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Introduction: The molecular basis for the embryonic and perinatal clinical forms of biliary atresia is largely undefined. In this study, we aimed to: 1) determine if the clinical forms can be differentiated at the transcriptional level, and 2) search for molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic differences.
Methods: To this end, we generated biotinylated cRNA probes from livers of age-matched infants with the embryonic (N=5) and perinatal (N=6) forms of biliary atresia at the time of diagnosis, and hybridized them against the Affymetrix human HG-U133 A and B microarrays containing 44760 gene products.
Results: Subjects were 1–3 months of age, and had similar degrees of hepatocellular injury (as defined by similar levels of serum alanine aminotransferase) and synthetic function (serum albumin and prothrombin time). Data filtering and two-way cluster analysis of the gene expression platform identified 230 genes with an expression profile that is highly distinctive of the clinical phenotypes. Levels of expression of most laterality genes did not change significantly between the groups, neither did the expression of genes encoding Th1 and Th2 cytokines. Functionally, 35% of the profile represented overexpression of regulatory genes, followed by varied metabolic processes. Genes involved in metabolic processes were expressed primarily in livers of infants with the perinatal form, and are involved in oxidation, reduction, hosphorylation, and ubiquination. In contrast, the over-expression of regulatory genes segregated primarily with the diagnosis of the embryonic form, and regulated primarily RNA processing and transcription. Among these regulatory genes, we found a unique pattern of expression of genes involved in chromatin integrity/function (Smarca-1, Rybp, and Hdac3) and the uniform overexpression of five imprinted genes (Igf2, Peg3, Peg10, Meg3, and IPW), implying a failure to downregulate embryonic gene programs.
Conclusion: Embryonic and perinatal forms of biliary atresia are distinguished by gene expression profiling. The coordinate expression of regulators of chromatin structure/function and of imprinted genes suggests a potential pathogenic mechanism in which epigenetic factors modulate phenotypic differences in biliary atresia.
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The Judith Hoyer Lecture on Epilepsy is a public lecture series highlighting the promise of epilepsy research. Held each year in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, the series was established in 2002 to honor the memory of Mrs. Judith Hoyer, an active member of the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation and the late wife of Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD). As a person with epilepsy herself, Mrs. Hoyer spent her life both helping families cope with epilepsy and promoting research into a cure and a better quality of life for those with the disorder. Each year, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) works in partnership with the American Epilepsy Society (AES), and the member organizations of Vision 2020 to plan and sponsor this event. The purpose of the lecture is to raise awareness about the epilepsies among researchers and the public and provide intellectual stimulation that will promote progress toward finding a cure for epilepsy.
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1Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel; 2Swiss Federal Office of Sports, Magglingen; and 3Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
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Decreased fitness and increased fatness are relevant factors for decreased cardiovascular and bone health in children. One way to increase physical activity and hence fitness and to reduce the risk for overweight might be sports club participation (SCP).
Purpose: To investigate the association of SCP with fatness and fitness in children in general and in those with increased risk for overweight and/or low fitness.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a random sample of 502 first- and fifth-grade primary school children. Fitness components were determined by 10 motor tests and body fatness by the sum of four skinfolds. SCP was defined as participation of at least once a week.
Results: Two thirds of all children were participating in a sports club. Girls' and boys' participation rate as well as those of overweight children and of children with overweight parents were comparable to their respective normal weight peers. In contrast, children from migrant families (odds ratio = 0.31; 95% confidence interval = 0.20-0.48) and from inactive parents (odds ratio = 0.16; 95% confidence interval = 0.05-0.45) participated significantly less (all P < 0.001). SCP was associated with endurance (0.53 > β > 0.37, all P < 0.05) and partly with speed, strength, and coordination (0.41 > β > 0.18, all P < 0.05). In overweight children and in children from overweight parents and migrant families, this association was not found. There was no association between SCP and fatness in any of the groups.
Conclusions: SCP rates were high and were associated with higher levels of most fitness components in children. Participation rates were lower for children of migrant families and children from inactive parents. In addition, the association between SCP and fitness components was not found in overweight children and in children from overweight parents and migrant families.
A decrease in fitness and an increase in fatness have been widely documented in studies looking at secular trends in children (32,34). Several recent cross-sectional studies document a negative association between physical activity or fitness and obesity or cardiovascular risk in children (2). Some longitudinal studies add support for the hypothesis that higher levels of physical activity during childhood lead to the acquisition of less body fat by the time of early adolescence (20,21), and many lifestyle intervention studies in children could document significant increases in fitness and decreases in body mass index (BMI) or skinfold thickness (14). Another way to increase fitness and/or decrease fatness in children is through regular participation in sports clubs or extracurricular sport activities (13,18,35). Because 39% of US children attend local sport teams, 15% scouts, and 13% YMCA/YWCAs (28) and 70% of male and 53% of female high school students report participating in sport teams in school and/or in nonschool settings (23), the popularity of out-of-school activities is evident.
There are children with a special risk of being unfit and/or overweight, for example, overweight children, children of overweight or inactive parents, and those from migrant families. Overweight children and adolescents often show a lower level of physical activity (9) and hence physical fitness (4,33) than their normal weight peers. Parental obesity and inactivity have been found to be predictors for low physical activity levels in their children (20,26,29). Children and adolescents from migrants have been documented to have the highest obesity rates and the lowest physical activity or fitness levels (12,27). This resume is a broad oversimplification of the situation because lifestyle behavior and its consequences (i.e., physical activity, inactivity, and obesity) could be more influenced by the level of assimilation or acculturation of the migrant population rather than by the migrant status per se (27).
Children who attend extracurricular sport activities have been shown to be fitter and less fat than their nonactive counterparts (13,18,35). High school students engaging in school-based and/or nonschool based sports were more likely to report three or more 20-min sessions of vigorous physical activity during the previous week (23). However, data on extracurricular sports club participation (SCP) in relation to fitness/fatness in the general population of children and in children with increased risk of being unfit and overweight are lacking in the literature.
This study randomly selected a sample of Swiss primary school children to determine 1) whether children with increased risk for low fitness and high fatness (i.e., overweight children, children from inactive and/or overweight parents, and children from migrant families) participate at the same extent in sport clubs than children without such risk; and 2) whether SCP is associated with fitness and/or fatness in children with and without increased risk for low fitness and high fatness. We hypothesized that SCP compared with non-SCP is associated with higher fitness and lower fatness levels, and that children with increased risk for low fitness and high fatness participate less in sports clubs, but if they participate, they show a similar association between SCP and fitness/fatness as the remaining children.
