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Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, later as farce. Some events this week convinced me that both tragedy and farce are in the eye of the beholder. Labeling something as comedy doesn't make it funny to its victims.
This past week of terrible, terrible news began with the Boston Marathon bombings. Such a shocking and gruesome event. I hadn't been on the computer most of the day nor heard a radio or TV. When I did go online late in the afternoon, my sudden encounter with the headlines and images describing the story was stunning. Graphic pictures of shocked, frightened and maimed people seemed embedded in every news article. I tried just glimpsing but wound up gaping. I wasn't able to take more than a few minutes of exposure before I switched websites.
Boston? I wondered. Why Boston? If this was an anti-American act, there are so many other cities with much more iconic American targets. And why civilians? Were they what nowadays is called "collateral damage" when a strategic or symbolic target is attacked? Were the perpetrators madmen or terrorists? As did most Americans, I went to bed that night dazed, confused and anxious.
Throughout the day on Tuesday, news poured in. Two bombs. Near the finish line. Three dead. Over a hundred injured. Later news: The bombs had perhaps been left in two backpacks. And filled with bits of metal meant to fly out and maim. Limbs lost. Heroes emerged. And images, images, images.
Life down here in Philadelphia carried on. Our hearts were with the people of Boston – in fact, with our fellow Americans everywhere. But what was there to do but carry on and wait and hope for answers and perhaps the capture of the villains?
Our family went ahead and did what we had scheduled ourselves to do, silly as it sounds after this build-up – we went to the Ambler Theater's Buster Keaton festival. I don't really have to justify that; I think most Americans were seeking some relief after two horrible days. From this kind of randomized terroristic act, there seems no real escape. Every day in America is a risky day. We're all learning to look down the alley before we start to walk through it. Or better yet, avoid walking into alleys. Even though we also know that the bombers or the AK-47 hobbyists may be waiting on Main Street itself.
The Ambler Theater sponsored a very nice program last Tuesday night that included four Buster Keaton short films accompanied by a three-piece band calling itself "The Not So Silent Cinema Project." Brendan Cooney, a Philadelphia musician with Boston roots created the project. He's accompanied by Andy Bergman on Clarinet and Kyle Tuttle on banjo. The music had been carefully and creatively scored to fit both the actions and the moods of the films. A pleasant and quite creative evening.
Except: The second Buster Keaton movie was called "Cops." It was released in 1922. About a third of the way into the film we see a policemen's parade, with hundreds of marching patrolmen. Buster is hiding from the law under a parade stand. The city officials are shown at the review stand. Then we see Buster again, still hiding. In the next shot, a sudden close-up reveals an archetypical anarchist lighting one of those bowling ball-shaped comic bombs with a long fuse. He throws the lit bomb over the wall. It lands next to Buster. Buster uses the fuse to light his cigarette and then casually tosses the bomb away. It lands in the reviewing stand. It blows up. Everyone runs away, scattering in panic. Comedic panic.
That is, no severed limbs. No bloody, shrieking bystanders. No dead bodies. In comedies, even ones made today, bombs make people grab their butts as though they sat on something hot. Or make them fly up in the air and come down again to the sound of a kazoo before running away. Woooo-up.
At the movie theater I felt my stomach turn. I felt like being angry at the three musicians or the Ambler Theater. But they couldn't have known. Mercifully, the action changed, the bomb scene ended and we'd moved on. An awkward moment and definitely not a funny one.
That particular bomb thrower, who looked kind of shady and ethnic, was probably modeled on the anarchist bombings that happened in the U.S. in 1919 by the followers of Luigi Galleini. In that case at least 36 dynamite bombs were mailed to government officials. The Galleinists followed that episode up on June 2 by exploding bombs in eight different American cities, targeting public figures.
The anarchist bombings of 1919 were not the only such bombings in American history, but they're a useful illustration of the fact that by 1922 "the anarchist" had become a stock comic character in film. A funny figure unless you don't have distance from him. Not so funny for all the people of the world who've had bombs aimed at them this year. Same with comic drunk drivers for those of us who've lost a loved one to their "funny" way of handling a vehicle.
The Buster Keaton-with-live-music program is really excellent. It will play art house theaters in six more cities, including Doylestown and New York. The tour will conclude in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
If they don't modify the program by then, however, I don't think the people of Cambridge are ready to have their recent history seen as comedy.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On its first weekend of racing since the spring, the No. 3 Yale women's sailing finished third place out of 17 teams. This marks the fourth year in a row that the Bulldogs have finished in the top three at the Toni Deutsch Regatta. The regatta was hosted by MIT and sailed in FJs on the Charles River.
Saturday was a full day of racing with 12 races being completed in both divisions. Competitors were on the water for nearly seven hours in a shifty northwesterly breeze, yet the Bulldogs managed to remain consistent throughout the day. In fact, they left the venue on Saturday sitting first in the overall standings.
Unfortunately, Sunday brought less wind and racing had to be postponed for a while at the beginning of the day. Eventually the fighting southerly and northerly winds compromised and allowed for enough wind to fill from the west to get some races off. Five more races were completed in challenging conditions.
Two local teams, No. 2 Boston College and unranked MIT, sailed particularly well on Sunday, boosting them past the Bulldogs into first and second place, respectively. However, the Bulldogs still finished far ahead of the rest of the pack. 67 points separated them and the fourth-place Brown Bears.
Junior skipper Morgan Kiss and senior crew Amanda Salvesen raced in A division where they set a great tone for the rest of their season. They only finished outside of the top five in three of the 17 races.
Salvesen remarked that "it was good to get back into it." She felt that their starts were mediocre after having not started in a big fleet for such a long time, but she said they "definitely improved over the regatta."
In B division, junior skipper Urska Kosir and sophomore crew Emily Johnson sailed lights out on Saturday. They finished either first or second in 8 out of the 12 races that day. On Sunday they struggled a little bit to find that groove again, but they finished third place in B division nevertheless.
