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Isaiah Mustafa, the former NFL player whose fame skyrocketed as “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,” has just been cast opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in Warner Bros. upcoming comedy “Horrible Bosses.”
The film follows three friends who conspire to murder their awful bosses for standing in the way of their happiness. Mustafa will portray a police officer.
“It’s a smaller role, but who wouldn’t want to be in one of these funny, irreverent comedies?” Mustafa tells the Hollywood Reporter. “The cast is great. I’m playing a cop because I play these authoritative characters well. I don’t know exactly who I’m in the scene with — maybe Jennifer Aniston.”
The casting in “Horrible Bosses” follows parts in Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” as well as an upcoming guest spot on NBC’s action-comedy “Chuck.”
All this comes on the heels of Nielsen data indicating that sales of Old Spice body products are up a monumental 107% in the past month as a result of his Emmy-nominated spots, and the Old Spice YouTube channels have been viewed more than 58 million times.
Mustafa’s second ad for the company premiered in recent weeks, and it could be his last.
“As far as commercials, I don’t think there are any more lined up,” he says. “They could always change their mind and want more. I signed on to be their spokesperson for a year, so I still have a few months left.”
ARIES
Hold on the best is to come. You are in a transitional period in your life.
A lot has occurred overthe summer for you. A lot of positive energy and good things.
It may feel confusing but don’t worry, your spiritual understanding will
guide you through. Just hold on and keep the faith. Watch your finances
in April could be a shake up or unexpected expenses.
TAURUS
Please have your health checked out. Your nervous energy is playing
havoc on your body. Worrying about things will not make it any better.
Let go and let God. Your relationship is stronger now, do to family ties,
and influences. Make a play-date with friends or cousins, and you will
have a good time. You can say prayer at anytime, you do not have to
wait until Sunday to be responsive. Look to the North for new avenues
of interest in investments. Love the one your with, get me?
GEMINI
Stop acting like a bouncing ball, you are all over the place. Settle down
and take a deep breathe, my God you are one antsy person these days.
Let love guide you and lead your way, stop second guessing what could
be or might have been. It’s a done deal now, so deal with it. Check in
with your relatives, someone may be under the weather, and has not
express this to the outside world. Hiding one’s illness is never a good
thing, because we always need support to get through it. Where are the
flowers, try and stop to smell them sometime, you just might be surprise.
CANCER
My, my, my life is looking good. See what happens if you just walk by
faith and not sight. Everything will turn out all right. Yes patience is
a virtue, but so what, what isn’t these days. You love life will help direct
your path, and the journey’s end is marvelous. Make it a day in August
to seek your future for the next 5 years. Hold on to those thoughts and
write them down. Your references in life is your emotional gauge.
LEO
Everyday is a good for you Mr or Ms Leo. Just depends on what side of
the preferable bedside you wake up on. August is bright as the sun in your
life. If you take head and listen to you inner voice. You will be alright.
VIRGO
Have a cup of tea and walk with me. You have program yourself for internal
love of life. What about the outside, out of the box love, new different, exiting,
and kinda weird, that’s where you want to be. In other words experiment with
your emotions. You are a strong will individual, with defining thoughts of what
you want. Yet you will hold out for something better, witch could be detrimental
to your goals. Sometime we have to take low to get high. Your goals are reachable,
your love can be extraordinary. Your career will surprise you in the fall, yep you
are on a roll Virgo. Just watch that foot and mouth dis-ease.
LIBRA
Where is the justice or just-us. Your year started out good. Then came a big
shake up, you are now in a transitional period. Do something different, about
your goals. Change and challenge can be a good thing, when the outcome is
respect, dignity, and class. Money may be a bit tight by the end of August. So
hold on to your finances, and spend only what you really need to. You are
seeking balance right now, and that will not occur until the fall of the year. So
for now try to stay in the arena of hope, the beauty of your decisions will reveal
themselves shortly.
SCORPIO
Ten days until Christmas, don’t you feel that way sometimes, lol lol lol
You are such a busy person, always accomplishing something. Just remember
to take time and smell the roses if you will. You love sunny weather, just
the cause for networking with folks. Please don’t throw a rock and hide
your hand just cause you are angry, you know that is not right. Granted
you do have sting when upset, but let it go. Remember know when to hold
them, and know when to let it go. Ignorance is bliss.
