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The drug, developed by Medivation, is indicated for patients who have already tried the chemotherapy drug docetaxel and testosterone-limiting interventions. Doctors use drugs or surgery to limit testosterone, which can spur growth of prostate tumors.
More than 241,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year and 28,170 will die from the disease, according to an estimate by the National Cancer Institute.
Regulators approved Xtandi based on a study of 1,200 patients with advanced prostate cancer who received the drug or a placebo. Patients taking Xtandi survived 18.4 months after beginning treatment, or nearly 5 months longer than patients taking placebo, who survived 13.6 months, on average.
The most common side effects seen with the drug include fatigue, back pain, diarrhea, headache and dizziness.
Xtandi was developed by San Francisco-based Medivation with financial and research support for Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharmaceuticals. The companies will share the marketing costs and profits from the drug.
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Hobby Lobby set to argue to block health care law
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An arts and craft supply chain that wants to block enforcement of part of a new health care law that requires employers to cover insurance costs for the morning-after pill and the week-after pill is heading to court.
Lawyers for the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby Stores say the federal law is unconstitutional and violates the company's owners' religious beliefs by forcing them to fund the pills, which they say effectively cause an abortion. The company says failure to provide such insurance could lead to fines of up to $1.3 million a day.
The U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City is scheduled to hear the company's arguments in favor of an injunction Thursday.
The government says Hobby Lobby is a secular employer that by definition does not exercise religion.

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The Rules of Stretching
Stretching is the key to maintaining your flexibility — in other words, how far and how easily you can move your joints. Your tendons (the tissues that connect muscle to bone) begin to shorten and tighten as you get older, restricting your flexibility. Your movement becomes slower and less fluid. You don't stand up as straight. You walk more stiffly and with a shorter stride. You find it more difficult to step up to a curb or bend down to pick up the trash. Stretching your rear thigh, hip, and calf muscles can make a big difference.
Watch runners at the park or weight lifters at the gym. Chances are, they have the wrong idea about stretching. Maybe they'll grab their heel for a split second to stretch their front thigh, or bend over for a moment to touch their toes. That sort of "stretching" isn't going to make you more flexible, and it may even injure you.
Here are the basic rules for a useful and safe flexibility workout:
Stretch as often as you can — daily, if possible. Always stretch after every workout, both cardiovascular and strength training. When you stretch on days you don't work out, be sure to warm up with a few minutes of easy movement like shoulder rolls, gentle waist twists, or light cardio activity.
Move into each stretching position slowly. Never force yourself into a stretch by jerking or snapping into position.
Notice how much tension you feel. A stretch should rate anywhere from mild tension to the edge of discomfort on your pain meter. It should never cause severe or sharp pain anywhere else in your body. Focus on the area you're stretching, and notice the stretch spread through these muscles.
As you hold each position, take at least two deep breaths. Deep breathing promotes relaxation.
Never bounce. After you find the most comfortable stretch position, stay there or gradually deepen the stretch. Bouncing only tightens your muscle — it doesn't loosen it. Forceful bouncing increases the risk of tearing a muscle.


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undisguised 2014 BMW 4 Series coupe. Yup, it's pretty much the same as the concept BMW showed in Detroit. The production 4 Series was snagged while out shooting
a commercial (check out that Cayenne camera car!), and you can clearly see that reality has set in on the concept. This is the car you can expect to see in
the showroom, sporting the same power train lineup as it's brother, the 3 Series. So basically, it's all good, only with two fewer doors.


