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He is accused of driving his 2000 Chevrolet S10 pickup truck into a Watertown police cruiser, causing damage to the front passenger side bumper and fender. Police said he also refused to comply with orders of patrol officers and physically struggled with them to prevent his hands from being placed behind his back to be handcuffed.
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ALBANY - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced a partnership between the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the State University of New York (SUNY) to undertake energy efficiency measures at 10 SUNY campuses that will save the university system $3.5 million each year and contribute to cleaner communities.
The projects will reduce the university systems peak energy use by approximately 3.6 megawatts (MW)enough to power some 3,600 typical homesand help to eliminate 21,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
Under Build Smart NY, we are ensuring that New York state government is reducing our impact on the environment and saving taxpayers money, Governor Cuomo said. This partnership between NYPA and SUNY is a great example of government working together to achieve efficiencies and lower energy use and greenhouse gas emissions – in addition to promoting job growth in this high-tech industry. These projects will lead to savings of $3.5 million each year and enhance our efforts to build cleaner communities across the state.
The projects, which are either in development or were completed in 2013, are part of Governor Cuomos Build Smart NY initiative, which seeks to reduce energy use at state-owned or managed facilities by 20 percent by the year 2020. The $80 million in energy efficiency installations at 10 SUNY campuses across the state include projects involving new lighting, heating and ventilation upgrades, new electric motors, and replacement of outdated boilers and chillers.
SUNY and NYPA officials gathered Thursday at SUNY Purchase College, near White Plains, where more than $22 million in NYPA-financed and -implemented energy efficiency projects were on display. In addition to the work at Purchase College, the event also highlighted energy-saving improvements at the following SUNY campuses: University at Buffalo, College at Brockport, SUNY Buffalo State, SUNY Canton, SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Downstate Medical University (New York City), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse), SUNY Maritime College (New York City) and SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse). Click here for more information on projects on these campuses.
Partnerships like NYPA and SUNYs exemplify the kind of self-sustaining business models that are being pursued under the Governors leadership for upgrading infrastructure and creating and retaining jobs in collaboration with private-sector firms, said Richard L. Kauffman, chairman of Energy and Finance for New York State and chairman for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).
NYPA is working hand-in-hand with SUNY to achieve its energy efficiency goals, said Gil C. Quiniones, NYPA president and CEO. Theres a saying that you cant manage what you dont measure, and thanks to the rigorous reporting requirements established under Governor Cuomos Build Smart NY program, New York State has never been better positioned to achieve meaningful energy reductions.
SUNY is deeply committed to rehabilitating, renovating, and building its facilities in the most cost-effective and energy-efficient manner, and every new building constructed on a SUNY campus in the last decade has been designed to LEED silver standard or higher, said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher.
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The Wolves next home fixture is against the London Broncos on Sunday 13 July, 3pm.
The afternoon will be a community summer celebration kicking off with an U19s Academy curtain-raiser between the Wolves and Broncos, 12.15pm.
The Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service 7s Primary School Final will then take to the pitch in front of the Super League home crowd.
Activities around the stadium will include facepainting, sweets stalls, inflatables, games and, to celebrate the Fire Service Finals Day, pop along to see the fire engine and rescue boat on display outside the ground.
CHANT Children's Choir will perform for the crowds pre-match before the main event kicks off at 3pm.
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Experience nature walks,hiking, biking, canoeing, cross country skiing, swimming and fishing in and around our many lakes and rivers or enjoy our many area golf courses while staying at our lovely cottage in the woods.
If you crave the beauty and serenity of nature, peace and quiet, privacy and a great get-away, our cottage is right for you. We are 15 minutes from Oneonta and just a short scenic drive from Oneonta to Cooperstown. We are within 30 minutes of Cooperstown, and closer to Dream Park( where the summer baseball tournaments occur). The cottage sits in a clearing on 11 acres of woods, perfect for bird watching with hiking and walking trails. The only sound you will hear at night is the sound of crickets. You can just relax and swim in our 20'x 40' pool, enjoy a picnic with an outdoor gas grill by the cottage, or have access to many fine, inexpensive, off the beaten path restaurants in the area. This is the only cottage on the property, and you have a private driveway.


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This photo shows 20 solar-powered houses displayed on the National Mall for Solar Decathlon 2009.
Despite objections from participants, federal officials have barred the popular Solar Decathlon from the National Mall this year over concerns that the large-scale event would cause too much property damage.
Organized by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Solar Decathlon is a competition held every two years that invites university teams to design solar-powered homes, which they then construct on the Mall as part of a public expo. This year's expo, which will feature entries by 20 teams, is scheduled to run from September 23 to October 2.
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But, on January 11, the National Park Service revoked the permit allowing those temporary dwellings to be built. The Department of the Interior, which oversees the park service, and the DOE together decided that previous Solar Decathlons had caused too much wear and tear on the Mall, according to department officials.
"There were gouges and holes and troughs that were created, and the grass was completely destroyed," mainly from trucks and cranes that delivered the houses, says Bill Line, a National Park Service spokesman.
Of the 4,000 events that take place on the Mall each year—including concerts, black-tie dinners, and political protests—the Solar Decathlon, which has been held four times there, causes the most damage, Line adds.
It remains unclear where the expo might be held instead. "We hope to have a site picked out in weeks, not months," said Jen Stutsman, a DOE spokeswoman, in mid-February. (Richard King, the Solar Decathlon director, declined to comment.)
Launched in 2002, the biannual competition and expo now draws dozens of entries from around the globe. Twenty teams are selected to construct their dwellings.
During the expo, judges evaluate how finalists' homes fare in real-life conditions. The finalists earn points in 10 categories—the "decathlon"—including architecture, market appeal, and "comfort zone," which tests if the house can maintain a temperature range of 71 to 76 degrees. Winners are announced during the expo.
Even if the exhibition hasn't been cancelled, participants are still upset.
Part of Solar Decathlon's mission is to educate the public about energy efficiency in construction, and few locations are as well traversed as the Mall, says Elisabeth Neigert, an architecture student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, whose team includes students from the California Institute of Technology as well as her own college.
A move off the Mall could also jeopardize financial support for the projects as corporate sponsors agreed to pay for construction in part because the Mall is so highly visible, she says.
Neigert, who is working on behalf of many other finalists to get the park service to reverse its call, has so far received promises of support from 14 U.S. Senators and 11 Representatives, she says.
She adds that the federal government's decision to move the event is particularly disappointing in light of President Obama's call for clean energy in this year's State of the Union Address. "The government issued a challenge, and we rose to the challenge," she says. "Now, the government is taking it away from us."
