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Yesterday, since we were "trapped" in the house by sickness, I decided to tidy up a little. I saw Meg's closet and how there was no more room on the rack for any hanging clothes. I decided to put some of her 18 month summer clothes away. It got me thinking about a blog entry that I have wanted to write… about the dream deferred. I have been thinking a lot about this, given our latest happenings with Meg. Putting away the dresses and the slightly too-big tanks and tees reminded me of the visions that I had had of Meg when I first bought them all last year.
If you know me, you know that I buy clothes well in advance. Maybe sometimes too far in advance. The strategy always served me well with my son. He has been pretty easy to predict in the growth area, staying constant and consistent throughout his three and a half years.
Meg on the other hand, has been super little from the beginning. I brought her home in a newborn outfit that was waaaay too big for her. The outfit that fit her best for the first month was a sleeper for preemies. Trying to predict seasons for her pre-bought outfits is like trying to predict which way the wind will be blowing five years from today in some far-removed, remote village.
Well, when I see a sale, I try my best in the prediction department. At the end of summer last year at my favorite Target, I found a rack of dresses that were just fit for a princess (I had a little girl! I could buy these beautiful dresses now!) at the bargain price of one dollar, two dollars and three dollars. What a deal! I started getting these visions of Meggie as a toddler, taking her steps slowly and awkwardly, getting her bearings as new walkers tend to do, her sweet little dresses bobbing up and down with her as she walked across the room to offer a toy to me with a smile. Or her in this pretty striped dress, toddling across the beach that we were almost certain to visit before we moved back to Ohio. Or her in the pretty purple dress, walking across the lawn on a beautiful summer day, her mom searching for that perfect photo op with the expanse of green lawn behind her and the sun high in the blue sky. I imagined her going to Sunday school in dresses. Maybe there would be a heat wave at Easter, and the possibility of a strappy dress for the kids' Easter egg hunt. Imagine 18 month pictures in a beautiful dress! The possibilities for putting my perfect princess in dresses seemed endless.
Endless, that is, until reality comes crashing down, in my case. If I am being 100% honest, we will find that I have secretly been putting off my disappointments. It is not just dresses that were ultimately never worn. It's the milestones hit a little too late… late enough to evoke a feeling of suspicion in me. It's those moments where Meggie just doesn't seem interested in something. Or the baby dolls we got her for her first Christmas, and the little accessories to go with them that have yet to be used or examined. Or that my two year old has yet to walk independently or eat solid foods. The dresses were ultimately never worn, because my daughter is still just crawling.
It's that I have been hoping that, like in so many stories, the magical age of two was when things were just going to somehow align and work out, and she would start growing and fitting into the clothes that she was supposed to fit in two or three seasons ago, or she'd find some interest in the dolls, or she'd even magically start running around the coffee table in the same fashion her brother used to cruise, and by birthday number two, she'd take those steps across the room from Mommy's arms to Daddy's arms. That would save me the dreaded calls to the pediatrician, seeking services for a delay that I didn't want my daughter to have… didn't even want to believe that it was possible for her to have. Two was going to be my magic number… a glorious time. A truly, truly thankful Thanksgiving time.
Instead, we are now on our way to a destination into an unknown land. My tentative arrival there is marked with much anticipation. I feel ill-equipped to be traveling here. I don't speak the language; I am not sure where I am going. I have never imagined myself sitting on these beaches or even in the homey little cafes. I am not sure which road connects with what… have no idea if a shortcut even exists. There is no map, and that makes me uncomfortable.
All road analogies aside, I say all this in hopes that the dresses are just a dream deferred. You know, just thoughts that came to my head…well, hopes really. Thoughts and hopes that may not have happened yet, but eventually will. We've had some moments…some really great things…they've just not been what or when I was expecting them.
And you'll never believe what happened to me the other day: I found some dresses on sale and I bought them. Now if I could just find some fancy walking shoes to match…
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MEDFORD, Mass. -- Fisher College's Ashley DeSousa scored a hat trick to help lead host Fisher to a 4-0 victory over Pine Manor College on Sunday afternoon at Medford High School. With the win the Falcons improve to 3-3 overall and 2-1 versus Pine Manor this season. The Gators drop to 2-4-0 with the loss.
For PMC, senior goalkeeper Natasha Kopystynsky (Johnsburg, IL) made 24 saves on the day. Sophomore Sybil Lynch registered a team-high five shots on goal but was unable to beat Fisher goalkeeper Kourtney Kellard. Kellard made eight saves to record the shout for the Falcons.
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Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform.
Christopher Knafelc, 32, was waiting for a train in north Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man walk off the platform and fall on the tracks. He jumped down to help the man, knowing that a train would be arriving in a few minutes.
"I had a plan if a train came I was going to roll him underneath," Knafelc told WPVI-TV, "or if I couldn't, I was going to ask someone to jump down and help me roll him."
He held the man's head and neck stable until firefighters arrived. Train traffic was halted.
"I was like 99.9 percent positive that I wouldn't get electrocuted," Knafelc told the Philadelphia Daily News. "I can't see (the tracks) being able to electrocute you, because too many people would get hurt."
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III called Knafelc a hero.
"This is what Philadelphia is all about," Nestel said.
Investigators don't know what caused the man to fall on the tracks. He was taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition.
"He didn't thank me, but I know he was thankful," Knafelc told the Daily News. "You know what I mean? In my heart I believe he was."
Knaflec said he has battled substance abuse since he was in middle school in Baden, a small town outside Pittsburgh, where he said he was first introduced to OxyContin and moved on to heroin by high school.
He said he studied neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh but dropped out as his addiction worsened, then spent a decade in and out of rehab.
He came to Philadelphia, where his mother and a cousin live, two years ago to get his life back on track, he said. A telephone message left at what was believed to be his mother's home was not immediately returned Friday.
"With addiction, you really struggle to be you," he told the newspaper. "I reacted, and that was me. It helps reinforce that I am good. That I am a good person."


