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Takeovers Imminent For Gaming Stocks
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It may be the best time to get in the video game market--and not because the holidays are nearing. Rather, I see the industry facing wide-spread consolidation as the largest producers seek leverage their cash flows to secure leading brand portfolios. Several notable game makers, even the once invincible Nintendo, have fallen in recent years. Below, I put the spotlight on three companies under this theme.
Why Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) Is A Good, Undervalued Company
Having returned 56.5% plus dividends to shareholders during a period of industry turbulence, Activision is one of the strongest game makers out there. From 1Q08 to today, R&D grew by 75%, yet free cash flow nearly quadrupled (283%) to $1.15 billion, or a strong 9% yield for a tech firm. Return on invested capital has been 10.4%, or 81 bps greater than the industry average, and the stock still manages to trade at only 1.2x book value versus an industry average of 2.6x. Going forward, the company is expected to have a 3-5 year EPS growth rate of 15.5%, which is 360 bps and 900 bps greater than what is expected for the toy industry and consumer goods sector, respectively.
Boasting strong growth, an excellent balance sheet, value creation, a track record of successful R&D, and compelling multiples, Activision appears to be both an undervalued and good company. What are its main catalysts and fundamentals? Though slowing growth in Call of Duty: Black Ops II has caused Sterne Agree to downgrade to "neutral," sales surged over half a billion in just 24 hours of hitting the market. GameStop reported that it sold over 1 million copies within the first day--probably the biggest launch of all time. By contrast, Microsoft's Halo 4 has only been guided for $300 million in the first week--still a ton, to be sure, even for a popular title. In addition, some have argued that the console market is dying, but the recent report that Microsoft sold over 750,000 Xbox 360 units during holiday sales last week helped to buoy confidence. Consoles have had a tough year, but the resiliency of Activision through it all is a testament to the brand's strong present-day appeal. It should be of no surprise then that 3Q12's top-line of $751 million came in $42 million above consensus.
Going forward, the future looks bright. Activision guided for $2.41 billion in revenue, which was $70 million above consensus. They are expecting online subscription sales, which include the World of Warcraft and Call of Duty franchises, to rise 26% y-o-y. Even the PC and Other category is guided for 273% growth.
Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) Both Buyout Targets
Take-Two, the struggling producer of Grand Theft Auto, has fallen 33.9% in the last 5 years. By 3Q11, free cash flow plunged to the negative territory on a TTM-basis and now stands at $169 million. Worse yet, over the past decade, R&D has gone up 250% to $66 million while free cash flow has fallen 221%. Even EA, which many have taken for "dead in the water" wasn't nearly that bad. They grew R&D by 214% to ~$1.2 billion while generating only a 35.5% decline in free cash flow to a still-positive ~$350 million. Put different, management has been much more reckless in spending shareholder's cash at Take-Two.
It should not be surprising then that Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who made his fortune from taking on the corrupt boards of beleaguered companies, has scooped up a 10.7% stake in the game maker. If he could raise takeover speculation for the company, which is in a very vulnerable status against thriving Activision, it would drive tremendous value creation for tag along investors. Even though Icahn filed a 13D form to disclose his stake, it doesn't mean, however, that he will be as activist as he has been in previous investments. Ultimately, I don't see Icahn making this just a "passive" investment, because there is a catalyst from agitating what is, again, a very vulnerable board.
EA may similarly be in a position of being taken over. The $4.5 billion game maker trades at only 12.1x forward earnings and 13.1x free cash flow. Stifel Nicolaus is calling it a "buy", and there have been several reports speculating that it is indeed a buyout target. If more serious proposals surface, it would surely drive up interest in Take-Two, so Icahn may not even have to make a tender offer himself. Only time will tell.
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The main reason I would insist that Breaking Bad, which made its glorious final return to our televisions on Sunday, is perpetually underrated is that it's virtually impossible to overstate just how good this show is. We're in an era where there are few singular pinnacles of achievement that are universally accepted as great. There are Breaking Bad fans, but there are also Game of Thrones fans, Mad Men peeps, Walking Dead enthusiasts, all claiming their favorites are the greatest TV shows of all time. The sad passing of James Gandolfini brought out many voices reasserting that The Sopranos is the best or at least the most important TV drama of all time and the default choices for numbers two and three on that podium are Deadwood and The Wire. The debate over the best and the pluralistic nature of modern cultural opinion—generally positive aspects of the current climate—might as well fall by the wayside for the time being.
It's certainly standing on top of these aforementioned lofty shoulders, but Vince Gilligan's show has to be considered modern television's Michael Jordan: other shows may exist in the same medium, the same league, but Breaking Bad is operating on a level higher than any other, gliding over all as it were. It's easy to disregard as slick trash given its fanboyish base of followers, especially if you're, you know, lazy. I'd say it's more of a testament to the cast and crew of the show that it functions as compelling drama, suspenseful action, Shakespearean tragedy, cinematic expression and dark comedy all at once. Works that appeal to what's considered the high and low ends of the spectrum of appreciation of art are especially valuable because they expose the two for being rather arbitrarily distinct and far more similar than either side would freely admit. Great art doesn't have to be a slog, and entertainment doesn't have to be dumb.
