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Recipes You Need to Cook This Week: August 12-18
As we are pretty much in the last month of summer, many of us are emotionally torn - sad that the playful season is coming to an end, but also excited and looking forward to fall that's quickly approaching. August not only brings some serious heatwaves to many parts of the country, but is also one of the most delicious and abundant times for produce to grow. Local farmers markets are currently overflowing with so many incredible and colorful varieties of fruits and vegetables that it's a shame to not to be enjoying them.
Zucchini, corn, tomatoes, and strawberries are all at their peak right now and are so sweet that they require very little to shine. In our efforts to promote and hopefully inspire you to take advantage of these summer gems, we have thoughtfully curated a week's worth of recipes that we're obsessed with cooking right now.
Ricotta-Stuffed Zucchini FlowersSuper-delicate and full of flavor; zucchini flowers have a short window of availability during the summer. Although these taste incredible tossed in soft scrambled eggs or simple pasta (like Grandma used to make), our favorite way to enjoy them is stuffed with fresh ricotta and lightly fried until golden brown. The combination of a crisp exterior and a rich, creamy center makes these little morsels an addictive snack and a perfect seasonal appetizer.
Sweet Corn and Clam ChowderFresh sweet corn plays nicely with shellfish, especially clams, in this delicious take on chowder. This recipe is complex, but very comforting and easy to prepare at the same time. The addition of thick-cut bacon lardons brings a smoky element to the soup that balances out the whole dish.
New England Lobster RollNothing says summer like a good old-fashioned lobster roll. This recipe is a favorite of ours because it really lets the lobster take center stage; it doesn't rely on extra fillers like lettuce or anything else that doesn't belong in this New England classic. Don't forget to butter and toast your buns though, the contrast of a warm bun and chilled lobster meat makes for an eating experience that will instantly transport you to your favorite seafood shack.
Panzanella SaladThis bread salad is a Florentine favorite that is especially popular in summer. The basic ingredients are day-old bread, tomatoes, onions, basil, and a dressing made out of olive oil and vinegar, but you can get creative and add whatever vegetables look the best at the market. Make it a full meal by adding some nicely grilled chicken for extra protein.
Strawberry PieThis fresh, seasonal pie is extremely easy to make. With the exception of the graham cracker crust (which only cooks for seven minutes) this pie is bake-free, which means it's almost as quick to make as it is simple. Let the strawberries macerate for at least an hour so that the flavors mingle together and start to form a sauce. For more warm-weather sweet treats that don't require you to heat up your kitchen, check out these 10 no-bake desserts for summer parties.


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Cops charged two career criminals with armed robbery and attempted murder in the shooting of a vacationing NYPD detective during a robbery attempt at a Miami Beach hotel.
The goons, Mustafa Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, of Miami, have long rapsheets that include prior robbery convictions, cops said. The armed robbers ambushed Det. Harold Thomas, 48, at gunpoint in the courtyard outside his hotel room Friday, police said.
Thomas told cops he feared he would die and pulled his own gun before exchanging fire with the perps. The detective's girlfriend and his partner on the Joint Terrorism Task Force told Miami Beach cops they were in their hotel rooms when they heard about a dozen shots and found Thomas on the ground, bleeding profusely.
The wounded cop was unconscious by the time police arrived but he recovered enough to give a full account of the crime and identify the suspects in a photo array from his hospital bed, sources told the Post. He is now in stable condition at Miami's Ryder Trauma Center.
One of the defendants was busted after going to Broward General Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound. Though ballistics couldn't match the fragmented bullet to the detective's gun, DNA from blood at the scene matched Lee, cops told the Post.

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Franklin finishes Arena Grand Prix with two more victories
Ryan Lochte got back to where he feels most at home this week, earning a victory Saturday in the 200-meter individual medley on the final day of the Arena Grand Prix.
It was a refreshing change for the 11-time Olympic medalist, whose training has suffered while he's filming a reality TV show.
"One thing I can take from this meet is I need to be in the water on a consistent basis," said Lochte, whose show, "What Would Ryan Lochte do," will debut in April on E! Entertainment Television. "Shooting this show, which I love doing - it's good for the sport - but I didn't realize they'd be pulling me in different directions all the time, and I haven't really been consistent in the pool."
Lochte competed in two other events at this week's meet, finishing third in the 100 backstroke Friday and a disappointing fifth in the 200 back Saturday.
The most successful appearance at the meet belonged to Missy Franklin, who made it four wins in three nights Saturday. The four-time gold medalist at last year's London Olympic Games won the 200 backstroke in 2 minutes, 8.47 seconds and added the 100-free title by beating fellow Olympian Christine Magnuson 55.37 to 55.99. Franklin also won the 100 back on Friday and 200 freestyle on Thursday.
Also putting in a strong showing was Tyler Clary with a win in the 200 back on Saturday for his third victory of the meet.
Though part of Lochte's focus at the event was on trying out some new techniques, and he entered the meet with low expectations, results like the one in the 200 back still don't sit well with him.
"What didn't go wrong?" Lochte said. "Off the start, my hands weren't together, I was diving in like an age-grouper, my kick-outs weren't good at all, my strokes were just choppy, I didn't build into each roll, wasn't finishing my kick-out stroke. I don't even know what happened in freestyle."
Lochte is no stranger to TV stardom, already making cameos on a number of shows. But the commitment level to this show, which is starting the third in eight weeks of shooting, has been something else entirely.
"This is totally different from making a cameo on `(Beverly Hills) 90210' or `30 Rock'," Lochte said. "This is consuming my life. When I go to practice, right after practice, I have to go home, change and start shooting for the show, and it doesn't stop until 10 or 11 at night."
He estimates he is making about half of his regularly scheduled practices, drawing the ire of coach Gregg Troy.
"Gregg hates it," Lochte said with a grin. "He calls me, yelling at me all the time, threatening to kick me off the team and go somewhere else. I'm like, look, this is for me, just stick with me for eight weeks until we're done shooting this show and then I'll get back into it."
His father and former coach, Steve Lochte, hopes the added obligations don't distract his son too much.
"I hope it works for him," said Steve, who is hoping to avoid making any appearances. "I personally don't want anything to do with it, but if it sends a message to the general population about what a great sport swimming is, I'm all for it."
And that, after all, is why Lochte is doing it.
"At the Olympics, it's the swimming show," Lochte said. "Everyone talks about swimming. Then swimming disappears. And no one remembers it. We want to make swimming bigger than four years ago. And the only way to do that is to have a reality show. Hopefully this show turns out great."
