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Eltamina and I are going to start up a new trivia game, involving music and other topics, on another thread. But to get you in the mood, here is a trivia question about trivia questions.
Q: What does the word "trivia" mean?
A: In medieval times learning was classified into the seven "liberal arts." ("Liberal" means "free" and refers to "free time." Only rich people who did not have to work for a living could employ their time improving their minds by studying the "leisure arts."). They were
The Trivium ("three roads"): Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic; and
The Quadrivium ("four roads"): Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy.
A student went to "grammar school" to study the Trivium, then graduated to "high school" to learn the Quadrivium. So "trivial" means, related to the lesser and easier course of study.
If your friend ever happens to say something important and profound, you can say, "Gee, that's quadrivial."
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As the complexity of pathology laboratory developed tests continues to increase with the emergence of various molecular techniques (e.g. microarrays), some companies may voluntarily seek clearance or approval of certain tests by the FDA. One such example is MammaPrint (Agendia, Irvine, CA), the first in vitro multivariate diagnostic index assay (IVDMIA) to be cleared by the FDA. While such tests may fall under the regulatory jurisdiction of the FDA, the medical profession may be encouraged to utilize these high complexity tests based on their clearance/approval, a factor that may have financial or economic implications for the laboratory developing the test. Recent communications suggest that laboratory developed tests may eventually be required to be cleared or approved by the FDA as medical devices.
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If you've done much web browsing lately, you've likely noticed the latest advertising scourge on the landscape: modal popup windows. While many people argue the effectiveness of these calls to action (CTAs), I think they pose a major problem for most people, and the solution to that problem might cause further issues down the road.
What are Modal Popups?
Modal popups a different from the popup windows that plagued the internet in the late nineties and early two-thousands. Rather than opening a completely new browser window, they simply open a new frame on the existing window, on top of the content that you are viewing.
These typically show up immediately after the page has loaded, after a short wait to allow the reader to start reading the content, or when leaving the site.
Why People Use Modal CTAs?
It's a well-established sales and marketing fact that the vast majority of people will not make a purchase on their first visit. Therefore it's extremely important to build a relationship with customers to get them to return to a site until they proceed through the sales cycle.
This is why most websites have CTAs. The problem here is that many people train themselves to ignore the parts of a website that don't directly tie to what they're doing, rending the CTA as a sort of white noise.
The beauty of the modal popups is that they are impossible to ignore. Readers have to interact with them in some way – even if it's just to close the window – in order to continue reading the content. As a result, these popups tend to increase the effectiveness of the call to action, sometimes dramatically.
Why I Hate Them
The most obvious reason for disliking these popups is that they're annoying. It doesn't matter if they show up right when the website loads, or when I'm already browsing the content, it's a huge distraction. This if often exacerbated by the fact that many sites make the close button very small – another trick to increase the effectiveness of their CTA.
Of course, there is a major benefit to the owner of the website, but that comes at a trade-off. You're also irritating a lot of your users, which doesn't do much for building trust – another important factor in the sales cycle.
Finally, these popups create a very real barrier between your content and the user. You do want people to read your content, right? Then why make it any more difficult than it needs to be?
Dangers of the Modal CTA
In addition to my other complaints about these popups, I also worry about ways people will find to defeat them. As I mentioned before, traditional popups were a huge issue not too long ago. Because of this, companies developed a number of different popup blockers. These became so effective that they're now bundled into every major browser.
The trouble with these popup blockers is that they're too effective; they'll often block the popups that you actually need to see too.
Imagine this applied to modal popups. There are a myriad of use cases where a modal window is useful to the end user, so a tool that indiscriminately blocks everything is going to take the good with the bad.
Call to action popups might be effective, but it won't be long before people come up with a way to kill them. Don't count on these tricks, and don't put barriers between your content and your readers.


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Recently, we went to London for a short visit. It was overwhelming in the beginning because it was going to be our first time to go to London and not really sure what to expect especially with a toddler. Booking the flight not only involved finding the cheapest but also the most convenient airport. Eventually we decided to go with EasyJet through Gatwick Airport. Then of course we had to find a place to stay in for a couple of nights. Again we had to figure out which one would suit our needs best in terms of affordability, closeness to the places that we wanted to see, caters for a family and so on and so forth. We decided on staying at Premier Inn which turned out great as it met all our requirements plus, all the places that we wanted to go to were just walking distance away from it. Then we realized, we also had to plan our transportation from the airport to London. By train was the best choice which was also a bit overwhelming because there's so many different ways to get from point A to point B. Eventually decided, Gatwick Express would be the simplest way to go for us. Upon arriving at the Victoria station in London, it was quite difficult figuring out the tube for the first time with a toddler that was getting impatient, so we just took a cab from there to the hotel.
I could go on and on but overall, we had a great time in London and would love to go back again. To summarize, I made a couple of videos of the trip below and hope you enjoy!
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This release improves the recognition speed by 20%. It also adds a function to write the rendered screen to a video file. The compiled binaries are now compatible with OpenCV 2.4.5.
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The American road trip is a highly romanticized idea, one filled with windy, picturesque roads and mom-and-pop diners. The reality is that unless you have done a lot of pre-planning and have a ton of time to get from A to B, you're probably sticking to interstate highways, stopping in rest stops with horrible coffee and eating uninspired fast food. My latest road trip, from my home in NYC down to Georgia featured plenty of all three. But in this case, it was more about the destination than the journey. As I barreled past Waffle House after Waffle House, I knew that the place I was headed still held onto its romantic ideals with a firm grip: Augusta National Golf Club for the Masters.
Now, I've been to plenty sporting events. I should be jaded to the point that going to the Masters shouldn't matter that much. I have covered the Super Bowl and the Olympics. I have snowboarded with Shaun White. I have run onto the court at the United Center as the Chicago Bulls announcer (the same man who said "From North Carolina, at guard, 6-6, Michael Jordannnn") called out my name. Not to mention that I'm not a big golfer, nor am I the biggest golf fan.