Here are 10 reasons Breaking Bad deserves to be universally recognized as TV's greatest achievement thus far.
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1) It gets better and better from season to season
This is a rare feat for TV shows to achieve; the tendency is usually for an exceptionally good show to have the trajectory of a strong first season, a couple other subsequent seasons of high quality material, and then a sad decline into irrelevancy before trying to salvage a compelling conclusion. I've also heard other series with five-season formats be compared to Shakespearean tragedies that play out in five acts, with the story's climax coming in Act III. The Wire could be said to follow this design, considering its fifth season that underwhelmed its audience.
Breaking Bad, on the other hand, while maintaining this five-act arc, seems to be getting more and more technically impressive, narratively airtight, and emotionally and dramatically satisfying. It's possible that its thematic climax indeed came at the end of Season 3, when Walter, through Jesse, actively kills his first relatively innocent victim. But Season 4 witnessed the murderous chess match between Walt and Gus, which culminated in its own explosive finale. Season 5 is heading towards Walt versus The World, whether it's Mike, Jesse, or Hank. The first two seasons seem less significant because of their scope; they're meant to set up the character of Walter and the progression of his character's metamorphosis is brought on by the scope of his ambition, so the stakes are naturally going to be higher. As the second half of Season 5 approaches, the tension is building to a fever pitch, which is exactly where its creators want it to be.
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2) People unfairly judge it solely by its early seasons
I have obviously recommended Breaking Bad to countless people, and most take to it pretty much immediately. Others, though, are less impressed by the first two seasons, and this disappointment is kind of understandable. The first season especially, hampered and shortened by that infamous Writers' Strike of 2008, does not on its own indicate that the series deserves the praise it went on to receive. It dials up the intensity in Season 2, but it's really not until seasons 3 and 4 that the show really developed the renown it holds today.
It's actually probably more apt to say it dialed up the heat a bit. To use the show's own chemical analogy angle, the first two seasons operate on something of a slow burn, and it reaches a boiling point later than most series may have done (that sad metaphor is brought to you by my arts degree). All that's to say is that the show takes it time and slowly builds momentum as it goes, so its beginning and eventual ending are going to be remarkably different in their pacing, without a doubt. But it's also a show that is specifically about change, the change in its hero who becomes an anti-hero, as well as the very nature of what it would take for a mild mannered person to change into a cold-hearted killer. That makes it perfectly understandable why it feels almost like a completely different show from Season 1 to Season 5—the tone of the show changes with its protagonist. So if you're one of those people who is skeptical that Breaking Bad is as good as people say, give it time to heat up.
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3) There has not been a TV show that is more visually compelling
The opening to Season 3 marked a dramatic change in the way Breaking Bad was going to present itself visually, and was possibly the most stunning, most cinematic sequence ever to appear on a television episode at the time. It was an introduction to the Cousins, the Salamanca Twins we'd be intrigued by for much of the season, and an announcement that this season of the show would be different than the previous two.
All we see in this prologue to the episode "No Mas" is a number of people crawling in the Mexican sand towards some hut that houses a deity Vince Gilligan revealed is Santa Muerte. The religious rite featured is odd enough, and then we see two twins emerge from a Mercedes and join in on the congregational sand crawl. It all builds to the reveal that they are serving up a drawing of Heisenberg to their death god.
This is some high end Coen brothers shit right here. No words are spoken, no explanation given; we're left only with the images and the surrealistic impression it leaves with us. And we instantly know these twins are important and want to know more. The show has continued to do this as it has gone forward. Cinematographer Michael Slovis is earning loads of accolades for his work, and deservedly so. The show's distinct look, both the way it shoots Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as good old Mexico itself, are uniformly gorgeous and haunting with they need to be. Even little things like the way it pulls back to a wide shot as we watch Walt shoot and kill two men in Season 3's penultimate episode, a contrast to the tight closeup of Jesse pointing the gun at Gale in the season's closing shot. Many of its visual strengths go undetected yet contribute to the menacing spirit of the show's final seasons. Despite being a writer's medium, Breaking Bad has found a way to express itself more cinematically than any series to come before.
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4) It has always known exactly the show that it wants to be
When people have gone back to rewatch Breaking Bad from its beginning after having seen a few seasons, the most common observation is that from the very first episode the show clearly states its motives. From the first moment that we see Walt in the chemistry classroom, he's talking about chemistry being the science of change, solution and dissolution, transformation. Vince Gilligan has described many times that his goal in this series was to see if he could turn Mr. Chips into Scarface—taking a harmless, non-threatening man and turning him into a merciless drug lord. It's his own personal chemistry experiment, playing out before our eyes.
