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Medical Scans Reveal Rare
Documents Inside
17th Century Statue
By Emi Kolawole
The New York Eagle News/The Washington Post
T
By David Welch, Chris Burritt and Lauren
Coleman-Lochner
he hospital admissions
sheet simply read:
"Name: Buddha; DOB:
1662."
The 350-year-old patient's
visit started with a routine
x-ray in the summer of 2008.
But doctors discovered there
were signs of an unknown
mass inside his head and yet
another inside his stomach
— objects that his new caretakers were intent on identifying and extracting if at
all possible. The x-ray wasn't
detailed enough to make a
proper diagnosis, so doctors
at Shands at the University of
Florida in Gainesville cleared
the schedule and ordered a
CAT scan.
After a trip through the
scanner, receiving a radiation
dose higher than any human
could endure, doctors and
"Buddha's" caretakers were a
step closer to identifying the
mysterious masses.
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hen Best Buy
said Thursday it
was closing 50
big stores and opening 100
smaller ones, the world's
largest electronics retailer
But why stop there when
they could get more detail?
An endoscopy was scheduled roughly two weeks later
at North Florida Regional
Medical Center in Gainesville.
And, after three scans at two
medical centers, doctors,
with the help of Buddha's
caretakers, were able to identify the mysterious masses:
rare religious texts.
It was a surprising discovery, since Buddha is a Korean
bodhisattva, or "bodhi" for
short, and his caretakers are
curators at the University of
Florida's Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art who, until then,
had no idea the documents
were inside the statue. The
two sets of documents — in__________________
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By James S. Russell
The New York Eagle News/Bloomberg News
I
London. "People are still cutting back. People are buying
more products online so there
is a real case for downsizing
stores."
Big-box retailers essentially
A side view of a 350-year-old Korean bodhisattva statue shows the gilt-wood exterior. The statue underwent an x-ray and other medical tests to
uncover secrets hidden inside. (Courtesy of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art).
Wrecking Ball, $67 Million Bill Hang
Over N.Y. Landmark
drove into the picturebook village of Goshen,
N.Y., past the Gothic-style
church that dominates Main
Street. A bit farther on I came
to the pile of concrete boxes
that some deem a masterpiece.
The Orange County Government Center, by the oncefamed architect Paul Rudolph,
may soon have a date with the
wrecking ball.
No one would confuse the
1971 building with the usual
anonymous blob of soulless
government
bureaucracy.
Beefy piers hold up three stories of long boxcar shapes that
look as if they had been frozen
Best Buy Store
Closings Signal
End of Big-Box
Dominance
in the process of chugging past
one another. Massive plateglass windows fill the staggered, sliced-off ends.
It's a magnetic composition
of offices and law courts that
has been closed since storms
last fall flooded the basement
and opened leaks in some of
the 80 separate roof levels.
The storms were the last
straw for County Executive
Edward Diana, R, who says
the building is one big maintenance headache.
"It's about efficiency and effectiveness," said Diana, who
Paul Rudolph’s design of the Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., has been
undercut by paving around its exterior and neglect. City officials face the difficult choice
of spending a lot of money to either raze it or replace the building, listed by the World
Monuments Fund as a threatened landmark.(Bloomberg News photo by James S. Russell).
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Best Buy and other “big box” retailers are planning to open smaller stores to adjust to
changing shopping habits. (Bloomberg News photo by David Paul Morris).
was adjusting to reality: The
era of big-box retail dominance is coming to an end.
The new mantra is small
box. While Best Buy, WalMart Stores and Target are
still opening large stores, all
are putting increasing emphasis on smaller ones. Best Buy
plans to double the number
of its smaller Best Buy Mobile
stores by 2016. Wal-Mart is
building as many as 100 smallformat stores this year, while
Target is opening five CityTarget locations.
After 50 years of putting
mom and pops out of business, big-box retail is having a mid-life crisis. A slow
economy has hurt same-store
sales, narrowing margins at big
stores. Meanwhile, consumers,
armed with price-comparison
technology, are visiting more
stores seeking deals or exclusive merchandise rather than
making one-stop, fill-the-cart
excursions.
"We're undergoing a seismic
shift," said Natalie Berg, an
analyst with Planet Retail in
come in two flavors: so- called
category killers such as Best
Buy that focus on one type of
merchandise, and discounters like Wal-Mart and Target,
which sell a broader range of
goods.
Big-box retail was born
in 1962. That's the year that
Wal- Mart, K-Mart and Target all opened their first large
discount stores. As they grew,
the new big boxes began offering broad selection and low
prices to a growing population of suburbanites who had
left the cities in their new cars,
searching for their piece of the
American Dream.
Big boxes boomed in the gogo 1990s. Fueled by an inflated
stock market and loose credit,
Americans expanded farther
into the suburbs and filled
their new homes with appliances and consumer goods,
said John Lupo, a retired WalMart executive who now sits
on the board of AB Electrolux.
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serted only months after the statue
was carved — were written in two
separate languages. One set was
written in Korean and the other is a
dharani written in a combination of
Chinese and a Nepalese script called
Ranjana. While the documents have
not been fully translated, segments
of the text were discovered to be
the Lotus Sutra — one of the most
sacred texts in Buddhism.
On Saturday, the bodhi will make
his debut as part of the university's
collection in the new Cofrin Asian
Art wing at the Harn. The wooden
statue, which represents a being
that refrains from achieving enlightenment out of compassion and a
desire to help others on their own
path to Nirvana, was previously part
of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s collection.
The bodhi was acquired by the University of Florida in April 2008 for an
undisclosed amount.
Harn Museum curator Jason Steuber oversaw the acquisition of the
bodhi and its eventual trip through
the x-ray, CAT scan and endoscopy
procedure.
"We started [the x-ray] very early
in the morning," Steuber said.
In the beginning, the process required only two staff members at
Shands: one doctor and a digital xray technician. But soon the team
started to grow.
"Eventually we had almost the
entire [radiology] department," said
Steuber. People were taking pictures with their cell phones and otherwise spreading the word. Eventually the head of radiology ordered
Buddha sent for a CAT scan for a
more detailed look inside.
"It was so beautiful," Steuber said.
Thanks to the x-ray and CAT scan,
curators discovered "a tremendous
amount of information," he said.
Prior to the tests, curators had no
idea the statue was carved from a
single piece of wood, except for a
few pieces, such as the hair knot,
hand, ears and base. The ears, hand
An X-ray image of a 350-year-old Korean statue shows a hollowed out abdomen and an iron nail used to attach the hand. (Courtesy of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art via
the University of Florida Digital Collections).
and base are attached with handmade iron nails. Without the scans,
said Steuber, it would have been impossible to see the handmade nails
inside, or the documents stored in
the abdomen and head.
Curators were able to retrieve the
documents inside the bodhisattva's
abdomen, but the pages inside the
head will likely never be removed,
since it would require damaging the
face of the sculpture. The accessible
documents will be featured alongside the bodhisattva for the first
time as part of the Harn's exhibit.
The endoscopy images of the documents inside the head, meanwhile,
serve as evidence of their existence
and state.
While mummies, among other
large artifacts, generally get the CAT
scanner treatment, according to
Steuber, it's a special treat to have
access to this type of scan for Korean art.
The collaboration, while not a first,
serves as an example of the discoveries that result when science, history and the arts converge.
© 2012, The Washington Post ■
Promoting Women Crucial to
Japanese Economy, Female CEO Says
By Mariko Yasu
The Eagle News/Bloomberg News
A
t her first job in Tokyo in
the 1970s, Yukako Uchinaga
hid in the ladies' room every
day at 8 p.m. while an inspector made
sure all female employees had gone
home. Then she came out and put in
more hours.
"My boss used to say, 'I don't want
to be put in jail,' " said Uchinaga, Berlitz's chief executive officer, referring
to a labor law that capped women's
overtime at two hours a day. "I complained it was unfair, like being in a
100-meter race with my hands and
feet tied, while all my male colleagues
ran freely."
Four decades after Uchinaga played
hide-and-seek with the now-defunct
law as an IBM systems engineer,
women occupy just 1 in 70 management positions at Japanese companies. Promoting women would help
companies be more diverse and break
the "salaryman monoculture" that
hinders change and growth, she said.
"Diversity is the key initiative
needed in Japan," Uchinaga, 65, said.
"Making better use of Japan's female
talents, who are educated and trained
in the same way as men, should be the
first step to promoting diversity."
Companies must change as the
world evolves, Uchinaga said Feb.
29 in Tokyo. Princeton, N.J.-based
Berlitz, which manages 565 learning centers worldwide, is responding
to clients' needs by adding business
training to its language courses, she
said.
Berlitz offers leadership training
programs for executives in Japan,
the U.S., Germany and France, and
is expanding the business to China,
Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Belgium and
Colombia, Uchinaga said. Its flagship
business program takes executives to
China and Brazil to teach them macroeconomics, supply-chain management and politics.
Berlitz, which sold control to
Okayama, Japan-based Benesse
Holdings in 1993, is targeting a sales
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Breeder Fights to Save
Israel's 'Biblical Dog'
By Nicolas Brulliard
Special to The Eagle News/The Washington Post
P
ricked, pointy ears and almond-shaped brown eyes. A
tan or black-and-white coat
and a tail that curls upward. For many
in Israel, this is the description of a
pesky stray that feeds on garbage. But
for a passionate few, it is a cultural
treasure that should be preserved.
Meet the biblical dog.
"When they talk about dogs in the
Bible, it was these," says Myrna Shiboleth, who has done more than
anyone to rescue the breed formally
known as Canaan dog. "It was the
same dog."
The archaeological evidence bears
it out, from 1st-century rock carvings
in the Sinai to the skeletons of more
than 700 dogs from the 5th century
B.C. discovered south of Tel Aviv.
When Jesus and Moses turned their
heads to the sound of a barking dog,
it was the Canaan that they saw.
But after surviving the birth of three
religions, the Crusades and countless
wars, the Canaan dog — one of the
oldest known breeds of pariah dogs
— is the focus of a battle that pitches
people who believe in the value of
preserving the primitive breed for
scientific and sentimental reasons
against modern bureaucracy. As often
is the case in Israel, land use is at the
heart of the battle.
In recent decades, scores of Canaan
dogs were destroyed in rabies eradication programs, and now only a few
hundred subsist in the Negev desert,
often living at the edges of Bedouin
camps. But as Bedouins increasingly
settle in cities, the Canaan dogs either
are left to fend for themselves or lose
their breed's traits by mating with urban dogs.
And now the Israeli government
is threatening to close the operation
that has been helping preserve the
breed by collecting rare specimens in
the desert, breeding them and shipping their offspring to kennels around
the globe, where they are recognized
by major organizations, from the
American Kennel Club to the Federation Cynologique Internationale, the
international canine federation.
In an eviction notice sent late last
year, the Israel Land Authority argues
that Sha'ar Hagai Kennels is illegally
occupying government land. Sha'ar
Hagai's Shiboleth says she moved
more than 40 years ago to what was
then an abandoned water station and
paid rent to the water company only
to find out that it didn't own the land.
She says she asked the land authority
about regularizing her situation and
heard nothing — until she received
the eviction notice. Moving, she says,
would be prohibitively expensive, and
few neighborhoods would welcome
noisy kennels.
In an online petition, about 2,000
people from dozens of countries and
nearly every U.S. state have taken up
Shiboleth's case, voicing outrage at
what they see as Israel's lack of attention to the fate of the "holy dog." One
even goes so far as to compare its fate
to that of the Jewish people and their
narrow escape from annihilation.
The matter is to be decided in court.
If she is not successful there, Shiboleth and her dogs face an exodus
that will most likely put an end to her
breeding program.
What surprises many people is that
the dog is getting so little support
compared with other beasts of the
Good Book.
Starting in the 1960s, Israel
launched an ambitious program to
bring back "the animals of the Bible
to the land of the Bible," says David
Saltz, an ecology professor at the
Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Targeted species included the Asiatic wild ass (a big success) and the
ostrich (a complete failure). The reintroduction efforts went to extreme
lengths: In one spectacular instance,
four Persian fallow deer were smuggled out of Iran.
The Canaan dog has been recognized as Israel's national breed, but
today's conservationists don't put
the hound on a par with the Arabian
white oryx, which receives full support from Israeli authorities after four
of the antelopes, purchased from the
Phoenix Zoo, were reintroduced in
1978.
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Canaan dogs are housed at Sha'ar Hagai Kennels in Israel, which may be closed by the government. (Photo by
Nicolas Brulliard for The Washington Post).
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would like to see it torn down in favor
of a new, larger structure.
Rudolph was an unsentimentally
Modernist showman whose most celebrated work was created in the 1960s
and 1970s when buildings in brawny
concrete were thought to ennoble.
That so-called Brutalist era hasn't
worn well, and several of Rudolph's
buildings are either threatened or
have been razed. He is best known for
the Yale Art and Architecture Building, which suffered many rough years
before blossoming again after a painstaking 2008 renovation.
Democratic county legislators and
a group called Taxpayers for Orange
County are resisting Diana largely
on fiscal grounds. The World Monuments Fund listed it as a threatened
landmark in hope of spurring recognition of its architectural quality.
I drove to Goshen, about an hour
northwest of New York City, to see if
this Rudolph deserved a reprieve. It's
not an easy call.
Insistently attention-grabbing in
photos, the building reveals a surprising delicacy in person. Rudolph's
complicated shape-making domesticates the building's institutional scale.
He then undercuts that savvy choice
by setting it well back from the street,
so that it presides like a manor house
on its oversized 24-acre site. Officials
over the years have brutalized what
was supposed to be a tree-veiled setting by paving much of the property.
From the parking lot, I ascended
a gentle flight of crumbling stairs,
where a densely planted hidden
courtyard opens as a surprise. Rudolph set the main entrances for the
three wings around this garden. It
isn't readily accessible to the disabled,
Each floor of the Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., has different levels, which has made
accommodating people with disabilities difficult. (Bloomberg News photo by James S. Russell).
so in recent years a service door
at parking-lot level has served as a
cramped, uninviting entry.
That's too bad, because Rudolph
didn't intend to send citizens down
long, coldly lit hallways. He choreographed an unveiling of the building.
Inside, huge plate-glass windows light
a dramatic ascent up sets of stairs,
with balconies zooming overhead, a
stairway posed contrapuntally, and
shafts of concrete rising to mysterious heights, set aglow by clerestory
windows.
The intricacy of Rudolph's spatial
gymnastics entices without overwhelming. He dignifies the mundane
tasks of paying taxes, filing permits,
and appearing in court.
Even with poor lighting and the litter of moving boxes, I could see that
the building demands a great deal of
its citizen owners. Rudolph conceived
every inch in three dimensions, so
floors and ceilings terrace up and
down in a dizzying number of levels.
This topography is neither space efficient nor friendly to those with limited mobility.
It isn't easy to keep so many roof
planes free of leaks. Replacing the
huge rusting, energy-wasting windows would be costly.
Restoration is also challenging because Diana and his predecessors
have neglected it. Water puddles
on the roof because protective tiles
have crumbled, impeding the flow to
drains. No one seems to have fixed
areas that persistently leak. A report
commissioned by the county executive shows a litany of deferred maintenance.
The report estimates that $67 million is needed to renovate the building, while a much larger strip-mall
Georgian replacement could cost
$136 million.
These numbers depend on too
many unknowns, which doesn't make
the decision to raze or renovate any
easier.
A renovation sensitive both to technical challenges and civic possibilities could reveal a building of great
character if not traditional beauty. I
am reminded of the lurid exoticism
of the Victorian Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, which fell out of
fashion. Now we love what's left and
mourn the lost landmarks.
I cannot guarantee that time will
similarly resuscitate Rudolph's reputation. The Orange County Government Center makes a powerful case
for itself.
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expansion to $1 billion by the middle
of this decade, from $563 million in
2010, Uchinaga said. Revenue at the
school rose 21 percent to $320 million in the first half ended June 30.
The company, whose key products
include online shopping sites and
magazines for pregnant women and
mothers, is scheduled to report 2011
earnings in May.
Uchinaga sits on the boards of Benesse and Sony and is an external auditor at Sompo Japan Insurance. She is
also chairman of the Japan Women's
Innovative Network, a Tokyo-based
nonprofit that researches and advises
on diversity management, helping
members such as Nissan advance
women's roles at their companies.
Uchinaga joined IBM's Japan unit
in 1971 after graduating with a degree
in theoretical physics from the University of Tokyo. She became the first
female board member at IBM Japan
in 1995 and was promoted to general
manager for Asia-Pacific technical
Promoting women would help companies be more
diverse and break the “salaryman monoculture”
that hinders change and growth, Yukako Uchinaga,
chief executive officer of Berlitz Corp., says during an
interview in Tokyo. (Bloomberg News photo by Koichi
Kamoshida).
IBM expanded its minority markets
dramatically by promoting diversity
in its workforce, David Thomas said
in the Harvard Business Review. By
deliberately seeking ways to reach
a broader range of customers, the
Commuters walk into a transit station in Tokyo in 2008. Women occupy just 1 in 70 management positions at
Japanese companies.(Bloomberg News photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi).
operations in 2004 before heading
Berlitz in 2008, according to her biography.
Uchinaga said she was inspired at
IBM Japan by Louis Gerstner. The
former IBM CEO revived the U.S.
computer maker after three straight
years of losses through 1993, helped
by a strategy of diversification.
IBM was a monoculture, Uchinaga
said: Its core management was comprised predominantly of white males,
and it had been hugely successful as
a business.
"Innovations cannot be born in
such an environment," she said.
company saw significant results in its
bottom line, Thomson wrote in 2004,
citing Gerstner.
Harnessing women is vital for Japan's flagging economy, according
to Goldman Sachs Group. Narrowing the nation's gender employment
gap can boost gross domestic product
by as much as 15 percent, based on a
2010 estimate by Goldman Sachs.
"With decreasing population leading to a potentially slowing economy,
Japan has no choice but to leverage
half its population more fully," Kathy
Matsui, a strategist at Goldman Sachs,
said. "Unless Japan does that, it's like
running a marathon with just one
leg."
Japan's economy shrank 0.7 percent
in 2011, the first contraction in two
years. Its population has been declining since 2006 and will reach an estimated 125.2 million by 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The World Economic Forum's
Global Gender Gap Report 2011,
tracking measures such as income
and education, ranked Japan 98th
among 135 countries, behind China,
Zimbabwe and Tajikistan. Iceland
topped the list, while the U.S. was
17th.
Listed companies in Japan had
40,493 executives in management
as of July last year, according to an
annual survey by Toyo Keizai, a researcher on economics and business.
Among them, 585, or 1.4 percent,
were women, the survey said.
Japan wants to increase the proportion of women in leadership roles at
companies and public offices to 30
percent by 2020, according to a Cabinet paper in June 2011.
The most common reason companies give for not having more female
managers is a failure to meet promotion criteria, such as recommendations from superiors, the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
said last year. Of the 53 companies
in the ministry's survey, 89 percent
didn't provide reasons for not promoting women.
Other obstacles are a lack of childcare support and inadequate attention to employee diversity in the private sector, Matsui said.
Even after Japan enacted the Equal
Employment Opportunity Law in
1986, overtime for women was restricted until the Labor Standards Act
was revised in 1997.
Sony spokesman Shinji Obana said
Uchinaga was appointed as a board
member because of her expertise in
information technology and her advice on diversity management.
