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Viewpoints: Is the UK housing market broken?
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has proposed a cap on the proportion of home loans that can be lent at high multiples of income.
Under the proposal, lenders will not be allowed to lend any more than 15% of residential mortgages at more than 4.5 times a borrower's income. Affordability checks on borrowers will also be strengthened.
The measures seek to address what some commentators view as a dangerous housing market bubble.
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, UK house prices rose by almost 10% in the year to April, while those in London rose almost 19%.
Some argue these kinds of rises are simply unsustainable and make home ownership unaffordable for too many working people.
But just how deep-rooted is the problem?
The BBC has asked a number of experts what they think.
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End QuoteLondon's status means the whole city acts as a massive 'centre', not only at metropolitan level but nationally and even globally"
The UK market isn't broken, but London's is.
Or to be more accurate, London's housing system is broken - because the market is working as markets do. One of the fundamentals of urban economics is the relationship between the cost of land (or housing) and its location - housing space close to the centre of an urban area costs more than space at the periphery.
London's status means the whole city acts as a massive 'centre', not only at metropolitan level but nationally and even globally. This dynamic, plus the fact that housing supply in London is basically static, means that prices have risen far more in London than elsewhere in the UK.
But we want a city with social mix at neighbourhood level, affordable housing for key workers and stable accommodation for families, which the market won't necessarily produce.
How to achieve these? Unfortunately there's no single answer, but incremental and piecemeal changes can have an effect over time. Here are three ideas:
Kath Scanlon
- A social-science researcher who writes on a range of subjects related to housing, planning and the role of government
- She has looked at housing markets and policy in Germany, Denmark, Spain and the US as well as in the UK, and has advised government departments, international organisations and development banks
- Reinstitute a property tax based on house values and do away with stamp duty. This would create an incentive for 'over-occupiers' to downsize and remove the financial penalty that currently deters transactions.
- Limit the size of mortgage loans by capping loan-to-value or loan-to-income ratios, which would reduce effective demand.
- Give the Mayor greater control over planning permissions for new housing, as local opposition to new development can be hard for borough politicians to counter.
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End QuoteSolving the housing shortage is possible, but sticking plaster solutions like Help to Buy or tweaks to planning rules just won't cut it"
Our housing market is broken. Successive governments have failed to build the number of homes we need and now we're reaching boiling point.
Every day, we hear from those bearing the brunt of our housing shortage - from hard-working young people watching their dream of owning a home slip away, to families left with little choice but to bring up children in overcrowded or poor conditions.
Year after year we've built at least 100,000 fewer homes than we need, and the result is not just a lack of affordable homes, but a full-blown drought.
Research by Shelter and KPMG has shown that, if current trends continue, half of all adults under the age of 35 will be stuck living in their parents' home within a generation.
And a report we launched this week shows that a staggering 80% of homes on the market in England are unaffordable for the average working family looking to buy their first home.
Campbell Robb
- Started as chief executive of Shelter in January 2010
- Before that he was the first Director General of the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office
Solving the housing shortage is possible, but sticking plaster solutions like Help to Buy or tweaks to planning rules just won't cut it, and risk making the problem even worse.
We need to be boosting small builders with government guarantees and getting land into the hands of those who can build the homes we need.
We need New Home Zones to free up the right land at the right price, to help build a new generation of homes for sale and social or part-rent, part-buy homes that those of us on low and middle incomes can afford.
Without real solutions like these, homelessness, house prices and our benefit bill will continue to rise out of control. Bringing a stable home back within reach for this generation and the next is possible, but only if politicians roll up their sleeves and commit to the solutions that will finally fill the gap between the homes we have and the homes we need.
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End QuoteThe property stock in our area represents good value for money in relation to people's earnings"
The property market is not broken in Wigan, it is working just fine, as I suspect it is in most parts of the UK.
For the market to boom again there needs to be an imbalance between supply and demand. There is no imbalance.
First-time buyers are being helped with the government-backed Help to Buy scheme, mortgage lenders are offering 95% mortgages to certain buyers with good credit scores, mortgage surveyors are being realistic with their valuations, house builders are building and there is no shortage of supply - there are currently around 2,000 local properties on the market, and the local council has allowed plenty of planning for new housing developments.
The property stock in our area represents good value for money in relation to people's earnings.
Andrew Regan
- Twenty-five years experience in the housing market, having started his estate agency career in 1989 with the Abbey National
- Opened his own estate agency 1996
- Sells around 800 properties a year in the Wigan area
In my opinion, the property market is driven by the mortgage lenders, and they have a duty to act responsibly and lend with sensible income multiples, then house prices will only rise in line with inflation. I really do think it is that simple.
This is not London - we do not have thousands of multinational buyers seeking to invest in our property market.
The media is obsessed with the so-called "property bubble" and is disproportionately reporting the market. This makes our life more difficult when pricing clients' property to sell, because we have to report how the market is performing locally in reality, not how it's reported by the media.
Yes there is pent up demand because the market has suffered a terrible crash and is recovering, however there is no "bubble" in Wigan to burst.
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End QuoteThe problem of housing affordability is rooted in the failure for more than three decades to ensure that we build enough homes"
It really depends on which part of the housing market you are talking about.
For some time, we have pointed to differences in market conditions in different parts of the UK. In London, the headlines are about a booming market. But that description is unrecognisable to people living in much of the rest of the UK. We do not have a national housing market, so much as a fragmented one.
Bernard Clarke
- Has been a spokesman for the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) for 15 years
- He has written widely about housing and mortgage markets, and edits a fortnightly newsletter about housing finance
You could argue that the market is working - but reflects a long-standing divergence between demand and supply. Overall, the problem of housing affordability is rooted in the failure for more than three decades to build enough homes to keep up with demand.