The Bulldogs will get some more practice under their belts this week before hitting the race track again next weekend. They will be heading to Dartmouth for the Mrs. Hurst Bowl.
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No one who got any respect, anyway. Yes, Rob Deer struck out a lot. They also weren't respected hitters after they continued striking out. By the time they reached 32, they weren't getting serious playing time and their careers were over.
Reggie Jackson struck out a lot, when he came up for a last place team, but he cut down considerably on his strikeouts after he turned 25 and started playing for World Series Champions. He also hit for a pretty good average in many years. Harmon Killebrew struck out a lot, but between the ages of 27 and 39, he only had one season where he struck out more than 100 times.
Jim Rice played at a time when strikeouts were counted against you as offensive futility. If you struck out too much, you could lose playing time. Contenders had to find better options. Second-tier teams probably had someone else who could take your place. The Chicago media, and the national media when they bothered to pay attention to the White Sox, used to write that Bill Melton struck out too much, and he did strike out in 10 straight at bats in 1970 (
it's referenced below the NFL labor story
), but he only had one more season where he struck out more than 100 times and then only 106, one below his highest season total.
Of course, it isn't just Dunn. Hitters are striking out more than they ever have, not because pitchers are getting so much better and stronger. Maybe that plays a small factor, but the selfishness Rice referenced is a bigger factor. As analysts look at more abstract stats to determine a hitter's value to a lineup, they ignore strikeouts and bury the value of batting averages while overvaluing walks and home runs. If you essentially ignore the essence of hitting, you might hit over 50 home runs as Johnny Mize did in 1947. Walk enough, and you might have a better OPS, too, because Mize's that year was under 1.000. But what made Mize's season so awesome that older fans have talked with me about it over the years, was that he hit over .300 while striking out less than 50 times while hitting more than 50 home runs.
Nothing good offenseively comes from a strike out. That is why high-strikeout pitchers are celebrated. But one of the reasons pitchers are striking out more hitters than they ever have is that hitters don't seem to care if they strike out anymore. Players who don't shorten their swings or protect against borderline strikes with two strikes are going too deep in counts trying to walk when they should be focused on hitting. Players ignoring some of the basic principles of hitting (and maybe they are playing to specific stats to earn get bigger contracts), is making pitchers more dominant than they have been in years.
The fact is, though, that Dunn, relative to the rest of the league, at least, doesn't seem to be striking out as much as he has in the past. There are series this year where he has looked like a hitter with a completely different philosophy than he ever had. Maybe it's the pitchers that give him more trouble that make him look like the Dunn of recent years. But occasionally this year I have been impressed and I hope he impresses me some more.
Agreed on all. Good post.
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WTFL;DR: Narduzzi coaches an aggressive take on the now en vogue Quarters defense that's still formidable even if State isn't quite what it was last year.
Pat Narduzzi's defense for the last season and a half has been a bitch to deal with. Yeah, maybe it's not as good as last year what with Jerel Worthy being a legitimately/literally huge absence to compensate for. Still, the remaining football players are talented and they play Narduzzi's 4-3 Over Cover 4 scheme with the kind of savvy you wouldn't expect from a squad diligently adhering to a strict regimen of crass goonery, per Mark Dantonio's demands. They diagnose ably, are patient and pair that with surprising athleticism. The first two are perhaps unsurprising as State has drawn much of their talent from Ohio, presumably from the bigger schools where the coaching and competition are first rate. The athleticism I have no quip for. It sure is annoying.
Cover 4 or Quarters coverage is en vogue at the moment in both the pros and college for a variety of reasons. Smart Football has run 2 articles over the last few years that are absolutely worth reading on the subject. Some of this will end up rehashing that, with the end game being how State will use their Quarters D to attack our base run game, particularly inverted veer.
In the college game, its use stems largely from the ability to solve the numbers disadvantages more traditional 1-Gap Cover 2 or Cover 3 base defenses have to deal with thanks to the rise of the spread. As SF mentions, it's really difficult to stop 4 Verts when your defense has fewer than 4 deep defenders. There's very often an easy throw depending on whether you went with 2 or 3 deep defenders. Here's how Nick Saban put it:
We got to the point where, this is the reason that we do this, when everybody started going spread we couldn't play 3 deep zone. This started with the Cleveland Browns, I was the defensive coordinator in the early 90s and Pittsburgh would run 'Seattle' on us , four streaks. Then they would run two streaks and two out routes, what I call 'pole' route from 2x2. So we got to where could NOT play 3-deep zone because we rerouted the seams and played zone, and what I call "Country Cover 3" [drop to your spot reroute the seams, break on the ball]. Well , when Marino is throwing it, that old break on the ball shit don't work.So because we could not defend this, we could not play 3 deep, so when you can't play zone, what do you do next? You play Man [cover 1], but if their mens are better than your mens, you can't play cover 1 .We got to where we couldn't run cover 1 - So now we can't play an 8 man front. The 1994 Browns went 13-5 , we lost to Steelers 3 times, lost 5 games total [twice in the regular season, once in the playoffs]. We gave up the 5th fewest points in the history of the NFL, and lost to Steelers because we could not play 8-man fronts to stop the run because they would wear us out throwing it
Saban solved this at first by revamping his C3 rules. Eventually though he and many others found that Quarters and similar such coverages could solve the same problem as well or better. Why? In part, the running quarterback means that 8 man fronts may still not be enough. Coaches generally play run defense thinking about the free hitter. That is, the best an offense can do is line up 10 blockers and 1 ball carrier. The defense has 11 would-be tacklers. 11 tacklers minus 10 blockers is 1 free hitter, the ball carrier's counterpart.