Sony has had female board members since 2003. By comparison, Nomura Holdings and Panasonic were
among companies that appointed
their first female executives only in
the past year amid worsening earnings.
"Women will continue to raise their
profile in the corporate world," she
said. "We're still at an early stage of
the whole process, but the trend can't
be stopped."
- With assistance from Takashi Amano in Tokyo.
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Runaway Gas
Well Threatens
Total Revival as
Shares Slump
By Tara Patel and Brian Swint
T
otal's runaway well in the
North Sea jeopardizes Chief
Executive Officer Christophe
de Margerie's plan to reverse a production slump at France's largest oil
company.
Total is considering drilling an
emergency well to stop the five-dayold gas leak at the Elgin platform
that's helped wipe 7.9 billion euros
($10.5 billion) from its market value.
The operation would probably take
six months, depriving the Parisbased driller of fields that accounted
for about 2.5 percent of production in
2011 and threatening a target to increase output as much as 3 percent in
2012 after a decline last year.
De Margerie stepped up investment
in Britain and the company had set
its sights on becoming the biggest
producer in the country within the
next few years, overtaking BP Plc.
Total said Thursday the cloud of gas
lies about 100 meters (328 feet) from
a flare that's still burning on the platform.
"This isn't helpful to their plans in
the North Sea," said Jason Gammel,
an analyst at Macquarie Capital Europe in London. "If the platform goes
out, you could lose a lot of production
growth."
The flare, which is used in standard pumping procedures, appears to
be dying, Total spokesman Andrew
Hogg said by telephone Thursday
from Aberdeen, Scotland. The flare
wasn't extinguished when the installation was abandoned to combust any
gas remaining in the platform's pipes
and it should burn out, Total said yesterday.
The wind direction should keep
the gas cloud way from the flame for
a few more days as the company determines whether it's safe to return
workers to the rig. If the leak can't
be fixed at the wellhead, Total would
then make a decision about drilling a
relief well, Hogg said.
Total's three platforms at the Elgin
and Franklin fields about 140 miles
(225 kilometers) east of Aberdeen
are some of the biggest installations
in the world to pump oil and natural gas from so-called high-pressure,
high-temperature wells. Total is the
operator, with a 46 percent stake in
the fields, in which the company has
drilled new wells and added platforms in recent years in a bid to forestall the fields' decline.
"If it takes six months to drill a relief
well, it will take nine months to get
back to production," said Iain Armstrong, an analyst at broker Brewin
Dolphin in London.
The leak forced Total to halt output
at Elgin and Franklin, provoking revenue losses of between $5 million and
$10 million a day, according to JeanLuc Romain, an analyst at CM-CIC
Securities. This is based on Total's
share of output of 60,000 barrels a day
of oil equivalent a day at the fields.
Total produced about 2.3 million barrels a day last year.
"It's too early to say how long the
halt will last, a few weeks under the
best-case-scenario and months under
the worst," Romain wrote.
Should the field become "permanently unusable," costs for Total
would be 2.6 billion euros for its share
in Elgin and about 3.1 billion euros to
compensate partners, Fitch Ratings
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said. A relief well may cost as much as
$200 million, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Peter Hutton.
Last month, Total had forecast
production would climb this year
with projects in Angola, Nigeria and
Thailand after dropping 1.3 percent
in 2011. The company has pledged to
explore more aggressively for oil and
gas to reverse a slump that saw output
touch a nine-year low in 2009.
Growth this year will rise 2 percent
to 3 percent, based on how production evolves in Syria, where Total
halted operations because of political violence, Yves-Louis Darricarrere,
head of exploration and production,
told reporters on Feb. 10. "We should
be closer to 3 percent than 2 percent,"
he said.
At that time, he said the range
stemmed from uncertainty about
Libya and Syria. Total's Libyan output
from three fields is at about two-thirds
of the 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent
a day that was the company's share
before civil war broke out, while Syrian output of 30,000 barrels of oil
equivalent a day has been stopped as
civil unrest spreads.
Total has said that investment in
North Sea fields would make it the
biggest oil and gas operator in Britain
in the coming years, challenging BP
and Royal Dutch Shell.
The company's strategy was to grow
by exploration in hubs like Elgin
Franklin, where new wells and wellhead platforms were planned. The
company described the complex in
2009 as the deepest producing field
in the North Sea and the largest socalled high-pressure, high-temperature development in the world.
For now, "I don't see why they
wouldn't be able to achieve their
long-term goals," said Macquarie's
Gammel.
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Farey contributed from London.
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later and delaying having their own
children, meaning fewer are buying
houses that need to be updated and
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"Right now you have a trough in the
need for big-box retail," said Bryan
Gildenberg, an analyst with the Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm
Kantar Retail.
Hence the rush to open smaller
stores. By 2016, Richfield, Minn.based Best Buy plans to have as many
as 800 Mobile Stores, up from 305
now. It's part of Chief Executive Officer Brian Dunn's plan to generate
revenue from warranties, accessories
and connections between phones,
tablets and other electronics.
The increasing emphasis on smaller
stores still leaves room for big stores,
according to Dunn.
"We see those stores as an important part of a network in conjunction with our small-box stores, our
online capabilities and our on-phone
capabilities that allow customers to
reach us anytime, anywhere, anyhow
they choose," he said in a telephone
interview. "While I don't see this as
a decline of the big boxes, the multichannel approach that we are taking
will require less square footage."
Wal-Mart, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., is also sticking with
big stores. While the company aims
to add at least three times as many
Neighborhood Markets as in 2011, it
plans to add up to 150 supercenters,
compared with 122 last year.
"The supercenter is still what works
best for us," said Deisha Galberth
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presence of super centers."
Shoppers' stampede online is also
hurting big-box chains. The biggest
beneficiary of that shift is Amazon.
com Inc., which is grabbing market
share from Wal-Mart, Best Buy and
Target.
"The biggest challenge for big boxes
is increasing consumer confidence in
making online purchases," said Matt
Arnold, an analyst at Edward Jones
& Co. in Des Peres, Mo. "Best Buy is
arguably more exposed than the WalMarts of the world that are heavy in
the food, apparel and consumables
category. In the case of consumer
electronics, it comes down to price."
If Best Buy and its big-box ilk are to
survive, they'll have to evolve and do
a better job of integrating their brickand-mortar locations with their Web
stores, Arnold said.
"While big-box retailers are struggling, they aren't going away," Arnold
said in a telephone interview. "They
are shifting to smaller formats and
investing in online retailing."
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Janet R. Hammond
Avoca, NY - Janet R. Hammond,
75, passed away March 25, 2012 at
Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital in
Bath. Born in Elkland, Pa on Feb. 23,
1937, she was a daughter of the late
Raymond and Arbutus Bliss Hammond. Besides her parents, Janet was
also predeceased by two granddaughters, Melissa and Stacey; and two sisters and two brothers.
Janet was employed in the housekeeping department of St. James
Mercy Hospital in Hornell before her
retirement.
Janet’s family includes her husband,
Victor, whom she married in Wallace in 1955; her 10 children, Mary
(Doug) Erickson, Victor (Brooke)
Hammond, Jr., Judy Dunaway, Jeffrey
(Brandy) Hammond, Brenda (Jim)
Kirkum, Raymond (Anastasia) Hammond, Allan Hammond, Gary (Michelle) Hammond, Gerald (Missy)
Area Students Winners in Fugitive Arrested in
Rotary Contest on Ethics
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The finals of the 2012 Rotary District 7120 Oratorical Contest on Ethics were held recently at SUNY Brockport. The event was the culmination
Nunda; fourth place, Ivana Hernandez, Greece Athena High School,
Rochester Latino; and fifth place, JoAnna Northrop, Campbell-Savona
Central School, Campbell-Savona.
Jeff Krans, Past District Governor
At the Finals of the 2012 Rotary District 7120 Oratorical Contest on Ethics (l-r): District Governor Norma MadayagReilly, Matthew Skinner, Gracie Elliot, Blaithe Donovan, Ivana Hernandez, JoAnna Northrop, and Oratorical Chair,
Past District Governor Jeff Krans. (photo provided).
of months of competitions sponsored
by local Rotary Clubs. These events
had 136 eleventh grade students from
11 counties compete for a spot in the
final competition. Winners including
their respective schools and sponsoring Rotary Clubs were: first place,
Matthew Skinner, Red Jacket High
School, Red Jacket; second place,
Gracie Elliott, Rochester School of the
Arts, Bloomfield; third place, Blaithe
Donovan, Keshequa High School,
and Oratorical Contest Chair, announced that the top five winners are
now eligible for scholarships from the
following institutions of higher learning: Alfred University, Elmira College, Keuka College, Monroe Community College, Nazareth College,
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. John
Fisher College, SUNY Brockport,
SUNY Geneseo, and The University
of Rochester. ■
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Jeffery J. Mitchell, age 48, of Manheim, PA was arrested at the Bath VA
on March 22, 2012, as he is wanted
by the South Lebanon Township
Police Department in Pennsylvania
for committing a bank robbery on
March 1, 2012. Mitchell was located
at the Bath Veterans Administration
Facility and was arrested without incident.
Mitchell was arraigned as a fugitive from justice in the Town of Bath
Court by Town Justice James Burns.
He was committed to the Steuben
County Jail, awaiting extradition
proceedings. The Bath Veterans Administration Police Dept. assisted the
New York State Police with Mitchell’s
arrest. ■
Obituaries
Hammond, and Amy (Will) Nunn;
also a "barn full" of grandchildren,
step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren; her brother, Harry (Ella)
Baker; also several half sisters and
one half brother; as well as several
nieces, nephews and special friends,
Fred Zeh and Pam (Don) Hammond.
A funeral service was held March
29, 2012 at the Avoca Funeral Home,
Avoca, with the Rev. Daniel Pickering
officiating. Committal services and
interment followed at Valley View
Cemetery, Avoca. In lieu of flowers,
those wishing may contribute in her
memory to the Wallace Volunteer
Fire Dept., 9087 State Route 415, Avoca, N.Y. 14809.
***
BRANCHPORT
Pamela A. (Allen) Welker
Branchport, NY - Pamela A.
Welker, 63, passed away unexpectedly March 24, 2012. She was born
November 11, 1948 in Kalamazoo,
MI, to Darrell and Glenna Blok Allen.
Pam worked as a Republican Election Commissioner and as a clerk at
the Department of Motor Vehicles.
She enjoyed hiking, rollerblading,
playing piano and singing in the
Dresden United Methodist Church
choir. Pam also loved animals and her
friends and family.
Pamela is survived by her husband,
Dale W. Welker; mother, Glenna Allen; sons, Jeff (Sandy) Welker and
Kenneth (Teresa) Williams; stepson,
Brian D. Welker; stepdaughter, Debra
(Bryan) Sutherland; grandchildren,
Derek and Kyle Welker, and Caitlin
and Emily Williams; step-grandchildren, Corey and Tyler Sutherland;
brother, Larry (Dorothy) Allen; sister,
Nancy Salisbury; and several nieces,
nephews and cousins.
A memorial service was held at
Dresden United Methodist Church
March 31, 2012, with Rev. Marilyn
Wood officiating. Memorial contributions in Mrs. Welker's name may
be made to the Dresden UMC Memorial Fund, PO Box 172, Dresden,
NY 14441; The Humane Society of
Yates County, PO Box 12, Penn Yan,
NY 14527; Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program, Inc, P.O.
Box 25043 Farmington, NY 14425; or
Milly's Pantry, 19 Main Street, Penn
Yan, NY 14527. Arrangements were
made through Townsend-Wood Funeral Chapel, Penn Yan.
***
BRISTOL
Jai Dill
Bristol, NY - Jai Dill, 8, passed
away at his home on March 26, 2012,
surrounded by his family. Jai was born
on July 31, 2003 in Canandaigua, NY,
the son of Brian and Doreen Dill.
He was predeceased by his maternal
grandmother Sarah Regan-Baier and
paternal grandfather Paul Dill.
Jai is survived by his parents Brian
and Doreen Dill of Bristol; grandpar-
ents David (Chrissy) Baier of Moravia, NY and Barbara Dill of Barker,
NY; and many aunts, uncles, and
cousins.
Funeral services were held March
31, 2012 at the St. Januarius Church
in Naples. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to
Golisano Children's Hospital, CURE
(Childhood Cancer Assoc.), ROK
(Reaching Out To Kids), or the Ronald McDonald House. Arrangements
were with the Baird-Moore Funeral
Home in Naples.
***
COHOCTON
Rosemary Albee
Cohocton, NY - Rosemary Albee, age 46, passed away peacefully
March 30, 2012 at Robert Packer
Hospital in Sayre, PA.
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Rosemary was born September 26,
1965 in Inchon, Korea, a daughter of
Raymond and Kil (Pok) Albee. She
was a 1984 graduate of Cohocton
Central School. She joined the Cohocton Fire Dept. & Ambulance in
1984 until 1988. Rosemary was an
EKG Tech and Unit Secretary at St.
James Mercy Hospital in Hornell.
Rosemary was an active member
of the Cohocton Fire Department
and Cohocton Ambulance. She was a
CPR and AED Instructor as well as a
member of the CISM (Critical Stress
Management) team. She ran the concession stand at the Wayland Little
League for several years. She enjoyed
scrapbooking, her flower garden, filling bird feeders (not always for the
birds, but also for some pesky squirrels), latch-hook and plastic canvas,
but most of all she loved spending
time with her son and caring for her
family and friends on the ambulance.
Rosemary is survived by her son,
Joseph (Alexandra) Albee, stationed
at Maguire Air Force Base; her loving
companion, Gary Lannoye of Cohocton; her brother, Richard (Colleen)
Albee of Rochester; her sister, Linda
Albee (Jeff McGlire) of Wayland; her
aunts and uncle, Roseanna Harris of
Howard and David and Millie Harris
of NC; 3 nephews, 1 niece and several
cousins.
Funeral services were held April 4,
2012 at the Walter E. Baird & Sons
Funeral Home, Wayland. Burial was
set for Howard Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Cohocton
Ambulance or Cohocton Fire Dept.
in memory of Rosemary.
***
L.D. Towner
Cohocton, NY - L.D. Towner, 74,
passed away March 19, 2012 at his
home on Hillside Lane in the Town
of Avoca. Born in Cohocton on Aug.
28, 1937, he was a son of the late Joseph and Josephine Wheaton Towner.
Besides his parents, L.D. was also
predeceased by his daughter, Christine; his sister, Edith; and his brother,
Raymond.
L.D. was employed as a farmer and
loved stock car driving as well as
hunting.
L.D.’s family includes his wife, Nancy Danielson Towner; his four children, Sarah (Caesar) Taccone of Cohocton, L.D. Towner, Jr. of Hornell,
Joseph (Kim) Towner of Avoca, and
Brenda Towner of Hornell; his seven
grandchildren, Andrew (Danielle)
Towner, Heather Towner, Amanda
Towner, all of Hornell, Adam Towner
of Cohocton, Joshua Towner of Wayland, and Corey Towner and Becky
Towner of Avoca; three great-grandchildren, Jaylin, Piper and Chase, all
of Hornell; his three sisters, Sue (Jay)
Sabins of Cohocton, Helen (Harold)
Stanbrook of Red Creek, and Mary
Esther Zigenfus of Avoca; his brother,
Maynard (Eloise) Towner of Andover; also several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service was held in
L.D.’s memory March 23, 2012 at
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Highland Cemetery, Avoca. In lieu of
flowers, those wishing may contribute
in his memory to the family. Arrangements were with the Avoca Funeral
Home, Avoca.
***
DANSVILLE
Jason R. Dale
Dansville, NY - Jason R. Dale, age
33, passed away unexpectedly March
28, 2012 at his home. Jason was born
July 3, 1978 in Dansville, a son of
Robert Dale and Janet (Gray) Spong.
Jason was predeceased by a son, Michael Prigge.
Jason was an avid fisherman, and
he loved dogs and wild animals, the
NY Giants and Buffalo Bills, but most
of all he loved spending time with his
family.
Jason is survived by his mother,
Janet Spong of Dansville; his father,
Robert Dale of Mt. Morris; his loving girlfriend, Danielle Prigge; his
children, Tyler Prigge, Jorden Prigge
and Alan Prigge, all of Dansville, and
William Wallace of Florida; his brothers, Alan and Todd Dale and James
Comuzie; plus several aunts, uncles,
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held April
1, 2012 at the Chamberlin - Baird
Funeral Home, Dansville. Memorial
contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.
***
Barbara J. (Bradley)
Kreiley
Dansville, NY - Barbara J. Kreiley,
age 73, passed away unexpectedly
March 29, 2012 in Brunswick, GA. In
addition to her parents, Barb was also
predeceased by her husband, Roger,
and a sister, Carol Ann Swift.
Barb was born August 13, 1938 in
Dansville, a daughter of James E. and
Virginia (Carmody) Bradley. She
was a 1974 graduate, with honors, at
Monroe Community College. She retired from Finger Lakes DDSO at the
Residential Unit Supervisor in 1994.
Barb was the Past First Vice President of CSEA, Retirees' Wyoming/
Livingston Chapter, Past President of
the Genesee Valley Women's Bowling
Assoc., Past NYS Membership Development Chairperson for WIBC, Past
President of the Genesee Valley 600
Club, Past Secretary/Treasurer of the
Dansville 600 Club for twenty years,
Life Member of the Court of the Amaranth, a member of the Sparta Center United Methodist Church and she
volunteered for the Catholic Charities
as a driver.
Barb enjoyed traveling and seeing
what was over the next hill, but most
of all she loved bowling, golf and
camping with her grandchildren at
Sun Valley Campgrounds.
Barb is survived by her daughters,
Kathy Harter, Marlene (Gary) Yenei, Julie (Mark) Blonsky and Vicky
(Rob) Skipper; her brother, Michael (Colleen) Bradley; her sisters,
Adria (Bill) Shearing and Mary Kay
(Ron) Morsch; her grandchildren,
Dylan MacIntyre, Brandy McDowell,
Amanda, Haley and Garrett Blonsky,
Katilyn and Ashley Skipper, Julia and
Jennifer Kreiley; her great-grandson,
Dominick McDowell; her greatgranddaughter, Chloe Kreiley; and
several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held April 3,
2012 at the Chamberlin - Baird Funeral Home, Dansville. Burial was set
for Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Teresa House or
the American Cancer Society.
***
Mark L. Weidman
Dansville, NY - Mark L. Weidman, age 87, passed away peacefully,
surrounded by his family, March 28,
2012 at the Vincent House in Wayland.
Mark was born October 17, 1924
in the Town of Ossian, a son of Ray
and Addie (Linzy) Weidman. He was
a graduate of Dansville High School.
As a young man, Mark worked at his
family's farm, at Spencer and Rollins Gas Station, and Kelly Brothers Nursery. He retired from Foster
Wheeler Energy Corp. in Dansville
after 40 years of dedicated service. He
also worked at the Dansville United
Methodist Church and most recently
at Stony Brook State Park, retiring at
the age of 82.
Mark was a member of the 25 year
Club of Foster Wheeler, the Dansville
Fish and Game Club and the Dansville United Methodist Church.
In addition to his parents, Mark
was also predeceased by his wife,
Joyce (Short) Weidman in 1982; his
sisters, Ruby and Lucy; and his brothers, John, Hugh, Reid, Lynn and Neal
Weidman.
