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The national minimum wage is to increase by 19p an hour to £6.50 later this year, giving more than a million workers a pay rise.
The rate for 18 to 20-year-olds will go up by 10p to £5.13 an hour - a 2% increase - while for 16 and 17-year-olds the statutory rate will rise by 7p to £3.79, also 2%.
The minimum wage for apprentices will go up by 5p to £2.73 an hour, with all the new rates coming into force in October.
The Government said it had accepted recommendations from the low Pay Commission, including plans for bigger increases in future than in recent years.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "The recommendations I have accepted today mean that low-paid workers will enjoy the biggest cash increase in their take home pay since 2008. This will benefit over one million workers on national minimum wage and marks the start of a welcome new phase in minimum wage policy.
"The independent Low Pay Commission plays a crucial role in advising the Government about the minimum wage. This is why I asked them to look at how we could restore the real value of the national minimum wage as the economy recovers.
"The LPC's new forward guidance gives us a much better understanding of how an economic recovery can be translated into faster and significant increases in the national minimum wage for low paid workers, without costing jobs.
"The experts will continue to advise government on future wage rises to help the low paid, and in the meantime I urge businesses to consider how all their staff - not just those on the minimum wage - can enjoy the benefits of recovery."
Unison union general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Of course the rise will be welcomed, but at £6.50 an hour the new minimum wage will still be more than £1 less than the Living Wage needed to keep people out of poverty.
"Across the country people are struggling to make ends meet. The sooner we move to a Living Wage the better. The real winners today will again be payday loan sharks who prey on working people, unable to bridge the financial gap between what they earn and what their families need to survive.
"Even the Chancellor has stated support for a £7-an-hour minimum wage rate. The Government should have had the courage to step up and meet that target."
The Government said the increase was the first real value rise in the minimum wage in six years.
The LPC has predicted that the new rate will increase the number of jobs covered by the national minimum wage by more than a third, to 1.25 million.
A worker on the adult rate, working a 36-hour week, will receive an extra £355 a year from October.
John Allan, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "The Government's decision not to go beyond the Low Pay Commission's recommendation is welcome.
"While the rise to £6.50 is slightly more than we would have hoped for, it is at least only 1% over inflation. Most small firms should be able to afford this.
"At this stage of the recovery, it is important that business momentum is maintained. If the rate were to increase by a significantly higher margin next year, it would place substantial pressure on small businesses operating on fine margins."
Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey said: "This timid rise in the minimum wage is proof that this Government cowers at the feet of big business in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. The Government claims it is on the side of working people but companies are sitting on a cash mountain of £500 billion and they should be forced to share more of it with the lowest paid.
"Low-paid workers needed a real boost in pay to help lift them out of poverty. To make matters even worse George Osborne cruelly held out hope that the rate would rise to £7.
"The Government should have raised the national minimum wage by £1.50 to reverse the growth in inequality. Raising the national minimum wage to the Living Wage level alone would improve the Government's finances to the tune of £1.35 billion and would grow the economy by £3.15 billion."
Dr Adam Marshall, executive director of policy British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Businesses agree that the minimum wage must rise. In recent polling, 60% of chamber members recommended an increase in line with current inflation, and 14% favoured an above-inflation increase.
"Companies feel more confident now when it comes to the question of pay and, while the forthcoming increase is perhaps slightly more than they had hoped, it is a reasonable compromise.
"The challenge now for ministers is to work with business to raise productivity and skills in the workplace, which are the keys to higher wages for all in the future."
Low Pay Commission chairman David Norgrove said: " Provided the economy continues to improve we expect to recommend further progressive real increases in the minimum wage, so that 2014 will mark the start of a new phase - of bigger increases than in recent years - in the work of the Low Pay Commission.
"The labour market position of young people has yet to improve to match that of adults, although it now appears to have stabilised.
"We have recommended increases of 2% in their rates which should broadly protect their real value while increasing the relative attractiveness of young people to employers. We believe that youth rates should rise by more than adult rates when economic circumstances permit."
Martin Smith, the GMB union's national organiser, said: "Most people who are paid the minimum wage have to claim state benefits to keep body and soul together.
"We are arguing for wages and sufficient hours of work for people to live on. We are a long way away from living standards recovering to pre-recession levels.
"To promote a recovery we need employers to pay a living wage of £7.65 per hour and £8.80 per hour in London."


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In the pantheon of Ukrainian football greats, no one commands quite the same deference as FC Dynamo Kyiv coach Valeriy Lobanovskiy, who died aged 63 in May 2002.
As a forward Lobanovskiy won a Soviet Top League title and a USSR Cup at Dynamo, but blew those achievements out of the water in two spells as the club's coach. He picked up 13 championships (eight in the Soviet Union, five in Ukraine) and nine domestic cups (six in the USSR, three in Ukraine) as well as the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1974/75 and 1985/86. Dynamo have never quite filled his shoes, though it may be that Mircea Lucescu is his real successor.
Lucescu joined the Pitmen in 2004 having claimed national titles in Turkey and his native Romania, besides working in Italy, yet his effect on Shakhtar has been remarkable. Under the 67-year-old coach they have lifted six Ukrainian Premier League crowns and four domestic cups, and perhaps more significantly have emerged as a major European force. Indeed, their triumph in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup final marked the first continental trophy for a Ukrainian side since independence.
"The team have moved on in recent years," Lucescu said. "They are becoming a title machine. We have only one aim – to win." Solid funding from the club's owner Rinat Akhmetov has undoubtedly helped make Lucescu's squads ultra-competitive. However, his victories – like Lobanovskiy's in their time – have been more than an exercise in spending money, and in philosophical terms his sides bear comparison with Lobanovskiy's.
Both men favoured a steady, structured game, with their teams able to play the ball out of defence and press opponents remorselessly. Like Lobanovskiy, Lucescu is also a natural autocrat, with both possessing a sixth sense for nurturing latent talent. "Without human relations, it is very difficult to build a strong team – virtually impossible," said Lucescu, explaining his mix of hard and soft skills. "If the players understand that, the coach is truly happy."
The bulk of Lobanovskiy's career unfolded during the Soviet era, when foreign signings such as Lucescu's rotating cast of exciting Brazilians were an impossibility. Even though the coach – like so many of his players – is not a Ukrainian, there is little doubt he has helped raise the bar for local football. The UEFA Europa League exploits of FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk this term mirror Shakhtar's European outlook.