Data were taken from the baseline examination of the Kinder-Sportstudie (KISS), a randomized controlled physical activity intervention aiming at increasing physical activity, fitness, and health of primary school children in Switzerland (38). The project started in September 2005 and was performed in two provinces of Switzerland. Children (N = 535) were randomly selected and stratified by grade (first and fifth grade), living area (rural and urban), and ethnicity (10-30% immigrants) to be representative for the Swiss population. Of those, 502 (94%) of the selected children agreed to participate. All baseline measurements were taken at school before the physical activity intervention. A complete data set of all measurements was available in 438 children (80.2%). Two hundred and eighty-eight children (50.35% boys, 49.65% girls) regularly participated in a sports club at least once a week (SP group), and 150 children (44% boys, 56% girls) did not participate in a sports club (non-SP group). This information was given by parents for the first-grade children and by children and parents for the fifth-grade children. Sixty-four children were excluded because they did not answer the question regarding SCP. Children gave their verbal assent, and written informed consent was obtained from their parents. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Basel, the ETH of Zurich, and the canton Aargau, Switzerland.
Body height was measured without shoes to the nearest 0.2 cm with a wall-mounted stadiometer (Seca, Basel, Switzerland). Body mass was determined in light clothing and without shoes to the nearest 50 g with an electronic scale (Seca). Body mass index (BMI) was calculated using body mass divided by height squared (kg·m−2). Normal weight was defined as BMI <90th percentile and overweight as BMI ≥90th percentile based on Swiss national reference data (25). Skinfold thickness was measured based on standard procedures (17) to the nearest 0.1 cm with Harpenden skinfold caliper (HSK-BI; British Indicators, West Sussex, UK) calibrated to exert a pressure of 10 g·cm−2 to the skin at four sites over biceps, triceps, subscapular, and suprailiac. The measurements were taken in triplicate, and the mean was calculated. The sum of the four skinfolds was taken for further analyses. The same two investigators took all measurements. Interobserver technical errors tested in a pilot study were 1.7 mm for biceps, 1.9 mm for triceps, 1.4 mm for subscapular, and 2.1 mm for suprailiac sites, respectively. Skinfold thickness was then normalized and expressed as grade- and gender-adjusted z-scores based on our study population.
Motor fitness was determined using different tests from standardized motor fitness test batteries of Kiphard (16), Bös (7), and the Eurofit test (8). Test items included balancing backward, jumping sideward, pushing a 1-kg ball, throwing a tennis ball on a target, 20-m sprint, jump-and-reach, 20-m shuttle run, sit-ups, bent-arm-hang, and plate tapping. All tests were performed in the respective school gyms. To be able to describe the different indices of physical fitness of the children, all test items were first transformed into grade- and gender-adjusted z-scores based on the study population. The z-scores of plate tapping and the 20-m sprint were inverted because in these tests, a low z-score was associated with high performance whereas a high z-score was representative for high performance in the remaining tests. The individual tests were then assigned into four subcategories including coordination (mean of balancing backward, throwing a tennis ball on a target), endurance (20-m shuttle run), strength (mean of pushing a 1-kg ball, jump-and-reach, sit-ups, bent-arm-hang), and speed (mean of 20-m sprint, plate tapping, jumping sideward). The categorization of the tests was done based on the decision of an expert panel of medical doctors and exercise physiologists.
Parents filled out a questionnaire that was sent home. Questions included information about parental body height and weight, country of origin, and their participation in sport clubs (yes or no option). Overweight of the parents was defined as a BMI of >25 kg·m−2 after correcting for the underreporting of their BMI (37). A migrant family was defined based on regions from which they emigrated if both parents were born in countries of Southern or Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, or Central or South America. Pubertal status was self-reported by the child or the parents. Breast and pubic hair were reported for girls; genital and pubic development was reported for boys. Only breast for girls and genital development for boys were used in the analyses.
All variables were checked for normality of distribution, and appropriate transformations were applied when necessary. Unadjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using the chi-square test to determine the association between children in different group constellations (girls vs boys, first vs fifth grade, overweight vs normal weight children, children with normal weight vs overweight parents, children from active vs inactive parents, and children from nonmigrant vs migrant families) and SCP. Linear regression analyses were then used to examine the relationship between children's SCP and their fitness/fatness level in the same group constellations mentioned above. The analyses were adjusted for chronological age and pubertal stage. All analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The significance level was set at P < 0.05.
Descriptive characteristics of the study sample based on SCP, grade, and gender are shown in Table 1. There were no significant differences in age, height, weight, and BMI between those with SCP and those without.
Percentages, OR, and 95% CI for the associations between SCP and fitness/fatness are presented in Table 2 for all children and for those with special risk for overweight and/or low fitness. About two thirds of boys and girls participated in a sports club. Figure 1 shows the selection of sport clubs separated by gender and grade. Although boys preferred team sports (i.e., soccer, ice hockey, handball, basketball, and volleyball) and martial arts, girls preferred gymnastics and dance. The average time spent in sport clubs in 62% of the children who reported it was 118 ± 91 min·wk−1 for first-grade children and 215 ± 146 min·wk−1 for the fifth-grade children. Children in the first grade, children with inactive parents, and children from migrant families were significantly less likely than their peers to participate in a sports club. Parental and children's weight status had no effect on children's SCP.
In general, children participating in a sports club showed significantly higher scores in all motor fitness indices than children not participating in a sports club (Table 3). This was true for all components of motor fitness in first-grade children and in most motor fitness components for fifth-grade children. Furthermore, children's SCP was significantly associated with endurance (aerobic fitness) and most other motor fitness indices in normal weight children, in children of inactive parents, and in children from nonmigrant families (all P < 0.001). This association was not found for overweight children, children from overweight parents, and children from migrant families. As an example, a normal weight child showed 0.51 higher z-scores for endurance (95% CI = 0.29 to 0.74) when participating in a sports club compared with a normal weight child not participating in a sports club with a significant difference between the groups. On the other hand, an overweight child showed the same tendency of 0.31 higher endurance z-scores (95% CI = −0.07 to 0.70) when participating in a sports club than the overweight child not participating, although this was not significantly different. One z-score unit around the median of the whole population (e.g., −0.5 to 0.5) for endurance equals a 1.5-min difference in the shuttle run running time equivalent to a 25% difference between absolute values. A β coefficient of 0.52 therefore translates to a difference of 45 s or 12.5% among the groups. For the z-scores of the other motor fitness disciplines, one z-score unit difference around the median was similar and translated into a 20-35% difference of the absolute values.
There were no significant associations between the children's SCP and the sum of four skinfolds irrespective of the group considered.
