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A Look Inside PRLab: Spring 2021 Semester
What is PRLab at BU?
If you're in COM, or if you're even a BU student at all, you've probably heard of PRLab. It's the one-of-a-kind public relations class that mixes real-world work experience and clients with a structured class framework in which students can earn credits. In this student-run agency, both undergraduate and graduate students can be involved and take the class multiple times if they choose to do so.
This semester there are about 100 members participating in PRLab, including 20 executive board members. The students are managing 18 clients this semester, including Ben and Jerry's, The Goodwill, and Partners for Youth with Disabilities.
Alongside the students, Professor Amy Shanler and Professor Justin Joseph guide the program by leading weekly lectures, bringing in guest speakers and alumni panels, checking in on client progress, and supervising plans. This semester, the professors, executive board members, and students in PRLab have been working hard with their clients to support the brands' messaging, as well as build their own skills for future careers.
Each semester, new clients come to work with the students of PRLab, and the president of operations is responsible for managing their applications and determining who would be a good fit. Rachel Rubinstein, president of operations for the 2020-2021 academic year, handled the onboarding process this year.
One new client is Aaron's Presents, and the PR students are helping out with their initiatives in Massachusetts. Professor Shanler noted that this organization "helps younger kids figure out how they can give back." She was also proud to share that the team working with Aaron's Presents is helping out with the client's digital fundraising strategy by establishing their first Facebook fundraiser.
Another exciting addition to the PRLab client list is Kulkea. This ski gear brand has a primary focus on ski equipment and ski bags specifically. The PRLab team working with Kulkea is helping as the brand expands into other types of outdoor sport equipment.
Spark FM is another client new to PRLab this semester, and Jaliana Griesbach, director of research and writing, is particularly excited about it. Griesbach, a junior in COM, said that this Boston-based radio station "highlights minority voices and people of color in the Boston area who are artists or entrepreneurs."
The fourth new client brought in this spring is Architectural Health, a company that helps businesses make their work spaces healthier. Rubinstein noted that especially during the circumstances of the pandemic, the need for a positive at-home work environment is essential for mental health. Amid the pandemic, this client's interaction with its PRLab team has highlighted important principles all the teams must keep in mind.
"The clients and the teams are always in communication. Whether it's emailing or texting about different questions or things being sent out, there is a constant cycle of communication going on throughout the week," Griesbach commented on the student-to-client dynamic.
In a world where all their work is done from a computer, it is more important than ever for the PRLab students to make meaningful connections with clients. Rubinstein noted that with a virtual work environment, there has been a heightened focus on client relationships this semester. As president of operations, she has made sure to make this a prominent discussion topic in the executive board meetings.
"It's really difficult when you're virtual and over Zoom to have that connection when you haven't met in person, so we probably go over client relations more than any other topic," Rubinstein added.
One of the major highlights of PRLab this semester was the Ben and Jerry's scavenger hunt which took place on March 21st. Llariely Coplin, director of social media, noted the excitement around the event.
"Everyone got to run around and then Ben and Jerry's gave out gift cards, which was a really cool PR moment for Ben and Jerry's," Coplin said.
The event was guided in collaboration with Ben and Jerry's and BU's social media platforms, making it a safe way to hold an in-person event. Rubinstein noted that she "even saw that some PRLab members participated, which was really fun to watch."
Another exciting tradition of PRLab are the alumni panels. The most recent panel took place on March 29th, and Professor Shanler said that the guest speakers, all BU and PRLab alums, were quite impressive.
"We bring in this agency panel, which are almost always PRLab alum, to give students an understanding of what a career could look like working in an agency," Shanler said. She also added the importance of the discussions on how the alumni's experiences from PRLab translated into their current work.
The recent panel included Lauren Oubre, account manager for W2O Group, with a focus on health care. Oubre was the president of PRLab when she attended BU. Another guest speaker was Catie Valzania, account executive with 360+ PR, and she was an account director during her time with PRLab.
Professor Shanler noted that Salimata Diakits was particularly exciting to hear from in this panel because of her freelance work as a PR consultant: "She found this really cool niche for herself working for venture capital companies and organizations and their portfolios to provide PR counsel," Shanler noted. Diakits was an account director in PRLab when she was a BU student.
Additionally, Kelci Lowery, an Assistant Account Executive with Edelman, was a notable guest speaker, given the recency of her graduation. Lowery was the president of operations of PRLab in the spring of 2020, the same year she graduated from BU.
"It was really neat for her to come back because she hadn't even been out for a full year yet!" Shanler shared proudly. She added that Lowery was especially helpful with her advice on searching for a career during a pandemic.
Following this panel, the PRLab students were asked to share their takeaways from the alumni's advice.
"They talked a lot about gaining confidence in their own capabilities, getting over the fear of networking, and getting the sense of the variety of different types of industries," Shanler said.
In addition to the alumni panels and guest speakers, PRLab also incorporates what Rubinstein referred to as a "Day in the Life of a Client" at the beginning of each semester. The guest is someone who typically works in-house for a client and shares their expertise and advice. This semester, Angela Richmond Gaddist from UnitedHealth Group spoke to the PRLab students on February 22nd.
"We really want our students to understand the perspective of the client and what it's like to manage an agency," Shanler added regarding the speakers who share their insights from a client's perspective.
Notable Projects and Recognition
PRLab was recognized nationally for its work with BU's F*ck it Won't Cut it campaign. In fact, it was awarded under the category of "Best in Community Relations" on PR Week US's 2021 Awards. The exciting work with various clients and campaigns continues through this semester.
In PRLab, students have the opportunity to work with a plethora of industries and fields. Griesbach noted that they cover "everything from tech start-ups to nonprofits to consumer goods."
"We even have one lady who is a travel blogger and influencer, and she hired PRLab to help manage her social media," Griesbach added, referring to J. Q. Louise, a travel and lifestyle blogger. Shanler added that the team working with the travel influencer is doing survey research with the COM Sona system to generate results within the BU community. With the current restrictions on travel, this research is one of the ways they are supporting her as a client.
