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Course you do.
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Skips. Ocado deliveries. Boys with curly moustaches riding longboards. Assuming hipsterfication is what happens before gentrification, the Telegraph wonders what's going to change, as the BBC announces Albert Square is to finally reflect the shifting social identities of a real London postcode, and take on a little Shoreditch overspill.
Panorama, tonight, BBC 1, 8.30pm: The Great House Price Bubble? Note the question mark. The programme hunts for affordable homes, meets a two-income family priced out of the market and somebody helped to buy by the Help To Buy scheme. These kinds of documentaries are almost always disappointing, failing to delve under the surface to properly analyse regional variation and place the market in any historical context. Still… we can hope. More details here.
… with Amanda Lamb?
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Remember Tepilo? It was SB's no-fees, bypass-an-agent property sales website. We discussed it briefly in 2009, and on the subject of monetization she seemed hopeful of future sponsorship, but reluctant to charge a fee. It's hardly a defeat, given what's happened to the economy in the years since, but it seems that SB's decided the only way forward is with fees… and the new Tepilo offers fixed-fee estate agency with all the online trimmings (Rightmove advertising, for instance). More info and fee structure here.
If a bank isn't prepared to underwrite a loan because it's not secure then why the hell are we lending it?
And what does it say about the Government's attitude to debt and responsible lending, in this supposed new, post-2008 economic climate?
She goes on to make an interesting historical point.
In this country, until the beginning of the last century, if you didn't own land you couldn't vote and your voice didn't count. So our obsession [with property] is historic, and it went into our psyche: the idea that the people who matter are those who own property.
If you've got access to a radio, You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, 12:00…
Julian Worricker takes your calls on the state of the housing market in the UK.
"Young people are slightly losing the concept that you make sacrifices to get on the ladder. They want to go to university, they want to travel, they want to eat out frequently and they want to buy their first flat."
She quotes 15% interest rates as evidence of the hardships endured by her own generation of first-time buyers. She doesn't mention, student loans, exorbitant house prices or silver spoons.
Series 9, Episode 5...
Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce want to convert and extend a landmark 150-year-old water tower in central London. Grade II listed, but utterly derelict, with six-foot-thick walls and crowned with a huge steel tank, it's an almighty task. As if this isn't challenging enough, Graham and Leigh also plan to build two additional contemporary structures at the base: a new lift shaft connected to the tower by a series of glass tunnels, and a modern living space nicknamed the 'Cube'. Altogether this cluster of buildings will create a four-bedroom luxury home, over nine floors, crowned with a spectacular viewing room offering 360-degree views across London. But a tight schedule and soaring budget make this a stress-laden build.
Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce want to convert and extend a landmark 150-year-old water tower in central London. Grade II listed, but utterly derelict, with six-foot-thick walls and crowned with a huge steel tank, it's an almighty task.
As if this isn't challenging enough, Graham and Leigh also plan to build two additional contemporary structures at the base: a new lift shaft connected to the tower by a series of glass tunnels, and a modern living space nicknamed the 'Cube'.
Altogether this cluster of buildings will create a four-bedroom luxury home, over nine floors, crowned with a spectacular viewing room offering 360-degree views across London.
But a tight schedule and soaring budget make this a stress-laden build.
Now they're hoping that £6.5m might just compensate for the stress.
The property's on the market with Knight Frank, just six months after the show was aired. There's certainly nothing else quite like it, and the glass-heavy design certainly makes for 360 degree views. But, looking at the photos in the particulars, you've got to wonder about the ratio of eyes looking out to eyes looking in.
If - like me - you missed last night's Inside Out investigation into the letting agents who are renting out "secret garden homes" (alternatively, garages-with-beds-and-no-windows) to families… it's on iPlayer for another seven days.
Dragon's Den series 11 will feature top interior designer Kelly Hoppen, who likely to bring a bit of (much needed) glamour to the show. Read her tweeted announcement here. Follow the Rat and Mouse here.
If you could get your hands on one famous building for a conversion – which would it be? I'd take a chunk of the Houses of Parliament, examples of Victorian Gothic architecture, and would take a section of that and turn it into affordable housing.
If you could get your hands on one famous building for a conversion – which would it be?
I'd take a chunk of the Houses of Parliament, examples of Victorian Gothic architecture, and would take a section of that and turn it into affordable housing.
Obviously, it would solve nothing, but the symbolism would be healthy. Later in the interview, he's surprisingly positive about ex-Housing Minister Grant Shapps.
There's a BBC investigation programme, looking at two fast-purchase firms accused of gazundering. One of them claims to be able to buy a property in as little as seven days, but its contracts stipulate it can take up to 12 months to completion. In one instance, an agreed price of £75,000 was dropped to a £40,000 offer the day before the removal men were due to arrive. Ugly. More here.
Talking to the Telegraph:
"I'm a big fan of gloom," says Kevin McCloud, his eyes blinking, mole-like, in the postmodern fish tank we are sitting in. "Most of the Grand Designs homes I visit are too big and too bright. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture."
It's De Vere House, in Lavenham… the location for both Potter's and Dumbledore's birthplace, in the popular film franchise, if that kind of thing floats your boat. It's a 14th Century cottage, new to the market for £950,000. Incidentally, it's the UK's second most photographed doorway, after 10 Downing Street. It's also currently a guest house. More here.
From Fawlty Towers (Wooburn Grange Country Club) to Outnumbered (Dempster Road, Wandsworth) to The Young Ones (Codrington Road and Broadway, Bristol)… 12 properties that starred in UK sitcoms, over at the Telegraph.
If you're looking to buy a coastal property (in the UK or abroad), fancy seeing yourself on the telly and wouldn't mind a bit of help from the lovely Jenni Falconer of UKTV Home's "Fantasy Homes By The Sea", drop these guys a line or call 0207 255 5442 for more information.
... and what do you get? Something grim probably.
It's hard to tell whether the newspaper is wilfully making too much of a throwaway comment, but the Sunday Mirror reports here that the rapper-turned-property investor-turned-US-property show presenter with a home in Richmond is planning a UK television makeover show. What would it be like? Here's a clip from his ongoing US show, The Vanilla Ice Project.
Did you see Channel 4's 1900 House? It was one of those period living shows, in which a modern family travels back in time and experiences life as it was at the turn of the previous century. They did it in a very nice five-bedroom mid-terrace with - as you'd expect - period features, in SE7. The house is now for sale, with Felicity J Lord (that's an independent estate agents, not a posh lady thrown in as an extra feature), and a guide price of £550,000. Interestingly, it's described as "a contemporary home". Click this for some fancy particulars.
If these walls could talk... The Avengers edition [January 5, 2012]
"To think that there are 350,000 permanent empty homes, the equivalent size of the city of Leeds, sitting there, empty... "
Channel 4, next Monday and Tuesday, at 9pm.
It's an interview you'll either love or hate in the Sunday Telegraph, in which she talks about family, investment theory and her plans for "the Kirstie brand". The reader comments afterwards are probably more entertaining, though. Apparently everybody in Brighton loves Kirstie. But what about this:
I think knowing the importance of manners in every aspect of your life pays dividends, as you'll get respect if you give it. That's why I'm a great writer of thank you letters and why my kids know how to do introductions with proper eye contact and genuine smiles.
Very nice. Just one word. Twitter.
It was apparently on the market back in February with a guide price of £15.75m. It's on Hamilton Terrace, between Maida Vale and St Johns Wood, and it's a wedding-cake-on-the-outside, modern-on-the-inside style place with five bedroom, screening room, nice garden. Go here for a floorplan. According to the Daily Mail, it's still for sale, but I don't know where they've got that information. I can't find a listing anywhere.
Spencer's latest TV escapade starts today... at the odd time of 11am, Channel 4. We covered it here. Official page here. Interview here.
'When I was 21, I had my own flat – the interest rate was 16 per cent and I was earning just £9,000 a year. I could not buy anything at all. I actually pawned something once so that I could pay the bills.' Pardon? The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp – yes, she could actually use the title if she wanted – has been in a pawn shop? 'Absolutely. I can't tell you what I pawned because it would cause a terrible row, but I did. I think my mother may suspect' – she later admits it was a piece of family jewellery.
