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A few months of searching to find a permanent leader for the district concluded on Feb. 11 with the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board's vote to hire a new superintendent, although the decision came amid controversy over the process.
The person selected by the board to become the district's next superintendent is Christina Kishimoto, who accepted the board's offer on Feb. 12. According to a statement released by the district, Kishimoto currently serves as the superintendent for Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut, and she will take over the Gilbert position effective July 1.
Kishimoto's hiring completes a process that began when former superintendent Dave Allison retired from the district in July 2013. The district then hired Jack Keegan to serve in the role on an interim basis.
"I had to go with my conscience, and I'm looking forward to the next chapter in this district, and I think it will be a good chapter," said board member Julie Smith at the Feb. 11 meeting.
Controversy over the process
Smith's explanation of her vote for Kishimoto, who was one of two finalists along with Phillip Hickman, came as a response to the controversy surrounding the decision that came in a tight 3-2 decision. Board president Staci Burk and clerk Daryl Colvin voted against the hiring, and neither board member said they were interested in hiring Hickman either; instead the two wanted to hire one of the other candidates the board interviewed – attorney Dwayne Farnsworth.
His inclusion as one of the candidates — the board began with 16 presented by search firm Ray & Associates before interviewing eight semifinalists — created uproar among community members who attended the Tuesday meeting. The complaints lodged against Farnsworth stemmed from his lack of educational background and a Facebook post in which Colvin described Farnsworth as a friend.
Speaker Angie Draper stated during the Feb. 11 meeting that Farnsworth, the cousin of state Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, was unqualified to serve as the district's superintendent, and chastised Colvin for focusing on the candidates' political leanings.
"I'm just absolutely disgusted; I think you guys have just gotten so far off track," she said. "I'm not pleased with any of the candidates. But Farnsworth? I will be at every meeting if I see his name on that ballot, and you will (recuse) yourself from that, because you have no business voting on a personal friend."
"Are you the kinds of people we turn our children over to who exhibit this kind of behavior?" Colvin said in response.
Farnsworth's inclusion as a candidate
When called two days after the meeting, Farnsworth said he has some experience in education, including occasions in which he served as a substitute teacher in Spanish classes and as a college adjunct. But his main contention was that an absence of traditional education experience provides him a different perspective that could benefit the district.
"This is a CEO position; it doesn't require a teacher or a technician," he said.
He also referenced Liam Neeson's character in the movie "Taken," saying he had a set of skills that could translate to the education field.
Farnsworth also initially said Colvin was a loose acquaintance of his, as the two had worked together at community events and had bumped into each other from time to time.
"I would consider Daryl Colvin a friend, but he's not a long-lost friend," he said, adding that his wife knew Colvin better and campaigned on Colvin's behalf when he ran for Town Council.
He did, however, have a familiarity with three of the other board members prior to the vote. Farnsworth said he had spoken with Burk on a couple of occasions prior to the superintendent process – she echoed his sentiments on their relationship – but knew board member Jill Humpherys through her husband and church, and he said his wife carpools with Smith to take their kids to school on weekdays.
Just making it on the list of candidates for the position came was unexpected, as Farnsworth said he didn't apply for the position until Ray & Associates President Gary Ray contacted him in December, saying the district wanted to include an untraditional candidate.
"I was surprised he was on my cell phone," Farnsworth said.
Farnsworth added he would not apply for any other superintendent position besides the one for Gilbert Public Schools.
Before the final board was presented the final 16 candidates, Farnsworth said he had spoken with Colvin on a couple of occasions requesting the district hire someone with a strong fiscal background. He also said he didn't try to become a candidate himself during any of those conversations.
"Daryl probably put a bug in their (Ray & Associates) ear; that's what I suspect," he said.
Colvin was Farnsworth's strongest proponent due in large part to his background and his status as an untraditional candidate, but Burk said post-vote she also wanted to hire Farnsworth. One of the reasons she mentioned was his willingness to work for the district on a $1 annual salary and to hire consultants to help him run the district.
Farnsworth, however, said while he would have worked for the $1 salary, he said he would not have hired consultants to work with him; instead, he said he would have taken education classes out of his own pocket.
Burk said her main reason for wanting to postpone the vote was driven by a search process she said went too quickly. That, she said, meant the board members lacked a sufficient amount time to process all 16 candidates, let alone the final selection.
"We had a lot to look over in a very, very short time. A very short time," Burk said.
Gilbert Public Schools frustration
The meeting on Tuesday came shortly after Keegan and other high-level district administrators tendered their resignations. One, district athletic director Mark Cisterna, took a similar job at the Maricopa Unified School District earlier in the week.
Those decisions, combined with the search process and other issues across the district, led many audience members to speak out during the meeting's call to the public section.
"Gilbert Public Schools is in a state of crisis, and that crisis is at the leadership level," said Gilbert Education Association President Diane Drazinski. "How else can we explain the exodus of committed, top-level administrators who have made their careers and their homes in Gilbert?"
The crowd's reacted strongly to the speeches, initially applauding before Burk told them to stop. The audience members reacted by shaking their hands in the air whenever they agreed with one of the speakers.
