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The first woman president of Ireland, a pioneering Harlem educator and the publisher of Black Enterprise magazine are the recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Awards
Mary Robinson, the president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, is the winner of the international award, announced Thursday, Sept. 26, by museum officials.
Black Enterprise magazine founder and publisher Earl Graves is the lifetime achievement award recipient.
And Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, is the winner of the national award. Canada transformed a truancy program into an expanded school drawing students from a 24-block area of Harlem.
The awards will be given at a Nov. 6 banquet at The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Earlier that day, Canada will speak at the annual Freedom Awards forum at Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has named a new clinical director.
The Memphis-based hospital said Wednesday that radiation oncologist Larry Kun has been appointed as clinical director and executive vice president. Kun will guide all aspects of clinical care and oversee clinical operations and patient care quality programs for the 7,800 patients who are treated or receive post-treatment care at St. Jude each year.
His responsibilities include developing patient care policies, managing physicians, and planning and managing clinical space and systems.
Kun joined St. Jude in 1984 to establish a department to treat cancer with radiation therapy and to start a multidisciplinary brain tumor program.
Kun has served as chair of the St. Jude Department of Radiological Sciences and will remain in that position.
Memphis-based Terminix, the world's largest pest- and termite-control provider, has acquired substantially all the assets of Vancouver-based Care Pest & Wildlife Control.
Care Pest & Wildlife was founded in 2000 and is the largest independent pest- and wildlife-control company in British Columbia. It specializes in general pest, bedbug, bird and wildlife control for residential and commercial accounts, and the company will keep its current brand name after the acquisition is completed.
Terminix president Larry Pruitt said the acquisition of Care Pest & Wildlife control combined with Terminix's purchase last month of Toronto-based Magical Pest Control, is a continuation of Terminix's efforts to expand its geographic presence outside the U.S.
Grizzlies guard Tony Allen, famous for his hard-nosed game and for coining the "grit and grind" phrase that has become a mantra for the team and city, will be playing Grizzlies owner Robert Pera in a one-on-one exhibition game to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The "Grindfather" will play Pera Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. at FedExForum. Allen and Pera agreed to donate $100,000 to St. Jude.
Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph will be the special guest referee for the game, which will be streamed live at grizzlies.com and broadcast on ESPN Radio 92.9 FM.
Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages fell this week to their lowest point in two months. The decline follows the Federal Reserve's decision last week to hold off slowing its monthly bond purchases.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the 30-year loan dropped to 4.32 percent from 4.50 percent last week. The average on the 15-year fixed loan declined to 3.37 percent from 3.54 percent.
Both are the lowest averages since July 25.
Mortgage rates are nearly a full percentage point higher than in May, when the Fed first signaled it might slow its $85 billion-a-month in bond buys. But last week the Fed kept the pace steady after lowering its outlook for economic growth.
The bond purchases are intended to lower long-term interest rates, including mortgage rates.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 305,000, the second-lowest level in six years. Steady declines in applications show that very few companies are laying off workers.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average declined 7,000 to 308,000, the lowest since June 2007.
All states reported their first-time applications on time, a department spokesman said. Applications plummeted three weeks ago because computer upgrades in California and Nevada prevented them from fully reporting their data. Those states have cleared their backlogs, the spokesman said.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. Fewer layoffs suggest employers are confident enough to maintain their staffing levels. But companies have been reluctant to take the next step and ramp up hiring.
In fact, job gains have slowed in recent months. Employers have added an average of just 155,000 jobs a month since April. That's down from an average of 205,000 for the first four months of the year.
The unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent in August, from 7.4 percent in the previous month. But the drop mostly occurred because more Americans stopped working or looking for jobs. The government doesn't count people as unemployed unless they are actively searching for work.
Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey predicted Wednesday that lawmakers will approve a bill next session to allow wine to be sold in supermarkets and convenience stores.
The Blountville Republican told reporters that lawmakers previously uncertain about the proposal were surprised by the backlash to the failure of this year's bill in a House committee.
This year's bill died when House Local Government Chairman Matthew Hill, who had supported an earlier version, cast the deciding vote against the measure.
"The debacle that happened in the House with the change of the vote at the last minute I think actually helped," Ramsey said. "There were several senators that may have been sitting on the fence and saw the reaction that came from that and they realized that now they're going to be for it in some form."