'When I was 21, I had my own flat – the interest rate was 16 per cent and I was earning just £9,000 a year. I could not buy anything at all. I actually pawned something once so that I could pay the bills.'
Pardon? The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp – yes, she could actually use the title if she wanted – has been in a pawn shop?
'Absolutely. I can't tell you what I pawned because it would cause a terrible row, but I did. I think my mother may suspect' – she later admits it was a piece of family jewellery.
She's was in the Daily Mail, promoting a new series called Kirstie's Handmade Britain, in which she takes her interest in crafts nationwide, "visiting some of the finest County Fairs, and submitting entries to some of the toughest craft competitions around". I'm sure it'll appeal to a certain kind of person.
Thanks to the Rat and Mouse reader who alerted me to this. it's an entertaining read.
The couple will then be shown a fabulous house in their dream location for twice their budget. The message is: you can't have what you want, you idiots - stop dreaming and let us tell you what's good for you.By the end of the show, the buyers, subtly diminished in the eyes of the viewer by their inability to stand up to Kirstie's bullying, will purchase a property that is in every respect the exact opposite of what they originally wanted. In a location many miles from where they hoped to settle.
Congratulations to Douglas & Gordon's Ed Mead for this fabulously risky and funny bit of work. Under Offer... a mockumentary following the exploits of the Hammersmith office of a leading London estate agents.
The word is that Phil Spencer is about to font a new Channel 4 show in which he acts as estate agent for viewers who are having problems shifting their homes. He's going to leap in unannounced and work out what's going wrong... overpriced, house looks crap, overpriced, not marketed properly, overpriced... you get the picture. The show's going to be called "Phil Spencer - Secret Agent". More here.
Kevin McCloud will be taking questions about this October's Grand Designs Live show tomorrow at 4pm (UK). If you've questions you want to ask, start tweeting now to @GDLive_2011.
Another Apprentice, another estate agent [May 9, 2011]
They haven't had the most distinguished record on The Apprentice, but here's another estate agent looking to impress Alan Sugar, when the Series 7 kicks off tomorrow night. He's called Alex Britez Cabral, he's 28, and - apparently - he's "not frightened to make enemies and I like being unpopular because usually that means you're doing your job properly". Wow... so much to learn. He's apparently based in London. I've been trying to work out where he's been working, but it turns out he's been working for himself. (The uncomfortable truth is that becoming an estate agent can be like becoming a movie producer... you go and get some cards printed.) Watch his audition reel here.
Phil Spencer appears to not only have blown a deer away but blasted a great hole in his own popularity by appearing on a web-based TV channel shooting a deer. Animal welfare charities have been quick to come out and condemn the film. The pick of the bunch? Elisa Allen, from PETA:
Anyone who can describe a blood sport as a "passion" and boast of a long-held ambition to stalk and kill defenceless animals should undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if his or her mirror neuron, the one that allows a person to experience empathy, is underdeveloped.
Spencer makes an impassioned defence... he comes from farming stock, has been blasting away things that move all his life, 100,000 deer are culled out of necessity every year and at least he's not an estate agent. (Okay, I made the last one up.) Next week: Kirstie Allsopp makes a necklace from kittens' teeth.
Tonight, BBC 4, 9pm: The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House... a "grand tour" of the British council estate, by writer Michael Collins. Apparently, more than a third of the UK population lived in council houses in the 1970s, before Margaret Thatcher's great sell-off. More here.
Just so you know...
Amongst the fall out, this:
Calling Portas 'belligerent and ill informed', [estate agency consultant Richard Rawlings] said: "I was approached by Mary Portas' producer when they were researching the show. It was clear then that Mary's views on customer service with buyers were extremely naive. This was borne out in the show with her incesssant focus on viewings and in particular, the apparent need to be uber-informed about the minutest detail. "She completely ignored the most important aspect of customer service to the paying client, the seller, and the fact that successful agents focus on getting numbers around property, not taking up a buyer's time by explaining how the boiler works. "I spent about an hour sharing some really meaty and radical customer service initiatives with Mary Portas's producter, none of which they chose to use. Indeed, the consultant to the show was shown as Peter Cross. Who is he and what does he know about agency? Nothing. He's her partner in retail consultancy.
Interesting, and a common error... the assumption that the estate agent is somehow there to serve the buyer. The vendor, of course, pays the agent, and while it's in the vendor's best interests to ensure his agent isn't pissing buyers off, you can't expect silver service from an agent every time you take a casual interest in a property.
For more about Richard Rawlings, click here.
There's some debate about whether the agency featured - London's well-established Martyn Gerrard - came away well or badly. Some might think they were crazy to even contemplate getting. Greene & Co did well out of a reality TV show a few (quite a few) years ago (anyone remember that?). But Portas's shows are different... they're set up around a premise that something's badly wrong. What do you think?
The Modern Estate Agent has an interesting perspective here.
Asked what was the dodgiest project on Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud has said:
A houseboat in Kent. The owners had no mooring, no architect and designed it with what they found rather than what they looked for. Given it was assembled from bits of rubbish it looked surprisingly alright but it wasn't architecture. It wasn't very uplifting. The owner did a little drawing on an envelope and those were the plans. Some bits of it were good but we won't be doing another one of those on the programme any time soon. It wasn't an episode of Grand Designs, it was a floating episode of Scrapheap Challenge.
The boat is said to have washed up at Southend-on-Sea this morning. (Photo here.) For more on the background, go here.
Remember Christopher Farrell, the ex-Marine and Cheshire mortgage broker fired by Sir Alan for lacking a ruthless streak? He's just pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud - doctoring documents to make hefty mortgage applications and pocket the commission - at Plymouth Magistrates' court. He'll be sentenced on January 28. More here.
And support Homeless charity Broadway and its Homes For Phones campaign (which raises money by recycling electronic equipment). The competition is photographic in nature. Take a photograph of the thing that most reminds you of home, upload it to the special Facebook page. The lucky winner will enjoy dinner-for-two, with Channel 4 4homes property show heart-throb and Middle England pin-up Phil Spencer. More here.
He's Jamie Lester, an overseas property developer and former London estate agent, and he's into "dogs, cars and water sports". I don't want to cast aspersions, but it's probably safe to say he's no Alain de Botton. Nor is he the only representative from the property industry competing on this year's The Apprentice. Meet Christopher Farrell, ex-Marine, mortgage broker... except (and the BBC aren't promoting this on his biography page) he's apparently on bail for mortgage fraud, and has previous for possession of an offensive weapon. Already fired... from Mortgages4Plymouth... classy. The Apprentice starts Wednesday.
You've 15 minutes to stick on the telly and hunker down for Nightmare Tenants (ITV, 7.30pm), Jonathan Maitland telling tales of arrears, evictions and filthy French tenants who let pigeons move in with them. Alternatively, catch it later on ITV Player.
Just bought a new home and in the process of an interior renovation/redesign? Fancy being on the telly? Then the Dragonfly Productions is interested in hearing from you, with regard to a new series for the BBC. Contact Alice Wikham here, or call 020 7033 2317.
It's a new show, planned for BBC 1, looking for six individuals with ambitious grand designs. The show will fund the projects through to completion, and film the process. But - and here's the twist - only the "winner" (judged by an as-yet-unannounced property "guru") will get to keep their home. It's like Britain's Got Talent, crossed with Grand Designs, crossed with Property Ladder, crossed with Fame Academy.
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A strange - and sad - one. A Watford father-of-three, scheduled to appear on DIY SOS on Bank Holiday Monday, has reportedly smashed up his new kitchen, held his wife hostage and then shot himself dead. During filming, Mrs Walters had been diagnosed with a rare neurological disease. Mr Walters apparently described the visit by the show's crew as taking his mind off his wife's illness. More here. The BBC's has apparently called the episode: Dad in Despair.
PipofftheTV is Phil Spencer... off the TV. And here's a recent tweet.
Kirstie doesn't need this. You don't need this. We don't need this. Please, respect the Twitter.
