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Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Review: Incredible Battery Life & Valueby Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 6/12/2014 9:00 AM EST
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amicic - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWe need more phones with this battery life (if that means 720p, i'm ok) in 5-5.2" sizes. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI totally agree. If this was a <5" phone, I would buy it on a heartbeat, but 6" is just way too big for my taste. Reply
nathanddrews - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - link1080p and stock KK4.4 on this phablet would be perfect. Reply
ColinByers - Monday, September 29, 2014 - linkTrue. But why get the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 when there are other really good Android phones out there? /Colin from http://www.consumertop.com/best-phone-guide/ Reply
bstowe9 - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkThat's what she said... Reply
SeleniumGlow - Monday, June 16, 2014 - linkHere, I'd like to mention the Lenovo P780 and its massive 4000 mAh battery. I got one for my Dad last week, and whilst he doesn't use Mobile data, he was able to get a nice 5 days of voice call usage and SMS out of it. Other specs are a 5" 720p display, dual sim, and 8 MP rear camera.
The only drawback would probably be that it is on Jelly bean (4.2.2) and might never be upgraded. Reply
Fergy - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWhy is this phablet being compared to phones? I know a 6 inch phablet has a bigger battery than a 5 inch phone. I know that 6 inch phablet has an easier time cooling the fast chips. What I don't know is how this phablet compares to other phablets. Reply
wimbet - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkIt's big, but it's still a phone that fits in your pocket. Reply
vortmax2 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkAgreed, I don't see the Note 3 on many of the comparison charts... Reply
extide - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkThe note 3 is a top tier device, this is a midrange device. They don;t really compete much because of that. I mean yeah they are both phablets, but the price sets them apart. Maybe it would be good to compare to the Note 2, if that phone happens to still be available at low prices. Reply
Fergy - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkYou don't buy purely on pricepoint. You find out what kind of phone you want and then look for the best price/performance ratio. If I want a phablet I will look at a few phablets like this one and note3. The question becomes: is note3 worth the extra premium? Reply
Impulses - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkThat's a generalization, and I can make the opposite case too: most people don't buy unlocked phones by paying full price upfront, and once you do you often have a price point already in mind (often something under $400). Reply
PubFiction - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkIt still wouldn't hurt to throw other phablets in for comparison or controlled outgroups. And to be more fair they could do something like compare it to a note 2 or an older phone since many companies do not really have mid range phones they just have late model phones that are not midrange due to age. Reply
dawheat - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkThis honestly seems like one of the worst reviews on Anandtech.
- 1 line about the 720p resolution on such a large screen - 240dpi is so 2012 and easily seen on any web page
- Pretty bad GPU performance
- For phablets, put to shame by the Oppo or OnePlus phones which are not much more expensive but far more capable.
Maybe a year ago this phone would be a worthwhile budget phablet, but Oppo and OnePlus have already shaken up the phablet market. Reply
nevertell - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkBut it's a gr8 m8, m8, I r8 8/8. Reply
coolhardware - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkFor someone that wants LENGTHY battery life without adding an extended battery (for Note2, Note3 etc.), this seems like a nice choice. The pixel density is low http://pixensity.com/list/phone/ (it is very near the bottom) but for a quite capable unlocked phone the price is not bad IMHO. Reply
SanX - Saturday, June 14, 2014 - linkTotally agree. I couldn't believe to see Anand name on the top of this absurd review of such utter junk. Hey Anand, everything is fine there? Need an eye doctor or others too? Holly &&%$$, it's like i swimmed in the toulet at Engadget. Reply
nrfitchett4 - Friday, March 20, 2015 - linkhave you even tried the phone? It runs surprising well. The only time it bogs down is after several hours straight of clash of clans with xmod running on top. The only crash I've seen is an occasional contacts crash (weird because I can't find any info on why, maybe other contacts being imported). It runs much better than my G2 at half the price. I bought it because I am no longer subsidizing or financing phones and I was tired of having to charge my "great battery life" G2 at work. I love the battery optimizations and how it tells you if apps are eating battery in the background instead of a bunch of nonsensical google services in the battery list. I noticed the 720p screen for the first day, and after that, I didn't notice it being grainy or pixelated.
To each their own, but I find that the midrange market is prime for explosive growth because Android runs just fine on lower end hardware. Funny how lower end hardware is snapdragon 400 and 2gb of RAM... Reply
cknobman - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWhy dont you ever throw in the Nokia Lumia 1520 into these comparisons? Especially when you are looking at things 5.5+ inches?
I'd love to see how my Lumia stacks up against some of these other phones.
I have never done an official battery life test but everyday @7am I take it off the charger and @11pm I put it back on and it always has >50% battery life left.
If I dont do any gaming or heavy downloading it will have >60%. Reply
Duraz0rz - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkNo reason to not include the 1520/930/Icon camera in the comparison, at the very least, especially when he mentions the Lumias on the camera architecture page! Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkUnfortunately, until Microsoft steps up and starts allowing fine grained control of brightness and the ability to disable the screen timeout, we will be unable to test the battery life of Windows Phone devices. Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWell, you did this so-called "review" and didn't test the battery life either (or anything else to be more precise). No WP phone ever being reviewed (or hardly even just mentioned) because of WP lacking fine grained brightness control seems a bit over the top if you ask me. Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkAh, sorry, missed the battery life section here... Still, the point about WP still stands. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkIt also fucks with the stand-by mode and they had to invent stuff that acted like a fake finger, but Microsoft of Synaptics closed that down. So yes, thank Microsoft for making their WP so efficient it doesn't battery test at all. Reply
mikedice - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkYou mention that it is a value, but am I missing something...I never actually see the price listed. Reply
jimjamjamie - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkFinal Words page, last paragraph. Reply
jjj - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI fail to see how is this incredible value at 300$. Decent maybe but not good or great. Reply
Gunbuster - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkIs that MSRP? If so I would expect to see this going on sale in the $220-250 range.
Goodnight $700 phone price fleecing. Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkFor the same price as a Moto G LTE during pre-orders, this is a great phone. The 300 dollar price is about right, all things considered. Reply
josephnero - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkPlease do a Xperia Z2 review.i love your reviews Reply
Ketzal - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkJust a heads up, the results of your Nexus 5 web scores are WELL wrong. I ran the tests and received considerably better results than what's reported here in your tables. Obviously, Android and Chrome have moved on since the debut of the Nexus 5 last year. I believe you need to update your tables with some kind of statement to indicate test date as it's misleading and not a fair accurate comparison by date. I'm sure you tested the latest version of Chrome on the Huawei? Doesn't that immediately invalidate the table? I'm running stock 4.4.3 Android and ART. On another note, I'd love to see a performance graph update for each version of Android. I'm sure it would be very popular. Keep up the fantastic work. Reply
Impulses - Friday, June 13, 2014 - linkART isn't enabled by default is it... Reply
groundhogdaze - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkGreat battery life is a godsend for me. I've got so many gadgets that need charging that I'm almost to the point of needing to do triage on them. Reply
Electron? - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkThis came as a surprise, but it's great to see a phone that really pushes the boundaries on battery life.
