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BUFFALO, NEW YORK -- I am wondering how Lexus rates so high for quality and service. I have purchased a 2013 Lexus ES 300h fully loaded and have been very disappointed. I respect JD Powers results and this is why I picked the Lexus ES as it is highly recommend. The Mark Levinson system is the worst I have ever heard as a premium system. The response from Lexus has been terrible or lack of.
I have driven luxury vehicles for the past 25 years and Lexus has been the worst customer service Ihave ever encountered, and cannot understand how Lexus is so highly rated. I am not the only person that feels this way. After my situation I started to go online and found many other people with the same concern. I think when a company rates other corporations it should look at websites, forums and related blogs to get sense of customer satisfaction.
I have contacted Lexus every other day for three weeks before I received a reply from someone. I think when you look at the price of the Lexus ES, Lexus really cheap out, claiming heated wood sterling wheel, none of the wood is heated; ventilated front seats that do not work very well; no sunglass holder; no compass on the mirror if you upgrade to a GPS; very poor voice commands on the GPS system. The vehicle feels very cheap - when you close the door you can hear it is hollow. My vehicle is 6 weeks old and I have had the amp and sub-woofer replaced as it blew, and a door speaker and the system still sounds terrible.
My fear is if Lexus cannot remedy a stereo issue, what will happen when it is a really big issue. This has been the worst experience ever with a vehicle manufacturer.
WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA -- On May 22nd, 2009, I took my 2006 Lexus GS300 to Vista Lexus in Woodland Hills CA for service due to a recall notice I received regarding my vehicle. I was also experiencing some grinding noises whenever the car started. When I got to the service representative by the name of **, she advised me that there were two additional recalls on my car, which I never was informed about. I advised her of the issues I was experiencing with my car.
She advised me that I can pick up my car that night or the next day. When I went to pick up my car on the 23rd, I noticed that my silver wheels looked like they were spray painted black. The black looking substance only covered the front two wheels and only around the center of the wheel. I immediately informed the dealer the issue. They told there was nothing they can do about it because of the holiday, and that I should come back on the 26th when the service department was open.
So I went to the service department to resolve this matter. I spoke to a **, who was extremely rude and condescending. He brushed off my concerns and said "it didn't happen here, you must have driven it through acid or tar or something like that." I informed ** of the condition which I brought the car in for service and that his paperwork and record does not show that I had any marks or damage on my wheels. ** sarcastically told me "just because it wasn't marked on the inspection doesn't mean it wasn't there". The black substance is so obvious that I noticed it right away and so would anyone else looking the car with decent eyesight.
I called Lexus customer advocacy department and they were useless. I was told "it's between you and the dealership" and "we don't decide what happens." Not to mention they didn't follow up or return my calls promptly. My experience did not matter to Lexus and once again I was brushed off to deal with this on my own. Needless to say, I was humiliated at Vista Lexus in Woodland Hills CA and I would never return to this dealership or do business with Lexus. I will tell everyone about my experience with Lexus and urge them not to do business with Lexus.
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN -- Bought 2009 RX brand new from the dealer and had serviced at dealer since mile 1. The car ran like a clock from 1 to 100,000 miles needing only brake pads. After 100,000 has been a nightmare. At 111,000 the rear brake calipers seized up and trashed the rotors in the process. $1500. Took the car in for 115,000 mile service and got the bad news about the rack and pinion unit like everyone else. $1800 but was told this issue would not leave me stranded on the side of the road, worst case no power steering.
The car steers fine so did not get fixed and will squeeze some more miles out of it until power steering fails. 120,000 mile service (which itself is $1000) and I am told the differential is leaking and will cost $2200 to fix. Worst part is it's a $20 gasket; the rest is labor cause they have to remove the transmission to get at it. Oh yeah and $400 for some belts and pulleys. So not including 120,000 mile service, I am at $5900 in misc repairs in the last 9000 miles or $0.66 per mile.
Moral of the story: don't keep your Lexus after 100,000 miles. They are standing on the shoulders of Toyota's high mileage reputation from the 90s and early 2000s. This is our 3rd of 4 Lexus. Just bought 2013 ES and that will probably be the last one. $0.66 per mile is rental car prices. The RX is still at the service center and I'm debating selling it for scrap.
Nothing but problems due to manufacturing defects and unwillingness of the service center (Woodfield Lexus, Schaumburg Illinois and customer complaint center nationally) to address the defects without a hostile interaction and denial of responsibility. All 4 of the car door windows had to be replaced due to defective safety glass which allowed air to seep into the glass producing bubbles in the glass of the windows, within 5 years of new car purchase. After a prolonged dispute, in which the local Lexus service center denied responsibility for this obvious manufacturing defect, the windows were all replaced.
The intermittent windshield wipers have never functioned properly from the date of purchase of this new car. Despite Lexus replacement of the sensor that is supposed to initiate proper intermittent wiper function, the intermittent wipers do not work when driving slowly or when there is a light drizzle, which is their sole purpose! I must continually turn the wipers to the low constant function and off again to properly clear the windshield. This is a serious safety manufacturing defect. The Woodfield Lexus dealership claim that there is nothing that can be done and this is the way the intermittent wipers are supposed to function or malfunction!
My LS 430 has only 70,000 miles on it and now the front passenger side door lock malfunctioned and can only be locked and unlocked manually. The Woodfield Lexus service center say it is a malfunctioning door lock solenoid which will cost almost $900 to replace. This is an additional safety manufacturing defect as one cannot lock the door when traveling through an unsafe neighborhood without coming to a full stop and leaning over to manually lock the passenger side door!
700 SUNRISE HIGHWAY ROCKVILLE CNETRE, NEW YORK -- I bought my GS350 to Lexus of Rockville center to have check up for a rattling noise under my car which my car still cover under factory warranty. The technician spend 2 days and can't find the noise. So I went to test drove the car with him. Finally he agree that there's noise but he notice my drive door and fender has no vin sticker and he claim that it has been repainted so he told me the rattling noise can cause be the accident which Lexus won't cover under warranty. I need to pay out of my own pocket.
I ask him how much will cost me to find out what the issue? He told me can cost me from $200-$2000 cause he don't know what the issue is. But before he proceed, I need to agree that I will pay for the labor first. I was wondering what I need factory warranty for if is not cover? Fender and door was repaint didn't mean the car was in accident. Plus I believe he should look into the issue instead of blaming everything and find excuse not to do the job. I think his name is **.
I think Lexus should hire more experience technician other than the technician only do guessing. Thanks to him now my Carfax shows accident due his experience result. I waste my time for nothing. People please beware when you service your car in Lexus of Rockville. I have own Mercedes, BMW, Infiniti and Lexus and this is my worst experience.
WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA -- Took it to the dealer and complained with corporate on the car braking performance and finally got in touch with the dealer and got the car first repair. Drive it out after being repair the next day and the sound is there but wasn't loud and getting to the point that it is annoying. So two month later here I'm again dealing with the same problem. So they kept the car for another 3 days to research and attempted to fix it. After got the car back, the first day the sound is still there.
Okay, brought it to the dealer again less than 30 days (I'm very busy with work) and they replaced 2 front rotors and pads. After taking out from the dealer, damn guess what I heard again guys - same squealing sound. Squeal noise are killing my ears. Okay now, I'm piss so I took it up to the corporate again and now I will have to leave my car with the dealer for several days because Lexus finally send out a representative to look at the car under the Lemon law. So final attempt is what I give them. Find out more in 2 week from now guys. I hope Lexus will solve this problem for me.
Volume 1 & 6 of the 2010 Lexus RX 350 service manual is missing its alphabetical index. On a 2" thick manual, not having an index can be a problem. It would be more of an issue except for the index being in the other volumes. A problem only arises if only volume 1 or 6 is purchased by itself. I talked to the folks at Toyota Service Publications. They will not be printing a corrected copy of the manual or apparently do anything else to correct the situation. So much for doing the right thing on manuals that run in the one fifties each.
DELAWARE -- 15k on the brand new RX400h and the windshield cracked for no apparent reason. The dealer upon initial inspection said that there is no point of impact & that the windshield just cracked. Lexus customer service denied our claim. The car should still be under the bumper to bumper warranty. We even have an independent auto glass company look at it and the finding is the same but Lexus denied; says they don't cover that certain issue.
And by the way, good luck on holding for customer service. I have to wait more than 1 hr every time. Bottom line is if you have a big problem, even if it is clearly a manufacturing defect, they won't fix it. Nobody from the main Lexus representative came to check on my car. They just denied it. What a nice customer service crap is that.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY -- I own three Lexus vehicles. I recently bought a 2007 Lexus ES350 certified vehicle. We took it back to get some recalls addressed in which Lexus service took care of these issues. While there, my wife advised them the car seems to hop when apply the brakes. The service advisor called me to let me know that the brakes rotors were out of round and needed turning. The brake pads were in good shape.
I told them this was a certified vehicle and should be covered under the certified program. He stated the brakes were not. I told him I understand the brake pads were not covered but the rotors should be. He still refused to resolve this problem for us. The last Lexus we bought was covered no matter what the problem we had. Lexus has let me down. I always thought highly of the Lexus brand that's why we continued to buy them. Now I'm not so sure. I will remember this when buying my next car. CERTIFIED IS NOT WHAT THEY CLAIM!
When buying this vehicle as well as the other Lexus I have, I was told it was completely covered bumper to bumper. I guess Not. Also when we returned to the dealership to pick up our car, we had to run down someone to help us. No one came to us to ask if they could help us. A lot of young employees were in the service advisor's bay. One of them finally addressed us. If it wasn't for this young employee I guess we would still be wondering around looking for our car.
The rear view mirror fell off the windshield on my brand new 2009 RX350, and the Lexus engineer decided it was my fault. They refuse to pay for it and refuse to even tell me how he concluded that I broke off the mirror. They wouldn't give me a report. They kept saying they are not in the business of deciding how it fell off. Only that it is not a "warrantable" repair.... There is absolutely no damage to the windshield from the outside, so I know nothing hit the windshield. It looks like somebody pulled the mirror off the windshield. Part of the windshield is still glued to the back of the mirror. I had to pay my insurance deductible and fix it myself.


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JERUSALEM (AP) — Concerns that Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could reach militant groups bordering Israel and Turkey was the motivating factor in restoring relations with Ankara after a three year rift, Israel's prime minister said.
Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page Saturday that Israel and Turkey, which border Syria, need to communicate with each other over the Syrian crisis.
"The fact that the crisis in Syria intensifies from moment to moment was the main consideration in my view," Netanyahu wrote.
Netanyahu phoned his Turkish counterpart Friday and apologized for a botched raid on a Gaza bound flotilla in 2010 that left eight Turks and one Turkish-American dead. Turkey demanded an apology as a condition for restoring ties. Netanyahu had until now refused to apologize, saying Israeli soldiers acted in self-defense after being attacked by activists.
Turkey and Israel were once strong allies but relations began decline after Erdogan, whose party has roots in Turkey's Islamist movement, became prime minister in 2003. Erdogan has embarked on a campaign to make Turkey a regional powerhouse in an attempt to become the leading voice in the Muslim world, distanced from Israel.
Animosity increased after the flotilla incident and ambassadors were later withdrawn.
Spillover from fighting in Syria's civil war reaches Israeli communities in the Golan Heights from time to time. Errant mortar shells and machine gun fire have caused damage, sparked fires and spread panic but lead to no injuries so far.
Israel has expressed concern that Syria's chemical arsenal could fall into the hands of militants like Lebanon's Hezbollah, an Assad ally, or an al-Qaida-linked group fighting with the rebels.
Netanyahu's national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, said the timing was right for reconciling with Turkey. "Between us and Turkey is a country that is falling apart and that has chemical weapons," he said.
Last week, Syrian rebels and Assad's government blamed each other for a chemical attack on a village. The U.S. said there was no evidence chemical weapons were used.
The use of such weapons would be a nightmare scenario in the two-year-old conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
President Barack Obama helped broker the Israeli apology to Turkey. Obama has declared the use, deployment or transfer of the weapons a "red line" for possible military intervention by the U.S. in the Syrian conflict.

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Dead Body Found In Acadia Parish
Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Maxine Trahan says the badly decomposed body of a man was found near Hawks Road and Providence Highway, according to our news partners at KATC.
Police are investigating this as a homicide. The parish coroner is telling KATC that the body has been likely there for less than a week. It was found by a boy riding a four-wheeler in a wooded area near Rayne. Hawks Road serves as an entrance for an oil-well.
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I'm not all opposed to the changes, but they are a big reason why I dropped $45 for a DVD set of the original, original trilogy. The changes are fine, but a bit of a slap in the face to the original actor that played Anakin. I'd be damn sure my agent/lawyer made sure I was still getting me my percentage, whether I was in the updated versions or not.
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Federal Reserve 2008 Transcripts: Full Coverage
The Federal Reserve on Friday released transcripts of 14 scheduled and emergency policy meetings it held in 2008, providing new details of discussions within the central bank as financial turmoil related to the housing bust escalated into a full-blown crisis threatening the financial system and the economy.
The Fed releases transcripts of its eight policy meetings with a five-year lag. In 2008, the Fed held eight regular policy meetings of 2008,and six unscheduled emergency meetings as officials grappled with financial turmoil, cut interest rates and launched new lending programs.
The transcripts only cover official meetings, and not the countless hours then- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spent with other officials, including then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, trying to quell the crisis.