Surely someone must be. Even if it's not the Prime Minister.
Does your experience give you an unrivalled knowledge of the potential ups and downs of the property ladder, an eye for what makes a property a great investment and the intuitive insight to turn an average property into a profit maximising, great one? Shed Media are looking for an authoritative new TV Presenter to front a brand new property series for one of the UK's leading broadcasters.
If you feel you could be a TV presenter with a capital "P", forward your contact details, CV and photo to this gentleman. Tell him the Rat and Mouse sent you.
Looks good. Does this mean - following the demise of Garrington Home Finders - he's leveraging his celebrity to provide a personal home search service? Makes sense. Spencer has great contacts, experience and intelligence.
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Kristian Digby, BBC's To Buy Or Not To Buy presenter, was found dead at his flat in Newham yesterday. As yet, the circumstances are being described by police as "unexplained", although rumours of an auto-asphyxiation that went wrong are rife. More here.
All the property news that matters, live on Twitter:
Kirstie and Phil find themselves the subjects of the Radio Times "Why I Hate..." column. It's a programme, says Michael Hodges, "based on greed and sex". Okay, greed... that's endemic in the way the Brits view property. It's not pretty, we'd agree. But sex? Where? When? And - if so - what's so hateful about that?
Sex, less successfully perhaps, is provided by the intimation that, given the chance, Phil and Kirstie would be at it like knives.
To be honest... that had never really occurred to me. Certainly, C4 has made more and more of the chemistry, but personally I've always thought it's been about the way they clash (Phil's bumbling geezer v Kirstie's frosty aristo), and if you'd put them in a bed together the effect would have been more like watching Morecombe and Wise sharing their double divan than Burton and Taylor. But what do I know?
So what - everyone, and not least Channel 4, wants to know - is what Kirstie and Phil were doing on a top BBC talent list, leaked yesterday? According to this, they've almost certainly been poached, and will be joining the BBC roster after their 4homes contract ends in March. We'd welcome a comment from our friends at 4homes...
Funnily enough there's a lot of people who would say that now is obviously not the time to develop whereas when the market was really hot, when it was right at the top, they were saying everyone should develop and you kind of think... no, no, you shouldn't do the same as everyone else you should do the opposite of everyone else.
An interesting interview with Sarah Beeny, here.
The new series of I'm A Celebrity (Get Me Out Of Here) starts Sunday, and the latest is that Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan (the brains behind such unmissable TV culture as Million Pound Property Experiment, How Not To Decorate and Trading Up, and pictured here in the nest competing for a large Witjuti grub from the beak of a giant reality TV bird) are expected to join an all-star cast of has-beens and publicity whores, where they'll eat insects and perhaps fashion scatter cushions from fronds. Can't wait.
Considering renovating and selling on? Or getting in some tenants? Need advice on the way forward? Get your entry in before December 9 to win a home visit by someone who knows what they're talking about. More here.
Sarah Beeny - the Rat and Mouse interview [July 27, 2009]
According to Metro, plans by David Cameron to do something unspeakable to Kirstie Allsopp have been leaked.
The Conservative leader is looking to 'sprinkle stardust on the red benches'.
And the public school pervert plans to start with Kirstie, elevating her from Location, Location, Location to the Lords. That'll prove popular.
Remember The Curved House... on Channel 4's Grand Designs? The story was: David and Anjana needed to expand their tiny Clapham coach house, so they could fit in a family. They hired architect Peter Romaniuk and built a curved wood and glass house around a protected horse chestnut tree. It was, is, lovely. And it's for sale. Guide price: £1.5m, particulars here.
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Send it in... send it in...
Do you drool over the pages of glossy interior magazines and wish that your home had a unique, individual style?
Uh, check.
Antiques Expert, Mark Hill, and Interior Designer, Kathryn Rayward, present a brand new BBC interior design show that will prove that furnishing your home with vintage items, beautiful antiques and bespoke pieces doesn't have to cost any more than shopping on the High Street.
You're kidding?!
If you've got a room in your house that you'd love to see transformed and are willing to put in some of your own money, we'll provide an interior designer and antiques expert to help you hunt out design classics, antiques and one-off items to create a truly original home.
What? I'm a property blogger, I've all the money in the world. What do I do next?
Please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 0207 907 3440 for further details of how to be on the programme.
My assistant's dialing right now.
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After last night's Property Snakes & Ladders and the case of the converted train station, FindaProperty come up with a couple of converted railway carriages. The romance of rail... nice.
That's a headline I never thought I'd type. But, according to the Sun, in a piece that quotes Spencer closely, he'd been employed by Michael Jackson to find a home for the singer and family while he played his forthcoming UK dates. He was close to getting the star to sign... after persuading some wealthy individuals to clear off and vacate their own pukka pads, but - alas - it wasn't to be. Spencer missed out on his fee. Ticket holders miss out on what would have been some historic gigs. We all miss Michael.
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A big thanks to our sponsors for continuing to support the Rat and Mouse. Remember, Primelocation.com isn't just about searching properties listed by 4,000 leading estate agents, the website's a mine of useful advice, information and links.
For instance: this - on the winner of Channel 4's I Own Britain's Best Home - or, more to the point, I Used To Own Britain's Best Home, because, as Primelocation has discovered, the Norfolk eco-mansion is for sale.
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The Rat and Mouse watched Kirstie Allsopp tweet lightheartedly yesterday about being mildly frustrated by having to mind her (normally foul) language when filming for Channel 4. Holy Smokes. Now look.
You've really got to watch that Twitter.
According to the Daily Mail, there's bin-a-bit-a-bitchin' on the Western Morning News letters page, regarding Kirstie's Homemade Second Home. She is, according to a local man, adding to the affordable housing crisis in the region, without giving anything back to the community. Not so, says Allsopp, who replies on the page listing a whole group of local community bodies that he should approach and ask to find out whether Kirstie's mucking in.
"If after conversations with these people he still feels I make no valid contribution to the local community ... then I will happily reimburse him the cost of his correspondence."
Presumably she thought twice about offering to eat her hat.
The broadsheet:
The house mouldered like a chunk of old cheese. You felt you would have to fight the fungus for possession. This, however, was not Kirstie's problem. She left all that to a chap with a cement mixer ("After months of hard work, the workmen have finished the kitchen"). She has, perhaps, a rather airy attitude to hard graft.
The local view:
Make your own cushions, she suggests. Craft your pots. Fish furniture out of skips. Above all, curb your spending. All sound advice, you may think, but a little hard to take from the daughter of the sixth Baron Hindlip, whose parental pile appears to feature a lake.
The TV scoop:
Of course, it was all very nice to watch. The only negative you'd have is by getting lifestyle envy. Kirstie has a life that clearly enables her to do fun things like glass blowing and pottery, not hampered by a relentless office job.
The tabloid:
Then Kirstie visits a stately home in Cornwall for inspiration and gets excited by some blue and white china she finds in the kitchen - she can't ever have seen blue and white china before - so she drives back to London to buy an old blue and white painting at a street market.
The industry:
Channel 4's latest property show, Kirstie's Homemade Home, laid some solid foundations last night as the first edition drew 2.7m viewers (11.8% share) at 8pm.
The property portal:
Channel 4 got this show just right. It's just the right amount of showiness and fancy stuff to make it interesting, but it's also got an appealing side to it as well. I imagine a lot of people are going to be making cushion covers after this.
It was a hard show to take an opinion on. I liked the way it championed local artisans. I thought Kirstie's tour around her parents' pad was unwise; but that's Kirstie Allsopp's fatal flaw... she doesn't appear to have any idea how unusually privileged how own background is or how that alienates a certain sector of her viewers. Interestingly, the result is a programme that appears to assume the hard part of renovating a house is choosing the cushion covers and crockery, rather than paying the workmen to make it structurally sound.
I know, you'd never have guessed. But now, according to EstateAgentToday, the agents are beginning to get restless:
Some agents have called on the entire industry to boycott the BBC's licence fee.
Yeah, like estate agents pay their license fees. (A joke... okay?!) Here's a link to the show... and notice that it's Axe The Agent?, rather than Axe The Agent. What a difference a question mark makes. Or doesn't.