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23,767 Lancaster County residents each year receive treatment in Lincoln emergency departments for an unintentional injury, the leading cause of death for Lancaster County residents 1-44 years of age. The Injury Prevention Program monitors injury levels in our community and mobilizes resources to address leading causes of injury.
Prevention activities from our program include:
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The Injury Prevention Program was involved in installation of 130 count down pedestrian traffic signals at high risk locations in the City. An older adult fall prevention series was developed to educate residents of public housing facilities.
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Bank Robber Killed On-Air, But Not Live
A teenage bank robber gets killed on-air, but each time it's via recorded raw footage. This is Journalism 101 for a news producer: Do Not Air someone getting killed in your newscast. If you're following a live situation and it looks tense, then you're supposed to cut away. Thursday, February 10, marks a night where at least two North Carolina stations who do well in ratings failed the test.
I'll walk you through the situation in a moment, but I believe it's imperative to point out that by all accounts, the airing of this video didn't elicit much feedback or backlash from the viewing audiences. A young black man, Devon Mitchell, was shown being gunned down during dinnertime in the Raleigh, NC, market, and just before bedtime in the Winston-Salem, NC, market. This makes me think about footage of the piles of bodies in Haiti after the earthquake last year, or the floating bodies in New Orléans following Hurricane Katrina. As a society, are we more desensitized to when blacks are killed? The decision was made early to stop showing bodies falling from the Twin Towers in NYC after the planes hit them. Yes, there were victims of varied ethnicities in these major disasters, but the one that had a higher mixture of races got quicker nationwide results in preventing the country from viewing such atrocities. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a seemingly deranged man during a very public event. There's been no video of the actual shootings released, to my knowledge. I, for one, am glad I didn't see it, but I'm not naïve enough to believe at least some of it wasn't captured in real-time by camera crews, cellphones, or surveillance video. So, more than likely, a concerted effort was made to not air the horrific video, if it exists. That's fine, but that raises a question: are we placing a higher value on certain segments of society? Local television stations would probably get picketed for showing the congresswoman getting gunned down, or if they showed the elementary student at her event getting killed. They were victims of a senseless act, and they deserve some respect. Mitchell was at fault for his crime, but he and his family also deserved some respect. His family didn't need to see their loved one's death replayed like an 80-yard touchdown pass or a game-winning home run.
So, as you read through the accounts below of how two different stations aired the movie-style killing, be aware that I checked the comments sections on these stories on both station's websites, and overwhelmingly, the attitude was that the robber deserved what he got. At the time of my reading the comments, no one mentioned the fact that Mitchell's fatal shooting was broadcast. So, like Dr. Cornell West wrote, "Race Matters."
WTVD-TV in the Raleigh-Durham market was following the hostage situation at a Wachovia bank in Cary,NC The bank robber, Devon Mitchell, who was 19 years old, came out of the bank holding a woman hostage after three hours. The video, shot from a helicopter, shows the suspect pushing the hostage away, and then law enforcement officials begin to shoot the suspect multiple times, killing him. The suspect did not have a gun, but he told the hostages and negotiators he was armed. Here's a package ran by WTVD-TV about the shooting investigation.
WTVD went to a commercial break when the shooting and killing took place. That's the correct move to make, but it is what happened next that's reprehensible. The News & Observer, a Raleigh-based newspaper, reports that the station replayed the video on the air after the break. Yes, your jaw should drop. I don't have any inside information from this station, so here's what WTVD's News Director, Rob Elmore, told the News & Observer about airing the raw video in his station's 6 pm newscast.
"We had no intention of showing a man being shot, and certainly we didn't want to do that, and we regret that we did." Elmore goes on to tell the paper the station intended to stop the video right before the shooting, but that didn't happen. You can find the full News and Observer article here.
If you can't give the above station any excuse for showing the video after having a couple of minutes to reflect on the situation, then absolutely no excuse can be given for airing the raw video nearly FIVE HOURS after the fact. WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC, aired footage of the shooting that same night as the lead story of its 11 pm newscast. Full Disclosure: I worked two-and-a-half years for this station as the 11 pm producer, before I began teaching journalism full-time in January 2010.
I wasn't even watching the news the night it happened. My wife and I DVR'd the NBC show "Outsourced," and watched it the following night. Since it is Sweeps Month, the 11 pm news flows seamlessly from the preceding primetime show. This allowed my DVR to record the beginning of the newscast. My wife and I both sat in disbelief when we saw a man being shot to death. I actually rewound it to make sure I had correctly heard the anchor say the robber was dead. I was thinking that there's no way they'd show this if he died. There was no reason for me to witness the atrocity for a second time because my news ears heard correctly the first time. This is upsetting to me because while most young children are asleep by 11 pm, with DVR, this very scene could play out over breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the family. That is unacceptable. Thankfully, my wife and I don't watch our nighttime programming with our girls, but some viewers might. A conversation with my 4-year-old about a man being shot to death on TV is one I'd rather not have thrust upon me by my trusted news source.
The station aired the story as a VO (voice over = anchor reads the story while the video is playing) without disclosing to viewers that the video about to be aired was graphic in nature. The story ran 22 seconds, but the final seconds showing the suspect falling to the ground with quick bursts of smoke popping off of his body and off of the sidewalk were truly lasting images. You saw the bullets fly, and the body falling at about 24 seconds into the newscast. The entire story, including the show's opening animation, was over in 29 seconds. Then it was on to the revolt in Egypt.
Once my wife and I finished discussing what we saw, we went online to see if there were more details about the story. Knowing WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC, has a great reputation for covering stories, I went to their site first. What I found was a news organization that truly lives up to its reputation. The station followed the event, but faded away from live coverage shortly before the shooting took place. This decision didn't happen by accident, according the News and Observer. WRAL News Director Rick Gall told the newspaper they erred on the side of caution when the suspect walked out of the bank with a hostage.
"We intentionally cut away from the video so that we wouldn't show something that ends badly. That's not something we want to show on our newscast. We don't want to show it live or show it on tape."