Hill, a Jonesborough Republican who has since drawn a primary opponent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Current law keeps supermarkets and convenience stores from selling beer stronger than 5 percent by weight, which is the equivalent of about 6.5 percent in the more common measure of alcohol by volume. Anything stronger can only be sold in liquor stores, which aren't allowed to sell any items beyond booze and lottery tickets.
Statewide public opinion polls have shown strong support for supermarket wine sales, but opponents have raised fears about wider availability of stronger alcohol and the effect the change would have on existing liquor stores.
A $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the Memphis Area Transit Authority brings the federal funding for the Main Street to Main Street Multi-Modal Connector Project to $17.2 million.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis on Tuesday, Sept. 24, announced the new grant to refurbish and enhance the Main Street Trolley line, which opened in 1992.
The trolley is part of the Main Street Memphis improvements, which are scheduled to begin construction in October in several places along Main from Uptown to South Main, as well as along Broadway Street in West Memphis and a boardwalk along the Harahan Bridge to connect the two thoroughfares.
The new federal funding goes with the $15 million transportation grant Memphis and West Memphis leaders were awarded in 2012 for the multi-part project.
Earlier this month, a project coordinating committee sent the first contract – $1.9 million to Ferrell Paving Inc. of Memphis for street improvements at Carolina Avenue and Main Street – to Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. for approval.
Ferrell's contract bid was 15 percent below cost projections for that part of the project.
Average premiums for Tennesseans seeking coverage under new health insurance markets launching next week rank near the lowest among the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead to cover uninsured residents.
Before tax credits that work like an up-front discount for most consumers, sticker-price premiums for a mid-range benchmark plan will average $245 a month, well below the national monthly average of $328. Only Minnesota's average premiums are cheaper, at $192 per month.
Premiums under the cheapest plan offered in Tennessee would average $181 per month, the third-lowest rate in the country. The premiums unveiled Tuesday don't include tax credits. The bottom line will depend on income, location, plan type, family size and even tobacco use.
The State Review Board will meet Wednesday in Nashville to examine nominations for the National Register of Historic Places, including Memphis' Sears Crosstown building, formally known as the Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog Distribution Center and Retail Store.
The board will vote on nine nominations from across the state. Those nominations that meet a certain criteria will be sent for final approval to the National Register of Historic Places at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris has been elected chairman of the national Council of State Governments based in Lexington, Ky.
The Collierville Republican is the first Tennessean elected to the leadership post.
Founded in 1933, the Council promotes the exchange of ideas to help state officials shape public policy as states' advocates within the federal system of government.
The bipartisan organization also has an office in Washington, D.C., with regional offices in Atlanta, New York City, Chicago and Sacramento.
Norris, an attorney, served as chairman of the southern region in 2010 and 2011.
Companies placed slightly more orders in August for U.S. long-lasting manufactured goods, stepping up demand for cars, trucks and machinery. Even with the gain, business spending on factory goods may not be strong enough to accelerate economic growth in the July-September quarter.
Orders for durable goods, items expected to last at least three years, increased 0.1 percent in August, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That comes after orders plummeted 8.1 percent in July, which was largely because of a steep drop in volatile commercial aircraft orders.
The August orders were held back by a decline in demand for defense aircraft and other military goods. That could be related to steep government spending cuts that took effect in March. Excluding defense spending, orders rose 0.5 percent.
Auto factories reported a 2.4 percent increase in orders, the biggest in six months.
And demand for so-called core capital goods rose 1.5 percent, after falling 3.3 percent the previous month. Core capital goods are a good measure of businesses' confidence in the economy and include items that point to expansion, such as machinery and computers. Still, economists said the gains weren't enough to reverse declines in previous months.
"It was definitely a mixed month," Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note to clients. "The gains in core orders and shipments in the month do not offset weakness in the last couple of months."
Durable goods shipments rose 0.9 percent in August, after two months of declines. The shipments figures are used to calculate economic growth.
After seeing the report, Lee said she cut her forecast for economic growth in the July-September quarter to an annual rate of 1.8 percent, down from 2 percent.
Home2 Suites by Hilton has opened a new all-suites hotel in Southaven.
