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By Jonny Evans
The Apple [AAPL] iPod taught us that part of delivering strong growth and maintaining interest in a product demands a healthy third-party market, and the explosion of products already revealed for the iPad 2 confirms that Apple is well on its way to developing that 'magical' device's very own supporting ecosystem. No one else has this. Only recently announced, the invasion of the iPad bodystashers has already begun.
[ABOVE: Apple's own magnetic iPad 2 cover is just the thin end of a very large accessories wedge for the hottest tablet in town.]
Think about the volumes here. (I read something recently that confused a few thousand sales with a few million sales of another product in the same category and described them both as 'volume sales'. They aren't.)
Apple allegedly plans 21.5-24 million iPad 2 sales in the second half of this year, with an additional 12 million planned in the first quarter alone. How can accessory designers deny themselves a chance to grab a slice of this action?
[This story is from Computerworld's Apple Holic blog. Follow on Twitter or subscribe via RSS to make sure you don't miss a beat.]
It's a good business. Think about it: Compared to other platforms - where you may one day perhaps have similar sales volumes, but of a dizzying array of different-shaped devices, Apple's iPad lets third party makers focus on just one form factor. That's a business they can't resist. Why take risks for devices which aren't ubiquitous?
Apple's third party advantage
I researched the industry for tablet accessories across the last few weeks, and found there's plenty of these things available for Apple's tablets and some available for the Galaxy Tab. Sure, HP, RIM and Samsung (among others) will be manufacturing their own tablet add-ons for their own tablets, but Apple has a clear third party advantage.
Look to the iPad 2. It isn't available yet, but third party device makers are already getting involved.
UK firm Proporta has announced an impressive 17 new iPad 2 products (two above). These include 15 different protective cases (leather, silicone, hard and soft cases) and two Advanced Screen Protectors, "a record number of announcements for one device from Proporta," the company said. These will ship in four weeks time.
Proporta's Guy Monson said, "It's great to see magnets being used in the new iPad to switch the device on and off. Proporta will certainly be making use of that functionality in our new line-up of cases and accessories."
Popular US accessories manufacturer, iSkin, has also wasted little time bringing its colorful range of solutions to this soon to be exploding market.
"iSkin's award-winning, fashionable lineup of sleeves and slings, part of the Q.West Collection, are compatible and immediately available for the Apple iPad 2," the company has said. "iSkin is also adapting the popular Duo, Vu and multi-functional aura folio to be compatible with the new tablet."
Marware's C.E.O. Hybrid for iPad 2 is now available for pre-order. This features a protective lid which doubles as a stand and adjusts at multiple angles for different usages.
Cygnett announced its range of iPad 2 cases yesterday, these are previous designs adapted for use with the new iPad, as well as new ranges.
Mark Rogers, General Manager, Cygnett UK, said in a release: "I'm really excited about our new range of iPad 2 cases. We've concentrated the range around our best products from the original iPad range and improved on these with better materials and greater functionality."
Beyond cases, veteran audio and accessories manufacturer, Scosche, has already launched its new iPad 2 range with three new cases, a waterproof Bluetooth mini keyboard and a variety of new charging options.
(I'm quite taken with the freeKEY water resistant Bluetooth keyboard. Like any Bluetooth device it has a potential maximum range of up to 30 feet. It also rolls up for storage and boasts a retractable USB cable for charging.)
Take a look at Booq's Booqpad -- this combines a nice leather protective iPad 2 case with a notebook and pen -- after all, sometimes a notebook and pen is actually what you need. This wallet includes a business card holder, and little pocket for all your bits and pieces. It's like a filofax for the digital natives.
iLuv has also joined in, offering up a range of four different cases and a unique charging dock which is equipped with a multi-directional arm so you can set things up for the best screen orientation and keyboard angle. (Or use it with a Bluetooth keyboard, if you need a keyboard).
Naked truth
All this third-party accessory activity underlines Apple's advantage and frustrates its imitative competitors.
Look, I recognise I have critics. I recognise they want me to say everything is wonderful in the non-Apple ecosystem, but let's be realistic about it, the sad facts are that everything isn't wonderful in the non-Apple ecosystem.
For example, there isn't really a non-Apple third party ecosystem. The truth is that until a similarly burgeoning third-party accessories market evolves for other tablets then we're not looking at anything like serious competition. It has a hegemonic effect, after all -- each iPad-compatible device sold is one less consumer seeking an alternative tablet. Granted, the Samsung Tab has achieved some traction, but it is the only non-Apple tablet to have achieved this so far.
Other tablets will apparently reach the shops in the coming weeks. Some may even be succesful in reaching the mass consumer market. One or two might even capture a little consumer imagination. However, until they have achieved real market volumes they will lack the attractive aura that's created by a busy third party business.
Can Apple maintain its empire?
This success breed success effect is happening all across Apple partners, component suppliers, contracted manufacturers, App developers...
There is one chink of hope: some upstream component suppliers refused to join in with the iPad 2 because the move to miniaturize the device meant they would have had to make major r&d investments to deliver what Apple required, while at the same time Apple refused to share the risk of such investments.
It is possible Apple -- notorious for using the scale of its orders to secure more affordable deals -- will need to be a little more generous with suppliers if it wants to keep them. Though that's a good problem to have.
In conclusion: There's a lot of expectation Apple's iPad market share will fall this year, as the industry becomes more populated.
This makes some sense, but the evolution of a healthy and robust third party accessory business will be a determinant to the evolution of a strong competitor hoping to mount a serious long-term threat to Apple's growing iPower.
However, the perceived lack of such a wider supporting cast will leave most competitors facing a huge credibility gap. That's my opinion.
Please do debate this in comments below, and I'd be most pleased if you chose to follow me on Twitter so I could let you know when new reports get published here first on Computerworld.

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Old trees in Colorado are providing new insight into drought conditions and helping water management agencies to plan for the future, according to Connie Woodhouse, a scientist with the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Paleoclimatology Program.
Woodhouse presented the results of a study at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Long Beach, Calif., on February 11.
Extended records from tree-ring data, which can be used to reconstruct past hydroclimatic conditions, provide a longer context from which to assess the 2002 drought and other 20th century droughts. Over the past year, NOAA has formed working partnerships with a variety of Front Range water management agencies who have expressed interest in incorporating tree-ring reconstructed flow records in their planning. These include Denver Water and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, several municipalities (Boulder, Westminster, Longmont), and a large private company (Coors Brewing Company), as well as several consulting firms.
Of immediate interest to water management agencies is the assessment of the unusualness of the 2002 drought, as well as information for managing possible continuing drought conditions. "The tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow can provide a 300-500 year context for assessing the frequency of a 2002-magnitude drought," Woodhouse said.
"Analyses of streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado and South Platte River watersheds suggest that the severity of the 2002-year drought has been matched or exceeded about five times in the past three centuries," Woodhouse said. "When considered as a three-year drought (2000-2002), this event is much less rare."
The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program is part of the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NOAA Satellites and Information), the nation's primary source of space-based meteorological and climate data. NOAA Satellites and Information operates the nation's environmental satellites, which are used for weather forecasting, climate monitoring and other environmental applications such as fire detection, ozone monitoring and sea surface temperature measurements.
NOAA Satellites and Information also operates three data centers, which house global data bases in climatology, oceanography, solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, solar-terrestrial physics and paleoclimatology.
The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of our nation's coastal and marine resources.
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Sanjay Dutt patches up with his sisters
However, now they seem to have buried the long pending split and have become a happy family again. Sanjay and Manyata had a triple celebration on that day of birthday bash. Apart from Owen"s birthday, they celebrated Eid and Ganpati festival.
A source close to the Dutt family was quoted saying that every relationship has its share of tiffs and arguments. The family also had a small difference and stayed distant from each other for some time but it is a thing of past now. The source added that the entire family gathered under the same roof on Saturday night at Sanjay Dutt"s house.
The source further said that the celebration was attended by close friends and family and all had a grand dinner. Earlier, Manyata and Priya were rumoured to have differences but they were also seen sharing warm vibes. The party continued till the wee hours of the morning, the source informed.
The source also said that Priya and Namrata always came to tie 'Rakhi" to their brother on Raksha Bandhan inspite of all the differences. It's great the Dutt family has bonded together again that will only give peace to the soul of their later parents Sunil Dutt and Nargis Dutt.