Borussia Dortmund await Shakhtar in the UEFA Champions League round of 16, with the Pitmen inching closer to a dream even Lobanovskiy found impossible – winning Europe's top club prize. Lobanovskiy's charges set the standard in the 1970s. Could it be that Lucescu will take it even higher for the next generation of coaches?
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LAKELAND, Fla. - It's official. Tigers fans can panic.
It's not an overreaction to the news Thursday that rookie closer hopeful Bruce Rondon was optioned to Triple-A Toledo by the Tigers.
It's reality when a championship-caliber team is trying to win the title in a fashion few ever have: bullpen by committee.
It hardly ever works.
Let's face it. The Tigers had high hopes that Rondon was going to be the answer in the closer role this season with his 100 m.p.h. fastball.
Truth be told, the 22-year-old kid was handed the job when he arrived in spring training.
Always a no-no when you messing with a kid that hadn't pitched in the majors yet. It should have had to be earned.
And Rondon, a right-hander, just didn't do it. In 13 spring training games, Rondon was 2-1 with a chubby 5.84 ERA. He also had nine walks and 10 strikeouts in 12 1/3 innings of work.
"The kid did not do one thing wrong," Tigers' manager Jim Leyland said. "What we evaluated was that he wasn't quite ready to do it today or April 1 here."
It's the reason the Tigers didn't go out in the offseason and sign a veteran closer to help capture a Fall Classic for the first time since 1984.
Had the put up the cash they could have had stud Rafael Soriano. Instead, the free-agent signed with Washington.
The idea that the Tigers wouldn't even bring the kid north and give him that opportunity in the first month tells you they just didn't trust Rondon.
And that's just not good enough to make a team out of spring training, especially a team most have going back to the World Series for a second straight season.
Good luck.
The Tigers are now going to try to close big games with different pitchers at the end almost every other night.
With Rondon out of the picture, the Tigers will lean on Joaquin Benoit, Phil Coke, Al Alburquerque and Octavio Dotel. All are fine relievers, but the closer role is a different animal and takes a special person to pitch under that kind of pressure.
Leyland understands the Tigers will be under the microscope all season, especially if this idea goes south.
"I'll tell everybody ahead of time, this is going to be tough," Leyland said. "It'll be second-guesser's delight, a second-guesser's heaven."
Leyland is totally right.
This team went cheap is a spot that you usually can't.
No one can blame them for not resigning Jose Valverde. He wasn't good last year after back-to-back stellar seasons.
Of course, Tigers' starters have confidence in the bullpen. Then again, what are they suppose to say? The season starts on Monday and Mariano Rivera isn't walking into the Tigers' clubhouse in Minnesota.
"You can win with a closer," starter Max Scherzer said. "You have to have a good bullpen and we have that."
Still, before you think the Tigers are a shoo-in despite not having a closer, remember the American League will not be that easy to conquer.
Not for the Tigers, not for any team. Simply put, the AL is much better than a year ago.
"We're a very capable team," Leyland said. "But there's a bunch of capable teams in the American League this year.
"Don't sell anybody short because it's going to be a dogfight. I can promise you that."
The Tigers, who swept the Yankees in the ALCS to get to World Series, improved. They not only got DH Victor Martinez back, who missed all of last season with a left knee injury, but also signed free-agent Torii Hunter to play right field. "Detroit got better, if you believe that," Yankees' ace CC Sabathia said. "Torii makes their defense that much better."
The Tigers -- who have the last two AL MVPs in Miguel Cabrera last year and Justin Verlander in 2011 -- will have to earn the division this year.
"I'm not saying the Royals are going to beat the Tigers," Yankees' TV broadcaster Ken Singleton said. "They're not, or be up there with the White Sox. But they'll be closer. And who knows what's going to happen injury-wise with teams. A lot of things can happen between April and October."
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A MAN has been arrested in connection with a the fire which consumed thousands of tonnes of tyres at a North Yorkshire recycling plant.
The blaze, which started at the Newgen Tyre Recycling Plant in Sherburn-in-Elmet last Thursday and is still burning today, saw more than a dozen fire crews brought in from across Yorkshire, and a plume of thick black smoke billow 5,000 feet into the air.
North Yorkshire Police confirmed this afternoon they have launched a joint investigation with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, and said a 51-year-old local man had been arrested and released on bail while enquiries continue.
A spokesman said enquiries were still in the early stages, but the man was arrested, questioned and released yesterday.
Fire crews are expected to remain at the scene for the next two weeks, to monitor the blaze, which is now being allowed to burn itself out. The smoke is no longer black, and is dispersing in the wind, but residents have been advised there may be a stronger odour from the smoke in coming days.
Residents are also advised to keep their windows and doors closed as a precaution, and passing motorists should close their car windows and air vents, and turn off their air conditioning when passing the scene.


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Jim Cramer: Well I harp back . . . this is a painful name for me. There've been a couple painful names of late with Action Alerts PLUS, got Dollar General where I told Stephanie, "Look. I'm very concerned that maybe this is the beginning of a tailspin," last quarter. Debra Borchardt: A lot of people felt that way. Jim Cramer: And they pulled out of that tailspin with shining colors. What I felt was most interesting was that it was done intra-quarter. We had been very worried about gross margin compression just four months ago. The gross margin compression did not appear. We were worried about price wars. The price wars did not appear. So now you've got the stock actually back to where it was before the chatter that things had gotten bad in the dollar industry. I think that people should look at Five Below ( FIVE), which supports later this week because it's a good sign for them. I don't want to circle back to Family Dollar ( FDO) because I think Family Dollar's the weakest operator of the group. Dollar Tree ( DLTR) . . . maybe. That got really hammered. This sector of the market was supposed to be finished as things got better and people shopped at Target ( TGT)and Costco ( COST). Debra Borchardt: Yeah. But then we had our payroll tax holiday removed and all of a sudden, the paychecks were a lot lighter again. Jim Cramer: Right.
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Random thoughts for a Tuesday morning, wondering whatever happened to Cedric Mullins of Bloomington High School and Saga Tuitele of Pacific, the CIF-SS 1996 football players of the year.
Together again. Tommy Pincin and Grant Hockin played baseball together in various youth leagues before separating when reaching high school. Pinchin now is a catcher at Upland and Hockin a pitcher at Damien.