"It's wonderful to see our PRLab students tap into the resources available within BU," Shanler added.
Some other exciting projects that have been in the works this semester was the fundraiser collaboration with the BU Dance Team to raise money for The Ependymoma Research Foundation. Shanler was proud of the PRLab team that works for this foundation and its cooperation with other organizations on campus.
"They were able to raise a lot of money for this non-profit organization that focuses on this very particular brain tumor. What a creative way to reach out and connect with new audiences and help get results for the client!" Shanler shared proudly.
Another highlight from this semester includes the Air Force ROTC team, currently working on a new video to help its notable client recruit students.
On March 26th, one of PRLab's current clients, the National Center on Citizen Safety (NCC Safe), held a training webinar. The webinar was open for all PRLab students to attend, and it was extremely timely given the recent mass shootings.
Even in the midst of the global pandemic, PRLab students are working hard this semester and every semester to create meaningful experiences for clients. As Griesbach looks forward to another semester with PRLab in the fall, she noted her immense appreciation for the program."The main thing that stands out to me about PRLab is that it is such real-world experience. It doesn't even feel like taking a class — it feels like doing an internship, with even more experience than a normal internship would provide," she said.
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Nolan Cash Bowling Green
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In the course of my efforts helping homeless in Southern California I came across a fellow, thin, old and hirsute. A long grey pony tail leaking from under a worn Stetson. A bi racial gentleman of advanced years. He had a guitar, a Takamine with a bullet hole in it. (About the size of a 9mm round.) And despite advanced arthritis evident in his fingers, this old grey haired arthritic man played a song for me. Which earned him $5. All the money I had in my pocket. Even though it was a mumbled Gospel song and I am not a fan of the genre. I mentioned that he sounded like the love child of Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. He told me, "Johnny Cash was my cousin." Matter of factly. Not looking for any reply. After giving him the $5, I left. And that was that.
Much later I took a call from one of my Nashville musician friends, Tommy Mancuso, looking for some help in selling a song he had produced. A song called Bowling Green, written and performed by a relative of Johnny Cash. After putting two and two together, the stetson, the grey pony tail, the gnarly arthritic fingers and the bullet hole in a Takamine guitar, I realized it was the same guy. Nolan Cash. The story Tommy told me about his life and the song he had recorded had me intrigued, and I was only too pleased to help in releasing Nolan's song. Along the way, I had several meetings with Nolan, who asked me to write his biography. So here it is. My first authorized Biography. Brief, as Nolan requested. Reverential in its praise for Jesus, as Nolan insisted.
About the authorized biography of Nolan Cash (Video version.)
Nolan Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on October 8th, 1939, 7 years after his cousin Johnny. The bi-racial child product of rape by a Black man of a 16 year old Christian girl in America's conservative Bible Belt, he experienced prejudice growing up during the racially divided fifties.
Helped with lessons in singing and guitar playing by his older cousin, Nolan found success early in Country music. Recruited at 15 as member of the Kingsland Singers, the first all-Black Country group to sing at the Grand ole Opry, before his opportunity for Country music greatness arrived in 1957 when he witnessed the racially motivated church massacre at Bowling Green.
An event that would change his life in a way that might have come straight from the pages of a Hollywood Political thriller featuring an octogenarian Republican senator and senior Klan wizard suffering from dementia, committed to fomenting racial discord to bring back the good ole opportunities the South lost in that travesty called abolition.
Only the recent 50 year disclosure of official CIA secret documents and the investigative research of a resourceful Vanderbilt journalism major enabled the facts to finally emerge. The real reason why the massacre at Bowling Green was expunged from the history books and why Nolan Cash spent 33 years in Folsom prison.
Sixty years later, at last the story can be told. Nolan Cash, collateral damage in Americas racist growing pains. Bowling Green, where 100 people died in a massacre carried out by 8 Black Muslim men, misled by an octogenarian wealthy and influential Christian Republican Southerner with a slave owners background and a racist agenda, looking to start a race war and see the South rise again.
Audio book available on Amazon
Enjoy the YouTube mastered recording of Bowling Green, sung by Nolan Cash HERE
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We talk a lot in these days about urbanisation. It is one of the biggest mega trends in the world right now. Some experts suggest that in 2045 when the global population peaks at around 9 billion we will all be living in cities - 280 of them. That averages out at each city holding 32 million people. That is 280 places like Tokyo, or more likely like Chongqing in China where the city itself is about 8 million but its hinterland of small towns and rural areas takes the "county" to 30 million people. It's a new way of defining a city according to population expert Danny Dorling.
This is the world we need to get used to. With cities wealth increases, education improves and proximity to healthcare means that child mortality hugely improves. What is more in cities population growth quickly slows as children are more expensive to bring up and not needed in the same way to look after their parents in old age by running the farm. While we instinctively feel cities are bad in fact the evidence suggests otherwise.
Ludlow, in central England, was one such town where glove making grew to a formidable size in the 18th century only to collapse when import restrictions were removed and better value French gloves began to dominate the market. By 1834 only 163 glovers were left in the town.
Today Ludlow is a beautiful historic country town on the tourist trail along the border of England and Wales and would be included in the hinterland of the "city" that links Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington and many other towns that form a big conglomeration, although not quite so conjoint as, say, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
What Ludlow also have is a locally famous Ludlow Food Centre built on a large estate where meat, butter, milk, cheese and ice cream are all made and sold from the estate's own livestock. All the produce is prepared on site in view of the customers. Visitors can watch cheese, ice cream, sausages and the like being made through panoramic windows and the meat being carefully cut and presented by skilled butchers.
In a time when supply chain transparency and product origins are so important would it not be a target worth aiming for to have the hides and skins tanned locally also? Water and waste management issues would likely preclude the concept of mini tanneries, for some time at least, but regional ones make great sense; just as obviously in new urban centres such as Chongqing as in Manchester, or Amsterdam. Indeed one major tannery per city would make sense, with additional ones for specialist products in major pastoral regions.


