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The Isle of Man Food & Drink Festival returns to the Villa Marina Gardens on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September with a fun-filled programme available.
Celebrate quality and low food miles in the Manx Produce Marquee, sample international cuisine showcasing the best of the Island's produce in the catering village, meet local drinks producers in the Festival Bar and be inspired in the Manx Cookery Theatre.
New exhibitors this year include Sugar & Spice Bakery, The Gourmet Donut Company, Baby Cheezus, Cow & Pig Smokehouse, MexiMann and Versa, and the celebrity guest will be professional pastry chef Selasi Gbormittah.
Since competing in The Great British Bake Off, Selasi has been involved in commercial branding and events and recently launched a pop-up bakery through online food delivery company Deliveroo. A keen biker, he set off on Selasi's Two Wheel Bakery Tour in 2017 visiting bakeries across Europe, and is now a professional pastry chef in Switzerland.
Selasi will use local ingredients to prepare a Blackberry and Chocolate Plated Dessert and a Loganberry and Pistachio Tart for visitors, and talk about his journey from amateur to professional baker at 7pm on the Saturday night. Tickets are free and can be reserved via www.villagaiety.com
Mae Challis headlines the live music stage on Saturday night when entry is free for visitors from 5pm (when the Manx Produce Marquee closes) until 9pm. Cheer on your favourite team in the Hot Dog Eating Competition and enjoy local street food, beer, cider, sparkling wine and cocktails flowing from the Festival Bar. The festival also welcomes CompEAT for Charity with Davison's Ice Cream at 4pm on Sunday 15 September (contact email@example.com to apply).
With free entry for under-16s, youngsters can get stuck into a range of food-based activities using local produce in the Children's Activity Marquee sponsored by The Buchan School. Complete the farm-to-fork story with the help of the Manx National Farmers Union and Isle of Man Creamery; watch the cows being milked, and meet the calves, goats and Manx Loaghtan sheep.
Demonstrations in the Manx Cookery Theatre include a Focus on Foraging with Versa's Pippa Lovell; The Cook Shack's Signature Soda Bread; Beer Tasting with Kaneen's Brewery; Cooking with the Young Fishmonger of the Year, Jordan Keig; and Cooking Manx Quinoa with Yohann Bonjus from Government House and Isle of Man Quinoa's Chris Kneale. Sponsored by Robinson's, the Isle of Man Chef of the Year Finals will take place on the Sunday with Tyler Livesey from Jean-Pierre's Bistro and Vladimir Dvorak from Harbour Lights at the Sefton competing for the title.
Every £1 spent locally on Manx food is worth £1.83 to the local economy. According to an Exhibitor and Visitor Research Report compiled by The Marketing Partnership, the Festival's value to the local economy has been rising year-on-year from £230,000 in 2017 to £298,000 in 2018.
Geoffrey Boot MHK, Minister for Environment, Food and Agriculture, said:
'The Isle of Man Food & Drink Festival is our flagship food and drink event and brings together producers to showcase their products to thousands of visitors.
Its popularity reflects the growth in Isle of Man food and drink, being driven by our Food Matters strategy, and the growing desire among people to support the innovation of local food and drink producers. As well as providing an enjoyable weekend for all the family, it aims to inspire visitors to reduce food miles, learn about provenance and boost the Manx economy.'
The event is supported by gold sponsors The Stars Group. Jon Weedon, who is responsible for corporate sponsorship at The Stars Group, said:
'We are delighted to support the Island's biggest and best celebration of local food and drink for a third year running. The festival brings together producers, retailers and consumers who share a passion for quality local produce. We are keen to support the economy as well as our communities and what better way to demonstrate this than through such a popular event, which attracts large crowds and boosts business.'


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Kristen Stewart happy to always be friends with Robert Pattinson, the details of their relationship revealed
Separated for seven years, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson still have a complicit relationship. Quickly discover the details!
Like Jennifer Aniston who was cheated and left by Brad Pitt for Angelina Jolie, Robert Pattinson was also publicly humiliated. Remember, we were in May 2012 when his girlfriend Kristen Stewart was burnt in the middle of a re-splitting session with Rupert Sanders, the director of Snow White and the Hunter. The rest, we know it. The flagship couple of the Twilight saga broke with losses and roar, breaking the hearts of their many fans. A scandal that will not have been right in their friendly relationship. Indeed, according to the actor's confidences to Sunday Times magazine 'Rob and his ex-girlfriend are on good terms. But the revelations do not stop there.
According to information released by Hollywood Life, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have kept in touch.
Yes, Rob sees Kristen as a friend even though they do not see each other as much as they used to, they sometimes send text messages on private or professional topics
Kristen is grateful to be able to call Rob his friend after all these years They've had a hard time together and she appreciates the fact that he's been able to forgive her mistakes, she's glad they're talking to each other again and exchanging, and Kristen and Rob will always share an indescribable link. Entrusted a source to the media. That should please fans of both celebrities.

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By: Don Gray
Have you ever looked at your business' revenue generation process? Do you realize that there is a process to go from the interest level in your company/product to the revenue and satisfied customer state? Even for a small business, we need to look a the whole process to ensure that we maximize our ability to influence the market and secure good customers.
In the mid 1990s I was challenged to come up with a way to better manage the sales forecasting process to drive much more predictable sales forecasts and results. As I looked into the challenge more deeply, I realized that I could not look at just the sales component to drive predictable results.
So when I developed my revenue generation model, I looked at how my business actually generated revenue. I found there were four key parts that are always in place:
- Demand Creation – your marketing and branding initiatives
- Sales Process – your selling engine
- Implementation – the successful deployment of your products or services
- Customer Retention – maintaining satisfied and repeat customers
Though research and analysis, the Sales Engineering Group Revenue Generation and Sales Process Model was born. As I work with clients today to improve their sales forecasting, we begin by discussing what they sell and how they see the customer's buying process or decision-to-buy process. Once that is understood, I use that knowledge to define the key sales stages for the process.
The closer the sales stages can reflect the buying process, the more reliable (and accurate) forecasts become. After I define the sales stages that match the customer buying process, we define the sales activities within those stages by asking: "What buying decisions do you want to accomplish at this stage?" When the key activities are decided upon, we then look at how you determine how to move an opportunity to the next stage. So the next component is to define the criteria that one would use that essentially says that the key activities have been accomplished. This then is the advancement criteria that validates that stage's key activities are accomplished and I advance the opportunity to the next stage.
Putting these three components in place and managing to them greatly enhances your ability to exactly where your sales forecast is.
Additional Guidelines & Factors
There are a few more guidelines and factors to consider when building a sales process model:
- Do not put a time factor into the model. Selling times vary. One deal might take six months. Another deal of the same size and solution could take 12 months. They both go through the same buying and selling process.