Yet, much like the nostalgia of the American road trip, the Masters and Augusta National have a psychic, almost poetic sway, over a swath of the population. Of course, some of the reasons for reverence toward Augusta seem almost antithetical to the democratic ideal of free open roads for everyone. The club has a labyrinth of rules and Illuminati-like exclusiveness. However, the road trip of yore and the Masters both embrace slowing down, immersing yourself in your environment and a rejection of relying on too much technology. The Masters is an event that has the power to make grown men wax poetic about azaleas and cause us all to lapse into talking in a reverential, hushed Jim Nantz voice. It's an allure I had to experience for myself.
So I loaded myself into the ML63 AMG that Mercedes-Benz loaned me for my drive and embarked. And despite my desire to plow down the interstate, the trip still had moments. While driving through the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia I even passed a couple out for a Sunday drive in a mint green 1957 Chevy Bel Air, with the woman sitting in the middle of the bench seat, arm around her man.
What the drive really taught me was that driverless cars are coming and that the technology is already here. The ML63 AMG is really fast. It just launches. After seeing how quickly the thing could get up to triple digits and how normal that felt, I realized that if I got a speeding ticket on this trip, it wouldn't be the 10-miles-over variety.
So out of a desire to protect my wallet and my license, I relied heavily on Mercedes's Distronic Plus system, which is a fancy phrase for cruise control. But this isn't the cruise control you're used to. Thanks to cameras all around the car, it senses other cars in front of you and adjusts the speed accordingly. If you've got the car set at 70 mph and somebody cuts you off, the car automatically slows down. Then when you pass the offending car (that bastard!), it re-accelerates to the pre-set speed.
The system also manages steering. The cameras can see the lane dividers and will correct the car if it veers onto the shoulder or into another lane without signaling. To test it, I even went into one off-ramp with my hands off the wheel and it wound me around the turn at the perfect radius, way better than I would have done on my own.
While I missed the thrill of stepping on the accelerator, I have no doubt that this way was safer. It was also more relaxing. Instead of worrying about all kinds of micro-adjustments, I was content to sit back in the plush leather seat and let the ML63 do its thing until I arrived.
Entering Augusta National Golf Club for the first time, it's hard not to be nervous. It's the feeling you get when you're in a place of reverence. You've seen Butler Cabin and Amen Corner your whole life. You've known the greatest to ever play the game have walked here in awe and you can feel that Augusta is hallowed ground. And like a church, it has rules. Lots of them. You feel like a kid in elementary school who doesn't want to get in trouble.
Perhaps the most difficult rule to adjust to is no phones. Those devices that we rely on so heavily to do everything from telling time to checking email to taking pictures? Leave that at home. It's a really weird sensation to be without your phone for so many hours, especially when you're in such an Instagram-worthy venue and you know you're leaving likes on the table. But after awhile, you get used to it and actually relish being off the grid.
That's what the Masters does to you. Its strict adherence to tradition forces you to slow down. Running is even considered unacceptable conduct on the grounds. At times, those traditions can seem vastly outdated, but when you look at the modern sporting landscape you understand what the tournament is trying to preserve. At most sporting events, you are assaulted with stimuli of all variety, from jumbotrons to credit card sign-up booths. The Masters has none of that. Mercedes is one of only three Masters sponsors, but you don't see their logo plastered everywhere. Instead they have a well-appointed but non-ostentatious cabin with a replica of the 18th green in front. Rather than having your attention distracted by all sorts of ancillary gimmicks, you are forced to focus on the game itself and the immaculate setting in which it takes place.
Even the food concessions on the course are unbranded. If you want a beer, you have three choices: regular beer, light beer, and imported beer. That's it. There is no company that can claim to be the "official beer of the Masters." Then there's those pimento cheese sandwiches that everyone talks about. It's a processed cheese spread between two slices of white bread that sounds gross, looks gross, and tastes absolutely delicious. It also costs $1.50. I'm proud to say I consumed at least half a dozen.
The modesty is refreshing. You see members in Augusta green jackets regularly as you walk around. While you certainly feel that you are a guest in their house and that you should behave properly, they are also extremely polite and helpful. One person I met told me that while he was waiting for a friend to arrive at a predetermined meeting spot (remember, there's no phones to text "OMW, be there in 5"), a member came up and asked him if he needed any help. It was Condoleeza Rice.
On the course itself, the quiet is remarkable. Golf tournaments are never especially loud affairs (Phoenix, excluded) but the Masters takes it to another level. There are thousands of people milling around, and there isn't even a buzz. No douchebags yell "Get in the hole!" when someone tees off. The tone of voice I use to speak to a colleague a couple of cubicles away could probably be heard three holes away at Augusta. You find yourself whispering for no good reason.
Then you see Arnold Palmer, still one of the coolest golfers ever, having lunch with friends in his green jacket near a portrait of Dwight Eisenhower that hangs in the clubhouse, and it makes sense. The reason you're whispering is because the Masters can feel like a dream. And you don't want to wake up.
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Verizon HTC Thunderbolt 4G Review
It's time to review the very first smartphone on Verizon's new LTE 4G network, and we haven't seen this much hype for a phone (outside the iPhone, that is) for a very long time. We've been waiting for this phone to come out for a good 4 years; we are, of course, talking about the HTC Thunderbolt, the brand-new hero device for the Big Red network.
The Thunderbolt isn't the very first smartphone with 4G ever made; not by a long shot. It's not even the first 4G phone to use LTE specifically, as MetroPCS won the crown for that with the Samsung Craft. But it is the first on Verizon's LTE, which is cause to rejoice.
The idea of having unlimited access to some of the best internet speeds around for an affordable price and on a rock-solid network is very tantalizing for novice and tech geek alike, which is the main reason behind the large amount of hype on the Thunderbolt.
Sure, the 4G network is the biggest part of the Thunderbolt experience without a doubt, but it's easy to forget that the HTC Thunderbolt is still a phone, and can actually make calls, send texts and do everything else a smartphone is supposed to do. In this review I will cover the LTE data, the phone, the Android with Sense UI, the large and bright 4.3" Super LCD display, and everything in between. Join me!