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Estate agents killing time this morning might want to avoid flicking on BBC1 for much of the morning. Although they might be heartened to hear the case of the Barnsley homeseller featured on a later episode who, despite claiming to be acting as his own agent, managed to get his property listed on Rightmove. (As you may know, Rightmove is an agents-only listings service... no rep, no listing.) The listing appears to be here... with a modern online agency acting for the vendor. Still, technically, an estate agency.
[via EstateAgentToday]
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The facts: it's a big ruby-lookalike surrounded by diamonds, it was lost in Hackney (which makes it, arguably, the most valuable item in a radius of several square miles) yesterday, while Kirstie was shooting her new series. There's a £1,000 reward, and a special website here.
Last November, we reported that TV's Phil Spencer was downscaling his Garrington Home Finders business. Today, the picture looks a lot worse, with Spencer appearing to admit he's dependent on a buyer if he's to keep the company afloat. He's also said to have been paying his employees' salaries out of his own pocket for several months.
It's for a Cutting Edge, for Channel 4.
We are looking for people in the process of a building/renovation project who have discovered they may have a protected species such as a bat, great crested newt, badger, bird or red squirrel on their site. This may mean their plans for the project have to change or could be delayed. Is this you? How has this made you feel? Are you in a state of shock? Are you concerned about the extra costs and delays? Are you worried this may stretch your budget a little too far? Or are you just flaming mad that you are being told what to do on your own personal property? If so we would love to hear from you.
Contact Kristy on 020 8965 6694 or email her here.
Sometimes they want someone new, sometimes they want someone established; sometimes they want someone with big boobs, sometimes they want someone flat-chested.
Ah, the science that is TV. The Telegraph goes behind the scenes and looks at property television, where the viewers, apparently, can't get enough, no matter what the market's doing.
Looks like there's some mischief going on. Forget whether it's justified to blame a TV presenter for an international property boom, just lament the lack of imagination.
If either of you two charlatans had an ounce of decency you would apologise to the millions of people you helped in no small way get into the misery of negative equity. And give all the money you got to charities for the homeless
Oh, for Christ's sake. The programme is what is known in the industry as "a piece of entertainment". K&P aren't IFAs; intelligent viewers take certain things from their programmes and reject others. We're not sheep. And what about the people - the vast majority - who aren't in negative equity and have made a killing? The programme was strange, though. Our friend Henry Pryor was suave; Merryn Somerset Webb eminently sensible. But those K/P chats... I got the impression Kirstie knows she's being blamed by the Internet's hysterical haters for virtually the entire credit crunch, and she's attempting a little damage limitation. Clearly (judging by Mr Angry) it's not working.
According to someone on the 4homes forum:
Kirsty and Phil are doing a 90 minute L x3 Special for Children in need. I have seen the Pre Runners and it's hilarious.
Property search company Garrington is closing its recently-opened Knutsford (leafy Cheshire) office, and downscaling (with, apparently, other closures likely). Before all the cries of schadenfraude, it's worth noting that the north west operation will now be run out of the Altrincham office, which is little more than a D&G handbag's glint from Knutsford. Crisis? Not exactly.
Tonight, at 8pm, Channel 4 answers the question, how do you make a programme about property when prices are falling and nobody's buying or selling, by launching The Home Show, in which architect George Clarke (photographed in Jill Greenberg style here) tackles renovating and redesigning.
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In recent weeks I've been described as a "property porn queen" in the New Statesman, sniped at on the pages of The Guardian and lambasted by Panorama for excessively inflating house prices.
And it's true. Kirstie Allsopp does seem to catch more criticism than her TV partner Phil or just about any other property presenter. Why? Apparently she once said that house prices can't go down... although I'm yet to see the context in which she's supposed to have said that. I think it's more to do with the fact that she's posh. Phil... you can imagine a night down the boozer and onto Spearmint Rhino with Phil. With Kirstie... no way. She was born wealthy. And then she had the temerity to go on and be successful. In the Times, she comes out fighting... and even at this late stage she won't be bullied into agreeing that we're seeing a market correction:
It is much easier to fire off flippant articles blaming property TV shows than properly examining why there has been a fall in transactions and - in some places, though not all - a fall in property prices. Some of the recent gloomy headlines make me suspect that all the journalists in the country have sold up and are doing everything in their power to cause a property house price crash so that they can buy at rock bottom.
That's the question being asked by recent first-time buyers who've seen the value of their new assets fall, recently. The economists' answer - according to a survey by the Society of Business Economists for ITV's Tonight - is that it could take until 2012 for prices to regain 2007 levels. According to 44%, we won't reach the bottom of the slide until 2009. More here. The Tonight show is scheduled for - er - tonight, at 7pm on ITV1. This, from the ITV website:
The BBC is trailing interesting research from its new series of The Truth About Property that suggests that not only are more people "crash-proof" than in the early 1990s (it would take a house price drop of 56% to put the average borrower into negative equity), but that a house price crash would be far from entirely unwelcome, even among the property-owning class. People, apparently, are seeing a fall in values as an opportunity to trade up for less. The last series of this show was excellent, the Rat and Mouse has high hopes for series two, starting tonight, at 8pm, on BBC 2.
That's according to an international poll of ten million people, reported here. It means she's officially sexier than Kate Moss and Jennifer Lopez. Actress Megan Fox topped the poll. More headline news throughout the day...
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Grand Designs have a week of live TV planned for May, during which they'll reveal their top 25 houses, picked from all the shows. You can catch up on missed properties, and vote, too, by going here. Vote for this one and you're barred.
Sofie (no "p", no "h") Allsopp (two "l"s, two "p"s) is apparently doing like big sister Kirstie (no "y") and - after a stint as an estate agent, and a stint alongside Phil (no "f") when Kirstie was pregnant (no alcohol) - enjoying a bit of property TV... in Canada, no less. Any more Allsopp sisters out there? The Rat and Mouse is on the hunt for a guest property blogger, and I know for a fact the Guv'nor would be pretty thrilled if he could bag an Allsopp.
They're looking for stories of triumph or tragedy in the current property market for The Truth About Property... a property TV highlight of 2007. If it sound like you, contact Gemma Peakhall and tell her the Rat and Mouse sent you.
Got an interesting property? Wanna be on TV? [February 1, 2008]
Tonight, ITV1, 10.35pm... Repossession, Repossession, Repossession:
Business journalist Jeff Randall investigates how and why the nation got hooked on spending money it doesn't have - and concludes that people are about to wake up to the painful realisation that all debts eventually have to be paid.
It's Bursting the House Price Bubble...
An exposure of sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged some homeowners into negative equity. Developers, valuers and solicitors all come under the microscope in Raphael Rowe's report, which reveals some nasty surprises for those who joined the buy-to let-frenzy.
Tonight, BBC 1, 8.30pm.
Channel 4 seeks people with strange buildings - you know the score, water towers, windmills, toilets - to take part in a renovation series. Interested? Contact Emma Martins here. Tell her the Rat and Mouse sent you.
"By becoming part of FIC's international bouquet of channels, RETV will be able to leverage the company's publishing, online and other channels to further improve our viewers experience while enhancing at the same time the value proposition we can offer to our advertisers."
That's sweet-smelling Real Estate TV's MD Mark Dodd (or just "MD" for short) on Fox's purchase of the satcab channel.
Tonight's, er, Tonight With Trevor McDonald, is all about the nuclear winter that could follow a housing crash... negative equity, repos, genetic mutation...
It was pretty inevitable. Kirstie Allsopp was always very vocal about the shortcomings of HIPs, and now she's an adviser to the Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps (whose name I love saying). But - wait for this - they intend to keep the Energy Performance Certificate. Now, the Rat and Mouse is as green as (probably greener than) the next property blogger, but aren't EPCs a) a significant part of what we call a HIP? b) an utterly pointless waste of time benefitting nobody except the clipboard monkeys? So what are the Tory plans? Proposals being considered include offers being made legally binding (to put an end to gasumping/gazundering)... and, as far as I can see, that's it. Although there is the remote prospect of nudity. This, from the BBC:
"If everyone says they like HIPs I will walk naked across College Green," [Kirstie Allsopp] added.
