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The Hitler government has carried out its threat and has issued a list of the thirty-three German emigrants who have been deprived of their German citizenship.
This list will one day occupy a place in the history of the political liberation movement in Germany such as is held nowadays in American history by the list of those who came on the Mayflower, for every one of those whose name is on this list has thereby given proof of his incorruptible Republican convictions which were bound to provoke the special enmity of Messrs. Hitler, Goering and Company.
Among those thirty-three, if we leave out of account a few members who are of partly Jewish origin, there are ten Jews. Some of them are men who are known the world over. They should certainly have had the honor to have Einsterin's name included with their own had not Einstein notified the German government three months before that he no longer regards it as an honor to be a German citizen so long as Germany is ruled by Hitler.
There is a good deal of the comic in the fact that a man like Chancellor Hitler, who only recently obtained his naturalization as a German subject through the back door, now denies German citizenship to men like Heinrich Mann, who, like his brother Thomas, who is still tolerated, belongs to a Luebeck family that for centuries provided that ancient free Hanseatic city with Senators and Lord Mayors.
The expatriated Jews all belong to families who have lived for centuries in Germany. My own ancestors, as I can prove by official document, were about the year 1670 already living in a small town in Brandenburg, about an hour's distance by motor car from Berlin. . All of us on the list, we Jews, too, instead of letting Hitler make regulations about our Germanism have much more right to question his own title as German. And the world, especially the Jews of the world, should ask him publicly how it is that he who slunk into German citizenship by getting his party comrade Frick to appoint him a government official of Thuringia has obtained the right to annul the citizenship granted under the republic to Jews of Eastern Europe.
But there is one thing that has now become a burning issue. And that is the need to do something urgently concerning passports for emigre German Jews. American Jews too ought to see to it that full effect should be given to the proposal put forward amid applause in the British House of Commons by Locker-Lampson that Palestine citizenship should be conferred upon German Jews, not only upon those living in Palestine, so that they would receive Palestine passports, which would in effect place them under the protection of the British Empire.
I should regard it as a great honor to become, in this way, a citizen of the Promised Land.


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For those of you that missed it during the episode, the Naughty or Nice winners have been announced. It looks like FiM Scooped every single one of their categories! Good work everyone!
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Azerbaijan has announced that it…
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Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government Natural Resources Minister, announced that a new pipeline should be completed by the end of September, which will allow the autonomous region to supply oil to the Turkish border, without using any Iraqi owned infrastructure.
The pipeline will carry oil to Fishkabour, near the border with Turkey; currently the KRG has to transport it's oil via trucks after halting all exports through the Baghdad-run pipeline in December, due to arguments over crude oil revenues.
Kurdistan has a production capacity of 300,000 barrels a day at the moment, but that is expected to grow to 400,000 barrels a day this year, and with six more fields expected to start operations by the end of the year the region is well on its way to fill the pipes capacity.
Related article: Rumors of OPEC's Demise Exaggerated
The KRG hopes that by building its own oil and natural gas pipelines to Turkey it can start to achieve full economic self-sufficiency.
Robin Mills, the head of consulting at Manaar Energy Consulting and Project Management, told Bloomberg that "if the Kurds go ahead with the exports to Turkey, it will have a big implication. They want to develop their oil and they've been struggling to do that because of the problems of getting paid and the problems of having consistent exports, so they kind of see this as the only way to go ahead."
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World Cup 2014: Group G
Another closely-contested group sees Germany and Portugal the outright favourites for the top two spots, with superstar Cristiano Ronaldo looking to propel the Portuguese far into the tournament.
Germany's pedigree at World Cups is unquestioned, and with some of the best youngsters in the game included in the squad, though it will want to end its title drought stretching 18 years.
Ghana was cruelly denied a historic semi-final place in South Africa, and will be looking to surprise its more illustrious opponents to advance from the group stage.
Nowadays, the United States can no longer be considered underdogs, having posted a number of excellent showings in recent World and Confederations cups.
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In anticipation of increased capacity needs, Hong Hong's government has approved an expansion plan that will give Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) a third runway. Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) believes that construction will start within three years.
"We thank the government and the public for their support of HKIA," said Dr. Marvin Cheung Kin-tung, chairman of AAHK. "Our airport's future development into a three-runway system is crucial if we are to maintain Hong Kong's status as a leading international and regional aviation centre."
The development is part of the airport's master plan for 2030 and, according to the AAHK, it will immediately begin planning process involving environmental impact assessments, approvals and implementation. "Once the process is completed and the environmental permit is obtained for proceeding with a third runway, we will finalize the necessary associated design and develop suitable financial options for discussion with the government," said the airport authority.


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i Have a Like new redington 9' 4wt 4 piece that i fished this morning and noticed for the areas i fish it is a little to long. i would like to either trade it for another rod in its price range in either a 8'-8'6" 4wt or would like to sell for $180
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Dress, schmess: What about the hats?!?
Enough about the dress: We all knew she'd look like a princess. What really took my breath away were all those hats!
Victoria Beckham looked downright posh in a little pillbox meets fallen branch number:
Is it a bird? A plane? Why no, it's Princess Eugenie of York and Princess Beatrice of York!
Who says those royals don't have a sense of humor? Camilla is ready for Frisbee at the reception. Think they'll have beer pong, too?
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Despite all the amazing boutiques and emerging fashion designers our fair city has to offer, we still can't help but feel a tinge of envy when visiting the Big Apple...largely as a result of stepping into Oak NYC.
We've been diehard fans of the insanely hip boutique for quite some time, so needless to say we were over the moon when they launched a diffusion line of edgy basics, aptly named A.OK, with all pieces retailing under $100.
So where are we going with all this woe-is-me, we-want-Oak NYC babble? To The Seventh Heart.
Yes, Oak is launching their very first A.OK pop-up shop in the Market St. boutique this Thursday, bringing their largely unisex go-to wares along with them.
From 7-10 p.m., you can expect to find every self-respecting PYT in the city shopping, sipping cocktails and shimmying to the beats of DJ Christopher Runyonce and Jason Kendig. But the party doesn't end there...after all, they are from the city that never sleeps.
The after-party is at the ever infamous Tubesteak Connection at one of our absolute favorite dives, Aunt Charlie's Lounge. So snag a cheap (and stiff) cocktail and show off your new duds on the dance floor.
Or, if that isn't your thing, there's always the claw machine.
A.OK Pop-Up Shop Launch Party, 7-10 p.m. at The Seventh Heart, 1592 Market St.; After-Party, 10 p.m-2 a.m. at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, 133 Turk St.


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Privateproperty is one of the oldest property portals in South Africa with its domain first registered in 1997. Over the years Privateproperty has pioneered moving the search for residential property online.
In early 2000 the business model was FSBO (only allowed Private Seller advertisements ) and aggressively worked to disintermediate real estate agents by offering a comprehensive flat fee advertising and sales support solution. After 2008 the company opened the website to Estate Agents with great success. By 2010 it had became the portal of choice for South Africans. All leading brands now push listings to the website where they are presented alongside Private seller stock. The business model for agents is subscription, unlimited adverts for a fixed fee, but products are also offered to enhance listings and improve quality and the resulting lead volume. The culture of Innovation has survived since the inception of Private Property and it is this quality that differentiates it from its competitors.
