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Overthinking It
This Week in Catcher Framing, 5/10
No intro section this time; I should have a couple framing-related features on the way early next week, which I don't want to tease too much. Let's get right to the leaderboards and frames of the week.
League Leaders
The Best (min. 40 OZoneStrikes+ZoneBalls)
The Worst (min. 40 OZoneStrikes+ZoneBalls)
This Week in Jose Molina, 5/02-5/08
Weekly Net Strikes: 6
Molina had another nice week and survived another knee scare. He's also hitting .167/.225/.242. If there was any doubt about how highly the Rays value his defense...
1. Date: 5/7
This one is pretty impressive. That pitch was moving sharply inside, and Molina relaxed his glove, snagged the ball, and reversed its direction before it could move any farther away from the plate. Encarnacion showed his admiration in his own way.
2. Date: 5/7
The movement after it passed the plate makes it look farther outside than it was, but that's still a call that not many catchers could get.
1. Date: 5/7
This looks inside, but it's a 3-0 pitch, which raises the strike probability considerably. Molina caught it very casually, as if he didn't expect to get the call (or, I suppose, as if he was sure he would).
This Week in Jonathan Lucroy, 5/02-5/08
Weekly Net Strikes: 11
3. Date: 5/3
1. Date: 5/5
Best Frames of the Week
1. Date: 5/2
Big Bro would've been proud.
4. Date: 5/6
It has to be gratifying when a frame brings a bat flip to a halt. Giambi tries to play it off as if he wasn't halfway into his trot toward first base.
3. Date: 5/2
Lucroy isn't the only Brewers catcher who can make low pitches look good.
2. Date: 5/5
This is the best Lucroy frame we saw earlier.
1. Date: 5/4
Aaand another by a Brewer. The top three frames of the week all came courtesy of Brewers catchers. Milwaukee's staff is spoiled.
Worst Frames of the Week
5. Date: 5/7
Arencibia-esque. (See below.)
4. Date: 5/4
Hundley probably could have done a better job of reaching out for that pitch to intercept it before it swept all the way across the strike zone.
3. Date: 5/5
I wrote about Arencibia getting crossed up and costing his pitchers strikes last week, and he's still at it. "There's a pitch right there that J.P. just, again, took away from Brandon Morrow," said Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris. "It's a ball right down the middle, but the way he caught it is killing the pitcher. That's a strike all day long, but the way he caught it, the home-plate umpire Lance Barksdale is not going to call it a strike."
Arencibia didn't receive the next pitch cleanly, either, and he went to talk to Morrow on the mound. That gave Buck Martinez a chance to chime in:
"Mike Scioscia—and I believe Mike Scioscia is one of the best guys that understands catching, he did such a great job—said the most important thing for him, as far as what he wants from his catchers, is to receive the ball in the strike zone. And Scioscia always felt that was the no. 1 priority." Arencibia has already been banned from catching the knuckleball, forcing the Jays to pair R.A. Dickey with light-hitting Henry Blanco. Not being able to catch sliders would be a bigger issue.
2. Date: 5/7
I said nice things about Chris Stewart last week. I still say nice things about him, but not about that pitch in particular.
1. Date: 5/4
That one was on the stabby side.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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What I am still trying to reconcile is how many in the zone balls the best catchers rack up. It seems to me that in order to win a large amount of pitches outside the zone you have to give something up inside the zone. It just strikes me as odd that the best catcher outside the zone would not also be the best catcher inside the zone.
May 10, 2013 14:51 PM
Well, I'm not sure that's not the case. On pitches inside the zone but within two inches of the zone edge, Jose Molina has the lowest rate of called balls (49/390, 12.56%), followed by Lucroy (50/396, 12.63%) and Yadier (75/572, 13.11%). The best catchers in the league in terms of the percentage of all in-zone pitches called strikes are Hank Conger, Lucroy, David Ross, Erik Kratz, Jose Molina, Evan Gattis, and Yadier Molina. (Thanks to Ryan Lind for those numbers.)
May 10, 2013 22:29 PM
I'm in an extrapolation mood. Trying to evaluate Dickey moving forward in a Rotisserie league. Comparing 2013 to 2012, how much is the Toronto catching/framing impacting his performance so far? As compared to his great success with the Mets last year?
May 11, 2013 06:19 AM
I know that Conger's sample size is smaller than everyone else's but it has made me pay attention more to his framing of late when watching Angels games and it does seem, from the comfy confines of my couch, to be much stronger than Chris Iannetta. Its a bit of surprise also since Conger's defense has never been considered his strong point. Then again, I probably shouldn't be conflating defense and framing...?
May 11, 2013 11:35 AM
John Carter
For those who weren't convinced statistically that pitch framing exists, these gifs of Molina surely must quell those skeptics.
May 11, 2013 12:03 PM
This is like a Who's Who of bad umpires. Confounded results? Or the best catchers just get the worst out of the bad umpires?
May 12, 2013 06:43 AM
The pitch to Morrow is the damning evidence. If umpires need more than a plate in the ground and a batter to determine whether its a ball or a strike is the nail in the coffin. The fact that they can be at best biased - or at worst fooled - by a catcher (or any other distraction) is just another data point for using technology to accurately call balls and strikes.
May 12, 2013 07:47 AM
Ben, is there an existing article about catcher framing calls in relation to umpires? Are there any umpires that are not as easily fooled the by greatness of Molina? Are there some umpires that are consistently fooled by likes of Molina and Lucroy?
May 12, 2013 20:27 PM
Certain umps have smaller zones, of course, but I'm not sure whether certain umps are less susceptible to persuasion by certain catchers--haven't really seen anything on that subject. I would guess yes, but that the sample sizes might be too small to say anything conclusive.
May 12, 2013 21:49 PM
Molina in the Ramos/Lind gif: Is standing up after a pitch up in the zone part and getting it quickly back the pitcher a framing trick?
May 13, 2013 01:19 AM
I don't think so, or at least I haven't noticed him doing it regularly. Normally you want to minimize movement. I've seen him set up higher than normal for a high pitch, but the standing up looked to me like some sort of response to the baserunners.
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Security Case Study: How Cisco IT Upgraded Intrusion Detection to Improve Scalability and Performance
Migration to Cisco IDS 4250 Sensor improves intrusion detection performance and manageability.
In the network security world, firewalls are like strong locks on doors and bars on windows, blocking the casual intruder from breaking in. But a good security strategy also uses intrusion detection. Like alarms and cameras at a secure building, an IDS alerts guards to the more determined and successful attacker, provides these guards with information about how the intruder entered and where they are, and supplies guards with the data necessary for determining how best to deal with the intruder in real time and how to prevent similar intrusions in the future. In an environment where security incidents are rising sharply and costing millions of dollars at a time, it makes sense to plan ahead and to build formidable defenses to reduce the effects of these attacks. The Cisco internal Information Security (Infosec) group is responsible for planning and deploying these defenses within Cisco, and they support both firewalls and an IDS to protect the resources within the Cisco internal network.
