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The Ward 8 Fiefdom of LaRuby May And Friends
By Bill Myers and Jeffrey Anderson. Photographs by Andy DelGiudice.
Chroniclers of local politics may have noted two rival clans competing for the wanting throne that presides over the District of Columbia. One house dwells mostly east of the Anacostia River and marks its descent from the Civil Rights era and its principle dynast, Marion Barry. The other unfurls its standards in Ward 4 and is embodied in Mayor Muriel Bowser, heir to the Green Team, a political and fundraising crusade left to her by her mentor, former Mayor Adrian Fenty.
But in the figure of Ward 8 Council Member LaRuby May, the flags of the rival houses have united under a single banner. May recites heroic verses about growth, transparency and accountability, but she and her privy councilor—businessman and longtime ward fixture Phinis Jones—have quietly built an empire on which the sun never sets. It's also an empire on which the sun has never shined.
Poring over hundreds of pages of public records, District Dig has charted a complex political and business alliance with grand claims to D.C.'s political capital—an alliance that promises its subjects cradle-to-grave service, all the while blurring the lines between public and private money.
May embodies and synthesizes the traditions of both political houses. Raised in Pensacola, Fla., she is the youngest (of seven) of the Right Rev. Theophalis May, a domestic Colossus—a self-made construction mogul who answered his call to public service through economic revitalization and historic preservation, and whose name adorns a public resource center. Yet she has risen to her prominence as a champion of the self-described progressive Green Team by campaigning for Bowser in Ward 8 and desperately trying to lend the Mayor credibility East-of-the-River.
Straddling the two generations requires poise, but May appears to have done a right royal job of it. She ascended to Barry's D.C. Council seat in a special election upon his death in 2015, and has since danced nimbly around her entanglements with Jones, her chief fundraiser and patron—a man whose pedigree includes community-based public-private business dealings, a history of bad debt, and the occasional whiff of scandal.
The waltz may be more difficult than May lets on. Along with Monica T. Ray—a Jones business associate who was May's campaign treasurer—the trio are linked through a labyrinth of private companies and nonprofit groups, most of which rely on public funding. May, who is seeking re-election in the June 14th Democratic primary, typically downplays her relationship with Jones and Ray, choosing the word "supporter" to describe them. Such modesty notwithstanding, the relationship, raises a classic question of D.C. politics: Have May, Jones and Ray come to do good but stayed to do well?
May and her cohorts did not respond to repeated requests for information about the happenings in their realm.
A Noble Pedigree
May has a bachelor's degree in family studies and a graduate degree in community counseling and psychotherapy. She received a law degree from the University of District of Columbia, and is an active member of the D.C. and Florida bars. She first entered community service in Ward 8, in 2002, while attending law school, as director of a church program that ministered to elementary and middle school children.
Her origins in D.C. politics go back to 2005, when she was Barry's legislative intern and director of Ward 8 constituent services. In 2007, she began consulting for Vision of Victory Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that taught job skills to at-risk youth and, with help from Barry, won funding from the D.C. Department of Employment Services.
In rapid time, however, she caught the eye of Mayor Fenty. In 2008, he appointed her to the board of commissioners of the D.C. Housing Authority, a seat she held even as she rose to executive director of Vision of Victory. Not one to shy from multiple affiliations, May also became a senior project manager at Capitol Services Management, Inc., a construction, real estate and public engagement firm owned by Phinis Jones—with Monica Ray its vice president. (May became board chair of Capitol Services in 2009.)
These disparate threads of public service and private enterprise are but the fringe of May's complex tapestry of business and politics.
Take, for instance, the Roundtree Residences, a $16.3 million affordable housing complex for elders on Alabama Avenue, SE, built with more than $10 million from local and federal government agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The money, in the form of direct cash, subsidies and tax breaks, went to Vision of Victory, in 2010, with May, still a board chair at the housing authority, testifying before a city zoning appeals board on the company's behalf.
Once funds were secured, a share of $2.8 million in development and management fees went directly or indirectly to Vision of Victory and a pair of companies owned by Jones—including Capitol Services, which, among several addresses, can be reached at 3215 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE, in a home owned by Ray.
One of the other beneficiaries of the Roundtree project was Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which sold the land to a joint venture consisting of the church, Vision of Victory, Jones' District Development Group—also located at 3215 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.—and a fourth partner, after loaning money to the partnership group. May and Ray both attend Allen Chapel and have served as its officers. Its minister, Michael E. Bell, was at the time sole board member of Vision of Victory, which listed just one employee—LaRuby May.
The Dig was unable to locate nonprofit tax returns for Vision of Victory after a 2010 filing (for the 2008 tax year).
"These types of relationships are exactly why communities East-of-the-River have languished," says Ralph J. Chittams, a Ward 7 activist, questioning the May-Jones-Ray triumvirate's track record of success. "I can't tell where one begins and the other ends. It's all so incestuous."
The Roundtree, of course, is not Phinis Jones'—or Capitol Services'—only publicly subsidized senior housing project. As of this writing, Jones is suing the District government over funds he claims are owed to Park Southern, which is itself the center of an investigation launched before Bowser seized the mayoral throne, over how its public dollars were spent and managed. To the mayor's chagrin, Jones' involvement in the scandal immediately called into question Bowser's relationship with May.
Jones, himself, has a long entry in the chronicles of D.C.'s dynastic politics. He came up from Mississippi in 1968 and ran unsuccessfully for Ward 8's council seat in the District's first democratic election. He worked briefly for the woman who bested him, Wilhelmina Rolark, before he got his first taste from the public-private banquet on which he has feasted ever since. The company that became Capitol Services was organized to bid for the exclusive rights to print the Washington cable guide.
In his own estimation, Jones is a kind of Galahad.
"A breakthrough in the business world is to just have major contractors and developers to have faith that you can do the work and do it right," he told an interviewer in 2012. "There is a myth that we can't do it. The biggest challenge is to have that breakthrough and get to where people have the confidence where they'll call you. Now it's a situation where major contractors, if they get a job, they will say to their lower stat people, 'Reach out to Capitol Services; if they tell you they're going to do it, they're going to do it right.'"
He certainly has been busy: He and Ray have been linked to more than three-dozen businesses here in the District, most of them competing for public contracts under the city's minority set-aside rules. And that is just his District fiefdom. In 2013, he bragged to an interviewer that he had actually done more business outside of D.C. than in it.
"So it's the fairness—the inclusion—in other cities," such as Richmond and Winston-Salem, Jones told his interlocuter. "I'm looking forward to doing a lot of business in Pensacola, Florida."
That wasn't Jones' first entrée into May's native heath, however. Sunshine State records list him as one of the leaders of a group called The United Black Fund for America, which was headquartered on Martin Luther King Avenue in Southeast, but registered for business in Florida as early as 1983.
Childcare & Education
Vision of Victory's benevolence was not limited to elders, such as those who were served by the Roundtree project. The company ran a pre-K program at Allen Chapel's grounds. When the program opened in 2013, a newspaper calling itself The Capital News heralded the development by saying: "Parents are looking for a childcare program that will provide a safe, nurturing learning environment. Vision of Victory Child Development Center provides that need that every parent desires."
