Although bachelor-pad-type homes don't attract families among potential buyers, their resale value continues to be very robust, brokers say.
Main Street is a horror: there are whole rows of boarded-up shops, and doors behind heavy bars and grills, pad-locked shut.
Combined with its patent-pending optional pad-folio and integrated silicone keyboard cover that provides a traditional typing feel, nabi XD is your tweens' ultimate first tablet PC.
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Then there was a silence and then suddenly there's this dazzling light that flashes at you from the base of the launch pad - and that's ignition.
There is a minor issue with the D-Pad - it is not a joystick like on the K700, but a joystick looking select button surround by a D-Pad.
The device features a D-Pad -- the group of four buttons that looks like a plus sign and has been found on the left side of Nintendo remotes for decades.
Waingankar then claimed the key wicket of Kevin Pietersen, who advanced down the wicket trying to whip the ball through mid-wicket but was hit on the pad - and the umpire upheld the lbw appeal.
When Tim and Edra first decided to get divorced in December 2006, they told The Wall Street Journal that they sat down with a bottle of wine and a yellow legal pad--without lawyers present--to divide up their assets.
For now, the ICC have stopped short of employing the services of Hawkeye and the Snickometer - devices which suggest whether the ball has taken the edge of the bat or hit the pad - as they are not deemed factual.
De Villiers asked for a review and Harper was satisfied he had enough evidence to overturn the decision, but later TV replays suggested possible contact with glove before it hit De Villiers' pad - and a deflection off the bat afterwards.
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For those who don't know, the "Pad Only" area simply houses apps that are tagged as pad-only by users -- you can do so by tapping and holding an app icon in the drawer, followed by dragging it to the "Add Pad-only Tag" button in the top-right corner.
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Meanwhile, Sony has their motion-tech built into the next DualShock controller along with a touch-pad similar to the rear touch-pad on the PS Vita handheld system.
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There are four face buttons, a D-pad, dual-analog sliders, start, select, and four more 'round the back: ZL, ZR, L, and R.
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Corroborating reports, the pictured controller features a rectangular touchpad in between the standard d-pad and four-button setup, though it's missing the rumored Share button.
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With drilling being the determinate cost, new techs like multi-pad drilling and ultra-mobile drill rigs attract a lot of attention.
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The personal-loans market may also provide a launch-pad for other retail-finance businesses that are underdeveloped in Japan, such as credit cards and home-equity loans.
It includes a motion sensor and a touch-tracking pad that allows 360-degree analog input.
The 25-year-old Samaraweera, who had taken just five wickets in his previous nine Tests, began the slide when he had Kapali caught bat-pad by Jehan Mubarak at short-leg for 23.
But the allegiance to shareholder value has helped inflate 2 of the biggest bubbles in stock market history, forced corporate leaders to pad short-term income statements and "put chief executives in an unreal world where they lose their moral compass, " said Martin.
There is a four-way navigational pad in the lower-right corner of Push, and this can be used to move the 8 x 8 grid's focus around your session.
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Mukesh is no less of an Oberoi fan- his new pad, the 27-story tower that he has still to move into with his family, is maintained by the Oberoi group.
The controller features dual analog sticks, a d-pad, face buttons and shoulder bumpers for a console-style control experience on Android devices.
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The extent of the delay indicated the viscosity of the fluid, and toe-pad mucus was found to be little more than one-and-a-half times as viscous as water.
Oh, we almost forgot -- they've boosted out the keyboard in favor of a more useful D-pad and A, B, X, Y button formation -- which is, needless to say, awesome for playing awesome games.
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You also have the ability to bounce on pads using the rear touch-pad, take photos of the environment and walking around walls using conveniently positioned paper-glue.
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Since the embedded gyroscopes are used along with the d-pad and analog stick for navigation, selecting the right menu option feels akin to whack-a-mole -- unless the controller is held impossibly still.
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To those will now be added bat-pad catches and clarification on whether the ball pitched in line with the stumps or hit the bat in leg-before decisions.
Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).
Since January, Asus has announced multiple tablets, including the 10.1-inch Eee Pad Transformer and an unusual smartphone-tablet hybrid called Padfone, though it has not commercially launched all the devices yet.
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