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On ESPN there are 2 insider articles on Manning. Can someone post them please?
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On ESPN there are 2 insider articles on Manning. Can someone post them please?
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Could someone post the two articles on Manning? I know that this is a Colts question, but it isn't being answered there. I know more Pacers people have insider, (so could you just leave this here Hicks until the articles are posted? Thanks)
They are found here:
on the front section. Thanks!
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
When someone pasts them here, I'll move this thread to the Colts board.
Trust Me on This
By Seth Wickersham
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What the hell is he doing?
He is hunched over and shouting and dipping his head between center and guard, then guard and tackle, to his left and his right, as if he were frantically trying to win an apple-bobbing contest. The situation is not dire. Indianapolis, trailing Jacksonville 16-14 at home on Oct. 24, has first down at midfield with 12:43 left. But the Colts' quarterback is treating this snap as if it were the game's last.
It started so normally. He walked to the line, stood behind the center and called out his signals. But then he saw something, something no one else saw. He went into an audible as he does on nearly every play and yelled, "30-14! 30-14!"
Now begins the chaos and panic: his wideouts relay the new call to each other and his linemen start to swivel, making sure that everyone is in concert. The play clock dwindles down to 5 seconds as the quarterback fusses and fiddles and fidgets. Fans grow tense and antsy, wanting him to just shut up and call for the snap.
No QB changes plays at the line of scrimmage like Peyton Manning.
And you wonder: Why can't he just call the play like every other QB? Why does he test our patience, nervously pacing along the line of scrimmage like a guy waiting in line for a Porta-Potty? Why, in short, does Peyton Manning have to be so annoying?
He knows how we feel. He hears fans yelling, "Just run the play!" He sees Pee Wee quarterbacks wearing No.18, waving and yelling and signaling and driving their coaches nuts. He can even see it online. After a recent Colts game, fans on the football message board IGN had this exchange:
Jr2280: "Manning is so annoying. He audibles on every play."
Oa517: "I agree. He lets the play clock go down to, like, :05, then he finally hikes it."
And this was after a game of Madden 2005.
None of this is new. Manning has been irritating people for years. Appreciation for his brilliance has been tempered by frustration with his habits. By virtue of his last name, greatness has always been expected of him, as if being the top prep, college and pro QB were his obligation. He's never especially connected with fans, annoying them by playing as if he were the latest chip from Intel instead of a fun-loving gunslinger. This is a player who threw 36 touchdown passes in his senior year at Tennessee, only to lose the Heisman to a cornerback, the more dynamic Charles Woodson. This is a guy who led the league with 4,267 yards and 29 touchdowns last season, but shared the MVP title with Steve McNair, whose tolerance for pain made him seem more heroic. Says Colts tight end Marcus Pollard, "There's always been a backlash against him."
Maybe because it's hard to love a know-it-all.
* * *
WHEN MANNING comes to the line against Jacksonville, he sees Jags corner Dewayne Washington giving wideout Reggie Wayne a 10-yard cushion. Meanwhile, nickelback Rashean Mathis lines up in bump-and-run coverage on slot receiver Brandon Stokley. Then Manning notices free safety Deon Grant in the middle of the field, and it clicks. Jacksonville is in a presnap two-invert coverage look, a formation Manning hasn't seen during the game but had watched on film that week. He knows that at the snap, the Jags will drop into a Cover 3, with Grant patrolling the deep middle-third of the field, Washington the deep left-third and Mathis, from his fake bump-and-run look, the flat. By saying "30-14," Manning orders Wayne and Stokley out of their short routes and into deep ones.
Then, after the snap, he drops back five steps, reading the Jags' defense like it's written for a 5-year-old.
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THERE ARE seven spiral notebooks stacked in his locker, each protected by a white cover with a Colts blue horseshoe printed on it. Manning has labeled them all just like the one he's holding:
2004 PM-18; 6th year QB; Notebook # 8
On a sunny afternoon in late October, Manning flips this notebook open and reveals pages covered with scribbles that only he can decipher. Some of the notes are circled or starred. In five days Indy will face KC, and next to his stack of notebooks is a beta tape labeled "Colts-Chiefs 11-7-99." Says Manning: "It's the last time we played Gunther Cunningham."
Manning has always treated football as though it were an equation needing to be solved. As a sophomore at Isidore Newman High in New Orleans, he once threw four picks in a 7-6 loss to Buras High. He'd just finished his first season as a starter, and was already on recruiters' radar. After the game, Peyton asked his dad, Archie, how to study film. If you're going to do it, the former Saints QB said, do it right. Follow the defense, not the ball. So father and son started watching tape together, not only of high school games but NFL ones, too. That's when Peyton began to memorize opposing team's weaknesses and his own by writing them into a notebook labeled with his name and jersey number. In college, these notebooks became so legendary that they're now stored in Tennessee's archives.