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Q: MySQL : named parameters with PREPARE command? Is it possible in MySQL to use the PREPARE command with named parameters such as PDO in PHP:
Here is my example:
 SET @s = 'SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE WHERE my_column_1 = ? AND my_column_2 = ? ';
 PREPARE stmt2 FROM @s;
 SET @a = 54;
 SET @b = 89';
 EXECUTE stmt2 USING @a, @b;

Is it possible to do something like that :
 SET @s = 'SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE WHERE my_column_1 = :value1 AND my_column_2 = :value2 ';

A: I suggest looking at the documentation regarding this.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/prepare.html
The documentation makes no references to any other way to bind variables other than the ?s, but it does mention that you can use user defined variables.
SET @s = 'SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE WHERE my_column_1 = @a AND my_column_2 = @b ';
PREPARE stmt2 FROM @s;
SET @a = 54;
SET @b = 89';
EXECUTE stmt2;

Produces the same output and the variables are only evaluated at execution of the statement, it just lacks the explicitness of binding the variable to the query.

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Nanoleaf Lines review: color behind the lines
November 12, 2021 chinthakaorg Technology
Indoor lighting has gone from functional to fun in the last few years, whether that involves simply screwing in a couple smart light bulbs or adding complicated, colorful effects that can change the entire mood of your home. Nanoleaf is one of many companies forging ahead with innovative, colorful smart lighting products, and its latest offering — the $199 Nanoleaf Lines — might just be the most entertaining yet.
The Lines join Nanoleaf's growing catalog of LED wall panels in various sizes and shapes, this time adding a new trick — backlighting. Available for pre-order now and on sale November 8th, these are ultra-lightweight LED light bars with dual-color zones where each zone is capable of displaying one of over 16 million RGB colors. They can be mounted on the wall or ceiling and can go from a soothing sunset scene to an intense nightclub look (complete with beat throbbing motion) with the touch of a button (or a voice command).
Where Nanoleaf's previous release, the elegant wood-look Elements panels, was a move towards more traditional home decor, the Lines are a shift back to the company's core audience: those who want a futuristic vibe in their living space. They are ideally suited for setting up behind a gaming monitor or big-screen TV where you can tie them into Nanoleaf's screen mirroring capabilities (but you'll need to use a computer for this integration).
The most notable feature of Lines over Nanoleaf's other wall-lighting options is that they're backlit. Combined with a 20-lumen rating per Line (a setup of nine generates 180 lumens), they can work as ambient lighting behind a computer screen as they won't run the risk of blinding you when you accidentally set them to turn on at full brightness one morning (I speak from experience).
As an ambient lighting option, they are feature-rich, coming with 19 pre-loaded scenes in the Nanoleaf companion app, including standard smart lighting modes like Reading, Warm White, and Daylight, and fun ones that take advantage of all those colors. My household enjoyed the Blood Dripping option this past Halloween, and the Prism and Raspberry Lemonade scenes were also favorites for their fun pops of color. Despite options such as Reading, however, these won't work for task lighting — they just don't give off enough light.
Most Scenes have a motion setting where the lights cycle through different patterns, and some have a rhythm setting that uses a built-in microphone to pulse the lights in time with any music playing. Both of these effects are impressive, with smooth motions, seamless color mixing, and no unsightly stuttering or flickering.
It's also possible to create your own Scenes, but setting one up is tricky and in my testing they never seemed to work as well as the preset ones. I preferred to rely on the many other Nanoleaf owners who have mastered the overly complicated app and uploaded scenes that I can download to the lights.
Unlike Nanoleaf's recent panels, the Lines aren't touch capacitive, so you can't use them as smart home buttons or play games on them, but they do have a Thread radio inside and can act as a Thread Border Router. This means they should integrate smoothly with the new smart home interoperability standard Matter when it arrives next year. In the meantime, Lines can act as a hub for Nanoleaf's Essentials lighting, which consists of smart A19 bulbs and standard light strips.
All of Nanoleaf's products work with Apple's HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, as well as SmartThings and IFTTT. This lets you control them with your voice and add them into automations or routines.
I added a Vibrant Sunrise scene to my Alexa Good Morning routine, so when I tell the assistant Good Morning, the Lines mimic a natural, gradual sunrise with red and orange hues, turning to yellows and whites. I also tried out a few schedules in the Nanoleaf app, including one that switches to Tuscany Sunset at 7PM, gradually ramping up the brightness over 10 minutes, then switching off three hours later. These all worked reliably and accurately, and I had no problems with connectivity during my testing (the Lines connect to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi).
The modular design of the Lines makes them better for filling up a blank wall with fewer pieces than Nanoleaf's other options, which also means it's less expensive to create a full design. You can link up to 18 Lines per power supply, and you get nine Lines for $200, as opposed to seven Shapes for the same price.
The connectors give you six angles to choose from, and you can easily span a small wall with nine or 12 pieces (a starter kit comes with nine, the add-on for $70 has three). With the Elements and Shapes options that I've previously tested, I'd need around 10 to 14 (depending on size) to fill a similar space.
This brings me to their biggest drawback — the price. The least expensive of Nanoleaf's decorative wall lighting fixtures (and a proper bargain compared to the price you'd pay for a piece of art to fill a large wall), $200 for LED light bars is still a tough sell. You can pick up smart LED light strips for under $30 and get a somewhat similar effect. Plus, if you don't like the look of white bars on your wall when you don't have them lit up, you need to pay an extra $20 for nine "skins" (pink or black) to dress them up.
The Lines look okay when turned off — not as good as the Elements panels, whose faux-wood look resembles a wood sculpture on the wall — but good enough because the design is more distinctive against a wall (assuming it's not painted white) than Nanoleaf's other panels, which have a more "blob of white plastic" aesthetic when switched off.
If you do decide to splurge, installing Nanoleaf Lines is surprisingly simple. Really, the most challenging part is deciding what pattern to use. While Nanoleaf has made it relatively easy to reposition should you change your mind, the paint on your wall is not likely to be as amenable, and unlike the larger panels, the lines won't cover up any mistakes if you do mess up.
The best course is to lay out your design on the floor or a table first and then carefully transpose it. Nanoleaf offers lots of handy suggestions in the box and a virtual visualizer in the app that lets you design a pattern in the app and see what it will look like on your wall.
Placing them on the wall is simple; the Lines are thin plastic bars with a triangular tip that snap into a hexagonal connector with six slots. Put a connector on the wall using the supplied double-sided adhesives and snap the Line or Lines into it.
You can ceiling mount these, too, and they're super lightweight, but Nanoleaf does recommend using screws to affix them (sold separately). In any scenario, you'll need to plan around a nearby outlet and find a way to work the almost 15-foot cable into your setup.
Unfortunately, the connector is a different design from Nanoleaf's Shapes and Canvas panels, so you can't link these with an existing setup you have, which sort of kills Nanoleaf's whole modular lighting pitch dead in its tracks. They did add the ability to go around corners, which could be pretty cool — but you have to buy special connectors for that.
If you are looking for a way to add some futuristic fun and vibrant color into a gaming room, living room, bedroom, or other space, Nanoleaf's Lines are an excellent option. Yes, you can pick up some LED light strips for $30 and get a somewhat similar effect, but these are very well-designed, making it simpler to achieve a more interesting, eye-pleasing design that is more feature than fixture. With a two-year warranty and future-proofed smart home tech inside them, they're also likely to last you a lot longer.
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Tvindefossen of Tvinnefossen is een waterval gelegen langs de E16 tussen Voss en Stalheim in de provincie Vestland in het westen van Noorwegen. Het water van de rivier Kroelvi valt over een klif, stapsgewijs naar beneden over een hoogte van 152 meter.