The author of the piece was Phinis Jones, who went on to inform his readers that he had "adopted" one of the center's classrooms financially, "to pour back into the community and be an example for other parents, grandparents and friends of the center. I encourage as many nearby residents and parents to do the same!"
Within a few weeks of that piece, Capital News hailed the opening of Community College Preparatory Academy, a publicly funded charter school designed to help adults catch up on missed educational opportunities. This time, the byline was listed only as "C.N. Staffer."
The academy, too, was founded by May, who served as its board chair, but it also had a little help from her friends. Monica Ray was the academy's trustee and founding board member—she currently is listed on its website as board chair—and Phinis Jones chaired its "Friends of CC Prep" committee.
In the application for the CC Prep academy, Ray also was listed as chief executive officer of the Congress Heights Community Training and Development Corp., "one of the most productive and effective adult training programs in the community." (The corporation, founded by Jones and located at Ray's 3215 MLK Jr. Ave. address, is involved in the redevelopment of a Congress Heights housing complex that, according to news reports, has been plagued by squalid living conditions. Residents there fear being displaced.)
CC Prep has even more in common with other ventures controlled by Jones and Ray. A July 2015 Public Charter School Board memo, three months after May became Ward 8 council member, lists the prep academy—along with Capitol Services and a company called 7L Group Inc.— as vendors at Cedar Tree Academy, with contracts totaling $486,000 effective in July and August of last year. (CC Prep is listed as entering into a property lease agreement with Cedar Tree worth $216,000.)
7L was paid for mold abatement at Cedar Tree, but the company appears to be something of a renaissance outfit. Records kept by the District Office of Disability Rights' website show that 7L was an officially recognized sign language agency. Disability Rights lists no address for the company; Instead, the curious are directed to the attention of LaRuby May.
Florida business records show that what appears to be a related entity, 7L Group LLC, was founded by May and her siblings. Its headquarters are listed as May's 11th Place home in Southeast. 7L Group Inc., however, which is in receipt of a $150,000 "owners and representatives" contract with Cedar Tree, is located at 3215 MLK Jr. Ave., according to D.C. business license records.
Whatever its work offerings, 7L certainly had royal sanction. In 2009, then-mayor Adrian Fenty joined LaRuby May for a photo op at the 7L Group's MLK Jr. Avenue offices to announce a "work readiness program."
Within a few scant months, May would become a key figure in Fenty's signature scandal.
The Green Team Connection
In 2009, the then-chair of the city's housing authority board asked too many questions about why his agency was approving secret, no-bid contracts to Fenty's cronies—for remodeling parks. Fenty peremptorily fired him, and, casting about for a new leader, found in May a most willing courtesan.
Even after the public got wind of the scandal, and the D.C. Council ordered the housing authority to cease all payments to Fenty's pals, May "played a key role" in making sure secret, Christmas Eve payments went out, anyway, according to an independent investigation commissioned by the D.C. council.
The public outrage over the scandal would help send Fenty to an ignoble defeat. (In 2006, he had won every precinct in the city; in 2010, he couldn't even win his Crestwood neighborhood, let alone Ward 4.)
Fenty's dethronement did little to deter May's accession up the ranks in the public-private sector. City records show that in 2012, 7L secured a $160,000 contract with the Howard Road Academy, a predecessor of Cedar Tree. Then there was, of course, her work on Roundtree and CC Prep.
May may not have rested on her laurels, but she certainly accepted a few of them. In 2011, Monica Ray's Congress Heights Training and Development Corp, through a subsidiary, the Great Streets Business Leadership Council, lauded May, this time in her role as 7L's leader, as the "Outstanding Woman Owned Business" of the year.
If the Green Team ever resented May for her role in Fenty's humiliation, all certainly seems to have been forgiven. In 2014, May served as Bowser's campaign chair, and Bowser gave May a fulsome endorsement in the 2015 special election, even as Phinis Jones fended off questions about Park Southern.
And now May and her friends look to the future.
"Bigger Than Basketball"
As the Democratic primary fast approaches, the council is weighing a fat subsidy for a sports arena (that would include a practice facility for the Washington Wizards) in Ward 8. On March 23, May penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, and took umbrage at the notion that public funds in support of the project should be limited to $50 milllion. Weaving the rhetoric of old school and new, May called the proposed arena an "investment in our community" that "is bigger than basketball."
"No member of the council is more committed than I to be making sure that Ward 8 businesses and residents benefit from the investments of the District," she typed. "We have been underserved and underinvested in for far too long. The issue here is not accountability for spending too much in Ward 8; it is that the District hasn't spent enough in Ward 8. The District has invested in assets that have been anchors to development in affluent neighborhoods, but now that the investment is an underserved community, the strategy should change?"
The strategy hasn't changed completely. In a Feb. 23 meeting to assuage the community, officials at Events DC, one of the companies plumping for the Wizards development, reassured folks that help was on the way. Job training was coming, the group and city officials announced, and "Monica Ray of [Capitol Services] will be a huge help to the team in neighborhood outreach," officials said. "Capitol Services operates a 'High Tech and High Touch' philosophy to reach all the members of the community."
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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will use a "commemorative enhancement" to the Official Rawlings Major League Baseball that will be used on-field during all 2011 home games at Angel Stadium.
All baseballs used during game action will now feature the 50th Anniversary Angels logo. The club is promoting the balls as an "opportunity to collect a piece of 50th memorabilia for every home run or foul ball that leaves the ballpark".
During the course of an 81-game home schedule, the Angels use over 4,400 baseballs per season (on average). With home runs and foul balls, that amounts to a large number of 50th Anniversary baseballs potentially entering the stands during the 2011 season.
The 2011 Angels campaign theme is More Than "A" Season, an event that will encompass a 12-month celebration of 50 years of Angels Baseball. The team is holding events that are centered on fan interaction during the season including retro nights and giveaways.
Since the 1960 expansion, the Angels have won eight West Division titles, one American League pennant and the 2002 World Series.
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by Neville Bruce
Australia, the 'lucky' country,1 currently enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world. It ranks second in the UN Human development index,2 it has weathered the recent global financial crisis with little damage, its short to medium term economic prospects seem bright, its government and social structures are stable and generally benevolent, its environment although fragile and damaged, has not yet impacted on human wellbeing, and its resources, needed for its own population and export earnings, seem adequate. For most Australians, general material prosperity, indexed by GDP per capita, has increased significantly over the last 50 years and there is general expectation that it will continue to do so. But can it and should it? There are clear warning signs that this 'luck' may not last, certainly over the medium term to 2050. Australian population growth coupled with resource depletion and environmental degradation is of increasing concern. The world too is changing; the challenges of global population increase, global warming, global inequities, and global power realignments will all impact on Australia. How then can Australians balance and help shape these various forces to ensure an equitable and desirable quality of life and an environment that their descendants would like to inherit and in accord with our global obligations? (continue…)


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An interesting Op-Ed piece about Howard Pyle. Retrieved from
OP-ED: Howard Pyle: My Heart Goes Pitter Pat
I want to transport all of you – no matter where you live or how far you are from Wilmington, Delaware – to the Delaware Art Museum to gaze in wonderment at Howard Pyle's paintings. I have a problem, though. My magic wand is at the shop for repairs, and the only way I can do this will be… Motivation.