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The hardest part about being in prison is deciding which gang to join. Here's some guidance.
Because I am a highly influential columnist, people from all walks of life asme for advice. Selecting the right gang affiliation in prison is an important topic I am often asked about. People come to me for this advice possibly because I spent some time in prison due to a supposed ponzi scheme isseue that I was barely convicted of. I would have been exonerated if a certain person who gave birth to me would have been smart enough to deleta all thos emails like I asked her to.
Suffice it to say, I am an expert on prison gang life. Learning how to select the right gang is basic life planning. I've live the life. I know the ins and outs. I can be your prison gang guide.
When you go to prison, the first step is the attend Gang Day. Most prison's hold Gang Day about once a week. It is a way for new inmates to meet various gang recruitment specialists and hear what they have to offer. Each gang usually has a table or booth set up in convention style. Many modern gangs also have excellent glossy literature and even CD's you can take with you.
When you meet the gang representatives, it is important to make a good impression. Greet them with nicknames like 'playa'. Most gang members enjoy being called 'playa'. Introduce yourself using the gang name you would like to have if you were in a gang. When I find myself in gang situations, I introduce myself as Cool Cat. I think that has a warm yet aggressive tone. Compliment each gang representative's tattoos. Tell them their tattoos are fresh or dope. Show them your tattoos if you have any. If most of your tattoos are about your mother or tweety bird, you may want to avoid the subject of tattoos. If you have any scars obtained during violent turf disputes with rival gang members, show them off.
It never hurts to offer the gang representatives a small gift such as a freshly made shank or a tight bag of weed you've been hiding in your anus. Tell them you've been to Compton. If they try to trick you by asking if you know a dude named Fearless, laugh it off and say, 'Nah man, I only chill with the top of the organization, know what I'm sayin'? Whoever that dude is he prolly got capped way back."
Be willing to share any experience you have that could benefit their gang. Most gangs will be interested to hear about you experience in areas like giving beat downs, tagging turf, gun play, managing a corner, capping dudes, getting crunk straight up, drive bys, boosting shit, stone cold pimpin', robbin' cribs, etc.
Do not accept any invitation to join a gang immediately. This is an important decision and you need to make sure you have all the pertinent information before you join a particular gang. Politely tell them you're not quite ready to be anybody's bitch just yet but you will get back to them promptly. Say 'peace' and move on to the next table.
And hey if you want even more street cred, it never hurts to say you're a friend of Cool Cat.
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Time to bring your team out for a day of fun. Research shows that team building exercises increase productivity in the workplace… Wait, scratch the research and technicalities!
Just get your team together and come to Unarthodox for a unique, immersive team bonding experience that will bring you and your coworkers together like never before!
At Unarthodox, we combine all of the arts to create an environment you can feel relaxed participating in. Our high-tech studio space in the heart of Chelsea, NYC will get everyone out of the isolated, mechanical state of mind and inspire your group to develop great new ideas together. Using improv, art, writing, and other creative exercises, your team will work collectively to create something truly amazing! Discover the power of collaboration in any project, work or play, at Unarthodox!
A great creative night out! This is not your typical art and wine class, we incorporate paint, music, aromas and a meditative environment to help unleash your creativity!
Our instructor will guide you through the process of creating a masterpiece! You can choose any painting from our selection or we can design a special painting for your team.
You can also create a team collage! Each team will work on their own fragment that will eventually become a part of one group painting which can represent your company's mission. You will be amazed by the results! You do not need to be an artist. All supplies and materials are included. Just bring the wine and we'll do the rest!
sculpture without signt - unique EXPERIENCE
Touch is the first sense to develop when we are born. Yet most of our life is experienced through sight and sound. In this class, we take you back to the very beginning. Explore your sense of touch by sculpturing...without sight.
You will receive an introduction to basic clay sculpturing. Then you will sculpt...blindfolded!
This session is not about the finished sculpture, but the process of feeling your way through a mental image. No sculpture experience necessary. Just your willingness to express yourself through touch. At the end, your team will get a photo of their sculptures to take home with them.
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Imagine Pictionary, Charades, and Clue all combined into one artistic adventure.
Participants have to illustrate a secret word by the use of paint, markers, clay, charcoal, pencils, random objects, body movement, and theatrical improvisation in order to have their team guess the word. The more words your team guesses, the more clues they will get to solve the final mystery artwork. At the end, anyone can win, but what matters is the team bonding skills that are developed through this fun, memorable experience.
intuitive Art - immersive experience
This is a very immersive experience. In this session, you will be given a canvas divided down the middle. For each side, you will create an expressive art piece using acrylic paint. Your environment will be manipulated by a 270-degree projection of various visuals and specifically selected music. Each of the two environments will be 20 minutes long and are designed to evoke different moods and emotions.
It is an expressive session where it encourages you to go with your intuition and create from within. This session helps you make the connection between intuitive thinking and the creative process. You do not need to be an artist or be familiar with the process of creating art. The intention is to tap into your creativity and allow you to freely express yourself. It is therapeutic and most importantly - lots of fun!
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Team Bonding through improvisation is both fun and effective. Our instructors will design interactive improv games specifically for your team that will start with fun, ice-breaker games, and transition into storytelling and collaboration exercises.
Whether you're integrating new employees, hosting a summit with people from different departments, or just looking for a fun, collaborative day with the team, then the Improv Team Bonding Series at Unarthodox will be a sure hit!
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At some point in our lives, we've all wanted to play a special character, whether it's a superhero or even a knight defending the kingdom from a fire-breathing dragon!
Well, roll up your sleeves because we're diving into virtual reality to do just that. In this course, you will become a character you've always wanted to be, creating your costume and props with basic building materials like paint and cardboard.
Then it gets really interesting... we make a short film. And not just any film—a Virtual Reality film. Using a special spherical virtual reality camera, you will become the star of your own 360-degree tour-de-force! The best part is: at the end of the class, we'll upload your masterpiece online to share with friends and family instantly. Create anything that you can imagine as you learn the basics of Virtual Reality filmmaking along the way. All you need to bring is your smart phone and your brain—we'll provide everything else, including your very own Virtual Reality goggles to take home! This course is perfect for groups.
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For me traditions are something to cherish. No, you don't have to be "stuck" in the past, but you may want to try a new experience.
German Christmas markets are so unlike our Black Friday or any of the other sale days after Thanksgiving. The couple of times I've been fortunate enough to be in Germany during December, I visited markets in both small and large towns. Some open on December 1; some are just for a weekend (in the small villages).
They all have great atmosphere. There are lots of handmade items. I've bought wood carved ornaments, ornaments made from walnut shells, ornaments made from blown glass, ornaments made from lace, ornaments made from something like paper mache, and much more. I've found hand knit scarves and sweaters. Of course there is candy and roasted nuts. And, there is food. Oh, what food. And, to drink there is gluhwein which is a mulled wine. However, there is also kinder gluhwein which doesn't have wine, but is based on a juice. The first time you purchase a cup in a market, you pay a deposit on the ceramic cup. (The cup may have the year on it, but definitely has the town.) For refills, you pay a smaller fee. Then, at the end of the market, if you wish to return the cup, you get your "deposit" back, or you can keep the cup as a souvenir. I have cups from 9 or 10 markets. What fond memories I have when I drink coffee, tea or apple cider from them during December.
Chicago has a great Christmas market. Phoenix has a one day market that was in Mesa for the first 3 years and has now moved to downtown Phoenix. I'm certain other U.S. towns have the markets also. If you can find one near, check it out. You really get an idea of what shopping was like for our ancestors in the "old" country. AND, for many of our "cousins" even now.
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Advent Calendar - Lichtbogen, Peppermint Sticks & Decorations in March
Some years we decorate and some years we don't. Often, especially while the children were young, we would put lights on the house. These were those BIG lights on strings, so that if one went out they all went out. I know that Walt was happy when we finally bought some where the string stayed lit even though one light was out.
For a 3 or 4 years we made decorations that looked like peppermint sticks. We scrounged the back of carpet stores for carpet tubes. I wrapped the tubes with heavy duty aluminum foil and then put red outdoor ribbon in spirals around each tube. They were placed along the driveway and the walk to the house by sticking a 16 inch piece of wood in the ground and placing the tube on top of it. Then I strung gold garland between the "sticks". Those were fun and affordable.
Now, even when we don't put up house lights, I put a German candle holder in the window. It's called a "Lichtbogen" or loosely translated "light arch". It's really not an arch, but a triangular shape. Since it is electric, I put it on a timer, and it stays lit all night long. Walt and I saw these in many German windows the couple of years we visited during December. So now we have a two of them and we put them in our windows in Phoenix.
In Phoenix, and in Southern California, outside decorations always were removed around New Year's Day. It was quite a surprise when Walt and I moved to Montreal, to find Christmas decorations still up the middle of March. Then, after living there for a couple of years we could understand the difficulty of removing some of these decorations when you have 4-6 feet of snow on the ground. After all, how do you place a ladder securely to remove the lights; many on the second floor eaves? How do you traipse through all of the snow to remove the snowmen and other figures that are in your yard? (And they may be half covered with snow also.) So that was a new event for us.
When I was a child, and then when our children were young, we would walk around the neighborhood, or drive further distances, to see the lights. There were some houses that had huge amounts of lights, but we didn't really care. We just enjoyed all of them. And the oohs and aahs of children and adults is still a pleasant sound. We don't do it as much, but I still enjoy strolling the neighborhood the middle of December. Of course, in Phoenix, it's something you CAN do without being totally bundled up.
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Datacom Cabling Market to Turn Around in 2004
After a slight increase in 2003, the building datacom cabling market will enjoy double-digit growth in 2004 due to an increased demand for broadband applications, according to a study by FTM Consulting, Hummelstown, Pa. The report, titled "U.S. Building Fiber and Copper Cabling Systems: 2003," blames market saturation in the late '90s and the economic downturn for the recent steep declines in the cabling market. However, the study predicts that over the next five years the fiber cable market will grow at a 17% rate, thanks to the rising popularity of horizontal cabling applications like storage area networks, switch-to-switch interconnectivity, and fiber-to-the-zone. Industry experts predict that fiber-to-the-desk (FTTD) will be the most prevalent technology when it becomes available in 2005. The study reports that the dominant cabling inside buildings will shift from copper to fiber cable, which will account for 61.1% of the total market, an increase from its 41.4% share in 2002.
World Lighting Demand to Reach $102 Billion by 2006
Global economic growth and the move toward more energy-efficient products will stimulate the demand for lighting equipment, according to the Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industrial market research firm. The world market is expected to increase by 5.3% per year through 2006. The North American market is projected to grow slightly slower at an increase of 4.7% per year through 2006.
The increased popularity of light emitting diodes (LEDs) stands to have the greatest effect on the lighting market. The alternative lighting technology will still require fixtures, helping to push that market beyond that of lamps. As an alternative to standard lights, however, LEDs could cut into lamp demand. The report also finds that the construction market represented two-thirds of total demand in 2001, and will continue to see above-average growth prospects through 2006.