In modern football, often enough your free hitter is playing deep coverage because the passing game is a huge threat and isn't near the line of scrimmage. In standard Cover 3, this can mean leaving the free safety standing in the middle of the field doing jack while the QB takes a direct snap and shoots past the line and backers busy getting swallowed by blockers. Quarters makes sure there's never a safety doing jack.
Here's Chris from SF:
For example, if the offense splits out two wide receivers to the same side of the field, and both run straight up the field on deep routes, the safety plays man on the inside guy and the cornerback plays man on the outside guy. If, however, the inside receiver were to run immediately to the flat -- say, on a bubble screen -- while the outside receiver ran upfield, the corner and the safety would actually double team the deep man, defending him from both the inside and the outside. This type of read-and-react is great against the spread's multiplicity, as it can allow some very short completions but lead to lots of interceptions and few downfield passing windows.
And what if that inside receiver ducked inside to run block? The safety responds by adding himself to the run fit. If the inside receiver is a TE, it's the same thing. If there is no inside receiver near the line of scrimmage and he's in the backfield or some such, he reads run first and then looks for something else to do. Both safeties are responding to the keys they receive and are adjusting the numbers back in favor of the defense.
But that's a pretty standard Quarters set up. State does a few things differently. Let's check out some pretty pictures.
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In March, at America's Beauty Show in Chicago, Yolly ten Koppel, Pivot Point's International Creative and Technical Director, received Pivot Point's L.E.O. Award. Pivot Point, an international network of beauty academies celebrating 50 years of superior instruction, named the prestigious award for the founder of Pivot Point, legendary hairdresser Leo Passage. The honor acknowledges Leadership, Excellence and Outstanding contributions in education. In accepting the award, ten Koppel said, "If I help educators become better teachers or teach students how to design hair or if I create a new hairstyle on a salon client—then I change lives. This is what I love to do. It is truly fulfilling, inspiring and makes every day a different experience."
While her students can attest to her passion and empowering influence, ten Koppel shares that coming from a family of hairdressers—grandmother, mother and uncle—her naturally rebellious spirit balked at joining the family business. "I was a kid who didn't want to follow what other people were doing," she says. Today, she rebels by pushing the limits in hair design, by training students, hairdressers and educators to go beyond perceived boundaries and personal limitations. But, she also shares with students, that to break the rules, you need to have a firm foundation in technique.
"When I started working in the salon I figured out that this was really what I loved and what wanted to become," says ten Koppel."This gave me the motivation to go to cosmetology school and get my cosmetology diplomas. It was also where I did my apprenticeship (one day at school and four days working in the salon). I had two years of ladies basic training, and two years of basic training for men. Then, in the evening for two years I studied ladies advanced and two years of men's' advanced."
ten Koppel joined Pivot Point in 1991 and ten years later, she opened an advanced beauty academy in Holland, Engels & ten Koppel Advanced Center. In those ten years, she went on to win hairdressing awards (Coiffure, the NAHA of the Netherlands) and to raise her profile in print, on television and stages worldwide. Pivot Point named her
Educator of the Year for three consecutive years and in 2001, she was named Pivot Point International Artistic Director making here responsible for the new salon education collection, Design Forum.
"I advise new beauty professionals to explore all the different options available, so you can see what will suit you the most," she says. "If you find that out, try to hang out with good and talented people who can lift you up to where you want to be. Don't be afraid to ask! Offer to work for free and assist somebody you admire so you can see how they work. This is a great way to differentiate from the rest. Get as much education as you can. With passion and drive anything is possible along as you focus."
In the end, the true testament to a teacher's skill is her students. Alison Shipley, Editor of FIRST CHAIR and MODERN SALON's Executive Editor of Social Media/Video, studied under ten Koppel. "While I was a student at Pivot Point Academy, I participated in a study abroad trip to London where we were lucky enough to have Yolly ten Koppel as our educator for the hands-on workshops help at the Sassoon Academy. As we were beginners, the sculptures Yolly intended for us to learn seemed extremely advanced. But her style of educating is so clearly understood that there were never any questions at the end of her demos. She really is so fantastic—it's no surprise she's won so many educator awards."


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Clothing styles change on a whim according to what trend forecasters see as the "it" items of the season. People looking to keep abreast of certain styles or just maintain a fresh supply of different wardrobe options may find that replenishing a closet can be an expensive venture. But it doesn't have to be.
Those without a set budget may be able to afford monthly shopping trips to add new pieces to a wardrobe. However, the average person lives on a tighter budget, and there may not be as much room for discretionary spending on clothing and accessories. According to VisualEconomics.com, a family of three making about $64,000 per year can expect to spend roughly 4 percent of those earnings on apparel and services.
People interested in refreshing their selection of clothing more frequently should consider alternative options than buying retail. Here are some ideas to think about.
Clothing Swap
A good way to socialize and switch-up a wardrobe is to host a clothing swap party. Invite about 10 friends or family members to be part of it. Be sure to have at least 2 or 3 of the same-sized people so that there won't be an abundance of items to fit one person and not enough to fit another. Shoes and accessories are also acceptable.
Set the rules for the event, where each person is entitled to take as many items as she has brought. Encourage guests to bring clean, gently used items that are in good quality. Because this type of get-together involves some advanced work of sorting through clothing, be sure to give guests ample advance notice.
Have refreshments on hand and opportunities to chat over styles and options. Whatever clothes are not taken by others can be donated to charity.
Consignment Stores
It used to be that consignment stores were the stepchildren of the retail world. Many people viewed them as glorified tag sales and didn't think they were worthy of investigation.
Nowadays, consignment shops are big business and good places for savvy shoppers to visit. Much like overstock stores sell items on discount that are on par with department stores, consignment shops often offer new or very lightly used items for resale — at a fraction of the original retail price. Plus, they're an ideal place to look for unique pieces and accessories that might otherwise have been out of budget.
