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Discussion in 'Wheels & Tires' started by Shyatt, Mar 6, 2008.
What does the road hazard warranty have to do with replacement if the tires are wearing out?
Road Hazard Warrranty will not pay for tires that are worn. The Nov 2007 Consumer Reports tested ultra high performance tires and found Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 and Pirelli P-Zero the best summer UHP tires. They also reported that Falken and Nitto had the best all-season UHP tires. You may find useful information in this issue. As I recall, none were RFT's though.
If you decide to go with non-RFT's, you will need some sort of spare or mobility kit. There is a thread on Bimmerfest.com under the e90 section that speaks to this. If you decide to go with a compact spare, you will be giving up space in the trunk.
That is correct, and something i mentioned in one of my replies, you give up cargo space. Also, Alan i did not change my wheels, i did buy a spare wheel for a spare tire. changing wheels is a whole other ballgame. i actaully just "returned" my bmw road hazard warranty, the balance of which is being pro-rated back to me.
Replacing Run Flats
If you go without the air pressure sensors in the wheels, will it display some sort of ongoing error code on the computer, or will that be clean?
I guess I'm not sure why anyone would choose not to use the sensors but yes you will generate continuous low pressure warnings.
What car do you have? I think only some have in wheel sensors while others use the wheel speed sensors. (which is how mine works, I think )
anything after '02 should have the sensors, i think. i know both of mine, an 06 and 08, have the sensors, and the 4 driving tires have them on their wheels. i did not put them on the spare tires because they are $125 plus per each one, if you get a flat you put the spare on the wheel with the sensor once you can get to a tire shop.
Tire sensors
My car is an 08 328i. My reason for doing so is to kind of go old school. When I have to replace the tires, I plan to go without run flats. I'd also like to go without the sensors. I think I can live without it, have been for 30 years, and would rather not spend hundreds for something that is not important to me. I'm not one to ignore maint. I'm all over it. Run flats and tire pressure sensors just are not important to me.
nothing, but time
It has to do with the 60 day window of time I have to make a decision to get my $630 back on the contract and spend the $700-$800 to put put non run flats (when needed), or keep the 3 years limited insurance and add that to the cost of $1,000-$1,200 to replace with RF.
Since I never owned a car that cost $1K+ to replace tires (soft tread that wears quickly), I am still in shock and evaluating my options.
thanks for your feedback
OK, here goes.
You had previously written
1.) The car comes with roadside assistance to begin with (in case you are not aware)
2.) You should be able to purchase Paragon Motor Club's road hazard policy for much less (except if you reside in the few states where they cannot offer it). (N.b. if you go this route you will be partially self insuring because of the limits on what they pay but it's still a good deal.)
3.) If you have low-profile tires, most of the harshness is resultant from that and has little to do with RF v. non-RF. I drove a 3er with 18" RF sport tires and the same config. with non RF sport tires and handling was very similar as was harshness. Most of the miracle cures you read of here relate to cars that came without the SP.
actually, i was told what you were told about harshness of ride as well from a local tire shop, and several others said i would see improvement. mine has the 17" SP and there is a VAST improvement in my ride since going to the Exalto's. As far as one of the posts above, the sensors are standard on the 4 wheels and you dont have to spend extra to get them, you'd only have to spend extra on the spare wheel which probably would be a waste of money.
RFT Legal Action status
Here's a link to the law firm for those interested (may have to copy and paste)
Dec 08 issue of Bimmer contained an article on the 2009 3 series. The piece centered around an improved iDrive for 2009. Car road tested had standard (not sport) suspension and Bridgestone REO50A Run-Flats 225/45 R-17's which the driver credited for " . . . now able to provide handling and ride comfort comparable to normal tires."
Run Flats Ok!, for me...
Run Flats are great and you'll know the day you get a flat, you will be able to ride your car at 50 mph to the shop and not worry about damaging your wheels and what if you're on a country road in the middle of nowhere and get a flat ???????? and dark??????. Look i replaced my Run Flats from The Tire Rack I saved money and they had the original tires that came with the car, the only advice is make sure the shop that is going to mount the Run Flats must have the equipment and the knowledge to mount these tires, GoodYear mounted my tires and scratched my rims "so be careful"
Back Up Plan
For those of you that have gone with non-run flat tires, what is your back up plan in case of flat ? BMW Assist or something else ? Are the non-run flats softer on the road ? In my area there are problems with pot holes and broken up road, big city. I want something that may be easier on the car.
Continental Inflation Kit
Has anyone used the Continental Inflation kit? Does it work well?
I hate the run-flats. Had them on my 07 3-series and now on my 135i. Onnthe 135I with sport package there are no alternatives to the Bridgestone Potenzas and they are pretty bad, not to mention the ridulous cost. I would love to dump them and put some better rubber on.
My runflat experience
My experience with the runflats has not been all that great but thankfully my 5 has a spare. On the Sunday before Christmas my wife and I were driving to a friend's Christmas party about 10 miles away. Halfway there I got the low tire pressure warning and one of the rear tires was making a horrible noise. I pulled into the nearest gas station to put some air in the tire and saw that the sidewall was shredded. No warning, just a sudden loss of all pressure followed by a shredded sidewall that would NOT have let me go anywhere near 50 miles. I put on the spare (believe it or not, one of the selling points of the 5 over the 3) and we were on our way in minutes. Thankfully I purchased a road hazard warranty for these things when I bought the car. Either way, the car stayed at the dealer waiting for approval from the road hazard company until the day after Christmas, when I finally got my new tire. Thankfully the local dealer gave me a loaner to drive during all this.
Since we were close to home, it was no big deal, only a minor inconvenience but what if I hadn't been home during the holiday season? What if we had been out of town? What if I had been driving a 3 series, which BMW in its great wisdom, decided to build without a spare? It was Sunday night and with no spare, it would have meant calling BMW Assist, waiting for who knows how long for a flatbed, then having the car delivered to the dealer that night, while inconveniencing friends to give us a ride home (or calling a cab) and basically ruining the entire evening. What if I had been on a road trip and was basically in the middle of nowhere? Trip ruined. What if this had happened the day before Christmas and I could not get the tire replaced until after the dealer opened again after their holiday break? My mom drives a 2008 335i and I already warned her about this debacle. My parents will either take their '90 750iL or my dad's 330Ci if they ever decide to go on a road trip. The 335i is definitely their around town only car. Great job BMW building a car that is a blast to drive but you're never quite confident if you should go on a long road trip because a simple thing like a flat tire could turn into a nightmare.
I know this topic has been beaten to death but BMW's insistence on not putting a spare on the 3 series is as idiotic as it gets.
The Bridgestone Turanza's on my 09 335ix stink....period. I debated over buying this 50K+ auto because of the run flat's reputation and made the wrong choice. The Bridgestones ruin what would have been a superior automobile. I can't believe that BMW would put such poor tires on a vehicle that commands such a premium price.
I have been very happy with my tires, michelin pilot exalto's, put them on at 3k miles and never enjoyed the ride more.
Not happy, with run flats anymore
It's me again ever since my new set of run flats I'd had to put air on my tires constantly The GoodYear shop that mounted my tires just did not know what they were doing They're in Edison, NJ on Oak Tree Rd. "They s*ck!". I did get in contact with the TireRack and told me to find another shop I did, found a nail in one and checked the others but that tire is still loosing air. The whole experience has left a bad taste in my mouth. So long...
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Super funds are recovering but that's no excuse for putting up with a dud, writes Annette Sampson.