- Forecast based on the key activities you are performing. It is realistic that a sales representative may be performing key selling activities in different stages simultaneously. There is a tendency among sales representatives to forecast the opportunity in the stage that is the most advanced sales activity they are performing. My operational guideline is that you can only forecast the opportunity in the sales stage where you have completed all of the advancement criteria from all previous stages. If advancement criteria have not been satisfied, then you cannot forecast into the next sales stage.
- Sales Stage Forecast Percentage. Many organizations apply a percentage to each stage to indicate the likelihood of an opportunity closing.
- CRM Systems. I personally am CRM indifferent. Every CRM comes predefined with a set of sales stages. Most organizations do not change the stages supplied by the vendor. For the CRM to give you reliable information, you must replace the vendor-supplied sales stages with your own defined sales stages.
- Lastly, don't forget to manage your new process. Adhering to the process– particularly the advancement criteria– will dramatically improve your forecast accuracy.
About Don Gray
Don Gray is the Founder and President of Sales Engineering Group, a sales performance consultancy. Don has worked with a variety of small, medium, and large B2B organizations to help them develop their distinct value messaging, identify how customers buy their solutions, and skill their sales teams to drive predictable sales results. You can find him leading the monthly Sales & Marketing Shared Interest Groups.


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Monday, June 30, 2008
Apple-Walnut Pancakes
Difficulty: Easy
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
These are delicious! You can serve them with syrup or sprinkled with powdered sugar. My family gave it 5 stars!
1-1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup (packed) brown sugar
1-1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
Pinch of salt
1-1/2 cups milk
2 large eggs
4 Tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, melted
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 sweet apples, peeled, cored, one cut into very fine dice and one coarsely grated
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the milk eggs, melted butter and vanilla to blend thoroughly. Pour liquid ingredients over dry ingredients and mix with whisk. Stopping when everything is just combined. Batter will be a bit lumpy. Gently fold in apples and walnuts.
Heat a skillet over medium heat and cook slowly for about 1-1/2 minutes, turn a cook until done.
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Chipotle Shrimp Taco w/ Avocado Salsa Verde
Fast, easy and no cooking necessary!! You eat them cold. My family gave it 5 stars.
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 30
Cook Time: 0
Yield: 4 servings (2 tacos each)
Avocado Salsa Verde
1 small onion, quartered
1 jalapeno, quartered, seeds optional (keep for more heat)
1 garlic clove, quartered
4 medium tomato, chopped
1 Hass avocado, peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks (2/$3 @ Publix)
1 1/4 t. kosher salt
1/4 c. loosely packed fresh cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
1 T. olive oil
1 t. Chipotle (found in ethnic food isle) or blended chili powder
1 t. kosher salt
1 lb. medium cooked shrimp (about 20), peeled and deveined ($4.99lb @ Publix)
Corn or flour tortillas
Handful of chopped Cilantro
2 limes, cut into wedges
Put the onion, jalapeno, garlic, and salt in a food processor and finely chop. Pour into medium size bowl. Add the chopped tomato, avocado, and cilantro stir until well mixed.
In a separate bowl add the whole shrimp (without tails) toss with olive oil, Chipotle, and salt. Toss to coat.
Wrap tortillas in a damp paper towel and heat in a microwave, about 60 seconds.
Spoon sauce on the tortilla, then top with about 2 or 3 shrimp, cilantro and freshly squeezed lime juice. ENJOY!!
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Spanish law restricts the jail term for a terrorist offence to 40 years, however: there is no death penalty and no full-life term.
Imad Yarkas, alleged leader of an al-Qaida cell, Driss Chebli and Ghasoub al-Abrash Ghalyoun are due to go on trial next month. Mr Chebli is Moroccan, the other two of Syrian origin.
Another 21 are charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation, out of 40 indicted in September 2003 and subsequently by the investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzón.


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I don't know what it is about summer veggies from the garden. I seriously could eat this and/or my Kitchen Sink Pizza daily. Why kitchen sink? Well because these meals are the epitome of "anything but the kitchen sink is used". This pasta normally happens on a Friday night when my fridge is empty and all of my produce from the garden is preserved in some way for the week. So I have a mini panic and run out to the garden and scrounge up anything and everything that has just ripened in the afternoon sun.
I actually also do this in the winter the night before grocery shopping day to clean out my fridge!! It's frugal, simple, and easy. Three of my favorite things!!
So really, this isn't so much a recipe since you can use anything you have on hand. Don't have fresh tomatoes? Throw in some canned!! Have some frozen asparagus? That would be great with peas and mushrooms!!
Here is what I had on hand tonight!!
1 Zucchini (cut in chunks)
1 Summer Squash (cut in chunks)
1 handful of pear and cherry tomatoes (some cut and some left whole)
1 handful of basil (I'm obsessed with basil so you may want less. Although I think that would be CRAZY of you!!)
1 heaping tbsp. of minced garlic (I have a garlic obsession as well so apply suggestions from above!!)
1 tbsp. Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
5 big handfuls of your favorite shaped organic pasta (No I don't measure!! Wait….. You mean you measure pasta?). I use Trader Joe's Quinoa Brown Rice Pasta so I can get a gluten free complete protein in.
Optional: 2 tbsp. nutritional yeast (for my vegan friends) or Parmesan cheese
*Start pasta water on high to boil. I always salt my pasta water with pink Himalayan salt. Actually that's the only kind of salt I use 🙂
*Warm olive oil in a sauté pan and add zucchini and summer squash to cook for about 5 minutes
*Add tomatoes and sauté for 3-5 minutes
*At the very end stir in minced garlic but be careful not to burn it
*Strain pasta and dump directly over cooked veggies.
*Julienne or mince your basil and sprinkle that over and Season with Salt and Pepper!!
*I also stir in some nutritional yeast for added B12 and protein
Abso-freakin-lutley Delish and only takes 10-12 minutes to make. Gluten free and vegetarian or vegan. How can you go wrong with this? Well my meat-eating husband would tell me where I went wrong but I'm not asking him!!
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Destructoid.com writes "Hot Toys are known for doing absolutely sick levels of detail when it comes to toys -- check out their insane Joker figure, for instance -- but it seems to me they've really topped themselves when it comes to these Biohazard 5 figures (that's Resident Evil 5 to us, of course). Tomopop spied some pics of them last night floating around on Toys Daily, and this morning's press release just gave us further confirmation that these incredible figures are coming our way very soon."
Hot Toys do some amazing action figures , The Bank Robber Joker is superb.
How come she doesn't look black to me? Thought she was an african. This's just too stupid.


