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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
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J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.81 no.2 Pretoria Jan. 2010
Ixodid ticks on domestic dogs in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and in Namibia
S MattheeI; C LovelyII; A GauglerIII; R BeekerIV; H R VenterV; I G HorakVI,*
IDepartment of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
IIGobabis Veterinary Practice, PO Box 1424, Gobabis, Namibia
IIIMariental Veterinary Practice, PO Box 256, Mariental, Namibia
IVRosh Pinah Veterinary Clinic, 98 Kwartel Street, Rosh Pinah, Namibia
VSpringbok Veterinary Clinic, 5 Namakwa Street, Springbok, 8240 South Africa
VIDepartment of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa, and Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9301 South Africa
The objective of this study was to determine the species composition of ixodid ticks infesting domestic dogs in the northwestern region of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and in Namibia. Ticks were collected from February 2008 to January 2009 from dogs presented for a variety of reasons at a veterinary clinic in the Northern Cape Province and at 3 clinics in Namibia. The ticks collected at each place were pooled separately for each month at each locality. Eleven ixodid tick species were collected from dogs in the Northern Cape Province and new locality records for Haemaphysalis colesbergensis and Ixodes rubicundus, new locality and host records for Hyalomma glabrum, and a new host record for Rhipicephalus neumanni are reported. Six tick species were collected from dogs at the 3 clinics in Namibia. The most numerous species on dogs in both countries was R. sanguineus. The present results increase the total number of ixodid tick species collected from dogs in South Africa from 25 to 28.
Keywords: dogs, ixodid ticks, Namibia, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Surveys to determine the species composition, host spectrum and geographical distribution of ticks infesting domestic and wild animals in South Africa have been conducted since the 1940s. Because domestic dogs are readily available and usually easy to handle, they have been included in a large number of these surveys. Horak and co-workers collected a total of 25 tick species during 7 surveys conducted on dogs in South Africa4,9,12,13,16,18,20. The present surveys were initiated when a veterinarian in the Northern Cape Province and 3 in Namibia expressed their willingness to participate. No systematic surveys of the ticks infesting dogs have been conducted in these regions before.
The towns in which ticks were collected from dogs were Springbok (29º40'S, 17º52'E), Northern Cape Province, South Africa, and Rosh Pinah (27º58'S, 16º45'E), Mariental (24º37'S, 17º58'E) and Gobabis (22º26'S, 18º57'E) in Namibia. The veterinarians, or their assistants, collected ticks from dogs presented at their clinics for any of a variety of reasons from February 2008 to January 2009. Ticks were collected at Gobabis for only 7 months before the veterinarian involved moved to another locality. The ticks were stored in 70 % ethanol and those collected at each clinic were separately pooled for each month. The ticks were sent to the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, where they were identified and counted under a stereoscopic microscope.
Eleven tick species, of which 3 have not previously been recorded on dogs, were collected in the Northern Cape Province (Table 1), increasing the number of species collected from dogs in South Africa to 28. Six species were taken from the dogs in Namibia (Table 2).
Four species belonging to the genus Haemaphysalis were identified on the dogs in the Northern Cape Province. Haemaphysalis colesbergensis has recently been described from domestic cats and a dog, caracals (Caracal caracal) and a wild cat (Felis silvestris) in arid Karoo-like regions of the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa2. The present collection from a dog in the northwestern Northern Cape Province extends the known geographical distribution of this tick. The arid climate and shrub-like vegetation in the Springbok region is not unlike that in the regions in which H. colesbergensis had previously been collected.
Haemaphysalis elliptica is one of the most regularly encountered ticks on domestic dogs and large wild felids in South Africa12,14,16 and its status as a valid species distinct from Haemaphysalis leachi, with which it had been confused previously, has recently been confirmed3. Only 2 collections of H. elliptica were made from dogs in the Northern Cape Province, while none were made in Namibia. The taxonomic status of ticks identified as H. spinulosa in this and other surveys in South Africa is doubtful. The adults have been collected from dogs and cats and smaller species of wild carnivores27. Haemaphysalis zumpti infests smaller wild carnivores27 and has also been encountered on domestic dogs12,13.
Hyalomma glabrum has recently been reinstated as a valid species and is the only Hyalomma species with a strictly southern hemisphere distribution1. The adults (as Hyalomma marginatum turanicum as it was previously known) infest large wild and domestic herbivores and the immature stages infest hares and ground-frequenting birds1,15. Dogs are thus a new host record for this tick. Its geographical distribution (as H. marginatum turanicum) has previously been mapped17 and the town of Springbok represents a new locality record, considerably to the north of the current most northwesterly record11.
The collection of a nymph of H. rufipes from a dog in Namibia is unusual, in that the immature stages of this tick normally infest hares and groundfrequenting birds10,25. Although the adults of H. truncatum prefer large herbivores as hosts15, they are fairly frequently encountered on dogs, on which they may cause extremely painful penetrating wounds5.
Most early records of the adults of Ixodes rubicundus are from domestic and wild ruminants and caracals11,16,23,27. More recently, however, a total of 40 adult ticks were collected from domestic dogs in surveys in the Free State and Western Cape provinces, South Africa12,18. The presence of adult ticks on dogs at Springbok in the present survey should therefore not be considered unusual. Springbok lies to the northwest of the currently accepted distribution range of I. rubicundus17,22 and can thus be considered a new locality record. The 3 collections from dogs at Springbok were made during the winter months of June, July and August, a seasonal pattern similar to that observed on sheep in the Northern Cape Province11.
The adults of Rhipicentor nuttalli are apparently common on dogs in the Clanwilliam district of the Western Cape Province in late summer24. They have also been collected from various wild carnivores14 and are also common on South African hedgehogs (Atelerix frontalis)27. Infestation of dogs may result in paralysis21.
Rhipicephalus follis and R. gertrudae are similar morphologically and in their host preferences28. The adults infest large monogastric animals such as equids, suids, canids and felids, but are also encountered on cattle and sheep7,11,12,15,27. Their immature stages utilise murid rodents as hosts6,19. In the most recent comprehensive list of tick/host records for R. gertrudae, only 3 collections of adult ticks of this species were reported from domestic dogs28. Published records now exceed 80 collections.
The adults of R. neumanni attach to the feet of sheep (and probably other clovenhooved animals) and this may lead to lameness in infested sheep26. Adult ticks have, however, apparently not previously been collected from domestic dogs28.
In South Africa all stages of development of R. sanguineus feed on domestic dogs28, and are associated with anthropogenic structures8. Infestations of other host species are rare, and probably only occur on animals closely associated with dogs or utilising the same sleeping quarters, or they could be mistaken identifications of Rhipicephalus turanicus, of which some specimens are remarkably similar to R. sanguineus28. The large number of collections currently recorded suggests that the dogs were confined to the properties of their owners or were chained or kennelled there at night4. The exceptionally large variety of tick species, other than R. sanguineus, collected at Springbok is an indication that a number of the dogs sampled there were from farms, or were allowed to roam fairly freely.
We are particularly grateful to the various veterinary assistants who helped with the tick collections at the clinics. Stellenbosch University is thanked for financial support to S Matthee. Ronald Meyer provided logistical support. The participation of I G Horak in this project was partially funded by a grant from the National Research Foundation.
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3. Apanaskevich D A, Horak I G, Camicas J-L 2007 Redescription of Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) elliptica (Koch, 1844), an old taxon of the Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) leachi group from East and southern Africa, and of Haemaphysalis (Rhipistoma) leachi (Audouin, 1826) (Ixodida, Ixodidae). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 74: 181-207 [ Links ]
4. Bryson N R, Horak I G, Höhn E W, Louw J P 2000 Ectoparasites of dogs belonging to people in resource-poor communities in North West Province, South Africa. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 71: 175-179 [ Links ]
5. Burr E W 1983 Tick toxicosis in a crossbred terrier caused by Hyalomma truncatum. Veterinary Record 113: 260-261 [ Links ]
6. Fourie L J, Horak I G, Van den Heever J J 1992 The relative host status of rock elephant shrews Elephantulus myurus and Namaqua rock mice Aethomys namaquensis for economically important ticks. South African Journal of Zoology 27: 108-114 [ Links ]
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13. Horak I G, Emslie F R, Spickett A M 2001 Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XL. Ticks on dogs belonging to people in rural communities and carnivore ticks on the vegetation. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 68: 135-141 [ Links ]
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Thomas Muller has been told that he must hand in a transfer request if he wants to leave Bayern Munich.
German tabloid Bild had suggested last week that the Germany international was open to reuniting with Louis van Gaal - who gave Muller his debut at Bayern - should the Dutchman take over at Manchester United.
Van Gaal will want £200m
- Louis van Gaal is the "perfect" replacement for David Moyes at Manchester United - but he will want £200 million to rebuild the squad, according to Dutch coach Raymond Verheijen.
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And Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has suggested he would consider selling Muller - but he must demand it.
"Muller's situation? If a player does not feel well at Bayern Munich, he should come to my office," Rummenigge was quoted as saying by Bild.
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Tom Brady returned to practice Thursday. He sat out Wednesday's session to the consternation of -- well, those folks who are unaccustomed to the veteran quarterback taking a day off during the week. He'll be fine when the Ravens come to Foxboro on Sunday in what will be the Patriots' toughest test of the season.
"It's not the first practice I've missed over the years," said Brady. "Coming off a game on Saturday or Sunday, you're just doing everything you can to be prepared. When Coach [Bill Belichick] feels it's best to do other things to get yourself ready, that's what you do. You can still use all that time very wisely. You're not lounging around taking naps or anything like that. You're just putting in extra work, and make sure you're getting prepared. …
"When I miss a practice, you know, you just try to do others thing to get yourself ready to go," he continued. "So, catch up on your film work, get some extra treatment and so forth. It's just a matter of being as prepared as we can for Sunday. I'll certainly be as prepared as I possibly can be."
It's been lost in the revelry, but New England's defense is still among the league's worst. That's not news, necessarily, but this is: the Patriots' high-powered offense orchestrated by Brady, has had impressive showings this season, none more recent than Saturday's beatdown of the Broncos. But here's something you may not know: through 16 regular-season games and a divisional playoff matchup, the Pats haven't yet beaten a team with a winning record. Look it up.
Denver won the division with an 8-8 record. And the three New England losses came against the Steelers (12-4), the Giants (9-7) and the Jets (8-8). The 13 wins were all against teams that were either at or looking up at .500. But hey, you can only play the team's on the schedule and New England did that better than any other AFC team.
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He's a completion guru," he said. "I think this game is going to be all about making sure his completion percentage is in that 70 percent range, because if it is, that means there's a lot of short third down conversions and I think you can take advantage and dictate to a very good defense like the Baltimore Ravens. …When the Ravens can dictate back to you, is when you are third and 10 and you're not making those completions."