Super funds are recovering but that's no excuse for putting up with a dud, writes Annette Sampson. Here's the good news. Your super is clawing its way back after the ravages incurred during the global financial crisis. But don't hold your breath. If it wasn't for contributions coming into your fund, chances are your retirement savings have gone absolutely nowhere during the past five years.And if your fund has been performing below par, you're still likely to be sitting on substantial losses.The 2011-12 financial year was a real roller-coaster for super funds. Up one month, down the next. In early June, there was a real chance that we were looking at another year of losses, but the average fund managed to scrape through with a return of 0.4 per cent.The chairman of SuperRatings, Jeff Bresnahan, says while that might seem like a poor return, funds actually fared well considering Australian shares were down by 6.4 per cent over the year and international shares fell by 3.3 per cent.Balanced funds, as measured by SuperRatings, hold between 60 per cent and 76 per cent of their assets in so-called "growth" investments, such as shares and property, but sharemarket losses were offset by an 8.3 per cent return from fixed-interest investments, such as bonds over the year, and positive returns from property, cash and alternative assets, such as infrastructure and private equity.Bresnahan says non-profit funds, in particular, have been gradually reducing their reliance on shares for their returns and have benefited from holding unlisted investments."There has been a drop of about 4 per cent in their exposure to shares over the past decade and it has gone into unlisted assets," he says."But that raises the issue of whether all balanced funds are comparable and, unfortunately for consumers, they're not. One balanced fund will behave quite differently to another and that's unfair on consumers because they get put into these funds but there can be a 10 percentage point difference in performance"That's what happened this year and, over the longer term, a performance difference like that is a hell of a lot of money."While the top balanced fund, LGsuper, returned 5.1 per cent for the year, SuperRatings says the worst fund in the survey lost 3.5 per cent - a difference of close to 9 percentage points. First State Super's Health Super Division medium-term growth fund returned 3.3 per cent, but the rest of the top 20 returned between 0.7 per cent and 2.8 per cent (see table on page 6).BEST AND WORSTThe difference between the best and worst was even more spectacular for growth funds (holding between 77 per cent and 90 per cent in growth assets), with the top performer (ESSSuper) returning 4.9 per cent, versus a 5.7 per cent loss for the lowest-ranked fund.And even in the more conservative capital-stable funds (which are 20 per cent to 40 per cent invested in growth assets), the difference between the best and worst was more than 7 per cent.The top-ranked Commonwealth Bank Group Super option returned a solid 6.4 per cent, while the worst in the category made just 0.7 per cent.But it's the longer-term returns that tell the real story of how the global financial crisis is still affecting retirement savings.Bresnahan says that while this year's return isn't anything to write home about, it has at least consolidated the recovery of the past two years."Funds have earned about 20 per cent over the past three years, which is a pretty reasonable result," he says. Some of the better funds (the balanced options listed for First State Super's Health Super Division, Recruitment Super, Commonwealth Bank Group Super and LGsuper) have all returned more than 8 per cent annualised during the past three years, which would push their recovery in this period to more than 25 per cent.However, during the past five years, the picture is much uglier. SuperRatings says the average balanced fund has lost 0.2 per cent a year during this period and only three balanced funds (LGsuper, Commonwealth Bank Group Super and First State Super's Health Super Division) managed to return more than 2 per cent a year.Indeed, if it wasn't for contributions coming into our funds, most fund members would be wondering why they had bothered. "A lot of people wouldn't have noticed the [poor] five-year returns because with contributions, they still see their account balance growing each year," Bresnahan says."But you've also got to remember that we've been through what was arguably the biggest financial and economic crisis of our lifetimes. A year or two back, the three-year returns looked horrible, and the seven-year numbers will eventually look bad, too. It's a timing issue."To put it in perspective, Australian shares have lost 4.2 per cent a year during the past five years. International shares have lost 2.15 per cent when hedged against currency movements or, thanks to the rising Australian dollar, 6.65 per cent a year unhedged.Diversification has shielded fund members from the full extent of these losses, however, once again, some funds have done much better than others.While the best balanced fund returned 2.6 per cent a year over the past five years, the worst lost 4.5 per cent a year - outstripping the losses of the local sharemarket.Over the 20 years since the introduction of compulsory super, Bresnahan says, the average balanced fund has still managed to beat its targeted return of 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent above the inflation rate.The average fund has returned a solid 6.6 per cent during this period, while inflation has been about 2.8 per cent.CLASSIC DELEVERAGINGThe problem is that many fund members had become accustomed to the double-digit returns of the boom period. As the graph on the previous page shows, annual returns during the past 20 years have been as high as 18 per cent, and returns in the four years before the GFC were 13 per cent to 15 per cent. Losses were rare and, up to 2008, had been limited to less than 4 per cent.The director of client investment strategies at Russell Investments, Scott Fletcher, says returns in the mid- to high teens between 2003 and 2007 set unrealistic expectations."When you have returns which are completely out of line on the upside, you have to expect a period that will disappoint for a while," he says. "The depth and scope of this downturn is what has taken everyone by surprise, but it is a classic deleveraging market."Normally you'd expect the peaks and troughs to be over and done with in 12 to 18 months, but deleveraging can be more extended."Bresnahan says 6 per cent returns are much closer to what should be expected over the longer term, as balanced funds returns in the high single digits are actually pretty good.But this doesn't mean fund members have to accept poor returns.The range of returns between funds shows that some funds manage market cycles better than others.While it would be dangerous to ditch your fund after one year of poor returns, Bresnahan says if it has been underperforming similar funds during a five- to seven-year period you need to ask questions.It may have chosen the wrong investments (funds with high weightings to international shares have been dragged down during this period) and fees can also play a role.While recent research for the Financial Services Council by Rice Warner Actuaries shows average fund fees fell from 1.27 per cent to 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2011 (and from 1.37 per cent in 2002), costs can still vary dramatically.While the average fee for corporate, public sector and large corporate trusts was less than 1 per cent, and the average fee for industry funds was 1.13 per cent, the average for personal super funds was 1.87 per cent and members of small corporate master trusts were paying an average 2.21 per cent.As with returns, fees also ranged widely within sectors. The cheapest industry funds, for example, charged less than 1 per cent, while the most expensive cost more than 3 per cent.In the personal super segment, fees ranged from a little more than 1 per cent to about 3.7 per cent."A lot of retail funds and some not-for-profit funds need to review their fees and bring them down, especially in some of the cash options," Bresnahan says. "They're returning 2 [per cent] to 2.5 per cent a year, whereas most other cash investments are doing 4 per cent."That's because they're taking 150 to 200 basis points out of the return in fees before any money goes to the member. Some of the investment platforms charge the same fees whether the money is in a low-cost investment like cash or something like international equities."GENUINE DIVERSIFICATIONBresnahan says fund members also need to take ownership of their returns, rather than setting unrealistic expectations for their fund. He says they need to understand where their money is invested and what sorts of returns they can expect in different market conditions.While most members remain in their fund's default option, he says there are "scores" of investment options to choose from if they are not happy with the risk they're taking or the returns they are getting.Fletcher says funds have also been working to manage risk more effectively. Before the GFC, he says, most assumed a mix of shares, bonds, cash and property would provide enough diversification to reduce risk.But there is now a recognition that they need broader diversification to handle GFC-style risks where most of these traditional assets can all be hit at once."To maintain the same risk profile for investors, super funds are a bit like ducks swimming on water," he says."Above the water, everything looks the same, but a lot more work is going on under the water to reduce the level of risk."Fletcher says funds are realising that it's not enough to understand the particular risks of each investment class they also need to understand how different investments interact, how those interactions have changed and how to achieve genuine diversification within each asset class."If you mention alternative investments, for example, people often think of airports and tollways," he says. "But different infrastructure investments have different levels of liquidity and other features that need to be managed."Bresnahan says funds are also reviewing their objectives, which, until the GFC, had not been tested thanks to 15 years of outperformance."They're asking what sort of time period their objectives should be measured against," he says."It obviously needs to be over the longer term. But if you say they should be measured over 20 years, it becomes a marketing ploy. They can underperform for several years and still say they've got plenty of time left before they're held to account."

