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TWO burglaries in Bredon and another in Beckford, which left home owners with hundreds of pounds worth of damage, have been linked by police.
Both break-ins took place during the second week in January and in both cases the offenders entered the homes from the back gardens.
The first break in happened sometime between 11pm on Monday, January 6, and 8.15am on Wednesday, January 8.
Burglars got into the back garden of a property in Perwell Close, Bredon, near Pershore, and tried, using a tool, to force open the door into the garage.
When they were unsuccessful, they used the tool to smash a patio door at the rear of the home.
They made a mess of the living room and two bedrooms causing around £500 in damages but it is not know if anything was taken.
A home in Blenheim Drive, Bredon, was also burgled sometime between 7.30pm on Tuesday, January 7, and 8.30am the next day.
Once again the thieves smashed a patio door at the back of the building.
They then made an untidy search of the rooms, stealing several items of jewellery including a gold wedding ring, an emerald and gold engagement ring, a jade filigree design pendant and a pair of gold and pearl earrings.
It is estimated £650 worth of damage was caused to the garden fence and patio door.
Burglars also broke into a holiday cottage in Beckford, near Evesham, sometime between 6pm on Wednesday, January 8, and 8am the following day.
They also used a tool to force a rear door and searched the property causing £100 of damage, but nothing appears to have been taken.
Anyone with information should contact the non-emergency number 101 and quote one of the reference numbers, 088s 080114, 324s 090114 or 100s 090114.


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Kenneth V. Walton
Kenneth V. Walton
Kenneth V. Walton, Esq.
Kenneth Walton attended the University of California at Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall. At UC-Berkeley he was awarded several Scholarships. He excelled in Evidence and Trial Practice throughout his tenure there. At, the outset of his career, he argued both civil and criminal cases in many counties throughout California, and New Mexico, in one instance.
Several years later, he became a Volunteer Supervising Attorney for the Eviction Defense Center (EDC) in Oakland, California. The EDC, as it is now affectionaly called, is a Non-profit organization devoted to empowering tenants by educating them and providing outstanding tenants defense to those patrons facing eviction in the Oakland-Berkeley corridor. He was elected President of the Board of Directors of the EDC and held that position for almost three years. Although he no longer is involved in the day to day management of the EDC he is proud that it countinues to provide services for those in need.
During the past couple of years, he has continued his education by attending courses in Foreclosure Prevention, Defending Subprime Mortgage Foreclosure, and California Unlawful Detainer Training (with an emphasis on evictions stemming from foreclosures) taught by the Practising Law Institute of New York City.
Kenneth Walton's education also includes a degree from Williams College in Political Economy.
Kenneth Walton has defended tenants and homeowners facing evicition in hundreds of cases in various cities and counties in the Bay Area.
Mr. Walton's approach in litigation is to always be prepared to go to trial. This approach requires tireless preparation, a devotion to focusing on detail combined with his presuasive techniques which insures that the "trier of facts" understands his side of the defense. He is licensed and admitted to practice in the Federal Court.
There are not many attorneys in the Bay Area or California who practice in the area of tenants defense. He enjoys it immensely since there can be no greater joy or sense of satisfaction gained than when one assists someone in preventing their eviction from their home.
"You can use my Acquired Experience as a Tenants Defense Attorney to Work For You"
Kenneth Walton shall use his extensive experience and background to help you. He understands what it means to be a tenant since he grew up in the projects in New York City. He recognizes that ordinary people have to fight harder for their rights. You won't find a better advocate on your side, than a former New York City tenant who now practices law and is known for his aggressive defense of his clients rights - that's why he is called "The Agitator".

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The report landed with a thud on a Tuesday evening at the beginning of September.
In a much-anticipated review, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. told its clients they should vote against Kinross Gold Corp.'s $7.7-billion (U.S.) proposal to merge with smaller gold producer Red Back Mining Inc.
It was a blow for executives at Toronto-based Kinross , who were touting the deal as "potentially transformational" for the company. Already, the merger was up against critics on Bay Street and in the press; Kinross was accused of offering too much to get its hands on Red Back's properties in West Africa.