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Montréal experimental sound whiz Francesco De Gallo ventures far down the rabbit hole of sound waves in his relentless exploration of twisted analog minimalism. He's heavily influenced by the electronic avant-garde and its propensity for deconstructing, digitally tampering and improvising with vast swathes of frequencies and textures. De Gallo's voluminous discography reveals the breadth of his talent and interests: many of his glistening synthetic meanderings fall under the Hobo Cubes banner, but he also releases as THE H (washes of ambient techno with Jesse Osborne-Lanthier), DOZENS (glowing psych pop with Ryan Connolly) and ARROWS (cascades of immersive reverberations with Remi Boudrias-Dussault). He runs Hobo Cult Records, a key player in the tape label community, and has released a constellation of unsettling aural experiments on prominent cassette imprints. His latest LP for Debacle, Apex Ideals, may signal a shift from the tape landscape over to vinyl, but his commitment to untamed abstraction remains steadfast.
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Poring over Montreal experimental musician Francesco De Gallo's voluminous discography reveals the breadth of his talent and interests – and a soft spot for twisted analog minimalism. De Gallo mostly records as Hobo Cubes (sublime gauzy synthscapes) but also releases under monikers such as Escapists (acid techno with Jesse Osborne-Lanthier) and Dozens (glowing psych pop with Ryan Connolly). He runs Hobo Cult Records, a label dedicated to limited edition cassettes. Heavily influenced by the electronic avant-garde, De Gallo is mostly drawn to improvisation and a mathematic exploration of music. After years of electronic exploration and untamed abstraction, Hobo Cubes is pushing the boundaries of his sound using waves of techno, house and glitch. A Certain Vastness zeroes in on the alienation brought on by De Gallo's panoptic spiritual quest.