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Monday night, Red Bull Sound Select once again brought a great night of music to the city of New York, this time with the help of singer Brian Fallon and website Brooklyn Vegan, who picked the bands on the bill. Fans gathered at the Music Hall of Williamsburg to see local bands Aye Nako and Nude Beach open the show, followed by an acoustic set by singer Brian Fallon and guitarist Alex Rosamilia of the Gaslight Anthem, with legendary punk rock band the Bouncing Souls closing out the show.
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Fool's Paradise
From the acclaimed best-selling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows, a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade's best works of social portraiture.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part drifter-mecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. In Miami Beach it's often said that "if you're not indicted you're not invited." But the city's mad, fascinating complexity resists easy stereotyping.
Fool's Paradise is more than just a present-day profile of a dark Eden. Gaines journeys back into the city's social and cultural history, unearthing stories of the resort's past that are every bit as absorbing - and jaw-dropping - as those of its present. The book begins with a snapshot of the city's current excess (this is, after all, a sun-washed hamlet that boasts, on a per capita basis, more bars - and breast implants - than any other place in America), then plunges into the Beach's origins, chronicling the audacious rise of such hoteliers as the Fontainebleau's Ben Novack and the Eden Roc's Harry Mufson, the sharp-elbowed tactics of Al Capone and Frank Sinatra, and the Mac-10 shooting sprees of the Marielito and Colombian drug lords.
From there, the narrative shifts to two wildly eccentric souls who gave their lives to preserving the city's architectural dazzle and creating its color palette, introduces us to "the Most Powerful Man in Miami Beach", and arrives finally in the modern day, where we meet, among others, a kinky German playboy who once owned a quarter of South Beach and publicly flaunts his sexual escapades; a fabulously successful nightclub promoter whose addictive past seems to have given him a portal into the night world's id; and a gaggle of young sexy models, dreamers, and schemers on a mission to achieve significance.
Evoking the Beach's surreal blend of flashy Vegas and old Hollywood glamour, as well as its manic desperation and reckless wealth, Gaines persuasively demonstrates that though the Beach is, in the words of its most famous drag queen, "an island of broken toys . . . a place where people get away with things they'd never get away with anyplace else," it casts an irresistible spell.
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Fascinating, funny, dishy social history
I found "Fool's Paradise" to be a rich, fascinating listen. Gaines is a terrific storyteller, with a gift for remembering that "history" is yesterday's juicy gossip. Starting with the description of a half-million dollar bat mitzvah (for the daughter of a couple of nouveau riche socialites who are not exactly Jewish), he then goes back in time to the cigar-chomping businessmen who drained the swamps, built the great hotels, and wound up in mammoth, ego-fueled feuds.
Then we get the coming of Al Capone and his gangster buddies … the Rat Pack era when Sinatra had his own suite at the Fontainebleau but didn't pay for anything but his hookers … the flamboyantly gay doorman whose pot-inspired reveries gave birth to South Beach's pastel color scheme … the Cuban boatlift and the drug wars of the "Scarface" era … the gay scene, the nightclubs, the models, etc., etc., etc.
Narrator Dean Sluyter brings the right kind of storytelling energy to all this. He voices a big cast of characters (models, mobsters, etc.) in lively fashion, and when the stories verge (often) on the surreal or the absurd, you can sense the raised eyebrow in his voice.
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I was disappointed by this audiobook. The title was misleading in my opinion. There were a few examples of "players,posers and excess" but an inordinate amount of the book was spent on architecture, people who didn't have anything to do with the title description and random characters. I got so tired of name dropping and uninteresting facts that I barely made it to the end.
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The Best and Worst Disney Animated Movies
List Rules Only Disney cartoons - No computer animation / CGI films
Best of Disney's animated classics ranked and voted on by fans. Walt Disney Studios has produced 57 theatrically-released animated movies to date (not including films released by Disney but produced by Pixar.) The studio began working on short animated features in 1923, before moving into feature-length animation with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. In 2011, the studio released not only a new adaptation of the classic Winnie the Pooh character but also re-released The Lion King in 3D. In addition, Disney also released a photo-realistic animated version of The Lion King.
This list collects together all the theatrical Disney animated classics and allows you to vote for the best and worst Disney movies. Not all Disney movies have been gold. At the bottom of the list, you'll see the worst Disney movies--animated films that you could go without ever seeing again. If you see one of the worst animated Disney movies on this list, vote it down and save people the hassle of watching it themselves. The top Disney movies aren't necessarily the best, but here they are.


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Forecasting is part art and part science. Art because it's going to be about the CEO's feel for the business, its market and customers. Science because there are certain predefined financials that have to be taken into account. In our Startup series, here's how to do a business forecast:
Forecasting is part art and part science. Art because it's going to be about the CEO's feel for the business, its market and customers. Science because there are certain predefined financials that have to be taken into account. In our Startup series, here's how to do a business forecast:
Join our Business Achievers community and get access to downloads to help your business, free online training courses and network with members to help grow your business.
Building initial forecasts with any degree of accuracy takes a lot of time but is time invested wisely.
First, proper financial forecasts will help you develop operational and staffing plans that will help make your business a success.
Second, few investors will put money in your business if you're unable to provide a set of forecasts with your plan.
When building a financial forecast for a business that's at pre revenue or early revenue stage it's hard to forecast against those things over which you have limited control such, so start with something you do have control over, costs and expenses. Begin with estimates for the most common categories of expenses as follows:
Fixed overheads
- Rent
- Utility bills
- Phone bills/communication costs
- Accounting/bookkeeping
- Legal/insurance/licensing fees
- Postage
- Technology
- Advertising & marketing
- Salaries
Variable Costs
- Cost of Goods Sold
- Materials and supplies
- Packaging
- Direct Labor Costs
- Customer service
- Direct sales
- Direct marketing
When forecasting expenses remember:
- Your estimates for advertising and marketing will always escalate beyond expectations.
- Legals, insurance etc are hard to predict without experience and almost always exceed expectations.
- Keep track of direct sales and customer service time as a direct labour expense even during the startup stage because you'll want to forecast this expense accurately when you have more clients.
Recommended reading: How Cash Flow Determines Startup Success
Revenue scenario planning
It's common practice to do two sets of scenarios:
Realistic: A realistic target i.e. what the business needs to generate shareholder value. It's normally the target that underpins the finances and justifies costs and overheads.
Stretch: A stretch target is also worthwhile - that's having a great year or quarter where everything forecasted to drop comes in on time and at the forecasted price point. If this scenario can be supported by the realistic overhead and expenses plan, it augurs well for the scalability of the business. However additional overhead should be planned for additional sales people or customer service reps or materials.
By unleashing the power of thinking big and creating this set of ambitious forecasts, you're more likely to generate the breakthrough ideas that will grow your business.
Fail to plan, plan to fail
By building these sets of projections, you'll force yourself to make conservative assumptions and then relax some of these assumptions for your aggressive case. Many entrepreneurs will optimistically focus on reaching revenue goals and assume the expenses can be adjusted to accommodate reality if revenue doesn't materialize. The best way to reconcile revenue and expense projections is by a series of reality checks for key ratios. Here are a few ratios that should help guide your thinking:
Gross margin. What's the ratio of total direct costs to total revenue during a given quarter or given year? Beware of assumptions that make your gross margin increase from 10 to 50 percent!
Operating profit margin. What's the ratio of total operating costs-direct costs and overheard, excluding financing costs-to total revenue during a given quarter or given year? As revenues grow, overhead costs should represent a small proportion of total costs and operating profit margin should improve.
Headcount per client. Divide the number of employees at your company by the total number of clients you have. When does the productivity of your workforce kick in to be able to make step growth with new customers without adding additional staff?
If you have to forecast then forecast every day. You don't have to spend hours on this vital planning if the work is done up front. The more you understand the numbers, the more you understand the business.
Over to you now. How did you go about learning how to do a business forecast for your startup? Tell us your experience in the comments below.


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The Dallas Cowboys released cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones late Wednesday afternoon.
The Cowboys acquired Jones, 25, in a trade with the Tennessee Titans during last year's off season.
At the time, Jones had been suspended by the NFL for several off-field incidents.
He was reinstated by the league and played in several games for the team, but never made an impact. Jones had no interceptions and averaged just 4.5 yards per punt return.
He was suspended again in October after a fight in a Dallas hotel with a security guard who was assigned to him.
"He was surprised, and I think he was obviously somewhat hurt," said Worrick Robinson, Jones' Nashville, Tenn.-based attorney. "At the same time, he understands the business behind what is happening here."
Jones' attorney said he expects the cornerback will be back with some team in 2009.
"He is young. He has a lot of ability and he is eager to get back on the field," Robinson said.
Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple declined to comment on the team's decision and said owner Jerry Jones was unavailable. Coach Wade Phillips did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press.
The Cowboys say release of "Pacman" Jones will become official on Feb. 9, the first day that NFL clubs are allowed to make waiver requests.
Before coming to Dallas, Jones was arrested six times and involved in 12 instances requiring police intervention after Tennessee drafted him in the first round in 2005.