Stroomopwaarts vanaf de top, vlak bij het gehucht Ytre Afdal, is er nog een waterval in de rivier Kroelvi, Breifossen (meer dan 40 meter hoog).

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Resilience: Restoring Business Operations After a Hurricane
MIT's Humanitarian Response Lab at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL)
held a roundtable on supply chain resilience in the face of large-scale disasters. To gather a cross-sectional understanding of the issue, the event convened participants from academia, public sector, and private sector – who brought their respective perspectives to illuminate this crucial intersection of management science, government policy, and business strategy. To ensure candor, this report was prepared under the Chatham House Rule of not identifying the specific speakers or affiliations of the anecdotes, insights, or recommendations. The roundtable used three major hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, and Maria) during 2017 as a focal point for gathering multiple points of view from the public and private sector and spanning supply chains from manufacturer to retailer. The roundtable and this report are aimed to catalyze more systematic research of the issues and opportunities revealed by a shared discussion of how business and government support survivors and restore a disaster-impacted economy.
The first half-day of the roundtable discussed supply chains for resilience in critical commodities following disasters
– including water, food, fuel, and healthcare supplies – along with cross-cutting issues regarding transportation. Participants described the surge in the demand and the impact of the storms on supply chain facilities, links, conveyances, workers, power, and more. Although each critical commodity and each storm was different, they shared many common phenomena. Overall, the storms impacted distribution more so than supply. Shortages of conveyances, congestion in the supply chain, and degraded infrastructure impaired the ow of aid and delayed the resumption of normal retail and business operations.
The second half-day took a more holistic look at how critical supply chains are managed in these kinds of crises
and how they might be managed better in the future. Participants reported using a number of practices to support survivors and return to normal business operations. Both private and public organizations accumulated and relocated resources in anticipation of the hurricanes. Many organizations supported employees and their families to meet needs and enable a return to work. Organizations used Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) with tactical, operations-focused personnel to manage the crisis. Government agencies supported private recovery e orts through information and regulatory waivers in addition to direct aid to the survivors. Overall, companies sought to ex their networks to cover the surge in demand and serve the rest of the nation, too.
The discussions also revealed potential opportunities for improvement, especially in the realm of business-government coordination. For example, pre-crisis supply chain mapping and post-crisis visibility may enable better management of resources. In cases where detailed real-time data is impractical, aggregate indicators and sentinel data sources could provide timely, actionable insights. Better relationships between businesses and the many government agencies in all levels of jurisdictions could improve coordination in a crisis. Although the future of disasters may be dynamic and unbounded, research, development, and rehearsal of resilience strategies can help mitigate the black swans to come.
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Catherine, nicely done. I would suggest you send copies of this letter directly to the 3 churches so named. You can assess it to the chair of the administrative council, which is the governing arm within each UMC church.
Where else will this be posted, Catherine? How does it get beyond this blog?
That's wonderful. I agree, though, that Lisa's needs are of utmost concern. She has suffered enough!


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Selkäsaaret är en öar i Finland. De ligger i sjön Nilakka och i kommunen Keitele i den ekonomiska regionen  Övre Savolax ekonomiska region  och landskapet Norra Savolax, i den centrala delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden Helsingfors.

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Trakten ingår i den boreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C.

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Man…the kids are great people. So are the folks trying to help them.
Yes, I'm working on stuff. Intermittently. Not making much progress. Not writing about that today. Meanwhile, I'm venting here. I keep being told, essentially, that I shouldn't advocate for the kids. Even if this isn't explicit (it's very much not explicit), I have trouble coming up with another interpretation of what gets said to me.
Wake me up when September…oh wait.


If you need to come down from The Wire, Treme will only make the sickness worse.
WHY METHADONE: If, like so many people, you came to The Wire late in life, spent a weekend binge-watching it on HBO GO and are looking for something to fill the void, then you might be tempted to turn to Treme in order to come down. You are the group most in need of a methadone, after all, and on a superficial level, at least at first, it's easy to squint and believe that Treme is the The Wire. Treme has Bunk, Freamon, David Simon's name in the credits, and if you stuck around for the Boardwalk Empire snoozefest, you'd see Omar, too.
As a not-recent fan of the The Wire, let me assure that this isn't such a good plan. Despite sharing a creator and a cast, the two shows don't have much in common, quality-wise; where The Wire was involving, suspenseful, and almost sci-fi-like in its depiction of this unique, fully-developed universe (i.e., a world with people called "hoppers," and strawberry soda, and Hans Solo is a gay black guy with a huge scar who robs drug dealers), Treme has always been more about people reacting (to the aftermath of Katrina) than acting (from following the money to poisoning a duck with booze), and it's suffered for it.
WORTHY TREATMENT?: Not even a little bit. The Wire wasn't perfect, but whether it was covering the streets or the schools, the stories were compelling and multi-dimensional. Treme is so passive, and the characters so flat (or, in the case of Steve Zhan's character, so unbearably annoying), that after one season I was hoping Marlow would show up, take the cast out row house-style, and put everyone out of their misery, viewers included. I know New Orleans is a unique city, but I can't imagine that the lives of all of its citizens are so New Orleans-centric as the show would make us believe. Surely there are some people in the city who listen to music from New York, or sometimes eat pizza instead of gumbo, or spend their Saturdays at Ikea instead of a perpetual second line. If your characters have depth, they do regular or unusual stuff (e.g., McNulty struggling to build his sons' bunk beds, Greggs' troubled relationship, etc) but these characters just exist to further opinions instead of plotlines.


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The 36 new police recruits who graduated from the Greensboro Police Academy this morning are already playing a role in changing the police department.
An impressive 41.7 percent of the new recruits are people of color, most of them black. That's significantly higher than the number of sworn officers of color in the Greensboro Police Department — just 26.6 percent, compared to 65.1 percent of officers who are white men.
This year's numbers are slightly down from the 2015 recruitment class, 43.7 percent of which were people of color, though due to a slightly larger class size this year, there is actually one more recruit of color than the 14 police academy graduates in 2015. Both figures are up significantly from the 2014 graduate numbers, a meager 29.6 percent of 27 recruits, a figure that is still higher than the department's current demographics for sworn officers.
The city of Greensboro is 40.6 percent black, according to the latest Census data from 2010, and less than half of the city's residents are white.
Early last year, the civil rights division of the US Justice Department and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published a piece on diversity in law enforcement following an uprising in Ferguson, Mo. finding that, "any consideration of policing effectiveness is incomplete without attention to who our police officers are, as well as whether the police force reflects the community that its officers are sworn to serve.
Naari Honor contributed to this report.