The Hilton Worldwide brand caters to business travelers and extended stay guests. The four-story, 105-suite hotel is located at 6750 Southcrest Parkway, strategically located near local attractions and business destinations, including Southaven Towne Center, Snowden Grove Amphitheatre and Snowden Grove Park, Downtown Memphis and Graceland. The property is owned by Cohen Realty Inc. and is managed by Vista Host Inc.
"The Home2 Suites Memphis/Southaven will cater to two unique markets and serve a diverse group of travelers, from sports fans looking to enjoy the Dizzy Dean World Series Baseball Tournament, to families looking to get away and enjoy the comforts of the hotel's hip and humble approach," said Bill Duncan, global head, Home2 Suites by Hilton.
Home2 Suites operates 22 hotels, including the Southaven location, and 70 more properties are in the company's development pipeline.
The University of Memphis Journalism Alumni Club will honor five people during its annual awards luncheon Oct. 18 at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave.
The event, scheduled for 11:30 a.m., will honor Mark Henry, Signature Advertising president and founder, and Bonnie Kourvelas, communications adviser with FedEx Services, both of whom will receive the Charles E. Thornton Award. University of Memphis vice provost, dean and professor Dan Lattimore will receive the Herbert Lee Williams Award. Angela Craig, a vice president at St. Jude Medical, will receive the Young Alumni Award, and senior broadcast journalism student Joshua Bolden will be honored as the university's "emerging journalist."
The keynote speaker will be Sonny Albarado, who currently serves as the city editor and projects editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Tickets to the event are $35 per person or $300 for a table of 10. The final deadline for reservations is Oct. 12. For more information, to buy tickets or reserve a table, contact Shannon Miller at firstname.lastname@example.com or 678-3043.
Americans' confidence in the economy fell slightly in September from August, as many became less optimistic about hiring and pay increases over the next six months.
The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dropped to 79.7 in September. That's down from August's reading of 81.8, which was slightly higher than previously estimated.
Consumers' confidence is closely watched because their spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
The September reading was only slightly below June's reading of 82.1, the highest in 5.5 years.
While confidence has bounced back from the depths of the Great Recession, it has yet to regain a reading of 90 that typically coincides with a healthy economy.
The planned demolition of the Nineteenth Century Club building on Union Avenue has been halted by an appeal of a Chancery Court decision upholding the sale of the historic property.
Preservationists and former club members filed an appeal Friday, Sept. 20, challenging Chancellor Walter Evans' ruling to uphold the sale of the property.
While Evans upheld the sale, he left in place until Sept. 20 a temporary injunction that prevented demolition of the building and froze the cash involved in the sale in order to give plaintiffs in the civil case time to appeal.
Current and former members of the club filed suit over the sale, saying it did not meet the organization's bylaws or follow state law.
The Union Group LLC acquired the property for $550,000 in January after winning a competitive bidding process. The Nineteenth Century Club decided to donate the sale proceeds to the Children's Museum of Memphis.
The fate of the property, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has ignited a long-smoldering debate over the proper design and use of property in the city core, pitting everyone from preservationists to architects and community members against The Union Group, which has said it intends to raze the structure and build a commercial property in its place.
It's full steam ahead at Metropolitan Bank, which is completing a rights offering as part of a move to raise capital to support the bank's growth for the next few years, according to Metropolitan founder, president and CEO Curt Gabardi.
A Metropolitan spokesman said the amount of capital raised will be $5.6 million.
"We didn't want to raise too much or too little," Gabardi told The Daily News. "Just enough for organic growth purposes, because we were already well-capitalized by regulatory standards.
"(The offering) was well-received, and we should have it finalized over the next few weeks."
Metropolitan celebrated its fifth birthday earlier this year.
"We continue to be well-pleased and proud of the year-to-date performance in spite of the economy and record low interest rates," Gabardi said.
"That's in spite of the fact we have been spending heavily especially in Nashville, with the opening of our new West End office, and bringing on a significant number of new bankers. We could be dropping a whole lot more to the bottom line, but we're investing in the business. Expanding geographically in Memphis – that plan is underway now. It comes from a continued desire to take on talented bankers."
The Tennessee Department of Transportation has released the projects for which it will accept bids next month.
The department plans to open bidding Oct. 18 on a total of 53 contracts, including 86 projects in 95 counties. TDOT will initiate resurfacing projects on several Tennessee interstate corridors, and bids will also be received on a number of maintenance projects such as cable barrier repair, intersection improvements and bridge repair.