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The A380 has received a Validation of Type Certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, preparing the way for its future operation in this growing airline marketplace.
Airbus' 21st century flagship jetliner has received a Validation of Type Certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), marking a key milestone for the A380's future operations in this important market.
Type certification by international governing authorities is required for all new aircraft to ensure they meet or exceed all airworthiness requirements.
By issuing the validation document, China confirms that the A380's design complies with the country's aviation regulations and endorses the original Type Certificate issued by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on 12 December 2006.
The first Chinese customer for the A380 is China Southern Airlines, which ordered five of the double-deck aircraft in 2005. Deliveries are scheduled to begin during 2011.
To prepare for the A380's service entry in China, CAAC has set up an A380 working group. Members of this body include officials in charge of flight standards, airworthiness, airport management, air control and the CAAC's regional administration. They are tasked with following A380 technical updates from Airbus and the European Aviation Safety Agency, studying and formulating operational standards and policies for the A380, and coordinating all matters relating to the aircraft.
The overall Airbus fleet in China has grown from one aircraft in 1985 to more than 530 today - and covers a full range of aircraft from the single-aisle A320 Family to the widebody A330/A340.


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Our traction control, does it protect our tranny from damage in snow. We just received a ton here, and for the first time since 1984 I got slightly stuck for about 5 minutes then was able to carry on. But driving in this mess for a while I noticed really for the first time how our traction control seems like we have no power and we are in like ( limp home mode ). I hope you guys can tell me that this is normal and the car did what it was made to do and all is well. I was very gentle with it getting out and babied it but did smell a little hot after, hoping it was just wheels spinning the tire (rubber) that I smelt. All working fine and smell has gone away. Thanks for you're input guys I know you will set me straight.


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A variety of organizations work with the Oregon Immunization Program to protect the people of Oregon from vaccine-preventable disease, from assisting with outreach or hosting clinics to providing expert insight on policy.
This committee advises the Oregon Immunization Program on the laws requiring immunizations to protect children and students attending our schools, children's facilities and colleges/universities against vaccine-preventable diseases. The Committee makes recommendations regarding proposed changes, implementation, and maintenance of immunization statutes and rules.
The Oregon Immunization Policy Advisory Team, established in 1999, advises the Oregon Public Health Immunization Program on the development, prioritization and implementation of immunization policy issues. Composed of 18 voting members who are experts in immunization and/or policy fields and non-voting members from the Oregon Health Authority, IPAT strives to facilitate a sound, collaborative decision-making process around immunization issues facing Oregonians.
Keeping people and communities healthy means more than access to medical care. It means ensuring people have the basics, like food, housing and economic opportunity. At the nonprofit 211Info, they believe in the idea of Health for Your Whole Life. It's a commitment to work toward an Oregon and Southwest Washington where everyone's health and social services needs are met. Visit the 211info website.
Immunize Oregon is Oregon's lifespan immunization coalition.
This committee provides policy input for the immunization registry.
The Division of Medical Assistance Programs (DMAP) oversees the Oregon Health Plan, which is a public and private partnership that ensures universal access to a basic level of health care for Oregonians. The division also includes provisions for oversight, research and analysis to achieve the best use of health-care funding.
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I absolutely love the smell of a pot roast in the oven. It give your home that comfortable, warm, and inviting smell. Not to mention with an easy pot roast recipe you can make a meal for your family and have left overs for a week in just a few simple steps. Personally, I prefer to use the oven when cooking pot roasts, but you can use a crockpot for any of the ideas you see below. I won't hold it against you if you decide to use a crockpot!
There's probably hundreds of different ways to cook a pot roast in the oven. Just like pasta, it's one of the most versatile foods outs there. While the directions of my oven pot roasts are always the same, the ingredients sometimes change. Below you'll find two different ingredients I use for cooking a pot roast in the oven. Again, you could use a crockpot, but my instructions are for the oven, so do be sure you plan accordingly if you do not use the oven. There are a few additional recipes on this page that DO use a crockpot, if that is what you prefer.
Pot Roast Recipe Ingredient Choices
Pot Roast Ingredients #1:
Large Potatoes, cut in half
Garlic Salt
Fennel Seeds
This one has a slight "spice" taste. The fennel seeds really bring out the juices of the slow cooked meat. An easy pot roast recipe which I make the most, simply because I always have the ingredients on hand.
Pot Roast Ingredients #2:
Large Potatoes, cut in half
Sliced Onion
Onion Salt
Garlic Powder
In this easy pot roast recipe, instead of carrots and fennel seeds I use onion. It's got a similar taste to the first recipe, except for more of an onion flavor.
How to Cook Pot Roast
For each of the pot roast ingredient suggestions above, the cooking instructions are the same. I prefer to cook mine in the oven, but you can also use a crockpot. I find it easier to cook in the oven because of the size of the roast and the ability to put in additional ingredients as listed above.
1. Preheat oven to 325*
2. Place meat in roaster, stab with knife to allow juices to cook threw meat.
3. Fill with about half water (pot roast should be covered with water)
4. Cook for 4-5 hours, checking every hour or so, and flipping roast over.
There's lots of room for creativity with an easy pot roast recipe for the oven. Try out different vegetables from the garden like green beans, squash, and other slow cooker vegetables. I'm always ready to try a new easy pot roast recipe that taste good, so pass your recipes on if you have them!
Additional Easy Pot Roast Ideas
Still need more ideas? Try these pot roast recipes that were submitted by visitors. I have not personally tried any of them (just call me stuck in my ways!), but they all sound fantastic. They are perfect if you don't care to use my method for making pot roast in the oven.
2 1/2 lb. Chuck roast
2 packets dry Italian dressing mix OR Ranch dressing mix
1 cup water
Place beef in crockpot, sprinkle seasonings over meat, pour water over all. Cook on low 6-8 hours or until meat shreds easily.
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By Natasha Tasler
3-4 pound Beef Pot Roast ~ sprinkle with 1 TBLS onion flakes and garlic powder to taste
1/4 tsp Thyme
1/4 tsp Rosemary
1 TLBS Beef Bullion
1/4 to 1/3 Cup Soy Sauce
Water to almost cover roast. Cook on low setting 8-10 hours. Shread and serve with crusty buns, mild cheese and a jus sauce. So good!
Pot Roast by Maureen
Recipe by Maureen Rocks
3-4 lbs. boneless beef roast
2 cups tomato juice
3 cups onions, cooked, chopped
1 clove minced garlic
6-8 potatoes, cut into large chunks
3-4 cups carrots, cut into 2 inch pieces
2 Tbsp. all purpose flour
Spray a Dutch oven with nonstick cooking spray and heat over medium high heat 1 minute. Add roast and brown 2-3 minutes per side. Add 1-3/4 cups tomato juice, onion and garlic. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook 1 hour. Add potatoes and carrots, cover and cook another 45 minutes. Transfer roast and vegetables to a platter. Combine flour and remaining 1/4 cup juice in a bowl. Stir into drippings. Increase heat to medium high. Stir until thickened. Serve gravy over meat and vegetables.
Have an easy pot roast recipe to share? Leave it in the comments below! I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting pot roast recipes to share with my readers and my family.