Firewalls are Cisco IT's first line of network defense, guarding against most intrusions from outside the network at our Internet "demilitarized zone" (DMZ) areas and around our data centers. But firewalls make up only part of the Cisco Secure Architecture for E-Business (SAFE) security strategy for enterprise networks. An IDS provides added security: Infosec deployed more than 35 Cisco IDS 4230 sensors worldwide in 2001, and receives alerts to let them know when an intruder has gotten past the firewalls (or is coming from within the firewalls), and to help capture data that can identify the IP address of the intruder, which ports are being used in the exploit, and the pattern of when they had access to some systems within Cisco. This allows Infosec to respond quickly to an intrusion, to limit damage, and to secure the perimeter against a similar attack in the future.
For example, in 2001 (the same year Cisco deployed intrusion detection sensors) there were two devastating attacks on servers worldwide: Code Red 1 and 2 (July 2001) and NIMDA (September 2001). Both times the Cisco IDS 4230 sensors noticed an unusually sharp rise in suspicious traffic within the first few minutes, and within an hour Infosec and IT engineers were taking immediate steps:
- Identifying the type of threat based on the large number of alerts, customizing an IDS "signature" based on the worm/virus activity, and updating the IDS sensor signature file.
- Temporarily disconnecting network access to large and vulnerable targets, especially Cisco laboratories with large concentrations of Microsoft Internet Information Servers (IIS); Cisco has more than 1200 laboratories worldwide.
- Temporarily blocking possible worm/virus traffic (port 80/tcp) to vulnerable remote access users (more than 35,000 users worldwide).
- Using network based application recognition (NBAR), a Cisco IOS® Software feature on gateway routers to block traffic identified as worm or virus related (Cisco is now using Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services switches to do this while avoiding load on gateway routers).
- Deploying new cache engine rules on outbound traffic (to the Internet) to avoid spreading worm/virus traffic to others, and adding new Cisco 500 Series cache engines to handle the additional load (but without blocking outbound port 80/tcp access, so business was handled normally).
- Alerting Cisco employees of the problem and of the temporary blocks put in place.
- Gathering infected server IDs from IDS and other sources, and temporarily partitioning hosts and networks to isolate infected servers
- Developing tools to clean infected servers.
- Supporting other Cisco networking groups in developing workarounds (for example, proxy servers for remote access support, opening critical business systems that were cleaned or certified as safe).
- Helping develop tools to identify affected or vulnerable hosts, and automatically pushing upgrades and patches to vulnerable code.
Without the several hours advance notice that the IDS provided Cisco, it is likely that many of the affected servers within Cisco would have been overwhelmed, business would have been far more seriously affected, and Cisco would have been the source of far more infection for other Internet-connected businesses and users.
In January 2003, when SQL Slammer alerts were being sent throughout the industry, Infosec responded by shutting down a little-used port on the firewalls that blocked SQL Slammer. Our IDS system was able to tell us that this response was entirely successful, and Cisco remained unscathed by the attack.
Cisco Infosec, working with Cisco IT networking groups, had built a firewall-based security architecture to protect our Internet access points and our data centers. In 2001 Infosec deployed more than 35 Cisco IDS 4230 sensors (precursors to the IDS 4235 sensors) to perform critical monitoring of possible intrusions that penetrate this firewall protection. These IDS network sensors are standalone appliances near (but not on) the data stream they protect, owned and managed by the Infosec team with support from the IT corporate and global network teams.
Infosec has located these IDS network sensors at internal Internet access locations worldwide, wherever Internet links connect to the Cisco network. Major Internet access sites are at San Jose, California (with 620 Mbps of Internet access); Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (465 Mbps Internet access); Amsterdam, Netherlands (180 Mbps Internet access); Tokyo, Japan (20 Mbps Internet access); and Sydney, Australia (10 Mbps Internet access); smaller and more recent Internet access locations are in Richardson TX, Chelmsford MA, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangalore India. In addition, there are IDS network sensors located at each of the five Cisco production data centers: San Jose buildings 12 and K, Research Triangle Park, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Infosec has deployed these Cisco IDS 4230 sensors within the Internet access networks by placing sensors on both sides of the firewall, to view both the traffic that comes into Cisco and the traffic that comes through the firewalls (see Figure 1). Traffic from the Internet in San Jose, for example, comes through a pair of gateway routers, and is read by a pair of Cisco IDS 4230 sensors. This traffic is filtered at a pair of firewalls and a second pair of IDS 4230 sensors then reads this filtered traffic to determine what is getting through the firewalls. The IDS 4230 sensors are deployed in pairs at larger Internet access sites for performance reasons (see "Challenge" below). Smaller Internet access sites would require only a single IDS sensor at each point because the switch can span all traffic to the sensor.
In addition, Infosec has ringed the data centers with Cisco IDS 4230 sensors, installing one or more sensors outside every Cisco production data center gateway worldwide (see Figure 2). Each sensor is limited to scanning traffic only on the gateway router nearest it (which requires deploying them in pairs) because of performance issues with the IDS 4230 (see "Challenge" below). Again, smaller data centers would require only a single IDS 4230 because the switch can span all traffic to the sensor.
The Cisco network and data center backbones are composed of very high speed connections, mostly Gigabit Ethernet. Internet access is high speed, as well. Cisco IT has 4 155 Mbps OC-3s to handle Internet access in San Jose. Both the data centers and the Internet access points required an intrusion detection network sensor that could handle more than 150 to 250 Mbps throughput. However, in 2001 there were no credible high-speed intrusion detection devices, so the Infosec team selected the Cisco IDS 4230 Sensor, with a performance ceiling limited by its 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet interface.
Because of this performance limitation, Infosec initially considered subdividing the traffic coming into each of the Cisco IDS 4230 sensors by spanning portions of this traffic to a switch and allocating a separate IDS 4230 to each traffic subset. But even this awkward workaround had severe disadvantages, especially as it would have used one of the only two receive-span ports available on each gateway. Instead the Infosec team accepted the drawback of subdividing the traffic in a different way, by putting one IDS 4230 on each gateway, which limits the sensor to only scanning half the traffic coming in through the gateway pair. Although this does bring the average throughput per IDS down below its 100 Mbps ceiling, there are frequent spikes in traffic that simply cannot be read by the IDS. When traffic spikes beyond 100 Mbps, all information beyond the 100 Mbps limit is not read and no potential alerts from this traffic are captured.