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Net income (loss) for the six months ended January 31, 2013 was $18.5 million compared to $(57.2) million in the same period of fiscal 2012. Non-GAAP net income* was $49.9 million for the six months ended January 31, 2013, compared to $58.5 million in the same period of fiscal 2012.
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Steven Pinker delves into mankind's relationship with violence – from the earliest records and remains of our ancestors through to the modern warfare of the 21st century. Exploring the dramatic decline in barbarism in the last 200 years – encompassing literacy rates, game theory and capitalism – this comprehensive work offers a fascinating analysis of how society can humanise man. Pinker's atheism does tend to colour his interpretations of religious texts, and some of the accounts of torture are truly stomach-churning, however, these accounts are nicely interspersed with personal anecdotes. Thought-provoking and unsettling, Pinker offers a sign of hope for the future of humanity.
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WEST BRANCH, IOWA— Artist-in-Residence Gaynell Gavin will read from her writings and present a writing workshop at the visitor center of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site on Saturday, June 18 at 9:30 a.m. The workshop will last about two hours. Dr. Gavin will discuss how writers find an attachment to place and use it to inspire writing. If you are interested in attending, please call (319) 643-2541 before June 18. Writing paper and pens are all you will need to bring. Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum are in West Branch, Iowa at exit 254 off I-80. Both are open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time. Parking is limited so please allow extra time to find a parking space. For more information go to www.nps.gov/heho or call (319) 643-2541.


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Next week, I am leading a webinar on mindfulness at work, specifically in the library. Mindfulness, since I learned about it earlier this year, has truly changed my life. I have struggled with depression and anxiety my entire life. While mindfulness and meditation are not cures or catchalls, they are tools for the repertoire, swords for fighting the beast. There are many factors that produce depression and anxiety, and not every technique works for everyone. It doesn't even work for me all the time. But now, I practice these skills every day, with the intent of building them bigger and stronger.
I'm doing these posts for the students in my webinar, but I'm also doing them for anyone who wants to know more about this practice and how it helps one individual person. I don't speak for everyone, and I have so much more to learn.
My road began with the book 10% Happier by Dan Harris. I've talked about this book ad nauseam since then. Harris, a television anchor, had a panic attack on air. He was struggling with drug dependency and anxiety, and he decided to look into ways to help himself. He interviewed Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle, and he went on a ten-day retreat with no speaking. The stories are fascinating, but it's his conclusions that meant the most to me. I wrote down his tenets, "The Way of the Worrier," as he calls them, and stick to them as best I can every day. Among them: don't be a jerk, hide the zen if you have to, and realize everything is temporary.
Next I went on to Taming the Drunken Monkey by William Mikulas. I picked that one up at ALA and added it to my already overflowing bag of ARCs. This book stresses three concepts: awareness, flexibility, and concentration. It progresses in stages through the levels of exercises, so if you're a beginner, you can start with the first level and move up. I'm somewhere in the second level right now. It's extremely practical, and if you want to practice meditation, it's a good place to start.
On the plane back from ALA, I read another advanced reading copy, The End of Stress by Don Joseph Goewey. My takeaway from that book was that there were even more techniques and tools I could be using, and more that I'm probably not even aware of. My favorite tool in that book is simple – when you're feeling stressed, tell yourself, "I could be at peace right now." The anxiety in my head is temporary, created of my own nervous mental energy, and unnecessary. When I use this tool, I feel all the stress disappear from my body instantly, and all my breath goes out in a whoosh. Focusing on the breath is very important in this practice.
Here's how I currently apply the skills I learned in these books:
- A lot of my stress comes from interpreting inconsiderate things said to me, often by people who care about me. By understanding that everything is temporary, and that I should focus on the moment, I know that what they think or say doesn't matter. I am the only one in control of my own destiny. If they don't like me, it only harms them. I strive to be a good person, so if I make a mistake, it's not the end of the world. I can take responsibility for my actions and move on to the next thing.
- My calendar is packed. I work full-time and do a lot of freelance side work. I also have a toddler and a husband. Balancing it all can be stressful. Focusing on the moment allows me to put my concentration and efforts on what I'm doing right now. I can put aside the endless to-do list and know that it will get done another time, as long as I write it down for later.
- My child will only be two once. Knowing that helps me catalog the special moments and soak them in so I remember them forever.
- Awareness of the moment has helped me connect with the world more. When life flies by, it's easy to ignore everything and put blinders on. When you are focusing on the moment, you notice more: the beauty of a sunset, the unique softness of a child's skin, unusual names on tombstones. Lately, this has created a powerful awe in me, and a profound gratefulness that I have this life, that I live in this world. My writing has improved with these observations as well.
Recently, I started wondering how I could apply these principles to other anxieties and neuroses I've held for a long time. I'll talk about those in my next post.


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SUU Polynesian Club will host its annual luau this Saturday, March 7, in the Sharwan Smith Center ballroom. Dinner is set to begin at 5 p.m., followed by a cultural show at 6:30 p.m.
