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Alan Goodrich
From That House in the Glen
A lazy, hazy afternoon passed watching the light shift. All of summer in a day.
Like much video art of the 1970s and early 80s (Bill Viola and Brian Eno for instance), my video combines an intense desire to explore what can be seen through the video camera eye. Like early video art, this becomes a performance of and through the camera, mapping out how the video eye can see by means of experimentation and comparison.
Theadora Walsh
Alphabet Poems
These short video gifs are animated poems which center around a specific letter. Each attempts to mirror the impermanence and fracturing nature of reading on the internet. Words appear like pop up ads and the page imitates the scroll. The letter, a floating anachronistic emblem, grounds each piece. They have been shown at Baby Castles in New York and 811 Taraval in San Francisco.
This work was directly inspired by Ana Maria Uribe's anipoems (www.vispo.com/uribe/). Made in 1997-2000 these simple monochrome animations "are typography and motion, in that order." Inspired by Apollinaire's poetry and Morgenstern's "Night Song of the Fish," she explores new mediums for presenting visual poetry.


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Vancouver's residential property market was busy in March with MLS sales up 32.6 per cent from February and 53.7 per cent from March last year. The total number of sales recorded was 4,060. Data from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver also reveals that last month's total sales figure was 26.8 per cent above the 10-year average.
The board's president Darcy McLeod says that there is strong competition with multiple offers which is great news for sellers: "The number of homes for sale today is below what's typical for this time of year. If you've been considering putting your property on the market, these market conditions indicate that now may be a good time to list." That said, the number of listings was 13 per cent higher in March this year than the same month last year and new listings were up 4.7 per cent.
All property types saw large increases in sales year-over-year; apartments up 47.1 per cent, detached homes up 53.3 per cent and attached properties up 72.3 per cent. Darcy McLeod commented that buyer's are acting fast: "For sellers, this means that it's taking less time, on average, for your home to sell if you have it priced correctly for today's market."


ARTIKELEN / HOW TO CROWDSOURCE THE EU?
This first meeting of the EUCROWD project took place in Ljubljana and was organized by Slovenian partner INePA (Institute for Electronic Participation) The kick-off conference announced the start of a one-year collaborative project and touched upon many core issues the project will be dealing with. A short summary of some of these issues is presented in this report.
During the EUCROWD project eight European partners from Slovenia, Finland, Latvia, France, the U.K., Greece, Belgium, and the Netherlands will formulate policy recommendations and exchange knowledge on the use of crowdsourcing tools to improve democratic participation of citizens in the EU. Through seven national events the project develops awareness, knowledge and skills for using e-participation both at the national as well as the international level. A full description of the project can be found in our 'Projects' section. The main question that underlines the project is 'how to crowdsource the EU?'. The kick-off conference in Ljubljana first of all established why crowdsourcing is needed, and secondly provided some preliminary answers on what this should look like.
What is the problem of EU level democracy?
A first problem analysis was provided by Belgian partner ECAS in an explorative research on the need for a EU level crowdsourcing tool. This report can be read here. The bottom-line of the study is that the right tools are missing for citizens to adequately represent their voice in the European Union. Existing initiatives to improve citizen participation in the EU have proven ineffective to regain citizens' trust in the European project. There is therefore a growing need for innovative participation tools that conform to citizens' daily life and thereby provide a new way to engage citizens in EU decision-making processes. An analysis of 27 case studies of crowdsourcing from around the globe shows that crowdsourcing can be a promising method to reduce the gap between decision makers and citizens.