Shop Basics
When buying new items at a store, buy pieces that can be put together in a variety of combinations. Stick to similar colors and themes so that each piece will work seamlessly. Consider multi-layered items that can be worn with a cardigan or without; or go from the office to a dinner date afterward. Remember, items that blend can be worn more often because they won't stick out in the minds of others as something flashy.
Consider Shopping Online
Shoppers are often amazed at the wide variety of items that can be purchased online. If a shopper doesn't see something in a store for the price she wants, she can comparison shop online. Although she can't try on merchandise, with the exception of some sites that offer a virtual model, many online retailers offer free shipping on returns.
Online shopping also takes the hassle out of visiting several stores, finding parking and dealing with crowds. Plus, a shopper can purchase things on her own time, whether that's early morning or after the kids have gone to bed.
Explore Tailoring
Think about how Molly Ringwald's character turned pieces of fabric into new creations in the cult 1980s film, "Pretty in Pink." With some simple tailoring, just about anyone can modify items to make them look brand new. For those who don't know their bobbins from their seam-rippers, make friends with someone who does and enlist some help with fashion redesign.


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Best Buy: Time for the Ackman Rumor Again!
"The question I get most often is, what's the next new thing that's going to save the consumer electronics industry? And my answer is, it's not any one single thing, but rather the connection of all the things that we have, both to each other, to the content that we love…and to be able to be mobile and move that around any place where we are."
—Michael Vitelli, EVP Best Buy, Oppenheimer Conference, July 15, 2009
"We have to move rapidly in recognizing the transparency of pricing."
—Michael Vittelli, EVP Best Buy, Bloomberg, "Best Buy May Switch to Wal-Mart-Style Everyday Prices," February 9, 2011
Poor Best Buy.
The company—which navigated the consumer electronics store-wars so cannily it become the Last Man Standing among "Big Box" retailers—now watches the non-box likes of Amazon.com grow electronics and general merchandise revenues 71% in its just-ended quarter, while Best Buy's U.S. brick-and-mortar sales actually declined in December.
All things considered, of course, this should come as no surprise, what with software, music, movies, TV shows and even video games going digital…not to mention the fact that computers have shrunk into book-sized tablets and pocket-sized smart-phones that can be ordered and delivered online, without the need to shlep to a Big Box retailer like Best Buy.
Yet Best Buy's own online business rose only 13% in the month of December—a still far cry from Amazon's online domestic growth in electronics.
Now, to Best Buy's credit, the company did not become the Last Man Standing among consumer electronics chains by standing still. Indeed, ever since 1983, when it changed its name from "Sound of Music" and opened its first superstore, the company has moved ahead of trends in the business.
In fact the company's most important—and gutsy—move came in 1989, when management shucked the commissioned-sales model of computer and TV-selling, letting consumers shop for themselves and making Circuit City's high-pressured sales model obsolete. Furthermore, as consumer electronics became an ever-larger piece of the American home, Best Buy moved to ever-larger store formats.
One more thing Best Buy did to distinguish itself from its peers, and boost margins: it entered the private label business with both feet, creating its own Dynex and Insignia brands, whose blue (Dynex) and green (Insignia) boxes containing everything from 55 inch LED High Def TVs to clock radios and boom-boxes can be seen all around the store.
Largely as a result of those moves, Best Buy caught the previous decade's cathode-ray-tube-to-flat-panel tsunami from start to finish.
Outside the Big Box, however, Best Buy's moves haven't always been so prescient.
A Fiscal 2000 "comprehensive strategic alliance" with Microsoft involving "significant co-marketing between Microsoft Network of Internet Services, BestBuy.com and Best Buy's retail stores" was never much heard about again.
In 2001, the company paid $696 million for Musicland, "to continue its revenue growth beyond fiscal 2005," as the 10K said at the time. Unfortunately, Musicland didn't make it past fiscal 2004—at least under the Best Buy umbrella.
The company sold Musicland for "no cash consideration" in the summer of 2003.
By then Best Buy had also bought Magnolia Hi-Fi, with the stated goal of growing the high-end home theater purveyor from 13 stores to "up to 150 stores nationwide." And while Best Buy stores today do indeed have Magnolia departments (in the corner near the TV displays), there were all of 8 free-standing Magnolias across the land, according to last year's 10K.
Similarly, Best Buy bought Geek Squad in 2002, with the goal of making it "North America's largest provider of in-home computer installation services," and in 2005 announced plans to open 20 to 50 stand-alone Geek Squad stores "in the next 12 to 18 months." (One of Wall Street's Finest actually told Fortune Magazine around that time Geek Squad could earn more than a quarter-billion in operating income on a billion in sales in 2007.)
And while Geek Squad—like Magnolia—has been rolled out in Best Buy stores, the count of stand-alone Geek Squad stores was 7 as of the Fiscal 2010 10K.
In 2006 Best Buy bought Pacific Sales Kitchen and Bath Centers, saying "we expect to expand the number of Pacific Sales stores in order to capitalize on the rapidly growing high-end segment of the U.S. appliance market," and although the Pacific Sales store count has more than doubled since then, according to the 10K, sales have not nearly kept pace.
In 2007, Best Buy spent $89 million to buy Speakeasy, an "independent broadband voice, data and IT service provider" to help make Best Buy the "one-stop shopping" destination for small business customers. And a year later the company paid a reported $121 million acquisition for file-sharing pioneer Napster "to reach new customers with an enhanced experience for exploring and selecting music and other digital entertainment products over an increasing array of devices." A much-ballyhooed 2010 move into the video game trade-in business dominated by GameStop has submerged without much of a ripple.
Along the way, the Best Buy Big Box kept getting bigger, eventually reaching 45,000 square feet, which seemed barely big enough to hold everything in those pre-Amazon.com, pre-Internet days, when a product needed to be sitting on a shelf in order for the consumer to see it, learn about it and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.