After Manning's rookie year, a season in which he threw an NFL-high 28 interceptions, he went to offensive coordinator Tom Moore, notebook in hand, and asked for the power to audible. For some in his position, this would have been the nerviest of requests. But for Manning, it was simple problem solving. He'd successfully audibled a few times as a rookie, and he liked the freedom of switching out of a lousy play and into a good one. Moore, believing he had a once-in-lifetime player, gave Manning what he wanted, with a caveat: "Don't surprise me." The two put in extra hours together in the film room, analyzing defenses, making sure their reads were in sync. At first, Manning was too excited, becoming so hyper while calling audibles that teammates couldn't understand him, so they wondered the same thing as fans: what the hell is he doing? But after six years, he's effectively demoted Moore from a playcaller to a play-proposer.
On Tuesdays, an off-day for players, Moore gives Manning the game-plan binder with several pages of notes. That afternoon, Manning settles into he leather chair in his home film room. With a notebook on his lap and his black lab, Colt, at his feet, he culls through a month's worth of games. By Wednesday, when the rest of the team sees the game plan for the first time, Manning has 20 to 30 pages of notes. For the rest of the week until kickoff, he flips through his spiral and visualizes his blueprint for the game, turning 3 hours on the field into an exhibition of preparedness.
All 300 plays in the Colts' game plan each week can be audibled, verbally or by hand signal. Manning is so paranoid that, if he thinks the TV mikes have picked up one of his calls, he'll alter it on the sideline. Hand signals are tougher. Manning is tapped out of ways he can move, join, align and wave his hands. So he steals. At the Pro Bowl, he casually asks other QBs about their signals. Then, when no one is looking, he jots down new ones.
On the sideline during games, Manning sits at a table set up just for him. He buries his head in photos from the last series, a football always nearby for him to fondle. No one bothers him as he tweaks and modifies what he spent all week perfecting. Once he's ready, he'll signal tight end Dallas Clark, who rises from the bench to catch warmup passes. Clark is the only receiver Manning warms up with, and he has no idea why. "I think it's because I'm the youngest," the 25-year-old Clark says, shrugging.
Manning's teammates may agree when fans ask, "Why can't he just run the play?" They may tease him about his obsessive note-taking. But every player on the Colts is nearly in awe over how much football Manning processes, and how quickly he does it. Break down the material he works with, and you begin to understand why he usually takes all 35 seconds allotted. Moore sends Manning into the huddle with three or four options to choose from at the line. For example, Manning may call two runs, 43 Iso and 42 Power, as well as a passing package, such as the "check" package. The runs are basic. The passing packages, though, branch out once the Colts get set at the line of scrimmage. The "check" contains up to 10 plays for Manning to choose from, as though he's mentally clicking a start button and selecting from programs that pop up.
Each of those 10 "check" plays has its own variations and deviations, depending on whether the defense is in one of a dozen or more defensive looks. Then Manning begins his audibles and signals, a dervish of decision-making that even rival defenses have come to grudgingly admire. "If he's under center, we're ready," says Patriots defensive end Jervis Green. "He's a smart guy. You just have to be alert, regardless of what he's doing."
Should a defensive end move one gap over, or a corner shade just a bit toward the middle of the field should any one of a hundred different things happen on the defensive side of the ballManning is once again barking and waving, annoying fans everywhere. Until the ball is snapped, anyway. Suddenly questions such as, "God, why does he do that?" become "God, how does he do that?"
The Jags don't know Manning has figured them out. Wayne runs a streak to keep Washington busy, while Stokley busts up the seam. Manning fades back and looks off Grant. Then, when his right foot plants, punctuating his drop, he fires Stokley's way. At that moment, does it matter that Manning took 35 seconds before the snap, or that fans yelled at him to hurry up and run the play? No. If Manning's pass is 6 inches to the left or 6 inches higher, Grant sends Stokley for an MRI. Six inches to the right, and the trailing Washington is heading the other way for six. But the pass is perfect, arriving in Stokley's hands for a 20-yard gain. Two plays later, Manning sees the Jags in the exact same look. But this time, a wary Grant shades over toward Stokley. Nice try. Manning audibles for Stokley to sell the seam route to get Grant backpedaling. But he breaks the route off inside, and Manning hits him for 13 yards. Manning and Stokley don't high-five or butt slap. They just point at each other, in a blasé way, signaling a job well done.
Maybe we have him wrong. Maybe Manning's geekiness, his know-it-all veneer, shouldn't cause eyes to roll. The greatness of Brett Favre and Tom Brady is that they float above pressure like smoke, unbothered and unfettered. Manning's gift is his willingness to be weighed down. He wants pressure. It's as if he knew, when he asked to audible after his rookie year, that boredom would accompany his rise. So he's made the game interesting by demanding more power than almost any quarterback has had in 30 years. The complexity of defenses and the different personnel packages on offense have made quarterbacks who call their own game virtually extinct. Jim Kelly did it with the Bills a decade ago, but when John Elway got the green light midway through his career, it lasted only half a season. Even Brady, after two Super Bowl MVP awards, is only now allowed to check off a few times a game.