Unboxing and First Impressions
My very first impressions of the HTC Thunderbolt was rather focused on the size of the device. It is not a small phone by any stretch of the imagination, and it may be slightly out of many peoples' comfort zones. It's got a huge screen and is packed to the max with powerful specs inside, not to mention a LTE radio, which means it has quite a bit of heft to it.
Beyond that, in looking and playing with the Thunderbolt at first, I couldn't help but be reminded of the HTC Inspire 4G or EVO 4G, similar phones with the same screen size and similar build, and both have Android Froyo with HTC Sense UI pre-installed. Heck, the design is strikingly familiar as the stereotypical HTC flare (or lack thereof). There are very few differences between the Thunderbolt and other phones made by HTC, but the Thunderbolt does have some things to help it stand out of the crowd.
Notable Features and Specs: This may be a crazy idea, but I think the inclusion of a true 4G, LTE radio inside the Thunderbolt is the most notable feature in the device. Otherwise it would be nothing special. But throwing in 4G alongside a high-end camera and Super LCD display make a difference.
Hardware and Design
You have to give it up to the HTC design team: each phone in the lineup has an element of the same universal look across the board. With few exceptions (such as the Incredible), we always see a minimalist look that consists of some of the following: brushed metal, aluminum, soft rubber, and non-glossy, non-fingerprint plastic. And sometimes they include all 4 types of materials. They stick to a universal look and theme, which I am certain this is part of the grander design that HTC has in mind.
No, the Thunderbolt is not the sexiest phone on the planet. Perhaps its super-fast data speeds could be considered gorgeous (it is the inside that counts, after all…), but it's a tank. The Thunderbolt is as thick as a phone with full slide-out keyboard, and weighs about the same too. Even though the back is made of plastic, having such a large and heavy phone at least makes you feel like the Thunderbolt is more durable, even if it really is not.
The HTC Thunderbolt is packing a massive 4.3" Super LCD display that, much like the Inspire 4G, is almost too big. There is no way I would feel comfortable using any phone larger than this, unless it's treated as a tablet. The Super LCD display is pretty good, but is not stellar enough to blow me away. I have a hard time seeing the Super LCD technology being up to par with the Retina Display, Super AMOLED or even qHD. The colors are still deep and easy to distinguish, but the display was by no means heavensent. In using the Thunderbolt outside in direct sunlight, the entire display was washed out rather thoroughly; I could not read the display at all when outside on a sunny day.
HTC is becoming the master of the kickstand. Introduced on the EVO 4G, the company has tried the kickstand on a few other phones since, such as the Surround, HD7, and Inspire 4G/Desire HD with high praise. The kickstand is another area of strength in the phone's design: the outside of the kickstand is the same chrome color so as to blend with the rest of the phone's bottom half, and lifting the kickstand reveals a hidden surround sound speaker.
One of my favorite parts of the Thunderbolt is the 40 GB of total storage space made available right out of the box, with a rare 32 GB MicroSD card already loaded into the phone right next to 8 GB internal storage. This is plenty of space to store audiobooks, apps, movies and music for the Thunderbolt.
The Thunderbolt has a few other top-of-the-line specs: 8 MP rear camera with dual LED flash and 720p HD video recording, 1.3 MP front-facing camera for video chat (third-party apps; Skype video calling is not yet available on the Thunderbolt), single core 1 GHz CPU with 768 MB RAM, and of course, LTE.
In terms of pricing, the Thunderbolt is being sold at Verizon for $250 with new contract. Looking at the specs, it's easy to realize that you're ultimately paying a premium for the 4G service. None of the other specs are mind-blowing or groundbreaking; besides the 4G, there is little difference between this and the Droid Incredible or Droid X. Even the $99 Inspire 4G on AT&T has the same specs (sans front-facing camera and third-party app sideloading). Obviously this is a huge difference in price for the privilege of using Verizon 4G.
HTC's Sense UI is all over the Thunderbolt, which runs on Android 2.2.1 Froyo. We will likely witness an update to 2.3 Gingerbread coming sometime in the Summer, but at least for now we still get to enjoy Flash Player and enhanced web browsing. There's nothing unique about the Sense UI on the Thunderbolt; it's the same as we saw on the Inspire 4G.
Verizon LTE Network
Check out my full review of Verizon's 4G LTE service as I experienced it in Orlando.
Spoiler: it's incredibly fast, though it's still in the baby stages and not completely rock-solid in terms of reliability yet
Mobile Hotspot: What good would the very first LTE 4G smartphone be without an accompanying mobile hotspot to tether the aforementioned LTE 4G? Much like many of Verizon's 3G devices, the Thunderbolt has the ability to broadcast out to as many as 8 devices simultaneously, and Verizon has even offered no additional cost to tether your Thunderbolt up until May. This is another great reason to be an early adopter of Verizon's new 4G network.
In reference to my review of Verizon LTE, I had incredible amounts of difficulty getting my Thunderbolt to properly broadcast a true 4G signal while in Orlando. I was not the only person at CTIA complaining about the same problem. We were experiencing inconsistent signals coming from the phone, which led to either a cycle of dropping and re-connecting the data connection, or sessions of terrible data speeds. The consensus was that there is some type of bug in the Thunderbolt causing the inconsistencies, but there has been no official word from Verizon on it as of yet.
I do not mean to scare you or keep you from purchasing the phone. It has been a point of concern for me in using the Thunderbolt in real-world 4G tests, and it's my job to make sure you are as educated as possible when making the decision to purchase the phone. It's quite possible it was an issue with my review unit, or with LTE service in Orlando, or perhaps a combination of the two; it doesn't guarantee you will have the same problems.
Overall Performance of the HTC Thunderbolt
Right now the HTC Thunderbolt could be considered the most advanced device on Verizon's network because of its inclusion of 4G LTE. But looking past the 4G radio inside the phone, it is easily exposed as a blase handset. The specs inside are nothing to squawk about, but there's nothing else to differentiate the Thunderbolt from any other HTC Android 2.2 phone with Sense UI. It's just more of the same.
The Thunderbolt was delayed for roughly a month, apparently due to concerns of terrible battery life when running off of 4G. And yes, battery life is not the best I've seen on an Android. Rated talk time was 6.3 hours, and we're pretty sure this was supposed to be for 3G; on 3G that was about average battery life for me, but 4G drained the battery significantly faster. I never made it past 4.5 hours when running solely on the 4G signal.
