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Cost-cutting in New York and London equals a boom in India

Cost-cutting in New York and London equals a boom in India
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Processing knowledge: Equity researchers at Copal Partners’ office in Gurgaon, Haryana. Photograph: Zackary Canepari / NYT
Processing knowledge: Equity researchers at Copal Partners’ office in Gurgaon, Haryana. Photograph: Zackary Canepari / NYT
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Gurgaon: On the top floor of a seven-storeyed building in this dusty aspiring metropolis, Copal Partners churns out equity, fixed-income and trading research for big-name analysts and banks. It is a long way from the well-cooled corridors of Wall Street, and quarters are tight; business is up around 40% this year alone.
Processing knowledge: Equity researchers at Copal Partners’ office in Gurgaon, Haryana. Photograph: Zackary Canepari / NYT
“This is one bulge bracket bank,” said Joel Perlman, president of Copal Partners, pointing towards a team behind an opaque glass wall. “And this”, he said motioning across a narrow corridor, “is another”.
The banks edit and add to what they get from Copal, a research provider, then repackage the information under their own names as research reports, pitch books and trading recommendations.
Wall Street’s losses are fast becoming India’s gain. After outsourcing much of their back-office work to India, banks are now exporting data-intensive jobs from higher up the food chain to cities that cost less than New York, London and Hong Kong—at their own offices, or to third parties.
Bank executives call this shift “knowledge process outsourcing”, or “high-value outsourcing”. It is affecting just about everyone—including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Credit Suisse Group and Citibank Inc., to name a few.
The jobs most affected so far are those with gruelling hours, traditionally done by fresh-faced business school graduates—research associates and junior bankers on deal-making teams—paid in the low- to mid-six figures.
Cost-cutting in New York and London has already been brutal, and there is more to come in the next few months. New York financial firms expect to hand out some $18 billion (Rs76,320 crore) less in pay and benefits this year than 2007, the largest one-year drop ever. Overall, US banks will cut a total of 200,000 employees by 2009, banking consultancy Celent had said in April.
The work these bankers were doing is not going away, though. Instead, jobs are popping up in places such as India and eastern Europe, where healthier local markets exist.
In addition to moving some lower-level banking and research positions to support bankers and analysts in New York and London, firms are shipping some of their top bankers to faster-growing developing markets to handle clients there.
Owing in part to credit weaknesses and billion-dollar charges from the subprime crisis, “people who were offshoring high-value jobs are increasing the intensity of that, and people who were not, are now in the planning stage”, said Andrew Power, a financial services partner at Deloitte Consulting Llp.
Wall Street banks started cautiously sending research jobs to India a few years ago, hiring employees by the handful and running pilot programmes with firms such as Copal, Office Tiger, Pipal Research and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS).
In 2003, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley had said they planned to move a few dozen research jobs to Mumbai. Lehman Brothers Inc. was working on a pilot programme to create research presentations in India, and both Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs said they had not moved any research to the country.
Five years later, the trickle is a flood. Third-party firms say they are seeing a 20-40% upswing in business this year alone. Morgan Stanley has about 500 people employed in India doing research and statistical analysis. Around 100 of Goldman Sachs’ 3,000 employees in Bangalore are working on investment research.
JPMorgan has 200 analysts in Mumbai working for its investment banking operations around the world, doing industry analysis, and compiling data and charts for marketing materials. It has an additional 125 analysts in Mumbai supporting the bank’s global research division.
Citigroup employs about 22,000 people in India, several hundred of which work in investment research. Deutsche Bank AG has 6,000 employees in India, according to its website. Deutsche started a pilot programme to outsource some research in 2003, and would not provide any update.
Theoretically, as much as 40% of the research-related jobs on Wall Street, tens of thousands of jobs, could be sent offshore, said Deloitte’s Power, though the reality will be less than that.
The jobs offshore are more likely to come from the investment bank and trading divisions of Wall Street firms, rather than the sales side, which produces analyst reports about companies and industries, said Andy Kessler, a former analyst who has written several books about Wall Street.