The SUU Polynesian students have been working hard all year to bring the campus and local communities an authentic glimpse into their varied island cultures and dances. Polynesians are a warm and generous people and love to share their culture with others. Please come and join us for an extravagant evening of food, music and dance.
Tickets, which will be available at the door Saturday evening until they're sold out, are $12 per adult and $6 per child (ages 4-12). They may also be purchased in advance by calling Lynne Brown at 586-7771.
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The second segment was Jana of the Jungle, which featured Jana, a blonde girl who had been orphaned in South America and raised by Indian chief Montaro. Armed with a magical staff of power and accompanied by Jana's pet jaguar (Ghost) and coatimundi (Tiko), Jana and Montaro searched for the girl's long-lost father, who had disappeared in the Amazon along with Dr. Ben Cooper.
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BEVERLY FARMS, Mass. -- The midday lunch crowd at K.C.'s is just rolling in. In the back, eight construction workers -- their toolbelts dangling off the backs of their chairs -- are discussing the new Miss America between bites of homemade key lime pie. And across the room, settled under a red neon Budweiser sign in the window, John Updike is considering his place in the literary landscape.
"Being a writer has been a dream come true for me -- like an answered prayer," he says. "But I think I'm from the last generation of writers who can make that dream come true. The Nineties diet just doesn't have as big a space for fiction."
Neither saddened nor upset by the narrowing audience, Updike matter-of-factly makes his case and moves on with his tuna sandwich. It's not as if he's going to stop writing. And even if he wanted to, he's not so sure he could. "It's a little like a daily secretion," he says with a chuckle. "I have to do it."
Every morning, Updike wakes in his seaside home, not far from K.C.'s, and makes his way to what was once servants' quarters over the kitchen, now a converted office. After glancing at the day's news in the Boston Globe and thumbing through his mail, he sits behind one of four desks -- in four different rooms -- and does what he has been doing for the last 40 years: He writes.
His 48th and latest book, "Toward the End of Time," is the story of Ben Turnbull, a retired investment banker living on the ocean north of Boston. Set in the year 2020, the novel depicts Turnbull leading a humdrum and lonely life following a war between China and the U.S. Told through journal entries, the book explores Turnbull's psyche as he begins to face his mortality.
It is as much a representation of the author himself, concedes Updike, as it is fiction.
"I'd say Ben is about 60 percent me," he says. "In simple terms, the book is about a guy who's run out of stimuli. The present tranquil life I lead certainly has its charms, but it's not immensely stimulating for a writer. That doesn't mean I think my best fiction is behind me; it's just that now I need to draw on issues a little closer to home."
Since his first short story was published in The New Yorker in 1955, Updike has won two Pulitzer Prizes and established himself as one of the most prolific and influential writers of his generation, part of a tiny pantheon that includes Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud.
"All silver-haired and stooped," he says of his peers. "Myself included. But they're a pretty good bunch. They kept me on my toes. We're all children of the Fifties, at least intellectually. That was the last print-centered decade, when writing really mattered. It's still a kind of religion for us, in a way that I'm not sure too many young writers can grasp."
Updike isn't so much attacking contemporary writers as he is readers.
"There just isn't the consumption of the sort of well-intentioned domestic realism we produced," he says. "Why read about the private lives of fictional characters when you can turn to tabloid journalism for the real thing? It just seems to me that the whole book industry is geared toward writers who are writing down to the audience. What you get today is a kind of literary celebrity, and books that are more written about than read."
Updike himself personifies the very essence of literary celebrity, but he remains hopeful that at least his work is read. So far, many reviews of "Toward the End of Time" have been less then favorable. Still, it's not his first -- or, most likely, his last -- bad review and he takes it in stride.
"You merely read and seethe, possibly -- but you seethe in silence and get on with it," he says. "The next day dawns and there's a lot of work to do."
Updike, 65, who says he's read almost every book his peers have turned out, says Bellow is the country's greatest living writer. Bellow, says Updike, makes him feel joyful -- happy to be alive.
"You couldn't help but be my age and not be aware that the best writing was basically being done by Jewish Americans," he says. "It was their moment to give the news. They had a certain sense of the urban reality. I guess I was the token WASP."
Now, living in Beverly Farms, Updike is deeply entrenched in blue-blood territory. He and his second wife, Martha, have lived for 18 years in the same turn-of-the-century house pressed up against the jagged New England coast. The couple spend most nights at home and socialize with only a few friends and Updike's four children from his first marriage, all of whom have started families in the area. They avoid the social circuit.
"Living here, among the Brahmins, is a little mystifying to me," he says. "They have this degree of self-satisfaction in who their ancestors happened to be. These people are taking pleasure in money that their grandparents piled up. Even though I'm a WASP, I feel like an outsider."
Born in the middle-class suburb of Shillington, Pa., Updike grew up in a small house with his parents and grandparents. His mother, Linda, who received a master's degree from Cornell and was an unpublished author, tried to bring culture into her son's rather ordinary childhood. She paid for painting and piano lessons and ultimately urged him to go to Harvard.
As a young man, he developed both a mild stutter and a bad case of psoriasis. He was driven to writing because it was one of the few professions that didn't require him to work directly with others.