Mark is survived by his 2nd wife,
Johanne (Vogt) Weidman; his daughters, Sandra (Stanley) Lander and
Judy (Richard) Sundlof, all of Dansville; 4 grandchildren, Stephanie
(Rick) Joseph, Stephen (Arminnie)
Lander, Brian (Rhonda) Sundlof and
Brett (Emily Sundlof; 7 great-grandchildren, Sarah, Rachel and Joshua,
Joseph, Clara, Madelyn, Morgan
"Paige" & Eli Sundlof; 4 stepchildren,
Tom Fagan, Mike (Mary) Fagan,
Deanna Fagan and Susan Murray;
4 step-grandchildren; 3 step-greatgrandchildren; many nieces, nephews
and cousins.
A celebration of Mark’s life was
held March 31, 2012 at the Dansville
United Methodist Church. Burial was
set for Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Vincent House, PO Box 566, Wayland,
NY 14572; or the Dansville United
Methodist Church (Library Fund) 5
Chestnut Ave., Dansville, NY 14437.
Funeral arrangements were handled
by the Chamberlin - Baird Funeral
Home, Dansville.
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ITALY
John F. Palese
Italy, NY - John F. Palese, 76,
passed away peacefully on March
24, 2012 at home in Naples, NY, surrounded by his loving family.
John was a 30 year veteran of the
174th US Air Force National Guard
and Army National Guard. He was an
active member of the Nash Car Club
of America as well as an avid car enthusiast. John was a member of the
G.V.A.C., as well as a member of the
St. Januarius Catholic Church. Post
retirement included Bob and Irv's.
John is survived by his loving wife,
Nancy, of 56 years; children Lisa Diamond (Peter), Lynn Parshall-Boland
(Michael), Thomas John Palese (Laura), Terry Palese (Barb) and Timothy (Kristy); grandchildren Jason
Parshall, Matthew Diamond, Barton
Diamond, Nicholas Palese, Jacob Palese, Michael Palese, Max Palese and
Alex Palese; sisters Rosemary Kamp,
Francis Shepard, and Patricia Anzalone; brother Donald Palese; sisterin-law Mary Ann Columbino; and
many nieces, nephews, great-nieces
and great-nephews. John was predeceased by his parents Lucy and
Michael, brother Michael and infant
sister Catherine.
A funeral mass was celebrated
March 28, 2012 at St. Januarius
Church, Naples, with Christian burial
immediately following at the Seager
Cemetery. Memorial contributions
may be made to the Ontario-Yates
Hospice. Arrangements were with the
Baird-Moore Funeral Home, Naples.
***
PIFFARD
Edward B. Pringle
Piffard, NY - Edward B. Pringle,
91, died March 29, 2012 at Noyes
Memorial Hospital in Dansville, NY.
He was predeceased by his wife Ida in
1978, and daughter Lollie Pringle in
1992.
Edward was born October 9, 1920
in Woodhull, Illinois, the son of
Charles and Mildred Bloomfield
Pringle. Edward was a World War
II Veteran, serving in the U.S. Army
Air Corps. He was a retired miner
for AKZO Nobel Salt Mine, where he
worked for 37 years.
Edward is survived by his daughters, Karen (Louis) Lougnot of Liverpool, NY, Marcia (John) Trathen
of Piffard; 5 grandchildren; 9 greatgrandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; his sister, Ardyth Cooper of
Ocala, FL; and nieces and nephews.
Memorial Services were held April
28, 2012 at the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home in Geneseo. Interment with
Military Honors was set for Mt. Ash
Cemetery in Covington. Memorial
contributions may be made to the
Livingston County Ambulance, 3360
Gypsy Lane, Mt. Morris, NY 14510.
***
WAYLAND
Clayton M. Ames
Wayland, NY – Clayton M. Ames,
65 years of age, passed away March
28, 2012 at the Bath Veterans Administration Healthcare Facility.
Clayton was born January 22, 1947
in Bath, the son of Arthur and Ida
Mae (Faulkner) Ames. He grew up in
Avoca and in the mid 1970’s moved
to the Wayland area, where he has remained. Clayton served his country
in the United States Marine Corps
during the Vietnam area from February 1966 until his honorable discharge in February of 1968. Clayton
and Joyce Gilman were married April
11th, 1969 at the Wayland United
Methodist Church and together they
celebrated 34 years together, prior to
Joyce passing away in July of 2003.
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By Jennifer Barger
The softer shades of this spring are the sort of shimmery pastels you might find in a Monet painting. From left, Purple jean jacket ($198) and Hudson jeans ($154), Tibi
romper ($395, with A.J. Morgan Candy Beach cat-eye sunglasses) and a Rebecca Taylor patchwork dress ($425). (Washington Post photos by Marge Ely)
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astel hues — lemony yellow,
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snarfed as a child, these shades aren't
saccharine.
"They've got a kind of lighten-up attitude, but they're not kiddie candy,"
says Leatrice Eiseman, executive di-
rector of the color-forecasting Pantone Institute. "They can be sophisticated and have this lovely faded
quality, like something you'd pull
from Grandma's cedar chest."
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Tangerine Tango. But there are softer
shades tiptoeing into the frame this
spring, the sort of shimmery pastels
you might find in a Monet paint-
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thoughtful counterbalance to all the
brights of the past several seasons,"
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Pastel hues (lemony yellow, Dreamsicle orange, minty green) seem to have melted designers’ hearts for spring.
Left, a pink belt contrasts nicely with a Marc by Marc Jacobs top and Vince pants ($198 and $225). Right, a coral
Free People sweater ($78) worn over a Calpyso mint maxi dress. (Washington Post photos by Marge Ely)
- Mood Indigo: Marc by Marc Jacobs top and Vince pants ($198 and
$225, at Bloomingdale's stores), with
a Belgo Lux skinny patent belt ($24, at
South Moon Under stores and www.
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Wang's Lavendar label wedge sandals
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Years
(Across from WCCS)
- Long on Style: Calpyso mint maxi
dress (about $440, at boutiques) and
Free People sweater ($78, Bloomingdale's), paired with Juicy Couture
shoes ($250, Shoe Hive).
- Denim Redone: Purple jean jacket
and Hudson jeans ($198 and $154,
both at Bloomingdale's), worn with
Alexis Bittar earrings ($235) and
Belle Sigerson Morrison flats ($195,
both from Shoe Hive).
- Mini Mint: Tibi romper ($395, at
Bloomingdale's) and A.J. Morgan
Candy Beach cat-eye sunglasses ($20,
South Moon Under stores and www.
southmoonunder.com).
- Patchworking Girl: Rebecca Taylor dress ($425, Piperlime.com) and
Butter peep toe pumps ($310, Shoe
Hive).
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of their retirement incomes without
boring them to death on the road.
Meet the 2013 Mazda CX-5 Grand
Touring AWD, the most complete
compact crossover-utility vehicle I've
driven to date. That includes the CX5's outstanding Japanese rival, the redesigned Honda CR-V.
The CR-V has a slightly larger fourcylinder engine than the CX-5 — 2.4
liters for the Honda (185 horsepower,
163 foot-pounds of torque), compared with 2 liters for the Mazda
(155 horsepower, 150 foot-pounds of
torque). But it's the overall quality of
Mazda's engineering and vehicle design that's impressive.
A larger engine, for example, does
not guarantee better driving. What
matters is how engine power is produced and transmitted. In the CX-5,
those operations constitute a collective work of genius.
Mazda's engineers have developed
a suite of new vehicle technologies
trademarked "Skyactiv." The term refers to engineering vision — a bluesky approach to the possibilities of
technology in which, in this case, fossil-fuel engines can be made more efficient while simultaneously designed
to offer a "fun-to-drive" experience.
Manual and automatic transmissions
can be made lighter and designed to
seamlessly transfer power from engine to drive wheels. A vehicle's body
can be engineered and designed to
enhance the fuel savings and driving pleasure provided by engine and
transmission.
With Skyactiv G technology, that
mission is accomplished by increasing the compression of small gasoline
engines without producing irregular
combustion, or "knock." The idea is to
burn fuel as quickly and completely as
possible, deriving maximum power
with minimum fuel consumption and
tailpipe pollution. Skyactiv D, not yet
available in the U.S. market, achieves
the same objective in diesel engines
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— but it does it by lowering engine
compression instead of increasing it.
The difference relates to how gasoline and diesel fuels ignite — gasoline
more quickly, diesel more slowly.
It sounds like technological philosophy. It is. It works.
Consider the CX-5's 2-liter engine.
It's smaller and, by the numbers, less
powerful than the Honda CR-V's
2.4-liter model. But the CX-5 offers
more consistent zoom-zoom, faltering neither on high-speed highways
nor on roads at least 2,000 feet above
sea level, where the bigger engine in
the Honda CR-V often begins wheezing.
The optional six-speed Skyactiv
Sport automatic transmission in the
CX-5 works well on city and suburban streets and on highways. There
is no erratic automatic downshifting in pursuit of higher speeds. On
mountain and other super-curvy
roads, Skyactiv Sport can be switched
to "manual" for better vehicle control. But the CX-5's standard straight
six-speed manual gearbox works so
smoothly, even in congested urban
traffic, that I'd go with that one instead . . . and forgo the exotica and extra expense of one gearbox designed
to accommodate two different driving styles.
I like the clean design of the statelybordering-on-prim Honda CR-V. It
appeals to my inner Rick Santorum.
But I absolutely love the swank swag-
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Barack and Michelle in me. There is
an audacious flow about it front to
rear. The three-point grille (left corner, right corner, bottom-connecting
corner) opens gently, almost with a
smile. The side panels are rhythmically muscular, as if they are involved in
dance. The rear end with its upwardtilted bottom, slanted back window
and sloping, roof-mounted air spoiler, is downright sassy.
The CX-5, however, is about more
than fun and beauty. It's easily convertible to a work truck, delivery
van. Drop those standard 40/60 split
bench seats in the rear and you get a
generous 65.4 feet of loading space.
Cargo space is 34.1 cubic feet with
those seats up. Again, here, Honda
beats Mazda on the numbers with
a maximum 70.9 cubic feet of cargo
space with rear seats lowered and 37.2
cubic feet with those seats raised.
But it's overall attitude and execution that matters. The Mazda CX-5
Grand Touring trounces the comparable Honda CR-V EX-L on both.
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manually, is available.
Capacities: There are seats for five
people. Cargo capacity with rear seats
up is 34.1 cubic feet. With rear seats
folded, it's 65.4 cubic feet. The fuel
tank holds 14.8 gallons of regular gasoline. The CX-5 can be equipped to
carry a payload of 1,051 pounds and
pull a trailer weighing 2,000 pounds.
Mileage: With a payload of nearly
550 pounds in mostly highway driving in the all-wheel-drive version of
the CX-5, I averaged 32 miles per gallon.
Safety: Standard equipment includes four-wheel disc brakes (ventilated front, solid rear); four-wheel
anti-lock brake protection; electronic
brake-force distribution; electronic
braking assistance; front side-mounted air bags; front and rear head air
bags; and electronic stability and traction control.
Price: The base price for the 2013
Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring with allwheel drive is $28,295. Dealer's invoice price on that model is $27,056.
Price as tested is $30,675 including
$765 in options (remote engine start
on key fob; automatically dimming
rear-view mirror with compass and
Homelink; all-weather floor mats;
retractable cargo cover) and a $795
transportation fee. Dealer's price as
tested is $29,119. You can save money
by buying the less-expensive Touring
($23,895) or Sport ($20,695) models.
Compare with Honda CR-V, Toyota
Rav-4, Hyundai Santa Fe, Ford Escape and Chevrolet Equinox.
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right. My hunch is that the only problem Mazda will have with this one is
supply. Selling the CX-5 should be no
more difficult than allowing prospective customers to sit in it and drive it.
Mazda has a winner here.
Ride, acceleration and handling:
Both the Honda CR-V and CX-5 get
excellent marks in ride and handling.
But the smoothness of power production and delivery in the CX-5 is
something to behold. That a compact
utility vehicle/wagon could perform
so well is amazing.
Head-turning quotient: Put the
CX-5 and a CR-V side by side in a
shopping-center parking lot. Step
back and watch. Here's betting the
CX-5 will draw more curious onlookers every time. Swagger sells.
Body style/layout: The CX-5 is a
crossover-utility wagon with frontwheel drive standard and all-wheel
drive as an option. There are three
trim levels — Sport, Touring and
Grand Touring, the latter being the
best equipped and most expensive.
Engine: The vehicle comes with a
2-liter Skyactiv G high-compression
in-line four-cylinder gasoline engine
with direct fuel injection and variable
valve timing (155 horsepower, 150
foot-pounds of torque). It is mated to
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Highway Stop Unmasks a Humanitarian Batman
By Michael S. Rosenwald
The Eagle News/The Washington Post
P
olice pulled a man over on
Route 29 in Silver Spring last
week because of a problem
with his plates. This would not ordinarily make international news, but
the car was a black Lamborghini, the
license plate was the Batman symbol,
and the driver was Batman, dressed
head-to-toe in his full superhero uniform.
Jokers emerged instantaneously.
"Let him do his job," one commenter
wrote. "Batman has expensive taste,"
wrote another. Others had questions,
such as: "Did they make him take off
his mask?"
No, they did not. Even Montgomery County police honor a superhero
code of conduct, just like Howard
County officers who once helped
him with a flat bat tire. Batman told
officers his real name was not Bruce
Wayne but Lenny B. Robinson, and
that his real tags were in the car. (He
was not ticketed then, but has been
before for a heavy bat foot.)
Batman is a businessman from
Baltimore County who visits sick
children in hospitals, handing out
Batman paraphernalia to up-andcoming superheroes who first need
to beat cancer and other wretched
diseases.
I actually know Batman. His parents are dear friends of my wife's family, and I see him at holiday dinners
where my 4-year-old son believes he
is the real-life Bruce Wayne. "Daddy,
he's Batman, too," my son will whisper to me. Though Batman has long
been aware that I'm a journalist, he
has never suggested I write about
him. He does not crave publicity. Like
Lenny Robinson of Owings Mills, Md., drives his black Lamborghini to area hospitals, where he is known as
Batman and brings gifts to sick children. He is having a $250,000 custom Batmobile built. (Washington Post
photo by Jonathan Newton).
his comic book namesake, he doesn't
seek credit for what he does.
"I'm just doing it for the kids," he
says.
But in light of him going viral
— "Gotham City is on the verge of
chaos," Anderson Cooper told CNN
viewers — I asked him whether I
could unveil the man behind the
mask. He acquiesced but suggested
I do so by accompanying him to the
cancer ward at Children's National
Medical Center in Northwest Washington for a superhero party thrown
by the Hope for Henry organization.
On Monday, he pulled up in his
black Lambo with yellow Batman
symbols on the doors, the floor mats,
the headrests — pretty much everywhere — and he was dressed in his
heavy leather and neoprene uniform
that he bought from a professional
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He carried two large bags of Batman books, rubber Batman symbol
bracelets and various other toys up to
the front desk, where the check-in attendant asked him his name.
"Batman," he said.
Camera phones were snapping.
A man in line said, "That's the guy
who got pulled over." Someone asked
where Robin was, and Batman replied, "Home studying for the SATs."
The check-in attendant asked for
identification. Batman said it was in
his Batmobile. The check-in attendant, just doing her job, asked for his
real name. "Lenny," he announced. "B,
as in Batman. Robinson."
It took Batman approximately 20
minutes to reach the elevators. He
stopped to hand out Batman toys to
every child he saw, picking them up
for pictures, asking them how they
were feeling. LaTon Dicks snapped a
photo of Batman standing behind her
son DeLeon in his wheelchair. She'd
recognized the Batmobile on her way
in to the hospital. Like everyone else,
she'd seen a TV report on him being
stopped for speeding and protested,
"You can't pull over Batman."
When Batman finally reached the
elevator for the slow ride up to the
cancer ward, I could see his face already sweating behind the mask. He
told me he loses 5 to 6 pounds in water weight when he wears the superhero uniform. He paid $5,000 for it.
He spends $25,000 a year of his own
money on Batman toys and memorabilia. He signs every book, hat, T-shirt
and backpack he hands out — Batman.
Batman is 48. He is a self-made
success and has the bank account to
prove it. He recently sold, for a pile
of cash, a commercial cleaning business that he started as a teenager. He
became interested in Batman through
his son Brandon, who was obsessed
with the caped crusader when he was
little. "I used to call him Batman," he
told me. "His obsession became my
obsession."
Batman began visiting Baltimore
area hospitals in 2001, sometimes
with his now teenage son Brandon
playing Robin. Once other hospitals
and charities heard about his car and
DOG FROM PAGE 3
_________________________
The Canaan dog is "what they call a
mutt," Saltz says.
A mutt is what the Canaan dog was
to most observers until an Austrian
biologist came to Palestine in the
1930s and started looking for dogs
that could serve the nascent Jewish
defense forces. Rudolphina Menzel
identified them as a native breed that
tolerated the climate well and named
them after the biblical Land of Canaan.
The pooches were used in patrols
and landmine detection units and
performed as messenger dogs. Jewish
settlers also prized the Canaan's alertness and counted on them to bark at
Arab intruders.
In 1965, the first Canaan dogs arrived in the United States, and it
didn't take long for Shiboleth — then
an animal trainer in New York — to
get hooked. She moved to Israel in
1969 with an American-born female
Canaan in tow. In 1970, she and a
handful of others founded Sha'ar
Hagai in the Judean Hills, using Menzel's breeding stock and dogs collected in the wild.
The Canaan dog was originally
popular with the Jewish diaspora, but
his cape, Batman was put on superhero speed dial for children's causes
around the region. He visits sick kids
at least a couple times a month, sometimes more often. He visits schools,
too, to talk about bullying. He does
not do birthday parties.
His superhero work is limited to doing good deeds, part of a maturation
process in his own life. In his earlier
years, he acknowledges that he sometimes displayed an unsuperhero-like
temper and got into occasional trouble. Putting on the Batman uniform
changes and steadies him.
"Eventually, it sinks in and you become him," Batman told me. "It feels
like I have a responsibility that's beyond a normal person. And that responsibility is to be there for the kids,
to be strong for them, and to make
them smile as much as I can." He
understands that might sound corny,
but he doesn't care.
Batman stepped off the elevator on
the fourth floor of Children's. SpiderMan and Wonder Woman were there
too — both professional actors from
talent agencies, on the clock. He
picked up a little boy and said, "I have
a present for you." He shook hands
with a father and handed him a yellow rubber Batman bracelet, saying,
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soon others were attracted by its natural look. Its profile was raised when
John F. Kennedy Jr. purchased a Canaan in the 1990s. Today, the dog can
be found in households across much
of Europe and North America as well
as in Russia and South Africa.
There are 2,000 to 3,000 Canaan
dogs across the world, but most are
closely related. If the gene pool is not
continually strengthened with new
bloodlines from the wild, experts say,
the breed could develop degenerative
diseases.
Cynthia Dodson and David Golden
of Falls Church, Va., say they were
"quite analytical" when they decided
to get a dog 14 years ago. They liked
the look of the pariah dogs they saw
during trips overseas and wanted a
dog that would be free of the genetic
ailments that affect many breeds.
They settled on the Canaan and got
a pair.
Golden says he likes to imagine the
relatives of his two dogs frolicking in
the wilderness and jokes that he and
Dodson tell stories to their couchloving dogs about their wilder cousins.
"The story is important to us and to
a lot of people," he says. "To lose this
linkage [to] thousands of years would
be a real tragedy." ■
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BATMAN FROM PAGE 10
_________________________
"This will bring you good luck." The
father said, "We need good luck."