“There’s a huge amount of grunt work that has been done by $250,000-a-year Wharton MBAs,” Kessler said. “Some of that stuff, it’s natural to outsource it.” He added, “These are middle-of-the-office jobs, not back-office, but they’re not the people on the front line.”
After research, the next wave may include more sophisticated jobs, such as the creation of derivative products, quantitative trading models and sales jobs from the trading floors.
Proponents of the change say Wall Street’s wary embrace of the activity may signal the beginning of a profound shift in the way investment banks are structured, with everyone, but the top deal makers, client representatives and the bank management permanently relocated to cheaper locales such as India, the Philippines and eastern Europe.
In the future, executives in India like to joke, the only function for highly paid bankers in New York or London will be to greet clients and shake hands when the deals close.
“Wall Street has to look at the world differently,” said Manoj Jain, chairman of Pipal Research, a 400-person firm with offices in Chicago, New Delhi and Gurgaon. Moving high-value jobs out of high-cost cities is “no longer a hypothesis”, he said.
Pipal has “more work than it can take” right now, Jain said, and is seeing new clients beyond US banks, such as investment management companies and European financial firms.
Like analysts at most offshore research operations, Pipal’s number crunchers do not make recommendations, or generally put their names to the research they write. Instead, they work with the big-name bank, or fund analyst to create the research they want.
Permanently moving banking jobs out of New York, or London is a touchy subject on Wall Street. Many investment banks—including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup— would not make executives available to discuss the topic.
Press officers for most banks asked not to be quoted, or argued over semantics. For example, one spokesman said his bank’s fast-growing India support operations are not an outsourcing facility, but a “centre of excellence”; another argued that large cost cuts at his bank’s New York and London headquarters were really “re-engineering” and, therefore, the bank should not be included in such an article.
“Some of that is self-serving,” Octavio Marenzi, chief executive of Celent, said of the impulse to keep quiet. “If I admit that research analysts can be offshored to India, that means that I could, too.” The “more advanced firms” will be able to use the cost differences and talent pools in India, and in the future in China, to their advantage, he added.
A few banks have openly embraced offshoring. Credit Suisse has 6,500 employees around the world working in lower-cost locations in India, Poland and Singapore. Of these, around 500 are doing high-value jobs.
“We have people helping the execution of deals, data gathering, helping to build financial models, writing research, and doing scenario analysis,” said Vineet Nagrani, head of KPO at Credit Suisse.
The bank has small teams working on fixed-income research, credit research and foreign exchange research, “all of which are going to grow”, Nagrani said. It’s also doubling the number of investment bankers and private bankers in India, who deal with local clients, in the next 12 months.
The bank’s clients, so far, seem happy. “As long as clients get a good quality product and can talk to their favourite research analyst”, they do not care if the grunt work is done in New York or India, Power said.
Third-party outsourcing firms face two hurdles when winning this business, N. Chandrasekaran, chief operating officer of TCS, said. First, banks need to be confident that third parties are capable of doing the work. Second, they need to decide if they want to move the work out of the bank at all.
To address the first issue, TCS sets up pilot programmes with clients. A new TCS office in Cincinnati, which will employ 1,000 people in three years, is intended to give the company a US presence.
In addition to growth outside India, these outsourcing experts are bringing in Chinese nationals, Arabic speakers and even the very people they are replacing: business school graduates from the US.
Daniel Peng, who will be a senior at Dartmouth next year, is working in the equity research department of Copal Partners as a summer intern. “I thought it would be a good emerging-markets experience,” he said.
Tellingly, Peng still hopes for an old-fashioned Wall Street job when he graduates. New York would be “ideal”, he said.
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While out to lunch with some local folks recently, I mentioned the 20th anniversary of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. To a person, each of my companions was astounded that only 20 years had gone by since the museum’s opening in July of 1997—everyone felt this most-visited Santa Fe Museum had been around much longer than that. One person even thought it had been more like 50 years.

