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Major users of CRE services identify top considerations in selecting providers and rank Jones Lang LaSalle highest in every category
SINGAPORE, July 3, 2009 — Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) has been recognized as the best overall provider of corporate real estate services by the Watkins 2009 Survey of Corporate Real Estate Service Providers. Of the 19 providers evaluated by the largest users of commercial real estate services, Jones Lang LaSalle was rated #1 in every category, including delivery of results, adaptability of services, pricing, reputation and financial strength.
The survey, conducted every two years by the Watkins Research Group Inc., in a joint project with Flaspöhler Research Group, interviewed 204 corporate real estate (CRE) decision-makers from 182 companies, representing North America's largest users of CRE services—including 59 Fortune 500 companies, 37 Financial Times Global 500 companies and eight government agencies.
Not only did Jones Lang LaSalle receive the highest overall rating among all firms, but it also was rated #1 for each of the 10 considerations respondents listed as most important in selecting CRE providers. These considerations, which were characterized as adding to clients' bottom lines or demonstrating strong client orientation, are listed below in order of importance:
"The Watkins survey is a clear indicator of what companies require and value," said John Forrest , CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle's Corporate Solutions business in Asia Pacific. "Real estate is often the third largest cost for many companies. Many are seeking to outsource these functions to reduce costs whilst maintaining similar or higher levels of service delivery.
"This recognition demonstrates that our continued investment in our global platform delivers in the areas that our clients consistently tell us they value – including quality service delivery, reputation for integrity and financial strength as a company.
"Our ability to provide an integrated service means that we can streamline delivery and maximize cost efficiencies for our clients across all areas of corporate real estate. In Asia Pacific, this translates into consistent, high-quality service delivery across diverse markets. It also means that we can leverage global knowledge and best practice for clients locally.
"It is a combination of these things that enable us to maintain our position as a market leader in Asia Pacific. In fact, we are continuing to grow and in the first six months of 2009, we have expanded our portfolio under management by over 30 million sq ft with clients from the banking, technology, industrial and consumer goods industries," said Mr Forrest.
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A costly SWAT raid gone wrong
5 towns were forced to settle; what went wrong?
In a well-run police SWAT operation, military transport vehicles roll in and deliver elite, superbly trained officers clad in body armor and carrying high-powered weapons to subdue armed criminals.
The buildings around them empty -- fast. The street becomes a ghost town.
No one gets hurt. Not even bruised. That's when a SWAT campaign goes right.
But that's not what happened in Easton on May 18, 2008, when the Southwest Regional Emergency Response Team, a SWAT force of top cops from Easton and four surrounding towns, stormed Ronald Terebesi's Dogwood Drive home searching for drugs.
In the confusion of detonating flashbang grenades that emit bright, blinding light and a loud explosion that disorients those in earshot, one of the officers became confused. He thought he'd been hit. And he shot Terebesi's friend, Gonzalo Guizan, six times, killing him. Guizan was unarmed; no gun was found.
"Certainly, this is not the result anyone would want," said Lt. J. Paul Vance, spokesman for the Connecticut State Police, whose Major Crime Squad division investigated the Terebesi raid because a SWAT team officer killed Guizan. With a well-organized team, Vance said, "the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing."
Both Guizan's family and Terebesi filed federal civil rights lawsuits against the five towns involved -- Easton, Monroe, Trumbull, Wilton and Darien. Guizan's family reached a $3.5 million settlement last week with the five towns. Terebesi's lawsuit still looms. The five towns have defended themselves by claiming their SWAT officers did not use excessive force or violate either man's constitutional rights.
"State Police have two SWAT teams that are available 24 hours a day to assist any city or town who asks for our assistance," said Vance. "Our teams have had extensive training, and they are made of troopers who have been together a long time. They've trained closely with one another, and have a strong rapport."
From the get-go, the raid on Terebesi's house in Easton was a bad one.
Prior to the operation, at least two police officers expressed reservations about using force to execute a search warrant for mere drug possession, court records show. They thought Easton Police Chief Jack Solomon was rushing too fast; they feared for the safety of youngsters attending a party across the street.
The officers knew that an organized bicycle marathon was going on that day. It was a busy day in Easton, despite its reputation for being a quiet Fairfield County outpost with high taxes and next-to-no commerce.
Popular belief is that "tactical units are calm and collected 100 percent of the time. That's not the case," said Maria Haberfeld, chairman of John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration in New York City. "There's always a potential for error of judgment."
"In general, when you have a tactical unit with police from more than one jurisdiction, you're more likely to have problems arise than when people who are training are from the same department," Haberfeld said. "That's because they know each other better. They operate with the same subculture and pattern of behaviors."
During the six years the 21-member team in the Easton SWAT group had been together, court documents show, none of the officers had ever used a flashbang while serving a search and seizure warrant.
"The intent of flashbang is to cause a loud, smoky distraction that confuses the suspect and allows the SWAT unit to reach them using minimal force," said Michael Jenkins, a professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven. "One of the ways police are trained as to how to expect a suspect to respond to pepper spray is by having it sprayed on them during training. The same philosophy holds true for SWAT teams using flashbang," he said. "Someone in this demanding, high-pressure line of law enforcement ought to have some experience before a raid as to what it's like when those go off."
Worse yet, court records show, the officers who put their lives on the line that day were given bad information by Easton police.
The investigators relied on the word of a confidential informant, an exotic dancer who didn't provide her real name, that Terebesi and his friend were doing drugs all night long. The dancer claimed she felt it was her civic duty to report their drug use.
She also professed she never did any drugs, a statement that even the officers who wrote her words down found hard to believe, judging by her bone-thin appearance, glassy eyes, dilated pupils and decaying teeth.
"A SWAT position is a badge of courage that demands extensive training, agility, marksmanship," Jenkins said. "It's a high-stress position that requires the ability to assess a situation and make swift decisions. Lives depend on it. Regardless of whether the informant is a drug user or a Ph.D., their information needs to be corroborated."
There was no effort to confirm the informant's statement whatsoever, records show. Had police probed, they would have learned the self-described exotic dancer had a rap sheet that included drug charges and harassment, and only three months earlier had received a two-year probation instead of a jail sentence.
None of these additional details were ever made known to the judge who signed the searach warrant.
