The show featured a hip-hop matriarch medley that included MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, Salt-n-Pepa. DJ Khaled, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Birdman and Rick Ross took home the award for Best Hip-Hop Collaboration for "I'm So Hood (The Remix)."
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I can sum up my feelings on "Twilight" with one brief anecdote: I was coaxed into going to the second (third? I don't remember) movie with a friend for her birthday and bolted when she went to the bathroom half an hour in. Sneaky! Pretty mean, too, now that I look back on it.
The fact of the matter is that the teenyboppin' vamp series just doesn't do it for me. Ashley Greene doesn't particularly do it for me, either, but I'm starting to warm up to her: of all the movies' stars, she seems to be the most sartorially inclined, and it helps that, much unlike that harpy K. Stew (I kid, I kid), Ashley always looks comfortable in her clothes and happy to be where she is. I'm really into that — you're rich, you're famous, you're beautiful — just smile, damn it!
All "Twilight" snark aside, Ashley chose this pale pink ensemble last night to fête her August Nylon cover. I may be on the biased side seeing as I'm a little bit in love with all things blush, but this is my favorite look I've seen on the starlet as of yet — the shift fits her beautifully, and the gilded statement necklace is the perfect accessory to an otherwise monochromatic look. A+, Ashley!


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This program offers students the opportunity to explore interdisciplinary and foundational learning in the areas of dance, design and music through interaction with and exploration of two main aspects of Brazilian popular culture: Samba and Carnival. Students gain first-hand experience with all aspects of preparation for Brazilian Carnival by exploring dance, music, historical and social contexts, production, critical theories of performance, religious backgrounds and theater making in the Carnival Parades, from current to centuries-old tradition.
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Through extensive literature, video presentations and practice of popular dances of Brazil, students will be exposed to one of the most important and influential expressions of popular culture in the world. The course will engage elements of literature, music, dance and design of the popular art of Brazilian Carnival. It will investigate the popular culture of Brazil, with emphasis on the local art of Samba and Carnival music and dance. The group will analyze various aspects present in this popular manifestation.
The course includes readings on a regular basis, on-site presentations followed by discussions, direct interaction with locals, guest presentations and practice of the Samba and other related Brazilian popular dances.
Students receive 3 sh of credit for successful completion of course work in the program. The credit does not duplicate the content of the Department of Dance course of the same title that is taught on campus. The on-campus course is 137:157:SCA Brazilian Carnival. The course taken in Brazil will appear on your UI transcript as a study abroad course, 165:894, Brazilian Carnival. Course credit earned on this program may be applied as general elective hours towards graduation, separate from Department of Dance course list. If you are hoping to fulfill specific Dance requirements, check with the Department of Dance to explore this possibility.
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Students will be housed in centrally located hostel in Rio.
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Kim Kardashian's Beverly Hills Beauty Stop
Starting her week off with some pampering, Kim Kardashian headed to a salon for a mani-pedi and a massage in Beverly Hills on Monday (March 18).
A little R&R was just what the busy mommy-to-be needed as she just arrived back in L.A. after attending the premiere of "Tyler Perry's Temptation" in Atlanta on Sunday.
While attending the opening of her major screen debut, the 32-year-old reality diva spoke with E! News about how her pregnancy is going.
Showing appreciation for the other moms in her family, Kim said, "Being pregnant, I will say, is not as easy as my sister made it look or as my mom has made it look. It's a little painful. I've gotten sick a couple times. It's getting a little bit more difficult [to get around]."
Enjoy the pictures of Kim Kardashian at a salon in Beverly Hills (March 18).
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National Rugby League chief executive David Gallop backs the secrecy surrounding the fines imposed on players by the Bulldogs in the wake of the Coffs Harbour scandal.
Gallop, speaking on Channel Nine, said the names of the players and the size of the fines was unknown at NRL headquarters.
While admitting it wasn't an ideal resolution of the issue, Gallop said he didn't want to know details that weren't being made public.
"I wouldn't want information to come to me that couldn't be made public and they've taken legal advice over that," Gallop said.
"I know that the fines are related to conduct outside the police investigation but I don't know how many players or which players and I don't want information which they're not prepared to make public, that only places us in a difficult situation and I have to assume their (Bulldogs') legal advice is correct at this stage."