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VAC Atlas Viewer
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Dear Friends Pilots,
VAC Atlas Viewer is an application designed to simplify your flights.
SD-Card (Android 4.4 and above) : since v2.10 the directory /Android/data/org.ssandon.viewer is created on the sdcard at the install.
On Samsung the path looks like that (verify it !) : /storage/extSdCard/Android/data/org.ssandon.viewer/files/Download
To use the external sdcard for download setup this path in the settings and re-launch the app.
This application downloads and shows French airports maps. With this application you will always have airports maps with you (usefull for flight planning, or even during flight).
VAC Atlas Viewer is available on the market to France's neighbours, but remember the maps are for French Airspace only.
**** Warning ON ****
Be Careful:
VAC Atlas Viewer is a software application : it can fail or crash ! So be sure to have the originals maps with you !
**** Warning **** OFF
Now that was said, here's a quick overview of the differents features :
- Database update on demand from the SIA web site (translation = Aeronautical Information Service).
- Displays Airports in a fast scroll list.
- Icons for each types of Airfield (Public, Restricted, Altiport).
- Airports altitude is displayed.
- Download maps localy on you device.
- Delete maps.
- Displays maps (requires an external PDF reader that is not provided).
- Search by ICAO code or by Name (dynamic filtering).
- Alphabetically sort by name or airport ICAO code.
- Sorting according to distance (when GPS is activated) : displays the distance and bearing to reach the airports.
- Use both "GPS" and "Network" provider to enable the location in flight but also indoor (for a flight planning for exemple).
- Mode "online" or "downloaded" (the latter is useful in flight or when no network coverage is available to show only the downloaded maps).
- Choice of the download directory (you can use the SDCard).
- Choice of display units for altitude and distance, "Feet" or "Meters".
- Save user preferences (sorting & mode) between executions for a consistent user experience.
- User interface in French and English (the maps are both French and English but it depends mainly of SIA here).
- Free application, ad free !
The ergonomics and operation of the application have been designed to allow in-flight use (no networks).
Before each operation requiring a network connection, a warning box appears to warn you (and also because it can cost depending your operator).
At first run, the application will update its database from the official SIA website : it uses few bandwidth (~ 70K) but it can take up to 1 minute and half depending on the CPU of your device. All subsequent updates will be at your request via the Help menu !
Every first display of a map the application requests confirmation to download (again you can set where you want to download in the preferences : make sure the directory is writable).
Once a map is downloaded it appears in the "Download" mode.
A short-Tap allows you to view the map with a PDF reader (not supplied).
A Long Tap deletes the maps that you no longer want to keep.
From the help screen you can update the database : if the revision has changed you will need to update your maps (because they become obsolete). I suggest you to use a file explorer like "Ghost Commander" to clean up the download directory.
If the revision has changed on the SIA site and you have not done an update, you'll get an error on all new download. That's because the revision is not checked (see above). So you will need to make an update via the help menu.
Others features on the way.
Good flights.
Stéphane (Pilot @ LFLG).
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Still Reading Wave
I am writing to you from Florida to let you know that I am still reading The Wave to keep up with the news of the beach.
I used to live in Rockaway Park for thirty-one years before moving to Florida. All of my children were born in Queens. My daughter Carol and my son John were born at the time in St. Joseph in Far Rockaway. All of my three children went to St. Francis DeSales School. My son and one of my daughters went to Beach Channel High School. My oldest daughter Laura went to Stella Maris. Now she is a nurse in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan.
We used to live on 118th Street by the beach block. It was safe then to walk late at night on the boardwalk. I could write a book about Rockaway. I used to work as a cook at St. Francis DeSales Rectory. This in itself should be a book.
But also it will be a bit sad because some of my friends lost some of their family in the tragic events of 9-11. Some of those boys grew up with my children. My son does come often to Rockaway. He used to be a lifeguard, and now most of all his friends are firemen.
I still enjoy reading The Wave. It brings back some good memories. Keep up the good work. The Wave sure came a long way!
I may pass by the paper when I get to Rockaway to say hello. It will be around the end of June or the, beginning of July.


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I'm glad that you got the led to work.
I had a question, would you happen to know if a passive keyless entry system would be possible? If so do you know how to customize one? I'm sure it'll be similar to this but with more add on. I would love to be able to walk up to my door open it and then push button start. They have this kit I want to buy but i dont know if it'll work or how to hook it up.
I think what you are talking about is the RFID keys, right? You most definitely can use that type of system. You would still have to use the 556uw transponder bypass with the second key, but other than that, it would be an install really similar to this. The one I have personally used is one called Advanced KEYS-AK-104B.
It is not a full on alarm, but just a keyless and remote start. To make it a real keyless system, you have to bypass the steering column lock feature on the vehicle, that way you don't ever have to use the key. You can either disable the locking mechanism within the steerng column, which I don't know how difficult it would be in this car, or you can just insert the key and cut it off with ignition in the on position. Of course you would use a key without the transponder pellet.
If you have experience installing alarms, then the install manual would walk you right through it. However, it would be a real challenge if it is your first time doing something like this, not impossible though.
Nice write up man , my 330 has remote start , factory alarm and viper alarm and it's all built into my factory keys
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Thanks! I see that your 330 is an 06. Yeah, that year they dropped the transponder system that we use in the 99-05 e46, so Viper was able to come up with a better and easier to use bypass module. Do you have the smart start? I really like Viper systems myself.
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Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia is participating in the team's "Winter Tour" this weekend, meeting admirers and signing autographs in various Canadian cities. The photo below comes from Ottawa, where the 26-year-old former first-round pick was asked to pose with an especially young Jays fan. Gotta get to 'em early.
Astros' bullpen throws combined one-hitter for MLB-best 30th win
The Astros' bullpen did yeoman's work in place of the injured Dallas Keuchel on Monday against the Tigers. Keuchel is temporarily sidelined with a pinched nerve in his neck.
Brad Peacock made the spot start, limiting the Tigers to one hit and two walks with eight strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings. Chris Devenski took over with one out in the fifth, finishing out that inning as well as the sixth and seventh, facing the minimum. Will Harris pitched a perfect eighth and Ken Giles closed out the 1-0 victory in the ninth. Devenski, Harris, and Giles each had two strikeouts.
The Astros scored their only run in the bottom of the first inning as George Springer drew a leadoff walk, then scored on Jose Altuve's one-out double. Tigers starter Brad Fulmer pitched well enough to win on most days, giving up the lone run in seven frames.
After Monday's win, the Astros became the first team to reach 30 wins, sitting on a 30-15 record. With a +55 run differential, even their expected record matches up with their actual record.
Brandon Phillips hit his 200th career home run
Braves second baseman Brandon Phillips became the 337th player in baseball history to hit 200 career home runs, driving a solo home run to left-center field during Monday night's home game against the Pirates. Phillips is the 14th second baseman (who played a min. of 75 percent of his career games at the position) to rack up at least 200 career home runs.
Phillips, 35, entered Monday's action batting .290/.345/.405 with two home runs and 12 RBI in 142 plate appearances. If he's anything, he's consistent, as he finished with an adjusted OPS between 90-99 (100 is average) every year between 2012-16 and it was sitting at 97 coming into Monday.


