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Haipad I7-T 7 Inch Screen A5 Dual-core CPU Android 4.0 Tablet Review

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Railroad Square development to open this summer near Birmingham, Alabama's Railroad Park

Published: Friday, May 18, 2012, 8:00 AM
By Dawn Kent -- The Birmingham News
Railroad Square, the $4 million office project that kicked off commercial development around Railroad Park, is nearing completion and will have a full roster of tenants this summer.
The latest additions are the University of Alabama at Birmingham's print shop and post office, which will relocate to the office project at 120 18th Street South in June.
Both are being uprooted from their existing locations by construction of the new downtown baseball park.
Developer Shannon Waltchack, an investment real estate firm, is renovating two buildings that date to the early 1900s for Railroad Square, using as many of the original materials as possible.
"We're reusing materials where we can and repurposing them in interesting in fun ways," said Derek Waltchack, a principal with the firm. "It's sort of like a puzzle you can take apart and put back together in a different manner."
Work on Railroad Square began early last year, when Shannon Waltchack and Enrollment Advisors Inc. purchased the two buildings.
Renovations to the corner building, which dates to 1914, were completed last year, and it is now home to offices for four firms, including Shannon Waltchack, Enrollment Advisors, Retail Specialists Inc. and Brand by Details Communications.
Early plans called for the project to include retail space and lofts, but tenants seeking space changed those plans, Waltchack said.
In the corner building, original concrete brick floors were restored and wood beams in the ceiling were exposed.
There are also special architectural touches, including countertops and a conference room table that Waltchack built, using wood from beams that were removed from the building.
Scattered throughout are flat screen televisions and other modern office furniture.
"We were going for the old juxtaposed on new look," Waltchack said.
The second building, where renovations are under way for the print shop and post office, is a former paper warehouse that dates to 1905.
There, an old freight elevator is being reused as an architectural element that will mark the hallway connecting the two buildings.
Plans call for a central entrance and lobby for the buildings. The entrance, which will front Second Avenue South, will feature salvaged wood beams from the buildings.
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BIRMINGHAM. Alabama--Shannon Waltchack commercial real estate firm develops the Railroad Square office complex near Railroad Park.
"The historic beams are to be installed with exposed industrial connections that respects and pays homage to the industrial and rail origins of the city," said Richard Carnaggio, architect for the project.
The beams also offer a sneak peek at the interior's sustainable design methods that rely heavily on re-harvesting existing elements of the buildings, he added.
G&B Enterprises Inc. is the contractor on the project.
UAB's Printing and Mailing Services, with 35 full-time employees, provides print and mail services to the university and its affiliates.
Its new space at Railroad Square will be smaller than its current space, but starting with a blank canvas is a plus, said Stephen Murray, director of Business and Auxiliary Services at UAB.
"Starting with an empty space allowed us to design so it will serve our needs better than the building we currently occupy," he said. "The smaller space will help us in our ongoing efforts to improve efficiency and adapt quickly to the changes taking place in the print and mail industries."
Moving just two blocks from its current site and staying on the edge of campus was a definite plus, Murray said.
Waltchack and Tim Blair, another principal at Shannon Waltchack, say there is a lot of momentum in the Railroad Park area, and they expect to see more commercial development around the park and ballpark.
One challenge, however, is the rising price of surrounding vacant properties now that work on the ballpark is under way.
"Ultimately, it will take a while for this whole neighborhood to transform," Blair said. "You don't just add water and all of a sudden get a new 10 blocks."
Waltchack said he hopes to not only see continued developments in the Railroad Park area itself, but also work in areas that will link it to other parts of downtown.
"My hope is that it's another spot in the central business district that is an appealing place to live and play and work," he said.
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Two new student housing developments being built downtown Tuscaloosa, Al