From the dozen-plus depositions reviewed by Hearst Connecticut Newspapers, it is evident that members of the SWAT team were misled in several fundamental ways. They were told Terebesi was armed and dangerous, and had guns in the house. They were warned that he might shoot to kill -- especially if a feather on the head of his prized macaw, "Sapphire," was ruffled.
Easton's police chief had no reason to suppose that Terebesi, who had a valid pistol permit, would open fire.
Terebesi, 46, had never exhibited any violent tendencies toward law enforcement. He was respectful when police arrived at his home to check on his wellbeing in response to a prior medical call. In another incident at his home, he had previously allowed police to search the premises for anyone who might be injured after someone blew five shotgun holes in his house, shattering a front window and a side window near where he often slept.
The shotgun blasts were the breaking point for some of Terebesi's neighbors.
Among them were a former first selectman, who had appointed Solomon police chief. They neighbors formed an association and demanded action from Solomon to deal with their neighborhood scourge.
They claim he shattered their sense of peace and tranquility on the winding block of immaculate and well-kept houses. Terebesi's transgression: having visitors at odd hours for short periods of time, smoking marijuana, and hours before the police raid allegedly smoking crack cocaine in a glass pipe with Guizan.
And unlike many SWAT operations, no one warned Terebesi's neighbors that armored convoys would descend on their quiet, woodsy street in broad daylight.
No one there had ever seen anything like the phalanx of paramilitary officers, bristling with guns, who used a battering ram to smash down the door at one end of the house while flashbangs went off at the other, climaxing in a hail of bullets that killed the 33-year-old Guizan.
Police were there to search for a small quantity of drugs and to seize anything in the house where a box the size of a breath mint container and two glass pipes might be hidden.
That's what the warrant, signed by a judge, permitted.
Staff Writer Daniel Tepfer contributed to this report.
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Double sock fame!!
My socks arrived! Green lace, just like the socks I knit for my pal!
My pal? Perhaps you've heard of her:
Yes, THE Alison Hansel, author of Charmed Knits, founder of Sockapalooza, all around excellent Boston blogger! I'm almost flustered by these socks, probably the way Grumperina's Sock Pal from Socka-pa-2za felt (she was the recipient of the original Jaywalker socks!)
They fit perfectly and I love the pattern (Embossed Leaves) so, so much! I'm one of those unimaginative types who firmly believes that leaf patterns should only be knit in leaf colors (granted, this does leave a lot of options). One of my jobs as marketing assistant at Webs was to organize the Charmed Knits book signing and book Alison on the podcast. She did a great job of keeping the secret, I had no idea!!
On Saturday I was heading out the door to attend a party for a friend who had successfully defended her Master's thesis (on Maxim magazine). I realized that I didn't have a bar appropriate project. I fully realize how ridiculous this might sound, even to knitters, but please remember that I commute mostly by bus, which takes forever. And what's better than a little drunken knitting, even if you have to rip it out the next day?
I threw a few balls of Kidsilk Haze into my new Monkey bag so I could cast on for the Earth Stripe Wrap, the cover design on Rowan 42. I fell in love with this when I saw it in a promotional poster at TKGA which MAY be hanging in my room, violating my post-college anti-poster sentiments. I'd assumed it was knit in Kidsilk Aura because I couldn't readily identify the colors. I soon learned that Kaffe has paired 14 shades of Kidsilk Haze in different combinations to create entirely new, entirely gorgeous colors. Apparently, all of my favorites--rooting through my stash I realized that I already had a single ball of almost every color he calls for. Single balls that I acquired on random road trips, before Webs was carrying KSH, simply because they were nice to look at.
I'm about 6 stripes in and it's a glorious, easy project. I love stockinette stitch, which makes me a knitting simpleton. Oh well. I've added 6 stitches so I can keep the first and last 3 in garter stitch. I realize that the rolled edges are probably a carefully considered design element but I
abhor rolling edges.
While I'm on the subject of Rowan, Jen had a few apt appraisals of the new issue. We both love when the designers re-knit the items--I find that without the extreme styling and ethereal sets you get a much better sense of the garment's practicality (as well as it's suitability for different bodies). They did this last fall and showed the same sweater on women from different age groups, it was brilliant. I was tickled to see the focus of this re-knit feature: the same tenets of color analysis I've been jabbering about! I created a Flickr set with excerpts from Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, as well as a few pictures of the Rowan design team in their season appropriate knitwear. Inspiring, no?
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Trend Micro solutions architect Rik Ferguson has tried to pin down the history of the botnet and for the first time try and name and shame the first two pieces of malware that started the botnet ball rolling.
Narrowing it down to either Sub7 or Pretty Park -– a Trojan and a Worm, respectively -- Ferguson says that both introduced the concept of the victim machine connecting to an IRC channel to listen for malicious commands.
These two pieces of malware both first surfaced in 1999 and "botnet innovation" as Ferguson called it, has been constant since then.
"Notable points along the botnet timeline are numerous. First up, the emergence of the Global Threat bot, or GTbot, in 2000. GTbot was based on the mIRC client, which meant that it could run custom scripts in response to IRC events and also importantly that it had access to raw TCP and UDP sockets, making it perfect for rudimentary Denial of Service attacks, some attacks went as far as scanning for Sub7 infected hosts and updating them to GTbots," writes Ferguson this week on Business Computing World.
Ferguson goes on to discuss the fact that early bots were aimed at remote control and information theft, but the move toward modularization and open sourcing lead to a huge increase in variants and the expansion of functionality As we know, Ferguson points out that malware authors gradually started to introduce encryption for ransomware as well as HTTP and SOCKS proxies, allowing them to use their victims for onward connection or FTP servers for storing illegal content.
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U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff authorize combat missions by Operation Farm Gate pilots. With this order, U.S. Air Force pilots were given the go-ahead to undertake combat missions against the Viet Cong as long as at least one Vietnamese national was carried on board the strike aircraft for training purposes. The program had initially been designed to provide advisory support to assist the South Vietnamese Air Force in increasing its capability. The gradual but dramatic expansion of Operation Farm Gate reflected the increasing involvement of the United States in Vietnam.
