Cat Alarm Clock: So Cute, So Annoying

Boo the orange cat has apparently figured out a foolproof way to alleviate boredom and get his human caretakers the heck out of bed in the morning.

Reaching one paw under the bedroom door, he flicks the door stop - which is somehow on the door and not the wall, like every other house in modern civilization, but that's neither here nor there - incessantly to wake everyone up.

Two main takeaways here:

1. Their alarm clock is cuter than yours at least.
2. Cats don't have owners. They have staff.

Cat Alarm Clock

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German police rescue DJ from 'sex mad' woman

By Reuters

A Munich disc jockey held for five hours as a sex slave by a 47-year-old German woman said on Monday he would press charges of sexual coercion and deprivation of freedom against a woman he had met just a few hours earlier in a local pub.?

The 43-year-old disc jockey named Dieter S. told Munich's T.Z. newspaper that he had to call police to rescue him from the woman's flat in Munich after she locked him inside, hid the key and forced him to have repeated sex with her.?

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"She was sex mad and there was no way out of the flat," Dieter said. He told the daily, which had also earlier published a police report about the incident, that he had consensual sex with the woman three times earlier that day on Easter Monday.?

?"I was having a beer at the pub after work and met this woman -- and we hit it off right away," Dieter said, referring to their meeting at a pub in Munich's Ludwigsvorstadt district. "She was quite attractive," he added.?

But after the first consensual rounds, Dieter said he wanted to leave. He discovered she had locked the doors from the inside and hidden the key so he could not leave. He thought about trying to flee over the balcony but it was too high, he said.?

"I realized I was trapped and had to keep going until she fell asleep," Dieter said. "So we had sex five more times."?

As soon as the woman fell asleep, Dieter said he went out to the balcony and placed an emergency call to police on his cell phone. Police arrived 10 minutes later.?

The woman unlocked the door to let the authorities in. She then promptly propositioned the officers, police said.?

"She tried to persuade the police officers to join her in 'related activities' -- albeit unsuccessfully," Munich police wrote in a press release.?

The woman was taken into custody and later released. She now faces charges of sexual coercion and deprivation of freedom.

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The Brilliant Economics of Green Buildings | GreenPoint Partners

Posted by Margaret on Mar 29, 2012 in Energy Efficiency, Green Building | 0 comments

Forbes: Say what you will about the benefits of clean energy or the costs of pollution, the jury has returned an ambiguous verdict on the greening of the commercial real-estate market.? The niche has become mainstream. ?Anyone who says?green buildings, which are certified by third-party verifiers as demonstrating superior environmental performance and resource efficiency, are ?boutique? has not been paying attention.

The commercial buildings sector boasts the most explosive growth in green building. In 2010, a third of all new commercial construction was green, amounting to a $54 billion market for commercial green buildings. By 2015, green buildings in the commercial sector are expected to triple, accounting for $120 billion to $145 billion in new construction and $14 billion to $18 billion in major retrofit and renovation projects.

But not all commercial buildings are the same. For all practical purposes, there are three classes of commercial buildings ? Class A, Class B and Class C. These classifications are commonly used as a proxy for a building?s ability to attract high-value tenants.

While there is no standard definition for what qualifies as Class A, Class B and Class C commercial buildings, the?Building Owners and Managers Associationsuggests considering the following criteria when classifying commercial buildings:

Class A: Most prestigious buildings competing for premier office users with rents above average for the area. Buildings have high quality standard finishes, state of the art systems, exceptional accessibility and a definite market presence.

Class B: Buildings competing for a wide range of users with rents in the average range for the area. Building finishes are fair to good for the area. Building finishes are fair to good for the area and systems are adequate, but the building does not compete with Class A at the same price.

Class C: Buildings competing for tenants requiring functional space at rents below the average for the area.

In other words, Class A buildings are the most desirable and Class C buildings are the least desirable from the typical tenant?s perspective. Greater desirability means more money. It turns out Class A is where the green paradigm has achieved the deepest penetration.

?Green building is fundamentally altering real estate market dynamics ? the nature of the product demanded by tenants, constructed by developers, required by governments and favored by capital providers,? according toRREEF Research. ?The upshot will be a redefinition of what constitutes Class A properties and even institutional-quality real estate.?

The predicted ?upshot? is rapidly becoming a reality in?Manhattan?s commercial real-estate markets, which is dominated by Class A properties. InManhattan, Class A office buildings account for 61% of the total market. Class B buildings make up 26% of the market and Class C accounts for the remaining 13%, according to?Cushman & Wakefield.

While stricter government regulation may ultimately make green buildings the de-facto standard for new and renovated buildings in the future, tenant demand is the primary reason why green buildings are becoming mainstream in today?s Class A commercial real-estate market.

?At?Hines, we specialize in Class A space, and we?ve reached the point where clients don?t think it?s Class A unless it?s green,? said Jerry Lea, the Executive Vice President of the real-estate investment and management firm.

Many tenants are willing to pay a premium for space in green buildings because of the lower operating costs, higher worker productivity and reputational benefits associated with the superior environmental performance of green buildings.

If the past presages the future, today?s green buildings market is chump change compared to the opportunity likely to come down the pike over the next decade. To put the scale in perspective, in 1995, the total floorspace of U.S. commercial buildings ? 58.8 billion square feet of floorspace ? exceeded the total area of the State of Delaware and amounted to more than 200 square feet for every U.S. resident.

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Have you ever thought that the way to build a successful web business is through self improvement? Since most people who come online trying to make money fail, why is it so hard to believe that it is because of lack of self improvement? What we are talking about with self improvement is whatever is going on inside people that prevents their success. The obvious key is identifying those blocks, and then making the effort to lessen their negative impact. This can be done, but that does not imply in any way that it is necessarily easy. The hardest thing that you will have to do to make money on the Internet is to learn how to develop the right attitude. Before you get into setting up a business, you should learn what types of self improvement you will need to do.

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