"I felt like a leper," he says. "I kept waiting to grow out of it, but I never did. It has made me a very shy person."
He remembers his excitement over the fact at 21, he would be married. He was eager to discover what he'd been missing.
"I've always felt a little behind the others as far as sex was concerned," he says. "But I married early -- it was the only way I could come to sex, really. Until then, my sexual experiences had been entirely dreaming, fumbling and feeling, but no real penetration.
"I don't think you miss an awful lot, by the way," he adds. "Like Freud said, it's good to have a little repression. Your energy -- your sexual interest -- lasts longer if you don't get off to a running start. I certainly didn't have a running start."
Updike has more than made up for it in his fiction: His novels are steeped in sex. In Esquire's review of "Rabbit Run," the first book in the four-part Rabbit series, Mailer praised Updike for his attempt to show sex at work in the lives of average Americans. In many reviews, however, Updike has been criticized for sexual explicitness. And some of his portrayals of women have been labeled sexist.
"I think a woman has to take her lumps at the hands of a fiction writer just like the male characters do," he says. "I've always thought of myself as very sympathetic to women. Female editors have played a major part in my professional career. Who knows what goes on down in your ugly subconscious? But, on a conscious level, I'm not much minded to apologize for any of it."
And while he says he has no practical experience with prostitutes, Updike has made very attractive characters out of hookers. Harry Angstrom left his wife for one in "Rabbit Run"; now, in "Toward the End of Time," Ben Turnbull has a call girl move in when he's left alone.
"The prostitute figures in male fiction as a benign, if not saintly, figure," Updike says. "There's something very appealing about the idea of a female prostitute, because she's taken sex out of the realm of endless negotiation and put it into terms that are very finite and concrete. That's a great relief to the male mind.
"The older you get, the more magical youth becomes," he continues. "Those hard bodies of the young, and so on. It gives Ben a chance to look at his own death's-head. She is memento mori."
Considering the theme of the book, it's obvious that death is a topic that's been on Updike's mind. But the author insists he's not on his way out -- longevity seems to run in his family.
"I used to worry about dying," he says. "This feeling of being carried along, helplessly toward your own death was stronger when I was in my 30s than it is now, though I'm 30 years closer to my own death. It's a paradox in a way, but the older you get, the less existential these questions become.
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I decided to mask off the film chamber in my Sprocket Rocket to see what a Mini Sprocket Rocket with 4x4 mask would look like. I'm not sure how crazy I am about the square look with the sprockets, probably better to try this experiment again but tape it off for a more standard 4x6 shape...It think the proportions will work better with sprockets............However, LSI, PLEASE build us a Mini Sprocket Rocket that shoots 4x6 images across the sprocket holes. The camera should be slightly smaller than the current model but it MUST have strap lugs so we can put neck or wrist straps on it. I would buy several of these cameras and I guarantee the entire Lomo community would also like to own this camera, so sales will be brisk! ;)
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I think the result came out great; also sounds like a sweet idea.
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Arizona stands out in illegal hires – about 10 to 12 percent of the workforce. This border state with only 6.2 million people has more illegal immigrants than Illinois or New York. Two-thirds of Arizona's foreign-born population are not in the US legally, and the vast majority of them live at or near the poverty level.
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To my understanding the Commercial Congo is a multicoated version of the venerable Kodak Commercial Ektars. Good stuff :)
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To my understanding the Commercial Congo is a multicoated version of the venerable Kodak Commercial Ektars. Good stuff :)
I've a 135mm f4.5 Yamasaki Congo lens in a Seiko shutter. It's a good 'press type' lens and I use it handheld on a 4x5 crown. It's sharp and has great contrast. I've a shot of a lake focused at infinity and the very edges of the negative are a little soft however. I received the lens for free and am happy with it. If I were paying for a new lens I might go for something else (and probably not a 135mm..)
The commercial-ektar type ones do look very nice though. And the soft focus lens is interesting..
The sales approach from Congo is rather laid back and relaxed, no push, no real marketing. The website is hardly ever updated. The News page is still 1997 !!!! OK other pages are 2004 or 2005.
Congo are a sleeper. They could play a very valuable role in LF photography, making the lens types no longer made by other larger companies.
Suggestions would be:
Wide Angle Protars, the Ross & Zeiss Patents lapsed years ago, it would be wonderful to be able to buy a small multi-coated modern version.
Hypergon's, the Goerz wide angle with the propeller, again a MC version.
Dagor's, it's unlikely Schneider will make them again
I have a commercial congo 210mm F6.3 and I am very happy with it's performance. It's also my smallest 210mm lens, even smaller than my 150mm caltar IIN. I carry these two lenses when ever I go hiking with my 4X5 camera.
Hypergons: Nice, but virtually impossible and would be very expensive, even from Congo. The deep curvature in thin material makes it one of the most expensive lenses it's possible to produce.
Dagors: Why? Besides, Schneider still makes one: The 550XXL.