President John F. Kennedy originally ordered the Air Force to send a combat detachment to South Vietnam to assist the Saigon government in developing its own counterinsurgency capability. The Air Force formed the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron, which arrived at Bien Hoa Airfield in November 1961. Under Operation Farm Gate, the 4400th used older, propeller-driven aircraft to train South Vietnamese Air Force personnel. With the new order from the Joint Chiefs, the 4400th mission was expanded to include limited combat missions in support of South Vietnamese ground forces.
Farm Gate pilots began flying reconnaissance missions and providing logistical support to U.S. Army Special Forces units. The rules of engagement for combat missions dictated that American pilots only fly missions that the South Vietnamese were unable to undertake. The first Operation Farm Gate mission was flown on December 16, 1961. However, by late 1962, the communist activity and combat intensity had increased so much that President John F. Kennedy ordered a further expansion of Farm Gate. In early 1963, additional aircraft arrived and new detachments were established at Pleiku and Soc Trang.
In early 1964, Farm Gate was upgraded again with the arrival of more modern aircraft. By March 1965, Washington had altogether dropped the requirement that a South Vietnamese national be carried on combat missions. In October 1965, another squadron of A-1E aircraft was established at Bien Hoa. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara approved the replacement of South Vietnamese markings on Farm Gate aircraft with regular U.S. Air Force markings. By this point in the war, the Farm Gate squadrons were flying 80 percent of all missions in support of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). With the buildup of U.S. combat forces in South Vietnam and the increase in U.S. Air Force presence there, the role of the Farm Gate program gradually decreased in significance. The Farm Gate squadrons were moved to Thailand in 1967, where they launched missions against the North Vietnamese forces in Laos.


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"Bob Timberg was a genuine American hero who continues to inspire me every day," said Sen. John S. McCain III of Arizona, whose experiences in Vietnam were detailed in "The Nightingale's Song."
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I've really wanted to move back into keeping all of my life in one big book, rather than carrying an art journal, a notebook and a calendar. Moving towards that goal, though, meant un-complicating the way I was creating pages. You can see the start of that shift in this post on my 2013 Journal Intentions.
In January, I created a small, pieced-together art journal from scraps that I had around my studio. I quickly found, however, that I had created a very inconvenient size, and that the blank pages were a bit too intimidating for me. I moved on [I'll probably come back to that journal later this year] and started a new watercolor notebook, this time taking care to create lots of pages that could be modified on the go; meaning, not adding tons of layers of paint that I can't write over, creating spaces for notes and lists, keeping everything very slim and intentional.
Page One; marker, ink splatter, modeling paste, washi tape & graph paper
I had a moment with this animal print at the craft store. Plus a whole lined page for lots of note-taking.
A space to write some meaningful words [watercolor background, acrylic and white ink pen for the writing.]
Magazine pages create perfect "hidey-holes" [my new favorite Betsy Garmon technique/verbiage]. Flip the page over to cover the more intimate details of your journal.
Created a painted border, with a giant open space for more note-taking.
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- A jury in Ohio has awarded a Cleveland-area man suffering from asbestos-related cancer a $27.5 million verdict.
The man's attorney tells The Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/1mx30MI ) that it's the largest award of its kind in Ohio.
John Panza was diagnosed in 2012 with what is usually a fatal form of lung cancer. The 40-year-old Panza got cancer after being exposed to asbestos dust on the clothes of his father, who worked at a plant that made brakes.
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Numenta Inc., formed by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky and Dileep George has begun researching the practical application of Jeff's theories. The Numenta technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), is based on a theory of the neocortex described in On Intelligence.
Welcome to OnIntelligence.org, the companion Web site for the book On Intelligence. If you liked the book, want to learn more about the book or want to discuss the book with others, this web resource is for you.
The first set of links provides information for people who have not yet read the book or have a general interest. It contains:
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14,000 'Unsaved' Votes Suddenly 'Found' In Wisconsin?
from the funny-how-that-works deptAh, it's been a while since we've had e-voting controversies, but it looks like a big one may be coming out of Wisconsin. As you may have heard, there's been a bit of a political dogfight going on in Wisconsin over the last few months, involving some questions about the power of the governor and the rights of government employees to collectively bargain. Given that I actually have a background in labor relations (what? yes, really), I've found the whole thing fascinating, but given my general distaste for politics that become purely partisan, I've generally found the whole thing and actions on all sides to be pretty ridiculous. Anyway, that fight brought extra attention on an election fight for a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice position between incumbent David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg.
The original results showed a very slight victory for Kloppenburg. Now, I generally avoid mentioning political parties of politicians entirely, because I find that it leads to partisan debates, which are effectively religious debates, rather than debates on the actual issues. But, here, the parties become a bit more important. Because of the highly partisan battle in Wisconsin involving a Republican Governor and Democratic elected officials, many people viewed this election as something of a proxy, with Prosser representing the "Republican" viewpoint and Kloppenburg being the hope of the "Democrats." That's a bit of a simplification, but to get to the point we're talking about here, it's enough.
With the voting results being incredibly close -- the original count had Kloppenburg with a 204 vote margin of victory, out of over 1.4 million votes cast -- it's no surprise that a "recount" has been underway, with small numbers of votes turning up here or there. However, what's turning some heads is the fact that the County Clerk in Waukesha County, Kathy Nickolaus, suddenly found 14,315 votes, with the vast majority (by a margin of 7,582) that didn't make the initial count. She claims that they weren't counted because she "failed to save the results" in the computer system. She also said that this kind of "human error" is "common in this process."
Assuming this is actually true, it seems like a pretty clear case that Nickolaus should not be in the job any more, as that's a pretty clear case of incompetence in a rather important job. Assuming it's not true... well... that's a whole different story. Of course, complicating matters is the fact that Nickolaus is apparently an active Republican and was at the center of a few former controversies, including one about election data and how Nickolaus would collect election results -- with people raising concerns months ago about "the integrity of the system." It seems that she decided "to take the election data collection and storage system off the county's computer network - and keep it on stand-alone personal computers accessible only in her office." Now, her argument, which is not entirely unreasonable, is that it's better to keep such data off the network, but given the specific concerns raised, the story is raising eyebrows.