SAGITTARIUS
You blow like the wind. Today your North, tomorrow your South. You are
blessed with a brilliant mine, try using it sometime, and stop acting silly.
You also are in a transitional period in your life. Family changes, and
influences are your main challenges right now.
CAPRICORN
Finally you are receiving justice. What had been done wrong to you, karma
has made it’s return to the offenders. Joy oh joy comes in the morning.
Think positive, results are happening all around you. Make it your mainstay
to improve your living arrangement. Like maybe purchase a home or condo,
the time is making itself know now for advancement of “I love to”. Listen
to your inner voice, and write down your dreams, the Angels are talking to you
now. As the song goes “God Is Trying To Tell You Something”, so listen.
Your hearts is good, and your spirit bright, so let your light so shine. You have
been heard, and prayers are answered.
AQUARIUS
Please take care of your health the up most. That is your calling for the month
of August. Get your checkups, or take care of health concerns before they
become major concerns. Love will brighten your day with family and friends
support. Know when to hold them and know when to let go. Change is constant
so like the water bearer that you are, let the water of wisdom flow. August will
be the month you receive a lot of answers to unanswered questions, regarding
finances, relationships, and employment. Remember to keep the faith, you
are a blessed person.
PISCES
Wisdom is pronounce hal le lu ah. You will be singing praises of your accomplishments
this month. Summer has had it’s up and down, and many challenges. As we close
out August your wisdom and logic will survive to get you home. Not only do you
matter, but you Pisces are very important to the family dynamics. Do not let
your heart be weary, for all things have already happen, that has happen, just
a matter of you remembering. Push forward until the tailgate of life bends your
way. You have the power to reach beyond, and influence the masses. Thank You.
BrewDog has put bottles of its new super strength Belgium ale, which will cost $500 a bottle, inside dead stuffed animals.
Nelson Mandela cuts his birthday cake in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, who turned 92 on Sunday, had 92 children aged from six to 12 flown to his home from the town he grew up in, to join his birthday celebrations.
A group of media and electronics companies will soon start testing a system that will let you watch films you buy wherever you are, regardless of formats and other technical hurdles. Like ATMs, your account would follow you, no matter what brand of machine you use.
The group has also come up with the name UltraViolet for the open standard it is creating, which it was unveiling on Tuesday.
The open standard, backed film studios including Warner Brothers and technology companies such as Microsoft, represents a challenge to owned formats from Apple and others. Those formats lock buyers of video content to limited numbers of devices, such as the iPad or Apple TV.
Backers of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem hope to kick-start growth of digital film purchases, now just four per cent of all sales, by freeing consumers of format concerns.
That would mirror the way the use of ATMs exploded once all banks cooperated in processing transactions, said Mitch Singer, the chief technology officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment and president of the consortium, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem.
The concept is to create a digital locker that stores tokens that are proofs of purchase of DVDs, Blu-ray discs and film downloads. When a consumer buys a film online or at a store, he can watch it anywhere else, including on any mobile device or TV set without the hassle of copying his personal files.
The UltraViolet brand is meant to evoke the platform’s invisible presence, and transcendence across numerous devices.
“It’s outside the visible spectrum, but it’s all around you and it’s ubiquitous,” Singer said.
Specifications for a proposed common file format will be released soon, and testing of the system with an unnamed retailer will begin by the end of the year, Singer said.
Although the consortium contains a broad swath of companies, it does not include Apple or The Walt Disney Company.
In truth, there is nothing evil, only objective phenomena and experience.
If you want guarantees in life, then you don’t want life. You want rehearsals for a script that’s already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.
Tea Party & NAACP just stop it! You two act like children in the school yard playing keep away. Put the ball down, and grow the hell up.
The person of great wisdom needs little sleep.
Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. There is no such thing as an “accident,” nor is there any such thing as “coincidence”.
Power comes from inner strength. Inner strength does not come from raw power. In this, most of the world has it backwards. Power without inner strength is an illusion. Inner strength without unity is a lie. A lie that has not served the race, but that has nevertheless deeply embedded itself into our race consciousness.