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What's new this summer on Maui and Oahu
Hawaii's peak summer travel period is about to begin, and as usual, the most popular islands of Oahu and Maui have developed plenty of new packages and programs for visitors. But the best news may be what hasn't – and won't – be developed, at least not to the extent originally feared. Earlier this month, Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed into law a bill establishing a conservation easement to preserve 665.8 acres of undeveloped land owned by Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu's scenic North Shore.
After years of contentious discussions, the parties involved agreed on a $48.5 million easement covering nearly 79 percent of Turtle Bay Resort's open space. The state provided $40 million, the city and county of Honolulu anted up $5 million and The Trust for Public Land paid $3.5 million to make it happen.
Turtle Bay Resort agreed to limit its rights to develop hotel and housing units to 20 percent of what the original zoning allowed. It now plans to eventually build two new full-service hotels, totaling 625 rooms, near its existing (and recently renovated) hotel, along with 100 resort residential homes on its Kahuku side — less than one-seventh of the total homes proposed previously.
While not as dramatic as this historic conservation easement, other travel news from Maui and Oahu also has an eco-friendly element, from reducing traffic to supporting local farmers, or celebrates the truly great outdoors of Hawaii. See the accompanying gallery for details.


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Capsule reviews of the next week's video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray, including special features:
April 8
"August: Osage County" (R, 119 minutes, The Weinstein Company/Anchor Bay): Meryl Streep utterly dominates this screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2007 drama of family dysfunction. In it, she plays another in a series of recent roles that tap into the actress's uncanny ability to evoke both horror and pity at her character's flaws. Yet with her performance as Violet Weston, the venom-spewing matriarch of an extended family that includes three grown daughters, the actress may have outdone herself. Violet, who is suffering from mouth cancer and addicted to pain pills, is a woman given to such toxic utterances and such a corrosive style of mothering that it's a wonder more of her relatives haven't developed cancers of their own, simply from long-term exposure. Streep and Julia Roberts (as oldest daughter Barbara) earned Oscar nominations for their performances. Contains crude language, sexual references and drug abuse. Extras include commentary with director John Wells and cinematographer Adriano Goldman, a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and an interview with Letts on writing.
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (PG-13, 156 minutes, Warner): The second part of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy goes a long way toward righting the wrongs of the first movie, which was even longer. The first installment of the adaptation of the beloved fantasy-adventure novel was bloated, boring and slow to get started. Jackson's handsome new addition to the canon is a fleet, fun redemption of the film franchise, the first chapter of which had J.R.R. Tolkien fans crying foul. Whether the tale of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and 13 dwarves in search of lost treasure will appeal to anyone besides fans of the 1937 book is dubious. Still, for those of us who love Tolkien, the new movie is a treat. Contains violent and frightening imagery. Extras include an on-the-set "In the Company of the Hobbit" featurette, another behind-the-scenes featurette, Jackson's production videos. a New Zealand locations featurette and Ed Sheeran "I See Fire" music video.
"Grudge Match" (PG-13, 113 minutes, Warner): Sylvester Stallone stars as Henry "Razor" Sharp, a former light heavyweight champ who inexplicably fled the sport in his heyday, avoiding a tie-breaking fight with longtime rival Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro). Sly's still got it — when it comes to action. Razor is lured out of retirement for the bout he evaded three decades earlier, and all the requisite training scenes — the jabbing and jogging, raw-egg-swilling and truck-pulling — are nearly as exhilarating as they were in 1976. All these years later, the 67-year-old Stallone still looks the part with his tattooed barrel chest and ability to believably land a punch. His acting, however, is a little rusty. With his garbled delivery, he never was a paragon of emotional depth, but now his frozen face only exacerbates his shortcomings when the comedic drama turns serious. Contains sports violence, language and a sexual situation. Extras include deleted scenes. Also, on Blu-ray: "The Bull & The Stallion," "In the Ring With Kevin Hart," "Ringside With Tyson & Holyfield," "Blow for Blow With Larry Holmes," "Kevin Hart Unedited," alternate opening, alternate endings with an introduction by Peter Segal.
Also: "Nurse," "Black Coffee," "Holy Ghost People," "Cavemen," "Four Seasons," "Everyday," "The Bamboo Saucer" (1968, sci-fi cult favorite starring Dan Duryea is one of four new releases this week from Chicago-based Olive Films, which specializes in restoring classics), "Cry Danger" (1951, film noir starring Dick Powell, Olive Films), "Bang! Bang! You're Dead!" (1966, spy comedy starring Tony Randall, Olive Films), "Young At Heart" (1954, musical starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra, Olive Films), "Best Night Ever," "Don't Ask Me Questions: The Unsung Life of Graham Parker and the Rumour," "Bayou Blue" (2011, documentary on a Louisiana serial killer), "Black Jack: 35th Anniversary Edition" (1979, Cohen Film Collection), "Snake and Mongoose," "Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded" (documentary), "The Dog Who Saved Easter," "I Am Divine" (documentary), "Bastards" (France-Germany), "A Field in England," "The 400 Blows" (1959, Francois Truffaut debut classic, The Criterion Collection), "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones," "Justin Bieber's Believe," "Lizzie Borden Took an Ax" (Lifetime original movie) and "Guardian of the Highlands"(also known as "Sir Billi," Sean Connery's first animated voice-over role).
Television Series: "Mayberry R.F.D.: First Season" (1968-69),"Power Rangers Megaforce: The Great Dragon Spirit" (Nickelodeon), "Holliston: Second Season," "Ben 10 Omniverse: Duel of the Duplicates" (Cartoon Network), "Winged Planet" (BBC), "Earthflight" (BBC), X" and "The Bear Family & Me" and "Extreme Bears" (series from BBC Earth).
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Washington Post staff writer Kay Coyte contributed to this report.


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Here at the AAA office, I field calls from producers looking for anthropologists. From popular television shows like Jeopardy to channels like NatGeo, producers are looking for experts to answer their latest questions or provide accuracy to their newest series.
A couple of weeks ago, a woman from the History Channel's hit show American Pickers called the AAA office. In the latest pick, Mike and Frank purchased a bow and arrow set. The pickers were told that the set was from the Philippines and that the arrows were poisonous. Did the story check out? Is there an anthropologist that could come help verify the pick?
Because of tools such as the AAA membership database, I was able to refer this researcher to a selection of anthropological experts. American Pickers brought anthropologist Candace Sall, Associate Curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Missouri on the show to share her assessment of the bow and arrow set. Her appearance starts at minute 40 of the episode "Cheap Pick".
If you've been putting your AAA online membership profile on the back burner, the present is an opportune time to complete it. By searching through the database, I can help connect the media with you when they are seeking your area of expertise. I have yet to come across an inquiry where there is not an anthropologist for a topic in question.
I look forward to including you in the next inquiry!
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Travel Norway. The Architectural Way./
In 2005, Norway initiated a massive 15-year agenda to generate more tourism. The government turned to architects and designers to concept and build tourist routes and architectural rest stops to enhance the experience of the stunning Norwegian landscape.
The projects span from the southern town of Jaeren to the northern tip of Varenger. Visitors and Norwegian natives alike are afforded the luxury of safe roads and reveling in clean and relaxing architecturally inspired viewpoints. The ongoing project has been aptly named, The National Tourist Routes In Norway, and features an array of architects including Margrete Friis, Peter Zumthor, PUSHAK arkitekter, Code Arkitektur, Manthey Kula, Snøhetta AS, and Jensen and Skodvin to name a few. The architects have worked together to connect the dots throughout the country and form a network of breathtaking valleys, farms, rivers, and mountain cliffs - creating a lattice of scenic masterpieces that would make just about anyone (Nordic or otherwise) want to shimmy into warm genser, bring a matpakke, and take in the sights.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's bromance is more than just friendly -- it's in their blood.
The superstar acting and screenwriting duo are actually related, research on their respective family trees revealed this week.
Damon and Affleck are both descendents of William Knowlton, Jr., a bricklayer who settled in America after moving from England in the 1630s, New England Genealogical Society researchers said Friday.
The pair are tenth cousins once removed, according to the researchers.
Affleck also has a bevy of other A-list relatives, including the late Princess Diana and 16 U.S. presidents -- including Barack Obama.
Affleck and Damon are childhood friends who met while growing up in Boston and gained fame together as Oscar-winning writers of the 1997 hit "Good Will Hunting," which starred Damon as a janitor with a genius I.Q.