The crazy thing about it is that it seems to have worked. The transformation of Walter White into Heisenberg, or maybe more accurately, the bringing out of the Heisenbergian properties that were in Walter all along by his circumstances, has made for one of the most exciting and mesmerizing stories of our generation. It's an experiment that capitalizes on the inherent qualities of the medium of television that I alluded to earlier. Because we tend to experience television in the present, that it unfolds before us seemingly in real time and week after week, year after year, has the potential to veer off in unexpected ways, taking a character and transforming him into someone else entirely is risky in terms of convention, but incredibly compelling material. The fact that it's an unfinished story makes its potential energy part of the equation to hold our interest. This was Gilligan's whole prerogative, and this linear intention has proved to be transformative for the medium itself.
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5) Its focus is fairly singular and straightforward
A result of the clear concept that Vince Gilligan and company had for the show from day one has been the singularity of focus on the character of Walter White and the concept of cause and effect, the consequences of choices and the responsibility of the individual. Virtually every aspect of the show is meant to elucidate where Walter is at, what he's up against, what his state of mind is, and what he has to react to.
Plenty of shows tries to do what Breaking Bad has excelled at, and that is the expansion and contraction of its universe. There's something deeply satisfying about this, perhaps because it parallels the history of our own universe. Think of Game of Thrones, the way we started out with this world of characters who became separated and spread out all over the world, with indications or at least the expectation that they'll be brought back together at some point (and with some exceptions). True Blood has done this in its strongest seasons, but lost this focus over time, and suffered as a result it would seem. Gilligan's team has never strayed from this emphasis on Walt. Even the seemingly peripheral stories, like the airline crash and Gus' backstory, are meant to show the vast effects of Walt's initial decision to cook meth. It all comes back to that choice, his decision to manufacture this harmful drug to pay medical bills and finance his family's future rather than accepting handouts from friends. That makes everything in the show an offshoot of one decision, and is why the whole story feel more firmly anchored than most others.
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6) It features complex supporting characters
It's another aspect of the show that gets overlooked, but for a show that is so focused on its protagonist, Breaking Bad boasts a cast of supporting characters that are subtly and beautifully richly developed. For all the internet malice directed at her, Skyler has really been retroactively validated as a voice of reason in the face of a husband who is murdering people and making drugs that are subsequently ruining countless lives. Of course, she gives in to Walt to an extent, but continues to be one of the few voices of morality in the show. Jesse, likewise, has become perhaps the show's new hero, the only one who can potentially stop Walter's reign of terror.
My two personal favorites, as much as I love Saul Goodman (what a name for a lawyer, "'sall good, man!"), are Hank and Gus. Gus' own arc that was detailed in Season 4 is set up to be compared with Walt's, that they're two opposing forces that were essentially destined to come to a head. And Giancarlo Esposito is phenomenal in the role. Hank though, man. Hank is the prototypical cop character told from the inside out, a master class in masculine bravado used as a cover for deep insecurities and anxieties, who wears the mask of an oaf while being extremely serious and good at his job. His world comes crumbling down after he gets shot, but instead of succumbing to his fears and embarrassment at having his wife essentially become his mother and caregiver, he pretty much singlehandedly discovers the identity of Heisenberg. He might be the show's protagonist in this final act.
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7) It takes some impressive, ambitious formal risks
Television directors are starting to earn attention and admiration from watchers like never before, and Breaking Bad has done its share of ushering in tremendous new directorial talents as well as securing the skills of established filmmakers for various episodes. The big breakout star of the series behind the scenes seems to be Michelle MacLaren, directing several episodes of the final two seasons, including the brilliant Season 5A finale. She's also directed episodes in the past season of Game of Thrones.
Another director gaining notice for contributions to the show has been Rian Johnson, noted director of Looper and Brick, and the man behind the famous "Fly" episode of Season 3. This episode more than perhaps any other highlighted the series' willingness to go out on a limb for the sake of experimentation.
Yes, it was conjured up because they had gone over budget for the season, but its execution and masterful expression of these characters made it one of the series' most beloved episodes. The whole series also has a few signatures, some more effective and provocative than others, but the fact that it tries different visual and rhythmic schemes shows its commitment to novelty in its storytelling. The leitmotif of the rear tracking shot of various characters, like Walt walking toward Gus' house, or Gus walking towards Hector's home, resonates. The POV shots from the perspective of the bottom of a grave garner less enthusiasm for me personally, although others eat it up. The ambition of the series extends far beyond its storytelling itself, to style, cinematic expression, and a stated willingness to experiment. It deserves enormous credit for this.
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8) It has redefined the "Oh shit!" moment in TV
The "Rains of Castamere" episode of Game of Thrones saw perhaps the largest outpouring of grief we have ever seen in a TV moment, an unexpected (for non-readers) turn of events in a series committed to reminding its audience that no character is safe and all men (and sometimes women and unborn infants) must die. But one thing the show taught us, and it did so even more specifically through the liberties taken in its adaptations from the novel, is that these moments are far more affecting when they are preceded by stories and characters in which we have become deeply invested. The depth of investment is crucial. It's only with these levels of depth that "oh shit" moments can reach their proper heights.