This workaround had other limitations: using two sensors made the IDS architecture more complex, it made the DMZ and data center gateway architectures more inflexible, and it has increased our deployment and management costs. Worse, it limited the effectiveness of our IDS solution. In splitting the traffic and in allowing some of it (especially during peak traffic conditions, which are occasionally associated with network attacks), we deprived the IDS of seeing the full traffic pattern. Not only did this limitation produce a higher rate of false positive alerts (and negative responses), but also the Infosec team was unable to deploy some of the intrusion signatures that could use the full duplex traffic pattern information.
Another part of the challenge was that the IDS 4230 came with little in the way of management tools. The Infosec team spent months developing tools to help automate many required management functions, including updating configurations and signature files, rebooting sensors, and more (see "Lessons Learned" section).
John Stewart
Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Cisco
Cisco Infosec has begun replacing IDS 4230s with IDS 4250s, which can support traffic up to 500 Mbps, within the larger Internet DMZs. Infosec is starting in San Jose. The first IDS 4250 Sensor (in beta at the time) was installed in the San Jose DMZ in November 2002, replacing two IDS 4230s. This has allowed Infosec to remove the traffic sectionalization and switch spanning associated with those smaller IDS sensors, simplifying the architecture and allowing the IDS sensor to "read" all network traffic for the first time for more comprehensive threat response. We were able to add duplex alert signatures to the IDS. And we replaced two 4-rack unit devices with a single rack-unit device, and only had to use one span port instead of two. Future deployments of the IDS 4250 sensor with Cisco IDS Sensor Software Version 4.1 will allow Cisco IT to use these advantages, as well as replace larger numbers of IDS 4230 sensors in data centers with a single appliance configured as multiple "virtual sensors." This again reduces the footprint in the data centers while decreasing management overhead costs.
Cisco Infosec is planning to move ahead with a 3-step upgrade to their current ID S. The first step is upgrading the remainder of the 35+ Cisco IDS 4230 sensors in the Internet access points to IDS 4250 sensors. This follows the success of the upgrade in San Jose. The second step is to upgrade the IDS 4230s in the data centers to IDS 4250-XLs to use their Gigabit performance to handle the Gigabit Ethernet gateway interfaces leading into the data centers. Both these upgrades, when complete, will allow Infosec to eliminate all traffic sectionalization and switch spanning within the IDS. The third step will be to migrate these IDS 4250 sensors to the latest IDS Sensor Software, version 4.1, which promises greater ease of management and reduced false positives, issues which are critical to Infosec in the current deployment of IDS (see Appendix 1: Lessons Learned). The Infosec team is evaluating IDS Sensor Software Version 4.1 for this planned upgrade. The timeline for this effort will be determined by further human resource and budget review.
The major lesson learned from building and using an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is that an IDS is useless without a dedicated staff of network-knowledgeable engineers to manage the system, tune the signature sets, monitor the alerts every day for possible attacks, and make the call that an attack is taking place and respond quickly and appropriately. An alarm system is useless if no one responds to a real attack, or if the response is too slow or in the wrong direction.
Installing the IDS sensors is only a small part of the deployment. Infosec also installed several regional Unix (Solaris) local directors, servers connected to the IDS sensors in each region. These local directors connect to a pair of global directors at the Cisco headquarters site in San Jose, California. These local directors receive and store alerts from the IDS sensors (with alerts graded into six levels, from 0 to 5), and send the more urgent alerts (levels 3 to 5) to the global directors through a Cisco PIX® VPN link. We've installed an average of one local server for every 2 to 3 sensors, partly because of our regional security architecture (some remote sites like Hong Kong or Richardson, Texas have one Internet link and no data centers), and partly because during major crises like virus replications or denial-of-service attacks, the number of alerts from one sensor can overwhelm a single local director server. There is a pair of global directors in San Jose for this reason as well. One handles the majority of traffic and the other handles emergency loads from large-scale attacks. Infosec also uses these servers to replicate changes to the signature set.
After the sensors and alert collection system are in place, the IDS sensors come with a set of 800+ default â€Å"signatures.â€ï¿½ These signatures are definitions of activity that suggest that an intrusion or attack is underway; for example, a sweep of open ports, repeated attempts to enter a restricted host, or attempts to ping and map network IP addresses). However, each network and user base is unique, and there are many legitimate business activities that will trigger these default signatures; for example, Cisco IT's internal Enterprise Management (EMAN) system (http://eman) pings large numbers of network equipment every 15 seconds, which looks like an attack. Infosec spent more than 3 weeks scanning the early alerts and refining the signature set (excluding alerts that relate to specific addresses, for example EMAN servers) to exclude normal business processes from the signature set. Based on this tuning they turned off about 50 of these default signatures for specific source or destination IP addresses.
The Infosec team continues to tune this signature set because the network continues to change and expand, new servers and LANs are added, and Infosec needs to make sure that the sensors include the new equipment in their traffic analysis. For some time the Infosec team would turn off tuning completely once per quarter, analyze the larger set of alerts that were collected by the IDS, and retune the system to make sure they weren't missing something that had changed from an earlier quarter. They would do this over the course of a month or more (tuning the IDS signature set at one site the first week, at another site the second week, and so on.) The Infosec team also adds signatures based on attacks that Cisco has experienced. Based on their experience, Infosec provided the VSEC Business Unit with more than 30 new signatures, which have been included in the product default signature set.
Even after this initial tuning is done, the global IDS system will still generate numerous alerts—too many for anyone but a large dedicated staff of experts to handle. The Cisco IDS system is currently generating between 1000 and 3000 alerts per day (more than 100 events per hour) and this is considered to be a low figure by the rest of the industry. (During the peak of NIMDA virus attacks, however, we were getting about 1 million events per hour.) Because the alerts list the source IP, destination IP, and activity, this long list of alerts requires review by someone very familiar not only with the IP addresses of the relevant network entities, but also familiar with the normal business use on the network.
Infosec has developed scripts that transfer these alerts into an Oracle database, and then take a baseline average of normal activity on the network and compare the number of specific alerts to that baseline. Whenever the number of alerts registers as unusually high, those alerts are flagged for operator review. This reduces the Infosec burden to a list of about five issues per day to review. Each issue can take a few minutes to an hour to track down and resolve. The Infosec staff includes three people with this responsibility - in addition to working full time on other security projects.