The 1 GHz CPU and 768 MB RAM was plenty to keep everything smooth and running super fast , and the Sense keeps the interface clean which means there are fewer bumps in the road to get over. The audio quality in the calls was loud enough, but there was a little bit of fuzziness in some of the calls I made.
However, don't even get me started on all the bloatware included with the Thunderbolt out of the box. I stopped counting the number of apps at 40. This amount of pre-loaded software is ridiculous and gets in the way of having a true "open" experience with Android.
Overall, the HTC Thunderbolt performs pretty well. There's just nothing that makes the phone stand apart besides the 4G and kickstand with the stereo underneath.
This means you are faced with a hard decision: shell out the extra money to pay a premium price for a brand new 4G smartphone, or wait a couple months to see what else comes out, what prices those new items will be, and if it's worth waiting to have more options. Hopefully the price will come down with some other smartphones coming out at a lower price point and the LTE landscape will become much more competitive.
I don't envy the decision you'll need to make. Just remember – you're buying a standard top-class Android phone that just so happens to have LTE thrown in the mix for good measure. Perfect phone? Nah, not even close. But if you need 4G access as soon as possible, I definitely recommend going with the Thunderbolt. It will get the job done well, and have some cool features to boot.
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If Victoria undergoes mini-boom, where will growth go?
Oct. 23, 2010 at 5:23 a.m.
Mounting evidence continues to suggest Victoria is on the verge of notable growth.
The state, on Friday, accepted the city as a provisional member of its Main Street program. Caterpillar, a Fortune 100 company, just held a ceremonial groundbreaking. The University of Houston-Victoria, now a four-year university, eyes further expansion.
Many business and municipal leaders say they have not witnessed this level of momentum in decades.
If Victoria undergoes a mini-boom, where would the city's growth flow?
Traditionally, growth in many U.S. cities extends north. Because founders developed many of the country's metropolitan areas along rivers, geography often dictates this push.
"It has primarily to do with drainage," said John Kaminski, Victoria's director of development services. "Most rivers generally flow to the south. In a lot of communities, growth goes upstream. Runoff and drainage issues are complicated downstream."
A 2009 feasibility study, however, suggests growth to Victoria's north and northwest is less feasible long-term than elsewhere.
The county and university commissioned the study, which was performed by Clough, Harbour & Associates. The study reports:
n Growth to the south and southwest is hampered by the Guadalupe River and its widespread floodplain.
n The river and floodplain also hamper growth to the west and will eventually limit expansion in the northwestern part of the city.
n Development to the north is becoming limited by a natural highpoint in the terrain, which increases infrastructure costs for water and sewage.
The city's east and northeast quadrants, the report concludes, offer the most viable directions for expansion. City infrastructure, which is needed to accommodate future growth there, is already in place near Loop 463.
"It was a surprise to me, but it makes sense," said Victoria County Commissioner Gary Burns. "There's so much available land in the east and northeast, too. That seems to be the cheapest direction to grow."
Randy Vivian, president of the Greater Victoria Area Chamber of Commerce, said retail growth north along North Navarro Street already nears its limit.
"Retail will likely have to move from Home Depot east," Vivian said. "You already have a traffic corridor with Loop 463, and that's usually where retail goes."
Torin Bales, a Victoria fine jeweler, moved his store two years ago from Navarro Street to the city's northeast quadrant. He now does business just off Loop 463, next door to Kamin Furniture.
"Before moving, I did my own feasibility studies," Bales said. "I decided to move even before we knew about UHV's downward expansion, before the new high schools were built, before Caterpillar's announcement and before the Main Street program. I felt like the northeast, near the Loop, is the place to be."
During his first year on the Loop, yearly sales increased by 30 percent, he said - and that was during a recession.
However, Kaminski, the city's director of development services, said he does not fully agree with the study's findings - but he wouldn't say the study is erroneous.
"There are limitations and difficulty no matter which way you grow," Kaminski said. To explain, Kaminski described quirks in each of the city's quadrants.
To the south, southwest and west, Kaminski agrees, the river and floodplain greatly limit growth - and much development to the southeast remains industrial.
The northwest is limited because of the river and the floodplain, but not as much as the feasibility study suggests, Kaminski said.
Along U.S. Highway 87, near the new West High School, the city has the infrastructure capacity for much more growth. Growth could easily extend several thousand feet north and northwest of the new high school, Kaminski said.
Problems exist to the north. A natural highpoint, or terrain basin break, runs perpendicular to both sides of U.S. Highway 77 about two miles north of Sam's Club. This highpoint pushes runoff to the east.
Once, or if, growth reaches this point, new development would require multiple sewage lift stations - which work when gravity flow doesn't. Sewage lift stations are expensive to maintain and build. Construction costs can range from $1 million to several million dollars.
"Sewer to the north becomes a real issue," Kaminski said. "At some point, you have to ask if it makes sense for the city to put in that much for infrastructure when other areas work, too."
Still, the city encourages growth to the north and northwest - in areas unaffected by natural limitations. The city in 2007 and 2009 annexed about 1,500 acres of developable land in these areas.
"Even with the limitations to the northwest and north, we have a great deal of potential and capacity to grow in those directions before we hit significant obstacles," Kaminski said. "We can even grow in the sectors between U.S. Highways 87 and 77."
Outside the loop in the northeast and east - the 2009 feasibility study's area of focus - Kaminski notes drainage problems. Much of that flat land was once used as rice fields.
Stormwater detention ponds are needed to further develop this area. These ponds, however, are less costly than sewer lift stations and the excavated dirt could be used to backfill development sites.
"Those drainage issues can be overcome," Kaminski said.
This particular area is largely undeveloped and owned by multiple private landowners, many of whom seem willing to sell.
Considering the county owns an airport in this area, high-end residential development likely is limited.
"That's why I say there are challenges in every direction. They're just different," Kaminski said. "Feasibility all depends on what you're going to develop, the availability of the land and its cost."
Even so, he said Victoria is nicely primed for a mini-boom. Much of the infrastructure, momentum and land availability is in place to accommodate growth, he said.