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MacEwan University announces 2019 Distinguished Research Award recipient
The Dr. Sherrill Brown Distinguished Research Award recognizes faculty members who have made notable contributions to research at MacEwan. This year's award goes to Dr. Tricia Lirette, an assistant professor in the Early Learning and Child Care program, and chair of the Department of Human Services and Early Learning.
"This award recognizes the importance MacEwan University places on community-based research," says Dr. Fred McGinn, interim associate vice-president, Research. "Tricia and her team of researchers developed a curriculum framework that will help early learning educators reflect on their practices to shift them from doing what has always been done toward intentional curriculum decision-making. This research was adopted by the Alberta government in 2018 and is utilized as the cornerstone of their subsidized child care program."
The award will be presented at this year's Spring Convocation in June.
About this year's recipient
Dr. Tricia Lirette holds a PhD in Educational Policy Studies, an MEd in Adult Education and a BSc in Human Ecology from the University of Alberta. She began her post-secondary education at MacEwan University with an Early Childhood Development Diploma.
Tricia's areas of expertise include early learning and child care policy, family-centred practice, out-of-school care, child care accreditation and curriculum development. Her dissertation research was entitled The Social Organization of Child Care in Alberta: An institutional ethnography. She has travelled twice to Reggio Emilia, Italy – home of a world-renowned system of municipal preschools. She continues to wrestle with the provocations and implications that arose from those tours, and helps others make meaning of the Reggio philosophy in their own context.
Tricia was the chair of the annual MacEwan Child Care Conference from 1995 to 2010. She has also been a research team member and a steering committee member of the Alberta Early Learning and Child Care Provincial Curriculum Framework Development Project.
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Each month we feature GeoMentor volunteers to showcase the wonderful talent available in our community to assist K-12 schools.
Read our full collection of GeoMentor spotlights online. Want to be featured? Information is available on our program website.
Name: Dave Cooper
Position: Planning GIS Tech, Columbus Consolidated Government
What was your favorite class in K-12? Science and Social Studies were my favorite classes.
How did you first learn about GIS? I started out as a graphic designer and was introduced to GIS by my supervisor. I fell in love with it and never looked back. It has been a wonderful career.
Why did you want to volunteer as a GeoMentor? I work with the kids at church and love sharing my experience with them. It's amazing when you get one of those "ah-ha" moments, when you see their faces light up in discovery. I wanted to share my love of geography with them as well. That was how I got involved with geomentoring, just a desire to share the thing I love with a new generation.
What kind of GeoMentor volunteer opportunity and experience are you looking for? I enjoy working with anyone who has an interest in learning about GIS and its many forms - young professionals, kids, anyone who wants to have fun and learn about GIS.
If someone asked you why they should learn about GIS and/or geography, how would you respond in one sentence? Are you kidding? One sentence? Hmmm...If you can imagine it you can map it, let your mind take you to far off places and then make a map of it!
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"The following is a free-form poem I wrote in high school which I found whilst cleaning my room the other day. I thought it merited saving."
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A lot has happened to me in the months since I last posted, and I've grown quite a bit, but I also feel like nothing has changed. […] I'm happy with the direction my life is taking, but the older I get, the more easily I get hurt when things don't pan out the way my heart wants them to, even when my head knew better all along.


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There's not a lot you can do with 16×16 pixels. Yet we need those pixels to differentiate our web pages from other sites in lists and tabs in our web browser. I have been fighting feverishly with my favicon for over a year. Who'd have thought so much blood and sweat would go into such a small thing?
It should have been easy, yet I went through so many iterations. The more I tried to capture the essence of my brand in a tiny square, the more frustrated I became. The task is deceptively horrid, a honey trap for cocky designers. Just when you think it's all good, you see it in a lineup of competing tabs then you wonder what the hell you were thinking?
I thought my signature as initials would work. It looked like a half swatted fly had dragged its mangled legs in a circle.
I tried my initials in lowercase. Rather than the simple chic I was aiming for, I got something a Monty Python foot had stomped in the middle.
Uppercase in a different font then? Nope, too crowded and nothing like my page font.
What about in a single letter, the start of my signature? I actually hand wrote it and digitised the thing. No, it looked untidy, or like some deformed star. A printed letter perhaps? Nope, too much like the Kobo favicon, I didn't even save it.
Then I decided to get smart. The favicon was meant to sum up my brand. I decided to stamp browser tabs and favourite lists with a sizzling letter K, complete with the four chunky corners of a branding iron. I liked it for a bit. I even noted it on my website updates and changed it on my WordPress page. But it lasted a week. It didn't fit with the minimalist clean lines of my site. I wasn't really being smart at all.
I debated round versus square. The letter K is angular, so perhaps a circle would make it stand out in contrast? K is also heavily weighted on the left side, so the right side looked bare. I added a couple of random dots. It looked alright, but it wasn't me and the dots were too small.
Why couldn't I have a name starting with a well-balanced letter, like Carlotta, or Hortense, or Octavia? It was too late to blame my parents. Hell, they once told my Godmother I was going to be called Beppo because they hadn't thought of a name for me yet. B could have worked, even if it was inspired by some odd German clown rather than the DC super monkey.
I realised I was being ridiculous. I slept on it and when I woke up this morning I decided to go back to the simplicity of my printed initials, but arrange them in a more icon-friendly way using the colours and font of my page. I played around with contrasting colours, light on dark and dark on light. Some looked good in the design software when viewed at 500×500 pixels but once scaled and on a tab or list, they bled together and looked like something sneezed out onto a tissue.
I noticed in my icon research most websites use a single letter or stylised image for their favicon. Think of Facebook, Amazon, WordPress, Google, Pinterest, Goodreads, Vimeo, Canva, Yahoo, and yes, my arch nemesis, Kobo for the letters. Think Twitter, YouTube, Vellum, Mailchimp, and Hotmail for the logos.
I partly worried using more than two letters would tend to look crowded and unprofessional. My website host (1&1), and the BBC suffer from this problem, in my opinion.
However, I bit the bullet and simplified my sneezy design further by killing the background colour. I was happy. I believe I have arranged my initials in such a manner they are more of a logo than read as a set of letters. I've varied the colour, the size, and melded the m and the d together down the opposite side to the k, so the left and right edges essentially mirror each other with a vertical line.
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Have you had problems with your favicon? Did you design it yourself or did you get outside help? Let us know in the comments.
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Snow Report 3-4
Lift tickets are now $35 Mondays-
Thursdays, and $45 Fridays-Sundays through the end of the season!
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Note that UNMARKED OBSTACLES MAY EXIST.
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Tubing Hill: CLOSED FOR THE SEASON
Fat Tire Bike Races - Saturday, March 7
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A warm welcome to our new Senior Account Manager, Claire
By IMA on Sep 19, 2013
A warm welcome to Senior Account Manager, Claire.