I pay tribute to my dear sister and fellow freedom fighter Shirley Sherrod, who maintained her dignity and intergrity in the face of mendacity and adversity. We have another example of vicious attacks in vitriolic assaults on someone who is a real force for good in the world. We saw this with brother Van Jones, and now we see it again. But this time, truth and goodness triumphed. I also salute, my dear white brother and sister Rodger and Eloise Spooner, the white farmers who spoke up and told the truth about the decency and courage of Shirley Sherrod.
Thank you, Dr. Cornell West
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack held a press conference this afternoon to extend a personal apology to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod, and to reveal he has offered her another job working on civil rights at the agency.
Vilsack told reporters that Sherrod accepted his apology. He said, “She was extraordinarily gracious.”
The offer comes after an embarrassed administration apologized to Sherrod Wednesday for firing her over her remarks about race to an NAACP banquet in Georgia earlier this year. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration did not know all the facts when it acted.
When asked Wednesday if he had spoken with President Barack Obama, Vilsack said simply, “No.”
Vilsack insisted that it had been his decision to seek her resignation and said he takes full responsibility.
“This is a good woman,” Vilsack said. “She’s been put through hell.”
Sherrod, meanwhile, told The Associated Press she is considering Vilsack’s offer of a different position than her former post as state director of rural development in Georgia.
Media Matters is reporting that former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod said she has been receiving threatening calls and e-mail since a misleading video clip of her posted by Andrew Breitbart went viral.
“I am getting hate calls and e-mails at this point,” Sherrod said in an interview today with the liberal blog. “I got one call last night at my house at 12:30 a.m. that said, ‘you lost your job, good for you’ and ‘b****’ There are people out there who will believe that I am a racist person, even though the story is getting out there.”
“I got crank calls right away. Someone sent me an e-mail and link and said, ‘shame on you’ and other stuff. I was sitting in a meeting, and I was really upset,” she said. “I texted back that they were so wrong and that they need to know the message, and they got it wrong.”
Sherrod was fired by the Department of Agriculture and denounced by the NAACP over the video clip which appears to show her suggesting that she does not provide her “full force” in aiding white farmers. But a full video posted Tuesday night by an embarrassed NAACP clearly shows that Sherrod’s comments were taken out of context and edited to make it seem she was saying something she wasn’t.
Sherrod blamed Breitbart and Fox News for pushing the story that ended in her firing.
“The news media should tell it like it is and not the way they want it to be,” she said. “I think it is race. You think we have come a long way in terms of race relations in this country, but we keep going backwards.”
The devil’s in the details. Not only do states have different statutes of limitations for different debts, but two states may treat the same debts differently. A credit card debt might be considered an open-ended account in one state and a written contract in another. The only way to know for sure is to check your state laws or consult an attorney.
You can inadvertently restart the clock. Generally, the statute of limitations starts ticking from the “date of last activity” on the accounts, said Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney Scott Bovitz. (If the account is still listed in your credit reports, the date of last activity should be noted there.) On a credit card debt, that could be the last payment you made or the last purchase you charged. But in some states, making a payment on an old debt, agreeing to an extended repayment plan or even acknowledging that the debt is yours can extend the statute of limitations or restart the clock.
A creditor may still sue you after the statute of limitations has run out. Suing or threatening to sue you after the statute of limitations has run out violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. To prevent the creditor from winning a judgment against you, you’ll need to show up in court and point out that the statute has expired.
The creditor may try to pick a better venue. If you sign a credit contract and move to a state with different limits, the creditor may try to sue you in the state that has the longer statute. If that’s not the state in which you now live, you should protest, because generally the state where you reside is the one whose statutes should apply.
Debts can still exist even if the creditor can’t sue. Some people erroneously believe that debts are erased after the statute of limitations has run out. Although the creditor’s ability to sue you has been curtailed, it can still try other methods to persuade you to pay, including calls and letters. The debt can also be sold to another collector that can renew efforts to get you to pay. A legitimate debt is truly gone only when it’s paid or erased in bankruptcy court.
Collectors can’t legally restart the seven-year clock by “re-aging” the debt (giving it a new delinquency date) or by selling it to another agency. The Federal Trade Commission shut down one large collection agency, Capital Acquisitions and Management, after charging the company repeatedly had re-aged debts in its attempts to collect.