Recent federal data show dozens of Tennessee bridges are among the thousands nationwide that have advanced deterioration or are at risk of collapsing.
A Transportation Department spokeswoman says at least 25 of those bridges in Tennessee have been replaced with new structures, repaired, or either under construction for replacement or repair.
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Tina Brown on Holly Peterson: "Holly Peterson writes about the rich with acute understanding and a drop-dead eye for detail. The funniest, sexist ride in the limo lane since the The Bonfire of the Vanities." — Tina Brown on Peterson's The Manny on the dust jacket the novel
Brown also offers "thanks and appreciation" to Peterson, among many others, in the acknowledgments of her new biography, The Diana Chronicles (page xv).
Holly Peterson on Tina Brown: "I read mostly non-fiction books. My all-time favorite is Tina Brown's new book on Princess Diana called the Diana Chronicles … She was my boss." — Peterson on Brown's The Diana Chronicles on her My Space page http://www.myspace.com/hollypetersonthemanny. I can't get the direct link to work but you can find the blurb by going to www.myspace.com and searching for "hollypetersonthemanny."
Peterson also writes in the acknowledgments to The Manny: "Thank you to those who assisted in the delivery room in various forms and reincarnations of this whole concept, including Tina Brown … " (page 356).
For more examples of authors who love each other's books, click on "Backscratching in Our Time" under "Categories" on this site. If you know of other candidates for this continuing feature, please use the e-mail address on the "Contact" page of One-Minute Book Reviews to submit their blurbs.
A review of The Manny appeared on this site on June 26, 2007 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/. Page numbers for bad sex scenes in The Manny appeared on this site on June, 27, 2007 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/. The Diana Chronicles is scheduled to be reviewed on this site during the week of July 8.
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Colorado's flood-recovery chief says there are yawning gaps in the funding available and the funding needed to help home and business owners trying to rebound from the September deluges.
As many as 26,000 flood victims have applied for individual assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which usually gives out about $6,000 in flood aid.
"But many people are getting much less," said Jerre Stead, appointed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in September as the state's chief recovery officer.
Stead said his most important job is to listen carefully to the victims of the flooding to make sure they get the resources, and money, to get back to their lives.
"They've got to know people care about them, that they are being heard," said the 70-year-old.
Through the work of local, state and federal recovery teams, as well as the website ColoradoUnited.com, information about help is filtering out to people in 24 counties nearly washed away by floodwaters, Stead said.
That help includes raising nearly $12 million for housing for flood victims through groups such as United Way and Red Cross.
About $46 million has been approved for Small Business Administration low-interest disaster loans for about 1,000 homeowners and 121 business, primarily in Boulder, Weld and Larimer counties, he said.
Still, one the biggest problems facing recovery efforts is that officials are still assessing the damage, Stead said.
For instance, the toll on the state's farms and ranches is just now being tallied.
But it's known that 1,200 farms were impacted by the floods, including 32,000 acres of cropland.
"Piece by piece, we are getting things together, making progress," Stead said. "But these numbers change daily as we get further and further into the recovery."
Stead, an Iowa native, has been the executive chairman at Englewood-based IHS since December 2000, a job he took shortly after retiring as the top executive at Ingram Micro. He also has held top jobs at AT&T, Honeywell, Square D and Legent.
Stead took over as CEO of IHS in September 2006. The company is a Douglas County provider of information and analysis to businesses and governments across the globe.
In September, Hickenlooper praised Stead as one of the more talented executives in the state, saying "Jerre was really sent from heaven to do this task."
Stead and his staff are not being paid for their work, which has included touring flood-ravaged areas of the state.
He found the cooperation among local, state and federal agencies heartening, which is helping speed the rebuilding. At least 78 percent of the state's roadways are now open, and he's confident the rest will be ready for use by Dec. 1.
"It's amazing the work being done out there," Stead said.
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Political stuntman Jon Caldara plans to vote Saturday in El Paso County's recall election even though he lives in Boulder, a move critics claim is voter fraud but that Caldara says shows problems with a new election law Democrats passed.
If Caldara goes through with his plan — and he said he will — and opponents try to have him charged with a felony — which they said they will — another chapter in Colorado's increasingly unusual political history will be written.