A little more searching and I ran across the WTVD information saying that they had run the shooting in their 6 pm newscast.
The video was dark and grainy, and I hadn't heard what time the shooting happened in WXII's brief telling of it. I assumed the shooting took place just before the 11 pm newscast. The revelation that nearly FIVE HOURS had passed by and this video still aired got me to wanting to know what happened inside the walls of WXII that night.
I reached out to multiple sources within the station and found out that there was a breakdown in communication. No sources will be named except the news director. The raw video was sent to CNN Pathfire (Pathfire allows CNN affiliate stations to download video from other affiliates from all over the country) by one of the Raleigh-area stations. The raw shooting video was downloaded and ingested into WXII's tapeless system shortly after it was sent out by CNN. CNN pulled the video down from the server later in the night, so no one could use it, but WXII had already downloaded the video. This is where the breakdown in communication seemingly occurred according to my sources: there was either no communication or a miscommunication between the show producer and the editors about pulling the raw shooting video from the newscast. Either way, that can't happen when you're dealing with content as sensitive as someone being shot to death on-air. WXII's News Director, Barry Klaus, gave this statement on the airing of the video via email.
"As you may recall, we do not show graphic images at WXII unless there is a compelling editorial reason to do so, and then we proceed with a warning allowing viewers to make the decision to continue viewing or to turn away. I am sure you recall from your days here that we regularly reinforce the importance of not showing more than is necessary when graphic video is available. That said, the use of the bank robbery video on Thursday night was a mistake and the video was immediately removed from our system to prevent its use again. A brief, but critical, breakdown in internal communication allowed those images to be included in the video we aired. As for reaction from the community, we received one e-mail and no phone calls, but we did issue an apology the following evening for what we felt was exposing our viewers to unnecessarily graphic video."
Airing that video didn't seem to cause much backlash for either station, so I'm not sure what that says about our society as whole. You can fault the stations for airing the video, but there's a much bigger issue here. There's something wrong with our society when there's little to no response when an unarmed robbery suspect gets gunned down on RECORDED TV. Since the incident was recorded, that makes showing the video all the more senseless. If you reversed the situation, and the suspect shot and killed an officer, would there have been more discretion placed on airing the video? Would the Raleigh stations have sent it raw? Would CNN have sent it out raw? This suspect, by all accounts, was a disturbed young black man. The assumption being made is that the 19-year-old wanted to be killed by the police officers. That is a fairly common situation known as "Death/Suicide by Cop." I don't know if race played a role in the various decision-making missteps, but it does make me wonder. If the young man were white, would his death be replayed on the local news? And if it were shown, would the backlash have been greater than what seemingly happened in this situation? The robbery suspect placed several people in danger, and I'm not letting him off the hook because he was in the wrong. But, no one deserves to have their death immortalized in HD, and the typical news viewer at home shouldn't have those images stuck in their heads without their choosing. There's a reason why we don't air electrocutions and lethal injections on the news. I was in the news business for a number of years. I saw a lot of gruesome things that I couldn't–and wouldn't–show the public, but I thought I'd finished seeing those things, since I am no longer in the business and can't watch raw footage from the news feeds.
I'm going to use this incident as a teachable moment for my students, so that at least one future producer will have this in the back of their minds if it's ever presented to them in a real-world scenario. I hope they choose to shield their audience, but who knows? Maybe the times are changing, and this is just a precursor to what's going to be acceptable news as we continue to push the boundaries of real and reality.
Share your thoughts. What's more egregious: airing the recorded video of someone being killed on local news, or the lack of outrage from the audiences who saw the video?


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How Greg Flynn turned the 'buying Opportunity of all time' into the nation's first billion-dollar restaurant franchisee
"We believed that was an opportunity to double down," says CFO Lorin Cortina, right, about Applebee's refranchising initiative. He's with Greg Flynn, CEO.
Greg Flynn sits at the top of a company that operates 503 restaurants in 23 states from California to Maine, yet for the past few months his attention has been focused on just one. Then again, it's not just any restaurant. It's a flagship Applebee's, a 12,000-square-foot, 350-seat, bright-red casual-dining cathedral being built on a prominent corner at the touristy Fisherman's Wharf just a couple of miles from Flynn's San Francisco office.
Flynn, the CEO of Applebee's and Taco Bell franchisee Flynn Restaurant Group, has been at the restaurant frequently since construction began months ago. He notices the new stairway railing being installed looks just like the last one. And he cheers the latest milestone in the restaurant's construction: the arrival of some half-moon-shaped booth seats, which he tests, by sitting on them, to the delight of a group of company managers overseeing the project.
"This is my baby," he said of the restaurant, which is his only location in San Francisco. "I've wanted to build a restaurant here for 14 years—basically, since I've been in the restaurant business."
But here's the thing: Flynn has almost no idea how this restaurant will perform once it's open. It's in a popular, high-traffic area, and has views of the harbor and of Alcatraz Island, but it's on the third floor, above the second-floor Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum and tourist shops on the first. It will depend heavily on the Applebee's name to get people to walk upstairs. That's why that name is in big, bright letters on the top of a building decorated with murals and neon.
"This could be a phenomenal success, or it could crash and burn," he said. "But one advantage of having 500 restaurants is you can afford to roll the dice once."
This kind of uncertainty seems rare for Flynn, who in 14 years has grown his company into the nation's largest restaurant franchisee, according to the Franchise Times Restaurant 200—and the first to ever record more than $1 billion in sales. It's grown that big because Flynn is a remarkably astute investor and business historian who usually knows exactly how those dice will land when he rolls them.
Flynn's headquarters is on the 18th floor of a neoclassical building constructed in 1923 to house Chevron. During our recent visit, he exchanged barbs with his company's chief financial officer, Lorin Cortina. And on his office door is a black-and-white sign that proclaims "Greg Flynn, Chair Executive" around a picture of a chair. It's an inside joke, referencing a poorly translated news article out of Poland that gave him the title.