The parents always say that.
Batman asked each child his or her
name. He lifted up almost every child.
Many were weak, their hair thin from
chemo. He always told them, "I have a
present for you." When a little girl ran
away, perhaps a bit scared, Batman
said, "That's the story of Batman's love
life." (He is divorced.)
Batman overheard a mother tell
someone that her toddler was going
home the next day, and holding the
toddler, and hugging him gently, Batman said, "I'm really glad you are feeling better."
Stephanie Broadhead of California, Md., was leaning against the
wall while her 10-year-old daughter
Claire was having her face drawn by
an artist. Claire has leukemia. Batman stopped by to marvel at the picture and hand Claire some gifts. "This
makes a very hard thing to deal with a
little easier," Claire's mom said.
Superhero visits to hospitals let kids
be kids in a scary, adult place, but the
activities are indeed therapeutic, too,
the chief doctor on the cancer floor
told me.
"These visits provide an immediate boost for these kids," said Jeffrey
Dome, the oncology division chief at
Children's. "Some of these children
have to stay for weeks or months at
a time. That wears down the children
and it wears down the family. You
have to keep up morale. A visit from
a superhero is sort of like a fantasy
in the middle of all this hard-core
therapy."
As Batman wandered around from
child to child, I asked him, "Isn't this
hard?"
His children are healthy. My children are healthy.
"We are very lucky," he said. "All I
can say is we are very, very lucky."
The party began winding down.
Spider-Man changed out of his costume. Wonder Woman changed out
of hers. They said goodbye to Batman,
still working the floor, as he posed for
a photo with a patient's father. The father thanked Batman and said, "I saw
you on the news — Route 29."
"I think everyone saw me on Route
29," Batman acknowledged. He asked
the nurses at the front desk whether
there were any children who couldn't
come out of their rooms to see him.
Assured that there weren't, Batman
headed back down to his Batmobile,
followed by the mother of a baby girl
with cancer and her healthy 4-yearold son, whose only goal in life at that
moment was to see the Batmobile.
When the boy saw the car, I thought
his eyeballs were going to separate
from his body. (Batman is actually in
the process of having a just-like-themovies Batmobile built for $250,000,
but it's not ready yet.)
Batman revved the engines and
blasted the audio system — the Batman theme song. Na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, Batman! He revved the engine some
more. The little boy didn't want to say
goodbye, but his mom told him, "Batman needs to go fight the bad guys."
The little boy cried.
"I want to go help him fight the bad
guys," he said.
His mom said, "You need to go help
your sister fight cancer."
Batman sped away.
Career Coach Q&A: Don't Follow '10-Year
Rule' for Resume
By Joyce E.A. Russell
Special to The New York Eagle News/The Washington Post
C
areer Coach columnist Joyce
E.A. Russell, an industrial
and organizational psychologist, discussed telecommuting and
workload issues in a recent online
forum. Excerpts:
Q: I've heard to only go back 10
years on a resume. If so, applications usually ask for graduation
dates, so doesn't an employer wonder why someone graduated in 1990
and started their resume employment history in 2001? Also, if I had
a far more demanding career further
back, do I include that (I'm transitioning from being a part-time professional while kids were growing up
to wanting full-time work, and my
current job just doesn't have enough
workload.)
A: I don't think you have to follow
a 10-year rule for resumes. I think
the length really depends on your
particular situation. What is most
important is to list professional work
(responsibilities, roles, accomplishments and awards), education, etc.
In your case, with more years of experience, I would make sure to start
your resume with a short summary
with several points about your key
attributes or qualifications. I would
definitely list that demanding career
that you had in the past. You need to
make sure you are doing everything
you can on your resume to sell yourself!
Q: I'm looking to change jobs right
now because I've been at my current
company too long, and feel pretty
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burned out here. Lately I've interviewed at a new company, but feel
kind of indifferent towards this opportunity. The main reason I would
take it, if offered, is to make the
change from my current company
(the work would essentially be the
same). So I guess my question is, is it
worth taking a new job, even if I don't
feel as excited about it as I had hoped,
just to get away from a job I hate?
A: What about the possibility of
continuing to look for other jobs? It
is always worth leaving a job you hate
since it burns you out and takes an
emotional toll on you. But, you need
to ask yourself why you feel indifferent towards the new opportunity. Is it
the work itself? The people? If it is the
work, then maybe it is time to rethink
or make some changes in what you
are doing.
Q: How should I deal with an employer who requires longer and longer working hours — with no end in
sight?
My colleagues and I have been
working 16-, often 18-hour days for
months now, with at most one day
off per week. We are all "exempt" and
aren't paid overtime. With commuting tacked on, this schedule doesn't
allow enough time for basic life necessities like sleep and exercise, let
alone anything else.
Expressing concerns about the
schedule (even from a physical health
perspective) gets an employee labeled
as lazy, selfish or not a team player,
with a reminder that there are a lot
of unemployed people out there who
would be happy to have the job. Is
there anything you would suggest in
terms of trying to improve this situation?
A: I can sense your frustration with
this grueling schedule. Interesting
that many employers feel that working
more and more hours are the way to
get to enhanced productivity, yet this
is not the case. People are not as productive if they are exhausted (physically and mentally). A great book for
some at your organization to read is
"The Power of Full Engagement," by
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, or "The
Way We're Working Isn't Working,"
by Schwartz, Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy. Maybe you can get
a copy, read it and share it with others in your firm. It offers some great
ideas that management should take
to heart.
I also think this view that some
employers have "you're lucky to have
a job" will come back to haunt them
as the economy improves. People will
be looking to leave firms, and this is
an important time for employers to
do what they can to retain talented
people.
For your situation, I think you need
to collect the data, Keep records of
hours worked on various projects as
well as what number of people are
working those hours. Then, have a
group of you talk to the most sympathetic person in management. It
might help your case to lower hours. ■
_________________________
OBITUARIES FROM PAGE 7
Clayton’s employment career varied as he spent time at the Gunlocke
Company in Wayland, Foster Wheeler in Dansville for over 10 years, and
as a truck driver for UAP, Apex Acres,
Votypka Farms and others within the
local area. Clayton enjoyed assisting
with Cinderella Softball during his
children’s younger years; collecting
toy tractors; and he could always be
seen at the Wayland Sugarcreek until his health wouldn’t allow him to
drive.
Clayton was pre-deceased by his
father, Arthur Ames; his wife, Joyce
Gilman Ames and a brother Mike
Ames. He is survived by his children, Jeff Ames of Lexington, KY,
Lynne (Anthony) Shaw of Monticello, NY and Jodie Ames of Wayland;
his mother, Ida Mae Ames of Bath;
grandchildren, McKayla, Zachery,
Annay, Madison, Gavin and Alayssia; his brothers, Arthur (Doreen)
Ames of Bath, Steve (Blanche) Ames
of Corning, Sherman Ames of Hornell; his sisters, Stacy (Rodney) Lee of
Avoca and Cheryl Ames of Bath; his
sister-in-law D. Clark; along with several nieces and nephews.
A graveside funeral service was held
March 31, 2012 at the Wayland Village Cemetery. Military honors were
presented. Clayton and his family
have been assisted by the St. GeorgeStanton Funeral Home, Wayland. ■
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10 Lessons From the Iraq War
By Stephen M. Walt
The Eagle News/Foreign Policy
T
his month marks the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion
of Iraq. Regardless of your
views on the wisdom of that decision,
it's fair to say that the results were not
what most Americans expected. Now
that the war is officially over and most
U.S. forces have withdrawn, what lessons should Americans (and others)
draw from the experience?
There are many lessons that one
might learn, of course, but here are
my Top 10 Lessons from the Iraq War.
Lesson 1: The United States lost.
The first and most important lesson of Iraq war is that we didn't win
in any meaningful sense of that term.
The alleged purpose of the war was
eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, but it turns
out he didn't have any. Oops. Then
the rationale shifted to creating a proAmerican democracy, but Iraq today
is at best a quasi-democracy and far
from pro-American. The destruction
of Iraq improved Iran's position in
the Persian Gulf — hardly something
the United States intended — and
the costs of the war (easily exceeding $1 trillion) are much larger than
U.S. leaders anticipated or promised.
The war was also a giant distraction,
which diverted the Bush administration from other priorities (e.g.,
Afghanistan) and made the United
States much less popular the worldwide.
This lesson is important because
supporters of the war are already
marketing a revisionist version. In
this counternarrative, the 2007 surge
was a huge success (it wasn't, because
it failed to produce political reconciliation) and Iraq is now on the road to
stable and prosperous democracy.
And the costs weren't really that
bad. Another variant of this myth
is the idea that President George W.
Bush and Gen. David Petraeus had
"won" the war by 2008, but President
Obama then lost it by getting out early. This view ignores the fact that the
Bush administration negotiated the
2008 Status of Forces agreement that
set the timetable for U.S. withdrawal,
and Obama couldn't stay in Iraq once
the Iraqi government made it clear it
wanted us out.
The danger of this false narrative
is obvious: If Americans come to see
the war as a success — which it clearly
wasn't — they may continue to listen
to the advice of its advocates and be
more inclined to repeat similar mistakes.
Lesson 2: It's not that hard to hijack
the United States into a war.
The United States is still a very
powerful country, and the short-term
costs of military action are relatively
low in most cases. As a result, wars of
choice (or even "wars of whim") are
possible. The Iraq war reminds us
that if the executive branch is united around the idea of war, normal
checks and balances — including media scrutiny — tend to break down.
The remarkable thing about the
Iraq war is how few people it took to
engineer. It wasn't promoted by the
U.S. military, the CIA, the State Department, or oil companies. Instead,
the main architects were a group of
well-connected
neoconservatives
who began openly lobbying for war
during the Clinton administration.
They failed to persuade President Bill
Clinton, and they were unable to convince Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney to opt for war until after 9/11.
But at that point the stars aligned, and
Bush and Cheney became convinced
that invading Iraq would launch a
far-reaching regional transformation,
usher in a wave of pro-American democracies, and solve the terrorism
problem.
As the New York Times's Thomas
Friedman told Ha'aretz in May 2003:
"Iraq was the war neoconservatives
wanted . . . the war the neoconservatives marketed. . . . I could give you
the names of 25 people (all of whom
are at this moment within a five-block
radius of this office [in Washington])
who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and half ago, the Iraq
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Lesson 3: The United States gets in
big trouble when the "marketplace of
ideas" breaks down and when the public and our leadership do not have an
open debate about what to do.
Given the stakes involved, it is remarkable how little serious debate
there actually was about the decision
to invade. This was a bipartisan failure, as conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats all tended
to jump aboard the bandwagon to
war. Mainstream media organizations
became cheerleaders rather than critics. Even within the halls of government, individuals who questioned
the wisdom of the invasion or raised
doubts about the specific plans were
soon marginalized. As a result, not
only did the United States make a
bone-headed decision, but the Bush
administration went into Iraq unprepared for the subsequent occupation.
Lesson 4: The secularism and middle-class character of Iraqi society was
overrated.
Before the war, advocates argued
that democracy would be easy to install in Iraq because it had a highly literate population and a robust middle
class, and because sectarianism was
minimal. Of course, the people who
said things like this apparently knew
nothing about Iraq itself and even less
about the difficulty of building democracy in a country like Iraq. This
failure is especially striking insofar as
Iraq's turbulent pre-Saddam history
was hardly a secret. But a realistic
view of Iraq clashed with the neocons'
effort to sell the war, so they sold a
fairy tale version instead.
Lesson 5: Don't listen to ambitious
exiles.
The case for war was strengthened
by misleading testimony from various Iraqi exiles who had an obvious
interest in persuading Washington to
carry them to power. Unfortunately,
U.S. leaders were unaware of Machiavelli's prescient warnings about the
danger of trusting the testimony of
self-interested foreigners. As he wrote
in his Discourses:
"How vain the faith and promises
of men who are exiles from their
country. Such is their extreme desire
to return to their homes that they
naturally believe many things that
are not true, and add many others on
purpose, so that with what they really
believe and what they say they believe, they will fill you with hopes to
that degree that if you attempt to act
upon them, you will incur a fruitless
expense or engage in an undertaking
that will involve you in ruin."
Two words: Ahmed Chalabi.
Lesson 6: It's very hard to improvise
an occupation.
As the Army's official history of the
occupation notes dryly, "conditions
in Iraq proved to be wildly out of sync
with prewar assumptions." Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Co.
assumed that standing up a new Iraqi
government would be quick work
and that the light U.S. force would
head home almost immediately. But
when conditions deteriorated, U.S.
leaders — both civilian and military
— were extremely slow to realize that
they faced a wholly different situation. And, as FP colleague Thomas
Ricks has documented, once the U.S.
military found itself facing a genuine
insurgency, it took years before it began to adjust its tactics and strategy
in a serious way. We tend to think of
the U.S. military as a highly intelligent
fighting force — after all, we've got
all those intelligence services, think
tanks, in-house analysis operations,
war colleges, etc. — yet this case reminds us that the defense establishment is also big and unwieldy organization that doesn't improvise quickly.
Lesson 7: Don't be surprised when
adversaries act to defend their own interests, and in ways we won't like.
This lesson seems obvious: Adversaries will pursue their own interests.
But the architects of the Iraq war
seem to have blindly assumed that
other interested parties would simply
roll over and cooperate with us after a
little bit of "shock and awe." Instead,
various actors took steps to defend
their own interests or to take advantage of the evolving situation, often
in ways that confounded U.S. efforts.
Thus, Sunnis in Iraq took up arms to
resist the loss of power, wealth, and
status that the collapse of the Ba'thist
regime entailed. Syria and Iran took
various measures to strengthen antiU.S. forces inside Iraq, in order to
bog us down and bleed us. Al-Qaida
also tried to exploit the post-invasion
power-vacuum to go after U.S. forces
and advance its own agenda.
Americans had every reason to be
upset by these various responses, because they helped thwart our aims.
But we should hardly have been surprised when these various forces did
what they could to resist us. What else
would you expect?
Lesson 8: Counterinsurgency warfare is ugly and inevitably leads to war
crimes, atrocities, or other forms of
abuse.
Another lesson from Iraq (and
Afghanistan) is that local identities
remain quite powerful and foreign
occupations almost always trigger
resistance, especially in cultures with
a history of heavy-handed foreign
interference. Accordingly, occupying powers are likely to face armed
insurgencies, which in turn means
organizing a counterinsurgency
campaign. Unfortunately, such campaigns are extremely hard to control,
because decisive victories will be elusive, progress is usually slow, and the
occupation force will have trouble
distinguishing friend from foe within
the local population. And that means
that sometimes our forces will go over
the line, as they did in Haditha or Abu
Ghraib. No matter how much we emphasize "hearts and minds," there will
inevitably be abuses that undermine
our efforts. So when you order up an
invasion or decide to occupy another
country, be aware that you are opening Pandora's Box.
Lesson 9: Better "planning" may not
be the answer.
There is little question that the invasion of Iraq was abysmally planned,
and the post-war occupation was
badly bungled. It is therefore unsurprising that U.S. leaders (and academics) want to learn from these mistakes
so as to perform better in the future.
This goal is understandable and even
laudable, but it does not necessarily
follow that better pre-war planning
would have produced a better result.
For starters, there were extensive
pre-war plans for occupying and rebuilding Iraq; the problem was that
key decisionmakers (e.g., Rumsfeld)
simply ignored them. So planning
alone isn't the answer if politicians ignore the plans. It's also worth noting
that had Americans been told about
the real price tag of the invasion —
i.e., that we would have to send a lot
more troops and stay there longer —
they would never have supported the
invasion in the first place.
But more importantly, better plans
don't guarantee success, because trying to do "statebuilding" in a deeply
divided society is an immense challenge, and opportunities to screw it
up are legion. As Minxin Pei and Sara
Kasper of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace concluded
from their study of past attempts of
"nation-building," "few national understakings are as complex, costly,
and time-consuming as reconstructing the governing institutions of foreign societies."
For example, having more troops on
the ground might have prevented the
collapse of order, but the U.S. army
could not have kept a sufficiently
large force (350,000 or more) in Iraq
for very long. Morever, an even larger
U.S. presence might have increased
Iraqi resentment and produced an
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insurgency anyway. Similarly, critics
now believe the decision to disband
the Iraqi army and launch an extensive de-Bathification process was a
mistake, but trying to keep the army
intact and leaving former Bathists in
charge might easily have triggered a
Shi'ite uprising instead. Lastly, statebuilding in countries that we don't
understand is inherently uncertain,
because it is impossible to know ex
ante which potential leaders are reliable or competent or how politics
will evolve once the population starts
participating directly. We won't know
enough to play "kingmaker," and we
are likely to end up having to prop up
leaders whose agendas are different
from ours.
In short, as Benjamin Friedman,
Harvey Sapolsky, and Christopher
Preble argue here, better tools or tactics are probably not enough to make
ambitious nation-building programs
are smart approach. Which leads to
Lesson 10:
Lesson 10: Rethink U.S. grand strategy, not just tactics or methods.
Because it is unclear if any U.S. approach would have succeeded at an
acceptable cost, the real lesson of Iraq
is not to do stupid things like this
again.
The U.S. military has many virtues,
but it is not good at running other
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countries. And it is unlikely to get
much better at it with practice. We
have a capital-intensive army that
places a premium on firepower, and
our own unusual, melting-pot history
has made us less sensitive to the enduring power of nationalism, ethnicity, and other local forces.
Furthermore, because the United
States is basically incredibly secure,
it is impossible to sustain public support for long and grinding wars of occupation. Once it becomes clear that
we face a lengthy and messy struggle,
the American people quite properly
begin to ask why we are pouring billions of dollars and thousands of lives
into some strategic backwater. And
they are right.
So my last lesson is that we shouldn't
spend too much time trying to figure
out how to do this sort of thing better,
because we're never going to do it well
and it will rarely be vital to our overall security. Instead, we ought to work
harder on developing an approach to
the world that minimizes the risk of
getting ourselves into this kind of war
again.
-Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer
professor of international affairs at
Harvard University's Kennedy School
of Government. He is the author of
"Taming American Power: The Global
Response to U.S. Primacy" and co-author of "The Israel Lobby."
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Devoted to Faith and Their Fitness
By Lenny Bernstein
I
n a small Falls Church, Va., community center, a dozen or so
Muslim women remove their
head scarves and long abayahs as they
prepare for an hour of vigorous dancing to the salsa and merengue music
of their Wednesday Zumba class.
At least, that's what they told me
they were going to do. Before the start
of the 7:30 p.m. class, I was politely
escorted to the Nur Center's door.
No men are allowed here during the
five weekly Zumba classes, so these
women, whose faith requires the garb
in the name of modesty around the
opposite sex, can work out without
inhibition.
"A place like this is really helpful for
all the women," says Hadil Alyamani,
the 21-year-old Zumba instructor,
who also wears traditional Muslim
clothing as we chat before the class.
"It's a real workout. And it's all women, so they're very comfortable."
Among the more obvious obstacles
to fitness — time, money, willpower,
injuries — the demands of faith don't
often come to mind. But for the devout, particularly women, issues such
as modesty and traditional dress can
limit an exercise program if options
such as the Nur Center are not available.