And that's why, despite the strain on his swimming - and the relationship with his coach - he's already talking about season two next year.
"By all means," he said, smiling. "(Gregg) might have a heart attack if he hears that."


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Bruce Katz is the director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and the co-author of The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism.
The early decades of this century are shaping up to be historically disruptive and defining. The global economic order is in a state of radical transition. New environmental imperatives and safety concerns are driving the extreme makeover of national energy systems. Rapid technological innovation is both expanding individual choice and enabling collective action. Social inequities and political volatility are at a fever pitch.
One unifying, simplifying thread emerges in this tumultuous period: the power of cities and metropolitan areas.
The world has arrived at a Metropolitan Moment. For the first time in history, cities and their metropolitan environs house more than half of the world's population. In the United States, metropolitan areas contain 84 percent of the population and generate 91 percent of GDP.
Metropolitan communities, here and abroad, represent the true economic geography. They agglomerate the world's talented workers, innovative firms and risk-taking entrepreneurs, and concentrate unique assets and industry clusters that define regional competitiveness and drive national economies. They are also the undisputed vehicles for environmental sustainability and social inclusion.
Such concentrated power demands new levels of responsibility. With many national and supra-national levels of government dangerously adrift, the onus is on cities and metros to act like the engines of national prosperity they are and lead the economy-shaping, talent-preparing, place-making, and environmental-stewarding that this disruptive period demands.
Metros are stepping up to the challenge. In Europe, Munich has become an innovation and production powerhouse by strengthening the relationships between government, research institutions, global companies and labor skilling institutions. In Asia, Seoul is pursuing a bottom-up effort to grow knowledge-based industrial clusters tied to major development projects in the city.
In the United States, a growing number of metro areas, challenged by an economy stuck in place and a federal government paralyzed by excessive partisanship, are likewise inventing a new playbook for prosperity and a new style of governance.
First, they are innovating locally to engineer the shift from an economy characterized by debt, consumption and income inequities to one driven by exports, powered by low carbon, fueled by innovation and rich with opportunity.
A geographically diverse set of places—Cleveland/Akron, Los Angeles, Louisville/Lexington, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Phoenix/Mesa, Portland, Seattle, and Syracuse—are designing and implementing metropolitan business plans to grow jobs for the near term and reshape their economies for the long haul.
These metros are adapting the discipline of private sector business planning—evidence-based, solution-oriented, performance-measured—to the task of revitalizing and restructuring metropolitan economies. The result is the flourishing of deliberate and purposeful strategies that build on the distinctive assets, attributes and advantages of these very different economies.
Take Greater Seattle, which intent on becoming the global hub of clean IT, is establishing a new facility to test, verify and rapidly take to market new energy saving technologies that can be deployed in residential, commercial, industrial and retail buildings. Or Los Angeles, which is inventing a bottom up export strategy to build on the distinctive goods and services produced in a diverse metropolis that is expanding trade with Asia, Mexico, and Latin America.
Second, U.S. metros are advocating nationally to enlist the help and support of their states and the federal government.
Greater Seattle, for example, has obtained a commitment from Washington State to match any resources secured to deploy their clean IT strategy. California leaders recently announced a new economic development framework heavily oriented to expanding international trade to scale up the export innovations of Los Angeles and other metros.
More broadly, Colorado, New York, and Tennessee have all initiated state economic development strategies that intentionally build upon and align with the distinctive action plans of cities, counties and metropolitan areas.
Working together, metros are campaigning for federal support of metropolitan innovations that grow jobs. The U.S. Conference of Mayors jobs agenda, released earlier this month, calls for the federal government to use its substantial export infrastructure (e.g., the Ex Im Bank, the International Trade Administration, the Small Business Administration) to help 25 metros devise their own, home-grown metropolitan export plans over the next two years.
Finally, U.S. metros are networking globally to broaden the possibilities of trade and exchange, particularly with mega-metros in rising nations like China, India, and Brazil. U.S. metros must increasingly look abroad not only for markets for their goods and services but for sources of investment and talent. And that's what many are doing.
In Northern California, for example, the Bay Area Council has become a foundation of respected, actionable, up-to-date information about what the metropolis trades with whom. This platform is supplemented by the activities of private/public organizations like China SF, which acts as a matchmaker between firms wanting to sell goods and provide services to China and Chinese investors looking for investment opportunities in the Bay Area.
The new metropolitan playbook is altering thinking and action across a broad cross section of metropolitan leadership. Transformative initiatives are being delivered and co-produced by networks of corporate, political, civic and community leaders. Governance is replacing government as the vehicle for change and, in the words of Colorado Governor and former Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, "collaboration has become the new competition."
America's Metropolitan Moment has arrived and it is making innovative communities sharper in focus, more collaborative and cohesive in action and more globally fluent and connected. The tantalizing promise is that this Moment will also rebuild the nation – economically, socially and politically – in the process.
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There has been a dearth of IPOs in recent years.
This has led to widespread complaints among public-market investors that there's nothing exciting to invest in anymore.
It has also led to a much broader development of the private markets for hot emerging technology companies.
As a result, investors who can invest via these private markets have cashed in, while public-market investors have missed out.
Meanwhile, the companies that do go public are already so big and highly valued that there's often not much upside left.
So, why is it that companies don't go public anymore?
Well, for one thing, there's the cost. Thanks to the massive regulatory burden the country now places on public companies, it costs at least $5 million a year to be public. What small company in its right mind would want to pay that?
Then, for another thing, there's the enormous hassle and legal risk.
Case in point: Groupon.
Groupon went public at the end of last year. The company is only three years old. It's expanding into many new business lines, so it's still learning as it goes. One of the things Groupon just learned is that the new high-ticket items it is selling have a higher return rate than the lower-ticket items. This realization forced Groupon to restate its Q4 earnings just a few months after going public.
Is that embarrassing?
Is it FRAUD?
Unlikely. More likely, Groupon just wasn't conservative enough in its assumptions. Presumably, it has now learned a searing lesson.
But now look at what Groupon has to deal with:
- Hagens Berman Announces Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Groupon Class Actions
- INVESTOR ALERT: Former Louisiana Attorney General and Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC, Remind Investors With Large Financial Interests of Important Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Groupon, Inc. - GRPN
- Pomerantz Law Firm Has Filed a Class Action Against Groupon, Inc. -- GRPN
- Girard Gibbs LLP Launches Groupon Legal Investigation
- Brock & Leviton Investigates Groupon And Its Officers And Directors For Violation Of Securities Laws
- Newman Ferrara LLP Investigates Groupon For Breaches of Fiduciary Duty
- Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Groupon
That's just a small sample--there will be many more.