Nigeria is one of the most exciting opportunities in Africa, with a population of over 160 million people, many of whom are joining the rapidly growing and connected middle class.
In August 2011 Private Property found the right opportunity to join up with local Internet entrepreneurs, to form Private Property Nigeria. Since 2011 the company has been building a sustainable marketplace by educating industry players about the benefits of internet advertising and leading them online by demonstrating results. Most properties are photographed by a team of photographers and to maintain quality all new listings are moderated for authenticity. Private Property has established a leading position by traffic, add volume and revenue and is on track to grow ten fold during in the new financial year.
For competitive reasons details of some early stage investments are not disclosed.
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Takuma Sato signs with AJ Foyt Racing
AJ Foyt Racing has signed Takuma Sato to drive the No. 14 Honda in this year's IndyCar season.
The signing announced Thursday fills the seat left open by Mike Conway, who said he didn't feel comfortable racing on ovals during practice for last September's season finale at Fontana.
Foyt said Sato's aggressive driving style caught his attention in last year's Indianapolis 500. Sato charged to the front of the field and challenged Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon in the closing laps, only to crash trying to pass Franchitti for the win on the final lap.
The Japanese driver has completed three seasons in IndyCar, winning two poles and five top-five finishes in 49 starts. His best finish was second in 2012 at Edmonton.
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Snap Calzone
I was so excited to hear that Snap, the French bouldering company, were finally going to be given proper representation in the UK via the County Climbing Company that it actually made me feel quite happy about my life, for too long had I seen French people foisting about these sexy slices of foam. The Calzone is Snap's workhorse offering, and is the most readily available mat in their range, despite this however it measures in at a mere one metre square which is a tad small, I would like to have seen them match its surface area to that of the Moon Warrior pad, however take a look inside the cover and there is one obvious difference.
Snap, in their eternal wisdom, have given you a full inch of astoundingly good quality hard foam as your landing surface. This gives the mat a much firmer feel and means it is capable of absorbing more impact by spreading it out to a greater area of soft foam; take a big fall on to one of these things and you'll appreciate the way it nullifies the blow more so than softer feeling mats. This is due to a unique treatment, which Snap gives to their hard foam by which it is heat treated in a special atmosphere reducing the size of the cells whilst at the same time thickening their walls, giving the whole top sheet of foam more elastic properties. The end result of this treatment is foam which absorbs more impact and lasts longer so you won't be needing to replace it any time soon Brilliant.
The Calzone is a burrito folding design and folds with the ground side inwards, to prevent the Woodstock look. However due to the mat being a little smaller and the foam being a little tougher it is a more difficult to fold away initially, this however, does ease with use. Snap have used a simple bombproof D ring closure, which makes the mat quick and easy to stow away whilst providing some adjustability in the tension so you can snugly secure your bouldering essentials inside it.
For me Snap have also used one of the best designs when it comes to removing the shoulder straps. It's a non fussy affair with two hoops to thread the strap through and specially designed buckles that easily clip on and off at the bottom of the mat. This means that the straps don't depend on the strength of the velcro closure to hold them in place and hence they won't be affected with wear.
Finally all of the Snap mats are stitched together like they are about to go through a war zone; the bases are made of a hard-wearing ballistic fabric which is anti-slip, and easy to clean. The corners of the covers are stitched with a tough mesh to facilitate escaping air from the open-cell soft foam on the bottom meaning the mat deflates under impact rather than acting as a bouncy castle. These thoughtful chaps from across the pond have also included a small carpet on the landing surface, stowed under their logo, to wipe your feet on before you set off.
The Calzone is unique in that it has enough shock absorption to act as your main pad, but is small enough to be carried around as your second pad. A truly great little contender to buy as your first mat due to its versatility.
For anyone looking for a bigger pad Snap also do a double-folding version called the Burrito which is essentially the same as the Calzone but with an extra fold; the advantage being twice the landing surface.
Snap Whopper
The Whopper is a more traditional hinged pad with a twist, it folds with the groundside inwards like the Calzone, however this does create a problem. When laying flat the Whopper has a very obvious split down the middle. This looks a bit ominous from above, but there is consolation in that the hinge is velcro so you can split the mat in two and use it like two smaller mats to cover more ground. This is how you will find yourself using the pad most of the time especially on traverses or roof problems.
As with all Snap pads the Whopper features their superb foam set up which is amongst the best I have used. The straps are removable in the same way as the Calzone and the Whopper is also slightly larger, closer in size to the Moon Warrior pad when fully opened out.
Snap Quarter Pounder
This is really well thought out little mat which folds up a bit like a cluedo board and gives a landing surface bigger than the Whopper, but it will easily fold up to fit in the tiniest of car boots.
Unfortunately it does suffer from the same splitting problem as the Whopper. When lying flat there are some ugly looking crevices in the pad so I wouldn't want to use it for problems of any great height. In practice this turns out to be far less of a problem than it would appear to be but it does take some getting used to.
The Quarter Pounder also fills Snap's niche as a perfect little traveling pad as it folds up small enough for hire cars along with all your baggage, so it's ideal for running around circuits in Font (it would appear someone told Snap about the boulder bus). Like the Whopper it can also be split into smaller pads so if there is a group you can separate to do different things.
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Atlantic Theater
5870 Atlantic Avenue,
Long Beach,
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Opened in 1941, this was rather plain on the outside, its most distinguishing feature was a large tower similar to trademark of RKO-Radio pictures that flashed with neon lights, a magnet for families in the surrounding area. It survived as a theater until 1976 and became home to a church. It was demolished in February, 2014.
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thanks MJ. we moved to 1074 Market in 59 when i was 9. then ironically to the little house south side of the Library. the one they are now saying is old and i forget the word (RDA word)but is what the excuse or reasons of 'needing' a new library built once the theater is razed. LB BS! i'm now at Market on Cerritos. across the street from where i started 54 years ago. ha. the new. and the gone. i remember more that's gone than what's new. not impressed.
The Press-Telegram is reporting that the date for the Atlantic to be demolished is 1/25/14, but the front of the building is being preserved.