Before the community center
opened in 2010, Muna Bur's exer-
Orthodox Jewish women Diana Kurcfeld, left, and Suzanne Triebwasser, right, with running coach Becca
Lipscomb at a Rockville, Md., high school. “People look at you a little funny,” Kurcfeld says of running
in a skirt for religious reasons. “But then, when they find out why you do it, they’ll say, ‘Wow, I really
respect that.’ ” (Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti.)
cise regimen was largely limited to
walking. That didn't work so well in
winter, she said, and the abayah — a
tunic that reaches her knees — made
it difficult any time of year. "It's not
comfortable to walk with it," she said
on a recent evening as she waited for
the Zumba class to start.
Occasionally her mosque would
rent a nearby pool for a women-only
swim, but those outings weren't regularly scheduled. A consistent workout
routine was impossible, she said.
Now Bur socializes with other
women at the Zumba class, and some
of the dance fitness program's more
risque moves are no problem, even
in front of the studio's big glass viewing window. Bur said she has lost 10
pounds.
"We dress up however we want.
We're not worried about men," said
Bur's sister, Maha.
"Before Zumba," adds Alyamani,
"they would tell me they either didn't
exercise, or it wasn't fun, or it wasn't
as convenient."
For Diana Kurcfeld, an Orthodox
Jew from Olney, Md., maintaining
a running program requires some
adjustments many women wouldn't
consider. Even on the hottest summer
days, she wears a skirt below the knee
and sleeves past her elbows, modest
garb that is a requirement of her faith
when men are present. As a married
woman, she must always cover her
hair; she wears a scarf or a baseball
cap, sometimes both.
"You get used to it," she said. She has
searched far and wide for comfortable
running skirts, even importing some
from Israel.
Races on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath, are out of the question, and if
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Kurcfeld wants to participate in organized group training, she must find
groups that run on Sundays. Because
she keeps kosher, she brings her own
snacks and drinks to races and training runs.
"In some Orthodox circles it's considered immodest for a woman to be
out running," she added. ". . . It used
to be really, really frowned on, but attitudes are changing."
Other religious Jewish women have
told her it's just easier not to work out
in the face of such obstacles, but Kurcfeld, 47, has been active all her life,
and she knew when she adopted a
more observant lifestyle 12 years ago
that she wouldn't be able to drop her
fitness regimen. She wants to run a
50K for her 50th birthday and from
there hopes to move on to greater distances and triathlons.
She also has begun to recruit other
Orthodox women to run with her. On
the street, "people look at you a little
funny. But then, when they find out
why you do it, they'll say, 'Wow, I really respect that.' "
Kurcfeld has begun using Facebook
to encourage devout Jewish women to
exercise and eat more healthfully, an
effort she hopes will someday evolve
into a full-time business. She posts
nutrition tips, training plans, race
information and inspirational messages.
"Women in general tend to have
support networks," but there is "nothing directed at Jewish women. We are
a community that has a lot of holidays. Holidays are surrounded by eating. I'm trying to give people outlets
so they can make choices."
Ladies of the
Older Set
Three older ladies were discussing
the travails of getting older. One said,
"Sometimes I catch myself with a jar
of mayonnaise in my hand in front of
the refrigerator and can't remember
whether I need to put it away, or start
making a sandwich."
The second lady chimed in, "Yes,
some times I find myself on the landing of the stairs and can't remember
whether I was on my way up or on my
way down."
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Some States
Refuse to Let
Third Parties
Help 'Uninsurables'
By Michelle Andrews
Special to The New York Eagle
News/The Washington Post
T
he "uninsurables"_ people with
serious medical conditions who
can't buy health coverage on the private market — are supposed to have
a safety net to rely on in the new preexisting condition insurance plans
(PCIPs). These comprehensive plans,
created by the federal health-care
law, take all comers who have been
uninsured for at least six months. The
premiums can be expensive, however,
running several hundred dollars a
month.
In many states, people with medical
conditions such as HIV/AIDs, hemophilia, kidney disease and cancer can
get a helping hand from government
programs or nonprofits that pay the
PCIP premiums on their behalf. But
a handful of states have decided to
prohibit third parties from picking up
the tab.
Iowa is one of them, and in recent
months the situation there has generated plenty of public controversy.
Some Iowa health officials would
like to use federal funds from the
AIDS Drug Assistance Program to
pay the PCIP premiums for residents
who have HIV/AIDs.
"When (officials) announced the
PCIPs, they conveyed that this would
be one of the solutions for people
with HIV," says Randy Mayer, the
Iowa public health bureau chief in
charge of HIV, sexually transmitted
infections and hepatitis. He estimates
that at least 100 Iowans could benefit.
But the board that runs the Iowa
PCIP sees the situation differently.
"We've been given a certain amount
of money to manage this program,
and we don't know what will happen
if we run out," says Cecil Bykerk, the
executive director of the board that
manages the Iowa program. Bykerk,
a former chief actuary in the insurance industry who has extensive experience working with state high-risk
pools, also oversees the programs set
up by Montana and Alaska.
Overall, the PCIP program received
$5 billion to fund plans nationwide
until 2014, when insurers will be required to cover everyone regardless
of their health. Although only 49,000
have signed up, far fewer than originally projected, those who are enrolled have higher medical costs than
expected.
Iowa was allocated $35 million until 2014. By April 1, the Iowa plan will
have 282 members — slightly under
projections for that date, says Bykerk.
A number of states, including
Alaska and Montana, have overrun
their spending projections and re-
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Use Your Mind to Cope
With Ailments
Frequent Exercise, Binge
Drinking Linked
By Whitney Fetterhoff
By Whitney Fetterhoff
"How to Say Yes When
Your Body Says No," by Lee
Jampolsky
A
t some point we all face injury,
illness or other health problems.
Lee Jampolsky, a psychologist and
author, believes that attitude adjustments can be just as important as
medical treatment in fighting physical ailments. In his book he says that
by changing your attitude, you can
become stronger, achieving positive
change through what he calls posttraumatic growth.
Jampolsky spent a year in a body
cast and suffered severe bacterial
Disability
Benefits Claims
Now Online
Going paperless is an important part of the
Department of Veterans Affairs "people-focused
process and technology-centered improvements"
and is supposed to streamline the claims steps and
get rid of the backlog.
To that end, the VA has made it easier to file a
claim online by providing 70 different Disability Benefits Questionnaires covering all types of
conditions. Whether it's cardiovascular, dermatological, endocrinological, gastrointestinal, neurological or something else, there's a form for it. Additionally, if you don't have a diagnosis yet, there's
a section for symptoms that will tell you which form
applies to you.
You can download it electronically for your doctor, or print out a copy to take in for your doctor
to complete. Ideally your doctor will complete the
digital questionnaire and submit it electronically.
The instructions ask that your doctor file the form
ceived additional federal funding.
But Bykerk doesn't want to risk that
in Iowa. "Being unsure of all this, the
board is hesitant to move forward and
ask to amend the contract" to permit
third-party payment, he says.
There are legitimate reasons why
states have concerns about thirdparty payments: If an employer or
insurer is permitted to pay someone's
PCIP premium, for example, it may
be tempted to dump people into those
plans.
Likewise, hospitals and other
health-care providers might benefit financially by paying the premiums for people with serious medical
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pneumonia, so this book is part clinical advice and part memoir. Each
chapter includes a short exercise, such
as a series of questions or a meditation, to help you apply his principles
to your own life. He frequently refers
to his own health problems to explain
how an attitude shift helped him cope
better. If you're content with traditional medical advice and remedies,
fine. But if you are looking to adjust
your mind-set in hopes of making
your condition easier to deal with,
Jampolsky's book may help.
electronically in case of bad handwriting. Be sure
to keep a copy for your records.
To find the forms, go online to http://benefits.
va.gov/transformation/ and scroll down the right
side to Key Transformation Plan Initiatives. The
link to the questionnaires are listed there. Note
that there is a link on the right side to a video that
helps with filing a claim.
Read the FAQ to make sure you know the process. One thing that's common to all three forms
is this statement: "VA will not pay or reimburse any
expenses or costs incurred in the process of completing and/or submitting a DBQ."
As usual, the devil is in the details. In the instruction section for doctors it says that the time
to complete each form "varies from 15 minutes to 1
hour, depending on the complexity of the form and
the conditions covered."
Is your private doctor going to be willing to do
that?
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A
vid exercisers are careful to stay
healthy in all aspects of life,
right? You may be shocked to learn
that workout warriors are more likely
to binge-drink than couch potatoes
are, at least according to a 2009 University of Miami study of frequent
women exercisers. Women's Health
says the study found that "the more
people exercise, the more they drink
— with the most active women consuming the highest amounts every
month."
One possible explanation is that
those who consume a lot of liquid
calories may feel more compelled to
burn more the next morning. Or it
may be that women who normally
burn a lot of calories may feel more
entitled to take in the extra at the bar.
For many, both drinking and exercising are ways of coping with stress.
Benefit
Payments Going
Paperless
In less than a year, all Social Security payments
will be made electronically. Ninety percent of us
who receive benefits already get them that way.
The remaining 10 percent are being asked to make
the change now and not wait until the last minute.
The deadline is March 1, 2013, and applies to
more than just Social Security. Veterans, railroad
retirees, Social Security Income recipients and
those who receive Office of Personnel Management benefits are included. It's said that going
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"Exercising stimulates serotonin,
which is your natural antidepressant.
It makes us feel good. Alcohol has a
similar effect — hence, the buzz you
get soothes your worries," according
to J. David Glass, a brain chemistry
researcher and professor at Kent State
University quoted in the magazine.
Aside from the obvious dangers, alcohol consumption can be detrimental
to your fitness regimen by slowing
your recovery time, causing your
body to store fat, disturbing your
sleep patterns and depleting your
body's water and nutrients. Moderate
drinking or a healthy commitment to
exercise is fine, but if either interferes
with your daily life, the researchers
say it's time to raise a red flag.
From Women's Health, March 2012
pick? If you have a bank account, the money will be
automatically deposited each month.
If you don't have a bank account, the money will
appear each month on the Direct Express debit
card. It can be used like a regular debit card, but
you only get one ATM withdrawal each period, and
there can be fees for other services. You'll also
need to remember your Personal Identification
Number (PIN) when you use the card.
When you're ready to make the switch to electronic payments, you can do it either online [www.
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want to sign up for the debit card, you'll need your
Social Security number or claim number, 12-digit
federal benefit-check number and the amount of
your most recent federal benefit check. If you want
direct deposit to your bank account, you'll need
your bank's routing transit number (the numbers
on your personal check), account number and type
of account, either checking or saving.
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Masters Faces Male-Only
Dilemma With New IBM
Chief
By Beth Jinks and Michael Buteau
The New York Eagle News/Bloomberg News
W
ill IBM's Ginni Rometty
be able to wear a green
jacket at the Masters
Tournament?
As Augusta National Golf Club
prepared to host the competition this
week, it faced a quandary: The club
hasn't admitted a woman as a member since its founding eight decades
ago, yet it has historically invited the
chief executive officer of IBM, one
of three Masters sponsors. Since the
company named Rometty to the post
this year, Augusta will have to break
tradition either way.
IBM holds a rarefied position at
the Augusta, Ga., course. The company has a hospitality cabin near the
10th hole, beside co-sponsors Exxon
Mobil and AT&T. The companies'
male CEOs have been able to don
the club's signature green member
blazers while hosting clients. Nonmembers, who don't wear the jackets,
must be accompanied by a member
to visit the course or play a round.
"They have a dilemma on many
levels," said Marcia Chambers, senior
research scholar in law and journalist
in residence at Yale University Law
School. "If there's been a tradition of
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty presents a unique challenge to
Augusta National Golf Club, which usually invites the
CEO of IBM to join the club, but has never allowed a
female member. (Bloomberg News photo by Andrew
Harrer).
certain CEOs, then they should look
at this new CEO in the same way. The
only thing that makes her any different is her gender."
Augusta sets its own rules as a private club and has resisted calls for
change in the past. Augusta didn't
have a black member until 1990,
when it extended an invitation to
Gannett Television President Ron
Townsend, who still belongs.
Rometty, who plays golf, though
not frequently, inherited the sponsor-
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ship from predecessor Sam Palmisano. IBM is featured in the tournament's TV commercials and runs its
Web site, mobile-phone applications
and media-center technology. Palmisano serves on Augusta's technology
tournament committee. He remains
IBM's chairman — a role Rometty is
likely to assume upon his retirement.
Steve Ethun, a Masters spokesman,
declined to comment, citing a policy
that forbids membership-related discussions. Edward Barbini, an IBM
spokesman, also declined to comment. Augusta members are never officially identified outside the exclusive
greens; known members contacted
for this story declined to comment.
Augusta carefully cultivates its image. Running instead of walking on
the course — for a good vantage point
during the tournament or a bathroom
break — is forbidden. Organizers of
the tournament refer to fans as "patrons."
Entertaining clients at the Masters
is "a very private cocktail party," said
Casey Alexander, who analyzes the
golf industry as a director of equity
research at New York-based Gilford
Securities. "It's very different than the
Super Bowl or the Kentucky Derby.
You don't see those big corporate
tents. You don't see logos lining the
fairways and that's the way they want
it."
Rometty's promotion puts the club
and the company in an "interesting
position" that's likely to be tackled
privately, said Patrick Rishe, a sports
business professor at Webster University in St. Louis. Private clubs are
"clever in terms of the language they
use and their rule books," and may
simply add an exception for top executives of key sponsors, he said.
Billy Payne, who succeeded William "Hootie" Johnson as chairman
of the tournament and the golf club
in 2006, has said he has "no specific
timetable" on possibly ending the allmale membership, which has been
enforced since the club was founded
by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts
on the grounds of the former Fruitland Nurseries in 1933. The first Masters Tournament was held a year later,
and in 1937 Augusta members began
wearing green jackets — a trademark
differentiator from guests and golf
fans who buy tickets.
Johnson, now 81, ended his 2003
annual gathering by saying the club's
position on women wouldn't change
"if I drop dead right now."
Ty Cobb on
Hitting
The old-timers come out of the woodwork every
spring, don a practice jersey, put on the hat and
offer their 2-cents worth of advice to rookies and
veterans alike. Sandy Koufax used to join the Dodgers at Vero Beach, George Brett is a mainstay for
the Royals, and old greats like Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson still visit the Yankees at Legends Field.
But what would, say, Ty Cobb teach you about hitting? Luckily, thanks to a letter he received from a
struggling ballplayer, we know the answer.
1. Don't grip your bat at the very end;
leave, say, an inch or two. Also, leave at least
an inch or more space between your hands;
that gives you balance and control of bat, and also
keeps hands from interfering with each other during swing.
2. Take a position at plate, especially
against right-hand pitchers, back of plate, and
against a man with a real curve, you can stay on
back line of batting box. ... Start now practicing
to hit your right-handers to the opposite field. An
inside ball from a right-hand pitcher you will naturally pull, say, to left-center.
3. Don't slug at full speed; learn to meet
them firmly, and you will be surprised at the results.
4. Now, to hit as I ask, to right-center or center,
stand away from plate the distance you can
see with mind's eye that you can hit the ball that
curves on inside corner, to center. This ... will allow
you to hit the outside ball to right. In other words,
you protect the plate both on inside pitches and
outside.
As the chief organizer of the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta, Payne was
known as being a progressive leader.
His Olympic organizing team included influential women Ginger Watkins, Linda Stephenson and Cindy
Fowler. The group is credited with
convincing the International Olympic Committee to bring the games to
Georgia's capital with its first bid —
the only city in 50 years to win with
its debut effort.
When Payne took over as chairman of Augusta National, he vowed
to help shed the club's "crusty" image.
In recent years, the tournament has
made changes, including a ticketing
program for children. In 2010, Payne
publicly criticized the extramarital
affairs of four-time Masters winner
Tiger Woods.
Augusta declined to provide a current membership list for this story. A
2010 partial list obtained by Bloomberg News and 2004 documents published by the Augusta Chronicle and
5. Remember, the plate is the pitcher's
objective and he has to come to it. ... Now,
use a slightly closed stance, and keep a
little more weight on your front foot than
back. That gives you balance and won't pull you
away from curves. You are always in position to give
maximum drive.
6. Don't pull a curve ball from a righthander. The ball is revolving away from you. Hit
with the revolution and to right field.
7. Keep your left elbow cocked on level
with your hands or even higher. Never let
the elbows down below the hands, and keep your
hands always well away from the body -- keep pushing them out, even with your body or back.
8. Keep your back leg straight. Of course,
if you put your weight more on the front leg, then
the back leg will be straight.
9. If high fast balls inside really bother
you: crouch over from the waist and pass them
up. Don't bite, in other words. In crouching, you
make the pitcher throw lower, which forces him
away from the position that bothers you. But I think
with the instructions I have given, you will hit them
wherever they pitch.
10. Against a speedy left-hander, don't
pull. Use same stance I have given you, and when
he throws you his curve, knock him down with it.
... But against a left-hander of fair speed:
Move up in the box, also closer to the plate, and
pull this style of pitching.
Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in
Kansas City.
USA Today show the last four IBM
CEOs were members.
Unlike her golf-enthusiast predecessors, Rometty plays occasionally.
She and her husband, Mark, are avid
scuba divers, splitting their time between homes in White Plains, N.Y.,
and Bonita Springs, Fla.
Augusta has faced pressure to
change its policy on women before.
Martha Burk, then the president of
the National Council of Women's Organizations, led a protest outside the
golf course's gates during the 2003
Masters.
Chambers said IBM's decision to
name Rometty the first female CEO
in the company's 100-year history offers a rare chance for Augusta and its
chairman.
"Billy Payne, with his history of inclusion and his role with the Olympics, of all people, should finally take
the plunge," Chambers said. "This is
a good opportunity for him to do it."
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Ashley Wagner,
Nation Builder
By Amy Shipley
A
shley Wagner knows full
well that U.S. women's figure
skaters have gone from being
a powerhouse in the sport to an occasional punch line. Wagner, in fact,
knows the precise moment of the official fall from grace.
Four years ago in Gothenburg,
Sweden, Wagner and two teammates
performed poorly at the world championships, costing the United States a
precious global championship berth;
the U.S. allotment shrank from three
to two.
And the American women have
failed to earn that berth back over the
past three seasons. Wagner hopes that
will change in her first world championship appearance this week in Nice,
France, since her 16th-place finish in
2008.
"This could be a huge worlds for
the U.S. ladies," Wagner, 20, said. "I
was on the team that lost the spot.
It's kind of a personal quest for me;
I want to be on the team that gets the
spot back."
Wagner seems perfectly positioned
to help author the turnaround. She
won her first U.S. title in January, six
months after moving to Southern
California to train under esteemed
coach John Nicks. Last month, she
won a gold medal at the Four Continents Championships, defeating
Olympic silver medalist Mao Asada.
There, she set a personal scoring record and posted the season-best point
total (192.41), emerging from the
competition a legitimate medal contender in Nice.
"To me it would be a huge accomplishment to get onto the worlds
podium," Wagner said by cellphone
from Aliso Viejo, Calif. "That would
be an incredible way to top off the
season."
The once-dominant U.S. women
haven't claimed a medal of any kind
in the five world championships since
2006, when Baltimore's Kimmie
Meissner won gold and Sasha Cohen
got the bronze. That year had marked
the 12th straight worlds in which U.S.
women had won at least one medal.
The reasons given for the decline
range from improved international
competition, particularly from Asia,
to a relatively new judging system
that stresses technique over artistry.
