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Homebuilders began work on 263 new homes last month, a significant drop from the 600 started in September 2017, though the reason behind it is likely the fact builders are simply too busy to start new projects, say insiders.
Of the 263 new starts, 190 were multi-family units and 73 were single-family homes.
Year-to-date, builders have started 3,028 new homes, up from the 2,696 started through the first nine months of last year.
Casey Edge, executive director of the Victoria Residential Builders Association, said there are several factors affecting the pace of building, including rising interest rates, new mortgage stress-test rules, the anticipated speculation tax and the time it takes builders to navigate the development processes in some area municipalities.
“We know all these things will weigh further on the housing supply, but having said that we are still right now posting more starts than at the same time last year,” said Edge.
Langford leads the way with 1,439 starts through the first nine months of the year, almost double the 765 started over the same period last year. Saanich has seen 369 new homes started so far this year, down from 423 last year, and Victoria has seen its pace cut in half with 319 starts so far this year compared to 665 at the same time in 2017.
Edge said while builders are starting more than the average of 2,000 homes a year, they are still not keeping up with demand.
Last year Greater Victoria builders started 3,862 new homes, the most recorded since 4,439 were started in 1976.
In this week's show, we celebrate the oft-beleaguered and misrepresented middleman. "Cut out the middleman! Death to the middleman!" the angry hordes cry. Not us. We say, "Hi, middleman. Here are three splendid acts to toast your subtle virtues."
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A moral group in the UK, Mediawatch are campaigning to get broadcasters to equip catch up tv websites with parental controls to avoid minors seeing unsuitable content.
The group which was founded by the late Mary Whitehouse famous for her moral crusading has attacked the big UK networks including the BBC ‘s iPlayer service and Channel 4’s 4oD service for lacking in child controls when viewing online content.
Mediawatch’s main issue with the broadcaster’s is that the tv-on-demand features offered by catch-up services make a joke of having a so called 9pm watershed for adult content to be viewed.
Mediawatch’s director Vivienne Pattison accuses the broadcasters of only paying lip-service to the need to protect kids from grown-up shows.
“The technology has moved ahead of the regulation and that’s the problem”, Pattison told The Telegraph.
“Ofcom’s most recent research found that fewer than a third of parents use parental controls or are confident about how to use them. And often it’s children of parents who cannot or will not do something about it who are the ones you are most concerned about”.
Mediawatch wants the services to introduce password protection and the group plans to “campaign on it big next year”.
Of course, the fact that kids can watch adult content from a myriad of online destinations means that whatever happens with the networks, it is down to parental responsibility over what the kids are doing online.
Snowmaking equipment was up and running at Wildcat Mountain this month ahead of the resort's earliest-ever start to skiing.
The Wildcat Mountain ski resort in the White Mountains will have the earliest opening ever in its 61-year history Saturday.
It comes after a mid-October cold snap that bucks the overall warming trend for New England winters.
Wildcat Mountain spokesman Jack Fagone says it's usually not cold enough for snowmaking until closer to Thanksgiving.
That wasn't the case this year – with a recent week of weather in the 20s and lower, as well as a surprising amount of natural snowfall.
“To be skiing in October is just amazing,” he says.
This weekend, he says Wildcat will have the most vertical feet available for skiing east of Colorado.
Promotions for opening day even broke some in-house records for likes and comments on social media.
But it’s an outlier – what UNH snow scientist Elizabeth Burakowski calls an example of weather, not climate.
Overall, she says New England winters are getting slowly but steadily shorter and milder.
The region has warmed by 3 or 4 degrees since the 1970s, and lost one to two weeks with snow on the ground.
Jack Fagone says Wildcat’s snowmaking technology has advanced a lot in recent years. Still, it requires temperatures below freezing to work.
Scientists also predict extreme weather events will increase in the coming decades. Fagone says he sees that in this year’s early start to skiing.
It may not reflect global warming, but Burakowski says it does reflect climate change overall.
Longer-term, without serious human intervention to curb climate change, she says New England could see winters more like the Mid-Atlantic’s by the end of the century.
Researchers have finished their largest study to date on how ticks and warming winters are hurting moose in Northern New England.