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|Tyler Ennis scores game-winner in shootout as Bruins fall to Sabres
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In a game that could appropriately be summarized as a "shootout," the Bruins fell, 7-6, to the Sabres Saturday in a shootout.
After Drew Stafford and Michael Ryder each scored in the first round of the shootout, Thomas Vanek and Tyler Seguin followed their teammates' leads. Tyler Ennis then beat Tim Thomas, who came on in relief of Tuukka Rask in the second period, before Zdeno Chara missed.
The Bruins relinquished three leads and Stafford had his second hat trick vs. the B's this season. Sabres' netminder Ryan Miller allowed six goals on 40 shots, marking the third time in four games he's allowed at least four goals.
The Bruins got first period goals from Andrew Ference, Dennis Seidenberg, Brad Marchand, and Zdeno Chara, but Tuukkka Rask allowed three goals on 16 shots and was pulled following the period. After Thomas relinquished the lead, the Bruins faced a 5-4 deficit in the third period.
The team made yet another third-period comeback, with Tyler Seguin tying the game and assisting Steven Kampfer's go-ahead goal. Stafford would go on to tie the game with 27.8 seconds remaining in the game with the extra attacker on.
With the shootout loss, the Bruins have picked up six of eight points so far on their current road trip, which they will round out when they face the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Monday night.
Thomas' record now stands at 18-4-5. He has now played in eight straight games and has lost back-to-back games in shootout fashion.
– The decision to pull Tuukka Rask was highly questionable. By not letting Rask play more than a period of his first start since Dec. 15, the B's failed at both keeping Rask fresh and giving Tim Thomas — who had started the team's last seven games — a day off.
To those wondering whether Claude Julien would have done the same thing if Thomas were in the situation, the answer (based on this season, at least) is no. Thomas allowed three goals on 17 shots Dec. 16 vs. the Canadiens. Julien left Thomas in as the B's lost, 4-3.
– Blake Wheeler has found the penalty box in the last three games without drawing a penalty. He was a minus-1 on the night.
– Drew Stafford has haunted the Bruins all season. Both of his hat tricks have come against the B's, meaning six of his 13 goals this season have come against the Bruins.
– Tyler Seguin played one of his best games this season and was clutch down the stretch. In the third period, he scored his first goal in 12 games on a nice one-timer orchestrated by Daniel Paille. He then assisted Steven Kampfer's second goal of the season, which put the B's up, 6-5. Seguin now has 13 points this season.
– The Bruins' defense was instrumental in the team's offensive success throughout the game. Four different defensemen scored for the B's and Marchand scored his goal by redirecting a shot from Johnny Boychuk. It was the first time in team history that four defenseman scored for the Bruins.
The second overall pick still isn't getting the ice time he was earlier in the season, but he led the B's with six shots on goal in regulation.
– Chara's goal, a power-play strike was his first in 24 games. The captain now has five goals and 11 assists on the season. Despite his two points, he had a minus-1 on the night.
– Give Nathan Horton credit where credit is due. He isn't scoring, but he is (finally) getting shots on goal. He had five Saturday.
|Sabres strike back, take Game 5
|04.23.10 at 9:38 pm ET
Summary — Buffalo cut into the Bruins series lead by taking Game 5 with a desperation effort 3-0 at HSBC Arena on Friday night. Ryan Miller took the win with 34 saves to keep the Sabres hopes alive while Tuukka Rask let in three goals on 32 shots in taking his second loss of his young playoff career.
For the fifth straight game in the series the Sabres scored the first goal within the first ten minutes of the first period. Adam Mair was the culprit this time when he took the puck behind Rask's crease, turned and fired a whipcord wraparound that went to the far side of the net at 1:54 for the early lead.
Buffalo, desperate from the start, put up a two-goal advantage at 18:54 of the first when the Bruins could not clear the puck from their zone. Andrew Ference tried to skip it up the wall but hit Blake Wheeler with the puck instead. It bounced off Wheeler and Vladimir Sobotka could not track it down as it travelled to the high slot where Derek Roy rejoined the play and put the puck on Rask. Jason Pominville, in on the initial giveaway, beat Ference down the slot and scored on the rebound by putting the puck around Rask's pads.
The Sabres ballooned their lead to three goals at 9:22 in the second when Paul Gaustad when a quick-snap face off on the right circle that went straight to the stick of Michael Grier who took a slap shot the beat Rask to the right side of his crease. It was the first three goal lead by either team in the series and Grier's second of the playoffs.
Johnny Boychuk scored the Bruins lone goal with a power play slap shot at 17:30 in the third period to make it 3-1. Boston emptied Rask from the net immediately thereafter and the Sabres cleared the puck from their zone, bouncing at the wall at center ice and sliding to the Boston net. Rookie Tyler Ennis won race to the puck, dove and swept it in for the empty-netter to account for the final score.
Three Stars
Ryan Miller — He would not get burnt in the third period for the third time against Boston and was able to bring Buffalo back to within a game of the Bruins.
Adam Mair — The fourth line center had his first of the series to give the Sabres quick confidence with a lightning strike early in the first period.
Michael Grier — Not only did he score the third goal of the game, he threw his body around to the tune of five hits and three blocked shots including one that put him out of the game for a bit in the third period.
Turning Point — Pominville's goal. The giveaway was the essence of the Bruins night at HSBC Arena. Wheeler could not get out the way of a clearing puck, Sobotka cannot track it down as it slides to the slot and Ference gets burned by Pominville as he crashes the net. The two-goal advantage would be all that Miller would need to put the Bruins away.
Key Play — All of the goals that Rask let in could have been avoided one way or another but the one that gave the Sabres the first three goal lead by either team in the series was more of the net minder's fault than the first two. Gaustad won the face off and Grier shot. Simple enough. It was the type of goal that the Bruins hardly ever allow and could not afford to do so when trying to put the series away.
|First period summary: Bruins vs. Sabres – Game 4
|04.21.10 at 7:52 pm ET
Well, it did not take too long for Cody McCormick to make his presence felt in this series.
Tim Kennedy scored 2:12 into the game to make it the fourth straight contest in which the Sabres have scored the first goal. The strike came on a broken play after a Johnny Boychuk ht behind Tuukka Rask's net knocked the puck loose which touched Tyler Ennis on its way to bouncing loose and free in the slot where Kennedy rushed in for a quick one-timer that Rask had no chance at for the 1-0 lead. McCormick was in on the play and got the secondary assist in his first shift of the playoffs for the Sabres.
The Bruins got the first power play of the game at 12:33 after Vladimir Sobotka leveled a big hit on Tim Kennedy on the half wall to the left of Rask that Kennedy did not take kindly to. Kennedy got in Sobotka's face and delivered a horizontal stick to the center's mouth that the officials did not think was all that friendly and Kennedy went for the two-minute timeout at 12:33.
Boston battled itself through much of the first period, losing face offs and battles for the puck and the man-advantage was no different as the set plays could not lead to shots that got through traffic to Ryan Miller and were cleared numerous times to help the Sabres kill.
The second Boston power play of the night was not efficient either after Andrej Sekera made a two-line back pass turnover through the neutral zone that Blake Wheeler tracked down on a mini break down the left wing, closing in on Miller. Buffalo's Craig Rivet had no choice but to hold Wheeler and went to the box for his indiscretion.
Milan Lucic negated the last 24-second of that power play when he smushed defenseman Henrik Tallinder into the boards at 16:51 which would in turn lead to the Sabres first man-advantage of the night. With each team's penalty killing units (or corresponding ineffective power plays), the Bruins killed it.
The man-advantages stopped the momentum from completely shifting in favor of the Sabres in the first and ultimately led to an equal distribution of shots in the contest as the teams are tied at eight heading into the second period.
|Chara and his pest
|04.19.10 at 2:01 pm ET
There is no doubt that the Bruins captain Zdeno Chara can be a dominating player. He logs big minutes, neutralizes big forwards and, in the case of Game 2 against the Sabres, scores big goals. Everything about Chara is big. So, how do you stop that dominating force of nature especially when he is one of the key players in a playoff series?
By putting the smallest guy you can find on him, of course.
On the Buffalo roster that would be rookie Tyler Ennis. The 5-foot-9 forward gives a solid foot to the 6-foot-9 Chara but he is exactly the type of player that gives the towering Slovak blue liner problems — small and especially quick.
"You look at Boston, they got a big game out of Chara, he is one of their special players," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "We can't let that happen again. He will try to make it happen, but we can't. Maybe we will put Ennis on him and make sure that he doesn't do it again."
Is the task daunting for a rookie playing his 13th career NHL game, which includes three of the playoff variety (counting Game 3 on Monday night)? Probably a little more than Ennis lets on.
"It has been fun. He is a really good player and a big guy and a strong player," Ennis said. "Myself, I have been trying to use my speed and just battle really hard. He is a lot stronger than I am and stuff and I just need to know when to use my speed and other stuff."
Ennis got a rough hello from Chara in Game 2 when the defenseman checked Ennis hard, depositing him in the Sabres bench. Yet, Ennis has some pretty specific training when it comes to handling guys the size of Chara as he has gone through the minors as both teammates and opponents.
"I think he really is a unique player.I have never really seen a player like that big and that mobile and offensive and can shut you down," Ennis said of Myers. "I played with [Myers] in the World Juniors and stuff and played against him in the Western League so it has helped getting used to that long reach and getting used to really tall players with long reach like that."
The scouting report on Chara is the same for Myers — the quicker, the more of a nuisance.
"I find it with the smaller, really shiftier guys are the hardest to handle for me," Myers said. "[Ennis] can really turn on a dime. It is really more containment for me than being physical. I don't try to kill him in practice. But, a guy like that is very similar to [Martin] St. Louis — very shifty, very skilled. With those smaller skilled guys I think I contain more."
The comparison to St. Louis may prove to be apt. The 20-year-old Ennis was named the American Hockey League Rookie of the Year after putting up 65 points (23 goals, 42 assists) in 69 games with the Portland Pirates this season. He was also selected to the AHL All-Rookie Team. He was recalled on March 27 and played 10 regular-season games with the Sabres with three goals and six assists. He is effectively taking the spot of injured Buffalo forward Jochen Hecht (21 goals, 21 assists in regular season) who will be out indefinitely after having finger surgery last week.
In other Monday morning news, Sabres forward Drew Stafford is expected to return to the lineup and participated in the morning skate at TD Garden. Stafford missed the first two games of the series with the a concussion sustained in the second-to-last game of the regular season.