By Patrick Rupinski
Staff Writer, TuscaloosaNews
Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 4:01 p.m.
Ground has been broken for two student housing complexes downtown.
Chance Partners has begun site preparation for a three-story complex on the former city parking lot site on University Boulevard, kitty-corner from City Hall. The Atlanta-based developer also began work this week a student townhouse development off of 21st Avenue, just north of University Boulevard.
The city sold the paved parking lot near City Hall to the Atlanta-area developer in March for $600,000 and approved plans for Boulevard Lofts, an 18-unit, 46-bed development at that site.
Chance Partners also is building a five-unit, 15-bed student-townhouse development a few blocks away at a site adjacent to the new Metal Works Retail Center on 21st Avenue just north of University Boulevard. That housing development is known as the Townhomes at Metal Works.
Both student-housing developments are slated to be completed this summer and will be ready for students to move in by August, in time for the start of the University of Alabama's new school year, said Christopher Kritzman, a partner in Chance Properties.
The construction of the buildings at both sites will begin with the next few weeks, he said, and once it starts, the structures should go up quickly. Construction will start on University Lofts first and work on Townhomes at Metal Works will be about two weeks later, Kritzman said.
The Metal Works' construction will start a little later because it is smaller and will take less time to finish, he said. Both developments will be completed about the same time.
The majority of units in both developments have already been pre-leased for the next school year, Kritzman said. Boulevard Lofts is 80 percent pre-leased, and three of the five townhouses at Metal Works are pre-leased.
Rents range from $640 to $960 per month per bed with the higher rent being for a one-bedroom loft, he said.
Boulevard Lofts will have one, two and three bedrooms loft apartments and two-story townhouses with three-bedrooms. Each bedroom has its own bathroom, and each unit will have a private balcony.
The ground floor of the development also has 2,500 square feet for retail space. Kritzman said that space likely will be occupied by gourmet sandwich shop.
In addition to its two student-housing projects in Tuscaloosa, Chance Partners also had development rental units near the Florida State University in Tallahassee.
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A Real-Estate App When You're Buying or Just Nosy

PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY Updated May 9, 2012, 12:03 a.m. ET
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
Let's say you're walking around your neighborhood, or a neighborhood you'd like to make yours, and you spy a house you find interesting. Even if it isn't for sale, you can just whip out your iPhone, take a picture of the home and in less than a minute, you'll have an estimate of its price, plus details on its square footage, number of rooms, similar homes for sale and other facts.
A new iPhone app called HomeSnap can tell you the estimated value of any home just by pointing the phone at it and taking a picture. It even gives you the ratings of local schools or info on similar homes for sale. WSJ's Walt Mossberg gives it a try.
This feat of digital magic, which works all over the country, is performed by a new, free app called HomeSnap, from a Washington, D.C., online real-estate firm, Sawbuck Realty. Despite its parentage, the company says that using the app doesn't send any data to a Realtor, or invite any calls or emails from one—unless you explicitly ask for such a connection. It's just a cool way to investigate houses and if you like, to share your "Snaps"—photo profiles of houses—with HomeSnap users and friends via email, text or social networks.
Why would you want to use it? Maybe you're interested in buying the house if it ever comes on the market, or helping a friend do so. Or, maybe you're just curious, or nosy. Of course, you could be in real house-hunting mode, and HomeSnap gives you even more information if the house you took a picture of is for sale, including interior photos and bid history. There's even the option of contacting a buyer's agent, asking a question or requesting a tour—right from the phone.
You can use the app to flip through Snaps taken by others, either in nearby areas or around the nation. (HomeSnap allows you to keep your own Snaps out of this "stream," if you'd rather your neighbors don't know you've been investigating their homes or you'd rather not tip off potential competing buyers.)
There are many real-estate apps and websites, such as Zillow, that allow you to get similar information. Some real-estate firms have their own. But these typically require you to type in an address, or troll through a list, or study a map and tap on a marker that represents a house of interest. All HomeSnap requires is that you snap the shutter on your iPhone. (Android and iPad versions are in the works.)
I've been testing HomeSnap for a few weeks in two states: Maryland and Rhode Island. In my 17 attempts, the app almost always correctly identified the house I was shooting. In two cases, both in town-house complexes, it wasn't sure and presented me with an aerial photo displaying a few guesses from which I could pick. In two other cases, it couldn't identify the house at all for some reason.
The app doesn't actually perform photo recognition on the house. Instead, it uses the iPhone's GPS capability and its sensors to identify the house and then fetches the details from a server in the cloud.
HomeSnap includes a Stealth mode that lets you take a picture when you aren't right in front of a house—even when you're inside another nearby house—and get an aerial view of homes in the area from which you can choose a property as your Snap. This proved accurate for me. In one test, it worked perfectly when I was only able to shoot the rear of a house.
Sawbuck says it built the app partly because it hopes that if a user likes it, he or she will one day use one of its agents. But it says so far only about 10% of the 150,000 Snaps taken with the app have been of homes that are actually for sale.
If a home isn't for sale, HomeSnap draws its information from public information like tax records, school boundaries, and census data. If a home is for sale, it provides much more detailed information drawn from local listing databases.
I found HomeSnap fun and impressive. It's a good tool for investigating possible purchases, learning the estimated value of a house and getting other important information. For example, each Snap includes scores from third-party data vendors that rate the quality of nearby schools and rate the relative appreciation and investment value of a home, over 10 years, compared with the average. Some Snaps reveal previous sale dates and prices.
But its information wasn't always complete or accurate. For instance, in the case of my own home, which isn't on the market, it got the number of bathrooms wrong, and didn't know the number of bedrooms—an omission the company blames on a quirk in the public records available for my area. (My tests elsewhere did include the number of bedrooms.) The app has a feature that allows you to report such errors.
In addition, the app currently doesn't have extra information drawn from listings of homes for rent and can't pinpoint units inside large buildings. The company says it's working on both capabilities.
It marks photos of certain homes with a color-coded banner—green if the home is for sale; orange if it's under contract; and purple if there's an coming open house for the property. If there's a major change in the information on a Snap in your history, the app updates it.
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The app keeps a history of your Snaps and the company retains them on its servers, whether or not you choose to make them public. In its licensing terms, the company reserves the right to reuse, or modify, the photos you take, though it promises not to "materially" change them, or to distribute or reproduce photos taken by those who opt to keep them private.
If you're looking for a house or just curious about one and you own an iPhone, HomeSnap is a clever, useful and entertaining tool.
Write to Walter S. Mossberg at walt.mossberg@wsj.com
A version of this article appeared May 9, 2012, on page D1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Real-Estate App When You're Buying Or Just Nosy.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1: What's Different

