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the pious police are here. yay!

I'd say he is more Meatloaf than Hagrid.

Fuck the police!

You just want to stir it up to get more overtime in Cardiff!

Tee hee.

It was only a matter of time before someone gave him a slap, I guess.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28992601

hmmm not sure what to make of this

hopefully they aren't paying their CEO £500k per year or something silly

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154411689710538&set=a.10150892651745538.750745.515355537&type=1&theater

where can one find out about salaries paid to charity workers ... ALS seems a bit fact light on their website

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
More here
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/29/george-galloway-injured-london-street-attack

2 posts up repost
good work BQ

It was meant to be a reply to Bad Science's post.
Bloody unusable forum.

@dicki
It was meant to be a reply to Bad Science's post.
Bloody unusable forum.

Fucking hell. Can't edit a post without creating a dupe now?
#bringbackvbulletin

Nice one!

What % of news reported stats are bogus?
Chance of dying from ebola?
...of being killed by terrorists?
...of a guide dog being hit by a cyclist?

Up to 90% of journalist should listen to More or Less 100% of the time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd

#notscared

i listened to that yesterday afternoon, lies, damn lies and statistics

Statistics are like a lamp post with a blown bulb. Great for leaning on but shed fuck all light on anything. Sage words my mother always said.

ALS biggest challenge is to hide the accounts for the next year...

We pulled up their 2013 tax returns to take a closer look at how their funds are spent. Here are the salaries for the leadership of the group:
Jane H. Gilbert – President and CEO – $339,475.00
Daniel M. Reznikov – Chief Financial Officer – $201,260.00
Steve Gibson – Chief Public Policy Officer – $182,862.00
Kimberly Maginnis - Chief of Care Services Officer – $160,646.00
Lance Slaughter - Chief Chapter Relations and Development Officer – $152,692.00
Michelle Keegan – Chief Development Officer – $178,744.00
John Applegate – Association Finance Officer – $118.726.00
David Moses – Director of Planned Giving – $112,509.00
Carrie Munk – Chief Communications and Marketing Officer – $142,875.00
Patrick Wildman – Director of Public Policy – $112,358.00
Kathi Kromer – Director of State Advocacy – $110,661.00

Total administration costs, as seen in the pie chart above, were just under $2 million. “Other salaries and wages” (Part IX line 7) were $3.6 million, with another half million dollars in “pension plans” and “employee benefits.” Expenses for non-employee labor were about $4 million, and “travel expenses” exceeded $1.3 million.

So total costs for labor to run the association was around $12.5 million, from revenues received totaling $24 million.

Over 50% of what the ALS Association receives appears to support salaries of people working for the Association, based on these tax returns.

travel expenses top $ 1.3mn USD

nice ... always thought charity was all about giving

@dicki you can't expect charity work to be vocational and rewarding the people doing it need to rake in the fat stacks ffs

i can fully understand the $1.3mn travel expenses too
jane kimberley michelle carrie and kathy had to get out to miami to watch david beckham get his shirt of for their charity

and jane kimberley michelle carrie and kathy don't do cattle class

I'm not saying it's not an extraordinary amount of money. £200,000 is a fucking huge salary for anyone. However, a quick Google, and I mean real quick so if I'm wrong, then feel free to correct me, their non charity counterparts working for a company that takes in more than $20,000,000 a year would be earning more. If you want to hire people with good experience, you can't offer a 10% of the salary from for-profit and expect people to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. There just isn't enough good people in the world with the right type of experience. Would they have made $24,000,000 revenue last year without spending $12,000,000?

but a whole board on $100k plus a year ?
there are a lot of bright uni graduates who i'm sure could do an equal job for 1/4 of the wage and would bite your hand off for the chance and probably be more motivated, the only thing i can see as a positive for the board is that they have probably been riding the quango train for a while and have some good contacts / rich contacts

For just £4 a month you can pay the difference between us flying coach and flying buisness class...

but a whole board on $100k plus a year ?
there are a lot of bright uni graduates who i'm sure could do an equal job for 1/4 of the wage and would bite your hand off for the chance and probably be more motivated, the only thing i can see as a positive for the board is that they have probably been riding the quango train for a while and have some good contacts / rich contacts

Are you really comparing the impact on an organisation of group of experienced business leaders, with say 30 years experience each, hopefully (mainly) successful, with a group offresh graduates with zero experience of anything other than university?