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All Nippon Airways just announced a new hiring policy for cabin attendants (CA). Starting next year, new CAs will be full-time regular employees of the company. Since 1995, CAs at the company were hired as contract workers who could opt to become regular employees after three years. The reason for the change is tougher competition from low-cost carriers (LCCs). ANA says in order to ensure the best service for their patrons they want to offer flight attendants better employment security. Currently, ANA employs about 6,000 CAs, 1,600 of which are contract workers. Next year, if these 1,600 want to become regular employees they can. The company plans to hire 450 new CAs in 2014.
The contract system was adopted by both ANA and Japan Airlines (JAL) in the same year, when the bubble economy had ended and Japan was entering its long period of sluggish growth. The object was to keep personnel costs in check. JAL says it has no intention of abandoning its contract work system "for the time being." Twenty percent of its 3,800 Japanese CAs are contract workers. LCCs Peach and Jetstar only hire CAs as contract workers, while Skymark offers its contract CAs regular employment after one year. Though ANA's policy change means its personnel costs will rise, the company thinks it can offset these expenses with reduced training costs.
Presently, when an ANA CA's contract expires, she is offered full-time employment, but she can also opt for another 3-year contract. Over the years, 80 percent of ANA's CAs chose regular employment. Contract workers are paid by the hour, and during the initial training period the wage is less than ¥1,000. That goes up to about ¥1,200 an hour until the end of the contract. JAL pays even less, about ¥1,100. Typically, a cabin attendant earns about ¥2 million a year while she is a contract worker, which isn't much but CAs, even contractors, have some perks, like access to inexpensive company housing. However, the difference between contract workers and regular workers is striking. In 2001, the average yearly pay for CAs in Japan was ¥6.79 million, reflecting the fact that their ranks were still dominated by full-time regular employees. By 2011 the average salary had dropped to ¥3.85 million, reflecting the dominance of contract workers and newer regular employees rather than veterans who make more due to seniority. Last year it was about ¥4.8 million.
Another factor that influences pay is employment longevity. On average, Japanese CAs remain in the business for 7.4 years, and their average age is 31.2. In the past, it was the most coveted job for women in Japan, though not necessarily for career reasons. It was considered a glamorous occupation during a time when Japan was still isolated from the world, and thus offered women the only chance for overseas travel. (It was also the best way to put one's English language skills to use. At one time, all English conversation schools has special classes for aspiring flight attendants.) Also, it was considered the best way to find a good husband, since sutchi (stewardesses) were also coveted as wives by eligible bachelors.
It was something of a joke in the 60s and 70s that professional baseball players and sumo wrestlers married either TV announcers or JAL cabin attendants. That may explain why the average age remains low: few CAs continued to work after they married, and if they did they usually tried to get transferred to the position of "ground hostess," which is even more glamorous since there are so few of them. Also, while both regular employees and contract workers can take maternity leave, only regular employees can ask for shorter hours after they return to work. Tokyo Shimbun says that 10 percent of contract workers quit before their option to become regular employees comes up and one of the main reasons is that they become pregnant.
There's little doubt that management has a certain image of what CAs should be. Only 1 percent of CAs in Japanese airlines are men. Though it's against the law to discriminate in terms of gender, it seems obvious that airlines hire women predominately, and Japanese men who want to become CAs know this. According to an article in Newsweek, European and Middle Eastern airlines actively recruit Japanese male cabin attendants. Of the Japanese CAs who work for European and Middle Eastern airlines, 10 percent are men. In Asia, the portion is the same as it is in Japan.


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We are thinking about build a pure JS web-app for the client and use a web-service as our php back-end.
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We want to use AngularJS for the front end and not sure what for the backend. (PHP - Yii, JS -NodeJS, etc. ?)
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Coffeehouses have always been great for doing business. Lloyd's of London insurance market, for instance, was so named for its start in the late 1600s at Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, one of hundreds of "penny universities" where stimulating conversation could be had for the price of a cup of coffee.
Fast-forward a few centuries to The Summit SF, a grand, 5,000-square-foot café housed in the incubation space of venture capital firm i/o Ventures that opened in San Francisco last year. The café-and-tech incubator hybrid offers all the things expected of a legit foodie spot: farm-to-table menu, craft beers, local wines and Blue Bottle coffee. There's even an art gallery featuring, appropriately, a futurism exhibit and QR codes on placards.
Then there's the other half: a co-working space for more than 40 telecommuters and 10-plus startups that each receive seed money and mentorship from tech industry leaders, including i/o. A couple earlier tenants already have closed million-dollar deals, and it's become a popular place for beta testing new services, like an online jukebox and the pilot program for the location-based Meet Gatsby app.
The locals dig it. The café is busy 90 percent of the time, and serves upwards of 300 to 600 people a day. "There's a definite vibe of entrepreneurship at the intersection of foodie and tech culture, because art and food and coffee can spark creative interactions between like minds and get people talking," says Summit founder and managing director Desi Danganan, who is, in true ouroboric fashion, one of i/o Ventures' first incubatees.
Next up, new locations--and possibly new themes, depending on those locations. "We're scouting," Danganan says. "I could see it working anywhere there's creativity. Our co-tenants don't have to be a venture fund or tech entrepreneurs, either. In D.C., it could be an NGO for gathering politicos. In L.A., it could be a small movie studio with writers and producers. In New York, a cutting-edge fashion label."
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Hardware enhancements
Some small hardware enhancement could be cheap, but very useful. Please add your ideas/wishes here:
Video-capable camera
- preferably in rotatable turret set into top of unit, so it can face in either direction, making it useful for video conferencing. For a phone to stand a chance in the modern market it will need a camera else it is likely that it won't be bought.
Integrated WiFi hardware
- To sync data
- To access Internet when WiFi is available (at home, work, school, friends)
- For VoIP (this uses much power but maybe the user have the charger connected)
- for videoconferencing (as with AccessGrid)
- Even 802.11b 11Mbps -only would do -- the point is being able to connect it to the Internet without incurring the (sometimes huge) costs of GPRS or (even worse) HSCSD.
- To save power have WiFi able to wake up and check for a designated SSID then sleep again if not found (i.e. I'm not home) or wake up by GPS location (only come up at home and in the office)
- Variable TX power, to the minimum needed to connect to the AP.
- Some sort of caching (encrypted?) internet proxy that can store and forward packets. Instead of having the radio constantly on, it turns the radio on every 30s, for just long enough to register with the AP, and ask the proxy if it has new packets for it.
- An optimisation might be if the hardware, and the AP can do broadcast packets. The receiver is only turned on for .5s/30s, to recieve a broadcast packet saying 'you've got packets' without registering with the AP, or transmitting at all. The GPS synchronises the timing.
- This slows the initial connection to the phone, but most tcp/ip applications will not time out in 30s.
- A blinking LED would be cheap and low power, good for informing the user about new SMS/Email....
- An alternative to this would be for one segment of the LCD to be seperately backlit. There are many LEDs in the backlight, all normally on. This has the advantage that you can display reasonable amounts of information on the bit of the screen that's illuminated.
- The disadvantage is the field of view is smaller, and it's dimmer than a bare LCD, as the LCD absorbs some light.
- This also requires the CPU and LCD to be somewhat active, to keep it refreshed.