They'll be together again playing for the Brewers' team in the Area Code Games, set for Blair Field in Long Beach. Their first game is this afternoon at 5:30 against the Royals. Other games are Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. against the White Sox, Thursday at 5:30 against the A's, Friday at 6 p.m. against the Nationals and Saturday at 2:30 p.m. against the Rangers.
The Area Code Games are a showcase of some of the finest high school players in the country.
As eight-year-olds, Pincin and Hockin played at Flowers Field for Upland Foothill Little League and were four-year All-Stars. They reached the state championship game as 10-year-olds. They also made the the Pony All Stars and advanced to the super regionals.
Both will graduate in 2014, and Pinchin is headed for San Diego State and Hockin is going to USC. Later this month, Hockin is set to play in the Under Armour All-Star Game at Chicago's Wrigley Field. ...
Cal Poly Pomona will return to honoring its athletic past by resuming its Hall of Fame tradition. The first class was inducted in 1986 with subsequent classes in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 2003.
Athletic director Brian Swanson knows about the Broncos' "spectacular history" that includes 14 team national titles and 420 All-Americans.
The university will accept nominations for the Feb. 7 induction of the newest class through Oct. 15. It's all part of the school's 75th anniversary to be celebrated with homecoming and family weekend. All of the 51 Hall of Fame members will be re-inducted. ...
Citizens Business Bank Arena will be the site of another national telecast. Saturday night's World Series of Fighting MMA card will be beamed live for 2 1/2 hours by NBC Sports Network and will provide more exposure for the city and area.
One of the more interesting bouts is the one between heavyweights Ray Sefo and Dave Huckaba. Sefo is a six-time world-champion kickboxer who is taking a temporary leave of absence as the president of the WSOF promotion to participate in his 100th career fight.
The headline bout will feature Tyrone Spong vs. Angel Deanda. ...
Our readers write and ask very pointed questions: "I was in Las Vegas recently and saw Pete Rose hustlin', schuckin' (your verb/adjective here) baseball memorabilia. He's banned for life so he's doing this to make money. On the other hand, Ryan Braun gets suspended for PED use but will make millions when he returns in 2014.
"How can Bud Selig keep denying Rose from the game yet allow cheaters to return?" -- R.H., La Verne.
Good question and it does require some deep thinking. Here's my take:
Rose not only bet on games, but he denied it for a long time. He said he bet only on the team he was managing, but what did it say when he didn't bet on the Reds? Did he expect to lose that game? His actions touched the very core of the game and cast a shadow on its integrity. The late Bart Giamatti made the right call and there was no players union objection.
Selig, on the other hand, must deal with a union even when these cheaters are caught. PED use is not as devastating as gambling, but it too undermines the integrity of the sport. Contracts should be structured so steroid use nullifies the pact and the money. Teams and players then can start anew.
That's a drastic step as owners don't want to lose a player like Braun to another team. Professional players shouldn't be treated any different than a regular Joe working 40 hours a week. For ol' Joe, such a major mistake is usually the last one. ...
Candice Agee has her eyes on the 2016 Olympics basketball tournament and has the gold medals to maintain her focus. The Silverado High School graduate added to her total last week as Team USA finished first at the 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Women in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Agee hyperextended her right knee in a warm-up tourney and then suffered a sprained her left ankle in the World Championship opener, limiting her playing time. She played just 36 minutes, averaging 1.9 points and 1.6 rebounds.
It was Agee's encore performance as she also won gold along with the U.S. U-18 team at the FIBA Americas tournament in Puerto Rico Rico in 2012.
Later in the month, she'll be back at Penn State to start her sophomore season. ...
According to outdoors writer Jim Matthews, Horseshoe Lake at Mojave Narrows Regional Park in Victorville, dry for 2 1/2 years, has been reopened. There was a good crowd over the weekend.
Matthews will have plenty of time to go up the hill these days to Horseshoe Lake. The Animal Planet fishing show Top Hooker, in which Matthews was a technical advisor, has been cancelled. ...
Ryan Miller, who served as the Ontario Reign's Director of ticket sales and service, is moving to Berlin (Germany, not Wisconsin), but not leaving the company.
The Chino Hills native is headed for Eisb??ren Berlin of the German hockey league and will take over as the director of ticket operations on Aug. 23. Both teams have ties with AEG and the 02 World Arena in Berlin also is owned by AEG.
Miller joined the Reign before the 2012-13 season, the best attendance year with an average of 7,575 fans per game, a club record. ...
Still no word from Williamsport, Pa., on who will replace Jim Gerstenslager as the director for the Western Region. Those are some big shoes to fill.
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Flu is now widespread in all but three states - California being one of the lucky ones - as the nation grapples with an earlier-than-normal season. But there was one bit of good news Friday: The number of hard-hit areas declined.
The flu season in the U.S. got under way a month early, in December, driven by a strain that tends to make people sicker. That led to worries that it might be a bad season, following one of the mildest flu seasons in recent memory.
The latest numbers, however, hint that the flu season may already have peaked in some spots, like in the South. Still, officials there and in other places are bracing for more sickness.
The number of hard-hit states fell to 24 from 29, where larger numbers of people were treated for flu-like illness. Now off that list: Florida, Arkansas and South Carolina in the South, the first region hit this flu season.
Locally, health officials predict the season has yet to hit fully in California, and Yolo County residents are urged to get vaccinated if they have not already done so.
"Much of the country is seeing very high levels of seasonal influenza this year and seeing it very early," said Dr. Connie Caldwell, interim health officer for the Yolo County Health Department. "Levels of influenza are still relatively low in California but are showing an increase over the past two weeks. Most of the influenza types being seen are covered by this year's vaccine."
Caldwell added that "While some facilities in the county are beginning to see an increase in cases, we have not heard of any facilities being over-burdened by this increase. We have not had any reports of influenza deaths in Yolo County to date."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu was widespread in 47 states last week, up from 41 states the previous week. The only states currently without outbreaks are California, Mississippi and Hawaii.
Even so, flu has been blamed for two deaths in California so far this year, both in Orange County. Health officials say a La Habra man and a Fountain Valley man, both in their 50s, died during the last week of December.
Two people - a young man and an elderly patient also died of the flu in the Sacramento area in late December.
Despite the early start to flu season, "It is not too late to get the influenza vaccine," Caldwell said. This year's vaccine is considered a good - though not perfect - protection against the flu. "Everyone should remember to wash their hands frequently, cover their cough, and stay home if they are ill," Caldwell added.
