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CONSOL Energy Announces Operations Update; Gas Division Sets Drilling Record With Rotary Steering Tool; Coal Exports Drive First Quarter Sales Above Guidance
Gas Division Operations
During the first quarter, CONSOL Energy had a strong start to its 2013 drilling program by drilling 14 horizontal Shale wells: 12 Marcellus Shale and 2 Utica Shale wells. The average drilled lateral length for the Marcellus Shale wells and the Utica Shale wells was 5,838 feet and 6,111 feet, respectively. CONSOL initiated completion operations on 17 wells consisting of 274 frac stages during the quarter. In the Marcellus Shale, 13 wells, consisting of 207 frac stages on two separate well pads, were completed, or are currently underway. In the Utica Shale, four wells, consisting of 67 frac stages, were completed on three separate pads in the first quarter. Production results for the new drilling and completion activity is just getting underway. CONSOL expects to report results in subsequent quarterly releases.
The following significant events are expected to take place in the second quarter: completion activities on CONSOL's first horizontal Upper Devonian well, the NV 39F; multiple productive wells turned-into-line at North Nineveh in Southwest Pa.; the completion of an additional multi-well pad in Central Pa.; drilling a six-well pad in the Philippi Field in West Virginia; and CONSOL's first Utica Shale multi-well pad that is located in Mahoning County, OH.
Marcellus Shale Dry Gas (CONSOL Energy-operated):Southwest Pa.: During the first quarter, CONSOL drilled seven wells: the fourth and final well on the MOR 20 pad in the Morris Field in Greene County and the final six wells on the NV 36 pad in Washington County. The seven wells ranged in lateral lengths from 2,843 feet to 8,006 feet. Of particular note, 99.97% of the combined lateral lengths of the seven wells were drilled within a 10 foot target zone, within the lower Marcellus Shale. Completion and flowback results from the North Nineveh Field, which extends the successful Nineveh Field northward into Washington County, Pa., have started to come in at the end of the first quarter. Early results indicate that the North Nineveh wells will be as productive, if not more productive, per foot of lateral compared to the original Nineveh wells, which average 1.1 MMcf/d per 1000 feet of lateral during their first 60 days of production and 1.7 Bcfe expected ultimate recovery per 1000 feet of lateral. Also, some of the North Nineveh wells have the added advantage of minor condensate production. During the first quarter, five wells and 61 stages were completed on the NV 41 pad, and the eight-well NV 42 pad with 146 stages is currently underway. All of the North Nineveh Field wells will be immediately turned into the sales pipeline upon completion of flowback. Also, at least one frac crew will be continuously working in North Nineveh during the first three quarters of 2013 to complete the backlog of 5 pads from 2012, which were delayed due to obtaining centralized impoundment permits during the second half of 2012. In Southwest Pa., CONSOL has one horizontal rig operating and plans to drill an additional 16 wells throughout the remainder of 2013.
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The United Nations General Assembly invited the worldwide community to celebrate Madiba's life and legacy by starting a worldwide movement.
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The Sunday school children took centre stage on Sunday 29 June 2014, when the divine service was integrated into a Sunday School Service for the children.
It is only fair to say an early Saturday morning workout is not the norm for pre-teens.
With late morning alarm clocks set and the option of breakfast served in bed for the teachers, it came as a huge surprise to the Sunday school Music Coordinator and members in the congregation of Macassar when many of the Sunday school children in the music group met them with bright morning smiles.Ready to embark on the epic walk at one of the most pristine locations on the Hottentots-Holland mountain range, 27 children and 9 adults readied themselves at the foot of the walkway.
Going uphill proved to be the toughest part of their journey. There were of course a few moans and groans but nothing that could not be remedied with a piggy back ride and lots of cheerful banter and songs to get them to their destination.
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Watch This Dog Drive a Four-Wheeler — Daily Distraction
Sit. Play dead. Roll over. Operate this motor vehicle.
The last one doesn't quite belong, does it?
Sit. Play dead. Roll over. Operate this motor vehicle.
The last one doesn't quite belong, does it?
Our thoughts are with Miley Cyrus. The avid animal lover's beloved dog Lila has passed away.
On tomorrow's episode of Sesame Street look for a new Muppet character called Brandeis (bran-dice), a yellow Labrador retriever that is looking for a job on Sesame Street. After trying several jobs around the neighborhood, Bradeis finally finds a job as a service dog.
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Gotye hit it out of the park with his song "Somebody that I used to know", and the Internet is full of remixes, but this particular video really made me chuckle. What a talented dog! Oh yeah, and I will give props to the cat too.
A certain starlet is expanding her beastly brood. Just two weeks after adopting an adorable rescue pup named Happy, Miley Cyrus has taken another cute canine under her wing. Meet Mary Jane!
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Dissecting the Brocade-Foundry Merger
Dissecting the Brocade-Foundry Merger
Brocade Communications' $3 billion acquisition of neighboring Foundry Networks, announced July 21, is all about connectivity, and it is causing plenty of talk in the storage and networking analyst communities.
After all, if this deal closes as expected this fall, Brocade will have pulled off one of the largest networking sector acquisitions in IT history.
The acquisition now will allow Brocade salespeople to pitch one converged network featuring Fibre Channel SANs (storage area networks), IP 10 Gigabit Ethernet, or both, to potential customers. Simple is always better when it comes to explaining complicated IT networks and trying to sell them.
The deal also makes Brocade-which will become a $5 billion (market capitalization) company after the merger-a much more formidable foe for networking infrastructure kingpin Cisco Systems ($129 billion market capitalization), which has owned the lion's share of the Internet switching and routing market since the dawn of the commercial Internet and the Web in the mid-'90s.
Until now, Brocade has offered primarily top-of-the-line Fibre Channel connectivity for SANs. With the addition of Foundry, the company will offer a complete lineup of networking infrastructure that will include much-needed security improvements.
Many enterprises need to bolster their infrastructures to support the growing preponderance of Web-based and mobile applications, and this merger will provide a realistic new alternative for CTOs and CIOs to consider. As recent failures of high-profile Web-based infrastructures have shown-namely, outages at Amazon S3, Salesforce.com, Google and others-the importance of robust, up-to-date systems that can handle high volumes of transactions cannot be overvalued.
Deal means instant credibility
"This gives them [Brocade] instant credibility to say, 'We now know Ethernet. We brought this company on that's 12 years old, has however many millions of ports deployed, and has a good product,'" Bob Laliberte, storage/networking analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, told me.
"They're also going to be able to say, for the first time: 'Hey, we are completely transport-agnostic. We're going to help you with your data center fabric, whether that fabric is Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI, or pure Ethernet.' "
The 451 Group, an IT research group, issued what it called an "M&A QuickTake" analysis of the deal and its likely effects on the IT market and on both companies. It was authored by the triumvirate of analysts Henry Baltazar (a former eWEEK Labs staff member), Brenon Daly and Steve Steinke.