Hi Guys. the date is coming up fast. is anyone suppose to be or going to be on site when they start demo? to point out what is being saved, and instructions of how it's to be saved? don't trust the RDA one bit. they write up pretty papers of promises. everything they say their going to do has ten ways of doing it and they choose which way. like the saving of the historical Jergens Trust Building concrete cherubs & moldings. i came across recently in the library's community data digital archives photo's of LB a picture of one of the LB salvage yards and there up against the chain link fence was the cherubs and all the moldings stacked up on the ground and the cherub has two foot high weeds growing up out of her bosom and under her chin where they are cracked apart. obviously stacked with a fork lift. nothing has ever gone into the plan of using them again as said they would. once again it's a case of they promised they would, but never said when.. i'll mark the date.. the 25th is on a Saturday? i'm betting LB isn't even doing the razing or the building of the center or library. they hired it out instead of the city doing the job. the city doesn't work on Saturdays and pay any work of overtime! we'll see. i'll go check out the data base LBPL to see if it's to date. Deb
Hi Guys, i've gone by the Atlantic theater, nothing yet to suggest that the demolish is still scheduled for the 25th. no signs ect. last time i went by there were Edison trucks with crane all in the back of the building working up on the poles. other than that nothing looks like work happening. i make it a habit to go by that way anymore. i'll let you know if i see anything. i've posted the info and all the pictures on a group site of Facebook 'you know your from LBC when you remember…' it has raised so many to remembering our days going to the Atlantic, Crest, Towne & LaShell Theaters, many back to the days they opened. they loved the pictures and i included this site so they can also find info of the many other theaters that once were here in LBC and those that still are. thanks again for being here.
Today, January 25, 2014, a 'celebration' was held marking the beginning of this theater's demolition. The 1941 theater is being destroyed after many years of neglect to make way for a new library. The RKO-like spire, the theater's terrazo floors, fountain and tile work will be incorporated into the library's design plan. I will post some photos.
I just added a few new photos of the demolition. The auditorium is down.
Several months ago, in mid-2014, I drove out to the site of the Atlantic. Not only is the building gone without a trace, but there seems to be no sign of future development at the site, not even a sign proclaiming the construction of a library, or anything, there. I'm wondering if the neighborhood has become the victim of a development scam of some sort, a promise of a library, and preserved portions of the theatre, only to be left with nothing. I hope not. I'll be interested to see if anyone has any news.
What happened to the tower?
The top part of the tower was preserved, and mounted onto the new library building, which has been completed. I do not know if any other features of the theatre were incorporated anywhere else in the new building.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Maybe there's a shot to play in a bowl game.
Maybe an appeal for a medical redshirt is a possibility.
Or, maybe, Christian Bryant will hobble out of the tunnel Saturday afternoon at the Horseshoe, take in an ovation, make an appearance at midfield as a captain and his career at home for Ohio State will come to a close.
The only thing for certain right now for the senior safety is that he will be honored by the No. 3 Buckeyes before a game that he can't play in due to a fractured ankle. After that, there remains plenty for Bryant to sort through as he weighs his options for the future, though for the moment, the heart and soul of the Ohio State defense is still preparing as if he's heading for a sendoff this weekend.
"I would say it will probably be one of those emotional days for me, just knowing it could be a possibility it could be my last game in the Shoe," Bryant said. "Walking out and just seeing the fans' reaction to me walking out of the tunnel for the last time in the Shoe, I feel like it's probably going to be a great experience."
The outpouring of appreciation isn't likely to be limited to the fans, particularly since tributes to Bryant have been an almost weekly occurrence from his teammates and coaches since he suffered his injury late in a win over Wisconsin on Sept. 28.
From the moment he went down, Urban Meyer was distraught over the loss of his unquestioned defensive leader, banging a podium during his postgame press conference and continuing to reference the hole Bryant's absence has left ever since.
Linebacker Ryan Shazier quickly asked for permission to swap his own jersey number for Bryant's No. 2 to pay homage to the veteran and send a message to the Buckeyes that his spirit was still on the field with them.
And Bryant has remained a vocal presence on the sideline at home games and in meeting rooms during the week, pointing out errors and praising success as the guy who safeties coach Everett Withers said "everybody else still looks to" for leadership.
"You know, he's still the spark plug on our defense," Withers said. "I think he has a tremendous value, he provides a lot of glue to our football team.
"He's a guy that if something isn't going good, he's going to let everybody know it isn't going good and why it isn't going good. If it's going good, then he's going to be a positive role model on that sideline."
Bryant may have had no problems providing all that help and inspiration away from the field, but obviously what he'd really like to do is get off the sideline and get back to making an impact in pads.
There are currently a couple options for him to do it at Ohio State, though neither is a certainty at this point. Bryant, a true senior, also missed some time as a freshman due to a foot injury and could conceivably file an appeal for a medical hardship that would grant him a fifth year of eligibility if approved. Or, he could get healthy, ditch the crutches and heavy wrap that are currently on his left foot and make a return for a potential BCS bowl appearance.
But either way, there won't be a resolution by the weekend, and Bryant isn't going to skip the festivities on senior day.
"[The bowl game] has been brought up a few times, but right now it's still kind of unsure about what can happen, the progress of where I may be at that point, so it's still up in the air," he said. "I heard that a medical redshirt could be a possibility, but I'm really not sure. I think we might go to appeal it, but there's no way to know what might happen during that process.
"I really haven't thought about it too much. There are pros and cons with both, with coming back or just going to the [NFL] and training. There are still some things that I need to think about, talk over with my family and the coaches, and we'll see what happens."
Worrying about all those maybes won't do much good for Bryant right now. Instead, he's looking to make the most of what's certain to be in front of him -- another trip through the tunnel at Ohio Stadium and one more chance to make a difference for the Buckeyes any way he can.


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After years of lobbying for simple changes to traffic sign regulations, CTC is pleased that the Government has finally agreed to a relaxation of certain rules, such as permitting an 'except cyclists' plate to be used in conjunction with a 'no entry' sign. The changes should make streets safer and road engineering cheaper. The move comes as part of the outcome of the Traffic Signs Review announced by Norman Baker MP today.
Other proposals include a trial permitting cycling over zebra crossings, as well as an advanced green light phase for cyclists and the means to bypass standard traffic signals. There is no mention of the 'turn left on red' idea proposed by the Mayor of London.
Chris Peck, Policy Co-ordinator for CTC, said: "Local authorities will have the freedom to allow two-way cycling on quiet one-way streets with a simple sign change. This has long been common practice in Europe and is a safe, sensible approach to improving cycle access whilst reducing street clutter. The move to give greater local flexibility over signing may help make it easier for authorities to allow cycling where current regulations create a stumbling block.
"We look forward to local authorities trying out some of the innovative measures that CTC has been calling for, such as advanced signals, giving cyclists a head start in traffic and the use of zebra crossings by cyclists. Cycle use of zebras will mean local authorities can still give priority crossings for cyclists and pedestrians without needing expensive, unpopular toucan crossings."
However, many of the changes require amendments to current regulations, which will only be finished in 2014. Until that time local authorities must still go through the time-consuming process of requesting special authorisation from the Department for Transport to use certain signs and markings.


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MUNICH (Jan. 5)
A congrese of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany, the representative body of Jewish DP's in the U.S. zone, will be held on Feb. 15, it was announced here today.
The congress was originally scheduled for Jan. 27, but has been postponed to provide time for new elections of delegates to be held in the camps. The elections which were held last Sunday have been voided, because polling took place in only few camps as a result of poor coordination between the camps and committee headquarters here.
American feature films have begun to arrive here and are being circulated among the camps as part of the JDC's special service program. The JDC has printed summaries of each film in Yiddish explaining the action to the camp audiences.