The main findings of the present study were that two thirds of boys and girls participated in extracurricular sports. Children in first grade, children with inactive parents, and children from migrant families were significantly less likely than their "normal" peers to participate in a sports club, whereas the weight status of the children or their parents was not associated with participation rates. Furthermore, SCP was associated with a meaningful and significant 5-12% higher motor fitness, including coordination and endurance, but not with fatness irrespective of gender and grade. The association between motor fitness and SCP was, however, not found for overweight children, children of overweight parents, and migrant families.
Regular participation in extracurricular sports has been recommended as an easy mean to increase physical activity and fitness or to reduce body fat (13,18,35). It is reassuring that the majority of Swiss elementary school children (18), comparable to children and adolescents of other countries (23,24,28), participate in extracurricular activity programs. Children in Switzerland do this by participating in sport clubs. They go there once to three times per week, for at least 60 to 90 min per session, to perform sports at a quite competitive level. The teams compete against each other locally, regionally, or nationally depending on their skill level. Sport teams compete about once per month, and at higher skill levels they compete weekly. In individual sports, competitions are highly dependent on the skill levels and range from no competitions up to weekly competitions. This participation in organized or extracurricular sports is of great public health importance considering the fact that schools are reluctant to increase physical education time or even to reduce it (22). The minimum of physical education for elementary school children in Switzerland is three 45-min lessons per week. Similar to most countries in the world, this is not enough to fulfill the public health physical activity guidelines, which advice at least 1 h of physical activity per day (31). Also, school-based interventions aimed at increasing daily physical activity had little effect in doing so (36). It is therefore necessary to search for strategies outside school to increase the children's physical activity and fitness levels. Noncurricular approaches showed a promise for increasing vigorous physical activity (23), physical fitness (5,6), reducing body fat (5), or enhancing health behavior (23). Although we do not provide a causal relationship for this promise, our results support the hypothesis that extracurricular SCP may lead to higher fitness levels.
In contrary to the finding that girls are less physically active than boys (30), SCP was equally prevalent in girls and boys. It was lower in children of inactive parents and in those from migrant families but not in overweight children and in those from overweight parents. Thus, girls and boys participated equally in a sports club, which shows that at least two thirds of girls are willing to be active in sports. This finding is important because it shows that a positive attitude toward extracurricular SCP exists also in pubertal girls, who tend to become inactive and unfit with puberty (15). Yet, SCP does not equal physical activity; rather, participation in a club provides an opportunity for activity. Activities available for boys and girls may differ in potential for physical activity, and it is therefore possible that the latter may be related to sex differences in physical activity. The inconsistent association between motor fitness components and SCP in our girls supports this hypothesis.
Although some longitudinal data (21) show that overweight children are less active than normal weight children, our data indicate that they participate in sports at the same percentage as normal weight children, which is one precondition to increase daily physical activity. It is possible that adolescent girls and obese children for example participated equally in sport clubs as the usually more active population (i.e., boys, normal weight children) because they could freely select the discipline and how often they wanted to take part. The finding of a lower participation rate in children from inactive parents suggests the influence of the parents as mediators for organized sports participation (19,20,30). The finding that migrant children and adolescents participate less in extracurricular sports and also show lower physical activity levels in general has been documented in different countries (12,27). Yet, the lower participation rate of our children from migrant families has to be considered with caution given the lack of specific information on the children and their families. Migrant families differ in their traditional way of thinking about physical activity and body shape and will most likely have a different level of integration into the new culture. Depending on their level of acculturation, they may keep their traditional lifestyle habits; they may fully assimilate to the new culture or show a mix in between (27). These data suggest that the attitude and normative beliefs of the children and parents toward physical activity rather than the weight status of children and parents are instrumental in determining extracurricular sports participation of the children, as has been suggested previously by others (12,29). One consequence is that we have to learn more about how to reach inactive parents and migrant families, which include also possible barriers to be physically active or to participate in organized sports.
For boys and first-grade children, there was a significant association between SCP and all motor fitness components, but also in girls and fifth graders, significant associations were found for endurance (both), strength (fifth grade), and coordination (fifth grade). High endurance and SCP were consistently related among both genders and age groups. These results are in line with the findings of Ara et al. (5,6), who also reported a significantly higher aerobic fitness of boys participating in extracurricular sports compared with boys without participation. Aerobic fitness is important in the determination of cardiovascular risk not only in adults but also in children (2). Even more important, fitness training leads to a higher aerobic fitness with a parallel reduction of other cardiovascular risk factors (10,11). There is even a dose-response relationship because the number of cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood lipids, insulin resistance, and hypertension is increased with lower fitness and higher BMI (3). The associations with the other motor fitness components are less clearly related to the child's health per se but should be considered as preconditions to enjoy and to successfully perform sports throughout growth (30).
The question, which arises, is whether the association between fitness and SCP was also found in children at risk for being overweight and/or unfit. The association between most motor fitness components and SCP was indeed not found in overweight children, children from overweight parents, and migrant families. Possibly, sports clubs were not catering sufficiently for the specific needs of these subgroups. Coaches should learn to teach each child based on his or her individual needs. For example, an overweight child should be preferentially endurance trained intermittently or in a nonweight bearing manner. The consistent association between the SCP and the motor fitness in children of active and inactive parents could be due the low number of active parents in our study (N = 40).
The lacking association between SCP and fatness is not surprising, although it is discordant with findings by Ara et al. (5). In a further study by the same group (6), however, they were not able to find differences in sum of skinfolds between those participating in 3 h of extracurricular sports and those with less participation. Despite these contradictory findings, an important difference between their and our study was the amount of extracurricular sports participation. Although their criterion of inclusion in a sports participation group was at least 3 h of extracurricular sports per week, we divided children in participation or nonparticipation categories, irrespective of the amount of time spent in organized sports. It could be that the amount of active time spent in sports clubs by our subjects was simply not enough to induce body composition changes. This hypothesis is supported by several studies which have shown that children participating in competitive sports demonstrate significantly less body fat compared with children involved in noncompetitive sports (1).
There are some limitations to the present study. The study has a cross-sectional design. Therefore, we cannot determine whether the SCP might have led to higher fitness levels or whether higher fit children simply tended to participate in sports clubs. On the basis of many training and school-based physical activity intervention studies in which higher fitness levels were attained (14), one might suggest that at least part of the increased fitness in the group participating in a sports club was a reflection of this SCP. This is supported by a large study in high school students that reported higher vigorous physical activity levels in those students with extracurricular sport participation (23). We did not measure leisure time activities, which could also have influenced the children's motor fitness level. One should realize also that types of activities and time in the clubs are only proxies of physical activity. Hence, care is needed in generalizing, especially given the large SD for time in the sports clubs. And finally, our results for the migrant population should be considered with caution considering the lack of information about the adherence to their traditions as well as the extent and the level of assimilation to the host country by factors such as the children's birthplace, age of children at migration, time since migration, parental occupational status, reasons for migration, or preservation of the traditional language, which might all influence our results.