Other participants worry that any location change might also mean a date change, and that could play havoc with some of the technical aspects of their homes, which need sunlight to function.
"We can't start too late in the season because we're geared toward certain temperatures," says Marilys Nepomechie, an architecture professor at Miami's Florida International University, whose 50-person team created a house whose shutters open and close with the light. Still, Nepomechie, who particpated in 2005's Decathlon, seems unsurprised by the decision to relocate the expo. The event "might have been a victim of its own success," she says.
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Cubtab is a new email app for kids. Kids will love it because it's fun and easy. Parents will love it because it's safe and secure. Read more
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Cubtab is a new email app for kids. Kids will love it because it's fun and easy. Parents will love it because it's safe and secure.
About this project
Why build email for kids?
Our kids are growing up with technology all around them. We're building Cubtab to help introduce our kids to the online world in a way that's fun, engaging, and safe.
Gmail, Yahoo, and other email services are great for grown ups—but they don't work for kids. Not only are they stacked full of advertisements, but they are designed for adults, and kids don't find them fun. But even more importantly, they don't provide parents with the tools they need to ensure their children are safe.
What's the solution?
Cubtab is specifically designed for kids. We're stripping out everything that makes email complex, and creating a fun and engaging experience for children. With Cubtab, kids can create messages that include drawings, stickers, and audio messages.
We're also building a moderation app that allows parents to monitor and control what their child sees. With the moderation app, parents can quickly approve or reject incoming and outgoing messages from their iPhone or the web.
The Cubtab Email App
We're building Cubtab for iPad and the web. There's virtually no learning curve and kids love using it. Messages are grouped by contact which makes it easy to keep track of conversations.
Children will love being able to add drawings to their messages. This is especially nice for younger kids who aren't yet able to write, but want to send a message to Grandma or another family member.
Kids can also record and attach audio to a message. Want to make Grandma's day? Attach both a drawing and an audio recording!
Kids love stickers, and including them in their messages and drawings will be a cinch. We're designing a fun set of stickers that your children can use to enhance their messages.
Want to help design a custom sticker? Make sure to check out our $100 pledge level.
The Moderation App
We're creating a tool for parents that makes it easy to keep track of Cubtab activity. Parents can moderate messages from their iPhone or the web. You decide what content is appropriate for your child.
By default, contacts will be on the "Yellow List" and will require moderation before the message is sent or received.
Trusted contacts can be "Green Listed" to forego the need for moderation, which allows messages to be sent freely back and forth.
"Red Listed" contacts cannot send or receive messages to/from your child.
At any time a parent can view all Cubtab activity, such as: sent/received messages, contacts added, child logins, and more.
Why Kickstarter?
Our goals with Kickstarter are two-fold:
1. We want to get Cubtab into the hands of our supporters so we can get real-world feedback before we open up to a wider audience. When you become a supporter, you will get access to our private pre-release where you can reserve your children's email address and start using the app before we open it up to the masses.
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We want to ensure that Cubtab effectively protects against spam and other unwanted messages. We are working diligently to finish the product with intensive QA testing and will not launch until we are 100% confident that our product is ready.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
We plan on charging $4-5/month for your first child, and $1/month for any additional kids.
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The primary cost is to get the infrastructure in place to run Cubtab. We also have plenty more design, development, QA, and testing to undergo before we launch.
We're also going to hire a designer (or three) to help design the custom stickers for the app INCLUDING the CUSTOM STICKERS offered above!
The short answer is, yes.
We are building the Cubtab email app for the iPad and the web. The web version will be optimized for tablets, so your child can still use Cubtab on an Android device.
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Borger ISD is truly proud of the accomplishments of its students and staff, both in the classroom and on the athletic field.
With this in mind, the district composed a list of "Greats Facts About Borger ISD." Superintendent Chance Welch said the list includes accomplishments of students and organizations in the districts, as well as many of the excellent programs that are available to BISD students.
"We are excited about the many achievements and activities of our students and staff," he said. "The 'Great Facts about Borger ISD' highlights the well-rounded, educational opportunities available to our students."
The facts about Borger ISD are as follows:
•Choral department won sweepstakes at UIL concert/sight-reading contest.
•Building Bridges To Career (Career Readiness Testing).
•Seven students advanced to State UIL Academic Competition.
•Borger High Band received superior ratings at UIL Regional Marching Contest.
•Bilingual ESL classes for students and adults.
•Borger High Band earned Sweepstakes for 2010-11.
•Borger Middle School bands earned sweepstakes for 2010-2011.
•BHS student won the Region 16 Holiday Greeting Art Contest for 2010.
•Crockett and Gateway Elementary Schools have been rated Recognized for academic excellence by TEA.
•BHS student named FFA district officer.
•Balanced Literacy Reading Program
•Borger was twice named one of the "100 Best Cities in the United States for music education."
•Crockett student won the Region 16 Holiday Greeting Card Contest in 2011.
•Borger ISD has developed a graduate profile.
•Paul Belton, Gateway, Crockett, Borger Intermediate, and Borger Middle met AYP.
•BHS track athlete won state in the girl's 3A discus.
•3 and 4-year-old Head Start program at Paul Belton.
•6th grade honors choir earned Sweepstakes.
•Eight members of the seventh/eighth honors choir earned superior ratings.
•TNT (Thursday Nights Together).
•Over $58,000 was awarded to agriculture science students from the sale of animals and scholarships.
•Comprehensive AP and Pre-AP program.
•BHS Tennis Mixed Doubles Team won the 3A state championship.
•Open enrollment in Pre-Kindergarten.
•Seven pieces of artwork from BHS students qualified for state competition.
•BIS won the 5th grade academic meet for 1-AAA for 2011.
•Gold Performance Acknowledgements – District – Commended Social Studies; High School – Commended Social Studies; Intermediate School – Commended Science and Comparable Improvement in Reading; Crockett – Comparable Improvement in Math
•Borger Middle School student won Hutchinson County Spelling Bee.
•69% of the 2010-11 Kindergarten students read at a Level C or higher.
•Borger High Band earned Superior Ratings in Concert/Sight reading.
•Rotary Club Bicycle Program and Family Game Night for Perfect Attendance Awards.
•Music Classes in Pre-K through High School.
•Sensory Lab for Early Childhood for sensory and motor development.
•Junior Master Gardener Program.
•Crockett and Gateway Elementary Schools have award-winning facilities and have been named a LEED-certified school.