The number of representatives each
nation gets at the Olympics and world
championships is determined at the
world championships of the previous
year. The calculation goes like this:
For a country to win three slots for its
Clint's for
Certain
“I was on the team that lost the spot. . . . I want to be
on the team that gets the spot back,” says U.S. figure
skater Ashley Wagner, in her first world championship
appearance this week in Nice, France, since that
unimpressive appearance in 2008. Wager is shown
working out in Wilmington, Del., in 2011. (Washington
Post photo by Jonathan Newton).
athletes, the combined placement of
its top two — or only two — finishers
cannot be greater than 13th.
In other words, if either Wagner or
Alissa Czisny finishes third and the
other no worse than 10th (or fourth
and ninth, fifth and eighth, etc.) the
U.S. women will be able to send three
women to the 2013 world championships.
"She now has a lot of expectation
from a lot of people," Nicks said. "She
has that heavy responsibility."
Wagner knows better than anyone
the value of that third slot. She earned
her first trip to world championships
as the third-place finisher at the 2008
U.S. nationals. Two years later, when
she finished third again at the U.S.
championships, she couldn't go anywhere; she failed to make the 2010
Winter Games in Vancouver because
only the top two advanced.
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The Sprint Cup season is only five races old, but
Clint Bowyer has gone a long way toward eliminating the uncertainty that clouded his career during
the off-season.
Bowyer, 32, made his name at Richard Childress
Racing, where he won five races since joining the
Cup ranks full-time in 2006. Twice he won at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway, in 2007 and 2010, and
at Talladega Superspeedway, in 2010 and 2011. He
also won at Richmond, in 2008.
Late in 2011, Bowyer found that, due to sponsorship issues, there was no place for him at RCR. The
Emporia, Kan., native considered several offers
and decided to move to Michael Waltrip Racing,
where his No. 15 Toyota is sponsored by 5-Hour
Energy Drink.
Waltrip's team has won only twice since its inception in 2007. RCR has won 100 Cup races, dating
back to 1983.
So far, so good. Bowyer ranks ninth in the Cup
standings with one top-five and two top-10 finishes.
"These MWR cars have been good ever since
(teammate Martin) Truex was running good at the
end of last year," Bowyer said. "Just real proud of
everybody.
After spending time with Richard Childress Racing, Cliff Bowyer is off to a good start at Waltrip Racing. (John Clark/
NASCAR This Week photo)
"Looking at last year, they showed signs of brilliance, and then, I think, where they lacked was being consistent throughout the year. If we're able
to go there, that's one thing that's always been my
strong point. If I can continue my consistency ...
that's what we're missing."
Bowyer never felt the perceived uncertainty regarding his latest career move.
"In this sport anymore, the cars are so much the
same that the only real thing you're starting over
with is the group of people," he said. "Sometimes
change can be good and bad. There's no question
that, last year, I didn't have the success that I expected and that I wanted.
"Maybe it was time to make a change, and I'll be
able to answer that in a year or so. I really see a lot
of potential here, a lot of things coming together
at the right time for me to make a change and ride
that wave on into the future."
Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The
Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at [email protected].
1. In 2011, Minnesota's Francisco Liriano became the fifth pitcher from the Dominican Republic to toss a no-hitter. Name three of the other four
who did it.
2. Alex Rodriguez holds the record for most
home runs by a third baseman for a season (52).
Which two players tied for the second-highest
mark?
3. Tom Landry was the first head coach of the
Dallas Cowboys and stayed in that position for
29 years. How many head coaches has Dallas had
since?
4. Entering the 2011-12 season, how many times
had the Marquette men's basketball team been in
the Final Four?
5. In 2009, the Chicago Blackhawks matched the
biggest comeback in NHL history, rallying from a
5-0 deficit to beat Calgary, 6-5. What other team had
a similar comeback?
6. Who was the first coach to win three Major
League Soccer titles?
7. Name two of the last three opponents in
heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko's WBC title
defenses.
Answers:
1. Juan Marichal (1963), Ramon Martinez (1995),
Jose Jimenez (1999) and Ubaldo Jimenez (2010).
2. Mike Schmidt and Adrian Beltre, with 48 each.
3. Seven -- Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Chan
Gailey, Dave Campo, Bill Parcells, Wade Phillips and
Jason Garrett.
4. Three times -- 1974, 1977 and 2003.
5. Calgary, which came back to defeat Toronto,
6-5, in 1987.
6. Bruce Arena, with three (1996, 1997, 2011).
7. Odlanier Solis (3/19/11), Tomasz Adamek
(9/10/11) and Dereck Chisora (2/18/12).
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Milk Souring As Record Profit Spurs
Herd Expansions
By Elizabeth Campbell
R
ecord dairy profits and milder weather are leading to a
surge in milk supplies from
Auckland to California, turning last
year's best-performing commodity
contract into one of the worst of 2012.
Output in the United States, the
world's largest producer, will advance
1.8 percent to a record 199.7 billion
pounds (90.6 million metric tons) in
2012, the Department of Agriculture
estimates. Futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange already
fell 29 percent from a four-year high
in August and may drop another 7.9
percent to $14.25 per 100 pounds by
July, the median of six analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg shows.
An estimated 30 percent jump in
U.S. dairy exports led to the most
profitable year ever for farmers, who
expanded herds that now are the
biggest since May 2009, USDA data
show. Yields reached a record during
an unusually mild winter. Supply is
also rising in Australia and New Zealand, the largest exporter, and dairy
was the only food cost tracked by the
United Nations to decline last month.
"This blasted weather that most people have enjoyed, the dairy cows have
really enjoyed it," said Bill Brooks, an
economist for INTL FCStone in Kansas City, who grew up on a dairy farm
in Missouri and has covered the industry for two decades. "We're going
to see more milk production."
Declining milk prices and rising cattle-feed costs may require farmers to cull herds, reducing supply. (Bloomberg
News photo by Nelson Ching).
Milk futures that jumped 31 percent last year, more than any of the
24 commodities in the Standard &
Poor's GSCI Spot Index, dropped 10
percent since Dec. 30 to $15.47 today.
Only natural gas and arabica coffee
fell more. The S&P GSCI Agriculture Index advanced 1.2 percent this
year, as the MSCI All-Country World
Index of equities rose 10 percent.
Treasuries lost 0.5 percent, a Bank of
America Corp. index shows.
U.S. dairy farmers had 9.236 million cows in January, the 14th herd
expansion in 16 months, USDA data
show. Each animal produced a record
21,345 pounds (9.7 metric tons) of
milk last year. Fonterra Cooperative
Group, the largest dairy exporter,
shipped 246,000 tons in December,
the most ever. Deliveries to its plants
rose 9.8 percent in the eight months
ended Jan. 31, the Auckland-based
company said last month.
Rising supply may meet weaker
gains in demand. China, the biggest
buyer of U.S. agricultural products,
is targeting economic growth of 7.5
percent, the lowest since 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao said March 5. The
economy gained 8.9 percent in the
fourth quarter, the slowest pace in 10
quarters.
Declining milk prices and rising
cattle-feed costs may require farmers
to cull herds, reducing supply, said
Chip Whalen, a vice president of education and research at Chicago- based
Commodity & Ingredient Hedging,
which advises clients on managing
commodity price swings. Corn futures averaged $6.78 a bushel in Chicago last year, the most in at least a
half century. Record beef prices also
may encourage more slaughtering.
"We're going to go through another
one of these cycles where we're going
to cull the herd," said Shawn Hackett,
the president of Hackett Financial
Advisers Inc., a brokerage and consultant based in Boynton Beach, Fla.
"We're setting a stage for a significant
slowdown in production growth,
starting in the later part of this year,"
said Hackett, who anticipates a rally
to $18 in the second half of 2012.
While China may slow this year,
the U.S. will expand 2.2 percent
from 1.7 percent in 2011, according to the median of 79 economist
estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
U.S. consumption of fluid milk will
Record dairy profits and milder weather are leading to
a surge in milk supplies worldwide. (Bloomberg News
photo by Phil Hawkins).
reach 28.61 million tons this year, the
highest since at least 1964, and cheese
demand will advance to 4.83 million
tons, the most since at least 1965,
USDA data show. The U.S., with 4.5
percent of the global population, eats
32 percent of the world's cheese production and drinks 6.2 percent of its
milk, the department estimates.
Farmers may be reluctant to cull
herds. While losses this year may hurt
some dairies, most are in better financial shape than in 2009 and 2010, so
there won't be a "wholesale decrease
in cow numbers," said Jon Spainhour,
a broker and partner at Rice Dairy in
Chicago.
In 2009, the average for milk futures
slumped to $11.56, a six-year low, before rebounding in 2011 to $18.55.
Last year, the average dairy farm had
net cash income of $239,800, the
most ever, the USDA estimated Feb.
13, up from $158,100 in 2010 and
$70,100 in 2009.
Exports were the "key factor" in last
year's rally, said Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison who has been studying
the industry since 1966. U.S. dairy exports totaled $4.78 billion in 2011, up
from $3.69 billion in 2010, according
to the USDA's Foreign Agricultural
Service. Shipments will drop 2.2 percent in 2012, according to a report by
USDA economist Milton Madison at
a Feb. 24 forum in Washington.
The industry is now facing more
competition in export markets, said
Brooks of INTL FCStone. Output in
New Zealand, curbed by drought last
year, may rise 8 percent to 10 percent
this season, according to Southbank,
Australia-based Dairy Australia,
which raises levies from farmers to
fund industry projects.
Production in Australia may rise
1.4 percent to 9.55 billion liters (2.5
billion gallons) in the year beginning
July 1, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
and Sciences said in a report March 6.
Flooding last year limited output and
disrupted transportation.
U.S. output is also rising on improving weather. The three- month
period ended in January was the
sixth-warmest-ever for that time of
year, according to Brad Rippey, a meteorologist with the USDA. The four
warmest all happened since 1998 and
the other was in 1933-1934, the dust
bowl era.
Milk production in California, the
largest producing state, climbed 6.6
percent in January from a year earlier
to 3.615 billion pounds, the highest
on record for that month, USDA data
show. There's "milk coming out of our
ears," said Bill Schiek, an economist
at the Dairy Institute of California in
Sacramento, which represents processors in the state.
The drop in prices is no incentive
to cut production for Ray Souza, who
has 900 Holstein cows on his farm in
Turlock, California. Farmers tend to
react by increasing output because
their costs remain similar, he said.
"We've never produced at this level
before," said the 65- year-old, who has
been in the dairy business since 1973.
"Cows produce more milk in the
springtime than they do in any other
part of the year. This spring seems to
have started around the first of December."
-With assistance from Jeff Wilson in
Chicago and Phoebe Sedgman in Melbourne, Australia.
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New-Car Sales
Surge in
Early 2012
Bidding Wars Erupt as
Supply of Available Homes
Shrinks
By Prashant Gopal and John Gittelsohn
By Michael A. Fletcher
M
atthew and Carina Hensley offered $10,000 more
than the asking price for
a three-bedroom house in suburban
Seattle, then lost out to one of seven
other bidders.
Their $270,000 proposal last month
came with a family portrait and a
letter introducing the couple, their
8-month-old daughter and their desire to build a family in the Renton,
Wash., house with a yard backing
onto a woody hillside.
Bidding wars, absent from most
parts of the U.S. residential market
since its peak in 2006, are erupting
from Seattle and Silicon Valley to
Miami and Washington, D.C. The
inventory of homes hovers close
to a six-year low, while an increase
in jobs and record affordability are
tempting more buyers. The number
of contracts to buy previously owned
homes jumped 14 percent in February from a year earlier, the National
Association of Realtors reported this
week.
"We understand there is going to be
fierce competition in the offers made
for your house but Carina and I both
felt very strong about letting you
know what it would mean to us if we
were given the opportunity to live in
your gorgeous and charming house,"
wrote Matthew Hensley, 33, a credit
union branch manager. Such letters
from eager buyers were common
during the housing boom.
While listings will probably rise
as banks accelerate foreclosures and
sellers gain confidence in the market,
the U.S. metropolitan areas with the
strongest economies may be ready
to absorb the additional inventory,
said Mark Zandi, chief economist for
Moody's Analytics in West Chester,
Pa. Low values and interest rates have
made buying a better deal than renting in 98 of the largest 100 metropolitan areas, according to Trulia Inc.
"The housing crash is finally giving way to recovery in an increasing
number of markets across the country," Zandi said. "The decline in unsold listings and vacant homes and
the increase in rents presage better
times ahead for single- family housing."
The bidding wars seen in such places as Seattle aren't found everywhere.
In metropolitan areas including Atlanta and California's Riverside and
San Bernardino counties, housing
remains weak as high unemployment
and falling prices deter first-time and
move-up homebuyers.
A contraction in supply hasn't
helped increase property values,
which are down by a third from their
July 2006 peak. Prices, hurt by dis-
counted foreclosures and other distressed sales, will fall 2 percent more
this year before rising 1.4 percent in
2013, according to a Moody's Analytics projection.
Home prices dropped 3.8 percent in
January from a year earlier, the S&P/
Case-Shiller index of property values
in 20 U.S. cities showed last week. The
measure is based on a three-month
average, which means the January
data were influenced by transactions
in November and December.
Rising demand for homes has cut
into the supply, which is already low
because many sellers — especially
those with negative equity — are
waiting for prices to increase before
putting properties on the market.
About 2.43 million existing homes
were listed for sale in February, the
fewest for the month since 2005, the
year U.S. home sales reached a record
7.08 million, the National Association
of Realtors reported March 21. The
number of listings rose by 100,000
from January, a seasonal bump that
occurred every February since 2000
except for 2008, according to data
collected by the Realtors.
The February supply of unsold
homes listed for sale was down almost 50 percent from a year earlier
in markets such as Miami, Phoenix,
Ariz., and Oakland, Calif., according
to Realtor.com, the National Association of Realtors' official website.
The U.S. inventory of new homes
stood at 150,000, a 5.8- month supply,
in February, when new houses sold
at an annual pace of 313,000, slower
than analysts expected, the Census
Bureau reported March 23.
The supply of new houses rose from
5.7 months in January "as builders
put inventory in place for the spring
selling season," Stephen East, an analyst with International Strategy & Investment Group in St. Charles, Mo.,
wrote in a note to investors. "This is
the fourth consecutive month inventory has remained below six months'
supply, which is broadly considered
supply/demand equilibrium."
The new-home supply peaked at
12.1 months in January 2009, forcing
builders to book losses as the economy fell into recession. While the inventory has declined from that high,
the housing market still has hurdles
to overcome.
One is the more than 11 million
homes that had negative equity at the
end of 2011, meaning more is owed
on the mortgage than the house is
worth.
"A big issue is underwater borrowers," said Sam Khater, senior economist for CoreLogic, a real estate data
provider based in Santa Ana, Calif. "If
they want to move, they're not flexible
with their price. The lowest they can
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New-vehicle sales have surged at
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"The market feels really good right
now," said Vince Sheehy, president of
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"If the economic conditions remain
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things."
With interest rates as low as 2, 3 and
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attractive.
The same factors are also elements
in the best car-leasing deals in years,
allowing that portion of the market
to strongly recover from the lows hit
during the depths of the recession.
The sharp increase in auto sales
coupled with rising gas prices is causing a few spot shortages, particularly
among fuel-efficient models. Dealers
worry that the shortages could grow
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"We are starting to get a little tight
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market," Sheehy said. "Cars like the
Ford Focus, Nissan Sentra, Honda
Civic. Over all, inventories are okay,
but they are getting a little tight."
After unexpectedly strong sales in
January and February, several auto-research firms raised their 2012
sales forecast. LMC Automotive now
predicts that 14 million cars will be
sold this year, the same prediction as
TrueCar.com. Meanwhile, IHS Automotive and Kelley Blue Book have
revised their forecasts upwards from
13.3 million to 13.6 million.
"I don't think the industry was looking for the market to be this strong.
It is outpacing expectations," said
Jeff Schuster, senior vice president
of forecasting for LMC Automotive.
"This is not incentive-driven. This
is happening because the economy
seems to be in a better place."
The last time business was better
was in 2007, when 16 million new vehicles were sold in the United States.
The recession dragged down sales to
10.4 million in 2009, and they have
since rebounded. Last year, the industry reported 12.7 million new-vehicle
sales.
Sales have been moving far more
briskly in the first two months of
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sell at is their mortgage amount. So
there's price stickiness."
In a sign that demand for new
homes remains weak, orders fell 8
percent from a year earlier for the
quarter ended Feb. 29 at KB Home,
a Los Angeles-based builder that targets first-time buyers.
The median existing-home price
climbed 0.3 percent to $156,600 in
February from a year earlier. It was
the biggest year-over-year gain since
July 2010, when President Obama's
homebuyer tax credit temporarily
boosted values.
"Prices are a lagging indicator,"
Khater said. "The key metric to look
at are sales numbers."
Existing homes sold at an annual
pace of 4.59 million in February, up
8.8 percent from a year earlier and the
busiest February since 2007, according to the National Association of
Realtors. The February number was
down 0.9 percent from January, when
an unusually warm winter in much of
the country helped increase demand,
according to Paul Dales, senior U.S.
economist for Capital Economics in
London.
"Good weather does not generate extra housing demand — it just
brings it forward from future periods," he wrote in a March 21 note to
clients. "But the bigger point is that a
genuine upward trend is under way,
with sales 9 percent higher than a
year ago and 13 percent above levels
seen in July."
Asking prices tend to be higher
and inventory tends to be lower from
March through May, while sales peak
by June and inventory reaches a top in
July, said Jed Kolko, chief economist
for Trulia, a consumer-oriented real
estate information service.
Agents encountered multiple bids
on about half of offers in Seattle, Boston, Washington, D.C. and Oregon
this year through March 15, said Tim
Ellis, real estate analyst for online
brokerage Redfin.
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needs, thereby encouraging them to
receive care at those institutions, including possibly unnecessary care.
The federal government runs the
PCIPs in 23 states, including Virginia. Those jurisdictions permit thirdparty payment, at least for now. In its
guidance on the plans, the Department of Health and Human Services
says it will monitor such payments
closely, and "to the extent that HHS
finds that these payments present
conflicts of interest or contribute
to greater than projected spending,
HHS anticipates that it will issue further guidance that restricts or even
prohibits third-party payments for
premiums."
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In Phoenix, total listings as of March
23 were down 43 percent from a year
earlier to 21,346 homes on the market, according to the Cromford Report, a local market research service.
Excluding pending sales, the number
of available homes on the market fell
55 percent from a year ago. Distressed
offerings dropped more, with the
number of short-sale listings down 84
percent and bank-owned homes off
80 percent. The average time on the
market fell to 90 days from 114 a year
earlier, and the median sale price rose
to $126,000 from $110,000.
The key ingredients are in place for
a housing recovery in the strongest
U.S. job markets, where sales are outpacing new listings and banks have
worked through the backlog of foreclosures, said Douglas Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief economist.
Unemployment rates have fallen
over the past year by more than one
percentage point in the Miami, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., areas, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Listings in Washington fell 27 percent from a year earlier in February,
while the median price rose 11 percent to $398,500 and homes sold after
an average of 74 days on the market, a
20 percent decline, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc., a real estate listing service
in Rockville, Md.
Single-family home prices in the
Miami area increased 19 percent from
a year earlier to a median $175,000 in
February, the third consecutive yearover-year increase, the Miami Association of Realtors reported March 21.