But the problems are felt most acutely in London, where population growth, cash buyers and an influx of wealthy foreign purchasers have fuelled demand, while supply has been particularly unresponsive.
In the aftermath of the credit crunch, the mortgage market is now functioning more effectively - the availability of funding has improved, and there is greater competition, choice and access for mortgage customers.
Finally, we have to consider housing in different tenures.
Buy-to-let has contributed to a rapid expansion of the private rented market, which is generally functioning well. Owner-occupation has declined against people's wishes, partly because of a shortage of supply. But the social housing sector has seen the biggest decline of all over the past three decades or so.


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We reckon this is good news for WaW fans, but bad news for our planet's reserves of WWII locations that haven't yet been turned into video game levels, a resource that's running cataclysmically low. Where's Al Gore when you really need him?
- In "Nightfire," players take to the streets of a war-ravaged Berlin with only the flames of the burning city to expose the enemy.
- "Station" offers a bombed out underground train station littered with hidden passageways and destroyed subway cars.
- "Knee Deep" takes place on the island of Peleliu in a once tranquil village turned chaotic Japanese command center.
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Army Of One
Army Of One
These five female solo artists quickly on the rise are proving—in the world of music at least—that sometimes less really is more.
Part tattooed tomboy, part pre-Raphaelite post-punk maiden, Katy Goodman—the auburn-haired beauty behind the luscious, jagged dream pop of La Sera—greets me in a gorgeous hidden cabin up in the hills of Los Angeles' historic Angelino Heights neighbourhood. The location—the backyard of the photographer shooting her for Aritzia—is suitably picturesque for the nymph-like beauty, who also plays in Brooklyn band Vivian Girls.
As a makeup artist applies Goodman's false eyelashes, the gregarious musician explains that, performing as La Sera, she has just come off a three-week-long U.S. tour with folk-rock shaman and fellow Los Angeles transplant Father John Misty. The pair first met at show put on by mutual friend Har Mar Superstar at an East Hollywood strip club. "All the good stories are not family friendly," says Goodman when asked to spill some tour gossip.
Goodman, who's originally from New Jersey but is now based in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighbourhood, started writing La Sera material back in 2010, naming her solo project after a fruity cocktail that she enjoyed during a Vivian Girls trip to Milan. Though her initial La Sera songs were about her love of dogs, the first track to define the La Sera sound and ethos was "Never Come Around," a musical hate letter to a guy who wronged her. "I was so mad that I was like, 'I guess I'm gonna have to express myself in music!'" she recalls. "It was the first time I've ever felt like that. Usually I just angry text."
The 28-year-old is currently writing her third La Sera album, with plans to go into the studio in February and release the disc in October. She says that the follow-up to 2012's Sees the Light will be a bit weird. "Half of the songs that I'm writing are about a fictional group of children who are fighting their oppressors," she says, by way of explanation.
When not expressing herself through song, Goodman adds to the brilliantly off-kilter selection of tattoos that cover her arms. Her ink includes a milkshake, a fork, and the Minor Threat sheep band symbol. "When I was 17, I made a list of all the tattoos I would want," she explains. "I listed 20 tattoos, and I got them all." She's also covered in impromptu friendship tattoos, like her Vivian Girls tour tattoo. It's a cactus with the letters CDA written next to it. Grinning, she explains: "It stands for Cool Dude Attitude." LEONIE COOPER
Stylist: PHOENIX MELLOW
Hair and makeup: DANIELE PIERSON
"I love you like I love crack," SZA (pronounced "sizza"—yes, it's a Wu-Tang reference) sings on her debut EP See.SZA.Run. "I love you like I like to get high." The 23-year-old's music is pretty addictive unto itself. SZA's sensual, dreamy voice wafts over lazy beats, creating a sound that's somehow both organic and urban. It makes sense that the New Jersey-via-St. Louis singer is influenced by Ella Fitzgerald and Björk in equal measure.
SZA is all contradictions in person, too: the small-town girl who carries a set of custom-made gold grillz in her purse; the animal loving marine-biology major with an extensive collection of furs; the camera-shy girl who aspires to win a Grammy; the Cornell grad who claims to have a "dangerously low I.Q."
When I meet her in a café in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one Friday night, she shows up fresh-faced and unassuming in a striped men's shirt open over a camo tank top, but her signature hairstyle—an explosion of curls—hints at a wilder story. The line about crack comes from a song called "Crack Dreams," and I ask if she thought it might end up being controversial. "No," she says. "I don't think crack is that controversial. If you walk a block from here, I guarantee you'll see a crackhead." She claims that it's not even about the drug per se. It's about the dangerous pleasure of a vice that you can't let go of. "I felt things that I assumed were probably the peak of my existence, they just felt so amazing: loving my boyfriend, or the way I feel when I'm out in the street, wearing no pants and a fur coat," she explains. "But I guess it's just about that feeling, like, you know these things are bad for you."
SZA says she hates New York, the city she now calls home. In Maplewood, New Jersey, where she grew up, "Everybody knows your first and last name." (Ironically, she asks that Aritzia not print either of hers.) She recently tweeted, "I used to confuse and scare my parents…." What does that mean, exactly? "I was raised orthodox Muslim for the majority of my childhood," she replies. "I didn't watch MTV, I didn't listen to the radio. Then I got my first tattoo at 13. It's a tramp stamp. And it's not even because I was like, I want a sexy tattoo! It's because I was like, I want to hide something from my parents, and that's the only place where they won't find it. The first tattoo my mother ever found was a butterfly on my arm. I didn't care. I have a very high threshold for nonsense." Is she still a rebel? She laughs. "I try to lie to myself and pretend that I'm growing up, and I'll be on time, and all my clothes will match, and my socks will be clean, but I'll never be that person," she says, smiling. "So when I try to get a regular office job, it'll go awry. But I'm a singer now, so I guess that's that." LIS FERTIG
"I'm done with musicians!" proclaims Eddi Front, pounding her fists on the table at a Brooklyn bistro. The singer-songwriter (real name: Ivana Carrescia) mined a messy romantic relationship for her self-titled debut EP—a moody, melancholic affair that puts her breathy, sexy voice front and centre. "It's easier for me to write when I'm depressed," Front admits, taking a sip of red wine. But, she adds, she would "never voluntarily" place herself in the path of heartbreak simply to write a song.