Obviously, for folks who are die-hard supporters of either party, they can spin the story in either direction. But, if we just take a step back, and look at it from the standpoint of wanting to believe in the concepts of basic democracy, shouldn't we all be pretty concerned that any voting system, no matter how it's set up or maintained, could lead to this sort of situation where 14,000 potentially crucial votes could go completely missing without notice... and then magically turn up just as they're needed?
Even if everything is legit, and there's no compelling reason not to assume that's the case at this point, it certainly hurts the basic integrity of the election system. And that's pretty important if you want people to actually believe in the basic principles of democracy. And, honestly, why do we let any single person, especially one with a clear party affiliation, control such data? At the very least, it should be in the hands of either neutral parties, or multiple people who can see each other's actions.
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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization has called it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history," an environmental tragedy "beyond the accidents at Bhopal in 1984 and Chernobyl in 1986."
It's also a case of the best of intentions gone awry. In the 1970s the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the government of Bangladesh began a major push to transform the delivery of water in that country. Rivers, ponds, mudholes and shallow pit wells, often rife with disease organisms, had been a major source of drinking, cooking and irrigation water in many parts of the nation. Children, especially, suffered high death rates from such maladies as chronic diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid and cholera.
Hundreds of thousands of tube wells were drilled in ensuing decades, and a new era of clean water seemed to have arrived. Infant mortality rates indeed plunged by about half. But by the mid-1990s, health experts, puzzled by growing rates of arsenic poisoning in the region, began to connect the geological, chemical and medical dots. It turns out that arsenic is naturally abundant in ground water aquifers under large parts of the Ganges River delta, in both Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal.
In 2008 UNICEF reported that more than one-fourth of wells tested in Bangladesh had arsenic levels of more than 50 parts per billion, the nation's drinking water standard. Even that is five times the level allowed in the United States and recommended by the World Health Organization. In some villages, more than 80 percent of wells were contaminated. In July the British medical journal The Lancet confirmed that as many as 77 million people in Bangladesh alone have been exposed to high levels of arsenic, with grave short- and long-term health consequences that range from severe skin lesions to organ cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Chemists at the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale think they're on the trail of a process that could cheaply, effectively and sustainably help address this problem. The approach relies on titanium dioxide, a nontoxic and commonly used industrial compound (it's found in white paints and sunscreen) that's already known as a useful agent in arsenic detoxification and removal.
But the novel approach also relies on green engineering. Uniquely, it uses recycled wastes from the seafood industry to help make the treatment process in the field both less expensive and less technologically complex. And, in what would amount to a major breakthrough, it ultimately aims to turn the recovered arsenic itself into a marketable resource, safely secured away from water supplies. "We want to close that loop," says Julie Zimmerman, assistant professor of green engineering at Yale and acting director of the center.
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Arsenic contamination of drinking water has also been a problem in the developed world, including parts of the United States, and an array of technologies to remove it in centralized water treatment plants is well-established. But according to Zimmerman, finding "appropriate technologies for the developing world" has proven challenging because of a host of "economic, social and environmental considerations."
Indian scientist Dipankar Chakraborti, who conducted pioneering studies on the arsenic problem in his country and Bangladesh, has reported that attempts at filtering contaminated well water with elaborate mechanical filtration systems often fail because they are difficult and expensive to maintain.
"Given (the) huge contamination area," he asked in a 2004 interview, "how many water treatment plants can you install every year? Can you take these to remote villages? Will your people remain alive that long?"
In a new paper for the journal Water Research, Zimmerman and Sarah Miller, a Yale Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering, propose a solution that amounts to an end run around some of the more technologically complex approaches to arsenic removal.


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Atheist simply means the absence of belief/faith in god(s), so an atheist party would at best be a one issue party (much weaker than the greens) that only has relevance when governmental decisions are made in the name of religion.
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If you're planning to be in an area with no online coverage, such as on a long-distance flight or a sailing excursion, you can prepare your Windows 10 device to allow you to play offline. Most games available in Microsoft Store on your Windows 10 device support offline play, but check the details of the game to make sure yours is supported by searching for your game at http://www.xbox.com.
Most games with a campaign mode will be playable offline, but games with network co-op or multiplayer features will not work while you're offline.
While playing offline, some features, such as the ability to purchase additional items from Microsoft Store, will not be available. Additionally, any leaderboards will be unavailable while you're offline.
If you earn any achievements while playing offline, they will sync to your account the next time you sign in to Xbox Live on your device. You won't see a toast notification letting you know that you unlocked the achievement until you sign in to Xbox Live on that device.
Cloud saves and offline game play
Before you go offline, connect to Xbox Live to sync your most recent game save to the cloud. While you play offline, your game save progress will continue to be saved locally, and it'll sync the next time you sign in to Xbox Live. If you want to continue playing on a different device (or platform, if the game supports Xbox Play Anywhere), you'll need to go online and connect to Xbox Live to allow your local saved game to sync with the cloud again.
If you're on a Windows 10 device, your cloud saves will automatically start uploading once you're signed in and connected to Xbox Live. Game save sync is usually fast, but allow a couple of minutes before you try playing on another device.
If you're planning on playing offline, you'll need to prepare your Windows 10 device while you have an online connection. It's important that you do this while you're online, as once you go offline, you won't be able to make these changes.
Note You can only change your designated offline device three times per year.
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If you have multiple Windows 10 devices, you'll need to make sure that the device you intend to use offline is set as the designated offline device. You can only have one device as your designated offline device.
To set your device as your designated offline device:
Once you set this, any devices previously designated as offline will be toggled to Off, and you'll no longer be able to play games offline on those devices.
Prepare your game or games
Once your device is set up, you'll need to launch each game you want to play offline while signed in to Xbox Live. You only need to do this once per game, and you'll need to do this even if you've already launched the game on your device.
Repeat this process for each game you want to play offline. Once completed, you can go offline at any time and launch those games whenever you want to play them, without needing to sign in online each time.
If you're having trouble playing offline, these solutions may help you resolve any problems.
How do I know that my game supports offline play?
Most games available in Microsoft Store on your Windows 10 device support offline play, but check the details of the game to make sure yours is supported by searching for your game at http://www.xbox.com.
Which features of my game will be available while playing offline?