"No one wants to work for a dump," says Greg Flynn, CEO of the $1.2-billion Flynn Restaurant Group in San Francisco.
The 49-year-old is charismatic and full of energy. He rarely puts things off until later, and he admits he can't go to sleep until his to-do list is finished. "There's a saying he has, 'own it,'" said Brad Pettinger, chief operating officer at Apple American Group, a Flynn subsidiary, who has worked with Flynn for 15 years. "That's his personality. You see it in his house, too. If there's a picture crooked, he'll straighten it. There's an energy about him. That's what people like about him."
Flynn was raised north of San Francisco. His educational background is broad in scope, number of degrees and relative geography. He majored in history at Brown University, though he spent his junior year at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland—Flynn has dual U.S.-Irish citizenship.
At Brown he won the prestigious Rotary Foundation scholarship to do graduate studies at the University of Queensland in Australia, where he studied late 19th century U.S. economics history. He has a graduate degree in history from Yale, where he eschewed the doctoral program to get a business degree at Stanford at the same time that his soon-to-be wife went to law school.
Yet it was during a seven-month break between his graduation from Brown in 1986 and his time in Australia that he got his real education, at least in the real-estate business.
Flynn was living in San Francisco when he decided he should get a job during the break. He was considering a career in real estate, and got a list of real-estate firms in the area. He walked down Montgomery Street in San Francisco and walked into the one closest to him: Eastdil Realty.
"I never even heard of it," Flynn explained. "I pushed the elevator button. Another guy was waiting. He had won a Rhodes scholarship and went to Oxford and worked at the firm. We hit it off. By the time we got to his floor, he said, 'Let me introduce you to everyone.' So I met everyone at the firm, ending the guy who was in charge, Roy March. Roy offered me a job on the spot." It was late on a Friday afternoon, and Flynn started the following Monday.
It turned out to be huge. Eastdil was a pioneer in the real-estate investment business. "It accelerated my education in real estate like no other job I could have done," he said. "And it was just pure luck."
In between his various educational endeavors, Flynn spent two years in New York and two years in London, both with First Boston's real estate group, and nine months with his future wife backpacking across Africa and Asia, beginning in Cape Town.
At Stanford, he took a directed study course. His assignment: Write an offering memo for a small real-estate equity fund. He raised the money within two weeks of graduation, and in 1994 that fund became Flynn Properties. He would raise 14 real estate investment funds total, and bought and sold dozens of properties.
During our drive to Fisherman's Wharf, Flynn pointed out a building on a corner in the financial district, the old Standard Oil building. He bought it in 1997 for $12.5 million on a bet that the primary occupant, the Pacific Exchange, would renew its lease, while others thought it wouldn't. Flynn was right. He sold the building the next year for $23 million. "He is just wickedly smart at identifying opportunities," Cortina said. It's a skill that would serve him well in the restaurant business.
Flynn's uncle was a McDonald's franchisee who owned four locations north of San Francisco in the 1970s. Flynn's father, a lawyer, saw that success and decided to replicate it. He couldn't get into McDonald's, so he opened a pair of Burger Kings in the 1980s. And so Flynn learned about the potential involved in operating a franchise.
"It basically paid for the rest of his life," Flynn said. "It performed very well for him."
Flynn oversaw those restaurants starting in 1994, when his father re-married and traveled around the world with his new wife. Flynn got deeper into the restaurant business in the mid-1990s when he agreed to be a limited partner in a new San Francisco restaurant called World Wraps that introduced burrito-like sandwiches. After the first location opened to phenomenal success, Flynn got excited and asked to build some himself.
He ultimately built 14 locations in the Seattle area. "It was a good little business," Flynn said. He lured Pettinger, who used to run the Seattle market for a Canadian steak chain called Keg Restaurants, to run the restaurants for him.
A key moment came in 1998. Flynn's father had come across some real estate in Greece and asked Greg to send some money. Flynn looked into borrowing some against the Burger Kings, and discovered the world of securitized lending.
Securitized loans were popular in franchising in the 1990s. Lenders would make loans to franchisees, package them and resell them as securities—so the lenders didn't own the risk. They would loan up to 100 percent of the cost of the business, so long as the franchise was among a handful of well-regarded legacy brands. Flynn did this type of loan against his father's restaurants and sent his father the money.
"This was a giveaway," Flynn said. So he looked at the restaurant industry, and saw two segments that would qualify for these types of loans: quick-service restaurants and casual dining. He decided casual dining was the better bet—a decision he doesn't regret, despite the sector's weak performance in recent years. "Looking in the rear-view mirror, it was the best decision at the time," Flynn says. "And Applebee's was the best bet."
Flynn bought the eight units in the Seattle market from Don Strang a large Applebee's franchisee at the time. Flynn borrowed the funds for the business, and suddenly he was a casual-dining franchisee.
The most important part of the deal might have been Dan Krebsbach, an Applebee's lifer who built the Minnesota market for Strang before moving on to the Seattle area to open locations there. Krebsbach found out about the sale after it was completed. He had been at a managers meeting in Ohio, when Strang pulled him aside and said the stores had a new owner. "I was a little nervous on the flight back," Krebsbach said.
Yet Krebsbach had some ideas for how the market could be run more effectively—and differently from Strang's locations in Minnesota or Ohio. Krebsbach wanted to pay managers more, and wanted to fast-track talented managers. He wanted to do some radio advertising. And he wanted to fix things in the restaurant right away.
Flynn and Pettinger gave Krebsbach the go-ahead to do these things. It worked. "When Greg got involved, sales really took off," Krebsbach says. The company had two more solid years of comp sales growth and it built two more locations. Over the years, those restaurants have gone from averaging $45,000 a week in sales to $60,000 a week.
And that became the germination of a strategy. Flynn, the one who had spent years studying business and economic history, applied that knowledge to the franchise sector. He understood that most large franchisees operate with a top-down business model in which the decisions come from a single source, often without respect to geography. He also understood that franchising works best because local owners have pride and a strong, vested interest in the performance of their restaurants.