Crowdsourcing can be defined as an online practice to solve problems through the collective intelligence of communities and otherwise unreached individuals. It is based on digital technology and the new opportunities for engagement that come with it. An important advantage of digital tools is its potential to make processes more transparent and accessible. According to the first panel discussion at the conference in Ljubljana the potential of crowdsourcing to improve trust between citizens and decision-makers is greatly needed. Ziga Turk, Professor at the University of Ljubljana, for example expressed his hope that crowdsourcing can be a trust building tool for a larger part of society than the current political elite. Transparency also plays an important role to strengthen deliberative democracy. Millicent Scott, from partner organization 'Democratic Society' from the U.K., used the example of Brexit to explain that the lack of information, or even misinformation, plays an important role in obscuring the relation between politics and the impact this has on people's daily lives. The result is thus a lack of understanding and participation. Yvette Jeuken from Netwerk Democratie agreed on the risk that is generated by a lack of good information. Even search engines nowadays function as echo chambers for your own opinion instead of giving you access to new information. Digital tools should therefore have a deliberative moment in which opinions can be formed based on real information.
The problem with EU level democracy is thus that it is not able to adequately bridge the gap between citizens and decision-makers. The EU lacks a mode of participation that is accessible for the everyday citizen, which is further hindered by a lack of accessible and relevant information as well as a lack of trust and transparency. Online crowdsourcing tools have a lot of potential to improve these aspects. A crowdsourcing tool is however not a panacea. What should such a tool look like in order to have the desired impact?
What should crowdsourcing look like in the EU?
Netwerk Democratie for example created the platform 'Volgdewet' to provide real time information on legislation and provide entry point for citizens to participate in the formulation of legislation. For such a crowdsourcing platform to work it however needs genuine institutional backing and an active community of users. The commitment of decision makers is essential to make a platform a serious political tool. For it to work a platform should have a feedback loop that shows the result of citizens' participation. Only then it is able to increase trust and transparency. According to Assya Kavrakova of ECAS a real life tool for participation also provides the opportunity to bring newcomers instead of the usual suspects to the political debate. For this a combination of online and offline events is essential. Also the offline commitment of decision makers is essential in sustaining the legitimacy and trust of an online tool. Only then can a digital tool overcome what Blaz Golob, chairman of GoForSight Institute, called the incompetence of the current policy system in which there is no time to communicate with citizens. NGO's and civil society organizations can play the role of intermediaries between citizens and decision-makers in order to let citizens see the impact of their participation. As professionals in community building these civil society organizations also play a pivotal role in the local and offline context to generate a diverse community of users.
A well functioning crowdsourcing tool thus needs the commitment of institutional parties, an active community of users, to recognize the important role of civil society to make the link with citizens, to have some sort of feedback loop and open information to increase transparency and legitimacy, to have a deliberative moment, and it needs to be accessible in the daily life of citizens. Furthermore, an EU level crowdsourcing tool should be based on crowdsourcing experiments that are already taking place throughout Europe.
We can learn a lot from already functioning crowdsourcing initiatives throughout Europe. A few of them were present at the conference in Ljubljana and presented their tool.
Nicholas Patte of the French Démocratie Ouverte presented Parlement et citoyens, a tool for public consultations. By putting laws on the platform citizens' recommendations can be crowdsourced. After making a synthesis of the arguments a debate is organized between citizens and congressmen that is visible online and in which decisions can be explained.
Annija Emersone presented MannaBalss.vl (MyVoice) from Latvia. This platform crowdsources ideas and brings these into Parliament when they reach 10.000 signatures. Already 11 initiatives were voted on in parliament and made a change. The platform sustains itself through micro donations.
Vesna Avguštinčič presented 'Let's Improve Maribor', which is an interactive tool to gather citizens' suggestions on an online map of the city. Hereby users are involved in developing solutions. One of the challenges of the platforms is how to create engaged users.
Alexandros Tzoumas of the Greek organization Science For You presented 'DemocracIT'. SCiFY promotes the use of open software in the public sector. The public consultations tool they created enables citizens to give specified comments on an article using tags and even emotions. People interested in that policy area will also be notified about articles in that area. In the end users can also see and review the final law. The tool uses principles of gamification for example by rewarding active contributors for sharing the article in their network and by depicting a progress bar.