All of these defenders of the stupid innocent will search the land to find some mom and pop investors--people who never, ever should have bought a stock as risky as Groupon--and use them to shake down Groupon for some settlement money.
And Groupon will pay the settlement money, just to make these folks go away.
The lawyers will take most of the settlement. The mom and pop investors will probably get about $2.98 apiece.
Importantly, Groupon looked like a lousy investment when it went public. That's what I shouted from the rooftops. That's what Jim Cramer shouted from the rooftops. That's what a boatload of other people shouted from the rooftops.
But what made Groupon lousy was not the fact that it has had to make a minor earnings restatement. It was that investors were just paying way too much for the stock of a company that was still experiencing major growing pains.
Investors who choose to do that, voluntarily, despite all the warnings, should take some responsibility for their decisions.
But they won't.
Because this is America. The United States Of Litigation. The country where if you do something stupid it's always someone else's fault.
And that means that, if there is any conceivable way for "the public" to invest in your company, you're eventually going to get your ass sued off--whether or not the investment was suitable or smart for the people who bought it.
So, faced with that reality, why WOULD any company want to go public?
Why not just stay private? Reduce your litigation risk. Keep your costs down. Deal only with investors who understand that investing is a voluntary and risky activity and that sometimes, god forbid, you actually lose money.
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Breda, the Netherlands / Ghent, Belgium and White Plains, NY, USA (June 10, 2014) - arGEN-X, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating and developing differentiated therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer and severe autoimmune diseases, today announced it has entered into a partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in which both parties will contribute to the funding of a Phase 2 clinical study of the Company's lead candidate, ARGX-110, in patients with refractory Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM). ARGX-110 is a novel anti-CD70 antibody created by arGEN-X which is currently being evaluated across a range of hematological and solid cancers in a Phase 1b study in Europe.
"We are extremely pleased to collaborate with LLS to evaluate the potential of ARGX-110 in patients with WM. In preclinical studies the compound showed broad therapeutic potential against CD70-positive lymphomas, and we hope to demonstrate a similar therapeutic benefit in the clinic with this initial Phase 2 study," said Alain Thibault, arGEN-X' Chief Medical Officer. "This collaboration is an important milestone for the development of ARGX-110 as it allows us to work with premier oncology centers in the U.S. We look forward to advancing this program with LLS in a patient population that is still in need of new treatment options."
Under the agreement, both parties will contribute funding, of up to $2.2 million and totaling $4.5 million, with LLS funding coming through its Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP), a strategic initiative to speed the development of therapies that have the potential to change the standard of care for patients with hematological cancers. arGEN-X plans to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the second half of 2014. The study is expected to begin in the second half of 2014, and will be led by Dr. Steven P. Treon, MD, PhD, Director of the Bing Center for Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia at Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA, USA).
"WM is a rare blood cancer that, despite significant progress, still remains incurable," said Lee Greenberger, Ph.D, LLS's Chief Scientific Officer. "Nevertheless, understanding the molecular basis of WM, including the role of CD70, has increased dramatically in the recent years. These new findings offer the possibility that novel targeted therapies, such as ARGX-110, could change treatment outcomes in the future. Based on preclinical and initial clinical data with ARGX-110, we believe ARGX-110 has potential to benefit patients with WM, and we are very pleased to be a part of this development program."
About ARGX-110
ARGX-110 is a SIMPLE antibody(TM) targeting CD70, an immune checkpoint target involved in hematological malignancies (lymphomas and leukemias), several solid tumors and autoimmune diseases. ARGX-110 works in three ways: i) blocks growth of tumor cells, ii) kills cancer cells and iii) activates the patients' immune system against the tumor. ARGX-110 is currently being evaluated across a range of hematological and solid tumors in a Phase 1b study in Europe.
About Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia is a rare type of B-cell lymphoma in which overactive CD70 signaling contributes to tumor growth. While most patients respond to combinations of cytotoxic and/or targeted therapy (small molecules or biologics), recurrence is common, defining an unmet medical need for a significant number of patients.
About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (R) (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.
Founded in 1949 and headquartered in White Plains, NY, LLS has chapters throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org. Patients should contact the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET.


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Targeted therapy is cancer treatment that uses medicines to attack specific targets or processes of cancer cells. Unlike chemotherapy or radiation treatment, targeted therapy affects only the cancer cells and not the other cells in the body.
It may be used alone but often is combined with other cancer treatments such as standard chemotherapy.
Targeted therapy can stop cancer cells from growing or spreading. It does this by blocking cell signals. It can also kill cancer cells directly. Examples of agents used for targeted therapy include:
Cancer vaccines and gene therapy may be considered targeted therapies. They interfere with cancer cell growth.
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By Marlena De Lacroix
With spoilers, there are no storyline surprises on soaps anymore. That's not to say that the ways in which storylines are presented can really come as shockers — especially in the February sweeps that just wrapped up, the sweeps in which we expected little to nothing interesting because of the Writers Strike. So here are four soap stories/sweeps events which really shocked moi this month, either because they were so daring … or so cowardly!
Daring — As the World Turns Introduces an Iraqi character: When Ameera, the hijab-wearing newly arrived ward of Colonel Mayer (Noah's murderer father) turned up at the Snyder farm to get to know Noah and Luke, I was truly shocked. A Muslim woman on daytime! We've never seen that before! I usually like social issue stories and this could either turn out to be wonderfully humanitarian (demonstrating how hard it is for a Muslim woman to blend in to the U.S. in this time of war) or it could merely be a device to further a writer or producer's liberal political agenda. How long will it be until Bill O'Reilly is on to this?
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- "Have fun trying to parallel-park the Bobcat XL in a busy city center. This extra long, heavy-duty pick-up truck has become equally popular with both farmers and people who shop at farmers' markets."
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The Bobcat is a continually recurring range of two-door pick-up trucks first introduced in Grand Theft Auto III and featured in nearly every game since then, with the only exception being GTA Advance. It is manufactured by Vapid in the HD Universe.
It is widely known for its durability and off-road capabilities.