WA Protars: Not as easy as it seems, and they would still be f:18. But maybe there is a market for them? In most cases I'd rather have - no, forget that: Congo already is making a small, lightweight double-Gauss moderate WA. Maybe I could wish for a new edition of the last version of the Angulon, preferrably complete with a suitable center filter. ;)
I'd rather have a newer version of the f16 Ross Protar, the patented Zeiss f18 version was based on the earlier Ross patent, their licensing agreements must have been very complex.
Ian, the Ross lens was made under licence from Zeiss. Ross made them f:16, but Zeiss were not willing to accept the quality loss caused by increasing the maximum aperture from f:18 to f:16. Besides, the 4,5 - 6,3 - 9 - 12 - 18 - 25 aperture scale was "standard" in Germany at the time (one of many "standards", but at least that's what Zeiss used).
After reading this thread, I started looking online for Osaka lenses, specifically the 120mm. The coverage looks pretty good, especially for 4X5. The price is half what the Nikkor-SW 120mm is. Can you please post some photos taken with this lens?
What kind of movements are you capable of using this lens with a 4X5? I have a Toyo 45C, which I use for landscapes.
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Now I am a ware that congo is a reputable manufacturer I will seriously consider a purchase.The 400/f8 tele is looking good at around $700 from the congo web site price list. Thanks to all respondants. The only problem is finding a retailer in Australia, or do I trust purchasing directly from Japan?
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You all need to get over it! I cannot beleive that this is still being discussed after 3 days of viewing. it is over and done with, and reality TV is always gonna have some drama in it, so they didnt edit it. The bigger point is how Jyll handeled herself while having to take a cooking lesson from WP in front of everyone. That was embarassing but she took it so well – Giada and Susie are so ignorant and critize over the wrong things.
My question is, is Suzie ever going to have to cook anything that's not Mexican? I live with the best Mexican food in the U.S. (just ask Aron), but it's not difficult to cook. Shouldn't a star have a bigger repertoire? She's great personality-wise, but if she had gotten that dessert, I see her running for corn chips and making makeshift churros.
As for the Bible-bangers on here. You people need to read your Bible. Taking the Lord's name in vain means swearing by it with no intention of living up to the oath, not just an interjection. Boycotting Food Network over that? Hahaha. Never move to NYC, Boston, LA, or any other real city. Half the priests in Boston say "Jesus Christ" as they sit in a pub.
To all the people who were offended… in the United States, you do not have the right to not be offended. You can be angry, disappointed, mad, sad, whatever you want, but you are just going to have to deal with it. Not all of us share your religion. And ask yourself, would you have gotten equally as angry if he had said "Oh, Allah…" or "Yahweh". I'm guessing no.
Then you are wrong, because I believe all religions should be treated with respect.
Bobby should apologize.
Taking the name of God is wrong and you should have bleeped it out…. Apology is needed to The Lord…
Pat -
I am a Bobby Flay fan and I am disappointed to hear this. I agree he should apologize.
I, too was so disappointed in Bobby Flay's use of the name of Jesus Christ as an expletive. I agree with other comments that, since this is a taped show, it could and should have been edited out. What Mr. Flay chooses to say in private is his concern – what he chooses to say on national television is another. Tolerance for all religions must be shown equally. I watched the repeat of this show on Wednesday night and noted that this part had been edited out – so sad that it was not done prior to the first showing.
As for the show itself I think that the producers are now going for the "entertainment" value more than for cooking skills. Some of the behavior of this year's contestants is so over the top that it could rival "The Real Housewives" shows for drama, inappropriate behavior, etc. Food Network, you are (or should be) much better than this year's farce of The Next Food Network Star!
I respect your opinion to be offended. Now please respect my opinion to think you all idiots.
Bobby Flay, just cook and leave blasphemy out of it.
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jsamson Posts: 23good question,
i didnt request the breakdown of the 7k difference before i left.
of the 7k difference
- $4700 difference between my trade and the bmw MSRP
-i believe a 6.5 to 7 percent sales tax , lets say 2,000
- im assuming a dealer fee of 3 to 500???
to me it sounded fair at the time,
my only concern is the longer i wait then my Lexus will just continue to depreciate, or is this the right mentality???? -
dl7265 Posts: 1,381More than likely your SA would rather give a good trade that does not eat into his commission than discount on the new model. Having said ,that i agree i would want to know what all those out the door includes.
What its worth to you or not of course we can't answer. Like you said 2 entirely different vehicles. In CA you should have a lot of dealer options.
dl7265 Posts: 1,381Ops we were posting same time and i missed your numbers. Id say looks pretty good. My only extra fees were $50.00 document fee, and TX license and inspection was $130.55.No MAKO or any of that stuff.
I don't think you car will depreciate rapidly. Its a fuel efficient model. Now my gas hog , with high miles was another story..
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This will be my very first new car. I got an offer from a dealer.
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Sparkling Graphite Metallic with Black Leather interior, equipped with:
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Priced at $40,750.00
MSRP and Invoice from edmunds.com are $41,445 and $38,005
Will this be a ok price or there be space to go down further?