Simon Ivanšek presented Trillion, a mobile app for citizens to report crime, emergencies and events, but also a tool for crowd management, protection, and cyber security because the app is directly connected to law enforcement agencies. Being connected to the daily life of citizens the tool also brought up some ethical questions like its lack of complete anonymity or the potential of corrupt use, which can be countered by always needing multiple reports of an incident.
Petra Cilenšek presented the Slovenian initiative 'Smart Voice', which aims to strengthen civic dialogue on a local level and formulate local policies. One problem this initiative encounters is that NGO's are currently insufficiently perceived as key factors in development of local communities in Slovenia. So they are currently investing in gathering information on NGO's at a local level.
So what about the European level?
In a final workshop we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing tools for the EU. Existing tools show that in general crowdsourcing has the advantages of improved costs, speed, quality of solutions, and diversity. But also the disadvantages of the need for management to make synthesis and keep the platform clean, and actually finding and keeping a community of users. To invest in building a crowdsourcing tool for the EU it is therefore important to implement the tool in a field of policy citizens are particularly interested in to participate in. Topics that are at the top of the list are: immigration, terrorism, economic situation, unemployment, education and the environment.
More information on the EUCROWD project can be found in our project section or on the EUCROWD website.


As promised, with every R-release we'll be providing you with more 4D for iOS features. 4D v17 R3 includes a new concept allowing you to define specific data types for your fields so the content is displayed with the correct format: Data formatting!
Data formatters enable you to quickly override your fields' default format to display the format of your choice. The formats can be selected from a predefined list in Sections > Labels & Icons.
In the 4D for iOS documentation, you'll find the entire list of the newly added types, as well as tutorials to learn more about them. In the screenshot below, you can see the final result with four types (currencies, booleans, percentage, dates) displayed correctly.
You're now ready to display the formats that you need in your iOS apps!
David Azancot joined the 4D Product team as a Product Owner in 2017. He's in charge of writing the user stories and translating them into functional specifications. His role also includes making sure that feature implementations meet customers' needs.
David graduated with an MBA in Marketing, Internet and Mobility from the Leonard De Vinci Institute and began his career in 2011 with a mobile start-up company, later acquired by Madvertise (a mobile marketing group). Passionate about mobile interfaces, he was the natural choice to develop interactive mobile ad formats for the group in 2015. In parallel, David has been developing his own iOS and Android applications since 2012.


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I Raunchy è un gruppo musicale heavy metal danese, formatosi nel 1994.

Formazione

Formazione attuale
Mike Semesky - voce (2013-presente)
Lars Christensen - chitarra (1994-presente)
Jesper Andreas Tilsted - chitarra, tastiera (1994-presente)
Jesper Kvist - basso (1994-presente)
Jeppe Christensen - tastiera, voce (2001-presente)
Morten Toft Hansen - batteria (1994-presente)

Ex componenti
Lars Vognstrup - voce (1994–2004)
Kasper Thomsen - voce (2004 - 2013)

Discografia
2001 - Velvet Noise
2004 - Confusion Bay
2006 - Death Pop Romance
2008 - Wasteland Discotheque
2010 - A Discord Electric
2004 - Vices. Virtues. Visions.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Photos from Moscow Concert 03-03-2007 su metalafisha.ru

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This program enables you to resize jpegs, and add a watermark, as a simple batch process. Simply drag and drop your desired photos and press 'convert'.
I developed this app while kayaking in Norway back in 2007. It's completely superfluous these days, thanks to HTML5 and WordPress' advances. However it was pretty useful at the time!
Unfortunately I had my laptop stolen a few days later and lost the source code.


Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder where a person restricts the amount of food they eat so as to be as thin and light as possible. The condition generally affects teenage girls – although boys have been known to develop the condition – and appears to arise from a distorted image that they have of their own bodies. Sufferers believe that they are obese although in fact they are underweight.