3D Universe
The GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories renditions resembles a 1989-1994 Toyota Pickup Truck with 1995-2005 Tacoma influences, while the GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories renditions are based on the first generation Ford Ranger. Pre-GTA IV Bobcats have a V6 engine, with the only exception being the 4-cylinder in San Andreas and Vice City Stories, and are available in a one tone body color, or two for the GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories renditions. While similar to earlier renditions, the GTA San Andreas, GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories renditions also sport lower ground clearance. The GTA III rendition has a 3D modeling glitch where one headlight is rounded but the other is longer and rectangular.
Certain Bobcats in GTA San Andreas may feature Sprunk cans or a spare wheel in the back, and the Bobcat can be also upgraded at TransFender in GTA San Andreas with changeable wheels, exhausts, etc. Along with the GTA Vice City rendition of the Moonbeam, the game's Bobcat is one of the earliest vehicles in the series to features its name printed on its body (on the tailgate). The Bobcat is used as a gang car by the Trailer Park Mafia in GTA Vice City Stories.
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In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Bobcat is now a full-size step side pickup truck, rather than a compact. It mostly resembles a slightly altered 1988-1998 Chevrolet C/K with the headlamps similar to the older 1981-1987 model. Unlike its real life counterpart, the truck has a very powerful 550 Cubic Inch (9.0L) V10 engine. Despite having "SUPER 4X4" written on the side, the Bobcat is purely rear wheel drive, or they may have the 4WD disabled. Bobcats can be seen with optional grille guards, or a roll bar with or without four lights on top, and on rare occurrences, with both. Bobcats may also, very rarely, come with an additional bed cover.
The GTA Chinatown Wars Bobcat is similar to the GTA IV one in terms of appearance, with several minor tweaks and a permanent roll bar.
The Bobcat makes a return in GTA V, looking similar to the GTA IV rendition, but with some changes. It now only comes in a long-wheelbase Bobcat XL, and the stepside version is no longer featured. The bed is longer than the GTA IV version, but it retains the front end of the GTA IV Bobcat. All Bobcats now come equipped with bullbars, and some have camper shells over the bed. As with the Bison, the Bobcat XL is classified as a van, despite being a pick-up truck. While the design hints at a dual (double rear wheel) configuration, the Bobcat XL has single wheels and tires on the rear axle.
The tail light texture is shared with the Moonbeam and resembles the tail light design from the KK Jeep Liberty.
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The Bobcat is fairly slow at 135 mph, but has high torque and strong, stiff suspension. However, the low power and heavy weight means it takes a long time and a straight and clear road for the Bobcat to achieve maximum speed. It is rear-wheel drive and handles well on rough terrain, so it can be used for mild off-roading, but is inferior to the Patriot in this respect. Some versions are four wheel drive. In GTA San Andreas, like the Sadler, the four cylinder engine is mounted transversely, which is impossible to drive the rear wheels without driving the front as well.
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In terms of performance, the Bobcat is capable of rapid acceleration and a slow top speed of 136mph. The vehicle does not turn sharply, but can powerslide around corners with enough use of the emergency brake. Off road, the Bobcat suffers from lack of 4WD, low ground clearance, and extremely poor wheel articulation. Also, the engine is somewhat overpowering, resulting in undesired wheel-spin in soft sand. The truck should not be considered a heavy duty vehicle for off road use. The Bobcat also has a 5-speed manual transmission, as indicated by a third pedal to the left, if looked at closely enough. Damage is average, and because of the roll bar, it won't have much roof damage in rollovers.
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The Bobcat can be modified at TransFenders.
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|10x Nitrous
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|Off Road Wheel
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The regular Bobcat is available with various unique qualities in some of the games it appears in:
- In GTA III, the player can acquire a bulletproof, fireproof and explosion-proof Bobcat from "Evidence Dash". This can be achieved by pinning the truck at an obstacle and carjacking it while it remains stationary or slow-moving. (Note: The doors of the Bobcat are locked, even after all six packages are dropped, making carjacking the vehicle impossible) If the player is required to destroy the evidence by destroying the truck, the player can do so by going to a safehouse garage, ramming the truck until it catches fire, park and leave the truck in the garage and wait for it to explode (thereby completing the mission). Once the player reopens the garage door, the truck is fully repaired.
- In GTA Vice City, the player can acquire a black-and-red Bobcat during "Autocide", when the player is required to kill two targets (Marcus Hammond and Franco Carter) in the parked Bobcat. The easiest way to obtain the truck is by killing the driver using a sniper rifle from afar (which forces the passenger to exit the truck instead of gaining control of the truck himself), gaining access to the truck.
- In GTA San Andreas, two all-black Bobcats (suspected to be used by the CIA) are featured during "Stowaway". The player can reach the Bobcats, at the cost of missing the departing Andromada and failing the mission.
- In GTA Liberty City Stories, two uniquely colored Bobcats are featured during "Love and Bullets" (colored black) and "Panlantic Land Grab" (colored white with brown bumpers).
- In GTA Vice City Stories, fireproof Bobcats are featured during "Shakedown" and "D.I.V.O.R.C.E.".
- In GTA IV, a Bobcat is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a pale brown body. As a new Bobcat will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another. Just like the Rancher, the Bobcat may spawn with a few accessories.
In addition, there exists a gang variant of the Bobcat in GTA Chinatown Wars driven by the Irish Killers gang. The "gang" Bobcat is distinguished by its green body and red roof.
- In GTA V, cabbed versions can be found. They are quite rare; they can be found at a shoot off near Fort Zancudo.
Notable Owners
- Avery Carrington (seen only during the mission Panlantic Land Grab)
- Marcus Hammond
- Marty Jay Williams
- Mary-Beth Maybell (possibly)
- Phil Bacerra
- Zhou Ming
Grand Theft Auto III
- Marco's Bistro, Saint Mark's, Portland
- AMCo. Petroleum Company Petrol Station, Harwood, Portland
- Capital Autos, Harwood, Portland
- Beach, Portland Beach, Portland
- Liberty City Memorial Stadium parking lot, Belleville Park, Staunton Island
- Carson General Hospital, Rockford, Staunton Island
- Staunton View picnic area, Cedar Grove, Shoreside Vale
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Often seen driving around in Viceport and at Escobar International Airport.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- In the parking lot under the Mulholland Intersection in Downtown Los Santos.
- Usually found beside the Mass Grave in Bone County, between Area 69 and Verdant Meadows.
- Common in Red County, Flint County, Tierra Robada and Bone County.
- Three unique Black one's in Stowaway.