It's the way Breaking Bad sets up its big moments that gives them their enormous punch. For a while, it revolves around our investment in Walt; we're rooting for him. As he becomes more villainous, Jesse becomes the center of our investment, although Walt still carries sentimental value without question. So when Walt first throws down the fulminated mercury at Tuco and Co., we're relieved and excited that he has not only escaped a tight spot, but asserted himself as a player to be reckoned with. We're relieved when he saves Jesse from certain death in his car, and shocked when he shoots the perpetrators in the head before he tells Jesse, "Run." And then we feel for Jesse as he points his gun at Gale, to save Walt's life and, to him, his own. We're more familiar with Walt and so his victory over Gus feels sweet, although we should question how sound this moral logic is. The point is the setup of these moments comes from terrific dramatization but also tremendous characterization, and the way it pulls off these moments is unparalleled. And what other show can say that during one of its biggest "oh shit" moments, a character is actually taking a shit?
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9) The long stretches between "Oh shit" moments are just as absorbing
I try really hard to resist the impulse of simply looking forward to the next big set piece and appreciating the drama and relationships that take place between the "oh shit" moments, but it can be difficult. I have to admit that I did not appreciate Walt's "I am the danger" speech the first time around because I was so tightly clenched in anticipation of what was going to happen with Gus. That's why when most people take the time to go back and watch episodes again, the dialogue and texture of scenes comes out a lot more. The "one who knocks" lines may be the most popular example of how beautifully written the show can be. It's a perfect little monologue, beautifully delivered by Bryan Cranston, who has become a one-man intensity machine, the type of leading man we can't take our eyes off of and are constantly thinking about when he's offscreen.
The aforementioned side stories involving supporting characters are also a big reason why the scenes between the big climactic moments never fail to hold our interest. And then there's the less climactic moments that are nonetheless oh shit-worthy, like the "Crystal Blue Persuasion" montage in Season 5A's finale. If this was a show that relied solely on its explosive scenes, it would still be a solid, standout drama.
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10) The effect it has had on subsequent televisual ambitions is clear
Many shows have come to replicate some of the tactics Breaking Bad has employed, to varying degrees of success. I maintain that it has had the single greatest influence in the past few years of television seeking a more cinematic look and feel. This is evident from the first episode, from the first script according to its writers and actors, but it became more and more pronounced as it went on, which demonstrates that it's a major priority for Vince Gilligan to uphold and advance this kind of aesthetic. So more recently we've seen people like Martin Scorsese and Frank Darabont and David Fincher become more active on the TV scene in Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead and House of Cards. Shows strive to be even more movielike now than ever before, and Breaking Bad advanced this trend to a further extent than any other show, period. Previous shows may have moved the bar more, but where it's at today is thanks to the huge push from Breaking Bad's contributions to the medium.
Judging a show before it has even ended is tough. It's like judging a person's life before they've died—you can't fully evaluate the effect a person had, for whatever psychological reason, until their personal story has officially ended. That's why the death of a public figure comes with such an outpouring of appreciation for the works and contributions they made in their lifetime. Until that point, they could still have done more, and their passing means that their legacy is more visible. I think once Breaking Bad has ended, and years down the road, we'll have a clearer picture of what it ultimately will mean to the history of television. But from my limited perspective, I'm confident it will be the benchmark for TV quality in the generations to come. It deserves to be recognized for this more. Until it is, to my mind it will continue to be underrated.Previous


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Wirt Downing is living in Fairview Heights, IL in retirement. He was without a doubt the most outstanding coach and educator of East St. Louis, although there have been some close competitors since his time.
I had a very interesting interview with the "Coach", as I have always called him.
He still goes to six or seven reunions each year. In 1954 he retired as football coach and became Principal of East St. Louis High School in September of 1955 to 1968. From 1970 to 1975, Federal Judge Juergens, appointed him as "Bailiff" of the Federal Court.
Bob Shannon, the present coach of the East St. Louis Football Team, has been something else since 1979. He won his sixth Illinois (6A) state football championship trophy this past year. That makes it six championships out of fifteen years which is unheard of. In addition, he has developed many young men for Missouri, Illinois and Notre Dame football scholarships as well as many lesser known schools.
Example, last year 1991; Chris Moore, 5 ft. 10 in. and 205 pounds ran with abandon. In the state championship game against Glenbard North High, he scored on runs of 30, 1,47 and 9 yards. He set two career state records, with 86 touchdowns and 81 rushing touchdowns. He also moved on State's career rushing list with 5,174 yards. The previous mark was 5,079 yards by Jeff Campbell who played for Catlin High School from 1976-1979.
Moore's other records include: Most points (24) in a class 6A title game; Most touchdowns in a class 6A title game; Most rushing touchdowns in a class 6A title game.