Just as Georgia O’Keeffe herself made a tremendous impact on the art world, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has left its mark on the Santa Fe arts and culture scene to such an extent that many of us assumed the three-building complex in downtown Santa Fe has been around longer than two decades. Since 1997, more than 3.5 million visitors have wandered the military-barracks-turned-church-turned-galleries on Johnson Street; browsed the archives at the former military officers’ quarters and private residence Research Center on Grant Avenue; attended workshops in the Education Annex (a former Safeway); and toured the Abiquiu house and studio. (That last one was always a residence, by the way.) Tourism Santa Fe says one of the questions they most often receive is about the O’Keeffe Museum–where it is and how to get there.

The museum holds over 10,000 objects relating to O’Keeffe, including 140 oil paintings and nearly 700 of drawings and sculptures, as well as photographs of the artist by notables like Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Andy Warhol and her husband Alfred Stieglitz, as well as photos of other historic objects and O’Keeffe’s two properties in Northern New Mexico. In 2006, 20 years after O’Keeffe’s death, the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation dissolved and transferred its assets to the museum, significantly boosting the collection, which continues to grow to this day.

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But what’s interesting about the museum is not merely the collection—though that is extraordinary, and includes such fascinating items as a selection of O’Keeffe’s bull-fighting memorabilia—is how it has shifted focus to Georgia O’Keeffe the person, the independent woman, the role model and key influencer in the world of modern and abstract art. When the museum opened 20 years ago, visitors saw few paintings on the walls, and drifted through exhibits of the works of various artists who were somehow related to O’Keeffe. There was little explanation of what was on display, and nothing about the artist’s life—no context for the subject of the works.

When I first visited the museum in the early 2000s, I wasn’t impressed by the collection or the museum itself. And because of that, I hadn’t been back until earlier this year. What a difference those intervening years have made.

For today’s visitor, O’Keeffe comes alive. She is more than paintings on the walls. Her work is shown and explained in context. Visitors learn about her life, her family, her loves, her obsessions, how she lived, what she ate, what she wore. This contemporary way of viewing an artist reveals O’Keeffe in her real, intense, messy glory, beyond the familiar O’Keeffes that focus our view on abstracted flowers and landscapes. Those are there, too. But today, the museum highlights, through its several themed galleries, the scope of O’Keeffe’s work, from sketches to watercolors to cityscapes, and how she tightly controlled her public persona. That control extended to which letters to and from her husband and others she allowed released and when, how she posed for the camera, and even to her clothes, which are now on view in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition until the end of July. (No fear, the distinctive dresses, hats and shoes are coming home soon.)

The museum’s evolved viewpoint developed after the release of a trove of letters in 2006, morphing the curatorial focus as people (artists, historians and designers) changed their perspectives on her, too. A collection of these letters was released in 2011 as My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 by Sarah Greenough. These missives, as well as others, bring to light O’Keeffe’s opinions on minimalist, authentic living (a very modern concept at the time) in everything from her furniture to how she renovated her Abiquiu home and studio, to what and how she ate. Her relationships with men were also ahead of her time. O’Keeffe remained independent her whole life, even during her unconventional marriage to Alfred Stieglitz.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, circa 1920-1922. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, circa 1920-1922. Gelatin silver print, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation [2003.01.006].

What makes Georgia O’Keeffe’s story so compelling is her authenticity. Her no-nonsense life and art, as the O’Keeffe Museum now tells her story, were original and, for her time, unique. And to better tell her story, the museum is in the midst of an oral history project, gathering recorded stories from people who knew her. (She died in 1986 at age 98; there are many people still alive who knew her.) There’s nothing more authentic than hearing first-hand accounts.

O’Keeffe’s story, as the Museum tells it, has decidedly high-tech elements, too—for an artist born before the invention of radio. There’s a lot of geeky scientific stuff happening around her work. The museum helped develop special filters to better present and preserve light-sensitive works of art; there’s a 3-D modeling project in process for conservation of architecture, furniture and objects; and museum staff developed special framing techniques, all of which are now being used by other museums and institutions.

One of the cool and contemporary ways the O’Keeffe Museum is bringing the artist’s story to a generation of digital natives is the current gallery installation of time-lapse video from the Abiquiu house, and the live feed on the website showing the house’s garden as it progresses through the summer and harvest season. The museum’s mobile app is also the primary way that visitors experience the current exhibits, and can be accessed from any mobile device anywhere in the world. One need not be in Santa Fe to experience the exhibitions or learn about the work, life and profound influence of Georgia O’Keeffe. I think she’d approve.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is located at 217 Johnson Street in Santa Fe, 505.946.1000,

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Last week Breno and Jeanette from Bistro 7 invited us along with fellow bloggers/media/VIPs to a complimentary wine and food tasting dinner showcasing new summer menu items. As you know, we're fans of the restaurant so it was an invitation we couldn't resist. And let me just say that on a very hot summer evening it was a welcome respite to sip carefully paired beverages with fresh, delicious food.