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BRUSSELS - The European Union reached a preliminary agreement Thursday on stricter rules to make offshore oil and gas drilling safer, hoping to prevent accidents such as the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
The new rules, which need to be formally approved by EU member countries and the European Parliament, will require companies to submit hazard reports and emergency-response plans in order to get a license to drill. Operators will have to show that they have adequate financial and technical resources to face emergencies, to protect personnel and the environment, and to cover potential liabilities.
The new legislation broadly follows that of countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which already have stringent regulations in place due to their decades-long experience in the sector, so the impact of any new rules will chiefly be felt by areas considering new drilling operations, such as around Cyprus and in the Black Sea.
"These rules will make sure that the highest safety standards already mostly in place in some member states will be followed at every oil and gas platform across Europe," said the European Union's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. "The new law will ensure that we react effectively and promptly in the event of an accident and minimize the possible damage to the environment and the livelihoods of coastal communities."
The legislation is expected to be formally approved by the summer and implemented within two years after that. The new rules leave some freedom in how member states translate them into national law and leave companies some space in determining how to comply, an EU official said.
The EU has more than 1,000 oil and gas platforms, mostly in the North Sea, with the U.K. hosting almost half.
The European Commission said it is keen to harmonize the legislation to the best and safest standard. The provisions will apply to all drilling platforms in EU waters because they would cover all those located up to 370 kilometers from the coast.
European companies operating platforms outside the bloc will still have to submit accident-response plans for those installations to the EU country in which they are based, another EU official said.
The legislation also aims to ensure there are no conflicts of interest between authorities who give licenses and those who ensure the installations' safety, the official said.
Previous EU rules concerning offshore oil and gas safety are up to 20 years old, less comprehensive and don't extend as far offshore as the new legislation.
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By Patrick Akoto
Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi has launched a stinging pot at 'wicked' journalists for creating disaffection for the association over the 2014 World Cup budget, labeling them as 'lunatics'.
The ever-smiling and ambitious Ghanaian football leader is livid with constant allegations of corruption against the FA in the wake of intense debate over the approved budget for the 2014 World Cup.
Government has approved a figure in the region of $9 million for the global showpiece in Brazil, which is a far cry from the reported $20 million amount, speculated in the local media for weeks.
Nyantakyi has gone banana-crazy over the debate on the budget and says the figures being bandied about in the media are being concocted by 'wicked' journalists, who are determined to see his back.
"All these brouhaha and controversies about the World Cup budget were concocted by wicked (journalists) who should have known better and who knows the real truth but won't say it as it is," Nyantakayi is quoted by Ghanasportsonline.com
"It can only take a lunatic to say such things, because if only you are not sick in the head and not a mad man, you wouldn't talk about inflated figures in the budget.
"How can a person who is mentally sound, how can a person who is not a lunatic publish and claim that the Ghana Football Association has inflated figures that we are sending to the minister and the chief of staff?"
"They have planned, all these have been planned and I believe its intentional and they just want to say bad things about the GFA.
"You can at times get confused to even determine whether such people are truly Ghanaians because after all the budget that we prepare will be sent to the minister and the minister is not blind".
Nyantakyi's outburst could spark another wave of debate in the West African country with barely two months left for the biggest football tournament on earth.
Every budget for Ghana's World Cup participation resurrects a ritual of debate over whether the amount is prudent for a one-month long competition or an overly wasteful outlay of scarce resources.
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Happy Monday, folks.
In today's VideoDaily Roundup, we'll start off by asking why minorities watch more online video. Next we have one columnist's rant against the poor state of Web video content, and how to change it. Our third story highlights two marketers who claim to be shifting a portion of their TV budgets to Web video. After that, analysts talk up Netflix's prospects for the rest of the year ahead of its Q1 earnings report. Finally, we have one CNET editor's lament on repurposed, 30-second pre-roll ads. Enjoy!
Minority Targeted Shows Thrive on YouTube
Minorities are increasingly looking to Web video to find content that is relevant to them, The Washington Post reports. Of the 20 most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, eight feature minorities; most of these feature Asian-Americans, but many more black and Latino shows make up YouTube's top 50. While the Google site doesn't reveal how much minority video producers earn, it says hundreds of them make at least six figures or more, annually.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly 80 percent of minorities regularly watch online video, compared with less than 70 percent of whites. Analysts say the trend makes sense: minorities might feel neglected by mainstream television, which mostly features white stars, whereas Web video can target more niche audiences and thrive on smaller production budgets. As the IAB's Seneca Mudd says, advertisers would ignore this trend at their own peril.
Talent Investment the Key to Making Web Video Better
Web videos largely "suck," Jordan Kurzweil laments in a column for TechCrunch -- mostly because they have been unable to build large, steady audiences that keep coming back for more. Kurzweil offers a three-step plan for online video success: promotion, great content and product (making it easy for audiences to come back for more). Of course, the hardest of these to achieve is great content, which he says the industry has failed to produce.
There are many reasons for this -- but the answer, according to Kurzweil, is investing in talent. However, getting the most talented people to produce great content will require that they be paid like television, production and studio executives -- something that may not happen until Web video amasses the kind of audience and the universal metrics that have made television the go-to medium for brand advertisers.
Oh, and speaking of advertisers, "keep the advertisers out of [the project] until it's done and ready for them," Kurzweil says. "Consensus is no way to produce anything actually creative."
Amid Declines in TV Viewership, Marketers Redirect TV Spending to Video
Some marketers are indeed migrating spend away from TV and into online channels. According to a new Wall Street Journal article, Samsung plans to redirect 30% of its TV upfront budget into online media, while GM plans to increase its digital spending by 3-5 percent, with most of the money coming from print and TV.
As the article points out, fewer people on average have been watching television this season: according to Nielsen, 60.1 million people watched broadcast or cable TV at any given moment of the day between Sept. 19, 2011 and March 25, 2012 -- down 2.8 percent from last year. Sharper declines were reported among younger viewers. According to comScore, more than 100 million Americans watched an online video on an average day last year -- up 43 percent from the year before.
Ahead of Q1 Results, Analysts Mixed on Netflix
Netflix, which reports first-quarter earnings today, is expected to post a gain of 1.73 million new online subscribers in the U.S. since December -- or a total of 23.4 million -- after the market closes. However, as some analysts tell Bloomberg BusinessWeek, its U.S. online subscribers may soon peak, as competing services from the likes of Amazon, Time Warner, HBO and Hulu cannibalize the U.S. market for TV and film content online. According to the article, seven analysts recommend buying Netflix stock, 20 say hold and nine have sell ratings.
As the company continues to shed subscribers to its DVD mail-order business, its streaming business takes center stage -- but this faces challenges from Hollywood studios seeking higher fees for the streaming rights to their content. For example, Netflix's costs extending out five years or more rose to $3.9 billion at the end of 2011, from $1.3 billion a year before. The key question, one analyst says, is whether the company will need more content to attract new subscribers—and how much it will have to pay for that.