•Borger ISD taxpayers support the schools and made a $40 million commitment to upgrade facilities.
•Three schools improved their academic rating last year.
•1 semi-finalist and 3 commended students in the 2012 National Merit program.
•13 sports went beyond district play.
•Duke University Talent Program – 52 7th graders qualified for testing.
•Borger High School was the 1-AAA District Academic Champions in 2011.
•Nine members of the BHS choir competed in the state/solo ensemble contest in Austin.
•20 students made all-region band.
•ABC Club at Paul Belton.
•Mixed choir received excellent ratings in UIL concert/sight-reading contest.
•BMS has a robotic program (7th grade).
•Strong partnership with FPC to provide college-level courses as well as career and technical education.
•Sheltered instruction for Bilingual/ESL students
•Eight band members qualified for Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest.
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Jury lets off ebook-cracking ElcomSoft, then judges clear DVD-busting DeCSS coder. Warning: Copyright cops won't give up easily.
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Missile Shield Launch
The most ambitious military program in decades is up and crawling. Still, better stick with diplomacy on North Korea.
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Bloggers Bounce Lott
Did the keyboard class trigger Trent's exit? Nah. Credit C-Span and the usual Beltway suspects - plus the senator's own big mouth.
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Clone Babies
An alien-loving sect claims to have copykids. Call it the immaculate deception.
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The New Nature vs. Nurture
Science is pulling the long-standing debate in strange directions.
By Steven Johnson
Ever since Hobbes and Rousseau started riffing on the state of nature and the noble savage a few centuries back, the nature versus nurture debate has been as much about politics as empirical research. Sure, scientists have their genome projects and their twin studies, and they talk a nice game about how extroversion or smoking is "20 percent heritable." But most people don't choose sides because the data convinced them; they lean one way or the other because their political views led them there - the patina of science just makes the biases easier to hide.
Which team are you on? Figuring that out used to be easy. Conservatives believed in the power of nature. If you rose to the pinnacle of society or sunk to its depths, you had only yourself to thank or condemn. Society, much less big government, couldn't change your fate. Liberals, on the other hand, saw nurture in everything: The idea of human nature was itself proclaimed an ideological fiction, a blame-the-victim lie dreamed up by racists and imperialists to justify oppression. Historical conditions, not biology, determined your station in life. Society made you, and if you didn't like who you saw in the mirror, better to remake society.
Lately, though, things have gotten more complicated. The political landscape is splintering into ever more precise ideological niches, even as technology and science muddy the nature-nurture waters. Knee-jerk reactions just aren't what they used to be. You'll find right-wingers who believe that (horrors!) nurture trumps nature, and lefties arguing that DNA is destiny (wha?). On the whole, this is probably good news. As Steven Pinker points out in his latest book, The Blank Slate, both Hitler's Final Solution and Mao's Cultural Revolution were dreamed up by extremists on either side of the divide. But with all this confusion breaking out, how are you supposed to score the debate at home? Here's a field guide to the leading players and their evolving preconceptions.
Religious conservatives: trending nurture. The Christian Coalition types, traditionally the core of the conservative camp, have been scrambling of late. After all, these days believing in biological determinism means signing on to the genomic revolution, which doesn't have a lot of patience for the idea that Earth is only 4,000 years old. Besides, if nature is everything and nurture is irrelevant, then why should anyone care about family values?
Economic conservatives: trending nurture. Although allied politically with the religious right, this band of Milton Friedmanites are almost too attached to evolutionary theory. Darwin is constantly invoked to justify the free market system: Rational self-interest is an innate strategy that capitalism simply reflects ("greed is adaptive"). The only problem is that in recent years, evolutionary theorists have shown again and again that the instincts for altruism and social cooperation are a logical outcome of selfish genes. Communal society is as much a part of our genetic inheritance as competition is, which means unfettered markets may be more an invention of culture than an expression of our underlying biology.
The Greens: trending nature. Their worldview has them reaching for a revolver at any mention of human nature. Yet green politics is predicated on the sanctity of the natural world as evolution shaped it. So why shouldn't humans have their own innate nature? After enough paeans to the spotted owl, some start to wonder why Homo sapiens doesn't get the same treatment. If there's no genetically inherent human nature worth preserving, then there's no reason to object to manipulating the genome.
Gay-rights activists: trending nature. For decades, the gay-rights camp rejected any genetic basis for homosexuality - being gay is not some kind of biological "condition." But new brain-imaging studies, suggesting that the brains of gay men are subtly different from those of straight men (no word yet on women), have energized a pro-nature faction. Being gay is in the genes, the new argument goes, and thus it's as "natural" as heterosexuality or left-handedness. So there's no point in blaming homosexuals for their preferences, or trying to change them, since their orientation isn't a matter of choice.
Feminists: trending nature. Here, too, a shift is in the works. The old guard maintains that the differences between the sexes are just offshoots of patriarchal culture - all nurture and no nature. Third-wave feminists are more nature-friendly: There are biological distinctions beyond simple anatomy. Scientists are building a more rigorous version of the "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" model; the better we understand our hormonal systems, the more powerful they seem. "Different but equal" is the new mantra. In other words: We're on estrogen, and we're proud!
Extropians: supernature. The futurists lining up to cryogenically freeze their brains or clamoring for genetic enhancements may have the most original take on the dispute yet. Genes dictate everything - including our species' tendency to experiment endlessly. So there's no reason to object to tinkering with our DNA or hacking our gray matter. It's only natural!
Steven Johnson (www.stevenberlinejohnson.com) wrote about stopping loose nukes in Wired 10.11.
The Simpsons as Soothsayers
How many times in the history of technology has an animated TV show predicted an actual invention? Some research (as well as years of dedicated cartoon viewing) suggests that the answer is, um, once. The show: The Simpsons. The gizmo: the crying-baby translator. Cast your mind back to August 27, 1992, and The Simpsons episode in which Homer's half-brother, Herb, built a device that "measures the pitch, the frequency, and the urgency of a baby's cries.'" Well, Unkie Herb's scream machine is the real world's WhyCry.
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Squawk box: Unkie Herb was onto something with his baby monitor.
Pedro Monagas, an engineer who calls Spain's Castellar del Vallčs his Springfield, came up with WhyCry in 1998, but he's never seen The Simpsons - though he would "like very much to watch it, because of curiosity." Monagas' Spanish-language máquina measures the power and frequency of a baby's cries, and the intervals between them, to determine whether the cranky critter is bored, hungry, sleepy, stressed, or uncomfortable. WhyCry, sold through a Spanish company called Rosmari, employs a combination of microphone and digital signal processing technology and is, according to Monagas, either 98 or 87 percent accurate (results depend on the use of WhyCry's infant body-language chart).