I have to convince you that, as a reward for every valiant deed you have ever done, you must visit this incredible museum and drink deeply of its art.
I'll start by telling you briefly about the Golden Age of Illustration, an era recent enough that your grandparents' bookshelves will have been filled with copies of books given to them by their parents, and illustrated by Golden Age artists.
Cast your minds back to those aged volumes: Gold embossed covers. Frayed cloth bindings. Deliciously thick ivory pages. And evocative front pieces, often covered with tissue-like paper that seems to proclaim, "This is Art. Handle with Care".
Many books on those old, old bookshelves – such as Robinson Crusoe, Arabian Nights, and Treasure Island – were illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parish, or Frank Schoonover. They, and dozens of artists like them, were students of Howard Pyle.
Even Norman Rockwell, just 17 years old when Pyle died, credits him as a source of inspiration. In a 1962 Esquire magazine interview, Rockwell was asked what artwork he would take to a desert island, and instantly replied, a "Rembrandt or two" and "a good Howard Pyle".
So why do we remember Wyeth, Parish, Schoonover, and Rockwell, but we have forgotten Howard Pyle?
Generational stupidity? Cultural malaise? Mass hypnosis? I haven't a clue.
The antidote, however, is at the Delaware Art Museum, where Howard Pyle's paintings are on the walls, majestic, inspiring, and at long last, on permanent exhibition.
Let me tell you a little about Pyle.
First of all, he wasn't your stereotypical angst-ridden artist. He loved what he did, and he did it brilliantly. He adored his wife, and had seven children on whom he doted. He kept regular hours, never charged his students for their lessons, and was as generous with his wisdom as he was with his advice, to wit: "A subject… should hold some great truth of nature or humanity, so that a person seeing it would give a part of his life's earnings to possess so beautiful a thing".
Pyle considered himself to be an artist first and illustrator second. Over much too short a lifetime – he was only 58 when he died – he produced more than three thousand illustrations and wrote (and illustrated) over twenty books.
He was passionate about his work. "If you are going to be an artist, all hell can't stop you. If not, all Heaven can't help you".
When Howard Pyle painted a battle, it realistically portrayed the slump of a shoulder, the grimace of pain, the flutter of a scarf, and the pathetic vulnerability of a soldier's bare feet as he laid dead in the dust.
When Pyle illustrated gladiators fighting to the death, we see the tense muscularity of naked flesh, and we feel the savagery of an upraised arm about to thrust a knife into an opponent's heart. We smell sweat, we hear the roar of the crowd, and we see cruel streaks of sunlight cutting through the arena like the slashes of a blade.
His mermaids entice, allure, seduce, and captivate.
And his pirates!
Before Howard Pyle painted them, they looked, in reference books, more like prosperous merchants than lawless buccaneers. Pyle imbued them with style, romance, menace, and flair. He put gold loops in their ears and swords between their teeth. He made them fiercely virile, with cruel glints in their eyes, tattered clothes on their bodies, and adventure in their hearts.
"I have always had a strong liking for pirates and for highwaymen, for gunpowder smoke and for good hard blows", Pyle stated.
The look he created for pirates has extended, virtually unchanged, from the first one he painted to those portrayed in silent movies, in MGM musicals, in Walt Disney's Peter Pan, and even to our current love affair with The Pirates of the Caribbean, of which four sequels already have been made… With more to come.
Watch those movies. Visit the Delaware Art Museum and study Howard Pyle's pirates. After that, look at his Revolutionary War soldiers. His Golden Galleons. His gladiators. His Medieval Knights. His scoundrels. His lovers. And his mermaids. Then, appropriate to the 4th of July, stand in awe before his pensive and beautiful portrait of Thomas Jefferson signing the Declaration of Independence.
While you're at it, pick up a couple Pyle books: For a start, Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses and Robin Hood. Read them to your children. Honest to goodness pirates, outlaws, and archers are a thousand times more thrilling than any computer game.
Better yet, bring your children, your grandchildren, your parents, your sweethearts, and your friends to the Delaware Art Museum, and personally introduce them to Howard Pyle.
Because the soul needs sustenance.
Because it is important that we integrate beautiful things into our lives.
And because Howard Pyle has produced magnificent works of art.
Copyright © 2013, Shelly Reuben Originally published in The Evening Sun, Norwich, NY – HYPERLINK "http://www.evesun.com/" \o "http://www.evesun.com/" evesu n.com Shelly Reuben has been nominated for Edgar, Prometheus, and Falcon awards. For more about her books, visit HYPERLINK "http://www.shellyreuben.com" \o "http://www.shellyreuben.com/" www.shellyreuben.com. Link to David M. Kinchen's reviews of her novels "The Skirt Man" and "Tabula Rasa": HYPERLINK "http://www.huntingtonnews. net/columns/060605-kinchen- review.html" \o "http://www.huntingtonnews. net/columns/060605-kinchen- review.html"http://www. huntingtonnews.net/columns/ 060605-kinchen-review.html
New addition: David M. Kinchen's review of Shelly's
"The Man With the Glass Heart": http://www. huntingtonnews.net/51718


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Honda S2000 Lease Questions
You should break it into parts (in case my numbers are wrong).
Deal the price down on the car, invoice less $2k or close to it. Then plug in the lease and see what that works out to. Compare that with leasecompare numbers for the same car and choose the one that works out the best.
I heard back from one of my dealers and they will do $29,593 or $29,783 for the car with destination and dealer fee for me. The variance is due to a Honda price increase, some on their lot are invoiced higher and some lower. No where close to you, I am afraid. I probably can't get enough out of my 05 to do the upgrade at this point - but I am thinking on it
It probably will not be warm enough for top down driving there for another month or two anyway - so you might wait to see if they have a better LEASE deal. Then you don't have to try to hammer the dealers down so low on price.
Keep in mind they make 3% of full MSRP as holdback, which on a $34.5k car is $1,035. So they could sell you a car near or at invoice less the $2,000 and still make a nice profit. It is possible some dealers have not heard about the $2k dealer money - it is not on Edmunds and was "just" announced I am told.0
Is there a Honda dealer over in Motor City (Manitou Springs area)? I test drove an Acura Integra GS-R a few years back from the Acura dealership. During our test drive, he directed me to some of the mountain roads... What a blast. I can't imagine how much fun that would be in an S. I don't live in Black Forest anymore but I sure do miss it.0
Yea we have some sweet mountain roads out here. Theres only one dealer in the Colorado Springs/Manitou area. So far I've talked to the Springs and Pueblo dealers, may have to try Denver area or like Dennis said, wait it out and see if theres something better in a couple months.