Below you'll find the latest coverage by WSJ reporters, including summaries of the main events in each quarter of 2008 (along with links to Journal stories published during each period and relevant Fed documents).
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WSJ: Fed's 2008 Transcripts Show Struggle to Grasp Magnitude of Crisis
Quarterly summaries by WSJ reporters:
Fed 2008 Transcripts Q1: Winter Wake-Up Call
Fed 2008 Transcripts Q2: Spring Lull
Fed 2008 Transcripts Q3: The Panic Erupts
Fed 2008 Transcripts Q4: Whatever It Takes
More on Real Time Economics:
The 2008 FOMC Laugh Track: Gallows Humor at the Federal Reserve
Metaphorically Speaking: 5 Turns of Phrase from the Federal Reserve's 2008 Transcripts
Five Takeaways from the 2008 Fed Transcripts
Boston Fed's Rosengren Pressed for Early, Aggressive Crisis Response
Fed Transcripts Provide New Details on 2008 Fed Libor Suspicions
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Read the Full Federal Reserve Meeting Transcripts from 2008
Timeline of Fed Actions and Financial Crisis Events
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What do I know about Warren Bosworth? Before 2006, nothing.
Since I started my employment at Tennis Warehouse, I had heard a little bit about him and subsequently read some things. I'd read that he began customizing racquets for tennis pros in 1972. That he worked with racquet manufacturers to help design better racquets for better players. In the process, he realized that racquets rarely came close to the specs they usually had printed on the frame. By no means could he make a player more talented, but what he could do was make sure their talent had the best utilization of consistency with their racquets.
Before his pioneering of racquet customization, when players needed a new racquet or string job, most times the new offering's specs would be slightly different than the previous, and thus, have to adjust their game to fit the racquet. With Mr. Bosworth, there no longer was a need for the player to adjust their game to the next racquet because the racquet would play identically to the previous.
Each player has different strengths and weaknesses. Mr. Bosworth tinkered with the racquets until they best fit the needs of the player, maximizing their performance and improving consistency, not to mention boosting confidence.
I was fortunate enough to meet Warren Bosworth back in December of 2006. As an employee of Tennis Warehouse, I attended an ITA convention in Miami. Our President and Director of Marketing attended as well and also had a meeting to see Mr. Bosworth at Bosworth International in Boca Raton. He asked me if I'd like to join him. Knowing just a little bit about Bosworth International, as well as having that day free, I accepted his invitation without hesitation. Who am I to pass up an opportunity to not only meet a legend, but get to see the inner workings of a racquet customization shop for the best of the best in tennis? The man who worked with names such as Lendl, Connors, Edberg, Navratilova, Courier, Krickstein, etc.? No way I'd pass that up.
No, this is not the part of the story where I'm going to lie or embellish and tell you that Mr. Bosworth took me under his wing and he and I became good friends, because we didn't. Heck, I couldn't say for sure that he'd have even remembered who I was, had I seen him again. What I will tell you is that he was extremely nice and hospitable to someone (me), that was only along for the ride. The couple of hours I spent at his facility and the limited conversation I did get to have with him, I'll always remember. Not because of his reputation or his renown, but because of the link he had with the greatest players in the world and how they relied on him. I not only got to see the racquets in the shop, but was allowed to visit back rooms that warehoused frames upon frames of great players from the past. What a treat. It was compelling to see many of them in various stages of customization. The intricacies involved blew my mind. The most minor of adjustments that a player like me would never notice were significant difference makers to elite tennis players. I mean, come on, how many people get to see such things! I couldn't help but revisit my childhood years as I wandered by so many players' racquets.
Nostalgia can be a powerful thing. The players that counted on him for the precision of their racquets were players that I tried to emulate when I was young. Not in a serious manner, mind you, but in a flattering, "I want to play like you, because you're the best" kind of way. "You came to net and I hit at you, because that's what Lendl did to McEnroe." Or, "Did you see the 'Edberg volley' I just hit?". Or, "Was that an open stance inside out forehand for a winner?", "Yeah, that's my Jim Courier". Did these shots look a lot like the pros they were supposed to look like? In reality, not even close. But they were perfect imitations in my mind. And that's what it was all about. Being in the shoes of the best in the world, one shot at a time. Just like them.
Thank you Mr. Bosworth. Thank you for allowing me to take that wonderful trip, back to some great childhood memories.
Rest in Peace.
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It seems like we blinked and London Fashion Week was over, and now Milan Fashion Week is in full swing. Our London trend report includes florals, digitized prints, dresses over pants, the mullet dress, peplum, and the 60s —all trends we saw first in New York. Our report to come soon, but right now we're obsessing over a few looks from London Fashion Week that has us counting the days to Spring (yes, already). Click through to see our favorite looks from London's top designers, including Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane, Peter Pilotto, and Roksanda Ilincic.


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In the crapshoot that is the shootout, a head coach might as well use past success as a deciding factor in picking his shooters.
That's what Bruins bench boss Claude Julien did tonight in Sunrise, Fla., as Blake Wheeler scored the lone goal of the post-overtime spectacle to lift Boston to a 3-2 win over Florida.
Never mind that Wheeler, making his first shootout attempt of the season, lost the puck on his attempt and then stuffed it inside the right post, much to the dismay of Florida goaltender Scott Clemmensen.
At least Wheeler, the Bruins' second shooter after fellow shootout standout Tyler Seguin, tried a slightly different move by taking the puck out wide to his right, rather than relying on the same old boring maneuvers David Krejci and Patrice Bergeron have relied on.
The goal made sure that Krejci's two-goal performance in the game's first 60 minutes didn't go for naught. The Bruins are now 1-3 in shootouts this season, and Wheeler is 7-for-21 in his career.
Here's a look at the rest of the box score:
•Krejci scored twice, and he, Wheeler and Michael Ryder were all plus-2 on the night. Ryder added two assists.
•Tim Thomas was perfect on three shootout attempts and brilliant with 32 saves in regulation and overtime.
•Milan Lucic took his frustrations over the fine he had to pay for his match penalty from last Thursday's game by throwing nine hits.


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Dinner in downtown Zeeland could get a little wild on Wednesday. Mark Rosenthal of�Animal Magic is coming to town, along with a select few of the 6,000 exotic animals under his care, to help kick off summer.
It's part of�Zeeland's new Summer Safari downtown dinner�� a reinvention of the city's traditional end-of-summer�community lunch, said�Kerri VanDorp, Zeeland's events coordinator.
"We started thinking about who was coming to the community lunch," VanDorp said. "We saw a lot of moms with their kids but realized there are a lot of working parents who can't come at noon."