Take a photograph of one of your grotty rooms, then go here to find out how to send it to the suspiciously immaculate Naomi for close scrutiny. Five photographs will be selected (randomly, so don't trash your house in order to get attention), and the lucky winners will be shown the secrets of good taste.
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I appear to have missed a corking Property Ladder. It sounds as if Sarah Beeny suffered another hour of frustration as her clients blew sacks of cash on an ill-advised (and in this case possible dangerous) project, involving supporting a Chiswick home on stilts while the basement was dug out to make more room. Over at the 4homes forum, there's s a little investigation taking place - aided by 4homes editor Lucy Searle - into whether the developer has had any offers. The house is here.
And a hearty welcome to Housing Rubble, a brand new blog about the vagaries and illogicalities of the UK housing market. No shortage of material there.
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Dispatches examines the house price boom and what it means for the future of home-owning. It's tonight, at 8pm.
New apartment prices go under the microscope in tonight's The Truth About Property.
In one apartment block called Aspect 14, on the edge of Leeds city centre, one owner has lost as much as £85,000 on a flat in 18 months.
Last week's programme was excellent. Catch tonight's at 8pm on BBC 2. In the meantime, for more, read this.
Soap characters, property prices, complete blending of fiction and reality... it's the Sun and the Rat and Mouse loves it. The piece ("an exclusive investigation") looks at Eastenders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and asks whether the characters could really afford to live there. Obviously, the Rat and Mouse is interested in Eastenders, here, and that will only change when somebody proves to us that the north really exists. Apparently Albert Square is based on Fassett Square in Dalston:
According to a Foxtons agent interviewed by the Sun, Fassett Square prices have risen by 70% in the last three years, with a three-bedroom house costing around the £800,000 mark... not much more than what Max and Tanya Branning would have had to pay for their Albert Square semi. Max is a dodgy insurance salesman, Tanya's a slutty beautician... even if they'd paid a giant deposit, perhaps negotiated by their agents with the BBC (see how I can do that fiction-reality mix-up thing, too?), they'd still be looking at a 17xsalary mortgage. The Sun suggests they're dealing. Wouldn't put it past them.
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At 8pm, on BBC 2.
We've been asked to put the word out on the street and - like Huggy - we're happy to co-operate. Unlike Huggy, we don't see any greenbacks... we're doing it because we care.
Channel 4 are looking for somebody selling a family-sized London home for their well-regarded Cutting Edge documentary strand. They want to hear from vendors and/or estate agents. The idea is that - in a single, one-hour documentary - they'll follow the process from marketing to completion, and offer a "360 degree view" of the transaction. The person who contacted me seems aware that readers might be a little wary... that - on one or two occasions in the past - honest, hard-working folk have been made to look like chumps by documentary film-makers whose smiles hide fork-tongues. This - we're assured - will be different... and the director certainly has an impressive track-record for sensitive, grown-up documentaries.
So, there you have it. If you're a vendor or an estate agent and want to talk (in confidence)... email Nonie Creagh-Brown or call 020 7907 0894.
A big thanks to the Rat and Mouse reader who alerted me to today's Working Lunch property special. In answer to your question... no I hadn't seen it, and I'm looking forward to settling down in front my laptop and enjoying it shortly. Thought I'd post the link right way, though, so that other Rat and Mouse readers could take advantage of the BBC's streaming generosity.
It's Dispatches: Britain's Bad Housing, on Channel 4 at 8pm. Andrew Gilligan - yes, that Andrew Gilligan - apparently demonstrates why the private sector doesn't have the answer to the country's so-called housing shortage. (A trip up the M5 will demonstrate something similar.) But there's more... have a look at this piece by Gilligan himself. The programme promises to reveal some very interesting evidence that lobby group PPS have been forging signatures, bugging council officials, bribing, bullying, writing fictitious letters from fictitious residents in support of planning applications... while working for high-profile builders including Berkeley Homes, Barratt, Taylor Woodrow and others. Interestingly, there appears to be a whiff of unpleasantness surrounding Fulham's Imperial Wharf.
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The Rat and Mouse continues to enjoy the BBC series The Tower - which, as far as we're concerned - is a very moving and sympathetic view of the life on the Pepys Estate, and an effective indictment of the insanity of the London housing market... the very insanity the Rat and Mouse is here to document. Apparently, though, not everyone's delighted with the series:
What's been going on in this programme is not really good enough. They have turned some of these drug addicts into film stars but they should have been looking at the pensioners round here instead. We're not the best in the world around here but we're not as bad as all that.
... the words of the leader of the local pensioners' group. He's retired, himself. Apparently he used to be a gangster. But he wasn't a drug addict.
[via This Is Local London]
Meet you new landlord, excuse the drooling and the nappies [July 17, 2007]
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Let's start Friday with something scurrilous. News from the counties is that Nick Page - presenter of BBC's Escape to the Country - might need to escape the country altogether if he's to avoid a prison sentence. He's been found guilty by a Gloucestershire court of... drumroll please... forging a cheque to extract £500 from the IR, fraudulently obtaining £30,700 via a fake loan application, fiddling a £7,000 Tesco loan application by suggesting it was taken out by his wife... four further fraud allegations relating to at least £35,000 were "allowed to lie on file". He'll be sentenced July 23.


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| Roxy and Oxy are the exact same. (The Dangerous Myth)
I have had this "polite yet heated conversation several times with me ending up on the end of a friendly b!tich slap. For those of you that think one is stronger than the other (opiate wise) or harder to get off of than the other. I'm about to clear this up. I've heard "Well, I don't touch roxies, I've only ever taken oxycodone". Roxicodone and Oxicodone are the SAME thing as far as the opiate ingredient, (OXYCODONE IS THE GENERIC NAME) they both do equal amount of damage and neither is stronger than the other if you threw some sumo diapers on them and let them wrestle it out in the ring. I believe the confusion comes in because medications such as Percocet's contain and are labeled oxycodone, but THEY ALSO CONTAIN acetaminophen (APAP) which is dangerous in large doses. (A liver killer)THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE, you can look it up on any reputable RX site, or speak to your Pharmacist, just be informed. This MYTH is dangerous. Especially if you think you can pop a few extra because the bottle says oxycodone, not Roxicodone. One 30mg Roxicodone in strength is equal to a 30mg oxycodone. (They both contain oxycodone, again, oxy is just the generic name-- Neither at that strength contain APAP). Last I checked, Roxicodone is only prodoced in 15 and 30 mg, but oxycodone with APAP in 5/7.5/10 so my point is BE CAREFUL... Take too much oxy with apap, you'll damage your organs, take too much non APAP oxy thinking it's not nearly as strong as Roxy, you'll overdose! Please don't fool yourself. A friend of mine took up that argument with me and thought he could take more, that roxy was so much stronger. (He's since passed away). This was just a post detox insomniatic public service announcement. Sorry for those of you that have heard this a million times, but I keep hearing that argument a million times and again So alike, but So Different... It's better not to take either if you can avoid it, but if you didn't know before, now you do. |
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Oxyious: You are right. Roxy is actually MORE dangerous than OXY by itself, because of the liver damage issue. Last year I tried to help someone who was taking 25 percocets/roxys a day. The acetaminophen part was doing at least as much damage to her as the oxy part. She wouldn't listen. I don't know if she is still doing it or not.
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Percocet is oxycodone with apap(tylenol/acetominophen), oxycontin is extended release oxycodone (crushing or smoking is making it instant release) and roxycodone is a SLANG name for instant releasr oxycodone (10mg, 15mg, 20mg, 30mg etc). No bottle will EVER say "roxycodone", so you're wrong with that. But you are right that the active ingredient is oxycodone in ALL those.