In conclusion, our data show that two thirds of both genders participate in extracurricular sport activities, with lower rates found in children from inactive parents and migrant families. This participation was associated with higher levels of motor fitness, but not with differences in fatness, in a broad, randomly selected sample of Swiss first- and fifth-grade children. Extracurricular SCP could serve as an easy and attractive mean of health enhancing daily physical activity. Omni-sports organizations with a broad range of sports disciplines, offering a combination of sports at recreational and competitive levels at moderate costs and with easy access for all children, may serve as possible model to increase daily physical activity in school children. Programs of such sport teams should especially focus on finding attractive ways to increase motor fitness in girls and in children at increased risk for overweight and low fitness because SCP was not associated with increased motor fitness in those groups. Further prospective studies should reveal whether there is a real cause-effect relationship between motor fitness and participation in extracurricular sports in children.
The authors thank the children, the parents, and the teachers who volunteered to participate in this study. We also thank Dr. Christian Schindler for his helpful comments on previous drafts of the manuscript. This study was supported by a grant from the Swiss Federal Office of Sport (grant number SW105-013 KISS).
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WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators reached final agreement yesterday on a Pentagon policy bill that would strengthen protections for military victims of sexual assault.
It was a loss for champions of a more-sweeping response to sexual assault in the military. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., saw her effort to take sexual-assault cases out of the military chain of command rebuffed. She intends to try to advance her bill again next year.
The House passed its defense-policy bill in the summer, but the Senate's version has been bogged down for weeks in a dispute over the number of Republican amendments that would be allowed to come to a vote.
The House and Senate armed-services committees negotiated behind the scenes on a compromise bill that is likely to pass the House this week and then be taken up by the Senate next week.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the bill would provide a special victims counsel for survivors of sexual assault and make retaliation for reporting assault a crime. Service members court-martialed for sexual assault would no longer be able to stay in the military if found guilty, and those accused would be moved from units that they share with their accusers.


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"Mr. President," Lyndon Johnson said, "I ask for the yeas and nays."
For a time, to those in the galleries, the vote may have seemed to be going against the Leader. The first two senators called—Aiken and Allott—responded "Nay," and at the end of twenty- five names, with the roll just finishing the Ds, the tally was 16 to 9 against the amendment. But Johnson, sitting at his desk with the smudged tally sheet in front of him, wasn't worried. He knew what was coming—and, with the start of the Es, it came. "Eastland?" Aye. "Ellender?" Aye. "Ervin?" Aye. By the time the clerk reached the Ms, the ayes were ahead—and so many of the Ms were from the MountainStates and the Northwest. "Magnuson?" Aye. "Malone?" Aye. "Mansfield?" Aye. "Murray?" Aye. Shortly after midnight—at 12:19 a.m. on August 2—Nixon announced that the amendment was approved, by 51 votes to 42.
On August 29, the Senate passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The vote was 60 for and 15 against. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the historic bill into law on September 9.


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April 28, 2009
If they only had a brain
If you haven't already, check out the bottom video here to really understand the fear and panic induced by the "photo-op" low-flying plane over NYC yesterday. Of course it's not Obama's fault, nothing ever is, but I'm not entirely clear how he's going to blame Bush for this one.
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Why is the image of fake brest-biting gorilla comes to mind?
F*cked up Tarzan. Ёёёб…
*breast-beating*, of course.
Pardon me.


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A person's views on friendship tend to evolve over the years, but it would seem to be a hard and fast rule that a "friend" does not publish a book that exposes the object of their affection to widespread public ridicule.
Jeff Himmelman's new "personal portrait" of the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee — "Yours in Truth" (Random House) — starts off by telling us that the author is a longtime friend (and research assistant) of Watergate star Bob Woodward and it was that relationship that led to a friendship with Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn.
Himmelman went on to co-author a book by the Bradlees son, Quinn — "A Different Life" — that bolstered his relationship with the Washington, D.C. social and cultural power couple.
It was Sally Quinn who got the ball rolling for Himmelman to do a book on her husband — she saw it as a collection of his work philosophy that would augment the memoir ("A Good Life") Bradlee wrote several years ago.
Bradlee opened his arms — and his files (and the Washington Post files pertaining to him) — and Himmelman has paid back that generosity with a book that has embarrassed Bradlee and Woodward with the doubts it raises about the official story of the Post's Watergate exposes. The professional breach has also ended the friendships (if the New York Times story published on the flap a week ago is accurate).
The book's centerpiece — "Doubt" — is a long account of Himmelman finding material suggesting that the Watergate reporting might have included interviews from members of a grand jury — an illegal act for such a juror — that the Post has always claimed didn't happen.
The biographer also uncovered a research interview done by Bradlee for his memoir in which he expresses his fears that the "Deep Throat" secret source scenario might have been less than the whole truth on Woodward's part.
"…there's a residual fear in my soul that that isn't quite straight," Bradlee said of his "doubt" to Barbara Feinman in a portion of his memoir interview that wasn't used in "A Good Life."
When Himmelman asked Bradlee about the quote, he said it was accurate, but was no big deal. Editors get nervous about the veracity of their reporters' research all the time. But when the writer interviewed Woodward it was clear the Watergate journalist was very concerned — that concern eventually escalated into a meltdown that included Himmelman's heavily hinted assertion that Woodward might have taken the original tape on which Bradlee made the comment (the biographer only had a transcript and when he searched for the tape, it was missing).
Himmelman never found any real evidence that Woodward fudged the "Deep Throat" scenario or that any grand jurors were interviewed by the Post during the Watergate scandal, but he includes all of his adventures in research in a book that is ostensibly a personal biography of a very famous friend. Himmelman is either extremely naive about the thin skin of fellow journalists or knew very well that he was going to publish a friendship-destroying book.
Sadly, the flap over the break-up of Himmelman and his pals obscures the many wonderful aspects of "Yours in Truth," including outstanding coverage of the Janet Cooke controversy and fascinating insights into the negative impact that the movie of "All the President's Men" (below) had on the Post staff.


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A Russian company is set to invest $30 million in a building complex in Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority Minister of Economy Jawad al-Naji said Tuesday, according to Ma'an.
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What a pair! How about a Plishtim building complex in Russia?
another poor Russian investment that will yield no profit to the Russian economy while the Russians starve. Is this Putin's personal black market money?