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An hour and a half guided tour through a 350m cave system in Rockville, Collingwood.
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Around 9km inland from Collingwood, near the Devil's Boots, you will find Te Anaroa Caves. This Rockville property contains an amazing underground wonderland, which you can experience with a lovely and informative guide.
Whatever the weather, you can always venture down here and be sheltered from heat or from rain. In the height of summer, how nice to experience the dark coolness for a good hour and a half as you wind your way for 350 meters along a series of caves.
Wonder at the preserved history of ancient formations and fossils. View a number of different types of stalactites and stalagmites, just watch your head!
Stop and see the effects of the light behind the formations and look up to see the glowworms twinkling like a night sky.
This is fantastic for people of all ages – it is safe and fun and there is even a little bit of clambering involved and some tight spaces – nothing too adventurous but more interesting than a boardwalk.
Wear comfortable walking shoes – sandals or jandals will not be suitable for the surfaces – and you might need something warm, even in the middle of summer.
Gas lanterns and safety helmets are provided to protect your noggin, and definitely bring your camera to try and capture the magical, subterranean world.
In summer there are three daily tours: 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm, rain or shine.
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Hi and Lois was created in 1954 by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, two of the most successful cartoonists in comic history. Provoking a strong emotional response from readers right from the beginning, it grew steadily in popularity, passing the 1,000-newspaper mark in 1982. It is continued today by their sons, writers Brian and Greg Walker and artist Chance Browne. Whether it's busy parents juggling jobs and raising a family, a teen coping with his self-image, sibling rivalry among the youngsters, or a toddler learning about the world and her place in it, Hi and Lois has kept pace with mainstream life and found the gentle humor in familiar situations.
Awards and Distinctions:
Hi and Lois was voted best humor strip by the National Cartoonists Society in 1959 and 1960.
Dik Browne won the Reuben Award as "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" in 1962.
In the 1980s, the creative challenge of producing the strip was handed down to the next generation.
Hi and Lois is a unique collaboration between the Walker and Browne families that has lasted for more than 60 years.
Chip Flagston is the only character in the cast who has aged slightly over the years. In the beginning, he was about eight years old but now he's fifteen, perched on the precipice of adulthood, waiting to get his driver's license, hoping for his first serious romance and looking forward to college. He will never know the joys of paying income taxes, commuting to work or having his car repaired. He will, however, keep learning about the mysteries of the opposite sex, the hypocrisies of the older generation and the inevitability of homework. One thing is for sure, Chip will never get around to cleaning up his room. He is probably afraid of what he might find after five decades of accumulation.
Ditto Flagston, who is seven years old, has discovered more ways of getting in trouble than his mother can shake her finger at. He broke a window with his first home run and took a bath with his cowboy suit on. He imitates everything his father does and has an insatiable appetite for cookies. He is a kid who maintains that sense of fun most of us lost with our childhood.
Dot Flagston is more precocious than Ditto and believes in her inalienable right to boss her twin brother around. The result is a minor-league battle of the sexes, pitting Dot's compulsive nature against Ditto's impulsive behavior. She is a know-it-all and a tattletale with a generous dose of sugar and spice thrown in. In more recent years, she has added a feminist point of view to her pushy personality.
Hiram Flagston is the happy husband of a beautiful wife and the proud father of four lovely children. He works as the district sales manager for Foofram Industries, pays his taxes, mows his lawn and loves to play golf. He is a decent and likable guy who anyone would be glad to call a friend. A willing supporter of his wife's career choices, Hi doesn't mind taking care of the kids or fixing dinner, even though he's a lousy cook. Although he occasionally daydreams about his lost youth, he will never experience a midlife crisis because, like most cartoon characters, he doesn't age.
Lois Flagston started out as a classic baby-boomer mom: a romantic lover to her husband, a devoted den mother to her kids, and a civic activist in the community. The perfect housewife, she's always worked hard at raising the children and making her home a loving, laughing place. Lois survived the "battle of the sexes" and changed with the times. In 1980, she took a job as a real estate agent, creating many new challenges in her life. Like most of today's career-women, she still has the same old household responsibilities and parental obligations.
A number of supporting players have also become regulars in Hi and Lois. Dawg, the fun-loving family pet, does his best to add to the general chaos. Jerry plays drums and Sid plays keyboards, along with Chip on guitar, in a noisy garage band. Next-door neighbor Thirsty Thurston is everything Hi isn't, a lazy, irresponsible chauvinist who lets his long-suffering wife, Irma, do most of the work around the house. Hi's boss, Mr. Foofram, is the quintessential small man in a big job with lots of power but not very much wattage. The local garbage collectors, rotund Abercrombie and sloppy Fitch, stick their noses into everyone's business. Mr. Strivemore, a yuppie across the street, and Mr. Wavering, a charming old codger from down the block, make occasional appearances.
Trixie Flagston is cute and cuddly but has also developed a capacity for cynicism and over confidence. She keeps a running commentary on family life inside her thought balloons and looks at the world through the window of the Flagstons' home. She loves to feel the warmth of her friend, Sunbeam, and snuggle up with Dawg to take a nap. Although she wouldn't mind increasing her vocabulary or learning to walk, she will never give up pulling paper out of the wastebasket or tossing peas in the air.
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Recently, this blog posted a story about the tragic circumstances of Aleppo, once the center of Jewish life in Syria. There are many ways which genealogists can document the rich history and culture of their families from there. One is by investigating the food that they ate and the ways it was prepared.
A lovely book by Poopa Dweck has been published which documents the cookery of the Syrian Jews. It is entitled "Aromas of Aleppo, The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews". The book contains 180 mouth-watering recipes of a culture which has been disbursed around the world.
Syrian Jews are supposed to be one of the largest groups of Sephardic Jews and their cuisine stretches back thousands of years. The staples of Middle Eastern cookery are included in their diet, but it is the manner in which the food is cooked and the special items that are used in particular dishes that make it special and enticing.
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In addition to the wonderful food of the Aleppo Jews, one can learn of their history on the JewishGen site at: http://www.jewishgen.org/sephardic/AleppoJews.htm. The effort put forth by Sarina Roffe to bring this culture to our attention is a work of love.
The music of the Aleppo Jews will also entrance you, especially the well-known Shabbat Bakashot supplications which can be heard played by noted Isaeli Yitzhak Yedid, the son of Syrian Jews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaL8YdHuV6k. The site also provides a fascinating and an extensive explanation of the Bakashot.
This is just a start on what can be learned about the Aleppo Jewish community.


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What a pretty cat.
My cats also have a tendency to help me by stealing my stuff, or batting it down the stairs. :)
Screwdriver works the other way around though kitty!
You may note the claws on her other paw are unsheathed. I think the best caption may be, "You need this tool, don't you? Come on. Try to take it. This is going to be fun."


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Grand Canyon stands as an enduring monument to the worldwide Flood. Along with the geology, it turns out that native traditions also speak of a great flood!
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There could be numerous reasons to create a fake Ethernet interface on a Linux server though I have heard that people might do so to get around licensing of software that is tied to the MAC address of a specific Ethernet port. You really just enable a dummy Ethernet interface and assign the MAC address to it which is explain in more detail below. The easiest way to do this is to simply assign a MAC address to an Ethernet interface you are not using on your server where the drivers have already been installed automatically. If you do not have a spare Ethernet interface then the instructions below will assist you to accomplish your goal.