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First Course
Strawberry Mojito
Trio of tapas spreads

There was spinach and artichoke, eggplant caponata, and roasted red pepper hummus each served on endive leaves. The smokiness of the roasted red pepper was Renato's favorite, while I loved the fresh flavors of the eggplant caponata. The mojito was a delightful way to start the evening too. The fresh bits of strawberry along with the mint really spoke of summer sweetness.

Second Course
Savingnon Blanc from South Africa
Crab cake, jicama slaw, housemade tartar sauce

We loved this dish. The crab cake was light and crispy on the outside and incredibly moist on the inside. And, they certainly did not skimp on the crab. The jicama slaw had a wonderful kick and was incredibly crisp and refreshing. It was the perfect match for the crab cake. And while I am not a huge fan of white wine, I really adored this one. Wish I had taken better notes and wrote down the name.

Third Course
California Chardonnay (Green Truck)
Turkey slider

The turkey slider was topped with housemade basil mayo, avocado and tomato on a buttery little bun. Unlike most places where I order a turkey burger, this slider wasn't dry or overcooked. It was moist and the basil mayo really was key. My only suggestion was that the burger to bun ratio felt a little bit off - too much bun to burger. Don't get me wrong, the bun was buttery and delicious and even though it was small, it still felt a little too big. Still a nice summer slider.

Fourth Course
Spanish Red wine
Hanger steak salad

This was not your usual steak salad. It featured a perfectly cooked piece of steak on a bed of mixed greens with nectarines, dried cranberries, a peach balsamic reduction and was topped with my favorite magic ingredient, goat cheese. It was sweet, savory, tangy - in other words a total winning combination. Our only regret was that it was only a tasting portion.

Fifth Course
French Malbec
Cauliflower steak

This vegan creation had a lot going on - in a good way. The hunk of cauliflower was served with a sriracha marinara atop chick peas, fennel, sweet onions, braised artichokes and black olives. The sriracha flavor wasn't overpowering but lended a nice kick to an already flavorful marinara. Me, I love spice, so I could have handled a little more heat, but I know that's not typical. Breno said the key to creating a delicious vegan dish like this is to use all the tricks in the book - roast, grill, braise. He said it's important to combine different tastes and textures, otherwise it's too easy for things to become bland. This was certainly not bland.

Sixth Course
Cabernet from Washington state (Milbrandt)
Bacon wrapped meatloaf

Um, yeah, bacon wrapped meatloaf. But it didn't end there. The meatloaf goodness was served with mashed potatoes, housemade BBQ sauce and passionfruit infused onions. Not much to say here other than: YUM!

Seventh Course
Pink sangria topped with prosecco
Chambord fruit and tofu brulee

I could imagine myself sipping this beverage from the front porch watching the sunset. The dessert was lightly sweet and a wonderful mix of textures. This really was the surprise of the evening for me. Tofu brulee? Who knew? It totally worked. It's also vegan friendly. This pairing was the perfect way to wrap up the evening.

A big thank you to our hosts Breno and Jeanette. We plan to visit again ... soon.

Disclaimer: I was not compensated for this post. The meal was free of charge. The opinions contained herein are my own and reflect my experience. Your own may differ.

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Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell believes the club would be the biggest in Britain if they played in the English Premier League, and the Hoops are interested in Scotland striker Jordan Rhodes.

Celtic could be UK’s biggest club Celtic chief Peter Lawwell insists the Parkhead side could be the biggest club in Britain if they didn’t have the “barriers” from playing in Scotland.

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Of course I am not a neuroscientist, but it is a fascinating science and very encouraging for all of us who are learning new skills - such as photography!

More later. Let me tell you a little story first. When I started my Bachelor of Veterinary Science at The University of Sydney ( gosh I miss those days!), I had just turned 18 and I had never lived away from my parents. I was accepted into a wonderful on campus residential college just for women.