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Elections, Politics
Romney is going to win, unless . . .
Romney is going to win, unless . . . YOU become demoralized. Here's the deal.
Right now, Romney is polling higher among independents. Right now, pro-Romney voting cohorts are much more enthusiastic than pro-Obama cohorts. If those two things hold, Romney will win.
A lot of the polls are using terribly inaccurate samples, ones that presume massive Democrat turnout and slightly depressed Republican turnout. That is not an accurate picture of what is going to happen. The polls are misleading.
Romney will keep his advantage among indies. Swing voters are called swing voters for a reason, and this year, they are not going to swing with an incumbent who has failed this badly. There isn't much that the media, the pollsters, or the Obama campaign can do about that. Their one hope is to change the turnout dynamic—to excite their base and depress ours.
Right now, they are doing their best to depress ours. Do not let them get away with it. People are writing stories about how it's all over. People even on our side. This is nonsense. This race is Romney's to lose. Barring some weird occurrence, the only thing that can change that is if they manage to flip the turnout situation. All you have to do to stop that is to not get demoralized, and to not let others get demoralized.
Now, read these . . .
Karl Rove: Obama 'In Desperate Shape'
Political strategist Karl Rove Wednesday said recent polls show President Barack Obama in "desperate shape" in some key states he carried in 2008 and urged Republicans not to be discouraged by polls suggesting Mitt Romney has been wounded too severely by campaign missteps to recover."The swing state poll shows the president in desperate shape in territory he carried with ease in 2008," Rove said told Fox News' Neil Cavuto Wednesday evening, referring to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll showing Obama up by 48 percent to 46 percent over Romney.Rove, a Fox News contributor and the founder of the Republican super PAC Crossroad GPS, said a closer look at the poll, however, indicates trouble ahead for the president in many of the 11 key battleground states when compared to a similar poll from the 2008 presidential race.Rove noted that Obama was ahead of Sen. John McCain then with 55 percent of likely voters, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted in mid-September of that campaign."So Mitt Romney is already running ahead of the pace of John McCain. And President Obama is running . . . over six points behind where he did in these states in 2008," Rove told Cavuto."It's amazing to me," Rove said, adding that he would be worried "if I were in the White House and looking at this."
Why The Polls Understate Romney Vote
Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an Obama victory is in the offing. They, in fact, suggest no such thing! Here's why:
1. All of the polling out there uses some variant of the 2008 election turnout as its model for weighting respondents and this overstates the Democratic vote by a huge margin.
In English, this means that when you do a poll you ask people if they are likely to vote. But any telephone survey always has too few blacks, Latinos, and young people and too many elderly in its sample. That's because some don't have landlines or are rarely at home or don't speak English well enough to be interviewed or don't have time to talk. Elderly are overstated because they tend to be home and to have time. So you need to increase the weight given to interviews with young people, blacks and Latinos and count those with seniors a bit less.
Normally, this task is not difficult. Over the years, the black, Latino, young, and elderly proportion of the electorate has been fairly constant from election to election, except for a gradual increase in the Hispanic vote. You just need to look back at the last election to weight your polling numbers for this one.
But 2008 was no ordinary election. Blacks, for example, usually cast only 11% of the vote, but, in 2008, they made up 14% of the vote. Latinos increased their share of the vote by 1.5% and college kids almost doubled their vote share. Almost all pollsters are using the 2008 turnout models in . . .


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Dean Jernigan, 55
Memphis Redbirds
Memphis Tennessee
It is Saturday, April 1. An overcast spring day in Memphis, and the man who surpassed Roger Maris's home-run record, a guy accustomed to inspiring awe and astonishment, has stumbled onto a sports achievement that impresses even him. Mark McGwire and the St. Louis Cardinals have come to town for an exhibition game against the Memphis Redbirds, their Triple-A minor-league affiliate. It is, frankly, the kind of game that most major leaguers would rather blow off. The night before, the Cardinals played an exhibition game in Texas. Monday, they would embark on the exhausting grind that is a 162-game regular season. McGwire has a bad back and can't even play. If it weren't for this Memphis stop, the Cardinals players would be home, resting in St. Louis.
But Memphis was opening AutoZone Park, the most expensive baseball complex ($72 million) ever built below the major-league level. Cardinals management thought it was obligated to help put on a good Opening Day show. So the team flew into Memphis, boarded two buses, and headed toward downtown.
That's when Redbirds employees dropped a videotape into the VCR at the front of each bus. The mood of the Cardinals players began to change. The videotape told the story of a team, a business, and an owner, Dean Jernigan, that was unlike any story in professional sports. In a business in which the only thing anyone seems to have in common is greed — $10 million salaries; $400 million, publicly financed stadiums; $40-a-seat tickets — Jernigan seemed different. He was a businessman, certainly: chairman, president, CEO, and founder of Storage USA Inc., the country's second-largest self-storage operation. And he was a man who seemed to have no problem charging $2 for Cokes and $4.50 for beers at his stadium. But he wouldn't pocket a dime's worth of profit from those Cokes and beers. Neither he nor his wife and partner, Kristi Jernigan, 37, would ever draw a salary for running the team. Every cent earned by the organization would go to one of two local charities, designated in advance, working to bring baseball back to youngsters in the inner city.
It was a breathtaking notion — and it got the attention of two buses of professional ballplayers, who are as cynical about baseball ownership as anyone is. By the time that McGwire made it to the pregame press conference, he was quiet, in awe. "A lot of guys were like, 'You've got to be kidding me,' " McGwire said, stroking his red beard. "Why can't everybody do that?"
(I) It's a New Ball Game
During a game in July, a Redbirds employee noticed a young girl leaving the team souvenir store, looking downcast. The employee asked what was wrong. The girl's mother had given her $3, but there was nothing in the store for her to buy at that price. At the team's next monthly operations meeting, Kristi Jernigan instructed the team's retail manager, over his protests, to stock some items for less than $3.
Play Ball! (But Play By Different Rules)
Dean Jernigan is up front: He says that he "despises" the traditional role of sports owner. You don't have to watch him for long to see that this is true. Anywhere else, if an owner built a new ballpark, if he built it in a place where everybody said it couldn't be built, financed by a business plan that had been rejected by one of the biggest banks in America — and if that ballpark turned out to be a city's glory, a steel-and-brick dream that conjured the best parts of Camden Yards and Turner Field — you'd expect the owner to be front and center on the day that it opens, right? Taking batting practice. Throwing out the first ball. On April 1, Opening Day in Memphis, Jernigan, 55, took the opposite approach. At the celebration that featured McGwire, Jernigan actually retreated from the happy tumult to write the copy introducing the 46 men and women who would throw out first balls. Then he concluded that there was a better, more efficient way to do it. "I'm going to announce all these guys for today's first pitch,'' he said.