- Parked in a trailer park in Los Santos Inlet, Flint County.
- Parked in Bone County, near Las Brujas town and Area 69.
- Spawns in place of the Mr. Whoopee at the rest stop in Las Payasadas in the Xbox version.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Capital Autos, Harwood, Portland
- Parking lot, Portland Harbor, Portland
- Liberty Tree parking lot, Bedford Point, Staunton Island
- East of the Liberty Tree parking lot on the roadside, Bedford Point, Staunton Island
- In the waters north of the ferry terminal Rockford, Staunton Island
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- To the west of Pay 'n' Spray on an area which is on the map green but where little cabins are located, Little Haiti.
- Near Marty Jay Williams' trailer next to the Sunshine Autos building site, Little Havana. Appears in a constant peach and white body color. It is available from the beginning of the game until after the mission D.I.V.O.R.C.E..
- Next to another trailer in the trailer park, near Marty Jay Williams' trailer. (PSP version only)
- On the Washington Mall building site, Ocean Beach
- To the east of the future Bunch of Tools hardware store in the parking lot, Washington Beach.
- Next to the place where you can complete the road races (on the fairground), Vice Point.
Grand Theft Auto IV
- When the player has escaped the old factory in the mission Hostile Negotiation, Niko and Roman escape in a Bobcat. It can be kept after the mission.
- Found parked on top of the parking lot near Francis International Airport, as part of Stevie's Car Thefts.
- Often spawns around North Holland and East Holland, Algonquin.
- Usually driving around East Hook in Broker.
- One is by the old hospital in The Snow Storm.
- Spawns in Beachgate, Broker.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- In a back alley on the eastern edge of Willis, Dukes. Activates "Riding Shotgun" sub-mission.
Grand Theft Auto V
- In the barn of the weed farm during daytime in Braddock Pass, but you must be Trevor for the weed raid mission to happen and for the truck to appear.
- May spawn at the Procopio Truck Stop after completing Pack Man.
- Seen driving around in Elysian Island.
- Two are found at a shoot-off near a bridge, not far from Fort Zancudo. One has a cab and another is just standard. (The cabbed one has a flat tire and also getting it back can be a challenge with back up gangs arriving to get their money back.)
- Can spawn when driving one of the characters own vehicles on the highway between Vinewood and Grand Senora Desert.
Grand Theft Auto Online
- Occasionally found in traffic.
- Can be purchased off the in-game website Southernsanandreassuperautos.com for $23,000 as part of The Business Update.
- The default radio stations for the Bobcat are:
- GTA Vice City + GTA Vice City Stories: V-Rock.
- GTA San Andreas: Radio X.
- GTA IV: San Juan Sounds.
- GTA V: Vinewood Boulevard Radio, Los Santos Rock Radio or Radio Mirror Park.
- The Bobcat is an American mammal in the cat family.
- There was a real vehicle produced by Mercury called the Bobcat.
- The name Bobcat may also be a reference to Bobcat EMEA, an excavator manufacturer.
Grand Theft Auto III
- During development of GTA III, the Bobcat originally had a roll cage.
- At one point during development of GTA III, the Bobcat sometimes came in a gold color.
- As seen in the E3 Trailer, the Bobcat had a generic metal texture for the bed, before it was changed to the default body material of the bodywork. The texture still exists.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City + Vice City Stories
- There is a visual glitch in GTA Vice City Stories; After visiting a Pay 'n' Spray in a Bobcat, the tailgate will appear open.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- It is the most common pickup truck in the game, appearing almost everywhere.
- In GTA San Andreas, a visual glitch is present in the Bobcat. If you go to any Transfenders mod shop and choose any exhaust pipe mod option, the custom exhaust pipes will be incorrectly placed inside the rear bumper.
- In GTA San Andreas the Bobcat together with the Sadler is the third most durable vehicle in the game, as seen in the stats.
Grand Theft Auto IV + Chinatown Wars
- The Bobcat in GTA IV sells for $2,500 at S&M Auto Sales after completion of Stevie's Car Thefts.
- Under the "Chinatown Wars" section of the Rockstar Games Social Club website, members may download a printable paper-craft model of the game's Bobcat. The vehicle's design is more alike that of GTA IV than GTA Chinatown Wars.
- In GTA IV, if the player attempts to hop on to the rear cargo/freight compartment while the vehicle is still in motion, the player would most likely lose his/her balance and result in a bad fall on to the ground. However if the player happens to be stuck in the cargo/freight compartment, his/her health will get gradually reduced and eventually become wasted.
- In GTA IV, the Bobcat seems to have three pedals, which could indicate it having a 5-speed manual transmission.
- Twice in GTA IV, the Bobcat is used as a getaway vehicle in Hostile Negotiation and The Snow Storm, chronologically.
- In GTA IV, the Bobcat will never be found without boxes in the compartment.
- In GTA IV, the Bobcat shares the same engine and horn sound as the Rancher.
Grand Theft Auto V
- In GTA V, the Bobcat can tow trailers, as with the Sadler and Bison.
- The brushguard found as default on the Bobcat can also sometimes be found on the Sadler in Grand Theft Auto V.
- In GTA Online, the Bobcat XL was added onto the in-game site Southernsanandreassuperautos.com as part of The Business Update for $23,000. However, it is listed under the luxury section instead of the off-road section, which is strange considering the truck's work duty appearance.
- In GTA Online, the Bobcat can be made to look like an M1008 CUCV. To accomplish this, a matte Olive drab or desert tan paint job must be applied at Los Santos Customs.
- In GTA V and GTA Online, hitting or almost hitting a civilian with the Bobcat will sometimes cause them to say "Heads up truck".


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Leave it to The Daily Beast to get Scorsese talking about films. Not that it would be hard to do. The man is "Mr. Cinema." He directs, produces and he even has his own nonprofit organization for preserving classic films, The Film Foundation. The director may have toyed with other genres during his lifetime, but the one people would discuss aplenty is his contributions to crime cinema. To think of Scorsese is to think of Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed, despite also directing films like After Hours and The Last Temptation of Christ. As he turns his attention to the small screen with HBO's Boardwalk Empire – touted as being the network's costliest production to date – the director lists off his 15 favorite gangster movies. Scorsese writes:
"Here are 15 gangster pictures that had a profound effect on me and the way I thought about crime and how to portray it on film. They excited me, provoked me, and in one way or another, they had the ring of truth.