It might seem hasty for a new artist to swear off anything—even dating other musicians, as it were—so early in her career, but it turns out Front isn't as new as some might think. She actually began performing a few years ago under the name Ivana XL—"That was a mistake, actually," she says of the unfortunate moniker—and she had some success gigging around New York, even playing shows alongside artists like Sharon Van Etten and Olaf Arnalds. But this past May she reinvented herself as Eddi Front and everything seemed to click. "I knew I wanted a boy's name," she says, brushing aside her jet black bangs, "and that name sounds strong." It definitely got the attention of tastemaking sites like Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan, which posted her single "Gigantic"—a languid piano-led ballad that practically drips with sorrow—to much fanfare.
Music has always been a big part of Front's life. Her orchestra conductor father turned her onto the violin when she was a kid, and at 15 she picked up the guitar and started writing songs, inspired by everyone from Mary J. Blige and Billie Holiday to Bill Callahan and Kurt Vile. But Front never sang for anyone until she ventured out into the world of open-mic nights while attending the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She dropped out after a year and eventually relocated to New York to seriously pursue music.
Now Front is preparing to head out on her first-ever tour in January. Playing with a band is new to her: "Before it was just me and my guitar," she says. "I just did my first show with a pianist and a noise box. It's weird to be standing there, just me without my guitar. It feels like I'm totally naked." ARACELI CRUZ
Stylist: ANNA MARIA
Hair: ASHLEY GROBEMEIER
Makeup: ERIN GREEN
"I have no idea what's happening, but I love this." That's just one of the many comments on YouTube in response to a video titled "8," which is just a solid block of colour—an Astroturf green—backed by a sweet, dreamlike song featuring tambourine, cooing vocals, and a distorted, retro-futuristic synth ripple.
Last month, 23-year-old Los Angeles native and Brooklyn resident Lorely Rodriguez gradually uploaded 15 of these aural Jolly Ranchers under the cryptic alias Empress Of. Each is a minute-long slice of a song-in-progress paired with a colour that captures its mood—from buttery off-white to rich raspberry to gemlike aquamarine. The project, which she calls Colorminutes, speaks to Rodriguez's savvy way of using the Internet to connect her music with an audience while creating a playful air of mystery.
When we meet up for coffee in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Rodriguez is hard to miss, with her shock of orange curls crowning a black-dominated ensemble. This is a great city, Rodriguez says, to get a little adventurous. "When I'm walking down the street in L.A., people think I look weird," she says. "You can wear whatever you want in New York." It's also an ideal place for a budding musician, which is why she moved here in 2011: "I didn't get any work done in L.A. because everyone's so laid back. It's so spread out. Everyone's living in their car. I like really condensed cities, where I can just bump into someone on the street and they end up being a producer, or I meet someone who I'm going to write a song with, or take some photos with, or talk about nothing for an hour with in a café."
2013 will prove to be a big year for Rodriguez. She's releasing a cassette tape of the Colorminutes project through Japanese label Big Love early next year. (The B-Side will be the same as the A-Side, but is recorded backwards.) And in March, she'll put out a four-song vinyl EP, the B-Side of which she sings in Spanish, her first language. ("Both of my parents are from Honduras, which is very important to me.") When asked where Rodriguez's royal moniker comes from, she explains that it stems from her fascination with the empress tarot card. She wanted to incorporate the idea into her stage name, but didn't want it to carry too much baggage: "I wanted to detach the self from the word empress." So what exactly is she the empress of? "I don't know," she admits. "It's confusing…I like confusing things." LIS FERTIG
"Since I was absolutely tiny, I was that kid at Christmas dinner jumping on the table to sing Céline Dion and the Spice Girls," says Louisa Rose Allen, a.k.a. Foxes. The London-based pop chanteuse isn't all that far past childhood now (she's 22), but her career is already hurtling forward with a force that feels like destiny—and fortunately her music is far better than the tunes she subjected her family to over figgy pudding. Last January she signed to tastemaking label Neon Gold, "Home," the B-side of her debut scored a climactic final scene of Gossip Girl, she landed a plum guest spot on the title track of super-producer Zedd's LP Clarity, and she even performed alongside Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber at the annual Jingle Ball in L.A. Talk about a good year.
Allen grew up in the university town of Southampton, England, and her childhood was set to a soundtrack of Kate Bush and Björk, thanks to her mother and older sister. Were it not for their encouragement and good taste, she says, "I'd be doing a beauty course in Southampton or something." Instead, she hightailed it to London on her 18th birthday and enrolled in music school (she then quickly dropped out), and began writing song after song after song. Rather than go by her given name—which she thought was too similar to singers Lily Allen and Lucy Rose—she toyed with Foxes after writing a track called "Like Foxes Do"; fate was sealed when her mom recounted a dream in which hundreds of foxes were making beautiful sounds that reminded her of her daughter's music. The fierce female musical heroes of Allen's childhood, along with movie soundtracks—"I used to listen to Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption over and over"—are obvious touchstones for Foxes' emotive yet atmospheric electro-pop, which manages to straddle the line between mainstream and indie. "I'm really inspired by artists who bring you into their own little world," Allen says.
