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I never get happy at airports. Being at an airport deeply, truly engages my Irish Catholic sense of foreboding. I'm very fatalistic about what could go wrong in the air, of course, as I imagine most passengers are on some level. Being a photog, I actually get more stressed about what could happen on the ground.
Like the other day. I had angst right from the get go, mostly 'cause I was flying an airline I never use, had no real idea about their policies, and I had a bunch of excess bags. (Go figure.) But it started real well. The lady at the Air Canada counter couldn't have been nicer, and took care of things with dispatch. Overage rates were of course paid, but then she went the extra mile and put priority tags on the stuff, even though Drew and I were flying economy. My buddy Bill, who's my editor at National Geographic, where we fly economy all the time, gleefully refers to this as flying "chicken and goat class." He's very ill. One of these days, I'm gonna take him on location with me. Maybe stuff him an overhead luggage bin. Give him the location work full monty:-)
Went through security, and for some reason, they ran my Ipad twice, and then chemical swabbed it. That's a first. I speculate it's because I just loaded Rambo movie on there so it's now considered potentially dangerous.
Got through security on one concourse and were directed down a long, ominous looking hallway to another. This brought us to a glass walled corral, from which there was no exit. Other passengers were also accumulating there and we were all rattling around like marbles in a jar. I felt like all of us had suddenly joined the marching band in Animal House, and were merrily pumping our knees and sliding our trombones even though we had been led to the end of a brick walled alley.
Through the glass I could see another screening operation. I tapped timidly on the window, seeking an exit, an answer, or an explanation. During the shouted conversation through the thick glass I was told the area would be opened "right quick." When would that be? The answer, "Right quick!" came again. I was tempted to simplify my question. "At 'right quick' where is the big hand and the little hand?"
Instead I breathed deeply. We trudged back down the hall and found another security person presiding over an exit, or "sortie." He explained that the concourse for our gate was closed. I told him that wasn't exactly an exclusive piece of news. Then I popped the ultimate question, the one that always befuddles all concerned in these periodic follies life presents. "Why?"
He folded his hands, drew himself up in righteous fashion, and quite literally became twice his normal size, right there in front of me. He said two words, quite simply. "The Americans."
Well of course. No further explanation required. The root of the problem pointed out in exquisitely precise fashion. Being, as the English would say, a "cheeky bastard," this line of discussion connected to my long nurtured resentment of authority faster than JPEG basic through a Firewire 800 cord. "Would that be all Americans? Or just the Republicans?" I inquired. "Or perhaps those of us who prefer baseball to hockey?" I mean, sadly, I guess, there are a lot of us. Could it possibly be that all Americans were over on that concourse? I had no idea the airport was that sizable.
He looked at me hard. His eyes narrowed and grew slit like, and he remained in his fully engorged state.
He went on to attempt an explanation that had something to do with the flights to the US from those gates and the security screening operation at one concourse, and there weren't enough people, so they had to shut down those gates, and they'll be open later, when they turn on first one and shut down the one that's open now, and there's lots of changes everyday and they don't tell me diddly.
He concluded by saying, "It's asinine."
No argument here!
So we waited in ever growing numbers at his area. Every person, literally, who came there kept proceeding down the hall, oblivious to the fact that their destination was unobtainable. Which meant he had to bellow from his position, "Gates are closed!" endlessly. I thought about asking if he ever thought of putting up a sign, or was he just enjoying himself too much.
But then I thought that might be construed to be antagonistic, and would elicit from him a series of hoots, clicks and grunts that would undoubtedly reassure us all of his dominance.
A nice Canadian lady, intuiting from my discomfiture that I was yet another impatient, irascible American smiled at me and said, "Pretty weird, huh?" I agreed. Then she said, "Almost as weird as the TSA."
I had to chuckle. I tried to remember when the last time was that I had encountered a situation quite as futile. Oh, yeah, Kennedy Airport! No matter where it is, no matter who runs it, there's nothing like an airport to start your day!
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The Sounds of Silence….
Aug 4
In Rambling, Rants at 7:30am
Just flew Frontier Airlines for the first time. They did a good job. Counter agent was very nice and didn't even give me the evil eye when I approached laden with 8 pieces to check and just me traveling. Everything was pretty smooth, though, as is typical of every airline, a little tight in coach. I was working on my laptop, and the guy in front of me decided to recline suddenly. I think I might have broken a rib. It's really, really hard to type when you have to lift your stomach off your keyboard to get to the keys.
So Frontier's cool, though it is, as their jaunty slogan suggests, a different kind of animal. Rustic is perhaps a good way to put it. I half expected the flight attendants to be wearing red plaid shirts and suspenders. Their free snacks were decidedly on the natural foods, chex-mex side of things. When I passed the flight deck I thought I heard the pilot and co-pilot humming bars from "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay."
The real trouble with flying a crunchy airline out of a crunchy city is that you might end up sitting near someone who just visited the Pacific Northwest and had a life altering, body scrubbing, soul searching, colon cleansing experience. Such was my fate to sit close-by to someone who had done just that.