Sometimes an exhausted Manning will board the team plane after a game and sigh, "Why can't I call a play in the huddle like everyone else?" He's joking, because he cherishes the power he has. He needs it. He's running a brand of football that's his alone. That's why his older brother, Cooper, says Peyton's audibles are "sacred." That's why Peyton and Eli don't talk football, in case their teams play down the road. That's why on Oct. 31, down by 10 to the Chiefs with 5:31 left and facing fourth and three from the Kansas City 6, Manning waved off the field goal unit as it ran onto the field, overruling Tony Dungy, and then audibled into a TD pass to Wayne. That is why Indy's offense, which leads the league in scoring, has become a reflection of Manning himself: detailed, complicated, awesome and, finally, peerless. That's why Manning refers to his audibles as his "identity."
And now he's reaching levels that no one thought possible (see Do the Math, right). He's thrown 35 more touchdown passes than picks, and in a five-game stretch from late October through late November, he threw for 24 scores. He's on pace to pass Dan Marino's 20-year NFL record of 48 TD passes by the Colts' 14th game. And if Manning can keep up his 126.3 rating, he'll beat Steve Young's single-season mark by nearly 14 points. Marino says that Manning, at 28, is quarterbacking better than "anyone who has ever played the position."
As Manning has become the game's best quarterback, the football geek has loosened up. He's trying to follow the advice he got from President Bush, after the two met in Indy last year: ignore critics and don't read everything written about you. Though teammates still laugh at him during film sessions as he drops his nerdy insider jokes ("Stokley thought that route was a 30-21!"), Manning has stopped viewing every snap as a chance to improve his footwork. He even mocks fans in a MasterCard commercial, leaning over a railing to high-five businessmen while yelling, "You're on my fantasy team!" And during the past couple of off-seasons he's joined his friend, country music star Kenny Chesney, on tour. Manning stands on stage during concerts, hidden by a cowboy hat while strumming an acoustic guitar he doesn't know how to play.
For years, Chesney has begged Manning to return the favor by letting him run routes with the pros at Colts minicamp. Manning always had excuses: minicamp is too important, he's running a complicated offense, he needs every second of practice with his receivers, it's not a place for fooling around. Recently, though, Manning finally relented. This off-season, the 5'8", 140-pound Chesney will run patterns with the pros.
Why the change? Because, by now, Manning knows exactly what the hell he's doing.
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
By Randy Mueller
ESPN Insider
It's very easy to reel off the options Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has at his disposal. Soon-to-be free-agent WRs Marvin Harrison and Brandon Stokley, RB Edgerrin James, and TEs Dallas Clark and Marcus Pollard are all obvious reasons the Colts are on pace to break the single-season scoring record for an NFL team.
But the fact is that Manning is the straw that stirs the drink. We would not be having these water-cooler conversations if he wasn't the best at what he does. Maybe the best we've ever seen, at least for a single season. Let's break down the details behind what makes him tick as a player.
It all starts with his mastery of a complicated offense to the point of his decision-making being far superior to anyone else. The decisiveness of his pre- and post-snap reads gives you the feeling that he is two steps ahead of us, as fans, and the defenders as well.
His field vision and subtle eye and shoulder movement fool defenders and give them more false information than any undercover CIA operative. Execution of any one play is second nature and he's trying to set up the next play while running another. He's always sending a message with his body language in the huddle, at the line of scrimmage or after he takes the snap. It's a beauty to watch.
Manning's accuracy gives his receivers a chance to turn a short pass into a big gain.
We all know about his ball-handling skills and the pride he takes in carrying out his fakes on each play. He's looking for perfection even when he does not possess the ball. The key to his fakes, in my opinion, is that he presents the ball on every play.
A complete "ball" and "eye" fake can do wonders in taking advantage of the human element. Defenders just can't help themselves; they just have to "bite." It's that .5 of a second when they do that makes the difference in the size of the window that a quarterback has to deliver the ball.
His delivery itself is the main reason he's been sacked only seven times the whole year. He knows how and when to bail out of a bad play and live to run another one from a more manageable down and distance. Instead of taking an ill-advised sack that puts his team in a tough-to-convert, third-and-15 situation, Manning will get rid of the ball and move the chains on the next play.
But the biggest key in Manning's game is his accuracy. His receivers almost always catch the ball in stride, which allows them to avoid big hits and have a chance to run after the catch. I don't have figures to back it up, but I would say the Colts' receivers are way out if front when it comes to "yards after the catch" and it's mainly because of Manning's accuracy.
Receivers who must adjust to catch balls often have no chance to gather their body and run for yards once they secure the ball. Whether it's Stokley running down the slot or Harrison catching a crossing pattern, these guys add more yards than anybody else because they catch the ball in stride and are off to the races with little or no adjustments.
We, as football fans, need to enjoy what we are seeing out of Manning and this group this year. It doesn't come around very often.
Thanks K
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Threads merged, moved here, articles posted.
Thanks Kstat for posting them.
Same here.
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Johnson Controls (JCI) shares have gone nowhere lately.