Police announced in April that no charges would be laid against Bulldogs players following a 10 week investigation into a rape allegations.
Following that decision, the NRL fined the Bulldogs $500,000 - $350,000 suspended until the end of 2006 - for bringing the game into disrepute.
The club announced yesterday "several players" had been fined up to 25 per cent of their contract payments - fines believed to be up to $100,000 - for conduct surrounding the Coffs Harbour camp and the subsequent police investigation.
Gallop said that should mark the end of the matter.
"It's good to see some finality to the episode.
"It's good to see them accept the penalty the league imposed for the damage that was definitely done to the game and it's good to see them follow through with the action they said they would take against certain individuals."
Gallop said the Coffs Harbour scandal had prompted the NRL to investigate players' attitudes towards women with educational courses to be put in place.
Meanwhile, a Bulldogs board member who resigned over the Coffs Harbour scandal has backed hefty fines.
Peter Mortimer was one of three high profile casualties during the fallout over the rape allegations.
Mortimer resigned a day after his brother and ex-Bulldogs CEO Steve Mortimer walked away on March 22 while former club football manager Garry Hughes was sacked for failing to enforce the code of conduct and for "not acting in the players' interests" at Coffs Harbour.
Mortimer backed the club's actions.
"There's been a lot of hurt. And the club has always said they will discipline the players concerned and they have done that, I don't think they have to name those players," he said.
"I think this will be better for all sport. I think this is a warning to all people who participate in sport."


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He was supposed to be at the Leicester Square screening of the film, but instead is stuck at home nursing the injury that may keep him out of the World Cup.
The film's director Gurinder Chadha said that both Beckham and his wife Victoria have seen the flick, and added that they "really liked the film a lot".
But her parents don't like her choice of idol, and she has to hide her love of football from her family.
She even gets the chance to play for a women's team after impressing at a trial, but eventually she is forced into making a choice between football and her family.
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Privacy & Liability Online: protecting you and your clients - a workshop with Dorsey & Whitney (part of TechHub Legal Week)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (BST)
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Privacy & Liability - Protecting your company and your customers...
Europe is at the vanguard in protecting privacy in the digital space (and the rest of the world is not far behind). This is not always convenient to companies operating in the field. Regulation and enforcement are on the increase.
Whilst there is general market awareness of the legal restrictions on the use of personally identifiable information, new rules on the use of cookies will force the entire industry to make significant changes in its common practices and will create significant challenge to sectors such as targeted advertising.
Is your product/service/platform for use by multiple users? Does it involve interaction or networking? Processing and sharing of data? Or processing content provided by third parties? And if so are you aware of your liabilities?
Where business models dictate a partnership between providers and users the desire to make money can clash with the need to avoid liability.
Workshop Objectives / Agenda
In this workshop, Ron Moscona of law firm, Dorsey & Whitney, will help you to identify those areas where your business needs to adjust in order to comply with these areas of the law, how to avoid exposure to litigation and where there may also be opportunities for creative minds.
- Short presentation
- Opportunity to examine case studies from your own experience
About Ron Moscona:
Ron Moscona is a special counsel at Dorsey & Whiteny's London office specialising in technology commercialisation and intellectual property law. Ron's practices encompass licensing, commercialisation, enforcement, and defence of IP rights, advising on regulatory matters such as privacy, competition and export controls and on the commercial aspects of the technology business.
Ron has negotiated numerous technology, software and brand licences, joint ventures and collaboration agreements and technology sale agreements and represents clients in technology and IP-related litigation.
About Dorsey & Whitney:
Dorsey & Whitney is an international law firm with a strong IP and technology practice. Dorsey's London office is one of the leading firms acting on venture capital related transactions. Besides its in-depth experience of structuring the corporate and tax aspects of venture capital and private equity transactions, the firm's intellectual property expertise is a key component in the advice it offers to companies and investors in the biotechnology, biomedical, information technology and telecoms sectors. Many of Dorsey's clients are cutting edge technology businesses that range from multinational giants to early stage companies. Dorsey often represents companies spun off by leading UK universities.
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- 3 chicken breast halves, cooked
- 6 uncooked lasagna noodles
- 1 cube chicken bullion
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 1 (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 (26 oz) jar spaghetti sauce (I love Prego's different flavors- anything with garlic tastes great in this recipe)
- Fresh grated Parmesan cheese
- Bring large pot of slightly salted water to boil. Cook noodles 8-10 minutes. Drain, rinse with cold water and set aside.