The Simpsons has prophesied before. "It reminds me of the time baseball player Don Mattingly was told by Mr. Burns his hair was too long," says Al Jean, the show's executive producer. "One year later, a headline read, 'GEORGE STEINBRENNER TELLS MATTINGLY HIS HAIR IS TOO LONG.'" Will Homer's creators see any royalties from the baby translator? Don't bet on it. Doh!
Pedro Monagas
- Ken Gordon
Jargon Watch
By Gareth Branwyn
Term coined by the French to replace the barbaric English "at" in email addresses. The word is derived from arroba, the Spanish equivalent. Internautes, aka Net users, have been slow to adopt it.
The use of functional MRI to scan consumers' brains for clues to subconscious responses to advertising. It could spell the end of Carrot Top's career as pitchman.
Covert Couture
Designer one-offs modeled after off-the-rack merchandise. For example, Gucci might make you a handbag just like the one in the store but add a monogrammed lining - for, say, $17,000. As The New York Times put it: "The finished item may not look so very different from the store-bought version, but it's secretly special."
A new type of Web ad pioneered by revenue-hungry Salon. Readers who don't pay $30 a year to subscribe to the site can still access premium content by clicking through multipage ads.
Death by GPS
Slaughtering 300,000 goats might seem a strange job for the Charles Darwin Foundation, the group responsible for the conservation of the Galápagos Islands. But it turns out to be the best way to rid the archipelago of these nonnative invaders. All it takes is a little GPS monitoring, computer mapping, and some old-fashioned marksmanship.
Charles Darwin Foundation
Betrayed by billy: A radio-collared Judas goat leads hunters to the herd.
Using satellite images and GPS coordinates, the foundation's Isabela Project divided the 1,800-square-mile Isabela Island - which has no roads and five volcanoes - into an electronic grid. Each time one of 30 hunters records a kill, it gets registered as a white dot on the grid. (The dead animals are left to decompose.) Hunters can track the remaining herds' density and movements by following the dots. Once the population has been thinned and becomes harder to trace, hunters release a Judas goat - one equipped with a radio collar that can be tracked when it joins the herd. "Without this new technology, eradication wouldn't have been possible on an island as large as Isabela," says Felipe Cruz, the project's technical director.
The ecological stakes go way beyond goats. There are more than 500 invasive species scattered among the 120 islands, ranging from the black rat to the blackberry. The interlopers are devastating the ecosystem that Darwin made famous in Origin of Species. The Galápagos' giant tortoises are at greatest risk. Their breeding ground on Isabela - the island is home to half of all the endemic species in the archipelago - has been denuded by an estimated 125,000 goats.
Last summer, the foundation completed a four-year campaign to rid neighboring Santiago Island of feral pigs. That proved an ideal testing ground for the high tech eradication project. The goats of Isabela are now headed for the same fate.
- Matthew Yeomans
You Light Up My Device
British Telecom wants to reinvent the flower. BTexact Technologies, the company's research arm, has designed a desktop bouquet that monitors your email, IM, landline, and mobile phone. Assign each of the 10 lightbulb-tipped stems to a relationship you want to track, and a 3G-enabled service keeps tabs on your communications. When you've been out of touch with, say, Uncle Charlie for too long, his stem droops. When you've met your self-imposed quota, it perks up. Digital Flowers, which should hit the market in 18 months, will cost you up to $1,500 - the price of 25 dozen real roses you'll never again need to send.
British Telecom
- David Diamond
Emerging Traffic
Here's a bright idea -- an e-map that shows routes people actually use. With GPS tracers and GPRS networks, the Amsterdam RealTime project tracked 75 volunteers as they walked, cycled and drove around the city. After 40 days, the cumulative data lit up this map: The moretravelled the route, the brighter it glows. (The really hot spots are red.) RealTime was part of an exhibit at the Amsterdam City Archive last fall. After receiving requests to make similar maps of Brussels, Lisbon and Paris, the project is considering taking its code on the road. Next up: licensing the technology or distributing it as freeware.
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- Jessie Scanlon
Why Analog Is Cool Again
Super-sensitive switches etched in silicon? This is not your father's solid state.
By Paul Boutin
Sharp, vibrant, incredibly detailed: The pictures produced by Foveon's X3 image sensor chip are seductive evidence that pixels will displace film. The Sigma SD9 - the first commercial camera to use Foveon's technology - captures three times more color per pixel than standard digital shooters. But here's the thing: This isn't digital technology. It's a twist on old-fashioned analog electronics - an array of millions of light filters and detectors etched in silicon.
Weird as it sounds, the road to smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient consumer electronics may be paved with analog technology. These circuits are built from the same components as their digital counterparts but suck 90 percent less battery power. The difference? In an analog device, each transistor acts like a dial, with a wide range of readings that depend on the sinuous fluctuation of voltage, current, amplitude, and frequency. Digital circuits, on the other hand, use the same transistors as simple on-off toggle switches. Analog transistors capture far more information, so you need fewer of them.
Advances in the digital realm are powering the technology. Tiny analog circuits, sensors, and even radios can be manufactured using the same fabrication techniques - microscopic etching on semiconductor wafers - that have kept Moore's law chugging along. Devices with analog chips in their guts will begin landing in consumers' hands this year in the form of high resolution cameras and mobile phones that can go a week without recharging.
Much of the new analog circuitry creeping into consumer gadgets springs from the research of Carver Mead, Foveon's founder and chair. As a Caltech professor (now emeritus) in the 1970s, Mead sought to imitate the analog elegance of the human brain. In 1986, Mead cofounded a company, Synaptics, to build high-performance analog computers. He understood that solid state circuitry would be ideal for connecting computers to the real world of light, touch, and sound, which are analog by nature. Synaptics eventually focused on the tactile, becoming the leader in laptop touchpads. (It controls about 80 percent of that market.)
Next came Foveon, founded in 1997. Its X3 image sensor chip is perhaps the most impressive analog electronics application so far. Standard digital cameras use filters that permit light sensors to capture only one primary color per pixel. From there, a signal processor runs algorithms that approximate the missing colors by sampling nearby pixels. That guessing game introduces telltale lines and whorls into the final picture. Foveon found a way to use standard silicon as an analog color separator. One of the optical properties of silicon is that different wavelengths of light penetrate it to different depths. This allows Foveon chips to stack red, green, and blue sensors at every pixel.