Our latest Client Services recruit will be working with Parkdean and a number of our charity clients, Claire has over seven years industry experience as Account Manager and Senior Account Manager at another Leeds based advertising agency.
Claire, 29, is originally from the Lake District, and lives with her boyfriend in Headingley – handy! She loves to visit her family, travel and see new places. Claire enjoys shopping and tries to go the gym when she can as she's signed up for the Abbey Dash this year. She once chatted to Paddy McGuiness in his Winnebago!
Claire said: "I'm excited about working for Intermarketing Agency as it's a successful, growing company and the team are all really friendly and I'm looking forward to working on new clients."


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New Delhi: Celery is one food item, the health benefits of which remain somewhat unsung. The goodness of celery is evident from the fact that it is high in fibre content and contains little calories. Also, it is packed with minerals, vitamins and nutrients. Celery is considered as an important medicinal plant, as it helps in curing various health disorders.
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Last month, I made a purchase online at the Groupon Singapore website using a Citibank Visa credit card.
I received the product and was satisfied with the overall experience. However, when I received my credit card bill a month later, I was shocked to find that a hefty 8 per cent currency conversion fee was levied.
I am aware of the existence, purpose and function of this fee. Therefore, when I made my purchase, I carefully ensured that my payment was made in Singapore dollars.
I called Citibank to protest against this charge, explaining that the Groupon Singapore website was entirely local in content and all charges were in Singapore dollars, without any option to elect a foreign currency.
The bank replied that Groupon had chosen to process my payment overseas. Hence, the fee was charged.
After I further protested that I had no way of knowing or avoiding this at the time of purchase, it agreed to waive the charge but warned that future transactions with any company processing payments overseas would incur such a fee.
It added that transactions with Uber in Singapore, for example, would incur this charge if the payment is processed overseas.
Since then, I find myself hesitant to transact on any websites and apps, for fear of incurring this whopping 8 per cent charge.
In an age when online shopping is fast becoming the norm, how can consumers know whether the local branch of an international company, or even a local company, processes its payment overseas?
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The mudslides that hit Santa Barbara County last week continue to clog a main artery for cars and trucks trying to get through the area. Some local business owners say the prolonged shut down of the 101 freeway has led to missed shipments and lost revenues.
A CalTrans spokesman estimated that each day, roughly 7,500 trucks normally pass through the stretch of the 101 currently closed while cleanup crews work to remove mud and debris that piled up due to last week's storms.
Getting farm shipments out on time is crucial to Santa Barbara County's many flower growers. June Van Wingerden, co-owner of Ocean Breeze Farms in Carpinteria, says their crops are highly perishable.
"With cut flowers, we harvest almost every day, so we ship every day," Van Wingerden said. But she wasn't able to get shipments out just after the mudslides.
"We lost at least two days of shipping, and that cost us probably about $50,000 a day in lost revenue," she said.
Drivers are now back to making deliveries for Ocean Breeze Farms, but Van Wingerden says one routine round trip that usually takes three hours is now taking eight. After the fires, the mudslides, and then the freeway closure, she's ready for business to get back to normal sometime soon.
California Cut Flower Commission CEO Kasey Cronquist said truck drivers who normally deliver flowers in round trips that take up only one workday are now driving longer routes that don't fit into typical schedules.
"It's making for a difficult scenario in trying to make all this mathematically work in a day," he said.
California Trucking Association senior vice president Eric Sauer said agriculture is one of the major industries bringing truck drivers into the Santa Barbara area, but he expects shipments of other kinds of goods will be affected too.
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lThe Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has begun to visit filling stations in Plateau to ensure that major and independent marketers comply with the new pump price of N86.50 per litre as directed by the Federal Government.
NAN reports in Pankshin that officials of the department are currently visiting the central and southern zones of the state to ensure total compliance.
The department's team Leader and Human Resources Assistant, Mr Habib Yahaya, told NAN in Pankshin on Saturday that it was useful for both major and independent marketers to comply with the new pump price.
"All NNPC Mega Stations are expected to sell the fuel at a pump price of N86.00 per litre while major and independent marketers are supposed to sell at N86.50 per liter.
"Anything above these two official pump prices would attract serious sanctions from our department," he said.
Yahaya expressed concern about the attitude of some of the independent and major marketers who he accused of avoiding them.
"When they heard we are coming they quickly closed down and run away from the filling station so that we could not check the volume of what they had in stock," he observed.
Yahaya called on the public to alert DPR of any erring filling station that would not sell at the official pump price of N86.50.
"This because we are aware that most of the operators of these filling stations revert to old prices of their choices whenever we are out of their domain," he said.
The DPR official warned that any filling station caught flaunting the directive of the government would face the wrath of the department.
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HUMR4510 – Human rights, Politics, and Legitimacy
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Thise course is discontinued, we offer the possibility to take the examination last time spring 2018.
Both the moral idea of human rights and the system of international legal human rights play an increasingly important role in both domestic and international affairs. At the same time, because of this increasing influence, human rights have met with resistance and demands for justification.
This course will combine two lines of inquiry into human rights: First, it will study the role international human rights play, the influence they have, and the resistance they are met with by different kinds of political regime. Next, it will address the legitimacy of human rights and examine how human rights can be justified and what the task of justifying human rights amounts to.
The course will show how these lines of inquiry are related by examining the increasing emphasis in the philosophical literature on human rights on the need to begin the task of justification by establishing a proper concept of human rights, something which can best be done by paying close attention to the actual practice of human rights.
Learning outcome
The course provides an understanding of the challenges involved in a philosophical justification of human rights, as well as an understanding of the role and influence of international human rights. Furthermore, the course provides insight into the relationship between philosophical and social scientific research on human rights.
You may register for this course if you are admitted to a Master's programme at UiO.
Priority is given to students admitted to Theory and Practice of Human Rights (master's two years).
Students admitted to other Master's programmes may apply for guest student status.
The examination consists of a written assignment, consisting of an essay of maximum 5000 words. The assignment will be assessed in two steps. The students must first deliver a draft paper of maximum 2000 words, on which they will receive comments from the teacher. A week after they receive these comments, students must turn in a final version of the assignment, of maximum 5000 words, text exceeding the word limit will not be read.
The grade will be given based on the final version of the written assignment. It is obligatory to deliver both the draft paper and the final version of the written assignment.
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The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.
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The Lanark Village Review Committee has been reactivated at the request of the Lanark Village Association (LVA).
The advisory committee, founded around 1998, was not officially disbanded but faded away due to lack of interest, according to County Planner Mark Curenton.
People are interested again and following a written request made by the LVA to the county Planning and Zoning advisory board, Lanark residents Tony Johnson and Barry Greer have been appointed to the review committee.