Thanks a lot for help.
jsamson Posts: 23I hope the lexus doesnt depreciate too much,
at the end of the visit to the dealership, the salesman gave me the speech about the appraisal value would change when the odometer goes past 10,000 miles (im at 9820) and when the month changes over to June.
but at the same time he did tell me if 2k was the only thing holding me back from buying the car then that shouldnt be a factor since he got the impression i was unhappy with the Lexus.
your question about the Automatic only car being a special order?
i was actually surprised they had about 3 to 5 base 325is with auto only in stock,
when he told me the difference to buy the bmw was 7k i told him, i wanted the base auto in electric red, he said they had 2 in stock! i told him lets look, at this point all i had to do was see that car in red and i was ready to buy, but it turns out they didnt have any in electric red,
so i left , called the salesman about an hour later and asked when he can get me a red one, he said 1 to 2 wks, it turned out the 2 electric red base cars were incoming.
he also told me not to worry about the lexus passing the 10,000 mile mark as he'll honor our deal.
i told him id call him tomorrow to confirm, im thinking i might call him, and offer him 6k for the difference, i guess ill sleep on it for now. -
psyran Posts: 30Can't decide whether to lease or purchase my 2006 330i arriving in about two weeks. Getting a whopping $500 of MSRP so price (ZSP and ZPP) is at $40,770.
Really want payment to be around $575 or so. Can finance at 72 months with around 8k down (Capital One Auto) to get the payment there, or lease with little down and have a higher payment. Credit score may be an issue (640ish) What are the present lease factors on the e90, and is it too high to consider the lease?
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jaj Posts: 55FYI, your sales tax should be based on the difference between new car and trade, not on the value or price of the new car. That amounts to somewhere in the $300 range, nowhere near $2000. I'd also try to "decline" paying any "dealer fee" (translation: additional dealer profit). Good luck.
kyfdx Posts: 31,9071) Find out the breakdown of the extra $2300..If it is sales tax, and that is the car you want, I feel their trade-in offer on your Lexus is fairly strong..
2) You will be giving up quite a few amenities, going from an ES300 to a "stripped" 325i... Make sure you are okay with that... The BMW will be a great driving car, but you'll have a $30K+ car without power seats, six disc CD, leather, etc, etc... That bothers some people...
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kyfdx Posts: 31,9071) Money factor is .00255 and the residual for 3yr/36K is 60%..
2) With 1st pymt, sec.deposit and acq.fee upfront, payment is $612/mo.+tax
3) Financing $40,770 for 60 mo. at 4.9% is $768/mo.... To get that down to $575/mo. for 60 months, you would need a little over $10K down...
4) Your credit score may be an issue for a BMWFS lease.. Even if you qualify, your dealer may mark-up the money factor and acquisition fee.. The base money factor is equivalent to a little over 6%, which isn't terrible.. If you can get the base money factor, I would lease, rather than finance for six years..
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dl7265 Posts: 1,381I took some friends for a ride in my New 325i. We stopped at my dealer as they wanted to window shop when they were closed. They had about 3 330i's and 4 325i. I was shocked to see a Electric Red behind the fence that had just arrived. Honesty i can't say i ever loved a E46 model in red. The E90 did look better tho. I think since its more monocromatic and no black belt line trim They had 1 325i in Silver/Black ette with only Met, Step and sat radio prep as options.
rydog1818 Posts: 3hello there, could i please get some feedback on this lease deal?
2005 Bmw 330ci equipped with-
sport package
prem package
cold weather package
xenon headlights
3 year/36k
selling price-42120
money factor-0.00095
residual factor-57%
cap cost reduction-$3000
monthly payment of-$518
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amt7565 Posts: 165I did drive the new 325i too and yes the power is a big step up!
And Yes, I am honoring the break in period, except a few times when I was trying to test the manual mode of the steptronic transmission. But I promise to behave now, until I reach the 1250 milestone.
Good luck with the new car!
kyfdx Posts: 31,907Is it a $3000 cap cost reduction? Or is it $3000 due at signing?
Because if the entire $3000 is cap cost reduction, there is something seriously wrong with the numbers...
Also... the residual should be 59% for a 3yr/36K lease, not 57%..
And.. Does your payment include sales tax? If so, what is the rate?MODERATOR
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kyfdx Posts: 31,907I added a $625 acquisition fee into the cap cost, and subtracted the $1900 cap cost reduction to come up with a net cap cost of $40,845.. That gave me a payment of about $453/mo.+ tax.. That is with the proper residual of 59%.. If I use the residual of 57% (36mo/45K residual?), then I get $477/mo.+ tax, which puts me right around your payment.. So, do you think maybe the payment includes tax? If not, something is wrong..
Do you have negative equity from a trade-in that is being rolled into the lease?
Also, instead of making a cap cost reduction, you should take about $550 of that money, and make a security deposit... that will reduce your money factor to .0008... and, you get the security deposit back at the end of the lease..
If you already are making a security deposit, or if your upfront money includes the acquisition fee, then the numbers are even farther off, and not in your favor..
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kyfdx Posts: 31,907First... I wonder if the $42,120 is actually the selling price, or just the net cap cost after the cap cost reduction?
Assuming that it is the selling price, it should look this way..