City officials agreed to make the meal a summer kick-off, complete with chalkworks, facepainting, bounce house and a big sprinkler. The Holland Area Arts Council will host a make-and-take craft, safari sock puppets, for kids. Rosenthal's two shows, at 4:30 and 6:30 p.m., will last about an hour each. He'll be stationed in the Vande Luyster Square gazebo on Church Street, between Cherry and Central avenues.
Rosenthal couldn't say exactly which exotic animals will be featured. It depends on each animal's mood and health, he said. What he's not bringing: baby bears, lions or tigers���for safety reasons���nor animals considered�house pets.�The shows are tailored to children ages 5 and older, but all are welcome, he said.�It's been years since�Rosenthal's had a�public show in this part of West Michigan, he said, but he's�often hired by schools to do animal demonstrations.�
"Each show I do is different," he said, describing a show as a mix of magic tricks and education on each type of animal.
VanDorp said families can bring their own picnic meals; buy either an Elbo Room quarter chicken dinner, with house chips, for $5 each; or buy The Farmhouse Restaurant pizza dinner ($3 for a single slice and drink or $5 for two slices and a drink). The dinners will be limited, VanDorp said, so early birds will benefit.
Rain won't�spoil the event, she said. The demonstration simply moves to Lawrence Street Park, 100 W. Lawrence Ave. Visit feelthezeel.com or Feel the Zeel on Facebook for last-minute changes.
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Dinner in downtown Zeeland could get a little wild on Wednesday. Mark Rosenthal of�Animal Magic is coming to town, along with a select few of the 6,000 exotic animals under his care, to help kick off summer.


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The Eastern Trail (ET) is a scenic 65 +- mile signed bike route that starts at the Piscataqua River in Kittery (at the New Hampshire border) and ends in South Portland, Maine. It is part of U.S. Bike Route One - go here for a map of the full USBR1 in Maine.
Along this route you will find many treasures: historical landmarks, breathtaking vistas, recreation spots, and great places to eat. Our routes and maps are marked and geo-tagged with various points of interest—allowing users to better plan their bicycle rides and cycling trips.
Today, the Eastern Trail has a growing span of off-road sections. Eighty-five percent (85%) of the trail between Arundel and South Portland is on off-road sections. Off-road sections are not paved - this is a multi-use trail for the use and enjoyment of walkers, cyclists, eqestrians, birders and many others.
While these off road segments are being built and connected, a separate on-road bicycle route has been established.
Our best map is our Eastern Trail Guide, which includes both completed off-road sections and also the on-road trail. The current version (updated 2014) of this comprehensive 28-page booklet outlines each segment of our extensive on- and off-road trail network. You can download a copy to view and even print, or you can order a nice color printed and bound booklet (details below).
A 2014 revision to the Trail Guide includes two very important updates - the opening of Memorial Bridge (NH/Maine border) and the change in Amtrak bike policy. Access to trains with a bike is no longer available in Wells - Check with Amtrak (Go to this page - see the Bicycles section at the very bottom) for current locations and restrictions. (Update December 2014 - see this article for plans for a new Amtrak stop in Kennebunk that would allow bicycles to load, but uncertains as to when)
Thanks so much to the People's Choice Credit Union and Revision Energy for their financial support to get this 2014 Trail Guide Update printed.
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Several updated trail section maps have been added:
Thanks to Biddeford Savings Bank, 10,000 brochure maps of the Eastern Trail were printed and distributed in 2013. To see PDF files of this brochure, click here for the cover page, or here for the maps page, or click on the images below:
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Maine Trail Finder. The Eastern Trail is also now listed on the Maine Trail Finder web site. This impressive and very informative site, which shows most of the pedestrian/biking trails in Maine, shows the Eastern Trail in several sections, including:
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Brahma Steakhouse & Lounge closes in Pittsfield Township; new restaurant coming soon
Julie Baker | AnnArbor.com
After being open for nearly a year, the Brahma Steakhouse & Lounge in Pittsfield Township has closed and a new restaurant will soon open in its place.
A sign posted on the window of the restaurant located at 4855 Washtenaw Ave. said the new restaurant, Maiz Mexican Cantina, will open in mid-January.
Building owner Demos Panos confirmed with AnnArbor.com that a new business would be moving in shortly. A banner is now hanging announcing the near opening of Maiz. Calls to the new restaurant owner were not immediately returned.
Brahma replaced The Smokehouse Grill and Pub in 2012. Brahma owner Louie Vushaj said last February he planned on investing $100,000 in renovations. Vushaj could not be reached for comment.
Julie Baker | AnnArbor.com
Panos originally put the restaurant on the market in 2010 because his family was preoccupied with running its other businesses, including Nick's Original House of Pancakes on Lohr Circle in Pittsfield Township.
According to township documents, the property's assessed value was $454,300 in the 2012 tax year, making its estimated market value about double that.
Panos had invested in some remodeling in June 2011, when he told AnnArbor.com the restaurant was performing well. The restaurant seats approximately 230 people.
Brahma is the second restaurant to close recently in this particular stretch of Washtenaw. The Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet located in Pittsfield Township's Glencoe Crossing shopping center is closed until further notice after being open for six months.
Selina Chen opened the restaurant last June in the 12,000-square-foot space at 4735 Washtenaw Ave. Chen opened the restaurant in the former Bistro Bar and Grill space, which closed in 2011 for renovations but then never reopened.
Katrease Stafford covers Ypsilanti for AnnArbor.com.Reach her at email@example.com or 734-623-2548 and follow her on twitter.
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 : 2:02 a.m.
All of the exisiting Brahma staff is working at Maiz. With the size of their bar and really great food they will be serving, I expect Maiz to totally fill the spot lost when Don Carlos shut down.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 7:52 p.m.
Waht happened to Hibachi Grill already?
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5:52 p.m.
What's in a name? I like this name 'Brahma' as it is derived from Indian language known as Sanskrit. It refers to a breed of domestic cattle developed from the zebu of India. In the picture, the horns seen may not represent the Indian bull known as 'Brahman'. If the owner had paid attention to these small details, he would have done better in managing the big details.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 4:36 p.m.
So, will this be a small barroom that serves Indian corn?
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 4:26 p.m.
it would be interesting to see how many restaurants in the Ypsi/A2 area have closed in the last 5 years and how many new ones opened and also closed during the same period of time.seems like it's a revolving door.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 3:58 p.m.
Wow this place changes so often they should just install one of those programmable digital signs. Does anyone have the complete list of restaurant incarnations in this building?
Katrease Stafford
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 4:52 p.m.
The farthest back that I'm aware of is Herc's Roast Beef. Does anyone else know of a restaurant prior to Herc's?
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 3:52 p.m.
The Smokehouse Grill was an old favorite of mine that seemed to do well in a tough location. I don't remember the reason it changed (change in ownership I'm guessing), but I had hopped that Brahma would've continued the same level of food and service. Unfortunatly, it did not. I'd be very surprised if this planned Mexican restaurant is still there within a year. Despite being near the highway and being a main route between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, this seems to be a bad area for restaurants.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 3:47 p.m.