"I think we're going to see a different kind of growth that I haven't seen in the 23 years I've been here," Kaminski said. "During the last 10 years, we had retail and related traffic growth, but stagnant residential growth. Now, I think we will see retail and residential growth."


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It was the well known mathematician and physicist, Stephen Hawking who made the statement in his most recent book, The Grand Design, that "philosophy is dead." Anyone believing Hawking in this statement is already in some logical peril in two major ways. The first is that the statement, "philosophy is dead," is a philosophical statement. The second, one must do some philosophical inquiry using the scientific method.
What I am going to do here is deal with straight hard cold case facts and then make a philosophical conclusion from those facts. First some preamble. Let's deal with what the scientific method is all about.
Scientific method.
I like how the Physics department from the University of California Riverside describes the scientific method on a link from their physics site, as "the best way yet discovered for winnowing the truth from lies and delusion.[1] UC Riverside then follows up with a simple version of the scientific method looking something like the following: The simple version looks something like this:
- Observe some aspect of the universe. [Comment: One makes this observation how? Asking questions? Using one's five senses of sight, taste, tough, smell, and hearing; natural senses. Interpreting all these questions takes them to creating a hypothesis.]
- Invent a tentative description, called a hypothesis, that is consistent with what you have observed. [Comment: The scientist needs to ask a question to get the ball rolling. The problem is whether or not the question come from a sound philosophical framework..By inventing a tentative hypothesis, the one doing the experiment will be using philosophy or allowing their philosophical underpinnings to rule the hypothesis. Science does not say anything, but scientists do say, and many times their philosophy gets in the way of the empirical facts.]
- Use the hypothesis to make predictions. [Comment: Again, that hypothesis is under-girded by the philosophical underpinnings or world view of the one making the predictions.]
- Test those predictions by experiments or further observations and modify the hypothesis in the light of your results. [Comment: The testing can be through the use of the five senses or by any means of apparatus where the five senses can assist in making the deductions for reporting the experiment.]
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 until there are no discrepancies between theory and experiment and/or observation.
What is the Anthropic Principle?
The word, "anthropic" means relating to human beings or human existence. The word principle means "law." The anthropic principle points to and depends upon numerous cosmological constraints and parameters within the laws of physics and the natural sciences whose numerical values must fall within a very narrow (restricted) range of values. If even a single variable were off even slightly, we would cease to exist. The extreme improbability that so many variables would align "so auspiciously in our favor merely by chance has led some scientists and philosophers to propose instead that it was God who providentially engineered the universe to our our specific needs" for our survival."[2]
Simply stated, the anthropic principle is the "law" that the universe (cosmos) and the general revelation appears to have been finely tuned for our very existence. I have added the general revelation to deal with the biological realm within the cosmos.
The Anthropic Principle Manifested in the Scientific Findings.
Whenever a conversation stirs up with an atheist or someone of the evolutionary bent, one does not need to fear. Science and religion are not enemies. Again, science does not say anything but scientists do. So what have we found from good science that might show some sort of interest for the anthropic evidence?
"Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. Fred Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics."[3]
To see the problem, imagine playing God with the cosmos. Before you is a designer machine that lets you tinker with the basics of physics. Twiddle this knob and you make all electrons a bit lighter, twiddle that one and you make gravity a bit stronger, and so on. It happens that you need to set thirty-something knobs to fully describe the world about us. The crucial point is that some of those metaphorical knobs must be tuned very precisely, or the universe would be sterile.
To give an example of this, scientist, Paul Davies tells us
"that neutrons are just a tad heavier than protons. If it were the other way around, atoms couldn't exist, because all the protons in the universe would have decayed into neutrons shortly after the big bang. No protons, then no atomic nucleuses and no atoms. No atoms, no chemistry, no life. Like Baby Bear's porridge in the story of Goldilocks, the universe seems to be just right for life."
So if there is all of this evidence for design in the natural world in which we live, how can one conclude that it was all brought about by random causation? Is all that we see around us an accident?
I am not a scientist, but I enjoy science using a sound scientific method. If you and I look around us, we can see that there is a vast amount of information available to show the design of the cosmos. At the same time,
we need not fear scientific data that is pointing to the grand design to the universe in which we live.
And even though we cannot prove God's existence with indubitable certainty, there is one thing that we do know. That is if we can even delve deep into the biological and examine the many facets of the DNA, the "inner space frontier." We look to the stars and we look within the biological systems and we see DESIGN and the thumbprints of a Creator.
Folks, faith and science are not enemies. We can use science to point to the evidence that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" by an intelligent Creator, who has given us purpose and the capability to know that He is there and that He is not silent.
[1] http://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node6.html Before anyone starts getting excited, as a theist, I like science... good, genuine, bona fide scientific methodology is not harmful to the Christian worldview.
[2] http://www.gotquestions.org/anthropic-principle.html
[3] Things like the Earth's distance from the Sun (93 million miles), the speed of the rotation of the earth (mid-latitudes of the U.S. and Europe speed along at 700 to 900 mph), the angle of the axis of the Earth (approximately 23.5 but some say it is changing), the speed of the revolutions around the sun (30 kilometers a second or 67,000 mph), that placement of Jupiter to deflect and keep objects from crashing into the Earth, and other factors are all for a reason that is transcendent to accidental random causations.


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Lance Armstrong, after winning his third alpine stage in a row, was met yesterday on the podium by Bernard Hinault, a fellow five-times winner legendary for his combative style. "Parfait," grunted the Badger, adding: "Pas de cadeaux." The Texan's translation was "no gifts" and he delivered the phrase with the curtness of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry.
Yesterday there was more than a little of Hinault in Armstrong's hunger as he chased down Jan Ullrich and Andreas Klöden in the final few kilometres. Stage victory for either German would have mattered not a jot overall, yet Armstrong was letting nothing escape him or his US Postal Service team-mate Floyd Landis. This was Eddy Merckx's way, and on occasion Hinault's.