But at least one retailer proved that a brick-and-mortar store could compete in a dot.com world.
In 2001, Apple began opening retail stores that would average only 6,000 square feet, and although the move was initially dismissed by nearly every techno-commentator in Silicon Valley, by fiscal 2010 each one of those tiny stores was selling, on average, a whopping $34 million a year of Apple products.
And that is roughly the same average annual sales figure as a domestic, big box Best Buy.
(Anyone who has shopped at an Apple Store and a Best Buy knows that at an Apple Store, you'll be surrounded by students surfing the internet on Macs and iPads, toddlers playing games on iTouches, and slightly uncomfortable Baby Boomers talking to thin, black-shirted, ear-ringed Apple people carrying iPhones that can swipe your credit card and get you out of the store in minutes.
(The Best Buy experience, by comparison, is no longer so much fun, what with all those non-commissioned "Blue Shirts," as the ex-Blue Shirt CEO himself likes to refer to them, pushing extended warranties and unwanted software on customers it formerly left alone to browse, as anybody who accidently bought the Kasperksy AntiVirus product along with their notebook computer at a Best Buy knows.)
Meanwhile, the drive to satisfy Wall Street and carry the Best Buy brand around the world led to larger moves than buying Napster, Geek Squad and the rest.
The company spent $3.5 billion on one of those "return-value-to-shareholder" buybacks in 2007, when the stock traded in the $40s...good for both those who sold to the company and for—who else?—Goldman Sachs, which served as the counterparty to the accelerated share repurchase program.
More strategically, the company spent $1.1 billion in 2008 on a 50-50 joint venture with Carphone Warehouse in Europe, which has indeed helped Best Buy roll out well-staffed mobile phone desks in its own stores—although plans for a fleet of big box Best Buy stores across stodgy old England haven't materialized as fast as Wall Street's Finest expected.
Indeed, when the original deal was announced in May, 2008, the Carphone CEO said "we will have stores trading in 2009," but the first UK Best Buy big box actually opened in May, 2010, and the company recently—according to press reports—backed out of a deal for its first north-east England store near Newcastle.
It may be a coincidence, but shortly after that deal fell through, Scott Wheway, CEO of Best Buy Europe, resigned his post, although he is staying with the company for a period of time. This came all of 18 months after Wheway got the job, at which time Robert Willett, then chairman of Best Buy Europe, announced the appointment by saying "Scott is the consummate retailer," among other nice things.
Now, in case you're wondering why Mr. Wheway's change of position didn't make much news, it may have something to do with Wall Street's rumor mill.
Shortly after the Wheway news hit on the morning of February 1, a report popped up on the indispensible Briefing.com: "Best Buy shares spiked following a rumor that Pershing Square could take a position in the stock."
Pershing Square, of course, is the hedge fund vehicle of Bill Ackman, the genius who, among other things, saw value in General Growth Properties when it had been left for dead, and helped create billions of dollars of value for his investors and General Growth shareholders at the same time.
Why an Ackman-for-Best Buy rumor got so much credence as to add nearly half a billion in value to Best Buy's market capitalization—and wipe the Wheway resignation off the news page—probably relates to Ackman's reputation for taking positions in real estate laden-retailers like JC Penney and Target, and then agitating for the unlocking of its value from the more mundane retail operation sitting on top of it.
And JC Penney, whose board Ackman recently joined, is indeed loaded with real estate.
Penney owns 416 of its 1,100+ stores (with 119 of those located on ground leases), as well as 3 million square feet of distribution space, 1.8 million of warehousing space, 6.5 million of direct fulfillment center space, its 1.9 million square foot home office in Plano, Texas, and 240 acres of adjacent property.
Best Buy, on the other hand, seems not so encumbered with the stuff Ackman seems to love.
According to the Fiscal 2010 10K, Best Buy owns 24 US store locations and 32 buildings on leased land, out of 1,000+ US store locations, plus 3.1 million square feet of distribution center space (out of 10 million total) and a 1.45 million square foot corporate office.
So, real estate-wise, Best Buy looks to be somewhere in-between Borders Group (another Ackman investment, but one that did not work out as well as General Properties), which leased all its stores and owned only some of its headquarters building, and JC Penney.
Nonetheless, the Ackman rumor seems too good for Wall Street types to resist.
It appeared on Briefing.com back on January 5th ("Best Buy jumps on increased volume; Hearing rumors that Bill Ackman is targeting BBY"), and, in slightly different form, on January 3rd ("It was rumored that Best Buy could be seeing private equity interest.")
And while we have absolutely no idea what view of Best Buy, if any, Ackman actually possesses, based on the once-every-four-week schedule it looks like the rumor should crop up again—especially if the kind of startling disclosures contained in the recent Bloomberg story quoted at the top are anywhere close to reality.
Here's how the story began:
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Best Buy Co., the world's largest consumer electronics retailer, may curtail three decades of tactical discounting and move instead to its own version of the everyday prices pioneered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
With Americans increasingly using smartphones to comparison shop, consumers are unwilling to wait for sales if they find better deals elsewhere, said Mike Vitelli, executive vice president and co-head of the North America division.
"We have to move rapidly in recognizing the transparency of pricing," Vitelli, 55, said in a Feb. 7 interview at Best Buy's headquarters in Richfield, Minnesota. Internal discussions about making the switch are at an early stage, he said.
There was more, with the kind of thought-provoking detail you don't get in the usual quarter earnings-per-share reportage from Wall Street's Finest:
During a Best Buy staff meeting, Vitelli was willing to say out loud: "Why do we carry inventory when we train consumers only to buy it'" on sale, said Rick Rommel, a senior vice president who helps run a unit that tests new concepts.
"If the pricing isn't everyday, the consumers just wait," Rommel said in an interview. "Our inventory sits and waits for that next promotional moment."