Impinj, another Mead startup, hopes to conquer sound with a technology that lets digital logic fine-tune a cell phone's analog transmitter midcall, so the overall circuit can be smaller. Impinj claims the design draws one-tenth the power of its two-part predecessors. It also puts out a more efficient signal, allowing phone networks to carry greater call volume. It costs less, too.
For Foveon chief scientist Dick Lyon, who toiled for decades in the shadow of the Digital Revolution, there's a sweet payback to sculpting analog parts from silicon: "If you do it right, you can make transistors and create devices no one imagined."
Paul Boutin (firstname.lastname@example.com) wrote about CD-R swapping in Wired 10.12.
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Reinventing the Wheel
Michelin's new Pax tire earned some gearhead cred last year when it set a 223-mph speed record on Italy's Nardo High-Speed Test Track. (It had a little help from the Edonis supercar.) But to see the rubber meet the open road, you have to look to France, where 10,000 Renault minivans are riding around on the next-gen tire that runs even when it's flat and wirelessly tells the driver it needs repair. Goodyear has licensed the technology, and Rolls-Royce will roll out the Pax in North America this spring on its 2004 Phantom. Spare tires may soon be a thing of the past.
Nathan Kirkman
1. Flat-out Performance
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Michelin's Pax system incorporates a hard-rubber support ring inside its regular steel-belted radial. If it gets punctured, you can drive another 120 miles at up to 50 mph -- eliminating the need for a spare. Pax-certified service stations are now all over france, and Michelin has deployed a fleet of 483 trucks to rescue downed Renaults elsewhere in Europe.
2. Early Adopteurs
Nathan Kirkman
Michelin patented the radial in 1946, ushering in a new age of tire technology - at least in France. The radials had steel cords, allowing them to last up to 10 times longer than other tires. The French embraced the idea right away. But thanks to American protectionism, the radial didn't arrive in the US until 1967, when it was sold on Lincoln's Mark II. Michelin executives are confident the Pax won't take two decades to pick up momentum.
3. Lock and Roll
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A standard tire is held to the rim by air pressure. The Pax tire is held to the rim by a built-in rubber wedge. Additional torque - say, from sudden braking - actually tightens the seal. If you have a blowout, the tire stays put. There's another advantage: The Pax sidewall is flat, an aerodynamic improvement that cuts rolling resistance by 12 percent.
4. Wireless Warnings
Nathan Kirkman
Each of the tire valves is equipped with a radio transmitter that feeds temperature and pressure data to your dashboard display. If a tire's air is low, the display tells you to get to a service center. It was no easy task to embed the 1.27-ounce transmitter inside a wheel generating 11,000 pounds of centrifugal force. To prevent the transmitter from warping the rim, the Pax was built lopsided - the side opposite the device has 1.27 ounces less metal.
- Joshua Davis
Moon Over Vegas
If you're not an astronaut - or astronomically wealthy - you won't be visiting the moon anytime soon. But you might make it to Las Vegas, where developer Michael Henderson aims to build the next-best thing: a lunar-themed megahotel. The $5 billion Moon Resort and Casino, a 10,000-room, 250-acre entertainment complex, will include a 35-story man-made sphere (scale model shown here) and a full-size replica of the International Space Station. Guests will be able to try moon-rock climbing or drive a NASA-style buggy over simulated terrain. Henderson is still seeking financial backers, but if you want to shoot for the moon, the resort is already taking reservations.
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Take Your Medicine
The biomedical revolution promises a future of miracle drugs. The problem: Many treatments will be made up of proteins, peptides, and other large molecules that are ineffective when administered by conventional means. So how do you get them into your body? Pills are out - gut enzymes chew through these unstable behemoths. Injections are painful, expensive, and difficult to do yourself. The solution: Rethink the technologies behind implants, inhalers, and patches. The $40 billion global market for such devices is expected to double by 2008. Here are some of the most promising ideas.
1. Implants: MicroCHIPS, a biotech firm in Bedford, Massachusetts, used chip fab techniques to build a dime-sized silicon implant that sits just beneath the skin in the abdomen. The system contains hundreds of microwells, each designed to hold one super-concentrated dose of medicine such as steroids, interferons, and various hormones. The drug dump can be controlled by biosensor, remote control, or preprogrammed microprocessor. The new implant, due around 2007, will make first-gen devices like Norplant look primitive.
2. Inhalers: Insulin is already a $1 billion-a-year industry - so finding a better way to deliver the large-molecule hormone would be a big deal. Aradigm in Hayward, California, is testing AerX, an inhaler that uses inkjet printer nozzle technology to convert liquid into aerosol. When it's time for a dose, the device's electromechanical detector gauges optimal breath flow, then fires, so the insulin can penetrate the deepest part of the lungs. Aradigm aims to make AerX available in 2006.
3. Patches: The Alza Corporation in Mountain View, California, is working on E-trans, a 1-inch patch made of electrical components. Its internal battery zaps drugs - such as fentanyl, an opiate analgesic used to treat chronic pain - into the skin. An early version of the system will hit the market within three years. Further down the line: a patch that uses a thin screen of titanium (the most biocompatible metal) that acts like thousands of almost imperceptible needles.
- Steven Kotler
Broadband for Suckers
In a shamelessly clever marketing gambit, Best Buy is selling shrink-wrapped AT&T Broadband digital cable kits for $10 a throw. The truth: There's no "kit" inside, just a brochure with an 800 number and five pay-per-view movie coupons. Best Buy used to hand out the AT&T kits for free, but it found that customers were more likely to order service if they had financial incentive and something shiny to put in the shopping basket. Upon subscribing, they get their 10 bucks back, and Best Buy collects a handsome fee from AT&T. (When a customer doesn't sign up, the retailer keeps the $10.) Savvy shoppers, however, note that all the information in and on the box can be had for free at www.attbroadband.com. "Best Buy is about boxes - we've got people coming into the stores to purchase them," explains Jeff Stratman, a senior buyer. "The digital cable kit isn't the only product we sell that's essentially air." Indeed, the company also packages Netflix, assorted service contracts, and computer courses. The choice is yours: money for nothing or clicks for free.
- Joseph Portera
Minitank Commander
Jerry Carducci is big into small tanks. He owns 30 of them, the largest of which is 4 feet long, weighs 113 pounds, and storms a hill at 10 mph. But this isn't about size; it's about historical accuracy.
Morten Kettel/Model Town: Jerry Carducci
Small world: Carducci with a type 74.2 tank (top), a WW II-era halftrack (bottom left), a miniature Italian village, and a German Panther tank chassis.