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I think you are getting bits and pieces of information that could be taken as misinformation. In general, oxy- and Roxy-/Roxi- DO refer to the same medication, albeit in different strengths. It is true that oxycodone is the drug in question, Percocet being the brand name of a common formulation containing that drug combined with APAP (acetaminophen). Roxycodone, however, refers to a generic form of oxycodone (without APAP) marketed by Roxane Labs. This thread illustrates a good point: why rely on incomplete or misinterpreted info from online sources regarding your health? A quick discussion (either f2f or via telephone) with a pharmacist would be far more reliable!
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A medical professional is indeed the best access point for information. As we have some confusing and conflicting information here, it's time to close the thread and move on. D
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my father is the only person in my entire family that doesn't know
I've been aware that I was interested in girls since I was 11. I am extremely accepting of my sexuality and I love who I am, in fact someday I'd love to be a part of a project like Trevor to help kids become more accepting of themselves and to let them know things will be okay.
The entire reason I'm writing this is because my father is the only person in my entire family that doesn't know about my sexuality. He uses the word fag, and gay offensively quite often and is disgusted by gays. He watches Glee with me and hates all of the gay couples. It makes me sad when he makes comments when they interact on the show, such as 'please don't kiss', 'that's disgusting', and 'ew, that's so nasty'. Hearing him say these things tears me apart and it just kills me to think that if he can't stand seeing people 'act' gay, how will he ever be able to accept me?
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Dear Bre,
Thank you for writing in to the Trevor Project. It is really great that you love who you are. This is a very major step in gaining acceptance from other people in your life. Although you have come out to other people in your family, I can understand how it may upset you not to have your father know about your sexuality. This situation isn't made better by the derogatory comments he makes. I think that there are some solutions to your problem.
Since you say that you are out to the other members of your family, could you talk to one of them about your anxiety about coming out to your father? Together you could brainstorm some ways to approach your father that would be effective since both of you know him personally. Depending on how you feel, you could also ask someone who supports you to be with you when you tell your father. Having someone there may give you some reassurance and make the situation feel less tense.
Have you ever asked to your father to stop making those comments? It is possible that knowing that you find those comments uncomfortable could cause him to stop and think about why he is making them. This may also be a good way to turn the conversation towards talking about your sexuality. Alternately, you could bring up one of the characters on Glee while you are watching the show. Additionally, know that sometimes it takes time for a person to become accepting and your father may need time to accept your sexuality.
There are resources that can help both you and your father. Even though you have come out before, the Human Rights Champaign's Coming Out Resource Guide may provide you with some advice when it comes to coming out to your father (http://www.hrc.org/files/documents/ComingOut_ResourceGuide.pdf). There are also resources that may help your father if you decide to come out to him. PFLAG.org is a website for parents and friends of LGBT individuals that can answer some questions your father may have. Particularly, there is a pamphlet called
"Our Daughters and Sons: Questions and Answers for Parents of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People" that you may even want to print out and give to your father after coming out to him (http://community.pflag.org/document.doc?id=495). Furthermore, there books that are made to answer parents' questions, such as "Now That You Know – A Parent's Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children" and "Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together." There is no guarantee that your father will read these resources and that they will alter the sentiments he expresses about LGBT individuals, but you can certainly try them.
Lastly, you should consider whether or not it would be best to wait to tell your father. Will telling your father put you in any physical or emotional harm? Do you think that your father may kick you out of the house after finding out? The most important thing is that you are safe. Sometimes, people will wait until they are living away from home and are financially independent before they come out. The choice about when to come out is entirely up to you.
Please know that we are always here to help you. You may write another letter to AskTrevor. If you are not already a member, you can join TrevorSpace, which is an online community for LGBT youth. There you can interact with other people who are facing similar situations. If you are ever in need of time-sensitive assistance, you can call the Trevor Lifeline at 866-4-U-TREVOR.
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Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
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Of Interest: Yesterday, the MESSENGER team learned that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had approved the name of another crater near Mercury's north pole. Chesterton, named for the English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), joins nine other craters named in August 2012 in this region. Chesterton crater is identified with a green circle in the above image, and, like the other nine newly named polar craters, also hosts radar-bright deposits that may contain water ice.
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Author Notes: this was my brother, Emory's, recipe that he fixed every Thanksgiving and Christmas. He was killed in a motorcycle accident 7 years ago and we were afraid to fix this dessert because we thought it would make us sad. We did it anyway and though we did cry that year, we also laughed and pulled out old pictures and remembered his crazy life. - smoore100
Serves 15-20
- 1 large box of brownie mix & ingredients listed on brownie pkg
- 3 boxes of chocolate mousse jello, made according to pkg insturctions
- 1 large container of cool whip
- 6 heath bars (or 1 bag of heath chips), chopped
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- mix brownies according to pkg and add pecans
- pour into two 8" round pie pans and bake
- let cool
- put 1 brownie pie on the bottom of a clear glass bowl and poke holes in it
- pour 1/2 of the mousse on top of the brownie pie
- add 1/2 of the cool whip
- add 1/2 of the chopped heath bars
- put 2nd brownie pie on top and repeat the above layering until all ingredients are used.
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UN envoy meets Suu Kyi, junta chief
India, China not
doing enough, says US
Suicide bomber kills 13 Afghan cops
I may allow US strikes against Osama: Bhutto
Benazirs role important in Pak, says Rice
India for peaceful use of N-energy
Afghanis hooked to Indian serials, films
Diana inquest opens, 10 yrs after her death
Kaul to contest for Cwealth
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Court acquits docs in tainted blood scandal
US backs Karzais offer to Taliban Pranab meets UN chief
UN envoy meets Suu Kyi, junta chief
Yangon, October 2 The Nigerian-born diplomat shuttled between the regimes remote capital of Naypyidaw, where the ruling generals are deliberating to defuse the crisis, and the main city Yangon, where Aung San Suu Kyi is being held under
house arrest. Gambari has waited for days to see the reclusive Than Shwe and express global outrage after security forces put down protests led by Buddhist monks, leaving at least 13 dead and more than 1,000 arrested. After the meeting, he flew to Yangon, where he spent 15 minutes with Aung San Suu Kyi at the military guest house. He also saw her for more than an hour yesterday, an official said. The envoy then headed to the airport in Yangon, where he was expected to board a flight to Singapore, witnesses said. Officials of the UN and junta said at least 1,000 people had been detained
in Yangon. Asia regional director for the UN World Food Programme Tony Banbury said he was concerned at reports that the detainees, including some 500 monks, were now being moved to another location, heightening fears for their wellbeing. Meanwhile, Myanmars military junta announced a two-hour reduction on Tuesday in an overnight curfew imposed here last week as it countered the biggest anti-government protests in 20 years. United Nations: The current crisis in Myanmar is the result of a neo-colonialist attempt by powerful countries to exploit recent peaceful protests, the countrys foreign minister told the UN General Assembly, adding that normalcy has now returned after security forces took action against the demonstrators. Speaking yesterday at the assemblys annual high-level debate, U. Nyan Win stressed that the destiny of each and every country cannot be imposed from outside and Myanmar would proceed towards democracy in its own way. The foreign minister said an initial protest of a small group of activists against the rise in fuel prices had been exploited by the political opportunists.