The IDS has flagged real attacks to the Infosec group. This allows them to do a postmortem on how the attacker got into the network (or where the internal attack originated), and shut down that entry point into the network. The IDS sensors do have the capability to break and reset connections that trigger alerts thereby blocking attackers, but the Infosec team points out that because almost all these connections are legitimate business events, they have not made use of this automated break/reset feature (although when an attack is determined to be legitimate, the Infosec team breaks connections, closes ports, adds new IP addresses to firewall blocks, and so on). The information gained from this analysis about the nature of the attack can provide valuable information about how best to defend against it and how to avoid such an attack in the future.
In addition, post-mortem analysis can sometimes disclose the IP address of the attacker, although frequently attackers will use DHCP or NAT addresses, which are hard to associate with the server used in the attack.
Infosec spent 6 months studying the IDS 4230 management interfaces and writing more than 20 custom scripts to help them manage and monitor the sensors. Most customers use Cisco Secure Policy Manager; this product, designed to support mostly the IDS and PIX products, required different interfaces for different pieces of equipment, and at the time did not meet their needs. IDS Sensor Software Version 4.1 supports SSL and XML interfaces, which will make this sort of secure management and interface customization much easier and may influence third-party vendors to provide good management tools.
Some of the Infosec scripts use trusted SSH keys to send signature file updates out from the global director to the regional local directors and then out to the remote sensors. Others automate upgrades and other management functions.
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) research center funded by the U.S. government, found more than 82,000 security incidents reported in 2002, and the number of incidents appears to almost double every year.

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David Beckham kicked back at a basketball game in Miami yesterday. He sat courtside to watch the Miami Heat play the Indiana Pacers, marking the second Heat game that he has attended since arriving in Florida last week. Justin Bieber also landed a courtside seat at the game, but the two stars did not interact on the court, with Justin staying close to his bodyguard and a female companion. This isn't the first time that David and Justin have attended the same sporting event, as Justin was in the stands when the Beckhams reunited with Tom Cruise at a LA Kings game last Tuesday.
David's time in Miami has been stirring up speculation that he may be thinking about bringing an MLS soccer team to the sunny city. He has been spending quite a bit of time with Marcelo Claure, a billionaire mogul who has been vocal about buying an MLS team for Miami. Marcelo was by David's side last night, but the two have not yet made an announcement about the possible new team. David has plenty of time to devote to team ownership as he officially retired from playing soccer last month.


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There's really no disagreement here. Just two people: one talking about apples, the other about oranges.
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Sometime in January, Washington Hospital will roll out a new brand name for its health care system.
While the 115-year-old hospital will retain its name, it will be part of the Washington Health System, the new name for the hospital's continually expanding health care services that exist at multiple sites well beyond its traditional Wilson Avenue address.
"It's a rebranding," said Gary Weinstein, the hospital's president and chief executive officer, who said the rollout will be gradual over the next year.
Weinstein said Wednesday the move to a brand – which was approved by the hospital board in late September and communicated to employees two weeks ago – comes at a time when "the hospital doesn't really describe what we've become" over the years.
"Most people think of the hospital as one building in one place where people stay overnight" for treatment, he said.
But today, he added, the hospital's array of external services stretches across Washington and Greene counties, with some offered in Allegheny County.
While there are 1,800 people employed at the hospital itself, another 500 work at one of more than 40 sites in the area.
There's the Cameron Wellness Center, urgent care centers and hospice care. In addition to its Physicians Hospital Organization with 240 physicians working at the hospital, there is also the Washington Physicians Group, with 60 physicians in primary care and specialities at 25 locations in the two counties, including three diagnostic centers. In addition, there is the Greenbrier Treatment Center, with drug addiction counseling offered in various locations between the South Hills and Wexford.
"Less than half of what we do now is in in-patient medicine," Weinstein said, adding that the organization today contains "many, many components of a health system."
The other reason for the rebranding effort, he said, comes from "health-care reform, and what the public is expecting of hospitals," which is to provide a system of care.
"They want us to integrate the care, and health care reform has put incentives in place for that to happen," Weinstein said.
He explained that the reform calls for more accountable care that is seen as helping with cost containment through more streamlined payments to one system, while also seeking improved treatment outcomes.
It also enables the system to adopt electronic medical recordkeeping "so that as someone moves from primary care to a specialist to lab tests, they don't have to tell the same story" multiple times, he said.
Weinstein said all of those goals can be more easily achieved if patients are receiving continuous care under one healthcare system as opposed to care given by numerous unrelated providers.
The move to brand itself as a system also helps to change both internal and external perceptions about the ways health care delivery has changed, Weinstein said.
"Branding us that way gets the message out to the public and to those of us who work in the system," he said.
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The Lee and Mount Vernon District supervisors are hosting a town meeting on Monday, June 23, at 7 p.m. to discuss transportation issues relating to Fort Belvoir, including current efforts to offset the closure of Woodlawn Road. The meeting, sponsored by Congressmen Tom Davis and Jim Moran, will be held in the cafeteria of Hayfield Secondary School, 7630 Telegraph Road, Alexandria.
The deputy secretary of the Army and Fort Belvoir's commander, Colonel Thomas Williams, have been invited to participate.
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'Hope' stands as a fleeting memory for most Americans as unemployment stagnates, housing prices fall and economic growth looms as a lofty promise unfulfilled. And as we get closer to the 2012 Presidential Election, it's becoming clear that the ideological political landscape that dominated the 2008 election cycle will be eclipsed by a menacing elephant in the room: the economy.
The President is well aware of the uphill battle he faces when it comes to convincing voters and campaign financers that his economic policies and regulations have not only been what we needed the past three years, but also what we need in the next four. According to The New York Times, President Obama has already started reaching out to the skeptical financial industry on Wall Street, hoping to win back one of his most vital sources of campaign cash.
While many on Wall Street view the President's financial rhetoric as unfair to their industry, his apparent goal is to prove that his fiscal policies have helped to bring the banks and financial markets back to health and toward sustained growth.
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The number of jobs created in December, 155,000, was very close to consensus expectations. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.8%, revised up from 7.7% in an annual revision process to population estimates. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for October was revised to up 137,000 from up 138,000, and the change for November was revised to up 161,000 from up 146,000. The best news was in the earnings part of the report.
Specifically, healthcare added 45,000 jobs and food service added 38,000, and bear in mind not all jobs in healthcare are high paying. Construction added 30,000 new jobs while manufacturing added 25,000 workers. Construction appears to have benefited from a post-Sandy rebuilding effort, so it is hard to tease out underlying trends in that sector. Retail, which has added quite a number of new jobs in recent months, shed 11,000 jobs (remember this is seasonally adjusted) in December while all levels of government reduced payrolls by 13,000 people. Other sectors had smaller degree of change.
In December, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours. The manufacturing workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, and factory overtime was unchanged at 3.3 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours.
Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 7 cents to $23.73, or 0.38%, for the month. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.1%, but this belies the very recent trend for increased earnings in the past couple months. Average weekly earnings grew by 0.59%. When you factor in more people working and earning more, the index of aggregate weekly payrolls grew by 0.7% for the second straight month, which will flow into the aggregate measures of consumer incomes. This is good news.
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Crapo, Henry Howland, 1912. Certain Comeoverers. New Bedford, Mass, Anthony printers v.1, 518 pp.
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From the authors forward pp.1-9.
To William Wallace Crapo of Detroit, Michigan.
My dear William:
At the present lustrum of your life you are, and should be, supremely indifferent to your ancestors. They are dead and gone and that's an end on't. Your utmost powers of receptivity are properly absorbed by vital considerations. Dead uns are nit" — as you would put it. In presenting you the following notes I ask not that you consciously attempt to change your present attitude. Inevitably there will come a time when these records of your forebears will have for you at least a passing interest. To you at that time I dedicate them. I hope, indeed, the time will never come when the pulse of glorious life will beat so slowly that you can afford to devote it to genealogical study. A lonely and a sterile life alone can find sufficient satisfaction in the dry-as-dust occupation of delving into dreary records to find a name, a mere name, the date when the name was born and died, the date when the name married another name, and the dates of all the other names that went before and came after.
Hoping to save you from so deplorable an expenditure of vitality, I, not inappropriately, present to you the names of many of the men and women who are responsible for your existence. Were that all I offer it would be hardly worth while for either of us. I seek, however, to offer something more. These men and women whom I name were all once fellows and girls, as much alive as you are now. They were born, and had the measles, and loved and lived and died much in the same way and to the same purpose, as has been and will be your experience. As Slender said of Shallow in the Merry Wives of Windsor: "All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may." Three hundred years hence there will, I trust, be some of your descendants who may care a little to realize even vaguely that you were alive once upon a time and had a vital history which, to you at all events, was filled with interest. To call these old fellows and girls back — nay forward — as living realities is what I seek to offer you. As vital personalities they deserve your kindly attention and affection. They are all your grandfathers and grandmothers, and had it not been for them you would not have been — surely not you at all events. They are your own people, flesh of your flesh, and blood of your blood. In Japan the old Shintoism made the Cult of Ancestors the supreme religion. I do not suggest your adoption of such a faith. Your ancestors were no better than they should have been, if, indeed, in many instances, they reached that standard. You at all events are, or should be, immeasurably their superior.
Yet there is ethical value in Shintoism. To keep alive and present in one's home and life the memory of those remote beings whose existence produced one's own existence is a form of human allegiance which transcends even patriotism. Many millions, to be sure, yes billions, and trillions (and whatever comes next) of human beings are, in truth, directly responsible for your existence. The retro- progression is too stupendous for sensible conception. There is a limit, moreover, to genealogical endeavor. The limit in this case I fix at your "comeoverers." Certain men and women came to this country which we now call the United States of America from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, from England mostly, one, perhaps, from France, none so far as I know from any other European country, who are your paternal ancestors. It so happens that almost all of these paternal comeoverers of yours came during the early days of immigration. If the same is true of your maternal comeoverers, and I fancy it is, you are for the most part of the tenth generation of New England descent and consequently have two thousand and forty-six ancestors to be accounted for, of whom one thousand and twenty- four were comeoverers. You may, perhaps, understand why I regard it as fortunate that my inquiries exclude one-half of them, namely your mother's progenitors. The one thousand and twenty-three ancestors and the five hundred and twelve comeoverers are quite sufficient to appal me, and you, too, doubtless, if you are fearful that I mean in these notes to vitalize for you so vast a congregation of dead uns. It is, indeed, only a comparatively few of the one thousand and twenty-three ancestors to whom I shall be able to give you a personal introduction. In the circular charts which I furnish you in connection with these notes you will perceive the blanks, which in the radiation backwards cause such vast hiati.
These paternal ancestors of yours, with the exception of the Stanfords, were of early Massachusetts stock. They were for the most part of the "yeoman" or farmer class; there were some " artisans" among them, a few "merchants," a few "gentlemen," and a very few "ministers." Few of them were of distinguished lineage. Your grandfather William Wallace Crapo's progenitors, without exception, so far as I have been able to ascertain, are descended from the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the Rhode Island Colonies, and your grandmother Sarah Tappan Crapo's progenitors all, except the Stan- fords, spring from the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In Plymouth and Bristol Counties or in Rhode Island on the one side, and in Essex and Suffolk Counties on the other they dwelt. Few among them were renowned. They were almost without exception very decent sort of folk, exemplary and mediocre, whose personal histories if not of much importance to the world at large are none the less worthy of your interest and mine.
Your father, like most people, had four great grandfathers and four great grandmothers. They were:
Jesse Crapo
Phebe Howland
Williams Slocum
Anne Almy Chase
Abner Toppan
Elizabeth Stanford
Aaron Davis
Sarah Morse Smith
For purely literary reasons I shall present to you the ancestors of these eight forebears in the following order, in the divisions of these notes:
It is more especially my purpose to tell the stories of some of the comeoverers from whom these eight great great grandparents of yours descended, and something also about a few of the descendants of these comeoverers from whom in direct lineage you spring. The temptation to stray from the direct line of descent has been great. So many interesting people are collat- published genealogies of a considerable number of the families with whom you are of kin; the marvellous compendium known as the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Mr. Austin's admirable work on the early settlers of Rhode Island; the publications of Historical Societies, notably the Old Dartmouth Historical Society; town histories; and in general the free use of the numerous handy tools of the trade of genealogy have, with the assistance of several kind helpers, supplied the data which I now present to you. The utmost to which these notes may aspire is to give you sometime in the future, when you have ceased to see visions and have come to dream dreams, a roughly sketched picture of that little portion of long ago humanity which by the accident of your birth involves your existence. The notes may not even achieve that aspiration. I keenly appreciate the undeniable fact that they contain much dry statistical information which may reasonably bore you. After all, even if you can not take pleasure in reading them all you will, perhaps, be pleased to know that they have given me much pleasure in writing them.
Affectionately your uncle,
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This work is currently available (Oct 2007) on-line through Google Books. Page 11 gives an index of ancestors. For immigrant ancestors, whom Crapo describes as the "Comeoverers". the year of immigration and the name of the immigrant ship are given when known. Entries for about 500 persons are given. This work exists in three editions, viz:
1. Certain comeoverers, by Henry Howland CrapoLanguage: English Type: Book, Publisher: New Bedford, Mass., Anthony, printers, 1912.
2. Certain Comeoverers by Henry Howland Crapo Language: English Type: Book : Microform Publisher: New Bedford, Mass. : E. Anthony & Sons, 1912.