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I would appreciate it if someone could give me informaion on a line side tap (existing main electrical panel) for a residential rooftop solar PV installation.
We published an article in our December 2013 issue on the topic of PV interconnection basics (http://ecmweb.com/green-building/interconnection-basics-photovoltaic-sys...). I think it might help answer some of your questions.
See NEC Sec. 705.12. PV is allowed to connect line side of the service disconnect, however, I rarely see anyone doing this anymore unless the conductors are field installed. Most AHJs consider your residential all-in-one panel a UL listed assembly that will be voided if you alter that assembly. There are certain panels out there these days designed for line side PV connections but it sounds like this isn't the case. Most folks end up de-rating the main breaker and connecting load side. Much easier to permit in my experience.


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Is this a good baby name?
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Question: Liam Hunter Schofield (last name is pronounced Sko-field - not Show-field)
I love the name!
Don't like it, find another middle name
Total Votes: 76
Question: Liam Hunter Schofield (last name is pronounced Sko-field - not Show-field)
Total Votes: 76
We have the first name picked for sure if we have another boy, he will be named after hubby who's name is William, but don't have a middle name yet...hubby mentioned this last night and I am thinking about it now...
I think that the names flow nicely and the first and middle go well together : )
Liam is too popular for my liking but it is a nice sounding name all together
If you want my opinion I hate the name Liam, maybe I am not pronouncing it right but how is that pronuced I see that name quite a bit. because when I read it I read it like lame or lime ( like the tree had limes hanging from it) not trying to be rude just need to know how the name is pronounced so I can vote.
I speak from experience of naming two kids with that surname: it blends well. He might go by Lee later on Or he could go by hunter. Good options.


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Sunday 1st August 1915- Diary of HV Reynolds
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Diary of an Anzac
Please note: Care has been taken to transcribe these entries without alteration to preserve the original language of Herbert Vincent Reynolds.
'The enemy fired over a very considerable number of shells between the hours of midnight and 2am. One of the field guns of Hughes Battery situated right in our trenches on the extreme right flank was in action from the commencement of the attack will about 2and the enemy made great efforts to silence this particular gun but they failed to do so, most of their shells just cleared the top of the ridge and exploded in the sea or on the communications. These gave us a bit of a rough time but fortunately we did not get mixed with any of them. By 3am we had all the wounded cleared from the trenches and at 3.30am returned to our camp, leaving the ordinary number of men on duty at each station. The attack though a small one was very successful and after beating off the enemy counter attacks the captured trenches were immediately put in order and consolidated. Our casualties numbered 30 killed and 72 wounded. An enemy aeroplane flew over early this morning at a great height and also again about 5pm when he flew over in the direction of the Cape. A short while later one of our biplanes came over from Imbros and circled overhead till the enemy plane returned from the Cape. We expected to see a bit of an exciting air fight as the enemy machine gun was a great deal higher than ours and he dived down at it as though intending to fight it, but the bluff did not work and he turned off and leaded for his own lines with our plane following him up. The enemy sent over some very heavy shells on to the gun ridge this morning.'


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Previously I experience a CEL code P0171...I tried to find the possible causes but still no luck so far. Already performed a tune up about 30,000 miles ago; I'm currently experiencing LAG every time I step on the gas, Some times when i take off quick it feels like the clutch is sleeping (difficult to explain, will probably upload a video sometime).
So, the question is, what do you subie noob and experts think I should do to get this hesitation gone? I'm thinking of replacing my plugs (I don't know much and I'm still on the learning process (noob)), do you suggest replacing my Ignition coil too? those babies cost some serious money BTW!.
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The London Merchant
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BeschreibungMrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder."What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool's wisdom and the coward's valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey."First performed in 1731, "The London Merchant" became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy."
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Derek and Jenna Rygh
Jenna Hughes and Derek Rygh, both of Brainerd, were married on May 21, 2011, in Baxter, at Heritage Assembly of God Church. Officiating the ceremony was Pastor Brian Kimbler of Ironton. A dinner reception immediately followed the ceremony at Heritage Assembly of God Fellowship Hall. The couple honeymooned in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. Parents of the couple are Tim and Gloria Hughes, Grand Rapids and Larry and Connie Rygh, Albert Lea and the late Brenda (Aske) Rygh. The bride is a graduate of Itasca Community College, Grand Rapids and Central Lakes College, Brainerd. The groom is a graduate of Teen Challenge Ministry Institute, Minneapolis and is continuing his education in pastoral studies with Global University. Both are employed in Brainerd.


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Easter has always been my favourite holiday, and not just because of all the chocolate! My childhood was spent each year holidaying with the family on a farm up near Kyneton, and every year it was the same. The same crisp, cool but sunny weather, the same sights and smells, the same animals greeting us like old friends. There was something about the 'feel' of Easter, a time of year that had it's own atmosphere.
Now, with my own family, we don't go away at Easter because there is always something happening on the farm or with our sheep that needs doing. At the moment my husband is busy harrowing the paddocks, getting it ready to put in a new crop. With the change of seasons it spells a new beginning and another faze in our lives surrounding the going-ons at the farm. With a soil test done recently the fertiliser will soon be spread, before the clover and rye grass goes in.
At home the vegetables in the garden reached the end of their life cycles and last week I spent three hours clearing out the garden beds and mowing the lawns. The soil can now be prepared for winter greens such as broccoli, broad beans and perhaps even garlic. I'm looking forward to winter soups filled with our own produce.
I've become a little fascinated with colour lately and today's palette celebrates both Easter and the mood it provokes within me; a somewhat relaxed and lazy blue.
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I'm new to the forum, and new to beekeeping. I just bought 24 nucs and set them up Monday. Here is a picture of one of the frames in the middle. Don't know much about bees yet, but looks like this frame is full of brood.
The other picture is an extractor I am thinking about buying. The guy selling it thinks the brand name is Lifetime 8 frame. You can turn the frames around as the extractor is spinning. Has anyone ever seen anything like it? I will get a better picture this weekend.