- Shred/cube cooked chicken.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Dissolve bullion cube in hot water. In large bowl, mix chicken with bullion, cream cheese, and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese (sometimes I also add a dash of garlic salt and Italian seasoning just to give it at little more flavor).
- Spread 1/3 of spaghetti sauce in the bottom of a 9x13" dish. Cover with half of chicken mixture (drop by using 2 spoons) and top with 3 noodles. Repeat. Top with remaining sauce and sprinkle with remaining mozzarella cheese and then top with some fresh Parmesan cheese.
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Hi, I'm Mark Steinbrueck with OurChurch.Com. Yes, that's me on the right. Throughout my 18 years that I have been helping people with websites, I found that most people and organizations want to have a great website.
You may be thinking, "Yeah, Mark. That seems pretty obvious. What's your point?"
Well, wanting a great website may seem fantastic, however, it is also the reason that many websites fail. Stick with me for a minute while I explain what I mean.
Wanting a great website is a fantastic idea, however, defining what a great website is, is the place where most people fail.
Many folks base their definition of a great website by other websites they see. They love the design, graphics, ease of navigation, features, and content that they see in other sites. But what are these other great websites doing to make their site so appealing?
What many people don't know is how much time and effort it takes to keep a website up to date and looking great. They don't realize that the website they like so much is being run by a team of content writers and designers spending 20-30 hours a week. So, am I saying that unless you have a staff fully dedicated to updating your website that you will have a bad website? No!
How do you have a great website with a small budget or limited amount of time or budget?
- Create a webteam: Get 2-3 people responsible for updating the content of the website. Try getting volunteers if needed. You may only need a hour or two of their time a week. This is ideal, however, even if it is just you doing the updates, you can have a successful website. Keep reading.
- Set realistic expectations: This may seem like a no-brainer, but it is where so many folks miss the boat. Let me give an example of how to do this. We are about to launch a new website for a wonderful woman in Arizona who has her own business. She currently works another full time job but is extremely motivated to do what needs to be done to get her website up and running. She also understands that because she works another job, at first she won't be able to do some of the things that she wants with her website. So for the launch of her site, she is not including a blog or eNewsletter because she won't have time to keep them up to date. As a result, she won't feel stressed about updating those. In addition, her visitors will also not be disappointed from signing up for a blog or newsletter that isn't kept up to date.
- Create a schedule: Once you know how often you want to update your website, create a schedule and put deadlines in place to make the updates. Add the deadlines to your calendar and don't let other things prevent you from making those deadlines. It may take some discipline but you and your visitors will be glad that you did.
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Potential EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement: Impact Assessment
- Authors: A. Burrell, E. Ferrari, A. González Mellado, M. Himics, J. Michalek, S. Shrestha and B. Van Doorslaer
- EUR Number: 25011 EN
- Publication date: 12/2011
This report presents the simulations made with two different models of two alternative hypothetical versions of a bilateral free trade agreement
between the EU and Mercosur. The two versions of the agreement are based on the final negotiating positions of each party in the previous
unresolved negotiating round. A global CGE model, GLOBE, simulates the economy-wide impacts of the trade policy changes involving all
sectors of the two regional blocks. A global partial equilibrium model, CAPRI, simulates only the impacts generated by changes in agricultural
trade policy and incurred by the agricultural sectors of the two regions. However, CAPRI considers individual agricultural products in more
detail and can generate the territorial distribution of their production within the EU at the NUTS 2 regional level.
The simulation results show that the economic losses and the adjustment pressures arising from a bilateral trade agreement between the EU and the countries of Mercosur would, as far as the EU is concerned, fall very heavily on the agricultural sector. The gains to other sectors would be widely diffused and, given the very small magnitude of these gains relative to the EU economy as a whole, would be easily absorbed without imposing an adjustment burden. The aggregate welfare changes for the EU would be small. However, the trade-off involved in the redistribution of income between agriculture and the rest of the economy is steeper in the scenarios depicting the terms requested by Mercosur than in those involving the terms offered by the EU. The Mercosur request provokes a much greater downward impact on EU agriculture whereas the additional gains elsewhere (to non-agrifood sectors or to consumers in the EU) are relatively smaller.