The number of listings fell to 5,061
in February, or about six months' supply, down from a nine-month supply a year earlier, as foreign buyers
joined out-of-staters and Floridians
taking advantage of low prices, said
Ron Shuffield, president of Esslinger
Wooten Maxwell, a real estate firm in
Coral Gables.
Listings may swell in coming
months as lenders allow more foreclosures to flow onto the market. The top
The remaining 27 states, including
Maryland, run their own PCIPs with
federal dollars. Nine of them don't allow third-party payment, according
to HHS. They are: Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and
Rhode Island.
In New Mexico, about 11 percent of
the 950 people enrolled in the PCIP
get their premiums covered by such
third parties as the American Kidney
Fund, the University of New Mexico
and the New Mexico Department of
Health, says Deborah Armstrong, executive director for the New Mexico
Medical Insurance Pool.
A year ago, Eli Valdez, 36, had fullblown AIDs. Uninsured and earning
just $1,000 a month as a cashier at a
pizza parlor, he had racked up more
than $35,000 in medical bills. The
$1,600 he needed monthly for pre-
U.S. mortgage servicing banks, which
agreed to a $25 billion settlement over
foreclosure abuses last month, slowed
the pace of foreclosures as they negotiated for more than a year with state
attorneys general.
A shadow inventory of an estimated
1.6 million homes either facing foreclosure or already repossessed by
banks was being held off the market
in January, little changed from a year
earlier, CoreLogic reported March 21.
Many states that don't require court
approval for foreclosures have worked
through much of their shadow inventory. In Arizona and California, where
banks take less time to repossess and
resell foreclosures because the process doesn't require judicial review, 7
percent of mortgages were delinquent
at least 90 days or in foreclosure in
the fourth quarter, down from about
13 percent in 2009, according to the
Mortgage Bankers Association.
In Florida, where the court system
is clogged with home seizure cases, 18
percent of houses with a mortgage are
in the foreclosure pipeline, compared
with 20 percent in 2009, the Mortgage
Bankers Association reported. In other states that require judicial review,
such as New Jersey and New York, the
number of homes in the pipeline increased.
Sellers mostly are marketing their
properties because of life changes, including taking a new job, getting a divorce or having their grown children
move out, Khater said.
Meanwhile, the Hensleys haven't
given up on living in the Renton area
in Washington. They lost out to a bidder whose broker said offered $15,000
above the asking price and didn't
make the sale contingent on successful financing or inspection.
"From this experience we learned
that we have to move fast, especially
if a house is nice," Matthew Hensley
said. "The competition is fierce out
there."
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By Carol Sottili and Andrea Sachs
T
his week's best travel bargains
around the globe:
— The Woodstock Inn &
Resort in Woodstock, Vt., is offering a
Sugar Season Escape package to celebrate the maple syrup season. Rooms
start at $183 weekdays (including $19
in taxes) and $216 weekends (including $22 in taxes) for stays through
May 24; rates with taxes typically start
at $277 on weekdays and $342 weekends. The package also includes daily
breakfast for two, a $36 value. Book
by April 30 to receive a 20 percent
discount on any spa service costing
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— Breezes Resorts and Spas is taking up to 50 percent off rates at its
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example, at Breezes Grand Resort in
Negril, Jamaica, pay $125 a night per
person double, down from $250, on
stays Aug. 18 through 31. At Breezes
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— Couples save $1,200 on four new
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July 21 and 25 departures, and from
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seven nights in an outside cabin on
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gct.com.
— Holland America is offering savings of up to 50 percent on Alaska,
Europe and Caribbean cruises. The
deal applies to 18 itineraries with
departures throughout 2012. For example, an interior cabin on the sevennight Mediterranean Glamour cruise
departing Civitavecchia, Italy, on May
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rate was $1,298. Book by April 8. Info:
877-932-4259, www.hollandamerica.
com.
— JetBlue has a sale on new routes,
including one from Reagan National
to Tampa starting June 11. Rates start
at $170 round trip, including taxes.
Other airlines charge closer to $200.
Book by April 13; travel any day but
Friday and Sunday from June 11
through July 31. Blackout dates apply.
Another sale in the vicinity: Newark
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starting April 25 and rates from $319
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purchase required. Info: 800-5382583, www2.jetblue.com/deals/newservice.
— Prices were verified at press time,
but deals sell out and availability is
not guaranteed. Some restrictions
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scriptions was covered by the state,
but because he couldn't afford physician visits or blood work, the Albuquerque resident wasn't monitoring
the medications as he should have.
Now he has comprehensive insurance through the New Mexico PCIP,
for which the nonprofit New Mexico
AIDS Services pays the premium.
"Now I have more access to health
care, and I get seen more often," says
Valdez. "I'm a lot healthier." His viral
load is now undetectable.
This column is produced through a
collaboration between The Post and
Kaiser Health News. KHN, an editorially independent news service, is a
program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-carepolicy organization that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
2012, and they are now on a 15 million annual clip, though many analysts expect that pace to slow in the
coming months.
"You had a lot of people holding
off on car purchases over the past
few years," said Lacey Plache, chief
economist for Edmunds.com. "The
recovering economy is bringing more
people back into the market. Also,
credit is expanding, which is helping
a variety of people who were not able
to borrow before. The other factor is
that people's cars are getting older
and older."
Auto analysts see the sales growth
as another sign of an economy that
is finally healing. Unemployment
has dipped sharply in recent months,
while consumer confidence is rising
and stock market indicators such as
the Dow Jones industrial average are
bumping up against four-year highs.
"We look at all the macroeconomic
indicators and try to correlate them
with car sales," said Jesse Toprak,
vice president of market intelligence
for TrueCar.com. "Performance of
the Dow Jones Industrial Average remains the highest correlation we can
find."
Much of the nation's automaking
capacity shut down during the crisis
that gripped the industry last decade,
which resulted in a federal bailout of
General Motors and Chrysler. Now
some researchers wonder whether
automakers will be able to meet demand if it grows much more robust.
"The difference is we have many
fewer production facilities than we
did just a few years ago," said Kristin
Dziczek, director of the Labor and
Industry Group at the Center for Automotive Research. Now with the recent sales surge, hiring has resumed,
and "many plants are already on three
shifts. I would not be surprised in a
year or two that we hear about them
turning on plants that have been
idled."
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EAGLE NEWS
Travel & Leisure
A Gilded Age Treasure
By James F. Lee
"W
e've been riding the
grounds here since
these guys were little," said Baltimore resident Michael
Maloney as his two boys swooped past
us on their bicycles.
Today the family decided to take a
closer look. "We peeked inside and
saw the theater," said his wife, Carolyn Maloney. "We are absolutely coming back. It was beautiful."
They were talking about Evergreen
Museum & Library, an Italianate
mansion built in 1858 that sits on a
wooded hillside in northern Baltimore, Md. Like many Baltimoreans,
the Maloneys, who live less than a
mile away, didn't realize what was in
their own backyard.
My wife, Carol, and I recently
toured Evergreen, the former home
of the Garretts, a local family that
made its fortune in railroads. Turning
off North Charles Street, we glimpsed
the house through the trees, a pale
yellow Gilded Age beauty crowned by
an imposing white cornice and boasting massive white pillars in front (unfortunately marred at the moment by
scaffolding). The place reminded me
of a giant wedding cake.
In 1878, T. Harrison Garrett and his
wife moved into Evergreen and transformed it from a summer rental for
millionaires into an estate worthy of
a wealthy family. They added rooms
to accommodate their three children
and to display their vast collections,
gathered on travels around the world:
Tiffany glass, Japanese inro (miniature cases) and German porcelain, as
well as paintings and rare books and
coins.
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The walls and shelves of the reading room at Evergreen Museum & Library are made of teak. Over one doorway is a mural by Miguel Covarrubias depicting Amsterdam, one of
former owner John Work Garrett’s diplomatic posts. (Photo by James F. Lee for The Washington Post.)
The Garretts' eldest son and heir,
John Work Garrett, shared his father's
passion for collecting and travel,
which may explain his choice of career as a diplomat. While serving at
the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, he met
Alice Warder, an American studying
voice there. They married in 1908. It
was an ideal marriage: As they traveled Europe and South America to
John's various posts, Alice collected
art pieces, often directly from the artists themselves. When John inherited
Evergreen in 1920, they had the per-
fect place to display their treasures
and began an ambitious program of
enlarging the house to its current 48
rooms.
Our guide to Evergreen was Geordan Williams, a Johns Hopkins University history major from Arizona,
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Though Wagner wants to help restore the U.S. women's team's reputation, she's also preoccupied with establishing her own place in the sport.
After narrowly missing out on the
U.S. Olympic team and then finishing
in sixth place at last year's U.S. championships after an injury-marred season, Wagner left her coach, Priscilla
Hill in Wilmington, Del., and moved
to California.
"I just felt I had gotten to the point
in my skating, if I stayed where I was,
my level of skating was going to stay
where it was," said Wagner. "I wasn't
OK letting that happen."
Wagner's choreographer, Phillip
Mills, works out of the same rink
in Alisa Viejo as Nicks, so the move
made sense. Nicks, who guided Cohen to the Olympic silver medal in
2006, has coached a host of Olympic
stars dating back to Peggy Fleming.
"I was terrified of him when I first
went out there," Wagner said. "Absolutely terrified. But he's not as scary as
he comes off."
who enthusiastically regaled us with
stories about the Garretts during our
90-minute tour. John Work Garrett
willed his estate to the university with
the understanding that it would not
become simply an art museum. Garrett wanted the house to appear the
Nicks knew little about Wagner
when she showed up at his rink. He
immediately liked what he saw.
"When I first saw her skate, I
thought she was very talented," Nicks
said. "I couldn't understand how she
hadn't done better. I mean, she had
done well, but not done really well."
Indeed, Wagner had accrued a
handful of medals and decent finishes, but hadn't stood atop any podium
at any event since 2006, when she
won a trio of junior grand prix events.
Though she seemed ready for a breakthrough at the senior level back then,
a frustrating inconsistency slowed her
progress.
Nicks set about remedying that
through repetition at practice and a
refusal to add elements to Wagner's
programs until she could hit them 80
percent of the time during training.
She felt more comfortable and prepared during the fall grand prix season even though her results weren't
stellar: She claimed a third at Skate
Canada and a fourth at the NHK Trophy. Then, at the U.S. championships
in San Jose, Wagner performed her
first clean short program at that event
at the senior level.
A key, she believed, was Nicks's
insistence that she perform a triple-
way it did when he lived there. Interspersed with paintings, sculptures
and other artwork, tea trays appear
ready for guests, a cigarette pack rests
on a side table, a magazine lies open
as if the Garretts would be back any
minute. "You won't see many glass
cases in the house," Williams said.
Alice Garrett is really the star of
the house. About a dozen portraits
of her, by artists such as the Spanish
painter Ignacio Zuloaga and the Russian painter and stage designer Leon
Bakst, are scattered throughout the
house. An enormous Zuloaga painting of Alice in a Spanish dress dominates the drawing room. When Carol
asked about the dark shadows under
Alice's eyes, Williams explained that
she often dabbed coal dust there to
give herself a Mediterranean look.
Today the drawing room is in a
French salon style with Tiffany lamps,
Ming porcelain and two large chandeliers. On the walls are a self-portrait by Picasso, a Degas drawing and
an oil portrait by Modigliani. In earlier days, when Cole Porter entertained
Alice and John and their friends at the
grand piano, the room was in an Italian Renaissance style, with columns
and an elaborate ironwork ceiling.
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double jump combination, rather
than a more difficult triple-triple.
Though she could not score big with
the jump combination, she likely
wouldn't botch it. If fact, she nailed it.
"After the short program, I was so
pleased I had finally gotten over that
big speed bump," Wagner said. "I was
more excited for the long program.
The long program is really where I
excel as a skater."
In third place after the short, Wagner won the free skate to win her first
title.
"I couldn't really wrap my head
around the idea," Wagner said. "I
haven't been at the top of a podium
since the junior grand prix circuit
eons ago. When I finally realized I
won the national championship, it
was surreal."
Two weeks later in Colorado
Springs at Four Continents, Wagner
posted a personal best in the long
program and scored the highest program total of the skating season.
"If I can get into the mentality that I
got into at nationals and Four Continents," Wagner said, "worlds will not
be that big of a mountain to climb."
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From the drawing room we made
our way to the reading room, a
charming teak-lined library with several archways leading into inviting
reading nooks. Murals by Mexican
artist Miguel Covarrubias, famous
for his Vanity Fair cover art, adorn
the tops of four of the arches and
four wall panels, each depicting one
of John Work Garrett's foreign posts.
The cozy warmth of the reading
room didn't prepare us for the jawdropping elegance of the Great Li-
It was the Garretts' favorite room. On
the day of our visit, sunlight streamed
through tall arched windows, giving
the walnut a golden hue. The treasures housed in this room alone are
worth the visit to Evergreen: a complete Audubon double folio collection, the first Bible printed in North
America, a Tang Dynasty camel
statue and more than 160 incunabula,
books printed before 1500.
Above the fireplace is a large Zuloaga portrait of Garrett fils, painted
when he was ambassador to Italy. He
is seated and dressed casually with an
open collar and an informal jacket.
stain on the floor made by the water
bowl of the Garretts' beloved dog,
Boston Baked Beans, who used to
lounge in the sunlight near the back
window.
Alice wasn't content to display herself in paintings only; she needed
a stage. In 1923, she converted the
house gymnasium into a private theater, complete with a lobby, a stage
and a curtain, where she would sing
and dance for her guests. Her friend
Leon Bakst stenciled the walls with
Russian folk-inspired designs; Bakst
even designed many of her performance costumes. Today, the theater is
Evergreen, now owned by Johns Hopkins University, is kept the way it was when the Garrett family, scions of a railroad fortune, lived there. (Photo by James F. Lee for The
Washington Post.)
brary, a stunning room with floor-toceiling walnut bookshelves, reading
areas and statuary. I half-expected to
see Lord Grantham from "Downton
Abbey" reading his newspaper there.
Williams pointed out that Alice disliked this painting of her husband because "he was too underdressed for a
man of his status." But perhaps more
interesting than the painting was a
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The Garretts, father and son, collected many fine art objects from Japan, most of which are displayed in
the Far East Room. Many of the items
here are small: lacquered boxwood
and ivory incense boxes, masks, inro
and netsuke (miniature sculptures).
Our favorite was a tiny piece of fruit
with a carving of three men inside
drinking tea.
Perhaps the most startling room
is the Gold Bathroom on the second
floor. Roman tile mosaics line the
walls, floor and ceiling, while the
bathtub and commode are covered
in 23-carat gold leaf. "This is the only
gold toilet seat in the United States,"
Williams said. "And notice that
there's no toilet paper dispenser, but
there is a call button." Then he added,
"That's a joke I took from another
tour guide."
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T
ravel and tourism to the rescue!
The World Travel & Tourism
Council has some cheery economic
projections in its latest report: Travel
and tourism will grow by 2.8 percent
this year, trumping the predicted
global economic growth rate of 2.5
percent. The industry is expected to
contribute $2 trillion to the global
economy and support more than 100
million jobs. And when you take wider economic impacts into account,
the number jumps to $6.5 trillion and
260 million jobs.
On a micro-level, the report forecasts strides and stumbles in specific
destinations. Among them:
- South and northeast Asia will be
the fastest-growing regions in 2012,
expanding by 6.7 percent.
- After a tumultuous period, Egypt,
Tunisia, Libya and North Africa are
showing signs of recovery. Morocco,
which is perceived as more stable
than Egypt and Tunisia, is at the head
of the class.
- Expect slow growth in the restless Middle East. Of the countries in
the region, Qatar is expected to grow
fastest. Interesting trivia: In 2010,
Syria attracted almost 15 percent of
all international arrivals in the Middle East, just behind Saudi Arabia. It's
not looking likely to repeat the feat in
2012, so far.
- North America and Europe will
continue to struggle. In fact, the European Union could experience a decline.
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of deciding where to stay.
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such as room layout, children's programs, babysitting services and recreational facilities.
In the budget category ($99 to
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Embassy Suites, SpringHill Suites by
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by Marriott and Holiday Inn.
One step up in the mid-priced
group ($150 to $249 per night), the
magazine liked Loews Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton Hotels, JW Marriott
Hotels & Resorts, Omni Hotels &
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Check out the explanations behind
the rankings at www.parents.com.
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destinations will give you the most
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The Web site's 2012 Travel Value Index looked at prices and discounts on
airfare, rental cars and hotels, as well
as entertainment affordability.
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Japan's Pop Rocking AKB48 Joins
Cherry Blossom
Celebration
By Monica Hesse
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April Brings
Showers of
Broadway Shows
By Peter Marks
How to explain AKB48. The group
contains 60-ish members, selected
through a rolling "American Idol"esque audition process. It is the largest pop group in the world. When its
he girls of AKB48 arrived in
their Puccho candy commercial, in
Washington this week, a buoywhich the members of AKB48 pass
ant, giggling mass of knees,
each other taffy, lips to lips, no hands
dimples, hair bows, teeth.
at all.
Do the girls of AKB48 own any
At Thomson Elementary, the stupets?
the
dents wanted to know:
American stuWho is your favorite
dents asked the
cartoon character, HilJapanese pop
ary?
stars on the ocShe enthusiastically
casion of their
pointed to a picture
first visit to the
of a Japanese manga
U.S. capital.
character.
"Because
Aki Takajo
he's blue and round
owns
two
and has a pocket that
C h i hu a hu a s ,
is a door, and you can
she informed
open the door and go
the
students
anywhere you want."
through
an
Hilary, who was born
i n t e r p r e t e r,
in Arizona, speaks
beaming with
English.
the sheer deAfter this cultural
light of it all.
Q&A, the three girls
Her
two Members of AKB48 perform at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 27. (Washington Post sat with the students
c o m p a n i o n s photo by Sarah L. Voisin).
and helped them write
were elated by
messages of goodwill to
the news of these dogs; Sae Miyazawa members get older, they graduate and residents of Japan on pink cutouts of
began clapping her hands, and Rina are replaced with trainee AKB48s. The cherry blossoms.
Hirata — call her Hilary, she encour- group's past 11 singles have topped
"Just draw anything?" Takajo,
aged — revealed that she personally Japanese charts, and Japanese citizens through her interpreter, asked the
get to vote on which members will ap- young girl who pressed a crayon into
kept two snakes for pets.
Oh no! The second-graders of pear in which videos. Tickets to the her hand and asked for assistance.
Strong John Thomson Elementary band's shows are distributed via lot- The girl nodded. Takajo took the
tery. AKB48 is huge.
School protested.
crayon and carefully sketched a small
It is as if Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift figure. It was Hello Kitty.
Oh yes! Snakes, Hilary, 13, revealed,
are very cute. She, like Takajo, 20, and the entire cast of "Twilight" were
Then the girls were whisked away,
and Miyazawa, 21, wore a navy plaid placed into a saucepan and simmered waving cheerfully. The approximately
blazer over the smallest schoolgirl on a low boil until nothing remained 22 members of the media also disskirt, followed by yards of gangly legs, but the sweet, cloying essence of persed, catching taxis to the ambassathen knee socks. A wee, jaunty top hat fame, and if that fame were then dor's residence, where the girls were
perched on her head.
AKB48 is an all-female singing
group. Sixteen of its members were
in town for just 36 hours, a whirlwind
cultural exchange celebrating the
100th anniversary of Washington's
cherry blossom trees.