If your game was installed from Microsoft Store on your Windows 10 device, details of the features available while playing offline can be found in the game's FAQ:
If your game was not installed from Microsoft Store on your Windows 10 device, check with the game publisher to see whether offline play is supported on Windows 10.
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I no longer want my device set as my designated offline device. How do I remove it?
This scenario may also apply if you're planning on trading or giving your Windows 10 device to someone else.
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LOS ANGELES (November 15, 2012) — The ASACP Foundation, sister organization to veteran child protection group, Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP), is launching a year-end fundraising campaign in order to continue and expand its initiatives into the future.
The ASACP Foundation is the entity that funds the operation of ASACP's CP Reporting Hotline — which has proven particularly effective in providing confirmed "Red Flag" reports of illegal child pornography to relevant law enforcement agencies around the world.
The ASACP Foundation is also responsible for financing the ongoing development and operation of the Restricted To Adults (RTA) website labeling program (www.rtalabel.org), which works hand-in-hand with content filtering software to provide parents and institutions, including libraries and schools, with effective protection against exposure to age-inappropriate materials.
"As we enter the season of giving, it is important to remember the children and how vulnerable they are in today's highly connected society," ASACP Executive Director Tim Henning stated. "ASACP provides parents and industry with the tools and services they need to protect children and to make a substantial, tangible difference in their lives by keeping them safe in cyberspace."
A 501(c)(3) charitable organization, contributions to the ASACP Foundation are tax deductible for American businesses and may also provide tax benefits to overseas operators. Regardless of these pluses for contributors, supporting the ASACP Foundation is the right thing to do, not only for companies within the digital media industry, but for individuals, trusts, and other entities that are concerned with the welfare of children online, in social media, and across the mobile arena.
"While it presents an opportunity for year-end tax savings, donations to the ASACP Foundation provide a way for companies to demonstrate a higher level of social responsibility," Henning explained. "This, coupled with industry self-regulation, such as the adoption of the RTA label, allows digital media marketers to put their best foot forward, doing their part to make a better world for everyone."
For more information on how you or your organization can support The ASACP Foundation, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Founded in 1996, ASACP is a non-profit organization dedicated to online child protection.
ASACP is comprised of two separate corporate entities, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection and the ASACP Foundation. The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. ASACP manages a membership program that provides resources to companies in order to help them protect children online. The ASACP Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The ASACP Foundation battles child pornography through its CP Reporting Hotline and helps parents prevent children from viewing age-restricted material online with its Restricted To Adults (RTA) website label (www.rtalabel.org). ASACP has invested 16 years in developing progressive programs to protect children, and its relationship in assisting the adult industry's child protection efforts is unparalleled. For more information, visit www.asacp.org.
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NEW YORK – Major League Soccer today announced that the 2012 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas will take place on Thursday, January 12 at the Kansas City Convention Center, in Kansas City, Mo. The first round of the SuperDraft, which for the 8th consecutive year will be held in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Convention, will be broadcast live on ESPN2 beginning at 10:00 AM MT/12:00 noon ET.
The SuperDraft will include two rounds and 38 overall selections, with the expansion Montreal Impact selecting first overall. The next eight selections are currently held by clubs that did not qualify for the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs, in reverse order of regular season finish. The remaining 10 positions currently belong to clubs that were eliminated in the same round of the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs, in reverse order of regular season finish.
A four-round Supplemental Draft will take place via conference call on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Since the SuperDraft used to include four rounds, trades involving 3rd and 4th round SuperDraft picks become the 1st and 2nd picks in the Supplemental Draft.
The Rapids have their natural 1st Round SuperDraft selection, but traded their natural 2nd Round pick to the San Jose Earthquakes in April 2010 in exchange for forward Quincy Amarikwa.
In the Supplemental Draft, the Rapids have their natural 3rd and 4th round picks. Colorado traded the 1st round Supplemental Draft pick to Toronto in exchange for midfielder Joseph Nane last December, and the 2nd Round Supplemental selection to FC Dallas for defender Anthony Wallace in July 2010.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Just Move the Video Board Already
I think I know why Jerry Jones is being difficult. $2 million doesn't sound like much to fix the problem when you look at the overall cost of the new stadium. I know I don't like to spend money when I don't have to...especially when I don't think I should be the one paying. Since the NFL reviewed and approved the stadium plans they are at least partially at fault for the problem that the Cowboys now face. If I have to guess I would think that the cost will be shared between the team and the Cowboys.
The "do-over" rule for dealing with a punt hitting the board is the only fair solution but it raises way too many issues to be a viable option. I'm sure at some point in the very near future the board will be raised and the media frenzy over the board can die down. Maybe at that point people will begin to understand and appreciate what an amazing stadium that Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have created for the league.
Hey, it wouldn't be the Dallas Cowboys if something that should be a minor fix isn't blown out of proportion and made into national headlines and a SportsCenter lead. How 'bout them Cowboys!
Update: In a shocking decision, Roger Goodell has decided against requiring the Cowboys to raise the video board. I don't agree with that decision, and I hope that this doesn't become a bigger issue down the road.
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Totally disagree on that last point. They aren't just talking about the Cowboys, everyone is making fun of them. They have almost become a punchline the last few years, and it makes me sick. It's so embarrassing to show everybody a 1.2 billion dollar stadium, then have everyone talk about punters hitting a video board. If Jerry did this just for the publicity, it's shameful.ReplyDelete
I think this kind of publicity is fantastic. Very humorous for Dallas Fans who are in awe of the new stadium, and another point of contention among Dallas Haters. I can feel their anger and jealousy...isn't it great? Plus, it gives that @#$%@#*!!!, Ed Werder something to rant about while standing outside of Valley Ranch (I wish Jerry would buy a shotgun).ReplyDelete
As for who pays for it. Let the NFL pay for it or wait until after the U2 concert, when it has to be raised, adjusting the height after the concert. As you pointed out, it was built to NFL spec. Take it to court if you have to, but there is no reason that Jerry should foot the bill. The NFL should be bowing to Jerry for the historically great TV deals the entire league enjoys. Imagine how bleak this down economy would be for say, The Detroit Lions, if they weren't able to share in those revenues.