Fresh from the salubrious, pine tinged air of the great outdoors, this particularly exuberant, thoroughly pleasant wacko had just been ensconsed at some ashram type of retreat where no conversation was allowed. Yep. Couldn't speak a word for over, like 48 hours. Silent. Non-verbal. Not a peep.
And my wasn't she the little pent up bundle of conversation! Holy shit. I was listening (it wasn't a choice) from a couple rows of seats away in the waiting area, straining my eyes to see if I could see the aisle and seat number on her ticket. I kept thinking about Airplane! and those folks who offed themselves rather than listen to another word about George Zip.
Oh my. Evidently, the place was really beautiful, and the experience of utter silence so profoundly soothing that, like a magpie on speed, she just chattered on about it to anyone in earshot, leaving any sense of the irony of it all bobbing in the wake of the twin Evinrudes of her lips.
Evidently the deep, nearly spiritual connection with silence didn't take. She was a one person cocktail party, basically supplying both ends of the conversation as people desperately tried to appear otherwise engaged. It's tough, though, attempting to appear compelled by reading the type on the air sickness bag.
It's okay. Another day in the skies. A baby started screaming, and the steam went out of any talking in our section. Lord what a wonderful noise.
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I Coulda Been a Contendah…..
Sep 17
In Rants at 11:34am
Gotta love The Onion. First rate reporting.
It'd be great to be a Blue Angels pilot, I think. But having flown in formation with them a couple of times and having my head scrambled to the point of not being able to find my ass with both hands while these guys are flying wingtip to wingtip at several hundred knots, I know that's not happening. Ever. Just ain't got the skills.
Everybody has occasionally wished to be something else, or perhaps something they cannot be. I wanted to play center for the New York Knicks many years ago. My meager athletic skills and tendency to remain steadfastly governed by the laws of gravity made that unrealistic.
I'm sure all of us who endeavor photographically have met folks who want to be photographers, which is totally cool. I've always been of the opinion that we're all in this mix together. It can be a tough gig, but also a wonderful one and thus very alluring, so questions and aspirations abound. And, once the photographic cat is out of the bag, a gear discussion often ensues. Also cool. I'm a gearhead, so hey, let's talk f-stops. But then there are those folks who don't discuss wanting to be, or the fact that they love shooting and are thinking of dipping a toe in the market waters, or they are working on a project and learning and seeking advice and pushing and getting better. There are those folks who coulda been.
Met a pretty confident, aggressive guy recently, while shooting this Geographic job that is currently turning me into an angst ridden pretzel. He went the equipment route immediately. No wonder. He had lots of turbocharged stuff, like, I don't know, the Canon 3D Mark4S with the Eddie Bauer camo coating and the fast glass with the low rider flame decals. I was, you know, respectful, saying intelligent, pithy things, like "Whoah." And, "Cool." Maybe the occasional, "Yeah!"
It was an extensive recitation, to be sure. He flat out said he really had the gear down, knew how to work all of that stuff and that he could be a photog. Lock solid. Done deal. Shoots lots of pictures. Then, he got thoughtful and said, "My big problem is content."
You know how you're smiling at someone and there's that moment where your face just kinda gets fixed and slightly immobile, cause it doesn't know what to do next? You keep smiling, but it feels like somebody just slapped on a quick facial mask, one of those gooey, crusty, pomagranate, blue green algae seaweed paste numbers? A glazing, if you will.
What do you say? In my head I'm screaming, like, "That's a pretty big problem, dude!" But I think I mumbled something about just hanging in and working it.
Happens, right? I had someone once, swear to God, say to me that they could be a photographer, but they just didn't have the time. I kind of spluttered a reply, something like, yeah, wow, it can be time consuming. You'd have to take fewer shifts on the lube rack.
I love photographic dreams and aspirations. Got a ton of 'em, even still. I love looking at pictures and sorting out ideas. Especially at a workshop, where there is one essential element in the room all of us share–the desire to find the next level. It's great looking at work, especially a project, 'cause that set of pictures is really a road map to how that person thinks and feels. That's why picture editors I came up working for wanted to see your contact sheets, not just your greatest hits. Your contact sheets show very clearly where you hit it right, or where you went off the rails.
I especially love the fact that I still feel overwhelmed in the field. There are time I am so completely bereft of inspiration and ideas I say to myself, "I wonder what a really good photographer would do right now?" I'm not kidding, or being self effacing. There are some jobs I just feel like I'm standing there, the last human in a horror movie, and the zombies are closing in.
So you have to be confident, to be sure. (Or project confidence even while inside your head the insecurity meter has gone to DefCon Five.) But a healthy dose of anxiety and self doubt ("I'm using a 200–maybe I should go wide?") are also important tools in your bag. Causes you to double check yourself and remember how fragile photographic success is, and while your last frame was Fat City the next one might be a ticket to Pismo Beach. The fact that you rarely have THE answer is a good one to remember. No need to focus on it to the point of paralysis. Just remember it. You are only as good as your last job. The next one may just eat your lunch and your soul.