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The company, which produces handcrafted carpets, was on the verge of collapse when she became general director in 2001. The State Company for Handmade Carpets was established in 1971 with 17 factories scattered around the country. By 1991, the company was making carpets mostly for the government, which meant many went into Saddam Hussein's palaces. Some of the palace carpets took three years to make, Hamza says. Exports had dried up.
Wars and sanctions continued to take their toll. By 1993 the company had shrunk to seven factories.
After the U.S.-led invasion, the company was spared much of the looting that swept through the country, thanks to vigilant guards who kept watch over the property. The company had a five-year supply of silk and wool inventory in its Baghdad factory. "If we had lost that, the company would be shut down," Hamza says.
Hamza, speaking in her small office decorated with Iraqi rugs, said she hopes to boost the image of the nation's rugs and begin exporting them again.
That's a tall order. Unlike Iran, Turkey and other countries known for their handmade carpets, Iraq was never renowned for its rugs. Haider As-Sawaf, a Baghdad antique dealer, says he considers most Iraqi carpets to be inferior to rugs from Iran and Turkey.
To keep revenue flowing in, Hamza has set up a manufacturing line for beddings and linens. She has also contacted the Foreign Ministry to convince Iraqi officials to give out her carpets as gifts to envoys and foreign dignitaries. She has set up arrangements with Iraqi artists for them to provide rug designs that reflect Iraq's history and heritage.
The weavers, all of whom are women, make the carpets by hand in factories lined with tables.
Hamza prefers to hire women. "Men do not have the same tolerance and sense of beauty women have," she says. "The smallest rug will take her no less than three months. Men cannot wait for that long time." Many of the workers are from Sadr City, a mostly Shiite slum in Baghdad.
The Baghdad factory gets hot during the summer and has only fans to cool the building, but Sana Ali, 35, says the work is satisfying. Mopping her face with a towel, she says she's been at the factory for nine years.
"I feel it is part of me," she says of the work. "And when I complete a rug, you can not imagine my happiness."


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Lance Armstrong's cycling career has been dominated by two things: Winning the Tour de France seven times and repeatedly defending himself against allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
And he won't do either ever again.
Retired from major-event cycling, Armstrong now tells Men's Journal that he also is done fighting those who suspect him of doping.
"In my mind, I'm truly done," Armstrong tells the magazine. "You can interpret that however you want. But no matter what happens, I'm finished. I'm done fighting. I've moved on. If there are other things that arise, I'm not contesting anything. Case closed."
Armstrong adds that won't change even if any drug-testing authorities attempt to strip him of his championships.
"I don't run around bragging, feeling like I have to be a seven-time Tour de France champion," Armstrong says. "I worked hard for those, I won seven times, and that's great. But it's over."
Armstrong also talks of wanting to win the Iron Man championship in the June edition of Men's Journal. And while he always has denied using PEDs he does confess to going on a bender in February, when federal prosecutors dropped an investigation of him that had lasted nearly two years.
"We just got (expletive) plastered," Armstrong says. "About five of my buddies came over, and we just sat there and got hammered. I don't even remember the night . . . Tequila. Shots. I don't even remember getting to bed. I was that kind of drunk."
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Drivers are being warned by police after a series of thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles in the borough.
Officers in Harrow are raising awareness among vehicle owners after thieves appeared to be targeting cars and vans in the area for the parts.
The three thefts took place in Margaret's Avenue and Sherwood Road in South Harrow and Blenheim Road in North Harrow.
Police say thieves have been targeting people carriers, 4x4s and commercial vans because of their high ground clearance, giving them easy access to the underside of the vehicle.
Catalytic converters are sold for their scrap metal value but thieves can only get a small amount of money.
Sergeant Jamie Kay from Harrow Police said: "Harrow is one of the safest boroughs in London and we want to ensure that our communities are and their property is not targeted by catalytic converter thieves.
"Accordingly, we urge vehicle owners to be vigilant and consider adopting some measures to help protect their vehicle against this type of theft.
"By working together, we can continue to make Harrow even safer."
Measures recommended by police include defensive parking, catalytic converter protective sleeves and security lighting.