"I've studied the evolution of American business very carefully," Flynn said. "Executing consistently well, day to day in casual dining is very difficult. Most of these casual-dining operators that are spread over diverse geographies don't do it very well, because they're operating under a command-and-control format, which is ineffective."
Flynn thought a national portfolio of restaurants could operate effectively and profitably with a flat organizational structure run by local market presidents whose pay depends on the performance of their restaurants. And so Flynn called Don Strang again.
Strang agreed to sell his remaining Applebee's holdings, 62 locations, in 2001. To finance the deal, Flynn brought in a private equity group, Goldman Sachs. Goldman agreed to invest $40 million.
Applebee's wasn't so eager. The company hadn't had a private equity group involved in one of its franchisees' business before, and executives had their doubts. "Lloyd Hill took it very seriously," Flynn said of the chain's chairman at the time. "I remember him pacing around the room saying, 'What does this mean?'"
The solution: a limit. Flynn wouldn't be able to own more than 11 percent of Applebee's units. The sale went through, and Apple American Group was born.
The company would buy more locations in subsequent years and it would build other units. And then in 2007, IHOP, led by a former Applebee's executive in Julia Stewart, engineered the takeover of Applebee's and vowed to refranchise the entire system. For Stewart, the timing was terrible: Markets crashed in 2008, leading to the worst recession in 80 years and a brutal restaurant environment. Lending froze, and potential buyers retrenched. In short: There were few buyers for those Applebee's.
One of the buyers was Flynn, whose Apple American Group by 2008 had 189 units and nearly $440 million in annual sales. It had the cash and the financing to make deals.
"It was the buying opportunity of all time," he said. The combination of a flood of inventory, thanks to the refranchising, with a dearth of buyers meant Apple American could expand quickly and cheaply. And Applebee's, eager to sell those company restaurants, agreed to eliminate that 11 percent limit.
"We believed that was an opportunity to double down," Cortina said. "Prices became so attractive. We were purchasing restaurants on 35 percent of the replacement costs."
Between 2008 and 2012, Apple American more than doubled its unit count in Applebee's, from 189 to 438. That included a purchase last year of the second largest Applebee's operator, AmRest. The Polish company owned 99 units in the Southeast, wanted to get out, and called Flynn.
With that deal, Apple American owned 25 percent of the Applebee's system. And although there are no limits to how much of the system it could own, it's still tough to maintain a growth rate. So the company began to look at other concepts. It chose Taco Bell, because of its sales performance and the lack of national competition in the QSR Mexican category. Late last year it bought the 76-unit Southern Bells operation out of Los Angeles, its first venture outside of Applebee's.
Flynn renamed that company Bell American Group. It and Apple American are subsidiaries of Flynn Restaurant Group. Flynn kept Southern Bells' management, led by President Charlie Brown who will lead Flynn's Taco Bell efforts. Flynn said the company will keep the Taco Bell business completely separate for a year while it learns the business before merging some operations with the rest of the company to take advantage of economies of scale. Ultimately, the plan is to buy a lot more Taco Bells.
Brown, who had owned the business with a partner for 13 years, said the choice to sell to Flynn over seven other groups came down to culture. The two companies' cultures meshed well together, he said. "There's no doubt that Greg and his group stood out," Brown said. "It was clear with Greg when we first met how much pride he has in his own business. But he also felt he could learn from our business. That felt really good."
Those last two deals also did something else: They vaulted Flynn Restaurant Group's sales into 10-figure territory—the first restaurant franchisee whose holdings had more than $1 billion in annual sales, $1.2 billion, to be exact.
And by the way, though Flynn has built most of that through acquisitions, he says he has the most fun building new units. Apple American built 70 locations over the years, the most of any operator in the system.
Flynn Restaurant Group now has oper-ations from Los Angeles to Maine. To operate restaurants in such a geographically diverse area, Flynn has a federal-state structure. There are certain "federal" guidelines that all restaurants in the company must follow, and the individual "state" markets have some leeway to run things as they see fit.
"You let the local people really have a say," Pettinger said. "Another time, these folks would have been franchisees, if they had the financing and the right timing."
The market presidents are competitive, Pettinger said, "but in a friendly way." Flynn flies the presidents to San Francisco for lengthy, quarterly meetings and for an annual retreat to share ideas and build camaraderie. Also attending those meetings is a senior representative from Applebee's corporate, something few franchisees will allow. The representative's presence doesn't change the tenor of the meetings. "We don't hold back at all," Flynn said.
The market president system has evolved so that the markets act like small laboratories, and if an idea works at one market, other markets may start doing the same thing. "In our structure, best practices flow to the top," Krebsbach said. "Instead of someone at the top telling you what to do, you have eight ideas. Maybe five ideas would not be successful, but three would be highly successful. Then those five leaders would say, 'My idea isn't working well, so I'm going to copy the other three.' The good ideas flow to the top."
The "federal" functions include support, from a 90-person support center in Independence, Ohio, with all the basic corporate functions such as human resources, real estate, training and accounting. Then there is "federal law," or the standards and outcomes that all locations must follow.
Those standards include food safety, and the physical condition of the restaurants. The company has "zero tolerance" for deferred maintenance and sanitation issues, Flynn says. "What the guest sees has to be as near to perfect as reasonably can be," he says. Some of those things, like gum on the sidewalk, take no time, but a tear in a booth seat can take time so the new seat can be ordered.
"Many operators will tolerate tears," Flynn says. "They wait until there are 10 tears so they can order in bulk. We're the opposite. Where you get in trouble with us is if you don't call for that one tear. Many problems are less expensive in the long run if you fix them earlier. But the biggest benefit is on staff.
"No one wants to work for a dump. At a dump, you get people who will work for a dump because they have no better option."