Really hoping your next review will be the LG G3. Anandtech is pretty much the only site that goes in-depth on battery life these days. Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI hope it is too. :) Reply
dawp - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI have a prism2 from t-mobil which is a huawei device which I am generally been happy with, I'll have to look into this phablet when I bet a bit extraa cash. Reply
GNUminex_l_cowsay - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI find it odd that you write a review of a device where in you you compare it e to phones that I would consider consider competing devices. But, then you don't include those phones you mentioned in the benchmark comparisons. I'm wondering why you didn't include say the onemaxx or note3?2 or 1mini or moto g. 3 of the phones l mentioned you mentioned and all seem like better comparison points to me than the phones used in the charts. Reply
KillaKilla - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWhat happened with the photography? Anandtech has had good, or at the very least not bad, photography throughout for a decade or more, yet here it's mediocre at best, laughable at worst. One shot even has a reflection of the camera in it! Reply
rivethead23 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkI currently own a Note 2. Bought it used for around $200. (Swappa!) I'm not bothered by the 5.5 screen (and size) on the Note 2 and actually looked at the Mega but ultimately decided against it. Since reviewer began by speaking about the note series I was disappointed to see no comparisons to the note series. Someone else mentioned the Note 2 would have been a good point of comparison and I think it would be. Reply
nrfitchett4 - Friday, March 20, 2015 - linkI bought my wife a note 3, brand new on swappa (not retail) and it was 450 dollars. This new on Amazon with 2 year warranty was 290. Its not really a fair comparison. Yes my wife's note 3 has a prettier screen, but that is about it. This is a solid midrange phablet and should be compared with other phones in the 200-400 new price point. Reply
tim851 - Friday, June 13, 2014 - link"The first place to start is industrial and material design. While many people like to suggest that any weight given to ID or MD is effectively evaluating fashion for the sake of evaluating fashion, design is critical to a phone's utility. A phone or a tablet is something that people will be constantly feeling and looking at, thus a phone that's unergonomic or finished poorly will dramatically affect the rest of the experience."
I agree. The problem is that most reviews don't really criticize material or industrial design, but aesthetic design and whether or not a device is made from plastics or metal. As if metal has any advantage over metal besides it's perceived quality.
The abundant disses of Samsung's devices on the use of glossy plastics (or lately the faux materials) are totally unnecessary. Any customer can judge a phone's looks by themselves, they don't need a reviewer to help them out. Reply
Euphonious - Saturday, June 14, 2014 - linkThis review honestly tells me practically nothing about how pleasant or enjoyable the device actually is to use. You've discussed the luminance and white balance of the display in exhaustive detail whilst glossing over the software and the actual experience of using the device in three fairly short paragraphs.
How much difference does it make to the real-world desirability of a phone if its saturation accuracy is 3.6063 rather than 3.8685? Nobody is going to notice that, but they will notice a shoddy UI or an unergonomic design. Reducing everything to numbers really misses the pleasure and pain points which make a good or a bad phone. Reply
nrfitchett4 - Friday, March 20, 2015 - linkI bought this about 3 months ago and don't regret it at all. Sold my LG G2 to amazon for 145 and got this for 290. It is a little unwieldy at times due to size, but its easy to use, runs really well and I haven't had any software problems. I don't use many apps these days, and only play a couple of games so 16gb of storage with a 32gb micro sd card works fine for me. I unlocked mine using code from Huawei (all you have to do is ask) and rooted it. Its running JB, but I'm scared of what lollipop would do to an already great software experience. I wasn't a fan of the UI at first, but decided against 3rd party launchers when I saw how much battery they were eating. Reply
torimish - Sunday, June 15, 2014 - linkI really think Huawei deserves some more brand recognition. I'm in Australia, and I recently purchased the Huawei Mediapad Honor X1 - basically a 7" phablet, a great convergence device. I've done away with my ultrabook, and use this while travelling with a BT keyboard, and while it's pretty big for pocket use, it's easy to stash in my hand-bag.
The quality of these phones - and the price point they are currently sitting at - make for excellent value. I took a gamble (was advised build quality wasn't up to some of the other devices), but I have been very pleasantly surprised. This Ascend looks good, too.
I'd seriously recommend anyone try these Huawei devices. Build quality and finish is up there with the likes of Samsung and Sony and Apple. I'd really like to see Anand do a review of the Mediapad X1. You can't argue with fully unlocked, broad gamut of 4G/LTE bands, 1920x1200 resolution etc for less than $400 USD . . . and all day or two battery life. Reply
MarkWebb - Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - linkOrdered! Reply
mikkej2k - Thursday, July 10, 2014 - linkOK phone.
Gethuawei.com website is broken. Call in customer service is also awful - be careful. Reply
zlinghaha - Wednesday, August 06, 2014 - linkAvoid this crap. I just got the phone but found it cannot connect to a mobile network when I turn off Wi-Fi after it stays on Wi-Fi for some time. It cannot connect to a mobile network even after I re-start the device. This is over-hyped crap. Reply
FarWestNow - Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - linkA good phone with a great camera (13mp). It's big, but I got used to it pretty quickly. I drop phones constantly, so I bought a Trident case, which so far seems to be fine. (looked for an Otter Box but they don't make one for the AM2.) Only real downside is that it gobbles up data like a fiend and my model came stuffed w/Google apps, and I've had to shut off the mobile network data manually when I'm off Wi-Fi to make sure I stay under my data cap. Four out of five stars.... Reply
nrfitchett4 - Friday, March 20, 2015 - linkturn off auto-sync. I haven't noticed any extra data used. You can turn off mobile data as well, leaving only wifi, phone and sms on. Reply


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Which build to get?
All right, it's time I finally bought myself a full-blown gaming computer. I could build it all myself (probably), but I like to have as little as possible stress over this so I decided to buy a pre-built one. So far, I have found a nice and reliable webshop (silentrig.com, it's Finnish) who also specialize in building silent rigs (surprise!). This is a good thing because my current machine is as silent as a platoon of vacuum cleaners playing bagpipes.
So anyhow, I have narrowed the choice to four different builds. Do note that I'm not asking about the perfect build for a given budget or anything, I have found that all these fit in my budget and I just want to figure out the best of the bunch.
All four have the i5-3570k + Z77 + 8gb DDR3-1600 base setup with a 1000gb HDD and Win7 all installed and ready go. Differences are as follows (apart from the listed, only cases and PSU's differ between the options, and those differences are very minor):
A1: GPU is HD7870. Marketed as a very silent build. 128gb Samsung SSD included by default. Total price: 1360.
A2: Same as A1, but GPU is now HD7950. Total price: 1425
B: GPU is HD7970. No SSD by default, I'd have to add one from their catalogue for ~150 (no extra cost from installation, though). Total price (incl. SSD): ~1500
C: GPU is GTX670. No SSD by default (same as in B). Total price (incl. SSD): ~1450
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Don't go with AMD, it'll only give you problems on the long run. Thay may have an edge on performance right now but IMO it's not worth the hassle it gives for some games and linux.
I say those prices are still obscene, even if it's Finland. Depends a bit on just how lavish they are in the case choice. But a good, quiet Fractal Design Define R4 build would definitely not get anywhere near those prices.
If you're dead set on getting one of these, I'd say the first two are preferable because they come with SSDs by default. I'd probably go A2. You're already paying an arm and a leg, may as well get a high-end GPU with more VRAM in case you decide to Crossfire later on.
PS: Make sure the power supply is quality. That's often the first place they cut corners.
Buy all the parts for A2 or C if you don't want AMD and the case on your own. Buy quiet fans and a quiet case.
Their prices are way too much for what you're getting.