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A new book chronicling the creation of the atom bomb, written by a historian who teaches at the United States Naval Academy, includes more than 30 uncredited passages that are identical, or nearly identical, to those found in their own books by four other authors, including two by Richard Rhodes.
The similar passages, which do not appear in quotations or with footnotes, were first identified by two of the authors after one was asked by The New York Times and the other by The Los Angeles Times to review the book, ''Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb'' by Brian VanDeMark and published by Little, Brown.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Mr. VanDeMark, who was a co-author with Robert S. McNamara of the best-selling memoir ''In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam'' (Times Books, 1995), said he was confident that ''detached readers would find a majority'' of the passages that were identified by the authors were ''reasonable paraphrases.'' But he added that ''a minority should, and will, be reworded or credited in a footnote.''
In at least three instances, Mr. VanDeMark's book uses sentences that are identical to those of the other authors but for one word without attribution. For example, he writes of the scientist Leo Szilard: ''In a moody and rambling talk he confessed that he had failed to control the weapon he had helped create.'' That sentence appears verbatim (except for one ''had'') in ''Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb,'' written by William Lanouette with Bela Silard and published by Scribner in 1993.Continue reading the main story
More prevalent, though, are instances in which only a few words in a sentence or passage differ from another source. There are at least 33 of these apparent borrowings.
Mr. VanDeMark writes, for example, of a meeting at Princeton University between the scientists Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller at which ''Oppenheimer and Teller eyed each other warily, while the object of their unstated but unmistakable competition sat silently between them.'' In ''The Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller,'' published in the fall of 2002 by Holt, the historian Gregg Herken described how ''Teller and Oppenheimer eyed each other like rival suitors, while the object of their attention sat silent between them.''
The similarity of such passages recalls the acknowledgment last year by the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin that, in a book on the Kennedys written in 1987, she had failed to acknowledge many quotations or close paraphrases that appeared in the works of others. Ms. Goodwin said then that, at her behest, her publisher, Simon & Schuster, would destroy all of the unsold copies of the paperback edition and produce a corrected version.
Around the same time, the historian Stephen E. Ambrose, who has since died, conceded that in some of his books he had occasionally copied sentences from others that he should have placed in quotations.
In an interview yesterday from the floor of a book convention in Los Angeles, Michael Pietsch, the publisher of Little, Brown, said, ''We're investigating and the author is investigating.''
He said the company began shipping copies of the book to bookstores three weeks ago -- the first printing is a respectable 15,000 -- and that there were no immediate plans to recall those books.
A spokesman for the Naval Academy, where Mr. VanDeMark, 42, is an associate professor with tenure, had no immediate comment on the dispute. The Naval Academy's history department, in its guidelines on plagiarism, states that citations ''must clearly and explicitly guide the reader to the sources used'' and that writers must indicate ''all use of another's words, even if they constitute only part of a sentence, with quotation marks and specific citation.''
A statement on plagiarism that is posted on the Web site of the American Historical Association states that a historian ''should never simply borrow and rephrase the findings of other scholars'' and that ''the clearest abuse is the use of another's language without quotation marks and citation.''
The first author to discover Mr. VanDeMark's apparent borrowings was Mr. Herken, a curator and historian at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Mr. Herken, the author of ''Brotherhood of the Bomb,'' was asked by The Los Angeles Times earlier this month to review ''Pandora's Keepers.''
By that time Kirkus Reviews, which reviews books before they are published, said of ''Pandora's Keepers,'' in part, that ''Though less well written than Richard Rhodes's 'Making of the Atomic Bomb,' VanDeMark's study does a good job of exploring the culture of science, especially the science involved in making weapons and the moral dilemmas such work occasions.'' Publisher's Weekly lauded Mr. VanDeMark for bringing the nine men who built the first atom bomb ''engrossingly to life.''
But when he sat down to read the book on the weekend of May 16, Mr. Herken had a different view. ''I didn't see anything new here,'' he said. ''Then I started reading some more and recognized some things I had written.''
''I was sort of transfixed,'' he added. ''It was almost disbelief.''
Mr. Herken said he called The Los Angeles Times to say that he could not review the book because, ''I think it's a work of plagiarism.''
Around the same time, he said, he received an e-mail message from Robert S. Norris, the author of another history of the period, ''Racing for the Bomb: Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man'' (Steerforth Press, 2002). Mr. Norris, who had been asked by The New York Times to review the book and was unaware of Mr. Herken's assignment, wrote to ask Mr. Herken if he thought the book was worth reviewing. Mr. Herken told Mr. Norris of his suspicions and asked Mr. Norris to keep a careful eye out for his own prose and scholarship interspersed in Mr. VanDeMark's book.
''Lo and behold,'' Mr. Norris recalled in a telephone interview, ''within a half-hour after I have the book, I check the Groves' quotes and begin to turn up the list.''
On hearing from Mr. Norris, Mr. Herken then called Mr. Lanouette and Mr. Rhodes, whose book ''Dark Sun,'' published by Simon & Schuster in 1995, was also a secondary source for Mr. VanDeMark.
By last week Mr. Herken's agent had written a letter to Little, Brown alerting them to the problem.
The four authors said Mr. VanDeMark, who has taught off and on at the Naval Academy for more than a decade, knew the importance of footnotes -- there are hundreds in the back of the book -- and had cited other passages from their books.
In the second footnote in the book, Mr. VanDeMark wrote that he had ''used primary sources whenever possible'' but had also ''relied on a large body of work by other writers,'' including Mr. Rhodes.
''I'm always baffled when I see these,'' Mr. Rhodes said. ''The man obviously worked very carefully to slightly change the language from these other books.''
Mr. VanDeMark received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, where the chairman of his thesis committee was Robert Dallek, whose new book is ''An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963.''
Mr. Dallek said he was aware of the dispute involving his former student, whom he called a friend.
''He and I always talk about writing and scholarship,'' he said, ''and I've never had anything but the sense he was a man of integrity.''Continue reading the main story


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Apartamento amueblado en el centro de Budapest
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This apartment was really good. Very central, no noise from traffic. The host met us and informed about the apartm and also what to see on Budapest. Good security and wifi. If you are more than 2 persons observ that toilet entre is from the bedroom. Thanks Erika and Klara
The flat is really good. You can reach everything within minutes! Excellent for Tourists
Very cozy and comfortable !
The location is perfect and the apartment is very clean with all the necessary services
The apartment was perfect, Klara welcomed us and help us with everything we needed. She was really nice. The location of the apartment is perfect, all the tourist places are very close and you have a lot of restaurants and supermarkets nearby. The apartment was really clean and had everything we needed.
We can highly recommend Erika's place! The spot is perfect, direct in the city center at the most important stop for all public transport! The apartment was very good, more than enough space for three persons, very tidy and everything there you need.
We stayed in Erika's apartment for six days at the begging of November and we are very thankful to her for this opportunity. The apartment was very nice, very cosy, very clean with all needed equipment and perfectly located. It was very easy to get to all the main sight-seeings. You really feel that you live in the heart of Budapest. We couldn't wish for a better location. We also asked Erika to organize transfer for us from the airport and back and it was absolutely perfect. Klara, who met us in the apartment, was very nice and friendly, and it was a pleasure to communicate with her. We spent wonderful time in Budapest and really fall in love with the city.
We would like to thank Erika and Klara once again and would surely recommend this apartment to our friends.
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Our stay was very comfortable and pleasant. The apartment was very clean and Erika made sure we had more than enough towels, linen and tea/coffee for 4 people. The location was very good, in the city centre and close to all tourist sights, however it could be a little bit noisy at night during the weekend. But I would still highly recommend it. We had a great time.
We have had a wonderful visiting in Budapest. Our department by Erika was nice and clean. Klara was very helpfull.And also our taxi-lady Maria was very helpfull and kind. As a nordick passenger we hoped for possibility to make coffe.. not only espresso (our day begins whith a large cup of coffe :) ).A street was a litle bit noise.
We can absolutely recommend Erika`s department to our friends.
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Why gift cards work.Posted by Donna Freedman on Dec 12, 2011 | 35 comments
My friend and former fellow MSN Money columnist Liz Weston really, really dislikes gift cards. She despairs of a world in which a shopper grabs a dozen plastic rectangles from the supermarket's "gift card mall" and does a mental butt dance: Woo hoo! I'm all done my holiday shopping!
That image bothers me, too. Gift-giving should not come down to, "How fast can I get this over with?
Yes, I know you're busy. So are a lot of people. But must generosity be reduced to a time trial?
That said, I think that gift cards can make good presents. It's the intention that matters.
I love looking for the perfect gift, whether it comes from a rummage sale or a department store. But I also realize that a teen-aged niece might prefer to buy her own clothes, books or music.
It might feel a little impersonal to hand over $20 worth of scrip to iTunes or Old Navy. But I'd feel worse if I gave her a sweater she would never wear.
Learning to write a thank-you note for a gift you were less than thrilled to receive is a useful life skill. But I'd rather give something I know would be used.
Bonus: She could get a lot more bang for the (albeit plastic) buck by using that card at the post-holiday clearance sales.
Besides, hardly anyone writes thank-you notes these days.
Frugal gift cards
Gift cards can be had at a discount. Companies like Cardpool, Plastic Jungle and Swap A Gift sell gift cards at discounts of 3% to 50%. This creates an additional layer of savings on top of discounted prices and/or coupons. Some of those resellers can be accessed through cash-back shopping sites like Mr Rebates, DollarDig and Ebates.
I've gotten cheap (or free!) gift cards in other ways, too, including:
- As blog giveaway prizes
- Through other online incentives. For example, I recently took part in a live chat and won (among other things) a $100 Target gift card and a $25 prepaid Visa. Both came in handy for my holiday shopping, including my midnight Black Friday jaunt.
- From rewards credit cards and also from rewards programs like My Coke Rewards and Swagbucks.
- From social buying sites like Groupon and LivingSocial. For example, recently I spent $5 for a $10 Subway card and took a friend out to lunch. Again: Groupon and Living Social can both be accessed from some cash-back sites (see above) for an additional discount.
And yes, I've even gotten gift cards as actual presents. My dad sends me one every Christmas. Does that bother me? Not particularly. We both get what we want: He gets out of wondering what I'd like and then boxing it up and mailing it, and I get to buy at my leisure.
To some people that feels impossibly impersonal. Why not just send a check and be done with it? I can't explain why, but to me a gift card feels more like a present and less like a cash equivalent. That's silly, since it's the same as mailing me $50.
Gift cards = someone else pays
In fact, a check would be more secure. Once deposited it can't be lost or stolen, whereas both could happen to an unused or partially used gift card. I'm generally pretty careful, but if I got mugged again the gift cards would be used by some rogue, or dumped in the nearest trashcan along with my stripped-of-cash wallet.
All that makes sense. But sometimes my brain doesn't. This is one of those times: To me, a gift card just feels better than cash.
Maybe that's because if I got a $50 check I'd deposit it. That's what you do with checks. A $50 gift card, on the other hand, means my next however-many trips to Walgreens (this year's choice) are covered.
I could get lots of free-after-rebate items and donate them, or even use some myself. I could treat myself to a bag of chips (on sale, of course), or buy cold medicine and not feel irritated at the price. After all, someone else is buying.
If gift cards bother you, don't give them. And if receiving them bothers you? Check out Gift Card Exchange Day on Dec. 26, during which card resellers promise to pay top rates.
Or just send them to me. I promise not to be irritated. Heck, I'll even write a thank-you note. By hand.