Switching to consistent pricing would "be very powerful," said Barry Judge, Best Buy's chief marketing officer. "It makes our pricing much more transparent than it is today."
Best Buy's weekly newspaper circular would be "a whole lot easier to lay out" with prices easier for consumers to understand, Judge said.
"The prices are the prices," he said.
The retailer is also reducing the number of items it sells to focus on products that sell well, Vitelli said. By the end of the year the company will carry fewer than 100 TV models in the average store, down from about 140 a year ago. Slower-selling products will continue to be sold online, Vitelli said.
—"Best Buy May Switch to Wal-Mart-Style Everyday Prices," By Chris Burritt and Clifford Edwards, Bloomberg February 9, 2011.
It will be interesting to see how Best Buy handles what Bloomberg calls "the switch"—especially with all those Dynex and Insignia products sitting on Best Buy shelves in stores across America…and all those Ackman rumors sitting on trading desks across America.
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6 comments:
- Adrian Meli said...
Jeff, good post, it is hard to imagine how Best Buy's business is not materially worse five years from now than it is today. The old argument was that the internet would canibalize Best Buy because people would go into their stores, look at tvs, and then order them online cheaper. However, it is evolved much worse than that. Now, you can go to Amazon and read reviews of tvs and sort by bestselling and end up reading from much more informed people than you meet at most retailers. Amazon has better reviews, is cheaper, and is more pleasurable to deal with. It is not easy to compete with someone maniacally focused on customers and keeping their own margins depressed to gain share. - Adrian Meli
- Colin P said...
Jeff, Would it be fair to call you an Ackman fan? Are there any other managers Besides Buffett) do you like and follow?
Or do you not even care what anybody else is doing?
- Jeff Matthews said...
Colin: He's very good. There are some other very good ones I respect. Buffett may be the best over the long haul.
But I don't think anybody in this business "follows" anybody else in the sense that maybe you mean--i.e. copy their investments or investment strategies.
Herding cats, you know!
- Frozen in the North said...
You know TV sitcom used to make jokes about the level of product knowledge at the big Box electronic stores such as Best Buy, and the reality now is that with a few clicks of a finger I can have more product reviews, third party unbiased analysis than I will ever have at Best Buy -- moreover, I will have a much wider selection and probably reference to connected products (you know those who bought X also bought Y and Z).
The age of internet shopping is upon us, the critical mass has been reached (and the websites are now truly user friendly). Moreover, if you are able to buy a full fledge extendibles ladder on Amazon...the big box concept is dead!
I would suggest that many distribution channels will be destroyed by the internet, a few weeks ago I needed to replace a shower head, the plumber wanted to charge $700 (didn't want the job -- gave me the number for his distributor), the distributor wanted to charge me $550 (for his troubles), eventually I bought the shower head from an internet distributor for $199 (incl taxes & shipping).
For a long time the internet was a toy with the principal use to watch Po$rn and surfing. It now shrinks the distribution network and removes a huge layer of middle men for the consumer, its equivalent to dramatic price drops to the consumer.
- Anonymous said...
Professor Jeff:
I would not take any pity on BBY as a cursory glance at its growth in free cash flow over the last 5 years shows they've been able to weather poor capital allocation decisions (i.e., the purchase of Musicland, the stock buybacks of 2007). My concern as a BBY investor going forward would be as follows: if BBY does pursue an everyday "transparent" pricing strategy like Wal-Mart, what impact, if any, will such a strategy have on their operating margin, currently hovering around 4%? My thinking is that BBY needs to "tighten up" its cash conversion cycle by moving inventory out the door more quickly which should, in theory, boost operating cash flow. The question is, though, can Best Buy with such a strategy, compete with the likes of Wal-Mart on the low end, and Amazon.com on the high end? Given the double digit ROIC BBY has put up over the last 5 years, I would not bet against BBY's current management successfully implementing such a strategy, but I could be wrong in my opinion.
Disclosure: no position (long/short) in BBY.
- Anonymous said...
Each of my retail experiences at Best Buy have been the worst ever, while each Apple Store experience has been the best. All retailers could take a lesson from Apple!


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Now running at Playcrafters of Skippack, "Caught in the Net" (2001) by Ray Cooney is the sequel to his hit comedy "Run for your Wife" (1983), in which bigamist John Smith succeeded in keeping his two wives ignorant of each other.
It is now 18 years later, and John has a teenage child from each marriage. The kids encounter each other while surfing the Internet and are curious as to why their fathers have so much in common. When they agree to meet, John is terrified his bigamy will come to light.
British-born director Gay Hoyle uses a huge set with six broadly visible doors, and with all the frenzied madcap in "Caught" she needs each one. (In program notes Hoyle vehemently denies rumors that she is on the lam from UK tax collectors.)
Playing the teenagers, Zane Rutter and Erin Tiffany look good on stage, though young Zane needs to keep a straight face. The two wives, Barbara Smith (Laura Shapella) and Mary Smith (Lisa Gazzillo), are in various states of comic distress all night. Anthony Marsala shines as the con artist husband. With his frantic bearing, Marsala makes you believe that John Smith actually has the guile and crazy energy to have kept his bigamy stunt going for 18 years.
Eric Rupp stars as Stanley, John's best friend. A reluctant accomplice and something of a dimwit, Stanley is often in a guilty state of suspended motion, but he still manages to come up with creative whoppers. He is a kind of moron-genius.
The plot is simply John's need to keep his secret life secret. But the show holds your interest as lies pile up in the fashion of a nonsense game. In act two Dad (Ed Rutter) shows up, a randy old man who layers in more bawdy confusion.
Is there some deeper meaning here? Director Hoyle comments (or is she joking) that "Caught" subtly invokes the morality of the "Seven Deadly Sins." But that's a bit of a stretch given how burlesque these characters are. There may be other meanings.