I stopped before the '70s because we're talking about influence here, and I was looking at movies in a different way after I started making my own pictures. There are many gangster films I've admired in the last 40 years—Performance, the Godfather saga, Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, The Long Good Friday, Sexy Beast, John Woo's Hong Kong films. The films below I saw when I was young, open, impressionable."
The Public Enemy (1931)
The shocking, blunt brutality; the energy of Cagney in his first starring role; the striking use of popular music (the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles")—this picture led the way for all of us.
Scarface (1932)
[Howard] Hawks' film is so fast, so fluid, so funny, and so excitingly expressionistic. The audacity of it is amazing. It was finished by 1930, but it was so violent that it was held up by the censors.
Blood Money (1933)
Rowland Brown, a largely forgotten figure, made three tough, sardonic movies in the early '30s, each one very knowledgeable about city politics, corruption, the coziness between cops and criminals. This is my favorite. The ending is unforgettable.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
In 1939, Raoul Walsh and Mark Hellinger's classic was seen as a sendoff to the gangster genre, which seemed to have run its course. But it's more than that. Much more. It plays like a journal of the life of a typical gangster of the period, and it covers so much ground, from the battlefields of France to the beer halls to the nightclubs, the boats that brought in the liquor, the aftermath of Prohibition, the whole rise and fall of '20s gangsterdom, that it achieves a very special epic scale—really, it was the template for GoodFellas and Casino. It also has one of the great movie endings.
Force of Evil (1948)
John Garfield is the mob lawyer, Thomas Gomez is his brother, a numbers runner who's loyal to his customers and his employees. The conflict is elemental—money vs. family—and the interactions between the brothers are shattering. The only gangster picture ever done in blank verse, by Abraham Polonsky. Truthfully, it had as great an impact on me as Citizen Kane or On the Waterfront.
White Heat (1949)
Cagney and Walsh bit into this movie about a psychopathic gangster with a mother fixation as if they'd just abandoned a hunger strike. They intentionally pursued the madness of Cagney's Cody Jarrett, a psychopathic gang leader with a mother complex. The level of ferocity and sustained energy is breathtaking, and it all comes to a head in the scene where Cagney goes berserk in the dining hall… which never fails to surprise me.
Night and the City (1950)
Desperation, no holds barred. We all loved and admired Richard Widmark from his first appearance in Kiss of Death, but his performance as Harry Fabian marked us forever. As did the rest of this hair-raising picture set in post-war London, the first made by Jules Dassin after he escaped the blacklist.
Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker, who had worked as Jean Renoir's assistant, made this picture with Jean Gabin, about an aging mobster who is forced out of retirement to save his old partner. The style is elegant and understated, the aura of weariness and mortality extremely powerful.
The Phenix City Story (1955)
A completely unsentimental picture by Phil Karlson that closely follows the true story of wholesale corruption, intimidation, racism, and terrifying brutality in the once-notorious town of Phenix City, Alabama—where it was shot on location… in 10 days! Fast, furious, and unflinching.
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
A beautifully made picture, in glorious color and Scope, directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player in the '20s whose professional life is infiltrated and turned inside out by a Kansas City gangster (Edmund O'Brien). This kind of situation happened over and over again in the big-band years and later during the doo-wop era. It's also at the center of Love Me or Leave Me, another tough Scope musical made around the same time.
Murder by Contract (1958)
A highly unusual, spare, elemental picture made on a low budget by Irving Lerner—a lesson in moviemaking. It's about a hired gunman (Vince Edwards), and it's from his point of view. The scenes where he's alone in his apartment preparing for a hit were very much on my mind when we made Taxi Driver, and we studied the haunting guitar score and its role in the action when we were working on the music for The Departed with Howard Shore. For me, an inspiration.
Al Capone (1959)
This sharp, spare low-budget film by Richard Wilson, one of Orson Welles' closest collaborators, deserves to be better known. Rod Steiger is brilliant as Capone—charming, boorish, brutal, ambitious. There's not a trace of sentimentality. Wilson also made another striking crime film, Pay or Die, about the Black Hand in Little Italy right after the turn of the century.
Le Doulos (1962)
The French master Jean-Pierre Melville, a close student of American moviemaking, made a series of genuinely great, extremely elegant, intricate, and lovingly crafted gangster pictures, in which criminals and cops stick to a code of honor like knights in the age of chivalry. This is one of the best, and it might be my personal favorite.
Mafioso (1962)
A transplanted northerner living up north with his wife and family (the great Alberto Sordi) goes home to Sicily, and little by little, gets sucked back into the old loyalties, blood ties, and obligations. It starts as a broad comedy. It gradually becomes darker and darker… and darker, and by the end you'll find the laughs catching in your throat. One of the best films ever made about Sicily.
Point Blank (1967)
This was one of the first movies that really took the storytelling innovations of the French New Wave—the shock cuts, the flash-forwards, the abstraction—and applied them to the crime genre. Lee Marvin is Walker, the man who may or may not be dreaming, but who is looking for vengeance on his old partner and his former wife. Like Burt Lancaster in the 1948 I Walk Alone, another favorite, he can't get his money when he comes out of jail and enters a brave new corporate world. John Boorman's picture re-set the gangster picture on a then-modern wavelength. It gave us a sense of how the genre could pulse with the energy of a new era.
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HARRISON, N.J. – Sir Alex Ferguson says he expects Manchester United to have their hands full when the club arrives in July to face the MLS All-Stars and three MLS clubs, more MLS action than the Red Devils have ever seen in previous US tours.
"Now it's a far more competitive league and far more organized, and we experienced that last year," Ferguson said at a press conference on Tuesday unveiling his club's stops this summer. "Teams like [Sporting Kansas City] are at a very good standard, and that's shown itself in the way we're going to approach the games ourselves. It's not going to be easy and we're not expecting it to be easy."
Ferguson cited Sporting Kansas City on more than one occasion. The 2-1 loss to Peter Vermes' side last summer still stings to this day.
"MLS is now developing into a very competitive league and producing teams that make it more difficult games," Ferguson said. "We found last season particularly in Kansas [City]. We found that very, very difficult, which is a measure of the improvement in American soccer."
The long-serving Manchester United manager said that his full squad will be available for the matches this summer except for winger Antonio Valencia, who will be with Ecuador for the Copa América. Ferguson confirmed that Javier "Chicharito" Hernández will join the Red Devils on the US tour following the conclusion of Mexico's participation in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Prior to the All-Star Game, Manchester United first play the New England Revolution on July 13 at Gillette Stadium before heading to Seattle for a match against the Sounders on July 20 at Qwest Field. The matches against MLS clubs wrap up with a meeting against the Chicago Fire at Soldier Field on July 23. The Revolution and Fire matches will be part of the World Football Challenge tournament.