In some cases, people may have to call around to find a clinic with shots still on the shelf, or wait a few days for a new shipment.
"We're hearing of spot shortages," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The vaccine is no guarantee, though, that you won't get sick. On Friday, CDC officials said a recent study of more than 1,100 people has concluded the current flu vaccine is 62 percent effective. It can still lessen symptoms, however.
Recent flu reports included holiday weeks when some doctor's offices were closed, so it will probably take a couple more weeks to get a better picture, CDC officials said. Experts say that overall, the season looks moderate so far.
"Only time will tell how moderate or severe this flu season will be," Frieden said.
The government doesn't keep a running tally of adult deaths from the flu, but estimates that it kills about 24,000 people in an average year. Nationally, 20 children have died from the flu this season.
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BERKELEY — Mike Montgomery's shove of star player Allen Crabbe earned the Cal basketball coach a reprimand from the Pac-12 and a statement from his athletic director that his action was "unacceptable."
Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour, in a statement released a few hours after the Bears' 76-68 win over USC on Sunday night, said, "It is unacceptable for our coaches to have physical contact with student-athletes regardless of the circumstances." She added: "I am confident that something like this will not happen again."
Montgomery, in his fifth season as Cal coach, gave Crabbe a shove during a timeout with 16:31 left in the game, hoping to motivate him to play better. A few minutes after the game, Montgomery said, "It worked, didn't it?" He also said he would do it again.
In a statement later, Montgomery said, "I have great passion for this game and tonight, I let my emotions get away from me in the heat of the moment. While my intent was to motivate our student-athletes, my behavior was inappropriate and I apologize for my actions."
On Monday, Montgomery was reprimanded by the Pac-12 for the incident but was not suspended. According to an Associated Press report, conference commissioner Larry Scott said that Montgomery received an undisclosed punishment.
Crabbe, the Pac-12 scoring leader, totaled 23 points in the win over USC, 14 of them after Montgomery gave him a sharp push and yelled, "Do you want to play?" Cal trailed by 12 points at the time. On Monday, Crabbe earned Pac-12 player of the week honors for a second straight week.
Crabbe became agitated and was pulled away and into a tunnel near the Cal bench by teammates Justin Cobbs and Richard Solomon. Crabbe remained in the tunnel for a couple of minutes while calming down. Montgomery put him back into the game almost as soon as he returned to the bench.
After the game, Crabbe said he understood Montgomery was just trying to get him to play better.
"Just spur of the moment," Crabbe said. "It was an emotional game at the time. He was trying to motivate me. Everything's fine. It's under the bridge. He's my coach."


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South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is holding a public meeting on Tuesday in Columbia.
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Ben, Sam, and BP's Zachary Levine discuss the upcoming World Series.
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Thanks for this look at Boston, one of the teams in the World Series. However, the last I looked, the Series requires that two teams play. Would it be asking too much to have a similar interview of someone who knows a little about that other team, whoever they are? Dayn Perry might be available.
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I'll allow you that. We did talk about Boston more than St. Louis. But I don't think it was for any lack of knowledge about St. Louis or any lack of respect for the team that you're sarcastically not naming. I just feel like Boston has more questions going into the series. We talked some about Shelby Miller, but with Craig likely to be back (confirmed as a definite today), there weren't a lot more questions with the Cardinals. If one team has a few more issues that can be bantered about, I really think that's OK and not a sign of disrespect. We may have missed something for one team - in fact I'm sure we did for both teams - but it wasn't intentionally disrespectful. I'll be writing plenty about both teams during the series.
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Crean is watching a guy in the '14 class named Goodluck Okonoboh today.
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Crean is watching a guy in the '14 class named Goodluck Okonoboh today.
If you think for one second that won't be the actual name of the thread now, you are sorely mistaken.
Oh, and for what it's worth, Rabjohns reported that despite some rumblings that Hollowell was going to transfer, he is not. He will be back. Also mentioned that everything seems to be in order with Devin Davis's grades, when there was some concern there, and that he talked to Yogi's dad and he literally laughed off the notion of Yogi leaving.
He played on Rene Castro's AAU team. He's supposed to be great and really athletic IIRC, and his name should make him a 5 star prospect.
Lots of potential friction. Could be messy.
I think fans of other teams add to the rivalry somewhat- as long as its not unreasonable trashing, gloating at losses, etc. I rarely see that here. I like to poke a little fun here and there, but I dont have anything against IU, Purdue, or Butler. Hell, its just a freaking game where the goal is to put a ball in a metal cylinder. I sometimes feel guilty posting here because my very personality is to poke fun at my IU friends. They know that I want them to win so they laugh it off. I have ticked a couple of you off over the year, but I get everything back in full. Its fun.
According to Grady on 1070, it sounds like Peter Jurkin is leaving. Springcreaning is done.
That's even less surprising than Oladipo going pro.
He was going to be supplanted by Fischer for probably the next 4 years. Not that surprised.
Good. I'd much rather see this than Mo Creek getting the Matt Roth treatment.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
Also Jurkin didn't really have to leave right unless we are going to sign that Sina guy? With Oladipo and Zeller leaving we should have been OK I thought.
They were still one over without Cody and Vic. If they sign another, someone else has to go.
I can never remember if it's 13 or 14 or whatever
He was reading a tweet from a guy who's twitter handle is @FakeRyanGrigson and Rabjohns has said nothing. Me thinks Grady got punked.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
I mean the Jurkin thing has been floating around for like 2 months.
Sounds legit to me.
Hoosierguy, you need to relax a bit. Not every fan of an opposing team is coming into this thread to trash IU, so you don't always have to be on the defensive when someone posts a criticism.
Personally, I enjoy hearing opinions about IU from alternate points of view. Helps keep the rest of us honest.
Don't worry about the trolls, I'll handle them.
SI just tweeted out their early top 25 list--Hoosiers checking in at #16. Looks like we are getting the blue-blood program treatment, much like North Carolina got this year. "Yeah, they are losing a ton, but they have a great recruiting class and a couple of good pieces returning." My guess is our season will go a lot like Carolina's did: some disconcerting early season losses/unnecessary close calls as we tinker with our lineup and figure things out. I think we will end up around a 5 or 6 seed as opposed to an 8 seed though.
Well, who knows? Maybe they can over achieve a bit and make a deeper run than this year's team which under achieved.