3. Certain comeoverers by Henry Howland Crapo Language: English Type: Book Publisher: Salem, Mass. : Higginson Book Co., [1999?]
Mr. Crapo's writing style is a bit ornate, characteristic of the late 19th and early 20th century. Like many genealogists, his discussion if filled with intesting details, but provides few indications of from where his information was taken. There is no index, but the table of contents is detailed, and the "list of Comeroverers" is useful.


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Hyundai's potent Sonata 2.0T ups the ante for an already attractive ride
CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer
All of the great marques have special models with special letters. Adding an "M" to the back of a BMW changes an accomplished touring machine into an all-out performer.
Hanging "AMG" on the trunk of a Benz instills a tradition of racing and mind-bending acceleration. Put a "V" on a CTS and you've got bottled evil.
Sticking a "T" on the back of a Hyundai may not scare the world's power players, but it might light dirt clods under market-leading mid-sizers.
Mentioning the 2.0T along with the great "alphas" from Germany isn't completely whack. In the mid-'90s, a BMW M3 made way with a 286 horsepower V6 engine. The C36 AMG, Mercedes' first car formally badged with the iconic letters, ran from 0-60 mph in 6.6 seconds, topping out at 155 … and did it all with just 268 galloping steeds.
I'm darned sure neither of those cars generated the fuel economy ratings or offered up such a cavernous interior as the Hyundai.
Let's just get to it. The Sonata's 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine produces 274 horsepower and 269 lb.-ft. of torque — all routed to the front wheels through a near-perfect six-speed paddle-shift automatic transmission. Unlike in the Bimmer and Benz, drivers are confronted with a fair amount of torque steer — two wheels can only be asked to do so much before throwing a regal fit. I'm old enough to remember V8-powered supercars that couldn't generate those numbers, and they sure as heck didn't achieve 22/33-MPG city/highway. Another point of interest, the pint-sized Chevy Aveo achieves 25/34- MPG and makes due with a 108-HP engine. Hyundai hit the big boys in their asses.
It would be hard to imagine a more pleasing package in which to wrap this mechanical orchestration. Borrowing from the Mercedes CLS four-door coupe, Sonata is a sexy piece with a near-perfect arch running from its wavy chrome grille to its sculpted hood, curved roofline and tapered rear deck. The forms have more of a molded look than metal stamped through presses. Hunkered down over 18-in. alloy wheels and low-profile touring tires, the car looks like it rolled out for a futuristic sci-fi flick. Yet, it has a family-friendly look that is almost huggable.
The love continues inside. Sitting behind the wheel, you could just as easily be piloting the Genesis Coupe as a roomy five-passenger sedan. Big analog gauges, twin-cockpit dash lay-out, huge cupholders, cavernous storage bin in the console and in-dash touch screen that couldn't be easier to navigate, or use to navigate, work well. Automatic climate control will freeze your tenders; heated seats roast your cushions on cold mornings.
I'm also a fan of the multi-function leather-wrapped steering wheel, leather seats, and auto up/down driver window. Fold-down rear seats and a roomy trunk will swallow bicycles and gear like a pack mule stomping up a mountain trail.
Everybody inside can rest assured in their safety. Potential padding comes from dual front, front side and side curtain airbags. Front active head restraints and self-retracting seatbelts keep you in your place. Enhancing the driver's ability to avoid ugly incidents in the first place are four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, electronic stability control and brake force control to prevent skids under heavy deceleration. An incredibly rigid passenger compartment is protected by engineered crush zones front and rear.
Great driver's cars have finesse to their motions that draw you in and provide rewards for your attention. The 2.0T's steering is direct and reacts instantly off center. It is perfectly weighted for a family sedan with sporting intentions. The suspension is firm, but compliant and the brakes are up to the task of stopping a 3,400-lb. automobile. Step into the turbo and it generates smooth torque at virtually any speed. Get on it at Interstate speeds and it will put a beaming smile across your mug. It's nice that you can buy a perfectly practical car that can also put joy in the life of its driver.
To witness Hyundai upping its technological game two clicks higher, check out the Sonata Hybrid. Aero tweaks clue you in that this is the model that gets a compact-like 35/40-MPG city/hwy. A net of 206 horsepower comes from a 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine, motor, and advanced lithium polymer batteries. Prices start under $26,000.
Whether you choose the Sonata with a T, the one with batteries, or just the regular 4-cylinder version, you'll quickly come to the conclusion that Hyundai has out-engineered and out-styled itself into the realm of the world's best automakers. These are great cars — ones about which you will be proud to tell your friends and look forward to enjoying for many years. For added assurance, the Sonata comes with Hyundai's standard 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty.
With an as-tested price of $30,000, competitors include the Buick Regal, Honda Accord, VW Passat and Ford Fusion.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition October 7, 2011.


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Smith has started 91 of the past 93 games for Butler, so Bulldog coach Brad Stevens is a bit perplexed as to how to adjust.
"I don't know," Stevens responded when asked about how to deal with the situation. "You have a number of different options. You can go with (Erik Fromm), who has started games before. You could go with Kameron Woods, who has been playing great. Or you could go with a guy like Chase (Stigall) or Kellen (Dunham) and go really small."
Regardless of the strategy that Stevens devises, a bigger issue may not be the hole in the middle, but the struggles on the perimeter.
Two of Butler's recent opponents – George Washington and Saint Louis – may have found a game plan that works against the Bulldogs.
As talented as Bulldog guards Rotnei Clarke and Dunham are, they aren't physically imposing. And the Colonials, with the Billikens prior to that, took full advantage of that.
"(George Washington) was very physical," Stevens said. "It was very physical."
In the two aforementioned games, Butler has turned the ball over a combined 42 times and lost at Saint Louis, while nearly blowing a 17-point lead at George Washington.
"Our guys did a pretty good job at times (in building a 17-point lead)," Stevens said. "But also didn't do as good of job at other times (in blowing that lead)."
No. 10-ranked Butler currently ranks first in the Atlantic 10 in the standings, but only 10th in turnovers (13.2 per game).
"When you watch (the George Washington game) on film, we weren't getting to our spots. We weren't cutting well. We weren't playing through contact the way that we need to."
The Colonials applied full-court pressure throughout the second half to try and climb back into the game (it worked), and Butler appeared in so much disarray, it had trouble even inbounding the ball. And when the Bulldogs did get the ball inbounds, they seemingly invented ways to throw it away.
"We've had our issues, here in the very recent past," Stevens said. "But we've been a good ball-handling team up to that point."