This federal-state strategy seems to work. Apple American has been Applebee's operator of the year for two of the past three years, and on the day of our interview the company had just found out it finished fourth out of 42 operators on the franchisor's quarterly scorecard that measures operations, food safety and guest satisfaction. "I'm totally convinced that it has served us very well," Flynn says of his business strategy.
The strategy can also be seen in his Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. As much attention as Flynn gave the location, he still left the job of running the operation up to Monty Davis, the market president for Northern California. "He went on vacation to Africa the week it was going to open," Davis said about Flynn. "He trusts us to run it and open it.
"It's tearing him apart to be away, though," he added.
The restaurant opened on a Monday, the last week of June, to a steady stream of customers, in spite of the rain, the competition and that third-floor location. Not bad for a roll of the dice.


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It was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when filmmaking couple Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor really came to appreciate libraries. After their New Orleans home was flooded in the storm, they found themselves outside a library in Baton Rogue, where lines stretched around the block to submit disaster relief applications online.
"It was the only place to go to fill out information," Logsdon said. "The city and state government all failed miserably where the library was able to help."
Now they're aiming to make a first-of-its-kind documentary called "Free for All," exploring why Americans are using public libraries in record numbers and what would happen to democracy if libraries became extinct.
"Libraries are in a real crisis in terms of funding all around the country," Logsdon said. "If more attention isn't drawn to it, they aren't going to be able to keep up."
The pair are focusing on the Main Library in San Francisco, where they now live. Though many places across the country are struggling to fund their libraries, Logsdon said they chose San Francisco because of its strong financial investment in the library.
"We want to focus on what a library can do, not what it can't do," she said. "San Francisco turns out to be perfect for that."
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On Thursday, the documentary filmmakers and their crew set up cameras and a green screen on the ground floor of the Main Library. While their film will feature a few characters including participants of an adult literacy program, reference and children's librarians, and homeless patrons, the task this week was to collect personal stories about the importance of libraries.
So far they've gotten everything from a story told by a library official who had a problem stealing books as a young girl to patrons who knew nothing about what being gay meant until they hesitantly tracked down a book about it at the library.
For Albertina Zarazúa Padilla of San Leandro, the library was "a matter of survival" when growing up in Carmel Valley, where English was not her first language.
"I had to learn quickly to survive in school," said Padilla, 57. "The library was the opportunity to be at the same level as everyone else; it was the great equalizer."
Eileen Asher of Petaluma said her library in Michigan helped her do life-changing research while she was growing up. After learning as a teenager that a family member was part of the Ku Klux Klan, she devoted her time to researching the group at the library and came to the conclusion that she would never go down that path.
"I've spent my life in libraries," Asher said. "I don't know what I'd do without them."
Fire chief's memories
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White grew up next to the Merced branch. Once she had a family of her own, she made sure to instill a love of libraries among her three teenage sons. But for all the happy memories, Logsdon and Faulknor were also able to get the chief to retell a painful library experience about a 12-year-old girl who died at a Sunset branch after an asthma attack about 10 years ago.
"It was a difficult scene where she did not survive," Hayes-White said. "It's not a good story about a library, but that's what we deal with as firefighters."
Filming for the project will continue through Saturday in the Jewett Gallery, and interested participants should go to www.freeforalldocumentary.com or call (415) 824-4910. The filmmakers are working to release a feature-length documentary in two years, but an edited collection of interviews will be shown at the Main Library during National Library Week on April 20.
Neal J. Riley is a San Francisco staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @realdealneal


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On April 30 the Red Cross returned to Estherville for one of the six blood drives held here in Estherville each year. The Red Cross provides for four of the drives and the other two are taken care of by Avera Holy Family Hospital. It's so nice to live in a city where we can all work together for the common good.
At the Red Cross drive, sponsored by Dr. Baker and Dr. Webb, at the Eyecare Centre, we were able to collect 65 units of much-needed blood, as Iowa Red Cross had sent 500 units to Boston following the tragic event there. Those 65 units equate to helping save 195 lives. So much for so little!!!
We saw some new faces: Melissa Patrick, Dr. and Mrs. Drew Shain, Janet Bendixen and Miranda Lyster. I am pretty sure that I missed a couple of new faces and I hope you will say hi when you return to give at the next blood drive on July 30.
Donors who earned gallon pins were: Liza Baker, one gallon; Walter Jensen, three gallons; Barb Mack and Tina McCorkell, four gallons; Cheryl Houseman, five gallons; Terry Reekers, six gallons; and Dave Egeland, 10 gallons. I'm pretty sure that each of them has given more than I have listed, but my records only go back to when we were transferred from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area to the Badger Hawkeye group in Waterloo.
The next blood drive here in Estherville will be at Avera Holy Family Hospital, probably sometime in June. The next Red Cross blood drive will be on July 30 at the Duhigg Center and sponsored by the good people of the Estherville Lutheran Church. The times will be the usual 12:30 until 6:30. If you want to make an early appointment give me a call at 209-0922.
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When Caltech's Ed Stone watched the launches of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 from Cape Canaveral in 1977, he had only a glimmer of hope that either probe would survive to reach interstellar space. "The space age was only 20 years old," says the missions' principal investigator. "We had no idea how long spacecraft could last."
Thirty-six years later, Stone announced that Voyager 1 had become the first human-made object to pass beyond the heliosphere, the giant invisible bubble inflated by subatomic particles from the sun, and enter the space between the stars (SN Online: 9/12/13). Based on measurements from the probe's instruments, Voyager made its


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|Brad Ross joins the Toronto Maple Leafs organization at the 2010 entry draft
Could Brad Ross become the next Darcy Tucker for the Toronto Maple Leafs?
That was the plan when Brian Burke drafted him 43 overall in the 2010 draft. Ross is a top prospect for the Leafs who is forecast to become a third line shift-disturbing winger.
Ross was a hopeful for the Canadian World Junior team but was unsuccessful in his bid. Currently he is playing for the Portland Winter Hawks of the WHL, and in 44 games has 29 goals, 26 assists for 55 points. Ross also boasts a plus/minus of plus-2 while amassing 112 penalty minutes.