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is now shipping, and PCWorld is running it through our gauntlet of tests to see how it compares with its predecessor. Our full review is forthcoming, but in the meantime, here's a quick look at the Tab 2's performance as compared with the original, nearly year-old Galaxy Tab 10.1. In short, last year's tablet actually outperformed the new model on some of our tests. Some metrics, such as our Sunspider tests, were effectively identical. Others showed a distinct trend toward sluggish performance by Tab 2 10.1. For example, the Tab 2's cold start-up time was 22 percent longer than the original Tab, 44 seconds to the original's 36 seconds. And its results on our GLBenchmark were mixed -- the Tab 2 slightly outpaced the the original Tab on the Egypt Offscreen and Pro Offscreen tests, but it lagged slightly on Egypt Standard and Egypt Pro Standard online electronics. http://www.wholesaleonepiece.com/images/v/201203/13323121270.jpg Hardware Factors Both the original Tab 10.1 and the new Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 run on a 1GHz dual-core processor and have 1GB of RAM. But where last year's iteration used an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, the Tab 2 has a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor. How much of the changed performance is due to the new processor engine and how much is due to any differences between Android 3.2 and Android 4.0.3 is unclear. It is worth noting that Android may be somewhat to blame here; the Asus Transformer Pad TF300 performed similarly to the new Tab 2 in our startup time tests. What is clear, though, is that the new Galaxy Tab 2 isn't even coming close to the performance of the current Android leader of the pack, the Asus Transformer Prime TF201. It's a bit strange, since last year's Galaxy Tab 10.1 set the bar for so long what is the best android tablet. This second-gen model, like its value-priced 7-inch cousin the Tab 2 7.0, feels more like Samsung has reinvented the Tab line to assume a more budget-oriented position in performance and price. The price angle works well for the 7.0 Plus, but if the company is truly gunning for a “budget” slot with the Tab 2 10.1, it should have gone out the gate priced significantly less than the current $400. Right now, there's a lot of tablet competition in that $400 or less space, with Apple's iPad 2, Acer's Iconia Tab A200, and Asus' Transformer Pad TF300 all vying for a piece of your wallet electronics wholesale.