I wholeheartedly enjoyed my newfound freedom and living on campus was an exciting new lifestyle! The course was demanding and life was fun. I made new friends. We talked for hours, played tennis, went out for dinner and drinks. I was so busy that I never had the hours of peace and quiet that I was used to, to focus on my studies. Well, I am sure you can guess what my first exam results were like.

Being young I did not worry too much at first - this was a 5 year course after all. I had plenty of time.

Yet time continued to be an elusive entity in my busy new life and I started to see that I really needed to change my ways and to study harder.

The residential college where I lived was an exclusive place and they wanted to ensure their residents did very well in their studies. They had a reputation to uphold. So they made us feel guilty but also provided tutors and study groups. One of the tutors was a young woman who was finishing med school. I remember she had very red, curly, long hair. I don't remember her name. She taught me one of those life lessons, which stay with you forever.

She said:  "Have fun, enjoy uni, but use ALL of your time wisely. Whenever you have 10 minutes in between classes, before dinner, while you wait somewhere use that time effectively and study something! Make this a habit. It will serve you well."

It took a while as these short and sharp study moments were not something I had ever done before. I had also never been this busy before. Still I started doing as she recommended. I wasn't a star student but my marks improved and by the time I was in 5th year I knew how to party and get good marks ;)

The '10 minute habit' is still part of my life now and it is how I studied photography as well.

Of course being a working mum with young children redefined the meaning of 'time poor' and 10 min of 'me time' can seem like an eternity now. All of you, who are parents, are probably nodding right now. I feel your pain!

So, what does neuroscience have to do with all of this?

It seems that the "10 min Habit"  fits in perfectly with recent findings, that our brains are continuously reshaping themselves, according to how we live and what we do. It is called neuroplasticity and it defines how quickly we can learn a new skill ( and also loose old bad habits).

Here are some fancy graphics which explain this.

This shows,that if we are in the habit of thinking about or doing anything related to photography repeatedly and regularly, we will get better at it much more quickly. We are never too old to learn a new skill, as long as we PRACTICE, PRACTICE,PRACTICE!!

Isn't that great news? Nature rocks!

The above infographics are from this article Rewiring your brain for optimal learning. I loved reading it, maybe you do too.

If not, then you can still make the '10 Minute Habit" your own tool to become a better photographer ( or anything else you want to be!) without understanding 'why?'. That is what I did back in those fabulous uni days and I can promise you it works!

Of course actually taking photos and reviewing them on the computer is the best way to learn. You do need to make time for that, but why don't you give these 'camera free' ideas a shot ( no pun intended ;) every day from now on and start strengthening those photography pathways in your brain!

I am sure you can come up with many more ideas! Why don't you share some in the comments below so we can all expand our repertoire.

 By the way the clever scientists also say that when you learn from failure the lesson learned has an even more profound effect on becoming better at something. Take lots of pics, get a 'happy hormone release' from the ones that worked out and learn big lessons from the ones that turned out awful.

It's all good stuff that will restructure  your brain to allow you to become a more skilled photographer.

Hope this inspired you and let me know if you will also start your very own "10 min Habit".

Oh and I hope reading this post didn't take you more than 10 minutes!

Sandra xx

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At the request of Mrs. Harper, the Globe’s cartoonist mocks up a second jack o’ lantern stencil of the Prime Minister, helpfully demonstrating the great difference between Angry Stephen Harper and Joyful Stephen Harper.

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  1. My favourite Canadian political cartoonist is Serge Chapleau, but Tony Jenkins is definitely in my Top 5.

  2. More hard hitting, investigative journalism from the keyboard of Jane Taber. Next up: what the Harpers are all going to wear for Hallowe'en. Stephen, of course, won't need a costume since he's scary enough already…

  3. First Laureen took over Maclean's with the PMO supplied photo spread, now she's got the Editorial staff at the Globe in tow. Please Ed Greenspon come back and put an end to this.

    • Uh, Taber was able to peddle her dross in the pages of the Globe during Greenspon's tenure as editor, as well. Not entirely sure why Stackhouse doesn't pull the plug on Taber's fluff pieces since many other aspects of the Globe have greatly improved in the last few months.