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Blackstone Lures Investors to Home-Rental Bonds: Credit MarketsJody Shenn
Investors in Blackstone Group LP's debut sale of bonds backed by U.S. rental homes are agreeing to accept more risk than in traditional mortgage deals by at least two measures -- along with an unproven business.
Blackstone's Invitation Homes borrowed more through yesterday's deal relative to the value of the houses serving as collateral for the bonds than recent residential-mortgage securities, according to data from ratings companies. The cushion to cover interest payments is also smaller than in deals tied to apartment complexes. Monthly rent checks from 3,207 properties will be used to service the $479.1 million of debt.
Five years after defaults on home loans packaged into securities helped trigger the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Wall Street is turning to bundling assets into bonds to help institutions buy and rent out properties. The transaction comes after Federal Reserve stimulus to bolster credit markets contributed to property gains exceeding 40 percent in some regions where Blackstone has been investing from California to Florida.
"Given the rapid increase in prices in the areas in which the properties are concentrated, the amount of protection for bond investors doesn't make one feel all that warm and fuzzy," David Liu, co-manager of a $340 million securitized-asset fund run by New York-based TIG Advisors LLC, said last week, adding that he expected the offering to find buyers easily given the momentum in housing and other features of the debt.
Timeshares, TV
The Blackstone deal heralds the latest use of securitization, an investment-banking strategy pioneered in the 1980s and later blamed for fueling the shoddy lending that contributed to more than $2 trillion in losses at the world's largest financial institutions. Bonds can be created out of everything from mortgages and auto loans to resort timeshare interests, television-broadcast rights and drug sales.
The market for rental-home securities may grow as large as $900 billion, assuming 15 percent of annual home purchases are conducted by investors and 35 percent of those and existing rental-home owners turn to the market for financing, according to Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. Banks have been the main source of financing for new property landlords such as Colony Capital LLC and Blackstone, which has spent $7.5 billion on about 40,000 houses.
Six Classes
Deutsche Bank AG, the lender to Invitation Homes that structured the deal, and other underwriters marketed six separate classes of the Blackstone bonds, according to reports from Moody's Investors Service, Kroll Bond Rating Agency and Morningstar Inc. As with other securitizations, some of the bonds are designed to have less default risk because they stand in line for losses after other notes.
Fitch Ratings disagreed with rivals that any rental-home securities should get top ratings now, citing in part the "limited track record" of big institutions in the business and incomplete historical data on how rents, vacancies and other considerations can vary over economic cycles.
Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for New York-based Blackstone, the world's largest private-equity firm, declined to comment on the deal, as did Amanda Williams, a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank.
A top-rated $278.7 million class yields 115 basis points, or 1.15 percentage points, more than the London interbank offered rate, according to people with knowledge of the transaction. It was earlier offered at about 120 basis points. A $41.5 million portion rated BB by Kroll priced at 365 basis points, down from about 400.
Floating Rate
The levels are about the same or less than similar existing types of securities, said other people, who asked not to be named because the pricing details aren't public. The AAA class of a transaction tied to two hotels near Florida's Walt Disney World was sold yesterday at spread of 105 basis points and the BB- portion at 350. Credit Suisse Group AG underwrote a sale of AAA securities tied to junk-rated corporate loans yesterday at 140 and a BB class at 500. Freddie Mac last week sold the BBB-class of a multifamily deal at 400 and yesterday issued unrated single-family notes at 425 that share its risks tied to homeowner defaults.
The underlying loan in the Blackstone deal has a floating rate and an initial maturity of two years. Along with potential default risks, investors need to grapple with the borrower being able to repay the debt after 12 months or extend the maturity for a year as many as three times under certain conditions, said Bryan Whalen, a managing director at TCW Group Inc., which oversees about $130 billion from Los Angeles.
'Paradigm Shift'
"That's a lot of optionality you're giving to Blackstone" and if bondholders can't be paid off through a refinancing or home sales at the end of five years, they may need to wait even longer for the return of their principal, Whalen said.
Axonic Capital LLC, a $2 billion structured-credit asset manager based in New York, was considering buying the riskiest class offering the highest yields, said Chief Investment Officer Clayton DeGiacinto. He said the rental-home industry can be successful and the bonds offer enough protection for investors.
"We also operate a portfolio of single family homes and understand the risks and rewards of the business well," DeGiacinto said. "We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the way that this country finances housing and this deal is part of that change."
'Sufficiently Conservative'
Moody's, Kroll and Morningstar are assigning top rankings to 58 percent of the securities and investment grades to as much as 91 percent. The firms said in reports last week that the planned rankings are appropriate based on how the classes carry greater loss protection than similarly rated assets.
The 42 percent for the AAA portions in the Blackstone deal compares with about 30 percent for new commercial-mortgage bonds and 6 percent to 9 percent typically for prime home-loan deals since the crisis. Subprime residential transactions before housing collapsed often had 20 percent to 25 percent credit enhancement.
After accounting for the borrower's equity in the properties, the Blackstone AAA securities could get paid off if the homes get sold for just 43 percent of their current values, making Kroll's rating "sufficiently conservative," Glenn Costello, an analyst at the firm, said in a telephone interview.
Renovation, Maintenance
Kroll estimates sustainable cash flows from the properties after expenses -- and adjustments for items such as probable vacancies -- are 27 percent more than the loan's initial costs. That's "much lower" than the average of 50 percent for mortgages on apartment buildings securitized in 2013, the firm said in a report.
Moody's said the net cash flows relative to the size of the borrowing is "very low" compared with apartment deals. Future expenses may also be bigger, the ratings company said.
"Because each home has unique features, appliances, and building materials, the renovation, maintenance, and marketing may be more demanding than in a typical multifamily setting," Moody's said in its report.
The estimated value of the homes in the deal represents 75 percent of the debt's balances. The ratio is based on the opinions of real estate brokers, rather than the licensed appraisers who are more reliable and traditionally used for residential mortgage-backed securities deals, according to Moody's.
Geographic Concentration
Invitation Homes bought the houses for $444.7 million, and with repairs and refurbishments spent $542.8 million, compared with the collateral's $638.8 million valuation.
The highest average loan-to-value ratio for home loans serving as collateral for bonds without government backing since the crisis was the 69.7 percent in PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's September sale, according to Kroll.
One of the key risks of the Blackstone deal is its "heavy geographic concentration," Bank of America Corp. analysts led by Chris Flanagan in New York wrote in a Nov. 1 report.
The breakdown includes 34 percent from the Phoenix area, 17 percent from the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario region in southern California and the rest from other parts of the state, as well as Florida, Georgia and Illinois.
"While additional diversification would be preferable in most RMBS deals, property management would become challenging if properties were too widespread," the Bank of America analysts wrote.
Home Prices
Along with the Fed's $85 billion of monthly bond buying that's reduced mortgage rates, investors including Blackstone have helped drive property-value gains in the regions. Prices in Phoenix have soared 41 percent from a bottom in 2011, according to an S&P/Case-Shiller index.
When it's time to repay the debt, rental-home owners may be unable to refinance or sell the bond collateral in bulk and flood the markets, Fitch analysts Suzanne Mistretta, Dan Chambers and Rui Pereira in New York wrote in a statement last month.
The transactions can also be "highly vulnerable to unknown variables" including property taxes, restrictions from homeowner associations and actions by local governments, they said.
Moody's considered how much could be recovered in property sales under stressful conditions, including rental-home operators turning into sellers at the same time, said Stefanos Arethas, an analyst in New York. The flood of foreclosures during the recent housing slump has offered good information on how bad local markets can get in such an environment, he said.
"We have the data to guide us," he said yesterday in a telephone interview.
Moody's Adjustments
Moody's also made adjustments to potential losses on the collateral based on a variety of features of the deals, including a lower amount of property insurance against windstorms than found in typical commercial-mortgage transactions, according to its analysts.
While the Blackstone deal is the first of its kind, about 7 percent of the roughly $850 billion of mortgages acquired last year by Fannie Mae were to smaller property investors, according to a company presentation. The guarantor, which sells home-loan securities bolstered by its government backing, limits landlords to loans on a maximum of 10 properties, while the cap for rival Freddie Mac is four.
Credit Bubble
Investment properties have also represented a slice of the collateral for the $12.5 billion of mortgage securities without government backing sold this year. In the non-agency deals, the loans get mixed with those on borrowers' own homes and vacation properties.
Just before the credit bubble began to collapse in 2007, the amount of investor mortgages held by non-agency securities peaked at $188.4 billion based on issuer disclosures, or 8.1 percent of the collateral, according to data compiled by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Prime mortgages have been 60 percent more likely to default when taken out by a property investor rather than a resident, because borrowers are either engaging in house flipping or relying on potentially risky income from external sources, according to Fitch's methodology for rating traditional home-loan securities.
Unlike those investor mortgages, the Blackstone debt and others deals modeled on it would benefit from a single loan tied to multiple properties. With the structure "excess cash flow from one property can augment another's cash flow to meet debt service requirements," Moody's said.
Deal Covenants
The deal's covenants can allow individual properties to be sold, for between 105 percent and 120 percent of their allocated share of the total loan, according to information in the Kroll report, a release of liens that may leave the worst properties backing the remaining securities.
The largest danger may be that Blackstone will be allowed to sell the Invitation Homes business or take it public before the securities mature, said TCW's Whalen, who described the deal as "well-structured and really well thought in terms of the way they put it together" in general.
"Even if can you get comfortable with a business that's fairly new, you'll be subject to the performance and disposition strategy of a company other than Blackstone," he said. While many of the notes carry substantial loss cushions, "the further down you go" in buying bonds with less protection, "the more subject you are going be to that big risk."
Elsewhere in credit markets, the cost of protecting corporate debt from default in the U.S. decreased, with the Markit CDX North American Investment Grade Index, which investors use to hedge against losses or to speculate on creditworthiness, declining 1.3 basis points to a mid-price of
73.2 basis points as of 12:38 p.m. in New York, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg.
Bondholder Protection
The measure typically falls as investor confidence improves and rises as it deteriorates. Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
A gauge of the health of U.S. financial conditions fell from a record high. The Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index, which combines everything from money-market rates to yields on government and corporate bonds to volatility in equities, decreased 0.02 to 1.68. The measure reached 1.70 yesterday, the highest level in data dating back to January
Bonds of Statoil ASA are the most actively traded dollar-denominated corporate securities by dealers today, accounting for 3.4 percent of the volume of dealer trades of $1 million or more, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Norway's largest energy company raised $4 billion yesterday in a five-part offering.