When Sara Blakely was a 27-year-old salesgirl with the bright idea to create shaping, smoothing undergarments, she had no idea that her creation would take her on a journey to become the youngest woman to debut on the Forbes Magazine Billionaires List, which was released Wednesday.
According to Forbes, Spanx is valued by several Wall Street Banks at an average $1 billion. That figure squeezes 41-year-old Blakely - who owns 100 percent of the private company -- into an elite circle of super-rich, mostly male, movers and shakers. She ranks 1,153 of 1,226 on the Forbes list.
The Atlanta-based firm, which employs 125 staff, with only 16 men, now claims an estimated 20 percent of revenue of the broad "shapewear" sector, just south of $250 million.
Blakely's rise to riches began with $5,000 in the bank and a growing frustration over old-fashioned pantyhose that revealed seams at the toes and failed to flatter the figure in all the right places.
The young entrepreneur's frustration hit a boiling point when she attempted to wear a pair of cream slacks to a party one evening.
"I cut the feet off my pantyhose and wore them underneath," she told Forbes. "But they rolled up my legs all night. I remember thinking, 'I've got to figure out how to make this.' I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist."
Blakely wore the same cream pants every day for the first three years after starting Spanx. "I had no money to advertise, so I was the promotion," she says on her website.
After several trials and tribulations trying to find a hosiery mill to produce her design, while maintaining her nine to five sales job and performing stand-up comedy at night, Blakely's dream product finally became a reality.
She began selling Spanx in major US department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue in 2000.
But the young entrepreneur got her real break when she received the "call of a lifetime" that fellow billionaire Oprah Winfrey had fallen for Spanx and planned to feature them on her annual "favorite things" show.
After the Oprah endorsement, Spanx began flying off shelves faster than Blakely's team could fill orders.
Spanx now sells 200 products in 11,500 department stores, boutiques and online shops in 40 countries, Forbes said.
"I have to pinch myself," Blakely told the magazine. "Five grand," she says, thinking back a decade. "Good investment."


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City Life Aug 06, 2014
Patch Work
J acqueline Maisonpierre doesn't seem to mind getting her hands dirty.
As the farm manager at New Haven Farms, Maisonpierre (pictured third) splits her time between seven tiny patches of cultivated earth, nestled into unlikely street corners and commercial land fragments around the eastern half of the city. Together, these itty-bitty farms pack a wallop, producing thousands of pounds of vegetables each growing season, from cherry tomatoes to chard, cucumbers to collards, scallions to squash.
A mere four summers ago, in 2010, New Haven Farms's output was zero pounds, because it didn't yet exist. But its roots were already forming. Back then, NHF executive director Rebecca Kline was working on the diabetes prevention program at the Fair Haven Community Health Center, to which Chabaso Bakery had recently offered the use of a small patch of land. Turned into a food and teaching garden, it would directly address the factors that can alleviate or even reverse diabetes, like better nutrition and increased physical activity.
That summer, the initiative seemed to be working, and Kline saw in it the seed of something broader and more permanent. After much planning and prepping, New Haven Farms was born in 2012, with 2014 marking the organization's third official growing season.
This summer and fall, across NHF's seven farms (most of them in Fair Haven), 315 people from 63 families are planting, harvesting and composting their own veggies, while also taking classes on nutrition and cooking. During a recent visit to the group's Phoenix Press Farm, situated next to Phoenix's brick-building headquarters on James Street, participants picked blushing cherry tomatoes and learned the recipe for a spicy cucumber salad, tasting the yummy results.
That particular plot of repurposed earth is located beneath "Gus(t)"—Phoenix Press's famous wind turbine, which rises from a chain-link shed filled with wheelbarrows and other tools—and shows what dedicated people can do with just a quarter-acre of land. A woodchip path borders neat, thriving rows of greenery dotted with veggies, like plump purple eggplants, small multicolored tomatoes, shiny green peppers and bumpy yellow squashes. Sometimes the greenery is the veggie, as in the case of a billowing row of kale.
That's just a fraction of what's going on at this tiny spot among seven in total, and, according to Kline, conversations are underway to add much more land to the portfolio. An effort to plant on a full acre near Tweed Airport is awaiting FAA approval, while the city of New Haven, already leasing four previously abandoned lots to the organization as part of its Livable City Initiative, may be putting up another acre and a half.
Joining NHF's membership is a little bit like enrolling in a CSA program, only the benefits go deeper as a result of those aforementioned classes, and you can't actually buy your way in. Instead, members start out as patients at the Fair Haven Community Health Center, which refers them to NHF, which in turn fulfills its core mission to aid lower-income families suffering from—or at high risk of developing—nutrition-related health problems. Members then embark on a 20-week journey stretching from June to October, which includes attending weekly two-hour learning sessions.
Cooking demonstrations, offered in English and Español, result in food for the families to take home for dinner. Even better, families take home enough fresh fruits and vegetables from these occasions to last them until the next week's gathering. A generous member of the NHF board, Jonathan Bishop of Bishop's Orchards in Guilford, donates the fruit—apples, pears, blueberries, raspberries, peaches—that complements the vegetable-strong bounty grown onsite. By the end of the program, many participants are inspired and confident enough to grow their own produce at home, we're told.
In curating the produce to be grown in the NHF gardens, variety is top of mind. Under Maisonpierre's hands-on guidance, unexpected plantings sprout, from purple string beans to yellow carrots. Quality is also a priority, which could help explain why picky restaurants like Chapel Street's Atticus Bookstore Cafe and College Street's ROÌA Restaurant regularly buy ingredients from NHF.
Back at the Phoenix Press Farm, the sun descends on pollinating insects browsing golden marigolds planted just for them. Birdsong drifts through the soundscape of the city, and a fresh summer breeze sends Gus(t) spinning, pumping juice into the nearby printing press. On the horizon, cars and trucks whiz across the Q Bridge; much closer, on the other side of a roadside chain-link fence, athletes whiz past each other on basketball courts in Criscuolo Park.
Against this clash of civilizational and pastoral trappings, as it does in so many other implausible corners of the city, New Haven Farms still manages to fit right in.
New Haven Farms
www.newhavenfarms.org
Written by Bonnie Goldberg. Photographed by Dan Mims.
Tags: Bonnie Goldberg, farming, feature, fruits, Jacqueline Maisonpierre, New Haven Farms, Rebecca Kline, vegetables
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By day, Bonnie sells life insurance and financial products at her Woodbridge office. By night, she attends theater and writes reviews for the Middletown Press and her blog, which is partnered up with the New Haven Register. A reviewer for 25 years, she's been a correspondent for the Middletown Press for the past 12. When the curtains go up, she loves being in the front row.