The report said, in part:
"Brocade went out of its way ... to contrast this acquisition, which it says is focused on revenue growth, with the consolidation of McData, which was more about cost savings. Since that deal in August 2006, Brocade shares have tacked on about 35 percent in value, nearly three times the return of the Nasdaq market during the same period."
However, Wall Street's initial reaction to Brocade's new acquisition was bearish. Investors weren't overly excited about the transaction, trimming about 15 percent off Brocade's closing price in after-hours trading July 21.
The stock closed at $6.50 on July 22, down another $1.83 (about 22 percent) from the previous session. Foundry's stock price, on the other hand, was up 32 percent at about $18 per share on July 22.
Why the negative attitude toward Brocade here?
"When we look at this combination, we're tempted to call it a 'mini-Cisco,' as the newly expanded product portfolio at Brocade looks a lot like what the networking giant has been pitching," the 451 Group report said.
The Brocade-Foundry marriage faces a number of severe challenges, including how the combined company sells its gear and who actually buys it. The report continues:
"Brocade has always relied to a great extent on its OEM partners, with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and EMC accounting for some two-thirds of the company's total revenue. On the other side, Foundry primarily takes in revenue through direct sales and its network of resellers. (We would also note Brocade could face difficulties in preserving its partnership with HP, given that Foundry's networking lineup competes fiercely with HP's ProCurve switches.)
"Another potential snag is the fact that Brocade and Foundry sell to very different end users within the enterprise. Brocade typically sells to storage and server IT staff, while Foundry caters more to network managers. In order to push a converged product, the combined Brocade-Foundry will have to navigate inter-office political boundaries to get approvals, a process that could prove difficult."
More than meets the eye
So, there's more to this deal than what shows on the surface. It is not a slam dunk by any means, even though both Foundry and Brocade CEOs spoke in superlatives on the conference call with analysts and journalists. Of course, no merger in any market is expected to be as smooth as glass; there are always obstacles-expected and unexpected-to clear.
"Brocade now is competing directly with Cisco in the data center, whereas they owned the storage networking sector in the past," Laliberte said. "If you're Cisco, you're going to take notice of this [new competitor], because in the past, Cisco would go into a new prospect and say, 'Hey, we know IP, we own this market, we invented it. You need to go with us.'
"Now they can't really say that. They can still say, 'We're the biggest, we're the baddest,' but now Brocade has a legitimate stake to put in the ground and say, 'We know Ethernet, too. We've been doing it for 12 years.'
"By combining the best of Fibre Channel and the best of what they can take from Foundry's expertise, Brocade can deliver a compelling solution as well."


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Filmmaker explores a Latina whose story defies all conventions; Maria Agui Carter to speak after El Museo Latinoscreening of her film 'Rebel'
A hybrid documentary employing dramatic elements explores the fascinatiing story of Loreta Valezquez, a Cuban immigrant who posed as a man to fight and spy for both sides in the American Civil War. Noted filmmaker Maria Agui Carter will discuss her film Rebel after a 7 p.m. screening at El Museo Latino in Omaha on Sept. 25. This is my Reader (http://www.thereader.com/) story about what drew Carter to the project and what she's discoverd and surmised about Loreta, a woman she greatly admires. The film has been airing on PBS.
NOTE: Filmmaker Maria Agui Carter is pictured in the second photogaph below.
Filmmaker explores a Latina whose story defies all conventions; Maria Agui Carter to speak after El Museo Latinoscreening of her film 'Rebel'
©by Leo Adam Biga
Now appearing in The Reader (http://www.thereader.com/)
Award-winning filmmaker Maria Agui Carter has much to say about her new film Rebel, the story of a Latina who posed as a man to fight and spy in the American Civil War. Agui Carter will discuss the film, which recently aired as a PBS special, and its protagonist, Cuban immigrant Loreta Velazquez, following a 7 p.m. screening on September 25 at El Museo Latino, 4701 South 25th Street.
An immigrant herself, Agui Carter is an independent filmmaker based in Mass. and founder of Iguana Films, a film and new media company making Spanish and English language works. She's a graduate of Harvard University, where she's been a visiting artist-scholar.
In a director's statement and answers provided via email, she details what led her to do the 12-years-in-the-making project.
"I'm a history buff, I look for interesting characters, especially women and Latinos, in American history," she says. "I came across an original copy of Loreta's 1876 memoir in Widener Library (Harvard)."
Agui Carter found powerful themes in those accounts that speak to her experience as a Latina storyteller, immigrant to the U.S. and feminist.
"I felt uniquely qualified to tell the story. I'm fascinated by the question of citizenship and national identity, having been brought here as a child undocumented and raised 'underground' by my mother. I felt growing up I was deeply American, but I did not have the citizenship status."
Loreta's story touches on issues of gender, race and self-determination Agui Carter identifies with.
"I identify with Loreta and sympathize with her painful struggle to find acceptance within her community. Loreta presents a Latina's and a woman's perspective on a time period and a war we usually think of as exclusively black and white. But this is less a story about the Civil War and more the story of a complex woman who reinvented herself to survive the impossible circumstances in which she found herself. And that reinvention of self is a quintessentially American experience that resonates with so many Americans – that idea we are not what we are born, but what we make of ourselves."
Agui Carter's fllm answers and asks questions prompted by the memoir. "My film is a detective story trying to understand the woman, the myth and the politics of how we understand our own past."
From the time Loreta published her memoir until now, her story's been marginalized and contested, even called a hoax.
"She was attacked as a liar and a fraud by an unreconstructed Ex-Confederate general. Jubal Early, who read her memoir and thought her story preposterous. He was quite powerful and publicly dismissed her story. Subsequent generations generally followed his lead."
To unravel the mystery, Agui Carter consulted historians, who informed her some 1,000 women disguised as men fought in the Civil War. They confirm Loreta fought under the name Harry T. Buford at First Bull Run and was wounded at Shiloh. At some point Loreta became a spy, first for the Confederacy, then for the Union. She went by many aliases, including Laura Williams and Loretea DeCaulp. Agui Carter's hybrid documentary uses actors to dramatize certain scenes.
"We don't know all the exact details of her service, nor that of the other documented women who fought disguised as men because they were hiding their tracks and identities," she says.
As for why Loreta did what she did, Agui Carter says, "She had just lost her family and as a young girl she had dreamed of being a hero. it's a complicated and deliciously twisted plot. "
The filmmaker admires what Loreta did in carving out an unexpected, emancipated life and sharing her journey with the world.
"Her book popularized her story of a woman who broke the rules and social boundaries that, post-war, so many were trying to reconstruct. By writing her memoirs, she allowed others to imagine that they, too, might choose their own fates and go against the grain. This was considered dangerous at a time when men were returning from war and expecting the women to go back to their old roles.
"She refused to be bounded by the strictures of her time. She imagined a world for herself and went out and created it, regardless of what people told her she couldn't do. She made the impossible possible for herself."
