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They made music that inspired legions of fans. Rock 'n' roll founding fathers Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, rockers Tom Petty and Gregg Allman, grunge icon Chris Cornell, country superstar Glen Campbell and jazz great Al Jarreau were among the notable figures who died in 2017, leaving a void in virtually every genre of music.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The attorney selected to replace James Comey as FBI director is described by those close to him as admirably low-key, yet he'd be taking over the law enforcement agency at a moment that's anything but tranquil.
Two men have been indicted on second-degree murder and drug charges for their roles in the death last year of a 28-year-old man who died of a fatal overdose of heroin and other drugs, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich's office.
3333 Hacks Cross Road, Memphis, TN 38125: Fieldstone Apartment Homes, a gated community in southeast Memphis, is in the process of another massive expansion.
Permit Amount: $9.7 million (combined)
Thirteen incumbents in the four suburban municipal elections on the Nov. 8 ballot were effectively re-elected to new terms at the Thursday, Aug. 18, filing deadline for the set of 30 races.
And Chris Denson claimed a seat on the Millington School Board with no opposition for the position incumbent Donald Holsinger is giving up to run for alderman in Millington.
Thirteen incumbents in the four sets of suburban municipal elections on the Nov. 8 ballot were effectively re-elected to new terms at the Thursday, Aug. 18, filing deadline for the set of 30 races.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment rose in December to its highest level since July, lifted in part by low inflation, which has boosted Americans' purchasing power.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index, released Wednesday, rose to 92.6 from 91.3 in November. That's just below this year's average of 92.9, the highest annual average in 11 years.
As two high profile Memphis murder cases moved toward retrial this week, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed another murder conviction in Shelby County Criminal Court earlier this month.
Slumping sales of Barbie did little to bring a happy holiday to her maker, Mattel Inc.
Mattel's fourth-quarter earnings release Friday drilled down into the details of a weak performance that led to the resignation of its chairman and CEO.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans boosted spending by a healthy amount in August, offering welcome evidence that the economy is on solid footing heading into the final quarter of the year.
Consumer spending in August rose 0.5 percent from the previous month after showing no gain in July, the Commerce Department reported Monday. It was the best result since spending also expanded 0.5 percent in June.
U.S. consumers cut back on spending in April for the first time in a year, taking an unexpected pause after a big jump during the previous month. The results, however, are unlikely to derail an expected spring rebound in the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The American economy shrugged off the end of a brutal winter last month, rebounding with the biggest hiring surge in two years and suggesting that the job market's gains could endure.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans barely increased their spending in February following a weak January performance, strong evidence that the severe winter will hold back the economy in the first quarter.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans increased their spending at a solid pace for the second straight month in December even though their income was flat.
Consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in December, compared with November when spending had increased an even stronger 0.6 percent, the Commerce Department reported Friday. That was the best gain in five months.
WASHINGTON (AP) – At least eight researchers or policy experts have withdrawn from an Internet security conference after the sponsor reportedly used flawed encryption technology deliberately in commercial software to allow the National Security Agency to spy more easily on computer users.
Dr. Dan T. Meadows has been appointed to the Tennessee Board of Dentistry by Gov. Bill Haslam. Meadows, who has a private practice on Walnut Grove Road, will serve as the Rotating Dentist member through June 2016.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve says the U.S. economy still needs support from its low interest-rate policies because it is growing only moderately.
In a statement Wednesday after a policy meeting, the Fed said it would keep buying $85 billion a month in bonds to keep long-term interest rates low and encourage borrowing and spending.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Lower-priced gas allowed Americans to step up their spending at retailers in April, from cars and clothes to electronics and appliances. The rebound from a weak March suggests consumers remain resilient in the face of higher taxes and could continue to drive economic growth this spring.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans are more optimistic the job market is healing and will deliver higher pay later this year. That brighter outlook, along with rising home prices, cheaper gasoline and a surging stock market, could offset some of the drag from the recent tax increases and government spending cuts.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Gains in housing and manufacturing propelled the U.S. economy over the winter, according to reports released Tuesday, and analysts say they point to the resilience of consumers and businesses as government spending cuts kick in.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Confidence among U.S. consumers has sunk to its lowest point since July, according to a monthly index.
The University of Michigan says its consumer sentiment index for December fell to 72.9, a sharp drop from the November reading of 82.7. The November figure was a five-year high.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The outlook for the U.S. economy appeared dimmer Monday after a report that Americans spent less at retail businesses for a third straight month in June.
The report led some economists to downgrade their estimates for economic growth in the April-June quarter. Many now think the economy grew even less than in the first quarter of the year, when it expanded at a sluggish 1.9 percent annual rate.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans bought more electronics, started home improvement projects and updated their wardrobes last month, inspired by warmer weather and a healthier job market.
U.S. retail sales rose 0.8 percent in March, the Commerce Department said Friday.
Leah Walker has joined the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County as development and marketing manager. Walker represented her home state as Miss Georgia in 2008 before joining the Greater Memphis Chamber as a development consultant.
Jessica Chamberlain has joined MBI as a workspace consultant.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The economy is ending 2011 on a roll.
The job market is healthier. Americans are spending lustily on holiday gifts. A long-awaited turnaround for the depressed housing industry may be under way. Gas is cheaper. Factories are busier. Stocks are higher.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Economic growth is picking up in the final three months of the year, fueled by higher consumer spending, rising business stockpiles and modest increases in hiring.
The start of the holiday shopping season in November helped produce the sixth straight monthly increase in retail sales. Gift-buying Americans spent more on clothing and electronics, and sales of autos and furniture also rose.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans earned less last month, the first decline in nearly two years. With less income, consumers could cut back on spending and weaken an already-fragile economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Home prices rose for the second straight month in most major U.S. cities and are stabilizing after years of declines. But analysts say the trend in prices hardly signals a rebound for the troubled housing market.
NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into the recovery, Americans' confidence in the economy continues its rollercoaster ride.
As their short-term outlook on jobs and income eased somewhat amid a mix of optimistic and bad economic news, U.S. consumers' confidence rose slightly to 59.5 in July, according to a survey released Tuesday by a private research group.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A mixed slate of reports Thursday showed the economy is being held back by high gas prices and sluggish hiring.
Economists are forecasting a pick-up in growth in the second half of the year. But the latest data revealed only faint signs of a turnaround.
NASHVILLE (AP) – A group of 39 disabled Tennesseans is suing the state over cuts to in-home care services they say will force them from their homes.
The state Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities announced in June it would restrict one-on-one nursing services to 12 hours per day and personal assistance services to 215 hours per month, which equals about 7 hours per day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The best cure for the economy now is time.
That's the overwhelming opinion of leading economists in a new Associated Press survey. They say the Federal Reserve shouldn't bother trying to stimulate the economy — and could actually do damage if it did.
NEW YORK (AP) – Americans are losing faith that the economy will keep improving, according to a monthly survey.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to a six-month low of 60.8 from a revised 66 in April, a sign of the toll that high gas prices, a choppy job outlook and a moribund housing market are taking on people's psyches. Economists had expected an increase to 67.
NEW YORK (AP) – Americans' confidence in the economy grew in April as fears about the job market eased, outweighing the pain from rising prices at the gas pump.
The increase comes after an unexpected drop in March. But the measure had risen for five consecutive months before that to hit a three-year high in February.
NEW YORK (AP) – Rising prices at the gas pump and in grocery aisles are starting to crimp shoppers' outlook.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell sharply from a three-year high in February, reversing five straight months of improvement.
NEW YORK (AP) – Consumer confidence rose in February to its highest point in three years as Americans feel more optimistic about their income prospects and the direction the economy is headed, a private research group reported Tuesday.
Live From Memphis celebrates 10 years of promoting, supporting and showcasing Memphis music, film, art and culture with a Friday open house and free party at its studio at 1 S. Main St.
Chris Bradley's family doesn't waste any time training the next generation in the family business.
Now president of Collierville-based Fundcraft Publishing, Bradley, 38, started work in the family's business in grade school, putting together books. He is the third generation of Bradleys to run Fundcraft. And he has the fourth generation already in training. His teenage son, Christopher Jr., is helping out at the company over the summer.