Curenton said the review committee is exclusively for Lanark, a special overlay district, which has special status and different zoning requirements because the community, built as officers' quarters for Camp Gordon Johnston during World War II, was grandfathered in when the county comprehensive plan was first filed.
After the war, Lanark Village was developed and marketed as a low cost retirement community by a Miami-based development company.
Members of the Lanark Review Committee may attend P&Z meetings, which are open to the public, but will not be voting members of that county advisory board.
In the past, Curenton said, plans for proposed development or construction within Lanark Village were forwarded to the review committee. He said P&Z would give the committee two weeks to review proposals and would consider any comments reviewers offered before making decisions regarding variances and permits.
The letter to P&Z also asks that records regarding Lanark Village be updated.
Dot Bless, spokeswoman for the Lanark Village Association wrote that the updating of county records will aid the the county's building, planning and zoning, road, animal control and solid waste departments, as well as the sheriff's office, Lanark Village Volunteer Fire Department, the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Department of Transportation, all of which have expressed their desire to work with (the LVA.
The letter said Lanark residents have allowed rules and ordinances to be ignored in recent years and asked that the county take measures to reinstitute enforcement.
LVA requests aid from the county in removal of derelict cars, boats and trailers from public areas and the county right of way; establishment of rules concerning the number of vehicles per residential unit and condemnation of abandoned or derelict properties, including those with unkempt landscape, vermin, no active utilities and structures which are fire hazards.
"The village has at one time been a very strong community that has lost some of its integrity," Greer said. "Restoring the Lanark community is important to Lanark and the county. I foresee the community working together again."


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Compared to the nurses and doctors running around Northern Hospital, as a medical student I have ample time to attend ward rounds, watch procedures, and talk to patients. I usually choose the last option because I either have a timetable clash, or haven't been fast enough to catch a procedure. Interns have been happy to point me to patients who don't see many visitors, have been stuck in the hospital for weeks, and are keen to chat for hours. Over the past month I've spoken to many patients who were generous enough to donate their time to a lost medical student on her first rotation who needed a sense of purpose, a sense that she accomplished something on the ward today. And that is how I met Beth.
I'll call her Beth for the sake of anonymity. Her real name is Arabic because she emigrated from Lebanon in 1963. Beth had nine siblings. Had. Two of them died as soldiers in the war, and that is when her parents had enough. She told me, with a tremor in her voice, about how they gathered up all the money they could to send her to Australia. She was the eldest, at 19 years of age, and had the best chance. They sent her to live with a fellow Lebanese family. Beth informed me that she used to be beautiful – waving me away when I tried to interrupt with 'but you still are!' – and that she would turn heads everywhere. The wife of the family she lived with became suspicious. She'd listen to the fights between the husband and wife in the other room, reaching a higher and higher crescendo every night. Soon Beth was shoved out the door in a foreign country where she couldn't even read the street signs. Beth's eyes watered, but her gaze was fixed straight into mine when she said, "I didn't know where to go. I wandered for a day, and ended up in a park. There was bread scattered on the grass that people had left for pigeons. I leapt on it and ate and ate and ate. I felt like less than an animal."
Beth slept in the park for 3 days, until one night she heard something familiar under the street lights. Arabic, her native language. Her pale hands gesticulated wildly, like frightened birds, as she told me. "I jumped up! I couldn't believe there were people here who spoke Arabic! I could not help myself; I started screaming help me, help me, help me! At the top of my lungs. I grabbed onto the man's jacket and wouldn't let go."
The men were from Lebanon, like Beth, and took her to their church. Beth lived there, with warm showers and fresh food, until she secured a job as a fruit picker on a local farm. She practiced her English in the orchards. She says she doesn't know what would have happened to her if she hadn't found them that night.
Beth taught me many things. I listened to her pan-systolic murmur and I learnt about glaucoma medication from reading her chart. But meeting Beth, and many other patients in similar situations, made me appreciate the challenges many people face when they arrive in Australia. I have learnt about signs and symptoms, but I have also learnt much more. Learning about the complex and unsurmountable barriers our patients have had to overcome has helped me develop compassion not only as a future medical practitioner, but also as a human being.


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EXCLUSIVE: ANIRUDH REASONS OUT ON WHY HE USED DEATH METAL IN VIVEGAM'S TEASERHome > Tamil Movies > Tamil News Stories
By Avinash Pandian | May 12, 2017
Vivegam teaser has literally grabbed every film lover's eyeballs. Not just Ajith fans, even people who do not follow cinema much has shown interest towards Vivegam post the teaser release. Ajith's screen presence, style, and charm are obviously the major reasons for the success of the teaser. There are other facets too like Anirudh's high octane BGM that sets the mood high.
One of the elements that we noticed in the music was the usage of death metal, a kind of music that is hardly tried in Kollywood. To know more on why Anirudh had given a different treatment to the teaser, we contacted him.
"I wanted to use death metal because the reach of these movies are so big and a new genre for Tamil always helps. So thought death metal will be new for us. Like how I used trap for Vedalam."
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Daniel expressed several times that his dream of making England's World Cup squad is slowly dying due to a lack of game time, and for that reason, the player is ploting a January move to Italy and has been linked with Milan. After being unable to secure a starter place in Liverpool's front three Sturridge has been largely restricted to a series of substitute appearances this season and has only three goals to his name.
? Daniel #Sturridge has decided he must leave #Liverpool in the January transfer window or miss out on the World Cup. (Mirror) pic.twitter.com/14nPQzCk9O
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But after the red's 3-3 draw with Sevilla on Champions League night, Jürgen Klopp said he had no intention what so ever to sell Sturridge. "I can imagine actually that a player with these qualities is not happy he is not starting all the time," said Klopp. "I really can imagine that. But that's all. At the moment we need all our players."


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The relationship between cancer and diet is established but at the same time very complicated, as the disease itself. Many research over the last few decades has shown that certain foods and nutrients can help prevent or, conversely, contribute to certain types of cancer. While there are many factors that you can not change in order to modify your cancer risks, such as genes and certain environmental factors, there are other factors you can change, such as your diet and body weight.
Body weight
Overweight and obesity are associated with an increased risk of over 10 types of cancers, such as breast cancer (postmenopausal), colon and ovarian cancer. In a study of 5 million people, it was found that an increase of BMI about 1 kg/m2 could annually lead to 3790 additional patients who develop some type of cancer that is positively associated with excess body weight. The reason is that obesity and excess fat are inflammatory conditions, so they produce hormones and inflammatory proteins that can promote tumor growth.