Wouldn't totally shock me, but I rather doubt it. Too many freshmen/sophomores playing critical roles. Only two upperclassmen I see playing big roles are Will and Remy.
And honestly, he would have been gone much sooner if others would have stopped baiting him.
Jay Bilas released his Bilas Index for 2013-2014. Indiana checks in at #10. Uhhh...appreciate the respect Jay, but that's probably about 10 spots too high.
Kentucky began last season #3. We're definitely getting the blue-blood treatment.


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i have bi polar and it seems everytime i get serious about practice, meaning consistent and for atleast an hour a day sometimes 3 my illness stops me in my tracks.
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Didn't quite FIT ME!The positives: I was able to get samples from walmart of all of the FIT ME! foundation shades before purchasing. There a lot of shades from very light to medium to deep. The first shade I tried (120) for my medium-light, sensitive combination skin was a perfect match inside at in daylight, but the next shade lighter and darker were acceptably good too. It blended easily to matte finish. The ...read moreThere was no detectable fragrance, irritation, or acne breakout from this foundation. It is very affordable. What I was not thrilled about was that it was so sheer, it really did not cover at all. It did not even my coloring or conceal small lines or pores even when layered on. The other disappointment was that the color turned a bit peachy or orangey on me after a few hours--strange--never had that happen before. This was okay, but not the best--even at this price point. — 6 years, 6 months agoThorne | 456 reviews
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surprisingly goodI had no intention of buying this foundation, but I'm glad that I did. It has a very good coverage for a foundation that's supposed to be "natural". It feels good on skin, and it doesn't have a weird smell. the color matches perfectly also. The only complaint is that it doesn't last all day. — 5 years, 2 months agoMakeupGuru | 444 reviews
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Dumbthis feels like sticky crap. I've bought like 3 to see if it was just a bad batch, but no. It's just sticky crap that rubs off with a slight tap of the finger. It's a waste of $. Not worth the price, go buy Revlon Colorstay. Too light, not worthy of being called foundation. Craaaaap. — 6 years, 3 months agoeatinglipstick | 145 reviews
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Not badThis looks pretty nice and the color did match me just fine. Decent coverage. Just missing that radiance I enjoy from a foundation. — 5 years, 2 months agoNicole1021 | 210 reviews
wellthis foundation was just ok. it didnt cover all that well but it didnt look bad. there was no wow factor. — 5 years, 6 months agoaddkg777 | 237 reviews
Oily Skin BEWAREAfter 9 months of loving Revlon Colorstay, I decided it was time to branch out into some other foundations. This was the first one I picked up and I certainly wish I had done more research before purchasing. I have dreadfully oily skin that is extremely difficult to manage, and almost impossible to keep matte all day. This foundation never even set correctly on my face, leaving it an oily mess unt...read moreil I tried to ameliorate the situation with setting powder. No such luck-I was a shiny greasy disgusting mess within a couple of hours, and the coverage I had upon initial application was completely gone. I will certainly compliment the product in the amount of coverage that I am sure people with normal or dry skin experience-it is thick enough for great coverage without being too cakey. Application (with a sponge) was very smooth - I found that the product was easy to blend, was buildable, and did not streak or clump. However, again, for oily skin, this was just a disaster. I wanted to like this product but I cannot - maybe in twenty years when my skin has calmed down a bit. The color range of this product was fairly extensive, always a plus for the drugstore. Also - regarding packaging - I am sick and tired of the typical drugstore foundation packaging-glass that is far too thick, and no pump. This is misleading, bulky, and extremely unhygienic. I would love to see thinner glass and pumps on more foundations in the drugstore. I wish that drugstore makeups would step it up in the realm of products for oily skin, because products like these do not cut it at all. I can not give it a solid thumbs down; however, because I discovered promising features that I think would suit other skin types. — 4 years, 6 months agohanana | 35 reviews
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Sheer and oilyThis foundation is cheap, which seemed like a plus at first, but you get what you pay for. It's very sheer and somewhat oily. If I applied moisturizer before this foundation, I was an oil slick. I learned to cleanse my face and apply the foundation on dry skin. Still, I ended re-applying the powder all day as the foundation wore off. The powder from this line is also very cheap and it shows. — 5 years, 6 months agoVV001 | 23 reviews
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GoodI noticed a lot of people complaining about the oily look and feel of the foundation. I fix this problem by swiping some pressed powder over it for added coverage, and to make it a little less pale. It is the winter, so 115 is a pretty good match for me this time of year, but I like adding a little more matte effect and color with the powder. It has SPF 18 built in, so I don't have to worry about ...read moreforgetting to protect my skin. I occasionally break out a little from it I think or the combination of it and a really drying cleanser I have been using lately, but it's always like one zit like once a month, so it's not enough to really bother me. I have dry to combination skin. Generally in the winter it is dry, and in the summer it is combination. This might drive me up a wall in the summer time if there's a lot of humidity, but its perfect for the cold weather, it's somewhat moisturizing. Best of all it is cheap, and the bottle has lasted me a really long time. It is not a perfect ten because it can be a little more oily than I'd like sometimes, and it is easy to rub off, but usually once it's set with some powder it stays as long as I could reasonably expect it to. — 5 years, 6 months agoshinyandiknowit | 99 reviews
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The Dealership, Part 2Logic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
You will need the answers from "The Dealership: Part 1" to complete this.
"Car"-l (Carl) Smith is back, and he has another crisis on his hands. The 5 cars he bought a couple weeks ago were sold last week. He was walking across the street from his favorite fast food restaurant with the papers from the sales, when a car pulled out right in front of him. He dropped the papers and couldn't get them back because the wind blew them all away. Help Carl figure out each customer's first and last names, what car they bought, how much money they paid, and on what day they bought the cars.
First Names - Fred, Jill, Calvin, Hannah, Katie
Last Names - Jenkins, Chapman, Kendrick, Felton, Hampton
Car - Mini, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ford
$$ - $16,000, $24,000, $32,000, $38,000, $40,000
Day of the week - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
1. The 5 people are: Fred, Mr. Chapman, the one who bought a car on Thursday, the one who bought a car for $38,000, and the one who bought a Ford.
2. The 5 cars are: The BMW, the one bought by Hannah, the one bought by Mrs. Hampton, the one bought on Friday, and the one bought for $32,000.