But the ISS report was the most serious threat yet. The gold miner estimated that about one-third of its shareholders were clients of ISS, which is North America's dominant shareholder voting advisory firm, and it knew many of them would automatically vote in accordance with ISS's views.
Kinross executives quickly mobilized to counteract the ISS analysis. They issued three press releases to neutralize ISS's conclusions that Kinross was overpaying for Red Back. Kinross chief executive officer Tye Burt offered a rare public critique of the power wielded by a single advisory firm that itself owns no shares, raising questions about the firm's review process and about the credentials of analysts who reviewed the takeover deal.
"It was clear to us in the transaction with Red Back that ISS lacked particular mining and geology expertise, which was critical in assessing the nature of the deal," Mr. Burt said in a recent interview. Kinross got its deal, but not without a fight: Fully one-third of shareholders who voted were opposed.
Mr. Burt's comments touched a nerve in Corporate Canada, tapping into a deep vein of discontent with the power wielded by proxy advisory firms, which are hired by almost all major institutional shareholders to give them advice on how to vote their holdings.
Companies and their lawyers have complained privately for years of their frustrations with proxy advisory firms, citing what they see as poor-quality analysis, unclear voting decisions and perceived conflicts of interest when the advisory firms also sell consulting services to the companies they assess.
But that quietly bubbling discontent is now boiling over.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a call for comments on ways to reform the shareholder voting system, and received a flood of submissions from companies and other organizations this fall - over 250 so far - with many of them focused on proxy firms. (See the letters on the SEC's website here.) Broader questions posed by the SEC about the flawed mechanics for voting shares have attracted far less attention and passion in the public submissions.
The outcry stems from the growing clout of the firms, especially market leader ISS, a division of RiskMetrics Group, which controls a large majority of the market share in the proxy voting area - far more than the other four main players combined - and thus has enormous influence over shareholder votes.
While ISS and others were small players in the voting system two decades ago, their power increased significantly with the expansion of institutional share ownership - and because of new regulations that require many institutions, such as mutual fund companies, to publicly disclose how they vote their shares.
The scrutiny has compelled more institutional investors to vote, and many, in turn, have hired proxy advisers to help them ensure consistency across holdings that can span thousands of different companies' shares.
"It's deeply ironic to me that the whole motion toward shareholder responsibility has ended up in the hands basically of one firm whom people accept advice from," says corporate director David Beatty, who chairs the board of Inmet Mining Corp. and also acts as an adviser to ISS competitor Glass Lewis & Co. LLC.
"By and large, the votes of $10-trillion of assets under management are determined in the first instance by one company. ... It's too much power in one place, and a total abrogation of power by everyone else."
ISS, however, disputes that it has as much clout over corporate votes as companies suggest. ISS business head Stephen Harvey told the SEC the perception that "votes are controlled" by ISS are wrong, but said the idea has taken on a life of its own as it gets repeated.
ISS said many big investors have their own research teams, so ISS is not their primary decision-maker. The company cited a study by a University of Pennsylvania law professor who estimated an ISS recommendation shifts six to 10 per cent of shareholder votes on average in uncontested director elections.
The firm also countered criticism that it lacks expertise, saying it has to make its work as accurate as possible because "competition is fierce" in the proxy advisory industry.
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CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Their software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments – in a secure way – across enterprises for greater business results. Founded in 1976, CA is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. CA serves more than 99% of Fortune 1000® companies.
CA needed to create a unified intranet experience where employees around the world can easily find what they need.
As an IT industry leader, it is only logical that the company's intranet site reflect this position. Due to technical and administrative restraints, CA's intranet currently exists in different formats and presentations around the world. And while the home page and many of the main section landing pages have received a face lift in their look and feel in the past 12 months, once users are beyond the first levels of navigation their experience changed drastically.
There were a number of elements missing from the intranet; interactivity, multi-media, and collaboration. These elements, combined with the Knowledge Management team's implementation of SharePoint across the enterprise as their KM tool, has the potential of turning the resource into a strong business tool that would more significantly contribute to CA's overall business success.