India, China not
doing enough, says US
The USA wants India and China to take "serious and concrete" actions to force the military junta in Burma resolve the standoff with pro-democracy supporters and monks in the reclusive nation.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters on Monday that Washington wants New Delhi and Beijing to "push the Burmese government in the right direction." He noted that the USA had, last week, imposed a fresh batch of sanctions targeting members of the Burmese junta. "If people would like to emulate them that would be fine," he said, hinting that Washington would like similar action from New Delhi and Beijing, both key trading partners of Burma. "But in terms of what specific countries might do to be able to do this, I don't think the Indian government or the Chinese government need me to tell them what the levers in the diplomatic toolbox are that they have. And I think we'd just like to see them use them," Casey said. Casey contended that it was "very clear though that (China and India) have an influence over (the Burmese) government, that they can have more of an impact if they choose to do so." Officials in President George W. Bushs administration, frustrated that India and China have not done enough to press the Burmese junta, have been publicly urging the two Asian powers to use their clout to find a peaceful solution to the situation. The military government has launched a violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators that so far has led to many deaths, enforced disappearances, and mass arbitrary arrests. Human Rights Watch also urged Chinese, Indian, Thai, and other companies doing business in Burma to ensure their operations do not contribute to or benefit from human rights abuses. |
Suicide bomber kills 13 Afghan cops
Kabul, October 2 The front of the bus was blown apart in the blast, which occurred during morning rush hour in the citys western outskirts. Shop-windows were shattered and blood and body parts were strewn on the ground. A police officer said women were among the dead and he had picked up the bodies of a number of children. The report we have indicates that so far 13 policemen have been killed and 15 wounded, said the official who declined to be named. A Taliban spokesman said the Radical Islamic Movement, which is fighting to topple the government and drive Western troops out of Afghanistan, was behind the attack. They are criminals. They dont respect humanity, health minister Mohammad Amin Fatemi told reporters at the site. Islam is totally against suicide. Islam is against the killing of human beings like this. We can expect more attacks. The Kabul head of criminal investigations said the police is investigating for the casualty figures. I cant say anything at the moment, there are civilian casualties but we dont know for sure how many, General Ali Shah Paktiawal told Reuters. I was walking down the road when I saw a big explosion. I saw about 20 to 25 persons dead on the bus, said witness Ajmal Shinwari. Twenty-eight soldiers and two civilians were killed in a similar attack on Saturday. Reuters |
S Korean President gets cold welcome in North
Seoul, October 2 But his critics say the visit is aimed more at domestic politics and they expect him to tiptoe around the sensitive issues of atomic arms and mass human rights abuses. A portly Kim, in his trademark drab zip-up jacket and wearing platform shoes that made him appear taller than the dark-suited Roh, shook hands unsmilingly with the South Korean leader and his wife. The pair reviewed a military guard of honour. Kims greeting was in sharp contrast to his effusive welcome for the Souths then president, Kim Dae-jung, at the first summit in 2000. Then, the two leaders rode together in cars, embraced, and harmonised in singing patriotic songs. While the first summit in 2000 was seen as a landmark event that led to an easing of tensions, the latest meeting has met a far more muted response, due to a vague agenda and doubts that Roh will be able to achieve much. It has not helped that the meeting is again in Pyongyang, despite an agreement in 2000 that Kim Jong-il would head south for the next one. |
I may allow US strikes against Osama: Bhutto
Washington, October 2 "I hope I will be able to take Osama bin Laden myself without depending on the Americans. But if I couldn't do it, of course we are fighting this war together and (I) will seek their cooperation in eliminating him,"
she said. Asked whether she would agree to let the Americans take action against Osama in Pakistan, Bhutto said her decision would depend on the strength of the evidence. "I think one really needs to see the information. So I will really need to see the evidence," she
told BBC. "But if there is evidence, my first reference will be to go in myself and if ... there is a difficulty on that I'd
like to cooperate with the Americans," Bhutto added. Earlier, Bhutto had said that if she again became Prime Minister of Pakistan, she would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) to question disgraced nuclear scientist Dr A.Q. Khan. It has to be determined, if Khan was solely responsible for what he had confessed to, or if there were "others" involved, Bhutto said at the Middle East
Institute here. She went on to say that when in power her party would hold a parliamentary debate over the issue.
Benazirs role important in Pak, says Rice Washington, October 2 The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, in an interview hailed the role of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in the fight against terrorism and extremism and for bringing the country back essentially from the brink. I dont see why not, Rice responded when asked if Bhutto had a place in the evolving mix. There will be, we believe, and there should be a contested poll and that people ought to be able to participate, she said. PTI |
India for peaceful use of N-energy
United Nations, October 2 It is disarmament that is our agreed goal and that subsumes arms control and non-proliferation, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said, adding that India would bring proposal in the United Nations General Assembly to refocus on general and complete disarmament, particularly nuclear
disarmament. Addressing the 192-member United Nations General Assembly here last evening, he pointed that steps to achieve complete elimination of nuclear weapons had made little headway and despite some progress, the world remains far from achieving the objective. Indias long-standing commitment to universal, non-discriminatory and comprehensive nuclear disarmament is embodied in the vision of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for nuclear-free and non-violent world. The vision put forward two decades ago remains undiminished, he said, adding that It is more relevant today given the fact that peaceful uses of nuclear energy can address the inexorably growing demand for new and non-polluting sources of energy to fuel economic
development. The minister warned that the risk posed by the intersection between proliferation and terrorism is real and serious and called for zero tolerance towards all forms of terrorism. Noting Indias impeccable record in preventing the proliferation of sensitive technologies, Pranab Mukherjee offered to work with the international community to develop a new international consensus on non-proliferation. The international community needs to intensify the effort to address the very real threat posed by the link between proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies to non-state actors,
he said. The central objective and aim must be to ensure that the international solidarity in words is translated into action as the risk posed by the intersection between proliferation and terrorism is real and
serious. Emphasising the need to unitedly fight the scourge of global terrorism, Pranab Mukherjee said the adoption of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy last September was a noteworthy development, signalling the will of the international
community to combat this menace in a holistic and coordinated manner. PTI |
Afghanis hooked to Indian serials, films Kabul, October 2 The entire country virtually comes to a standstill at 8.30 pm when the popular Indian soap opera, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi is aired. With practically all popular television serials, including Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki , Kasauti Zindagi Ki and Kumkum, being aired by Tolo TV, a private channel, the main characters in these soaps have become household names in Afghanistan. All serials have been dubbed in the native language, Pushto. Watching these serials provide temporary relief to the Afghanis, whose lives are otherwise steeped in misery, poverty and fear due to a never-ending war and internal strife. The serials are so popular that there have been several instances when the burglars looted houses as people were so engrossed watching serials from 8.30 pm till late in the night, says Khaloolah Ahmidi, a shopkeeper. The character of Tulsi is so popular in Afghanistan that the Indian government even considered involving her in a campaign against opium cultivation as much of the countrys economy thrives on the drug trade. If Tulsi was to contest elections against President Karzai, I will vote for her like most Afghanis, says Shakeela, a housewife. Its a different matter that Smriti Irani has been replaced by another actor in the role of Tulsi in India some three months back. One can hear popular Hindi movie songs being played in every taxi, buses, shops, TV and radio channels in sharp contrast to the strict ban by the Taliban on any kind of entertainment right from movies, songs and kite flying. Buses, taxis and shops have posters of Indian film stars, with Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali, Preity Zinta and Kajol topping the list. The capital city of Kabul had nearly one dozen cinema halls, but most of them were completely destroyed by the Taliban. Now only three have been made functional and popular Bollywood movies run here to full houses. I have seen Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna more than a dozen times and Shahrukh Khan is the most popular star in our country, says Immamudin Salimy, working as a waiter in a hotel. Surprisingly, there are hardly any Afghans, who have seen John Abrahams Kabul Express which was based on the turmoil and tragedy of Afghanistan. Most people say neither have they seen the movie nor do they intend doing so as only negative things have been shown. There are hardly any Afghani movies and the few which were made prior to the ban by the Taliban are not liked by the people. Posters of Katrina Kaif, Karishma Kapoor, Amisha Patel can be seen all over Kabul to endorse products. |
Diana inquest opens, 10 yrs after her death
London, October 2 Mohamed al-Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the crash after a much-publicised summer romance with the peoples princess, alleges that the couple were killed on the orders of Queen Elizabeths husband, Dianas former father-in-law. Al-Fayed, owner of Londons luxury Harrods store, fought a long-legal battle to have the inquest heard by a judge and jury. The Londons High Court is expected to spend up to six months deciding if her death was an accident. Mohamed al-Fayed has maintained throughout that the crash was not an accident, but murder in furtherance of a conspiracy by the establishment, in particular his Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who used the security services to carry it out, judge Lord Justice Scott
Baker said. Major investigations by the French and the British police has concluded the deaths were a tragic accident caused by a speeding chauffeur, who was found to be drunk. Diana (36), Dodi al-Fayed (42), and chauffeur Henri Paul were all killed when their Mercedes car crashed in a road tunnel as they speed away from the Ritz Hotel in Paris, pursued by paparazzi on motorbikes. Britain had to wait for the French legal process to end and then for the British police investigation to run its
course before the inquests into Dianas and Fayeds deaths could begin.