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SEC Probes Inland REIT

REAL ESTATE Updated May 10, 2012, 6:57 p.m. ET
Investigation Casts Shadow Over Segment of Industry Not Publicly Traded
By CRAIG KARMIN
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating an $11 billion real-estate company for potential violations of federal securities laws, casting a shadow over the business of real estate investment trusts that aren't traded on exchanges.
The SEC is looking at activity of Inland American Real Estate Trust to determine if the REIT committed violations related to management fees, the timing and amount of distributions paid to investors, and transactions with affiliates, according to a company filing with the SEC on Monday.
Thomas McGuinness, an Inland American executive, said the company has been "fully cooperating" with the SEC and that "Inland American does not believe it has done anything improper and it continues to execute its business plan and strategy."
With $11.2 billion in property, Inland American is the largest in an industry of about 90 nontraded REITs that has raised more than $73 billion, mostly from small investors.
The investigation comes at a time when other nontraded
REITs are drawing fresh scrutiny from regulators or reporting weaker valuations and dividend cuts. The SEC didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees the financial advisers that market these REITs, has proposed new guidelines on adviser disclosure of REITs. Last year, Finra also sued New York brokerage David Lerner Associates Inc., which sold a series of funds known as Apple REITs.
Finra said that Lerner targeted unsophisticated investors with products ill-suited for them. Lerner has described the Finra action, which is still pending, as "rife with falsehoods."
The SEC has previously said that it has been pressing some nontraded REITs to provide better disclosure on their share valuations. Unlike public stocks, whose values are set in the marketplace, valuations for nontraded REITs have varied. Some have relied on outside appraisers, others on their own management. Lately, some of the nontraded REITs have started to provide more up-to-date valuations, but this has occasionally resulted in sharp declines in share prices.
The SEC investigation seemed to catch some industry veterans off guard. "It was a little bit of a surprise to see this announcement because we had not seen something like this before," saId Kevin Gannon, a managing director at Robert A. Stanger & Co., a real-estate investment bank. He said he was withholding judgment at this point.
Inland American, which closed the fund in 2009, owns 964 properties, including retail, hotels, office, industrial and apartment buildings. The REIT's parent company, Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, is a 40-year-old real-estate company in Oak Brook, Ill., with $25 billion in assets. The parent was also the sponsor of a publicly traded REIT now known as Retail Properties of America, an owner of strip malls and shopping centers. Last month, the REIT sold shares publicly at a price that struck many as lower than expected. The shares valued last June at $6.95 were valued during the IPO at $3.20, before a reverse stock split.
Other nontraded REITs have disappointed investors by cutting or eliminating dividends. KBS Real Estate Investment Trust I informed shareholders in March that it was suspending the monthly payments of 5.25% and it marked its share price down 30% to $5.16.
Write to Craig Karmin at craig.karmin@wsj.com
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Microsoft's Bing aims to ding Google with new format

Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google discount electronics. The changes, unveiled on Thursday in the US, will reshape how Bing displays its search results. It represents Microsoft's most dramatic shift in internet search since the software maker introduced Bing as a "decision engine" nearly three years ago. Microsoft is counting on the new format to loosen Google's stranglehold on the lucrative internet search market. In the process, Microsoft hopes to turn a profit in its online division, which has lost more than $US6.3 billion since Bing's June 2009 debut. Bing replaced "Live Search", a mostly futile attempt to challenge Google. Microsoft touted Bing as a Google alternative that would provide more meaningful results by helping people make important decisions, such as picking a doctor and finding the best time to buy an airline ticket China electronics wholesale. http://www.wholesaleonepiece.com/images/v/201205/13366186700.jpg For the past two years, Bing has been taking advantage of Microsoft's close relationship with Facebook to make search results more personalised and more relevant to users. It's an advantage Bing has over Google because its rival is shut out from the personal data Microsoft has access to on the world's largest network. But Bing has failed to come up with an approach compelling enough to lure away most web surfers from Google. Bing is trying to fix that with the latest changes, which come out next month. Microsoft plans a marketing blitz on television and the internet to promote the changes. Anyone seeking a peek during the next few weeks of testing can sign up for an invitation. The testing period will begin Tuesday, May 15. The revised system presents Bing's results in three columns, or panes. The left column will feature the familiar blue links drawn from Bing's computer formula for finding the most relevant results. The middle section, called "Snapshot", is reserved for completing tasks, such as getting directions, making a hotel reservation or buying movie tickets. This feature isn't expected to be available during the testing phase China wholesale electronics. Once available, Snapshot will provide a space featuring movie show times and an option to buy tickets in response to a search for The Avengers. Searches for hotels will bring up pictures of rooms and information on amenities, as well as the ability to make reservations.  

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Winn-Dixie Store in Mobile, AL Sells for $4.25M