They need to bring Don Carlos back...hopefully this new Mexican restaurant will be close.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 2:53 p.m.
We never understood why Smokehouse Blues was closed in the first place. They were always busy and some times we had to wait a few minutes to be seated. The food was excellent and the service was good at Smokehouse, can't say the same for Brahma. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 2:16 p.m.
Bummer! We were planning on eating there again this coming weekend. Loved their brisket.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:51 p.m.
Aren't there already quite a number of Mexican restaurants in the area? I miss the early version of Smokehouse that served up some tasty comfort food for a reasonable price.
Katrease Stafford
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 2:20 p.m.
I specifically remember one the one that was located right down the street on Washtenaw. I believe it was Pacific Beach Burritos in Ypsilanti Township. It's been closed for awhile now.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:21 p.m.
Another business run into the ground by bad management..... You have a responsibility as a business owner to your EMPLOYEES....yet why is it that nearly every single business owner I've met seems to think only about their bottom line and only view employees as assets to be gained and lost... Consequently the most successful people I've met do NOT think like this....and there is solace in that.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 : 12:01 a.m.
What business do you own, Billy? If you're one of the successful people you refer to, I'm there!
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5:09 p.m.
Did you work there? What evidence is there (other than the business closing) in the article that it had bad management? Just asking.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 3:24 p.m.
You should start your own business, Billy. You know, for the employees, not for you.
4 Fingers
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 2:27 p.m.
I can agree with that.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:42 p.m.
Oh I entirely understand the difficulty in finding responsible and reliable employees....but you also have to remember, if you treat your employees poorly they perform poorly. Happy employees do the best work by far. Putting employees out by cutting corners to save money on your bottom line is unfortunately an all too common business technique used today...at least by small business owners that are in it to get rich. Heh...the most successful small business owners I know...yeah they're in it for the business itself. There is a lot of personal pride in running your own business...do it well and it can be more rewarding than money.
4 Fingers
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:30 p.m.
I wouldn't call it bad management, more like bad concept and execution. Oh, and your only good as the people you hire.
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:07 p.m.
I predicted this when I saw the prices. Way too high for that part of town.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 1:01 p.m.
My husband and I went once to try Brahma. Total disappointment. Although the service was good...the food not so much. We also heard from the table near us that their food was not up to par.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 12:38 p.m.
So, who is the new owner who couldn't be reached by phone?
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : noon
Bring back Herc's. Never understood why a successfull restaurant would close, or change. Oh well not my money.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5:08 p.m.
And they had one of the best pizzas I've ever had anywhere!
dading dont delete me bro
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 12:24 p.m.
along with the muffin size fried mushrooms and the donut size onion rings.....mmmmmmmm two appetizers=dinner #goodstuff
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 11:15 a.m.
Sad, lots of good people worked here, andI went regularly ( about every two weeks)...and it seemed to do good business-- though the last time I went its doors were inexplicably locked. Now it makes sense. Good luck to the folks who worked here!


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TEMPE, Ariz. - The Arizona State women's cross country team competed in the NCAA Cross Country Championships Monday at the Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course in Waterloo, Iowa, and walked away in 14th place with 406 points. Amy Hastings (So., Leavenworth, Kan.) and Desiree Davila (Jr., Chula Vista, Calif.) earned All-America accolades while finishing 25th and 44th, respectively, and Anna Masinelli (So., Scottsdale, Ariz.) finished 73rd to see the Sun Devils place its Top 3 finishers in the Top 100 of the race. Stanford won the team title as it edged out top-ranked BYU, 120-128.
'I am very pleased and excited that we ran so well as a group,' Walt Drenth, ASU head coach, said. 'To finish 14th in the nation without our number four runner is great. I told the team I would be happy with whatever place they finished as long as they competed and they did just that. They ran their hearts out today. It is great to have two All-Americans and I thought we could have had another as well. Corey Randall ran very well for us and Anna Masinelli did well considering she got into a little trouble out on the course. She kept her composure and stayed with it and that made a difference in us finishing where we did. I am very pleased to see this team end the season they way they did today.'
The 14th place finish for the women is the third-best in the history of the program while their 406 points scored also is the third-lowest in the six trips the women have made to the national meet. The record performances were set in 2000 when the Sun Devils took sixth while building 266 points while second is 12th place with 385 points.
The women made history for the program as Hastings and Davila earned All-America honors, marking the first time in school history that two runners on one ASU team earned the national distinction. In 1999, both Kelly MacDonald (36th) and Fasil Bizuneh (19th) earned All-America honors to mark the first time the Sun Devils had two All-Americans in one season. The feat was duplicated again in 2001 with Bizuneh (22nd) and Lisa Aguilera (18th) earning the national honors.
Hastings crossed the line in 20:32.9 to place 25th overall in the race and 24th among those runners counting in the team race. She was followed by Davila at 20:50.8, who finished 44th overall and 35th in the team race standings. Masinelli took 87th overall and 64th in the team race at 21:10.8 and was followed by Corey Randall (Fr., Cincinnati) in 168th place (132nd team race) at 21:42.5 and Liz Lindgren (So., Klamath Falls, Ore.) in 188th place (151st team race) at 21:54.6 to round out the team scoring. Jenna Wrieden (So., Glendale, Ariz.) completed the circuit in 22:18.4 to place 220th overall (182 team race) while Jessica Crate (Fr., Brights Grove, Ontario) rounded out the Sun Devil contingent with a time of 24:09.3 to place 252nd (214th team race).
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Trails to Tuckerman Historical Society held their annual meeting March 4, 2013. Eddie Nagel, second vice president for archiving, called the meeting to order in the absence of President Tommy Young.
Vickie Williams, secretary, read the minutes from the last month's meeting. Treasurer Bill Biggers gave the financial report, recognized new members and reported on the memorial funds. Williams gave a report on the Jackson County School District Student of the Month Scholarship fund while reporter Ollie Brown reminded everyone that the society is still collecting pictures and all history material. Nagel and Debbie Brown said, "We have 3,600 pages and personal interviews on our website, trailstotuckerman.com. We are pleased with how well it is going. Contacts from other states have responded because of it." Student of the month Julian Green was presented with a plaque and cash at the meeting. It was decided that the pancake breakfast will be held April 5, from 6-9 p.m. at the Tuckerman Center with the money made going towards the student of the month fund. Nagel then appointed a committee to work the event with all student of the month students set to serve. The group is working to acquire pictures of any memorials for ideas to help with their memorial that is being planned. Designer Robert Marting will be at the next meeting to help start the project. The society reminds members that membership dues are being collected. Trails to Tuckerman will meet again April 1, 6 p.m. at the Tuckerman City Hall Courtroom.