- Note: the LED and button ideas could be combined: illuminated buttons
- A yellow LED for GSM/GPRS Tx burst, a blue one for Bluetooth/WiFi Tx burst, a green one for non-urgent notifications (sleep state, missed call etc.) and a red one for urgent notifications (battery almost drained out, new SMS etc.). All of this could be done in one, multicoloured (RGB) LED, similar to the nice one on the Yaesu VX-7R.
D-Pad and Buttons
- Adding a D-pad (to the bottom of the phone) and 2 to 4 buttons (to the top) would provide some tactile input controls, in addition to the touchscreen. They could be used as shortcut keys in the menu, or playback control when playing media. When the phone is held sideways, they can be used as games controls. (With touchscreen alone, gameplay options are limited)
This enables the phone to sense where 'down' is - to enable various options.
Change playlists when I'm jogging vs walking. (there ia an mp3 player on the market that does this).
- Can't the GPS information be used for that purpose? It should be possible to derive the phone's velocity from the change in coordinates over time, so such a playlist profile switcher should be a possibility even now already. Abraxa 00:09, 18 February 2007 (CET)
- Yeah in my opinion that is a very cool idea. But for that case the device should be much lighter. I wouldn't go jogging with a device with this size.--denis_std 01:01, 18 February 2007 (CET)
SIR transceiver
- Could be used to detect when to turn off the display (if the low power IR signal is reflected) and activate the key lock. And could be used as a remote. iPhone has a proximity sensor.
- FIR would be nice as well, but I would settle for SIR if it would be added. Linux already has a working IrDA stack so the standard part would be satisfied. I would be more than glad to write lirc thingies for OpenMoko then :)
Standard 3.5mm jack
- I think everyone interested (and knowledgeable) enough to buy a Neo can make a 2.5mm male to 3.5mm female adaptor cable in under 1/2h and under 10EUR :-)
Certainly - now make it light, small, pretty, durable, tangle-free. I want a 3.5mm jack. The only problem is - are headsets widely available in the same format as 2.5mm. --Speedevil 14:28, 16 February 2007 (CET)
Multitouch screen
Multi I/O adapter
- VGA, standard Jack (line in & out), standard USB
MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD
- Cheaper, more durable cards in a widely accepted format.
- Cards are harder to lose
- Wider selection of accesories, including SDIO accessories.
- Make externally available so that larger length SDIO cards can be used (thinking about SDIO WLAN here)
- Only because CF takes too much room (or CF would be the wish, instead)
Expansion Back
- Replacement backs with additional features
- I believe this would be a great idea, if put into practice. It would solve the extensibility need, usually associated with Open Source projects. It would allow for lots of other devices and for functionality to be developed and put into use without making it a burden for FIC.
- With extra card slots and small footprint hard drive (if possible), Neo might become a nice image tank for photographers - --cedel 18:34, 19 February 2007 (CET)
Thumb keyboard or keyboard attachment accessory
- Could be slide out or clamshell (hinge on long side) design with an external OLED. The keyboard should be protected when not in use.
- Could be a clip on keyboard that attaches to the serial port or communicates by bluetooth (not preferred for permanent keyboard users).
- cheap clippable miniusb keyboard
LASER keyboard (can be a full QWERTY keyboard)
- On the hardware side, this would require a $5 laser diode, a $3 (in bulk) custom diffraction grating, and probably a couple of cubic centimetres volume inside the phone.
- This requires a camera pointable to the front.
- It requires an integrated stand for the phone.
- To practically use this, you've got to be 40cm or so away from the phone, which means under 25*20 of text resolution.
- In software, it's relatively easy to parse the camera output, to find changes in the known laser field.
There are major problems.
- Patent issues.
- No tactile response at all, which slows typing.
- An extra 2cc/6g.
EDGE support
Ability to insert more than one Sim-Card and (if possible) connect to more than one network at the same time
- This could be achieved via a specialist dual sim card kit (currently on market)- where two sims are trimmed and combined on one card, software support for dual sims would need providing...
- What about twin-SIMs (SIMs with 2 phone lines registered on them)? Conventional GSM phones have an option to switch between the two, older ones use # (long press before dialling) to do that. I'm guessing Calypso should support it, we just need to provide an interface for it :-) --@Dexter 11:34, 19 February 2007 (CET)
RFID tag
- Implementation/Cooperation with: RFID-Guardian
- Advantages of a RFID tag? I would see a lot privacy problems
- The tag could be switched on or off. A nice feature would be a module able to clone tags. This would unfortunately probably be rather expensive.
- What about an RFID Reader which could be used to locate items with RFID tags (IE: in your house) Alexpb
- Powered
- Host Mode / Device Mode
- OTG (is this maybe supported already ?)
UMTS support
Dump the egg-shaped case design and go rectangular for more screen space
- I'm all for devices that look great and have great features - aside from that I really like the current design. Thus I'd like to comment that the design change request is probably not the majority's opinion. Abraxa 00:00, 18 February 2007 (CET)
Speakerphone functionality
Reposition Speakers
- putting the two speakers on opposite sides of the screen would make the stereo sound much more effective
The screen is 2.8" across. That's not especially effective. Also, the speaker noise does come out the side - look at the grills in the pictures. --Speedevil 06:19, 16 February 2007 (CET)
Small metal frame for protection (like Siemens M65, only with more style)
Free GPIO ports on a connector to allow easy, simple hardware extensions
Video acceleration
Hardware acceleration for video playback.
3D acceleration
3D hardware acceleration for 3D games, GUIs, etc. (maybe a PowerVR MBX Lite ?).
Alcohol Sensor
Alcohol sensor adjacent to microphone. It doesn't have to be accurate, just has to detect any amount of alcohol on the speaker's breath. I understand this is a very narrow market, but alcohol is on every parent's mind.
Disinfection UV-Light
I had read about it in an Article on http://www.americanairandwater.com/UV-news/. But Motorola patents it. Yes - finally a way to stop the billions of annual deaths due to cellphone infections! --Speedevil 14:04, 16 February 2007 (CET) It´s just something that flying in my head... It´s not the first "unreal" or "useless" idea. Just for fun! --MookiE 14:51, 16 February 2007 (CET)
More seriously - UV of the required frequency is inherently eye-damaging. Also, as I understand it, there are actually no UV LEDs that will reliably produce 'germicidal' UV. The most expensive - and they are very expensive - ones produce UV of a sort that may kill very susceptible bacteria, but comparatively few. IIRC the LEDs are $20 per. --Speedevil 15:11, 16 February 2007 (CET)
Implementing a beaming-device to the Neo would make it the first phone enabling teleportation. See: [1] Possible implementation difficulties might be the lacking teleportation-support in the GSM standard as well as uncooperative mobile service providers that feel uneasy towards innovative technologies...
Or electronic paper display, EPD is used in many new devices such as the new Motorola motofone, sonys new e-reader and Irex's iliad. The technology provides thin, flexible, power saving screens using new eink technology. This technology could cut the weight of the phone and its power usage. For more info see: eink's website.
FM/Digital Radio(DAB) Reciever
A nice feature would be a radio reciever: FM or even better: Digital Audio Broadcast (Digital Radio)
V12 Embedded power source
We'll need something beefy to power the next Neos for the above gadgets, I propose the use of a Embeddable Power Source, that with some miniturisation and a bit of design work should be workable as a possible solution.
An electronic thermometer might become handy for some users.
Maybe we could even integrate a DS2490 usb-to-1wire chip (about 15x10mm) in the phone along with a DS1820 1wire temperature sensor and possibility (by internal or external connector) to add further 1wire devices like humidity sensors, secure authentication, buttons, keypads etc? The Linux kernel already happens to have a ds2490 driver.. This of course would require there to be a free internal usb port to connect the ds2490 to..


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As the search for the black boxes from Air France Flight 447 continues, some pilots are raising new concerns about the safety of the Airbus 330's computerized flight controls.