Reuters |
Kaul to contest for Cwealth
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London, October 2 There is no rule that a candidate for the Secretary Generals post should be nominated by a country. It is the heads of government of the Commonwealth countries who decide, Kaul said while answering questions after delivering a lecture here last night. Kaul said, One of the key tasks ahead is to change the present image of the Commonwealth and develop a new image which reflects the economic success of member countries on intra-Commonwealth as well as global trade and investment flows. It will be a triangular fight for the post. The other two candidates in the field are Indias official nominee Kamalesh Sharma, currently the high commissioner to the UK, and Maltas foreign minister Michael Frendo.
Court acquits docs in tainted blood scandal
Toronto, October 2 Toronto Superior Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto ruled that the defendants did not show conduct displaying wanton and reckless disregard in the use of the blood and that there was no marked departure from the standards of a reasonable person. "The conduct examined in detail over one-and- a half years confirms reasonable and responsible and professional actions and responses during this difficult time," she said. The allegations of criminal conduct on the part of these men and the corporation were not only unsupported by the evidence, they were disproved.
US backs Karzais offer to Taliban Berlin, October 2 I think for the government of Afghanistan and President Karzai to want to reach out and work with people who renounce violence, support the central government and human rights, who will build peace and security reconciliation, is an important thing and we support that. But he warned against lowering the bar for an invitation to the negotiating table. AFP |
United Nations, October 2 In his meeting with Myanmarese foreign minister U Nayan Win, Mukherjee expressed New Delhis concern over the deteriorating situation in the country. He hoped that the process of national reconciliation and political reform, initiated by the government, would be taken forward more quickly. During his parleys with Jamaican foreign minister Kenneth Baugh, the close relations between the two countries were highlighted. Both focused on existing cooperation in the sectors of information technology and medicine. Mukherjee had an audience with minister from Kyrgyzstan Ednan Karabaev. They both reviewed cooperation in the fields of information technology, medicine and engineering. UNI |
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calendar>>September 16. 2011 Juch 100 |
Natural Disasters in Sri Lanka and Thailand
Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) -- Lightning strikes has killed 30 people in Sri Lanka this year. At least four were killed and five missing Monday morning in central Saraburi province of Thailand which has been battered by heavy rain. |
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- For other uses, see Cardassia.
- For the mirror universe counterpart, see Cardassia (mirror).
Cardassia Prime | |
Cardassia from orbit. | |
Classification: | class M planet |
Affiliation: | Cardassian Union (capital) |
Location: | Cardassia system, Cardassia sector, Alpha Quadrant |
Moon(s): | Three; Letau, Blind Moon |
Dominant Species: | Cardassian |
Warp Capable: | 1925 |
Population: | 7.9 Billion (2370) After dominion war 7 billion |
Capital: | Lakat |
Cardassia, also known as Cardassia Prime, is the home planet of the Cardassian species and capital planet of the Cardassian Union. Cardassia is the sixth planet in the Cardassia System and has three moons, the inner-most of which is Letau, and one of which is known as the Blind Moon. Cardassia Prime is one of only three habitable planets in the Cardassian system.
- The Star Trek Deep Space Nine Roleplaying Game Narrator's Toolkit states that Cardassia Prime is the third planet of the star system. The Star Trek Roleplaying Game Player's Guide states that Cardassia Prime is the third planet in an eight planet system.
- See also Cardassian history.
The HebitiansEdit
The Hebitians were the first civilization to rise on Cardassia. They were a sophisticated, sustainable, self-sufficient society and worshiped the deity Oralius. The Hebitian society eventually fell when Cardassia suffered catastrophic climate change, the rainforests and grasslands transformed into desert and scrubland with just one patch of the ancient rainforest surviving the climate change in the Ba'aten Peninsula. Disease killed millions and the people lost their faith becoming militaristic and expansionist - the Cardassians (DS9 novel: A Stitch in Time).
It was known that during the old times, portions of the Western Hemisphere was covered with lush green, thick forests with heavy rainfall covering the region. However, an atmospheric calamity of unknown origin befell the planet at the time, which led to centuries of drought. The remaining forests were cut down by shortsightedness with the once fertile soil had withdrawn to deep silty black top soil due to a single generation of overfarming. This led to the well known parched sands that surrounded the periphery of the cities bringing about a world full of deserts where there had once been rain forests. The once verdant forests were forgotten by latter generation Cardassians though members of the Oralian Way had records of it present within the Recitations that showed the paradise their home world once was. (DS9 - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles)
Dominion WarEdit
Post-Dominion War recoveryEdit
At the end of the Dominion War in retaliation for the Cardassians betrayal, the Dominion decimated much of Cardassia resulting in billions of deaths and the destruction of much of the infrastructure. The clean up process took a great deal of time and there were still corpses on the streets for weeks after the Dominion withdrawal. A democratic government led by Alon Ghemor rose up in the aftermath. (DS9 episode: "What You Leave Behind", DS9 novel: A Stitch in Time)
In 2377 Gul Kentar amassed a large military force, and while the bulk of the Federation's fleet was in the Delta Quadrant conducting a counter attack in response to a recent Borg incursion, made a sneak attack on the Federation's reserve fleet in the Pearl Nebula. This provoked the Klingon Empire to launch a campaign against the Cardassian forces under Kentar. After a number of offensives the Klingons pushed Kentar's forces all the way back to the Cardassia system and took control of Cardassia Prime and the rest of the planets in the system. With Kentar's forces crushed the Cardassian leadership requested a truce, which was negotiated by Chancellor Martok himself, before the Klingon forces moved out of the system in pursuit of last remnants of Gul Kentar's rebellion in the Hubrik system. (TNG video game: Armada II)
Cities SettlementsEdit
Structural LandmarksEdit
Natural HistoryEdit
- Brangwa
- Gutfish
- Honge
- Desert Regnar
- Plaktar
- Sleg Corgan
- Vole
- Wompat
- Gettle
- Redrat
- Taspar
- Hevrit
- Bekirr (animal)
Cardassia system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cardassia I • Cardassia II • Cardassia III • Cardassia IV • Cardassia V • Cardassia VI (Blind Moon • Letau) • Cardassia VII • Cardassia VIII |
planets visited by ships named Defiant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Defiant (NCC-1764) | Golmira • Traelus II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Defiant (NX-74205) (I) | 2371 | Karemma • Callinon VII • Founders' homeworld • Trill • Cardassia • Meridian • Orias III • Earth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2372 | Bajor • Cha'Xirrac • Free Haven • Vandros IV • class L planet crash site • New Founder homeworld | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2373 | Torga IV • Ajilon Prime • Cardassia • Solosos III • Gaia IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2374 | Argolis Cluster planet • Chin'toka planets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Defiant (NX-74205) (II) | Europa Nova • Torona IV • Narendra III • Vahni Vahltupali homeworld • Prentara • Luthia • Bajor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Defiant (mirror universe) | Bajor |
External linkEdit
- Cardassia article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.


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taught by Carol Doak
Paper-piecing expert Carol Doak teaches you how to get sharp points and precise seams as she takes you step by step through four foundation-based quilt projects.
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I like the Free Motion fillers you used. I just did a large meandering stitch this time. Did you use just one color thread or change for each color? I used invisible thread.
This looks just fantastic. The way you have quilted it turns it from an alright piece into a wonderful heirloom.


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I'm watching Bewitched in Tokyo with English subs, working through that series. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of Japanese dramas that would be fun to watch and explore my imagination.
I've never been in Japan and I want to watch various different Japanese movies out of curiosity. Thanks.
I'm also interested in region 3 Japanese horror movies.
I prefer it be region 0 or 3...it gives me a reason to use my Japanese PS3 more often. :) Also, I can weed out other cultural influences a little more.
There's a live action drama called GTO. That looks sort of interesting...
Of course we're talking DVD because blue ray is region free and not 3...lol
Not to mention those insane prices.