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Moroccan Fruit Smoothie
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- Servings: 8
- 1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 large banana
- 6 strawberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 quart fresh orange juice
- Mint sprigs, for garnish
How to make this recipe
In a small bowl, soak the apricots in the water until softened, 20 minutes. Drain and transfer to a blender. Add the banana, strawberries, sugar and vanilla and pulse until chopped. Add half of the orange juice and puree until smooth. Pour into a pitcher and stir in the remaining orange juice. Refrigerate until very cold, about 2 hours. Serve the smoothie in small glasses garnished with mint.
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Fire causes explosions at East Side building
Updated 1:45 am, Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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A suspicious fire erupted at an abandoned East Side flea market late Monday, causing several explosions.
Battalion Chief Connie Hall of the San Antonio Fire Department said flames shot out of the building in the 800 block of Clark Avenue around 11:45 p.m.
Wooden pallets caught on fire, Hall said, and several sheds and other small additions were also singed. A number of discarded lawn mowers and paint cans exploded in the blaze, setting off multicolored flames.
No one was injured in the incident, Hall said, and arson investigators were looking into the cause of the fire.
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Chef Toby Gritten, of gastropub The Pumphouse in Hotwells, likes to experiment with food combinations. Clearly inspired by the masterful, Mr Blumenthal and having already picked up Gold at the Taste of the West Awards 2009 his talents clearly haven't gone unnoticed.
As we sat gazing at the menu, the man asked me the question i'd be longing to hear since we met… "Shall we try the tasting menu?". This was the one occasion when my usually infuriatingly indecisive nature did not come into play. The eight course menu was made up of smaller versions of the dishes from the a la carte and we were informed that the chef would take account of any particular preferences or dislikes we had.
The menu is resoundingly British and uses the freshest, high quality produce. Our menu featured line caught sea bass that had been caught the very same morning in Cornwall and local Mendip lamb.
Course number one was a newcomer to the menu, using the surf and turf idea and was served up in a shot glass. A layer of pea puree, pigs cheek (or 'Bath chap' for those in the know), prawn cocktail and a finishing touch of crispy pigs ear was a bold start to the meal but the medley of flavours worked extremely well together. Other courses particularly worthy of note were a Japanese influenced salmon fillet containing stem ginger, wrapped in a thin, crisp layer of bread and served with pickled cucumber and a winter game terrine of pheasant, rabbit and hare. Both dishes were served with a smattering of oak-smoked sultanas which were truly delicious.
By the seventh course even the man was beginning to flag and boy was I glad that I hadn't chosen a body-con dress to wear to dinner. But of course there's always room for dessert.. Now I never thought i'd be singing the praises of a liquorice parfait with beetroot but it was just divine.
A dish of pork belly and pommes anna was a bit of a let down; the pork was also a little over-cooked and there was nothing new or exciting about the dish so it didn't really fit with the rest of the menu. Although, as it was meat and potato I must add that the man did not share my dislike and happily polished off the remainder that was left on my plate. My only other criticism is of one of the desserts. On a plate of the most beautifully presented puds sat a piece of sticky toffee pudding which was burnt on the outside, an unwelcome addition to an otherwise excellent dessert platter.
I must make reference to our maitre d' for the evening, Adam Rees, who was utterly charming and knew the menu inside and out, carefully explaining the intricacies of each dish and helping us make some interesting wine choices. First up was a Lebanese red (Massya Lebanon Bekaa Valley 2008) – I wasn't even aware that the Lebanese made wine, let alone that it could be any good. The second was an English white (Limney Horsmoden Dry White 2009); both wines I can highly recommend.
Now not to sound like the start of an M&S ad, but this wasn't just a meal, this was an event. Three and a half hours, eight courses, two Hendricks G&Ts, two bottles of wine and £169 lighter of pocket later we finally emerged from the restaurant. I know that it's the start of the year and this is rather extravagant but if you want to try some modern, inventive cooking in Bristol then i'd say on balance it's worth it. And if you're not quite as greedy as me then the a la carte is a more reasonably priced option for a foray into some top nosh.


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So You Think You Can Dance S09E14: "Finalists Perform"
Well, it was finals week over at So You Think You Can Dance HQ, and much like the finals weeks at high schools and colleges around the nation, certain people began celebrating early while other people still had to study. The weird combination of high-pressure drama and tantalizingly imminent celebration made for one of the most exciting, bizarre, and fun-filled episodes of the season (and possibly of the series' entire run). Not a single performance (each person danced five times!) was less than amazing, and we saw sides of the dancers we hadn't seen all season. Plus, because this was the last performance before America voted, there were no eliminations—and therefore the judges had to do little else but sit back, opine, and act as silly as they felt like!