French and Brazilian authorities said Tuesday they will search for Air France Flight 447 as long as there is hope of finding the flight data recorders.
Several Brazilian military ships, a French submarine, and two Dutch ships towing high-tech US Navy listening devices are scouring the Atlantic for any signs of the pinger beacons from the flight data recorders, known as black boxes. The pinger signals weaken daily and are designed to last only another two weeks.
"We'll continue doing this until the moment that, technically, we determine the searches are useless," Nelson Jobim, Brazil's defense minister, told a Brazilian press agency today.
The black boxes hold data that can help unlock the mystery of what caused the Airbus 330 to apparently break up in flight and plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Without that black-box data, lingering questions will fuel speculation about the safety of the A330 and other highly automated planes like it. Initial examination of some of the 49 recovered bodies indicates the plane broke up in flight, but there have been no signs of an explosion.
That's prompted a new round of concern among some pilots and aviation analysts that the plane's computerized flight controls may have malfunctioned, initiating a chain of events from which the pilots could not recover.
The reason for the concern is that A330 series jets have recently experienced a number of potentially disastrous computer anomalies. In one case, erratic computer commands caused an A330 to suddenly pitch nose-down until the captain could regain control, according to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau [PDF]. That incident occurred in October on an A330 operated by Qantas Airways. The plane diverted to the nearest airport and landed safely, but 11 passengers and one crew member were seriously injured. A similar incident occurred on a Qantas A330 in December.
But other analysts and Airbus, which manufactures the A330, caution against such speculation, saying any parallels are superficial at best. The component responsible for the Qantas A330's erratic movements, a computer known as an Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU), was made by a different manufacturer than the one installed in the Air France A330, says an Airbus spokesman.
But that explanation does not assuage some A330 pilots, who say they have experienced other unusual computer anomalies in their years in the A330 cockpit.
"The question isn't did the Air France plane have the same computers as Qantas, but [rather] could a computer fault bring down a modern jet?" one A330 pilot writes in an e-mail, who asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the press. "The answer is, yes, given the Airbus flight control system."
In the past week, speculation about what caused the crash has centered around Pitot sensors, small tubes at the front of the plane that send information about airspeed to the plane's various computers. At high altitudes, certain older Pitot sensors can ice up and produce inaccurate readings about a plane's speed. Just prior to AF447's disappearance, the jet's computers sent out a flurry of error messages that included inconsistent speed readings from the Pitot tubes. In the past week, Air France has replaced all the Pitot tubes on its Airbus 330s as a precautionary measure.
But the airline and sources within Airbus say problems with the Pitot sensors that could produce inaccurate speed readings would not, by themselves, be enough to bring down a plane.
That has led pilots and some analysts to focus on the plane's computer systems.
"The Pitot tubes are just part of an automated system, and if they're feeding wrong information to the autopilot, and the autopilot system itself has problems, you can see how this could just become a chain of cascading events," says Lee Gaillard, an aviation analyst in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
The Airbus 330 is one of the most automated planes flying today. Like many newer planes, its flight controls are operated by a "fly by wire" system, which means the flight controls are not moved by pulleys and cables but are electrically controlled. Simply put, that means that when a pilot wants to move components such as ailerons – which are on the wings and control aircraft roll along the longitudinal axis – he or she moves the controls in the cockpit, which send an electronic signal to a hydraulic mechanism near the ailerons, which then moves the ailerons in the direction indicated by the pilot. At the center of this system is a computer that directs the flow of information between the pilot and the plane's components.
Airbus has taken this system "a step further" than other manufacturers, according to the A330 pilot. That's because it also designed into the computer various "protection modes" that automatically move the plane's components if the aircraft is suddenly thrown off course by a powerful air current or some other natural event, or if a pilot simply makes a foolish error.
"It's designed to limit the ability of pilots or nature to put the plane in a stall or over-speed situation" that could jeopardize the plane, says the pilot, who has 22 years in military and commercial aviation and is certified to fly in four types of Airbuses and four types of Boeing planes. "However, the problem with these systems is that once they're activated, they are designed so the pilot cannot easily override them. So, if the computers have bad information because of an electronic anomaly or because of nature (say, the Pitot tubes are frozen and sending bad information), these built-in protections are activated immediately, and they can make it difficult for the pilot to control the plane."
In the Qantas mishap in October, the captain reported that he twice had trouble regaining control after the aircraft abruptly pitched nose-down.
"The captain reported that he applied back pressure on his sidestick to arrest the pitch-down movement. He said that initially this action seemed to have no effect, but then the aircraft responded to his control input and he commenced recovery to the assigned altitude," according to the report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Less than three minutes later, the plane again suddenly pitched nose-down for no discernible reason, and the pilot again had trouble regaining control, the report found.
An Airbus spokesman says what happened to the Qantas flight has no connection to the Air France flight, because the ADIRU that was blamed for the Qantas problems and the one on the Qantas flight were made by "two totally different manufacturers with two totally different systems."
He also notes that the European Aviation Safety Agency last week sought to discourage any speculation and emphasized that Airbus planes are safe.
"I don't know what more to add to that. All Airbus aircraft and the A330s are certified by the world's air-worthiness authorities as safe," says Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon. "Our job now is to provide assistance" to the accident investigators.


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Photo taken from My Villain Your Hero Facebook page.
As summer approaches, my hometown of Palatine, like Chicago and the other surrounding suburbs, offers a full schedule of outdoor concerts. Out this way, bands perform every Wednesday and Friday night, weather permitting, at the Fred P. Hall Amphitheater. The selection process for these concerts has been on autopilot for years; with the same acts, or types of acts always getting the nod. Still, they make for an enjoyable night of music.
American English plays this Friday night, June 18th, carrying on the tradition of kicking things off with a Beatles tribute band. In the past, we've also had Liverpool Legends and British Export. A few years back, the outdoor concert series broke tradition by opening with local heroes Dot Dot Dot, who went over extremely well. In addition to Dot Dot Dot, some other bands I'd like to see return to the Palatine stage are The Neverly Brothers and The New Invaders. Plus, it would be great to have an additional night each week, when more cutting-edge bands could play.
Palatine Concert Band always gets three slots over the season, possibly because no musical act in history has had more bad luck in getting rained out. They're not rock and roll, but they're very talented, and my wife and I enjoy their tributes to Broadway shows and famous composers. Otherwise, the most interesting concerts this season are Big Guitars From Memphis on June 25th, and oldies cover band The Meteors on July 23rd.
Sometimes, my wife and I buy a pizza at the nearby J.J. Twigs and bring it to the concert along with some refreshing beverages, but there are also concession stands near the amphitheater.
The Palatine Jaycees will sponsor Hometown Fest 2010 from Thursday, July 1st through Monday, July 5th. There will be several food vendors, fireworks, and a full schedule of bands.
My Villain Your Hero, a young group that plays a mix of hip-hop originals and cover versions will perform from 2:00 to 3:30PM on Sunday, July 4th. Although I lean more toward power pop, I caught one of the band's regular gigs at Durty Nellies, and was impressed with its non-stop energy, as well as the one-two vocal punch of Mig Mora and Jennifer Lee. My Villain Your Hero has become much more popular since I first mentioned them in a post under my Elevated Observations column quite a while ago, and it certainly doesn't hurt that Lee looks like a 20-something version of Jennifer Aniston.
Other acts booked for the 4th of July concerts include One Hand Clapping, 7th Heaven, The Mosquitos, David Allen, Bucket #6, TNT Chicago, New Odyssey, Cowbirds, Donna Matrix, 20 Over, Cammi's NRG, AVM, Triple Threat, He Said She Said, and the Rolling Meadows Big Band.