The lawsuit between Smith & Nephew and three former sales agents stemming from a visit to a Texas strip club is no longer in Memphis federal court.
A Texas federal judge in January ordered the lawsuit moved to Memphis, but the lawyer for the salesmen last week submitted a "notice of dismissal" here after filing an amended complaint back in Texas.
Dr. Christopher K. Ledbetter has joined the Department of Urology at UT Medical Group Inc.
Ledbetter will care for patients at UTMG's urology clinic at Methodist South Hospital and at Methodist University Hospital, where he focuses on minimally invasive robotic urological surgery.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not the signal it used to be.
When employers hire temporary staff after a recession, it's long been seen as a sign they'll soon hire permanent workers.
Not these days.
Charles Redden remembers getting the call in April.
A sales associate for Smith & Nephew, Redden worked hospitals and clinics in Dallas – among the most lucrative regions for the British medical device maker whose U.S. headquarters is in Memphis. On the other end of the phone line was Redden's boss, Jon Hebel, a former minor league baseball player and an area sales manager for Smith & Nephew.
WASHINGTON (AP) - An anticipated shake-up in Senate leadership resulting from Ted Kennedy's death won't change a central tenet of this Congress: Liberals are still very much in charge.
The fall evening six years ago when Chris Peck became the editor of The Commercial Appeal was treated with utmost secrecy inside the newspaper at 495 Union Ave.
Then-publisher John Wilcox was determined to prevent leaks of that night's decision to any other media outlets. So not only would the choice be a secret to those outside the building, but inside as well.
Then-Metro editor Charles Bernsen camped out in his small office at one end of the newsroom with the blinds drawn across its large window. He emerged just before the regular 11 p.m. deadline to tell editors on the copy desk he was sending the story, written from home by a trusted reporter.
The article by Tom Charlier in the Oct. 9, 2002, edition described Peck as "a veteran journalist who built a national reputation for innovative leadership and unblinking coverage of difficult topics" as the editor of The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash.
Otis Sanford, the CA's deputy managing editor and the other finalist for the top job, was promoted to managing editor. It was the first of many changes in the past six years to the newspaper's masthead, where its top leaders are listed.
Peck arrived in Memphis shortly after the article and, although he would officially take over in January after Angus McEachran's retirement, there was a great deal of anticipation – and, uncharacteristically for a floor full of reporters – not much background checking on Peck.
Before selecting Peck, executives of the CA's parent company, the E.W. Scripps Co., had set up a committee of CA employees and solicited their opinions on what they wanted to see in the next editor. Many said they wanted a new direction at the newspaper.
Peck came to Memphis from a short stint as the Belo Distinguished Chair in Journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He had served as editor at the Spokane Spokesman-Review just prior to the academic post.
Peck left that paper on the heels of a journalism controversy that got little play outside the Northwest and continued to linger as recently as two years ago. It concerned financing for a large public project involving the newspaper's owners.
Meanwhile, hopes were high among some CA staff members that Peck would change the dysfunctional management style at the paper. Others believed no creative undertaking the size of a newspaper is possible without some level of dysfunction. And still others were leery about any optimistic assessment for any reason.
Bernsen was among the first to leave the CA after Peck's hire. Louis Graham, who had been expected to head the Metro desk even if Sanford became the new top editor, replaced Bernsen.
Six years later, departing and current staffers describe the CA's management style and newsroom atmosphere as "toxic." They also complain that little has changed in terms of who runs the newspaper on a daily basis despite a frequent shuffling of the management chart.
None would talk with The Memphis News on the record for fear of reprisals. Even past staffers didn't want their names used because of the prospect of doing freelance work for the newspaper. Those still in the newsroom and on the payroll wouldn't talk on company phones.
What ails The Commercial Appeal has a lot to do with what ails the newspaper industry in general these days. But that's a black-and-white version that misses large colorful splotches unique to the institution.
Decisions made during the past six years to pursue a growth strategy targeting "suburban" readers, as well as longstanding practices for managing talent, have also helped bring the newspaper to where it is today.
Managers at the newspaper, in separate interviews with The Memphis News, insist it is stable, profitable and will remain a seven-day-a-week operation despite recent moves that severely cut the reporting staff, eliminated classified ads from the already thin Monday and Tuesday print editions and an admission that the newspaper probably won't be covering less urgent topics in the future.
Asked if the demise of classified ad sections in the Monday and Tuesday editions could be a sign that the Monday and Tuesday print editions might vanish entirely, publisher Joe Pepe was unequivocal.
"No. That's not going to happen, at least under my tenure here," Pepe said. "A lot of the transactional classified business is done online anyway. Everything that you see in the paper every day of the week is also online. So putting the Monday and Tuesday (classifieds) online was essentially just a way for us to save on some newsprint costs while not taking away from the advertising."
The CA is profitable, Peck and Pepe insist, although they won't release any numbers.
"We've projected a profit for 2009," Peck said. "We were profitable in 2008. So, I fully expect we'll be profitable in 2009."
Pepe responded, "Absolutely," when asked if the CA is profitable. When asked if he would be more specific, he replied, "No. Good try."
The newspaper is not alone in its reluctance to give out specific financial data. Most businesses consider such information to be proprietary.
The optimistic assessment is in contrast to a letter subscribers got this month from Karl D. Wurzbach, vice president of circulation, saying subscription rates would go up by $2 a month effective Nov. 1.
"This is the only way we can continue to deliver to your home every day," he wrote. "This increase is across the board, for everybody, with no exclusions."
Wurzbach's letter also noted that the CA had dropped home delivery to 11,600 subscribers in outlying areas during a five-month period. The weekday newsstand price had already increased from 50 cents to 75 cents.
"It was costing us more money to print and deliver than we earned in revenue," he said in the letter. "No company can survive using that business model. … Simply put, we are making very difficult decisions to help our business survive."
Both moves in the appearance and delivery of the paper came in the week after 20 reporters and editors faced the ultimate "difficult decision."
The newspaper made the decision of whom to fire using a controversial system that ranks reporters in the particular section of the paper they work for. The key to the ranking is not reporting ability or even a byline count; it's how a reporter gets along with his or her editor. It had already been a key to longevity at the CA before Peck arrived in Memphis and made it a formal part of employee evaluations.
"You have to grieve those who are no longer with us in a genuine way because they were great contributions," Peck said. "But you really at that point also have to rather quickly turn your attention to the task at hand. That's what we're trying to do."
But the veteran employees "grieved" by management are the same employees management had ranked as the least valuable in their respective departments.
That included Jimmie Covington, the longest-serving reporter at the paper until his dismissal in March after years of being shuffled from one suburban bureau to another. Covington was a veteran of the county government and Memphis City Schools beats.
The layoffs also included Frederic Koeppel and Christopher Blank, who provided much of the newspaper's arts coverage and who apparently won't be replaced with full-time reporters.
There's now no mention of the "master narratives" Peck once included in his "blueprint" for the CA. They included long-form stories on race, the city's musical heritage, barbecue and the river. It was to be a departure from the newspaper being what Peck referred to as a "news utility," or all-purpose paper of record.
"What we have to do is prioritize our staff resources," Peck said just weeks after 20 people in the CA newsroom either resigned or were fired in the latest series of cutbacks – the deepest to date for the editorial staff. "I think where that's going to lead is making sure that we have the nuts and bolts of hard news coverage. That's probably police reporting, court reporting, government reporting, school reporting. We want to make sure we've got those bases covered."
Whatever is left of a full-time reporting staff will be devoted to issues and institutions such as FedEx, the University of Memphis Tigers basketball team, the Memphis Grizzlies, the economy and the medical center.
"If we run out of people at that point, then we're going to turn to freelancers and more community-generated content," Peck said. "I think we'll be able to fill a lot of holes there if we need to and I think it will work out fine."
Pepe offered a basic definition of citizen journalism.