Armstrong achieved a feat which evaded the insatiable "Cannibal" (Merckx) and the incorrigibly aggressive "Badger", however, taking three mountain stage wins in a row following his victories at Villard de Lans on Tuesday and L'Alpe d'Huez on Wednesday. The last overall winner to achieve anything comparable was the Italian Gino Bartali in 1948.
As at Villard de Lans on Tuesday, the finish was "royal," that is fought out between the top men overall - Armstrong, Ivan Basso, Klöden and Ullrich - plus Landis.
In seigneurial style Armstrong attempted to let Landis win, pushing him gently ahead over the top of the final climb, the Col du Croix Fry, which was aptly named as the roadside fans were sizzling in 30C heat.
His master instructed Landis to "run like he had stolen something" but Ullrich gave chase, knowing he had a final chance to gain time on Basso and push for a place in the first three. Armstrong pursued the German and for a few minutes they took the hairpins flat out, leaning their bikes at terrifying angles, pushing tyre adhesion to the limit and avoiding a trip into the pinewoods by inches.
The trio linked up at the foot of the descent and Ullrich waved his arms at Armstrong in dismay - "Jan wanted us to work as we had two guys there, but Basso was dropped, so to me it was in his interests to do the work," explained the Texan. Basso and Klöden linked up and in the final kilometre Landis stole away, chased down by Ullrich.
As Ullrich closed on Landis, with Armstrong and Basso close on his heels, the quartet eased and Klöden launched the classic counter-attack from behind, gaining 20 metres and what looked like an assured victory until Armstrong sped past him in the final 150 metres. It was cut and thrust compared with the more common, yet purely mechanical spectacle of Armstrong winning one of the mountain-top finishes he has made his own.
A hat-trick is a rare feat even for a sprinter - Mario Cipollini managed it in 1999 - but for an overall contender it is almost unheard of. This is largely because in the mountains the conventional strategy for a rider aiming for the ultimate triumph is to let some lesser lights, out of the race for the yellow jersey, fight out the stage while marking one's closest rivals.
The trio who led for much of the stage cannot be classed as lesser lights: the mountains leader Richard Virenque, last year's best Frenchman Christophe Moreau and the double Giro d'Italia winner Gilberto Simoni, who has had a race to forget and said recently that he hoped he never had to return to the Tour.
He will not want to remember yesterday. He had hoped to salvage his race with a stage win and escaped in the first kilometre. He was swept up on the Croix Fry having stayed in front with a constantly evolving group of companions who kept joining up and fading away as the race travelled through the Chaine de Belledonne, the Massif de la Vanoise and the Massif des Aravis from north to south over four major passes.
Each pass has its own character. The Glandon is all desolate rock faces and scree giving way to high pasture dotted with barns. From the top, a thin white line could be seen snaking across a green peak some 15 or 20 miles distant through the haze - the top of the Col de la Madeleine, with fields of alpine gentian, orchids, clover and sorrel, with a distant view of Mont Blanc. The Forclaz snakes through fields of hay and orchards of burgeoning apples. The Croix Fry skirts a thick pine forest.
Armstrong is not the only rider here for whom a place in the history books awaits. Virenque, as he topped the Croix Fry, punched the air. He had been at the head of affairs since the Madeleine, earning a sackful of points towards the King of the Mountains prize, and his seventh victory is now assured, barring accidents.
He, Moreau and Simoni could all have hoped for a stage win when the escape's lead nudged eight minutes but Armstrong was not in generous mood.
"I've given gifts in the Tour de France before and they've rarely come back to help me," he said, referring to the victory on Mont Ventoux that he gave Marco Pantani in 2000.
· The body of a spectator was found yesterday morning at the foot of a 120-foot drop on L'Alpe d'Huez, where the race finished on Wednesday. The man, who has not been named, was aged 64 and came from the Paris area. An autopsy will be carried out today.


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Is It Important to Protect Nature?
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Essay Is It Important to Protect Nature.
Everyday wherever we go we are usually surrounded by nature. It could be a park, a simple tree on the side of the street, flowers near the sidewalks or a forest you just happened to drive through while trying to reach another town or city. Though, what is actually scary is that most of them are being deforested. People are so focused on finding any kind of benefit from nature that they forget what their actions might cause.
Nature contributes in our everyday lives. More precisely, we can find everything a human being needs to survive there. For example, oxygen which is crucial for any kind of living being's existence.
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MILTON, ON, Nov. 25, 2016 /CNW/ - Yesterday, regular members, civilian members and public service employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) "O" Division, were recognized for their years of devoted service and continued dedication to the Citizens of Canada.
The recipients of the Long Service Award are men and women who have performed their duties in a manner which is truly "above and beyond." Their actions bring credit to themselves and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The award is presented in recognition of all those occasions where the recipient had to display courage, tenacity, patience and good judgement and honour all those actions that make up a long career of exemplary service and good conduct.
In addition to the Long Service Awards, five other honours were presented:
Mrs. Barbara Mackenzie - received a Commanding Officer's Letter of Appreciation.
Ms. Jessica Larochelle - was presented with the Commanding Officer's Certificate of Appreciation for Bravery.
Civilian member Wayne Mackenzie - was presented with the Commanding Officer's Commendation for Bravery.
All three of these awards were given as a result of a water rescue incident that took place this past summer on Island Lake in Ontario.
Inspector Orest Hnatykiw - was officially commissioned with the presentation of an Officer Parchment.
Corporal Tome Delov – received the Queens Diamond Jubilee medal.
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James Mallory – Owner/Co-Founder
Mr. Mallory was born and raised in Buffalo, NY; He attended Kenmore West High School where he was inducted into the school Hall of Fame. In High School he competed in Football, Basketball, and track in which he excelled in all those sport and earned All-State honors and numerous All Conference honors. Mr. Mallory attended Central Connecticut State University where he majored in Social Work and he was a Football Team Captain, 2 Time All American, Conference Offensive Player of the year and a Walter Payton Award finalist. Mr. Mallory was ranked by NFL Draft Guru Mel Kiper as a Top 15 Running Back Prospect in the 2010 NFL Draft. Professionally he had Stints with The Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL, Lehigh Valley Steelhawks in the Indoor Football League and The Rochester Raiders in the American Indoor Football league. Mr. Mallory is the Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator of the UAS Blaze travel 7on7 Football team.