Consider his prize German King Tiger. To build it, Carducci studied photos of originals, visited tank museums in Europe, and scrutinized other models. Then he drafted plans, fashioned molds, and cast the parts in his home-made furnace that runs at 1,220 degrees Fahrenheit. "It's kind of intimidating seeing a 16-pound pot of molten aluminum," says Carducci, a 51-year-old programmer with Bank of America. "But it's just fantastic to pour a particular part and open up the flask after it's cooled. It's kind of like Christmas. It's definitely a break from what I do 9 to 5."
Carducci, who lives in Concord, California, has been a tank fanatic for 26 years. He's never done the math, but he figures he's spent "tens of thousands." The obsession goes back to a childhood love of treaded vehicles like bulldozers, and a serious case of World War II nostalgia. Today he spends a good 10 hours a week to ensure his Lilliputian death machines have functional turrets and well-greased gears. The King Tiger alone took Carducci three years to complete. "You can never fully explain a deep-seated interest," he says. "You get to play like a kid. Let's call a spade a spade: These are toys. Maybe they're more expensive than the average toy, but they're still toys."
And weekends are for playing. With a group of fellow tank fans, Carducci has erected several World War II-era villages at one-tenth scale and sent the laser-equipped armored forces into battle. (Onboard sensors score hits so nothing gets damaged.) At one outing, in 1999, the liberation of the fictional Monte Spumoni was even videotaped and monitored live. General Patton would have loved it.
- Stuart Luman
Wi-Fi's Supply Guy
Everybody wants a piece of Wi-Fi. Which accounts for the arrival of Cometa Networks, the wireless broadband company backed by big guns AT&T, Intel, and IBM. Later this year, Cometa will begin offering wholesale 802.11 Internet access nationwide to carriers, ISPs, and cable operators, who will resell to consumers and businesses. Wi-Fi's great, but is there money to be made? We cornered Cometa CEO Larry Brilliant to ask him about his plans for a Wi-Fi windfall and Cometa's role in untethering the Net.
WIRED: Your last company, Airzone, blew $100 million trying to deploy a wireless network. How much are you ready to spend this time?
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Tall order: Cometa CEO Larry Brilliant wants to install 20,000 access points nationwide.
BRILLIANT: Four years ago, there weren't enough users. If we don't build ahead of demand, we should be able to pull this off. And money isn't a problem. We have a lot of investors, and I anticipate that most carriers will want to join in before they sign up to be resellers. Doing it quickly is another matter: We have to install 20,000 access points. But IBM and AT&T do that kind of stuff all the time.
Why now?
People are putting 802.11 in their homes, corporations are putting it in their offices. All we have to do now is fill in the gaps.
Sounds like what Metricom wanted to do.
Metricom tried to take a new idea, create a company, and open up regional offices. We don't have to build a nationwide network because AT&T will bear that cost and charge us incrementally. We'll have only two offices. Billing and back office are provided by IBM.
Why will people pay you for something they can get for free?
I love the free networks. But eventually cable and DSL providers will say, "Stop redistributing the bandwidth we sold you under a single-user license." There will be an abundance of free networks in public places but not inside airports, or Grand Central Terminal, or a Wendy's. And the free Wi-Fi community doesn't provide customer service. We do.
What about security?
We'll have a hermetically sealed network that's accessible only with a user ID, password, and security algorithm. Most enterprise users will connect to virtual private networks over 802.11.
Any plans to bring access to rural Americans?
Our initial rollout includes some rural communities. We expect the nodes in these areas to be very well used even though the population density is low. In rural areas, the node we install in a retail setting might be the only broadband access in town.
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To tmsruge's point (as well as most people's points here): "There's nothing wrong with helping the poor, there's something wrong with doing it poorly." Fully agreed, we have the NGOs (and for that matter the companies, politicians, prisons and so on) that we deserve or fight for and in that context, Lina's post is a welcome addition to the debate.
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This assumes people give more after seeing shocking / disrespectful images than they do after seeing empowering / respectful images. I would agree that this is a big assumption.
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Panic begins to grip UK housing market as the bubble popsPosted on 21 September 2010 with 23 comments from readers
UK house prices have fallen for three months in a row while in August UK mortgage lending dropped to a 10-year low of $15 billion. It looks as though the UK housing bubble is finally bursting after a massive double top in the market, the classic technical indicator of a coming big drop back to previous lows.
The UK banking crisis of late 2007 first brought a correction in UK house prices that had risen more of less continuously from 1993. But that 20 per cent dip in prices was followed by a rebound on the back of super low interest rates introduced to combat the global financial crisis in late 2008.
That pushed UK house prices back up. The problem is that this only made prices even more vulnerable, adding an obvious future rise in interest rates to a long list of potential hazards.
Too expensive
However, the real issue for the moment is back to 2007 and affordability. House prices have lost touch with the first time buyer market and are out of reach for those crucial first timers. In short, the house price to income multiple is far too high.
Indeed, the house price to income ratio is twice its long term average. For it to revert to this long term level requires either a doubling of salaries or a halving of house prices. It is not hard to see which option is the more likely in the current age of austerity.
But this is going to be a major shock to the UK national psyche. The bubble has been forming so long it has become accepted as a new reality. Few younger property owners remember the 1990-3 house price crash. Corrections can and do happen even in a market where supply is as tight as in the UK housing market.
Estate agents like to air brush over the early 90s. But there were people who bought flats at the top of the London market for $75,000 who sold them at the bottom for $42,000, just to give one real example from memory.
New era?
Will it be any different this time? Most likely it will be worse. In the early 90s the UK was less burdened by public debt and deficits. House prices also sold on lower income multiples and were more affordable then. John Major kept interest rates too high for too long, and made it worse. Bring on Mr Cameron and his austerity coalition this time.
Optimists will reply that prices will bounce back after a modest 10 per cent correction over a year or two. That is not how the charts look to any student of market economics. It would take an inflation like the 1970s to keep nominal house prices up and this just does not seem on the cards right now.
For expatriates with property this is clearly not good news. For those considering a purchase it means that waiting a few years is a very good idea indeed. Those with even longer memories might remember when the pound hit parity with the dollar in the 70s.
That would be the best moment for expatriates to buy UK property, with prices on the floor and the pound as well. How long does it take to get there? About two to three years.
You can even trace the inflation of this housing bubble right back to the early 70s. Have a look at these two graphs and compare the bubble model with UK house prices (the double top is missing from the second graph as it stops in 2008 but it is certainly there now in 2010):
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Most mainstream commentators argue we are leaving the last stage in your "stage of a bubble" i.e. returning to the mean…couple years of stagnation then another boom as a result of continuing mass immigration, banking recovery and very restricted home building.