Processed and red meat
The link between processed meat and red meat with cancer is proven. Processed meat is any meat that has been smoked, fermented or contains additional salt and nitrites to enhance its taste. It has been found that consumption of ~50 grams of processed meat per day is associated with about a 20% increase in the risk of colorectal cancer. Even if the exact mechanism is not clear, it seems to be related to the additional nitrates in the processed meat and the iron naturally present in the red meat. So, minimize or do not consume processed meat and limit the intake of red meat 2-3 times per month, as is proposed by the Mediterranean diet.
Antioxidants are undoubtedly important for preventing cancer, as they help to neutralize free radicals that can damage cells. But the biggest question is whether taking more through diet or dietary supplements further reduces the risk. So far, research has not come to a conclusion. But as their protection is undoubted, increase the consumption of foods that are rich in antioxidants. A simple way is to include foods, fruits and vegetables with bright colors, such as dark green, orange, purple, yellow and red, such as spinach, carrots, red cabbage and tomatoes.
Glycemic Index
Carbohydrates play a role in the development of cancer. Glycemic Index (GI) is a measure of how fast carbohydrates convert to glucose in the blood. High glycemic (GI) or high glycemic (GL) diets, which increase chronically postprandial blood glucose, may increase the risk of cancer. High carbohydrate intake from high GI foods has been associated with an increased risk of cancer associated with colon and diabetes. In contrast, eating low glycemic foods, such as legumes, non-starchy vegetables, fruits and whole grains, was associated with a 67% lower risk of breast cancer. The study also found that consumption of food with higher glycemic load was associated with a 88% higher risk of prostate cancer.
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While diet and weight loss are key to cancer prevention, combining a good diet with other healthy habits can further reduce the risk. The risk factors that appear to be related to cancer are smoking, alcohol and exercise.
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Joint statement from Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America, and Tanya Ditty, Vice President of Field Operations and former CWA Georgia State Director:
"Governor Kemp needs to know Kelly Loeffler would be the wrong choice for conservatives in Georgia and supporters of President Trump on several fronts. She sits on the board of a hospital in Atlanta that employs five abortionists and actually runs the largest training program for abortionists in Georgia. She is also part owner of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream franchise. The WNBA has been an outspoken supporter of Planned Parenthood, even partnering with the pro-abortion organization in opposing President Trump's pro-life policies. Likewise the WNBA has remained disturbingly silent about China's persecution of the citizens of Hong Kong, even after an NBA general manager courageously spoke out about it. Ms. Loeffler also sits on the board of a psychiatric treatment facility that provides transgender affirming counsel to minors. Likewise she has given thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to liberal and pro-abortion candidates. There are better choices for Gov. Kemp when it comes to the next U.S. Senator from Georgia. Gov. Kemp has a list of fantastic pro-life candidates. We hope he doesn't pick the one the pro-life community will have to oppose."


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"Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded."
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick was born in Little Hampton on October 23, 1942, a daughter of Italian immigrants. Growing up she described feeling like a natural outsider who was drawn to rebels and those that thought differently about the world. Anita decided to start her own business as a mother of two young children with a wealth of travel experience and knowledge of people and women, especially those in pre-industrial areas. Out of her intense passion and little business experience, The Body Shop was born. Roddick used natural products, partnered with people instead of corporations, and cast a much-needed light on the environment while doing it. This month, we honor her birth, her life, and her legacy.
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick's moral outrage drove her business model. A fierce ally for the environment and sustainable resources, not only did her business exclusively deal with natural products, she took up large-scale advocacy and impossible odds against companies like Exxon Mobil and Shell to create change and better the lives of people thousands of miles away from her. The Body Shop's success grew into a massive chain of businesses all founded on the same principles, and all continuously looking for new opportunities to partner with pre-industrial people and their precious knowledge of resources.
Stepping into the uncrowded space to take your place as a force to be reckoned with embodies everything Roddick stood for. Cultivating the skills to not only be the voice of change, but the catalyst of courageous action, is exactly what you can start to do by joining your debate team. The NYCUDL Girls Debate League is ready to hear your voice, are you ready to speak up? Are you ready to debate like a girl?
Awards and honors
- 1984 – Veuve Clicquot Businesses Woman of the Year
- 1988 – Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1988 – Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex
- 1991 – Center for World Development Education's World Vision Award, USA
- 1993 – Banksia Foundation's Australia Environmental Award
- 1993 – Mexican Environmental Achiever Award
- 1993 – National Audubon Society Medal, USA
- 1994 – Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, USA
- 1994 – University of Michigan's Annual Business Leadership Award, USA
- 1995 – Women's Business Development Center's First Annual Woman Power Award, USA
- 1996 – Women's Center's Leadership Award, USA
- 1996 – The Gleitsman Foundation's Award of Achievement, USA
- 1997 – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Honouree, Eyes on the Environment
- 1999 – Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath[25]
- 1999 – British Environment & Media Award
- 1999 – Chief Wiper-Away of Ogoni Tears, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Nigeria
- 2001 – International Peace Prayer Day Organisation's Woman of Peace
- 2003 – Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)[26]
- 2004 – Honorary Doctorate of Public Service, The Sage Colleges
- 2005 – Shell liveWIRE survey of inspirational role models, third place after 1) Richard Branson 2) Friends/family 3) Anita Roddick 4) James Dyson 5) Sahar Hashemi
- 2006 – Spirit of the Rainforest Award, Rainforest Action Network
Sources: Biography and Succeed Feed and Wikipedia


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What is it about this guy, Obama?
He has so much power.
He shows up our need to have a father-figure in the White House, a moral leader, an embodiment of American values. Not at all like the prime ministers of Japan and China and Europe who approach their jobs more like a CEO.
Gays were taking it personally that he seemed to be breaking his promises to them. All over the internet were statements of bitter cynicism – "looks like he's just another politician," "why were we so easily duped?" and the like.
Less pessimistic voices cautioned that if he was not necessarily for us at the moment it didn't mean he was against us. But it was so much easier to see his dragging his feet on gay rights as just another of so many examples of his unwillingness or inability to keep his promises. Can't close down Guantánamo, can't tone down the war in Afghanistan, can't get health care to work, the bailout to work. It was looking so much like part of the grand disillusionment, the post honeymoon, the clay feet of the saint.
For gays, at least, all that seems to be water under the bridge now. Obama gave a talk to gay rights advocates yesterday in the East Room in which he said all the right things. He supports the overturn of DADT and DOMA. He said "I'm with you" in at least half a dozen ways. It was unexpected. And it was thrilling.
Plenty of people remain sceptical. Talk's cheap, they say. We've heard it before, they say.
I, too, am waiting for the fat lady to sing. But I heard something that really packed a punch for me. Aside from naming the hate crimes bill after Matthew Shepard, I mean.
"It's not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago."
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but did everybody miss that in all the excitement?