So I don't have too much patience for the odd person or two or three or dozen who gives you that kind wink and cocksure nod about how they could do this bang on full time and you should see the fantastic stuff they just shot. I used to just smile and nod. Now, thirty years on in the struggle to be good at this seemingly easy thing to do, I think I just nod.
Oh well, just part of the human condition I guess. I mean, I coulda been a brain surgeon. I just always had a little trouble with math and science. More tk….
Searching for AT&T…
Aug 23
In Rants at 7:01pm
I'm in Maine, teaching at the venerable Maine Media Workshops. We had a great week, great class, nice bunch of folks. I haven't told too many people about it though, cause in terms of cell phone connectivity, I might as well be in Mongolia. The cell plan there might be better. I hear that after 9pm, you can yak all you want for free. Or is it, you can call all the yaks you want for free. Dunno. Have to read the fine print.
My cell signal I'm sure is out there, somewhere in the fog. Thing is I don't have a boat. I'm land bound, so I drive around, looking for it. I find it here and there, glimmering at the end of the block, like a special effect in the movies. Five bars! Come closer, it beckons like a siren. And then it vanishes, just like those ball players in Field of Dreams.
We're right at the water, so I've been thinking about penning a word doc on a thumbdrive and stashing it in a bottle, and hoping the coastal currents carry it New York way, just to let Annie know I'm safe. It'd be almost as efficient.
I'm operating my communications efforts at the behest of AT&T because Verizon lied to me. The man at the counter told me when I updated to the Storm that it'd work no problem on a Mac based system. A little software assist, and bing, the Storm would be smooth. Like buttah.
No. After two days of trying, which even consumed a freelance day rate to a tech savvy assistant, everyone at the office had dubbed my new phone the "ShitStorm." Brad and Drew, on their way to Photoshop World, dragged my caveman ass into an Apple store to buy an Iphone. Which is what I made the pictures for this blog with. Thankfully it does takes pictures. Cause otherwise, that puppy's just so much useless weight on the drag strip right now.
Oh well, it's Maine. (Forget it Jake, it's…Chinatown.) That beautiful stretch of Northeast that the rest of the country only remembers when they think about going someplace where it's not too hot in the summer. Lots of nice folks up here. Though it must be admitted, there is a substantial, crusty group of natives who think being born in the state of Maine automatically bequeaths to you the right to be grumpy towards anyone not born in the state of Maine. And boy, in the summer, there are lots of those folks. Vacationers everywhere. Folks from the big city who de facto have no brains, can't tie a bowline, get up senselessly late in the mawning, and are just uselessly frivolous because they weren't born and raised up in good old Maine, the land common sense. In particular, if you're not from here, you absolutely cannot operate a motor vehicle with any skill whatsoever. Given that fact, I drive very cautiously, so I don't pull a move that will piss off a local. You never know. The person driving that pickup truck you just cut off might be a congenial, blue jeaned, hard working man of the land with a few acres and a barn full of cows. Or he just might be a genuine, deep fried state o' Maine wingnut who got rid of the cows long ago and now has the barn stuffed with more heavy caliber automatic weaponry than a Somali warlord.
Nonetheless, people are on the roads, though. The traffic in downtown Camden on the weekends looks for all the world like the Manhattan side of the Holland Tunnel at 5pm. Why are all these folks here? Don't they know there's nothing to do here? I mean I guess there's stuff to do, like hiking, boating, fishing, antiquing, staring at the fog, beating back mosquitoes who when they score it feels like you just got stung by a Black and Decker power drill with wings, or trying to decipher driving directions given out in a Maine accent. But most of these endeavors smack of relaxation, so I'm not all that interested.
Best reason I know of to come here is…ice cream. If you are wandering around downtown Camden and are not interested in buying a duck decoy or a hoodie with a picture of a lobster on it, head for Camden Cone. They've got this flavor I've not seen around before–black raspberry chip. Scoops of purple inundated with big chunks of chocolate. Only downside was that after I finished, I walked six blocks with my empty ice cream cup, eventually just putting it in the truck and taking it home to throw out. Say what you will about New York, but every ten feet there's a trash can. More tk….
Notes from the Flightline….
Jun 7
In Rants, Travels at 10:46pm
Man it was rough at Kennedy. I mean, it's never easy at that nexus of sweat, angst, nerves and fatigue nestled near the Brooklyn shoreline. It's a classic case of way too many of the frayed, obnoxious and demanding being serviced by way too few of the disinterested and disgruntled.
The cafeteria line was really long, made longer by people demanding specialty food alterations that really didn't have a prayer of making anything that had been baking under glass for several hours in the noxious JFK terminal air taste any better.
One of the guys slinging food behind the counter did a quick, mostly covert move and appeared to get his finger so far up his nose as to indicate there might have been something truly valuable up there, but, ahhh, relief, he turned around and put on gloves. Thank goodness….with the motley and colorful variety of pizzas served there it would be tough to pick out a booger.
I got stuck behind two pleasant ladies who insisted on debating the various tantalizing merits of almost every offering, but then got themselves one slice of cheese pizza to split and moved forward. I was right behind them at the register when they sparked a lively debate with the cashier about getting the pizza/salad combo price and were informed the discount didn't apply to a piece of plain cheese pie.