Jernigan slipped into the press box at just the right time. He made all 46 introductions, from memory, pointing out how each person had been instrumental to the Redbirds or to the creation of the stadium. He never let the fans know that the man most responsible for the park was playing PA announcer, that he was the man. "That's just not Dean," said Kristi Jernigan. "He doesn't want the spotlight."
Jernigan never wanted to be an owner. What he wanted was a chance to reimagine what sports ownership could be. In his vision, a sports franchise isn't just another rich man's trophy, something to put on display. It's an essential part of the texture of the town to which it belongs. Jernigan wanted a team that would flourish to the benefit — not at the expense — of its community. He wanted a team that could never threaten to leave. What he got, in the end, was a baseball team with the same corporate structure as the American Red Cross and the United Way — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise, the only one of its kind in professional sports.
That doesn't mean the Redbirds are a monastic outfit. The team has a large, fairly compensated staff, including three full-timers who do nothing but keep the stadium grass lush and green. AutoZone Park, four blocks from the Mississippi River, has armrests and cup holders at nearly every seat and has carpeted concourses at the club level. Indeed, the team must be run like a business. After all, it has to wring as much money as it can from its operations in order to pay off $72 million in bonds issued to pay for the complex.
But as a nonprofit, no matter how much cash the team generates, nobody but the community will ever profit. "I'm not an owner,'' Jernigan said. "I'm a founder. This team is a community asset. We've taken the greed out of sports. We've eliminated the greed factor.''
In a city that that has long seen itself as a victim of the old style of sports ownership, Jernigan's new ethic has had a transforming effect. The Redbirds drew more than 850,000 fans this season, shattering the city's all-time attendance record before the season was half over. In a downtown that had withered, and that many suburbanites considered irrelevant, the stadium has sparked a revival. A new apartment complex is going up next to the ballpark. A theater-and-entertainment complex is expected to open a few blocks away. The city even has plans for a new downtown school. "It's become the most important facility in the city," said Steve Cohen, a state senator from Memphis. "It's a great symbol of hope for the future."
In just three years, the Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation has brought baseball and softball back to 34 inner-city junior-high and middle schools in Memphis, and has started a summer-league program for underprivileged kids — providing free lunches as well as batting tips — at 12 inner-city sites. "This is nothing like it's going to be,'' Jernigan said. "I don't think people have any idea. When we get the bonds paid off, if our models are right, we're going to be churning out $8 to $10 million a year."
(II) It's a New Ball Game
The bylaws of the Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation, which owns the team, provide that "approximately 50%" of its elected directors "shall be females and that the ethnic diversity of the Elected Directors shall approximate, as closely as possible, that of the at-large community." The bylaws also provide that one of those directors must be a "senior executive currently employed in not-for-profit community service," and one or two must be "experienced in fund-raising for not-for-profit organizations."
Alphabet of Failures
As a businessman, Dean Jernigan is a lot like he was when he was a shortstop at Messick High in Memphis in the 1960s and in adult leagues around town until his rotator cuff gave out when he was 43. He's relentless, dogged, and successful, if not graceful. He is not at all a glamour player. He will tell you, in fact, that he wound up building self-storage units for those same reasons. In the mid-1980s, casting around for a business in which to make his way, Jernigan chose self storage over economy hotels — he turned down the chance to own a Hampton Inn franchise — precisely because storage had so little intrinsic appeal.
Hampton Inns "made perfect sense to me,'' he says. "I knew that they would be a success. I also knew, and this proved to be true, that there would be a lot more competition. There's no sex appeal in self storage. That alone keeps a lot of capital from finding its way into our business. There's no sex appeal — and that's good."
Jernigan started with one storage facility in 1985. To the high hilarity of some colleagues and friends, he named it "Storage USA." "I had a lot of friends jab me," Jernigan said. "They said, 'You've got a lot of courage, Jernigan. You have one storage facility, and you name it Storage USA?' " Today, Storage USA is a publicly traded company. Last year, it posted $250 million in revenue, $64 million in profit, and nearly $1 billion in market value. It owns, manages, or franchises 521 self-storage facilities in 31 states and Washington, DC. Every facility is connected by satellite. Customers can log on to an automated-reservation system and can reserve space at any Storage USA site in the country. "And now it's amusing to me that my vision wasn't big enough when we named that first storage facility 'Storage USA,' " Jernigan said. "Now it's limiting, because we're looking into taking our company into international opportunities."
That is quintessential Jernigan. He's a blue-collar dreamer. He's an exacting, relentless man who bends the world to fit his conception of how it should be. It was no accident, then, that when the owner of Memphis's longtime Double-A franchise threatened to move the team, someone called Jernigan and asked him to get involved. It was a Wednesday night in 1996. Jernigan says that he and Kristi were already in bed when they got the call. To understand what happened next requires understanding a little bit about Memphis and a little bit about Jernigan too.
Memphis may be the most beaten-down, embittered sports town in the country, a city that has been discouraged by a series of failures, each more humiliating than the previous. An entire alphabet of minor leagues have been through Memphis — among them, the ABA, ABL, AFL, USBL, USFL, and WFL — none to any good end. The NFL repeatedly wooed then rejected Memphis during a three-decade tease. When the NFL passed over Memphis the last time, in 1993, a cartoon appeared in Memphis's Commercial Appeal of a hound dog — that was to be the franchise's name. The dog was lifting a leg and urinating on the NFL logo. The cartoon was put on T-shirts and sold throughout the city.
Jernigan, who had been a minority owner in a minor-league baseball team in Memphis in the early 1980s, understood the city's frustration. So when he heard that Memphis might lose its Double-A baseball franchise to Jackson, Tennessee, he knew instinctively that he could not let the city get treated that way. He started making phone calls the next day. He called David Hersh, the owner of the Double-A franchise, to open negotiations to buy the team. He called friends who were connected to baseball's Triple-A expansion committee about lining up an expansion franchise if the Double-A negotiations fell through. And, in the back of his mind the whole time, an idea brewed: If he was to get a team, he would create something like the Green Bay Packers, an organization that was so woven into the fabric of Wisconsin that people framed their Packers stock certificates and hung them on their walls.