CA Intranet's primary challenges
- A varying navigation structure presentation;
left, horizontal, none. The site needed to provide an
intuitive navigation that will enable employees to find key information within a few clicks.
- Inconsistent design. While vastly improved on some levels, the tool does not reflect CA's market-leading position.
- No content management system (CMS). Without a robust platform employees could not effectively interact or share their vast knowledge.
A more effective intranet would support initiatives that advance the business' goals and strategies, including cross-selling, knowledge-sharing across geographic regions and time zones, as well as being able to effectively introducing new offerings around the world.
Prescient worked with CA to align findings from the assessment phase with other related projects to implement a new intranet that offers employees what they need to be more effective and efficient.
Engaged at the outset for the assessment and planning phase, CA subsequently hired Prescient on to execute the evaluation and selection process for securing a new CMS solution for their intranet.
Engagement Summary
Phase 1
- Intranet Evaluation – using Prescient's six-point methodology, the CA intranet was evaluated and scored in areas such as usability, planning and layout.
- Benchmarking – CA's intranet against two other recognized world and industry leading intranets.
- Requirement Interviews – an analysis of the content requirements and priorities included one-on-one and group interviews of communications stakeholders
- Focus Groups – provided direct input on intranet related views and needs from across the CA employee landscape.
- Strategic Plan – through executing an in depth S.W.O.T. analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and strategy based discussions objects, goals and key directives for the CA intranet were developed.
- Governance – using the business requirements analysis and the strategic directives an intranet governance model was created.
- Content Management & Functional Plans – to guide the site's functionality and content at launch and beyond.
Phase 2
- Technical environment and needs analysis.
- CMS Solution selection process including building RFP, vendor selection, RFP management, response evaluation, vendor shortlist recommendation and contract oversight.
Prescient helped CA create a roadmap with the necessary element to create an engaging, globally accessed intranet site.
This two-phased project resulted in an internal transfer of intranet ownership within CA from the Marketing group to the Corporate Communications team. The new CA intranet is set for launch in late 2008.
The new global site will be built on a robust, user friendly CMS, and will provide employees with an enriched online environment through which they can access and share, in real time, information and resources that will support the maintenance of the current position as the world leader in professional.


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If Hearts, Minds And People - Poem by Thomas Duncky
If hearts really did sink down in holes
Mine would have skydived down to my toes
Tumbling and tumbling till it escapes to my holed shoes
And splash finally into the potholes
If people really did get out of their mind
I would be a million miles away out of mine
Traveling away from my mind, I wouldn't mind
So long as some kinds of trouble didn't rewind
If people really did fall in love
I would break my ribs down that fall from above
For I would leap like it's the last chance I have
So long it would not go far to break my heart
If hearts did sink
And minds would get out of minds
Or people did fall in love
Only if…
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Groupon CEO Mason to Stay After Board Reviews His Tenure
Groupon Inc. (GRPN), the largest provider of online coupons, has no immediate plans to replace Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mason after its board met to deliberate whether to make changes to senior management.
Directors of the Chicago-based company met yesterday and some members were planning to voice frustration with Mason's leadership, a person with knowledge of the matter said this week. Groupon shares fell in late trading yesterday after the disclosure that he wouldn't be ousted.
"The board and the management team are focused on the performance of the company and they are all working together with heads down to achieve Groupon's objectives," Paul Taaffe, a spokesman for Groupon, said in an interview.
The board was faced with deliberating whether Mason, a 32- year-old college music major with little prior business experience, has matured into an effective manager -- or become a hindrance to growth at the company he helped create. One option is for Groupon to take a cue from Google Inc. (GOOG), which flourished after its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin made way for a more seasoned executive in Eric Schmidt, said Erik Gordon, who teaches at the University of Michigan.
"It's an oft-told, oft-expected story that the genius entrepreneur steps aside when he or she succeeds at building a company big enough to need an experienced CEO," said Gordon, clinical assistant professor at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. "The Google guys did it, and the results were spectacular."