3. Carl made a profit on each car.
4. The person who bought a car 2 days after Felton did bought her car for $8,000 less than the person who bought the car that was sold to Carl on Thursday.
5. No car was bought and sold on the same day of the week.
6. The Mini, which was not bought on Monday, was bought 1 day after the Ford.
7. Jill paid $8,000 less for her car than the person who bought a car on Saturday.
8. Kendrick bought his car before Felton did.
AnswerFred Kendrick bought his BMW for $40,000 on Monday.
Jill Hampton bought her Jaguar for $24,000 on Thursday.
Calvin Chapman bought his Mini for $32,000 on Saturday.
Hannah Felton bought her Mercedes for $38,000 on Tuesday.
Katie Jenkins bought her Ford for $16,000 on Friday.
If you couldn't get it, this might help:
Because of clues 5 and 6, you know that the Mini must not be bought on Monday or Thursday, and the Ford cannot be sold on Monday (5), Tuesday (not 1 day before anything), or Thursday (1). This means the Ford and the Mini must be sold on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
In clue 7, It says that Jill payed $8,000 less than the car on Saturday, which you know is the Mini. Also, in clue 4, the person payed $8,000 less than the car sold to Carl on Thursday, which is the Mini. You now know that the person in that clue has to be Jill.
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Whenever I miss walking around the beautiful temples (in Bangkok), the places that the love of Buddha has grown in my heart, I watch Youtube video clips and I would like to show beautiful temples to you all:
Emerald Buddha. One of the most sacred images in Thailand the Buddha
Emerald Buddha in 3 seasons
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Reclining Buddha : http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... -TqlrrJphs
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What if Judas is still alive, hidden away in the jungles of the Amazon, waiting for the Second Coming? As a massive object appears in space heading directly toward Earth, the Brotherhood heralds it as Wormwood, one of the signs the Rapture and it's just three days away. They have been preparing to implement the Great Commission as designated by Jesus - where everyone on the planet must hear the word of God before the end in order to be saved. They will use advanced technology to send that message directly into the minds of every human on the planet. The question is: will the message kill everyone who gets it or save them? Believing him to be the anti-Christ, they also send a team of assassins up the Amazon to find the Great Betrayer and kill him before Armageddon.
Opposing the Brotherhood is the Triumvirate of the Illuminati. They believe they must stop the Great Commission and the assassination team. At the same time they rush to gather nuclear weapons and launch missiles into space to divert the Intruder, as they call the object, believing it to be a natural phenomenon over which technology will prevail. Three survivors do finally make it to Judas, and he tells them a story, the true story of what happened over two millennia ago. And what is approaching. As the object nears Earth, both sides become locked in a world-wide battle for the future of the human race, as Judas prepares in the jungle for the Second Coming, the fulfillment of his Fifth Gospel. Which is not at all what anyone expects.
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|Soon he'll be the only person the country who can afford a pint
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Why beer duty numbers just don't add up - and what YOU can do about it
40 comments:
- Curmudgeon said...
"But that's just the duty - inflation is still 4% on top of that. Which means the cost to the brewer of making beer is also going up by 4%.
"So if a brewer just wants to stay still, with no increase in profit at all, the duty escalator means the price of their beer must go up by 10%."
I don't disagree with your general argument, but you've got your maths a bit wrong there. The other costs are of course net of duty, so the duty element goes up by 6%, but the remaining costs only go up (theoretically) by 4%.
- 5 March 2012 at 18:53
- Pete Brown said...
Sorry Mudgie, that's what I meant - 6% duty plus 4% other costs means theoretically total cost of a pint goes up by 10% - which the market won't accept, which means the brewer can't pass on his costs...
- 5 March 2012 at 18:59
- ted said...
The law of diminishing returns doesn't actually apply here. If you look at HMRC clearances you'll see that in 1995 beer and cider clearances were 60.5mhl yielding 2.5bn excise revenue or £41 per hl, whereas in 2010 clearances were 45.8mhl yielding £3.7bn or £80.7 per hl. There is a hypothetical argument that if duty hadn't gone up so much volumes would not have declined so dramatically and revenue would be the same or possibly higher. But that's hypothetical and is complicated by all sorts of variables. From the Treasury's point of view the hard fact is that duty increases yield more revenue regardless of declining volumes. The real villain that none of us beerheads take into account is that for years (I could look up how many years but I can't be arsed), duty on spirits has been frozen, reducing the differential between beer and spirits and encouraging preloading, which is an absolute evil. Campaigning for the restoration of the duty differential between beer and spirits so that a single scotch costs more than a pint of beer (as was the case when I were a lad) has a strong appeal both for the Treasury and for the health nazis. A fruitful area for a campaign?
- 5 March 2012 at 19:33
- Pete's Quiz said...
Great blog! I only drink lager (Carling usually), but I've signed the e-petition, because as you say, it doesn't matter what you drink, the whole pub industry suffers.
Let's hope somebody in power actually does something about it!
- 5 March 2012 at 20:01
- Thomas said...
Notice how supermarkets continue to sell cut-price alcoholic drinks and not be scrutinised by the government but in return receive free and forced labour? More profits and more money to risk and less higher contracted bids for breweries.
Breweries should stick their fingers up to practices whom cost-cut their products so much. It gives a false-market economy of how their brands are valued and means people are less reluctant to buy their products in pubs and bars which have to pay the costs.
The Government are insuring their friends receive cheap deals and killing off non privately-owned businesses whilst also calling themselves 'compassionate'. The joke is so bad I'm cringing.
- 5 March 2012 at 20:14
Your overriding point is absolutely right, but I think Curmudgeon is right, your maths is a little out.
Say duty makes up 10% of the price you sell a pint for and ingredients and other costs about 30%, if you increase the first by 6% and the latter by 4%, then your cost per pint increases by 4.5% overall (6p per pint if a pint costs £3.50). Don't forget duty is charged on volume and %ABV, not ingredients costs.
So a 6p increase in the cost of a pint would cover your increase in costs and duty and give you the same margin. That's a 1.7% increase overall.
Still, petition very much signed!!
- 5 March 2012 at 20:31
- Cooking Lager said...
Death & taxes eh?
Booze has long been a cash cow. Beer geeks are by and large middle class toss pots and ought to be paying more tax.
- 5 March 2012 at 20:51
- Phil said...
The point is that 6% 'duty' plus 4% 'other' doesn't add up to 10%, it adds up to somewhere between 4% and 6%, depending how big a slice of overall costs is taken up by duty.