Already Colorado is facing the first-ever recall of a state lawmaker. Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs and Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo, both Democrats, face ouster on Tuesday for their support of gun legislation in the 2013 session.
Caldara is president of the Independence Institute, a think tank heavily involved in fighting the gun bills. He's known for his antics — whether it's setting up
dominoes or trotting out a huge swine made from a propane tank and papier-mâché — to highlight his position on issues.
Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner, a Republican who backed the elections bill, said what Caldara said he is going to do goes far beyond a stunt.
"If we find out the law doesn't have enough teeth for prosecution," she said, "I'm sure you'll see legislation next year to take care of that — you know what I mean?"
El Paso County Clerk Wayne Williams, a Republican who opposed the elections bill, said if Caldara signs an election affidavit swearing "I claim no other place as my legal residence," he has to let Caldara register and vote. Williams and Caldara said the election law that went into effect in May undid most residency requirements.
But critics of Caldara's plan point to an Aug. 1 memo from Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler's office to Williams that clearly spells out the statutes and rules that prevent out-of-district voting.
"It's vote fraud — even Republicans agree," said Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, a sponsor of the new law.
However, Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert said Caldara planned to move Friday and his intent is to make El Paso County his legal residence, so he would not be breaking the law.
Caldara said his attorney said it's all legal.
"I hope he's not talking to jailhouse lawyers who are serving time for their own election felonies," said Democratic elections attorney Mark Grueskin.
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WASHINGTON — Superstorm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm.
In the long run, the devastation the storm inflicted on New York City and other parts of the Northeast will barely nick the U.S. economy. That's the view of economists who say a slightly slower economy in coming weeks will likely be matched by reconstruction and repairs that will contribute to growth over time.
The short-term blow to the economy, though, could subtract about 0.6 percentage point from U.S. economic growth in the October-December quarter, IHS says. Retailers, airlines and home construction firms will likely lose some business.
The storm cut power to about 7 million homes, shut down 70 percent of East Coast oil refineries and inflicted worse-than-expected damage in the New York metro area. That area produces about 10 percent of U.S. economic output.
New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air. The superstorm overflowed the city's waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands. Power is expected to be fully restored in Manhattan and Brooklyn within four days.
Most homeowners who suffered losses from flooding won't be able to benefit from their insurance policies. Standard homeowner policies don't cover flood damage, and few homeowners have flood insurance.
But Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said they will offer help to borrowers whose homes were damaged or destroyed, who live in designated disaster areas and whose loans the mortgage giants own or guarantee. Among other options, mortgage servicers will be allowed to reduce the monthly payments of affected homeowners or require no payments from them temporarily.
Across U.S. industries, disruptions will slow the economy temporarily. Some restaurants and stores will draw fewer customers. Factories may shut down or hold shorter shifts because of a short-term drop in customer demand.
Some of those losses won't be easily made up. Restaurants that lose two or three days of business, for example, won't necessarily experience a rebound later. And money spent to repair a home may lead to less spending elsewhere.
With some roads in the Northeast impassable after the storm, drivers won't be filling up as much. That will slow demand for gasoline. Pump prices, which had been declining before the storm, will likely keep slipping. The national average for a gallon of regular fell by about a penny Tuesday, to $3.53 — more than 11 cents lower than a week ago.
Shipping and business travel has been suspended in areas of the Northeast. More than 15,000 flights across the Northeast and the world have been grounded, and it will take days for some passengers to get where they're going.
On Tuesday, more than 6,000 flights were canceled, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware. More than 500 flights scheduled for Wednesday were also canceled.
The three big New York airports were closed Tuesday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. New York has the nation's busiest airspace, so cancellations there drastically affect travel in other cities.
Economists noted that the hit to the economy in the short run was worsened by the size of the population centers the storm hit.
"Sandy hit a high-population-density area with a lot of expensive homes," said Beata Caranci, deputy chief economist at TD Bank.
Hurricane damage to homes, businesses and roads reduces U.S. wealth. But it doesn't subtract from the government's calculation of economic activity.
By contrast, rebuilding and restocking by businesses and consumers add to the nation's gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of economic production. GDP measures all goods and services produced in the United States.
Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, expects the storm to shave 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point from annual economic growth in the October-December quarter. He thinks the economy will grow at an annual rate of 1.5 percent to 2 percent in the fourth quarter. It expanded at a 2 percent annual rate last quarter.
But Ashworth says any losses this quarter should be made up later as rebuilding boosts sales at building supply stores and other companies.
"People will load up on whatever they need to make repairs — roofing, dry wall, carpeting — to deal with the damage," he says.
In the short run, Caranci said the economic damage could be heaviest for small businesses that lack the money and other resources to withstand lost sales.
"It will remain to be seen how long disruptions to electricity and infrastructure persist," she said.
But she noted that the storm should give a boost to the construction industry, which shed millions of workers after the housing bust. Many who lost construction jobs were skilled employees with disproportionately high pay, and the loss of those jobs hit the economy hard.
Major retailers began trying Tuesday to ramp up their operations before the critical holiday shopping period.
Sears Holdings, which operates Kmart and Sears, said 80 of its stores were still closed as of midday Tuesday, down from 187 Monday. Wal-Mart Stores, the world's biggest retailer, said it was working to reopen the 168 stores it closed. And Darden Restaurants, parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, by Tuesday afternoon had reopened roughly 160 of the 260 restaurants it closed Monday.
Retailers collect up to 40 percent of their annual revenue in November and December. Retailers, excluding restaurants, could lose at least $25 billion in sales this week, estimates Burt Flickinger III of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group. Because of the storm, he's reduced his forecast for holiday sales to a 2.1 percent increase over last year from the 3.2 percent increase he had predicted earlier.
Reopening is often difficult after a storm. New York City's subways and buses remained closed Tuesday, making it hard for employees to get to work. Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue flagship stores stayed closed Tuesday — bad news for those retailers, because major department stores can derive 10 percent of annual sales from their Manhattan locations.
Still, those stores that could open for business did. A Westside Market in Manhattan remained open 24 hours a day throughout the storm, even though only about 20 percent of workers managed to show up Monday and Tuesday.
"They found a way to get here — I don't know how," store manager Jay Bilone said.
Insured losses from the superstorm will likely total $5 billion to $10 billion, the forecasting firm Eqecat estimates. Insurance losses are typically a fraction of the overall cost to the economy.
Chubb, Allstate and Travelers are the insurers most likely to suffer losses, said Greg Locraft, an analyst at Morgan Stanley. Those companies claim a major share of the affected areas.
"As an insurance event, Sandy is going to be a blip on the balance sheet," said Duncan Ellis, U.S. property practice leader at Marsh, the insurance broker. "2012 has been a relatively catastrophe-free year."
Economists expect actual property damages from Hurricane Sandy to exceed those caused last year by Hurricane Irene, which cost $15.8 billion. Irene had little effect on the nation's growth.
Sandy will likely be among the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. It would still be far below the worst — Hurricane Katrina, which cost $108 billion and caused 1,200 deaths in 2005.
But "there is every reason to believe that the hurricane won't kick the legs out of an already-fragile US economy," Caranci said.


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Over the last couple of years, I've dabbled with mapping parts of the interest graph defined by friends and follower relationships on Twitter. But with a couple of recent Twitter announcements, I'm starting to wonder if my ability to continue producing such maps will, to all and intents and purposes, soon be curtailed?
Here's the story so far: the technique I've been using so far to generate interest maps relies on finding how the people followed by a particular individual follow each other, or who the common friends of the followers of a particular user are, or who the common friends of a set of hashtag or search term users are. This allows us to generate maps that show common interests of the friends of a given user, the followers of a user, or the users of a hashtag. Note that we interpret 'interests' loosely as named Twitter accounts that we can associate with a particular sort of interest. So for example, following @OrdnanceSurvey may be indicative of an interest in maps or mapping, or following @BBCr4today indicative of an interest in politics and current affairs, and so on.
As an example, here's a map from a year or so ago of some of the accounts commonly followed by a sample of followers of the RedBullRacing account on Google+:
If you look closely, you can spot clusters (that is, groups of names close to each other) relating to Formula One teams, F1 drivers, performance cars, and so on…
The pattern of friends and followers in a social graph may thus be interpreted as some sort of interest graph. I personally find these maps to be, in and of themselves, interesting, in much the same way some folk take interest in, and pleasure from looking at, cartographic maps.