Ferguson believes there will be a revenge factor at play when it comes to the rematch against the MLS All-Stars on July 27 at Red Bull Arena.
"I'm sure the MLS will want to do better than they did last year, and I'm expecting that," the 69-year-old said in reference to the 5-2 victory last year at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
Two players who were not involved in that game for the MLS side were Thierry Henry and David Beckham. The Frenchman had not yet played a match in MLS and the Englishman was recovering from an Achilles' injury which kept him out of the 2010 World Cup.
"We've got a special plan to sort Henry out," Ferguson joked. "I'm bringing Roy Keane back."
In all seriousness, Ferguson added, "Great players always get that attention and Thierry understands that perfectly well. He has had a great career in the game. So has David Beckham. But we hope that our own good players will be more important in the game than the opponents."


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On 19th of November 2016, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Canberra held their very first Peace Symposium. The symposium was held at the historic Albert Hall. Around 250 guests came from ACT region and Sydney. People from all walks of life eagerly attended the event and made the symposium a resounding success.
The organisers reached out to representatives of many other faiths and dignitaries in Canberra to speak at the event. The speakers at the event were:
- Muhammad Tafazul Hasan, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Canberra
- Hemanshu Pota, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW Canberra
- Rabbi Alon Meltzer, Rabbi of the ACT Jewish Community (video message)
- Christopher Prowse, Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn
- Lama Choedak Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist Master
- Madhusudan Singh Sidhu, Canberra Sikh Association ex-President
- Revd Michael Cockayne, Anglican Priest of Queanbeyan
- Her Excellency Mrs. Naela Chohan, High Commissioner of Pakistan
- Ms. Caroline Le Couteur, member of the ACT Legislative Assembly
- Ms. Elizabeth Kikkert, Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs in ACT
- Imam I.H Kausar, National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia
Other dignitaries in attendance were:
- His Excellency Mr Manuel Innocencio de Lacerda Santos Jr, High Commissioner of Brazil
- His Excellency Mr Yogesh Punja, High Commissioner of Fiji
- His Excellency Mr Rajendra Pandey, Deputy Ambassador of Nepal
- Ms Nina Cainglet, Minister from Embassy of Philippines
While speaking to Canberra Times, Imam Kausar made following remarks:
"We are struggling for peace, not just around the country but peace within yourself, in society, with the family, with parents, and peace all over the world."
"Sharing is caring, so let everyone come and bring their own religious perspectives on how we can achieve peace."
"Having people from different faiths, different colours, different cultures and different backgrounds sitting under one roof is a sign of love, respect and harmony with the others."
After the dinner, guests were interviewed and photographed by MTA (Muslim TV Ahmadiyya) team.
The hall has historical importance for Canberra's Ahmadiyya community in another way too since the very first Holy Quran exhibition in Canberra was held here in 1989.
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I started getting Basal Cell when I was 30 years old. One to many sunburns as a kid and laying in the tanning beds for 10 years in my bodybuilding days probably didn't help. I have had a bunch of them, some being cut out on my face. Seems like I am just waiting for the bad stuff to come. I see my dermatologist every 6 months...but it doesn't make me feel any better.
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Create one modern and serious pages homepage for the website of our web-based app. Basically the homepage design needs to look like an editorial piece (newspaper or money magazine piece).
We will ask winner to help design the rest of the web -pages
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EquityExcel LLC
We are a financial services company helping people with their home mortgages. It is critical when the customer lands on the webpage they feel as if they are better off being on our website. I want that feel of trust and that they will learn something new instead of feeling like they will be sold to.
The pages that come out of this contest have to fit with the logo and the color scheme of our original web page at http://www.eqxl.com:
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• Serious – we are not a consumer brand and while we want to look fresh and modern, the website should be not too playful or even funny
• We want to stick to the style that seems to have established itself for enterprise 2.0 apps and especially like the following sites:
o http://www.apple.com/macpro/technol…essor.html - I really like the way the headline and text and spacing is laid out. It seems easy free flowing an very trustworthy
o http://www.planhq.com/ - What I like about this is the Green background at the top of the page and white below this.
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o Top level navigation menu for the site that we see these going on the top as tabs: see ww.eqxl.com we like those menus to stay the way they are- right on top only
o Bottom navigation tabs at the very end should stay as well
o Everything else is the site can be removed or redesigned
o Below the tabs there should be the main area of the page (like in the sample sites that we like – see above) with the headlines.
o Below the headlines we can either have columns of text or the way apple has laid out their par.
Imagery: screen shots of application or stock photography, all fine with us – but to be used if they are to enhance the message only. I would prefer very limited use of pictures.
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5 Ways You Can Get Swept Into Spending More of Your Paycheck on Mortgage Interest Without Even Realizing It
When it comes to your mortgage finances, there is no shortage of tasks to dread much less blow off. There is the mortgage bill, paying taxes, shelling out for insurance, paying that dreaded Private Mortgage Insurance, avoiding your mortgage brokers phone calls each time the rates drop, finding the paperwork when you are about to refinance, and the list can go on.
But what a lot of people do not realize is that ignoring your mortgage finances is even worse! You are now faced with debt, late fees, delayed retirement, unhappy kids who have to pay for their own college education, a miffed spouse, dreaded job as you are only in it to pay your mortgage and, again, the list can go on and on.
Starting to feel a little overwhelmed? There is no need to panic. You are certainly not alone and it is not your fault. What you are about to find out is that banks have strategically designed a system where you end up paying more of your paycheck in interest for longer! This results in getting you hooked into a long-term relationship where you are spending all the cash. Imagine that!
So what instances will cause you to spend more?
1. Refinancing or borrowing from your mortgage in a way that could land you in hot water with "Uncle Sam." Taxes. Just when we think we understand it, the IRS changes the rules. Well, the rules have actually been there all along but how well do you know or understand them? While it is tempting to take a tax deduction for the mortgage interest on a refinanced loan, do not do it blindly! Let us assume you refinanced and used the money for purposes other than the improvement on your home. In certain cases, the IRS may classify this as 'non-deductible interest'.
What does non-deductible interest mean? It is the IRS preventing you from getting a tax deduction on mortgage interest for refinanced loans in specific circumstances. In other words, if you refinanced, and used the money to buy a car, and it falls within certain rules you could be setting yourself up for a tax trap.