This year they are up a little more than 1% through Friday (including dividends) while the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up more than 4%. Last year Johnson Controls returned less than 1% while the S&P 500 returned 16%. The Milwaukee manufacturer gets little respect today.
But it should.
It you lift your eyes from a short-term view to the long term, Johnson Controls has an amazing record.
Since the end of 1981, Johnson Controls has had 16 years in which its stock advanced 20% or more. Its compound annual return through the end of 2012 was 14.4%, compared to 11.2% for IBM (IBM), 11% for the S&P 500 and 9.6% for Merck (MRK).
Thirty Wall Street analysts follow Johnson Controls, but fewer than half of them rate it a Buy.
I think it is a Buy. For the fiscal year in progress, which will end in September, analysts peg earnings at $2.61 a share. That would be a record for this old-line industrial company, which makes auto parts and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) equipment systems.
At $31.50 a share, Johnson Controls stock fetches less than 12x that figure.
What's more, the consensus of analysts calls for the company to increase earnings 19% in fiscal 2014 and another 17% in fiscal 2015. And yet, that's not enough for most analysts to recommend the stock.
To me, this is a good example of the cynical but true observation that an increase in analysts' Buy recommendations generally happens after an increase in the stock price.
The Wisconsin company operates in two markets -- autos and construction -- that seem likely to improve over the next two years. Car sales are already improving and the average car on the road is a wheezy 11 years old. Johnson makes car doors, seats, instrument panels and batteries, among other parts.
Home construction is already picking up, after a severe five-year decline and I believe commercial construction will also perk up.
Warren Johnson, a professor a Wisconsin State Normal School, invented the thermostat around 1883 and helped found Johnson Controls in 1885. The company is 127 years old, but it's not sleepy, and the stock, in my opinion, is timely.


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'"Since our old line has been put back together — Hecht, Pominville and myself — I think we've found some chemistry and been able to capitalize on it," Connolly said in HP Pavilion. "We've just got to continue to work and try and improve in all the little areas, score even more goals and play better defensively."'
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Well, I would say this; the more the sport grows the more success premium content will also. The more subscribers willing to put money into you guys pockets, the more freedom you have to invest in the further development. It is very much a cyclic process and you can find it all over. The biggest thing here is doing what can be done for now to help grow the sport and you guys are making an excellent effort at that in my opinion; produce quality content.
DG really needs to be shown on TV before it will ever take off, even if it was part of the premium content sports packages it needs to reach a much wider audience. To be fair though, part of me likes the way DG is, its still somewhat a secret; almost like the best next thing that no one has heard about. There is something about the flight of a disc.
I guess I should of pointed out immediately that I understood you guys where a trio of friends who did this out of the love for the sport, not because it was your day job. I understand that a lot of this has the 'all in good time' factor to it, but the important thing is to not close any doors and know what CAN be done as they begin to open. All it takes is the right media exposure and DG can become viral.
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Are we gonna do a Fantasy BBall league again this year?
I forget...who organized it last season? Maybe the same person can organize it this year as well.
Anyone else up to playing again?
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Are we gonna do a Fantasy BBall league again this year?
I forget...who organized it last season? Maybe the same person can organize it this year as well.
Anyone else up to playing again?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I wasn't here last year, but I'd for sure be in. I'll take it as serious as needed.
I'll want to do it, if we do have one.
I'd love to give it a shot, if there's room!
If you guys are lucky you might get your asses kicked by me, thats if I end up having time to play.
Remind me what happened last season Jermaniac after your grandious predictions?
I'm in again for this season. But whoever runs the league, please include a Turnovers cat so Wade and James aren't blatantly hax.
I'm in if we play.
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id be more interested in playing Yahoo's NBA then the other one here, i dont think i understand the other one's setup.
NBA.Com also has fantasy commish ive been skimming over it, seems kinda cool. you can go head to head or points (im more comfortable with points)
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I'd be in....e-mail me if there's room
Looking through my old private messages, the Commish of the PD league was Birdman last season who set it up together with Btown.
I think Btown runs his own semi-private league with some friends and was just helping to coordinate things.
If Birdman wants to do it again, i'm happy for him to act as commish. If not, i'm willing to do it or let someone else if they want...
I want to play, but I don't have enough time to run it this year.
I'm in.
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I would be interested. Especially since I will be coming off of my Baseball league championship!
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
- Benjamin Franklin
I would be interested as well....just let me know where to sign up!
LG33 officially recognizes his interest in joining a PD fantasy league, but admits that his inability to organize people, himself included, make it impossible for him to act as commisioner.
like that ?
I wasnt even in that league
so you were lucky
I'm already in a money league, but I'll play in this one too, for fun.
OK I'm setting one up and I'll commish. I know that Skyfire, Birdman, and Jermaniac were all in the league I was in last year. I'll keep the same settings we had last year, but I want to do an offline draft if that's OK with everyone. We had problems with the online draft last year. I wasn't able to get around my firewall at work and draft and ended up getting my team autopicked. It should be fairly easy. We can just make a thread to draft our players in, then the commish (me) enters all the picks for each team manually. If we can't work it out we can always change to a different type of draft later anyway.