Plus some momentous things happened. Specifically: BALLET!
How had it taken this long for the season to give us a ballet performance? The pairing of Eliana and Chehon was a no-brainer! I'm not sure choosing the Nutcracker Suite was the best decision (what a cliché!) but Chehon's outfit WAS THE BEST DECISION. Sorry, not trying to be vulgar but WHAAAAAT OKAY. If we're being honest, this episode was HECKA beefcakey, up to and including Cyrus and tWitch's Animation routine:
I mean, I don't know how I didn't notice this before, but has tWitch always looked like a pro wrestler? Between this posedown and Chehon's inability to wear shirts (or the frequent presence of unlikely hunk Alex Wong [!]), I'm not sure there's ever been a season of SYTYCD where the dudes' physiques were on full display so frequently. This season has been very enjoyable! But I can definitely see why the show would need to balance out all the beefcake with an all-ladies pole dance routine. Just keeping things fair!
Anyway, this episode, am I right? So many good things.
There's never been a harder episode for which to determine ONE standout performance, but perhaps for novelty's sake, I think Eliana and Tiffany's burlesque routine was the most memorable and impressive:
I don't know about you, but I kept worrying they'd accidentally bump heads! I've never pole danced (it looks like a nightmare to me) but it can't be easy to learn a routine like this and execute it as flawlessly as these ladies did. Plus, hubba hubba, am I right fellas?
Because I was struggling to decide between two routines, I'll just point out the other one I liked, this Chehon-and-Allison Stacey Tookey contemporary number.
While I'm a sucker for dancers macking out on-stage, I think what I loved about this so much was how Tookey actively incorporated Chehon's ballet skills and turned it into a much better showcase for the amazing things he can do. Tookey's an ace choreographer, but something about this just felt elevated, you know?
Finally, how could I not embed the ballet piece?
Unfortunately I think MY preferences may not be the same as America's, but here goes: I hope Eliana and Chehon win. I love Cyrus and Tiffany, but something about the ballerina/os just gives me a thrill when I watch them. Last night more than ever Chehon proved he's versatile in almost any genre and has a surprisingly strange personality to boot; he's definitely proved himself to be more than the serious, classy, very European technician he first appeared to be.
In what was either heartwarming or extremely awkward, Nigel ended up telling the dancers to their faces who HIS preferences were: Eliana was not only his favorite dancer of the season but also of ANY season. And in an assessment that would seem to conflict with that statement, Nigel also said that Chehon was his favorite dancer of the season and Cyrus was his favorite person of the season. Tiffany was the only one left without hyperbolic endorsements, but hopefully she won't take it too personally (her individual journey apparently included a lot of fretting about how much camera time she was given).
Anyway, it's heartening that ALL FOUR of these contestants would make deserving winners. Regardless of who wins, nothing will seem like an outrage, and that's a good thing. I'll admit that the guys are much more exciting for me this year than the girls, but that might be because of how nonstop thrilled I was by the Melanie-Sasha showdown of last year. That finale was electrifying, for real. But I think this season may have had a better overall cast, so it all evens out.
Film director Rob Marshall (Chicago, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean 4) returned for Season 9 and brought his positive, articulate, experienced feedback with him. It probably helped that no real negative criticism was given out all night, so Marshall could simply just praise the dancers in a genuine-seeming way. Although he did awkwardly try to connect one of Sonya Tayeh's routines to an observance of 9/11, he made up for it later by cracking a Queen Latifah joke following the ladies' pole-dancing number. (And it was pretty classy how he never explicitly bragged that he'd directed the Oscar-winning movie from which that particular song came.) All in all, he made a great guest judge, but I can't help but wish we'd seen more choreographers on the panel this season. Maybe we should just all put that on our Season 10 wishlists.
... Honestly, you'd think these dancers weren't having the most stressful, trying weeks of their lives based on the heightened amount of silliness that abounded behind the scenes. Or maybe that's just how they handle stress?