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May 14, 2012
UCLA Anderson Announces 2012 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists
Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Jerry Seib, Deputy Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal. Winnie O'Kelley, Deputy Business Editor, The New York Times, will receive the Lawrence Minard Editor Award
LOS ANGELES -- Judy D. Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, today announced the finalists of the 2012 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. She also announced the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award.
The 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Jerry Seib, deputy managing editor and Washington bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.
Winnie O'Kelley, deputy business editor at The New York Times, will receive the 2012 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards. This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on the air for the work covered.
Seib and O'Kelley will receive their career achievement awards at the 2012 Gerald Loeb Awards dinner on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at Capitale in New York City. Winners in the 13 competition categories will be announced from among the following finalists, which were chosen from over 400 entries:
Large Newspapers Category Finalists
- Ken Bensinger for "Wheels of Fortune" in Los Angeles Times
- David Kocieniewski for "But Nobody Pays That..." in The New York Times
- Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Stacy Meichtry, Matthew Karnitschnig, David Enrich, Brian Blackstone and David Gauthier-Villars for "European Disunion" in The Wall Street Journal
- Brody Mullins, Susan Pulliam, Steve Eder, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg and Vanessa O'Connell for "Inside Track" in The Wall Street Journal
Medium & Small Newspapers Category Finalists
- Jeff Horwitz for "Banks Took Billions in Insurance Kickbacks" in American Banker
- Raquel Rutledge, Rick Barrett, John Diedrich, Ben Poston and Mike de Sisti for "Shattered Trust" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Spencer Soper and Scott Kraus for "Inside Amazon's Warehouse" in The Morning Call
- Charles Piller and Robert Lewis for "Hard Money Crumbles" in The Sacramento Bee
Magazines Category Finalists
- Chrystia Freeland for "The Rise of the New Global Elite" in The Atlantic
- Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold and Doris Burke for "Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup" in Fortune
- Michael Lewis for "'When Irish Eyes Are Crying', 'It's the Economy, Dummkopf!' and 'California and Bust'" in Vanity Fair
Commentary Category Finalists
- Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, John Peet, Patrick Foulis and John O'Sullivan for "Euro Zone" in The Economist
- Loren Steffy for "Loren Steffy - Commentary" in Houston Chronicle
- Joseph E. Stiglitz for "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" in Vanity Fair
- Ezra Klein for "Ezra Klein" in The Washington Post
Breaking News Category Finalists
- Brent Snavely, Greg Gardner and Chrissie Thompson for "GM-UAW Contract Negotiations" in Detroit Free Press
- Ben Protess, Michael J. de la Merced, Susanne Craig, Peter Lattman, Nelson D. Schwartz and Azam Ahmed for "MF Global Bankrupcy" in The New York Times
- Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Chad Bray, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jeannette Neumann, Jenny Strasburg, Michael Siconolfi and Dennis K. Berman for "The Fall of Raj" in The Wall Street Journal
- Zachary Goldfarb and Anthony Faiola for "The Downgrade" in The Washington Post
Beat Reporting Category Finalists
- John Fauber for "'Side Effects' Beat Reporting" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Kevin Krolicki, Deepa Seetharaman, Bernie Woodall, Ben Klayman and Jan Schwartz for "United Auto Workers Union Coverage" in Reuters
- Missy Sullivan for "Missy Sullivan - Beat Reporting" in SmartMoney
- Jessica Silver-Greenberg for "The Debt Collectors" in The Wall Street Journal
News Services Category Finalists
- Jeff Donn for "Aging Nukes" in The Associated Press
- Kevin Freking, Michael Hill, Danny Robbins, Tammy Webber, Peter Jackson and Jeffrey Collins for "Broken Budgets" in The Associated Press
- Bradley Keoun, Phil Kuntz and Bob Ivry for "The Fed's Trillion-Dollar Secret" in Bloomberg News
- Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nanette Byrnes, Matthew Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Cynthia Johnston and Sara Ledwith for "Shell Games" in Reuters
Explanatory Category Finalists
- Devin Leonard, Sommer Saadi and Angela Greiling Keane for "End of Mail" in Bloomberg Businessweek
- Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Claudia Weinstein, Steve Kroft, Ira Rosen, Gabrielle Schonder, Tadd J. Lascari and Andy Soto for "The Insiders" on CBS News 60 Minutes
- Scott Pelley, Robert G. Anderson, Daniel Ruetenik, Robert J. Shattuck and Nicole Young for "The Next Housing Shock" on CBS News 60 Minutes
- Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story for "No Prosecutions" in The New York Times
- Peter Whoriskey, Steven Mufson, Jia Lynn Yang, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish for "Breakaway Wealth" in The Washington Post
Online Enterprise Category Finalists
- Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk for "Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra" for The Center for Public Integrity and ABC News
- John Markoff, David Pogue, Shayla Harris, Shan Carter, Jon Huang, Celina Fang, Danielle Belopotosky, Laurie Kawakami and Joshua Brustein for "Steve Jobs - nytimes.com" for The New York Times
- Eliza Krigman for "AT&T Gave Cash to Merger Backers" for POLITICO
- Mark Maremont, Tom McGinty and Neil King Jr. for "Jet Tracker" for The Wall Street Journal
Blogging Category Finalists
- Catherine Rampell for "Catherine Rampell, Economix Blog - nytimes.com" for The New York Times
- Felix Salmon for "Felix Salmon's Blog" for Reuters
- Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff and Brad Plumer for "Wonkblog" for The Washington Post
- Luke Timmerman for "BioBeat" for Xconomy
Personal Finance Category Finalists
- Penelope Wang, Kim Clark and Lisa Gibbs for "'Protecting Your Parents' Series" in Money
- Lisa Gibbs for "The Safety Trap" in Money
- Jason Zweig for "The Intelligent Investor" in The Wall Street Journal
- E.S. Browning for "Older and Poorer" in The Wall Street Journal
Broadcast Enterprise Category Finalists
- Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Mosk, Ronnie Greene and Angela Hill for "Green Energy: Contracts, Connections and the Collapse of Solyndra" on ABC News Brian Ross Investigates and The Center for Public Integrity
- Jeff Fager, Bill Owens, Michael Radutzky, Claudia Weinstein, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Kevin Livelli and Stephanie Palewski Brumbach for "Greg Mortenson" on CBS News 60 Minutes
- Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Mary Noonan Robichaux, Na Eng, Ruth Chenetz and Lauren Farrelly for "Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prisons Industry" on CNBC
- Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg for "When Patents Attack" on NPR and This American Life
- Mark Smith, Byron Harris and Billy Bryant for "Crooked Teeth" on WFAA-TV
Business Books Category Finalists
- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo for "Poor Economics" published by PublicAffairs
- Walter Isaacson for "Steve Jobs" published by Simon & Schuster
- Diana B. Henriques for "The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust" published by Times Books
- Bill Vlasic for "Once Upon a Car" published by William Morrow
For more information about The Gerald Loeb Awards, please visit The Gerald Loeb Awards website at http://www.loeb.anderson.ucla.edu, or e-mail email@example.com or call The Gerald Loeb Awards office at (310) 825-4478.
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The Gerald Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton. His intention was to encourage reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public. As the most prestigious honor in business journalism, distinguished journalists and outlets nationwide submit entries to the competition. UCLA Anderson has been presenting The Gerald Loeb Awards since 1973 and the awards use a two-tier judging process comprising a preliminary round and final round. The awards banquet and celebration is held in New York City every June and is attended by the country's top business and financial publishers, editors, journalists, producers and celebrities. The Gerald Loeb Awards is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization that operates primarily from sponsorship and private support.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides a distinctive approach to management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in its MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs. Combining selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 37,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Retail stocks are likely to be active on Wednesday with several major industry leaders, including J.C. Penney Co. and Target Corp., scheduled to report quarterly earnings.
J.C. Penney JCP, -1.59% is expected to report a loss of 22 cents a share in the fourth quarter, according to a consensus survey by FactSet. Same-store sales in the quarter are estimated to have declined 30%, said Rick Snyder, an analyst at Maxim.
"Given the high levels of markdowns in the stores, we believe gross margin could be flat or even down to last year's Q4 30.2% rate. We have also modeled significant deleveraging on the selling, general and administrative line as a result of our precipitous comparable [sales] decline," he said in a note.
Target TGT, +20.43% is projected to post fourth-quarter earnings of $1.47 a share in the fourth quarter. "During [the] holiday, we believe warmer-than-expected weather dampened cold weather product sales and an extended season did not present a sense of urgency to the customer. However, in typical TGT style, we believe the company quickly cleared goods to maintain margins," Deborah Weinswig, an analyst at Citi, said in a report.
Groupon Inc. GRPN, +0.00% is forecast to post fourth-quarter earnings of 3 cents a share. The stock was recently upgraded to buy from neutral by Arvind Bhatia, an analyst at Sterne Agee. "The upgrade was not a call on 4Q as near-term challenges remain and turnarounds take time. However, we believe many of the risks are well known and priced in and we see a few early signs of a turnaround," he said in a preview. Read preview of Groupon.
Monster Beverage Corp. MNST, +0.33% is likely to post earnings of 41 cents a share in the fourth quarter. The Food & Drug Administration recently launched a probe into whether Monster's energy drinks are responsible for several deaths, prompting the company to vigorously defend the safety of its products.
TJX Cos. TJX, +3.86% is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings of 80 cents a share. "Strong customer response to the company's improved marketing and great values and brands drove increases in customer traffic," Richard Jaffe, an analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus, said in a report.
Dollar Tree Inc. DLTR, +2.62% is forecast to post earnings of 99 cents a share in the fourth quarter. Aram Rubinson, an analyst at Nomura, said the key will be sales trends versus inventory and purchases growth.
Late Tuesday, Priceline.com Inc. US:PCLN reported a fourth-quarter profit that rose 28% from a year ago, led by strong gains in overall bookings and its hotel-room and international business. See: Priceline's earnings rise along with bookings.
First Solar Inc. FSLR, +1.25% late Tuesday issued a weaker-than-expected outlook for sales and cash flow. For the first quarter, First Solar projected sales of $650 million to $750 million. Analysts polled by FactSet were looking for $822 million. First Solar pegged operating cash flow at breakeven to up to $100 million. Analysts were estimating $214 million. See more on First Solar.