Greg Betterson – President/Co-Founder
Mr. Betterson played college football at Division 2 powerhouse Delta State University where he was an All Conference selection. Professionally Greg played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL, and since has played in the IFL/Arena Football League.
Coach Kyle Sims – Played High School Football in Rochester, NY at West Irondequoit high school. After High School Kyle played a season under coach Dennis Green for the ECC Wildcats where he played DB. After ECC Coach Sims went on to play for the University at Buffalo Bulls where he was a safety and played on special teams. Coach Sims Graduated from UB in 2012 earning his bachelors in sociology. He had a brief playing career in Arena football with the Rochester Raiders. Coach Sims joined UAS in 2014 to help the youth and sharing his experience and knowledge of the game. Coach Sims is currently the Defensive Coordinator of the UAS Blaze High School travel 7on7 team.
Coach Devaughn Jones – Attended and played High School Football in Buffalo, NY where he was a Quarterback on a Championship team in 2004. Coach Jones has several years of experience working with Quarterbacks, he has attended and assistant with Coaching QB's at various camps around the country to continue to gain knowledge at the QB position. Coach Jones joined UAS in 2014 to specialize on the QB position and help mentor and tutor the position so all of our clients can truly reach the full potential. He is also the QB Coach of the UAS Blaze High School travel 7on7 Team.
Jared Buckner – Director of Football Operations
Mr. Buckner attended Lackawanna High School where he was involved in various Sports. He enjoyed his playing time as a football player and knew he wanted to stay involved in the sport after his playing days were completed. He has over 20 years of experience in managing various groups of business individuals and athletes. Mr. Buckner has really developed a passion for working with athletes and is a very important Staff member to UAS both on and off the field of competition as he handle all Football operations activities.
Kenneth Manuel – Head of Mentoring and Tutoring Program
Mr. Manuel served in the United States Army for 21 years protecting and serving the country. He has helped guide and tutor men from all over the country, men who had to overcome many different obstacles. With the help of Mr. Manuel we have a mentor and tutor on staff who will be able to help anyone who uses our services.
UAS Services
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-Travel 7on7 Football Team
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-Profile and Intro letter for Colleges
-Edit 4 Games for Highlight Film
-Each Prospect will be assigned a recruiting Coach
-Monthly Recruiting tips emailed
-list of 5-8 programs we will target for prospect
-5 DVD Highlights copied and mailed to prospect.
-Profile and Intro letter for College
-Edit up to 8games to Create Highlight Film
-Prospect will be assigned a recruiting Coach.
-Make list of 10 programs that we will target for prospect.
-Monthly recruiting Tips
-10 DVD copied and mailed to prospect.
-Highlights will be uploaded onto internet
-Custom Web Page Designed
-Profile and Intro letter for College
-Edit entire Season and Do Highlights
-Make list of 12-15 schools to target for prospect
-Highlights will be uploaded onto internet
-Prospect will be assigned a recruiting Coach
-Monthly recruiting Tips
-15 Copies of Highlights of DVD mailed to prospect
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Tina Turner
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- The Acid Queen Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
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- Nutbush Tennessee
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- Attempted Suicide Abortion
The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the late '50s. Her gritty and growling performances beat down doors everywhere, looking back to the double-barreled attack of gospel fervor and sexual abandon that had originally formed soul in the early '50s. Divorced from Ike in the mid-'70s, she recorded only occasionally later in the decade but resurfaced in the mid-'80s with a series of hit singles and movie appearances; her high-profile status was assured well into the '90s.
Born Annie Mae Bullock near Brownsville, TN, on November 26, 1939. She began singing as a teen, and joined Ike Turner's touring show as an 18-year-old backup vocalist. Just two years later, Tina was the star of the show, the attention-grabbing focal point for an incredibly smooth-running soul revue headed by Ike and his Kings of Rhythm. The couple began hitting the charts in 1960 with "A Fool in Love," and notched charting singles throughout the '60s, though the disappointing position of "River Deep-Mountain High" — cited by Phil Spector as one of his best productions — was very hard to take. All expectations were filled in 1971 with "Proud Mary," a number four hit which became the capstone of Ike & Tina's Revue. Frustrated by Ike's increasingly irrational behavior, though, Tina walked out just three years later.
International Success
She celebrated her new-found freedom in 1975 with a role in the film version of The Who's Tommy. Playing the Acid Queen, she delivered an outrageous, all-too-brief performance in an otherwise forgettable mistake of a movie. Several albums were recorded for United Artists during the late '70s, but she appeared to be washed up by the turn of the decade. Surprisingly, Tina returned in 1983, first teaming with a Heaven 17 project named BEF on a remake of the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion." Tina's vocal offering was understandably apocalyptic, and she gained a solo deal with Capitol that same year. Her first single, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," hit the Top 30 early in 1984. Second single "What's Love Got to Do With It" became one of the year's biggest hits, spending three weeks at number one. Her album Private Dancer included two more Top Ten singles, the title track and "Better Be Good to Me." With another movie role in 1985 (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), she found a number two hit with its theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero." Her next big hit followed in 1986 ("Typical Male"), after which Tina began to decline, still charting occasionally and selling respectably with albums including 1989's Foreign Affair, 1996's Wildest Dreams, and 2000's Twenty Four Seven.
Interesting Facts
- Turned down a role in [[Thelma & Louise]] (1991).
- Raised as a Baptist, she has been studying and practising Buddhism since 1975.
- Had the biggest-grossing concert tour of North America in 2000. However, due to lower ticket prices, *NSync sold more tickets than Tina.
- She was voted the 61st Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
- Living in Zurich, Switzerland since 1994.
- Because of the frequent beatings she received from her former husband Ike Turner, she had to have reconstructive surgery on her nose.
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About GREATAMERICAparks.com
The purpose of this site is to rediscover, treasure, preserve, celebrate, and share the rich history of the two Marriott's GREAT AMERICA parks: Gurnee and Santa Clara.