      • I guess you're right, but this new online Notebook seems to have taken into drossland. I guess they expanded the Notebook feature to daily online in order to counter Kady at CBC. But the CBC website is so confusing I can't find anything. Newman has shown up on there, but I just saw him by chance. But it's so crazy Kady and Newman don't even seem to be on pages that link to each other.

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BTW, you'll see these pop up in large numbers soon. Almost all contestants of MOA 2009 picked one up, some even more than once. I think that last weekend, 35+ of these chips were sold to foreigners :woot:

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EAGLE POINT — It all started slowly for Eagle Point on a rare Thursday night football game but once the Eagles gained momentum there was no looking back in a 45-18 rout of Willamette at Eagle Stadium.

EAGLE POINT — It all started slowly for Eagle Point on a rare Thursday night football game but once the Eagles gained momentum there was no looking back in a 45-18 rout of Willamette at Eagle Stadium.

On a night when the Eagles celebrated senior night, homecoming and the finale of a season-long fundraising raffle by the Eagle Point Booster Club, there were plenty of subplots to the script. But EP didn't fade under the spotlight in gaining a key Midwestern League triumph.

Senior running backs Jakob Combs and Caleb Ash combined for five touchdowns and 333 yards of offense for Eagle Point (4-3, 2-3 MWL), while junior quarterback Jorge Quintero passed for three scores and ran for another.

"It feels awesome to come out here and just play our hearts out and get a win like this," said Ash. "We know it was a team effort, we all did it together, and I'm just really happy with the way we played today."

Combs finished with 23 carries for 153 yards and one TD and caught one pass for 15 yards and another score. Ash built on his teammate's effort with 18 carries for 116 yards and two TDs and caught two passes for 49 yards and one score.

"I've got to give it up to the line, it was a big team effort," said Combs. "The line got their blocks early and the receivers got their blocks, too, and it just felt great out there all night."

Overall, the Eagles amassed 371 yards on the ground — 528 total — to easily cruise past Willamette (1-6, 0-5).

"We pretty much did what we thought we could do coming out tonight," said Eagles head coach Jacob Schauffler, "and it helps when you've got an offense that dominates the time of possession and we're able to run the ball effectively."

"They've got some good athletes," he added of the Wolverines, "they're much, much better than their record shows. They've just kinda hurt themselves a little bit."

The Eagles dominated possession in a first quarter that saw the ball almost entirely on the Wolverines' side of the field but couldn't quite break through until Combs burst 14 yards up the middle for a touchdown with 1:19 to go in the quarter.

Eagle Point built a second scoring drive from its own 20 on the legs of Combs, who carried the ball on five of EP's first six plays to get the ball to the Willamette 44-yard line. Combs added another 10-yard gain after getting a breather and then played a great decoy on a faked handoff by Quintero that drew the entire defense to one side and let the junior QB scoot through the opposite side untouched for a 19-yard score.

"They're keying on him at that point when you've got a kid running like he was able to run tonight," Schauffler said of Combs. "We've got some things that we definitely need to clean up but anytime you can run the ball like we have been able to run it this year you're going to be effective."

Willamette mounted a quick counterattack for its first touchdown — a 31-yard TD reception by Trevor White from Kosey Mitchell — but the Eagles needed only three plays to respond for a 20-6 advantage. After taking over at their own 40, the Eagles got runs of 20 and 1 yards from Ash before Quintero sent a soaring fade toward Carlos Flores, who leaped over his defender for the catch and spun into the end zone for a 39-yard score.

After Willamette's starting QB Mitchell was injured and left the game early in the third quarter, backup QB Tanner Cantwell found White for an 18-yard strike that pulled the Wolverines to within 20-12.

That was as close as the Eagles would let the game get, however, as they went on a run of 25 straight points that was highlighted by three touchdowns by Ash and a scrambling effort by Quintero for a 15-yard TD pass to Combs. Ash's first TD came on a screen from Quintero where he broke away from a crowd for a 41-yard score, getting a key seal block from Combs. His others were on runs of 4 and 32 yards, the latter set up by a Flores block downfield.

"That third-down play where he took that screen was incredible," said Schauffler. "We had some great blocks but it was a great individual effort on the catch and run. Caleb's probably our most dynamic player as far as being able to make a play from anywhere on the field. He's our game-breaker."