At age 19, this will be Ross's last season playing in the CHL. Next season Ross will make his pro debut in Toronto playing for The Leafs or the AHL affiliate the Toronto Marlies.
The agitating style Ross plays has drawn comparisons to former Leaf fan favorite Darcy Tucker. In The Hockey News 2011 Future Watch Ross said "I like to model my game after him. Tucker was a tough guy who can put the puck in the net, and I can do that too."
Ross projects to be a super-pest who works hard and is difficult to play against. He will be loved by his teammates and home team fans, but vilified and loathed by the rest of the world. Ross is 6'1" and weight 183 Lbs. and will need to continue to add strength and bulk to be able to play his style of hockey against men at the pro level.
Since being drafted at the 2010 draft, Ross has continued to develop nicely and is impressing Leaf management. He certainly plays a style of hockey that agrees with Leafs GM Brian Burke. Ross plays on the edge, but is careful not to cross the line. There is a difference between playing like Tucker, and being like Sean Avery. "I don't like to base my game after a guy like him," said Ross. "He's a great hockey player, just the off ice stuff you hear about. That's not what this organization is about
Ross has been able to score at the junior level producing 69 points in the 10-11 season, and 68 points in the 09-10 with Portland. In December, Ross had a six game goal scoring streak in which he scored eight goals. It will remain to be seen of course if Ross will be able to produce offensively at the next level.
There may be a perfect window of opportunity for Ross to assert himself onto the Leafs roster as Colby Armstrong's current contract will expire at the conclusion of the 2012-2013 season. Should Armstrong not be re-signed it would allow Ross to assume the third line left wing position. Given Armstrong's injury history, it is reasonable to assume Ross may be given an opportunity to crack the NHL next year.
Ross impressed at last summer's rookie tournament with Toronto, "He's got some good hands and he's a very competitive person," said Dallas Eakins, the coach of the Marlies. "I saw some of that at his game. He is obviously going to have to get stronger faster and with a little more endurance so he can do that every shift." Eakins told the Toronto Star.
Ross continues to climb up the Leafs prospect depth chart and is beginning to look like a sure-fire NHL player in the near future. Ross will quickly be adopted as a fan favorite in Toronto, while the rest of the league will love to hate him.
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Kevin and I had to get in a quick ride this morning since our Redwood City store, normally closed Sundays, would be open today for Christmas shoppers. That meant abandoning the usual Sunday-morning routine of saying we'll get out the door by, say, 9am and not actually leaving until 10:15 or so. Today, if we needed to be out on the road by 8am to get back in time, then we had to be out by 8!
OK, 8:11am was still pretty close. Still had to come up with something that would alleviate the pain of getting on the scale and seeing something unfriendly, so we chose a fast run over 84 to the coast and back via Tunitas. Best thing about that loop is the coast part, because no matter how cold it is on our side of the hill, it's always warmer near the ocean. Right?
Wrong. This morning saw the temps drop nastily in that little section just past the main descent on 84 (prior to LaHonda)… and stay nasty. And I really do mean nasty. As in, 29 degrees nasty. That was not expected, nor was it expected that the temps would stay in the very low 30s until we were within a mile or two of the coast, where it warmed up to a toasty 40 or so. But y'know, 40 sure felt a whole lot better than 30!
Predictably, nobody else was out there on the ocean side of the hill this morning, because they knew. Thankfully, my biggest fear didn't materialize, that being the likelihood that the parallel valley that the base of Tunitas Creeks runs up, which is only a couple miles from 84, would be similarly cold. Instead, we had near-tropical temps in the low-40s, climbing to mid-40s on our way up the hill. Totally comfortable & nice! Even better, instead of getting the usual cold blast coming down Kings back into Woodside, it actually warmed up (fortunate for the very large numbers of cyclists we saw climbing up the hill this morning).
Were we prepared for the cold? Sorta. We had our best cold-weather gloves, and within a few hours the tips of my fingers didn't hurt anymore, so I think we did ok there. No problem for the legs, with thermal tights doing a great job. Booties for the feet so the toes were only slightly blue, no biggie. But we could have done a better job up top. Thank goodness Becky had ordered some heavy-duty Pearl Izumi base layers, over which we had a standard Chain Reaction jersey. What was missing? That all-important 3rd layer, a light windbreaker, left at home. Won't do that again! Actually I had mine with me but Kevin forgot to bring one, and I didn't think it would be very sporting if I put one on while he suffered. Oh, you think because I'm a parent that I should have loaned it to him? The same kid who will exploit any weakness in my cycling and run me into the ground? Well, I could have not loaned it to him due to spite, but the reality is that I thought he should be taught a lesson so he won't forget to bring the jacket next time.
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Recently, it seems, someone on the wait staff put out a heaping plate of sour candy. We are all going back for more, and it's making us quite sick.
Call it the tart deliciousness of moral outrage. From mayors' sex scandals to pastors' oddball comments to judges' incoherent rulings, we are reminded 24/7 of the extent of human folly. If anything, a nonstop news cycle gives us nonstop proof that sin pervades every person and institution. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, original sin "is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved"—and tweeted, we might add. There is no shortage of reasons to be outraged.
When justice is dashed and human dignity is maimed, anger is our right response. But what we do with that anger is the line between wisdom and our own folly. Increasingly, it seems, many of us are using it to show our social media and blog followers that we are on the right side of contentious issues. Who knew that being offended tasted so good?
Two recent examples of outrage from online Christendom: As the world welcomed Prince George Alexander Louis this July, some Christians reacted by harrumphing that secular media were inconsistent in calling him the Royal Baby, not the Royal Fetus. "How grand that the clump of cells in Kate's womb has now, as of today, ...1


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Solyndra spokesman David Miller says agents questioned company CEO Brian Harrison on Thursday, in addition to company co-founder and head of marketing Kelly Truman, and former CEO Chris Gronet.