As Foxes, Allen certainly does just that. With the doe-eyed, lush-lipped looks of a young Cat Power (albeit with a much more lavish mane) and a way of piling on chunky jewelry and vintage clothes just so, she suits her stage name perfectly. But it's her bombastic, elastic croon–sounding something like a cross between Jessie J and Chairlift's Caroline Polachek—that seems to promise impending megafame. Allen has just put the finishing touches on her debut full-length, due out in the spring, which she says is "a very personal record" with "a lot of organic sounds as well as some electronic moments. Sonically, it's a good mix of feelings." The British press are already comparing her to big-voiced compatriots like Adele and Florence Welch, but Allen isn't letting herself fall victim to the hype. "I felt no sort of pressure," she says, matter-of-factly. "I still feel very much in the beginning of my career." EVIANA HARTMAN
Stylist: JEANIE ANNAN-LEWIN
Hair: KAZUHIRO NAKA
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Hanson is quickly making a name for himself and might be someone to keep an eye on to see if he can continue what he's doing. The 18-year old, switch-hitting 2B from the Dominican Republic hit .400/.488/.800 in 35 AB. He has 2 homers, 2 triples, and 4 doubles to go along with 5 stolen bases in 6 attempts.
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In 1979, folk-pop icon James Taylor became the first major popular-music figure to draw a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands to a free concert in New York City's Central Park. On August 7, 1997, country-music giant Garth Brooks became the last. The reason for the abrupt end to six-figure crowds at concerts in the park? It wasn't a change of policy with regard to allowing such gatherings—but a dramatic shift in how the crowds were counted.
The crowd that turned out to hear Garth Brooks in Central Park on this day in 1997 was truly enormous, filling the park's North Meadow to capacity and spilling out into seemingly every available patch of grass and asphalt within earshot of the stage where Brooks stood and belted out hits like "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)." But was the crowd really as large as the astonishing figure of 750,000 that was widely claimed in media coverage of the event? Thanks to an unrelated political controversy that arose seven years later, we now know that it almost certainly wasn't.
In the summer of 2004, a group opposing the war in Iraq applied for and was denied a permit to stage a protest rally of approximately 75,000 people on Central Park's Great Lawn, just a few dozen blocks from the site of the Republican National Convention. Concern over damage to the recently renovated lawn was the reason given by the City Parks Department, but a lawsuit alleging political motives was filed against the City of New York, with the enormous size of previous concerts crowds cited in support of the case. After all, James Taylor's 1979 performance at Sheep Meadow was reported to have drawn 250,000, and Elton John's appearance on the Great Lawn the following year was estimated at 50,000 more. In 1981, some 400,000 saw Simon and Garfunkel in the park, and 10 years later, an estimated 600,000 saw Paul Simon play solo.
So just how did those ever-escalating crowd estimates come about? In 2008, Doug Blonsky, former Parks Department administrator and then-president of the Central Park Conservancy told The New York Times, "You would get in a room with the producer, with a police official, and a person from parks, and someone would say, 'What does it look like to you? The producer would say, 'I need it to be higher than the last one.' That's the kind of science that went into it."
Thanks to the city's need to defend itself against the RNC protest lawsuit, Garth Brooks would be the last superstar to benefit from this fuzzy math. In the summer of 2008, the capacity crowd at a heavily promoted free concert by Bon Jovi on the same spot as Brooks' 1997 show was hand-counted at only 48,538-plus. As New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe told the Times, "You look out at the sea of people from the stage, and your mind tells you, 'That's what hundreds of thousands of people looks like.' Now we know it's 48,500."


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Zitnick's approach to the cat involves a lot of chokeholds and half nelsons. He stealthily subdues the rambunctious cougar. "This is where a few years of high school wrestling pay off," says Zitnick, who is studying massage therapy in Pompano Beach. He straps the thick nylon collar around Chaos's neck and leads the tremendous cat backward, out the door of the holding pen.
The two men cut an odd figure as they drag the 200-pound carnivore across Rigerman's sloping yard, past grazing tortoises, toward the calm canal water. Boats and back-yard playgrounds line the banks. Sometimes the cat charges forward; Zitnick baits him with a dried coconut.
Rigerman takes the thick chain from Zitnick and wades into the water with his feline. "This is what it's all about," he says, grinning. The cat paddles clumsily around him, climbs onto his shoulders, and dunks him.
Zitnick helps Chaos back onto land and begins lathering his fur with Johnson's baby shampoo while Rigerman bobs in the water, raving about the harmless inevitability of invasive species.
Zitnick guesses he'd someday like to own a cat — a tiger or a cougar. "They're not ... they're fun to ...," Zitnick pauses to think as he rubs suds along Chaos's tail. "It's not an everyday house pet.... I kinda do things out of the ordinary."
Eventually they tie Chaos to a stone anchor near the property line. The cat looks happy, at last, basking under a stubby palm tree, batting at the low-hanging fronds.
"You boys have a cat down there?" asks Rigerman's neighbor Shelly Girling from inside her house. A pleasant-looking woman with quaffed red hair and a bright floral-print dress wanders to the edge of her yard.
Rigerman stumbles out of the water and encourages Girling to let her Dachshunds out. She decides against it, but leans over her fence and asks how the baby is. Chaos tosses mouthfuls of sod into the air and pounces on the gray coconut, sinking a massive canine into it, almost as an answer.
The scene takes on a Norman Rockwell quality. Fluffy white clouds slide across a deep blue Sunday sky, and Chaos begins to look more and more like a lovable fixture of the Rigerman household. Until it's time to return him to his cage.
The cat does not want to go.
Zitnick uses all of his might to drag Chaos back, foot by foot, into his enclosure. At the door of the cage, Chaos leaps up onto Zitnick's shoulders and opens his mouth, running his canines along the length of his arm like a puppy tongue. Zitnick reaches out both hands and seizes the cougar by the throat, lifting it off the ground. He steps a few feet into the cage and hurls it to the ground. It hits the concrete floor with a resounding thud and bounds back up just as Zitnick shuts the gate.