$42,120 selling price
$42,745 Cap cost (selling price + acq.fee)
3yr/36K lease
Money factor .0008
Residual 59%
payment = $497/mo.+ tax
Due at signing: 1st payment, security deposit, title, license fees.. ($1500 max)
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jsamson Posts: 23Talked to the sales advisor again today and got the breakdown:
1) My 04 ES330 trade-in $26,000
06 base 325i electric red w/ auto approximately 32,270
Price difference = 6270
Taxes = $417 approximately
Dealer Fee = 189
Other miscellaneous State of Florida fees = 100 approximately
Total = 7k approximately
When he said my Lexus ES was worth 27,590 or so he was implying that he was giving me a tax credit and that i would only pay taxes on the difference of the trade he stated that the tax credit is something i would not get if i sold it private party
I talked to him again later in the day to confirm that i did not want the BMW anymore, i left a voicemail, he called about 2 minutes later saying he was able to give me 500 more for my trade bringing the total out the door to $6500 . I told him id call him tomorrow to confirm my decision
2) I actually went to the dealership again tonight with my cousin, my sales advisor had already left. I went just to clarify some of the standard features.
I cant believe they dont include power seats???!!! Moonroof is standard but power seats aren't, thats bizarre. And since saturday they sold all their 325is with only 3 or 4 330is left.
here's my conclusion, im keeping the Lexus.....
but......i am keeping an eye on the 06 IS250, by then my trade will be worth 19k...ha -
angelvee Posts: 1I have a question and am hoping someone can help. I went today looking for a new car but instead I have found a 1997 328i convertible. IT is red with black top and has 105,000 miles on it. The selling price is 12,500 and I really want this car but all my family is telling me not to do it. Is this a good price and are the hard to maintain.
thanks -
psyran Posts: 30Thanks kydfx,
Talked to my SC today. Stated he thought I would be better off buying. Stated even at base lease rate the payment would be around $680/month with $3,000 down (this includes first month, taxes, acquisition, processing, security). So, don't know why his quote is so high but will check with him how he arrived at this. May end up buying. Then I will at least know precisely where these figures come from.
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mpr247 Posts: 1After hard negotiation with my dealer, I got the following lease quote.
2006 325i fully loaded, valued at 40k(Sports, premium/Navigation/satelite radio,etc) . No down, no dealer fees, only inceptions of approx. $800. for $575 + tax a month.
Lease 36 months/ 12k miles.
What do you guys think? -
hsenayg Posts: 1Hi
I recently baught a 2005 325i. It had the following options
Sports pkg, Premium pkg, Xenon lights, Metalic Paint, Automatic, leather, fold down rear seats and heated seats.
Miles on Car when bought: 11
Price with all options:
Invoice: Varied: $35,658(carsdirect), $35,390(edmunds), 35,370(kbb)
Carsdirect: $34,408
Edmunds TMV: $35,214
MY PRICE: $33,120 + Taxes(8.25% in CA) + License(~200) + $45 (doc fee)
Is this a decent price to pay for a 2005 325i ? -
jp007 Posts: 7I've been reading this forum and people have been getting it form 6k to 7.5k below MSRP. Is that realistic?
Anyhow, I went to a dealership, and this is the offer that he's giving me.
2005 BMW 325xi
Premium package
Cold Package
Alarm system (BMW nstalled)
Out of the door: $36,000.
Is that a good deal? It's about 3k below MSRP. I don't know how you can get 6k below MSRP with no trade-in.


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I'll be 40 on May 10 and first visited WDW in 1996 almost 15 years to the day after my (at the time most recent) previous visit to Disneyland in 1981 (we moved from California in 1981) So I was 29 when I first visited WDW, I probably first visited Disneyland as a baby though.
I am 21 and have been going 1 once a year since i was 5... I absolutly love my parents for instilling in me the importance of disney at such a youg age, the only problem is that if i go on another vacation i always end up saying yeah this was nice but it was no disney...nothing even compares!!
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Jul 11, 2014 3:22 PM, By Kevin Gross
Working with IT on AV networking projects
VoIP is the most demanding network application
Through the use of voice over IP (VoIP), today most phone systems are connected to a computer network instead of using dedicated wiring and equipment. The network used for the telephone system is often the same one used for computers and other IT. Telephone calls over the network require higher performance than is demanded by other IT applications such as email delivery and web browsing. This performance requirement has been simplified in some corners of the IT industry to an understanding that VoIP requires the highest level of network performance available. This simplification leaves no room for applications that require higher performance than VoIP.
The good news is that while network performance has improved over the two decades since VoIP was first introduced, the performance requirements for VoIP have not changed significantly. The improved performance provided by networks is now available to applications requiring higher performance than VoIP. The highest tier of network performance should no longer be reserved for VoIP. Higher performance needs to be allocated to higher performance applications including media networking.
AV has no special requirements
A typical network configuration starts with all services and devices given equal access to network resources. Network engineers may not fully appreciate that media networking is a network application and deserves, if not requires, special configuration considerations.