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In nearly 40 years as a lawyer, and 35 years as a law professor, I have seldom read or heard comments that demonstrated a greater lack of understanding about the American legal system than the letter from Sandy McGarry that appeared in the Aug. 31 issue of The Lancaster News.
That the letter was written by someone who is a local leader of a major political party made that lack of understanding even more disappointing.
I attended the Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. workshop on the 2015 Economic Development Strategic Plan at the City of Light on Aug. 13. There were nine of us – two County Council members, two developers, four residents and a reporter.
People I discuss this with seem to have had enough strategic planning, workshops, committees and overlays.
All the gatherings ask the same questions, talk about the same problems and the progress is zero. I know all the organizations need to justify their existence, but could you please be more creative?
"Have you driven a Ford lately?" Do you remember that catchy phrase? Some of you may be too young to have heard of it. That was when America's economy was booming and there were plenty of jobs to go around. Now, we look for ways to invest what we have, wisely, so it will build interest and hold us over in the days to come.
I am a regular customer at the post office in Indian Land located inside Liberty Tax (behind the Gate station on U.S. 521).
I'm usually in there twice a week or more, but today (Aug. 20), when I went to mail a package, there was a note on the door that says they are closed permanently and that they appreciated all of our business.
I'm shocked and disappointed to hear this news. I'm curious to know why they closed and would love to read it in Carolina Gateway.
The Indian Land post office and its employees will be greatly missed.
How about a small section about those little things that are rude, inconsiderate, who-cares and the-world-revolves-around-me people.
We could start with, well, let's see. How about the food store?
America and the free world is faced with a threat that has become more aggressive, less humane and more cruel than any international enemy since Adolph Hitler.
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) leaders are capable of using modern technology to reach every continent in the world with nuclear weapons. Their use of cruel force and their knowledge of nuclear weaponry threaten every Christian, Buddhist, Jewish and Muslim community in the world. This is ISIS.
The recent article in The Lancaster News regarding food pantry needs at Helping Other People Effectively (HOPE) in Lancaster was much appreciated. The local community has always been very supportive of HOPE as has The Lancaster News. The article generated an immediate response in donations and the delivery of bags of food stuffs.
The generosity of our community is amazing, ongoing and always appreciated. As of Aug. 15, 29 individuals and 23 churches and civic groups responded to the appeal by delivering 3,389 pounds of food.
As folks look over their shoulder, they are reminded of events which hold particular interest, especially if they concern children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
As I stand on a so-called ladder of life, at my age I am pretty near the top rung. I observe my great-grandson, Steven, has advanced to the first grade.
Nowadays with all this pre-school and kindergarten stuff, seems he oughta be in the third grade by now. My ladder shakes, oh my goodness, my great-granddaughter Madison just began her first full day of kindergarten.
Just recently, I visited the Preston Blackmon Success Center, and to my amazement, there were leaders, adults and teachers still committed in making sure children can read, study and fulfill their dreams with positive and successful results.
In looking and listening to the children respond and interact with several activities, I just had to pause and embrace how grateful I am to know this center serves as a catalyst for future leaders.
It's a well-known fact that there are more people living longer across this state.
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) estimates that there will be a 102.5 percent increase in the number of people over the age of 60 from the year 2000 to the year 2025.
Most of those reaching the age of 60 will be healthy and active and able to take care of their own needs.
However, there is a growing number of people in South Carolina, including Lancaster County, who need our assistance as they age to remain in their homes and community.
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Lebanese army takes over for Hezbollah at checkpoints in southern Beirut
Lebanese security forces replaced Hezbollah fighters Monday at checkpoints in Beirut's southern suburbs in response to criticism that the group's recently enacted security measures proved that it maintains its own mini-state in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah set up dozens of checkpoints this summer to control access to an area known as Dahiya after a series of bombings and other incidents targeted the militant group's followers in apparent retaliation for its open support for the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The checkpoints, however, served as a daily reminder that Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, which maintains tens of thousands of well-trained fighters, is Lebanon's most powerful political and military force, and they sparked repeated complaints from Sunni Muslim and Christian politicians that Hezbollah once again had bypassed the Lebanese state.
Lebanon's caretaker interior minister, Marwan Charbel, urged residents to assist with the transition as regular Lebanese forces took over at the checkpoints.
"The residents should support the security forces, and they should not doubt their competency and capabilities," he said on local television. "I urge the residents of Dahiya to cooperate with the security forces, who are deployed to ensure their safety."
He shouldered the blame for Hezbollah's having to assign its own fighters to protect the neighborhood after a massive suicide blast last month killed dozens of people just a hundred yards from key Hezbollah facilities.
"The problem in Dahiya and the phenomenon of autonomous security emerged because of our shortcomings," he said.
One resident said she viewed the development with a mixture of relief and concern, noting the army's reputation for being more low-key than the Hezbollah fighters.
"It's one hour I have been here," Um Nabil said as she waited to get to her home, which was just 200 yards away. "Every day we sit for one hour, but it will be better with the army because now we can curse them."
Noting that Hezbollah has a reputation for discipline and efficiency that the army doesn't share, she worried that the regular forces won't be as effective in maintaining the neighborhood's safety.
"The problem is that we know the Jews and Americans have people inside our army," Um Nabil said. "Now we worry they will let terrorists in to slaughter us."


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Crab Cakes with Panko Bread Crumbs | Red Pepper Remoulade | Bite Sized Crab Cakes
Crab Cakes - they were always the first thing to go at my catering events. I would have people chasing my staff down for another round of them... Why? People love something they can pop in their mouth that is bite-size and filling. Crab cakes are filling, flavorful and great with a drink.
Not having a cocktail party? Larger Crab cakes are the perfect thing to serve for a dinner party along with a steak for a special dinner. You can make them ahead of time and pop them in the oven right before dinner. In fact, I would always recommend crab cakes and beef tenderloin as a great duet entree for weddings - some people can be squeemish around fish, but almost everyone loves crab cakes.
Crab Cakes with Panko Bread Crumbs
1/2 cup of red onion, diced
1/2 cup of celery, diced
1/2 cup of red pepper, minced
2 tablespoons of parsley, diced
1/4 teaspoon tabasco
1 teaspoon of crab boil spice (Old Bay)
1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1 pound of lump crab meat (canned)
1/4 cup of mayo
1 egg
1 tablespoon of dijon
1 cup panko bread crumbs
Combine vegetables, crab meat, and parsley.
Add tabasco, crab spice, cayenne pepper, mayo, egg, dijon and 1/2 cup of panko bread crumbs. Lightly toss together being careful not to break up the crab. Form cakes with your hands, then roll them in the remaining panko bread crumbs.
If you are making large cakes, you can pan fry them in vegetable oil for 3-4 minutes on each side over medium heat.
If you are making small bite size cakes, I like to spray them with non-stick cooking spray, then bake them for 8-10 minutes at 425 degrees.
Red Pepper Remoulade Sauce
1/2 cup of mayo
1/4 cup of gherkin sweet pickles
1/3 cup of roasted red peppers
2 tablespoons of dijon mustard
In a food processor, blend together all of the ingredients until combined and chopped.
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Man airlifted to safety from raging Kern River
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) – A man has been rescued from the raging Kern River in southern California.
Emergency crews used a helicopter to airlift the man Monday evening from a rock in the middle of the river, about a mile east of the mouth of the canyon.
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Ready for some fall cleaning? Put your unwanted items aside until the first week of November. That's when Goodwill Industries will return to Morenci for it second donation drive.
The agency conducted a successful drive here in April and is looking for another good collection from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3.
For a guideline on what to donate, Goodwill suggests the following rule: Items should be in clean, usable condition, like what you would give to a neighbor or friend.
Furniture should be in good condition and not in need of repair. Small appliances should be in working condition.
Large appliances, construction material and mattresses are among the items not accepted.
Secure paper shredding will be available for a small fee. Shredding is limited to 50 pounds from any one source.
Linda Gentry of the Lenawee Goodwill Industries said the agency isn't just a convenient way to get rid of unwanted items. Donations also lead to job training and services to people with disabilities and other barriers to work. The goal, she said, is for clients to reach economic independence.
More than 800 adults were served last year and more than 200 youngsters described as at-risk or adjudicated.