"All blogging is citizen journalism," he told The Memphis News. "In a lot of cases it's unsubstantiated. It's not objective. It's not edited content. It leans more toward opinion and subjectivity. Anytime we have citizen journalism, it's still going to get edited. It's still going to get verified. It's going to get checked for facts before we post it. We apply the same rules to citizen-sponsored journalism as we do to our top line reporter."
Sanford said citizen journalism "has its place" and has been discussed since the early 1990s. It shows up in the pages he governs in the form of opinion pieces and letters to the editor. Non-newspaper employees also serve on the CA's editorial board.
"Now, I am a traditional, old-fashioned journalist," Sanford said. "And I believe that while citizen journalism has its place, I'm not one – and maybe this is an old-fashioned view – but I'm not one to think that citizen journalism can ever take the place of the traditional journalism that I know and love. I just don't believe that."
The names of reporters and photographers cut in the most recent round of layoffs are already turning up in CA coverage as freelancers. Instead of a straight name with "The Commercial Appeal" below it, their names now appear with the phrase "special to The Commercial Appeal" and, of course, they receive no health benefits or regular paychecks from the newspaper.
Before Peck's arrival in Memphis, the CA was more than out of touch with the need for an Internet presence. The newspaper was hostile to such a move.
Posting a story on the Web site that was anything more than a teaser paragraph before the actual newspapers rolled of the presses and into delivery trucks was seen as handing the story to the competition.
It was a philosophy that had served the newspaper well in competing with television news, even with the rise of 24-hour cable news channels.
However, there have been consequences for being late to the Internet party, and financial consequences for not taking the Internet seriously.
"Right now all the revenue is generated off advertising," Pepe said of print journalism's gradual realization that it needed to be in the Web business as well. "Until search engines are firewalled – until all local media either together or individually start charging for content online – it's going to continue to be a source of non-revenue in terms of content. That then means that revenue for all Internet ventures will be based on advertising."
After Peck arrived, the move to unique content for the Web site was still slow in coming.
Editors exerted the same multi-tiered control over copy that might mean a story was not edited for Web or print until later in the day, closer to the print deadline.
Scraps often erupted over how copy was edited after it left the editors and went to the "new media" department. It might be a change in a few words or a new, snappier lead (first sentence), but some editors clearly didn't like having their work changed as much as they might have imagined reporters liked having their work rearranged.
Reporters are expected to take such changes without protest, and protests are rare even when edits distort meaning. Reporters can always fall back on the excuse that the story got messed up after it was out of their hands.
But that brings into play another rule for newsroom survival – always, always make a hard copy of the story you turn in to your editor.
The comments section on www.commercialappeal.com, where readers may post their thoughts at the bottom of stories, has been wildly successful if you look just at the number of comments some stories generate in a short amount of time.
But success isn't the word that comes to mind if you start to read the comments on a regular basis.
They routinely crackle with racial tension and even racial slurs. When some staffers complained about the slurs and called for better policing of such comments, Peck reportedly asked for a list of what slurs should be considered cause for removing comments.
Sanford had a different take in March as he spoke at a University of Memphis panel discussion about race and the media.
"Please stop reading those comments," Sanford told a crowd of 100 people on campus. "You've got … anonymous people who go on our stories … and make unbelievably goofy and stupid comments. And then that becomes, unfortunately, the reality. And we have to stop that. We can't stop the comments because the Web people have told us, 'Well, that's how you get people in there.' But please don't listen to that."
To civic groups and even individual citizens who contact the paper with complaints and concerns, Sanford is its face, voice and ears. When the CA participates in media forums, chances are the speaker will be Sanford.
For the past two years, Sanford has been in charge of the paper's editorial board and Viewpoint section. It's a position that evolved after editorial page editor David Kushma's departure, when Kushma's duties came to be included in Sanford's.
"That just didn't work right," Sanford told The Memphis News. "We had a lot of discussions about this. Corporate was even involved in it. We agreed that the editorial pages, Viewpoint, the editorial board – we would sort of restructure the newsroom operation and the editorial board and the editorial opinions of the paper so that would fall directly under the publisher and I would be running that. I think that was a good thing to do."
That means that Sanford works for Pepe, not Peck, as he did when he was managing editor.
Peck met with each reporter in his office shortly after he arrived in Memphis. He appeared to be taking notes on a legal pad as he listened to their comments and suggestions.
However, trying to find Peck's strategy over the years has been no simple matter. There wasn't much beyond slogans that included "rebuilding the jet while flying it" or "building a 21st century newspaper." The latter phrase was still being used six years into the new century.
One reporter who tried to get into Peck's head in terms of management philosophy hit a brick wall with a thud, although he is still employed at the CA.
On that occasion, Peck was in no mood to discuss philosophy despite a casual-sounding e-mail asking if the reporter had a few minutes to talk. Instead of a dialogue, Peck gave the reporter $50 in cash and a list of books he could buy to read. He also sent the reporter back to the night cops beat for objecting to how a story was edited.
The editorial page and op-ed page were the first parts of the paper that changed. Peck wanted more letters to the editor. He also wanted to stop the practice of rigorously fact-checking letters.
This drew dissent from Kushma, who was eventually overruled and left in the first round of buyouts in 2003 that followed Peck's arrival. Some of the other changes were in the Metro section – the hard news engine of the paper.
Reporters were switched around, which is a normal part of life at the city's daily newspaper unless you are declared immune from such changes. The six or seven Metro editors were immune for the most part from the changes.
The newspaper's home office in Cincinnati had long maintained that the paper was top heavy with such editors. Peck talked a lot about change, but didn't change that.
At one of Peck's first meetings with the Metro staff, a reporter asked Peck when there would be changes for the editors as well. Peck's answer was to talk about Dentyne gum and how the company that makes it had allegedly improved its sales figures by repackaging the gum.
The analogy was that the CA was going to undergo a similar repackaging: What was under the wrapper would remain the same.
For weeks after the meeting, fellow reporters left numerous packages of Dentyne on the questioner's desk.
Before Peck answered the question, some staffers remained hopeful because they saw most of the problems with the new management as a result of Peck having to answer to John Wilcox, the CA's publisher. It was a key difference in the management structure.
Before Wilcox's arrival, McEachran had served as editor and president – a title that gave McEachran near absolute power over everything the newspaper did, editorially and otherwise.
The Dentyne story showed that if there was a struggle between Wilcox and Peck, it wasn't much of a difference of opinion. They essentially agreed on a newsroom strategy that continued to unfold.
Of those at the top of the masthead, only Sanford has seen all of the changes unfold from one regime to the other.
"In terms of news, certainly the newspaper has changed dramatically under Chris," Sanford told The Memphis News. "There have been significant changes in focus and really in newsroom culture."
Asked to characterize whether the change has been good, bad or indifferent, Sanford said, "I'm not going to say. I'm going to let others decide that. The readers can determine that."
Peck's take on newsroom culture at the CA is almost as neutral.
"The culture is not one where people are necessarily beaming with big smiles every day because it's a difficult time in the industry," he told The Memphis News. "I think that I have tried to be very realistic with people with what's going on in the business – and very realistic about our expectations of what we need from our staff, from my office all the way down to the last person who leaves at night."
The Neighbors sections were abolished with Peck's settling in – sections included every Thursday for each zone of the city that also contained honors rolls of all schools in and out of the zone, and other such listings. It had the kind of items that readers might like to cut out and post on their refrigerators. No matter where you lived in Memphis, you got a Neighbors section.
Peck wasted no time in making the refrigerator postings a rallying cry for what was to replace Neighbors. They would be hyper-local sections that would contain only news about that part of the county. Some would be written by a staffer, but most often written by citizens in that area. Often, the citizens were members of a group or organization that was the focus of the piece.
Soon the philosophy began to apply to the news that appeared in other parts of the particular delivery zone.
Not every section of the city got a suburban edition. Vast sections of North and South Memphis as well as Frayser and Raleigh were out of the loop.
Peck first pleaded ignorance to and has since repeatedly denied a central tenet of life in Memphis. Memphians often have family that might live in another part of town. Thus someone Downtown might want to see the honor roll of Tara Oaks Elementary School in Collierville or someone in Bartlett might be interested in what is happening in Arlington.
