Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Bay Area Real Estate Information Services Announces Direct Syndication to Trulia

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire -05/10/12)- Trulia, a leading site for home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals, today announced a strategic alliance with Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, Inc. (BAREIS MLS) to directly syndicate the listings of its 8,000 members to Trulia, providing consumers with the most accurate information on homes for sale in five Northern San Francisco Bay Area counties including Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma and Solano.

With the addition of BAREIS MLS, the majority of the MLSs in the Bay Area are now working with Trulia. Trulia already receives direct feeds from MLSListings, Bay East and Contra Costa MLS, meaning Bay Area homebuyers can have an extremely high degree of confidence that the data they see on Trulia is correct. As part of its alliance with Trulia, BAREIS will also participate in the Trulia Direct Reference program, under which Trulia notifies listing agents and brokers about any discrepancies between the data provided by the MLS and information from other syndicators.

Listings from BAREIS MLS will now be seen by the more than 23 million* serious home-buyers and sellers coming to Trulia each month to get the inside scoop on real estate they can't find anywhere else. BAREIS MLS will syndicate all of its listings unless the listing is not approved for the internet.

"Our membership is dedicated to providing the most accurate data on the internet to buyers and sellers working with the real estate professionals in our region," said Jim Branscombe, President and CEO of BAREIS MLS. "There is an explosion of data and a great deal of that information is not accurate or kept up to date. Building strategic alliances with major real estate portals like Trulia will ensure the best data is available to the public and support the efforts of our real estate professionals to list and sell property. BAREIS MLS has operated its own public site for 14 years, and this relationship we are forging with Trulia is similar to the relationships we have with other public internet sites we have worked with in that we are providing all active listing data approved for internet display."

As part of the agreement, Trulia will abide by the guidelines established by the Trulia Data Pledge for listing syndication that launched in January 2012.

"By syndicating listings for its members, BAREIS MLS will ensure that it provides an extremely high level of data accuracy. This will help its members connect with more buyers and sellers to close more transactions," said Mark Weiss, Trulia Director of Business Development. "BAREIS MLS understands that connecting Trulia's audience with the most up to date and accurate information provides its real estate professionals with the best opportunity to close deals."

*Omniture, April 2012

About Trulia Inc.Trulia gives home buyers, sellers, owners and renters the inside scoop on properties, places and real estate professionals. Trulia has unique info on the areas people want to live that can't be found anywhere else: users can learn about agents, neighborhoods, schools, crime and even ask the local community questions. Real estate professionals use Trulia to connect with millions of transaction-ready buyers and sellers each month via our hyper local advertising services, social recommendations and top-rated mobile apps. Trulia is headquartered in downtown San Francisco and is backed by Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital. Trulia and the Trulia logo are registered trademarks of Trulia, Inc.

About Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, Inc. (BAREIS MLS)Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, Inc. is an independent MLS created on October 22, 1997. The organizations that founded BAREIS MLS are the Marin Association of REALTORS, Napa Association of REALTORS, Northern Solano Association of REALTORS, Solano Association of REALTORS and the Sonoma County Multiple Listing Service. The Mendocino County MLS joined the effort in 2001 and the Coastal Co-op MLS in 2005. BAREIS MLS now serves approximately 8,000 members in five key counties: Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma.

Read more:
Bay Area Real Estate Information Services Announces Direct Syndication to Trulia

Fitch Affirms Solar Investment Grade CBO I, Ltd.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Fitch Ratings has affirmed two classes of notes issued by Solar Investment Grade CBO I, Ltd./Corp. (Solar I) and revised the recovery estimates (RE) as follows:

--$27,112,389 class III-A notes at 'Csf'; RE 10%

--$10,198,804 class III-B notes at 'Csf'; RE 10%

Solar I's remaining $5.8 million portfolio is insufficient to repay the class III-A and III-B notes (together, class III) in full on the maturity date, and default remains inevitable. An event of default was declared in April 2012 due to the aggregate principal balance of collateral and eligible investments being less than the balance of outstanding senior-most notes.