Rigerman, seemingly unable to resist, heads into Chantell's cage. He barks and coos until she allows him to scratch her behind the ears. "See," he says. "She's not going to hurt me. If she were going to hurt me, I would yell, scream, and punch the shit out of her in the face."
By dazzling the owner of a service station with a few exotic pets, Rigerman convinced the man to install a second horn in the trunk of his aging Toyota Corolla, free of charge.
Plodding slowly along the Dolphin Expressway on a recent hot weekday afternoon, his vehicle is almost as loud as he is. A baby alligator head sits on the dashboard amid a pile of plastic corn snakes. Rigerman employs the gator's lacquered jaws as a caddy for a trio of spare eyeglasses.
"I wear the same thing every day," Rigerman explains between bursts of his horns. "So I like to change my glasses as often as possible."
Rigerman has decided to pay a visit to Ann, a longtime friend and cat expert, who asked that her last name not be printed for fear of animal rights "loonies." Her small green townhouse in Westchester is among the oldest in Miami, she would later explain, and consists of a kitchen, a living room, and two bedrooms: one for her, one for her cats.
Rigerman arrives unexpectedly and slowly works his way past the black steel door and into the apartment. Ann has spent about the past 20 years perfecting her house as a dual habitat — a cat-proof people pen. Orange short-pile carpet lines the floor, and a long, pillow-plotted couch juts out from the middle of the living room. All electronics, books, and cords are neatly tucked away — nothing extraneous or chewable is lying about. Occupying one corner of the living room is a large leopard-print bar surrounded by framed photographs of various cats: leopards, servals, and caracals.
The back patio had been converted into a sort of outdoor play area, enclosed on four sides by a black chainlink fence. Beyond the fence, a small canal separates Ann from a row of other houses. Occasionally they enjoy a full view of Ann's three cats — though they rarely go outside.


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They said he was driving on the New Columbia exit of Route 15, around 2pm, when he lost control of his vehicle, which hit guardrails and flipped over. Guy Temple is 83; he was taken to Evangelical Community Hospital. He is in 'good condition' at Evangelical hospital. .
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ALLENDALE, N.J., April 29, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE MKT:NBS) and its subsidiary, Progenitor Cell Therapy LLC ("PCT"), announced today the execution of a Services Agreement with Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc. ("Sentien") under which PCT will provide services to support Sentien's development of its cell therapy product, including technology transfer, staff training, and manufacturing.
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Although the Qantas Group's domestic network–mainline and Jetstar–is not as glamorous as its international network, it is profitable and, along with the frequent flyer programme, props up Qantas's loss-making international network. It thus seems especially concerning when Qantas announces, as it did today, that it will curtail Qantas and Jetstar's domestic growth from 8% to 5.5%, cancel or defer 12 aircraft between now and end FY2012, and reduce the number of leased aircraft next financial year.
But Qantas has been brought back to the reality of another domestic downturn and having an overly ambitious expansion plan. Although Virgin Australia in May 2010 downgraded its financial outlook on account of a weakening leisure market, Qantas this February pressed ahead with aircraft acquisitions, despite in the previous few months experiencing earthquakes in New Zealand, cyclones in Queensland, and floods elsewhere in Australia.
Qantas announced that the end of FY2013 Qantas mainline would lease five additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft and extend leases on a further two. Jetstar saw even more growth with new leases on 10 A320s and lease extensions on 11 A320s (plus a new A330-200 for its international division).
The disparity between Qantas and Virgin was further evidenced a month later when Virgin announced it would post an annual loss. In the same market, how could one airline be signing for aircraft while another expects a loss of A$30-80m? Virgin is incurring costs as part of its business transformation, but Qantas was too bullish on a resilient market while also banking on filling the void Virgin would create by going after a greater share of the corporate market.
Qantas's reckoning appears to have been that Virgin's cost would rise with its transformation, which would make its leisure seats more expensive and thus ripe for Jetstar to capture while Virgin's premium product would also see costs increase, making Qantas's business product more viable to Virgin passengers.
As Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said when announcing the leases in February: "We see great opportunities for Jetstar, particularly in the domestic market as our competition changes their focus. It is an opportunity Jetstar is seizing."
It has so far ended up being a non-opportunity. Virgin's simplified fare structure has relatively maintained fares, although they could rise–creating the opportunity Qantas saw–as Virgin keeps spending and settles in to its new position once the new brand launch excitement dies down. Virgin's business transformation, as detailed to a Macquarie investor conference, calls for the airline to re-position itself this and next financial year and then start to achieve better yields in the 2012-2013 financial years timeframe.
Trimming overly-ambitious growth is better than cutting moderate growth, which could explain Qantas emphasizing in a statement its "strong funding position": cash balance over A$3b, and, Qantas says, being the highest-rated airline in the world with a BBB/Baa2 investment grade rating. Qantas all but says it will still be fine after trimming growth.
The downturn is not confined to Qantas and Virgin. Tiger Airways during its annual results conference last month announced it would maintain capacity in Australia this year as its Australian division incurred a loss. "That was primarily due to the weather events that we saw in Australia from December through February," chief executive Tony Davis remarked at the time. But since then, Tiger's decision to axe Australian routes show it too is seeing a downturn, and not just a one-off bad period from natural disasters.
To add context to the Qantas Group's figure of now taking delivery of 34 aircraft in FY2012 instead of the 43 previously planned, in February Qantas expected to take delivery of six 737-800s by the end of FY2011 and a further 15 737-800s in FY2012, when Jetstar would also take delivery of 15 A320s.
Finally, Qantas trimming its domestic fleet is noteworthy given Joyce's comments last week Qantas would consider cutting its international fleet, whatever merit the proposition has.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The detention by Chinese authorities of a British corporate investigator and his American wife in the wake of a corruption probe into pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has had a chilling effect on other risk consultants working in China.