This often led to readers wondering what they missed in other parts of the city, and being suspicious of only receiving certain news.
New suburban bureaus were opened as full-time postings in Mississippi and Arkansas and state Capitol coverage from Jackson and Little Rock, respectively, was abandoned. Meanwhile, the newspaper's greatest success in a suburban edition was being changed to make it fit the cookie-cutter mold of the new suburban bureaus.
The newspaper's DeSoto County edition opened late in McEachran's tenure. It was one of the few times McEachran talked about marketing studies as he explained a concept to the newsroom. But it was because the data were clear.
DeSoto County readers wanted a newspaper that covered North Mississippi and did not mention Memphis, at least on the front page. The DeSoto County bureau had a separate sales and management staff. And the CA edition delivered in DeSoto County had its own front page that was DeSoto County-centric. It was even called The DeSoto Appeal. And it was a hit out of the box, with plans to duplicate the model in Tipton County while maintaining a different model within Shelby County because of the differences in attitudes clearly shown in the marketing study.
Peck wasn't interested in the distinction.
When Pepe arrived as publisher in late 2005, the CA got someone with experience in such suburban editions. Pepe came to Memphis from St. Louis, where he headed the Suburban Journals – a collection of 38 weekly community newspapers.
Pepe said the CA's suburban business strategy as modified several times over has worked. That strategy is to get advertising from small businesses in the community receiving the directed section – businesses whose reach and revenue can't sustain a pitch to the paper's larger audience.
"In St. Louis, they've been in place for 50 years," Pepe said. "So they were humming. Here, we've had them in place for three or four years. I would suggest that if we'd not done this, that we would have even greater financial problems, only because the dependency on the larger advertisers would have been even greater than it is."
"Zoning," as it's called, is now a three-day-a-week proposition.
"We still do zoning Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. We have a suburban, urban and a DeSoto zone. I think that's where we need to be," Peck said. "What we're trying to do is balance the best of both worlds. Make sure our readers have the best of what's going on in greater Memphis, but that we also provide a degree of zone content that is either geared toward the metro area, the suburbs or DeSoto County."
But the practice has been much different than the theory behind the advertising and the needs of news consumers. As valued as the suburban coverage has been throughout Peck's tenure, the bureaus have been places where reporters with troublesome attitudes toward editors have been exiled.
It was the next destination for many of those summoned for personal meetings with Peck as the first round of buyouts began in late 2003. In some cases, reporters have welcomed the assignment to be able to get out of the Downtown newsroom.
The first round of buyouts under Peck in 2003 was brutal – even more ham-handed and graceless than anyone imagined possible. And the CA is not an organization noted for having an optimistic outlook.
All employees who were older than 40 and had been at the company 20 years or more got packets outlining the terms of the buyout. But within that group, Peck singled out about a dozen copy editors, reporters and photographers, including some of the most senior reporters and photographers in the organization. He had already begun discussions with several in the group who had been ill or had surgery.
Each got an e-mail from Peck asking if they had a few minutes to talk in his office. Peck would later quarrel with an assertion that he had threatened those in the group in the one-on-one talks. But he did tell each of them that if they didn't take the buyout, they would be assigned more onerous duties.
One was told that if he didn't take the buyout, he would be working nights and weekends. When the employee said he already worked nights and weekends, the meeting ended abruptly. A features reporter and another reporter each were told they would be working the night cops beat if they didn't accept the buyouts.
The night shift started at 4:30 p.m. and ran until 1 a.m. or so. It involved listening to a police scanner and checking for such news that had to be written on deadline. The night cops reporter is the only news reporter on duty at the paper after 5p.m. unless there's a late City Council meeting or someone on dayside decides they are on a roll and continues working.
Most papers have the night cops beat, and it is usually where beginning reporters start. It's a good way to learn the basics of print reporting and determine whether a reporter can hold up under deadline pressure. At the CA, it is a beat assigned to reporters who are out of favor – firmly, decisively and usually terminally out of favor.
Under Peck, even summer interns don't have to work night cops.
The Newspaper Guild, the union that represents reporters, photographers and copy editors, took the unusual move of passing a resolution that complained about Peck's singling out employees. The same day the union passed the resolution, Peck called into his office the reporter who had made the proposal. I was that employee.
"I would really like for this not to find its way to Cincinnati," was his reaction after he quarreled over whether his other talks with employees had amounted to threats.
The guild membership had voted unanimously for the resolution to be sent to Scripps management in Cincinnati. Peck later talked union leaders out of sending it, despite the membership vote.
Some of the squeezed employees took the buyout. Others stayed and were shuffled out to the suburban bureaus the following August, and were among those laid off this past March.
The guild's idea of a protest was to have reporters in the newsroom wear green on certain days of the week. This signaled that contract negotiations weren't going well or weren't going at all.
It's been six years since the last labor contract expired that included guaranteed annual raises. Then the guild went to the idea of wearing green buttons – no words on the buttons, just green buttons that Scripps brass in town would see during their visits to Memphis. The brass never got near the newsroom. Still later, the guild kept the idea of the green color scheme but added the wording "We All Merit A Raise" to protest the company's proposal of merit pay raises instead of a percentage raise guaranteed in the contract.
At one point, the guild was optimistic that the company was getting the message. So the guild urged members not to file grievances against management to keep the goodwill going.
In October 2007, the most visible sign of dissent in years came outside the framework of the guild and stalled contract talks. As the CA prepared to publish a series of articles on the impact of Memphis businesses around the world, a lead piece about FedEx to be sponsored by FedEx was ordered rewritten and the reporter, Trevor Aaronson, refused. The newspaper had approached FedEx about sponsoring that particular piece. Dozens of staff members, in a rare public move, signed a petition objecting to the practice Peck referred to as "monetizing content." They felt it crossed the line separating the editorial part of the newspaper from sales. National trade magazines and blogs, which normally overlook the CA, took note of the flap.
Peck retreated, telling Editor & Publisher, a print trade magazine, "I went to our publisher and said, 'We have probably gone half a step more than we should have gone on this project.' It is treacherous ground when you start talking about having an advertiser in a section that has them in the reporting."
Aaronson later left the CA, but has been quoted as saying he enjoyed the freedom he was given to pursue his own interests.
"I don't care to talk about my experiences there," Aaronson wrote in an e-mail.
The stage for the latest round of layoffs that came in April was set with the release of fourth-quarter figures for Scripps.
Profits were way down. The chain ended the year with its share prices down 51 percent or $22. The chain announced it would freeze the pension plan, cutting 401(k) matching funds from the company. At the CA, the 401(k) match has always only applied to managers.
Mark Watson, head of the triumvirate of labor unions at the CA, including The Newspaper Guild, broke the news about the layoffs, calling it a "crisi-tunity." He was among those laid off weeks later.
The weekend after the announcement, Peck in his Sunday column once again lectured about the hard economic times.
From the start, Peck's quest was to garner favorable attention within the city and in journalism circles across the country by winning awards. At first, he touted every award the paper won, which, for writing and reporting, were usually the monthly Scripps awards from the home office in Cincinnati.
But he later reversed that and said the paper should note only awards of national stature. Photographers regularly won those, but reporters didn't.
When some reporters complained their work was always excluded from consideration, Peck directed that reporters submit on a monthly basis any work they wanted to be considered for award entries.
Those suggestions were then forwarded to the very editors who had been excluding their work in the first place and who remained in control of contest entries.
Like other newspapers, the CA's approach to awards is sometimes to deem a story to be eligible for an award, possibly before the first interview is done or the first word is written.
But a contest entry had to have the right byline as well – the right reporter doing a story for a contest was usually not the one covering the beat from which the story arose.
Pamela Perkins, who left the paper voluntary in the November 2008 round of layoffs, along with music writer Bill Ellis, who left in 2005, won a national award in 2004 from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri for their continuing coverage of the return of Stax Records and the surrounding Soulsville neighborhood in South Memphis. Their writing won first place in the arts and entertainment category of the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards.