This is where the president of the United States has real power. He sets the tone. He lets people know whose views in the power structure are in the ascendant, whose are passé.
Bush let it be known anybody not in support of corporate America was a socialist. Had prayer breakfasts where evangelicals prayed for Bush's continued moral leadership against abortion, stem cell research and gay rights. For eight years one felt the need to have a waste basket at the ready next to the bed or chair after watching the 11 o'clock news.
And now we have a president who says – in so many words – "You guys remember back when blacks were being told to cool it and wait another 150 years? Remember how the wise leadership of the country counseled patience? And how it took a Martin Luther King to remind us that justice delayed is justice denied?
And you know all those black folk now dragging their feet because their church leaders tell them this is different? These are not civil rights we're talking about here?
Well I, Barack Obama, am telling you now…
"It's not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago."
This is the president drawing the parallel, folks.
Hope you didn't miss it.
Hope also you didn't miss the fact that "it's not for me to tell you to be patient" was his way of asking us to be patient.
OK. It's not a perfect world.
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Two 14-year-old Cypriot pupils won first prize in a global competition run by NASA in the SpaceApps Challenge.
The competition in Nicosia took place in the presence of NASA Chief scientist Dr James Green, who mentored the teams.
This year NASA offered an exclusive prize only for Cyprus that no other country had. The special challenge for Cyprus was about space colonisation.
Teams had to prepare and present a project which included designing a list of requirements for countries to contribute, decide how many people from each country or state should participate, structure a leadership and governance for the colony(ies), design a social structure.
The first prize was awarded to team ASRocket consisting of Athena Vourgos and Savvas Michaelangelo Agisilaou.
President of the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation, George Danos told CNA that the winning team "did a thorough project that amazed the judges, especially the NASA judge".
The teams had one weekend to think about their project and 10 minutes to present it before the judges.
NASA offered the winning team the unique opportunity to visit the Marshall Space Flight Centre where astronauts are trained, while three more teams will visit the Rocket and Space Centre. All teams will be given the chance to train like astronauts for one week.
"Once again, we see that there is much potential in this country. Cyprus can excel, and we are making sure that we provide the right stimulus and springboard to help our talented youth to reach for the stars," Danos said.
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Nearing the end of my annual Bluesfest trip and finally have a chance to blog. It's funny how busy you can get when you're trying to relax.
My favorite moment by far has been seeing Slash in concert. I'm not a huge Guns n Roses fan, but wow. Slash and The Conspirators completely blew the roof off that open air festival. Their original songs were hard rockin' and showcased Slash's skills and the few GnR songs they performed didn't suffer for lack of Axl Rose. In fact I'd say they were better. The crowd ate these guys up.
One of the things I love about music festivals is discovering new bands. I had that "holy crap" moment with a band called Paper Kites from Australia. The lead vocalist sounds like the singer from the Cranberries and they have just the right mix of folk/rock to make me swoon. A little awkward on stage but it was an endearing quality. Planning on downloading some of their stuff when I get home.
The weather has been absolutely perfect. Sunny and mid twenties all week and cooling down at night so it's easy to sleep. You couldn't order up better festival weather.
Unlike previous years, we haven't all dived off the clean eating bandwagon. It's been a healthy week with just a couple of indulgences. I even managed to find a decent salad at Bluesfest yesterday amongst the poutine, burgers and other deep fried options. It will be a nice change to finish the week not feeling the need for a food detox.
I spent yesterday morning lounging in the sun and reading a book. We had nothing on the agenda and it was glorious. Threw on my bikini, grabbed a coffee and put a big dent in one of those great pulp novels you only read on vacation.
Lesser Lights
An hour after landing, I was on my way to a dentist after the temporary crown from my root canal broke. Not the best start to the trip but at least the fun has gone up from there!
I miss Ian and Riley. I'm having a blast of course, but every now and then something will happen and I'll want to turn to Ian and comment and of course he's not there. Looking forward to his arrival tomorrow for the final day of Bluesfest and our road trip home on Monday.
So that's it so far! Have a pool party/bbq this afternoon and need to prepare some food. Thinking chicken, sweet pepper and pineapple skewers and just maybe some of that bacon guacamole I mentioned last post. Delicious!
Happy Saturday! Hope your week has been treating you well even if you're not on vacation!


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Dan Haar: Budget's tax hikes prove elusive
Legislators apparently figured they should wait to adopt a Connecticut budget until after the Yankees and Red Sox lost in the playoffs, which, by the way, is just barely before towns run out of cash.
As the Senate prepared to vote on the bipartisan compromise plan late Wednesday, everyone wanted to know how big a tax increase we'll see. This would seem an easy question: Look at the list of changes from last year and add up the ones that raise new money from residents and businesses, right?
Wrong. It's not easy because the "revenue enhancements," which total $1.6 billion this year in the new budget, involve a lot of moving money around in ways that are hard to define.
For example, the budget swipes $327 million from something called the municipal revenue sharing account, or MRSA, not to be confused with the skin-eating bacteria. Tax increase? Hard to say; it could end up as one if we have to raise that money later or if towns have to raise their property taxes.
There's no increase in the rates of any of the big three levies that come to mind when we think about sending money to Hartford. Those are the income tax, which accounts for about $9 billion, or half of regular state spending; the sales tax, which pulls in $4 billion at 6.35 percent; and the corporate earnings tax, less than $1 billion but fiercely contested because it hurts the midsize companies that pay an unfair share of it exactly as we're asking them to hire more people.
And so the size of the tax increase remains a mystery.
By Wednesday afternoon, despite the scheduled vote, we still didn't have final documents. Based on comments by legislators and a fleeting look at a list, my take is that the increase in taxes and fees in the first year of the 2-year budget will be in the range of $200 million to $300 million, just over 1 percent of the total budget, and a slight increase beyond that in the second year.
That includes a few easy-to-define hikes such as 45 more cents for a pack of cigarettes, which will raise $38 million a year.
Why are we hearing about billion-dollar tax hikes? Those figures are based on running totals, which can be highly misleading. They count the added tax twice — once for the first year and once for the second — rather than reporting annual increases after the second year.
Besides, to get to those $1 billion figures, we have to include a hospital financing shell game that looks like a $344 million tax increase but is actually a $209 million decrease because it comes with far higher Medicaid reimbursement.
The stated figure matters deeply for the 2018 elections, when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democrats will be tarred with huge tax increases, wrongly. Never mind the fact that Malloy wasn't in the room for the final round of talks; never mind the fact that regular government spending is going down, not up as most people think; never mind the fact that two of the biggest Republican spending cuts in the budget Malloy vetoed were from fantasyland; and never mind the fact that Democratic control of the General Assembly is down to almost nothing.