Okay....so I took a tally so far......we have 17 players that want to play.
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Since travmil graciously setup a league, we can do either of the following:
1) travmil can either expand his league to 18 players ( if that is possible ), we get one more PD member to sign up and simply play with a single 18 player league.
2 ) the first 11 PD members that signed up can join travmil and the rest waits a little longer to see if we can get 7 more PD members to sign up and we setup a 2nd league of 12 players.
If we go with option 1 and play with a 18-player league....it would really set the real BBall Fantasy Players from the wannabes as we would end up drafting about 234 players. It would be interesting......but really you really have to know your Fantasy BBall to win a 18-player league.
If we go with option 2 and split up the people who wants to do this into 2 leagues....then I don't mind setting up the 2nd league as the Commish.
I think that last season we used the standard Yahoo H2H scoring format with FG%, FT%, 3ptM, Assists, Rebound, Turnovers, Steals, Blocks and Points scored as the catagories. Its probably best to stick with that format.
One more thing.....I have done enough of these Fantasy BBall drafts to prefer a Live Online draft. I know that it requires that we set aside time to draft players....but I have done enough of the "Offline drafts" to know that its a real hit or miss when it comes to drafting players that you want...and drafting the wrong players.
Let me know what you guys want to do.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
We'll definitely end up with enough people to fill multiple leagues. When you get much over 12-14 people in the league rosters get pretty weird.
But if we enough people to run a two 12 player league...I would be fine with that.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
oh i forgot to say I'd like like to be in


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Cops pinpoint motive in triple Auburn slaying
Updated 12:01 pm, Monday, April 1, 2013
Police say a fight over a dance prompted a shooting that left three men dead and another wounded early Sunday.
Auburn Police Cmdr. Mike Hirman said dozens of people were leaving the Sports Page Tavern in Auburn at closing time around 2 a.m. when two groups began fighting in the parking lot.
Several people pulled handguns and fired shots, and three men were killed. A fourth man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was in stable condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Hirman said late Sunday. The ages of the four run between 21 and 32.
Home video recorded at the scene shows people screaming and running from the area as at least eight gunshots are fired.
Problems between two groups, one celebrating a birthday, started inside the tavern when two women had a disagreement.
"The dispute started between two women when one of them danced with a man," Hirman said in a statement late Sunday night.
Witnesses identified the three men killed as 24-year-old Lorenzo Duncan, 26-year-old Nicholas Lindsay and Antuan Greer, who also is in his 20s.
Hirman said some of the victims and suspects knew each other.
Relatives describe the friends as men who loved their families and did not run with gangs.
"We grew up with each other," said one friend of Greer. "He wasn't even in that type of life for this to even happen to him. I loved that man."
Friends of Lindsay tell KOMO News that he leaves behind two children.
And friends of Duncan describe him as a polite young man who always dressed nicely.
"One of those gentleman you'd always want to have around," said one friend.
Investigators detained a person of interest and arrested that person on an unrelated weapons charge.
Police have recovered several handguns. They believe several different firearms were used based on shell casings recovered from the scene.
Police in the neighboring suburbs of Federal Way and Kent stopped two vehicles that matched descriptions of cars leaving the scene of the shooting.
Those vehicles were seized, and their occupants were being questioned, said Hirman. The car stopped in Federal Way was riddled with bullets.


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This column originally appeared on Real Money Pro on Nov. 12.NEW YORK ( Real Money) -- In my writings over the past six months, I have expressed concern that the fiscal, economic, geopolitical and earnings cliffs would be in attendance over the balance of the year and into early 2013, serving to weigh down the U.S. stock market. This summer, owing to economic and profit concerns, I took a contrarian view and opined on these pages (and expressed in my " Fast Money" appearances on CNBC) that stocks were fully priced and would likely hit a yearly high in the range of 1420-1425. The markets ignored my concerns and continued to move higher, as the S&P 500 rose to nearly 1480, fueled by a view that the data don't matter while those who worship at the altar of price momentum held court and seemed to dominate and control the markets. I still remain deeply concerned about the earnings cliff, but recent signposts suggest a somewhat more reduced concern over the other cliffs and over the market risks served up by a rising tax rate on dividends and capital gains. These signals, when combined with central bank easing around the world and the recent stock market slide, suggest that the current fears are overblown, that the rationale behind a meaningful market downside has been removed and that the market's risk/reward has improved. I am more upbeat than I have been for quite some time, and, while not "over my skis" long, I have increased my net long exposure as a manifestation of that increased optimism. If the economic, geopolitical and political backdrop continues in line with my expectations, I plan to expand my net long exposure on any further market weakness. My fair market value calculation of the S&P 500 remains at 1415 -- it has been around this level since May -- compared to a cash close of 1380 as of Friday night. While stocks are about 3% cheap, many stocks are substantially more undervalued. Moreover, if I am correct about my observations in dismissing some of the concerns over the steepness of the fiscal cliff and of an economic slowdown (as well on tax rate changes on dividends and capital gains), there is likely to be an upside to my fair market value calculation in the months ahead.