Accelerator, where do you live now?0
What is IIRC as you mentioned here:
I leased my 05 at invoice (not under, like they offer now) but due to the better money factor my payment is $100 or more less than the one they quoted you INCLUDING 7% sales tax and I did first month due at signing, IIRC.0
I'm in the Houston, TX area... boring, flat, smelly, did I mention flat? :sick:
I too, think I am going to wait it out a little longer (I'm also a little upside down on my current car so I really need to be patient.0
IIRC = If I remember correctly
I don't have me lease contract and paperwork handy, but if I do remember right I only paid first month at signing, but may have done a sign a drive (since the rate was so low). With the much lower MF back then, even paying invoice for the car (compared to invoice - $2000) it ends up being cheaper than the current "deal".
That said, getting the car so cheap even with a OK lease deal is not a bad deal - and you could always finance rather than lease.
Only Honda knows what the future holds in deals, and they may not know since they will wait and see how the warmer weather or spring and the $2k dealer incentive improve sales. If they don't pick up, then you may see a cheap lease deal down the road.
One thing to keep in mind - if they entice you to buy the car or 3rd party lease the car then they don't have to sell it again if you return it. If they have to make a cheap lease deal to move the cars, then they get a lot of them back in 3yrs and have to figure out how to sell them again. With the inflated residuals they use for the lease, they would likely have to discount them (or CPO them) to sell them. With the Accord cheap leases, no big deal since they retain value well and there is a STRONG used Accord market. The S2000 market is a lot smaller, not that it is not a great car, just not what a lot of folks want for the money.
In Texas the top down season comes early - and takes a break during the summer, doesn't it ? I can stand about 55 degrees with the top down, windows up, heat on and into the 90's top down, windows down, maybe A/C on. When it gets much colder or hotter I put the top up (or drive another car).
For all the people on here like myself that were waiting for a lease special, I have to agree with Dennis that the current lease ( I wont call it a special because its not) is not a good deal, and I have decided to wait it out some more. Whats interesting is if you look on Honda's website under current offers, you will see the other leases are called "special lease" while the S2000 lease offer is called "standard lease". That speaks volumes, I will wait for a "special lease" like they have had in the past and hope it comes around sometime this year. So for now, I'll continue to enjoy my '06 TL w/Navi.0
I am so on the fence. I see the colors I want disappearing from the dealership lots so I'm nervous about waiting. On Magic 8 Ball, what do you see in my future?
Magic 8 Ball's Response: "Ask Again Later"0
It can be a tough call, but I would say be ready to go if (or when) the deal comes out - be the first one make a deal and get a deposit down on the color you want. This is supposed to be the last model year for the S, so I would assume production will end in the next few months and dealers will be getting in the last they will get in the weeks after that.
If I had to choose between not having an S2000 and paying the normal lease price, I guess I would pay up. While there is still a chance they will offer a sweeter deal, I would wait. Note: easy for me to say as I have an S2000 to drive
Hi 23109vc. Honda is still not providing any special lease money factors on the S2000. The reason why it started advertising a lease on this car is in April it introduced $2,000 dealer cash on it. You can use this cash to help you negotiate an attractive capitalized cost for your lease, but you will still have to use Honda Finance's standard lease money factors to calculate your monthly payment. The specific money factor that was used to calculate the advertised payment that you are referring to is .00280. This factor is for consumers who qualify for its "Super Preferred" credit tier.
Prices Paid Forum0
23109vc, if consumers were able to negotiate selling prices of around dealer invoice prior to the introduction of the $2,000 dealer cash, there's a good chance that you will be able to get this car for close to $2,000 under invoice now.
Prices Paid Forum0
tonyr313 Posts: 13got a dealer to $5000 out of pocket at signing and $320/month for 36 months with 12k miles/year. all costs, tax, etc included in this. good or bad deal?0
Hey Dennis, I finally got my palm desktop software installed (Palm's site has broken links) and got Lease-It installed!
I can't get over how easy the software is to use! I punched in the numbers into my Palm and compared that to LeaseCompare and it is a match so I now have confidence with the application. I'm still foggy on how you were able to help some of the other people posting their lease rates by working backwards, but maybe that will come to me once I've worked with the program a little bit.
Again, thanks for the link and tool... this will be the best $10 I've spent.0
I love LeaseIt! as well - a super deal for $10. I love how you can store a number of deals and switch between them - and change from residual percent to dollars or MF to interest rate.
Keep in mind on the LeaseCompare numbers they have rolled the lease fee into the deal so all that is due is first month. You have to add that to the cap cost you enter to make the payment work out - but you are not required to roll the fee in when/if you actually did a lease with them.
With the tools I have, I just use trial and error to work the numbers backwards. If you take the "deal" on the Honda web page it shows the net cap and residual, you know the term is 36 months. There can only be 1 MF that makes the payment they show - I worked it backwards for 0.00280 and the car_man confirmed it (from the lease offer sheet from Honda). So you just plug in what you know and guess at the MF, payment too high means MF too high, change and retry, etc.
Now you are all set - you just need for Honda to offer that cheap rate again
These numbers are:
April 07, April 06, % change, YTD 07, YTD 06, % change.
Even with the $2k dealer money they only moved 533 cars last month, down 10.5% from last year. YTD is even worse, down nearly 31%.
Either more dealer money, cheap financing/lease, or both may be coming this month?????
Link to lease deal
Not what I had hoped for/expected:
2007 S2000 Featured Standard Lease
$349.00 per month for 36 months. $4,309.00 total due at signing. Offer Details
FEATURED LEASE: Closed-end lease for 2007 S2000 Manual Transmission (Model AP2147ENW) for $349.00 per month for 36 months with a $3,365.00 capitalized cost reduction available to customers who qualify for the AHFC Super Preferred credit tier. Other rates/tiers are available under this offer. $4,309.00 total due at lease signing (includes first month's payment, AHFC upfront acquisition fee, capitalized cost reduction, security deposit. Security deposit waived in featured lease example. Total net capitalized cost and base monthly payment does not include tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees, options, insurance and the like). Security deposit waived in lease example. Not all buyers may qualify.
Subject to limited availability. Through 05/31/2007, to approved lessees by American Honda Finance Corp. Closed end lease for 2007 S2000 Manual Transmission vehicles (Model AP2147ENW), for well qualified lessees. Not all lessees will qualify. Higher lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. MSRP $34,845.00 (includes destination) less the suggested dealer contribution resulting in actual net capitalized cost $27,560.36. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual lease payment. Taxes, license, title fees, options and insurance extra. Total monthly payments $12,564.00. Option to purchase at lease end $19,861.65. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excessive wear/tear and 15 cents/mi. over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP less than $30,000, but for vehicles with MSRP of $30,000 or more, mileage cost is 20 cents/mi. over 12,000 miles/year. See dealer for complete details.
This looks like a MF of 0.00285 or 6.84%, not a great deal.
If you take the $4,309 down and take out the first month and acq fee you end up with $30,925.36 as the selling price VS an invoice of $31,604. I would think when you could get the car for $2,000 under invoice for a similar MF it would have been a better deal.
last time i went to costco, they had an S2000 out front and the "costco"member price was $29k and change. i forgetit was it was closer to 30k...but it was 29500 or something like that...
sot heir lease dealisn't even as good as what some dealers will sell it for to the costco people...
if i were in the market for one i'd wait0
If it was a 2007, invoice is $31,684 less the $2k dealer incentive = $29,684. The holdback is $1,045.35. So a dealer (through Costco or not) could sell you an S for $29,xxx and still come out OK. The Costco price probably would have a dealer "doc" fee added to the price shown, but that price is nothing a motivate Honda dealer could not do right not using the $2k in dealer money.