It's unclear why Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzeng, whose firm ChinaWhys has done work for GSK and other drug makers, were detained. But corporate investigators said they were concerned about the repercussions for the industry.
Multinationals, banks and investors rely on corporate investigators for information about potential partners and investments in China, where a lack of transparency is a hurdle to doing business. Restrictions in the flow of such background information could potentially leave foreign investors exposed to greater risk in the world's second-largest economy.
ChinaWhys offers "discreet risk mitigation solutions, internal process audits, due diligence and commercial investigation services", according to the firm's website.
"(Humphrey's) detention is really disturbing. It gives me an uneasy feeling that people who, on the face of it, are trying to help companies and individuals navigate their way around the system are being targeted," said Gary Miller, litigation partner and head of the fraud group at London law firm Mishcon de Reya.
Mike Vermillion, senior director of third party risk management solutions at Oregon-based consultancy Navex Global, called the detentions chilling.
"I am certainly not getting on a plane to China next week," Vermillion said.
Two sources with direct knowledge of the matter have said Humphrey and Yu were detained by Chinese authorities in Shanghai on July 10. They did not specify who was holding the couple.
A Shanghai police spokesman said police there had neither detained nor had any contact with Humphrey. He said Humphrey's case was being handled by Beijing. Police in the capital declined to comment.
British diplomats have said they were giving consular assistance to a Briton detained in Shanghai but have declined to provide further details. U.S. diplomats have said the same thing about a detained American. Reuters has not been able to determine if the couple have a lawyer.
Their detention has not been an isolated case.
Two industry executives said investigators from other companies were being "invited for tea" by Shanghai authorities, a euphemism for informal questioning in China.
Some investigators, worried they are under surveillance, have scaled back their use of email. Some declined to speak to reporters over the phone, afraid that authorities were listening in to their conversations.
Several investigators said that they had become more cautious about which projects to accept, avoiding any the government might see as sensitive.
Investigators said they had also heard of people requesting reassignment to Hong Kong, which has a separate legal system to mainland China. These movements could not be confirmed.
A series of incidents in recent years has highlighted China's growing willingness to investigate, detain and prosecute people for crimes involving the use of information for commercial purposes.
Corporate investigators first came under China's microscope last year after a spate of accounting scandals at U.S.-listed Chinese firms that led to forced delistings, shareholder lawsuits and investigations by overseas regulators.
Many of the scandals followed reports by short-sellers who accused the firms of financial irregularities.
Some corporate investigators in China had worked with short-sellers and hedge funds doing research on those companies, said Paul Gillis, professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. It is unclear if the recent detentions are related to that work. Short-sellers borrow shares, sell them in the expectation that their price will fall and then buy them back at a lower price.
"I know there's been a great deal of unhappiness with the activities of short sellers ... That's been one of the things that China has been quite irritated about," said Gillis.
Jon Carnes, a U.S.-based short-seller who attacked several Chinese companies between 2010 and 2011 using the pseudonym Alfred Little, has said one of his Chinese researchers had been jailed in China.
The corporate investigations business has expanded rapidly in China in recent years in response to concern about compliance issues, in the wake of increased enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a surge in international deals involving Chinese firms.
The big four international accounting firms -- KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and Ernst & Young, along with companies such as Control Risks, FTI Consulting and Kroll are among the largest operating in China.
Investigators say the industry has also grown to include hundreds of small companies and individual operators as well, including ChinaWhys, a consultancy founded by Humphrey in 2003. Humphrey is a former journalist who worked for Reuters for 16 years until 1998.
British drug maker GSK has declined to comment on the work ChinaWhys did for the firm except to say that Humphrey is not, nor has he ever been, an employee.
GSK is in crisis in China after police this month accused it of funneling up to 3 billion yuan ($489 million) to travel agencies to facilitate bribes to doctors and officials. The company, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical maker, has said some of its Chinese executives appeared to have broken the law.
With the investigation industry's expansion in China, particularly among smaller firms, came an illegal trade in private information, including bank, telephone, and even hukou or household registration records, investigators said. Some investigators claimed they could place moles inside companies.
"Parts of the investigations industry in China were flying very close to the sun from a legal standpoint for a very long time," said Velisarios Kattoulas, chief executive of Poseidon Group, a risk management consultancy active in China.
Starting as early as late last year, police began questioning hundreds of people involved in the trade of protected information, according to several investigators.
At least one small investigations company in China closed down as a result, investigators said. It was not clear if this firm was run by expatriates or locals.
Investigators concede some parts of their work stray into a legal grey area in China. Private investigations are prohibited under a 1993 Ministry of Public Security notice, though this, like other laws and regulations in China, has only been selectively enforced.
One Chinese lawyer who works with investigation companies said that because they cannot get business licenses as private investigators, such firms often register as "business advisors". This can leave them in a legally precarious situation.
"The negative part of this is that the government can get you whenever they want," this lawyer said.
It is not only corporate investigators who have fallen foul of Chinese law on the commercial use of information.
In December 2012, a Chinese court sentenced four former executives from a Shanghai unit of Dun & Bradstreet, a global business information firm, to prison for illegally buying information about Chinese consumers. Dun & Bradstreet said in May last year it was shutting the unit.
The scrutiny on corporate investigators comes as China prepares to reopen its equity markets to initial public offerings after unofficially halting IPOs last October as part of a crackdown on fraud.
It is unclear if any investigators were caught up in that crackdown.
At the same time, the government has been tightening access to corporate records. Last summer, it began restricting the availability of corporate filings to China's main business registry, the Administration of Industry and Commerce. These restrictions are still in force, investigators say.