Anorexics will often miss meals, obsessively count calories in their meals and weigh themselves often. They may also take laxatives and fell dizzy, suffer hair loss and dry skin. Anorexia is also sometimes associated with depression and low self-esteem.
The condition cannot be easily cured and sufferers often try to hide the problem from others. When help is sought, however, it must be from a recognised professional. The first visit would be to a GP who may then recommend a psychiatrist, dietitian or other specialist in eating disorders. If anorexia is not addressed, it could lead to serious, long-term physical damage and in some cases even death.


Pega Sales Automation™ includes a sample application package that you can use to demonstrate the application's features. If you are using the Pega Sales Automation mobile app, you can use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to scan a business card and create a contact in the Pega Sales Automation application. You use your mobile device's camera to take a picture of a business card and send it to a third-party OCR software vendor, where it is parsed into a standard output, such as XML or JSON. The result is then mapped back to Pega Sales Automation to create a new contact record. You can demonstrate this feature by using the Pega Sales Automation SAPlus sample application.
To demonstrate the OCR functionality, the sample package uses the software company Abbyy as the third-party OCR software vendor. Before you can use the sample package to demonstrate the OCR functionality, you must create a username and password.
Access the Abbyy website at http://cloud.ocrsdk.com.
Click Register. This creates an account where you can specify an application name.
After you create an account and an application, Abbyy sends an email to the email address that you used to register the account. The email contains the application ID and password that you need to use when defining parameters for the getCardData Java API method. The Abbyy OCR functionality is available in the sample application when the Abbyy application configuration is complete.
Pega Sales Automation uses the GetCardData activity and the BusinessCardParseData data transform extension points to manage OCR scanning functionality.
The file content is passed into the GetCardData activity from the ScanBusinessCard activity, which contains the image of the scanned business card.
The Java API method getCardData comes from a custom Java JAR file called PegaCRMAbbyy.zip, which is a Java wrapper application that calls the Abbyy software. It is included in the SAPlus sample application RAP.
The BusinessCardParseData data transform then maps the data from the XML data model to the contact data structure and makes it available in the application.


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Justin Bieber Breaks His Silence on His Nude Photos
Justin Bieber has spoken out on the topic of nude photos of himself, which surfaced online earlier this month.
While promoting his new album, Bieber told "Zach Sang & The Gang" radio show about the nudes, which were snapped on his Bora Bora vacation. "At the end of the day, the photos, they're not terrible! But honestly, at first — and before the reaction was what it was, and still with the reaction — I still felt, like, I wanted to keep that part for me, you know? I felt like it was a little bit of an invasion of privacy. I just don't want people to think I'm, like, 'Yeah' [points to the camera]. And when I first found out about it ... my heart sank."
He added, "What am I gonna do now? It's out there. So the more I stress about it, I'm like, 'They're out, what can I really do?'"
After the photos leaked, his dad Jeremy wrote on Twitter, "What do you feed that thing. #proud daddy ☺." When he was asked about his dad's comment about this private parts, Bieber responded, "I thought it was hilarious. 'What do you feed that thing?' he said. It's such a dad thing to say. When I found out people were hating on him for saying that, I was like, 'Are you kidding me? What dad wouldn't be proud of that?'"
"It's not like he's saying it to an 11-year-old," he explained. "I'm 21 years old, you know what I mean?"
Bieber also revealed that his fans have a nickname for his package. "They call it Jerry."
Aside from his nude photos, the "What Do You Mean?" singer chatted about his purpose in life and shared his thoughts on Christianity.
He said, "I felt like I lost my purpose and I feel like I finally got my purpose back... the word ["purpose"] is so important in life… My purpose is to inspire people and use my platform to help people." Watch!
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Natalie Wood: was her death foul play?
Hollywood is buzzing again with speculation over the death of the actress who starred in West Side Story after the police reopened their investigation into her death off the coast of California 30 years ago.