Coach Shannon's record over the past fifteen years is 143 to 20, with State titles in 1979,1983,1984,1985, 1989, and 1991. The 1985 and 1989 squads were named National Champions.
Kevin Horrigan, a columnist and KMOX radio morning show personality has written a new book on the East Side football team history under Shannon.
Coached by Jim Monken, Lincoln High School Tigers football team had a good record of six and three after the 1989 season. At the time of his retirement Schools: Monken had a career record of 177 wins - 67 losses - 7 ties.
Ted Savage was a four-star athlete and had an outstanding career in baseball with the Cardinals and other big league teams
Lincoln High School is located at 1201 Bond Avenue in East St. Louis and the basketball team is coached by Benny Lewis. It is an outstanding team.
The Lincoln Tigrettes won their ninth consecutive class AA State Track Championship in a row by beating
Evanston Township High 114 points to 79 point coach is Nina Fennoy.
Central Catholic High School had many successful athletic programs since the early 1930's.
John Nunn and Carl Totsch were among the most farnous in football. Hank Bauer was the mos twell known in baseball where he went on after WWII to become a star with New York Yankees outfield of Mantle, Di Maggio, Keller and others. He has thirteen world series rings and he told me once that his wife back in Kansas City banked all the series checks into an annuity. In high school, Hienie, as we called him, played shortstop and I played second base.
Anyway Central Catholic High School became Assumption and several years later it closed out on St. Clair Avenue because of asbestos. It merged with Althoff in Belleville.
We have always had three outstanding junior High Schools:
Clark Jr. High School where Frank Ficke was coach for
many years during the 40's and 50's. Lansdowne Jr. High School where Bob Kurrus was coach
of all sports during the 30's, 40's and 50's.
Clark Jr. High School where Frank Ficke was coach for many years during the 40's and 50's.
Lansdowne Jr. High School where Bob Kurrus was coach of all sports during the 30's, 40's and 50's.
At the Seoul Olympics, Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the world's record with the Heptathlon and was a double gold medalist (long jump).
Mrs. Garland (Ruth) Smith wrote from Hastings, Minnesota, that she was so proud for Jackie Joyner to carry the Olympic Torch in the Minneapolis Festival for good old East St. Louis which was her "Hometown".
Jackie's husband and coach is Bob Kersee. She is 29 years old and enjoys working with the youth and in fund raising activities as an Olympian under the Olympic Job Opportunity Program. Jackie began running at age nine and is now fighting asthma.
She has been proclaimed as the "world's greatest female athlete" and she has set up a Jackie Joyner-Kersee Community Foundation in East St. Louis to help the kids of East St. Louis. "I always stress for the kids to be good human beings. Being a good person will carry you a lot of places!. You will see her now in the Barcelona Olympics. Here she is entered in four events: Heptathlon, long jump, high hurdles, and high jump. This is an undertaking never attempted by any athlete in a major meet.
Mrs. Garland (Ruth) Smith said in her nice letter that "We the people were property owners and we paid our taxes to keep the City and Schools alive in East St. Louis." Further, she said "East St. Louis still has dedicated and loving people".
Today, "Mr. Tennis of the World" is our own Jimmy Connors. He started early at five years old when his Grandfather Al (Lynch) Thompson, cut the tennis handle down six inches so Jimmy could hold the racket. At that time his Grandmother "Bertie" Thompson took over his lessons. She was one of the best tennis instructors that I have seen. Jim Connors Sr. and I played on old Central Catholic High School tennis team and we improved our record after her lessons.
His brother, John Connors, did not want all the practice and regimentation, so he didn't pursue tennis other than as Club Pro around St. Louis. Now, he has his own boat the "Alton Belle".
Both John and Jimmy are fine young men, and their Mother Gloria's efforts have certainly been rewarded. (I wish the Best to the Best).
Norman Dean, Hall of Famer, was an outstanding tennis star of the 20's and 30's; along with Pete Shukest, Joe Pulley, Tom Shanklin, Ted Eggmann, Les Mein, Ben Burkett and Bob Crowley.
East St. Louisans have always had a great interest and participation in bowling.
There were too many great bowlers to mention some and not all, but I'll do it anyway. Gus Lucido and family. My cousin, Helen Maher, was married to Frank Lucido; 'Tony" Pensoneau, Ted Loman and his Bowlaway, and Bill and Pat Kalicki.
I had a bowling team for "English Realty" back in the 60's at Edgemont Bowling Lanes with Gene Shepherd and Art Groh. It was right next to Lawrence Devoli's Edgemont Inn.
East St. Louis has had a long interest in Grand Marais 18 hole golf course. Among its operators were Walter McMurtrey, Frank Moore (Terry's brother), John Hickey, Bud Dietrich, Wes Harness, and my brother Jack and his partner, John (Robby) Robinson at the present time.