CEBR predicts 20% rises in house prices over next 2 years.
Government/central bank support is monumental: 0.5% rates, SLS, APS (QE), DWP lucrative Mortgage Benefits, moratorium on repossessions, builders bailout out (while they don't build) etc etc
UK economy and banks all dependant on house prices..the only unknown is how much inflation will have to be created to erode the debt overhang.
What happened in 1996? That is one huge change in slope? It looks like the housing bubble may have started in the UK and then spread to the USA and elsewhere? Was it creative financing? No down payments? What?
The USA Department of Labor just reported that unemployment INCREASED in 27 States. That is over half of them. That won't help housing much.
Ed Note: 1996 was a strong rebound after three years of low interest rates, a delayed recovery. But then it really started to get out of control and the low interest rates came from the US really and an independent Bank of England.
In 1996 the law in respect of Security of Tenure for residential properties changed, which improved the return for Buy to Let (BTL) investors, also banks started offering BTL Mortgages
Thought provoking. I agree with the main tenet of the piece that prices are in bubble territory. To precipitate a fall is not necessarily a bad thing. The UK should take a lesson from the Swiss Canton's: for every residential unit sold to a foreigner three units must be sold to a local resident. This creates a foundation for the local community that the UK lacks. Want to tackle social ills? Start with a stable housing market. I am not sure about the 2-3 year prediction, that seems optimistic in my view. One thing I agree on, the market is not going up for a very long time.
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"Optimists will reply that prices will bounce back after a modest 10 per cent correction over a year or two."
Newsflash!! Prices already down 5 to 10% in most parts of England except Sth East.
I have cash waiting and really need to buy but refuse to pay (typically) double what the seller paid in 2002. Many hours spent trawling the Internet and watching prices of my target properties taking a monthly trim show that cracks are appearing. As mentioned the range since May this year is -5 to -10%.
I'm waiting for the monthly trim to become short back & sides and don't think it'll be more than a year.
At the moment there is only a slim chance of a crash in London.
a) do you think interest rates will rise in the short/medium term? I dont so this will support asset values
b) always follow the money. It is to be found in London. Do you think London is going to loose its place as the major financial capital. I dont So there will be work for all and salaries to be collected at he end of each month. Again this will support asset values.
c) Do you think London will stop the money laundering that goes through the City. I dont. Again supportive of property values.
Do I think property values will go down in nominal terms in sterling. No
Do I think property values will up in real terms in sterling. Yes
So get into gold. That is the bar to mearsure in British house values will rise or fall and against gold it will fall.
Ed Note: House prices will fall because all the factors supporting them are weakening. When things get too expensive they do not sell and the price comes down, simple as that. Nothing makes houses different in the UK.
Two things happened in the late 1990s: buy-to-let mortgages and the growth of residential mortgage-backed securities. Suddenly anyone with a pulse could get a mortgage. For BTL the mortgage could be arbitrarily large as long as the rent would pay the interest. The mortgage originators didn't have to worry about the quality of the mortgagee as using RMBSs they could securitise the rubbish and pass on the risk.
Due to the UK's Stalinist planning system, the availability of housing finance soared while the availability of new houses didn't. The predictable results haven't yet been unwound because the banks can borrow from the BoE at 0.5% overnight so still have access to unrealistically cheap funding. It will all only be exposed to the harsh light of reality when we get a realistic bank base rate.
Jack Walhurst is correct no amount of media spin will support house prices that are being held up by smoke and mirrors as a smart money investor we anticipate huge falls in the North and Wales once lenders start to repossess in earnest. We have reports from agents selling one house a month! with many fall throughs due to lack of finance and buyers simply not prepared to pay silly figures based on 2001 to 2007 artificle price rises You just need to hold your nerve and look at earnings to house price indexes and remember the "bull" trap only exists for shrewd investors to get their money out and liquid in preparation for the real drop – and yes property really did drop by 50% just 12 to 15 years ago.
They can print as much money as they want to, all they are doing is creating another bubble in a different asset class (stocks and government debt this time).
One thing they cannot do is to push wages higher, which is the sort of inflation that is needed to truely "erode" debt.
Wages have fallen in nominal terms, and for a significant minority they have actually fallen in real terms.
Until we see wages increase, we won't see any reversion to the mean in terms of house prices.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the BoE special liquidity scheme is removed at the end of this year, while VAT goes upto 20%.
Next year will be a tough year for UK PLC.
Thoughtful article and very much to the point.
The fear + capitulation stage in the UK is certainly starting now.
Will only get worse. Look at what is coming: massive cuts in public spending; relatively high probability of double-dip recession, or at least very tepid growth for several years; inflation pressures due to loose monetary policy which will inevitably lead to much higher interest rates (remember the Bank of England is actually now independent, and it's main remit is inflation control); continuing tightening of credit & mortgage conditions from bank as they rebuild their balance sheets.
Basic economic laws have a tendency to re-assert themselves brutally when things have gotten way of of control, such as the UK residential housing market.
The so-called housing market recovery of late 2009/early 2010 was based on transaction volumes less than one third of average years: the bull trap scenario basically.
Brace yourselves for the next leg down!
I am please to finally see some truth about the UK housing market, normally all we hear is VI spin about how prices only ever go up, which scares FTB's into getting themselfs into huge debt.
FTB's should be warned about the state of the UK market which see a fate much worse than the US because the bubble was even bigger.
Anybody who still pipes on about the country being overpopulated and mass imigration etc, try telling that to the Japanese who have seen property price deflation for well over a decade, Japan is so overpopulated people rent tiny coffin sized rooms to live in Tokyo, if that level of overpopulation has not kept prices up then nothing will.
And we have not yet seen the effects of massive unemployment, Interest Rate rises and the soon to be announced cuts in government spending.
To quote the last poster, Whoever the CIBR are, they are living in some kind of inverse parallel universe where plus means minus.
FTB's in the UK need to be warned not to buy, they will be getting themselfs into a lifetime of debt and nagative equity.
When will we get some decent reporting of what is actually happening here in the UK ?
If we do see massive inflation that will only place even more downward pressure on prices because everything will be going up in price except wages. If the BoE are brave enough to keep rates low and allow massive inflation in order to devalue the defecit then who will suffer – everyone with massive food and fuel bills, let alone pay their mortgage capital + Interest.