Saving the best for last, The Smithereens will headline this year's Palatine Downtown Street Fest on August 28th. I caught Pat DiNizio and the boys at an outdoor performance right next door to Wrigley Field last summer, and they are still an amazing act to see in a live setting. In addition to playing their own power pop masterpieces like "House We Used To Live In," "Behind The Wall Of Sleep," and "Blood and Roses," The Smithereens expertly cover The Beatles and The Who.
Ralph's World is returning for another gig at the Street Fest. As I said in my "Pure Pop For Knee High People" post last August (see archive), I'm a long-time fan of The Bad Examples, but I had never seen lead vocalist Ralph Covert performing as Ralph's World. Covert applies the same elements of irresistible melodies and clever lyrics that make the Examples so much fun to his kid-friendly shows. Hi Infidelity and Sixteen Candles are also booked for the Palatine Downtown Street Fest, and I'm sure other acts will be added along the way.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Batkid is fighting crime on the mean streets of San Francisco.
Television news footage showed 5-year-old Miles Scott, aka Batkid, leaving the city's Union Square in one of two Batmobiles on Friday morning. The vehicles - two black Lamborghinis with Batman decals - were surrounded by media and onlookers.
The drive through city streets is part of a day of events organized by the Make-A-Wish Foundation to fulfill Miles' wish to be Batkid. Miles was diagnosed with leukemia and is in remission.
The Lamborghinis were escorted by police, who also blocked off roads. Batkid's first caper was rescuing a damsel in distress from cable car tracks. He was also scheduled to capture the Riddler as he robs a downtown bank and receive a key to the city from Mayor Ed Lee.


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PORTSMOUTH — One winner of Thursday's fourth annual Turkey Trot 5K is on the comeback trail, while the other has made it a habit of winning this Thanksgiving tradition.
Rochester's Eric Couture took off about four years from running and hasn't run as many races as he wanted to this year, but the 24-year old blitzed the field of more than 3,000 runners by winning the race in 15 minutes, 57 seconds.
"I'm coming off a stress fracture over the summer, so my training as been off and on," Couture said. "I was trying to win, so I started off kind of slow and I was able to pull it off."
Hayden Patterson, 18 of Dover, was second (16:30), while 16-year old Cameron Barth of Lee was third (16:32).
Abbey Wood, 26, of Laconia, has been known through the New England running circles as Abbey Gosling, but got married last month and she continued her dominance of this race by winning for the third straight year in the women's division in a time of 18:47. She won the 2010 race in 18:30 and last year in 18:45.
Kylee Drugan-Eppich, 21 of Madbury, was second (19:13), while Melissa Murray, 17 of Newfields, was third (19:33).
"It was actually a lot better than I thought," Wood said. "I was keeping track of the top females and it took me awhile to work up to them. I had a slow start. I caught (Drugan-Eppich) at the hill and ran like a scared rabbit the whole way."
Couture deliberately got off to a slow start to see where he stood before making his move. Couture was in second place through the first half mile and said he ran the first mile about 20 seconds slower than he usually does.
"I wanted to just see how it went in the first mile and I just wanted to see if anyone was going to go through, because I didn't want to be that person," Couture said. "After the first mile there was a big hill and that's where I took it. I was feeling pretty good and no one was coming close to me, so I was feeling pretty good."
Couture graduated from Spaulding High School in 2006 and finished sixth in the New England Cross Country championships during his senior year. He ran track at Boston College his freshman and sophomore years before injuries derailed him.
"This year I finally came back," Couture said. "I took four years off before I decided I wanted to get back in shape. After the injuries, I decided to stop and I was lazy. I just decided it's time to get back in shape."
Couture also won the three previous races we he ran this season, beginning with April's Girls Inc. 5K in Rochester. He also won June's I'm Trying 5K in Hampton, and September's Run to the Beat 5K in Boston. He expects to run a fuller schedule next year.
"I would've liked to have not been injured to see if I could run a full season," Couture said. "I'm just happy to be running. It's good to be back."
Wood placed third in the Cape Cod Marathon three weeks ago and wasn't sure how Thursday's race would go. Wood said she got off to a slow start and was around 50 meters behind the lead pack of women early on.
"I didn't have a lot of confidence coming into this year because I ran a marathon three weeks ago and then I was trying to get back into it and I got kind of sick," Wood said. "I was in better shape than I thought. I just tried to stay relaxed and work back up. It wasn't until the second mile that I hit my stride."
Wood said that with her wedding it was hard to put in as much training as she normally would, but was happy with how her season went. She plans on running in the Bay Shore Marathon (Traverse City, Mich.) in May.
"I'm still in pretty good shape and I'm going to really get down to business now," Wood said.
Couture, Patterson and Barth were followed in the men's top 10 by Sam Wood (16:41) of Laconia; Colby Nixon (16:46) of Eliot, Maine; Miles Richardson (16:53) of Kittery, Maine; Erik Travis (16:57) of Dover; Thomas Caulfield (16:58) of Durham; Peter McNeil (17:04) of Barrington; and Jordan Parkinson (17:05) of Portsmouth.
Following Wood, Drugan-Eppich, and Murray were followed in the women's top 10 by Kaitlin Wheeler (19:38) of Exeter; Anna King (20:05) of Greenland; Robyn St. Laurent (20:15) of Newmarket; Ryanne Murray (20:28) of Exeter; Sophia Jacobs-Townsley (20:31) of South Hadley, Mass.; Lorin Scott (20:38) of Salem, Ore.; and Jenny Goransson (20:38) of Eliot, Maine.
Male age-group award winners were Parker Rice (12-and-under, 21:11) of Portsmouth; Ben Finnigan (13-19, 17:30) of Dover; Wood (20-29); Aaron Colman (30-39, 17:34) of Rye Beach; Steven Ruhm (40-49, 18:15) of Exeter; Bruce Lander (50-59, 18:57) of Dover; Thomas King (60-69, 20:43) of Greenland; and David Fitts (70-and-over, 39:17) of New Castle.
Female age-group award winners were Jacobs-Townsley (12-and-under); Murray (13-19); Wheeler (20-29); Beth Coughlin (30-39, 20:52) of Newton, Mass.; Tina Nadeau (40-49, 21:50); Karen Jacoby (50-59, 21:35) of Portsmouth; Janet Parkinson (60-69, 24:10) of Portsmouth; and Jane Buzdon (70-and-over, 54:08) of Portsmouth.
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PORTSMOUTH — One winner of Thursday's fourth annual Turkey Trot 5K is on the comeback trail, while the other has made it a habit of winning this Thanksgiving tradition.


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Welcome to the Department of Neuroradiology at the Neurology Center at Heidelberg University Hospital
Neuroradiology involves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the nervous system including the brain, the spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. The rapid development of techniques and methods in recent years has led to great advances in neuroradiology. For example, we can now use cross-sectional imaging to make high-resolution images of the structures of the nervous system in fine detail with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and also perform non-invasive examinations of nerve function and metabolism in the brain with MRI. These techniques are the basis of a precise diagnosis and are a prerequisite for the effective treatment of diseases of the nervous system.
In the Neuroradiology Department, our experienced team of specialists performs more than 25,000 cross-sectional scans (CT and MRI) every year. In addition, we offer innovative, minimally invasive treatment methods for pain therapy and for vascular diseases of the brain and spinal cord. Every year, we carry out more than 1,000 such examinations and procedures in our department.
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IBM Names CEO Rometty as Chairman; Palmisano Leaving Board
On the first day of next month, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty will add Chairman to her title, solidifying her spot atop the century-old technology and IT services giant.