It was all cordial and chummy, but it took several minutes to agree to the ala carte pricing. And then! Drumroll please! The search for the wallet begins! Both of these ladies had shoulder bags the size of say, a large turkey. They were both crafted in that puffy, fabric-y style that looked like they were stitched together from the also rans at last year's county fair quilting contest. Colorful is the kindest word I can find at this writing.
Eventually, the wallets were found, and the aforementioned pizza was bought. Why do women do that? Wait for the cashier to tell them the total and have a hand out before they in turn reach for the dough? I mean, they hadda zip open these bags and begin a rummage that would make the search for the holy frikkin' grail look as easy as a connect the dots game on a Denny's placemat.
I would not have put my hand inside one of these bags. The innards were spilling out and looked a bit reminiscent of that plant in Little Shop of Horrors. I was waiting for one of them to belch "Feed me!" in guttural tones. I'm surprised these women had all their fingers.
See, men don't do that. They belly up to the counter, $20 in hand, and just fork it over. Like Robin Williams says, you get your McBurger and fries, grab your McChange and get the McFuck outta there. Maybe it's cause we all remember our first illegal beer bought at a bar and we had no idea what it was gonna cost so we had a twenty ready to go so as not to get embarrassed by having to fish out some extra dough on the spot. Dunno. Might be genetic. Might be that chromosome right next to the one that causes Male Refrigerator Blindness.
Back to the ladies. Oh, we're not done! They also asked for cokes with lots of ice cause they had just got back from Europe, and you know, "In Europe, they just don't serve anything with ice! I mean, really! They drink their soda warm! Can you imagine? And you can't get tap water anywhere, it's all in bottles, they cost like $6 each! I tell you, we're glad to be back in America!"
And by golly, we're glad to have you back…
I got on the plane and was seated next to someone who was part of a group that couldn't get seats together so they were shouting to each other over the aisles. Pleasant. My neighbor allowed in a loud voice as he probably shouldn't have just had those 4 beers. It was a swell flight. More tk…..


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Penn State vs. Delaware
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|UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Host Penn State broke open a close game by
outscoring the University of Delaware 6-1 in the final quarter on the
way to a 16-8 non-leage men^�s lacrosse game Wednesday night at Jeffrey
The Blue Hens dropped their fifth straight contest, all to Top 20 teams, to fall to 2-6 on the season. Penn State snapped a four-game losing streak to improve to 4-4 on the season.
Delaware will look to snap the losing skid this Saturday as they travel to Connecticut to take on Colonial Athletic Association foe Sacred Heart for a 1 p.m. start. Both teams are 0-2 in CAA play and will be looking for their first ever CAA victory.
Blue Hen sophomore Ryan Metzbower (St. Mary^�s/Severna Park, MD), held to just one goal over the last three games, scored two goals and freshman Bryan Tingle (Central Bucks East/Jamison, PA) also scored twice to lead the Blue Hens. Matt Lehmann, Chris Bickley, Scott Evans, and Bob Meunier also added goals with Evans chipping in with an assist.
Will Driscoll led Penn State with six goals while Will Cutler added three goals and Luke Oglesby handed out five assists. In all, nine Nittany Lion players scored a goal on the evening.
Penn State took a 6-4 lead at halftime as Driscoll scored three of his goals. Delaware fought back and cut the Nittany Lion lead to 9-7 on a goal by Metzbower with 5:26 left in the third quarter.
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COLLEGES; Never Rowed? Take a Free Ride
By JULIET MACUR
Published: May 28, 2004
On the day Ohio State freshmen signed up for extracurricular activities like sororities, paintball and recreational badminton, Amanda Purcell heard a sales pitch. Two women on the university's varsity rowing team begged her to join.
Purcell, a 5-foot-9, 250-pound French horn player and music major who had never played a sport before, said no, but the women persisted. Finally, she decided to give it a try.
Suddenly, she had a new hobby -- and a new way to pay her college education.
A junior now, 60 pounds lighter and physically fit, Purcell has been on scholarship for more than a year and is competing in Ohio State's top varsity boat at this weekend's N.C.A.A. women's rowing championships in Sacramento. She is even thinking of the Olympics.
''I'm still shocked,'' Jim Purcell, Amanda's father, said. ''She was always afraid to touch any sport, but look at her now.''
Purcell and her family quickly learned a fact of life in the 21st century Title IX world: women are getting scholarships in sports they have never tried, perhaps never even heard of.
As an effort to satisfy Title IX legal requirements for gender equity in federally funded institutions, many colleges have added nontraditional sports for women, like rowing. It is a phenomenon particularly true of universities like Ohio State, an institution with a major football program that skews the balance of sports participation and scholarships in the men's favor.
Ohio State elevated its women's rowing program to varsity status nine years ago. Now, as the men's club team runs programs such as Rent-a-Rower ($50 for four hours of chores like raking leaves, cleaning garages or moving furniture to raise money for equipment and travel), the women are fully funded.
The team has an N.C.A.A. maximum 20 scholarships, and 16 women receive full rides. The remaining money is divvied up among other rowers. The team's annual budget is nearly $900,000.