MOBILE, Alabama -- An out-of-town investor paid $4.25 million for the Winn-Dixie at 740 Schillinger Road N., at Zeigler Boulevard, according to Josh Burmeister and Buff Teague of SRS Real Estate Partners, who represented the California-based seller. Pierce Ledyard handled the closing transaction.
ABRC Fairhope Retirement Center paid $1.5 million for the bank-owned former Faith Baptist property at U.S. 98 and Baldwin County 32 in Fairhope, according to Allan Cameron of Grubb & Ellis/Peebles & Cameron. The 29.4-acre site includes a 30,000-square-foot gymnasium and auditorium. ABRC, or Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers, has several centers in the state.
Calcana Industries, which makes industrial space heaters, paid $445,000 for 3.5 acres and a 14,000-square-foot warehouse on Baldwin County 49, north of Interstate 10, in Loxley, according to Tim Herrington of Herrintgon Realty, who worked for the sellers. David Milstead of Milstead & Associates represented the buyer.
The Shrimp Basket owners paid $1 million for a former Mexican restaurant building on McFarland Boulevard and Interstate 20 in Tuscaloosa, and plan to remodel the restaurant and open this summer, according to co-owner Eddie Spence, who is based in Gulf Shores.
Baleu Realty Management has leased 1,400 square feet at 217 Fairhope Ave., across from The Gumbo Shack, according to broker Sean Beckham. Baleu opened a Gulf Shores office last month.
First Baldwin Insurance has expanded into 2,010 square feet in Mid Point Plaza South on Ala. 59 in Foley, according to Robert Cook of White-Spunner & Associates.
The Raven's Nook has leased an 1,100-square-foot house at 2156 Airport Blvd., at The Loop, and plans to open a clothing and jewelry boutique this month, according to Matt Cummings of Cummings & Associates.
Focus Inc., which provides counseling services, has leased 880 square feet in Daphne 98 Office Park on U.S. 98 in Daphne, according to Cummings, who represented the landlord. Joe DeBrow of Southland Capital Realty Group worked for the tenant.
Zeal Boutique, a women's clothing and accessories store, will open in June in 1,200 square feet next to Winn-Dixie in Schillinger Place Shopping Center on Schillinger and Cottage Hill roads, according to Angela McArthur of Prudential Cooper & Co. commercial division. The owners also have a Zeal Boutique in Pascagoula.
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World of Beer to Open 5 Alabama Locations

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An investor opening five World of Beer franchise locations in Alabama said the first could appear in Birmingham by the end of August, now that a lease has been signed.
Rayford Cook, the operations manager and vice president for the company planning the Alabama locations, said a group of eight investors is planning to open three franchise locations in Birmingham and the other two in to-be-determined locations such as Huntsville, Tuscaloosa or Auburn. Along with Cook, another investor is Birmingham businessman Ward Drennen, whose family last year sold its century-old auto dealership in Hoover.
Cook will attend a Birmingham Design Review Committee meeting this morning at which drawings of the renovation plan and the bar's sign will be considered. Ralph Schuler of JVB Architect is listed as the project architect.
Cook, who moved to Birmingham in December, said the bar in Five Points South will offer around 50 beers on tap and as many as 600 bottled varieties The establishment won't serve food, but will allows patrons to carry in food from other restaurants. It will be 3,200 square feet of space, along with an outdoor patio and courtyard space.
World of Beer will be located at 1005 20th St. South and have live music three to six nights a week. The space it will occupy has been vacant for at least six years, since the former Halfshells Oyster Bar & Grill closed.
Cook said progress made by Alabama beer consumer advocacy groups such as Free the Hops, a grassroots organization that backed legislation to boost maximum beer alcohol limits, and the growing number of local craft beer brewers have helped to make the timing right for World of Beer.
"It's a great opportunity to be coming into Alabama, just because of the (beer) movement and all the change in laws that haven't been changed for many years," Cook said.
The investment group began its planning for the World of Beer location in November. Cook moved to Birmingham with aspirations of starting his own restaurant, after working as managing partner at Bonefish Grill in Frederick, Md., for eight years. Before that, the Marion native worked as a bartender at Outback Steakhouse in Birmingham and as a beverage and hospitality manager at Red Lobster in Jacksonville.
The opportunity presented by the World of Beer plan seemed right, he said.
"It's such a great opportunity in something I care about, with craft beers and music," he said. "I had to hop on board. I felt like it was fate."
As part of his training for the new venture, Cook was sent to Tampa, the headquarters of World of Beer, for a training program, where he learned about beer styles, the brewing process, history, names and ingredients. Two weeks was spent in a classroom, and the other three in a World of Beer location in Ft. Myers.
The company, founded in Tampa in 2007, has 24 locations, mostly in Florida.
The World of Beer in Five Points South will be located just blocks from The J. Clyde, a well-established bar and restaurant that boasts a large number of beers on draft and in bottles.
Cook thinks there is room for both.
"Business brings business and awareness to our movement in craft beers," he said. "I think we'll have a shared business and both will be able to do well."
Retail Specialist broker Bill Clements, the Alabama leasing agent for World of Beer, said he believes the bar is a good fit for Five Points South.
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