Questions Surface
Questions around Mason's role had accumulated over the year since the company held an initial public offering. Growth has slowed and Groupon's stock has plummeted as demand for daily deals dwindled. Mason has struggled to shore up the core business and push the company into new areas to generate added sources of revenue.
Replacing Mason would require his resignation or a majority vote from Groupon's eight-person board, according to the company's bylaws. Though Groupon's dual-class stock structure grants Mason, along with co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, more than one-half of the voting power in decisions put before shareholders, each director has the same amount of sway when voting for the removal of an officer.
Groupon shares fell 8.7 percent to $4.15 at the close in New York. The stock has dropped 80 percent this year.
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Thoughts on A Thing of the Spirit
by Jeff Hayward, 2004 National Chief
In 1915, Dr. E. Urner Goodman founded an organization that would have a great impact on the Scouting movement. Our founder's vision for our Order was a program built on the principles of Brotherhood, Cheerfulness, and Service that recognized older Scouts for service to their unit. After nearly ninety years, his legacy is the organization that we know today Scouting's National Honor Society.
Goodman spoke countless times throughout his life about a certain thought, about the Things of the Spirit. In the foreword to the 1961 edition of the Order of the Arrow Handbook, Goodman wrote:
|"The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the spirit rather than of mechanics. Organization, operational procedure, and paraphernalia are necessary in any large and growing movement, but they are not what count in the end. The things of the spirit count"
I'm sure that many of us have seen these words of our founder used at one time or another, and while it is easy to grasp the main idea of what he meant, I contemplate his words and wonder what these things of the spirit are that he refers to.
Recently, I attended my lodge's spring conclave. I had a great time seeing old friends, working on our lodge's new ceremony site, and playing the part of Meteu for the Pre-Ordeal and Ordeal ceremonies for the last time. It was during this time I came to a new realization. After I was inducted into the OA, I started to get involved, first in my chapter and then on the lodge level working on and chairing committees, helping out with ceremonies, and running for various lodge offices. Getting involved and active in the Order gave me many responsibilities and required my attendance at all lodge functions, but this was not why I went to our lodge's meetings. I stayed active because of the feeling I got when the weekend or meeting was over knowing that I had just spent some time with my best friends, that we had in some way given back to our local council or Scouting, and that we were part of a truly great organization committed to serving the youth of our nation.
Being an Arrowman is more than just wearing a white sash or going to lodge executive committee meetings or conclaves. While these too are important, it is about living up to the ideals of the Scout Oath and Law in our daily lives, about setting the positive example at all times, about being a friend to all, and about cheerfully serving others. It is about living by the three principles of the Order of the Arrow - Brotherhood, Cheerfulness, and Service. These are what make the OA a strong organization. These are the things that truly count. These are the Things of the Spirit.
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High River SBS Roof Replacement, October 2014
This commercial client required a roof replacement and elected to have GRS install a 2-ply SBS Modified Bitumen system. This was done in High River, AB, far to the north of the province. Roof Report: October 24, 2014 The team arrived on site for 9am and began to get it prepared to commence work the following day. Material lists were organized and ready for purchase, and the tools were loaded onto the roof. The crew waited for the dump bin to arrive, and once it had they went off to the store to pick up the last of the materials needed for the job's beginning. They ended the day for 3:00pm, leaving the job site for the evening. Roof Report: October 26, 2011 The four team members arrived for 8:00am and worked for a few short hours until 11:30. In their time on site, they stripped off the torch-on system and moved materials to the side of the roof where they would begin work the following day. The weather forecast called for heavy snow, and ice crystals were building on the roof even after torching. They called it for the day at 11:30am, and would return the following morning. Roof Report: October 29, 2015 Starting the morning at 7:30, the team got to work with chipping away ice, blow-drying the roof, and cleaning it off for work. Once done, they got to stripping outer walls, putting up around 25' of fascia, and stripping the parapet walls too. They installed two high domes and starting putting more capping on. Heavy snowfall came in just before 5:00pm, so the team wrapped up the site for the day. Updated Quotation Delivered: October 30, 2014 We sent over an