Well as I said, I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for me... But, I have actually already done the maths for a self-built rig of equivalent degree, and even with a slightly inferior GPU (660Ti) it came together as €1300. And that was achieved by cherry-picking parts from different (Finnish) webshops. So I thought that hell, if I can get it pre-built for a hundred eurobucks more, and get it built professionally with all the airflows and stuff figured out, why not.
Edit: Though I must say that I'm open to suggestions regarding good and cheap parts. I haven't entirely abandoned the idea of building it myself. It's just that all parts are painstakingly expensive here, and getting them from abroad could be a bit of a hassle.
Edit2: About cases, the "A" options are using something called anidées AI6 Silent. I found one webshop selling AI6 cases for €150-170, and the Fractal Design Define R4 costs about €100 it seems.
Edit3: Pardon me for editing this constantly... About GPUs, I'd really prefer Nvidia but 660Ti is not that good value for money at least from what I've read (price hovers at around €330-€350, for a good brand with nice fans), and you can't get a 670 for less than €400 here. AMD cards are a lot cheaper: 7950 costs usually even less than 660Ti.
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Mwell, in Denmark, a build like A1 would cost around €1000-1100.
I went for the A2 build. It will be the first "good" computer I've ever had!
...it's funny how life works: when you have time to play you don't have money to buy a nice rig, and when you have the money you don't have the time. Sadness.


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CLEVELAND (AP) Jamal Lewis didnt break the single-game rushing record against the Cleveland Browns this time. His 72-yard touchdown run shattered something more personal.
I think that one broke their will, Lewis said. I think they said, Here it goes again.
And there he went.
Lewis ran for 205 yards and two TDs while closing in on the exclusive 2,000-yard club and Eric Dickersons single-season record as the Ravens zeroed in on the AFC playoffs with a 35-0 crushing of Cleveland on Sunday.
With the win, the Ravens (9-6) opened a one-game lead in the AFC North over the Cincinnati Bengals (8-7), who lost 27-10 at St. Louis. Baltimore can clinch its first division title next Sunday night with a win over Pittsburgh.
It will be a playoff game for us, offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden said. Weve got to get it done.
Lewis got it done against the Browns (4-11) again.
Earlier this season, he set an NFL single-game record by running for 295 yards against Cleveland, which put eight and nine players near the line of scrimmage on Sunday to stop Lewis.
The Browns did a good job of containing him for 2 1/2 quarters, holding him to 54 yards on his first 17 carries. But on his last five, Lewis picked up 151 and scored twice.
With one game left, he has 1,952 yards and needs 153 to tie Dickersons league mark of 2,105 (1984). If he picks up 48 yards, Lewis will join O.J. Simpson (1973), Dickerson (1984), Barry Sanders (1997) and Terrell Davis (1998) as the only backs in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season.
Lewis could have hit the milestone against the Browns, but Baltimore coach Brian Billick benched him with eight minutes left.
By then, Lewis, who has rushed for 1,043 yards in six career starts against Cleveland, had demoralized the Browns. He became the first back to have two 200-yard games against one team in the same season since Simpson, who rushed for 250 and 219 yards in 73 against New England.
Lewis is focused on Baltimore getting to the playoffs, but acknowledged he has thought about Dickersons mark.
I think its attainable, he said. I know the offensive line is going to be all geeked up. If its meant to be, it will be.
The Browns contained Lewis for 2 1/2 quarters.
With Baltimore leading 7-0 in the third quarter, Lewis darted right and cut back left at the line. Cornerback Roosevelt Williams missed him and after safety Earl Little fanned, Lewis outran cornerback Michael Lehan to the end zone to make it 14-0.
I had a shot at him, but he put a move on me, Little said. I have to make that tackle. Hes old school, like Earl Campbell.
Lewis would later pick up 45 on a similar cutback run before his 24-yard TD sprint with 11:55 left made it 21-0. A few minutes later, Billick sat him down.
That was a little disappointing, Ogden said. It would have been nice to get him 2,000. But weve got next week to take care of that and get a win.
Chad Williams returned an interception 52 yards for a TD in the fourth period to put away the Browns, who have lost five straight and eight of nine.
This was a bitter, disappointing, sad loss, coach Butch Davis said.
It was Clevelands first shutout loss since the end of the 2000 season, and the Browns worst loss since a 48-0 thumping at Jacksonville on Dec. 3, 2000.
Tim Couch, possibly playing his final home game, went 17-of-33 for 163 yards with one interception, two fumbles and was sacked five times.
Its been a tough year, said Couch, who remains open to restructuring his contract for next season to stay with Cleveland. Well see if they want me here first.


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Take two: Buchholz stifles Yankees
Righty allows just one run over seven frames; Bradley gets first hit, RBI
NEW YORK -- Opening the season with two wins hardly seems monumental, but for the Red Sox of recent times, it is unfamiliar territory, and therefore, an accomplishment to enjoy.
Backed by a steady supply of offense, Clay Buchholz pitched Boston to a 7-4 road victory over the injury-riddled Yankees on Wednesday night.
This is the first time the Red Sox have opened the season with back-to-back victories since the 1999 team, which got strong pitching performances by Pedro Martinez and Bret Saberhagen out of the gate.
Jon Lester and Buchholz are the starters who have helped manager John Farrell to a successful start in his first two games as manager.
After starting 2-10 in 2011 and 1-5 last year, this year's opening is a much better feeling for the Red Sox.
"Yeah, first game of the season the last couple years out, it's been tough getting started," said Buchholz. "Jon went out and did what he did and won that game [on Monday]. To not have any added pressure or anything and to go out and feel good for a change, it's definitely a lot better than going out and throwing three innings."
You'd have to go back a lot further than 1999 to find the last time the Red Sox opened the season on the road and scored seven-plus runs in the first two games. That would be '19, Babe Ruth's final season in Boston. The 1995 Sox opened with nine-plus runs in two straight home games.
Backed by the hot start of Shane Victorino (4-for-11 in the first two games) and mixing in energetic young players Jackie Bradley Jr. (first Major League hit on Wednesday) and Jose Iglesias (2-for-4), the Red Sox have looked dynamic offensively.
"Yeah, 2-0, that's a good start," said Victorino. "Can't complain. Every aspect of the game we're playing well. We're running the bases well, taking extra bases, swinging the bats, pitching well, playing good defense, that's what it's about. That's how you win ballgames. It's a positive start for us."
Farrell could not have drawn it up any better for his first two games in the dugout.
"We've been able to bunch some hits together," Farrell said. "We've worked some deep counts. We've taken walks when we've had our opportunities. You can't say enough about some two-out base hits to drive in some runs."
Nor can you say enough about the pitching. Buchholz went seven innings while allowing six hits and one run. He walked two and struck out four.
"It's always good to get off on the right foot first start of the year, get it out of the way, especially this place pitching against this team," said Buchholz. "It's never an easy task coming in here and throwing to these guys."
In this one, the elements were perhaps Buchholz's toughest obstacle. The game-time temperature was 43 degrees, but it felt a lot cooler. Most Red Sox players wore ski masks to stay warm.
"It was cold, man. That's probably the coldest I've been while I was pitching," said Buchholz. "There were some long innings where I'd sit down, cool off, get back out there. The wind, I think, was what got me. I was able to get through it."
Despite an off-day on Tuesday, the Red Sox picked right up where they left off on Opening Day. Daniel Nava, making his first start of the season, opened a rally in the first with a single to left. Dustin Pedroia followed by looping a single to right. Jarrod Saltalamacchia came through with an RBI single to right and Boston had a 1-0 lead.