There was no companywide e-mail congratulating them as there had been for awards in the monthly Scripps competition.
Stephen Price's work as one of several reporters working on the deadly shooting of a child on Rosamond Avenue in 2002 caught the attention of Florida's Poynter Institute, a leading journalism think tank. Other reporters deemed more worthy were praised the next day in the inevitable self-congratulatory e-mail in which management separated those it favored from those it didn't.
Price had blended into the neighborhood crowd as police cleared reporters from the area, came back with the story no one else had and wrote it on deadline.
The Poynter Institute carries a lot of weight in Peck's newspaper philosophy. Several times, he's used Poynter fellows to mediate discussions with community leaders about the newspaper's policies. But when Price's account of the shooting aftermath in the Rosamond neighborhood was reprinted in Poynter's annual anthology of the nation's best journalism of the past year, CA management once again did not acknowledge the accolade.
As the 2004 presidential season began, Peck revealed an important part of his views on political coverage to an editors' forum in Washington. It was the same night as the Iowa caucuses.
The remarks to the American Press Institute gathering didn't get much publicity, even after they showed up on an industry blog. It took a few more months. He never said anything about it to anyone who worked at the CA.
Peck said having reporters cover campaign events was a waste of time and resources. Instead, he said citizen journalists should cover the events – those who were already going to attend the rallies anyway.
"We have to get over the notion that we have to do it all ourselves," he told Chad Capellman of API as he talked of having editors find volunteers to write summaries of what was said. "It's not doing the democracy any good to send out a reporter to write down a regurgitation of what a candidate is saying in a staged event."
Peck also said newspapers should compete with comedy shows such as "The Daily Show" and "Saturday Night Live" as a source of political information. Also, Peck called for focus groups of readers to determine what issues should be discussed.
"Don't let the candidates drive coverage of the three issues they want to ride to get elected," he told the API group.
Being the newspaper's political reporter had been a difficult posting for some time, even before Peck arrived in Memphis. Bernsen had a checkered history of political coverage that turned into a deep distrust and contempt for politics when he became the head of Metro.
Each election season he would dutifully call those assigned to political coverage to his office and haul out a set of his own news clippings, which he said illustrated the kind of reporting he wanted. Under no circumstances, he insisted, would the candidates be setting the agenda for the newspaper's coverage.
Such tension is normal in the planning of most media coverage of politics. It's a game candidates, their representatives and the reporters who cover them play constantly.
Bernsen's decision was not to play the game at all. He did not want coverage of campaign events and rallies. And the end of an election meant the end of political coverage. Any attempt a candidate made to establish or give voice to an issue was uniformly rejected even if it obviously hit a nerve with voters. To him, the whole process was rigged and the newspaper's view was the only valid one.
There was supposed to be a wall between the reporting that was allowed on the political process and the endorsements of candidates that the CA editorial board made. Most candidates interested in the newspaper's endorsement never believed there was a wall. If there was, they reasoned, editors not on the board would still find a way to limit or tilt coverage of those who weren't endorsed.
The CA began 2009 with a curious 15-part series that recapped the public life of Mayor Willie Herenton.
Herenton has had problems with the newspaper throughout that public life. And similarly, the newspaper's leadership has had problems seeing straight when the subject was Willie Herenton.
The paper's until then consistent political coverage was missing in action when Herenton launched a surprisingly strong-willed bid for mayor in 1991. Editorially, the newspaper had strong reservations about the People's Convention that Herenton took by storm, clearing the first political obstacle in what became a historic campaign.
His willingness to participate in the convention, whose goal was to come up with a consensus black challenger to incumbent Dick Hackett, put off those in the newspaper's front office. It translated to next to no coverage of a campaign effort that was on the streets every day, while Hackett pursued the local equivalent of a rose garden strategy of speaking to small groups at select backyard parties.
When Herenton won, the ambivalence turned into hostility.
Herenton had a good relationship with several reporters who had covered his tenure as city schools superintendent – even through the sexual harassment lawsuit that came near the end of his tenure there and just before his entry into the 1991 mayor's race. (The harassment case stemmed from a relationship Herenton had with a teacher.)
Those reporters had to walk a fine line. A favorable comment by Herenton in public that got back to editors could mean that reporter would be perceived as biased toward Herenton. The problem many reporters had with walking the tightrope was editors increasingly viewed a reporter's duty to the paper as a requirement to shank their sources in print to show where their loyalties lay.
The editors were convinced a 2005 recall petition mounted by radio talk show host and blogger Thaddeus Matthews would succeed. They considered it a foregone conclusion that Matthews would gather more than enough signatures on the petitions and do it well before the deadline to file with the Shelby County Election Commission.
The newspaper's planned coverage moved past the recall drive itself. The editors ordered up a piece on who was likely to run in the recall election that followed. They approached at least two reporters with the task before the effort flagged just enough for the piece to become an article on who might run for city mayor in 2007.
The fact that politicos across the city were still waiting to see if the 2006 county elections would offer any opportunities didn't cross their minds. Calls to those politicos were met with widespread laughter and wonderment at the eccentric methods afoot at the CA. The petition drive failed and Matthews backed Herenton's 2007 bid for re-election.
By this past February, CA management signed off on a content-sharing agreement with fellow Scripps paper The Knoxville News Sentinel, as well as The Tennesseean newspaper in Nashville and the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The Feb. 5 agreement was already in effect by the time an internal memo from News Sentinel management surfaced in early March in Editor & Publisher.
The CA and the Knoxville newspaper had used such a strategy for years in covering politics. The result was that the CA continued to do without any local political coverage beyond biographical pieces introducing candidates.
Statewide races for governor and the U.S. Senate were covered from Knoxville or by the CA's Nashville bureau chief, Richard Locker, or in some cases by Bartholomew Sullivan, a former CA reporter who now works for the Scripps News Service's Washington bureau. That meant candidates for statewide office coming to Memphis were usually covered before they got to the city or after they left.
The agreement was most visible during the 2006 U.S. Senate race between Republican Bob Corker of Chattanooga and Democrat Harold Ford Jr. of Memphis. One of the campaign's crucial events was a showdown between the two at Memphis International Airport.
Corker had called a press conference there. Ford crashed the event ahead of time and the two faced off in the airport parking lot – a few inches from each other with television cameras and microphones surrounding them.
There was no CA reporter in the press pack. Sullivan covered what became known as the "parking lot debate" from the D.C. bureau.
Chris Rosa has been named general manger of the Holiday Inn and Suites Memphis-Wolfchase. Rosa will be responsible for day-to-day operations of the property. He previously served as vice president of operations for Equity Estates, general manger at the Sheraton Meadowlands and area manger of the Crowne Plaza Ravinia in Atlanta. Rosa also has been named General Manager of the Year by Patriot American Hotels and Hotelier of the Year by the Connecticut Hospitality Association.
Felicia Hartsfield has been named chief operating officer of Influence 1 Foundation.
Hartsfield will oversee the continued stability and growth of the foundation's fiscal, strategic, organizational and operational functions. Her duties also will include building and maintaining relationships with community leaders, as well as creating collaborations, which will enhance the foundation's strategic model.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Republican John McCain said Friday the Federal Reserve needs to stop bailing out failed financial institutions.
The Republican presidential hopeful said the Fed should get back to "its core business of responsibly managing our money supply and inflation" and he laid out several recommendations for stabilizing markets in the financial crisis that has rocked Wall Street and commanded the dialogue in the presidential campaign.
NEW YORK (AP) - The worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression forced the Federal Reserve and central banks in other countries to pump billions of dollars into the world's banking system in an urgent bid to stop further damage.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Scrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have announced steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Trip Peeples has been promoted to administrator for Methodist Alliance Health Services' Home Medical Equipment and Infusion division.
Peeples has been with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare for seven years, most recently serving as corporate director of finance and reimbursement and interim chief financial officer for Methodist Extended Care Hospital.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Could the housing market's woes spread to bonds held in mutual funds by millions of ordinary investors?