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Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) closed its previous trading session at $105.73 with the gain of 0.64%. The company's market cap is $264.29 Billion, and the average volume is 8.86 Million. The Price to Sales (P/S) ratio of the stock is 3.95, while P/B (Price to Book) stands at 4.98. When we look at the Volatility of the company, Week Volatility is at 0.75% whereas Month Volatility is at 1.10%.
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14 analysts on average are expecting Procter & Gamble Company (The) to report earnings of $1.32 per share for the current quarter. The Lower end of the earnings estimate is $1.25, while the higher end of the earnings estimate is $1.38. Comparatively, PG posted earnings of $1.34 per share in the same quarter, a year earlier.
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Analysts' ultimate objective when projecting revenue is to determine the appropriate value for a stock.
11 analysts on average are expecting the company to report revenue of $18.13 Billion for the current quarter. The Higher end of the revenue forecast is $18.43 Billion, while the Lower end of the forecast is $17.77 Billion. PG generated revenue of $18.48 Billion in the same quarter, one year ago.
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Analysts on average have given a price target of $98.69 to Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) stock.
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Moving average is significant analytical tool used to discover current price trends and the possibility for a change in an established trend. Simple moving average analysis helps investors to quickly identify if a security is in an uptrend or downtrend.
According to Finviz reported data, The SMA20 of the stock is at 2.3 percent, SMA50 is 4.9 percent, while SMA200 is 17.49 percent.
Return on Assets (ROA) Analysis:
ROA ratio indicates how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. The return on assets ratio shows how well management is employing the company's total assets to make a profit. The bigger the return, the more efficient management is in utilizing its asset base. The ROA ratio is calculated by comparing net income to average total assets, and is expressed as a percentage.
Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) currently has a Return on Assets (ROA) value of 8.7 Percent.
Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis:
Return on Investment measures the amount of return on an investment relative to the investment's cost. The Return on Investment (ROI) ratio of Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) is 13.1 percent.
Return on Equity (ROE) Analysis:
ROE ratio is a measure of profitability which calculates how much dollars of profit a firm makes with every dollar of stakeholder's equity. An increasing ROE indicates that a company is improving its ability to make profit without requiring as much capital.
Usually, the ROE ratio's between 12-15 percent are considered desirable. The Return on Equity ratio of Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) is 20.1 percent, according to data compiled by Finviz
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According to the Recommendation Trends of the stock polled by Finviz, the company has a consensus recommendation of 2.5 out of the scale from 1 to 5 where 1 stands for Buy and 5 means Sell.
Analyst Recommendation And Revisions:
Procter & Gamble Company (The) was covered by a number of analysts recently, 6 rated the stock as Buy, 14 rated Hold, 0 rated sell and 0 gave an Underperform.
Stock Price Analysis:
The purpose of a stock price analysis is to study the behaviour of stock prices. It helps investors in determining whether buying, selling or holding on to a stock would be beneficial for them.
Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG) stock price rose 34.91 percent over the past one year, while increased 34.06 percent during the past 6 months. The stock gained 3.21 percent over the past month and rose 15.02 percent year-to-date. The stock's quarterly performance represents optimistic momentum of 16 percent.


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Murdoch's WSJ Ignores Fox News' Role In "Build That" Controversy
Today marks the two-week anniversary [1] of Fox News' decision to launch campaign attack on President Obama over comments [2] he made at a Roanoke, VA., campaign stop. Speaking to supporters for nearly an hour on July 13, the president touched on the topic of small business success and the collective forces that shape it, such as the U.S. infrastructure. Since then, Fox has led a right-wing charge claiming Obama insulted small businessmen and women by telling them of their accomplishments, "you didn't build that." (He was clearly [3] referring to infrastructure.)
The Wall Street Journal recently published [4] a newsroom review of how Obama's "build that" comment became such a big deal [emphasis added]:
<That was on Friday, July 13. Over the following weekend, state GOP communicators got calls from small-business owners grousing about the president's words, said Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer. By last Monday, what had been the germ of an idea in the brains of Mr. Spicer and other strategists grew into a full-court press.>
So according to the Journal's reporting, the idea of focusing on Obama's July 13 "build that" comments quickly took root inside the RNC, after officials were prompted by the spontaneous, angry reaction from businessmen. Then ten days later, the comment was at the center of a "full-court," "multi-pronged" GOP attack campaign, complete with commercials and two dozen staged rallies.
How fascinating.
But what did Rupert Murdoch's Journal conveniently leave out of its tick-tock report on how the "build that" controversy unfolded? The indisputable fact that Rupert Murdoch Fox News promoted the whole story, and that if it weren't for Fox there would be no "build that" campaign for the GOP to run on Romney's behalf. And if it weren't for Fox and its purposefully dishonest promotion [5] of the "build that" quote, the story would not be in play two weeks later.
Fact: The "build that" tale was sponsored [6] by Fox News, which has replaced the RNC as the launching pad for campaign attacks ads. After the story was bubbling on conservatives blogs, it was Fox that helped take Obama's "wildly out of context [7]" comments and turn them into a national story. And it was Fox that obsessively [8] spent hours of programming time spread out over two weeks hyping the falsehood [9] that Obama said business owners didn't build their success.
This was not a supposed "gaffe" Obama made on the campaign trail, which Fox News fixated on for weeks in an effort to embarrass the president. Instead, Obama made straight-forward comments about business success and the importance of outside influences such as teachers as well as government-created infrastructure, and Fox decided to help splice up the comments [10], strip them of context and pretend Obama said something else; a fictitious claim the Romney camp then repeated and turned into an attack campaign.
The chronology is critical in terms of understanding the unprecedented role a "news" channel is playing in this year's general election campaign: It's manufacturing campaign ads [11] for the GOP. That is what the actual tick-tock review of the "build that" comment looks like. And that's the startling tale serious campaign journalists ought to be telling.
Instead, from Murdoch's Journal newsroom, we're told Fox News played no part in rolling out the GOP's "build that" attack.
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