"That first night, he said that if we did it, we were going to do it a completely different way,'' said Kristi Jernigan. Negotiations to buy the Double-A franchise fell through. In October 1996, Jernigan held a press conference and said, "I will do everything in my power to bring professional baseball back to Memphis and bring it back at the highest level possible." Three months later, in the Peabody Hotel — just four months after he had received that initial call — Jernigan held another truly extraordinary press conference to announce that he had acquired a Triple-A franchise. "We are bringing baseball for the fans,'' he said. "I'll never take a salary, I'll never take a profit, and I'll never take an appreciation value for the baseball team."
In the corner of the room, Pat McKernan, head of baseball's Triple-A expansion committee, just watched and grinned. "He turned it around for this city," McKernan says. "Remarkable man, isn't he?"
(III) It's A New Ball Game
Early on, an architect looked at the space that the Redbirds ownership selected for its ballpark and identified a corner of the property where the team could build a hotel to maximize revenue. The Jernigans nixed that idea and built a public plaza instead. Go there any day of the year, and you can enter under the legs of the giant baseball player, walk on the mosaic baseball diamond, and listen to "sound art" — recorded baseball-game sounds — as you round first, second, and third.
Blue-Collar Dreamer
Some years ago, Jernigan was driving through Kansas City when he happened to see the lights on at what was then Royals Stadium. As if in a spell, he followed the lights straight to the park. "I had my family with me," says Jernigan. "I pulled in and said to them, 'Give me 30 minutes. Y'all come in if you want to, but I want to see this ballpark.' "
Sometimes, Jernigan imagines that he was destined to build a ballpark. Never did he imagine that building one would be quite so hard. Problem number one: Where to put the ballpark? It was an article of faith in the city that any new stadium should be built in the city's booming eastern suburbs. Hersh, the owner of the Double-A franchise, had concluded that a downtown ballpark would be doomed — despite the success of downtown stadiums in both Baltimore and Cleveland. Memphians, it was thought, were too scared of crime, too fond of convenience, too reluctant to commute.
"Kristi knew intuitively that downtown was the right place,'' says Jernigan. "I did my homework and quickly decided that she was absolutely right. Downtown, a ballpark can have an impact beyond baseball. To build a ballpark like this and then surround it with parking lots would have been a crime."
Problem number two: How to structure the team's ownership? Jernigan knew that he wanted to operate the franchise to benefit the community. He didn't have the slightest idea how to structure the franchise to achieve that goal. The answer came from Jim Rout, Shelby County's mayor. "I remember exactly where I was,'' says Jernigan. "Mayor Rout was at a bond closing for the county in New York, and we had flown up there to gauge his support. While we were there, we told him a little bit about what we planned to do with the club and he said, 'Why don't you do it as a 501(c)(3)?' It was the first time I had ever heard that term."
Under that framework, Jernigan would sell the team to the Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation, which would be run by a volunteer board. The Redbirds foundation would then contract with Blues City Baseball — headed by Kristi Jernigan — to run both the team and the stadium for 15 years. "It was a perfect, legitimate structure for what we were going to do," Jernigan says. "If we had not done it, and we were out there saying that we're not taking any money from it, well, nobody would ever know for sure. But by putting it in this tax structure, we absolutely have no way of taking any money out of it, nor does anyone in the future — which pleases us to no end."
Problem number three: How to pay for the new stadium? The city and county said that they could offer $8.5 million combined in assistance for a new ballpark. These days, that barely buys cup holders. Jernigan said that he'd line up private financing for the rest. Jernigan's first banker in the deal, NationsBank, came up with the idea of financing the stadium through the sale of $72 million worth of tax-exempt bonds, which would be paid off by contractually obligated income from the park itself. If the Redbirds could get local companies to agree to long-term deals for naming rights, for box suites, for exclusive concessions deals, and for club-level seats, the team's ownership could use those contracts to support the bonds.
The catch, of course, was that the Memphis business community had a dismal history of supporting minor-league sports. And why would any company want to hitch its future to a Triple-A baseball stadium, especially one to be built in a place where everyone seemed to agree that it would fail miserably? "The not-for-profit angle helped immeasurably,'' says Allie Prescott III, 53, the team's president and general manager. "So did Dean's credibility in the community. People wanted to get on board."
AutoZone agreed to pay $365,000 a year for the first 10 years and $250,000 a year for the next 5 years to put its name on the new ballpark. Coca-Cola agreed to pay $250,000 a year for 15 years to obtain exclusive beverage rights at the stadium. FedEx guaranteed the sale of 750 club seats a year at the park. The Redbirds leased 47 luxury suites for $38,000 or $45,000 a year, almost all of them in long-term contracts. "One thing that you should know about Dean," says Kristi Jernigan. "His mother used to work in Shainberg's, a local department store. And every year, she won the award for selling the most blankets in the month of July."
Even after all of the contracts were in place, it took two years and a change in banks to push the transaction through. NationsBank never felt comfortable enough to pull the trigger on the deal. Opening Day at AutoZone Park, originally scheduled for the 1999 season, was pushed back to 2000.
This was a point when some people might have given up, or at least might have modified their vision for the team. The holdup meant an enormous hole at the stadium site — the Jernigans paid for initial demolition and for excavation work themselves — that triggered a string of jokes about what might become of the hole when the project inevitably failed. A giant wave pool was a popular idea.
Dean Jernigan neither wavered nor scaled down his plans. Instead, he switched to a local bank, First Tennessee, and to a local investment firm, Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc., to handle the deal. "My mistake was not changing sooner," he said. "I gave credit to NationsBank for being with us at the start, and so I stayed with them longer than I should have. But once we got the right financial team in place, the process went pretty quickly."
By late 1998, the financing was in place. A huge crane moved in to resume working on the project. The wrecking ball was painted like a big, white baseball — red stitches and all.
(IV) It's A New Ball Game
At a baseball game this season, Jernigan stopped to watch some children play a game called "Kiddie Striker." It's a sledgehammer game in which youngsters pay to swing a sledgehammer and try to ring a bell. Jernigan watched child after child ring the bell. He decided that it was too easy to be fun. "It's a rip-off," he told members of his staff, and he asked them to make the game free if it was going to be so easy to play.
More Than a Game
Dean Jernigan's parents moved to Memphis when their son was in the seventh grade. They didn't have a lot of money. He had three shirts to wear to school all year long.Both of Jernigan's parents worked. His father was a carpenter, and his mother was a saleswoman at Shainberg's. Growing up poor in a Mississippi River town, Dean and his four siblings often had to take care of themselves.
Yet, there was baseball, which gave Jernigan a place to go, a community, a connection to something larger than himself. "We spent so much time on the sandlots," Jernigan said. "My parents worked, but they always knew where I was because I was always at the park. My Memphis was a wonderful place to grow up. You have to put 'wonderful' in quotes because, with the discrimination we had in the deep South, it was an awful place at the same time. But, as far as my little world, it was a Happy Days kind of world."