Finally, I leave you with this. Titan punters were clearly trying to hit the scoreboard in warmups and during the game. Look at the tape again and tell me if you do not agree. If a punter hits the scoreboard, they should be taken to task by their own coverage unit, who after this selfish act, must line up and sprint down the field again. A good taping to one's locker will work just fine.
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Jerry has enough money....how about he pay some1 to make that thing invisible! -Atl_CowboyReplyDelete


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I'm sure I'm not the only one that enjoy killing some time by lusting over bento boxes that I would love to have, but are not available for international shipping, or I cannot justify the cost to get them. Especially when shipping + custom fees greatly exceeds the value of the box itself, and I have plenty of boxes that are functional and work well for me, even if not as cute.
If I won the lottery, I would probably buy one of each of everything from http://www.bentoandco.com . I love the wooden boxes, I love the kimono ones, I think the Ojyu Bento would be great for picnics, and I'm sure the metal ones would be very practical. WabiSabi would be great for the boy, and the onigiri ones are soooooo cute. And the bowl-shaped ones would be good for a change.
I'd also love an insulated bento set like the ones from Muji http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=4&Sub=25&PID=2548. For some reason Muji does not carry it in Italy :(
So I'm curious , what is on your fantasy shopping list? :)
I'd raid bentoandco.com if I have the money too xD
I'll splurge on the onogiri boxes, the red sakura banto box and the owan tsukimi box (perfect for donburi), and share them with my sis.. Get my brother the "dragon" bento box (the character is part of his chinese name) and then I will hunt for barans, sauce containers and disposable bento cups.
Actually, come to think of it, barans are not that practical. They do make your bentos look prettier but you can use vegetables such as lettuces to substitute it. Hence adding more nutrition in your bento. For soy sauce bottles... I do not really need them because there are lots of unused shoyu fishies that are sitting around in the fridge from buying sushi..
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phill.butte wrote:I am considering buying the Nokia N810 as a "replacement controller", they are quite inexpensive now. But they are also no longer supported and batteries don't last forever.
Could one of you point me to the site for purchasing the BT module, I'd like to try it out.
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Hi Sherry,
Unfortunately, the AllView controller firmware contains some significant defects where the positioning of the head for panoramic photos is neither predictable, repeatable or testable. The resulting panoramic shots cannot be imported into customary stitching software packages such as PTGui Pro or AutoPano Giga due to the seemingly random nature in which shots are taken and mis-aligned. I would like a representative from HandsOnOptics to read and respond to the messages posted in this user forum:
In particular, please let me know whether HandsOnOptics will be able to supply a corrected AllView controller firmware product, which would be my preference. Also please indicate the timescale in which a fully functional replacement firmware (in which there are no positioning errors) will be made available. Also please supply evidence in the form of a positioning specification for panoramic photographs, that identifies the repeatable and testable azimuth and inclination angles and overlap percentages at which photographs will be shot, given a variety of test cases of parameter inputs to the controller..
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Ethanol reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of $1.09 per gallon in 2011, according to updated research (http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/synopsis.aspx?id=1) conducted by University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University economics professors Dermot Hayes and Xiaodong Du.
In a teleconference today, Hayes added that gasoline prices have been reduced by an average of $.29 per gallon nationwide over the last decade because of the growing use of ethanol. Those price reductions have been even greater (by as much as $.40 per gallon) in the Midwest where much of the ethanol is produced, Hayes said.
Growth in ethanol production has added significantly to the volume of fuel available in the U.S., Hayes noted. This additional fuel supply has alleviated gasoline shortages that had been caused by limited refinery capacity. In the past, gas prices spiked whenever the refinery industry approached capacity, Hayes said.
Ethanol has helped the U.S. transition from being a net importer of gasoline to a net exporter. As a result, U.S. gasoline prices are measurably lower than would otherwise have been the case, Hayes pointed out.
The Renewable Fuel Association (RFA), which funded the updated research, cited data from the Census Bureau and Energy Information Administration, which suggested that 116.7 million U.S. households consumed 131.2 billion gallons of gasoline in 2011 (an average of 1,124 gallons per household). That means ethanol reduced the average American household's spending on gasoline by more than $1,200 in 2011, the RFA reported.
Bob Dinneen, RFA's president and CEO, said in the teleconference that this study's results can show members of Congress and the American public how ethanol has benefited their pocketbooks. "As Congress looks at how to continue to grow this industry, this [study] provides context to include in policy."


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Just three months after the launch of the UK's first 4G network, the "Sale" signs are going up at EE. The company has unveiled what it describes as "new price plan offers" to offer customers more choice. But what EE is actually doing is cutting prices in what looks like an admission that it got its initial offer wrong.
When I spoke to the company's CEO Olaf Swantee last October, he was confident about the strategy: "We really think we've priced it at the sweet spot," he said. "It's all based on months of consumer research."
But complaints came thick and fast - in particular about data. The fact that customers upgrading from Orange or T-Mobile would pay £5 more for the same amount of data struck many as unreasonable. After all, the whole point of 4G was that lightning-fast speeds meant that you would want to consume far more data.
Now EE is going some way to recognise that. Its entry price has been cut from £36 to £31 a month - though you still only get 500MB of data for that. (Incidentally, those who signed up at the original price won't be able to switch to the cheaper deal, which is bound to cause anger.)
And it's bringing in a new £46 a month 20GB Sim-only deal designed for what it calls "super-users". EE says it has introduced this after "listening to customers" but still insists that only a tiny minority - less than 1% - of 4G users have shown a desire to have more than the current 8GB limit.
But maybe it's a question of chicken and egg. If the initial prices had not been so high, more people would have signed up and chosen to use more data. That certainly seems to be the message in a report out today from Deloitte that warns mobile networks of an almost insatiable desire amongst smartphone users for data.
When I asked EE whether the new price plans were a response to poor uptake of 4G, I was told the company could not disclose any numbers, but had been "very pleased with the customer response to the launch of EE".
The rest of the mobile industry will be watching this move very closely. With Ofcom's 4G auction starting this month, operators will be wondering just how great the demand from customers is going to be and working out what that means as they bid for spectrum.
Last autumn it looked as though EE had pulled off a coup by getting Ofcom to allow it to launch 4G before the rest of the industry. Now it seems the firm may have done its rivals a favour by running a live consumer experiment on their behalf.