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I've been all over the place this year craftwise. My obsessions have ranged from lever knitting to navajo plying. My creative pursuits have been greatly influenced by what I see on The Rav and what my lovely
I've been pretty good about not adding too much to my already enormous yarn stash. My principle for acquisitions has been quality over quantity since my stash is acrylic heavy. I only bought one skein of yarn at Rhinebeck this year and I got two skeins of yarn from my visit to Chicago on Thanksgiving that I couldn't resist (it was on sale).
I do slip every now and again but it has to be a good reason. Its hard to make sweaters when I'm buying a skein here and a skein there so I bought yarn at this years Smileys Manhattan sale with a sweater in mind. It has been a while since I've bought yarn like that.
When talking about my wool stash for spinning, that's a whole 'nother story. I'm not even going to confess the damage done at Rhinebeck....at least not yet.
Happy crafting and I hope you all have a spectacular New Year!


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Ultra Light Me
|Ultra Light Me
|Directed by
|Dylan Lockspur
|Written by
|Dylan Lockspur
|Dylan Lockspur
|Produced by
|all together now—Dylan Lockspur
|Distributed by
|somebody not Dylan Lockspur, surprisingly
|Release date
|7 May 2014
|98 minutes
|mostly mild, but can be very harsh
|however much it cost to buy all of those cigarettes
|IMDb page
Ultra Light Me is a 2014 documentary film by American independent filmmaker Dylan Lockspur. The film follows a 365-day time period—more commonly known as a year (specifically, the year of 2013)—during which he smokes at least one pack of Pall Mall Ultra Light cigarettes a day, and documents the severe effects this lifestyle has on Lockspur psychologically and physically.
The reason for Lockspur's experimentation with tobacco was its continuing presence even in developed countries as a health hazard and prevalent addiction, even resulting in various lawsuits. This impels Lockspur to point out how criticisms levelled against fast food companies often apply to tobacco manufacturers as well.
|Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility end? Is smoking really that bad for you? I mean, what would happen if I smoked nothing but a pack of Pall Mall Ultra Lights for 365 days straight? Would I suddenly be on the fast track to becoming a dead American? Would it be unreasonably dangerous? Let's find out. I'm ready. Ultra Light me.
—Dylan Lockspur, recklessly kickstarting the film
The film begins with Lockspur in prime physical condition—32 years old, 190 centimetres tall, 80 kilograms, even above average shape according to his Wii Fit Plus trainer, and with a real-life girlfriend, which is more than can be said for many others. He consults three doctors about his proposed experiment, and all three doctors—a proctologist, a coroner, and a doctor of high-energy physics—agree that the experiment will have unwelcome effects on his body, but nothing too severe, the physics PhD even citing the human body as "kind of gross anyway".
Lockspur begins the experiment with a pack every day, bought from his local newsagent. He also adjusts his lifestyle accordingly to suit the average citizen of a developed country, walking five to ten thousand paces a day, commuting to work in massive traffic jams, and being ignorant of the industrial and unhealthy nature of his diet and environment. After a month or so, he begins to experience bouts of disinterest and migraines relieved by cigarettes, leading his proctologist to dub him "addicted".
After a month, his girlfriend dumps him, by which point Lockspur has already proven his point to most people. However, Lockspur continues, and by the end of six months, he loses all sense of taste and smell. He has also been steadily increasing his daily dose of nicotine, smoking through fifteen packs of Ultra Lights on certain days.
After eight months, Lockspur begins to suffer from heart palpitations. He finally reveals that he has various risk factors that make him extremely vulnerable to lung cancer from smoking, and that family and friends are beginning to express some concern in the form of attempting to forcibly have him put in a mental asylum. His doctor of physics strongly advises that he quit smoking immediately, since the tar building up in his body may have some side effects.
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Lockspur completes the twelve-month experiment, and collapses into his sixth pack of the final day. By now he is a chain smoker, smoking at least five packs of Ultra Lights a day. All three doctors—seeing him in the emergency room—are wildly surprised when he is diagnosed with lung cancer, and is given six months at maximum to live.
Text at the end of the movie says that Lockspur died in April 2014, and appeared to mildly regret the experiment. A funeral was held in private, and Lockspur's ex-girlfriend did not attend. The movie ends with Lockspur saying through a mechanical larynx, "Who do you want to see go first: me or them?" followed by a photograph of his tombstone.
Despite Lockspur's death, his final will provided for the release of the movie in North America and Europe. The Motion Picture Association of America initially rated it NC-17 for its "gratuitous depiction of tobacco smoking and strong deathly situations, including depiction in detail of a gravestone"; however, it bowed to public pressure and lowered the rating to an R. The British Board of Film Classification, not wishing to appear as prudish, gave it a rating of 18 rather than R18.
Marketing initially seemed to imply the film was a snuff film, depicting the actual moment of Lockspur's death; however, this appears to have been a misunderstanding on the part of the general public, as it merely depicts Lockspur discussing smokeless tobacco. Nonetheless, the film was a large hit in no way whatsoever due to a craving for Schadenfreude, grossing $20,642,054 worldwide; however, this meant nothing because, due to extreme inflation, this barely covered the cost of the ink used to print a single poster of the movie.
Critics of the film, including Pall Mall's manufacturer, argue that the late Mr. Lockspur intentionally smoked a large number of cigarettes—most certainly not in any way due to the nicotine addiction spurred on by his experiment—and that the results would have been the same regardless the source of tar and nicotine. Many have also stated that Lockspur's various risk factors contributed more to his premature demise than the smoking itself, and have carried out alternative experiments in an attempt to prove this, often incorporating other types of deaths such as by heart disease. Subsequently, the prevalence of lung cancer in North America and Europe rose 150%, since these experiments were no less reckless or unhealthy than Lockspur's original.
Some have even alleged that Lockspur merely faked his own death as a publicity stunt; no copies of Lockspur's death certificate have as of yet been released, and critics such as Roger Ebert have repeatedly cast suspicion upon the veracity of his demise. However, Lockspur's estate have expressed concern and disapproval regarding this insensitive treatment of Lockspur's sacrifice, and Lockspur himself has frequently come out at awards events and screenings to personally support these assertions.


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Yes it is scary, but it is so pretty.
Yes it is scary, but it is so pretty.
I decorate my woodern giraffe.... Giraffes are my fav animal and i got given a giraffe model for christmas 2 years ago...hes about 2 metres tall and i wrap beads around his neck.
Steph xx
So excited for christmas 2012
Is that foam in the bath or cotton wool? A great idea but you'd need to be able to easily remove it to use the bath!
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend kris kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
I love that idea MCD - maybe it's all one piece and can be easily thrown in and pyulled out of the tub!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas


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With our recent drought in Gig Harbor, WA it is no wonder that water conservation has come to the fore of many conversations. If you live on a well or are just a concerned citizen about the availability of such a precious resource, water, gives us a call! We have several ways to lower your water consumption like low flow toilets, shower heads, and rain water harvesting.
Most people are comfortable with their hot water set at 120°F, which is also the new standard that manufacturers use when pre-setting it at the factory. If you have an older model (gas or electric), set the thermostat at medium.