I paid invoice for my 05 (no dealer money at the time) and if I were to get an 07 I would expect to pay invoice - $2k or just a little higher. In the old lease deals the money was under 2%, so even without the dealer money a lease at invoice was a great deal - a better deal than $2k under and 6.84% lease number.
If I were buying, I would buy now at the right price. If I wanted a lease deal, I might wait another month to see if they sweeten the lease deal.
Also posted this on the prices paid forum . . .
Pricing info FYI: Received an unsolicited email today from a SF Bay Area dealer with this price.0
You should follow up with and see what they say. They probably "forgot" to include destination charge ($595) and the dealer fee (anything from $50 to $500 depending on the dealer and local law).
It could also be an 06 car, some dealers still have them on the lots.
I've dealt with this dealer before . . . there's no "forgotten" destination charge or bogus document fees (doc fees are $45-$75).
And no, it's not an 06.0
You should go get it, then!
Forward the e-mail to me and I will give them a call.
(I'm not in the market for an S2000 - think it's a really exciting car - just leased an Acura TSX.)
I've forwarded the dealer's email to you. I worked with Susie in late April on putting together an Accord lease deal for me - ended up with the Acura for a number of reasons. She's in the finance department - very professional and easy to work with. I highly recommend her to anyone in the SF Bay Area looking for a Honda.0
suppose you can get an S2000 for about $2000 under invoice - what would the lease payments be on 12k/year? ballpark? assume minimum drive offs0
Assuming a money factor of .00285 and a residual of $19,861 (numbers quoted in an earlier post) and, let's say, a selling price of $29,405 plus the acquisition fee of $595 for a nice round number of $30,000 for the cap cost . . .
Monthly payment for a 36mo/12k lease would be about $424 plus tax. Upfront payment would include tags, title, dealer document fees and first month's payment.
PS: If you could get the selling price to the $28,888 figure I was quoted from a SF Bay Area dealer earlier today - monthly payment would drop to about $408 plus tax.0
Carman and others:
I've read so much about leases that it has become cluttered in my head and I was hoping for a double check... Correct me if I am wrong.
Part I
-The first step is to negotiate selling price of car (doesn't matter if lease or purchase).
-The MSRP to use in the calcualtion is AFTER dealer installed options.
-Net capitalized cost to use is the invoice minus incentives. I'm trying to work the deal where I don't pay for the options and I pay the car's invoice minus $2000 creating a difference of around $7K.
Part II
I already know the residual values for the 2007 and the money factor; another dealer has a new Grand Prix White 2006, would the money factor and residual values change on the new 2006 being that we are now in 2007? If the values are different, would you mind posting what would they be (or would older postings still be relevant numbers to use?)? Seems to me a lease deal could be significantly better on the '06 than on an '07 given all things equal? :confuse:
Thanks in advance...0
Negotiate the price first. It COULD matter if it is lease or purchase, since some of the dealer incentives and in place of cheap money. The recent Accord cheap lease deal could not be combined with the $750 dealer incentive. So the dealer could give you a better purchase price than they could if you were doing the cheap lease. In the case of the current S2000 incentive, you get that lease or purchase - and the current lease rate is high.
I don't know what accessories you want or need, but generally Honda will not let them include dealer added stuff to the MSRP as basis for the lease. On a lease, you are generally on your own for stuff you want the dealer to add. Over the Accord lease forum someone had a dealer make that mistake - they put all the high priced accessories on the car and added them to the MSRP to figure the lease. The lessee ended up with a very low payment - but I am afraid AHFC will not fund the lease or the dealer will have to eat the loss - or unwind the deal.
Net cap should be close to invoice less the $2k incentive and maybe plus a dealer fee. I asked for a couple of quotes and got $30,260 and $30,503 for the car, destination, and dealer fee. This is from dealers that normally are really cheap on everything. Obviously your dealer may make you a better deal, and if I were serious about a new 07 S I might could hammer them a bit on price.
A lease is based on the different between net cap cost and residual factored over time with interest. The 06 would make a WORSE lease car since you can get a new 07 for about $2k under invoice. Edmunds shows "up to $750" on left over 06 S2000s - but there is probably more than that. In any case, if they gave you the 06 for invoice - incentives - 100% of hold back it might be $1k - $1.5k cheaper than the 07. When you plug in future value, the 06 will worth a good bit less. If you check an 05 with 36k VS an 04 with 36k it looks to be $1,400 to $1,500 less. So if you start with a $1,000 savings and end up with a $1,500 less residual - and likely a higher money factory, you will pay more for the older car.
Check at leasecompare.com and see what they would do with either car and I think you will find that most lease banks consider the car to be "used" once the next September hits - no matter if the car is really new or not.
The best thing is to wait and hope for a cheap lease deal again. Failing that, make your best deal on price and compare the AHFC current rate (6.84%) VS what the dealer could get from a 3rd party bank VS leasecompare.com and take the one that is the best deal.
I guess I should make sure they know I'm wanting to lease the '06. The accessories nice but I wouldn't pay extra for them (things like the spoiler, lip kit, etc).
Leasecompare doesn't show 2006 as an option anymore. I just emailed them a few minutes ago. I'll post once they reply.0
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I am dreaming of this car since the concept was introduced in the late 90s. I am finally getting close to be able to afford one this year.
Driving home today (LA) -I always pass a HOnda dealer- and saw 3 brand new dark silver s2k's in the showroom. I had to stop and, how it is, numbers got crunched.
I have 2 questions for this very informed and knowlegable forum:
1.I was told that my 719 Fico, first time buyer and short credit history (am only 4 years in the states)would not qulify for the AHFC super preffered credit. (I didnt allow them to actually pull my credit, I just pulled it 2 days ago). Further they told me that it would not matter whether I wait for a lease special to come out or lease one now, since I would only qualify for preferred credit. Lower credits would not be benefit of a lease special. Is this true?
2.The best deal they gave me today (alt.Bank)was: 48mo/12k, $3000 drive off, $433/mo (incl.tax). What do you guys think? If its true the special wont do anything for me this seems not to be too bad of a deal.
I would really appreciate your vast knowledge on this.
I am waiting to the day to sit behind this beauty for over 7yrs...but every dollar less would make it easier to pay off student loans AND to drive the sweetest car there is :P
Thank you in advance!0
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"Love's Labour's is often thought of as Shakespeare's most flamboyantly intellectual play. It abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms. It is often assumed that it was written for performance at the Inns of Court, whose students would have been most likely to appreciate its style. This style is the principal reason why it has never been among Shakespeare's most popular plays; the pedantic humour makes it extremely inaccessible to contemporary theatregoers."
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Chablis is an historic wine-producing town in northern-central France. It produces light, dry white wines famed for their minerality and crisp acidity. AOC Chablis wines are produced exclusively from Chardonnay. They must be produced from vineyards in a specifically designated area surrounding the town of Chablis and its nearby villages. Located in northern Burgundy (Bourgogne), it has a cooler climate than the rest of Burgundy, which contributes significantly to the style of wine its vineyards produce. The effects of terroir on wine can be seen more clearly in Chablis than almost anywhere else.