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Coping with loss is always difficult. Being left with an irreplaceable void which can only be relieved through memories is one of the toughest aspects of dealing with someone's passing, and our community knows this full well after losing one of our great Lowriders this past year. On June 16, 2011, the Lowrider community of Orange County, California lost one of their long time members; Robert Camarillo Rocha aka "Rocha" passed away in Fountain Valley California from a battle with stomach cancer. "Rocha," as he was known throughout the Lowriding community, was born to Metodio and Josephine Rocha on December 14th, 1946 in the city of Orange, California. He was the oldest of the seven Rocha children, and a graduate of La Quinta High School in Westminster, California. The hard working Rocha was employed by W.R. Grace in Santa Ana, California, and the dedicated SoCal native spent his whole life in Orange County; the place that introduced him to Lowriding.
Like many Lowriders, Rocha's exposure to the culture came by way of another family member, in his case, his cousin, Danny Leon. An avid car-guy, Danny had both hot rods and Lowriders, which caught the attention of an impressionable Rocha. He admired the way his cousin Danny fixed up his cars, and decided that he wanted to build his own custom car. Once he started turning a few wrenches, Rocha began a lifelong obsession with Lowriding and car restoration. While he was doubted by some, Rocha proved his love affair with autos was real as he began with a 1954 Ford before moving on to a 1965 Chevrolet Impala.
The '65 gave Rocha a ton of satisfaction, and the Lowrider enthusiast was often seen cruising it solo around the streets of Santa Ana. This would all change, however, when he was introduced to members of a car club called the Classics Car Club of Santa Ana. The club was fairly new and was looking for members, and at the age of 22, Rocha joined the club. Looking to step up his game as he was proud of his new affiliation, Rocha's first order of business was to lower the Impala and put white walls on it. It was a requirement of club membership and Rocha happily obliged. Like many Lowrider owners of that time period, Rocha's 1965 Impala was a daily driver as well as his show car.
About a year after joining the club, Rocha decided to repaint the car from the stock mustard yellow color to a custom metal flake paint job. At the time, metal flake paint jobs were gaining in popularity, and Rocha was one of the first riders to hit the Boulevard with one, much to the envy of other cruisers. He also added the custom tail lights, antennas, and headlight modifications to the Impala, since it was lightly disassembled for paint. Rocha did not want to miss any of the Lowriding action, so while the Impala was getting redone he purchased a 1954 Chevy sedan. Once the Impala was completed, the '54 was sold and Rocha was back in the driver's seat of the Impala. Since the car was reborn, Rocha felt it needed a name so it was christened, "Emperor's Galleon."
Rocha and the Classics were a fixture at car shows and cruise nights throughout Orange County and Southern California. They also used to cruise the famous Whittier Boulevard, Van Nuys Boulevard, and any other hot spot they could find. In addition to their cruising activities, the club also used to compete at the very competitive RG Canning shows that were held at the Long Beach and Los Angeles arenas and were regular show winners at these events.
Rocha and his club also had their presence felt on the Silver Screen! In 1983, the cult classic movie "Heartbreaker" premiered in movie theaters. Rocha and the Classics car club were featured in the movie during the club meeting scene, car show, and cruising scenes. Rocha's Impala was also used in the climatic car chase scene. This was quite an accomplishment not only for Rocha and the Classics; it was an accomplishment for Lowriding. The cinema wasn't the only place where Rocha was making his mark; print magazine also showed love to the builder. Rocha's Impala was also featured in Firme Magazine and Street Rod Magazine back when Street Rod was featuring Lowriders in their pages. Although he was never featured in Lowrider Magazine, Rocha and the Impala were featured in some of the car show coverage that has been published over the years.
A dedicated rider, Rocha was a regular fixture at car shows and cruise nights for the past 42 years. Whether he had his car with him or not, Rocha could always be found at the Garden Grove Cruise Night every Friday. He not only was a fixture at Lowrider shows and cruise nights, Rocha was a regular at the Hot Rod shows in the area as well. As a mainstay at automotive events with a true passion for his culture, Rocha was an ambassador for Lowriding; a man who showed many people from different demographics and car cultures what Lowriding was all about. He was an inspiration to many of today's car clubs, and car owners, and many people at his memorial services credited him for their time in Lowriding, considering him as a mentor and influence.
With over four decades of service to the culture, Rocha never took a break from Lowriding; it was simply in his blood. He is probably one of only a handful of people that could claim this feat in their lifetime and the culture is better because of him. He was the face of the Classics and the face of Orange County Lowriding, a void that will never be replaced. He leaves behind his daughter, Valerie Cardenas, his son, Robert Rocha Jr., 9 grandchildren, two great granddaughters, and hundreds if not thousands of friends he made over the years. Rocha will be missed but never ever forgotten; we here at Lowrider Magazine send our condolences to the Rocha family and the Classic car club for your loss. May his memory ride on forever!