The data shows unprecedented death rates among moose calves -- more than 50 percent in four of the past five years, plus lower reproductive rates in adult moose across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
A controversial conference in Portsmouth Friday focused on economic solutions to climate change – while questioning some mainstream scientific views.
The Portsmouth Conference was the first put on by Citizens Count, a nonpartisan voter education nonprofit.
Its founder is prominent New Hampshire businessman Paul Montrone, who sat in on the conference at a hotel in Portsmouth.
A new study from Plymouth State University and the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest says New Hampshire ski areas will have fewer days to make snow each winter as the climate warms.
Co-author Geoff Wilson of the Cary Institute says they already knew the White Mountains were warming faster during the winter than at other times of the year.
For this study, he says they worked with nearby Loon Mountain Resort to see how warming is affecting ski areas.
New studies say a decrease in snow days as the climate changes is taking an economic toll on states like New Hampshire—as well as an environmental one.
Michael Rasmussen would add an empty-net goal with 22 seconds remaining to put the game out of reach. Rasmussen has scored at least one point in all 10 of the Americans' playoff games.
"We showed a lot of character coming back," Tri-City coach Mike Williamson said. "It's big to come up here and get a split. They are a team that plays well on the road. This series is going to develop a flavor of its own. There is a lot on the line."
Everett's Matt Fonteyne scored the first goal of the game at 7:34 of the first, only to have AuCoin tie things up 5 minutes later.
The Silvertips went back out front 2-1 on a Patrick Bajkov goal. The lead would hold until the end of the period.
Tri-City's Jordan Topping scored the lone goal of the second period to make it 2-2 after 40 minutes of play.
It was a wild west shootout in the third. AuCoin, with his second of the night, gave the Americans a 3-2 lead — their first of the series. Garrett Pilon would score for Everett before James and Rasmussen found the net.
It was James' first goal since Feb. 17 against Spokane.
"He and Coiner (AuCoin) and (Riley) Sawchuk have been a huge part of us getting this far," Williamson said. "They do a lot for us to have success. They play against top lines, kill penalties and wear teams down. They are valuable whether they score or not."
Patrick Dea finished with 37 saves for Tri-City, including 11 in the third period with the game on the line, while Juuso Välimäki, Isaac Johnson and Dylan Coghlan each had two assists.
"They really pushed," Williamson said of the Silvertips. "They had some good chances, but Patty stood tall and made some huge saves for us."
Hart finished with 22 saves for the Silvertips.
First — 1, Evt, Fonteyne 5 (Dewar, Davis), 7:34 (pp). 2, TC, AuCoin 2 (Välimäki, Johnson), 12:29. 3, Evt, Bajkov 8 (Davis, Pilon), 14:37 (pp). Penalties — Rasmussen, TC (high-sticking), 6:02; Richards, Evt (holding), 8:53; Topping, TC (boarding), 13:04; Yaremko, TC (delay of game), 13:47; Vala, Evt, (interference), 14:49.
Second — 4, TC, Topping 3 (Johnson), 12:02. Penalties — Sutter, Evt (slashing), 3:50.
Third — 5, TC, AuCoin 3 (Välimäki, Gatenby), 10:19. 6, Evt, Pilon 9 (Fonteyne), 11:25. 7, TC, James 1 (AuCoin, Coghlan), 12:29. 8, TC, Rasmussen 12 (Coghlan), 19:38. Penalties —Yaremko, TC (roughing), 1:57; Bajkov, Evt (misconduct), 19:38.
Shots — TC 9-13-5 — 27. Evt 20-8-12 — 40. Power plays — TC 0-3. Evt 2-4. Goalies — TC, Dea 8-1 (40 shots-37 saves). Evt, Hart 9-2-1 (26-22). Referees — Steve Papp and Reagan Vetter. A — 6,401.
Joyce Shaheen Bowman, 83, of Las Vegas died in Las Vegas. She was born in Teaneck, N.J. She is survived by daughter Mary Gail Ahrens, stepdaughter Sarah, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services on the mainland.
Players' chief Gordon Taylor fears Paul Gascoigne could be heading the same way as George Best - but vowed the Professional Footballers' Association will not be giving up on him.