Why Repurposed 30-Second Pre-Rolls Must Die
The migration of content from TV to Web is on, millions are cutting (or at least shaving) the cord, and people are consuming more video content across more devices than ever before. But one problem persists, laments CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood: the 30-second pre-roll -- the one that you can't fast-forward or skip -- must die.
This is particularly irritating, she notes, when the content that you want to watch is only a few minutes long. "Result: you're angry at the publisher, you're angry at the advertiser, and everyone's brand takes a hit. The publisher and the advertiser haven't made an ad 'impression' -- they have made an enemy," she says. Even 15-second pre-rolls have issues, she adds -- and the biggest is repetition.
These problems will only get worse as video increasingly goes mobile. Wood issues a ringing cry for marketers to stop repurposing TV ads for the Web (and presents several alternative ideas) in order to make advertising additive to the online video experience, rather than turning consumers into brand enemies.


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36-year old Michael Setiawan of Queens is charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, and criminal mischief. Setiawan left the police department in 2007.
The swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases were plastered on at least 15 cars and 4 buildings, including a school.
Police received the report of the graffiti in Borough Park at about 8:30 Saturday night. They were able to easily track down the former cop, because the surveillance video gave police a description of the car and possible license plate. Setiawan was picked up early Sunday morning at his home in Queens.
Three cars were targeted on Dahill Road and two others on 37th Street.
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According to Gartner, world-class organizations enjoy a high level of project success rate. So what is the secret of their success? For one, they have established successful Project Management Offices (PMOs). In fact, two-thirds of organizations implementing PMOs report that project success rates have improved significantly as a result. The Project Management Office (PMO) in a business or professional enterprise is the department or group that defines and maintains the standards of process, generally related to project management, within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects. It is the source of documentation, guidance, and metrics on the practice of project management and execution.
Below are 5 key benefits of Project Management Office. Structured, lucid, and coherent methodology that enables senior management to increase the rate of benefits realization through:
Setting up a Project Management Office is a project in itself. When rolling out a PMO, an organization will need experienced consultants to guide them so pitfalls can be avoided, design project management processes, and prioritize PMO Office goals. Having experienced consultants in the early stages is one of the critical factors to the success of a PMO implementation.
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Tuesday, 2 April, 2002, 03:01 GMT 04:01 UK
Breakthrough in teachers' dispute
Ministers seem set to make a significant concession over reducing teachers' workload in England and Wales - with the offer of guaranteed lesson preparation time in the school day.
As the National Union of Teachers threatened industrial action in a campaign for a shorter working week, BBC correspondents have found that teachers could be about to receive an improvement in working conditions.
There seems likely to be an offer of up to five hours a week of "professional time" which would allow planning and marking within the school day, rather than in their own time.
The Department for Education and Skills, likely to be embarrassed by the timing of such a leak, described the claims as "pure speculation".
Education Secretary Estelle Morris has emphasised that she will not respond to threats of strikes - and the government will not want to appear to be making concessions only hours after teachers voted for industrial action.
Teachers have complained angrily about a culture of excessive working hours, which they say causes stress and damages recruitment to the profession.
And the union's general secretary, Doug McAvoy, had earlier said that such an offer of five hours preparation time would represent a "very significant development".
38-hour week?
The biggest teachers' union has also indicated that a breakthrough was possible - and has made clear its readiness to compromise.
The demand for a 35-hour working week for teachers is open to negotiation, says Mr McAvoy.
He indicated that if the government suggested a 38-hour working week it would be accepted by the teachers' union.
At present, the Education Secretary, Estelle Morris, is refusing to accept any fixed limit on working hours.
But Mr McAvoy expressed confidence that ongoing negotiations with government would resolve their differences - and he made clear that the much-quoted claim for a 35-hour week was not cast in stone.
Although he suggested a 38-hour system as an "illustration" of how a working week might be developed, he also indicated that a higher figure would not necessarily be rejected.
Cutting a deal
According to an official independent review, teachers are currently working an average of 53 hours a week.
And Estelle Morris, speaking to journalists at the conference on Saturday, suggested that non-teaching tasks accounted for 20% of a teacher's working week.
She proposed that such tasks could be carried out by classroom assistants.
This would reduce the teachers' working week to around 42 hours - only four hours above the 38 hours being floated by Mr McAvoy.
If the five hours of "professional time" were added to this, a deal could be closer than is apparent from the threats of industrial action.
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This softball season has been a bit of a soap opera for local teams.
In fact, the 2013 campaign could aptly be called, "As the Solano County Athletic Conference Turns."
* The Benicia High School softball team's head coach, Kristin Grubbs, was let go of her post last week despite leading the Panthers to a 15-0 record in conference play. The dismissal caused an uproar from players and parents.
* The American Canyon softball team seemingly beat out Bethel for the third and final playoff spot from the league but the Wolves were docked four wins for playing too many preseason games, allowing the Jaguars to advance to the postseason instead.
Today, both the Panthers and Jaguars are alive in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs at the Sacramento Softball Complex.
Benicia takes on Del Campo of Fair Oaks in a 7 p.m. game and Bethel faces Casa Roble of Orangevale in a 4 p.m. matchup.
Grubbs' assistant coach, Bruce Zimmer, has taken over the reigns for the Panthers and the players have been repeating the theme, "Four more!," as in, it will take four more victories to win a section title.
"It was definitely unexpected," Zimmer said Thursday afternoon about him taking over for Grubbs. "We're trying to continue on for the girls. I've got many years of hardball and softball experience so I just want to win it for the girls."
Zimmer said Danielle Kranz (12-2, 1.20) and Kira Knight (11-1, 0.90) would likely alternate throughout the postseason if the team advances. Kranz is likely to start against Del Campo, the third-place team from the Capital Valley Conference, today.
The Cougars (16-9-1) are led by junior Halee Howell (.448, 31 RBIs) and pitcher Megan Waltz (16-9, 2.03).
The Panthers figure to see plenty of good pitching in the postseason so they cranked up the pitching machine this week and invited some of the junior varsity players to practice this week to help with scrimmages.
Waltz will have to pitch to a Benicia lineup that hit .365 as a team and is led by Kendall Core (.412, 34 RBIs) and Chanler Powell (.394, 21 RBIs).
Zimmer said despite the potential distractions, the players have handled themselves well.
"Better than expected considering what has transpired," he said. "They have remained unbeat and they haven't lost focus."
With a win, Benicia advances to Saturday's second round game at 1 p.m. where it will play Christian Brothers or McClatchy.
Bethel vs. Casa Roble
The Jaguars (12-11) not only advanced to their first potseason in history but won their first postseason game ever on Tuesday when they dispatched Sacramento High, 11-1.
Their road gets much tougher today, however, against the Rams (20-5), the CVC champion and one of the favorites to win the section.
Bethel head coach Richard Thomas tried to emphasize to his team this week that it must play at their highest level to beat Casa Roble. The Jaguars beat Vanden, 4-3 on April 24 and took Benicia to the limit in a 4-3 loss on April 9.