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A new company opened its doors on the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market April 30, and an old one is refocusing its efforts.
Leo Rolandelli, president and majority owner of Jacobs, Malcom & Burtt Inc., a fixture on the market since the market opened in 1963, is focusing efforts on his asparagus brokerage.
He turned over the remainder of JMB's operation to former warehouse manager Scott Salisbury, who has partnered with grower Larry Balestra to form S&L Wholesale Produce Co. LLC.
S&L Wholesale will continue the relationships with suppliers and customers that JMB had.
The new company will operate out of the four stalls — about 10,000 square feet — that JMB previously occupied. Rolandelli will continue to operate his brokerage out of the upstairs offices.
JMB, established in 1888, no longer will conduct street business, and Rolandelli will not be affiliated with the new company other than as a supplier.
Salisbury, who was with JMB for more than 25 years, and Balestra, who grows more than 1,500 acres of fruit and vegetables in nearby Suisun Valley, plan to expand the brokerage and shipping arm that JMB established.
Salisbury said the relationships and connections that Rolandelli formed with growers and brokers over the years will help the new company grow. His own long-term relationships with customers and suppliers also should help build a strong base for the business.


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A SOLICITORS firm has rung the changes with a series of promotions and a high-profile appointment.
QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright, who have offices in Worcester, Evesham and Droitwich, has promoted three solicitors to partner and appointed the founder of their specialist Domestic Abuse Unit as its new head.
Suzanne Oldnall has been appointed head of the domestic abuse team and she has more than 25 years' experience in family law.
Her team specialises in cases of domestic abuse and provides a support which goes beyond simply assisting once a case has been brought.
In April the unit dealt with 15 injunctions.
It is supported by West Mercia Women's Aid, Worcestershire Forum against Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence and the Stonham Group who regularly attend the Drop In Centre with victims of Domestic Abuse.
Other appointments include Richard Green to employment partner, Karen Billington appointed as wills and probate partner, and Emma Roberts who has been promoted to family law partner.
Cyril Arridge, managing partner at QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright, said: "These promotions are well-deserved and represent continual growth within the firm. Our domestic abuse unit especially has earned a very strong reputation."


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William Hilton Paul, 19, the son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was arrested at a North Carolina airport for disorderly conduct and public intoxication charges, Politico reports. The teen is charged with consuming alcohol underage, being intoxicated, and disruptive and disorderly conduct, The Charlotte Observer reports. William Hilton Paul was on an early Saturday flight from Lexington, Ky., to Charlotte, N.C. Police said he was charged after the flight landed at 10:49 a.m.
Sen. Rand Paul's office issued the following statement:
"Sen. Paul is a national public figure and subject to scrutiny in the public arena. However, as many parents with teenagers would understand, his family should be afforded the privacy and respect they deserve in a situation such as this." Elisabeth Arriero.
For me, this is a private matter between William Paul and his parents. The media should not blow it out of proportions. I find it amazing that this story is missing from the Drudge Report, considering they went nuts over President Obama's daughter's spring break vacation in Mexico.


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We used to buy our domain names (like http://VermontWoodsStudios.com) from Godaddy.com. Yesterday we began switching everything over to NameCheap.com and will vigorously boycott Godaddy until their CEO resigns.
Can you make any sense of a trophy-hunting CEO who goes over to Africa to shoot big game and films himself slaughtering an elephant– thinking it would be a great publicity stunt to increase business at his company? OK, I'm an animal lover but that's not the only reason I cancelled our accounts with GoDaddy… I'm afraid to do business with a company whose CEO is whacked and delusional. After receiving "The Scummiest CEO of the Year" award from PETA, Bob Parsons revelled in the attention claiming that GoDaddy will cash in big time, on his gruesome stunt. What kind of a person acts like this?
His antics been covered on all the major news channels and have set the Twittersphere and late night comedy scene afire. Websites like NoDaddy, DumbDaddy and DoneDaddy are getting very popular, exposing a whole litany of horror stories, problems and compaints at GoDaddy. In the meantime competitors including NameCheap.com are cashing in on mass defections from GoDaddy and offering to donate money to Save the Elephants for each domain name that's switched over to them. I think I feel much safer doing business with a company that's smart enough to see this incident for what it is and agile enough to move in quickly and scoop up thousands of new customers (refugees from GoDaddy) who admire them for shared values.
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Cain expected to make next start after comebacker
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Manager Bruce Bochy said he felt "pretty sure" that Matt Cain will make his next scheduled start Thursday against Seattle.
Cain was struck on the right knee Sunday by a comebacker hit by Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs. Asked Monday how he felt, Cain said dryly, "It feels like a knee."
Left-hander Javier Lopez, recovering from a bruised left hand, has resumed playing catch and said that he expects to throw off a bullpen mound in the next couple of days "as long as everything's progressing."
Catcher Hector Sanchez and outfielder Andres Torres, recovering from minor injuries, appeared in their first exhibition games Monday.