Knowledge of how this interest space is structured is also of interest to ad-sales marketers, whose aim is to sell highly targeted audiences (that is, folk interested in a particular topic, or who focus interest onto a particular area of the interest space) to advertisers. (For example, see From Paywalls and Attention Walls to Data Disclosure Walls and Survey Walls or What's the Point of Social Media Metrics?.) Twitter also appears to have woken up to the interest graph as a potentially rich source of revenue: Interest targeting: Broaden your reach, reach the right audience.
Today we're taking an important next step by allowing you to target your Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts campaigns to a set of interests that you explicitly choose. By targeting people's topical interests, you will be able to connect with a greater number of users and deliver tailored messages to people who are more likely to engage with your Tweets.
There are two flavors of interest targeting. For broader reach, you can target more than 350 interest categories, ranging from Education to Home and Garden to Investing to Soccer.
If you want to target more precise sets of users, you can create custom segments by specifying certain @usernames that are relevant to the product, event or initiative you are looking to promote. Custom segments let you reach users with similar interests to that @username's followers; they do not let you specifically target the followers of that @username. If you're promoting your indie band's next tour, you can create a custom audience by adding @usernames of related bands, thus targeting users with the same taste in music. This new feature will help you reach beyond your followers and users with similar interests, and target the most relevant audience for your campaign.
Let's try to unpick that: [c]ustom segments let you reach users with similar interests to that @username's followers. In my naive definition, my first attempt to implement this would go something along the lines of: custom segments let you reach users who tend to follow similar people to the people followed en masse by that @username's followers. That is, I would position each @username in an interest space defined by people commonly followed by the followers of @username, and then target people who tend to follow the people disproportionately represented in that interest space compared to some sort of "baseline" representation of intereests of a more general population. I've no idea how Twitter do the targeting, but that would be my first step.
If targeted advertising is Twitter's money play, then it's obviously in their interest to keep hold of the data juice that lets them define audiences by interest. Which is to say, they need to keep the structure of the graph as closed as possible. [UPDATE – it seems as if Twitter is starting/continuing to block other social networks' access to it's social graph data…]
Unlike Facebook – which limits users to seeing friendships between their friends (or, painfully in terms of API calls, test whether friendship connections appear between two specified individuals), or LinkedIn, which doesn't let you get hold of any data about how your friends connect other than in graphical form using InMaps (Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps), Twitter makes friend and follower data publicly available (unless you have a protected account). (If you want to visualise your own Facebook network, here's a recipe for doing so: Getting Started With The Gephi Network Visualisation App – My Facebook Network.) Google+ also makes an indivudal's connection data public in a roundabout way, although not via an easily accessed API (to access the graph data as data, you need to scrape it, as described here: So Where Am I Socially Situated on Google+?).
However, some changes have recently been announced relating to the Twitter API that look likely to limit the extent to which we can sample anything other than small, fragmentary snapshots of the interest graph: Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. In particular, the new 1.1 version of the Twitter API will apply differential rate limiting to different Twitter API endpoints, compared to the current limit of 350 API calls per hour summed across all API endpoints. For the last few years I've been lucky enough to benefit from a whitelisted Twitter API key (granted for research purposes) that has allowed me 20,000 calls per hour. (I've only ever used a fraction of the total possible number of API calls I could have made over that period, but on occasion have made several thousand calls over a short period to grab the friends or followers lists of hundreds or low thousands of users that I then use to generate the social interest maps.)
What my whitelisted API key allowed, and what the original 350 calls per hour limit for users not grandfathered in to the whitelisted key limit allowed, was the ability to grab the friends (or followers) lists from at least of the order of hundreds of users per hour. My own a hoc experiments suggest that sampling the friends of 500 or so followers of a particular account that may have tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, and then looking for accounts followed by 10-20% of that follower sample, gives an idea of the social interest positioning of the target account. Which means with a 350 API call limit per hour, you could generate at least one guesstimate interest positioning map every couple of hours. (With my 20k limit, I could generate several, much larger sample-size maps, per hour.) However, if the whitelisted key limit does not continue to be offered under version 1.1 of the Twitter API, and if rate limiting of 60 calls per hour to the friends/follower list endpoints is enforced (as looks likely?), this means that we'd only be able to generate one or two small-ish sample interest maps per day, and to run larger sample size maps, we'f have to max out hourly friends/follower list collection API calls 24 hours a day for several days in order to collect the data. Which is a pain. And a de facto block on the harvesting of graph data for the purposes of generating interest maps. (Which is why I'm hoping against hope my whitelisted API access continues! Though I am starting to feel as if I have squandered it, and either should have built a proper business around it and milked it for all it was worth, or sold the key on;-)
PS This looks like it could lead to the second major loss of "interesting" functionality relating to "derived" services around Twitter that I can think of, the first being the disappearance of services like the Twist search tool, that used to show volume trends for keywords as used on Twitter over the previous week:
(There are still a couple of hour/day trend analysis tools based on archived legacy datasets (I think?). For example, Tweet-o-life or timeu.se, as I've previously described in A Couple More Webrhythm Identifying Tools.)