What really distinguishes the wines for me is that most Chablis sees no new oak, if any at all, in the winemaking process. As a result they are drier and fresher, rather than weightier and richly flavored.
The vineyards of Chablis are classified into four tiers of quality. Starting from the top, they are: Chablis Grand Cru, Chablis Premier Cru, Chablis and Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru wines are produced from just 250 acres (100ha) of vineyards planted on gentle south-west-facing slopes at the eastern edge of the town. There are seven Grand Cru vineyards: Preuses, Bougros, Vaudesir, Grenouilles, Valmur, Les Clos and Blanchot. Wines claiming the Grand Cru title are made under stringent regulations; the maximum permitted yield is lower than for standard Chablis, and the minimum potential alcohol one degree higher. Chablis Grand Cru wines respond well to bottle ageing for between 10 and 15 years.
For our tasting I brought along 4 Grand Cru Chablis from 3 of the areas top producers and one rising new star along with a bottle of Champagne to kick off the evening. We began the evening with a dozen Naked Cowboy Oysters (East Cost) and a fantastic bottle of NV Jacques Selosse Brut Initial (digorged 10/10). The oysters at Fin are always briny and pristinely fresh and their combination with a great Champagne is magical. The Selosse is exactly that, a great Champagne. This bottle was made from 100% Chardonnay. It possessed an enticing yeasty bouquet that kept evolving just as each sip of this extraordinary Champagne did throughout the evening. On the palate it is creamy, sublimely balanced, rich and layered with complexity. It is a Champagne that must be drunk from a large white wine glass as opposed to a flute so that you can enjoy the wine at evolves in the glass over the course of the evening. I sipped this throughout the meal and it just kept getting better. In my opinion, there is no better producer of Champagne on the planet than Selosse. The wines are not easy to come by, and are a bit pricey. $150. Wine Searcher.
After the oysters we moved onto a selection of delicious appetizers.
Grilled Caesar Salad, which consists of grilled Romaine Hearts, caeser dressing, reggiano crispelle and toasted garlic baguette.
Grilled Cheese with Lobster, Gruyere, Bacon, Arugula, Heirloom Tomato.
Crabcake made with tons of lump crabmeat, roasted yellow corn, chipotle aioli and served with baby arugula salad.
Lobster Sliders with plum tomato, applewood smoked bacon, peppercress and servedwith potato sticks.
With the appetizers we enjoyed our first two Les Clos Grand Cru Chablis, beginning with 2010 Patrick Piuze Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru. Mr. Piuze is one of Chablis' rising superstars. He owns no vineyards of his own and thus purchases his fruit from top wine growers in Chablis. His reputation was established while working for some of the top producers in Chablis. This reputation has allowed him to enter into a long-term partnership with wine growers that enables him to pick the best lots in Chablis, most of them of very old vineyards, to collect high quality grapes.
2010 was his third vintage under his own label. This bottle tonight had a gorgeous light yellow hue and fruity bouquet. Fruity and balanced on the palate, this is a pure and completely unadorned classically styled Chablis. At the moment it is a bit light, which I suspect is due to the fact that it is still very much a baby and will benefit from 2 to 3 more years of cellar time. $95. Wine Searcher. New York Wine Warehouse carries a large selection of Piuze wines at some very attractive prices.
We also drank 2009 William Fevre Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru with the appetizers. Stunning!. Crystalline medium-gold hue with lovely floral nose. On the palate it had terrific richness, depth and purity of fruit. A round and delicious wine that finished with considerable depth and elegance. $90. New York Wine Warehouse.
If memory serves me correctly for our entrée we all enjoyed one of Fin's signature dishes, 7 Spice Big Eye Tuna. The Sushi grade Tuna is prepared rare and served with Soba Noodles, Stir Fried Vegetables, Soy and Scallion Vinaigrette, it is a wonderfully spicy and savory dish.
2009 Dauvissat Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru. Gorgeous light yellow hue and a pleasant citrus bouquet. On the palate it was simply round and delicious with finesse, focus and elegance. It finished with great length. A wine with soul! Should give pleasurable drinking for many years to come. The Rare Wine Company says "Along with François Raveneau, Dauvissat is unquestionably Chablis' greatest producer, owning some of the oldest and best vineyards, including prized sections of the grand crus, Les Clos and Les Preuses". It was the wine of the night by the consensus of all. $150. Wine Searcher. Other vintages of this spectacular wine are available at The Rare Wine Company and New York Wine Warehouse.
2000 Francois Raveneau Chablis Valmur Grand Cru. The wines of Raveneau are simply spectacular across the board. They are magnificent expressions of clean, complex and elegant Chardonnay. Tonight's wine took some time to open, but when it did it was pure Raveneau. The palate was clean, crisp and had beautiful balance and acidity. While it did not have the vibrant fruit of the Dauvissat, it possessed a long and graceful finish. The 2000 vintage will be difficult to find, and will be quite expensive. More recent vintages are available however. Expect to pay upwards of $150 a bottle, depending on the vintage.


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An Air Source Heat Pump absorbs outside air and converts it into a fluid, which is heated and pumped through your radiators and hot water system. As this is a constant process you will find your radiators may be a lower temperature but the warmth is constant, thus reducing your fuel bills, carbon emissions and may create an income for you through the Governments Heat Incentive Scheme.
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Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speech In Frankfurt
Courtney Comstock
Sep. 5, 2011
Josef Ackermann just gave a terrifying speech about the fragility of the Euro banking sector right now.
At a conference in Frankfurt he said, "It is an open secret that numerous European banks would not survive having to revalue sovereign debt held on the banking book at market levels."
We have translated the speech based on Handelsbatt's, the organizer of the event where Ackermann spoke, account of it.
"In recent weeks, the distrust of the financial markets has spread to the banks because they are now suffering from the debt crisis in Europe and have a lot of exposure to, for example, Greek bonds."
"Since the financial crisis, some European banks have lost a third or more of their market capitalization," he said, according to Google Translate.
"Most institutions have a rating of "below the book value or at best."
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Plastic Surgeon offers advice regarding keeping to program as well as budget during major construction programmes.
MAXIMISING YOUR RESOURCES – five ways to improve your bottom line
Not only does construction remain at the mercy of the elements, consultants and contractors are currently having to contend with the after effects of the recession: principally a shortage of skilled labour and continuing delays on material deliveries.
These could be counted under the heading of socio-political causes for delays, with one theory of construction management also citing technical or psychological problems as the key areas to be addressed.
Technical issues can arise from myriad sources, but adopting offsite fabricated systems (Modern Methods of Construction) is one way proven to improve predictability and reduce errors.
The efficient sharing of information is another valuable discipline, and one that will seemingly be fully addressed by Building Information Management. As yet only a small number of schemes are utilising BIM, and there are big financial implications to its adoption; meaning contractors should meanwhile make best use of freely available information technology, such as manufacturers' and distributors' electronic ordering and tracking systems, or Plastic Surgeon's VisibilITy software.