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Duquesne Women Denied First Trip to NCAA Tournament
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Duquesne Women Denied First Trip to NCAA Tournament
Dukes Accept Bid To Womens NIT
Duquesne's womens basketball team has never reached the NCAA tournament and now they experienced their first serious post-season snub. Head Coach Suzie McConnell-Serio's team watched from the Palumbo Center as their names were not called during the NCAA Womens Selection Show.
All week, predictions had the Dukes making the field, but close losses down the stretch left them hoping for an at-large bid out of the Atlantic Ten. The Dukes felt their RPI of 36 would be enough to get them into the field. Instead, Duquesne was the only team in the RPI top 40 not invited to the NCAA Tournament.
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Review Group Week 325 - DIAL H #1
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by BlueStreak » Fri May 04, 2012 12:46 pmSo yesterday was my six month anniversary of starting to read comics and I loved Dial H. But today when I reread it, I absolutely hated it.
This is what growing old feels like
by Eric Ratcliffe » Fri May 04, 2012 12:48 pm
by bkthomson » Fri May 04, 2012 2:14 pmSo what side am I on?
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri May 04, 2012 2:20 pmIt's no surprise who will like Dial H For Halfhearted.
Tyrants may change around here, but tastes rarely improve much.
Probably about to make some feeble attempt at diplomacy. This is not that Review Group.
by Beast In Show » Sat May 05, 2012 3:03 am
Looks like it's either cuntrag or tenderfoot.
by @dace1314 » Sat May 05, 2012 3:37 amHellacious, hap-hazard, hackneyed, ham-fisted. "H" is for a lot of things. Unfortunately, those are the unhappy descriptors that come to mind after reading the first issue of "Dial H", a book that is part of the launch of the "second wave" of DC's New 52.
The premise is so absurd that it would make much more sense as satire, but this book is clearly trying to be serious, dark and gritty. Here's how absurd it is - an obese, down on his luck man who goes by the name Nelse finds himself in an old rotary style phone booth while his friend is getting gang beaten in a dark alley in front of him. He tries to call 911 but somehow instead ends up dialing 4376. Blame it on the chubby fingers. The phone booth glows brightly and within seconds Nelse busts out, fully transformed into a lanky freak named Boy Chimney who looks like a combination of the Red Skull and Jack Skellington. He proceeds to save his friend before changing back to himself. Later, ol' Nelse re-enters the phone booth and is this time bestowed the mighty powers of...Captain Lachrymose? A pathetic emo version of Superman who sports the same haircut as Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element and who's powers are derived from the deep sadness of those in his immediate vicinity? This must be a joke right? Well not intentionally.
The dialogue between characters isn't bad. The writing in general isn't bad. It's the characters and the situations that are unbelievably bad.
And that's a real shame too because Mateus Santolouco's pencils and inks are very nice to look at. He's got a strong sense of perspective and offers effective and varied page layouts with skill and swagger. There are a couple of collage type hallucinogenic ones that are a bit like Yanick Paquette's recent work in Swamp Thing and are pretty cool.
The choice of colors, however, is bland and dull. Sure, they are going for a dark and dreary atmosphere but it would have been nice to see more variety in the tones. The stale brownish yellow from Smokestack McQuack's magic exhaust hat seems to permeate every page, drifting through the whole book and tainting it with it's foulness. Mixing in some other nuances of color would've done much to enrich the pencil work, instead of poisoning it.
So with all things carefully balanced and weighed; this is a terrible comic book. DC and Marvel publish so much of this type of garbage so it must sell well enough to be worth it. But there's no way "Dial H" makes it passed the twelve issue mark. DC will let it bleed long enough to make two trades out of it before tying it off and amputating. In a word, "Dial H" is hopeless.
3 out of 10
(It should be mentioned that I've never read, and know nothing about the old series that this one is resurrecting, which no doubt contributes to my perspective on it.)
by ****** » Sat May 05, 2012 7:49 am
vote, vote, vote...
by ****** » Sat May 05, 2012 7:51 am
A little late, but if your LCS is lame or you just happen to hate paper...
http://www.comixology.com/Dial-H-2012-1 ... /MAR120153
by alaska1125 » Sat May 05, 2012 11:29 amYeah, this one jut didn't do it for me. Conceptually I love it. It's the reality that didn't win me over.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 05, 2012 12:51 pm
No worries, that was pretty good actually.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 05, 2012 1:03 pm
A zero? Holy crap man, it wasn't great, but it was nowhere near that bad.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 05, 2012 1:19 pmThis wasn't a great comic by any means, but it was also far, far from the worst thing I've ever read. Nelse and Darren aren't the most likable characters I've ever read, but that's not a necessarily bad thing when it comes to the question of whether I enjoyed something or not.
The story itself was alright, nothing spectacular, but strangely, I can't say I found it boring either. The writing does show potential, Boy Chimney's lines while fighting in the ally were fun to read I will admit. I agree that the main villain was kind of paint by numbers, but his "mother" suggests that there may be more to him. A potential does exist for something a little more interesting even there.
It wasn't a horrible comic, it wasn't a middle of the road five, and as I said, I wasn't great either. That makes it a 6 out of 10 in my book. There is enough there for me to want to see where things go.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat May 05, 2012 1:25 pm
he's apparently from cbr's boards...should tell you something about him right off the bat.
by Stephen Day » Sat May 05, 2012 1:28 pm
You sir, are a jerk faced nincompoop.
...you said you liked it when we called each other names.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. wants to keep nine bases in Afghanistan after American combat troops withdraw in 2014 and the Afghan government will let them as long as it gets "security and economic guarantees," President Hamid Karzai said today in his first public offer in talks about the future relationship between the two uneasy allies.
U.S. officials have made no final announcement about how many troops might remain in Afghanistan after 2014, although they have said as many as many as 12,000 U.S. and coalition forces could remain to train and advise Afghans and continue counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and other extremists.
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The negotiations over a strategic agreement have been protracted and at times acrimonious, reflecting Washington's relationship with Karzai, who has often had strong words of criticism for Washington. In March, when it appeared that the agreement was about to be signed, Karzai made a statement that suggested that the United States and the Taliban were benefiting each other and even in collusion to keep U.S. troops in the country, though the U.S. has been fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan for two decades.
As a result, the U.S. put the agreement on hold.
Some Afghans who are familiar with the Afghan president that his tough talk is a negotiating ploy to get more from the United States, particularly in relation to neighboring Pakistan. Tensions between the two countries have escalated dramatically in the last two weeks, with both sides accusing each other of unprovoked attacks.
During his speech marking the 80th anniversary of Kabul University, Karzai warned Pakistan against sending its forces across the border or trying to force Afghanistan to accept the disputed Durand partition line — the 19th century demarcation between present day Afghanistan and Pakistan — as the international border.