Victorino got a rally started in the second when he belted a single up the middle against Hiroki Kuroda. It was a hit that had implications, as Kuroda bruised his right middle finger when he instinctively reached up for the ball. He would come out later in the inning. Bradley was hit by a pitch and Jacoby Ellsbury drew a walk to load the bases.
When Nava was hit by Kuroda to force in a run, it was clear that the right-hander's finger was bothering him, and that's when he was lifted. Reliever Cody Eppley prevented the inning from getting out of hand when he got Pedroia to hit into a double play.
In the third, however, Eppley didn't have as much luck. Saltalamacchia got things started with a one-out single and moved to second on a wild pitch. With two outs, Victorino ripped a single to left to bring in Saltalamacchia. Then it was time for Bradley's first Major League hit, a single up the middle that gave Boston a 4-0 lead. Jose Iglesias kept the rally going by hammering a double into the corner in left, and Ellsbury gave the game a blowout feel by drilling a two-run single up the middle against Adam Warren to make it 6-0.
"I think it's a lineup that's going to pick each other up," said Saltalamacchia. "You have a lot of big bats in the lineup. We've got a lot of different things we can do on the bases. We can get innings started with infield hits and just keep it moving."
Buchholz breezed through the first three innings, but Travis Hafner put the Yankees on the board with a solo homer to right-center in the fourth.
It was Buchholz's only blemish on the night.
"He's good. He always has that stuff," said Yankees outfielder Vernon Wells. "He's throwing strikes, keeping the ball down, and when he does that, he's very effective. Lester and him, they've obviously shown early on that they're back to where they can be. When those two are at the top of their rotation throwing the ball the way they have, they're going to be a good team."
The Yankees pulled closer in the eighth when Alfredo Aceves served up a three-run homer to Wells.
But Joel Hanrahan came on in the ninth and nailed down his first save with the Red Sox, who will go for the sweep on Thursday night.
"It feels a lot better to start the season 2-0 than 0-2, that's for sure," Saltalamacchia said. "It's a great start, but our focus isn't going to be on how many games we're going to win this month or this year. It's game to game. We're going to enjoy this one and then focus on tomorrow."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This video showed up in my in box this morning with the title "What can't Phillips do defensively?"
Well there is a chink in his game and it's really beginning to frustrate me. He is very slow (deliberate) at turning a double play. We've been treated to some wizards at 2B through the yrs at turning a double play and as athletically talented as BP is, he isn't even in their league. The best (as in the quickest) I've ever seen was Ron Oester. Joe Morgan was a close 2nd. Bret Boone wasn't bad either. If I were the Reds brass I'd recognize this weakness and address it by having Joe Morgan work with him. BP's issues on this almost cost them a game this week.


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SANFORD, Fla. - It's been one year since neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman spotted Martin walking through his neighborhood, which is a gated community.
Martin was walking back to a house he was staying at after a trip to a convenience store. Zimmerman started to follow him because he thought he looked suspicious.
Despite a police dispatcher telling him "you don't have to do that," Zimmerman got out of his truck to pursue Martin.
Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder but has pleaded not guilty. He says Martin attacked him and that he shot the teen in self-defense.
Zimmerman's trial is set for June.
Meanwhile, Martin's family is marking the one-year anniversary of his shooting death with a candlelight vigil in New York City.
Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, are scheduled to take part in an event Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. in Union Square Park, along with their attorneys and others. A moment of silence was scheduled for 7:17 p.m.
Where does 'stand your ground' law stand now?
The shooting set off a national outcry over issues of race as well as "stand your ground" laws.
Despite a task force report ordered by Gov. Rick Scott that the stand your ground law should remain on the books with only minor changes, state lawmakers say they will continue to seek repeal of the law.
Some changes are almost a certainty when lawmakers begin their annual session next week.
Martin's mother says something needs to change.
"I am not absolutely sure that the police knew what the stand your ground law was," Fulton said.
In its report, the task force spends a great deal of time telling lawmakers it needs to define criminal activity so the law is applied evenly across the state.
The task force wants to limit neighborhood watch volunteers to observing and reporting potential activity to the police. It also specifically says in the report it doesn't want neighborhood watch volunteers pursuing or provoking potential suspects.
State Rep. Alan Williams says he is pushing forward will a full-scale repeal of stand your ground.
"It's about really keeping our community safe, not allowing folks to hide behind the screen of stand your ground while they're being vigilantes," Williams said.
Four other bills have also been introduced to repeal or modify the law. But Unified Sportsmen of Florida's Marion Hammer says the task force was clear.
"In their recommendations clearly track the view of the people," Hammer said.
Zimmerman has an April 22nd court date to determine if he really was standing his ground.
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Jesting or joking is engaging in humorous behavior, typically involving joking, bantering, and even ridicule or mockery.
- Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
- Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Jesting. Maxim II.
- He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
- Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Jesting. Maxim VII.
- No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.
- Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Jesting. Maxim VIII.
- Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance,
Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly
That feeds on dung is colored thereby.
- George Herbert, The Temple (1633), Church Porch, Stanza 39.
- People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), I.
- Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 203.
- Jesters do often prove prophets.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 71.
- A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 871.
- A dry jest, sir…. I have them at my fingers' end.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act I, scene 3, line 80.
- Asperæ facetiæ, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,
Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 404-05.
- A joke's a very serious thing.
- Charles Churchill, Ghost, Book 4.
- A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
- John Dennis, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume LI, p. 324. Claimed for Daniel Purcell but given to Dennis by Hood, also by Victor in an Epistle to Steele.
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A double meaning shows double sense;
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Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.
- Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg.
- Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;
Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
- Samuel Johnson, London, line 165. Imitation of Juvenal, Satire, III. V. 152.
- La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.
- Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
- La Bruyère.
- Joking decides great things,
Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
- John Milton, Horace.
- That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.
- General Oglethorpe to a Prince of Würtemberg who at dinner flicked some wine in Oglethorpe's face, asserting the insult to be a joke Oglethorpe threw a whole wine glass in the Prince's face in return. Boswell's Life of Johnson (1772).
- Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractère.
- A jester, a bad character.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669), Art, VI. 22.
- A jester, a bad character.
- Si quid dictum est per jocum,
Non æquum est id te serio prævortier.
- If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
- Plautus, Amphitruo, III. 2. 39.
- If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
- Omissis jocis.
- Joking set aside.
- Pliny the Younger, Epistles, I. 21.
- Joking set aside.
- Der Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber lacht.
- A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.
- Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 7.
- A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.
- A college joke to cure the dumps.
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I was able to insert images when I first created the Spinekhank Page, and now, It won't help me anymore! What happened? is not working.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starfox10 (talk • contribs)
- They upgraded the wiki, and stuff was (or is) temporarily broken (or broked). The imagey thing (the button) appears to work; you have to change "example.jpg" to the name of whatever it is your putting in, if that's what you meant. Like this.... Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 15:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Dude, I tried that and it didn't work! Damn... I was gonna make Bobby Lee feel small
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Last Friday I was sitting at my desk and got a hankering for something involving noodles, meatballs, and gravy so I hunted around a bit and came up with this recipe from A Taste of Home.
I started with the onion and since the goal was to grill as much as possible I gave the pieces a nice char.