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JLL SSA's Research & Strategy Associate Director, Zandile Makhoba recently spoke about buying and selling property during a recession, and understanding the supply and demand factors that drive this particular space with SAfm/MoneyWeb listeners in an open-line radio interview.
SIKI MGABADELI: As you know, and as we've just discussed with Wayne McCurrie, on Tuesday Stats SA released GDP data that showed that South Africa slipped into a recession. It's for the first time since 2009 and we still don't know just how deep the recession is and how long it's going to last. A lot of that is going to depend on 2017's second quarter. We've already seen discouraging – if I can use that term – data from the mining and manufacturing industries this week. That doesn't bode well for GDP growth.
So today we are looking at you and your property – what does that mean for you? Some people may be looking to sell, some looking to buy, some wondering if they should just stay a bit longer in the rental market.
We are in conversation with Zandile Makhoba, who is head of head of research at JLL SA. Thank you so much, Zandile, for your time today.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Pleasure to be here.
SIKI MGABADELI: It's been such a hectic week. Every economist that I've spoken to ahead of the release of that data expected an improvement, and then there was this shock.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Yes. I think we always expect consumer activity to boost our economy. It's one of the major drivers of GDP and when trade then hits so badly, especially after a weak quarter for 2016, it really says how weak the consumer is feeling, and that impacts on your durable goods. So your furniture sales and so forth will be most affected.
But then of course your property sector, your expensive items, are the most affected when consumers are less willing to spend.
SIKI MGABADELI: I suppose the trend in the property sector over the past few years, as we've seen consumers under pressure. has not really been very strong.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: It's definitely not been at the best level. If you look at the South African Reserve Bank's mortgage loan figures, they've really not done very well over the past few year. The last time we saw decent growth was around 2011 after the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Since then your mortgage growth has been very low and the most recent figure is about 4% on a year-on-year basis.
So you really are seeing lower mortgage debt, which speaks to lower demand in the household sector, which of course speaks to a struggling household market.
SIKI MGABADELI: So for consumers right now who are trying to get a bond, who are applying, what's happening to them?
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: There are pros and cons. If you are a buyer in this market, you are kind of entering at a favourable time. Prices are not growing as strongly as they used to. There is a lot of stock in the market which is both from developments and just people moving out of their homes. So you've got certain powers of negotiation, based on the fact that there is some level of high supply as a buyer.
The cons of course are that now we are in a situation where interest rates are at their highest; economists are expecting interest rates to decrease. We are probably at the peak of our cycle now, but you are looking at bond levels which are higher than they would have been a few years ago. Earnings are also not growing very well, so there's that factor.
And then there is just consumer sentiment. If you are not really optimistic about the future you are less likely to take on a big cost… [overtalking].
So it really plays with a person's mind as to how they are going to balance things out. Those are just some of the things that people need to be conscious of.
SIKI MGABADELI: Let's say you are in the market, and you've decided okay, I'm going to enter this now. I am armed with at least a bank that says it may lend me – maybe not a 100% bond, because those days have gone – maybe an 80, 85% bond. But I have the power to negotiate. What are those questions that a buyer must be asking now of a seller?
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: You need to really consider the different markets that you are operating in. So, as much as it's a buyer's market, there are segments and there are areas that will do better than others. You need to firstly understand the area that you are looking at, and the supply and demand factors that drive that particular space.
You also need to then be able to position yourself in comparison to other buyers in the same space. If you are coming in, for example, as a cash buyer, that's going to be a huge advantage in certain spaces. You can always then negotiate. It's a bit more difficult in areas that are experiencing high demand and there are lots of buyers where a cash buyer will have not that that much–
SIKI MGABADELI: It's interesting, because it will be region-specific. For example, Cape Town and the Western Cape had a boom, whereas everybody else has found themselves static or even moving backwards.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Definitely. One of those key drivers of the Cape Town market is foreign buyers, for example, who come in with foreign currency and have that advantage in comparison to South Africans. So even as a cash buyer in the South African market, once you get to the Cape Town market you are playing a different game.
But there are always ways around it. There are advantages to looking at different areas. Look at your needs, look at the neighbourhood that you are moving into and what it offers you as a buyer. Those are the things that you consider. It's a long-term stay once you are looking at a home, so consider the long-term factor at play.
SIKI MGABADELI: And if you are selling in this kind of market?
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: If you are selling in this market there is probably going to be low demand. What are the things that make your property better than the rest? Is it the area that you are in? That's always a good advantage. You must remember that you are competing with developers that have brought on new supply, and those properties are coming in to face a buyer that is at a certain level. So what you are looking at now is that stand-alone houses are not performing as well as smaller flats and townhouses.
SIKI MGABADELI: The lock-up-and-go.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Exactly. Your buyers nowadays are new entrants in the market. They are not buying for complete families. They are buying for single or couple use. So are you going to compete in the market with the kind of asset that you are offering and, if not, can you hold back a little longer until the market recovers, or are you that confident that your asset is exactly what somebody else will buy?
SIKI MGABADELI: It's interesting – there is this new trend. I was at a conference about a month ago where we were talking about how entrenched the shared economy is among millennials. They are not like our parents, who wanted to own a house with a big yard and three-and-a-half bedrooms. They are happy to stay here if it's closest to work, and then they switch and they go elsewhere.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: There's definitely a shift in the way life is moving towards everything needs to be central. People want to be able to walk or cycle or get on a quick train to work. From work you should be able to do other activities – for example, go to gym and be within a grid. Being close to a Gautrain station is a big advantage in the Johannesburg region. And being close to major business districts is a huge advantage, because those are the kind of buyers that you are going to face.
SIKI MGABADELI: We are going to take a call from Lethu in Johannesburg. Hi, Lethu.
LETHU: Hi. A quick question. I understand the conversation. You are going on about residential property and the trends around it at this point. I Just want to find out from a commercial property perspective, where you are an investor preferably, would you say it's advisable to get into a commercial property investment or residential, and what are the factors surrounding that?
SIKI MGABADELI: Zandile will answer that in a moment. I'm going to take another call from Morake in the Western Cape, and then we'll respond. Hi, Morake.
MORAKE: Hi, Siki. I've just been discouraged from entering the market. I want your expert to clarify for me: is it fair for a financial institute to say: "If you don't have a degree you are paying more interest. If you have it, provide us with proof so that we can see if we can reduce your interest"? Isn't that really unethical?
SIKI MGABADELI: Is that something that's happened to you?
MORAKE: It's happening to me right now. I got a call today. I'm looking at buying a property for a value close to R2.7 million. They are saying to me "We will give you prime-plus-0.7. But you know what, if you can tell us if you have a degree or you are qualified, then it will be reduced." Look, I don't mind, I am degreed, I will provide them with it, but I'm just thinking about the bigger picture. People who don't have degrees – they are the ones who will be paying a higher interest. I just need clarity on that. Thank you very much.
SIKI MGABADELI: Thanks, Morake. Let's get a response from Zandile. I haven't heard that before.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: It's interesting, a good question. I've never heard of anything like that. I wouldn't understand why they'd ask for the degree as proof of a person with the ability to pay, because the bank is really interested in whether you are able to pay back. I think people who've owned spaza shops for many years are also able to apply for mortgage loans. You just need to show your ability to generate a decent income, and therefore meet your obligations with a bank.
SIKI MGABADELI: What I'm going to do is I'm going to follow up on this, because I think it's important to ask those questions. Obviously there are criteria we aren't aware of.
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Is it ethical to profile clients on their educational level? I wouldn't think so.
SIKI MGABADELI: Commercial property?
ZANDILE MAKHOBA: Commercial property is an interesting space. To keep it short, the office market is kind of in an oversupply. It's again a question of where you are located and what are you offering an occupier? So be careful going into that space. There are also a lot of large players, so if you are a small player in this space, you are going to be competing with some proper sharks who've been in this space for a long time and who know how the streets work. That's the conversation around commercial.
SIKI MGABADELI: Thanks for your time today. From JLL SA that was Zandile Makhoba. We are back on Monday. Bye-bye.
Listen to the full podcast here: http://www.ornico.co.za/editorialstream/BroadcastMedia/2017_06_09_Safm_Marketupdate_JLL_18H16.mp3