It is also acknowledged that passing on the full extent of liquidated damages to sub-contractors is difficult contractually; and predicting the extent to which overruns by one subbie' will affect the progress of others is even tougher.
A large proportion of projects nowadays see the main contractor employing no direct labour, but instead managing a series of sub-contract packages. As has been demonstrated when working towards excellent airtightness and PassivHaus standards, educating the workforce – say using toolbox talks – promotes understanding of goals, as well as improved standards of workmanship and care.
To borrow a term from the military, mission creep can be a major challenge in construction, where the scope of the work changes or worse, management sometimes perseveres with a poor strategy. This can eat away time as deadlines approach, so it pays dividends to bring in fresh expertise where problems persist.
Overall, we can hope project teams have learned the folly of lowest price and will in future adhere to best value – in particular recognising that partners who keep their promises on price and quality are cheaper in the final analysis.


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After a week of being put through their paces, police dogs from across the country visited a number of schools in Port Elizabeth yesterday before South Africa's top dogs were announced at an event at the Boardwalk.
The Eastern Cape was recognised as the best K9 and mounted unit in the country.
The province's team of Sergeant RC Spannenberg, with his dog, Gavin, won the protected species category.
Warrant Officer J Potgieter and his dog, Ben, won the search and rescue category.
Colonel V Naidoo was elected best provincial police and emergency services commander.
On Thursday, 15 people were arrested during a joint operation of the country's top K9 units.
The operation was a spin-off of the National K9 Unit championships held in Port Elizabeth over the past week.
According to police, the joint operation targeted identified problematic hotspot areas such as suburbs in the northern areas.
For the full story read The Herald/WeekendPost, or get the complete newspaper, including comics, classifieds, crosswords and back editions in our e-Edition.


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After a "relaxing" weekend, most of us return to work ready to conquer our weekly to-do list with enthusiasm and determination. There's always a lot to do on a Monday — mainly catching up on emails from the weekend and trying to address time sensitive issues quickly. There seems to be a lot of those these days.
This Monday we're also preparing for our Wednesday virtual information session (if you haven't registered, there's still time to join in on the fun). We're also preparing to hop on a plane to Houston, TX – Email us if you want to meet Alvin in person to talk about our programs and the admissions process. We've updated our recruitment schedule on our website with a few more off campus events we will be participating in this fall (more to come).
Another big project we're working on that will affect many of you soon; we are launching a new application for the fall admissions period — very exciting but also complicated from the back end. If we do it right, you won't notice a thing but if we don't put it together properly then I know our phones will ring with anxious prospective candidates. So we're aiming to get it right the first time. This will not affect those of you interested in applying for our Spring 2014 term since we will still be on the current platform [with some improvements]. For those of you who are ready to get down to business and don't want to wait an entire year to join a great community and start working on your Master of International Affairs or Master of Public Administration degree, stay tuned for the launch of our Spring application. (Sorry, our MPA in Development Practice program is only offered in the fall.)


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MULCH: Beneficial and FreeBy NancyAnn Gandy (ButterflyChaser) on June 3, 2010
|Every garden needs mulch for several reasons, but mulch can be expensive if you buy all that you need. But you may not have to pay a cent for it!
|Mulch is essential to gardening. You can transform a yardful of red clay into beautiful organic black gold by applying mulch every year or two. Over time, mulch biodegrades, slowly transforming your soil. Mulching also conserves water and shades plants' roots. In addition, it cuts down on weeds while enhancing the beauty of your gardens.
Mulch can be expensive, especially if you garden on a grand scale. But in most areas, tree trimmers are all too eager to dump their wood chips on your property at the bargain price of FREE! In my city, they pay about $40 a truckload to dump at the city landfill. By dumping on my property, they save money and I save money.
And it's a myth that you can't apply fresh tree trimmings to your gardens. People have sworn to me that it will burn up my gardens. HA!!! I've been doing it for years and have not lost a single plant because of my fresh mulch. If you're only applying it 5 or 6 inches thick, you have nothing to worry about. If you were going to put it on 2 ft thick, then you might. But 6 inches deep doesn't get hot enough to hurt your plants. I'm in the South where summers can be over 100 degrees. I apply fresh mulch anytime I have it on hand, including in the heat of summer.
You'll need a spot where a tree trimmer can dump a big load of mulch. We have a vacant lot so they sometimes dump me a dozen loads in a month or two. Some of it will have time to biodegrade before I can get to it, but most of it will be used immediately.
When talking to a tree trimmer, make sure you tell him you want the trimmings for mulching your garden and ask him to bring you stuff that is not diseased or pest-infested. And ask if his blades are sharp. If his blades are dull, the mulch won't be finely chipped; it will be in long stringy strips that tangle up so badly in the pile that you can't pitchfork or shovel it out.
Pine mulch is my absolute favorite mulch. The pine needles don't shred, but the bark does. The pine needles lie beautifully and really look great in paths and beds. And when it's fresh, ahhhhhh, it smells so good!
Bradford pear mulch is my next favorite. It has such a fruity scent. I can step outside and sniff the air and know immediately if the tree trimmer has dropped me a load.
And don't forget to thank your tree trimmer every now and then with produce from your garden or a gift card to his favorite restaurant. That will keep him coming back year after year.
If there are no trimmers trimming in your area, check with your city landfill or recycling center. They often give away mulch for free. Ours has a backhoe and loads it too, so you just drive a truck over there and haul it away.
A trick I learned is, before loading mulch in a truck, put down a tarp in the truck bed first. Then when you've shoveled out most of the mulch wherever you want it, you can pull the tarp to drag the rest of the mulch out, saving quite a bit of effort.
Don't forget to save your fruit and veggie scraps, as well as shredded documents and newspapers to add to your compost pile. Or you can apply them directly to the garden if you don't have a compost bin. I rake away some mulch and dump scraps and shreds in, then rake the mulch over it so no one ever sees it.
I hope these tips help save you money while replenishing and beautifying your gardens.
|I've been gardening in the Midsouth since 1999, since we finished building my house. I actually thought I had black thumbs--nothing I'd ever planted had survived. But then my sister let me dig up about 200 yellow Richard Wallace cannas from her yard that June. I planted them everywhere around my house, hoping they'd find a spot they liked so I'd have a few. I was certain most would die. Boy, was I wrong!
By August, all these cannas were 4 ft tall and blooming! We had a mild winter so they were only dormant for a couple of months. And by July of the next summer, they were a whopping 7 ft tall and had at least doubled in quantity. I had a canna forest all the way around my house! And that's all it took for me to begin killing bermuda and planting anything I could get my hands on. (By the way, these cannas still grace my gardens.)
Now my entire yard is a botanical garden; I have no lawn. I grow all kinds of plants, many of which I was told would not grow here. Over the years, I learned to trust my own instincts and see for myself what will grow and what techniques work for me. Because my gardens are massive, I water and fertilize very little. But I mulch aggressively to cut down on weeding, watering, and to replenish the soil. Gardening is my passion and my gardens soothe my spirit. I'm happiest when I'm up to my elbows in dirt.
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I will live this day as if it is my last.