Some experts - and hedge fund investors who have made big bets that the mortgage crisis will worsen - are saying that's exactly what will happen. Some bond funds that invest in riskier short-term debt already have been whacked by soaring default rates on bonds backed by subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers this fall will consider stricter rules for credit-rating agencies amid criticism that they failed to accurately assess - or warn investors about - the risks that mortgage investments posed to financial markets.
The Peabody Hotel has named Brian Barrow chef de cuisine for Capriccio Grill, an Italian steakhouse. Barrow began his culinary career at 27. He attended Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts in Miami. He previously was a chef at the Ambassador Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and with Do & Co International Catering.
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DETROIT >> One day Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley may call to thank former Wing Jiri Fischer for having a hand in saving his life.
Peverley went into cardiac arrest during the Stars� game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Tuesday night, which looked eerily similar to what happened to Fisher back in 2005 at Joe Louis Arena.
�If I compare both videos, (it) looked just as scary,� Fisher said. �They�re very similar. Both came halfway through the first period. He was being resuscitated in the room, I was being resuscitated on the bench. The one big difference was I was unconscious.�
Fischer collapsed on the bench on Nov. 21, 2005 against the Nashville Predators and it ended his playing career at age 25.
�Piet (Van Zant), Russ (Baumann), (Tony Colucci), Doug Plagens, the whole staff saved my life,� said Fisher, who�s now 33. �I�m glad Dallas� staff did the same for Rich.�
The game between the Stars and Blue Jackets was postponed just like the Wings game with the Predators was back in 2005.
�Certainly there isn�t a day that goes by that I don�t think about how it would be and what my career would�ve been like,� said Fisher, who the Wings� top pick, 25th overall in the 1998 entry draft. �It�s not easy, but it�s reality.�
The incident with Fisher raised awareness immediately and led to changes in arenas and other facilities so to be better prepared for such emergencies. The first of which was having defibrillators nearby and people trained on how to use them.
Also, evacuation procedures were reviewed and now hallways in arenas are clear during games to ensure that an emergency vehicle would have easier access in and out.
�It certainly got a lot of attention,� Fisher said. �It was the first incident of that kind on national TV, the first cardiac arrest live on TV. It made a lot of people think hard about it.
�It started an avalanche of great things that hopefully people will benefit from,� Fisher continued. �Unfortunately, cardiac arrests will continue to happen. But everyone is doing their best to prevent them.�
Fisher reached out to former Wings assistant general manager Jim Nill, who�s now the Stars� GM, and asked if it was appropriate to talk to Peverley.
�The reality is now what,� said Fisher, who�s currently the Wings� director of player development. �(Peverley) is doing better, really well. His wife obviously is part of the whole thing and she�s doing well. I called Rich and left him a message. When I went through it, I didn�t want to talk to anybody for days. Teammates stopped by (the hospital), it�s chaotic. I hope he�s OK.�
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Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu will miss Thursday's game against Tennessee after aggravating his strained right calf and linebacker LaMarr Woodley is doubtful with a mild right hamstring injury.
Polamalu lasted just a quarter during Sunday's 16-14 win over Philadelphia. He was in coverage during a pass play then pulled up shortly after the whistle. He limped to the sideline and spent the rest of the game on the bench. Polamalu has already missed two games this season with the same injury.
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Don't Shut Up, Don't Give Up; Stand Up and Speak!
November 15, 2012
As World AIDS Day approaches I start to think about what is, what could be, and what I dream of. To dream of an AIDS-free generation is something I once thought was completely out of the question. In fact, I remember right after I was diagnosed, I had several people tell me I'd live to see a cure. I also remember thinking that they were crazy or, more loosely, yeah friggin' right!
So to now be in a place where we actually have the tools needed to see this come to fruition is mind-blowing. I know I would personally do anything I can to make it happen -- and I've done many things, from picking up teens to take them for testing and being a mentor, to walking across campus and talking to people about HIV, to going to bars and raves and handing out condoms and lubes -- because this is all what I feel is a way to help, to lower infections. But I know it is going to take more than that: It is going to take some people standing up and being absolutely honest; it is going to take changing the politics in America concerning HIV/AIDS; it is going to take more medicine, more funding, more education, more open dialogue; it is going to take people stopping the judgment and giving a hand when and where they can; and it is going to take all of us.
We have to stop pretending that things are different than what they are; for instance, that positive people don't have sex, and if we do it can only be with other positive people. I personally know several people who date only negative partners, who only have unprotected sex with those negative partners. But guess what? When it is two consenting adults who make a choice to do so, it is not our place as a society to judge them or share our opinion with them.
We have to expect that people whose basic fundamental rights and needs are being undermined and trampled may not worry about taking medication or wearing a condom. We have to stop and think about the root causes for risky behaviors, or rapes, or drug use, or ignorance are and first educate about those. We have to stand up, take some accountability and do what needs to be and should be happening in this country to change the politics so that funding is where we need it, when we need it. So that people who are infected have undetectable viral loads, and we are using treatment as prevention since we now know that is a way to strongly curb the number of new infections.
We need to do our part as well in making sure that funding is available by advocating, by making sure we are involved in the process. I live in Nebraska and while I have sat on the board of directors for the ADAP Advocacy Association for over a year, I have been positive for over six years. At my first doctor's appointment I walked in and said "I have to talk about this to people; this isn't supposed to happen." However, I am just now finally getting connected with the state agencies, the Ryan White councils, the ADAP and funding allocation committees. That's because this is how long it took me to even find the councils and committees because no one in the state that should have been making sure an HIV-positive person was involved in the process did that job.
What does this mean for you? This means it is a painstaking process that is hard and takes dedication; but fortunately in most places people do the jobs they are supposed to do and there are a number of activists and advocates, which means that you reach out to them to make the journey a little easier, and then you fight. You don't shut up, you don't give up, and you do what needs to be done, whether it is popular or not. That is how we get to an AIDS-free generation; that is how this changes!
Stop being ashamed that you are living, LIVING, with an illness. I don't care what you did to get infected or how it happened because that can't change; but what can change are the coming generations and YOU can be a part of that change. I can't think if a better legacy than to be able to look back and say "Yeah; I did my part in that."
Talk about that at your dinner table!
Nina J. Bri is an HIV-positive woman, mother, college student, activist and advocate. She works with Hope's Voice as a speaker for their Does HIV Look Like Me? lecture series. She lives in Nebraska.
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Comment by: Jason McDonald (Powell, TN (outside Knoxville)) Sat., Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:15 pm UTC
I enjoyed reading your post! I identified with you in that I have been poz for 5 years, and I am just now becoming involved with the HIV community. How did you find the state HIV agencies, or how is it that you came to be involved with them?
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Comment by: sharon (kentucky) Tue., Nov. 20, 2012 at 10:57 am UTC
I think your approach to this illness is absolutely courageous!
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Will abortion torpedo Catholic support for health care reform? UPDATE
Looks like Catholics are once again caught between the pro-life rock and a hard place. Church teaching clearly prohibits abortion (and Catholic involvement with it) yet robustly supports a human right (yes, a right) to health care, which in terms of policy generally means government-sponsored systems.
The Wall Street Journal has an article today on the issue, highlighting the recent implosion of a Catholic attempt to participate in Massachusetts' universal insurance system, which would have required the Catholic system to refer women seeking abortions to a secular partner. UPDATE: USC's Kevin Clarke interviews Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good's John Gehring on this very issue in a news story on USC.org as well. Gehring agrees that allowing federal funding for abortion will likely kill health care reform.
This is going to be a tough one: If you're on the side of abortion reduction (as opposed to prohibition), a universal system seems the way to go, as industrialized countries with subsidized health care have much lower rates of abortion than the U.S. (12 per 1,000 women there as opposed to 21 in the U.S.; the highest world rates were places where abortion was generally illegal).
But it seems unlikely to me that any bishop or religious community will allow its member institutions to directly refer a woman for an abortion, even if it takes place elsewhere.
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Listen to David Pogue cover Dashboard Widgets--what they are, how to use the Widget Bar, and what Widgets can do for you. He provide tips on some of the crazy and fun widgets available for free download. (6 minutes)
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Monday, July 30, 2012
SARATOGA RACE COURSE NOTES: Sunday, July 29, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Godolphin Racing's Alpha emerged from his Grade 2 Jim Dandy victory in fine fettle and is definitely Travers-bound, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Sunday.