It costs me £100 to brew a barrel of beer. I pay £50 duty per barrel. My total bill is £150.
Brewing cost goes up 4%: it is now £104. Duty goes up 6%: it is now £53. My total bill is £157: it's gone up 4.67%.
- 5 March 2012 at 21:19
A good article but the point would have been made just as well and the article shared much broader if you had omitted your personal political beliefs sentence. I know this is your personal blog and you should of course include your opinions. But in this article? Calling for a party neutral consensus? Unnecessary.
I would have shared this with friends, family and my local MP if had not been for that one off comment.
- 5 March 2012 at 21:51
- Birkonian said...
I'm sick of the attack on drinkers too but your family brewer's maths are way out.
Take the cost of a pint at £3.00 (still expensive here up north) and presume that the brewer just breaks even at that price.
The duty on a typical pint of beer is 41p I believe. So a 6% increase would add 2.5p to the duty.
The cost of producing the pint is £2.59 (£3.00 less the 41p duty). 4%inflation adds 10.4p to the costs.
So the total increase in costs is 2.5p + 10.4p = 12.9p. As a percentage of £3.00 that is 4.3%. Unwelcome but not 10%.
- 5 March 2012 at 21:55
- Curmudgeon said...
Glad others agree with my maths :-)
Spirit duties were frozen for a period, but are subject to the duty escalator in the same way as beer duties. They are actually higher than beer duties per unit of alcohol, but spirits cost considerably less to produce per unit than beer.
There has to come a point when the law of diminishing returns applies to the absolute revenue from alcohol duties (with reduction in consumption and increased smuggling and home-brewing) but we're probably still some way off that.
- 5 March 2012 at 22:21
- Pete Brown said...
OK, so my maths is even worse than the government's - I had to drop maths A-level at school after a year because it was like trying to teach Mandarin to a Martian.
The principle I was trying to make still stands, even if I expressed it appallingly. Two key facts:
One, because the duty escalator is inflation plus 2%, you can forget that there's then still inflation to go on there
Two, brewers are unable to pass on increasing costs so every year see their margins get thinner.
Anonymous, I put in the line about my personal politics precisely to emphasise the fact that this is not a party political issue. If a view you disagree with offends you so much (i.e. if you think it's OK for a government to use the army and secret service against its own population - sorry, couldn't resist!) and you feel it's impossible to link to my blog post, you could always urge people to go straight to the Hobgoblin page or the petition itself. You might even want to cut and paste some of my less offensive text to help your cause - I won't mind.
- 6 March 2012 at 07:36
- StringersBeer said...
Who do we think installs cellar equipment, handpumps etc & services it all? In many cases I suspect it's the freeholder. In other cases it's a micro-brewer using SIBAs (or some other) technical services. If it's a brewer (of whatever size) it's traditionally done alongside a supply agreement, not, as you imply, from a charitable inclination on the part of the "family" brewers.
I'm sure the "micros" could manage perfectly well on their own, thank you very much. Although I'm not sure most drinkers would wish for that.
- 6 March 2012 at 08:21
Thanks for informing about this Pete!
- 6 March 2012 at 09:07
- Eddie said...
Ted is absolutely bang on the nail - it is the differential between beer & spitits that any campaign needs to focus on.
- 6 March 2012 at 09:14
- John H said...
I'm considering having this blog put on a T-shirt that I'll wear until it either a) the government wakes up or b) gets so smelly everyone avoids me, thus undermining its purpose.
What's particularly galling is that the thousands of jobs being lost in small (often family) businesses such as pubs are not reported in the same way as en masse manufacturing lay offs. This makes them an easy target.
- 6 March 2012 at 09:16
- Eddie said...
Ted - 1997.
- 6 March 2012 at 09:16
- broadfordbrewer said...
Aside from the nit picking, this is an important issue which we should support collectively. Little point in bickering about the details. Spread the word as Pete is doing and get everyone you know who cares about beer and brewing to sign up!
- 6 March 2012 at 09:51
- broadfordbrewer said...
Aside from the nit picking, this is an important issue which we should support collectively. Little point in bickering about the details. Spread the word as Pete is doing and get everyone you know who cares about beer and brewing to sign up!
- 6 March 2012 at 09:52
I have to agree - getting a political dig in is irrelevant to this important topic. And it does nothing to highlight that this shouldn't be a party political issue - in fact it does the opposite for me too. Somehow I get the impression that you're trying to use the sentiment (along with the picture of Call Me Dave) to divert blame on the current incumbents rather than the previous Supreme Leader G Brown and his Chancellor Sam the Eagle who were responsible for it.
I wonder what the relative impacts on brewery business are between the beer duty escalator and fuel duty rises? Clearly it's not reached the law of diminishing returns - the treasury won't be quite so daft to introduce a loss making duty increase.
And yes - Mudgie has the maths right... so the article is actually even more misleading...
- 6 March 2012 at 09:56
- Pete Brown said...
I refer all anonymous posters to Broadfordbrewer's response.
- 6 March 2012 at 10:00
- Publican Sam said...
"Despite falling beer consumption in the UK, we contribute 40% of the total beer excise revenue raised by 27 EU nations, whilst accounting for only 13% of total EU beer volumes" - this from SIBA's representation to the Chancellor.
and this ..."In the last five years the headline rate of beer duty has risen by more than 35%"
Whether the math is right or wrong about the effect on either brewers' or publicans' pricing after the budget, you can't argue with with this disproportionate level of taxation that along with other econimic factors is crippling the brewing and pub industries... and who knows maybe this next rise will be the tipping point and irreversible damage will be done to both sectors which employ so many people and contribute so much to the economy and the social infrastructure of this country.
122,000 licensed premises in the country and as of writing only some 8,200 people have signed the e-petition ... we really are a nation of chumps.
- 6 March 2012 at 10:43
- Cooking Lager said...
The country is bankrupt, and many worthy and unworthy causes are special pleading prior to the budget.
The whinging and special pleading of publicans and beer geeks is not going anywhere. It's about as futile as whinging about smoking bans.
Pay your taxes and think of a cause you can win. Read your Sun Tzu, wars are won before a sword is drawn and all that.
- 6 March 2012 at 12:52
- dave.ringo.bells said...