(Additional reporting by Kazunori Takada, Pete Sweeney, Jane Lee and the newsroom in Shanghai, Nadia Damouni in New York, Michael Martina and Megha Rajagopalan in Beijing, Rachel Armstrong in Singapore and Ben Hirschler in London. Editing by Dean Yates and Mark Bendeich)


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Professor Sally A. Kent
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Sarah Anne 'Sally' Kent— a colleague, friend, and member of the CREECA community— died on February 3, 2015. Kent was a professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1987-2014 and had also served as the coordinator of international studies at UWSP. A valued and generous CREECA associate, Kent's love of teaching and her expertise in the history, politics, and culture of the former Yugoslavia enhanced several workshops and conferences. In 2011 she participated in a conference on Yugoslavia and in 2009 led a session at a teacher workshop, titled "The Wars and Post-War Period in the Former Yugoslavia." She will be greatly missed by her friends, colleagues, and students.
Friends of Sally are invited to a memorial service to be held on the UW-Stevens Point campus on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 from 3:00-5:00 pm, Dreyfus University Center, Alumni Room, UW-Stevens Point.
View Sally Kent's full obituary here.
The Winter 2015 Edition of 'CREECA News' is Here!
Take a look at the latest issue of 'CREECA News,' our printed newsletter. In this edition we take you into 'Day in East and Central Europe (DECE)' our largest K-12 outreach event for high school students. We also remember the life and works of Alexander Rolich, longtime Bibliographer for Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Studies. Our featured student Nicole Butkovich Kraus completed her Ph.D. in Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in REECAS in summer 2014. She is now an assistant professor of Sociology at Rutger-Newark. See updates from the CREECA community, news of CREECA events and much more!
Read it here and see past newsletters on the archive page.
Filmmaker Anna Ferens Returns to CREECA with Documentary, "The Essence of Life"
On December 8, 2014, Polish filmmaker Anna Ferens presented her documentary "The Essence of Life," on the life of UW-Madison geneticist Waclaw Szybalski. The screening was followed by a discussion with Ferens and Szybalski, moderated by Richard Burgess, professor emeritus of oncology. This premiere was organized by the Polish Heritage Club of Madison, Wisconsin and sponsored by the Morgridge Institute for Research, the McArdle Labratory for Cancer Research, and CREECA.
The film takes its title from DNA, the essential building block of all life, which also serves as the foundation of Szybalski's long and prolific career. His work has been influential for many Nobel prize-winning scientists; at 93, the professor emeritus of oncology continues to publish in his field. The film traces Szybalski's career and life experiences, from an early brush with science, when as an 11-year-old he met Marie Curie, to his subsequent education, laboratory work, and research, his escape from Soviet-occupied Poland, and his long scientific career at UW-Madison.
A video of the question and answer session with Farens, Szybalski and Burgess is available to view here.
Irena Fraczek of the Division of Continuing Studies and the Polish Heritage Club captured many wonderful moments from the event in her photographs. The complete album is found here. [All photos by Irena Fraczek. Any use of the photos beyond viewing the album (e.g. copying or reposting) requires express permission from the photographer; firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com].
Images: (Top Left) Waclaw Szybalski at the screening of 'The Essence of Life.' Richard Burgess is seen in the background. (Bottom Right) Richard Burgess (left) and filmmaker Anna Ferens (right). Photos by Irena Fraczek; used with permission.
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'Behind the CREECA Lecture Series' is Back!
We sit down to a conversation with Ekaterina Mishina, who specializes in Russian constitutional law.
Mishina is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and is an assistant professor of law at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She has held positions both in the public and private sectors in Russia.
A Conversation with Ekaterina Mishina from CREECA Communications on Vimeo.
One question we could not get to was the similarities and differences of working in the public and private sectors in Russia. Here's what Mishina had to say:
"When I worked for the Constitutional Court in the 1990s it was a different court, a different time and a different political regime. The level of politicization of the Constitutional Court at that time was minimal, given the circumstances of 1993 when the court got too much into politics and its activity was eventually suspended. Those who practice law in the government cannot stay away from politics. Another problem is that if you have a position with the government, eventually the supremacy clause stops working for you. Acts of administrative bodies and instructions of superior officials are sometimes considered more important sources of law than the legislation or the Constitution.
Certain branches of legal profession (especially prosecutors, investigators and judges) experience professional deformation. They stop thinking like lawyers and begin thinking like governmental officials.
Practicing law in the Russian private sector always looked more attractive to me; it was more interesting and more risky, at the same time. Interestingly, now jobs in the government are more sought after than in the private sector."
Mishina's CREECA lecture, 'Long Shadows of the Soviet Past' focuses on the transformations in Russian criminal justice and legal reform in the post-Soviet era. (Full audio of the lecture can be heard here.)
CREECA Receives Federal Funding to Promote Area Studies Programming and Language Instruction
CREECA was among seven area-studies centers within the International Institute to collectively receive over $3.4 million in annual Title VI federal funding (For full news release visit: http://www.news.wisc.edu/23185).
CREECA will use the National Resource Center (NRC) funds to support the teaching of advanced Polish, advanced Turkish/Azeri, and elementary- through advanced-level Kazakh.
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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships will be awarded to graduate and undergraduate students for instruction in Slavic, East European, and Central Eurasian languages. Other centers awarded Title VI funding are: African Studies Program, Center for European Studies, Global Studies, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, Center for South Asia, and Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Each center prepared and submitted individual grant applications earlier this year. Together the centers received nearly $13.7 million for a four-year period, ending in 2018.
Welcome to our New REECAS M.A. Students
This fall, CREECA welcomes four students to the M.A. program in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS).
Our students come from diverse backgrounds and have a variety of interests. Here's a little bit more about them. If you see them around campus, please say hello and introduce yourselves!
Lauren Schulte is from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She recently graduated from Lawrence University, where she majored in history and Russian, with a minor in gender studies.