It is a tough position to be in and you could unknowingly end up paying more in taxes and penalties to dear Uncle Sam. In situations like this, we recommend talking to your tax advisor if you have refinanced your home or plan to borrow or refinance your mortgage in the current year.
The last thing you want to do is agonize over taxes and use you hard earned paycheck to fund costly mistakes. Take the steps now to protect yourself in the long run.
If you would like to find out more information, please click here and we will send you a newsletter on this specific topic conveniently into your email inbox.
2. Turning a Blind Eye to your mortgage and painfully adding extra years of interest payments
We all tend to turn a blind eye to the rusted corners in the bathroom drain -- where no one is likely to look.
The same goes for choosing the right mortgage while your existing one is leeching onto your paycheck. Have you turned a blind eye or relied solely on your broker when choosing your current mortgage?
How long do you expect to make your mortgage payments for?
Let us assume you have an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) or Interest Only Mortgage. If you have five years left on your ARM, how long is your mortgage payment?
Is your answer 5 years?
If it is, you have been tricked. This is what banks want you to believe.
The cold hard fact is that the ARM is now a 35 year mortgage. What are you going to do after the ARM expires? Hopefully you will take out a 30 year fixed mortgage. If not, then you could end up taking 40, 45 years or longer to pay of that mortgage!
This can result in thousands of dollars literally washed down the rusty drain.
Taking a look at your mortgage today can save you tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars later on. Unclog your mortgage today and protect yourself.
Click here to go directly to our free mortgage calculator, which will reveal the secret to knocking off your mortgage early irrespective of the type of mortgage.
3. Unaware that you are hurting your "Credit Reputation"?
What you do not know may hurt you. The interest you pay on your mortgage is directly linked to your credit score. Were you aware of this? Most people are not!
What your banker or broker may never tell you is that if you pull up your credit application multiple times when you refinance or apply for a new mortgage, this will cost you thousands of dollars in interest.
Every time you make a credit request to a credit bureau, especially if it is multiple requests within a short period of time, your credit score drops.
The credit bureaus assumes that if there are multiple people accessing your account then you are shopping around for credit and this results in a drop in your score.
Do not let anyone talk you into believing that this is standard practice. You are paying interest on your mortgage for a long time and every extra digit added to your interest rate could make a huge dent in your paycheck.
The suggested strategy is to request your own credit score in advance of your refinance date and use your score to shop around for the best quote. This way you are planning ahead and can improve your credit score if necessary which will save you thousands of dollars in interest in the long run.
Sign up today for our free newsletter and we will send you more money savings tips for your mortgage.
4. Planning to move to a new home without building equity?
Are you planning to move in the next 5 years?
If you are like me, you would rather stuff as much cash into your own pocket rather than paying more towards your mortgage.
I always planned to take care of my mortgage later and hopefully start building equity at my 'next home' but deep down I always had this sinking feeling that "later" would never come.
Satisfying your desire for instant gratification can provide you with a little extra money now but a lifetime of mortgage payments… maybe 37 years, 47 years or perhaps even longer!
Even your advisors are likely to confirm what a bad idea it is to pay any mortgage principal especially if you plan to move to another home.
One key note to remember is that in the end, it is YOU and only YOU that is going to be paying your mortgage interest every month. Most people do not know that banks seldom reveal the power of the Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) account because they do not want people paying off their mortgages early. They disguise the fact that you can turn your HELOC account into a checking account, which will allow you to pay less interest. You could essentially use these extra interest savings to pay off your mortgage!
Still sound confusing? Click here for free chapter of our e-book and we will show you how to put back more money in your pocket in the first month and get you out of the rat race.
5. Your mortgage contract is cleverly set up to work against you
I know what you must be thinking. If I have a good mortgage and pay bills on time, why should I be worried?
Good question. Simple answer. The ways the bank charge you interest is sophisticated. You may not even realize you are paying more than you have to and this is not your fault.
Banks set up their system so that you end up spending more on your monthly mortgage repayment towards interest rather than principal in the preliminary years of your payment schedule. For example, if you have a $1,200 monthly repayment, it is not uncommon to spend $1,100 in interest and $100 in principal.
However, did you know you can and have the right to change the situation to your favor each month? You could end up spending $900 in interest and $300 to principal should you choose to with a little more applied towards your principal payment every other month. Do you notice the trend? Even an eagle-eye read-through of your bills each month will not catch this method. Therefore it is imperative that you take control of your finances, strap yourself in the driving seat and strategically stuff more money into your pocket instead of the bank.
If you want to learn more, please click on this link and we will send you a chapter of our e-book to get you started.
Staying on top of your mortgage finances can sometimes feel like a full-time job. And most of us already have a lot to deal with. In times like this, it is easy to get tempted by promises to find quick fix solutions that will help you take control of your situation. There are a lot of claims in the market that promise to pay off your mortgage in less than 10 years without spending more money. These are myths. Do not be fooled. Safeguard yourself and your money. Go directly to our "mortgage myth calculator" to find out what is really involved in paying off your mortgage.
If you are nervous about navigating new options and need more guidance, EquityExcel advisors are readily available to help you learn the ropes. Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will work closely with you to address your needs. We also encourage you to sign up for our newsletter, where you can receive concrete, actionable advice that will measurably improve your mortgage financial well-being right away.
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Tell us where we should go surf!
Lots of outdoor expedition folks on this forum- during your travels have you seen any coastline with waves that look like they should be surfed?!?
With so many pilots and boaters in the State I thought I'd ask for some intel. We have so much coastline and so much potential- the challenging part is access. But that can be overcome if we know where the waves are!
Super remote waves will never have a crowd problem or bad vibes- AK surfers like to share the stoke! Some road accessible and easy boat access hot spots do see some pressure but the remote areas never will.
Discussing surf spots in a public forum has a long and sordid history. But I think remote Alaskan breaks that require a supercub or a multi-day boat trip should be safe.


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Ron Paul still hasn't left the Republican Party
Letter-writer Ellyn Hilliard bemoans the dearth of qualified presidential candidates, but suggests Republican unknown Ron Paul as the only one who "makes any sense." Paul's delivery and Libertarian views might appear refreshing to one accustomed to Washington doubletalk, but he has a serious and genuine flaw: He hasn't left the Republican Party. Ron Paul has chosen to stand behind this administration's countless failures. His complicity reveals his true motives.
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