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The awnings are up for two new stores: 1. Eyeglasses 99, in the old Metro PCS at 266 Kingston at Lincoln. It appears to be the second branch of an eyewear store on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood. 2. Unique Enterprises, an Internet café, recording studio, and graphic design shop at 241 Kingston between St. Johns and Sterling, in what used to be half of a shipping company. I also saw some activity a few weeks ago at 139 Kingston, next to the bodega near the corner of St. Marks, but nothing since. Anyone heard anything?
266 Kingston, now Eyeglasses 99
241 Kingston, now Unique Enterprises
139 Kingston
Spoke to the owner of 239-241 Kingston. The internet place is going in 241 and the antique store that was closer to E.P. is going into 239. Says the internet cafe should be open 9/1.
I'm interested in seeing whether an internet cafe survives.
In much of NYC, the populace has internet access and desktop computers, and the cafes have closed. Some people just bring their laptops to the local coffee shops and use the wifi there.
...will there be enough people on Kingston who don't already have internet access and don't own laptops, yet have the $ to pay for it on occasion that they support an internet cafe?
Not so much to access the internet but you'd be surprised how many people come into my office and ask me to print stuff for them (which I don't do) so the money to be made might come from printing resumes and such that are on peoples' thumb drives.
That could work.
I have a sense that those mutli-service centers (the ones that help folks fill out basic forms, and navigate public agencies), perform a vital role.
Although I see them mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, I bet a hybrid one could work on Kingston, as one approaches Atlantic.
The idea of opening an internet cafe seems very late 90's/early 2000s to me, but I'll reserve judgement until it opens and I can see what they have to offer. In general, I think that the more new businesses coming to Kingston Ave, the better!
Nothinglike states it is actually going to be "an Internet café, recording studio, and graphic design shop".
So, something like Kinko's used to be, but with music?
I don't know why, but I was assuming the Internet cafe would make most of its money from graphic design, doing party posters and fliers like the shops on Utica. FYI, the awning also says CD Duplication, Avon Products, and Fashion Jewelry.
Here's a pic of Eyeglasses 99 from about a month ago. They were open for business almost as soon as the awning went up.
I have got to hand it to Metro PCS. It pays top dollar to renovate storefronts, which it then closes and leaves for future tenants.
Very nice of them.
We may have an answer to what's going on at 139 Kingston. A note posted on the gate says the day care is closed from 9-23 to 9-27 because it's under construction. I've never seen any sign of a day care there but some googling turns up a yeshivah yeshvos chaim school at that address.
By the way, "For Rent" signs are up at 106 Kingston between Dean & Bergen, 237 Kingston (the former record store) between Sterling & St. Johns, and 257 Kingston (the former barber shop) between St. Johns and Lincoln, so hopefully we'll have a lot fewer vacant storefronts soon.
An older guy on the street told me it'll be the first time the record store's been rented out in the last 15 or 16 years. The security gate's been up recently for the first time in at least the last two years and I was able to catch a pic of the old-school pay phone in the entryway, which has since been removed.
That site looks like a time capsule! I hope they find a LL Cool J record from 1989:
I wonder if they are going to keep the facade, but add on a few stories.
Looks like we're getting our second real estate office for the year. Noticed work earlier this week at 1028 Lincoln Place, just off Kingston (next to Basil). Seems to belong to this company: http://brooklynnybpo.com/
I haven't heard of them before, but hope they have the capital and drive to become the next MySpace.
MySpace was quite small a few years ago.....
BTW, MySpace has the listing for 237 Kingston, the former record store:
1000 sq ft, $3k a month
The internet café/recording studio/gift shop at 241 Kingston, Unique Enterprises, opened at the end of November. Its grand opening flier lists cassette and VHS conversion, computer repairs, party favors, and phone cases among its many products and services. From what I can see, the front area is set up as an internet café on one side and variety store on the other.
Since MySpace took over the listing for the old record store at 237 Kingston, it's been totally gutted and even got a new glass storefront.
Workers were carrying debris out of the old barber shop at 257 Kingston this morning -- first time I've seen the awning up in a while.
And there's one new space to add to the "for rent" list: 267 Kingston between Lincoln and St. Johns. The awning says In Touch Blue Inc. furniture, but it was never open in the last 2-1/2 years. Recently a sign was added explaining that it's the showroom for Brooklyn Value Center, the discount store across the street.
As a result, we may know that the CFC employees are about to be laid off, while they do not....That's sad. Especially because, as @M_Pond said, there are a number of vacant storefronts right there. Just four stores away from Crown, 106 Kingston is for rent; 104 seems to be spillover, mostly used bicycles, from the thrift store at 102 (which used to have an awning that said Grace Telecommuncations, brought with them when they moved from the corner across the street that will eventually become "Meat"). Here's that strip.
Since my last update, the Chesed Center at 271 Kingston between Lincoln and St Johns has also come up for rent.
(Some of our readers may have recently moved here from the Midwest).
As stated above, this place would like to become a burger place: "Beouf & Bun".
Since my last update, the Chesed Center at 271 Kingston between Lincoln and St Johns has also come up for rent.
I was going to ask for thoughts on a bar east of Rogers and south of St. Johns where some guys looking looking to relax midweek after the kids go to bed can hang out for an hour or two; a simple unpretentious place to get a beer or three. So, any thoughts?http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/44113/a-new-bar-branch-office-in-the-works-for-rogers-and-union/p1


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Euro trash tour: Dumpster diver's war on waste
By Barry Neild, CNN • Updated 3rd July 2014
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For most people a trip across Europe is a chance to see the sights and sample the continent's cuisine.
Unless, like Baptiste Dubanchet, they've got their head buried in a trash can.
The Frenchman, who celebrates his 26th birthday this month, has spent the last 10 weeks dumpster diving -- eating only discarded food -- from France to Poland on a mission to highlight the issue of food waste.
"I didn't really believe I would succeed," Dubanchet told CNN by phone from Warsaw shortly after completing his 3,000-kilometer (1,900 miles) journey by bicycle.
"I thought I would probably starve for four or five days and then I would have to buy something."
Instead, Dubanchet was surprised at the abundance of discarded produce he was able to scavenge from supermarkets, bakeries and restaurants.