''In the fall, rowing is a sport that you carry 70 to 80 people, then in the spring at least 46 kids get out and race,'' Ohio State's athletic director, Andy Geiger, said. ''It's an expensive sport, but it's worth it. It really does help offset football.''
Rowing has become a popular way to equalize any imbalance between men's and women's sports because it requires high numbers of athletes. A single varsity eight boat requires nine people: eight rowers and a coxswain, a small but vocal person who steers the boat and shouts commands.
Most teams have at least two eight-person boats on varsity and two more on the novice team. Many crews also have four-person boats, which carry four rowers and a coxswain.
It isn't easy, however, to keep rowers on the team. Rowing is a year-round activity, with fall and spring seasons, and weekly races from March through May. Many women who try the sport don't make it through the winter.
Though the National Collegiate Athletic Association puts limits on the number of practice hours, the time commitment is still daunting. Many teams practice twice a day, with a predawn workout on the water that could last several hours. In the afternoon, rowers head to the gym to lift weights or train on the rowing machine.
Blisters form on hands because of friction against oar handles. Pain and soreness develop in nearly every muscle because rowing uses the upper and lower body.
''Sure, you might get a scholarship,'' Geiger said. ''But it's not going to be easy.''
Eighty-five Division I colleges this year had women's rowing teams, a 55 percent jump from 1997, the year women's crew became an N.C.A.A. sport. And now the top teams aren't only the traditional rowing powers like the Ivy League universities and, say, the University of Washington.
Michigan, Virginia and Tennessee are all in the top 10. Ohio State is ranked third going into the championships. Cal is ranked No. 1.
''When we beat Princeton and Brown this year at Princeton, the silence was deafening,'' Ohio State Coach Andy Teitelbaum said. ''But these changes haven't happened overnight. It's taken awhile for us to build our programs.''
With so many programs offering rowing scholarships, recruiting has become instrumental in keeping new programs on top. The problem is that there aren't enough high school rowers to go around.
''We'd be recruiting a kid who'd already have three scholarship offers from Louisville, Texas and Michigan, and we'd be like, 'O.K., this isn't how it used to be,''' said Mike Zimmer, coach of the women's crew at Columbia, which, as an Ivy League university, does not give athletic scholarships but can offer grants and need-based financial aid.
''Now even the women who are on the middle of our list are being chased by a lot of different schools.''
And recruits aren't coming strictly from New England prep schools anymore. They are coming from high schools across the nation, even parts of the country with no history of rowing.
They are also coming from overseas. Ohio State's top varsity boat has rowers from schools called College of Olympic Reserve, Gymnasium Grosse Stadtschule and Red October. Seven of the nine people in the boat are international rowers: five from Germany, one from Russia, one from the Netherlands.


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Fragile economy aside, Jason Haynes is planning on spending more on holiday shopping this year than in past years.
"Since I am spending a little more this year because I have a girlfriend, I have to be even more frugal than I have been in the past," said Haynes, who's visiting Naples from Baytown, Texas.
Haynes — who was shopping at Best Buy in Naples on Tuesday night — plans on spending about $600 on gifts this holiday season and is being judicious about holiday shopping by looking around for the good deals.
"I'm just looking for sales," said Haynes, who's planning on spending $150 to $200 more this year on gifts. "That's what I'm after. So yeah, whatever they can give me as far as a bargain goes, two for one, freebies and things like that. I'm looking for those kinds of deals."
Like Haynes, many holiday shoppers are making prudent purchases this season regardless of how much they plan on spending. On the other side of the coin, many retailers are closely watching the consumers' every move and cautiously stocking their inventory to avoid a surplus of products sitting on their shelves and racks.
Although Haynes started doing his holiday shopping two weeks ago, he said he might wait until the last minute to buy some gifts in case retailers decide to slash prices and offer better sales in order to get rid of their inventory.
"I've been looking around," he said. "I'm not just going out and impulse buying or anything like that." Haynes is not the only one holding out for good deals.
A survey conducted on Dec. 5 and 6 by Wall Street firm UBS and Charleston, S.C.-based market research firm America's Research Group Ltd. found that out of those consumers who are not shopping, 95 percent said they will wait to Dec. 24 to get more items on sale.
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The National Retail Federation reported in a press release that November retail sales released by the U.S. Commerce Department show total retail sales have increased 1.3 percent since October and 1.8 percent year-over-year.
"Unlike last year, when the economic downturn caught everyone off-guard, retailers were able to plan ahead this holiday season with an eagle eye on low inventory and aggressive discounts," said Rosalind Wells, the National Retail Federation's chief economist.
Danielle Farley and her mother, Norma Lester — who were shopping at Target on Airport-Pulling Road Tuesday night — have noticed the retailers cutbacks on inventory this holiday season.
"I've also noticed this year that none of the merchants have near the selection or merchandise that they had last year," Lester said. "They've only got like a fourth of the demand, so there's a lot more scrambling to not only find the bargain, but to find the product."
The mother and daughter said they have always been prudent holiday shoppers, but this year they are planning on spending significantly less on holiday gifts.