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Was it for want of a weather forecast that 19 firefighters were lost?
As friends, family, and even strangers mourn the loss of all but one member of a "Hotshot Crew" fighting the Yarnell Hill fire, a team of investigators reportedly has arrived to reconstruct the events that led to the deaths of the firefighters Sunday.
The fire, which started last Friday following a lightning strike, had covered only about 200 acres when high winds on Saturday fanned the blaze, expanding it to 2,000 acres within a few hours, according to the Associated Press.
By Monday morning, the fire had enlarged to 8,400 acres, its rough size Tuesday as it burns through grass and chaparral. The fire reportedly has destroyed some 50 homes.
"The winds were coming from the southeast, blowing to the west, away from Yarnell and populated areas. Then the wind started to blow in. The wind kicked up to 40- to 50-mile-per-hour gusts, and it blew east, south, west – every which way," Prescott, Ariz., city councilman Len Scamardo told the AP. "What limited information we have was there was a gust of wind from the north that blew the fire back and trapped them."
The question for meteorologist Cliff Mass, at the University of Washington in Seattle, is whether anyone had pointed out in advance the strong likelihood that this would happen. The downdraft, known as a gust front, came from an approaching storm and served as a blacksmith's bellows, quickly reversing the wind direction that had prevailed through much of the afternoon and suddenly turning the fire back onto the firefighters.
"We have satellite images every 15 minutes and radar every six minutes," says Dr. Mass, a meteorology professor at the university who performs weather forecasts for firefighters in the Pacific Northwest. "This was not a difficult forecast."
Balloon-based measurements of the atmosphere taken at Flagstaff, Ariz., at 1 p.m. local time Sunday showed that in terms of the potential for powerful downdrafts should thunderstorms build, the atmosphere was loaded for bear.
A remote weather station about five miles from where the fire started and set up to monitor conditions in potentially fire-prone areas tells the story from the local perspective, Mass says.
From midday through 5 p.m., winds were blowing generally out of the south at about 30 miles an hour, driving the fire away from Yarnell. At 5 p.m., the wind abruptly shifted, blowing out of the north at about 40 miles an hour with gusts up to 65 miles an hour. At the same time, measurements of sunlight had been falling in an uneven, stair-step pattern since about 2 p.m., indicating that clouds were spreading over the region.
This led Mass to look back over satellite photos and regional radar, which at 1 p.m. showed a line of thundershowers moving toward the area from the northeast. By 3:30 p.m., clouds had moved over the fire site. By 4:45 p.m., a pyrocumulus cloud – a towering cloud formed by rising heat from the fire – had punched through the clouds the storm brought. From above, that was a telltale sign the fire had exploded, Mass explains.
Warning signs also were appearing in the output of the high-resolution, rapid-response forecast model from the National Weather Service (NWS), Mass notes. It put the storm over the fire site about the same time that clouds began to cover the area.
The model is designed to provide fresh 18-hour forecasts once an hour. Another forecast model, at the University of Arizona, yielded similar results.
"That's what bothers me so much," Mass says. "Perhaps this didn't have to happen. The data was there to have saved these people."
Typically, on major fires, incident managers will call on the local NWS forecast office for weather-forecasting support, notes Heath Hockenberry, who manages the NWS's fire-weather program, based in Boise, Idaho.
Incident managers take a look at the complexity of the initial fire and the resources available and determine what people and equipment to send in for the initial attack on the fire, he says. Those decisions include determining if on-site forecasters are needed or whether firefighters can get by relying on the general forecasts that the local forecast office provides.
When forecasters are called in, "we show up with a laptop, a global broadband unit to get satellite data, and usually we just plug into the team's network," he says. "We start forecasting as soon as we get there."
The forecast teams primarily look for anything that has the potential to compromise safety, Mr. Hockenberry says. Thunderstorm outflows, such as those that apparently turned the fire on the firefighters at Yarnell Hill, top the list.
Typically, NWS forecasters are called in for on-site forecasts when a firefighting effort becomes most complex, relying on resources from multiple agencies or political jurisdictions, he says.
That day, the local forecast office was supplying forecasts "that we do every day for every department," Hockenberry says. "Unfortunately, what happened over the weekend was that we didn't have a person on site; we weren't requested."
The fire hadn't reached a level of complexity to prompt incident managers to call in the weather cavalry.
"That's the really sad part," he adds. "There's just not enough [forecasting] bodies to go around to respond to everything. The firefighters – they have to respond to everything."


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Members of Harriman American Legion Post 232 were visitors at St. Mary's Baptist Church the fourth Sunday in November.
Those who attended this service were Bronce Cleveland, 1st Vice Cmdr. Edward Buttram, Post Cmdr. Greg Love, Sergeant at Arms Walter Love and Charles Ewing.
They enjoyed the service and will be back again soon.
Other visitors were Derrick Gilbert, his wife Dr. Donna Gilbert and their son Dominique Williams from Oak Ridge.
Mid-East Community Action Agency will distribute USDA commodity foods for Kingston and Harriman residents in Harriman Church of God at 3106 Roane State Hwy., Midtown.
Distribution for Harriman and Kingston residents will be Dec. 12; Oliver Springs and Rockwood residents will pick up their foods on Dec. 13.
Distribution times for both days will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Call 354-0450 for more information.
Oak Ridge's Grace Lutheran Church an open house this weekend to provide information about getting insurance via the Affordable Care Act.
The open house will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Dec. 7 in the church at 131 W. Gettysburg Ave.
Although the deadline for individuals to sign up has been extended to Dec. 23, time is getting short for those who wish to have insurance that takes effect as of Jan. 1.
Southern Appalachia Railway Museum has scheduled several weekend one-hour Secret City excursion rides for all to enjoy the Christmas season this month.
The narrated one-hour excursion trips will depart at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Dec. 7 and 14.
It will also depart at 1 and 3 p.m. Dec. 8 and 15.
Ticket prices are $19 for adults and $15 for ages 3-12. Children younger than 3 may sit on their parents' lap and ride for free.
Popcorn, refreshments and railroad souvenirs will be available.
Kingston's Fort Southwest Point will host a Christmas candlelight tour and reception next weekend.
The tour and reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 14.
The public is welcome to visit and experience the sights, sounds and flavors common to the people of the 18th century.
Guests will be greeted at the visitors center for the candlelight tour of the fort.
Beeswax candles will light the walkway, and bagpipe music will set the tone.
Special attention will be given to recreate an atmosphere of the past during the event.
Crusaders arriving in the Holy Land during the 12th century were amazed and excited to learn that apples, supposedly the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, were not native to this land.
Many researchers today believe the forbidden fruit was the apricot. But the Crusaders of the 12th century thought it was the big, yellow citrus fruit they called the pomolo.
This tropical fruit would grow in England, but it flourished in the islands of the Caribbean.
The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference recently honored state Sen. Ken Yager for his work in the Senate.
Yager received the award at a meeting of the group attended by district attorneys statewide.
"We greatly appreciate the tireless work and steadfast commitment of Sen. Yager to first understand, and then develop workable solutions, to some very difficult crime problems," said James W. Kirby, executive director of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference.
A tuba solo by Joe Williams with accompaniment by Barbara Miles is among the program features of the Harriman Music Club meeting on Dec. 12.
The meeting starts at 3:30 p.m. in the home of Nancy Newcomb; co-hostesses are Linda Raby and Wilda Taylor.
The program theme, "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year," will be presented by Newcomb. Also on tap are a vocal solo by Terry Utsey and a sing-a-long led by Mary Hickey and friends.
The Hymn of the Month will be presented by Peggy Sheppard.
The Bridge at Rockwood was recognized recently at an awards ceremony for the center's efforts for the Alzheimer Tennessee Five-County Walk earlier this fall.
The Bridge of Rockwood team was honored as one of the top fundraising teams for this year's event.
On hand for the ceremony are, from left, state Rep. Kent Calfee, Sandy Langley
and Kathy Parks of The Bridge at Rockwood, Walk Chairmen David Erb and Terry Payne. Thirty-nine teams participating in this year's walk raised $68,431.
Tennessee lawyers helped 1,800 state residents by providing free legal information and advice throughout October as part of the Tennessee Bar Association's Celebrate Pro Bono initiative.
"During these economically challenging times, so many of our fellow Tennesseans have unmet legal needs," said Tennessee Bar Association President Cindy Wyrick.
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WASHINGTON � Judging from corporate profits, we should be enjoying a powerful economic recovery. The drop in profits in the recession was about a third, apparently the worst since World War II. But every day brings reports of gains.
In the second quarter, IBM�s earnings rose 9.1 percent from a year earlier. Government statistics through the first quarter (the latest available) show that profits have recovered 87 percent of what they lost in the recession. When second-�quarter results are tabulated, profits may exceed their previous peak.
The rebound in profits ought to be a good omen. It frees companies to be more aggressive. They�re sitting on huge cash reserves: a record of $838 billion for industrial companies in the Standard & Poor�s 500 index (companies like Apple, Boeing and Caterpillar) at the end of March, up 26 percent from a year earlier.
�They have the wherewithal to do whatever they want � hire; make new investments; raise dividends; do mergers and acquisitions,� S&P�s Howard Silverblatt says.
Historically, higher profits lead to higher employment, says Mark Zandi of Moody�s Economy.com. Except for startups, loss-making companies don�t generate many new jobs.
So far, history be damned. The contrast between revived profits and stunted job growth is stunning.
From late 2007 to late 2009, payroll employment declined nearly 8.4 million. Since then, the economy has recovered a scant 11 percent of those lost jobs. Companies are doing much better than workers; that defines today�s economy.
The most obvious explanation is that the relationship between labor and capital (to borrow Marxist vocabulary) has changed. Capital has gotten stronger; labor has weakened.
Economist Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argues that the �shift of executive compensation towards much greater use of stock options� has made corporate managers more zealous cost-cutters in recessions and more reluctant hirers early in recoveries. Lowering the headcount is the quickest way to restore profits and from there, a company�s stock price.
In a new study, Gordon dates the economy�s changed behavior to the 1980s. Until then, companies tended to protect career workers, and unemployment followed a path predicted by economist Arthur Okun in a famous 1962 paper.
But now, unemployment exceeds Okun�s formula, and �jobless recoveries� have become standard. After the 1990-91 recession, consistent employment growth did not resume for about a year; the lag was nearly two years after the 2001 recession.
(The National Bureau of Economic Research, an economists� group, determines the end of recessions, usually when economic output begins expanding. Job growth does not automatically coincide with output expansion. The difference is accounted for by productivity gains � greater efficiency, or more output per worker. The bureau has not yet declared an end to the last recession, although the economy began expanding in the summer of 2009.)
Aside from executives� stock options, Gordon cites weaker unions and more competition from both imports and immigrants as subverting workers� bargaining power.
History also mattered. The harsh 1981-82 recession threatened the survival of many firms. The near-death experience made managers more open to bigger layoffs. What started as last-resorts slowly became routine.
There was a generational change, too. Depression-era CEOs, highly sensitive to job insecurity, retired. Younger executives worried more about competitive challenges and corporate takeovers.
In hindsight, the massive job cuts of 2008 and 2009 should not have been surprising. �With the collapse of the financial system,� says economist Lynn Reaser of Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, �companies had to conserve cash desperately, (because) they couldn�t rely on outside financing.�
So they savagely axed jobs, inventories and new investment projects (computers, machinery, factories). In the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first and second quarters of 2009, business investment dropped at annual rates of 24 percent, 50 percent and 24 percent. Nothing like this had occurred since at least the 1940s, Gordon notes.
�Businesses can�t cost-cut their way to consistent profit growth,� Zandi argues. �Eventually, they need to generate revenue growth that requires investment and hiring.�
There are some favorable signs. Companies seem to have stepped up replacement of aging computers; that could create new jobs. General Electric says its 2009 research and development budget of $3.3 billion was up 18 percent since 2006 and is supporting new products, from batteries to solar films.
But it�s unclear whether corporate elites were so traumatized by the crisis that they�ve adopted a bunker mentality. That, as much as uncertainty over Obama administration policies, could be fearsome. What might appeal to individual firms � paring expenses to maximize profits, hoarding cash to protect against a future financial crisis, waiting to hire until sales improve � could, if adopted by most companies, sabotage a stronger recovery.
If labor is cowed and capital is overcautious, the economy must suffer.
Robert Samuelson is a columnist who specializes in economic affairs. His work appears regularly in Newsweek.