Quintero was solid behind center all night, handling the diverse option attack with deft sleight of hand and then working the ball to the perimeter when the opportunity was there. He completed 9 of 18 passes for 126 yards and three TDs and carried eight times for 57 yards and one score.

"He's a smart quarterback and he's a really clutch decision-maker for us," Ash said of Quintero. "He knows how to make a decision right away, and that really helps us a lot."

His effective passing also bodes well for the Eagles' plans down the road.

"We've talked all year about being efficient when we throw the ball," said Schauffler. "We don't have to throw the ball a lot, and if we're efficient like we were tonight then teams are going to have to respect that and they've got to take guys out of the box."

Eagle Point 45, Willamette 18

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Willamette 0 6 6 6 —18

Eagle Point 7 13 13 12 —45

EP — Combs 14 run (Atteberry kick)

EP — Quintero 19 run (kick failed)

W — White 31 pass from Mitchell (kick blocked)

EP — Flores 39 pass from Quintero (Atteberry kick)

W — White 18 pass from Cantwell (kick failed)

EP — Ash 41 pass from Quintero (Atteberry kick)

EP — Ash 4 run (kick failed)

EP — Combs 15 pass from Quintero (kick failed)

EP — Ash 32 run (kick failed)

W — Cantwell 5 run (kick blocked)

Wil EP

First Downs 12 23

Rushes-Yards 25-149 62-371

Passing Yards 155 157

Comp-Att-Int 7-20-0 11-23-1

Total Yards 304 528

Punts 6-32 3-34

Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-0

Penalties-yards 5-45 6-55

Willamette — York 4-11, Mitchell 4-50, Aguirre 11-54, Cantwell 3-1, Britt 3-33.

Eagle Point — Combs 23-153, Ash 18-116, Quintero 8-57, Brammer 5-29, Watson 2-14, Callahan 1-3, Flores 2-1, Arena 3-(-2).

Willamette — Mitchell 3-13-0 68, Cantwell 4-7-0 87.

Eagle Point — Quintero 9-18-0 126, Brammer 2-5-1 31.

Willamette — Ferguson 1-22, Crownover 2-50, White 3-78, York 1-5.

Eagle Point — Flores 4-71, Zerger 4-22, Ash 2-49, Combs 1-15.

Reach reporter Kris Henry at 541-776-4488, khenry@mailtribune.com, www.facebook.com/krishenryMT or www.twitter.com/Kris_Henry


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Esther May Bowman

On Sept. 22, 2008, we lost our beloved mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, godmother, aunt and friend. Esther passed away in Medford, Ore., at the Medford Healthcare Center.

She was born in San Jose, Calif., in 1929, to James and Mabel (Toni) Ralston who preceded her in death.

She was baptized at St. Francis DeSales Cathedral on Sept. 27, 1931.

She was married twice. First, to Earl Bento in the laste 40s in the Bay Area. After they divorced, Esther moved to Fort Bragg, Calif., with their daughters, Joeann and Susan. She married Edward Bowman in 1959 in Reno, Nev. A daughter, Earline, was born to them. After Edward passed in 1984, Esther moved to be near her mother in Vallejo, Calif. Upon her mother's passing, she moved to Medford, Ore.

In life were her Family, her garden, home canning and camping in the mountains. She was a waitress and a skilled cook, showing her talents at several restaurants in Fort Bragg, Calif., where the family grew up on Sherwood Road.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband. She is survived by daughters, Joeann Spurling, and husband Will, of Fields Landing, Calif, and Susan Dodd, and husband, Russel, of Medford, Ore., and Earline Bowman Sanders; brother, James Ralston, and wife, Jane, of Reno, Nev.; sisters, Pearl Woodruff, of Vallejo, Calif, and Barbara June Rucker, of Oakdale, Calif.; and extended family.

In keeping with her request, there will be no service. Interment will be at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito, Calif., with arrangement local by Memory Gardens.

The family would like to give a special thank you to Sacred Heart Church, Providence Hospice, the entire staff at the Medford Healthcare Center, Alpha Lambda, RV Infusion Center, her doctors and extended family and friends. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Activities Department at the Medford Rehabilitation Health Care and Healthcare Center, C/O Activities, 625 Stevens St., Medford, Ore., 97504. While Esther was a resident, she enjoyed many of the activites, Bingo being at the top of her list. You may also make a contribution to your favorite charity in her memory.