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The UC Pension Controversy and Me
I cosigned a letter to the UC President Mark Yudof and the Regents concerning pension benefits which has generated a great deal of concern, anger and confusion. My reasoning will leave many people unsatisfied, but I nevertheless owe you a careful explanation. First, some background. (You may want to skip these details.)
Benefits in UC's retirement plan depend on (1) length of service and (2) the three highest-salary years (typically the years just before retirement). To get 100% of your salary in retirement, you must serve 40 years and be over age 65. An IRS regulation, however, provides that the amount included in that highest-salary calculation is capped, currently at $240,000. The IRS has discretion to lift that cap, and typically does so for non-profit organizations, where deferred compensation tax gimmicks or abuses are rare. In 1999, UC officials said promised to seek that waiver, which the IRS finally granted in 2007. UC has never implemented it.
The overall UC pension problems were created largely by the Regents' decision 18 years ago to eliminate employee contributions to the plan, which had generous balances at the time, coupled with their failure to reinstitute those contributions when the ink turned red early in the new century. So, in the fall of 2009, President Yudof ordered senior UC officials to conduct a detailed review and propose reforms. The Regents discussed the resulting proposal in November 2010, and planned to act at their December 2010 meeting. Among other reforms, employees will start again contributing to their pensions this spring, with higher paid folks of course contributing more. (Currently, California contributes nothing, but does contribute to pensions in the California State University and Community College systems.) Tucked away in Appendix E was a proposal to "undo" the 1999 commitment to lift the $240,000 cap. Whether that commitment had contractual force is what I would call a "nice" legal question. It's disputed.
Meanwhile, a year ago and shortly after the pension reform study began, a group of administrators wrote a letter to the UC Office of the President pointing out that the commitment to lift the cap had not been implemented. The letter, which I cosigned, stated that doing so is an important part of offering the competitive compensation packages that help us hire and retain the faculty and executives required by the "excellence" component of UC's mission. There were further discussions, not including me, but to no avail. Therefore, as final Regental action drew near and because UCOP officials requested a formal document, an expanded group sent the most recent letter, which I signed at the request of UCLA colleagues. The most numerous and energetic people have been from UC's five medical centers. The letter was volunteered to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter by a leader of the UC faculty senate, not by one of the signers, nor by a UCOP official. Of course, as a public document, UCOP would have provided the letter if anyone requested it.
The letter effectively caused the Regents to defer action on the "salary cap" issue until their March 2011 meeting. A few days later, a media brouhaha ensued. President Yudof and Regents Chair Russ Gould issued a statement that implementing the 1999 commitment to lift the cap is not required as a matter of contract law, and should not be honored in light of our budget circumstances.
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On the policy merits, my view in December 2010 was the same as my view in January 2010, when I cosigned the first letter to the pension study group. I have spent almost seven years battling successfully to hire and retain the best possible faculty and the strongest possible administrative team. It is the most difficult, satisfying, painful and important part of my job. My experience has made me absolutely certain that paying competitive total compensation is necessary (though not alone sufficient) if we want to sustain excellence. If Boalt and Berkeley had not been interested in that excellence, I—like most faculty and students—would not have come.
Within a few short years, approximately 50 Berkeley faculty will be affected by the cap, concentrated in Business, Economics and Law. The same pattern exists at UCLA, plus their world renowned Medical Center. Across UC's ten campuses, I am told there are about 450 affected individuals, overwhelmingly faculty or faculty who, like me, are serving temporarily as administrators. More will be affected as salaries rise competitively.
- Some deans report the signal that UC may not keep its promises is already having a chilling impact on recruitment and retention of faculty and top administrators. The issue comes up in every single recruitment conversation I have with a faculty candidate, and the expected round of new state budget cuts can only make things worse.
- Why did I sign the December 2010 letter? Simply put, I believe in the institutional principle at stake and, therefore, I felt that the honorable thing to do was join others in stating my position and taking the criticism. I'd probably do the same thing again, but lose more sleep first.
- The politics are awful, and yes, the timing is terrible. But the timing was driven by the Regents' schedule, not us. The timing of the voluntary disclosure, without any context, was driven by a leader of the faculty senate, not us. As for politics, the real story here is that the UC leadership has rejected the pension claim, demonstrating commendable frugality. If I were in President Mark Yudof's shoes, I would do the same thing he has done, at least until the budget environment improves. Ultimately, however, making this investment in competitive compensation is a fight about three or so ten-thousandths of the UC budget—even less after employee contributions.
- The fight is also about something else. Many UC practices necessary to its mission are unpopular with newspaper editorial boards and with much of the general public. There are circumstances—one must debate which—when UC leaders have a responsibility to defend those policies and publically explain themselves, even when disapproval is inevitable. You expect and receive criticism and even protests because these choices are inescapably difficult.
- But it is what it is. I suppose some members of the public object to competitive salaries because they (correctly) believe that professors are privileged, or (incorrectly) believe that working at a "public" institution should have a component of voluntarism. They may think that the luminous public mission and the personal satisfactions we faculty and staff derive from it will help pay the rent or mortgage, the childcare or tuition, our healthcare or retirement security. Some may even believe that the cost of educating students should be subsidized not only by taxpayers and alumni, but also by employees, or at least some employees.