I asked the co-chairmen of the tax-writing finance committee — Sen. John Fonfara, D-Hartford, and Rep. Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, how big the tax increase would be and they had no clear answers.
"We're taking existing revenue sources and repurposing them," Rojas said.
"I'll have a number tomorrow," Fonfara said, meaning Wednesday, in time for him to introduce the bill in the Senate.
Rep. Themis Klarides, R-Derby, the House minority leader, didn't have an answer, either, but she said, "There were a lot of fee increases in this budget that we did not support."
One revenue boost that no one likes is a raid on three set-aside programs to boost energy efficiency — programs that create a lot of jobs and save electric ratepayers' money.
That energy raid yielded $80 million as of Tuesday night — which counts as added revenue — but was one of the last items being adjusted, preferably downward. Even people who strongly back the programs, including Rep. Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, the House majority leader, conceded the raid was a necessary evil as negotiators fought for their highest priorities; Ritter's was making sure the city of Hartford got its complex bailout.
"How many priorities are you going to have?" Ritter asked.
Up and down the list, we see items that could count as tax increases, or not. A $57 million gain by deferring "generally accepted accounting principles," or GAAP; an increase in teachers' pension payments; an additional $90 million in tax collection through better enforcement; a cut in the tax-credit for working poor people.
For all these reasons, there is no exact number for a tax increase and there never will be one. Finances are complicated for a reason and a state budget that relies on finding quarters under couch cushions is all the more so.


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1 King Street, Brockville
Built 1862-64
Brockville City Hall
The Brockville Farmers Market was a busy place on Market Day. This photo dates to about 1895 and shows the original design of the East Ward Market House which was located behind Victoria Hall.
The new Concert Hall and Market House nears completion.
It might be interesting to quote here from a newspaper article written on Nov. 5, 1863 which anticipated with pleasure the future official opening of the new building:
"The new Market House in the East Ward is now all but completed, and on all hands we hear nothing but praise awarded to the capable and energetic contractors, Messrs. Steacy & Booth. On Thursday last we entered the building for the first time, and must express satisfaction at the manner in which the work has been done. The butchers' stalls are equal, if not superior, to any we have seen either on this or the other side of the Atlantic, and we hope to see the lessees of these stalls vie with each other in the neat and cleanly appearance in which they will be kept. The stalls are ventilated by moving windows at the top, worked by cords placed in the centre of the passage. There are eight stalls on each side of the passage."
"On the ground floor there are very fine rooms which might be let for public offices of some description. These rooms form the east and west portions of the main building, the centre being occupied by the main passage to the butcher stalls."
"The upper storey contains "The Hall", and a most splendid hall it is. Its size is 75 x 40. The ceiling is very beautifully executed, the centre pieces, in stucco, claiming a just need of praise. The stage is placed at the east end of the Hall, from which there is a door leading to the ante-room. There is also an orchestra on the north side of the Hall, but this is intended more to cover the arch forming the bases of the tower than for actual use."
William Fitzsimmons, a master builder and the Mayor of Brockville in 1862 when this building was initiated. He was also appointed to be "Superintendent of Construction" by the Town Council.
By November of 1863, the Brockville Gas Light Co. had completed their installation of gas fixtures. With the building almost ready for use, the winter months were spent levelling and preparing the adjacent streets and landscaping on all sides of the new market building.
The official opening took place on the Queen's Birthday, May 24, 1864 at 8:30 p.m. with a grand ball hosted by the Mayor and Defiance Fire Co. No.2. Music was provided by the Olds Quadrille Band. Tickets were sold for $1.50.
During the summer months of 1864 they carried out the work of fitting up the butcher stalls. For example, local carpenter and builder, William Holmes received $120 for his efforts in "fitting up 16 stalls with tables and hook rails & beams". Blacksmith Luke Leach was paid $160 for "making hooks, bolts, fastenings, etc." for the stalls.
The first concert to be presented in the magnificent upstairs Hall was on October 8, 1864 with a musical concert by Madam Anna Bishop.
Work on the tower of Victoria Hall was the last to be completed as construction there continued through the winter and spring of 1864-65. Tinsmith R.W. Grant presented a $34.44 bill for labour and materials for tinning the roof of the tower in November of 1865. He was also paid $106 in full for his work on August 8, 1866.
As a final interesting item, they paid cabinetmaker John McElhinny $250 on September 3, 1866 for supplying 360 wood-seat chairs for Victoria Hall.
One of the first major tenants to occupy the ground floor offices was the main Post Office who remained in that spot for more than fifteen years, until new facilities were constructed and opened by the Dominion Government on the west side of Court House Ave. in 1883-85.
Town Council starts Conversion for Town Offices
In 1882, Town Council carried out repairs and improvements to the building based on plans prepared by Brockville architect O.E. Liston. Details are not available, but it is assumed that space was converted for town offices. The contract for the work was awarded to John Loftus for $1814. In 1886, the space which up to that time had been used for wagon passage through the central shaft of the whole building was incorporated into the building and the entrance doors at each end were closed up.
In 1904 two additional floors were added to the rear wing. This completed the new massing of the building as we see it today. All of the town functions were moved here, including the Police offices and jail which were housed in the ground floor of the rear portion.
A view of the rear of Brockville Town Hall about 1910, following the renovation of the Market Area. The present Council Chambers are on the new third floor, as shown here.
Victoria Hall Tower gets Clock and Bell
Also in 1904, Mayor S.J. Geash and property chairman, Alderman William H. Kyle moved for installation of a clock and bell in the tower for the first time. The clock was purchased from the Seth Thomas Clock Co. Of Thomson, Conn. The bell was made by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore, Maryland. Local jeweller and horologist, Frederick B. Steacy was in charge of the installation for the town.
This clock has been operating for almost 100 years with the help of dedicated clock technicians from Steacy's and Knowlton's Jewellers, along with various Town Hall caretakers. Over the years the necessary once a week ritual of re-winding the mechanism which raises up the weights for the clock and bell has been carried out by Richard H. Miller and Ralph McInrue from Steacy's, and then Glen Jackson, and his son Richard of Wingfields. For the last twenty years the job has been carried out by Vic Smetona who retired from the space industry but was trained as an horologist in his younger years. Vic has carried out his share of repairs when needed and coaxed the old clock back into running order when it has faltered.
This photo is dated about 1920 showing how automobiles are becoming commonplace on the streets of Brockville.
Sources: I began collecting information on Victoria Hall more than thirty years ago. Some of the sources are no longer available. The minute books of the 1859-62 Brockville Town Councils, and the Town Treasurer's Cash Book (1861-67) were previously stored in the City Hall. I would like to regognize former City Clerk, the late John Miles who allowed me to copy information into notebooks which I have kept since the 1970s.