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Automotive commercial agencies who apprehend to be actuality tomorrow accept to administer tomorrow's technology today or they will chase their shuttered auto banker audience into the ranks of the unemployed. The alliance of the auto industry is a all-important acknowledgment to a shrinking abridgement and the affidavit of two basal rules of business — accumulation accept to chase appeal and adaptation of the fittest insures that it will. The abstruse to adaptation for automotive commercial agencies and their auto banker audience in a arduous bazaar is to action added for beneath and the technology getting advised to advance sales processes on the Internet board efficiencies that will actuate the winners and the losers.
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Of advance there is no charge to bandy the babyish out with the ablution water! Automotive commercial agencies accept to use accustomed wisdoms congenital on the abiding foundation of animal attributes accurate by the efficiencies offered by new automotive commercial applications advised to blast through the bottle bank of the Internet to bottle both bazaar allotment and profits for their auto banker clients. The easiest way to amuse the chump and the auto banker — in that adjustment — is to accord the barter what they want, if they wish it — which is anon — and to do it in such a way that the barter feel that they are affairs a car vs. getting awash one. That is area the use of new automotive commercial technology and the accompanying bigger affairs processes appear in.
Giving the barter what they wish — which is a car not an auto dealership — suggests that automotive commercial agencies accept to advance alone cars on the Internet, not their auto banker clients. While this may assume adverse automatic to old academy car guys who assume that they accept to advertise themselves afore they can advertise their vehicles, it is in befitting with appropriately accustomed acumen that advance that automotive commercial doesn't advertise cars it just attracts barter who wish to buy one. Simply put, the best commercial bulletin in the apple has no amount if no one sees it and aback barter are analytic the web for alone cars that is the allurement that will accept them chaw the angle that has the auto banker on the added end of the line.
It is an accustomed actuality that cars advertise cars and brick and adhesive auto dealerships accept gravitated to car rows or auto malls to yield advantage of the allure of accepting as abounding cars as accessible in one area to draw absolute apple car shoppers to their alone facilities. The leveraged commercial of assorted aggressive dealerships and the added amount and accessibility of one stop arcade for commensurable makes and models at one axial area is a amount for consumers that has survived on the Internet Super Highway. Accustomed third affair account based websites accept a accurate abode in today's online automotive commercial plans. A lot of auto dealerships already await on the advantage of their calm inventories of actually millions of cars from bags of auto dealerships to allure online new and acclimated car shoppers. The seek engine optimization, S.E.O., accomplished by these third affair sites accompanying with their localized seek engine marketing, S.E.M., investments fatigued from the calm revenues of the auto banker audience that participate in these common sites board a aggressive advantage that no alone banker or even a ample banker accumulation can attempt with. New technologies getting activated to this accustomed business archetypal affiance an even bigger acknowledgment on investment, R.O.I., for the auto dealers that participate.
ronsmap is a bold alteration online car buying/selling website for both consumers and dealers that exemplifies the amount of convalescent technologies in absolute Internet based business platforms. It makes car affairs fast, comprehensive, cellophane and live. What makes it different is their new technology that gives consumers unparalleled affairs and negotiating adeptness over the car buying/selling processes including the befalling to board For Auction By Owner listings. Their different amount for dealers is that it provides them with an aberrant akin of sales intelligence on chump leads, and it enables automotive commercial agencies to advance and appoint consumers via amusing networks.
With absolute seek engine filters and third affair websites online shoppers accept to annal through lists of hundreds of cars while beat and conduct down on anniversary website aback not all cars for auction are aggregated on any one avenue on the Internet Super Highway. Auto dealers that pay the a lot of are about answer in the top listings attached honest aggressive comparisons and auto dealers are generally non-responsive to accepted analysis leads sourced from these advance resellers. Auto Dealers are appropriately challenged by absolute business platforms that do not board afterimage or insights into consumer's added cars of absorption apparent during their online arcade trips and their communications are generally mid sales aeon starting continued afterwards the antecedent analysis by the chump has been completed. The R.O.I. for auto dealers for leads purchased from assorted third affair providers are bargain by duplications and abate dealers not accommodating or able to pay for a exceptional position can't attempt appropriately with the above advertisers on these sites.
ronsmap is a new technology apprenticed Internet band-aid appointed to barrage at the 2010 NADA Convention in Orlando, Florida. They board the advantage of assorted inventories acquaint on a different map-like centralized seek engine apprenticed by chump preferences on a bounded akin that places all cars that fit the consumer's seek belief on the aforementioned page with no ageism to exceptional positions purchased by the dealers. Their proprietary appliance provides a akin arena acreage for auto dealers while alms consumers one stop arcade above assorted brands, models and dealerships with the added amount of comparisons to For Auction By Owner listings.
ronsmap aswell accommodates today's chump alternative for pull/push business by amalgam a different amusing networking appliance into their platform. Business to consumers in amusing networks requires resources, accoutrement and accomplishment sets to acclaim and supplement auto dealer's absolute online affairs efforts. ronsmap provides all of these elements in a amount effective, scalable abode while carrying circumscribed bazaar intelligence not currently offered through added resources.
Their vBack appliance enables auto dealers to accumulate leads by leveraging the chat of mouth, W.O.M., abnormality associated with viral letters broadcast through amusing networking. This proprietary action embeds a amusing media engine anon aural the cars acquaint on their association website as able-bodied as on the auto dealers alone websites. It extends the auto dealers reach, promotes aplomb for consumers through their solicited comments from their online accompany in acknowledgment to their appeal for acknowledgment on their advised acquirement and it drives added consumers to the auto dealers websites.
Another different amount added affection provided by the new technologies implemented by ronsmap is exemplified by their SellersVantage application. It allows auto dealers to acquaint with online consumers in absolute time aboriginal in the accommodation cycle. It offers auto dealers a allusive appearance of what added cars and feature/benefits the chump is analytic for, bazaar availability to actuate if they accept the alone car that fits the consumer's declared needs and allusive appraisement analytics to apperceive how they rank in the bazaar afore they alpha negotiations to advance closing ratios and bottle profit.
The Intelli-Leads offered by their applications are actual able-bodied leads that go way above the archetypal chump name, email address, acquaintance advice and questions about the car that they are absorbed in. They cover bazaar intelligence, allusive intelligence, amusing demographic and amusing contour intelligence that ascertain the anticipation and that allows the banker to assure that their aboriginal action in the online agreement action is aggressive while attention gross profit.
Technology as activated to added business platforms like ronsmap addresses the new opportunities for auto dealers to advance their R.O.I. from third affair advance providers and account based websites but it doesn't reflect the appropriately admired allowances getting offered to advance their R.O.I. from their alone S.E.O. efforts and bigger about-face ante from their own websites. Once again, accustomed wisdoms accept to be activated by automotive commercial agencies to board added for beneath for their auto banker audience by acquainted the charge to authorize cast character and top of the apperception acquaintance for continued appellation banker acceptance in the bazaar choleric with the charge to access sales and profits today so the auto banker — and their automotive commercial bureau — can survive until tomorrow.
Since consumers are analytic for cars on the Internet vs. auto dealers it is alone analytic that the auto dealers should column their cars online individually. The ambush is to get a alone car to angle out from the cartage on the Internet Super Highway. Once again, technology has provided the solution.
Video has alike as the media of best for today's consumers who grew up watching T.V. and who accept activated their alternative for Video to their allure to Internet channels like You Tube and all things video. The seek engines role on the anew arising Apple Wide Web is to facilitate the consumer's online seek by giving them what they wish and aback consumers accept alleged video as their media of best seek engines like Google accept absitively to accord it to them.
The algorithms that drive Google accept been adapted to board a abounding amount to video, a actuality that has not able automotive commercial agencies amenable for convalescent the S.E.O. for their auto banker clients. Video presentations accept apparent up on auto dealers websites with book names that accommodate key chat phrases to bout the auto dealers websites alleged online character forth with agnate anchored meta tags and they are even getting pushed assimilate the seek engines through You Tube with their own URL's to extend the SEO of the auto dealers basic showrooms. The amount of this added S.E.O. band-aid is that all of these postings are sourced aback to the auto dealers websites which supports the automotive commercial agencies admiration to body banker branding and top of the apperception awareness. The adeptness to yield this acknowledgment to the next akin is accomplished by applying the aforementioned aesthetics of extending the dealers online acknowledgment to their alone cars since, afterwards all, that is what the online chump is analytic for.
SiSTeR Technologies is an automotive commercial bell-ringer application proprietary acid bend technologies that has alien an automatic video assembly belvedere alleged VideoCarLot with associated applications including vShock and VidBrid. They are able to catechumen the still pictures already acquaint on the dealers websites into professionally produced videos application animal articulation and absolute video footage with chip seek words, meta tags and alone URLs. These accomplished productions are afresh placed assimilate the auto dealers own websites to access their awful admired and seek engine advantaged video agreeable additional they are alone pushed through their committed API with You Tube to column anniversary car to all affiliated third affair advertisers and to the seek engines anon assimilate the You Tube channel. Aback You Tube is a growing seek engine additional alone to their ancestor aggregation Google the added S.E.O. to the banker is obvious. Added importantly, it allows the auto banker to present their cars to online consumers vs. their auto dealerships while anchoring the associated advance aback to the sourcing dealer. Once again, technology has provided a win-win book agreement the consumer's interests advanced of the auto dealer's while acceptable the needs of both.
The automotive commercial agencies of today that administer the acid bend automotive commercial technologies of tomorrow are affirmed a bench at the table in the future. Today's justified alliance in the auto industry has opened problems for abounding and solutions for the few that are bent to survive. Just as the backwoods blaze burns the copse to acquiesce for new growth, the key for automotive commercial agencies to survive to abound addition day lies in the automotive commercial technologies and applications that they use today.