Agui Carter has authored a new play, 14 Freight Trains, about the first American soldier to die in Iraq – an undocumented Latino. It has reverberations with Rebel and her own family's experience.
"My mother married a Vietnam veteran who applied for citizenship for my mother and myself. War is a terrible, painful, transformative thing and yet people believe in this country enough to put their lives on the line for it, including generation after generation of immigrants. This is a profound experience and I am drawn to these stories of people who would believe in something so much they would risk their lives for it."
She's working on turning Loreta's story into a narrative action feature..
See Rebel free with museum admission. Due to limited space, reservations are advised. Call 402-731-1137.
For more about the film and Loreta's story, visit http://rebeldocumentary.com.
Nebraska's Changing Face; UNO's Changing Face
I wrote the following feature and sidebar exploring some trends about the changing face of Neb. and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, my alma mater. Slowly but surely the state and some of its institutions are becoming more diverse. Some of the changes can be readily seen already, others not so much, but in a few decades they will be more obvious. It's a healthy thing that's happening, though diversity is still taking far too long to be fully felt and lived and embraced in all quarters, but that's for another story.
Nebraska's Changing Face
©by Leo Adam Biga
Nebraska's "Plain Jane" sameness has long extended to its racial makeup. Diversity hasn't held much truck here. Even when the foreign-born population was at its peak in the state's first half century, the newcomers were predominantly of European ancestry.
An African-American migration from the Deep South to Omaha in the early 1900s established the city's black base. Until a new immigration wave in the 1990s brought an influx of Africans and Latinos-Hispanics to greater Neb., the composite face of this Great Plains state was decidedly monotone.
The perception of Flyover Country as a bastion of white farmers has never been completely accurate. The state's two largest metropolitan areas, for example, have always boasted some heterogeneity. Urban areas like Omaha and urban institutions such as the University of Nebraska at Omaha express more racial-ethnic diversity because of longstanding minority settlement patterns and the university drawing heavily from the metro.
But it is true Neb.'s minority population has always been among the nation's smallest, which only supported the stereotype.
Finally, though, its minority numbers are going up and its diversity broadening.
Still, if Nebraskans posed for a group portrait as recently as 1980 more than 9 of every 10 would have beeb white. Only 6 percent identified as African-Americans, Latino-Hispanics, Native Americans or Asians.
The lack of diversity extended virtually everywhere. The largest minority group then, blacks, was highly concentrated in Omaha. Despite slow, steady gains blacks still account for only 13 percent of the city's population and 4 percent of the state's population.
But as recently announced by UNO researchers, Neb. is changing and with it the face of the state. A group picture taken today would reveal a noticeable difference compared to a quarter century ago, with whites now accounting for 8 of every 10 residents. Indeed, the state's minority population has more than doubled the past four decades, with by far the largest increase among Latinos-Hispanics, who now comprise the largest minority segment. Latinos-Hispanics are on a linear growth trajectory. They tend to be young and their women of childbearing age.
Minority growth has been even greater in select communities, such as Lexington, where meat processing attracted newcomers.
Celebrated native son filmmaker Alexander Payne's new movie "Nebraska" – set and shot primarily in the northeast part of the state – accurately portrays a slice of Neb.'s past and present through a large ensemble of characters, all of whom but two are white. The exceptions are both Hispanic. The Oscar-winning writer-director may next make a partly Spanish-language feature about the impact of the immigrant population on Neb.'s towns and cities.
New UNO Center for Public Affairs Research projections posit that by 2050 the state's portrait will dramatically change as a result of major demographic trends well under way. Within four decades minorities will account for about 40 percent of the entire population. Nearly a quarter of the projected 2050 population of 2.2 million, or some 500,000, will be Latino-Hispanic.
It's a sea change for a state whose diversity was traditionally confined to a few enclaves of color. Immigration, migration and natural causes are driving this new minority surge.
Everything is relative though. So while CPAR Research Coordinator David Drzod says, "Our diversity will increase," he adds, "Neb. is one of the less diverse places countrywide and other states are going to become more diverse as well."
Still, the snapshot of Neb. is changing due to real demographic shifts with significant longterm consequences. Just as the majority white base is holding static or declining, non-whites are proliferating. The results can be seen in the ever more diverse profiles of some communities, neighborhoods, schools and other settings.
Thus, for the first time in Neb. diversity is becoming more lived reality than aspirational goal.
Economic conditions were the main driver for the sharp rise in Latinos-Hispanics migrating here. Plentiful jobs, a low cost of living, coupled with aggressive industry recruitment, lured people to move here from places with comparatively weak economies, high cost of living and job shortages. Neb. grew its Latino-Hispanic base from points of origin in California, Texas. Mexico, Central America and South America, The state also saw its African and Asian populations increase as refugees from Sudan and Bhutan, for example, resettled here.
Drozd says, "People are not coming as directly for new jobs like in the '90s when the meat processors were expanding and recruiting. We expect to see some regional migration that Neb. has typically seen from smaller locations to more urban locations that tend to have a diverse pool of job opportunities within various industries."
While migration has slowed from its peak waves it's expected to continue in fits and starts. Migration, researchers agree is "a wildcard" that can't be accurately forecast, but Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Research Associate Lissette Aliaga Linares notes an uptick in Latinos-Hispanics from Arizona, which OLLAS Director Lourdes Gouvia attributes to that state's anti-immigrant policies.
Drozd says Neb.'s minority experience is consistent with some surrounding states and inconsistent with others.
"We are typical of the Great Plains in that we tend to suffer from outmigration especially of young college-aged whites, which is counteracted by in-migration and increase in the minority population groups. On the other hand Neb. is unique in that we are growing faster in some of our metropolitan areas and not holding our population as well as some of the more rural areas."
The emergence of more minorities is perhaps most visible in urban inner city public schools, where student enrollment naturally reflects the heavily minority communities these schools serve. Minority enrollment in the Omaha Public Schools stands at 68 percent.
"The diversity of UNO will continue to grow and one only has to look at the demographics in the metro area to understand that traditional middle school and high school students will increasingly be students of color," says UNO Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs B.J. Reed.
Some outstate school districts are now majority Latino-Hispanic.
The impact of diversity in this small population state that suffers from brain drain cannot be overstated.
"There's a large part of Neb. that would be having population decline if it were not for minority growth," says Drozd. "There's all sorts of implications with respect to aging, the workforce, health care, education. From a gerontology standpoint you have the possibility of seeing a younger, more diverse working-age population caring for a predominantly white non-Hispanic aging population and will there be any issues associated there. With programs like Social Security you're going to be relying more and more on an immigrant population to support payments for predominantly white people collecting from the program. So there are potentials for tension there and of course political ramifications and all sorts of factors."
Gouveia, a sociology professor, reminds that "Latinos are going to imitate some trends of the larger population the more urban and educated they become," adding. "The more women are able to work outside the home fertility rates will drop and the population will begin to age. It's the life cycle."