updated quote to the client to show payments that had been applied to date. There was some uncertainty remaining about the amount of sheathing requiring replacement, so the final quote was yet to be confirmed. Roof Report: October 30, 2014 This day saw a lot of ice chipped away and snow swept off of the roof. They team torched the capping and installed scupper drains and the necessary downpipes. They left the job site for 4:00pm once word arrived that some more of the materials for the job site on order had arrived. They got the materials and returned to the town; an 8-hour round trip. Roof Report: October 31, 2014 There was some light rain in the morning, but not enough to cancel the day's progress. The rest of the roof system was ripped off and the rotten plywood underneath replaced. The last scupper drain was installed, and some more of the parapet wall was stripped. Once done, the last of the capping was torched on and materials were moved and prepared for the next day. After clean-up, the team departed the site for around 5:30pm. The day's efforts saw 25 sheets of OSB plywood 7/16 installed, which allowed for a final quote to be delivered to the client as everything that would be exposed and inspected had been so. Roof Report: November 2, 2014 This day, the team met on the roof for 8:00am and got to work. Their task for the day was working on getting the enco new paper was completed, and the job site was cleaned up afterwards. They left the site at 1:00pm, another job completed. CODE: 10006 Contact Us Call our 24 hour emergency roof repair at 1.780.424.7663. Mail to: 3428 99 Street NW Edmonton, Alberta T6E-5X5. We service all of Alberta including Edmonton, Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Fort Saskatchewan, St Albert, Sherwood Park, Leduc, Nisku, Beaumont, Lac La Biche, Grande Prairie, High Level, Westlock, Slave Lake, Edson, Drayton Valley, Devon, Camrose, Wetaskiwin, Tofield, Lamont, Morinville, Vegreville, Tofield, Millet, Calmar, Evansburg, Redwater, Onaway, Viking, Athabasca, High Prairie, Valleyview, Fairview, Peace River, Whitecourt, Mayerthorpe and many more rural areas and towns.


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I am also a compulsive liar!
Although I do try not to lie now.
I gave up drinking six months ago because my lying became ridiculous when I was drunk.
I Am embarrassed about my behaviour.
I love to tell a tale! That's how it started, then it became a crutch. I was poor and unsuccessful, so I lied about my job. Now I do not have to lie as I am successful.
Although I try not to lie now, I still have to cover up past lies!
I hate myself so much, I have considered suicide.
Some of the lies I told were really bad. It happened 99% of the time when I was drunk.
Now I am sober it does not happen.
I am having CBT at the moment which is helping.
I am scared that my past will come back and bite me. I so want to have a peaceful, honest life now.
Do you think it's possible?
It has been good to read others posts and find I am not the only one.
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The 36-year-old parted company with the the club by mutual consent on Thursday, despite having three-and-a-half years left on his contract.
The former Derby player, whose career was cut short by injury, arrived at Boro in 2001 after Steve McClaren had succeeded Bryan Robson as manager.
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|Accession Number: 2007.111.
|Abstract: Articles relating to the Cape Public Library, Missouri Book Week memorabilia, photographs, and library event memorabilia
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Cocke County residents elected the county's first ever female mayor.
Crystal Ottinger faced three other Republican candidates in Tuesday's primary election. There were no Democrats in that race, so she is the mayor elect.
Ottinger won by less than 200 votes. She says Parrottsville has had a female mayor before, but not Cocke County, and she's honored to be the first.
"Being the first female mayor of Cocke County is a wonderful milestone and I'm tickled with that, and hope and pray I do a good job. I'm just going to do the best I can to get out there and work for the people of Cocke County," she said.


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October 20, 2005:This week General Motors stock forged higher because it had successfully negotiated concessions from the United Auto Workers. The deal did not focus on wages or current employees but on health care benefits for union retirees. If you are keeping score, mark this move as follows: Company +1, Retirees -1.
I surely do not blame GM for making this dealin fact, it was one of the few ways that the company can simply tread water in a an industry rife with problems. With skyrocketing health care costs that companies never anticipated, they just could not keep the original deal that they had negotiated without putting the core business at risk in the future. So GM followed a number of large employers like Sears, Delta, Lucent and Northwest Airlines, not to mention a number of municipal employers. This is one of those impossible situations where there are no good options. As a retired pilot said to me recently, "I know that they need to cut my benefits to save the company, but it still hurts me."