Lauren is interested in the Caucasus, specifically Chechnya. She hopes to examine the ways in which the intersections of race, gender, and religion shaped and influenced conflicts in Chechnya and former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Her future goal is to work for an NGO in Russia or Eastern Europe.
Brian Kilgour graduated from Carleton College in 2011 with a double major in Russian and international relations. He was a Fulbright Graduate Student Researcher in Ulan-Ude during the 2011-2012 academic year, where he focused on culturally sustainable tourism development in Buryatia.
Brian returns to academia after working for a time at Epic. He intends to pursue his interest in ethnic communities in Russia's borderlands and their relationships with both Moscow and bordering neighbors. Upon completion of the M.A. program, Brian hopes to continue his academic career and earn a Ph.D.
Alexander Gran was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University of Maryland, where he studied history and Russian. He is interested in Soviet history and Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War era. Alexander hopes to pursue academic research at the Ph.D. level.
Major Mike Panaro holds a B.S. in International Politics from the United States Military Academy (2000). His interests include military transformation and modernization efforts, particularly in Russia and Ukraine. He was most recently assigned as the Country Desk Officer for the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan at the Headquarters of U.S. Army Central.
MAJ Panaro has traveled extensively and participated in FAO internships in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He has also served as a Cavalry Troop Commander and a Tank Company Commander in Iraq, and has held numerous other military assignments in the United States, Germany, and Kosovo.


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ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player's home.
The Bristol County grand jury also indicted two others in the case: Hernandez associate Ernest Wallace and Hernandez's cousin Tanya Singleton.
Shortly before Lloyd's death, authorities say, he sent his sister text messages asking if she had seen who he was with. "NFL," he wrote. "Just so you know."
Since then, Boston police have asked police in Hernandez's hometown, Bristol, Conn., for their help with the probe into Lloyd's homicide and a 2012 double homicide near a Boston nightclub. A Connecticut police lieutenant said authorities searched the home of Hernandez's uncle, seizing an SUV sought in the double killing that had been rented in Hernandez's name.
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ngel was born in a house on the main thoroughfare in Seligman, AZ, April 19, 1927 on Route 66. The dirt road out front was the main east-west artery and would become the paved Route 66 within a few years after his birth. His parents, Angel and Juanita Delgadillo, raised nine children, Angel being third from the youngest.
He and his siblings attended Seligman High School, with Angel graduating in 1947.
Angel and his brothers and sisters grew up watching the traffic flow by on America's Main Street. Angel grew up seeing the folks from the Dust Bowl Era driving by in their automobiles full of everything they owned. It was an amazing caravan of poor folks heading west, seeking opportunities to better their lives.
There were tough times for the Delgadillo family and at one time they, too, considered loading up the family Model T to follow the road to the sunset. But, they hung on.
Angel followed his father's career. He attended the American Pacific Barber College in Pasadena, Calif., on Route 66. He served his apprenticeship in Williams, Ariz., on Route 66, from 1948 to 1950.
Angel began shaving beards and clipping hair in Seligman in 1950 and continued through 1996. In 1996, he semi-retired.
On September 22, 1978, at 2:00 p.m., Angel Delgadillo the barber in Seligman, Ariz., watched his hometown begin to die when the Interstate Highway system replaced Route 66 as the primary means for automobile travel in the Western United States.
For Angel Delgadillo and many who worked and raised their families along the route, it was a sad day. Many stood on the quiet street, looking either way and realizing the world had forgotten them.
Seligman joined the list of death-row towns condemned by the very brand of progress that originally energized them - a new, faster highway system. Businesses closed, people left, buildings decayed.
There were talks of trying to attract industry to the town, but Angel Delgadillo had another idea. He was raised on Route 66. He watched caravans of farmers make their way along the road toward a new life in California. Angel knew the power of memory and myth, and he knew that the key to Seligman's survival ran down the center of town.
Angel has become the unofficial spokesperson and "Guardian Angel" for Route 66. He is passionate about preserving and promoting Route 66, its stories, and its memories so that it will no longer be forgotten.
Angel has retired from cutting hair, though he often obliges visitors. He and his wife, Vilma, sit in their dimly lit museum adjacent to the barbershop, listen to songs of the "Big Band Era" on a phonograph and greet visitors.
Now and then he walks outside, tilts his plastic visor against the blazing sun and looks down the Chino Street section of old Route 66 toward the Interstate 40 ramp. And he worries no more about people and roads that pass Seligman by.
New signs, new paving, and a nostalgia for small town Americana with its mom and pop burger shops, full-service gas stations and home town atmosphere all have contributed to the rebirth of Seligman as one of the most classic and charming Route 66 towns in the West.
The Snow Cap is perhaps one of the most wackiest, off-beat burger joints around. Many people will stop and say that the place is the same as it was when they came here as a young person. Today, visitors from Europe, Germany, Japan and other countries, as well as those from the United States seek the nostalgia of Historic Route 66 and the jokes that are famous at the Snow Cap. Juan's children, John and Cecilia, along with Juan's grandchildren continue the tradition of serving up a generous dose of humor along with some of the best red chiliburgers and tacos, not to mention great shakes and soft ice cream.
The building's décor hasn't changed in fifty years. It is filled with antiques, Route 66 memorabilia, an enormous business card collection and stacks of photo albums with pictures sent from visitors who immediately become part of the Route 66 legacy.
Come and visit Angel and Vilma's old-fashioned Route 66 Gift Shop and Museum. We appreciate you stopping by and we thank you for helping to keep Route 66 alive.


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I get sick just thinking about the barrel rides where the floor drops out and you're stuck against the wall spinning too fast to see much of anything. I have issues with any ride that goes round and round at high speeds. The merry-go-round doesn't usually bother me.
There is also the ride where you are strapped in a seat, 10 to 20 feet in the air and then the seat drops suddenly, Feels like your stomach is going to exit through your mouth, and still I love amusement parks.


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