As minorities grow they become a larger sector of the tax and voting base that elected officials and prospective candidates must recognize.
Drozd says communities must adapt, whether offering English-as-a-Second Language programs or multicultural competency classes, in order to best serve minorities and their particular needs.
As more minorities graduate high school educators and employers hope that many of these college-bound grads and working-age young adults will attend school and find jobs in-state.
"As people have become upwardly mobile in Neb.'s past that has led to outmigration out of the state," says Drozd. "It's going to be a very policy relevant factor because people born in the early '90s are now hitting age 18. Even if they choose a Neb. college where are they going to go to work? Will there be jobs and associated positions for them here in the state or will they go out of state?"
Just as preparing students to succeed in school is critical, so is preparing a workforce for today's service and skilled jobs.
"Let's make no mistake about this, without immigration Nebraskans may have to rethink how they are going to have a viable economy that produces not only jobs but payrolls that produce taxes from which an aging population will benefit greatly," says Gouveia. "Without this population there won't be services this Boomer population and this aspiring mini-global city of Omaha depends on. These are increasingly service economies and that means it's very important for the economy to increasingly be based on higher pay jobs likely to grow, such as information technology or biotechnology.
"That also means educational institutions need to be able to truly know how to train this generation of children of immigrants. The children may not be immigrants themselves but a large number have immigrant parents who endured very poor, disadvantageous conditions that tend to disadvantage the educational achievement of their children. We have to have multidimensional. multidisciplinary perspectives to understand who this population is. And that goes to our research also."
She believes minorities will succeed to the extent opportunities allow.
"We haven't addressed the serious barriers to education that would guarantee that new face of America and of Neb. becomes a face with equal opportunities to participate in the prosperity all of us will want to share." She says if barriers to upward mobility aren't removed "it may prevent Neb. from truly harnessing what we call this demographic bonus that's been gifted to this state. A state that was losing population were it not for minority growth and international migration would be in serious trouble today to have a viable economy and future."
Daniel J. Shipp, UNO associate vice chancellor for student affairs, says schools must find ways to support minority students.
"When combined with the typical struggles of new college students the demographics of race-ethnicity will create even more difficult challenges in both access to and success in college. Not only must we continue to open our doors wider to traditionally under-served student populations but once on campus it is critical for all of us to see their success as a top institutional and community priority."
UNO Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs Pelema Morrice urges educators and employers to appreciate diversity's many forms.
"We always focus on racial-ethnic diversity but I think intellectual diversity, geographic diversity, cultural diversity, all those different forms of diversity, really add a lot of value to everyone's experience. There's plenty of evidence that the more diverse environment we're in the more we all have opportunities to learn from each other.
"So I think it's incredibly important for an institution to be a welcoming and diverse environment where folks can learn from each other at a higher level. I think that adds to the educational experience and it provides students with really good training to go out and be productive citizens and to be successful in the workplace."
Diversity is also the way of this flatter, interconnected world.
Reed from UNO's Academic and Student Affairs office, says "Our students will grow up in a much more global environment requiring exposure to difference cultures and different experiences."
Where diversity often must be programmed, Gouveia is heartened by students' inherent embrace of it. "About this new Neb. mosaic, one thing I'm particularly hopeful about is the younger generation. I love our new students. From any background they are so much more prepared and so much more ahead of where we are as professors or department chairs or deans in terms of knowing how to do diversity. We are the ones who are often behind them."
As Neb. becomes more multi-hued, UNO's Morrice says representative stakeholders should discuss what diversity holds for the state.
"With these new demographics coming forward it means our student base will obviously be more diverse than it is now and that means the outcomes will be more diverse and so we'll see more diverse workplaces and communities within the state. We're just a piece of that puzzle but I think it's a good collective conversation for everyone to have as the state continues to grow and it becomes clear that there will be different faces at the table."
UNO's Changing Face
©by Leo Adam Biga
The same demographic trends on pace to make the United States a minority majority population by 2050 and making Neb. a more racially-ethnically diverse place in the second decade of the new millennium, are increasingly being expressed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Roughly a quarter of UNO's 2013-2014 freshman class is minority and just under 20 percent of the school's entire undergraduate enrollment is minority. Both are record marks for the school. In 2000, for example, UNO's minority enrollment stood at 9 percent. The minority numbers are even greater among graduate students.
The 11 percent rise in UNO minority enrollment from 2000 until now reflects in large measure the Latino-Hispanic boom that happened in-state from 1980 to 2010, when that segment increased from about 37,000 to 167,000. The Latino-Hispanic population is expected to add another 370,000 residents by 2050, according to UNO's Center for Public Affairs Research.
As a public institution with a state-wide reach, UNO's a model for the changing face of Neb. Drawing principally from the Omaha metropolitan area, which as the state's largest urban center has always been Neb.'s most racially-ethnically diverse spot, UNO is, as expected, one of the most diverse campuses in the University of Nebraska system.
At the University of Nebraska-Kearney minority undergraduate enrollment has nearly doubled since 1995. Today, nearly a quarter of its students are non-white or non-resident alien. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports the most diverse student body in its history. UNL's 2,328 minority undergrads are about 12 percent of the undergraduate total, a 9 percent increase just from last year. Just as at UNO, the largest minority gains at each school are in the Latino-Hispanic and international students categories,
As minorities comprise a growing segment of the state's mainstream and of its public schools' enrollment, institutions are tasked with incorporating these populations and responding to their needs.
"The good news for Omaha is that UNO has a proud tradition of supporting minority students through various educational equity and learning community investments such as Goodrich, Project Achieve and the newer Thompson Learning Community," says UNO Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Daniel J. Shipp. "These programs provide student participants with a network of caring and concerned faculty, staff and peer mentors that help students to succeed and thrive in college. Moving forward, I expect we will continue to build on our national reputation for attracting and supporting the growing numbers of minority students and their families in the Omaha area and beyond."
"Minority students are an important population but they are only one of an increasing mosaic of diversity at UNO, whether they are military, first generation, students of color or adult learners or transfer students," says UNO Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs B.J. Reed. "We are working every day to ensure that these students feel welcome at UNO and have the type of support services and environment that will make them want to be want to be here and to be successful. We do this for all our special populations of students. We have programs and learning communities as well as staff specifically directed at helping ease their transition to UNO and success in their academic goals."
Reed says hiring faculty and staff who reflect the changing face of UNO "is a top priority," adding, "We have made important strides in diversifying our staff but we lag behind where we want to be here and also with recruiting and retaining a more diverse faculty. We are working on reviewing existing policies and procedures and looking at incentives and support efforts to increase the diversity of faculty and staff to reflect the changing demographics of our student body."
There's wide agreement that diversity is a net sum experience for all involved.
"The benefits are substantial," Reed says. "The workplace is becoming increasingly diverse and employers need and want an increasingly diverse group of employees. We cannot underestimate the shift occurring here. We need to provide a strong educational workforce for employers and UNO must be positioned to do that effectively."
Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Director and Sociology Professor Lourdes Gouveia agrees that educators at UNO and elsewhere must increasingly consider diversity and its impact.
"We have to educate our professionals and student populations in ways that allow them to be skilled about global issues and diversity and to have multicultural competencies as the world is very connected," she says. "But also we need to address structural barriers that may prevent Neb. from truly harnessing what we call this demographic bonus that has been gifted to this state. A state that was losing population if not for minority growth and international migration would be in serious trouble today to have a viable economy and a future."
Omaha's Vinton Street Creativity Festival Celebrates a Diagonal Cultural Scene
Street festivals are as emblematic of America as anything and my hometown of Omaha has it's share of them. A newer one, the Vinton Street Creativity Festival, is an urban pastiche that's part carnival, part fair, part block party that takes its name and cue from the funky diagonal street where an eclectic assemblage of venues comprise Vinton's historical business district. This story appeared in advance of the recently held 2013 fest.
Omaha's Vinton Street Creativity Festival Celebrates a Diagonal Cultural Scene
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally appeared in El Perico
The resurgence of both the Vinton Street Commercial Historical District and the greater Deer Park Neighborhood it resides in is impetus for the second annual Vinton Street Creativity Festival.
The 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 18 event is a free celebration of youth and community organized by the Deer Park Neighborhood Association, Habitat for Humanity and the City of Omaha. Vinton Street merchants are helping sponsor it.
The festival, whose hub is 18th and Vinton, will include live music, a street art throwdown, extreme skateboarding, breakdance performances, children's activities, arts and crafts displays, walking tours and a Victory Boxing Club demonstration. Food can be purchased from the district's many eateries.
The Hector Anchondo Blues Band will headline the on-stage band lineup, which also includes Pancho & the Contraband and Midwest Dilemma. Mariachi Zapata and Ballet Folklorico Xiotal will perform traditional music and dance, respectively.
The Omaha Creative Institute will present Elmo Diaz in a blacksmithing demo, Tom Kerr drawing caricatures and a watercolor station for kids to paint.
Linda Garcia will teach the Mexican paper cutting craft, appeal picado banderas, in creating miniature decorative flags.
Among a few dozen commercial historical districts in the nation, the Vinton strip is singular for its diagonal layout. The narrow, meandering road, with low-slung, century-old buildings set close to the street, follows a ridge line that may have been a trail or country road before the area's late 19th century development.
Noted photographer Larry Ferguson, who's long maintained a studio and living space in the Daniel J. Jourdan Building at 1701 Vinton, says as a result of the street's serpentine shape "you have a lot of different vistas as you move along and through those curves – it's like a piece of sculpture that way."
Festivalgoers will come upon a commercially thriving district whose 14 historically significant buildings have been largely untampered with and house a diverse mix of service-based businesses. Many small business owners there are Hispanic. Their enterprises include bakeries, restaurants, a meat market and clothing stores.
The area is far livelier then when Ferguson moved there in 1987. "It was a derelict part of town. It was really bad," he recalls. "Nothing but vacant storefronts and six bars. Very little street and pedestrian traffic." He says as the South 24th business district filled "it was a natural progression for the Latino community to move up into this area to rebuild. That led to a big influx of property changes and people changes. To the point now we have constant traffic on the street during the day. A lot of new businesses have come on board that are making Vinton happen. The new businesses are just hopping."
One of the biggest changes is the influx of families with young children. Deer Park Neighborhood Association president Oscar Duran says, "There are hundreds of young kids in our neighborhood." In his work as a Neighborhood Revitalization Specialist with Habitat for Humanity Duran's enlisted youth as volunteers and as participants in urban art competitions and mural projects.
"I saw we had a local asset of urban artists within the neighborhood, That started us asking ourselves what other ways could we outreach to our youth in the South Omaha area. How can we bring together a mash of different counter cultures and communities that celebrate youth being active, involved and a part of something?
"So we invited some of the urban artists and break-dancers we're familiar with as well as the nonprofits that do outreach-mentorship to cross pollinate with each other and celebrate what each of them is good at."
Duran says the resulting youth and community-centered event is an attempt "to separate us from other neighborhood festivals because Deer Park itself is a very unique neighborhood. It's a collection of smaller neighborhoods. It's a melting pot. You go down Vinton Street and you have an internationally known photographer (Ferguson) who's been there since the '80s right next to a carniceria (meat market) who's been there for ten and right across the street you have a pasterleria (bakery). Then there's all the restaurants, the boutiques, the Capitol Bindery, Gallery 72.
"I think it's really cool. It's something that's very organic to our area."
New additions to the melting pot are The Apollon, a multi-genre arts event-dining space having its grand opening during the fest, and The Pearly Owl curio shop.
Apollon co-founder Ryan Tewell says the district is becoming known as a "friendly up-and-coming arts and dining destination without all the traffic and congestion and higher prices that come with it."
Grants are assisting some owners with sprucing up the facades of their buildings. Duran says improvements to the surrounding area include the recent razing of condemned homes, the rehab of others and the construction of new residences.
"That revitalization brings new people, higher property values," Ferguson says. "I've got 26 years here of watching this neighborhood transform, which has always been my dream. I've been trying to champion this street for a long time. It's very exciting to see it happen."
Ferguson and Duran view the festival as a showcase for what the area offers.
"There's a really good core of people here," Duran says. "A very strong sense of work ethic and community was already here and it's not going to go away. There's really an environment fostered here that people want to help each other."
"Vinton's becoming more unified," says Ferguson. "It's a real celebration of it. We're totally jazzed and excited."
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After Decades in New York City Omaha Native Jazz Pianist Paul Serrato Proves You Can Come Home Again
Jazz artist Paul Serrato is one of those cool cats who left his native Omaha to do his thing in the big city. He carved out a nice career in New York as a pianist, arranger and composer. He has serious chops and he's well respected in the jazz world for his talents. Now, decades after leaving here, he's come back to his hometown something of a jazz legend to aficianados, though he's largely unknown to the general public. He's one of those classic cases of being unappreciated in his own backyard. That's partly due to the fact that jazz is off most people's radar. Then there's the reality that he was not in Omaha when he did make a name for himself in the Big Apple. But he's come home to stay and he's eager to share his work with Omaha audiences. My guess is he will get the recognition he deserves here before too long.
After Decades in New York City Omaha Native Jazz Pianist Paul Serrato Proves You Can Come Home Again
©by Leo Adam Biga
Soon to appear in El Perico
Jazz pianist-arranger-composer Paul Serrato left his native Omaha more than 50 years ago to pursue a theater and music career in New York City. He found considerable success there. He led headlilne and backup bands, he soloed and did sideman work at top clubs. He composed original music for hit underground, off-Broadway plays. He recorded and released several well-reviewed CDs on his own Graffiti Productions label.
He was the first to perform on the Staten Island Ferry. He was a regular artist in the Jazz Vespers series at St. Peter's Church. He appeared on the Joe Franklin Show.