- I think that a certain amount of controversy is necessary because excellence always means exceptional. Most of the public would probably oppose tenure, sabbatical leaves, support for basic research, admitting out-of-state or foreign students, and below-market tuition for students heading for elite careers in business or law. And, as I've discovered and Berkeley has experienced, much of the public doesn't care about academic freedom. UC leaders must be prepared to defend these policies despite their unpopularity, and have almost always done so.
The faculty and administrators who signed the pension letter are personally prepared to continue making sacrifices; there are many possibilities for compromise, now or later. But retirement security is especially sensitive, especially those of us in advanced middle age. So, Yes, many of the letter's signatories also have a personal financial stake, and stating that in our letter was tactically important in case there is litigation. Apart from the disputed legalities, however, the issue is an important one of policy and principle for the University.
Finally, returning to the pension controversy, I'm not surprised by the comments from the general public, nor from several faculty across campus—some of whom who think nothing of spending $2 million to renovate laboratory space for a new assistant professor but resent the Law School trying to compete with NYU or Chicago or Virginia in compensation. I expect all of that.
I can't help but be dismayed, however, by the remarkably ugly tone of some blog postings and emails authored within the Boalt community. Of course there will be grumbling and even opposition to some of the things I'm trying to do to move Berkeley Law forward. Clearly, however, I have not done all I can and must to explain and persuade. If you've read this far, then I thank you for letting me try.
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New Zealand v England: Finn happy with tourists' application
Steven Finn says England were happy with their bowling display on a flat wicket despite New Zealand finishing day one of the third Test on 250-1.
Finn took the only wicket of the day when Hamish Rutherford slashed to Alastair Cook at first slip, with Peter Fulton (124 not out) and Kane Williamson (83no) piling on the runs.
"One wicket wasn't ideal but they haven't got away from us," said Finn.
To bowl or not to bowl?
Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott: "I don't know why you would want to field first, possibly for two days, before you have a bat. There was nothing in the pitch, there has been no reverse swing and no spin for Monty."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "I would have done the same as Alastair Cook at the toss earlier, but the fact is I'd have been wrong as well."
Former New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney: "I'm loathe to blame Alastair Cook for putting New Zealand into bat first. All the signs were there that the pitch would assist the fast bowlers. However, it hasn't turned out that way."
"If we can get quick wickets tomorrow, we will be in a good position."
On a lifeless Auckland pitch, England, who won the toss and chose to field first, struggled to create opportunities as Fulton, with a maiden Test century, and Williamson shared an unbroken second-wicket stand of 171.
However, the tourists kept the run rate down, with the Kiwis scoring at less than three an over throughout the day.
"When we looked at the wicket this morning there was a lot of green grass on it," said Finn. "But it hasn't done as much as we thought it would.
"It's good that we didn't go chasing the game too much and leak boundaries. We stuck to our guns really well.
"As we have done in the past, we have to find a way on flat wickets."
It was a memorable day for Fulton, 34, who finally scored his maiden ton seven years after making his Test debut. His unbeaten 124 came off 277 balls and contained 15 fours and three sixes.
"I've played a few Tests now and haven't been able to get a century," Fulton said. "I guess if I'm being brutally honest at the start of this season I thought maybe my time had come and gone.
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It opens on the 27th in many overseas territories including the UK and Australia, so a week before that isn't that far in advance.
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Anzhi Makhachkala's star players were facing a search for new clubs Wednesday after billionaire owner Suleiman Kerimov decided to drastically cut the side's budget and scale down its ambitions, according to reports.
Stars including Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o, Brazil's Willian and Russian international Yury Zhirkov could all be looking for new clubs after oligarch Kerimov ordered Anzhi's most expensive players to go, Sport Express daily reported.
Kerimov has yet to comment on the move, which has stunned the Russian football world, but club president Konstantin Remchukov confirmed that Anzhi would be undergoing a "serious shake-up" with a substantially reduced budget of up to $70 million (52 million euros).
Izvestia daily said Zhirkov and Russian international captain Igor Denisov, who only arrived at Anzhi this season from Zenit St Petersburg, have already agreed contracts to join Dinamo Moscow.
Kerimov took over the club at the heart of the restive Russian republic of Dagestan in January 2011 and ploughed huge funds into it, hoping to turn the side into serious contenders for European honours.
But Kerimov experienced stress-related health problems after watching Anzhi's humbling 1-0 home defeat to Rostov on Friday and decided to make a drastic change, Sport Express said.
The paper said that Kerimov held a meeting with Anzhi's players after the Rostov game and promised them the club would meet its financial obligations and help them find new clubs.
Russian media also said that Kerimov suffered huge financial losses from last week's plunge in the share price of the Uralkali Russian potash producer in which he is a main shareholder.
Sport Express said that Kerimov may have lost $500 million in one day after Uralkali effectively ended a price cartel and warned on global potash prices. The sudden about-turn by the owner of the pre-season title favourites also deals a blow to the image of Russian football as it prepares to host the 2018 World Cup.