I have to agree that the anonymous nitpickers should keep out of this. The basis for the article/blog is that different governments have, between them put up beer prices by more than 35% in just a few years. In the same time, they seem to have backed large supermarkets with free staff and unrestricted pricing on their alcohol.
Once they have achieved their objective of closing Britain's pubs, I, for one, can see the supermarkets rubbing their hands in glee. Then, perhaps, the lager drinkers will see what they have achieved.
- 6 March 2012 at 19:22
- Eddie86 said...
I have to agree with Pete on the family brewers helping with equipment etc. Marstons provided and installed our 8 handpumps with no tie at all, just a gentleman's agreement that I have one of their beers on regularly. Wye Valley has sponsored our beer festivals by providing the cooling equipment (enough for over 50 ales). And that's for a Welsh beer festival, so their beers aren't even on!
Regardless of details (FFS) its worth signing whichever way you look at it
- 7 March 2012 at 09:31
- StringersBeer said...
@Eddie86 Well done Marstons, clearly they're not short of a bob or two. And of course Wye Valley is a SIBA "micro" - which was kindof my point - it's not just the big brewers who do this stuff. I think Wye also offer cellar training to all their customers.
Ignoring the iffy maths, I'm sure we all agree that high beer taxes and the duty escalator are bad for the industry, jobs and the beer drinker.
- 7 March 2012 at 12:14
- Wyreman said...
stop bickering, sign the fricken petition!!!! pass on the links to friends etc etc . It's about jobs and people and keeping people off the dole. Politicians have no sense of reality or longevity at all. People need to get more involved and change stuff as opposed to just moaning about it!
- 8 March 2012 at 00:00
- Ketsbaia said...
If this present government is going to ignore all the advice from almost every professional body that exists about the disastrous changes it's about to make in the NHS, what makes you think they're going to give a flying frig about the (perfectly well reasoned although mathematically questionable)arguments about beer duty here? Unless it hits them in the pocket, they don't care. No matter how well reasoned the arguments are here, they will wave the Special Brew factor against it and ignore whatever we have to say. There's only one way to prevent this beer tax from being short-lived (and it will come in) - vote anything but Tory or Lib Dem come the next available opportunity. Otherwise, forget it.
- 8 March 2012 at 00:14
- Ketsbaia said...
If this present government is going to ignore all the advice from almost every professional body that exists about the disastrous changes it's about to make in the NHS, what makes you think they're going to give a flying frig about the (perfectly well reasoned although mathematically questionable)arguments about beer duty here? Unless it hits them in the pocket, they don't care. No matter how well reasoned the arguments are here, they will wave the Special Brew factor against it and ignore whatever we have to say. There's only one way to prevent this beer tax from being short-lived (and it will come in) - vote anything but Tory or Lib Dem come the next available opportunity. Otherwise, forget it.
- 8 March 2012 at 00:17
- Curmudgeon said...
"There's only one way to prevent this beer tax from being short-lived (and it will come in) - vote anything but Tory or Lib Dem come the next available opportunity."
Do you honestly think that Labour would do anything different on beer tax? They started the duty escalator, after all.
And, of course, all the health professionals who are opposed to the NHS reforms are all in favour of alcohol duty hikes.
You can always vote for UKIP, of course :-)
- 8 March 2012 at 12:10
- Northcote Brewery said...
Excellent blog post. I wrote to my MP using the link provided, and got a very generic response. Very depressing. Basically saying, we need the money *blame last govt* and so we'll carry on. Or words to that effect. Oh, but if you live in a village that has a failed pub, you can all club together to buy it. Grrr.
- 9 March 2012 at 15:15
- 146 Cider said...
Great post (despite the maths). Signed the petition and even linked to it in my own blog.
As a small cidermaker we aren't yet hit as badly (despite SIBAs best efforts). Fully support our brewing cousins though.
Love those who think we should shut up and pay our taxes. Buffoons!
- 10 March 2012 at 22:43
- 146 Cider said...
Great post (despite the maths). Signed the petition and even linked to it in my own blog.
As a small cidermaker we aren't yet hit as badly (despite SIBAs best efforts). Fully support our brewing cousins though.
Love those who think we should shut up and pay our taxes. Buffoons!
- 10 March 2012 at 22:44
- The Red Lion Inn, Cricklade said...
Its good to see that the middle tier are being recognised in this struggle, as you say without them (specifically Wadworths) we for one would not be able to serve 10 hand pumps of micros beers as well as nationals from a newly refurbished cellar through a new set of pipes. I fully support the smaller breweries and in fact we are installing a brewery too as we speak, however relationships with larger breweries are just as important for us. Even though Wadworths are aware that our beers may bastardise their sales they are 100% supportive of us throughout
- 11 March 2012 at 11:52
But what about cider?! Heineken UK pay less duty on a pint of Strongbow than the smallest microbrewer pays on a pint of their Beer and that is why we are seeing so many people switching out of Beer and in to Cider and why articles like this...
...are dominated by 2L bottles of dirt cheap "cider". What do you think people are 'pre-loading' on?
I'm not saying Beer duty should be less than Cider. Just make it a fair fight.
- 13 March 2012 at 20:56
- Pete Brown said...
Anon, I'm not disagreeing with you, but the beer world must get better at communicating single messages.
I agree, there should be greater parity between beer and cider duty. But some MP has already gone in saying we should achieve this by hiking up cider duty, and suddenly we lose the focus and momentum behind cutting beer duty, and no one benefits.
- 14 March 2012 at 08:18
IMO all beers,ciders etc should be same price as what is paid in bar in House of Commons
and they even get to smoke there - pity we all can't be members
- 16 March 2012 at 14:29
- Eddie86 said...
How has this petition got less than 12000 signitures? CAMRA alone has 136000 members. Perhaps we don't deserve a freeze in duty if we can't pull together for the sake of entering your email address into a website
- 18 March 2012 at 10:29
- Josh said...
Is there an organisation similar to Camra that supports small to medium breweries and gives them a voice in these type of situations?
Because if not, I feel that it is way more important to start a consumer facing organisation that does exactly that, regardless of cask or keg. The government could have easily created taxations that would have only hurt binge drinking culture (such as creating minimum price of alcohol which would have not touched our beloved microbreweries).
I am happy to give my services of web and graphic design (and video editing) to anyone who wants to make this organisation or campaign. Pete... any chance you want to ? :)
- 22 March 2012 at 10:15
- Eddie86 said...
@Josh - SIBA?
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