A lot has happened since 1983. Computers and cell phones are now ubiquitous. We see that in "Caught," and as personal and public domains have conflated, it is harder for John (or anyone else) to keep a secret.
There is also an absurdist note to "Caught." Traditional farce offered elaborate plots which played themselves out in a context of shared values. Modern farce likes to frolic in the debris of shattered customs. Bigamy? What's the big deal, "Caught" seems to say.
But enough of this "meaning" talk! "Caught" relates mostly to England's over-the-top comedy tradition; think "Benny Hill" or "Monty Python." Just put yourself in the right mood and sit back to enjoy a funny show.
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Setting the Stage
Performing Arts at RIT
A. Sue Weisler
Those who see the performing arts as only a right-brained—or a more creatively intuitive—endeavor have never met Caitlin Donovan, a second-year chemical engineering major from Whitesboro, N.Y. For Donovan—and nearly 1,000 other RIT students who participate in performing arts on campus, the right-brain concept simply doesn't pertain to the performing arts.
"I believe that music has to be somewhat innovative, creative and technical or I wouldn't be able to do it," says Donovan, a violinist in the RIT Orchestra and RIT Chamber Orchestra. "I am very detail oriented and so is music. We have all been working to delve deeper into the music to find tiny details that can make our music better. To do that requires a lot of different techniques. Also, sometimes it is necessary to come up with a new way to play something so that it sounds unique and fresh."
Donovan and her fellow "intellectually curious" students make time in their schedules to study music, dance and drama as credit-bearing components of their academic course work and understand, and enjoy, the high level of commitment and dedication required to do it exceedingly well.
Michael Ruhling, professor of performing arts/music in the College of Liberal Arts and director of the RIT Orchestra, has seen a shift in the caliber of students who enroll at RIT. According to Ruhling, these high-quality students can get a top-notch education in their primary fields of study, but they also have the desire and understanding that they can develop and educate themselves in the performing arts.
Carl Atkins, professor and director of performing arts, believes this speaks to a real change— in his words, a quantum leap—in what RIT needs to offer its students regarding the performing arts, now and in the future.
"We have an important role to play as an institution to present the performing arts in a way that shows the world the synergy between technology and the arts," Atkins says. "The students who study performing arts are serious about their craft, and we can showcase something amazingly unique at RIT—a high level of performance paired with a technological component. This is what our students desire. Want to talk about innovation and creativity? Just look to our performing arts students."
The result of this performing arts "call to action" has prompted the formation of a task force, comprised of RIT community members from a mix of colleges and departments, that is charged with researching the availability and rehearsal and performance space on campus; placing greater emphasis on marketing and advertising efforts to spread the word about the performing arts program to the campus and Rochester communities; developing innovative curricula that will continue to attract top students; and creating an inventory of equipment and materials required to support the growing needs of performing arts scholars. The task force, led by Atkins and Thomas Warfield, director of the RIT/NTID Dance Company, is looking forward to moving the sentiment from "talk" to "action."
Warfield, an accomplished choreographer, says his goals for this endeavor are crystal clear.
"There is such value in creativity, and to me, everything is creative. Fine arts teachers are masters at blending cognitive thinking with creative thinking to develop skills our students will use for the rest of their lives. We can teach them self-reliance, cooperation, self-worth, collective creativity. We help develop individual, personal talents that enhance their intellectual thoughts."
Students have the opportunity to study and perform in eight ensembles that offer academic credit: orchestra, chamber orchestra , concert band, two jazz bands, RIT Singers, World Music Ensemble, African Percussion Ensemble and the NTID dance program. In addition, students can join extracurricular student clubs including RIT Players, Pep Band, drumline, Gospel Ensemble, Tech Crew and the fan-favorite a cappella groups, Eight Beat Measure, Brick City Singers, Encore, Surround Sound, Vocal Accent and Proof of Purchase.
There are also 40 music and theater course offerings in the College of Liberal Arts varying from Music Theory to Modern European Theater to an entire course on Beethoven. NTID Performing Arts offers courses in acting, dance, stage craft and technical theater, and has the only performing arts certificate available to students.
"The creation of this task force is one way that the RIT administration can make a statement for its support of the performing arts on campus," Ruhling says. "There have always been problems at RIT with adequate rehearsal and performance spaces, and a lack of resources and awareness at RIT and in the broader Rochester community regarding performing arts activities. The task force is a multidisciplinary group that is addressing these shortcomings from all parts of the campus. "
Already in existence are successful pairings with the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences' School of Film and Animation and the College of Applied Science and Technology's audio engineering program. On deck is the development of a music and technology major through the College of Liberal Arts—an expansion of the current program minor. Ruhling believes that more buy-in from the RIT community can only benefit the program.
"RIT's curricular music ensembles are the only courses on campus where student work and development is put on public display every term," Ruhling adds.
Cederick Gibbs, a fourth-year multidisciplinary studies major from Columbia, S.C., wishes for larger audiences for his musical performances. "Student musicians work really hard, and it definitely impacts the performance when there are only a handful of people in the audience," he says.
Nicole Hood, a second-year small business management and printing student from Concord, N.H., has been performing with the NTID Dance Company for six years.
"Performing arts courses not only encourage student awareness but give them an opportunity to open themselves up and analyze their identities," Hood says. "I know who I am, I know what I want to be, I have confidence in myself and that is because of the performing arts on campus."
"Our performing arts students do a lot with very little," Ruhling adds. "The time has come for RIT to offer its students studying the performing arts a level of support indicative of the top-rate institution of higher learning it is striving to become."
Web extra: To see videos of performing arts students in action, go to the RIT University News YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/RITUniversityNews and search for "Performing Arts."
RIT on the Fringe
RIT will be a sponsor for the second annual Rochester Fringe Festival, to be held Sept. 19-28. Student, faculty and staff performing artists are encouraged to register at www.rit.edu/fringefest.