How likely is that you will lose what you have? The most vulnerable are former salaried employees. When companies seek reductions or are in bankruptcy, the first class of employee that is up for grabs is nonunion retirees. Yes, there may be some written contractual obligation, but often these agreements have language that allows the company to blow up the deal down the road under certain circumstances.
But dont think because you are unionized that you are immune from cuts. As the UAW retirees just learned, sometimes the union has to play ball with the company, especially in light of the recent bankruptcy by GM auto parts maker Delphi. The reasoning is that it is more important to preserve most of the retirement benefits, like pensions, than put the whole thing at risk with a potential bankruptcy. If the company does declare bankruptcy, you will likely lose your health benefits anyway.
So how can you protect yourself if you have been counting on health retirement benefits from a large employer? The first step is to imagine your retirement years without that very valuable benefit. You will quickly come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to save extra money for health coverage while you are working. If you are already retired and are receiving health care benefits, you should be squirreling away extra money just in case. As is the case with most risks in your financial life, a little extra savings can usually help guard against unforeseen events.
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Jul 10, 2012 - Peg Eckers, RivertonEditor:
I know fireworks are popular and fun, but I must say I did enjoy a much more quiet and peaceful Fourth of July this year with fireworks more or less banned around town. I believe they are forbidden in the city limits anyway, but this is almost never enforced.
This year, however, people seemed to take the hint on fire danger and kept themselves under control.
Well done, I say.
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Buffalo Common Council wants city comptroller's view of taxes
Buffalo Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder has offered a harsh view of Mayor Byron W. Brown's budget proposal, saying it relies on millions in revenues that might not come and spends an unprecedented amount of the city's surplus.
But what about taxes?
Schroeder isn't saying.
And that's what Common Council members, charged with voting on Brown's budget proposal, want to know more about from him. Does he think the city should raise or lower taxes?
"I'm a little concerned that the comptroller hasn't opined on the tax reduction," said Lovejoy Council Member Richard A. Fontana.
"He is our financial officer," Niagara Council Member David A. Rivera said of Schroeder. "I think he should be more forthcoming."
The administration's $504.5 million budget proposal calls for lowering property tax rates by half of a percent for homes and by 1.7 percent for businesses, projected to cost $1 million. It also calls for spending nearly $28 million from the city's surplus to plug holes.
The city charter requires the comptroller to submit an assessment of the accuracy of revenues and expenses, said Patrick J. Curry, Schroeder's executive assistant, who appeared before a budget hearing Monday.
"We did what the charter calls for," Curry said afterward. "The policy decisions are up to the mayor and the Common Council."
The Council hasn't discussed major changes to the proposal, but Monday it raised the possibility of eliminating the tax decreases if doing so means avoiding future tax increases.
The Brown administration's top financial officer acknowledged to lawmakers that tax increases are likely in future years.
"I think at some point in the future we will have to raise taxes," said Donna Estrich, commissioner of administration, finance, policy and urban affairs.
The administration wants to cut taxes to encourage people to move into the city, she said.
Council members acknowledged raising or lowering taxes is a political one. Still, they want to know Schroeder's opinion because taxes impact city revenues.
In his report, Schroeder estimated the mayor's budget proposal contains $15.2 million of revenues the city might not gain, and he takes a dim view of spending $27.5 million of the city's surplus. Relying on surplus is unsustainable over the long term, he said.
The city has a surplus of $166 million, of which $64 million is free and clear to be used for any purpose.
In addition to using $27.5 million in the 2014-15 budget, the administration's four-year plan calls for using $25.2 million from the surplus in 2015-16.
Schroeder's report warned that overestimates for some revenues could result in using even more reserves in the coming years.
"While many of the assumptions included in the budget are possible, the likelihood of all of them coming true is highly unlikely," according to Schroeder's report.
He also said the four-year plan lacks details.
The city's unprecedented credit ratings are strong in part because of its cash reserves, Curry said.