He would return to visit family and friends. In 2011 he came back here to stay. He performs around town, including a regular gig at The Addicted Cup in the Old Market. He's preparing a new CD highlighting some never released original music.
Why move here after so many years away?
"Well, it was a push-pull thing," he says. His mother, who had remained in town, died and rather than give up "the family compound in South Omaha" he decided to move in. It beat the Big Apple's high cost of living.
Omaha is where it all began for Serrato. He grew up the only child of a single mother. He never really knew his father, who left for Calif. It's only in the last year Serrato discovered half-siblings on the west coast. "We've really bonded," he says of his new found family.
Times were tough for Serrato and his mom. She traveled wherever she could find factory work.
"I went to school in Michigan, Texas, Tennessee," says Serrato.
His love of the piano began as a young boy. An aunt in Omaha played a big upright he couldn't resist. He started lessons at age 9 and quickly showed promise and passion.
"I really found an obsession."
He won local music contests and was a featured soloist in school concerts. He played mostly classics until happening upon jazz.
"I used to hear it on the radio and I was very like blown away by the great jazz pianists. I'd thought I wanted to be a concert pianist until I started hearing recordings by Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson."
By high school he was living in Omaha again. Soon after graduating Creighton Prep in the late 1950s he left for Boston University to study theater arts. Then New York beckoned.
"It was a magnet, it was a pull, it was an exciting lure," he says. "What I did when I arrived was I saturated myself in the club scene."
He was a regular at the landmark Birdland. He also took composition studies. His studies continued. His resulting music expresses the energy and edge of the bustling city. He calls his sound urban jazz – not by the rules.
"You're a product of your culture, whatever it is," he says.
He acknowledges a strong Latin influence in his work. Conga player Candido Camero was "a great inspiration," he says.
"Candido made a record called Mambo Moves with one of my favorite pianists Erroll Garner. It has such great duets they play. I've always loved that record and I've tried to incorporate some of those ideas into my own music."
Serrato's worked with several conga players over the years. He recently found a new one – "He's got the licks, man" – with whom he hopes to perform and record.
He identifies strongly with his Mexican heritage. He didn't grow up speaking much Spanish but he fell in love with the language and became an English-as-Second Language teacher for Spanish-speakers.
"I've done a lot of traveling in Spanish-speaking countries. I spent lot of time in Spain, where I used to follow bullfights. That was a whole passion of mine. I used to be a really great aficionado. I got my master's degree in urban education ESL and my last few years in New York I taught adult education in Washington Heights to mostly Dominicans. I taught bilingually."
His early years in New York he supported himself working odd jobs, including tending bar. While managing a Greenwich Village bookstore he met artists from the underground scene – poets, playwrights, painters, singers.
"That's a great thing about New York, where you just collide with people. In that New York downtown underground culture nobody was dictating you to write it this way or that way, so I was writing jazz for singers to perform in plays. I had the field to myself because nobody else was doing that. Everybody was doing like rock songs and the Velvet Underground, and I loved the Velvet Underground but that wasn't what I was doing. I was a novelty.
"I jumped into it and had some wonderful collaborations with (Andy) Warhol superstars, playing for them, accompanying then, getting acts together. I did stuff with jazz basses, walking basses, trumpet solos, all this stuff, and they loved it."
Serrato made tours of London in the 1970s. More recently he's performed concerts in Japan. His work's been featured in television documentaries, included An American Family, and in the HBO dramatic movie, Cinema Verite.
He says New York is "where I've done my most memorable creative work and I'm hoping I can transfer some of that to Omaha, and I'm having some gratifying success. I'm meeting some really good musicians.
He looks to add to a personal recording catalog that includes the albums AlterNations, Pianomania, Excursions, Origami and Nexus.
His next Addicted Cup gig is June 29 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Find more about the musician at http://www.paulserrato.com.
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Tapestries to celebrate Omaha neighborhoods; Theater by any other name
The Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha is always looking for new ways to connect with audiences and in the following story for The Reader (www.thereader.com) I share the latest attempt to bring theater to where people live. The conference's PlayFest is presenting Neighborhood Tapestries in two well-defined inner city communities that don't always have the kind of access to theater that other communities do. The idea of these tapestries is for people of these communities to share various aspects of their neighborhood's art, music, culture, and history.
Tapestries to celebrate Omaha neighborhoods; Theater by any other name
©by Leo Adam Biga
Soon to appear in The Reader (www.thereader.com)
The play's still the thing with the Great Plains Theatre Conference but organizers are making a concerted effort to expand theater's definition in order to connect more people to it.
The May 26-29 PlayFest is the Metropolitan Community College conference's answer to making theater more accessible. That means staging works at nontraditional sites, including one along the riverfront, and, new this year, holding Neighborhood Tapestries in the inner city.
The inaugural tapestries, a cross-between a chautauqua, a street arts event, a storytelling festival, a salon and a variety show, will happen outdoor on separate dates in North and South Omaha. Each neighborhood's art, culture and history will be celebrated through a loose program of music, poetry, stories, dance and other creative expressions. The performers will include professionals and amateurs.
On May 27 the North Omaha tapestry, directed by Denise Chapman, will interpret the area's African American experience at the Union for Contemporary Art at 2417 Burdette Street.
Union for Contemporary Art
Chapman, an actress and stage director, is the Omaha Community Playhouse education director and a Metropolitan Community College theater instructor. She's worked with a team to produce the event.
"We're creating a thread," she says. "We are thinking of our show as a block. So who are these people on the block? Borrowing from Sesame Street. who are the people in your neighborhood? We want to have this musical and movement throughline with these transitional words and the sharing of these stories as people get up and talk about community and food, growing up on the North Side, memories of their mothers and just all these different people you might encounter on a street in North Omaha.
"That thread allows us to plug in people as we get them, as they see fit. Who knows what could happen with the evening. We've got that flexibility. It's not a rigid the-curtain-opens and this-series-of-events needs to happen for the show to make sense and come to some conclusion. Instead it's this nice woven piece that says here are some things that happened, here are some reflections, here is some music , here's a body in space moving. Hopefully at the end you're like, Oh, let's get around this circle and have a conversation."
Denise Chapman
She says GPTC producing artistic director Kevin Lawler gave her a "very open" script to take the event wherever she wanted.
"I'm excited about this project because it allows us to explore the concept that we're all performers with this urge to tell a story or to share this happening or to recount this thing that happened to us. But where's the platform for that? When do we get together and do it? What we're doing is throwing some artists and musicians and actors in the mix. It's engaging us as theater practitioners to not be so static in our art form and it engages the community to understand that theater isn't this other thing that happens on the other side of the city."
Featured storytellers include Nancy Williams, Felicia Webster, Peggy Jones and Dominque Morgan, all of whom will riff and reflect on indelible characters and places from North O's past and present.
Jazz-blues guitarist George Walker will lay down some smooth licks.