Terry Hanson is the Vice-President of Communications of the PGA Tour at Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He is a fine young man in his early 40's who has done so well in coaching, entertainment with Ted Turner and CNN Cable Network and now with the PGA.
Fairmount Park has been here on Collinsville Road since September 26, 1925 (67 years) and is still well attended.
Tom McMahon, 87, has tended bar for Jack and I at Bush's Steak House and is still working at Jack's on Fridays. He is a daily bettor.
Fairmount has year-round racing with the thoroughbred season and later harness racing.
Cahokia Downs ran for approximately 25 years but is now closed. The City of Alorton is trying to get the site for an entertainment Center for a group with the Mississippi River Festival at SIU. The track has been closed since 1979 and has 96 acres on Route 15 about three miles East of the Poplar Street Bridge. It is presently owned by Ogden Fairmount Inc., the same company that owns Fairmount Park.
A group of sports celebrities come to my brother Jack's and the ring leader is Sam Muchnick, the dean of the Wrestling Group. His group includes Bob Burnes of the old Globe and Bob Broeg the sports editor of the Post-Dispatch, George Silvey, the baseball scout, Captain Ed Moran, a retired St. Louis policeman Joe (Red) Drabelle a former football star of St. Louis U. and an official for major games, Martin Duggan from Channel 9 and a columnist, Jim Bolen, Don Lenhardt, and Rich Hacker, the Cardinal coach who moved on to Toronto. Wrestlers include Andre the Giant, Lou Thesz, Bill Longson, Pat Riley and Gorgeous George who, passed away recently.
Art Voellinger, the sports columnist of the Belleville journal, has been covering the area High School sports and is very dedicated. He is a super guy and does an excellent job.
Soccer stars such as Cobby Rodriguez and his brother Babe Rodriguez, John Major and many old Fairmount City players such as Julie Menendez come to mind.
Dave Roche and Arnold Demarse were standouts at Central Catholic High. Dave Roche, Arnie Demarse, Dean McIlravy and Craig Cholet are regulars at Brother Jack's.
Pop Myles was the Dean of Boxing at the Social Center and recently passed away.
Bill Cochran, Denny Cochran, John Anderson Dick Snyder, Irv Nicholson, George Fidelke, Ed Posage, Walter Posage, Berkely Halstead, Chuck Stokes, Terry Kerr, Jesse Fowler, Rich "Cotton" Knaus, Peppy Kruta, Earl Smalling, Lloyd Smalling, Cocky Houston, Herb Fash, Max Harned, Max Flach, Ray Rice and his sons.
Basketball coach for many years was Louis "Pick" Dehner who was an All-American at Illinois University.
Outstanding in the field of baseball - Dave Garcia, Coach and Manager and Bill Walker who was pitcher for
the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals. Both were from East St. Louis and associated with major league baseball for many years.
John Nunn, Carl Totsch, Dave Roche, Bunky Bauer, Hank Bauer, Bob Bowe, Bob Turley, Mike Magac, John Wyrostek, Coach George Martz, Alan Martz, Ed Blake.
Edward Horrigan was a City Commissioner from 1971 to 1974 when he passed away at the early age of 57. He also served as Justice of Peace (1954 to 1964) and City Clerk (1964 to 1971). He was married to Ruth Neil and they have a daughter (Sandy Cullen).
LOU AND DOROTHY (DONOVAN) BOGGEMANN are old timers. Lou sent me a nice letter and was from the Lansdowne area. Dorothy has always done a lot of charity work, and is now working with "Meals on Wheels".
VINCE AND FRANKIE (DENNIS) HATCH were both East St. Louis natives. Vince, an attorney, recently passed away but his wife Frankie is carrying on with Nester Real Estate. Vince was my attorney for a number of years and I always considered him as one of the best real estate lawyers in the area.
JOHN AND MARCIA (FRENCH) DAVIS are also oldtimers. John being from the Ira Davis family (Terminal Railroad superintendent). But John made his niche in the wholesale coal business in St. Louis and Southern Illinois. Marcia was the daughter of C. L. French, School Board Member, and worked with City Ice & Fuel Co. Marcia worked for years with the Y.W.C.A. on Pennsylvania Avenue in East St. Louis.
AUDIE BOAZ AND JACK KEEFE ran the Golden Gloves tavern on 9th Street and Illinois Avenue. Audie also had a tavern, with his wife Carrie, on Caseyville Avenue at 32nd Street. They have a son, Eddie Boaz, who has had an interest in all local and professional sports.