Gascoigne, who has spoken about alcoholism problems in the past and was sectioned five years ago under the Mental Health Act, appeared to be unwell and trembling at a charity appearance in Northampton on Thursday.
"We have tried to support him throughout all his problems with rehabilitation at various clinics, with medical help," Taylor told Press Association Sport.
PFA chief executive Taylor also expressed his concern that the case could be comparable with that of Best, the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland winger who died aged 59 in 2005 after a long struggle with alcoholism.
"We are in regular touch with him and have been again. We go one step forward and two back at times and this is just the situation. If we are not careful, it is going to be akin to George Best. It is unfortunate, but we try to keep going."
Gascoigne's agent Terry Baker says the 45-year-old had been drinking and needs immediate help, suggesting his life is "always in danger".
Gary Lineker admits he is struggling to see a positive outcome for Gascoigne, his former England and Tottenham team-mate. Match of the Day presenter Lineker, who played with Gascoigne at the 1990 World Cup, wrote on Twitter: "I can only hope he finds peace somehow, but fear those hopes may be forlorn."
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel has called on the PFA to "step up" their efforts to help Gascoigne.
Referring to The Sun's video of the charity appearance, Schmeichel wrote on Twitter: "This is not fun watching. Gazza needs help. Come on PFA & Gordon Taylor, time to step up."
Reacting to those comments, Taylor said: "I can't think of a player who has had more support and constant help over the number of years that we have been there for Paul. It is quite ironic - it is nice that people like Peter Schmeichel care about him, but they don't appreciate the work we have done for him, a lot of which has to be confidential."
RTD documentary films about the circus world take you behind the scenes of troupes from Russia and Afghanistan to meet professional performers, enthusiasts and children learning various performing skills.
Cirque de Kabul explores a circus school founded by Danish volunteers, which gives Afghan children hope and a place to connect, play and learn.
Girls from the Mobile Mini Circus for Children perform in front of Afghan schoolchildren in Kabul.
Flying Kids, in St. Petersburg, Russia helps challenging teenagers and children from disadvantaged families to discover their talent. The Upsula Circus turns potential hooligans into entertainers, empowering with purpose and keeping them busy.
When children from the Upsula Circus are performing on stage, they leave all their problems behind.
In the Cage features the Zapashny brothers, a famous Russian animal taming duo. Askold and Edgard Zapashny, who come from a circus dynasty, reveal what it takes to work with wild animals and perform in the ring.
Edgard and Askold Zapashny continue the legacy of their father, Valter Zapashny, who had long resisted the idea.
The New York Police Department is calling on Beyonce to apologize for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance.
“Our NYPD sources admit they don’t believe Beyonce was advocating hostility toward police in her homage to the Black Panthers. Problem is … they say that’s the way it came across for millions of viewers,” TMZ reported.
Police have continued to advocate for a boycott of Beyonce’s concert over the halftime performance, with officers in Miami becoming particularly vocal with their disdain.
The Miami Fraternal Order of Police has voted to have all law enforcement officers boycott Beyoncé’s concert which is being held at the Miami Marlins Stadium on Wednesday, April 26, 2016,” Ortiz said in a statement. “The fact that Beyoncé used this year’s Super Bowl to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message shows how she does not support law enforcement.” The organization urged other law enforcement agencies around the country to do the same.
Beyonce’s reps have yet to comment.
Armor5 is a cloud service provider that's solving the problem of secure mobile access to enterprise data and applications in a new way. The company serves enterprises, cloud solution providers and any organization struggling to secure network access for mobile users. Armor5 offers the only zero-touch, 100 percent cloud service that accesses a client's network, virtualizes enterprise data and applications, and provisions secure and compliant access for every end user using any mobile device.
Bitcasa, a developer of secure storage across all devices, provides infinite storage, streaming access and automatic backup with built-in client-side encryption to ensure privacy. Bitcasa simplifies storage with the Infinite Drive, which works like a magic external hard drive that never crashes or runs out of space.