"I told them, 'If you can play Benicia and Vanden that tough, you can play with anybody,'" Thomas said.
The Jaguars don't lack for experience. Pitcher Erica McClinton and first baseman Bryana Smith are four-year varsity players while infielders Jasmine Hornsby and Sara Tagliaboschi (both Hogan transfers) and Ashley Whaley have been on the varsity for three seasons.
Bethel will have to find a way to scratch home a few runs against Casa Roble ace Kaitlyn Garcia (20-5, 1.81).
Rena Isogawa has been hot at the top of the order lately and Thomas said he will likely rely on small ball against Garcia.
McClinton will have to stop a Rams offense that features four players with 20-plus RBIs, including Sami Aguilar (.488). McClinton, who currently has a 4.75 GPA at Bethel, could be pitching in her final game. She plans to attend Cal Maritime University but will concentrate on mechanical engineering.
Thomas said a handful of his players do plan to play beyond this year though: Hornsby at Cal Baptist, Whaley at Sacramento City College and Tagliaboschi at Ohlone College.
"The players have kept a nothing-to-lose kind of attitude," Thomas said. "They've been smiling and happy that we're there. They are taking everything in stride."
The winner advances to Saturday's 1 p.m. next round where it will play either Rosemont or Vanden.


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"Hands off Our Land!" screams the Daily Telegraph, like some shotgun-toting red-faced farmer. The newspaper, on behalf of the reactionary toffs who form the least pleasant section of its readership, has launched a campaign directed against 'urban sprawl' (ie. the rest of us).
On a good day, the Telegraph serves up enlightened articles by progressive liberals like Janet Daley and Simon Heffer and Jeff Randal (I'm talking about real liberals here, not American Trotskyites). But then it disappears under the desk, drinks some devilish, bubbling potion and emerges looking like Mr Hyde, all wonky teeth and messy hair. "Hands off Our Land" is the Telegraph at its worst - a campaign to thwart the government's all-too-modest suggestions to reform Britain's vicious planning laws.
NIMBY (Not In My Back-Yard) is a misnomer. As James Heartfield observes in his brilliant book Let's Build! if it was their back-yard there wouldn't be a problem. By "Our Land", the Telegraph's Colonel Blimps do not mean "land owned by us". They mean "other people's land", over which they wish to continue to exercise control via the State.
The battle against suburbanisation (which the Greens these days clothe in the jargon of 'sustainability') has been going on for decades, and the success of the NIMBYs in keeping the bulk of Britain's population locked inside towns and cities, has disfigured Britain and blighted the lives of millions of people. As a result of State planning restrictions, Britons are stuffed into towns and cities like battery-farmed chickens. We are among the most densely packed people in the world. In Britain, 90 percent of people live in urban areas. In Germany (which has a similar population density) only 75 percent of people live in urban areas, while only 68 percent of Italians live in urban areas, and only 62 percent of the Irish (is the Italian or Irish countryside so awful?). In India only 30 percent of the people live in urban areas.
And to make matters much worse for the Brits, our urban areas constitute a mere 9 percent of total land use. That's right - 90 percent of the people crammed into 9 percent of Britain. Compare that to the 13 percent of land devoted to 'Green Belt' (the stuff holding us in). Even in the South East of England, by far the most densely crowded bit of the UK, woodland and farmland, absurdly, accounts for more than three quarters of land use.
Britain is not a crowded island – contrary to the frothing rants from the misanthropes at the Telegraph. Viewers wrote in to express their incredulity when the BBC broadcast a series called 'Britain from Above'. The BBC helicopters filmed hour after hour of vast, unending tracts of flat, rectangular fields and giant swathes of green nothingness. It was astonishing to the naïve urbanites watching to see how empty the place was. (Just take a look on Google satellite images). The reason why Britain feels, to most of us, like an overcrowded island, is because all most of us ever see are congested towns and cities (or a fleeting glimpse of industrial farmland out of a car window as we travel along 'urban corridors' between towns).
Hemming people into towns and cities with 'Green Belts', has acted like a pressure-cooker on property prices. The planning system, by limiting the amount of land available to build on, has created an artificial shortage of living space, forcing up the prices of houses and flats to such astronomical heights that many young couples can only dream of affording one. The less affluent dare not get a job for fear of losing housing benefit. There are families in London where the children sleep three and four to a room – a tiny room in a dingy flat. Children who have outgrown their cots are forced to stay in them, sleeping with their legs bent (I have direct knowledge of such cases). It is impossible to document the sheer bloody misery caused by the planning system - countless examples of diminished lives. Even well paid professional couples in London now struggle to afford dark, crumbling Victorian houses, in rough parts of town. Houses built for costermongers and chimney sweeps in the late 19th Century.
But it goes far beyond property prices. Soaring urban land values have a knock-on effect, raising the cost of everything, from cinema tickets to shoes. The land and property shortage (artificially created remember) has pushed all prices up, reducing our quality of lives in a myriad of unseen ways. Meanwhile, the few remaining patches of green in our towns and cities are fast shrinking and disappearing. Gardens are designated 'brown-field' sites to allow more flats and houses to be built. Houses are horribly divided into tiny disfigured flats. School fields, parks and squares are shrinking and disappearing at an alarming rate, extra blocks of flats spring up everywhere, like weeds in the cracks. The shocking effect of Green Belts has been to empty our urban areas of green spaces, and yet, as State planners know fine well, these are the most cherished bits of green in Britain, giving far more people, far more pleasure than 'the countryside' (to which so few of us go). Worryingly, the London Planning Advisory Committee has decided that London has room for 570,000 extra homes. As James Heartfield pleads, 'Do we really want every inch of London packed with houses, instead of parks, squares, playgrounds and other amenities?' And of course transport in our congested urban areas has become a living hell. They cram us in then prohibit us from parking anywhere and charge us for causing 'congestion'.
Nor is the misery confined to the towns. Green Belts have killed the countryside. Although a gigantic amount of Britain's land mass is reserved for agriculture, farming accounts for less than one percent of Britain's economic activity (and even this is massively subsidised). In the countryside itself, only 3 percent of people actually work in agriculture. It is argued the countryside must be preserved in order to protect traditional communities and ways of life. But there is nothing traditional about our countryside. The vast, boring fields you see today bear no resemblance to the small, labour-intensive agriculture of old. The landscape has changed, the 'communities' have changed, the economics has changed. Nor should we idealise what went before … grovelling, impoverished tenant small-holders and agricultural labourers (and before them serfs) breaking their backs to maintain the idle gentry. Life for the rural masses was poor, hard, dull and servile.
The NIMBYism of the new gentry (organised, for example, in the Council for the Protection of Rural England) has stunted and thwarted genuine economic development in the countryside. The vast bulk of Britain is now a wasteland, a poorly attended heritage theme-park, fit for well-heeled second-homers to live out their naff rural fantasy every third weekend. Ordinary folk in the countryside are reduced to working in National Trust postcard shops, and with their meagre wages, they struggle to afford small nasty-looking houses which face directly onto busy A-roads. No wonder the young want to get the hell out.