Since Fitch's last rating action in May 2011, the class II-A and II-B notes (together, class II) were paid in full. Maturities on the underlying portfolio resulted in a total principal reduction to the class II notes of $29.8 million over the last two semi-annual payment dates. During the same period, the class III notes received a $3 million reduction in principal.

Solar I is a collateralized bond obligation (CBO) that closed in August 2000. Solar I's portfolio is managed by Sun Capital Advisers LLC (as successor to Sun Capital Advisers, Inc.), and the performing portfolio is currently composed of one bond and two structured finance obligations totaling $5.8 million. The transaction is scheduled to mature in September 2012.

Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'. The ratings above were solicited by, or on behalf of, the issuer, and therefore, Fitch has been compensated for the provision of the ratings.

The information used to assess these ratings was sourced from the trustee reports and the public domain.

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

Read the original here:
Fitch Affirms Solar Investment Grade CBO I, Ltd.

D-Day bell with Dot roots found in England

One of the last remaining bells from a D-Day landing craft that was built right here in Dorchester has been discovered after being lost for nearly 70 years. The bell, which even has a bullet dent from the assault on Omaha Beach, is now being sold by an English antiques dealer after it was discovered in a scrap dealers yard.

The bell is inscribed with the name of the landing craft it graced the LCI(L) 403 and though the story of the boats heroics in the war is partly documented, its journey for the last 65 years remains a mystery.

The ship was built by the George Lawley & Sons Shipbuilding Corporation in Neponset in the mid-1940s. It then sailed to Portsmouth in March 1944 as part of a convoy of 500 ships. Just two months later the 403 was part of the D-Day landing force that stormed the enemy at Omaha Beach on June 6.

During the assault on the beach the stormy and crowded sea forced the 403 to crash into a fellow landing craft and it lost its port ramp. Despite the setback, the craft managed to collect 32 wounded soldiers and ferry them safely from the front line.

After 15 months service in Europe the boat returned to the States and was refitted as a gun-boat in Boston. But the war ended soon after and the boat did not see active service again.

What happened to the boat and its bell is not known until this year when it turned up in Yorkshire and was spotted by a militaria dealer from Hemswell Antique Centres, which is now offering the bell for sale for 1,500.

Bells from LCIs are, I believe, quite rare. Not all had them, said John Cummer, president of the USS LCI National Association in the US. One of the few remaining bells of this kind belongs to the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum in Portland, Oregon and is used in memorial services and annual reunions.

The museum is now restoring a landing craft to preserve the history of the Amphibious Forces in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and to educate the public on the rich naval maritime heritage that the Amphibious Forces have played in US history.

It is an item we would love to have in our Museum, said museum board member Gordon Smith, who served for five engagements himself on LCI 43.

Some LCIs did have a small bell and to have one with the ships number engraved on it is so unusual it makes me think that the Captain may have had the bell or at least the numbering fabricated for him.

Read the original:
D-Day bell with Dot roots found in England

Naruto Shippuden Episode 262 Part 1 – Video

10-05-2012 04:21 TO WATCH THE FULL EPISODE GOTO: TO WATCH 1000's OF OTHER ANIMES GOTO:

Read this article:
Naruto Shippuden Episode 262 Part 1 - Video

Counter Strike: Global offensive – Gamemodes – Video

10-05-2012 05:00 Click on one of the videos to get to the gameplay video 🙂 Music: Infected Euphoria by MachinimaSound _____________________________additional Tags____________________________ Counter strike global offensive craftdottv 100 ways to die in minecraft global offensive counter strike global offensive game gaming kill montage cool source counter strike source counter strike gameplay gameplay css counter strike killing spree intel i5 2500k gtx 570 steam how to get global offensive hack ign offense hd hq awp counter strike game modecrack crack cs:go globaloffensive go counter strike global offensive beta beta global offensive beta csgo global offensive dust

Read more:
Counter Strike: Global offensive - Gamemodes - Video