Please can we see some honesty come out of the UK newspapers and TV, information which could actually help people not con them into a decade of debt and negative equity.
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The M3 money supply exploded. If you get a chart of M3 and a chart for UK house price inflation it would be difficult tell which was which if not labelled.
I will bet against anyone who says there will be anything more than a 5% drop in nominal prices over the next 2 years.
The smart money loaded up with UK property in the bargain period – late 2008, early 2009 and many are well up now.
I now see plenty of chain free buyers in the market and happily purchasing at near peak prices, even on more expensive homes.
You see there is still more than enough money around to swallow up all the available homes in good areas. The government has ensured that hardly anyone will be forced to sell and with property taxes so cheap in the UK no one will dispose of a unused property when there is nowhere else to put the money.
It quite clear that protecting house prices is of higher priority than protecting Sterling for any UK government. Yes, German property is half the price but their banks, economy and the fortunes of their political leaders are not dependant on house prices as they are in the UK
The party is over folks – let everyone get used to it, things are going to get very rough for those overleveraged in the property sector. Only thing is that those property whores, the estate agents and the other shadowy figures who manipulate the property market are still trying to talk the market up and giving those trying to sell totally unrealistic expectations regards their asking price – you just have to look at the property pullouts in all the local newspapers. Today's buyers are too canny and well researched to fall for it though. See you at the bottom later on next year! There might be something the FTBs can afford then.
I agree with Tim Ware's comments. Especially in relation to how we have been just 'fobbed off' by the media.
I don't recall seeing property programmes on TV in the early 90's when it was the right time to by property, only from 2002-2010 when it was the wrong time to buy property!
I don't recall loads of share programs on TV when it was the right time to buy shares, only just before the dotcom bubble bursting, when it was clearly the wrong time to buy shares.
Over the last 5 years it has clearly been the right time to BUY gold, but the media has been telling us to SELL all our gold for cash now!
Why do fully mature adults & kids/teens all think that whatever the media promotes is 'cool'! What on earth can possibly be 'cool' about being ripped-off!
The bargain period will start around autumn 2013, peak 2015 and finish around 2017,
The 'smart money' offloaded in summer 2007.
People who sold in summer 2007 realised it was time to get out when cab drivers and dustmen started telling them how great it was to get into BTL.
Anybody who gets into the property game now is a mug.
UK is 2.5 years behind the US, so wait 2.5 years after the US starts to recover then fill yer boots, thats if your not bankrupt. Now is not the time. Maybe around 2017 but who knows…..
"When will we get some decent reporting of what is actually happening here in the UK ?"
No time soon! People are too concerned with celebrity culture.
Didn't Roman leaders, during the fall of their empire, give the public more entertainment and cheap food while all around them was crumbling?
A comment to all of you who thing interest rates will go up a lot in the medium term.
1) it would break the UK economy – so, no use to anyone
2) there is an idea about that savers somehow 'deserve' to get a decent, completely risk free return on their money, just for putting it in a bank
You have to think this through. Why should you get a risk free return of 5% on your money? It's a great incentive just to stick your money in the bank and not invest in anything else. But if banks invest in businesses, it's a big overhead for businesses if they have to pay say 10% interest rates on loans so the bank can take its slice and pay you 5% – RISK FREE – interest on your savings. Don't forget the bank has overheads and makes losses on some loans. It takes risks, you don't.
I think 2% interest on your savings is quite reasonable as risk free interest. If you want higher interest than this, you need to be prepared to put your money at risk.
Ed Note: No with inflation at present rates savers automatically lose money, that is not a good return.
Mike, the point is if you don't receive an interest rate which matches inflation, then the real value of your money decreases.
Say it's 1970 and a pint of beer costs 20p, however I decide to put my 20p in a savings account to store my wealth and spend it later. In 2010, when the prices have risen 20x, the same beer is now £2.40. So if I'm a high rate taxpayer I would need an interest rate of over 10% pa just to break even in real terms… just to drink my pint of beer in 2010 rather than in 1970.
This fraud has now reached an extreme with the BoE forcing rates down to around 1000% below inflation. Of course one motive is clear, to help prop up overvalued asset prices by deterring liquidation i.e. make cash = trash.
Mike Wilson – banks lend the money deposited several times over. They loan the same money multiple times so there 10% charge bags them maybe 100% return/ anum while they borrow it at under 1%.
The bankers are getting huge profits now because the BoE have kept rates at low levels that suggest we are at death doors.
They have bostered liquidty and reduced the value of sterling by almost 30% by printing money (QE) inflation is anywhere between 4 & 6%. Bank deposits are definitely not risk free, savers are being robbed blind.
If people do not save the banks will reduce lending further and more people will become entirely dependent on the state in later life.
Savers are necessary and saving is healthy, they should be encouraged not shat on from a great height.
I read with interest the 'main stages in a bubble' model. I think we've been through the first 'return to normal' prices in the blow off phase… that was about 18 months ago when prices rallied unexpectedly, now I beleive we are in the fear/capitulation phase. Whilst estate agents wanted us to beleive that we were 'back on the up' prices soon began falling again. Now we have many forces acting against the market;
Low economic growth – our economy was growing due in a large part to consumer spending and personal wealth, this being fuelled by growth in house prices, easy credit and 100%+ mortgages. That's all gone away now.
Lack of credit – banks have been made to be more risk averse, only lending to those who can safely pay it back. Hence deposits required for mortgages and limits to loans available
Economic rebalancing – the economy is being 'rebalanced' toward manufactuing and away from reliance on consumer spending. As we do this, the wealth of the domestic consumer has less importance, we all therefore get comparatively poorer.
Too many properties comming up for sale – after the drought comes a return to the market by sellers. This pushes it into a buyers market, prices fall more quickly.
Money talks – cash buyers are now stepping into the market and dictating terms, whilst sellers resist, the 'I have the cash ready to go' statement is tempting more and more sellers into lowering prices to make a sale.
The amount of properties coming on the market at the upmarket range at prices of £500,000 to £5,000,000 plus seems to on the beginning of an exponential curve about to go vertical . If there really are that many people with that much money
then they will all get sold. It depends on how well heeled these sellers are in other words if they can wait they will find a buyer. There has been no property chain , few first buyers like in the 80's . So its just the rich selling to the rich . I've never seen so many mansions for sale , so many luxury 2,3,4 bedroom flats for sale . Half of these luxury flats all look the same . Clinical ,empty and guess what every one of them "stunning ". It's not much good either if a person can afford the mortgage then looses their financing capability or their job even .
Ed: That does sound like a rush to the exit!


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