Big Blue made the announcement today after the close of markets in New York. IBM shares are ticking up after hours, rising to $207.32, after closing at $204.98 during the regular session.
Ginni Rometty is a well-respected executive who took over as CEO on the first day of this year. She recently topped Fortune Magazine's list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business," though it was Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer who made the cover. Rometty is generally credited with doing the heavy lifting to get PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting fully integrated following its $3.5 billion acquisition by IBM in 2002.
Earlier this year, Rometty was also an unwilling figure in a national debate over Augusta National Golf Club's longtime policy of excluding women from memberships. The complication was that the club had always offered an honorary membership to the CEO of IBM. The stories caused a brief national kerfuffle that prompted both President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to weigh in. Ultimately, Augusta changed its policy and offered memberships to two women, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rometty's appointment also marks an end to the IBM career of Sam Palmisano, who will remain as a special consultant until he officially retires on Dec. 1. His tenure will be remembered for, among other things, a 125 percent increase in IBM's share price and for the then-controversial decision to sell IBM's PC business to China's Lenovo.
And while this is probably not the moment to bring it up, it bears mentioning that Rometty is 55, and IBM's policy has typically been that CEOs retire around the time they turn 60. However, there's nothing saying that practice can't or won't be changed.
Anyway, here's IBM's official announcement.
Virginia M. Rometty Elected IBM Chairman
ARMONK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The IBM (IBM) board of directors today elected Virginia M. Rometty chairman of the board, effective October 1, 2012. Mrs. Rometty succeeds Samuel J. Palmisano, who is stepping down from the board effective October 1, 2012.
Mr. Palmisano will become Senior Adviser to the company until he retires on December 1, 2012. As of October 1, 2012, Mrs. Rometty's title will be IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Mrs. Rometty, 55, is currently IBM's president and chief executive officer. She succeeded Mr. Palmisano as IBM's ninth CEO in January of this year, after holding senior leadership positions in IBM's services, sales, strategy and marketing units. Mrs. Rometty led the successful integration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting — the largest acquisition in professional services history, building a team of more than 100,000 business consultants and services experts. She became a director of IBM in January.
Mr. Palmisano, 61, became IBM chief executive officer in 2002 and chairman of the board in 2003. During his tenure, IBM transformed its product and services portfolio, exiting commoditizing businesses, including PCs, printers and hard disk drives, and greatly increasing investments in analytics, cloud computing and other high-value businesses and technologies. He has overseen the transformation of IBM from a multinational into a globally integrated enterprise. During Mr. Palmisano's tenure as CEO, IBM created over $100 billion of total shareholder value.


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Condos remain a preferred point of entry to Canada's real estate market. But concerns around a glut of construction in Vancouver, Toronto and other cities means that investors are seeking expert insight on where and how to buy.
In this episode of Investor Insight, CREW TV turns to the experts to identify that safer ground and how to get there. Adam Brind, an agent with Re/Max Condos - Core Assets Team, Randy Ramadhin, a broker with Century 21 - Green Realty Inc., and Marcel Greaux, the founder of the Toronto Real Estate Club, provide those insights.
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Jemima Codrington: Is there a safe spot in today's condo market or rather a correction proof spot? I am Jemima Codrington and welcome to Investor Insight on Crew TV.
Ducking for cover is easier said than done for investors in today's condo markets. No one less than the Bank of Canada is warning that the market may be headed for a price line. Investors are understandably worried. But what can they do?
Adam Brind, Agent, Re/Max Condos, Core Assets Team
Adam Brind: Generally speaking real estate tends to be a long term play for people and if it is that, I use the advice and go into build teak buildings and the reason being is because I find that neighbourhood buildings, the ones that are low rise tend to create a community and they tend to be more in demand. They are well taken care of buildings and what they create is an eco-system within that building. What you find in the high rises that are you know primarily renter owned is that they are a bit transient. So you know neighbours don't get to know neighbours, so it's a, it's tough because you know in one sense you are telling investors to invest in a building that's not investor owned. But those usually are the best ones.
Randy Ramadhin, Broker, Century 21, Green Realty Inc.
Randy Ramadhin: One of the things I am asked by buyers all the time is, "where should I be looking to buy my condominium to rent?" Downtown Toronto condos are expensive. No doubt the rents are higher, but what I use is a ratio called the rent to price ratio. Take a look at the monthly rent over the sales price. I did some numbers for early 2012, downtown Toronto, a project by a major builder, the rent to price I had calculated as 0.47%, the same builder in Scarborough for the same size condominium was 0.51%. We are looking at about a cash flow difference of $400 a month. In addition to that some really great value markets.
In new Toronto there was a project by a prominent builder, but the rent to price ratio is 0.57%. We are looking at as close to $5-600 a month more in net cash flow in those particular projects. So it really does depend where you buy, at the right price that you buy and the quality of tenant that you get to pay the rents.
Jemima Codrington: But what if you have already bought? There are many strategies that investors overlook.
Marcel Greaux, Founder, Toronto Real Estate Club
Max Greaux: There are a number of things that investors can do when the oversupply hits. Marketing is I think is going to be the key factor, the first thing you want to do is make sure you differentiate your ads. You know the one liners, it's not just the, "one bedroom for rent." Maybe try, "cosy one bedroom", "come snuggle up with me". You want to get the attention of your prospective tenant above all and above your competition. The other thing you might want to deploy is, perhaps look at furnished suites especially in the downtown core. Furnished suites can easily yield you know between $3-400 net cash flow per month and that's the strategy we found successful with our investors and our units.
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Hard to think that this build had so much controversy at its beginning over 4 years ago! Keep at it, Noddy.
He did a lovely job turning that globe
That indicator globe is quite gorgeous...spun formed or cut from copper on the lathe?
The front MC is pretty crazy...cable operated mc controlling the MC hydraulics. That is going to be some funky feedback at the lever.
With every bit of progress, I feel more proud of being an early defender of this project.
I hope you plan on entering some shows when you are done because I see a lot of trophies and magazine features in this bike's future.
Do you think that the hard line running over the fender will push the caliper a bit to the left and cause the inner pad to drag?
You have more then shown the early nay-sayers the exit doors.
I for one wasn't sold on this concept at the beginning, but I am truly blown away at the detail and vision it takes to do something like this...
My only beef is that a creation like this needs a less derogatory name...
He already has a name (yes, he's a 'he') Douglas - named after my Gramps (likewise Isabel was named after my Nan). There are a few nods to him in the design of the bike (all the instrumentation bears his hame), but the bit I really like is in the seat. He was in the RAAF in WWII, so the buttons on the seat are original WWII RAF Kings Crown buttons (same as RAAF buttons but in brass not bakelite - the Aussies got the cheap ones!):Does that mean I get to keep the bike?
and I was just funnin' with you.
I'm sure your Gramps is very proud of your craftsmanship, Noddy. Possibly your Pop is too It's a sublime touch to integrate so much meaning in a project that you've put your heart into. I hope you have that bike a long, long time to enjoy and remember him
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HAMPTON — When it comes to hosting their annual Valentine Tea party, the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library are dedicated to putting on one sweetheart of an event every February.
HAMPTON — When it comes to hosting their annual Valentine Tea party, the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library are dedicated to putting on one sweetheart of an event every February.
The best thing about it, is that this popular gathering for ages 3-8 goes well beyond sweet treats and cups of tea. It has become a true community event that is loved by those who take part.
This year's party, held on Saturday was no different. In fact, by all accounts it appears that this was one of most successful Valentine Teas the Friends organization has ever hosted.
"I look forward to it. I love it," said Friends President Wendi Lewis, who with coordinator Sandy Mace oversaw the preparations from beginning to end. "My daughter (Haylie) loves it. She loves to dress up, and she loves the fact that she gets to come with other kids to a special tea party."