After it cooled a bit I ran it through the food processor and mixed it and the rest of the ingredients into the beef. At this point the thought occurred to me that I could save myself a little labor and make a Swedish meatloaf instead, but I stuck to the plan.
By now it was time for an early lunch since Mrs. Chicken wasn't going to be home for awhile, so I just before I made the meatballs and put them into the fridge I put a chicken leg on the grill as it seemed wasteful to light a batch of charcoal just for 1 onion. The chicken was seasoned with salt and pepper, cooked over a medium-low direct heat, and then glazed with some Stubb's for the last 10 minutes on the grill. It was very similar to the chicken my dad would grill when I was younger and was a nice, simple change of pace.
I started another batch of charcoal and added some small oak branches for smoke, and put the meatballs in an iron skillet.
While they cooked I assembled the sauce, which was added after the meatballs were done. The recipe calls for the meatballs to be removed which I did, but I didn't wipe out the pan before making the sauce because there were all kinds of good bits and some nice grease. So the sauce was probably a little more oily than it would've been but I was not about to waste that flavor!
They were served over egg noodles and while I thought the smoke flavor was pretty light my wife and daughter said they could really taste it, so I must've been suffering from some "grill overexposure". We all agreed that the meatballs and sauce tasted really good, but some labor was definitely involved.


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Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290: Glasses-Free 3D?by Dustin Sklavos on 11/23/2011 1:10 AM EST
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chillmelt - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkColor me blind but.. really? Why is the weakest A8 APU always being compared to some of Intel's best CPUs, on stock settings (reference sample) no less? An appropriate A8 APU can at least run around with a 6770M GPU. It's not like laptops with 3530-MX and discrete GPUs don't exist... Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkI can see your point. The 3500M has a stock speed of 1.5GHz and turbo of 2.4GHz, whereas the 3530MX is 1.9/2.6. Even if you spend all your time at turbo with a single thread, it's still going to be a little faster in anything but GPU-limited situations, and for general workloads, decently quicker. However, perhaps AMD haven't sent one over to AT just yet; we can't expect a review on something they've not been given.
I'm quite pleased to see the 3500M still very high up the battery charts even with a relatively small battery. A 3530MX with a 71Wh battery would be sweetness indeed if only they could attach a decent panel to the thing. Reply
ckryan - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkI just continue to be amazed at the ridiculous nature of displays being ham-fisted into laptops these days. On average, even high end laptops have dismal screens, so when a laptop has a decent screen it's reason to take notice. If there was one thing I could convince manufacturers like Dell, HP, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, etcetera etcetera, it's that the display is so vitally important. Years back, everyone wanted a laptop. Now everyone wants a tablet. I use laptops less and less (when I can help it, that is) because my $99 TouchPad has a superior display. Now, I need a laptop and couldn't accept a tablet as a replacement but many can. Better screens won't stop the slide of laptops, but I think it would help. I know I won't buy another laptop until I can get one with a display in the style of my desktop, TV, and tablet (which is to say, good and IPS). It's difficult to tell people what it's all about, but I believe consumers with exposure to great displays are going to catch on to laptops with similar screens even if they aren't hip to the nomenclature.
The Qosmio may have a terrible display, but it's not in rare company. In the same way, Dustin's AIO reviews reveal that if you're going to buy an all in one, display options are not stellar their either. Dell is the 800lb gorilla with questionable judgement -- Dell has an eIPS touch screen desktop monitor, but won't put it in their AIO. Getting a decent panel in a Dell notebook is like playing Russian Roulette. In the mean time, Apple is pushing better displays in mobile products and their AIOs. You'd figure with all the cribbing going on that PC makers could at least steal Apple's idea to put a halfway decent LCD in a product. Macbooks have TN panels, but at least Apple gives you a less-than-godawful TN panel for your money. Sure, some laptops don't have awful displays, but that's just because the bar is set so damn low. Reply
ananduser - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkWell HP has IPS Radiance displays in their 15" Envy. Sony has some nice mate screens going on. Things aren't so bleak as you make them sound. Reply
r3loaded - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkThere are several people like you and me (at least certainly on the internet) who yearn for a decent screen in a laptop. While HP do offer IPS in their Envy and EliteBooks and Lenovo have some high-end laptops with similar screens, the rest of the market offers nothing. The new AOC monitor that was just announced has shown it's possible to make a 23 inch IPS monitor for $200 (even if it's eIPS rather than H-IPS), which is not a lot more than TN competitors. It's therefore possible to make laptops with IPS screens that don't cost insane amounts.
Unfortunately, manufacturers are still stuck in their race to the bottom mentality, and still can't work out how to build a laptop from good quality materials with a good screen. It's borderline insane that a $500 tablet has a better screen and build quality than several $1000+ laptops. Reply
Draconian - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - link$1700 for a 540M? Bah. You can buy a Clevo P170HM with a 6990M for $1800. Reply
duploxxx - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkfrom the review: The i7-2630QM and its successor the i7-2670QM are, in my opinion, the price/performance/power sweet spot of the mobile market right now
I happen to own for work a latitude with the 2630QM and yes it is great and low powerconsumption when idle. But Dell is asking 120$ more for a cpu upgrade from 2540M.
That is 120$ for a 0.2ghz more? nah 2630 aint the sweetspot i would never add that much money for a bit more cpu, that is just throwing money away. SNB is very efficient so a 2.5 with turbo to 3.2 with HT not enough.... i call that imagination and bsht. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkThe reason for that bump in price is because the 2540M is a dual core processor, while the 2630QM is a quad core. The extra cores are worth it, at least in my opinion. For garden variety crap I don't know that I'd care that much, but for any kind of real work I'd take the quad every time. Reply
Menty - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkAye, the Q stands for quad :). The 2540's a dual. Reply
duploxxx - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkyou are right, i was comparing with my 2620M.
Any kind of real work quad any time... for what to drag about, a mobile device doesn't require SNB quad unless you want to use it as a workstation or to drag about it... that will be really the bulk of users... I would trade that Quad for a daul any day, with the price difference you buy an SSD which makes the laptop fast. Not the money you give away for a few unused slower cores more.
this design is totally out of balance
Quad SNB
5400RPM HD Reply
Denithor - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - link
The 3DMarks are also very consistent across the review units. The GT 540M-equipped notebooks all pretty much line up, with 3DMark06 being the only odd man out, boasting a substantially higher score than the others. This should hopefully offer some confirmation that NVIDIA's Optimus is almost all upside.
Thinking that's supposed to be a laptop model? Reply
eio - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linklooks like there are some serious bugs with the software stack...
but technically this is one of the most advanced glass-free 3D screen out there, and should provide much more natural & comfortable 3D effect on real 3D content, which could easily beat anything on the consumer market, even the professional market.
it's a pity that it isn't functioning properly in the test. Reply
Matrices - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkI don't know why anyone feels they need an IPS laptop unless they're doing graphics work that requires full color accuracy. The best TN desktop screens provide very good image quality - much better than what was available 2 years ago, and viewing angles are usually less of an issue with laptops.
Some laptop screens are good. The Dell 15" that's currently out has an RGB+ option and it looks amazing. The Alienware screens look good if you're OK with glossy. Reply
Braumin - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkDrab washed out screens with a really obvious change of color depending on how you hold it is good image quality?
The screen quality is one of the top reasons I just ordered a Thinkpad X220 - IPS screens are just miles above the garbage TN panels everyone is using now (except Apple).