He was easily able to fuel himself on his epic trek through Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Along the way, the former fast food worker has learned valuable lessons about the trash habits of the different European nations he visited.
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"I'm trying to protest against the huge waste of food. It's completely absurd and pointless," says Dubanchet, who planned his trip to coincide with the European Union's declared "
Year Against Food Waste
"We're wasting really good resources -- there's so much water, energy and pollution involved in creating something that ends up in the trash. And there are millions of people starving."
Sticking to a strict rule of only eating food that had been thrown out or was destined for the trash, Dubanchet asked the permission of supermarket and restaurant staff before rooting through their refuse.
Occasionally he climbed fences to access dumpsters.
People in some countries were more understanding than others, he says.
"In the Czech Republic, it was quite difficult," he says. "People didn't really understand what the project was -- they thought I was homeless, they didn't really understand the foreigner who asked for food from the trash and all the supermarkets had it quite well locked up.
"I went for days eating mainly just bread."
Germany, he says, was the easiest country for dumpster diving, not because there was more food waste, but because people were more receptive to his mission.
"I think all the countries' waste is about the same. The supermarkets in all countries work in a similar way: the fruit and vegetables must look perfect and the ones that don't go in the trash.
"In Germany, a lot of people were supportive of the project -- sometimes at supermarkets, my request would be asked of the boss and the boss would say no. But then a guy would come back and say, 'I'm really sorry my boss says no, but wait, my boss is a jerk, so come back later and I will get you something."
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Luxembourg, too, is a land of plenty for dumpster divers, according to Dubanchet, something he puts down to its relative wealth and relaxed rules on food disposal.
As part of his mission, the sustainable development graduate also visited schools to explain his mission to students -- and at the same time chow down on leftovers from the school cafeteria.
While he admits growing weary of a diet of stale bread and raw vegetables, there were some culinary highlights -- particularly during his darkest days in the Czech Republic.
Hungry for change.
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"I arrived at a vegan restaurant in Prague where they were so busy they were turning people away," he recalls. "I explained what I was doing to the waiter and he came back minutes later with this beautifully designed plate of food and said 'do you want this?'
"It was the wrong order for the customer and they were going to throw it away. I was starving and I arrived at the right place at the right time."
Other highlights included a jar of honey and dried apricots found in Germany, some tinned goods from Luxembourg and a box of 12 eggs -- consigned to the garbage can because just one was broken.
"I was always happy when I had cakes and sweet things because they don't need cooking and when you're on a bicycle, you need the energy," he adds.
Dubanchet says he hopes in the future to work with supermarkets and restaurants to find ways of reducing waste.
He doesn't rule out further dumpster diving missions.
"Why not? Although when you're eating absolutely nothing that doesn't come from the trash, you go a long time without eating what you want.
"And it's a very long time to go without drinking a single beer."
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New report from Jones Lang LaSalle outlines the potential for international real estate markets
SINGAPORE, 2 October 2013 – A new report released today by Jones Lang LaSalle's International Capital Group highlights the increasing amount of Australian capital expected to be invested into offshore commercial real estate markets by 2020. According to the report, 'The rise, fall and future intentions of Australian offshore investment', the bulk of this capital will come from Australia's pension (Superannuation) system in which assets under management (AUM) are set to pass USD 2.8 trillion by 2020. USD 75 billion of this is likely to be available for overall offshore investment of which, by current measures, 10 percent (USD 7.5 billion) will be allocated to international real estate.
Maintained by compulsory contributions, Australia's Superannuation system is, by some measures, the fourth largest asset pool in the world with real estate accounting for around 10 percent of its current USD1.3 trillion Assets Under Management (AUM). Contributions are set to gradually increase to reach 12 percent of an individual's salary by 2020, significantly increasing the amount of capital available for investment into international real estate markets.
John Talbot, head of Capital Markets, Jones Lang LaSalle, Australia commented, "Between now and 2020 we estimate the demand for direct real estate from Super Funds will outstrip domestic supply. With the domestic market unable to offer sufficient opportunities to provide the real estate exposure sought by the funds, international real estate markets are set to benefit."
"Europe and the US are likely to be the initial preferred destinations for this capital, although we are likely to see emerging markets increasingly benefit in line with their continued strong economic growth. With Asia Pacific estimated to account up to 50 percent of the global institutional commercial property market by value by 2031, a growing proportion of Australian capital is likely to target emerging markets in the region over the medium to long term."
Australian investors have been largely absent from overseas markets since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007 when, having previously been the biggest cross border global investors, Super Funds with overseas exposure in Europe and the US were left with large losses or assets that were deemed largely unsalable.
As markets gradually recovered from GCF in 2011 and 2012, Australian investors chose to focus on their home market, which is one of the best performing of the developed economies. Conversely, the market's high yields have attracted attention from international buyers and, since 2007, increasing competition for the domestic market's limited prime assets.
Alistair Meadows, head of the International Capital Group in Asia Pacific, Jones Lang LaSalle said, "Most Super Funds currently remain cautious on off-shore markets post GFC. This has resulted in a strong domestic bias and increased appetite for direct ownership often via partnerships with fund managers offering sector specific expertise."
"AustralianSuper, the largest Super Fund in the country with USD 58 billion Funds Under Management (FUM), is the exception having initiated a new strategy earlier this year to gain direct exposure to off-shore real estate. This new shift recognises that the global real estate markets are an increasingly important long-term requirement for the Super Funds."
"As Super Funds AUM grows at 9.6 percent per annum (approx.), they will be forced to either move up the risk curve domestically due to the increasing shortage and competition for core stock or move off-shore. As a result, off-shore investment will return to the Super Fund's agenda in the next few years, particularly if the risks that were experienced in the past can be mitigated through different entry strategies. As such, we expect the next wave of offshore Australian capital to emerge in the form of Joint Ventures and dedicated investment mandates with specialist local managers; all of which adds to the new liquidity in the global real estate markets."
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Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. With annual revenue of $3.9 billion, Jones Lang LaSalle operates in 70 countries from more than 1,000 locations worldwide. On behalf of its clients, the firm provides management and real estate outsourcing services to a property portfolio of 2.6 billion square feet and completed $63 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions in 2012. Its investment management business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $47.7 billion of real estate assets under management.
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