They visited the school, accompanied by approximately 22 members
of the Japanese press. They visited
the residence of the Japanese ambassador, Ichiro Fujisaki, who speculated
that "AKB" stood for Adorable, Kind
and Beautiful. Such a joker, that ambassador. Everyone knows that the
group name is a play on "Akihabara,"
the Tokyo neighborhood in which the
group holds nightly performances.
AKB48’s Juri Takahashi, left, and Reina Fujie perform at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March
On Tuesday, they performed two 27. (Washington Post photo by Sarah L. Voisin).
free concerts at the Lincoln Theatre to
packed, shrieking crowds. (The audi- poured into pleated tartan skirts and scheduled to give a news conference.
ence brought glow sticks, knew all of given pigtails.
The girls arrived about 10 minutes
Is AKB48's target audience tween- late to the open, airy room decorated
the words to all of the songs and were
ecstatic when one member shared age girls? Teenage girls? Something .
that she had studied the Rev. Martin . . else? The cutesy-saucy stereotype
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actly subliminal. Anyone who thinks
speech in grade school.)
the group is G-rated has not seen
I
t's that gusty time of year again,
when the skies open up over
Broadway and out of the clouds
come the April showers of new productions, all making landfall just under the Tony Awards deadline.
The month of April is by far the
busiest of the year for Broadway
openings: A total of 13 plays and musicals will open, or nearly one new
show every other day — representing
a third of the 2012-13 season's new
productions. (The deluge starts with
a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best
Man," officially opening Sunday, and
concludes April 26 with the new musical "Leap of Faith.")
The schedule defies most mea-
likely Dublin romance of a depressed
Irish street singer and a buoyantly unsinkable Czech immigrant. With the
enchanting songs by Glen Hansard
and Marketa Irglova left intact — and
a new book by Irish playwright Enda
Walsh — "Once" successfully transfers its affectionate brand of edginess
to the stage. And in the team of John
Tiffany and Steven Hoggett, the director and choreographer behind the
muscularly inventive "Black Watch,"
the musical has found matching sensibilities for the story's off-centered
tartness.
A knock among the theater cognoscenti on "Once" — which had a run
at off-Broadway's New York Theater
Aaron J. Albano (left) and Jess LeProtto with the cast of "Newsies," the tale of New York’s hardscrabble turn-ofthe-20th-century newsboys. (Deen van Meer/Disney on Broadway.)
sures of logic and logistics, especially
when one considers the perilous odds
against Broadway success and the
limited marketing tools new shows
can wield in the effort to capture
quickly ticket buyers' attention. And
still, in the Darwinian struggle to
earn the legitimacy-conferring Tony
nods that will be announced May 1,
producers, as has become customary,
pack the April calendar, clearly knowing that not everyone can survive.
The thunder has already begun to
rumble, with the openings of three
major musical productions, each
seeking to get a jump on the coming
Tony sweepstakes. (The trophies will
be doled out at Manhattan's Beacon
Theatre on June 10.) Each of the three
— "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Newsies"
and "Once" — is a viable contender
for end-of-the-season recognition.
Even if each relies on an entirely different, time-honored Broadway entertainment value: Be it blood ("Superstar"), sweat ("Newsies") or tears
("Once").
The most original and emotionally exhilarating of the trio is the new
stage version of "Once," the offbeat
2007 movie musical about the un-
Workshop, birthplace of "Rent" — is
that the story and characters aren't
writ large enough for Broadway; like
the film, it belongs more naturally
to the art house. I can't vouch for its
commercial potential, but if "Once"
is for more rarefied air, it's the sort of
revivifying breeze nowhere more necessary than on Broadway.
The stage of the Bernard B. Jacobs
Theatre is transformed by crackerjack scenery imagineer Bob Crowley
into a Dublin pub. Each of the 13
cast members, with the exception of
a child actress, plays both a character
and an instrument. While the device
has proved effective and affected
in the much-talked about revivals
of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney
Todd" and "Company" by director
John Doyle, the approach feels seamless here. Music is the conveyance of
love, as the singer known only as Guy
(Steve Kazee) is schooled in tuneful confidence-building by the ironwilled Girl (Cristin Milioti), who falls
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in love with him and the sounds he
makes on his guitar.
That sense of the melding of a style
and personality is reflected bracingly
in the permeable performances of Kazee and Milioti, who make virtually
visible the magnetic pulls exerted by
their characters on each other. Tiffany's clever employment of surtitles in
China's
Weirdly Grand Opera
Houses Glitter, Decay
predictable tale, directed by Jeff Calhoun, of the poor Davids vs. the filthy
rich Goliaths, will appeal mostly to
kids and those with abiding nostalgia for the movie. I grew tired of the
reductive storytelling and wooden
characters. Alan Menken and Jack
Feldman's serviceable score is a minor entry in the Disney canon. (How
quaint, too, to think of a newspaper as
the omnipotent weapon of the elite.)
Christopher Gattelli's combustibly
By Manuela Hoelterhoff
Paul Nolan and Chilina Kennedy with the company of "Jesus Christ Superstar, " the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Tim Rice.(Joan Marcus/ Boneau/Bryan-Brown.)
Czech — to indicate when the Czech
characters are speaking in their native language — has a powerful payoff
in Act 2: Bathed in a purple haze by
the superb lighting designer Natasha
Katz, Kazee's Guy listens uncomprehendingly as Milioti reveals her desire
for him but only in Czech.
You can bring teen-age devotees
of "Spring Awakening" or "Next to
Normal" to "Once," but take the little
tykes, instead, to "Newsies." My audience at the Nederlander Theatre,
where the Disney musical had its official opening Thursday night, was
filled with 30-somethings reveling in
their memories of the 1992 movie.
The film featured a singing Christian
Bale as the swashbuckling king of
New York's hardscrabble turn-of-the20th-century newsboys, facing off
athletic dances are the show's only
real accelerant — though judging
from how toned the newsboys are,
you do wonder if hawking papers in
1899 came with a gym membership.
What "Newsies" is to happy feet,
director Des McAnuff 's new, technology-obsessed "Jesus Christ Superstar"
is to super-stressed vocal cords. As
metal risers wend their way on and
off the stage of the Neil Simon Theatre, an electronic news zipper keeps
the audience apprised of when events
in the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Tim Rice have shifted to
Nazareth or Gethsemane.
You'll be glad to have a listen again
to the now-vintage powerhouse score,
especially out of the lungs of the
amazing Jeremy Kushnier, who was
subbing as Judas for an ailing Josh
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in "Once," the story about the unlikely Dublin romance between a depressed Irish
street singer and an unsinkable Czech immigrant. (Joan Marcus/ Boneau/Bryan-Brown.)
against a dastardly, money-grubbing
newspaper magnate.
Here, Bale's Jack Kelly is portrayed
by the Cagneyesque Jeremy Jordan,
fresh from Broadway's ill-fated "Bonnie and Clyde." His portrayal in this
Young the night I was there. Alas, it
is sometimes difficult to distinguish
the involved mechanics of Robert
Brill's set from the robotic lead performances. Chilina Kennedy's glassyeyed Mary Magdalene and Paul No-
The exterior of the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, included in “Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls'' by Victoria Newhouse.
(Conde Nast).
P
aul Andreu is very big in China.
The French architect, who
made news when part of a terminal
ceiling at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle
airport collapsed, had better luck in
Beijing and Shanghai.
Andreu's gargantuan culture centers stun the eye in Victoria Newhouse's lucidly written, splendidly
illustrated "Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls."
The immense petal-like shapes
of the Shanghai Dongfang Yishu
Zhongxin look as if they may yet
sprout a glass bug late one night.
There is more than China in Newhouse's illuminating survey. Her
global tour includes Los Angeles,
Paris, New York and Oslo, before
concluding with newer projects by
Zaha Hadid in Baku, Azerbaijan, and
Herzog & de Meuron's Elbe Philharmonie in Hamburg.
These complexes devoted to music are our era's expression of wealth
and power, she writes. In that respect,
they have replaced museums, which
multiplied like mad in the last two
decades.
Q: It's odd that the Chinese are obsessively building opera houses when
Western opera isn't part of their tradition.
A: There are a number of issues, first
of all the Cultural Revolution, which
wiped out everything connected with
western music. So they really had
to start from scratch in the late '70s
when that was over.
Q: These palaces glitter at night in
your photos, but aren't they often
empty?
A: The Chinese have no tradition
of buying tickets. Anybody with the
means of buying tickets expects to get
tickets free, either because their company has contributed some money or
simply because of who they are.
One of the big problems in China
today, and it's not unlike the West,
is finding money for programs. And
then they don't always know what to
program.
Q: So many seem surrounded by lethal highways.
A: Which they call boulevards, but
they are not. Also, there is no marketing. If the place isn't in the center of
Beijing, say, people don't know what
might be playing. Shanghai is a little
different because of its Western connection.
Q: Do the cities compete for bizarre
and big?
A: When Beijing started to plan the
mega theater because of the Olympics, Shanghai immediately commissioned the same French architect,
Paul Andreu, to do their grand theater because they didn't want to be
outdone by Beijing.
Q: I was amazed to see that Carlos
Ott of the reviled Bastille Opera in
Paris has built a 540,000-square-foot
theater in Hangzhou. How do these
guys get these jobs?
A: You have to remember that in
China everything is political. It's a
dictatorship and so if some big official sees something in Paris, they can
order it up back home.
lan's excessively opaque Jesus provide
inadvertent support for the thesis that
"Superstar" looks best on CD. It's the
emotions of this musical, not the volume, that need pumping up.
"Once"
Music and lyrics by Glen Hansard
and Marketa Irglova, book by Enda
Walsh. Directed by John Tiffany.
Movement, Steven Hoggett; music supervisor and orchestrations, Martin
Lowe; sets and costumes, Bob Crowley; lighting, Natasha Katz. About 2
1/2 hours. At Bernard B. Jacobs The-
atre, 242 W. 45th St., New York. 212239-6200. www.telecharge.com.
"Newsies"
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by
Jack Feldman, book by Harvey Fierstein. Directed by Jeff Calhoun.
Choreography, Christopher Gatelli;
sets, Tobin Ost; costumes, Jess Goldstein; sound, Ken Travis; lighting, Jeff
Croiter; orchestrations, Danny Troob.
About 2 ½ hours. At Nederlander
Theatre, 208 W. 41st St., New York.
866-870-2717.
www.ticketmaster.
com.
"Jesus Christ Superstar"
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice. Directed by
Des McAnuff. Choreography, Lisa
Shriver; music direction, Rick Fox;
set, Robert Brill; costumes, Paul
Tazewell; lighting, Howell Binkley;
sound, Steve Canyon Kennedy. About
2 hours. At Neil Simon Theatre, 250
W. 52nd St., New York. 877-250-2929.
www.ticketmaster.com.
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Q: How do you explain so many
new buildings devoted to opera and
music?
A: What's happening with concert
halls and opera houses today is like
what was happening when I started
writing about museums in the early
1980s: It's an explosion.
When the Pompidou opened in
1977, nobody went to museums. I
mean, it's hard to imagine that today
right? Museums were dark, musty,
fusty places and look at what's happened? Lines around the block.
So maybe these halls will attract
their audiences. Concert halls today
are certainly more visually appealing.
Q:They actually invite you in. Look
at the great redo of Lincoln Center.
A: It is much more user-friendly,
much more accessible instead of being
isolated from the sidewalks around it.
It now connects with the pedestrian
areas. That cafe inside Tully Hall is a
great place to have a cup of coffee.
Q: My hometown of Hamburg is
building one of the most gorgeous
halls, the Elbe Philharmonie on the
harbor. How is it coming along?
A: I think they're now up to three
or four times the original estimate. It's
been a nightmare.
Q: What happened?
A: It was originally designed to sit
on top of a 1960s warehouse. And
they discovered very, very quickly
that it wasn't strong enough to hold
everything they were going to build
on top of it.
They had to add hundreds of pylons
to make the place structurally secure.
Then they ran into technical problems with the acoustics and had to
redo the walls.
Q: It seems to be taking forever.
That brings me back to China: Those
buildings go up overnight.
A: Between the time that I left
Shanghai in early 2010, and late last
year, they had opened another concert hall that I hadn't even heard
about when I was in the city. It's right
under one of the main squares.
The average longevity of any building in China is a maximum 30 years.
Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera
house is already being restored. It was
so badly constructed that cladding
panels have fallen off.
Q: Beyond Gehry's marvelous Disney Hall and New World Center in
Miami, it seems Americans are more
timid in their architecture.
A: I think the bottom line rules and
so people are always terrified to spend
a little bit more money to experiment.
with pictures of the Japanese emperor and empress. These girls were
new girls, three different members of
AKB48. The skirts and blazers were
identical, however, and the replacement girls appeared to be equally
adorable, kind and beautiful.
A member of the media asked the
new girls how they felt to be visiting
Washington.
"We are looking forward to giving
you our show," one girl says. "We are
so honored and pleased."
And do they have any tourist plans?
Quote of the
Day
The reason grandparents and
grandchildren get along so well is that
they have a common enemy!
- Margaret Mead ■
The interior of the Guangzhou Opera House in China as shown in “Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of
New Opera Houses and Concert Halls'' by Victoria Newhouse. (Iwan Baan/Conde Nast).
"We wanted to see the beautiful
cherry blossoms," Minami Takahashi
said through an interpreter, though
she was not sure they would have
time. "We appreciate the many famous things in Washington, D.C."
The resulting applause seemed
the slightest bit outsize for the girls'
responses, but they were very personable and lovely, and it is always
possible that something was lost in
translation.
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• 1 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 tablespoon honey
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh
thyme leaves or 1 tablespoon
dry thyme leaves
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh sage
leaves or 1 tablespoon ground
sage
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper
• 6 ounces crimini or button mushrooms, thinly sliced
By Angela Shelf Medearis
Summary: The beauty of this recipe for Microwave Salmon with Mushroom, Apple and Endive Salad is that
it can be quickly prepared for dinner
as a warm dish and easily packed for
lunch and eaten cold. Olive oil infused with sage and thyme perfectly
accents the moist salmon steaks and
the sharpness of the endive.
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients:
• 4 salmon steaks (8 ounces each),
each 1-inch thick
• 6 cups bite-size pieces curly endive (also known as chicory),
washed
• 1 large Gala or Fuji apple, cored,
seeded and thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed
lemon juice
Directions:
1. Rinse fish and pat dry. In a bowl,
mix together 3 tablespoons of the oil,
onions, vinegar, honey, garlic, thyme,
sage and 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2
teaspoon pepper. Use 2 tablespoons
of the seasoned oil to coat both sides
of the salmon. Set the reminder of
oil aside. Arrange salmon in a 7- by
11-inch microwave-safe baking dish,
positioning thickest parts toward outside of dish.
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with lemon juice, and a serving of
salmon steak.
2. Cover and microwave on HIGH
(100 percent) for 4 to 5 minutes, giving each fish steak a half-turn after
2 minutes. Let stand, covered, for 4
minutes. Fish should be just slightly
translucent or wet inside; cut in thickest part to test. Cover and set aside.
3. Place mushrooms, remaining
1/2 teaspoon of salt and pepper, and
remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons oil in a
3-quart microwave-safe casserole.
Cover; microwave on HIGH (100
percent) for 4 minutes, stirring after
2 minutes.
4. Add any remaining seasoned oil
mixture to the cooked mushrooms to
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Spring
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To Cook: Asparagus can be boiled,
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Serve hot, room temperature or cold.
To boil, in a 12-inch skillet, heat 1
inch of water to boiling over high
heat. Add asparagus and 1/2 teaspoon
salt; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to
medium-high and cook, uncovered,
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under cold running water to stop
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is a matter of personal choice. Leave
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into 1- to 2-inch pieces.
Makes 10 side-dish servings.
Ingredients:
• 2 pounds asparagus, trimmed
and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
• 8 ounces sugar snap peas, strings
removed
• 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
• 1 pound radishes, each cut into
quarters
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tablespoons chives.
4. Transfer to serving bowl; arrange
radishes around edge. Sprinkle with
remaining chives. Makes 10 side-dish
servings.
• Salt and pepper
• 4 tablespoons snipped fresh
chives
Directions:
1. Heat large covered saucepot of
salted water to boiling on high. Fill
large bowl with ice water; set aside.
To saucepot, add asparagus and snap
peas; cook 4 minutes. Drain vegetables; cool in bowl of ice water. Drain
vegetables well.
2. Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet,
heat margarine on medium until
melted. Add radishes, 1/4 teaspoon
salt, and 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper; cook 10 minutes or
until tender-crisp. Transfer to bowl;
keep warm.
3. To same skillet, add asparagus,
snap peas, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2
Summary: With its bright colors
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vegetables tastes even better than it
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Flying With Your
Pet
DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I have to take a trip
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instead? -- Sign me "Shhhh" in Little Rock, Ark.
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Flying your pet, or with your pet, is a common
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pet websites list airlines with pet travel policies,
such as dogfriendly.com, which recently updated
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5. From Judges 20, what tribe had 700 lefthanded men? Benjamites, Samarians, Pharisees,
Sadducees
6. Which priest took the first census of the Hebrews? Eleazar, Melchizedek, Ehud, Jabin
ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) 32; 3) John; 4)
Gadites; 5) Benjamites; 6) Eleazer
1. Which band released "See My Baby
Jive," and when?
2. What instrument does Ginger Baker
play?
3. Name the group that released "Wasted Years."
4. "Afternoon Delight" was a No. 1 hit for
which group?
5. In what year were 78-rpm records last
released?
6. What is the "Deuce Coupe" ballet?
Answers
1. Wizzard, in 1973. The song was covered in 1977 by Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids.
2. Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker plays
drums. He picked up the nickname "Ginger" because of his red hair.
3. Iron Maiden, in 1986. It was the band's
only No. 1 U.S. rock chart hit.
4. The Starland Vocal Band, in 1976. They
picked up two Grammys, and parlayed that
win into a short-run summer television
show the next year.
5. 1960. The 78s, usually made of a shellac compound, set the standard until after
World War II, when larger 33-rpm vinyl
albums became popular. Small 45-rpm
single-song records rose to popularity in
the 1950s, mostly due to the pop music
that teenagers were buying.
6. "Deuce Coupe" is an avant-garde ballet by choreographer Twyla Tharp, set entirely to the music of the Beach Boys, commissioned in 1973 by the Joffrey Ballet.
The Perfect
Mate
At a local coffee bar, a young woman was expounding on her idea of the
perfect mate to some of her friends.
"The man I marry must be a shining
light amongst company. He must be
musical. Tell jokes. Sing. Entertain.
And stay home at night!"
An old granny overheard and spoke
up, "Girl, if that's all you want, get a
TV!" ■
The Travel
Agent
A travel agent looked up from his
desk and saw an older lady and an
older gentleman peering into the
shop window, where there were posters of glamorous destinations around
the world. The agent had had a good
week, and the dejected couple looking in the window gave him a rare
feeling of generosity.
He called them into his shop. "I
know that on your pension you could
never hope to have a holiday, so I am
sending you to a fabulous resort at
my expense, and I won't take no for
an answer." He took them inside and
asked his secretary to write two flight
tickets and book a room in a five-star
hotel.
The older lady and gentleman, as
could be expected, gladly accepted
and were off! About a month later, the
little lady came in to the travel agency.
"And how did you like your holiday?"
the agent asked eagerly.
"The flight was exciting, and the
room was lovely," she said. "I've come
to thank you. But, one thing puzzled
me. Who was that old guy I had to
share the room with?" ■
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