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Group of men filmed spitting at bus full of Jewish people on Oxford Street
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Police are investigating a video that shows a group of men spitting on a bus full of Jewish passengers celebrating Hanukkah in central London.
Footage inside the bus showed men shouting and making obscene hand gestures and giving a Nazi salute to passengers. A man can be seen hitting a shoe on the side of the vehicle.
The Metropolitan Police said the incident was being treated as a hate crime.
On Monday, the open-top bus was packed with people, including children, celebrating the first night of the Jewish festival Hanukkah, according to the Community Safety Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitic incidents and provides security assistance to British Jews. ,
CST said they were distributing food and dancing in the capital's famous shopping destination, Oxford Street, but were "sadly interrupted by a highly hostile, threatening and abusive group of men."
In the video, people on the bus can be heard saying "we are Jews" and "we need to leave".
When the vehicle finally drives away, one of them can be seen running along with the bus and banging his hand against the windows.
Two people on the bus reported the attack to CST on Tuesday.
CST's policy director Dave Rich told the PA news agency: "They were scared enough that the group that was threatening them was going to physically attack them, they were spitting on them.
"They were very scared and they certainly felt that it was because they were Jews that they were targeted, no doubt."
This disgusting incident is against everything in this city and everyone should condemn it
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The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Oxford Street at around 8 p.m. on Monday, but met at another location after the bus passed, police said.
The Met said: "The group shown in the video could not be found at the time of the incident and no arrests have been made.
"The incident is being treated as a hate crime and officials will assess available evidence to identify any potential investigations."
Mr Rich said the religious organizations on board the bus were from Chabad, which arranges for the eight-armed candelabra to be installed around London to mark Hanukkah.
"They had an open-top bus and used to go from north London to Oxford Street, but after that happened, they went home again," he said, with police to support CST victims. doing work.
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah is celebrated by lighting the eight-armed candelabra, or menorah (Aaron Chown / PA).
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Hanukkah – known as the Festival of Lights – is an eight-day celebration that includes food, prayer and the lighting of the menorah.
This year it will run from November 28 to December 6.
Mr Rich said there had been an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the UK.
"In the first six months of this year, CST has had the most anti-Semitic incidents ever in the first six months of any year," he said.
In a statement, CST said: "London is a city where the Jewish people should be able to celebrate our festivals and enjoy an open, confident Jewish life.
"This despicable incident is against everything in this city and everyone should condemn it."
London Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted: "Anti-socialism has no place in society and I strongly condemn these heinous acts. No one should experience this."
Councilor Rachel Robathan, leader of Westminster City Council, tweeted: "What appears to be an anti-Semitic attack against Jewish teenagers in Oxford Street is a very disturbing scene.
"We absolutely condemn this scene and I will raise it with @metpolice UK. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our Jewish community."
Police urged anyone who identifies the men in the video, or who has any other information, to call police on reference 6187/29NOV 101.
Crime stoppers can also be reported on 0800 555 111.
Credit: www.independent.co.uk /
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Sir Russell England  (1 May 1899 – 12 January 1970) was a British-born civil servant, farmer and politician in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. A leader of the European community, he served as a member of the Legislative Council of the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1961 to 1965.

Biography
England was born in Fulham, London in 1899. He emigrated to South Africa in 1915 and became a lecturer at an agricultural college in Bloemfontein. He subsequently moved to Bechuanaland Protectorate, where he joined the agriculture department. He was awarded an MBE in the 1933 Birthday Honours for his work as a dairy expert and inspector. As a Chief Agricultural Officer, he was awarded an OBE in the 1943 New Year Honours. He later became Director of Agriculture, before leaving the civil service after purchasing farms in Tati and near Lobatse. He also bought other businesses in Lobatse and Gaborone, becoming one of the wealthiest men in the territory.

During the 1950s England entered politics, becoming a member and then chairman of the European Advisory Council and co-chair of the Joint Advisory Council. He also became a justice of the peace, and was awarded a CBE in the 1957 Birthday Honours. In 1958 he submitted a motion calling for a Legislative Council for the territory, and during a visit to the territory by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960, England made a speech in which he requested that Bechuanaland not be merged into either Rhodesia or South Africa.

In 1961 a Legislative Council was established, with England becoming one of its members. He was also appointed of the Executive Council as the member responsible for livestock development. The following year he proposed to Seretse Khama that they form a political party together, with the two acting as joint leaders. However, the British Resident Commissioner Peter Fawcus advised it may compromise Khama's position as a leader of the African community. Khama subsequently formed and became leader of the Botswana Democratic Party.

England was knighted in the 1965 Birthday Honours. In January 1970 he was stabbed to death by Koos Ockhuizen and Wilson Banda during a burglary at his farm. Ockhuizen and Banda were subsequently sentenced to death and executed in August.