Stevens has dealt with this issue before. In early February of 2010, his team went through a stretch of games where it turned it over from 17 times to 21 times. However, with players such as Gordon Hayward, Shelvin Mack, and Matt Howard playing a Horizon League schedule, it was a bit easier to overcome than today's task.
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An Election-Day live chat with pundit Ann Coulter, hosted by Digital First Media, came to an abrupt end last Tuesday.
Coulter was one of several guests who were scheduled to appear. Although she was originally scheduled for a half-hour segment, the conversation ended in less than half that time.
At 9:10 a.m. "JP in OH" posed the question, "Ann, have you read the letter written to you by John Franklin Stephens? I'm curious what your response was."
In the next post, at 9:15 a.m., chat moderator "chhopkins" stated, "Sorry, folks, Ann said she'd been on long enough and had to go. Her publicist said a conflict came up."
The episode referred to by "JP in OH" began on Oct. 22. During the presidential debate, Coulter stated in a Twitter post, "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard." According to Tommy Christopher at mediaite.com, Coulter "crossed lines of decency untrod even by her standards."
Stephens, a Special Olympics athlete and global messenger, authored a response to Coulter that was dignified and respectful:
"I'm a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public's perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow."
In his post at http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com, Stephens challenged Coulter's attempt to "belittle the President by linking him to people like me":
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"No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much."
I appreciated Stephens' response to Coulter because I have been the recipient of this labeling.
During childhood, my possession of traits characteristic of the autism spectrum were not formally diagnosed. With no explanation for my differences, I was often at odds with the people around me.
On one occasion, an adult member of my family told me that I was retarded, and I am sure that "retard" was among the many playground taunts I had to endure.
In a radio appearance on Oct. 25, Coulter compounded the offense by equating herself with the targets of bullying. "Liberal victims are the biggest bullies of all," she told radio host Alan Colmes.
Colmes, in response, emphasized that "This is not a left/right issue."
Given the publicity and outcry, it should have come as no surprise that a questioner would address this subject during the live-chat on Tuesday.
Coulter told Colmes that "retard" is merely a "colloquialism for loser." But let me assure Coulter, when I hear the name "retard" applied to me or to anyone else, I interpret it as a slur against an entire class of people, of which I am one.
And having been the target of genuine bullying -- physical abuse, name-calling and ostracism -- I found Coulter's statements doubly offensive. Her remarks easily demonstrated just who the "bully" is.
Read a transcript of the Election-Day chat at www.record-bee.com/politics-national/2012/11/live-election-day-2012-discussions-with-ann-coulter-howard-kurtz-and-more/
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Both teams are obviously missing their best receiving options. The Colts are missing the HOF security blanket Wayne while the Pats are missing Gronk, who is probably the best receiving option in the game when healthy. Before getting hurt against us last year, Gronk torched us for 7 receptions/137 yards/2 touchdowns.
Obviously Pags wasn't on the sideline last year when we got waxed up there. I think that this will be one of the games where Pagano's strengths shine through. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, he had extremely good success as the Ravens' D coordinator in the 09 and 11 playoffs against Brady. Brady played absolutely awful in both of those games. So I feel very comfortable in knowing that our head coach is a guy who has had impressive success in Foxboro against Brady in playoff games. It certainly doesn't guarantee anything, but at the very least it tells you that our head coach generally knows the types of things that the defense needs to do to win. Obviously our defense isn't the Ravens and it's going to be up to our guys to execute on the field, but I'm confident that Pagano will come up with the best possible defensive game plan.
To win this game, two pretty simple things need to happen:
1) You have to get pressure on Brady and hit him early. The two Giants Super Bowls, two Ravens playoff victories in Foxboro, and Jets victory there three years ago tell us that this is the ticket to beating the Pats in the post-season. He's like Manning in that he gets thrown off big time when he starts hitting the ground. We gotta find a way to get some Mathis hits on him. If Brady has time to pick us apart, it's game over.
2) Receivers other than T.Y. have to step up big time. Belichick is the master at taking a team's primary option away and you can be rest assured that the Pats will spend all week focusing on how to take T.Y. out of the game. He's not going to let T.Y. torch the Pats like the Chiefs. The Chiefs treated T.Y. with kid gloves. Fleener, Whalen, Rodgers, and Brazil must all get open and catch difficult balls.
This isn't the most intimidating Pats team ever, but it's still going to be brutally difficult to get a win up there. We're going to have to play as close to perfect as possible and need a good blend of our SF/Seattle/Denver/reg season KC game/2nd half KC playoff game performances to pull this out. If the Rams/Cardinals/Bengals 1st half/Chiefs 1st half Colts come to play, then we'll be dead in the water and it will get ugly fast.


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Culminating this year's Alumni Weekend was the presentation of the Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to three alumni, in recognition of their personal and professional achievements. The award is the college's highest alumni honor.
Three alumni received the awards: Columbus attorney and community leader Gerald L. Draper '63, Peace Corps veteran Alison White MacConnell '49 and Muskingum County Commissioner Dorothy J. Montgomery '53. In recognizing the recipients, Muskingum College President Anne C. Steele said, "Through your commitment to others, each of you has had a profound impact on your community and the world around you." Presenting the awards was Gordon F. Litt, president of the college's Alumni Council.
Gerald L. Draper '63 graduated with honors from Muskingum College in 1963 and earned his juris doctorate degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1966. Today, Draper is a partner in the Columbus law firm of Roetzel & Andress.
In 1982, Draper was elected president of the Columbus Bar Association and in 1984 he was elected president of the Columbus Bar Foundation. In 1990, he was selected to lead the Ohio Bar Association as its president. Draper also has been involved with more than 20 other legal organizations and associations.
Draper has been named one of "The Best Lawyers in America" for business litigation and personal injury litigation. In 2003, he was honored as one of Columbus' finest attorneys and, most recently, he was named one of Ohio's "Super Lawyers" — a distinction for the top five percent of attorneys in Ohio.
An active community leader, Draper has served with the Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church and the Wesley Glen Retirement Center in Worthington, Ohio. At Muskingum, he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees, the Alumni Council and as the national chairman of the Annual Fund.
Mrs. Alison White MacConnell graduated from Muskingum College in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in history and as a member of the college's debate team.
From 1983 to 1986, she served in the United States Peace Corps in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
In 1986, the FSM became a self-governing country. At that time, MacConnell was invited to join the Office of Foreign and Federal Relations in the State of Pohmpei in Micronesia. In that office, she helped draft that country's first constitution.
The FSM has a rich history, influenced by the Spanish, German and Japanese settlers and discoverers who gave the region a rich and diverse culture. The FSM came under United States Trusteeship after World War II and, in 1991, became a member of the United Nations.