Catchpoint, founded in September 2008 by former DoubleClick/Google veterans and backed by Battery Ventures, helps companies better understand the performance of their online services so they can ensure a fast, glitch-free online environment to improve user satisfaction, reduce quality management costs and protect revenue. Delivering insight through organized and visualized information, Catchpoint's Web performance and application monitoring tools provide real-time analytics to help IT quickly discover and resolve performance issues.
Cloudant provides the world's first globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for loading, storing, analyzing and distributing operational application data for developers of large and fast-growing Web and mobile applications. Cloudant's DBaaS is a managed service that helps developers eliminate the delays, costs and distractions inherent in working with databases and their administrators, while providing scalability, availability and performance. This capability accelerates time-to-market and time-to-innovation because it frees developers from the mechanics of data management so they can focus exclusively on creating great applications.
Clustrix has built a database with no limits: no limits to database size, no limits to table size, no limits to the complexity of queries and no limits to performance. The Clustrix database offers dynamic online scaling, seamless fault tolerance, full relational and transactional capabilities, and MySQL wire-line compatibility in single instance database.
Continuuity delivers what it claims is the industry's first big data application fabric, fueling the next generation of big data applications by making it fast and easy for any developer to build, deploy, scale and manage such apps. Continuuity offers a unified experience across the entire application lifecycle from development to DevOps. Its prepackaged building blocks with higher-level APIs, datasets, tooling and documentation make creating big data applications fast. The cloud-based Continuuity AppFabric, the first scale-out application server for Hadoop and HBase, is built on top of Hadoop open-source components and shields developers from the complexity of big data and cloud infrastructure.
FeedHenry's mobile application platform enables enterprises to simplify their mobile initiatives and empowers them to engage more effectively with employees, customers and partners through the mobile channel. The cloud-based FeedHenry platform supports app development and integration to back-end systems, and it enables deployment to multiple devices as well as app management and reporting. FeedHenry's approach is to offer an open and flexible mobile application platform that can easily be deployed to different cloud and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments—public, private and hybrid.
Having run several experiments to learn more about the frictions that exist around honest conversations within the workplace, Happiily builds tools that facilitate more honest conversations in the workplace. MeetingLess, which Happiily has launched into private beta, is built to make meetings more effective by providing anonymous feedback to participants about the meetings they have attended.
MobileSpaces helps enterprises mobilize their applications, govern their data and respect the privacy of their employees. MobileSpaces' BYOD Policy Management solution protects enterprise apps and data against loss and leakage. MobileSpaces' App Virtualization technology secures any app on any device, letting the enterprise choose the apps it needs while allowing employees to choose the devices they want. MobileSpaces is the only solution that allows the enterprise to secure built-in apps, public app store apps and enterprise app store apps with no friction.
SiSense is seeking to democratize big data analytics by pioneering a new approach that enables organizations of all sizes to make sense of their business data. SiSense Prism, powered by its Elasticube analytics technology, is designed to deliver performance, agility and value to businesses. SiSense has customers in 48 countries, including global brands such as Target and Merck.
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One word, coaching. Seattle players were far more prepared in game plan and execution.
Hopefully, the refs will call pass interference 5 yards past the line of scrimmage. Also, I hope the Broncos receivers are in intense martial arts training to counter the shivers, holds, and "unintentional " bumps the Seattle Seahawks have been able to get away with all year long.
All the comments concerning the Cole pickup back in New England describe Cole basically as a Jammer East.
Love the article's picture with the offensive lineman blatantly holding the defensive player from sacking Brady. Hopefully, the refs will be throwing a flag if it occurs in Denver.
That's a total bummer. Circle the wagons Broncos. We still have some good, young players on defense.
From the replay I'm sort of doubting a ACL tear. The impact was not directly on the knee area (it was a upper body hit) and there was no awkward fall with weight. Also, didn't see the usual agony position holding a bent knee. I'm thinking it's a mild sprain of the ACL. Let's hope so.
Oakland in Oakland is going to be a tough game no matter how Oakland's played this season. We got to have our A game. The Raiders are a horrible team, but very good as spoilers especially with the Broncos. Got to go out there and put the petal to the metal without slowing down on offense or defense.
A CB with a thumb cast playing effective pass and run defense..Get Real.
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