As always, the Valentine Tea was a concerted effort supported by a team of volunteers that included Friends members, library staff and students from Hampton Academy.
"All the little kids are happy," said seventh-grader Molly Delaney. She noted that this was her first time volunteering for the tea, adding "it is really fun helping. I'm really glad to be doing it."
"We love the volunteers," said Lewis. "We love that they want to help."
Donations came in from numerous local businesses, as well as from people who signed up in advance to provide a tantalizing assortment of baked goods, fresh fruit and other treats. These were served by the Hampton Academy students during two separate seatings in the festively-decorated Lane Room.
"It's a perfect example of how a community pitches in," said Mace. "It shows how much the community supports events for the children. We couldn't do this without it."
"It's a wonderful day," said Christine Wood, whose five-year-old daughter Ella "likes the face painting and lots of treats" and "spending time with mom."
In addition to the face painting, party guests could have fun playing games of Valentine Tic-Tac-Toe at their tables, crafting Sweetheart Bears door hangers, and creating colorful elastic band bracelets using Rainbow Looms.
Macy Fraser, a seventh-grade volunteer, said she enjoyed working the tea with her friends from Hampton Academy, and assisting their guests in making the popular bracelets.
"I know some of the little kids here," she said. "I'm really glad to help them out."
"I love seeing them interact with each other, watching the older kids with the younger kids," commented Mace. "It's just a whole lot of love."
Organizers had assembled goodie bags for each one of the party-goers to take home. Inside the bags, along with stickers, candy, and fortune cookies, there were "Fancy Nancy Tea for Two" books for the girls and "Night Before Valentine's Day" books for the boys.
"I love that we are encouraging reading by putting books in each child's hand," said Mace.
Story time is always an essential part of the party plans, and this year's selection of Valentine-themed books featured "Love Bug," "Kisses," "Valentine's Day at the Zoo," and "Happy Valentine's Day, Curious George." As is custom, these were read aloud by Paulina Shadowens, head of the library's Children's Services.
"They all love Miss Paulina and love her story time," said Lewis.
Shadowens, too, commented on the continuing success of the Valentine Tea.
"The tea really exemplifies how beautifully the community works together for its young people," said Shadowens. "The Friends work so hard and beautifully to create this special event, and so many local venders as well as students and parents contribute to making this an unforgettable gathering."
For guests and hosts alike, there was something for everyone to enjoy at the tea. Seven-year-old Abby Hansen said her favorite part was "all of it," while her friend Annabelle Holmes thought having tea and treats using real china cups and plates was "special."
Dressed in holiday finery, Emily, 6, and Nathan Goupil, 3 (the latter in a red satin necktie) attended with their Meme and Poppy, Judy and David Norton of Connecticut.
"It was a lovely time," said Judy, adding her grandson "really enjoyed his hot chocolate."
Volunteering brings the seventh-grader Mya Sanders thoughts of both her past and her future.
"I went to the tea when I was little. My mom told me I was walking around in my cute little dress and was in the newspaper," she said. Bringing trays of goodies from table to table at the tea is helpful, said Mya, because she is looking forward to one day having a summer job as a waitress.
For nine-year-old Natalie Murphy, fond memories of attending past Valentine Teas prompted her to ask if she could volunteer as well.
"I took pictures, gave out goodie bags, washed and dried dishes," she reported. "I like seeing the kids' smiles."
"It's awesome to see them having a good time," added eighth-grade volunteer Patrick Cotter. "It's good to volunteer and help out the community."
Lewis noted this kind of support and involvement through the Friends is always welcome.
"Hopefully something like this will make more people interested in the Friends," she said. "We hope to get more people involved and see what projects we can do for the library."
For information about the Friends, visit www.facebook.com/lanelibrary.


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A painters' box made from an eighteenth-century book.
circa 1780.
Eighteenth-century book-artMottled-calf binding sculpted to form a painters' box 210 x 140 x 55 mm, fully-lined in floral linen with two-removable inner trays, containing 28 ceramic paint-shells and three paint-brushes. An eighteenth-century painters' box intricately sculpted from a book-binding of full mottled-calf with marbled fore-edges. Intriguingly the.....
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"Habitans de la Nouvelle Hollande."
circa 1830.
Aborigines of Nouvelle HollandeHandcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good. Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, similar to those in the rare ethnographic survey prepared by Rudolf.....
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Copies of Instructions… for promoting the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Holland or Van Diemen's Land.
London: 23 September, 1831.
Macquarie, Brisbane & Darling on schools for AboriginesFoolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South.....
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The Settlers' Synopsis of the Land Laws of New South Wales.
Sydney: Law Book Company, 1906.
Significant association copyOctavo, original purple cloth (a bit flecked), interleaved with lined blanks. This copy is inscribed by the author to Australian pastoralist Henry White, whose racehorses were acclaimed on the Australian turf, with winners in the 1896 Australian Jockey Club Derby and 1900.....
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Lecture II: On the Due Observance of the Sabbath.
Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers. Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of.....
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Modern Voyages:
Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain CookTwo volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger.....
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Captain J. Cook.
London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822.
The illustrious persons seriesEngraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance.
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Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"…
Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.
Iconic Australian shipping disasterOctavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the.....
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Report of Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the Loss of the "Admella"…
Adelaide: W.C.Cox, Government printer, 1859.
The tragic wreck of the AdmellaFoolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed. Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks.....
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Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa…
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841.
Portuguese public servant's imaginary voyage to the interiorThree volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to.....
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Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa… Por V.J.A.
Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro; Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1841.
The pernicious contagion of immoralityThree volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case. A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In.....
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Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe.
Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899.
Saint Innocent of AlaskaOctavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in.....
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The South Australian Almanack and General Colonial Directory, for 1849.
Adelaide: Andrew Murray, 1849.
With map of the "Settled portions" and details of minesOctavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period). A.....
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The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanacOctavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George.....
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Set of letter blocks.
England: circa 1800-1850.
Spelling setAlphabet set of 179 pieces of bone, each approx. 15 x 18 mm., letters incised and filled in with black ink by hand; original cedar box with 18 internal compartments and a sliding lid, 256 x 153 mm. A fine, early alphabet set, consisting of.....
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The Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only, with botanical descriptions… [engraved title].
London: T. Bensley, for the author, 1797-1815.
With magnificent hand-coloured plates depicting Australian plantsA fine set of 10 volumes quarto, with in total 10 engraved titles and 664 exquisite hand-coloured plates (many folding), bound in original half green morocco with marbled boards, lettered in gilt. A fine set of.....
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Columbus Outdone! Capt. Andrews' Cruise in the Sapolio.
New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, 1893.
William Andrews' solo crossing in his smallest boatOctavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author. Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William.....
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Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï.
Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii.....
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Captn James Cook F.R.S
Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.
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The Death of Captain Cook [caption title].
Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm. Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked.....
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Promotional booklet; drop-title "South Australia"… "By an Old Colonist".
Adelaide: no publisher, circa 1858.
'England in miniature - England without it's poverty'Duodecimo pamphlet, as issued without wrappers, 12 pp. (last blank), blue tinted paper stock. Scarce pamphlet printed to promote the colony. Anonymously compiled 'by an old Colonist', the booklet comprises various parts gleaned from several sources. First.....
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The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time.
London: John Stockdale, 1790.
An essential book for First Fleet collectorsQuarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White. An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an.....
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The History of New Holland, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time…
London: John Stockdale, 1787.
First Fleet sails for New South WalesOctavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards. First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most.....
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A Voyage to the South Seas, and to many other parts of the world…
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1744.
The anonymous "Squadron" account of the Anson voyageOctavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking. The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated.....
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