Sanchez, bothered by a sore right shoulder, threw to bases during Monday's pregame workout and went 1-for-2 as a substitute designated hitter in the 9-9 tie against the Chicago White Sox.
Sanchez replaced Torres, who singled, drove in a run and scored in his only at-bat in the second inning. The switch-hitting Torres, bothered by a pulled muscle in his side, had refrained from swinging left-handed until Monday. Bochy said that Torres had been medically cleared to bat left-handed.


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Mr Todd Snyder's résumé reads like a who's who of menswear: after studying textile and clothing design at the state university in his native Iowa, and spending time at the local haberdashers Badowers, he moved to New York City. There, he first designed outerwear for Polo Ralph Lauren, before becoming director of menswear at Gap and subsequently senior vice president of menswear at J.Crew. It's largely thanks to Mr Snyder (whose surname happens to mean "one who makes outer garments" in Dutch) that J.Crew was transformed into the menswear powerhouse that it is today, with its stylish casualwear and tailoring offer, and covetable collaborations with the likes of Timex and Red Wing Shoes.
This is an aside, though, because we are here to focus on Mr Snyder's impressive own label, which he launched in fall/ winter 2011, and which we are now delighted to stock on MR PORTER. Informed by the craftsmanship of Savile Row and the rigours of military tailoring, the Todd Snyder brand matches faultless quality with a distinctly "New York" style sensibility that is evident in its preppy and heritage-inspired aesthetics. In the label's spring/ summer 2014 collection, a chambray shirt with rolled-up sleeves is teamed with slightly cropped check trousers and a pair of leather Derbies (minus socks), hinting at the sort of Ivy League Americana that continues to inspire a generation of men's style. Click through the gallery, above, to discover what is inspiring Mr Snyder himself right now.
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Roth Produce Co.. Columbus, Ohio, has merged with Dayton, Ohio-based ProduceOne, which has operated a location in Columbus for 10 years.
The venture, which took effect Sept. 24, involved a name change, with Ben Roth's 87-year-old wholesale operation becoming Roth ProduceOne.
The corporate merger includes ProduceOne's Dayton location, which continues under the established ProduceOne banner, said Erv Pavlofsky and Ben Roth, two of three partners in the deal.
The third principal is Gary Pavlofsky, who is president of the merged firm and manages the Dayton location. Erv Pavlofsky and Roth run the Columbus business. The Pavlofskys were originally with ProduceOne.
"We're on the move. We're changing. We're going to have a very good footprint in the state of Ohio," Roth said.
Effective with the merger, ProduceOne moved its Columbus operation out of a 10,000-square-foot leased building into Roth's 32,000-square-foot plant about 2 miles away, the partners said. The merged company has not made plans for ProduceOne's former quarters in Columbus, Erv Pavlofsky said.
About 25 ProduceOne employees moved with the company, Erv Pavlofsky said.
The combined operation has more than 70 workers, he said.
It's a melding of similar business cultures, Roth said.
"Their strength, I considered our weakness, and our strength I'd consider probably their weakness," he said.
ProduceOne's membership in the Pro*Act foodservice distribution group and, more importantly, its national accounts, gives the Roth operation clout it hadn't had before, and Roth's strength lies more in servicing independent upscale restaurants in the Columbus area, Roth said.
"Their Pro-Act deal is very strong marketing part of it, where we're very strong in our white-tablecloth business, so we've come up with a very good platform to work from," Roth said.
"The strength of ProduceOne's national accounts, along with Ben's strengths of independent restaurants made for a great marriage," Erv Pavlofsky said.
Centrally focused
The merger is focused on central Ohio, where the companies, operating separately, had similar buildings and customers, Erv Pavlofsky said.
"We both feel Columbus continues to be a growing area, and being centrally located in the state of Ohio, we'll continue to position ourselves for future growth for the produce business in Ohio for ProduceOne," he said.
There are logistics considerations, as well, and ProduceOne's Dayton operation has functioned traditionally as a distribution center, Roth said.
"We put a lot of miles on trucks going to Dayton and Cincinnati every day, and they have a facility here, so it's economics but, more important, it gives us a chance to really grow and make our brands very prominent," he said.
Erv Pavlofsky said the companies won't have to rely as heavily on Dayton, because the merged operations in Columbus will be "working as a self-contained operation."
Roth said he is retaining all of his 47 workers.
"Our company continues to grow and service Ohio, and our intention is definitely to add more jobs," Erv Pavlofsky said, although he didn't specify how many.
Roth said he planned to step back and let the next generation take more control.
"You have 47 families working for you, and you want to make sure their futures are secure," he said.
With ProduceOne's pre-existing partnership with Premier Produce in Cleveland, Roth ProduceOne enhances its statewide reach, Pavlofsky said.
"Our sales growth continues to be higher education and what's happening in the markets, we continue to grow with local produce and sustainability, all things that are key initiatives with our company," he said.
ProduceOne dates to 1998, the result of two Dayton companies, Mush and Sons Inc. and Niedhammer Produce, merging.