"He ate everything up and cooled out quickly," McLaughlin noted. "I've already spoken to Simon [Crisford, Godolphin Racing Manager]; he called yesterday at 6:04 [p.m.], he was very happy, and we're going to the Travers [Grade 1, $1 million, August 25]. Yesterday was a very important win, and we're very happy, all of us."
"It was a great run, everything went as planned," McLaughlin said. "We weren't sure – Plan A, from the one hole, was to break, be forwardly placed, and if nobody's going too fast, [I told Dominguez], 'I'd love to see you on the lead. If they go fast, then maybe we'll sit in behind them.' He broke great, that was a big plus. When I looked at the tote board to see the half in :49, I was liking that, and I liked three-quarters in 1:14."
While Alpha employed front-running tactics over yesterday's sloppy, sealed racetrack, McLaughlin said the Bernardini colt is certainly not guaranteed to set the pace in the 1 ¼-mile Travers.
"You have to take each race as a different race," the trainer said. "Everybody says, 'What about the Travers? You going to go to the lead?' We don't know. We don't know what post we draw, if Hansen shows up, Paynter shows up, we're probably not on the lead. But, we'll deal with that when we get there. It was a nice situation yesterday. Sometimes a clean face helps. We liked our horse [first-time starter] North Slope yesterday, and he didn't have a clean face when he came back [after finishing seventh]. He was very dirty, and Ramon said he was not liking the kickback. So, to be able to have a clean face on that racetrack was nice."
McLaughlin said Alpha likely would work twice prior to the August 25 Travers.
"He's not a big, heavy horse, we were trying to put on weight, so we didn't have to train so hard [prior to the Jim Dandy]," McLaughlin said. "The :58 and change was an interesting work [five-furlong bullet work in 58.88 on July 14], but it was a great work. We won't do so much [before the Travers]. The most we would work is twice. It's four weeks, so we'd probably work on August 11th and the 18th, most likely. People thought about needing the race [in the Jim Dandy], with the time [not running since 12th in the May 5 Kentucky Derby], but he's fit, and never really missed any time except the few days he had a temperature [before the June 9 Belmont Stakes]. He's put on weight and he's doing very well, that's the main thing."
McLaughlin added that multiple Grade 1 winner It's Tricky came out of her half-mile breeze yesterday at Greentree Training Center in good shape as she eyes one of two Saratoga Grade 1s – the seven-furlong Ballerina on August 24, or the 1 1/8-mile Personal Ensign on August 26.
"She's great," McLaughlin said. "She liked working on the synthetic."
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Happy vibrations surrounded the barn of trainer Jimmy Toner Sunday morning as his big, gray turf star Winter Memories relaxed in her stall the morning after taking the Grade 1, $600,000 Diana, her most lucrative win to date.
The 4-year-old daughter of El Prado had failed to reach the speedy Tapitsfly in the Grade 1 Longines Just a Game last month at one mile on the grass at Belmont Park, but with a little give in the ground and an extra furlong to negotiate, she displayed her full talent with a blistering acceleration to the front turning for home in the Diana.
Applauded by the fans on her way to the track, Winter Memories was greeted with an even greater ovation when she returned to the winner's circle.
"That was pretty neat," said Toner, who plans to rest Winter Memories and then point toward a run in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational on September 29 at Belmont Park. "You feel the appreciation for a horse like that. We appreciate seeing the people pick up on that, and it makes it something special. This is her fan base."
While the Flower Bowl and Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf remain prime objectives, Toner said he hadn't been looking past the Diana.
"Yesterday was important," he said. "She got beat last time, and I wanted to make sure she was legit and back on her game."
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Trainer Todd Pletcher has confirmed both WinStar Farm's Rule and Mike Repole's Caixa Eletronica for next Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap, with the former posting a five-furlong breeze on the Oklahoma training track on Sunday.
Working in company with 2-year-old maiden Palace Malice, Rule was clocked in 1:02.35.
"Rule is sort of an old, wiser horse who does what he has to do in the mornings," said Pletcher. "It's typical for him to not 'wow' you in the morning, but it seems like he's doing well."
Rule, winner of the Birdstone Stakes and third in the Grade 1 Woodward last year at Saratoga, has made one start this year, taking the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup by 1 ½ lengths over Flat Out on July 7.
Pletcher said it was the second time Rule had worked in company with Palace Malice, a juvenile Dogwood Stable color-bearer. Hailing from Curlin's first crop, Palace Malice was second by a half-length to Carried Interest in a five-furlong race on July 5 at Belmont Park in his lone previous start.
"Both were looking for a similar five-eighths work," said Pletcher. "We've got a race and two works [into Rule], so we're good to go [for the Whitney]."
Pletcher had considered running the Caixa Eletronica in the Grade 1, six-furlong Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap on August 5 before deciding in favor of the 1 1/8-mile Whitney. After winning Belmont's Grade 2 True North Handicap at six furlongs on June 9, Caixa Eletronica was fifth in the Grade 3 James Marvin at seven furlongs on the July 20 opening-day card at the Spa.
"Caixa Eletronica is going to run in the Whitney, but since he is running back in two weeks he will not breeze," said Pletcher. "He's 2-for-2 at a mile and an eighth, he's won a $1 million race [the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic] at a mile and an eighth, and we felt like the six furlongs here may not set up like the six furlongs at Belmont [in the True North]. I think it's a little harder to make that deep-closing move here."
Pletcher said Palace Malice's second start will come in a 6 ½-furlong maiden race on Whitney Day.
"We would have preferred to run him a little farther first-time out, but he was ready to go so we opted to run him five furlongs [at Belmont]," said Pletcher. "The obvious choice after that is to try to stretch him out, so we're waiting on the [6 ½-furlong maiden race]."
Also on the worktab for Pletcher was Repole's Stay Thirsty, who breezed four furlongs on the Oklahoma training track in 49.22. The 2011 Travers winner will make his next start in the Grade 1 Woodward on September 1, Pletcher said.
Pletcher added that Blue Heaven Farm's Maple Forest has been pointed toward the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares on August 3.
"We entered her in a stake at Monmouth today and it didn't fill, so we'll call an audible and try that," said Pletcher.
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Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who turned 59-years-old today, professed himself satisfied after Ron the Greek and Flat Out worked this morning in preparation for Saturday's Grade 1 Whitney.
Going out on the Oklahoma training track after the first renovation break, Flat Out covered five furlongs in 1:02.33 under Neil Poznansky, while Ron the Greek breezed four furlongs in 49.02 with Rodolphe Brisset aboard.
"Ron the Greek had some company early; actually, he had some company with some other horses that weren't ours," said Mott of the 5-year-old son of Full Mandate, who this year has won the Grade 1 Stephen Foster and Grade 1 Santa Anita handicaps. "There were so many horses working, he kind of got caught up, but it worked out all right. Everyone was trying to get the track at its best."
Mott has an additional Whitney candidate in Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap winner To Honor and Serve, but remained noncommittal about whether he would enter the colt.
"I'll never tell," he said
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Hymn Book, who rallied from last to finish second behind Mucho Macho Man in the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap last time out, turned in his final serious work for the Grade 1 Whitney this morning, going an easy half-mile in 50.22 after the first renovation break on the Oklahoma training track.
"It was fine," reported Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey. "He went fine, I've got no complaints. It's a go."
A 6-year-old gelded son of Arch, Hymn Book will be making his second career appearance at the Spa, having finished sixth in the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap on the turf in 2011.
McGaughey added that with Point of Entry targeting the Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational on August 18 and Boisterous being pointed to the Grade 1 Arlington Million on the same day in Chicago, he would look for an allowance spot for Air Support with the next objective the Grade 2 Bowling Green Handicap at Belmont Park.