Member youth from the North Omaha Boys and Girls Club will present an art project they created. Works by Union for Contemporary Art fellows will be displayed.
Chapman sees possibilities for future North O programs like Tapestries that celebrate its essence. She says such programs are invitations for the public to experience art and own it through their own stories.
"Then you start having those conversations and then you realize the world is a lot smaller than you think it is," she says. "It just starts to close the gap. So yeah I think there's a real possibility for it to grow and create these little pockets of reminders that we're all performers and we all need our platforms for creation."
Collin Field
The May 29 South Omaha tapestry will take a similar approach in fleshing out the character and personalities of that part of town. The site is Omaha South High's Collins Stadium, 22nd Ave. and M Street. Director Scott Working, the theater program coordinator at MCC, says he's put together an event with "a little music, a little storytelling, a little poetry to let people know some of the stories and some of the history of the neighborhood."
He says he got a big assist from Marina Rosado in finding Latino participants. Rosado, a graphic designer, community television host and leader of her own theater troupe, La Puerta, will also emcee the program. She led Working to retired corporate executive David Catalan, now a published poet. Catalan's slated to read from three poems written as a homage to his parents.
Rosado also referred Working to artist and storyteller Linda Garcia.
"I will be doing a storytelling segment based on my Abuelita (Grandmother) Stories," says Garcia. "The story I am telling is an actual story of my abuelita, Refugio 'Cuca' Hembertt, and my exposure to her insatiable reading habits. That led to my discovery and connection with languages and the power of words.*
Even Louie M's Burger Lust owner Louie Marcuzzo has been marshaled to tell South O tales.
Also on tap are performances by the South High School Louder Than a Bomb slam poetry team, Ballet Folklorico Xitol, the Dave Salmons polka duo and a youth mariachi band. Working also plans to bring alive an El Museo Latino exhibit of Latinos in Omaha. Individuals will read aloud in English the subects' bios as a video of the subjects reading their own stories in Spanish plays. He says his inspiration for the evening's revolving format is the Encyclopedia Shows that local artists and poets put on.
Scott Working
"It's a combination of like standup and poetry and music and theater," Working says. "It's relaxed, it's fun. Plus, I don't think I could get David Catalan and Louie Marcuzzo to come to six rehearsals to get it right. I trust them."
Rosado embraces the format.
"I believe in the power of art. Music, dance, literature, theater and all cultural expressions can change a person's life. That's why I am so excited about the event. Scott has a genuine interest in showcasing the best of our community. Tapices is the word in Spanish for tapestries and I can hardly wait to see the unique piece of art that will be made at the end of this month."
Catalan feels much the same, saying, "Stories told as a performing art leave lasting impressions on audiences and motivate many to learn more about heritage and ancestry." He applauds Metro for its outreach to inner city Omaha's "rich cultural history in the transitional ethnic populations."
Lawler says Tapestries enables the conference "to be more rooted in the community," particularly underserved communities. "I wanted to go further into involving the community and being something relevant for the community. That's why I want to generate these stories from the community. It's kind of a lifelong quest I have to keep looking at the art form and saying, 'What are we doing that's working but what are we doing that's not working very well' That's part of the reason the whole PlayFest is free. Theater is just priced out of society's ability to go. That doesn't work."
Just as Chapman feels Tapestries can continue to mine North O's rich subject matter, Working feels the same about South O. He adds that other neighborhoods, from Benson to Bellevue, could be mined as well.
Both the North O and South O events kick off with food, art displays and music at 6:30 p.m. Storytelling begins at 7:30.
For the complete PlayFest schedule, visit http://www.mccneb,edu/theatreconference.
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2013 and earlier Lexus ES 350 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
dallaseric Posts: 1Hi Everyone,
Glad I found this board! I am on my 4th Lexus, really love these cars, but hate dealing with purchases (and repairs.)
I have had horrible service experiences with two of the dealers in Dallas and won't go back there. I did buy my last car from Sewell and was really happy with the whole experience there. So, it was good to see that a couple of you have had recent good experiences there.
Before I go in and buy, a couple of questions - I was there last week, just browsing and asked when the 2008s are coming in. I was told they were already there but hadn't been priced yet. I have no idea what that means. lol!
Not wanting to negotiate there w/o having prices in mind, I just left, and here I am..
So, my questions to anyone who would care to reply -
- When the 2008s are 'priced' will the price of the 2007s drop or will they be more deeply discounted? Should I wait or buy now?
- It looks like folks are paying around 39K for the 350 with the Nav package and something like 34 without it. Are the prices you guys are quoting for the AWD version or the front-wheel drive versions?
- A couple people have mentioned dealer inventory - cant people order their cars? I would think you'd have to wait for it, but isn't that an option? Or do the dealers only deal on their current inventory?
- What fees beyond the price paid are you guys being hit with? What are the bogus fees? Someone referred to a "ha ha" fee in an earlier post, either here or on the 330 board and I didn't know what that was referring to..
Finally, if someone can send me the name of the person who you all have been dealing with at Sewell Lexus, Id appreciate it!!
Thank you,
I just wanted to know that apart from the sales tax what are the other charges that are applied. I know there a doc fee but not sure how much it is and does it depend on the state or dmv or varies by dealership. I read some posts and people mentioned dmv fee was $250 and another fee was $149(I guess doc fee). Sounds like all these charges itself addup to 500 bucks. Also, I would like to know how these charges apply if I am buying in a different state. For example I live in NY but I am buying in NJ. I would really appreciate if somebody can explain this. Thanks.
Hello.. please let me know if this is a good deal.. (I am in Central FL)
ES350 w/ Prem Pkg. Internet salesperson offered $36,242 less $2,800..
$33,442 + tax, tag, dealer fee, etc.
I wanted a price on XM & was quoted $795. From the threads that seems way too high..
I assume you're talking about getting an '07 ES 350, so I'll just say one thing in regards to your post: there isn't an AWD version of the '07 ES 350--it's FWD only...
Other than that, I would think that it might be possible to around a few hundred over invoice in the very near future; I've read of a few folks over here in CA who have already gotten such a deal.
Hard for me to say since I've no history in shopping for cars in FL but generally speaking I think you could do a bit better than that, especially since it'll be almost a year since the ES 350 was first introduced.
XM quote is a bit too high...$600 range--or maybe a bit lower than that--seems more reasonable.
Thanks to everyone's posting on the forum, got a good price on the car. Paid $36,684 + $200 doc fee + TT&L. Dealer said MSRP is $41,411 when I put the deposit but it actually was $41,711, I guess they honored the 2006 price. Excellent car!!!
Is that a good deal? (Ray Catena Lexus in NJ)
I got the new 2007 ES 350 (with Ultra package) from Lindsay Lexus. Great service and good buying experience. I got it for more than $3k below MSRP. Towson is the most competitive but I did not want to drive down there as it was more than an hour drive. Pohanka didn't seem to be open to bargaining at all; maybe they have just too many customers buying in fairfax area?