The city has an A1 rating from Moody's along with A+ ratings from Standard and Poor's and Fitch, though all three agencies warned their ratings would fall if the city's reserves become depleted.
If the city's credit rating suffers, borrowing costs for capital projects could increase.
According to Schroeder, questionable revenue projections include:
•$5 million from the sale of city assets;
•$3.2 million from traffic tickets;
•$3 million in state grants;
•$2.2 million from construction permits.
The city has raised only as much as $2 million from the sale of land, vacant buildings and other assets in previous years. In the current budget year, the city budgeted $2.8 million in revenue from real estate sales, but so far only $500,000 has been raised.
The four-year plan projects the city selling $27 million in assets, which Curry called "a major concern."
The additional traffic ticket revenue – it would be a gain of $2.7 million from prior year collections – assumes a change in state law to allow the city to adjudicate its own tickets. But so far there has been little movement on this in the State Legislature. If the legislation passes, it would not take effect until half-way through the city's fiscal year.
The proposed permit revenue is more than double previous amounts.
State aid has been flat recently, but they four-year plan projects as much as 5 percent more in one year.
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Why not reuse the Nestle can to make a unique and stylish birdhouse!
From Ignacio Pilotto
From NOTCOT and Noticias Arquitectura
A man caught carrying a large Gobstopperin a sock has been fined £400 after it was found to be an offensive weapon.
The guy said he was carrying it for protection after being attacked. Cops said the Gobstopperwas "a substantial piece of confectionary" and that "even though it was not in the same category as a knife or axe, it was capable of inflicting a nasty injury."
Next up...Man uses Mike & Ike Sprayin lieu of pepper spray.
From the BBC via Expired Foods, photo from Spoonful of Sugar
Marketing Daily reports that the maker of Kit Kat chocolate bars and the world's largest food company, Nestle, increased prices by the most in a decade. But it didn't seem to adversely impact demand - Nestle revenue climbed to $25 billion in the three months ended March 31, up from $23.8 billion in the year-ago period.
Ironically, Nestle also makes Jenny Craig diet meals.
From Marketing Daily
The WSJ reports that Nestlé SA plans to enter the premium-chocolate market to increase sales in its confectionery division, but it will need time and money, analysts say.
Citing annual growth rates of as much as 8% for high-end chocolate products -- twice the rate of the general chocolate market -- the Swiss food-and-beverage company says it wants to lift the share of sales from dark and other luxury chocolate products from the current 4% of its total of 108 billion Swiss francs ($108.2 billion).
This year, Nestlé inaugurated a luxury-chocolate research center in western Switzerland and entered a pact with Belgian specialty chocolatier Pierre Marcolini. Nestlé will receive creative input from Marcolini while helping its partner to expand.
"Dark chocolate is a still-accelerating trend. Even countries which have no dark-chocolate tradition are successfully introducing such products," Nestlé's head of chocolate operations, Petraea Heynike, said in an interview. She declined to give a sales target for Nestlé's effort.
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So we were buying some office supplies at our neighborhood big box retailer, and at the checkout I saw a "Nuevo" candy bar called "Carlos V" by Nestle. "El Rey de los Chocolates" it claims (that means The King of Chocolates if you didn't figure it out). Reading the label closer, it says "Milk Chocolate Style Bar" which gave me pause, but also sealed the deal for me trying it out. I just have to know what a chocolate "style" bar is!
What's interesting is that this must just be a new bar in my market (Arizona), no doubt tapping into the Hispanic community, because the Carlos V bar is not new. In fact, it looks like its been around a long time. The one change I see is in the packaging. The wrapper I got has the weird King drawing on the opposite side of the wrapper, and it looks to be a lighter shade of red. Candy Blog reviewed this bar back in 2005, and correctly assessed the bar - sticky sweet with a hint of powdered milk (I couldn't put my finger on the taste, but that's it). Where we don't see completely eye to eye is in the graininess and true to the American Nestle bar. To me, it was quite grainy. Plus, the sweetness took over and almost made it sour - if I had blind tasted this I would have said it was a Hershey product, not Nestle.