The one thing you use more than anything on a laptop is the screen (more than even the keyboard) so why would you not want a good one? Reply
GuinnessKMF - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - linkHow does the 3D fair in regards to eye strain? I have an Evo 3D phone and it's horrible to look at in 3D mode. Myself and everyone I've shared it with has said "that's cool looking but, it hurts my eyes" The videos are better than pictures, but I much prefer the way active lense 3D treats my eyes.
People talk about being uncomfortable with glasses on for 3D content, in my experience the glasses are much better than the glasses-free version. Reply
eio - Thursday, November 24, 2011 - linkthe screen on this toshiba laptop shall give much less eye strain than other glass-free 3D screens, and also less than the ones with glasses, if it is functioning.
because this screen has an array of adjustable lenticular micro lens on top of the LCD screen, and it will actively adjust the light path to fit with your view point, which is captured by camera in real time.
the down side is it can only be used by one people, since the screen cannot fit with 2 pair of eyes simultaneously. what's why this technology is used on laptop prior than TV Reply


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America just seems to be obsessed with large vehicles. Maybe it's our expanding waistlines, image consciousness or our "You can't tell me what to do, so I'm gonna buy whatever I want" mentality that persuades people to transport junior in a Suburban, go grocery shopping with a Tundra CrewMax or take Fido to the get his yearly shot in an Escalade EXT.
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"The problem with mass transit is it kind of takes you to where you want to go and at the approximate time you want to get there, but not exactly," said Ph.D. candidate Franco Vairani of MIT's school of architecture. "Sometimes you have to walk up to a mile from the last train or subway stop."
The City Car will be stackable -- the entire back end of the vehicle would rise up allowing as many as eight of the vehicles to fit into a conventional parking space. The vehicle itself would also be mechanically simple with the electric motor, steering system and suspension enclosed within the wheel hubs.
The vehicle is said to weigh between 1,000 to 1,200 pounds and will be powered by lithium-ion batteries. According to Vairani, there could also be multiple versions of the City Car to accommodate a certain city's needs. A City Car destined for use in New York City might have a less powerful battery and a lower top speed due to traffic congestion. In other cities where interstate travel is more frequent, more powerful batteries capable of propelling the City Car faster and farther could be used.
If all goes well, MIT will show a prototype of the City Car sometime next year.
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Shane Warne cricket - is a cricket simulator. All teams and players of 1997 season are available. There is a team and a player editor and you can also save or change a camera...Read more
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Wild Bunch Benelux ties with Scandi's Selmer Entertainment
Pim Hermeling's Wild Bunch Benelux has entered into a buying alliance with new Scandinavian outfit Selmer Entertainment.
The two companies are buying selected titles together for Scandinavia and Benelux. They have already made their first acquisitions - Twenty Feet From Stardom (sold by Elle Driver) and The Artist And The Model (sold by 6 Sales).
Coming off a bumper year, bolstered by successes like Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt and A Royal Affair, Wild Bunch has been on a mini-buying spree of its own with new buys including:
- Frank (starring Michael Fassbender and sold by Protagonist),
- A Thousand Times Good Night (sold by Global Screen and starring Juliette Binoche),
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- Richard Ayoade's The Double (from Protagonist),
- May In The Summer and ,
- Elle S'En Va (both from Elle Driver).
Wild Bunch Benelux also recently bought Richard Linklater's Before Midnight.
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Behavioural finance teaches us that people tend to prefer a small, certain reward today over a larger, uncertain one in the future. That pretty much sums up current sharemarket behaviour. When the outlook is uncertain, investors settle for $1 in dividends from a ''safe'' company rather than hold out for $2 in capital gains from a risky one.
This safety-first approach has paid off handsomely during the past 12 months of market turmoil. The dividend yield of the overall market was 4.6 per cent in the year to mid-November, but more than 6 per cent when franking credits are included.
The chief executive of Lincoln Indicators, Elio D'Amato, says franking credits provide a 40 per cent free kick for investors, especially those holding shares in a super fund paying 15 per cent tax on earnings or those in the pension phase paying no tax.
''Say I receive a 5¢ fully franked dividend; when I include the franking credits, that yield grosses up to 7.14¢,'' D'Amato says. ''If I am in the pension phase, I receive that full amount, which means I get 42.8 per cent more than I was initially entitled to. A $500 dividend equals $714, $5000 equals $7140 and it just keeps getting better.
''I can't wait until I turn 65, just because of the great Australian gift.''
The go-to sector for dividend hunters has been, and still is, the banks. The big four have been trading on grossed-up dividend yields, including franking credits, of between 8.2 per cent (ANZ) and 10.6 per cent (NAB). High investor demand has also translated into share-price growth, so cautious investors have had the best of both worlds.
''With cash rates coming down, investors are moving out of bank term deposits paying 3 per cent to 4 per cent to fully franked dividend yields of about 9 per cent for the banks,'' Scott Bennet, a portfolio manager with Russell Investments, says.
An income strategy makes good sense in the short term, but there is a danger that popular income stocks, such as the banks and Telstra, will be loved to death and their share prices pushed to levels that leave limited scope for capital appreciation.
There are also concerns that in an effort to placate dividend-hungry investors, some companies are stretching their payout ratios to unsustainable levels, putting future dividend payments under threat.
The payout ratio refers to the portion of company earnings paid out to shareholders in the form of dividends. The inverse of the payout ratio is dividend cover, or earnings per share divided by dividends.
The chief investment officer of Lachlan Partners, Paul Saliba, says a payout ratio of more than 60 per cent, or dividend cover of less than 1.4, may not be sustainable over the long term.
''If a company is paying a substantial portion of its earnings out in dividends and future earnings are constrained, investors could be in for a shock in terms of payout ratios being cut back,'' Saliba says.
Recent analysis by Macquarie Group found that the payout ratio of the Australian market has stretched to 75 per cent, compared with the long-term average of 60 per cent. At the same time, the growth in earnings per share for the overall market is slowing and is forecast to fall from 9.2 per cent to 6.1 per cent in the current financial year.
The challenge for investors in this market is to be discriminating and seek out stocks that not only offer a good yield but dividends that are sustainable over the long term.
''Dividends are an intention, but not a promise, by a company. Companies can change their dividend policies as the economic environment gets tougher,'' Bennett says.
Even so-called blue-chip companies can spring nasty surprises, such as the decision by Qantas to stop paying dividends in the wake of the global financial crisis. It hasn't paid a dividend since 2009.
But investors can take heart from a recent study showing that far from being overvalued by the market, stocks with fully franked dividends are systematically undervalued (see box, right).
D'Amato says the market is inefficient in the way it deals with franking credits because the people chasing them - individual retail investors - make up just 20 per cent of local market participants.
The Australian sharemarket is dominated by local institutions, such as fund managers and superannuation funds, and foreign investors. They account for 40 per cent each.
Foreigners can't use franking credits and their dividend income is often subject to complex tax rules, so they focus on capital gains.
Local institutions also focus on capital gains, partly because they pay the company tax rate themselves, so the benefits of franking are limited, but also because they compete against each other in performance surveys based on short-term pre-tax returns.
This is beginning to change, with some super funds and managed funds reporting on an after-tax basis, but they are still the exception.
Most Australian investors have a portfolio that's heavy with banks. D'Amato says the latest profit-reporting season confirmed the banks' ability to maintain their dividends, but he thinks there are better opportunities outside the banking sector for investors looking for growth and income.