As an adult, Jernigan is technologically savvy and up-to-date. Email is his preferred method of communication. Nobody is hired — at his ball club or at Storage USA — without being matched to a position by a Meyers-Briggs exam (Jernigan is an "INTJ"). Storage USA has outstripped its competitors in large part because it's more wired, more connected, and more current than any other outfit.
And yet Jernigan is also thoroughly nostalgic. He is a man who not only remembers what it was like to grow up in the 1950s in Memphis but wishes that he could re-create the best parts today. At the very least, he's determined to re-create the baseball part.
In AutoZone Park, Jernigan has designed a baseball park that tweaks his own memories and that conjures the past: It is all angles and quirks and intimacy. Although the Redbirds hired the famed stadium architecture firm HOK Sport of Kansas City to consult on the design of the park — and the Jernigans do say nice things about the firm — it wasn't HOK that gave the place its distinctive feel. "Architects can tell you how many points of sale you need, how wide the seats need to be," Dean Jernigan says. "But they can't put the soul in a ballpark. We had to do that."
Jernigan insisted on 7-foot outfield walls so that outfielders could leap up and bring home-run balls back into play. He insisted that the dugouts, the clubhouses, and the press box feel major-league. The Redbirds solicited designs for the outfield clock — someone suggested shaping it like a huge guitar — but scrapped them all for a design that Jernigan remembered from Camden Yards.
And then there's the 40-foot statue of a baseball player who stands astride the plaza entryway, a left-handed hitter poised to swing. Originally, before the franchise had settled on the "Redbirds" nickname, it needed a temporary logo. The Jernigans used a sketch of an old-style player that their advertising agency happened across one day. The player became so wildly popular with the community, such a perfect symbol of everything that the franchise stood for, that he now stands astride the park. Fans call him "Nostalgia Man." "He really tapped into something," Jernigan said. "He is one of the most recognized symbols we have."
It's away from the park, though, in the Redbirds burgeoning programs to bring baseball back to the inner city, where Jernigan finds his deepest baseball satisfaction. One Wednesday in August, he presided over Storage USA's quarterly board meeting and then attended an end-of-summer dinner for volunteer coaches in the team's Returning Baseball to the Inner-City (RBI) program. After listening throughout most of the program, he asked for the microphone, then made a request: He wanted to hear stories — particular stories about particular kids.
Last year, a coach told a story about a girl who, after getting her free lunch, politely sat on the bleachers with the untouched plate of food on her lap.
"Why aren't you eating your lunch?" the coach asked.
"Because I'm taking it home for my brother and sister."
Another coach told a story about a boy who tugged at the coach's jersey and asked him where he could find the "top of the third."
"The coach had told him that the team would get ice cream,'' Jernigan recounted, "at the top of the third."
Sometimes, Kristi Jernigan wonders if, despite her husband's sincerity, all of this doesn't sound a little too cheesy. "Sometimes I chide him that he can sound trite," she says. "This idea of saving the world through baseball. But Dean knows what it's like. He sees himself in some of these children. He thinks that he has an obligation to help them have the same opportunities that he had."
Jernigan is no critic of capitalism. He believes in profit. On behalf of his shareholders at Storage USA, he would like to make as much money, as much profit, as he possibly can. His larger point is that people confuse the places where capitalism is appropriate and those where it is not. He wants the Redbirds organization to be as businesslike and as efficient as possible. He also wants every penny to go back into the town. "Baseball is different," he said. "It's a monopoly, like an airport. I think that if you are the holder of a monopoly, of a community asset like that, then you have an obligation not to run it just for the benefit of yourself."
Jernigan doesn't imagine that NBA, NFL, or NHL franchises will start converting themselves to operate like the United Way or the Red Cross. He suspects, at least at the highest levels of sports, it will take a very long time before a community-centered attitude returns. But he stays focused on his town's new ballpark, he fishes for more stories about his kids, and he doesn't fret too much about the sports world beyond. "It's enough for us," he says, "that we've shown there is another way."
Geoff Calkins (email@example.com) is the sports columnist at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Contact Dean Jernigan by email (email@example.com), or learn more about the Memphis Redbirds on the Web (www.memphisredbirds.com).
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What does it take to build a different kind of sports franchise?
A vivid imagination, an open mind, an iron will, and an appreciation for youth baseball. Here are some of the core principles of Dean Jernigan, owner of the Memphis Redbirds Triple-A baseball team:
Just because something could be a business doesn't mean that it should be a business.
That idea was Dean Jernigan's central insight. A baseball team is, and should be, part of the soul of a community. A maximum return to owners shouldn't be the goal — maximizing returns to the community should be. So Jernigan registered it as a nonprofit 501(c)(3). All income above expenses goes to two charities that organize youth baseball leagues.
Just because something isn't a business doesn't mean that it can't be run like a business.
This season, the Redbirds drew 850,000 fans and did about $20 million in business, from tickets and luxury boxes to barbecue nachos and apparel. The Redbirds are aggressively marketed, and Jernigan just hired a director of analysis and development to, as he describes it, "take our existing cost centers and create more revenue."
Predictable plans lead to expected outcomes. And doing the unpredictable often leads to extraordinary outcomes. Dean and Kristi Jernigan could easily have followed conventional wisdom and then built their new, beautiful baseball stadium in the heart of Memphis's eastern-suburban sprawl. The park (yes, they did build it, with only about 10% public money) would have been a success and would have had little more impact on its surrounding community than a new shopping mall. By taking the risk of putting the stadium in the heart of downtown Memphis, the Redbirds have sparked a central-Memphis revival.
Good ideas don't always win — at least not at first.
Jernigan had two interesting structural ideas for his baseball team — one was its nonprofit status, the other was to finance the team with $72 million in bonds with contractually obligated income from the stadium. That second clause gave Jernigan's financiers at NationsBank some hesitation, enough that he had to postpone construction of the stadium by a year and find new bankers.
What is least glamorous is often most gratifying.
Jernigan had a chance to own a franchise of the Hampton Inn hotel chain. Instead, figuring that there would be plenty of competition, Jernigan founded a self-storage company. No glamour there, but plenty of demand — and plenty of money. Jernigan's Storage USA is now the second-largest self-storage chain in the country, and Jernigan is a wealthy man.
A version of this article appeared in the November 2000 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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Ah, used-game sales -- one of the most polarizing facets of the gaming business. In general, consumers love that used games are available and publishers universally loathe the fact. This week's used-game hate comes from Atari, which had not one, but two executives proclaiming that used games are evil. Ars-Technica quotes Atari CEO David Gardner as saying:
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