(Clockwise from main picture) Natalie Wood in the 1950s; her wedding to Robert Wagner; with Christopher Walken in 'Brainstorm' Photo: REX
By Neil Tweedie, and Nick Allen
7:30AM GMT 19 Nov 2011
It could have been the prelude to a thriller: the starred Hollywood couple arguing drunkenly in a remote island restaurant, watched by their male guest, a handsome younger actor, the subject of the husband's jealousy. The return to the luxury yacht moored out to sea in the sub-tropical darkness, then more arguing between man and wife. A thud, then silence, and a body overboard. No call to the rescue services until it was too late.
This is how the actress Natalie Wood died, according to Dennis Davern, skipper of the yacht she owned with her actor husband, Robert Wagner. The guest in that restaurant, who was asleep on the boat when Wood disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, was Christopher Walken. Central casting could not have done better.
Wood's body was found floating in the water a mile away from the yacht Splendour, off the island of Santa Catalina, California, on the morning of November 29, 1981. She was clothed in a nightgown, socks, and a down jacket. There were two dozen bruises on the body, consistent with having slipped while trying to tie up a loose dinghy, or board it. The 13ft dinghy was later found beached on the island. At the time of Wood's death, Hollywood was awash with speculation that Wagner was consumed with jealousy over his beautiful wife's liking for Walken.
Yesterday, almost 30 years to the day, Davern re-ignited that mystery, claiming that Wagner was "responsible" for his 43-year-old wife's death. The allegation came as Los Angeles police re-opened the investigation into how Wood, star of West Side Story, and Oscar nominee, met her end. That inquiry might yet overturn a verdict of accidental death returned by a Californian coroner.
Asked in a TV interview if he believed Wagner, star of Hart to Hart and a host of films, was "responsible" for Miss Wood's death, he replied: "Yes, I would say so. Yes."
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Asked if he meant "foul play", or that Mr Wagner had not wanted to look very hard when his wife went missing, he replied: "I think it was a matter of: 'We're not going to look too hard, we're not going to turn on the searchlight, we're not going to notify anybody right now.' We didn't take any steps to see if we could locate her."
Last night, LA County Sheriff's Department said Wagner was not a suspect in the case, but its re-opening can bring no comfort to the 81 year-old actor.
Relating the events of that night, Davern said he had wanted to turn on the vessel's searchlight and call for help, but Wagner told him: "We don't want to do that right now."
The skipper said he called the US Coast Guard but only after four hours, a delay he deeply regretted. Wagner has always maintained that he thought his wife had gone to shore alone on the yacht's dinghy.
Davern also alleged that Wagner had wanted the subsequent investigation to remain "low profile". In deference to his employer, he had not told investigators the full truth of what occurred that night.
"I made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report," he said.
The new investigation follows a statement by Davern to police. It was given to them by the author Marti Rulli, with whom the skipper co-operated on a 2009 book about the affair, Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour.
In the statement, Mr Davern said there was a "tense atmosphere on the boat" and that Wagner clearly did not want Walken along. Davern told CNN: "The tension was building very strong. Christopher and Natalie were sitting on the sofa. Within a split second Robert Wagner picked up a wine bottle and smashed it on the coffee table and yelled 'What are you trying to do, ---- my wife?'
"Christopher got up and went into his state room. Natalie was so devastated she went into her state room. Robert Wagner followed Natalie and they continued arguing in her state room.
"I went up on the bridge and turned on music because I didn't want them to think I was eavesdropping on their personal problems. There was a lot of physical activity going on in the stateroom. Noises.
"Then they went to the aft deck. They argued back there for a little while, then it became silent. I went down to the aft deck and Robert Wagner said 'Natalie is missing' and would I search the boat."
Later he returned and Mr Wagner told him the dinghy had gone.
"I knew she wouldn't take the dinghy because she was deathly afraid of water."
According to Davern, the actor did not want to radio for help immediately because he was concerned about his public image.