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The Importance of a Brochure Design: A brochure can serve many purposes. It can be used for marketing, during a special occasion, or in general business. Because of this, it is important to focus on the quality of the brochure design. The brochure must carry a brand that reaches the correct target audience. Brochures are intended to inform, educate, and let future clients/customers know about your services or products.
Industry Related Brochure Design: Collect and study brochures from around the community. What makes one design more appealing than another? You can develop your sense of good design by carefully studying other designs.
Brochure Design Voice and Audience: Who are you trying to reach with your brochure design, and how do you want to come across to your target audience? Choose a type face that will express the voice you desire (script, serif, san serif…) and still keep your message (image) clear.
Brochure Design with Negative Space: Use 'empty' space to create a relationship between the contents and the page. Bring the specific information into focus on the page by adjusting the space around it. The amount of negative space in a design affects its overall tone of lightness or heaviness. As a person shouting in a noisy room stands out when the room suddenly becomes quiet, so does a word stand out on a busy page where the busyness suddenly stops (also known in design as tension).


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This sounds like it might be what I am looking for. I have a list of addresses:
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Walmart Worker Jan Sullivan, Fired After Black Friday Fracas, Now Near Poverty
It isn't easy working in retail on Black Friday, the notorious shopping day following Thanksgiving. Big-box retailers offer their top discounts, and shoppers respond with mad rushes through the check-out line.
So Jan Sullivan, who stands 4 feet 11 inches and is 73, was hardly in an enviable situation last November when her employer of 22 years, Walmart Stores Inc., assigned her the task of stopping customers from leaving through the exit door at a branch in Bay Pines, Fla.
Sullivan, who normally worked as a Walmart greeter, says she tried to stop one customer from taking the wrong exit, when she was pushed. She then says she lost lost her balance, and grabbed onto the customer's sweater. The customer proceeded to leave the store, and Sullivan thought that was the end of it.
But three days later, Sullivan was fired, according to the Tampa Bay Times. And now, she finds herself in dire straits. She's burned through her savings, and owes $3,000 on her Discover card. "I'm 73 years old," she says. "Who's going to hire me?"
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It's been a dramatic fall for the Walmart employee who once proudly wore a vest with the words stitched on it, "20 Years of Dedicated Service." She's twice divorced with no kids after both her fallopian tubes burst during two failed pregnancies. A nephew makes sporadic visits.
Her story has touched a chord with her neighbors in her community, in which she just sold her two-bedroom cinderblock home. (She's moving to a nearby mobile home, which cost her $3,000.) One neighbor, Jeff Wetherbee, was so moved about what happened to "the little old lady across the street who makes peanut brittle for the neighborhood every Christmas" he contacted the media on her behalf.
For its part, Walmart says it was forced into action by its rule forbidding employees to touch customers under any circumstances.
"Regardless of her intentions, her actions put her own safety and possibly the safety of a customer in jeopardy," Walmart spokeswoman Kayla Whaling told the Tampa Bay Times. "We can't condone behavior where associates take matters into their own hands."
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The company wouldn't comment further on the case's details. But the experience of workers finding themselves overwhelmed on Black Friday is not limited to Sullivan, or Walmart. A 36-year old female worker of Target, also in Florida, was so exhausted last November she lost control of her car and drove it into a canal, according to Florida Police, which didn't name her. She was able, however, to swim to safety, according to the Miami New Times. Back in 2008, a worker died at a New York Walmart after being trampled in a Black Friday stampede.
Sullivan, meanwhile, hasn't totally given up on her own job search, and sends in dozens of applications to sporting goods stores her area. And while she says obviously misses the paycheck, she's also grown nostalgic about the camaraderie at work. She says, for example, she'd like one more chance to cook chicken for the company's All Children's Hospital Fundraiser.
"Walmart was like my home," she says. "Like my family."
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Adam Rosales hit what should have been a game-tying home run in the ninth inning against the Cleveland Indians. Instead, the umpires ruled it hit the wall, even after looking at a replay that clearly showed it was a home run.
In the video below, even the announcers are not sure if the ball was a home run at first. But once you look at the replay, presumably the same one the umpires reviewed, it is clear that the ball hit a railing behind the wall and bounced back on to the field of play.
According Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle, the umpires claimed there was not enough evidence to overturn the call.
Major League Baseball has dragged their feet with instant replay. And because they aren't fully committed to the process, they still can't get calls like this correct. Hopefully, small steps backwards like this will help push the sport forward into the 21st century...
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I was in New York City for the first time last week. I met some terrific bloggers, including Lame Adventures and Love and Lunchmeat. I narrowly missed meeting a few others, including El Guapo and Brain Tomahawk because Greenwich Village broke my navigational skills. Mostly though, I cherished discovering a new city and everything that I was looking forward to seeing was infinitely better than I expected it to be. All week we had the impending hurricane on our minds though, and we were grateful to be on one of the last flights out before things got canceled. People were preparing but I don't think anyone was prepared for what came.
I'll post more about my trip later, but in the meantime go donate to the Red Cross if you're able, or check out the Huffington Post site for other ways to help.
I hope all of our blogging friends are safe and sound and sending so much love your way.