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Warning to dog owners
MARSH residents and a local councillor have joined forces to declare war on dirty dogs.
And they hope new powers will enable Kirklees Council to bring in a by-law which will stop dogs fouling play areas.
Councils now have more powers to tackle many of the issues that local people complain affect their quality of life on a daily basis.
Clr Mehboob Khan said: "The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act deals with many of the problems affecting our local environment.
"In particular, the Act has sections on nuisance and abandoned vehicles, litter, graffiti, waste, noise and dogs.
"The powers extend to fines for people whose dogs foul public places and who fail to clean up after their pets."
Clr Khan met residents at the Carr Street play area in Marsh.
They have complained about the constant fouling by dogs let loose on the fields by irresponsible owners.
Clr Khan said: "There have been calls for the introduction of new powers, similar to those that operate in Australia.
"This would mean that officers could challenge dog walkers to produce bags or containers that prove their ability to clean up after their pets.
"Not being able to produce such an item when challenged results in a fine.
"I am regularly contacted by local people who complain about the extent of this problem.
"While we have powers to fine people for not clearing up dog mess one problem with existing legislation is that a person empowered to issue a fine, like a dog warden or Community Support Officer, has to actually witness the dog fouling and the owner failing to clear it up.
"This proves to be very difficult as they have to be in the right place at the right time.
" The Australian law is much better in that an owner can be challenged to produce evidence of their intention to clear up after their dog.
"If they can't show they have the means to remove the waste they are fined."
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(PHOTOS) New York Congressman & Veteran Lee Zeldin Visited U.S. Troops In The Middle East For Christmas
January 04, 2017 Chris Jones
Over the Christmas holiday, New York Congressman Lee Zeldin traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops as part of a trip with the bipartisan Congressional Delegation (CODEL). This year was the second year in a row that the Republican Representative and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee made the trip to the Middle East for the holidays.
"I returned last week from a bipartisan Congressional Delegation visit to the Middle East, where I had the honor of visiting our troops over the Christmas holiday for the second year in a row," Rep. Zeldin told American Military News. "It was such a privilege to personally thank many of our service members in Afghanistan and other locations in the region who are currently deployed and missing the holidays away from their families in defense of our freedoms and liberties."
Congressman Zeldin with servicemen stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The New York Congressman told American Military News that it's important to him to support U.S. troops fighting for our country who don't always get to be with their families for the holidays.
"Spending a holiday away from family is never easy and they deserve to know how grateful we all are for their service and sacrifice. I also had the opportunity to meet with top military and diplomatic leadership during my trip."
"These critical meetings were most informative and provided crucial information on the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups," Rep. Zeldin added. "It has been an incredible experience spending these last two holiday seasons abroad with our troops and military officials serving overseas to keep us safe, secure and free."
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HomeRHOJ Season 2Lethabo 'Lejoy' Mathatho Opens Up About Joining The Real Housewives Of Johannesburg!
Lethabo 'Lejoy' Mathatho Opens Up About Joining The Real Housewives Of Johannesburg!
Lethabo 'Lejoy' Mathatho is an actress, a radio presenter, a producer, a philanthropist and the newest cast member to join the second season of The Real Housewives of Johannesburg. Lejoy is teasing what viewers can expect from her and why she decided to join the 1Magic hit reality series.
"For me, it was really to inspire young men and women from where I was born (Limpopo) to simply say: "dream it and you can achieve it". I want them to see where I came from, and walk with me through the challenges of life, and see how much of a dreamer and hard worker I am and how I am living my dream," she told DStv about joining RHOJ. "That should be courage for them to say "it is possible". My life is a movie, what better way to show it than on a reality show?"
When asked what is her favorite and worst part about being on the show, Lejoy said: "My favourite is getting to see myself grow from strength to strength and getting to know how to stand up and protect myself. It's also getting to know that I am good enough, regardless of who is in the room. Just owning my worth."
Lejoy makes it clear that she and her castmates don't get to see the episodes ahead of the public, unlike the American Housewives, who get to preview the episodes ahead of time.
"I wish I could have a seat in the editors room, so I can say: "Not that ... please remove that ... oh damn that sounds good!" - just like I do with my talk show and other programmes I produce," she said. "But unfortunately, with Housewives I have to wait like all South Africans and watch episode by episode on Fridays."
Mathatho then shared her thoughts on the first season of RHOJ. "I closely observed the dynamic of each cast member and they all brought a different personality. Let's just say I laughed, I cried, I got shocked, I was amazed and I jumped off my seat watching the first season," she told DStv.
She shares if filming impacted her life and if her husband and kids enjoyed the experience. "Not much because I was just living my life and they were filming it. This question reminds me of my quote: "it's only when I have the microphone in my hands and camera on my face, that I become my true self"."
So which oversees Housewives does she most idenity with? "With so many different Housewives from all over the world, it's difficult to pick and choose because I learn a lot from different individuals really," she explained. "Each one has weaknesses and strengths that I can relate to as a human being, but I would like to dine with NeNe and Kenya from Real Housewives of Atlanta."
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The lack of diversity is still a big issue in the tech industry. I was reminded how much of an issue it is at Noord Group's recent IT and Digital Leaders Dialogue in Manchester. Women must have made up less than two per cent of the delegates. They were so sparse it stood out like a sore thumb. The place was filled with grey haired and no-haired men. Looking back the the ethnicity mix was not great either.
As for Noord, the conference organisers, their gender balance was much better which just made the position in our industry look worse. There are no excuses. We need to do better, but what and how?
My role that day was to take part in a fireside chat about addressing the IT skills gap and promoting cultural change. Mark, the moderator of the conversation saved us from the dreaded 'manel' by inviting Emma, one of his colleagues to join us.
She made us laugh by saying that there is nothing sadder than a dance at a data centre conference. The image of room full of dad dancers made us all shudder. Yet she had a valid point. Why would any women want to come along to such an event? Why would women want to join an industry where they are subtly but clearly not made welcome.
Later, one of the questions to the group was how you balance the need for experience and the shortage of skills. Many adverts ask for five years experience. I was reminded how men are much more inclined to exaggerate their abilities while women are the other way round. Emma did confirm this and so I think I was on safe ground.
A man is much more likely to apply for a job which requires lengthy experience even if he didn't have it while a women is less likely to. The act of advertising in this way was much more likely to attract male candidates than female.
These two points have made me realise that it is probably the little things that we need to correct if we are to promote greater diversity in tech. We need to create environments and adverts that are attractive to all comers.
Above all though, we need to take dancing lessons.
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IICM was founded by Dr. Curt Watke on July 25, 2003 as a non-profit, religious organization that focuses on research, training, and resource development to facilitate missional multiplication across North America and beyond. Since most ministry leaders were not familiar with the "missional" conversation in 2003, the first steps were building missional awareness and then subsequent years included significant experimentation in research, training, and resourcing. Everything that has been created since 2003 has been field driven -- meaning the development has occurred at the request and as a result of input from ministry and missional practitioners.
Through a large number of workshops and speaking engagements, Dr. Curt Watke addressed missional, intercultural, and contextual issues across the United States. During this time many leaders were just beginning to become aware of the need to approach ministry from a missional perspective.
Based on the Ephesians 4:1-16 passage, an APEPT online survey was created using insights from biblical studies, social psychology, organizational behavior, and missiological principles to provide individual believers with an assessment of their strengths in the apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral, and teaching missionary functions.
A customized Missional Zipcode Catalogue was created that gave detailed information related to a specific population segment within a zip code.
During this period, extensive training related to the APEPT was created along with 12 hours of training for each of the five missional roles: apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral and teaching.
Using syndicated survey data, an algorithm was created to isolate the top unreached locations across the United States. By identifying the top locations where the most unreached households and least number of active evangelicals may be found, over 5000 locations for church planting were located. A number of reports were created including: a MissionPoint report, an extensive MissionSite report and MissionSite Digest, a Missional Zipcode Digest, a Missional County Digest and others. These reports have been used by many denominational groups as the basis for developing their church planting processes.
To help facilitate access to the various customized reports that were delivered to state denominational groups, impact web sites were created. More than fifteen impact websites were created to facilite usage by leaders across the state. Training based on case studies was provided to equip ministry leaders in the application of the various reports to a variety of missional situations.
During these years, IICM in association with SlavnikLabs, took a bold step in moving away from syndicated demographic data to developing customized demographic and other kinds of databases on its own. SlavnikLabs has provided licensing to IICM for all of its more than 26000 variables at geographic levels from the block group on up. A new composite segmentation with 64 segments was created within six community types: upscale, mainstay, working, country, aspiring, and urban. Ethnic segmentations within these six community types were also created including: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian, Native American and Pacific Islander. Customized reporting at the zipcode and county level were created.
The ten2training.org site was launched that features more than 200 customized on-site workshops for training community missionaries. Training for lay missionaries in intercultural issues began during this time. In addition, missional strategy training was developed for equipping mission committees in churches who manage their missionary efforts.