Two years ago Wagner confirmed in his book Pieces of My Heart, that he and Mr Walken had argued on the boat, and Miss Wood got up and went to her room.
Wagner said he then smashed the wine bottle but he and Mr Walken got some fresh air on the deck and calmed down. When he went back to his room his wife had gone. He and Davern found the dinghy missing and assumed Wood must have gone to shore. He radioed for a boat and went to look for her.
Alan Nierob, Wagner's spokesman, said: "Although no one in the Wagner family has heard from the LA County Sheriff's Department about this matter, they fully support [their] efforts and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood-Wagner is valid, and comes from a credible source or sources, other than those trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death."
For months afterwards, Wood's death was the main topic of conversation at Hollywood dinner parties. Many believed the glamorous Wood was at the centre of a love triangle, in which her older husband was pitched against the younger Walken. Why, it was asked repeatedly, would the actress, who was afraid of water, go on deck on her own late at night to tend to a dinghy?
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko to Russian immigrant parents in San Francisco, Wood appeared as a child in the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager she was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award for her role opposite James Dean in the classic 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause and was also nominated twice for best actress Oscars, for 1961's Splendor in the Grass and Love with the Proper Stranger two years later.
From the time she was a teenager, her love life was turbulent and frequently unhappy. She had numerous affairs with many of Hollywood's male stars, including Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Frank Sinatra. She married Wagner, a clean-cut leading man, in 1957 but they were divorced five years later. Both went on to marry other people and have children but remarried in 1972. Wagner has admitted to a jealous temperament. In his autobiography, he described sitting outside the house of Warren Beatty, one of his wife's admirers, with a gun. Walken, 68, who was appearing with Wood in the film Brainstorm at the time of her death, has never commented on the affair. Yesterday, Wood's sister, Lana, said she had never believed her brother-in-law's version of events.
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It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for the same article, in the Daily Telegraph, to be damning of the political party that the publication traditionally supports.
However Richard Dyson's piece, published in the wake of Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement announcements, is one such article.
We reproduce it in full here:
"The Tories' complete annihilation of buy-to-let as a form of investment – unexpected, unwelcome, unreasoned – is a play to the politics of envy.
"Private landlords are deeply unpopular. Caricatured as exploitative and greedy, they've become the arch-villain in Britain's broken housing market, the biggest obstruction to younger people who want to become home owners.
"Landlords force tenants to pay extortionate rents, goes the argument, while driving house prices ever further out of their reach.
"These investors are parasites, enriched and engorged with the cash of the young and poor. And they are abetted by vastly generous tax breaks. Or so it is said.
"The Telegraph, almost entirely alone, has questioned the Tories' attack on buy-to-let ever since George Osborne announced the withdrawal of mortgage interest relief for private property investors in July.
"Every article we have published since, especially where we feature individual landlords who make their case, has resulted in a flood of abuse on social media and elsewhere.
"Interestingly, the rage and spite are directed only at private landlords – at the middle class, ordinarily well-off families who have decided to buy a second property to let as part of their pension planning, or because they want eventually to give it to their child.
"The bile is also directed at landlords who make small, full-time businesses out of running a portfolio of properties (oftern in areas where there is high tenant demand but little demand from owner-occupiers).
"But the most telling point is that there is no such vilification of corporate buy-to-let.
"Big institutional investors, such as insurance firms, asset managers or pension funds, that want to go into buy-to-let on an industrial scale don't attract any criticism whatsoever. Nor have they been hit by any of the Tory policies.
"These industrial-scale buy-to-let investors will continue to enjoy full tax relief on mortgage interest, long after it has been withdrawn from individual, middle-class investors. And industrial-scale buy-to-let will also be exempt from the huge rise in stamp duty announced in the Autumn Statement and effective from April 1 2016.
"The truth is that the people who most condemn buy-to-let tend to be those who wish they had done it themselves.
"They would still do it if they could afford to, and if the Tories hadn't killed it.