But the battle over planning laws has nothing to do with the giant wide open spaces in Northumbria and wherever else, because no-one in their right mind wants to go and live there. The land in dispute is in truth much smaller. The desire for planning restrictions is really an expression of upper class disdain for suburbs, and the people who live in them and like them. Peter Hall, the professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture, in his book Cities of Tomorrow, exposes the motives behind 'sustainable development', which in effect means 'pulling up the drawbridge to stop anyone else entering their well-healed enclaves (save a few select people like themselves, whom it would be quite fun to invite for drinks on Sundays) … pulling up the drawbridge against newcomers, especially if they lack the right income or right accent.'
The snobbery and hatred of the suburbs dates back to the end of the 19th Century. The railways allowed the first suburbs to flourish as the working and lower-middle-class 'clerk' class, experiencing prosperity for the first time, sought to escape the urban slums, to have a little house and a little garden. The suburbs were considered vile because of the people who inhabited them. In a book called The Suburbans, written in 1905, the poet T.W.H. Crossland launched a vitriolic attack on the 'low and inferior species', the 'soulless' class of 'clerks' who were spreading into the new comfortable houses in the suburbs, eating tinned salmon. He was disgusted by them, their aspiration to self improvement, offensively self-made and self-assured.
Professor John Carey, in his magnificent book The Intellectuals and the Masses, describes the widespread upper class loathing of the newly enriched masses and their suburban ways. In Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, two characters are leaving England in an airplane. They recall Shakespeare's description of England, 'This precious stone set in a silver sea', but then they look out the window. They see the 'straggling' suburbs, the hills sown with bungalows, the wireless masts and overhead power cables, and 'men and women, indiscernible except as tiny spots' who were 'marrying and shopping and making money and having children.' Then one of Waugh's characters says, 'I think I'm going to be sick.'
HG Wells contemptuously describes suburbs as a 'tumorous growth' … 'ignoble' Croydon and 'tragic' West Ham. Betjeman of course pleaded to the Nazis, 'Come friendly bombs and land on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now'. The suburbs were "Bathed in the yellow vomit" of sodium lamps. Carey describes Betjeman's horror of the suburbs, 'harbouring the mixed bag of atrocities with which Betjeman associates with progress – radios, cars, advertisements, labour-saving homes, peroxide blondes, crooked businessmen, litter, painted toenails and people who wear public-school ties to which they are not entitled.'
The vile lower orders had to be stopped. It is no accident that one of the key figures in post-war planning was Sir Patrick Abercrombie, founder and head of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. Planners like Abercrombie knew that ordinary folk were itching to escape the grimy crowded towns. But instead of the semi-detached houses with nice back gardens, which they craved, they would have to be stacked high in tower blocks. The planners knew that it wasn't what people wanted. They knew that people wanted a little space of their own, with a little back lawn where they could keep an eye on their three-year old playing. A fairly modest, basic human desire in this day and age, you might think, and yet one they would be deprived of.
A system of Green Belts was devised to keep the proles locked in. Professor Hall refers to Green Belts, correctly, as 'the polite English version of apartheid' … 'a system of controlling and regulating the suburban tide to a degree that would have been unthinkable in the United States'. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 effectively nationalised the right to develop land. Hall describes how the containment of the lower orders in increasingly crowded urban areas, and the resulting inflation of land and property prices, led to distress on a vast scale. Since land was so scarce and pricey, to build houses which people could actually afford, private builders were forced to build smaller and smaller homes, reducing the quality to make them less expensive.
As the private housing market was strangled, it was decided that instead the State would build inner-city accommodation for the masses. They were to be confined to urban areas, forced to live in high densities in high-rise blocks. Rather than chose their own home in a free market, ordinary people had to apply to the State to be housed and would be allocated one (a very nasty State produced home). By the 1970s around a third of the British population lived in State housing. The State thus determined how and where we should live. Over the years, it has become suffocating. Green spaces inside towns have shrunk or disappeared as more and more nasty council blocks have been crammed in. Early 'leafy suburbs' like Ealing have become more and more crowded and less and less leafy. Now, they feel like part of the towns, only without the attractions of the bright lights. In Britain, the dream of better living stopped in 1947.
We have had enough of all this crap about 'protecting the countryside'. Planning (let us call it what it is: authoritarian State control of our lives) has always been primarily a tool of social prejudice. Behind the cult of the British countryside, from Wordsworth and Ruskin onwards, has always been contempt for the masses. Who are we protecting the 'countryside' for? And from whom are we protecting it?
Let us be honest about 'the countryside'. These days it is largely made up of very big, very flat rectangular fields used for (largely pointless, subsidised) industrial farming … not at all beautiful and frankly the last place you would want to have a picnic. (Ironically most of the green rural fantasists in our midst tend to hang out in relatively crowded places like Southwold and Alderburgh (to enjoy the music festivals) and the 'Wordsworth-country' bit of the Lake District where Beatrix Potter lived.)
Very few bits of the countryside look like it does in Postman Pat, and these bits are enjoyed by very few people indeed. Let's have more of them. Wonderfully landscaped areas – big ones - not far from towns and suburbs, accessible to lots of people, with adjacent toilets and cafes and car-parks. We do not want Green Belts, we want Green Patches – big parks and broad, lovely town squares, and large chunks of beautifully landscaped green spaces, close to where people live. We want green everyone can enjoy. And in between the green bits, we demand the freedom to build what we want, where we want. Three cheers for 'Urban Sprawl', the motor car, roads, supermarkets, golf courses and service stations.
It's time to get angry with the angry-brigade at the Telegraph. To get angry with the organic, home-grown TV chefs and their agro-hobbyist friends, with the grungy middle class road protesters (imaging themselves to be radical), with the suburb-hating, supermarket-opposing, free-range chicken loving reactionaries, the metropolitan elite who can afford second-homes, yet who would deny first-homes to others, the heritage bores and bearded ramblers and people who drink cloudy expensive beer from local breweries and write bad guide books and erect plaques everywhere and think Ruskin had a point. It's time to get angry with Prince Charles – the Dark Lord, and his toady friend Richard Rogers, who thinks we should all live in shoe-boxes. This collection of bigots are trying to keep us in our place. They have damaged the lives of millions of people. Now they must be stopped.
It is not a debate about
It is not a debate about being green, its about paying for infrastructure in the countryside where everyone is spread out. For example connecting an electricity supply to a rural house that needs five miles of lines to connect it from the local substation, as opposed to the 10 houses in the town that are a stone throw away from the sub station? Its a no brainer which one costs less....
Think about how the bins are collected, how public transport services are delivered etc. and it is a matter of money. We simply cannot afford to allow everyone to be spread out because we cannot afford to pay and maintain the infrastructure to support it.
Density is not measured by
Density is not measured by the percentage of people who live in urban areas, it is determined by the NUMBER of dwellings or people per hectare. Also the U.K. is not one of the most densely populated places in the world. Please reference your 'claims' in future using credible sources if you want to be taken seriously....