Did you know?
- 800-1,000 students participate in RIT music ensembles
- Music curricular groups perform about 25 performances each year
- There are 40 performing arts course offerings through the College of Liberal Arts
- Information about RIT's Student Music Association can be found at: www.rit.edu/sg/ritsma
- Information about RIT's music program can be found at music.rit.edu
- One to three theatrical performances are produced during the academic year
- Panara Theatre performances are performed in both voice and American Sign Language


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Tamara Jimenez, 25, a volunteer at the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, an interfaith, multicultural immigrants' rights coalition, hopes Congress will take action on immigration reform. Jimenez, who has been living in the Philadelphia for 10 years, said her mother, who is from Nicaragua brought her to the United States when she was 15 years old.
"My mother decided I would have a future here," said Jimenez, who will graduate from Community College of Philadelphia on May 4 after attending college part-time for seven years, "That's why we left everything behind – family and friends."
Because Jimenez came to the United States as a minor, she qualifies for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
"Children who were brought here when they were kids are entitled to have a Social Security number and work permit, which I have now," Jimenez said. "I think my status has changed from undocumented to lawfully present. But, for my family there hasn't been anything."
About 1.7 million people are expected to benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to the PEW Hispanic Center. The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics estimates that there are 11.5 million "undocumented" immigrants living in the United States.
"When we talk about immigration, we talk about the contributions that undocumented immigrants make to this country, and my mother and stepdad are one of them," Jimenez said.
Jimemez's mother and stepdad are small business owners.
"Unfortunately, many people don't see the contributions that the immigrant community makes to the economy," Jimenez said.
But she remains hopeful that organizations such as New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia will raise awareness and give people a new perspective on immigration reform. The NSC is made up of six religious congregations: St. Vincent de Paul Church in Germantown, Mishkan Shalom Synagogue in Roxborough, the Philadelphia Praise Center in South Philadelphia, Visitation BVM Church in Kensington, and Central Baptist Church in Wayne.
"New Sanctuary Movement is planting a seed of seeing immigration reform with another face," Jimenez said. "I am just hoping it [the bill] will pass so my mother and stepdad can begin the process – so everyday they don't have to be afraid that this may be the day they get deported."
Jimenez said she has seen first-hand how the current system is broken and its effect on immigrant families.
"My cousin is undocumented, but her husband is a citizen," Jimenez said. "She has two young children. She fears one day she will be separated from her children. They are her everything."
Jimenez said that, in some cases, children whose parents have been deported don't even know where their mom or dad were sent.
"Families will often tell the children that their mother or father is away someplace working when they are actually sitting in jail," Jimenez said. "It's depressing. Parents try to protect their kids by hiding the truth, but they do know, and it does affect them.
Peter Pedemonti, co-founder and director of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, said programs like Philadelphia's Secure Communities Program creates a lot of fear and vulnerability within the immigrant community. He said the SCP allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Philadelphia Police Department to share databases.
"So anytime, anyone is arrested for any reason – even a traffic violation – that information is shared with ICE, and ICE can put a hold or detainer on them in criminal prison and bring them into immigration custody, where they can begin deportation proceedings," said Pedemonti, who is a first- generation U.S. citizen and the child of English and Italian immigrants. "One of the problems this causes is it erodes the trust between the immigrant community and the police, which really jeopardizes everyone's public safety. When people see something happen or they become victims of a crime, they won't call the police because they see them connected with immigration."
He added that it also can encourage racial profiling.
"If an officer is biased towards immigrants, he can make a very minor arrest knowing that information will be shared with immigration," Pedemonti said. "It has really increased the amount of families affected by this because programs like that have really skyrocketed the number of deportations."
He said people often ask why people don't come here legally.
"I think what a lot of people don't understand is that the laws have changed," Pedemonti said, "and if you're an unskilled laborer or poor there is no line to get into. It's one of the reasons we have 11 million undocumented people living in this country."
He said people often overlook the economic contributions of the immigrant community, especially during a recession. Pedemonti said studies have shown that comprehensive immigration reform would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 10 years.
"I think at its core it's [immigration reform] really about trying to keep families together and also living up to the values that this country professes and holds up – freedom, justice and the pursuit of happiness, and deporting 1100 people everyday violates that."
Rabbi Linda Holtzman, of Mishkan Shalom Synagogue, said she couldn't imagine being Jewish and not working for immigrant rights.
"The Jewish history is a history of immigration," Holtzman said. "We are all here because our families made it here from some place where they were being tormented and if they had stayed might not have survived."
Holtzman said if her grandparents had not decided to leave Poland and come to the United States, they would have been killed in the Holocaust with other members of her family.
Holtzman said she is hopeful that it [immigration reform] will at least begin to change the status quo.
"I have no idea whether this will pass or what it will look like when it does pass," she added, "but I am hopeful because our country is in such a sad shape with the current immigration system and desperately needs to change."
Paul Witte, a member of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Germantown, said the church has a long history of being active in peace and social justice matters. Witte said while he hasn't read the entire 844-page bill, he has read summaries of the proposed immigration reform bill.
"For the most part it seems like a pretty sincere effort to do comprehensive immigration reform," said Witte, who has worked with immigrants for 14 years.
He said the United States has benefited a lot from immigrant work and undocumented workers, noting that while the legislation proposed "does provide a path to legalization, it's a very long path."
"Many of these programs fail to recognize that these workers are human beings who should have opportunities to grow," Witte said. "They have families that are often left in the lurch. Is this the way this country wants to treat immigrants? It's a tough situation, and I understand we want to do everything in this country according to law, and it's a wonderful thing to say – but you have to have just laws."
For further information about the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia call 215-279-7060 or visit sanctuaryphiladelphia.org.


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