Let me know if you need more details.
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tds1 Posts: 73I know very little about lease deals but am in the Minneapolis area. What kind of discount were you offered on the car? I have held off buying in hopes the discount would approach what others are getting on the coasts and that the transmission flare issue would be solved.
pkumar1981 Posts: 15Hey, I'm giving up my 04 Camry XLE and deciding on upgrading to the new ES350 w/ Nav. I think you got a really good deal, I live in South Jersey now and the Cherry Hill Dealer was selling me a demo with 300 miles on it w/ Nav. for 38,900. I said no way Man! and Walked out. He would not lower his price! But I have heard good things about Ray Catena Lexus. I read your thread and was wondering if you mind telling what options you got in your ES with the $36,684 price, which is the lowest I have seen on this forum. Also what other fees did they stick you with Doc fees$Amount? What was your total price out the door? Thanks for your help.
I am thinking about getting an extended warranty of 6 yr/70,000 miles. Has anyone bought it and how much did they pay for it. The dealer is saying its $1350 but that sounds too much. However, I found this web site
and here they are selling it for $975. Any thoughts on it ? Thanks.
ES 350 Premium Plus w/nav.
$39,700 +TTL and fees is what they have quoted
A whopping $1,600 off MSRP. I have seen many new ones of the same options going for the low $38,000's. A lexus lease is brutal and the discount off MSRP from this dealership is far less than it should be.
First I got a very good offer from the Lexus at Englewood NJ. The MSRP was 44,425 and he offered 39,425. This included ultra luxury pkg, ML/Nav, Park Assist, Preferred Accessory Pack, All season floor mats and body side mold (with installation). Terrific price but they were giving me horrible trade-in value on my car ($3000 less than what I was expecting). If you do not have a trade-in then I would recommend Lexus at Englewood. Just go to their web site and email them for a quote with your options. The internet sales manager will return your email with a quote in $$$ value without asking your phone number. Beware that the internet sales manager is very aggressive in person for selling the car ... which I didnt like at all.
Anyway, I backed out because of the trade-in value. Finally I got an offer from New Country Lexus, upstate NY (which is where I live). The MSRP was 44,800 and they offered 40,350. This included Ultra Luxury package, Mark Levinson with Nav, Park Assist, Preferred Accessory Pack, All season floor mats, body side mold (with installation) and rear lip spoiler. The salesman was very polite and not aggressive at all. An absolute pleasure to do business with them and they gave exactly what edmunds had quoted for trade-in.
My take is that for the ES350 there is approx $5000 difference between invoice and msrp if you are going for premiumn plus pkg or ultra lux pkg. You should try to get atleast $4000 off the msrp. Thanks.
es350ci Posts: 1I got my ES 350 a week ago.
(Smokey Granite, Black interior, Premium Package, Rear Spoiler, Crome Wheels, etc..)
I think dealer's original MSRP was about $39k. Although I think I could have gotten a better deal than what I paid.. I'm happy with my first Lexus purchase.
[MSRP: 34,000 + TTL = 37,000 (Out the door)]
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Vince, Here's the options in my car...tungten pearl/black car. Had to pay $200 doc fee on top of the $36,684+tt&l price. Out the door price=$39,700. You may want to try Difeo Lexus as well. They are also opening up in Edison by Mar.
Base MSRP* $33,470.00
• Standard Features
Available Packages $7,526.00
• Premium Plus Package with Additional Options
Delivery, Processing & Handling Fee† $715.00
Total MSRP** $41,711.00
Premium Plus Package with Additional Options $7,427.00
Premium Plus Package Includes:
- Leather-trimmed interior
- Heated and ventilated front seats
- Driver's seat power cushion extender
- Lexus Memory System to control power driver's and front passenger's seats (except lumbar), outside mirrors and steering wheel
- Electrochromic outside mirrors with tilt-down in reverse
- Rain-sensing intermittent windshield wipers with mist cycle
Additional Options:
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- High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps and Dual-swivel Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS)
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- Wood- and leather-trimmed steering wheel and shift knob
- Full-size spare tire with 17-in alloy wheel
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- Preferred Accessory Package (includes Cargo net, Trunk mat and Wheel locks)
Good luck ,
Hi, I just bought a LexusES350 Starfire with Ivory interior. I think the same as #430. Premium Plus with Navi and additional options. MSRP $41,612 reduced to invoice price of $36,900 plus TTL. I added Body side moldings $324 (list $599.00) and all weather mats $100 (list $144) from Prestige Lexus in Ramsey, NJ. The trade-in value given to my Camry wa- ;s too low - ;so now tra- ;de-in.
Sorry, my last message was all messed up. I bought a ES350 with Starfire exterior and ivory interior. I think the same options and package as #430 has. MSRP was $41,612 and I was able to get it down to $36,900 plus TTL. I added body side moldings $324 (list price $599) and all-weather mats $100 (list price $144). I think this is a pretty good price.


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I feel strong and positive about this journey I am on.
I am taking baby steps, writing and keeping my mantra alive.
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Thank you everyone for your support. I fell off the wagon. I have not tracked any food. The only exercise I do is walk up 3 flights of stair to get to my apartment. And the parking lot to my office.
I am still working full time. My manger has been on and off about this. I have not been very proactive about what I want to do. So I am full time for today. This could change tomorrow.
I signed up for a 5k Oct 29 my job is sponsoring it. I am good with that. In the meantime I am good.
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I will not give up on myself. I am the only one that can make it happen for me with God's help . I have the power to succeed or fail. Choose to succeed.
I did not want to be the person who signs and and never weigh in and never seem. So I deciede to let the team leader know. this is not a great time for me for commitments. I wanted to give others the chance since there is a waiting list.
I will join the winter challenge. So I am going to focus on moving my body and getting a group of foods that work. Meaning my body with lose some weight. I have gained.
I am patient with myself and loving it took a lifetime to get this size and this will not happen overnight.
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I will not give up on myself. I am the only one that can make it happen for me with God's help . I have the power to succeed or fail.
Choose to succeed.
My body is holding on the water my weight is up 4 pounds. I am going to start taking another BP pill I hope this will help.
I am not going to be discouraged. All is well. With time and determination I can get to where I am suppose to be.
In my past rest has been the answer. However with full time working I will be balanced. I am going to seek and pray for guidance with this.
Take care
I am still working full time. They offered me to work part time at the home office and part time at the warehouse CSR. So this is a blessing. I am so grateful.
My food is good. I am on a consistent path. I so far have found a group of foods that are working with my body. How can I tell?? When the body is carrying out daily function with no issues. (Sleep, recover from my day in a reasonable time 24 hours, elimination daily, emotions are up beat and positive, see the glass 1/2 full not 1/2 empty, set daily goals, be my best friend)
Exercise I just made the best from what is in front of me. Parking far in the parking lot at work or shopping. This is where I am right now.
I enjoy read and sharing with my spark friends. I feel so loved.
thank you!!!!!!
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