"I'm going to work him tomorrow and make up my mind," he said of Air Support, most recently second to Turbo Compressor in the Grade 1 United Nations Handicap. "We'll see what happens. There's an allowance race I'm thinking about. The places he's run have been tough races. I'd like to try to get him to a spot where it looks like he could win a race. He hasn't won in a year [Grade 2 Virginia Derby]."
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Newly arrived trainer Eoin Harty said he was pleased with the progress of Endorsement, the 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor who is pointing to Saturday's Grade 1 Whitney.
"He loves it here. He's really, really training good here," Harty said. "I hadn't seen him in a week, and I saw him this morning and he's really in top shape. After a work like he did here last weekend, to be acting like he's acting is a real positive sign."
On July 23, the Casner Racing color-bearer breezed five furlongs over Saratoga's main track in a bullet 58.86 seconds, galloping out six furlongs in 1:12.26. He is tentatively scheduled to put in his final pre-Whitney work Monday morning, but the time and track are dependent on the weather.
Harty wasn't pleased with Endorsement's behavior prior to his last start, the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park on July 7, when he acted up in the paddock and the starting gate before finishing last of seven, beaten 37 lengths.
It was, by far, the poorest performance for Endorsement, winner of the Grade 3 Texas Mile and third by a length in the Grade 3 Pimlico Special this year. He has been off the board just twice in 10 career starts, with four wins and three seconds.
"If I didn't have a reason why he ran so poorly, I'd say I wouldn't have even considered this race," Harty said. "But, he had a genuine reason for running so badly, and his races up to the Suburban were good races. He showed improvement in each race, so if you throw out the Suburban, he deserves a shot."
Harty, who had a six-hour delay on his flight from California to Saratoga, planned to school Endorsement in the paddock during today's seventh race.
Joel Rosario will be aboard Endorsement for the first time in the Whitney, replacing Martin Garcia, who rode the chestnut in his past two races. Formerly based on the West Coast, Rosario entered Sunday's card with seven wins in his first full summer at Saratoga.
"I've used Joel and I've watched him ride out in California, and he's an excellent rider out there," Harty said. "I've watched him since he's been back here, and he seems to be doing extremely well. He's a good front-end rider, and he seems to be getting better at that. That's how I want to run this horse."
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Is there any situation or circumstance where you unequivocally would agree that the private ownership, sale, or use of a firearm is warranted? Either a specific or general condition where you'd unconditionally support an unassailable ownership, use, or sale of a firearm and would do so to the point of writing it in explicit and specific language into the US Constitution?
It probably has been discussed endlessly in a different thread, but with the whole CT school shooting I am guessing this is the new and latest cause d'jour of the Left-- to which my thinking is that there can be no compromise on this issue. Based on your (the Left's) track record, any compromise just lets the camel's nose under the tent to be soon followed by the rest of the smelly animal. And to the extent that *** marriage, legalized drug use, and every other social/cultural issue has been used as a template for change, this particular issue now can actually affect me and mine in that if enacted my ability to defend myself and those I love is impacted, unlike those other political footballs which are largely philosophical/religious questions.
Based on this set of assumptions, is there any room for compromise if I were willing to seriously talk about gun control (and I had the sole power to enact legislation to make it so)? Is there a point at which you would unconditionally recognise my right to own, sell, and use a firearm in exchange for specific conditions in return?
Feel free to imagine you could make this so for argument's sake and if necessary, list specific weapon types, caliber, magazine capacity, and, what the heck, color, since black plastic seems to make you guys irate.
I am listening.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- Residents across the Grand Valley woke up to something unexpected on a mid-April day: a winter wonderland.
Overnight, the National Weather Service estimates that 6-7 inches of snow fell in the Grand Junction/Redlands area, while Fruita received at least 4 inches.
The snowstorm is most welcome to the Grand Mesa, which is seeing about 3-5 inches of new snow on the west side and 2-3 on the east side. That brings the grand total to 7-12 inches since Sunday night.
The snow is expected to continue in our area until 10 a.m., the weather services says. Mesa County, most of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah are under a hard freeze watch.
Tonight, Grand Junction could see temperatures as low as 24 degrees.
DENVER (AP) -- They cleared the snow off Coors Field in time for the Rockies to host the New York Mets, but large swaths of Colorado and Wyoming have a fresh blanket of snow.
Rocky Mountain National Park has already gotten more than 2 feet of snow and more is expected to fall through Wednesday. Southeastern Wyoming could also get up to a foot.
Blowing snow has closed some highways in both states and is causing delays at Denver International Airport because planes need to be de-iced.
The storm forced some Wyoming colleges and schools to close early Tuesday, and some state government meetings were canceled.
In southwest Colorado, La Plata Electric Association said blustery winds and downed trees were believed to have caused power outages affecting hundreds of customers Tuesday.


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A Biography of Actor Chris Hemsworth
A Biography of Actor Chris Hemsworth
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth was born in Melbourne on August 11, 1983, to Leonie and Craig Hemsworth, a teacher and a social services counselor respectively. He is the middle child of three boys, and both his brothers are actors. Older brother Luke has carved out a career in films and television in his native Australia, while younger brother Liam has followed in Chris's footsteps and branched out to appear in several American productions. It is this branching out that has caused both Liam and Chris to become big movie stars in billion dollar franchises.
The success Chris would see later in his career did not come easily. Like many actors, he toiled in bit parts and one-off guest-starring roles for quite awhile before landing a recurring or major part. He started his career in 2002 on the Aussie television show "Guinevere Jones," appearing in two episodes. Over the next two years, he would appear in single episodes of four other TV series before landing the role of Kim Hyde in the drama "Home and Away." He initially auditioned for a different part on the same show but was not selected for the part. Luckily, his audition was strong enough to earn him the part of Kim, which he played for a whopping 184 episodes from 2004 to 2007.
After his stint on "Home and Away" was over, Chris decided to take his chances overseas and was promptly cast in the small but pivotal role of George Kirk in "Star Trek." He would reprise the role in 2013 in the blockbuster "Star Trek Into Darkness," again playing the father of future USS Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk. Though his onscreen work in both films is minimal, it got him lots of exposure, and he was asked to audition for the lead role in "Thor." He won the part, beating out several more established actors in the process. He put on twenty pounds of pure muscle to fill out his costume as the Norse prince opposite brother Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, who had also auditioned for the role of Thor.
The popularity of the superhero films from Marvel Studios was reaching a crescendo just as "Thor" came out in 2011, and Chris was able to ride the popularity wave. The film received generally positive reviews, and it was announced that he would play Thor in several more Marvel films. Not only was a sequel to "Thor" commissioned by the studio, but Chris was also tapped to reprise his role in "The Avengers," the highly ambitious multiple superhero film that was released to great fanfare in 2013. Due to this one role alone, Chris became an international sensation and soon got a chance to start headlining films.
Director Joss Whedon, who wrote and directed "The Avengers," cast Chris in "The Cabin in the Woods" several years before he landed the part of Thor. Unfortunately, the film got mired in post-production problems and didn't come out until 2012, right as Chris was already becoming a movie star. Still, he had a lead role and earned good reviews for it, which helped audiences see him as more than just a superhero actor. That same year, he was cast opposite Kristen Stewart in "Snow White and the Huntsman" as the Huntsman, a part he is due to reprise in the sequel, which will likely start filming sometime in 2014.
Before he gets busy as the Huntsman again, Chris will have to once again don his armor and wield Thor's trusty hammer for "The Avengers: Age of Ultron." This sequel will pit the squad against Ultron, a robot who becomes sentient and tries to take over the world. The film is due to be released in 2015, but Thor fans should not fret. "Thor: The Dark World" is slated for a November 8, 2013, bow in the US, which should tide fans over until 2015. This is the second big film in 2013 for the star, who received excellent notices for his work as a race car driver in the summer flick "Rush."
Amidst all the chaos surrounding his newfound fame as Thor, Chris was quietly dating Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky, who he met because they both have the same management representation in Los Angeles. They quietly wed in late 2010 and had daughter India Rose in 2011. With a new wife, a baby girl, and a burgeoning movie career, it seems that the Avengers sequel could almost be named "Avengers: Age of Chris Hemsworth" instead.