Today, MacConnell continues to work for the governments of both the State of Pohmpei and the FSM, focusing on socio-economic issues. In addition to her prominent role in government, MacConnell is deeply interested in youth development, demonstrated by her work with Head Start, Camp Fire Girls, Horizon Club groups, the Red Cross, the Cub Scouts, the Blue Birds. She also organized the first scout unit in Micronesia.
Mrs. MacConnell is a charter member of the Rotary Club of Pohmpei and was its first-ever Rotarian of the Year. She also became the club's first Paul Harris Fellow as a tribute to "a person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with the objectives of the Rotary Club."
Dorothy J. Montgomery graduated from Muskingum College in 1953. She began as a teacher in 1953, serving in the Zanesville City Schools, the Duncan Falls Schools and Taft Elementary School in Orlando, Florida.
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Are J.C. Penney's JCP 0.5089058524173028% J.C. Penney Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD3.95 0.02 0.5089058524173028% /Date(1506018942082-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4315506 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1221212140.19 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 117792 More quote details and news » real-estate assets a reason to buy shares of the ailing retailer? That question has grown louder in recent weeks, as the board mulls a sale of the Plano, Texas-based company (ticker: JCP) or the removal of the company's CEO if sales don't revive.
Over the past year, CEO Ron Johnson has tried to attract higher-end clients with a store-within-a-store strategy and to smooth results by dumping chaotic discounting. Barron's warned readers to expect some bumps ("Penney Wise? Not Exactly," Jan. 23, 2012). The problems were even bigger than we expected. Confused customers fled to rivals like Target TGT -1.5693553830577118% Target Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD58.33 -0.93 -1.5693553830577118% /Date(1506018961575-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2815089 P/E Ratio 11.764112903225806 Market Cap 32369707084.8767 Dividend Yield 4.250214224507284% Rev. per Employee 215409 More quote details and news » (TGT) and Macy's M -1.8156424581005586% Macy's Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD21.09 -0.39 -1.8156424581005586% /Date(1506018950477-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5730606 P/E Ratio 9.593181818181819 Market Cap 6541926976.06247 Dividend Yield 7.154702677090737% Rev. per Employee 168786 More quote details and news » (M). In the year ended Feb. 2, same-store sales fell by a whopping 25%. Penney lost $985 million, or $4.49 a share. The shares have plunged nearly 60%, to $15, since our story ran.
Penney's shares are down 60% since we warned about trouble with its turnaround. Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News
Johnson began with the backing of Penney's two largest shareholders: Pershing Square Capital Management and Vornado Realty Trust, which owned a third of the stock and held board seats. Last week, Vornado sold 40% of its stake and is likely to sell the rest. Johnson has already restored discounting, but Penney has cut 19,000 jobs, or 14% of the total, since the start of 2012.
The board is said to be giving Johnson's plan another year to work, and seems stuck with it in the way that passengers are stuck on a train hurtling toward a collision. "It's hard to see how a new leader can right the ship, given the massive changes being implemented, especially the 'store-in-a-store' concept, which is behind schedule," says David Berman, a hedge-fund manager and retailing expert who has derided Penney's overhaul since day one.
The stock market now values Penney at $3.3 billion, down from almost $8 billion last year. It is hard to see why it might be worth more, given the lack of buyers for a retailer with a national footprint and ongoing asset sales by rivals like Sears Holdings SHLD -2.3578363384188625% Sears Holdings Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD7.04 -0.17 -2.3578363384188625% /Date(1506018841625-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 486377 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 773384775.286315 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 141050 More quote details and news » (SHLD).
Penney owns 426 of its 1,100 stores and has cheap leases on the rest, but Vornado's willingness to cut and run calls their value into question.
That, in turn, is creating concerns about liquidity. Penney has $930 million in cash and a $1.85 billion credit line. If same-store sales fall another 10% in the first quarter, Penney will burn through $400 million in cash, says J.P. Morgan. Hedge-fund investor Berman foresees "vendor panic over a steadily worse balance sheet."
Rick Snyder, an analyst at Maxim Group, thinks Penney's real estate is worth roughly $50 per square foot. That would not be enough to cover Penney's $2.9 billion of debt. Snyder's price target on the stock is $10, about a third lower than it fetched last week.
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These wonderfully moist morsels are too tempting to resist. "They melt right in your mouth," comments Charolette Westfall of Houston, Texas. "They're simple to fix, too." Rather than sprinkling the chocolate tips with nuts, you can roll them in red and green jimmies or leave them plain. Either way, Charolette's are real treats!— Charolette Westfall, Houston, Texas
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- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla; mix well. Gradually add flour; mix well. cover and chill for 1 hour. Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into 2-1/2-in. x 1/2-in. sticks. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten about three-fourths of each stick lengthwise with a fork. Bake at 350° for 14-16 minutes or until set. Cool on baking sheets. Melt chocolate chips and shortening until smooth; dip the round end of each cookie. Sprinkle with nuts. Place on waxed paper until firm. Yield: about 3-1/2 dozen.
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Helen Dragas, UVa. rector, wins reappointment
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia rector who led the failed attempt to oust the school's president has won a second four-year term.
The House of Delegates voted 63-33 Tuesday to confirm the reappointment of Helen Dragas to the university's Board of Visitors. The Senate approved her reappointment last week.
Dragas orchestrated last summer's firing of U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan, who was reinstated after a two-week revolt by faculty, students and alumni.
Opponents of her reappointment argued that she should be held accountable for the damage caused to U.Va. Some donors have abandoned the university, and an accrediting panel placed the school on warning.
Supporters of Dragas said she and Sullivan have expressed a desire to put the matter behind them and move forward.


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What is it? MoGEA (Missouri General Education Assessment) is an online exam required by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that evaluates the knowledge and reasoning skills of teacher candidates in four subject areas: Reading Comprehension and Intepretation, Writing, Mathematics, and Science/Social Studies. Minimum passing scores for this exam are currently being established by the State Board of Education. Our institution's cut scores are posted in the Education Department.
Passing scores on the MoGEA, combined with a 2.75 minimum cumulative GPA is required prior to admission to the College's Teacher Education Program.
When is it offered? The MoGEA exam is scheduled at College of the Ozarks' McKibben Center on the following dates:
How do I register? All registration will take place online at http://www.mo.nesinc.com/. The full test is $49 and single test sections are $25 each. A test sitting fee is assessed for all non-College of the Ozarks students; this fee is paid at the testing site.
What is it? The MoCA is designed to test a student's knowledge in his/her subject area (exit exam). Each College of the Ozarks' Education Major must pass the MoCA in their major area to be eligible for student teaching through College of the Ozarks and also to be eligible for Missouri teacher certification. Students are encouraged to take the MoCA the semester prior to their student teaching experience.
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