Childcare centre group G8 Education has been on an aggressive acquisition campaign but D'Amato says debt is at manageable levels and the stock displays strong earnings growth and return on equity. It trades on a grossed-up dividend yield of 5.19 per cent, based on 2011-12 earnings, which is forecast to increase to 7.14 per cent in 2012-13.
AP Eagers has a large property portfolio underpinning its car dealership network, with a grossed-up dividend yield of 6.37 per cent, and 7.33 per cent forecast for next year. ''It has strong financial health, cash flow is solid, it is growing its return on assets and equity and will produce 76 per cent earnings per share growth, in our opinion,'' D'Amato says.
Monadelphous is an example of a good stock in an unloved market sector. After riding the mining investment boom, the engineering services company is in a new phase, D'Amato says. He says the group should continue to grow and increase the payout to investors, with a grossed-up dividend yield of 8.59 per cent this year, rising to 9.48 per cent next year.
Saliba says companies don't have to be fully franked to be attractive. Utility SP AusNet has a forecast yield of 7.8 per cent with approximately 33 per cent franking. ''The company has a defensive income stream and is underpriced relative to its peers on the back of litigation regarding the Victorian bushfires,'' he says.
Saliba says Bradken provides exposure to mining through train wagons, with a fully franked forecast yield of 8.7 per cent. And marketing and communications company STW Communications Group has a higher yield than Telstra, at 8.2 per cent, based on forecast dividends per share, and is also fully franked. It also has a superior dividend cover of 1.5 times, making the dividend considerably more sustainable in the long term.
For investors who want to tap into the income stream from shares but would rather leave the selection to professionals, there are various high-dividend exchange-traded funds.
For instance, the Russell High Dividend Index fund holds about 50 stocks that are actively managed, with relatively high stock turnover of 40 per cent a year in response to changes in company valuations and dividend policies.
In the year to October 31, the fund had a market-beating nominal dividend yield of 6.12 per cent, and a grossed-up yield of 8.2 per cent.
Bennett says the fund recently added APA Group and Seven West Media for the first time. APA is a natural gas infrastructure business with a strong balance sheet and a dividend yield of 6.7 per cent.
''It's not franked like the banks but the income is linked to inflation, so it is likely to be more resilient in a weaker market,'' he says.
For investors prepared to stomach a lot more risk, Seven West has a fully franked dividend yield of close to 20 per cent, but the potential for a high degree of share-price volatility.
''We think the dividend will come under pressure but we still expect it to stay in double digits,'' Bennett says, adding that long-term investors should not overlook mining giant BHP Billiton.
''Its nominal [pre-tax] yield is not that great, at about 3 per cent, but it's fully franked and BHP has the ability to increase its dividend year on year for the next decade,'' he says.
Dividend investors earn a free kick
Lincoln Indicators chief executive Elio D'Amato long suspected that dividends and franking credits were not being fully valued by the market, so he tested the theory.
When a company announces a dividend it also sets a date when new share buyers will not be entitled to receive it. This is known as the ''ex-dividend'' date.
What typically happens on the day the stock goes ex-dividend is that the share price falls by the amount of the dividend. Or that's the theory. In practice, the share price adjustment often fails to fully reflect the size of the dividend size and the value of the franking credits attached.
For example, Wotif.com declared a fully franked dividend of 13.5¢ a share, which went ''ex'' on September 10 with franking credits worth 5.8¢ a share.
This brings the total dividend to 19.3¢ a share. But on the ex-dividend date the share price fell just 11¢. In other words, the shares lost 11¢ in capital value but shareholders received 19.3¢ worth of dividends and franking credits in the mail.
To see if examples such as this were part of a bigger pattern, Lincoln Indicators tested every dividend, with a significant level of franking credit, paid by the ASX top-200 stocks in the past 12 years. And guess what: they were right.
Lincoln found that a total of $129 billion worth of franking credits was paid but the value of the stocks fell by $14 billion more than the cash value of the dividends. That amounts to an average pre-tax profit (including franking credits) of 0.87 per cent for each dividend.
Lincoln also found the most profitable time to buy a stock was 40-60 days before the ex-dividend date.
Studies such as this depend on averages, and averages can hide a multitude of sins. But the lesson for investors is that a strategy based on selecting quality stocks with fully franked dividends can boost overall returns. This is especially the case for investors on low marginal tax rates or those who invest via their super fund, which pays tax of just 15 per cent on investment income.
The fuss about franking
Dividends are not just a source of cash in the hand for investors; they also offer potential tax benefits for shareholders in the form of franking credits, thanks to Australia's system of dividend imputation.
Dividend imputation was introduced in 1987 to end the double taxation of company profits. Under this new system, tax paid by companies was attributed, or imputed, to investors.
When companies pay part of their earnings in the form of dividends, shareholders pay tax on the income at their marginal rate. But if the company has already paid tax on the income at the company level, the Tax Office gives shareholders a personal tax credit called a franking credit. This is how it works. Say a company makes pre-tax earnings of $1 a share. It pays 30¢ tax and returns the remaining 70¢ to shareholders as a fully franked dividend. Along with the dividend, shareholders get 30¢ in franking credits for tax already paid at the company level.
When investors fill in their tax return, they declare a grossed-up dividend of $1 by adding the franking credits to the cash they already received.
If you pay tax at the superannuation rate of 15¢ in the dollar, you will receive a 15¢ tax refund because the company has already paid 30¢ on your behalf. This will give you a grossed-up (after-tax) dividend of 85¢ (the original 70¢ dividend plus 15¢ tax rebate).
If you pay tax at the top marginal rate, you will end up paying tax of just 16.5¢ (46.5¢ less the 30¢ already paid at the company level). You end up with an after-tax dividend of 53.5¢ (the original 70¢ dividend less 16.5¢ in tax).
And if you are in pension phase, you have hit gold. You pocket the full $1 (the original 70¢ dividend, plus a 30¢ rebate of franking credits).
Dividends can be fully or partly franked, depending on the amount of tax the company has already paid. There are no credits for tax paid on overseas earnings, so a company that earns its income overseas, or pays no tax in Australia, pays unfranked dividends.


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If you are still using the good old Macromedia Contribute 1.x / 2.x then its right-time for you to upgrade. I am not advertising though!!…:) Lots of features got added since then… In this post i will describe whats new with the latest Adobe Contribute CS3 release as compared to recent Macromedia Contribute 4..
Download the free trial (will be available after the release!!) and evaluate yourself…
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The New Adobe Branding… Its No more Macromedia Contribute…. Its now skinned with new start page, new splash screen, new logo… and its your Adobe Contribute CS3
Improved CSS Rendering… It now has much better and enhanced CSS rendering engine which gives you true WYSIWYG editing experience
Insert HTML Snippets… You can now insert HTML snippets in the edit mode at the cursor location. This is available for all blog entries in contribute edit mode. However for websites this is governed by an administrative setting for the given user role in Administrators -> Edit Role Settings dialog. You can now get HTML Snippets from YouTube.com and insert them directly using Insert->HTML Snippet in your blogs..