IT pros have received little or no training and are generally unfamiliar with professional media networking. The network applications IT professionals are familiar with originate from PCs and servers, and include email delivery, web browsing, file transfers, and remote system and database access. Most of these applications are not particularly time sensitive. They also consume bandwidth on a sporadic basis—when an email comes in, when a web page is requested, when a file transfer is initiated. Most of these applications use TCP and are resilient to variable network performance.
Acceptable audio latency for some media networking applications is less than 1 millisecond—100 times lower than are required for VoIP. Packet loss is sometimes tolerable in VoIP and does not severely impact other IT services. Packets delayed in transit through the network may arrive too late to be useable at the media network receiver. Any dropped data will result in audible artifacts and in some media networking applications; no packet loss is acceptable.
In short, the assumptions that network designers are accustomed to making about network applications do not serve media networking. Network designers need to be made aware of these special requirements early in the design process.
This AV traffic is going to trash my network
Professional networked audio can continuously use 1Mb to 2Mb per channel, up to 100 times the bandwidth used by VoIP calls which typically aren't run continuously. A multichannel audio device such as a mixing console can saturate a Gigabit Ethernet link. The bandwidth consumed by media networking may dwarf that used by all other applications on some networks. Some networks are only capable of supporting the more modest and elastic requirements of computer network applications.
IPTV and some other media networking systems use multicast messaging. Because multicast is often used only lightly, many networks lack intelligence for handling multicast traffic and will disruptively distribute multicast to all devices on the network or within the immediate vicinity of the multicast source.
Some media networking systems use Layer 2 Ethernet traffic. Much of the IT infrastructure and tools are geared towards Layer 3 IP traffic. The Ethernet traffic produced by these systems may be less visible, more difficult to control and manage, and dealing with it may be considered anywhere from an inconvenience to an unacceptable security risk.
So maybe AV traffic trashing a network isn't a misconception in some cases. Media networking definitely pushes networks to a degree that may be surprising to IT pros not accustom to supporting high-performance networking. Fortunately, there are well-established IT techniques, standards, and technologies for addressing these issues. The distance between media network requirements and affordable network capabilities has been closing quickly. The gap between capabilities and requirements is less of an issue for newer network installations or moderate-sized media networks.
All necessary information is available in the documentation
Documentation for IT systems is typically extensive. The manual for a typical enterprise-grade network switch can run more than 1,000 pages. Technical features are defined in similarly extensive standards published by the IEEE, IETF, and others. There is a rich array of information and training for IT pros to draw upon when working with network systems.
Media network technology has only recently begun to conform to published standards. Protocol details may not be published in AV product documentation. These systems are supported by AV companies who may not speak the same language as the IT pros.
Despite their girth, product documentation for networking equipment may not contain the information needed to determine whether and how to make these systems support one another. Few switches, for instance, give a usable latency specification. Most network equipment supports QoS capabilities, but the exact nature of these capabilities and their compatibility with media networking systems can be impossible to ascertain without testing. In short, due to a lack of information, incompatibility, or difficulty interpreting specifications, it may be very difficult to determine whether media networking system B is compatible with network A.
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I'm about to "take the plunge" .... with eyes wide shut, and purchase a few blooming-size plants.
I would love to keep these plant alive and well, but too many web-sites have conflicting info. regarding, light, temps. moisture requirements, etc. for this orchid. Very confusing! I was told that this Laelia is not that "easy"... Yes, no, maybe so? I will grow these potted plants in a coolish, south facing window, throughout the winter months, then in a very bright, only direct morning sun area in the warm months. I have successfully grown Bl. 'Yellow Bird' under these same conditions, and the plant grew like a weed, and flowered continuously. Do these growing conditions sound OK for this Laelia harp. also? Any suggestion would be very helpful. Thanks for the input. Frank |
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Your baseline is Bl. Yellow Bird which is three quarters B. nodosa and one quarter L. milleri. For some reason Bl. Yellow Bird is much easier to grow and bloom than B. nodosa in my conditions and both are now in bloom. Bl. Yellow Bird spent last winter in an unheated glasshouse and is growing in a pot with treated pine bark mix while B. nodosa is growing on a hardwood slab stuck in a large shallow pot without any mixture (it has outgrown its mount) and spent the winter in a glasshouse with some heating. So??? go to somewhere such as Jay's species site, read up on the three species and maybe the information there will give some clues as to where to position your new plant. |
arthurm: Been there, done that. Still interested in hearing from members who have tried growing this plant under ordinary conditions in the home. I could never duplicate greenhouse conditions. Still open to suggestions. Frank |
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Looking for a light and super fast supper? This easy pasta dish with grilled chicken and asparagus fits the bill. It's so delicious, even the kids will beg for seconds.
Oxmoor House JANUARY 2003
Preheat oven to 450°.
Snap off tough ends of asparagus, and cut asparagus into 2-inch pieces. Arrange asparagus, mushrooms, and green onions in a single layer on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 450° for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown, stirring once.
Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. Drain, reserving 3 tablespoons pasta water.
Add roasted vegetables, reserved pasta water, and chicken to pasta; toss gently.
Combine olive oil, 2 tablespoons hot water, balsamic vinegar, and pepper; stir well with a whisk. Add to pasta mixture, and toss well. Sprinkle with cheese. Serve immediately.
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