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It's a familiar theme: wildlife surveys which are actually nothing more than PR puffs.
Here's today's latest on bats from the annual British Waterways wildlife survey.
I'm sure there'll be people out there who say 'it's just a bit of fun' or 'it doesn't matter, as long as wildlife gets attention. Don't be such a boring git'.
But actually it does matter: it's pretty close to lying; it misinforms people (does the Beeb know that?) and it's certainly a poke in the eye for the thousands of people who take the trouble to join in with carefully organised surveys.
And its a bit of a con for the ordinary people who did it. Would they be amused if they found out that they survey they were told would tell us something about the state of wildlife was actually just a load of rubbish?
And just to reherse why surveys like this are meaningless: the numbers of people doing them year to year varies – so maybe the increase is just because more people were looking; and the times they do the surveys (very important in this case – given we're talking about bats) are purely down to luck – so maybe this year more people went out in the nice warm evenings than last year and – lo and behold – they saw more bats; and the places surveyed are just places that are close to peoples home – so maybe these are all the worst most urban, most polluted canals with the fewest bats, whereas if people went out to some nice clean canals (well, of course that's impossible), lets be realistic and say some polluted canal running through an old wood with lots of bat roosts, they'd see even more bats. Or maybe, and you couldn't make this up, because this year the survey was focussing on bats (not like the previous year when it was bees) so people looked out more for bats.
For all these reasons – surveys like this with no attention to the design of the survey are junk.
Actually what the survey tells us is the 9% more people sent in records of seeing a bat than last year. And that means…..well, 9% more people sent in a record of seeing a bat.
And not that there are 9% more bats.


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I have taught on Cabrinhas for years and had a quiver of S/B this year and did not enjoy the 12's or 14's. They back stall a ton when they should be yanking you around. Can be used to your advantage which is what I did but I preferred the smooth bar pressure and clean line setup.
You will find the Drifter much easier to fly in the surf than the SBs. Turns much easier, does not pull as much, less bar pressure, does not back stall, drifts down the line. The Drifter is an easy and fun kite to fly in the surf. But those things that make it nice in the surf make it somewhat boring in flat water as compared to the SB.
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WASHINGTON — A day after Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski shot down a Democratic-led effort to lift the liability cap on oil companies, Florida Sen. George LeMieux and three other Gulf Coast Republicans introduced legislation they say would "dramatically increase" the industry's liability.
The legislation -- which also has the backing of Sens. David Vitter, R-La., Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., would set a new cap equal to the last four quarters of the responsible party's profits -- or double the current limit, whichever is greater.
"BP is already responsible for the costs of the cleanup, but we must ensure taxpayers are not forced to pay for associated damages," LeMieux said. He said economic damage from the spill will "far exceed" the current $75 million cap, and that under the bill, BP's liability would jump to $17 billion dollars.
Murkowski Thursday scuttled Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson's effort to lift the cap to $10 billion, saying it would prevent smaller, independent companies from drilling along the Outer Continental Shelf. "What this would do is give all of America's offshore resources to the biggest of the big oil companies," she said.
New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that the $10 billion, "seems to be a figure that could encompass the possibility of people getting relief right away.''
The Republican bill also calls for a "thorough report" to Congress from all agencies involved in the response to the spill by Sept. 1. The report, the senators say, "will evaluate what went wrong with the immediate response to the spill by private entities and the federal government."
The bill would also require that "the best technologies and equipment are staged to respond to potential spills within 24 hours" and establish greater reserve requirements for the amount of oil containment barriers.
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Here's the routine--it's 2:00pm, we are super hungry, we waited too long and didn't fill our lil' fridge.
no. 1: Are we going to eat today?
no. 2: Yessirree. What's it going to be?
no. 1: (We go down our regular list of local eateries)
no. 2: OK, I don't care, you pick.
This goes on for another 10 to 15 minutes....
This week, we remembered that a number of our friends have been telling us about this little gem right around the corner--in our hood! Roxanne's Café.
Roxanne's is open 11-3 daily and closed on sundays. Perfect, this day is taking a turn for the good.
As we come around the corner, we are enchanted by the seating choices and the atmosphere is so chill and comfortable.
The majority of the menu changes daily. There are usually specials, salads, soups and treats.
On this day, we try the eggplant pita and the romaine boats. They were both equally delicious!
We chose the coconut macaroons for dessert, and as sarah would say, "They were a symphony in my mouth!".
So far a 2 out of 3--they had a great atmosphere, great food, and SCORE, they made a 3 out of 3 with the staff being not only friendly but informative. I loved the relaxed banter that they had with all of their customers. As I sat waiting (not long at all), it is apparent that this place is a favorite to all that visit it.
Thanks Roxanne, Matt and Claire!
Roxanne's Café is located at 1227 Archer St. in the courtyard of Smiling Dog yoga.


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I picked about 10 pounds of wild blackberries, and prepared three quarts. I have to make room for my blackberry wine and need to sell these three jars. They are $11.00 each. These jars are huge and enough to make at least two large cobblers.
Each quart has one tablespoon Splenda, so these are sweet and low calorie. Good for a healthy dessert.
I have only three, blackberry season will be over in the next few weeks, maybe I can pick more. Contact me if you would like one.
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