"We want a civilized relationship with Pakistan but if any neighbor wants Afghanistan under its shadow ... it is not possible," said Karzai. "If there is any attack or any violation to force Afghanistan to accept the Durand Line, the Afghan nation will never accept it and will never recognize the Durand Line. Impossible."


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Supernatural Experiences Trigger Religious Donations, Baylor Researcher Finds
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WACO, Texas (Oct. 22, 2013) -- People who have had what they believe to be supernatural experiences are more likely to be "religious givers," with their behavior based on cost-benefit principles that work in other transactions -- whether that be through Amazon.com or an auto repair shop, according to a Baylor University study.
People are more likely to make "social exchanges" because of such factors as trust, repeated exchanges, reputation, information about others' experiences, and institutions involved in exchanges, said Katie Corcoran, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion. The study shows that the less religious doubt people have, the more they are willing to give.
Corcoran's study -- "Divine exchanges: Applying social exchange theory to religious behavior" -- is published in the journal Rationality and Society and is based upon analysis of the 1988 General Social Survey and the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey.
Other factors affecting people's certainty about God's existence and Heaven are affiliation with a "high-tension" congregation -- one with beliefs, practices and behavior very distinct from other groups -- and close ties to others within a congregation, Corcoran said.
"The 'high-tension' congregations are usually more exclusive, as opposed to those who say there is truth in all religions," she said.
While voluntary giving to religious organizations consistently makes up the largest share of America's philanthropy, little research has been done on why that is until now, Corcoran said. Her study included 906 respondents in the General Social Survey and 712 in the Baylor Religion Survey, who answered questions about how much they gave to religious organizations and their religious experiences.
For her research, she applied "social exchange" theory. That theory assumes that when people make decisions, they choose the option that they think will benefit them most -- and that that the more confident they are in their exchange partner and the quality of the good, the more likely they are to have further dealings. Positive online reviews rating goods and services or word-of-mouth recommendations increase certainty and make future social exchanges more likely.
While confidence in eBay obviously is different from trust in God, "there are parallels with religion" when it comes to building trust, Corcoran said.
Respondents who gave to religious organizations were more likely to report having had a supernatural experience such as being healed, witnessing the healing of another, hearing God's voice, speaking in tongues, being protected by a guardian angel or having a "born-again" experience.
"You can't empirically verify the existence of God, but mystical experiences are believed to be empirical signs of God, of having some sort of interaction with the divine," she said. "For some people, that can be a conscious exchange, for others an unconscious one. If you think God exists, you're more likely to give."
She noted that previous research shows that evangelicals give more of their income than mainline Protestants and Catholics. Her study indicates that evangelicals have a higher level of confidence in God, which increases their giving.
"If you don't believe in Heaven -- or don't believe you're going there -- why would you do things the church says you should, like giving?" On the other hand, "if you believe, giving is a natural by-product," she said.
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Schools to get sun smart with help from Cancer Council
ALTHOUGH the school holidays are nearing their end, the summer sun continues to have its effect and the sun smart message remains an important one to follow.
Most adults are well aware of the 'slip, slop, slap, cover up and wear a hat' message promoted by the Cancer Council but kids are less well-informed and need guidance and protection.
Unfortunately, even the organisations which parents expect would look after their kids' welfare aren't always as well prepared as parents would like.
Cancer Council NSW spokesperson Rhian Patton-Kelly said surprisingly only 46% of northern rivers schools have an appropriate sun smart policy in place and need to provide more and better safeguards to ensure their students remain safe in the sun.
"In term one, the Cancer Council will conduct a 'Sun Smart Blitz' and visit schools in northern NSW to help them develop appropriate policies to protect their students.
"Apart from the well known measures such as slip, slop, slap, there is a number of other strategies schools can put in place to protect their students," Ms Patton-Kelly said.
The Cancer Council would encourage schools to provide shaded areas for students to play at recess and lunchtime and institute a 'no hat, no play' policy.
"We'd also like to see schools give their students recess and lunchtime breaks at a time of the day when the sun isn't at its strongest.
"When we visit schools during the blitz, we'll assist them in setting up appropriate strategies to tackle the issue and will offer participating schools an incentive.
The schools which put a sun smart policy in place will receive enough sun screen to protect their students for one year," Ms Patton-Kelly said.
It was important for students to be familiar with these measures so they would establish a pattern of behaviour which would stay with them for the rest of their lives.
"If we establish this pattern of behaviour early in kids' lives, it's all the more effective and will hopefully be passed on through the generations," Ms Patton-Kelly said.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — With interest in locally grown food soaring, the federal government said Tuesday it has created a small loan program to help community farmers who might not be able to borrow money from banks.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — With interest in locally grown food soaring, the federal government said Tuesday it has created a small loan program to help community farmers who might not be able to borrow money from banks.
Call it seed money.
The low-interest "microloans" of up to $35,000 are designed to aid startup costs, bolster existing family-run farms and help minority growers and military veterans who want to farm. Over the last three years, there has been a 60 percent increase in local growers who sell directly to consumers or farmers markets, Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
Kay Jensen, an organic farmer who grows broccoli, strawberries and tomatoes in Sun Prairie, Wis., saw two immediate benefits from the program — paperwork would go from about 30 pages to seven, and it would be easier to borrow a manageable sum. She said she might consider a loan for $3,000 to $10,000 to expand her irrigation systems.
"A lot times what we need is just small amounts of money, but a lot of times the only funding available is large amounts of money," she said. "This whole concept of a microloan, where you're looking at smaller, reasonable amounts of money, this really fits an incredible niche."
The loan can cover the costs of renting land, buying seed and equipment, and other expenses. One goal is to create more opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment in the farming industry, Vilsack said. Another goal is to provide beginners a chance to build credit, so that they can eventually qualify for higher-value loans and expand.
"It's about making sure that we have diversity within agriculture, that we have a good blend of large production facilities, medium-sized operations and smaller operations," Vilsack said. "It will help bolster the local and regional food system movement that is taking place."
Alan Wedemeyer, a farmer in northwest Iowa, was optimistic. He said banks tend to want to work with bigger farms because small farms have difficulty determining ahead of time what price they're going to get for their crops.
Wedemeyer's farm, A & A Acres in Lake City, focuses on vegetables and poultry, and might consider applying for a loan to build a greenhouse system for year-round production.
The "entrepreneurial side of it ... that's where this would really help out, kind of seed money almost," he said.
The loans could help urban farmers who grow fruits and vegetables — or raise chickens for eggs or bees for honey — on lots that can be as small as one-eighth of an acre, said Chad Hellwinckel, a research assistant professor at the Agricultural Analysis Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
"These individuals lease city lots, so they need a small amount of startup capital," Hellwinckel said.