JIM REED AND HIS LOVELY WIFE, LOUISE, are enjoying retirement in a nice mobile home in Ocala, Florida. He has sent many mementos and even sent an audio tape of East St. Louis being named the "All American City". Jim was with the Chamber of Commerce and the Industrial Commission. He had lots of ideas and many of them were worth while if the politicians would have listened. He was close to Oliver Briedecker and Delmar Valine. He said for me to contact a long list of names including: Howard Beck of Beck Vanilla Company, Charles Daily, Bill Popkess, Bob Hackman and Joe Lowery, the attorney
LIL (TRIBOUT) TREESH is still operating the Treesh Neon Sign at 434 E. Broadway, which is across from the old Broadview Hotel. Lil is working with her daughter, Jackie Treesh, and they are still doing a great job in the general East St. Louis area. Morrie Treesh, the husband and father, has been deceased for a number of years. Lil and Jackie look fine and I had a nice visit with them at my Brother Jack's, along with Frank (Bud) Hauss Jr.
DELIA COMLEY was married toGEORGE COMLEY and they had eight children. She worked at Stanley's on Collinsville Avenue for 22 years and has been in real estate for 33 years with Ed Sieron. She also worked for Maggie's Fashion's (9th & Illinois Ave.) for six years. She was Canadian and came from Quebec (maiden name Lemaire) and worked hard all her life to raise her family.
JOHN AND DORA (O'BRIEN) KOSTELAC have a large farm in Belleville and their business is Recyclers of Cooking Oils and Fats, from which they have made a lot of money. Dora's father was an East St. Louis City policeman, Joseph O'Brien, who was killed in the line of duty back in the 1930's. She had a brother Joe and a sister Mary. They lived on 12th street North of State for many years. They were involved in politics and work with the Ancient Order of Hiberians.
MRS. JOHN H. (MARGARET HEALY) STEUERNAGEI was a Iong-time teacher in East St. Louis living in Belleville. Her husband, John, was a school administrator (Supt. of Schools). Her grandfather, John Cantillon, was on the East St. Louis School Board in 1885. Her family home was at 116 Collinsville Avenue across from the Arcade Building.
MRS. HERBERT V.(ORA C.) AVAULT was a school teacher from 1922 to 1961 at Alta Sita, Bunkum and Morrison Schools. Vic Moser sent her a book relating to "Moser's Grove" near St. Phillips and Bluff Tavern. Her middle initial was for Coggins. She had seven children who were all born, raised, educated, and married in East St. Louis.
CAROL (SCHLARETZKY) MADAN lived in East St. Louis from 1925 to 1941. Her father, Rev. Walter Schlaretzki (in 1930) was pastor of the Federated Church at Summit and Washington Place. He also was Superintendent and General Manager of Christian Welfare Hospital. Rosemary Green directed her High School Chorus and she remembers the picnics at Jones Park.
STANLEY JOZAYT, with MAX FRIEDBERG ran the old "Colonial Inn": at Collinsville and St. Clair Avenues from 1948 to 1957 with a dance orchestra.
JEAN MURPHY from St. John's MO, wrote me about the excellent bus service in East St. Louis (safe and not afraid to go to Parson's Field). Collinsville Avenue was the "Shopping Center". Majestic Candy Kitchen with their mashed potato and gravy specialty, she has never forgotten. She enjoyed growing up in a "Great Town", East St. Louis.
LIZETTE H. PETRASEK of Columbia, IL wrote that in 1940 she left home in Southern Illinois and went to the Beulah Club. She worked days and went to Summers College nights. It was WWII and jobs were plentiful in a fine city that had many things to offer.
MUSICIANS IN THE 30's AND 40'S (BANDS)
Do you remember the old bands of the 30's and 40's? George Carr, Larry Broz and his brother Wes Broz, Eddie Ehret, Russ Rigden, and of course Sunny Shields. Sunny went on with music studios around town, married Dorothy Seppi and they have three lovely daughters.
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The chase for Mats Sundin continues and the list of suitors continues to grow with the Anaheim Ducks becoming the latest to throw their hat into the ring.
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Chronocentrism or chronocentricity (from the Greek chrono- meaning "time") has been defined as "the egotism that one's own generation is poised on the very cusp of history."[1] The term had been used earlier in a study about attitudes to ageing in the workplace. Chronocentricity ... 'only seeing the value of one's own age cohort'[2] ... described the tendency for younger managers to hold negative perceptions of the abilities or other work-related competencies of older employees. This type of discrimination is a form of ageism.
|This section may stray from the topic of the article into the topic of another article, Ethnocentrism. (April 2014)
Another usage is related to ethnocentrism. That is, chronocentrism is perceiving and judging a culture's historical values in terms of contemporary standards.
An example of this usage is racism. In times prior to the advances of the civil rights movement, racist views and public expression were much more acceptable than they are today. This results in a tendency to judge those then making such statements in a harsher light.
- ^ Standage, Tom (2007). The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers. Walker & Company. p. 256. ISBN 0-8027-1604-0.
- ^ Lyon, Phil; Pollard, D. (1 January 1997). "Perceptions of the older employee: is anything really changing?". Personnel Review 26 (4): 249. doi:10.1108/00483489710172051.
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I know that breast tenderness is a sign of pregnancy. The top of my breasts are tender, but my nipples are VERY tender. Is this strange? I am taking a pregnancy test this Wednesday. I did not have any breast tenderness at all with my first baby. She passed away recently due to SIDS.