I will finish this book/this chapter/this rewrite today rather than postpone it for tomorrow.
In short, I will do today's work TODAY.
Tomorrow's work belongs to tomorrow.
No longer will I procrastinate, especially with my writing.
Procrastination is another bad habit of mine that I have no choice but to break if I even hope to gain success.
"I will form good habits and become their slaves."
You never know what tomorrow may bring…
You could wake up in the morning, and be too sick to work on your current project(s).
A storm could knock the power out, and you'd be relying on very little battery juice left in your laptop/tablet/phone.
The internet could be down…
Any number of things could happen that would interfere with your writing/productivity time.
Therefore, we must do what we can to take advantage of every spare moment we have TODAY. Carpe Diem!
Take advantage of every spare moment that you have today! Every moment of peace and quiet is writing time, productivity time, and study time. Every uninterrupted second I will put toward work, and work joyfully.
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Eggplant "Napoleon" на русском
Based on the recipe from Think Like a Chef by Tom Colicchio, page 210.
For the eggplant caviar
Roast eggplant halves covered with tinfoil together with wrapped in tinfoil garlic in the oven on high heat for 25 minutes. Remove the garlic from the tray, remove the tinfoil from the eggplant and roast for 25 minutes more. When cool enough to handle scrape eggplant pulp and chop it. Squeeze the garlic out of the skin.
Roast the red pepper on high heat turning periodically until skin begins to blacken. Remove from the oven and place in plastic bag. When cool, remove the skin and seeds, chop.
Saute chopped onion with mushrooms, add salt and pepper, until browned and tender. Chop a tomato and some herbs. Mixed all the vegetables, add some olive oil and spice as necessary.
Pan-fried eggplant
Dip slices of eggplant in flower, egg beat with 1 teaspoon of water and bread crumbs. Cook in oil 2 minutes on each side. Keep warm until ready to use. Build the "napoleon" layering the cooked slices with the caviar.
Goes well with braised fish and lemon-rosemary vinaigrette.


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A Summary of Motor Yacht ALILA
The good sized superyacht ALILA is a motor yacht. This 32 metre (105 ft) luxury yacht was manufactured at Cnl (Cantieri Navali Lavagna Amy / Admiral Mariotti Yachts) in 2005. ALILA is ex (Admiral 32). Superyacht ALILA is a elegant yacht that is able to sleep up to 8 passengers on board and has around 5 crew. The private motor yacht was envisaged with naval architects Cantieri Navali Lavagna (Cnl). Luca Dini Design / L Eynard acted on her interior design brief.
New Build & Yacht Design relating to Luxury Yacht ALILA
The yacht's general design work came from Cantieri Navali Lavagna (Cnl). The technical naval architecture intellectual property are a products of Cantieri Navali Lavagna (Cnl). Motor Yacht ALILA received her stylish interior designing from the interior design skills of Luca Dini Design / L Eynard. In 2005 she was formally launched to celebration in Lavagna and post sea trials and final completion was then handed over to the yacht owner. Cnl (Cantieri Navali Lavagna Amy / Admiral Mariotti Yachts) completed their new build motor yacht in Italy. A reasonable proportion is achieved with a total beam (width) of 7.1 m or 23.3 feet. With a 2.3m (7.5ft) draught (maximum depth) she is reasonably shallow. The material aluminium was used in the building of the hull of the motor yacht. Her superstructure above deck is created from aluminium.
M/Y ALILA Engineering & Speed:
She utilises twin robust MTU main engine(s) and can drive at a rousing top end speed underway of 29 knots. The engine of the yacht gives 2285 horse power (or 1704 kilowatts). Her total HP is 4570 HP and her total Kilowatts are 3408. Connected to her MTU engine(s) are twin screw propellers (fixed pitch). This yacht's express cruise speed is 27 knots which enables a range of 1000.
Superyacht ALILA Has Guest Accommodation:
Offering cabins for a maximum of 8 welcome guests overnighting, the ALILA accommodates everyone in style. This ship requires approx 5 proficient crew to operate.
A List of the Specifications of the ALILA:
|Superyacht Name:
|Motor Yacht ALILA
|(Admiral 32)
|Built By:
|CNL - Cantieri Navali Lavagna Srl (AMY - Admiral Mariotti Yachts )
|Built in:
|Lavagna, Italian
|Launched in:
|Length Overall:
|32 metres / 104.99 feet.
|Naval Architecture:
|Cantieri Navali Lavagna (Cnl), Cantieri Navali Lavagna (Cnl)
|Interior Designers:
|Luca Dini Design / L Eynard
|Gross Tonnes:
|Nett Tonnes:
|Hull / Superstructure Construction Material:
|aluminium / aluminium
|Owner of ALILA:
|ALILA available for luxury yacht charters:
|Is the yacht for sale:
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|The Country the Yacht is Flagged in:
|Home port:
|Italy, Italy
|Class society used:
|ABS (American Bureau of Shipping)
|Max yacht charter guests:
|Number of Crew Members:
|Main Engine(s) is two 2285 HP / 1704 Kilowatts MTU. Engine Model:
|12V 396 TE94 diesel.
|Overall output:
|Cruising at a speed of 27 nautical miles per hour.
|Her top Speed is around 29 knots.
|Approximate range:
|1000 at a speed of 27 knots.
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Further Information On The Yacht
Her deck material is predominantly a teak deck.
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The luxury yacht ALILA displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.


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Charles Blow fills a niche so precise that The New York Times is one of the few daily papers that could maintain it in these lean times. He is the Times' "visual Op-Ed columnist," which means that Blow, drawing on his long experience as graphics editor and then graphics director for the Times, supplements his concise remarks with graphics. In his visual op-ed about a survey from the Pew Forum, Blow's graphic and his insights leave much to be desired. Regarding the graphic: Shouldn't a survey about people's beliefs regarding the afterlife look like something other than a digital audio board? What would Nigel Holmes do?
Regarding the insights: Blow clearly is pleased that the Americans in this survey express beliefs that are, for all practical purposes, universalist. That's his prerogative, of course, both as a visual op-ed columnist and as an American.
What's frustrating is Blow's glib tone in describing the historic teaching of the Christian church, which the church, in turn, draws straight from the Gospel of John:
In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a controversial survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they believed religions other than theirs could lead to eternal life.
This threw evangelicals into a tizzy. After all, the Bible makes it clear that heaven is a velvet-roped V.I.P. area reserved for Christians. Jesus said so: "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." But the survey suggested that Americans just weren't buying that.
Exactly what was it, though, that Americans just weren't buying -- what Jesus said of himself? How Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches have understood those words for centuries? The Studio 54-style elitism that Blow imposes on those words?
To his credit, Blow consults with Alan Segal of Barnard College and John Green of the Pew Forum to help interpret the data. But then he closes with another casual dismissal of foundational Christian doctrine:
But I don't think that they are ignorant about this most basic tenet of their faith. I think that they are choosing to ignore it ... for goodness sake.
I know that Blow's work involves taking dull statistics and making them more interesting with drawings and charts. Still, doesn't such a weighty matter as eternity deserve something more than the written equivalent of a stickman?