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Delaware and Tennessee will receive the first slice of the Obama administration's $4 billion "Race to the Top" education innovation fund, the administration announced Monday. The winning states edged out presumed front-runners like Florida and Louisiana—states that submitted equally reform-minded applications that were not as popular with teachers' unions.
The Department of Education gave Delaware's proposals the highest overall rating in the competition, and the tiny state will take home the $107 million it asked for. Second-place finisher Tennessee will receive about $500 million, leaving $3.4 billion available to states who participate in the competition's second round. Independent reviewers gave the winners' applications high marks for promoting accountability standards, implementing data systems to track student achievement, and pushing for charter school growth.
Georgia placed third in the competition, followed by Florida. Louisiana came in 11th place out of the 16 finalists announced earlier this month.
On Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan played down the importance of broad "stakeholder support," calling it one of many factors that contributed to the finalists' total scores. But while Delaware and Tennessee boast nearly complete teachers union approval of their proposals, Florida's largest teachers union urged members to rebuke its application, and fewer than half of Louisiana's districts supported the state's plan.
So is consensus necessary for valuable education reform? Flypaper blogger Andy Smarick and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (who blogs for Education Week) both worry that Duncan favored collaboration and consensus too much in his choice of Delaware and Tennessee as winners. Smarick went so far as to create a scatter plot to illustrate the point that the Department favored states with widespread union support, and Hess quipped, "Perhaps they should have called it the 'Race to Consensus' or the 'Race to Stakeholder Buy-In.'"
Eduwonk's Andrew Rotherman counters Smarick and Hess, arguing that Duncan didn't tip the scale in favor of consensus. In fact, he didn't touch the scale at all:
The reviewers made the call. And that may be the problem. So if there is a critique isn't it that Duncan didn't get involved enough rather than that he influenced the process too much? Under the law he had a great deal of discretion. If I were FL, LA, RI, or a few others tonight, that's what I'd be pissed off about.
There IS consensus on one aspect of today's announcement—that Obama and Duncan have some serious leverage to push education reform among the states competing in the second round of "Race to the Top." A number of states have already altered laws or passed new laws to meet the grant application's requirements, and with billions still up for grabs, applicants will likely make a more aggressive push to improve education standards, even if they ultimately don't win a dime.


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Ice Cream Truck Driver Opens Fire On Customer
Police in Enid, about 75 miles north of Oklahoma City, said they arrested Markus Miller, 29, an ice cream truck driver for Summer Song, on Sunday on two misdemeanor charges as well as a felony charge of pointing a firearm. If convicted, Miller could receive up to 10 years in jail on the felony charge.
According to police, an 18-year-old woman approached Miller's ice cream truck and the conversation degenerated into a heated argument. Miller is suspected of taking out a pistol and firing two shots at the feet of the woman. She was struck on the collarbone-area by either a bullet fragment or debris from the shots, police said.
Miller was arrested in his ice cream truck a short distance from the incident and police recovered a hand gun from the vehicle, they said.