"If it is not possible to keep the footballers within the limits of the reduced budget then they are going to have to go," wrote Yevgeny Lovchev, the football editor of the Sovyetsky Sport daily.
According to Sport Express, Kerimov said he was not selling the club and that Anzhi's former manager Gadzhi Gadzhiev would take over in the near future. Gadzhiev will replace Dutch manager Rene Meulensteen, a former assistant to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, who took over from countryman predecessor Guus Hiddink two weeks ago.
The club's president Remchukov confirmed on his Twitter account that "many of our expensive stars will leave Anzhi, while the club's budget will be decreased to $50-$70 million a year."
"We failed to clinch rapid success. Now Anzhi will develop its academy according to the medium-term plans of club development."
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I try to be the best mom I can, but I am a Sh@tty Mom. I am not ashamed. If you say you're good mom, GREAT. We're just not going to be friends and that's okay because you're a liar.
Sh@tty Moms keep it real. Do you recognize yourself in these chapter titles? I do.
Chapter 37 – Miss Work Without Saying it's Because of Your Sick Kid
One day my son was sick so I called in. I thought it would be considered a sick day for me but when I returned I discovered the new company policy. If your kid was sick and you called in, you were charged a vacation day. Keep in mind I had taken a total of three sick days in a decade — I always showed up. From that policy change moment on, it was miraculous! My children were never sick again!
And neither were any of my parent co-worker friends. I, however, did have to call in when I had Fifth Disease, pink eye and complications due to puberty.
Chapter 12 – Organized Sports Might be Great for the Kids, but they Suck for You
One of my most favorite organized sports moments happened in pee-wee football. A dad said to me, "I'm sorry about your son." What? My blood pressure spiked, was he hurt, did I miss some awful tackle? Sorry about my son? Did he commit armed robbery? What??
"Well he's so little, short you know? He's good but just too small. It's a shame."
A shame? "Well, he doesn't have much a future," said the dad.
I'm guessing he meant in football. Maybe he meant in life? I promptly explained that despite my 5-foot-3 disadvantage, I had a job, a driver's license and one time I saw Mel Torme in an airport. Top that! I soldiered on despite my advanced shortness. I may have said something like that to the dad with an epithet at the end. Sidenote: My son grew to be of human height and a varsity football starter on a playoff team. Ahem.
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Founded in 1985, the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) conducts domestic violence training, counseling, community outreach, program management and technical support.
ICADV has distinguished itself as a leader in anti-racism work among statewide domestic violence coalitions. ICADV took a courageous action acknowledging racism within its institution and making public its commitment to work towards building an anti-racist, inclusive organization with diverse women in positions of leadership.
The following is the ICADV Statement of Admission that appears on their website:
The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which is a coalition made up of domestic violence programs in Iowa, admits that it s a primarily white coalition dominated by white women. We recognized that the combination of racial prejudice and the power that enforces that prejudice exists in all facets of ICADV on an individual, as well as an institutional level. We know that European Americans benefit from privileges that are not available to people of color. We acknowledge that the voices of women of color have not been heard. The institutionalization of white feminist thinking and values creates and maintains an environment within the Coalition that prevents the full participation of women of color as leaders, advocates and women seeking services. We acknowledge that white women in the anti-domestic violence movement individually and collectively share the responsibility for creating this environment. We acknowledge that it is the responsibility of white women in the movement to change this environment.
ICADV found that putting the admission of racism in writing actually opened doors to working with organizations serving women of color, which were previously distrustful of the Coalition and became more willing to work with ICADV.
Over the past five years, ICADV has worked to develop culturally competent programs and practices and continue its antiracism and community organizing work. One of its program initiatives is the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (LIFT) aimed at increasing the leadership of women of color within the domestic violence movement. Half of the Board of the LIFT program is comprised of white women program directors, many of them nearing retirement age, bringing attention to the fact that succession planning is an important issue for the movement. It is anticipated that through the training and mentoring offered by LIFT, women of color will be afforded many more opportunities to assume leadership positions in domestic violence service organizations throughout the state.
ICADV also helped to establish MUNA, a unique program that provides comprehensive services to immigrant survivors of domestic violence. ICADV understood the importance of having women from immigrant communities serve as an active part of the agency. Community members were hired, trained and mentored to provide services to their own communities, encouraging them to develop services that truly addressed cultural needs. ICADV recognized the importance of flexibility in the hiring process in order not to shut the door to community members by over professionalizing the job requirements.
After a few years, ICADV realized that it was necessary to create a more formal program that could expand the work with, and for immigrant women – making it more visible and more stable - including securing additional funding for the program. The Coalition then made the determination to utilize its resources and seek funding for the MUNA (Mujeres Unidas Por Un Nuevo Amanecer) Legal Clinic.
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Spring Lake advanced to the Division 2 soccer state finals thanks to Nic Ellingboe's goal with 1:17 remaining in Wednesday's semifinal game at Plainwell High School. (Tribune photos/Matt DeYoung)
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