Insert Image From the Internet… You like an image on the internet and you want to insert it in your website or blog entry? its made more simple now… Choose Insert->Image->From the Internet, it opens a mini-browser for you. Enter the URL for the image on the internet and press OK… That inserts the image for you in your web page or blog entry… Note: This does not download the image from the internet and re-upload to your site…. it adds a reference to the original image… You want to insert computer image? browse to google.com click on images link and search for the images with computer keyword… browse for your favourite image and insert it…
Insert Flash From the Internet.. World is now changing and most of it is now Animation in SWF format… Lots of Flash content is available on the internet… If you want to insert it into your Web Page or Blog Entry.. its simple now… Insert->Flash->From the internet, it opens a mini-browser… browse to the URL containing SWF File (ex: http://www.xxx.com/myswf.swf) and press OK… resize the SWF and adjust it and publish it.. its simple now…
Insert Video From the Internet… You uploaded your MPEG, AVI, MOV etc. movie formats on to your web space (like www.5gbfree.com) and want to insert it in your blog entry or Web Page?? Insert->Video->From the Internet, browse to your video file and press OK.. thats embedded video for you on your favourite blog or web page…
Insert PDF Document… From My Computer, From My Website, From the Internet… Earlier version of contribute only supported linking of a PDF Document but with this release you can choose to EMBED the PDF Document in your web page or blog entry…. Embedding PDF document reduces one click from the traditional linking to a document and gives you a better view to read the document in the web page without actually clicking and downloading… this option however gives you an option to either link to PDF document or Embed it in your web page or blog entry.
Office 2007 Integration…. Earlier it used to support Office 2003 and Office xp by keeping a Contribute Toolbar plugin in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook email reader… Open in Contribute, Open selection in Contribute, Publish to Web, Publish Selection to Website, Post selection to your blog… Now it supports Office 2007 (.xlsx, .docx formats) are also supported.
Choosing Template before you Open in Contribute or Publish … Office plugin allows you to open the selection from a Office document into contribute and then make a modification and publish it as a webpage in your website… Or you make a selection, publish instantly to your website… with this release you can choose the template and the Editable region into which your content should go in… look at the preview and then publish it as a webpage.. this doesnt say now that – I am NO MORE a glorified FTP client …!!
Converting an Office Document to PDF and inserting in your web page… When using Contribute plugin from your office document, either you do Open document (selection) in contribute, you may choose to convert the document into PDF and embed it or link it. You may also do Publish document (selection) from your office document, you may choose to publish it as PDF before publishing the document. PS: you need to have Acrobat Elements 8 or Acrobat Professional for this…
Support for FireFox 2 and IE 7….Contribute adds a plugin in these browsers for quickly doing "Edit the browser url in contribute" or "Post a selection that you like on the page you are browsing in the browser into your blog entry".. Now it supports the newer versions of browser releases…
Enhanced and Easy Blog entries Management…. It was not so easy to locate and edit your blog entries in earlier Contribute 4.. with this release you will see an "Entries" drop down once you browse to your blog home page… Select the Blog entry and you will see "Edit Entry", "Delete Entry" buttons… its made very easy now…
Preview in Browser for blogs…. Even though contribute blog editor gives you a clean WYSIWYG editing experience while creating your blog entry by downloading the Blog template for you before even you publish, some wanted to preview their content before they publish… this mechanism is now in-built in this release…
Support for IPv6… Contribute now supports connecting to your websites or blogs that are residing on a server with IPv6 configured…
New Blogger support… Blogger has enhanced its protocol and lot of other blog clients including Contribute 4 cannot now connect to blogger blog accounts.. this has been fixed in this release which now supports new blogger accounts…
Date Time Control on Blog entries… You can now publish your blog entries on a specific time (limitations are blog servers how they handle this via protocol)… WordPress supports scheduling via contribute.. other blogs accept the date time and show it on your blog entry but may not actually schedule it…
Support for Multiple Categories and Multiple Trackbacks… Contribute now allows you to select multiple categories and multiple trackbacks for your blog entries.
RSD Support for Blogs… RSD is a technology used to discover the access point URL for your blogs by entering your website URL…. stands for Really simple discoverability… Assuming you have a blog server setup on your website, just enter the website URL and it will pick up the access point url by default for the blog server from an xml file named rsd.xml… Connecting to blogs made easier now with this add-on… see here for more..
Roller blog Support… if you have your own website where you have installed roller blog server then you can start using contribute to edit / post / delete your blog entries… You will have to choose Other blog servers and enter the Access point URL as http://:port/roller/xmlrpc, username and password and start blogging..
Universal Binary for Mac users … its better little late than never… Finally the UB is out and its pretty faster.. runs natively on your Mac-Intel….
Support for Windows Vista…. Contribute CS3 is fully supported for Windows Vista now…
New Enhanced Adobe Help Integration …. Integrated with Adobe Help viewer to show a better help with in the product…
Adobe Bridge Integration… You can now work with Adobe Bridge which is a kind of file browser that bridges all the Adobe CS applications.. you can now browse to an image in bridge edit it in photoshop.. then Place the same in contribute web page where your cursor is located…it also supports office publishing and open in Contribute features… this integration seamlessly lets you work with other CS3 products..
Better look of the installer… Its no more the olden Install Sheild … its looks better now… Please note that with this release you can actually see an "Uninstaller" on MAC… Browse to /Applications/Utlities/Adobe Installers/ and you will see an alias "Adobe Contribute CS3"… double click it to uninstall or re-install.. this keeps your machine clean unlike the blunt way of "DELETE" which keeps some files on your mac


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This product is a perfect fit for the rear of my Yukon. We removed the third row seats and wanted the back area for cargo . With this carpeted mat it looks like it came from the factory. No more trying to load groceries around the third row seat brackets. The LLoyd mat covers them smoothly and now we have a large flat cargo area


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ROADS which will be closed around Chelmsford when the Tour de France comes through in July have been revealed.
On Monday July 7 the peloton will pedal through Essex as part of the second stage of the race with thousands of bike lovers set to line the streets to watch.
Ahead of the big day, bosses at Essex County Council have announced which roads across the county will be shut off to allow for the riders to pass through.
In Chelmsford, the following road restrictions will apply between 8am and 5pm:
• The roundabout turn right into Main Road towards Great Waltham.
• Continue on Main Road through Howe Street and in the centre of Great Waltham turn right into South Street.
• South Street becomes Breeds Road and goes through Fanners Green and Chignal Smealy.
• The junction turn left into Woodhall Hill.
• Follow Woodhall Hill which turns into Chignall Road, at the junction turn right and continue along Chignall Road.
• The traffic lights turn right into Roxwell Road the A1060.
• Continue along the A1060 and turn left into Vicarage Road towards Roxwell.
• Continue through Roxwell where Vicarage Road turns into The Street and then Elms Road.
For more information about the day itself, visit www.essex.gov.uk/pages/tour-de-france.aspx.


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COUPLES planning to tie the knot can look for inspiration at a Himley Hall bridal fair tomorrow (Sunday).
The event at the picturesque hall, which is licensed to hold civil wedding ceremonies, will take place between 10.30am and 4pm.
Brides-to-be can take a look around the venue, meet with stall holders offering cakes, photography, dresses, flowers, venue dressing, DJs and much more.
Those looking for a wedding outfit with a difference can take a seat for the fashion shows at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.
Admission is £1 and there is a small fee for parking.
Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
Councillor Tracy Wood, cabinet member for environment and culture, said: "Himley Hall is a fantastic venue to tie the knot and this event will give brides the perfect chance to take a look around the beautiful hall and grounds.
"There will be lots of wedding suppliers at the event as well as inspirational fashions shows."