Memory Gardens is in care of the arrangements.


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Chef Michael Farrell of Le Meritage Named a Chef to Watch by

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Eighth Annual Award Ceremony to be Held in August

NEW ORLEANS, LA, May 4, 2009 – Wow, that was quick! After less than two months in the kitchen Chef Michael Farrell of Le Meritage has attracted the attention of Louisiana Cookin’ magazine’s network of foodies throughout the state to be named one of five up-and-coming talented chefs to watch. Chefs are chosen for their talent, skill and ability to produce menus full of fresh, innovative takes on traditional Louisiana ingredients.

            “We are very excited about Chef Farrell, said Susan Ford, Publisher

of Louisiana Cookin’ magazine. “What he is doing is just right for right now. “

The Chefs to Watch program donates thousands of dollars to Café Reconcile, the nonprofit organization which trains at-risk youth to lead productive lives through culinary education and job placement. The money is raised through a dinner at which each chef contributes a course. This year the dinner will take place at the end of August. Chef Farrell’s Grilled Pork Filet with Fig Compotehas been chosen as the entrée for the dinner.

Chefs to Watch will be featured in the July/August edition of the nationally-distributed magazine and on the magazine’s website, Make reservations for the event by calling Louisiana Cookin’ at 504.482.3914, ext, 205 or 888.884.4114, ext. 205 or visit

Michael Farrell, Executive Chef, Le Meritage

Michael Farrell hails from central Virginia, the youngest of  Diana and Tom Farrell’s five children. Growing up,  he observed with awe as his mother carefully planned and shopped   for thefrequent dinner and cocktail parties she and Tom hosted at their home.  Diana was very deliberate in her china, cutlery, flowers and wine  choices. The Farrell’s were known throughout their circle as gracious and gifted hosts.

“I learned from watching my parents entertain,” Farrell said. “It is in the smallest of gestures that the gap is bridged, from ordinary dining to extraordinary dining.

Of course it is the food,” he said. “But it is also the shade of the flowers, the

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texture and fragrance of a fresh herb, the placement of a napkin, a warm welcome upon arrival.”

His mother taught him well. Michael started working in profeesional kitchens at the age of fifteen, and never looked back.  Over twent-five years later he has been recognized by among many others, DiRoNA, Wine Spectator, Zagat and Bon Appetite, in a career that has taken him across the United States.

 He has served in a variety of prominent positions including Owner and Executive Chef of Nantucket’s  Summer House. Executive Chef of Colorado astablishments such as Beano’s Cabin and Saddle Ridge in Beaver Creek and Castle Pines.  Chef Farrell also opened Anthem Country Club in Las Vegas.

In January 2009, that same warm welcome Chef Farrell is careful to share, was extended to him in New Orleans when he took the lead as Executive Chef of Le Meritage at the Maison Dupuy Hotel.  His wifeGina Ciolino, is a native New Orleanian with strong family ties to the community.  Despite the success Michael had honing his talents through different culinary opportunities, His wife Gina,like a true child of New Orleans, was ready to come home to build a life for their daughter.  With a passion for food and entertaining and desire to make his own mark in a city he had always loved, Michael was only too eager to oblige.

While embracing New Orleans,  Chef Farrell is free to indulge his lifelong zeal for the Southern foods he grew up with on his parents’ Virginia horse farm. With his Pan Roasted Red Drum with Fried Green Tomatoes andSuccotash, he opens a door to a childhood spent picking fresh vegetables in a garden, hunting quail and grouse and fishing in the streams and lakes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His Molasses Pork Tenderloin served with Braised Beet Greens and Duck Breast with Foie Gras, Fig Compote and Butter Potatoes also claim their origins well below the Mason-Dixon Line.

He refers to his food as Southern Coastal Cuisine.

There is a formula, he says, by which a chef may arrive at his or her personal culinary vision: “You bring together all the things you grew up loving,  all of the things you have been taught, and all of the things you have in front of you in abundance. From this collection of influences, you make something wonderful.

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