... Not much to say about Parisian dancer Jean Sok's routine except WOW:
... Matching Power Rangers T-shirts? I think I'm in love.
... Hey Jennifer Beals!
... I hope I never hear the phrase "quirky Tyce Diorio routine" ever again.
What was YOUR favorite routine of the night? Who do YOU think should win Season 9?


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About the Book
It all began in 1962 when a 15 year old artist who was fascinated by the Space Race, created an ambitious oil painting depicting various aspects of Astronaut John Glenn's orbital flight in Friendship 7 and succeeded in presenting it to him personally. Ten years later, Chief Warrant Officer Chet Jezierski was an Army helicopter pilot and a veteran of the Vietnam war with two Purple Hearts. He became aware of the NASA Art Program during the exciting period of time when the manned missions to the moon were being conducted. In 1972, after submitting samples of his work for evaluation, Chet was invited to join a select few artists given the opportunity to be present, witness and to document America's leap into space first hand, under the guidance and jurisdiction of the agency. It would turn into a 16 year relationship. Repeated access to astronauts and launch pads was made possible by clearances only granted to official NASA Artists, and he compiled a large volume of works interpreting his up-close observations. Many of his contributions were self-motivated and not as a result of documenting any specific mission. His first assignment from Program Director James Dean put him on a team scheduled to visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the launch of Apollo 16. To this day, he feels lucky to have watched and felt one of the giant Saturn V rockets come to life and thunder skyward. That was followed by the important job of solo artist aboard the Recovery Carrier Ticonderoga awaiting the Pacific splashdown of Apollo 17's Command Module. As the Space Shuttle era progressed during the 1980's, new Program Director Bob Schulman asked him to document three launches, including the first at night. An added honor was being assigned to cover the crew of STS-4 as they suited up on the morning of take-off. The body of work he accomplished is comprised of on-site sketches, finished drawings and paintings created in his studio. A number of these have been included in exhibitions at the National Air & Space Museum, the Permanent Art Gallery at the Kennedy Space Center and on Art Train's two year "Artistry of Space" tour. For this portfolio the artist selected favorite pieces he feels best portray what he has experienced, accompanied by photos showing him at work on location during actual assignments.
Features & Details
- Category Portfolios
Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Oct 20, 2009
- Tags space flight, Chet Jezierski, NASA art, NASA
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Ian Dunlop Dear Chet,
I dearly remember the nights my parents woke me up and dragged me from my bed to witness these wonderful events. Later, I circumnavigated the States with a copy of The Right Stuff, visiting the Kennedy Space Centre and Houston, taking pictures and watching a launch myself.
I am an artist myself now, and in every respect I find your book and art tremendous. It is both a wonderful dip into nostalgia and a surprising discovery of your art for me.
I particularly love the cover piece. I am so jealous of your remarkable place in the history of such an exciting time and of your undeniable artisitic talent.
thanks for it all.
yours truly, Ian Dunlop.
vonne67 Why go to the moon if you have Bali? Check out my book Bali Terimakasi and maybe your favorite trip is not as far:-)
Yvonne (Holland)
Thomas Hooper Tattooing great book, awesome paintings. it would be amazing as a hard cover image wrap option.
good luck.
hookkids Hello Beardie
All I can say is Wow . what a work of art , Great title to
Please check out my daughters first book if you like it please give her a vote . ( Underneath the caribbean Moon ) by Lauren Buller
LINDA ROSADO Great book!! No wonder it was chosen among so many books as "Staff Pick". I will forward your book's link to all my Space Pics lover friends....
Now, come and "ESCAPE TO PARADISE"
Linda - Travel Category contestant
b5ml GOD! ive never seen anything like this! wow! i never expected such a interesting piece of work, i must so its totally different to all the book on Blurb, it must be nice to have this book, one thing i must say though.. i coldnt get enough of it! only if you can add this to the travel section for the blurb contest... ive entered mind if you like it and you think its worth a vote... i will appreciate you vote :) Musa
atelier duvallon I enjoyed your book. please look at mine.
David Dye
Rafael Pavón Reina ¡Fantástico! Un saludo.
Kathleen Kelly Mission accomplished!


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All the bed wetters and second guessers are now weighing in from the back bench.
The luckless form of the youthful Lawkins, pale and scared, rose from a back bench.
Seated among a crowd of workmen on a back bench I was one of his audience.