Anyway, I don't quite get what's special about it, I'm a little freaked out about why its "chocolate style" not just "chocolate," and I can tell you it is NOT authentic Mexican chocolate.
Check out more about Carlos V.
Check out Carlos V at the Nestle website
Nestlé today announced the establishment of the Chocolate Centre of Excellence, the company's first R&D facility entirely dedicated to the development of premium and luxury chocolate.
Read more at Nestle or continue after the jump...
This is a really nice eating bar. It is only 50% cocoa, so you're not going to get the depth of flavor of darker chocolate. However, what is may lack to some in terms of complexity, it more than makes up for in texture. The chocolate itself melts more like milk chocolate than dark chocolate, and that creaminess is amplified by the truffle-esque filling. I say "truffle-esque" because it is in bar form...truffles are supposed to be roundish usually. Running in contrast to the creaminess are the tiny cocoa bits, which add the perfect amount of crunch.
Nestle calls this bar "Renew" - making reference to the health benefits of eating dark chocolate (such as being a good source of anti-oxidants). To us, it has also renewed our faith that the big chocolate makers can put together luxurious, high-quality chocolate that's available at your local check-out.
Check out Nestles Treasures Renew Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar hereor here.
This is a long commercial (about 3 minutes), but its very engaging. The story revolves around a cubicle worker that is having a really bad day. He's worked over by the markets, his coworkers and his boss. Finally, he gets to the Kit Kat machine for some much needed relief.
Stock up on Kit Kats.
From AdRants
Yesterday, Nestlé Rowntree unwrapped its "Win £20" promotion. Its one of those new fangled "text to win" promotions that enable consumers to win £20 cash by texting unique codes placed inside wrappers. The promo starts in mid-January, and there will be 100,000 opportunities to win. Participating brands include KitKat and Aero and Rowntree's.
from TalkingRetail.com
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The antitrust division of the US Department of Justice is looking into pricing by Hershey's, Mars, Nestle, and some others who they think may be involved in price fixing to hedge against the high cost of milk. The Canadian authorities were on the case first about a month ago. As if the the big candy makers don't already have the deck stacked...
The full WSJ story is here.
From the WSJ Law Blog
Its blasphemy, really. Chocolate is meant to have cocoa butter in it. If you don't want to gain weight, don't eat as much. If global economic and political issues are causing prices to rise, we as consumers will have to suck it up and pay more. But we SHOULD NOT allow a main ingredient to chocolate to be replaced.
From "Chocolate Wars" in Conde' Nast Portfolio:
"There is a regulatory dustup over whether the traditional standards for making chocolate in the United States ought to be changed. It revolves around the question of whether a simple and elegant ingredient known as cocoa butter, which gives chocolate its creamy smoothness and texture, can be replaced, at least in part, by cheaper ingredients.
The disagreement involves the Food and Drug Administration, the federal arbiter of food standards, and has pitted mass candy manufacturers such as Hershey and Nestlé against smaller, higher-end chocolate makers such as 139-year-old Guittard Chocolateand See's Candies...
Here's the issue: For as long as chocolate has been made, it's been smoothed out with the elixir called cocoa butter, an emulsified form of cacao that gives the finished product its silky texture. In the United States, the F.D.A. mandates that a product can't legally be labeled as chocolate unless cocoa butter is part of the formula. But because of a drought and political violence in Ivory Coast, a major source for cacao beans, the price of cocoa butter has skyrocketed. This has prompted some of the major chocolate makers, Hershey among them, to lobby the F.D.A. by way of a trade-group petition for a change that would let them substitute such cheaper ingredients as vegetable oil and dried milk for cocoa butter and still call their products chocolate..."
Warren Buffet (owner of See's) said it best, ""If you've got recipes that people like, you don't change them."
Amen brother!
This is just more bullying by the big candy makers. We loveHershey's,Nestle,M&M/Marsand Cadbury...but they already dominate the grocery and convenience stores. They should not further squeeze the already tight margins of the higher end chocolate makers.
Check out Guittard Chocolates
See's Candies website
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