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Rihanna in Berlin (©Markus Schreiber/AP)
Five days in, embedded media members start streaking and freaking on the promo odyssey
By Melinda Newman
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"I don't know how we're keeping it all together" -- one of the 7-7-7 organizers
It's Day 5, and the wheels have officially fallen off the tour. After traveling to Berlin from Paris in the early afternoon and Rihanna, once again, going on two hours late, we leave for London at 4 a.m.
And then it happens. A plane full of jet-lagged, exhausted, overserved journalists, fed up with no access to Rihanna for five days, begins to rebel. It starts when a cameraman for one of the Australian crews streaks up one side the plane and down the other. We're pretty sure that kind of behavior gets you tossed off a commercial flight, but it's cause for high celebration here.
His move unleashes something in the rest of us, and we all stand on our seats and start chanting for Rihanna. When that gets no response, we switch to, "Just one quote," and, "Save our jobs," and then, "Occupy 7-7-7." It's verging on pandemonium in the sky and the flight attendants just let it ride. Rihanna's handlers come to survey the scene and decide there's no way they're bringing their precious cargo back now.
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We're at the tail end of the trip with only London and New York to go, and we're counting the casualties: Several folks have developed the airplane equivalent of kennel cough, and it feels a little bit like we're being held hostage. One of the journalists has a harmonica on the plane and breaks into a blues riff that could accompany a chain gang on Parchman Farm.
The near-riot occurs because Rihanna has not set foot in the coach cabin where the members of the media are seated since Day 1 in Los Angeles. Other than onstage, there's been no RiRi sighting since baggage check in Toronto. The plane press conferences that were dangled in front of journalists before the trip started have not materialized and we're starved for things to write about. She has, however, shown up between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. for two afterparties, including one in Paris with Akon, Diddy, Pharrell and Omarion. (Is there some kind of secret bat signal that goes up to alert celebs that they're in the same city and there's champagne being poured?)
Since no one is getting interviews with Rihanna, we checked in with two members of her band to see how they're faring.
Nuno Bettencourt, Rihanna's guitarist for the past three years, admits that playing seven shows in seven days can be arduous, but he has a sense of perspective: "It's not as hard as it would be to do seven days of construction." Even for the band, though, this is a tough slog, since they don't normally play more than three or four days in a row. Bettencourt says Rihanna was a little worried about her voice after Mexico City, but she's sounded fine onstage since then.
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If Bettencourt's name sounds familiar, he was the guitarist for Extreme ("Words Can Say," "Hole in My Heart") and, surprisingly, he says playing for Rihanna is not that different than playing with the '90s rock outfit; however, he says he was initially surprised to get the offer from Rihanna. "When they asked me, I said, 'Why?' 'There's not a lot of guitars on her records. We want the live shows to have a little more of a rock sound.'"
Adam Blackstone, Rihanna's co-musical director, bassist and one of the most good-spirited people on the trip, says exhaustion is starting to set in: "I'm tired right now and everything is running together." Blackstone, who is also Kanye West's musical director, began working with Rihanna in March. "Since I came in, we definitely, definitely [have tried] to make it a more live experience," Blackstone says. "I've tried to bring more of a flow and a consistent energy."
Though the live show incorporates the synth and string lines that are staples on the records, Blackstone stresses that the bulk of what we are hearing is live. Though Rihanna's vocals on some of the choruses have been prerecorded and are blended with the backup singers' vocals -- so she can interact with the crowd more -- he says she is singing all of the verses live.
Blackstone, who's known Rihanna since she opened for West in 2007, says she grows more confident as a vocalist every day: "She's come into her own.
A highlight of the shows has been an acoustic segment where Rihanna does a medley of "Unfaithful," "Take a Bow" and "Hate That I Love You." Blackstone thinks Rihanna couldn't have done the acoustic segment previously, but that her faith in her own vocal abilities has increased. "She's naked out there. The only thing that's carrying [the band] is her. People seem mesmerized that she can connect on that level." Blackstone hopes to incorporate the acoustic segment into the arena tour when it starts in March.
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As the traveling circus known as the 7-7-7 tour continues, Bettencourt says he's glad that the press is along, if nothing else to express to people that it's not as glamorous as it seems, even though this kind of extreme touring is not normal. As glitzy as our moving rock show in the sky seems, nothing compares to a good old tour bus. "This is supposed to be cushy, but there's a lot of waiting," Bettencourt says. "This is stuff you'd never do on tour. The bus is much easier. It's our home."
Next stop: London and then New York.
Melinda Newman is the former West Coast bureau chief for Billboard magazine. She has covered music and entertainment for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, MSN, AOL Music, Hitfix.com, Variety, People Country and other outlets. Recent interviews include Taylor Swift, Susan Sarandon, Pink, Jeff Bridges, Brad Paisley, Foo Fighters, Katy Perry and Carly Simon.
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