Yesterday I actually finished one wicker chair, yay! It took me about four hours to complete only one. Scraping and painting, and I can't wait to show you the final project. It feels so good to get things done!
Wishing you yet another beautiful weekend.


The President learned last weekend what Southern Hospitality is all about when a pizza shop owner from Florida embraced him in a bear hug that lifted Obama a good foot off the ground. Now don't worry, the man wasn't arrested for doing this. Even though he's a registered Republican, he says that he doesn't vote party lines and will likely vote for Obama in this November's election. What's really impressive is that he can bench press 350 pounds. Brendan Spaar is investigating ways to lift more weights at the gym. I can currently lift about 31 pounds but I am working to lift more each day. I didn't actually start going to the gym until around 2008. There's a really good LifeTime Fitness gym in Alpharetta Georgia that is worth checking out.


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Do you love the yesteryear, the simple ways of life our grandparents lived? We do too, at Boonie Hicks we love getting stuck into the garden and pottering around the kitchen. It's called the good life for good reason.
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After a couple delays in getting the Smart ED (Electric Drive) into the hands of customers in the United States, the first of the 2 seat, 68 mile cars will be released on Wednesday, May 15th.
The first wave of cars will only be in selected regions, think mostly CARB states; namely CA, CT, ME, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT. A full national roll-out begins on September 1st of this year.
Update (September): National rollout has been delayed until "early 2014"
It should be noted that Canadian deliveries went off basically as planned, with the first cars being delivered in mid-April.
The Smart Ed comes in two basic trims. The first being the coupe which starts at $25,000, with a Cabrio model for some open-air fun also available from $28,000. There is also a $750 dollar destination charge that also applies to both models.
One of the more intriguing things about the Smart Ed is that it is the electric vehicle in the US to offer three different financing options, including the recently announced battery rental deal.
It is the third option is what we are most interested in exploring, especially recognizing that it was this financing option that actually caused the Smart ED's introduction to be delayed in the US, as lawyers hashed out a way to absolve the dealerships of the liability on the batteries...as is required of them in places like California.
Purchase and rent the battery: Smart USA values the battery pack inside the car at $5,010, so if you are purchasing the car, the base net is now $19,990. Vehicle owners are then required to pay $80/per month on a 5 year/60 month term. Smart has a renewal program entering month 61 that lets you extend the deal for another 5 years, at the same $80/month rate.
It should be noted that under this program, Smart now warranties your battery pack to retain 80% of its charge for the duration of the contract, up to 12,500 miles per year.
If at anytime you want to break the rental deal, you can, provided you then purchase the aforementioned battery at the full $5,000 valuation. If you don't wish to buy the battery and also own the car, that is also apparently an option as Smart's fine print says "...once you cancel, you will be required to return the battery to mercedes-benz financial services." We have no clue exactly how this works, or why anyone would choose this option.
While the Smart ED has all the quirky spartan-coolness you could stand in a 2-seat, open top electric car, it has lost the pricing advantage it had 7 months ago when the car was first announced, as the new 2013 Nissan LEAF S model is now entering its third month on the market with a near identical lease deal, and a similar price of $28,800.
So, will the uniqueness of the Smart Ed make up for the lack of functionality, range and the loss of 3 seats that you can purchase in the LEAF for basically the same amount of money? That is a question yet unanswered.
To check out more details in the battery rental program, called the "Smart Battery Assurance Plus" program, check out the PDF here. To build your own Smart ED, or learn more about the car, check out the company's new webpage here.


Beach service added for our guest to enjoy!
From March 1st to October 31 you'll also enjoy complimentary beach service, which includes two padded chaise lounge chairs and umbrella (a $40 daily value from Mar 1 -Oct 31, 2019).
Purchased in June of 2018 and has undergone a major renovation to improve our guests visit, including kitchen upgrades, fresh paint, and new furniture. Our commitment to you is that the condo will be clean and ready for your visit to Panama City Beach.
This first floor condo is a 2 bedroom / 2 bath unit (D-105). A spacious condo with fantastic views of the Gulf from the living room & master bedroom; perfect for watching dolphin swim in the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Living Room looks out toward our beautiful beaches and includes a large flat screen TV. The balcony overlooks the refreshing emerald waters of the Gulf, beautiful sunrises, and sunsets. There is seating for three at the Breakfast bar and our dining table has seating for six (6). Our condo has a washer-dryer for your convenience.
Located on the first floor close to the elevator.
Our stay was very nice. It was very clean. They could have offer a few more towels. I had to wash the towels every time we took a shower because there was not enough. The shower in the master bath flooded the floor evey time we showered. There were some guys that knocked on the door saying they were from the insurance company and they needed to take pictures of all the doors and windows. That was totally creepy to me.
Great location.... Make sure you check to make sure lamps are all plugged in or you will not have lights. The A/C does not work that well and always had problems with thermostat. Be careful opening kitchen cabinets as they stack glasses on top of each other and there are so many they hang off the shelf. Yu may want to get the insurance. I did and they probably used it to pay for the one glass that fell out of the cabinet due to being stacked and the other glasse it was stacked on was hanging off the shelf. Just be careful other than these things it was good. The contact for the weekend Peter was the only reason we stayed as long as we did and wound up leaving a day before we had too.... just afraid after broken glass what else would happen... because the binolculars they left for you to use were broken before we got there so you really need to take photos of everything before hand.
This condo was a great choice! It is in a great location and is right next to the stairwell for very easy access. It was clean and a few appliances had been recently updated.