Open during construction
My original intentions were to carefully plan and fully develop this site in advance of a grand-opening launch. Too many competing priorities forced me to realize that it would never happen that way. Therefore, I am happy to welcome you to the "soft opening" of the site, while it is just starting to take shape. This way, you can watch the site as it develops and help steer the course of that development with your feedback.


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Another anniversary means another year of support from all of you, so for me, an anniversary is really a celebration of YOU! Thanks a million!
As most of you know, I've been doing TMOP for the past three years, and some of you have been following my 'growth' from the very start, however there's still one question floating around out there that begs answering. WHO IS PR8?
Well, after years of denying myself and trying to pretend to be something I'm not, I think it's time to reveal my true self, what I really am, who I really are. I understand this may upset or even anger some of you, that's absolutely fine, you have all right to be mad at me for being 'misleading' but I've reached a point that I couldn't continue TMOP truly happily without showing my face. Yes, I'm guilty and I'm very sorry, but I hope you'll understand and forgive me.
No matter what you think of me now, I'm still the same PR8 you knew before, the only things that have changed are my face and I HAVE ACCEPTED WHO I AM, and I know in time we'll find this was no surprise. Happy Anniversary To Me =]


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I've mentioned before that I really like yumberries, which are a blast from my childhood. It seems that many other delectable fruits that I encountered on my visit to China come in shades of red too; check them out in their perfectly beautiful glory!
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BRITAIN faces years of falling wages, low growth and more austerity as a result of George Osborne's bankrupt Budget yesterday.
The Chancellor turned the screw on welfare and public sector pay after admitting growth this year would be just 0.6 per cent – half what he forecast – and borrowing is set to soar by £244billion.
Britain is now suffering the slowest recovery in a century, Labour said.
Even the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Treasury's own spending watchdog, said any bounceback in the economy had stalled.
Figures buried in the Budget books show real wages will fall a further 0.7 per cent this year. And a family with one earner on £20,000 and two kids will be £600 a year worse off by 2015.
In a gimmick designed to distract, Osborne cut 1p off a pint of beer. And he raised the income tax threshold to £10,000 from next April, so anyone earning less than that will pay no tax.
Homebuyers will be offered £130billion of mortgage guarantees, allowing people to borrow more with a small deposit.
A bottle of wine goes up 10p, spirits 38p and a packet of ?cigarettes by 26p.
Motorists were helped with the Chancellor scrapping the 3p-a-litre fuel duty increase planned for September.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the country was still facing four more years of pain, tax rises and spending cuts. He added: "After all the suffering by the British people – three years, no progress, deal broken."
While millions of public sector workers face an extra year of ?real-term pay cuts with a one per cent cap on wages, the Chancellor gave a £600million tax break to millionaire hedge fund owners.
Osborne refused to change course even after admitting the economy had gone backwards.
In 2010, he predicted growth for this year of 2.9 per cent. Now he forecasts 0.6 per cent, half the amount he predicted four months ago. It is the fifth time he's had to downgrade the figure.
Borrowing this year will be £120billion – double what was forecast – and is set to be £244billion more than predicted over the next four years.
Osborne was forced to extend the period for paying down the country's debts by a year.
The austerity will mean an extra £11.5billion cuts in 2015-16, largely from a squeeze on benefits and tax credits.
There will be £15billion more for construction projects – but the first £3billion won't be ?available for at least two years.
Working parents will qualify for 20 per cent tax relief on the first £6000 of childcare costs for under-fives from 2015.
In a desperate bid to rake in some cash, he promised a belated war against tax avoidance.
Workers stand to be clobbered by a "stealth tax" on pension contributions which will raise £5.2billion from 2016.
But the raising of the income tax threshold in 2014 to £10,000 is worth £700 a year for 24million basic-rate taxpayers.
For business, there will be a national insurance holiday, worth £2000 for every small firm, while corporation tax will be slashed to 20 per cent from April 2015.
It matches the corporate tax rate pledged by Alex Salmond for an independent Scotland.
The budgets of most UK government departments will be cut by one per cent in each of next two years.
The loss to the Scottish block grant –£107million over the next two years – is less than one per cent.
To laughter from opposition benches, Osborne claimed: "It is a Budget for an aspiration nation. It is a Budget for a Britain that wants to be prosperous, solvent and free."
BUSINESSES welcomed the news that corporation tax will be cut by one per cent to 20 per cent in 2015. Stamp duty was also axed on shares traded on growth markets such as Aim. But the Chancellor refused to scrap next month's increase in business rates. David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG, said it will "squeeze embattled retailers further".
CHARITIES hit out at the Chancellor for doing "almost nothing" for Britain's poorest families. Osborne upped the point at which workers start paying income tax to £10,000. But Oxfam said this did not help those earning less and a think tank said he should have increased tax credits. The Con-Dems said 2.7million low-paid workers would benefit.
DEVELOPERS and lenders welcomed help for people buying a property. The Government will offer mortgage guarantees totalling £130billion to buyers under the Help to Buy ?scheme from 2014, with deposit top-ups and five-year interest-free loans. But the budget watchdog said the rate of housebuilding was being held back by planners.
DRIVERS welcomed the decision to axe the 3p-a-litre fuel duty rise set for September. AA president Edmund King said: "A fuel duty hike would have been the last straw." Professor Stephen Glaister of the RAC Foundation added: "This news provides breathing space for families being smothered by the soaring costs of motoring."
TEACHERS, NHS staff and other public sector workers face a fifth year of real-term pay cuts after the cap on wages was extended. Salaries will rise by just one per cent in 2015-16. The public sector has already suffered a two-year pay freeze and now faces wage rises capped at one per cent for another three. Only troops were spared and get 1.5 per cent.
THE poor and needy face a fresh assault under plans to cap the total welfare budget – just after benefits were limited to £26,000 a year. Cabinet ministers will have to slash departmental expenditure in the year after the next general election but these are only half of Whitehall spending, with welfare, EU payments and debt making up the rest.
TRAVEL industry pleas to scrap a hike in air passenger duty next month were ignored. The increase will see a family of four flying economy to Florida paying £268 in duty or £332 if they go to the Caribbean. Airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic hit out: "These rises show the emptiness of rhetoric on boosting exports to emerging economies."