However, Iowa State University economist and local food researcher David Swenson said that $35,000 isn't enough to significantly help a startup farm or "capitalize any kind of meaningful food production system." He said materials and equipment were just too costly.
Swenson also noted that local food production still makes up a very small percentage of the U.S. agriculture industry, despite its recent growth.
Swenson said the loan program is a positive first step, but the prospects of local food being a viable economic engine for most regions is highly limited.
"This is a policy area where community affection and political affection for the idea of local foods has gotten itself way out in front of the economics," Swenson said.
Rick Hartmann of Small Potatoes Farm in Minburn, in central Iowa, said the program needs to be balanced with farming education and good business planning.
"Access to capital is going to be very important for young and beginning farmers, as long as it's tempered with other support," he said. "That's what's going to make that capital return an investment back to the lender and to the lendee in the long run."
Vilsack announced the program a day after speaking at the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual meeting in Nashville. Since 2009, the federal government has increased the number of loans to beginning farmers and ranchers from 11,000 loans in 2008 to 15,000 loans in 2011.
The interest rate for the new loan program changes monthly, and is currently 1.25 percent, according to the USDA, and the loan does not have to be repaid for seven years.
Karen Archipley of Archi's Acres in San Diego said she and her husband, Colin, an Iraq vet and former Marine Corps sergeant, run a program on their three-acre organic, hydroponic farm that teaches returning veterans how to be farmers and marketers of their own produce.
She said they were recently contacted by one of the country's largest distributors of organic kale about buying a large quantity. They have three new farmers who want to supply the contract, but they lacked the capital.
"I'm so excited to hear about this because it impacts us directly," Karen Archipley said. "We have some farmers working to get capital and they only needed $35,000 to set up crop production for organic kale."


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Guanacaste's nature has landscapes that range from white sand beaches to the tropical dry forest surrounded by low mountain ranges and stretches of fertile farmland.
Located only a few hours drive from San Jose, the Mid-Pacific region of Costa Rica contains a lush climate that allows for greater biodiversity at the beaches and steep hillsides that border much of the nature's coast. The town of Jaco is the most developed area and has the most extensive tourist services in Costa Rica, perfect for any wedding. Playa del Jaco and its surrounding beaches are world-famous for their surf breaks.
Costa Rica's Central Valley region holds the country's capitol, San Jose, and features two extraordinarily beautiful tourist nature destinations: Turrialba and Valle de los Santos. Both of these rural mountain towns offer a glimpse of old Costa Rica with their simply made houses, large coffee plantations, sugar mills, and dairy farms. The valley also contains many national nature parks which protect the region's main volcanoes. The city of San Jose offers culture for your wedding guests with various museums, the National Theater as well as fine dining and live music any night of the


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CIU Dedicates Renovated G. Allen Fleece Library
By Jacob Given
CIU Student Writer
Just before graduation day in May 2010, CIU President Dr. Bill Jones prayed with the board of trustees that God would "strike a fire" under the graduates. The next morning he got a phone call that CIU's G. Allen Fleece Library was on fire. The blaze, caused by an electrical problem, would cause $2.5 million in damages.
Jones recounted that story on Jan. 24, 2012, at the dedication of the renovated G. Allen Fleece Library. "When I saw how good this library turned out, I made a list of other buildings to pray for," Jones joked from the podium.
The $1.3 million in improvements to the library includes glass-enclosed rooms that encourage collaborative study, the latest high-tech connectivity, new furniture, a copier alcove, and a coffee nook that features a coffee maker that grinds the coffee beans. The renovated library opened to students on Jan. 17.
The dedication followed a chapel message by CIU alumnus Dr. David Calhoun of Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis, the son-in-law of G. Allen Fleece. Fleece was the second president of CIU, and instrumental in the building of the original library in 1968.
David Fleece and Anne Fleece Calhoun, children of G. Allen Fleece, attended the dedication and said the renovated library is a fitting tribute to their father.
"My father was a quiet man," David Fleece said. "(He) found places of solitude in which his faith was nourished and maintained, and he valued the handing down of the knowledge of the Scriptures."
Since the fire, students had been using a temporary library in a small, steel-framed building that students dubbed, "The Book Barn."
CIU student Jacob Tedder said the transition from "The Book Barn" to the renovated library is nearly overwhelming.
"I don't feel like the walls are closing in on me anymore," Tedder said. "This new library has a lot more space and will be a lot better for studying."
Student Emily Cox agreed.
"I love it. I have a place to chill out and have some space to myself."
Library Director Jo Ann Rhodes says a lot of planning went into the library improvements.
"We worked very hard to plan the new layout of the library to make it something that is beneficial to the students," Rhodes said. "I think about how good God has been to us to bring us to this place."
Listen to the dedication day chapel message from Dr. David Calhoun at: http://podcast.ciu.edu/download/audiomessage-120124.mp3
Check out how CIU students celebrated the opening of the library with "Occupy Fleece" at:
CIU Communication student Michael McCall has produced a video about the library fire and renovation. See it on YouTube at:
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MidAmerican adds polution controls at coal plants
MidAmerican adds polution controls at coal plants
MidAmerican Energy has begun installing $180 million worth of new pollution control systems at its coal power plants in northwest Iowa.
The upgrades will allow MidAmerican's power plants to comply with new Environmental Protection Agency rules that take effect in 2015. They will reduce emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and other particulates.
One of the power plants should be done next fall. The second plant will be done in the spring of 2014.
The work at both power plants will provide a boost to the economy around Sioux City because as many as 350 construction workers will be working on the project at a time.
Des Moines-based MidAmerican is owned by Warren Buffett's Omaha, Neb.,-based Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.


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Kevin Garnett found Jeff Green all alone under the basket for a layup with 0.5 seconds remaining to finish off a fourth-quarter comeback from 14 points down, and the Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers 83-81 on Wednesday night.
Garnett led the Celtics with 18 points and 10 rebounds and dragged Boston back after they trailed most of the final three quarters. Green had 11 points off the bench.
Paul George scored 16 points for the Pacers, who had all five starters in double figures. David West added 11 points and 16 rebounds, and George Hill finished with 14 points.
Center Roy Hibbert had his 14th double-double of the season with 12 points and 12 rebounds.


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Washington Redskins fans are some of the most devoted when it comes to supporting their team, donning full Native American headdresses, painted faces and hog noses.
These loyal fans now have an arguably easier way of showing their support—and connecting with each other—through Foursquare.
In a pilot for the 2010 football season, the NFL team rolled out Foursquare as a way to reward fans for attending home games or rallies during out-of-town games.
The results beat expectations. By December, Redskins fans had logged more than 20,000 check-ins at the home stadium FedExField and tens of thousands more at venues across the D.C. metro area.