He seated himself as near to the door as he could, on the end of the back bench, already crowded.
I succeed in removing the back bench and sit on the bottom, where I am somewhat protected from the cutting wind.
A single voice from a back bench sang it once like a lone frog in a far pool.
He did so, but in doing it announced that he should return and take his seat, which he did, seating himself on a back bench.
"Reminds me of days that are no more," said the Member for Sark, looking on animated scene from modest quarters on a back bench.
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Public servants are reminded that their job is to serve the public.
You've probably never heard of Andrew Podger. Certainly through a long and distinguished public service career he has commanded less publicity than most junior ministers in much shorter ones.
Podger, who left the federal bureaucracy last week, knows Canberra inside out. His experience stretches from the Whitlam era's Social Welfare Commission ("a not entirely successful experiment but one I wouldn't have missed for quids", where a colleague regularly brought her kangaroos and dogs to the office), to heading the departments of housing and health, and the Public Service Commission. His swan song was a report on health reform for John Howard.
He is a very traditional public servant, dealing with both sides of politics in a straightforward, non-partisan manner. One admirer is Fraser government minister Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, who went to Canberra for his farewell last Thursday. Podger is also very much his own man, neither sucking up to politicians, nor cowed by them.
A combination of government secrecy, even paranoia, and a lack of journalistic interest means we don't hear much about the bureaucracy, which makes Podger's goodbye speech the more significant. It was tough and pointed; although affectionate to former colleagues, it was also an indictment of the contemporary government-public service relationship.
In the '70s and '80s, Podger recalls, there was a bipartisan feeling "the service was too independent and not as responsive to the elected government as it ought to be". Governments of both hues wanted, and made, changes. That in turn created new problems. "The more serious questions today concern our professionalism and our impartiality, and whether our clear obligation to be responsive has caused some of us sometimes to be too concerned to please," he said.
The "children overboard" affair - in which the Government and ministerial advisers stood over public servants and the military and various officials were intimidated or compromised - was a defining moment for many officials.
Podger cuts to the core. "I remain uneasy about public servants trying to hide their legal authority and responsibility and to refuse to hear requests for asylum they would have had to consider; and about senior public servants and military officers continuing to maintain in the Parliament the possibility that children were thrown overboard many weeks after Air Vice-Marshal Houston's advice (that children were not thrown overboard) was given and known to be given."
The lessons, Podger says, are about "giving more emphasis to our obligations of professionalism, impartiality, being apolitical and complying at all times with the law: the obligations that imply a degree of independence notwithstanding our need to be responsive". Ouch.
Often the debate about public service is about it offering frank and fearless policy advice. This isn't so hard, Podger argued. Where real courage is needed is when advising on "due process", on making corrections to Parliament, or on giving fair treatment to those opposed to the Government.
Podger also raised the politically sensitive issues of disclosure, and how much public servants are allowed to speak. He's not denying a government's right to instruct public servants about communications, nor is he condoning leaking. But he is concerned that government and public servants encourage only "skeleton" record-keeping, as they seek not to leave too much behind for outing through freedom of information.
"What is being protected here? The public interest or the partisan interest of the government of the day?" His answer is: Often the latter, by public servants "desiring to be responsive" to their bosses rather than giving weight to "due process".
Podger's speech was especially forthright but he was also on record while in the service, especially about "children overboard". His willingness to stand up for good public service values would not have endeared him to the powers that be.
His view of the bureaucratic world is contested. A year ago Peter Shergold, head of the Prime Minister's Department, rejected in a feisty speech claims the service was too acquiescent. Indeed it should be even more responsive, Shergold argued - not in serving up to ministers only the policy prescriptions they wanted, but in various organisational ways to help get things done. Shergold is not more (party) "political" than Podger, but would probably go one step further to please a government (or be "responsive"), whichever government it was.
Everyone is influenced by how they are socialised in their earlier career years. Podger came up through the turbulent but relatively open days of the 1970s. The danger is that today's ambitious young bureaucrats may sniff the wind and think the way to advancement is through the "will-do" culture - go with the government's flow, don't challenge, above all, don't say to your peers and betters "you can't do that because it doesn't seem absolutely right/proper/fair". That will mean we, the public, get short-changed from those whose name implies they are our "servants".
Michelle Grattan is political editor.
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