"It is about envy.
"It's not in human nature to envy a faceless, gigantic insurance company that owns 6,000 flats. But it is human nature to envy the couple next door who also own two buy-to-lets further down the street.
"That's why, when people attack private landlords (or, arguably, any group of wealthy individuals), they do so with such visceral emotion.
"Browse buy-to-let articles on the internet and see for yourself. The rage, the glee, the torrents of vindictive spite – what else but envy could provoke all that?
"In a peculiar twist, the Tories are now playing towards this angry crowd. Mr Osborne will raise billions of pounds in additional revenue from a group whose striking unpopularity is motivated in the large part by envy of wealth and success.
"One irony in this situation is that so many Tory MPs are themselves landlords. Another is that so many private landlords are Conservative voters.
"But the biggest irony of all is that property investors were terrified, ahead of the general election, at what a Labour victory might mean for their businesses.
"Could Labour – in whatever guise – have delivered any more devastating an attack on their interests?"
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Peter Hendry
30 November 2015 09:01 AM
Do agree. Shooting the private landlord at a time when they are desperately needed to provide a supply of properties for rent smacks of desperation! Where is the policy for increasing the supply of houses available both to buy and to let? It's nowhere to be seen, at present.
Surely a whole new housing policy is what is more desperately needed.
Stable price levels, as well as fair but adequate returns for the smaller investors, are essential if corporate greed is to be held in check - unless the real policy of this conservative government is to favour the corporate financial institutions at every turn?
For a full explation of what needs to be done In preference and why, please Google The Hendry Solution.
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ken hume
Well spotted Graham , very interesting article, many others know that this is true.
The crabs in a bucket argument springs to mind.
If they really wanted to kill buy to let, they woulds have stamped on corporate buy to let, im guessing that they have too many friends involved there.
The implications for supply are profound and will only be seen in time as supply for tenants drops and inevitably rents rise- smashing the chance for many first time buyers to save for a deposit
Jon Tarrey
Why don't we just build more houses? Wouldn't that solve the supply issue?
Apparently that's too logical for the people we have in chance at the moment.
Richard White
I said right from the start that this party masquerading as 'conservatives' are nothing of the sort.
They are just another bunch of pseudo-socialists intent on a ruinous policy of shifting money from the people that earn it to lost causes and people that have no interest in earning it. The tragedy of it all is that this is the only deal on the table for the public. Even if the unelectable, overgrown students on the opposition benches were vaguely credible, their intent is just the same only via slightly different methods.
- wilful borrowing of more than it can even hope to repay
- tax grabbing from the middle classes
- discouraging savings by making them much less attractive
- making no attempt at controlling the monster that is the welfare state
Are these the hallmarks of Conservatives? I just wonder how the leftists ever managed to, by stealth, manoeuvre themselves into every area of public influence and march us all down the road to ruin.
What a load of nonsense. If you think this government, one of the most right-wing in history, are a bunch of pseudo-socialists then you really don't know what you're talking about.
The idea that people earn money from property is ludicrous. You don't earn money, you either get lucky or you don't. You either see house prices go up or you don't.
Labour aren't proposing to tax grab from the middle classes, they are proposing those at the top pay their fair share - you know, go after the corporate tax dodgers and companies who plough their profits into offshore accounts. What's so wrong with that? And what's your alternative to tax? A free-for-all, every man for himself, dog eat dog?
The welfare state isn't a monster, quite the opposite. It might have been abused by some, and demonised by the tabloids, but it's something we must seek to protect at all costs. That's not about being a lefty, that's just good sense and common decency. If you look after the people at the very bottom, you create a better society. Just look at the model in Germany and Scandinavia - democratic socialism. They're not doing too badly, are they?
All of us our just one step away from being reliant on the welfare system. We break it up at our peril. Channel 5 and the Sun might have you believe that everyone on benefits is a workshy scrounger, but I thought you'd have too much intelligence to fall for that line Richard.
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