"Three cheers for 'Urban
"Three cheers for 'Urban Sprawl', the motor car, roads, supermarkets, golf courses and service stations"
Hear, Hear Martin!
What is more beautiful than the country side or more important than a publicly subsidised art gallery? Human beings living in dignity, comfort and happiness.
This is the true beauty of economic growth that the "trendy elites of all stripes are not in the faintest bit interested.
Liberty for all us who are cooped up and over taxed for the pleasures of the few by those who know best.
Pointman - you are very very
Pointman - you are very very wrong with your believe that Cornwall is the most 'unspoilt' countryside in england - it is the most spoilt (post industrial) landscape in Europe. The soils are saturated with residue heavy metals to render new development far too costly for all but the most determined and wealthy developer.
The belief that we have a disposable countryside is also questionable. It is certainly not being used probably and I agree with the main thrust of the argument in that we should not continue to think that our landscape is anything extraordinary - but it can be!
But one point that everyone seems to dismiss, yet it is important, that in English common law it remains the case that all 'land onwership' is in fact freehold tenure. We need to provide housing and we need to ensure good design, we need to preserve biodiversity and culture and a platform for 21st century economics in a resourceless country - surely what is most needed is proper sustainable development, which exists it is just that the English struggle to understand what is fairly basic concept. NIMBYs paying for their Telegraph or NT membership do not understand it and neither do those who see nothing wrong with the childish draft NPPF Greg Clark was so chuffed with.
Excellent job, Martin. THIS
Excellent job, Martin.
THIS web page is an excellent resource for academic analysis criticising urban growth containment:
Paul Cheshire and colleagues at the London School of Economics are outstanding - you should contact him. Read his papers and you will see what I mean. I would love to see you make a documentary on this subject.
The earlier commenter about Australia is exactly right too. This unreason has spread beyond just Britain.
Besides the inequity effects, there is a material impact on an economy when its planning system is so cumbersome; there are anti-competitive effects, and the high price of urban land and housing undermines international economic competitiveness and erodes productivity. The McKinsey Institute's 1998 paper "Driving Productivity and Growth in the UK economy", and Alan W. Evans' two books from 2004, go into this in depth.
Martin, There's a link
There's a link between your points here and "the planning class" you pinpointed in you later piece, The Green Superstate.
I've been banging on about the failure of the planning system for a good twentyfive years---almost to the point where I'm sick of the sound of my own voice...
But recently--and belatedly-- it has occured to me that the ONLY influence capable of positively changing things for the better is the very influence that makes change inevitable: demographics.
Once enough people don't have houses, they'll vote for politicians who'll promote housing and other vital development. Despite the pernicious influence of the various anti lobbies, sooner or later the numbers cannot stack up for them as a growing proportion of the population are denied owning their own house.
We'll know when the tipping point is near when, replete in a set of new clothes, "the planning class" presents itself forth to solve the problem, claiming, of course, that they always, you know..... knew that what was going on before was, you know, not right. Yes, definitely, not right. We always knew that. But, you know, like, ....it was nothing to do with us, guv. Honest. Now then, is there perhaps a tiny corner of your table we could sit at, you know, just for a little bit? After all, we're trained, qualified and experienced. We know what to do. So, shall we start then?
The demographic trend is clear. How long it will take to have effect and what that effect will prove be is less clear.
The comment left by Mark P
The comment left by Mark P (Sat, 09/17/2011 - 20:53) exemplifies the snobbish disdain that bien-pensant types like him feel towards the rest of us.
How stupid we are to want houses! I can't help feeling that when Mark P dismisses these as "wasteful and ugly", he's thinking of their inhabitants as much as their design.
How much better it would be if the British - no, sorry, the English - could be forced into apartments. Of course, they would also have to educated in the merits of "public greenery", so that they could understand - as Mark P, being a lot cleverer than them, already does - that "the neighbours" are not "right up against them" (even when they're just a few inches away in the adjoining apartments).
An interesting piece of
An interesting piece of analysis. You're quite right, of course, the net effect of planning regulations is to pen the middle classes into the 21st Century equivalents of the Warsaw ghetto. The curiosity is that all the people waxing lyrical about the countryside and how it must be preserved, live in the ghetto too and know bugger all about the countryside.
Possibly the most unspoilt county in England is Cornwall and it's no coincidence that it's also the poorest by a long shot. Given some decent transport infrastructure and a few factories, it would advance out of the level of 19th century prosperity, but that's never going to happen. It must stay "unspoilt".
The green mind believes in a stasis that has never existed. Change is bad unless it's retrograde in terms of industrialisation. In a larger sense, I touched on it in a piece but you've nailed it from the socio-economic front, with the added spin of our betters keeping the great unwashed contained.
You know who needs the burbs?
You know who needs the burbs? Kids till their mid-teens. That's a lot of humanity.
Thanks, Martin - and well
Thanks, Martin - and well said!
You might laugh but the trend
You might laugh but the trend in Australia is for the same thing. Obviously trailing a long way behind the UK in planning restrictions, but catching up fast. The average house block size has shrunk by half in the last 50 years. New developments have a mandated density size so medium density housing must be included in every plan.
The reasons given are the same : lack of available space. In the most sparsely populated continent on Earth.
The real reasons are complex : the governments hate spending money to send roads, water and power out to futher areas with less people, the large developers who sit on massive plots of land purposely drip-feed supply to create the illusion of a shortage, and meddling planners and NIMBYS everywhere who, now that they have their 1/4 acre block with a nice house, want to make sure that nobody else gets one. Finally the price of housing is such a political hot potato that nobody in politics wants to touch it, for fear of driving up or down the price of housing. You can't drive the prices up, because that means new home buyers miss out. You can't drive the prices down, for fear of electoral oblivion from the 70%+ of people who own or mortgage their own houses.
As a result of these (and other insane policies) Australian housing is now amongst the most expensive in the world. In a country where a 20 minute drive out of any city or town will provide you with endless empty countryside.
It is utter, utter madness that in the country with more open space and natural resources than any other, that housing is even remotely an issue. But such is the way of the central planners, or the people who can't stand individual choice, such as 'Mark P' above. Mark - so the British like to have a Garden. Let them have their gardens. If you want French villages, move to France. They aren't wrong, it's just their individual choice.
Part of the problem is that
Part of the problem is that the British will not live in apartments. So suburbanisation means every square inch is houses.
Even in rural France they live in large apartment blocks, giving a spacious feel to the area, rather than miles of flat housing. Each is surrounded by public greenery, so the residents don't feel like the neighbours are right up against them. It's how the Italians are too: even when in houses they don't have gardens and a packed tightly. And their suburbs have apartment buildings.
If the British, and specifically the English, could be persuaded to live in small pockets of high density then they could have the effect the French have: villages in a rural setting.
But the English will insist on every person having a separate house in a tiny garden, which is the most wasteful and ugly use of the land.
(By apartment buildings I do not mean great big tower blocks. I mean owner-occupied dwellings where six or eight dwellings are put into one building. With decent floor space and balconies. It's what the Europeans live in, and the British won't.)
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