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Facebook buys Oculus
For those of you that haven't heard: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/facebook-buys-oculus-vr-the-internet-freaks-out.3340/
Well, I'm glad I didn't back their kickstarter. I guess we can bid any sort of great VR headset goodbye. I am sure Facebook has no interest in developing a solid VR gaming headset. Notch, the legendary creator or Minecraft dumped $10k into the oculus, and he really isn't happy about this. Who can blame them though, Facebook gave them $2 billion for their creation. I think I would be hard pressed to not sell my idea for that kind of money. These guys [Oculus] seemed to be genuinely interested in developing this VR headset for purists. What could Facebook possibly do with that kind of tech?
I have to admit, I'm not a venture capitalist so I might not be able to see the possibilities here, but VR with social media just doesn't make any sense to me. I just don't see a teenager strapping on a VR headset to update their social status and view pictures of kittens. "Hey Grandma, you can keep up with the family on our Facebook page! Just strap this thing to your face, get motion sickness, vomit all over the place and enjoy the vacation pictures!"
Most interesting part of this buyout is now John Carmack is a Facebook employee.


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Cisco Unified Computing System Achieves a Major Milestone
It's been an exciting two years since we introduced the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) solution to the world. UCS provides virtualized compute and networking with simple management. I want to congratulate our service provider customers on their successes in delivering differentiated services, with UCS as the foundation, in their markets. I would also like to extend our thanks to our business partners, both channel partners and those with complementary product offerings, for their expertise and ability to help accelerate this truly innovative idea across the data center and cloud industry.
In two short years, Cisco has risen to the #3 player in the fastest growing segment of the x86 server market.
Released yesterday, the IDC press release on Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Q1 2011 highlights the UCS uptake by our customers and partners and shows a great start to our vision for UCS in every SP, enterprise, and public sector organization looking for a world-class scalable, flexible, and powerful converged server platform. The rapid growth from launch to #3 in the industry for x86 blade servers in such a short time indicates two points: First, that the data center industry was crying out for real technology innovation and, second, that innovative customers are willing to embrace a new paradigm when the business benefits delivered are compelling.
Within the 5400+ total unique customers using UCS across the globe thus far, there are many service providers using the product to deliver services to their customers as well as internally for their IT infrastructure. Among those SPs on UCS, I would like to add an extra thank you to those SP's who have shared their experiences publically, including such innovators as SAVVIS, Swisscom, Orange, Terremark (now part of Verizon), Cable & Wireless, NaviSite, and TELUS have relied on UCS to deliver services such as Infrastructure as a Service, Collaboration, and VDI as a Service.
Again, thank you, congratulations, and we look forward to supporting our customers' success through UCS and the rest of our broad portfolio of products and services.
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BullyLady wrote:Sirius is a universal donor too! They looooove him!
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I tried calling several places around here but they all use employee's pets for blood donations.
furever_pit wrote:How long does it usually take y'all's dogs to recover from the donation? It is something I would be interested in doing with Dylan but I also don't want to have to take much time off of training.
I think Dylan would probably be pretty good for this. He loves coming into the vet and he's gotten used to jugular draws since he has been my guinea pig as I've been learning.
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udscbt wrote:We already know that what is happening here is HUGE, but viewing it in a diagram is always better:
Whoa! How odd is to see in the past a reference to an offtopic post I made in a different subforum. Feels kind of recursive "so THAT's what I was doing back then."
Also, to realize how I've been "changing the past" even though I wasn't posting in this thread (I'll never get to see what would have been posted without my intervention, just, what was posted after I posted the diagram in other subforum.)
It's time.


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Artistic History of Paris
"Paris ressemble à un théâtre qui a gardé les traces de toutes les pièces jouées précédemment." Raymond Devos (1922-2006), Belgian-French humorist
Between 200 and 250 BC, Gauls of the Parisii tribe settled and established a small fishing village on a small island in the Seine river, the Ile de la Cité. Later conquered by Julius Caesar in 52 A.D., the Roman city of Lutèce was finally renamed Paris in 212 A.D. La Ville lumière, Paris, has witnessed over 2,000 years artistic and intellectual history and achievements. This one-credit spring break course, lead occasionally by Dr. Scott Fish, is designed to expose intermediate- and advanced-level French-language students to snapshots of some of the Parisian sites, monuments, structures, and artistic treasures from antiquity to the early twenty-first century that have contributed to the historical development and artistic renown of la plus belle ville du monde. Students will further conduct pre-departure and on-site individual research projects on one Parisian monument or landmark, and submit a paper and provide a public presentation of their research.
At the end of this course, students should be able: (1) to identify and to explain significant artistic and architectural achievements and works, and significant historical events and figures that have contributed to the development of Paris; and (2) to articulate in English (297) or in French (397) the history, artistic achievement, and significance of a major Parisian monument (critical bibliography, individual research topic, presentation of research at MDFL Celebration of Cultures Series). Prerequisite: FREN 111. Beginning French language students will enroll in FREN 197 and 111 concurrently; Intermediate French language students will enroll in FREN 297 and 211 concurrently; advanced students will enroll in FREN 397 and a 300-level course concurrently. The course is conducted in French and English.
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Do Not Cross
"Dead Man's Switch"-- Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller, left), Joan (Lucy Liu), Gregson (Aidan Quinn, center) and Bell (Jon Michael Hall, right) hunt for the accomplice of a murdered blackmailer who had been targeting the families of rape victims threatening to release videos of the assault if they don't pay. Meanwhile, Sherlock resists celebrating his first year of sobriety, on ELEMENTARY. PHOTO CREDIT: Barbara Nitke/CBS © 2012 CBS. All Rights Reserved


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The Lightroom and Camera Raw team has been very pleased with all of the positive feedback on the new image processing(PV2012) available in the Lightroom 4 beta. (It will also be available in the next major version of the Camera Raw plug-in) The ability to recover shadow and highlight detail with a straightforward set of controls without introducing artifacts or over-the-top faux-HDR effects is a huge leap forward in image processing. I thought Scott Kelby summed it up quite well when he said, "Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period." Often, when a product from the Photoshop family produces something incredible, it's referred to as magic. However, the real magic is how the talented engineers at Adobe convert cutting edge research into elegant, easy to use software solutions.
The cutting edge research in this case is a paper titled, Local Laplacian Filters: Edge-aware Image Processing with a Laplacian Pyramid. The title is certainly a mouthful and the body of the paper will be difficult to comprehend unless you've spent a fair amount of time with equations that contain more Greek letters than numbers. But don't let the complexity prevent you from downloading the paper and perusing some of the sample images that demonstrate the challenges and results using various processing techniques. The research is so impressive that it was published in SIGGRAPH 2011*, a prestigious journal in the computer graphics industry.
Why am I sharing this very technical piece of information? The team would like to share the praise that we're receiving for the new processing controls with the authors of this research paper:
|Sylvain Paris
Adobe Systems, Inc
|Samuel W Hasinoff
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and MIT CSAIL
|Jan Kautz
University College London
Note: There is also some contributing knowledge from this paper as well: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/67030
* ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2011).