We can still pick up webrhythms from tools such as Google Insights for Search, cultural rhythms from things like Google Books NGrams, and possible correlates using tools like Google Correlate, but the Twitter rhythms gave a much more visceral account of daily life than the trends that things like Google Trends can detect.
One of the things I find really disheartening about the web, even in its short lifetime to date, is the way that access to these large scale behavioural patterns is promissed as services start to scale up, but then disappear again as companies start to lock down their services or reign in access to the data, or the ad hoc third party services fail to scale (perhaps because there isn't widespread enough interest to keep them ticking over?). Such is life, I suppose…


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American Idol: Livin' in the '80s
American Idol went back to the '80s Wednesday night, with the Top 8 finalists performing song selections from music's most fluorescent decade - despite the fact that none of the contestants were alive in the 1980s. (Think about that for a second. Feel old yet?) They get help from a nearly unrecognizable David Cook, who returns to the Idol stage this week to act as a mentor.
We get our first elimination of the night fairly early, when judge Keith Urban opts to ditch his bitchin' mullet ("sixty thousand dollars' worth of hair extensions," quips his co-panelist Harry Connick, Jr.) within the first five minutes of the show.
15 shows on the bubble: Which will survive?
With the judges having used their only save on Sam Woolf last week, someone will definitely be going home on Thursday night. So, how did the Top 8 do? Let's get to the performances:
Song: "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett
The performance: We could have done without the piano intro, because Jena's swingin' bluesy take along on the karaoke classic is inventive and personalized enough on its own. Of everyone in the Top 8, it's really only Jena and Caleb who demonstrate consistent comfort with working a crowd, and Jena's ad-libbing at the end of the song closes out a top-notch performance.
What the judges say: Keith likes Jena's piano intro and compliments her originality, but Jennifer Lopez thought it "languished" a bit in the middle. Harry's not a fan of the arrangement, and says the performance was a bit too choreographed, and he and Jennifer both basically tell Jena to ignore the Idol producers' advice, which is amazing.
Song: "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" by Georgia Satellites
The performance: This one is a little rough. Dexter starts off out of sync with the band, and has a tough time recovering. His vocals feel rushed for the remainder of the song, and the whole thing feels a bit phoned-in, to be quite honest. Definitely one of his weaker performances to date.
What the judges say: J.Lo says the performance was "perfect," and Harry says that Dexter's performance from last week was so good that he "bought himself" a free week. (What?) Keith says the intro felt a little awkward and encourages Dexter to improvise a little in the middle of the performance, i.e. kick a mic stand. Harry demonstrates.
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First duet of the night: Sam and Alex
Song: "The Girl Is Mine" by Michael Jackson feat. Paul McCartney
The performance: Ugh, duets. At least these two sound fairly pleasant together. Their call-and-response portion at the end is enjoyable, but other than that, the song basically flatlines.
What the judges say: Harry asks Sam how he feels after getting saved this week, and Sam responds that he's been working on connecting with the audience. J.Lo and Keith say they can notice his improvement, but we can't.
Song: "Through the Fire" by Chaka Khan
The performance: Malaya nails most of the big notes in this song (and screeches on the others), but the performance mostly just leaves us scratching our heads. It doesn't seem like she's connecting with the words beyond just reciting them from memory. Let's also remember that Malaya is only 16, and the intensity of this song might be a bit beyond her years.
What the judges say: Keith compliments Malaya's vocals but coaches her to "lay back into" the song a bit more. Jennifer and Harry agree, with Harry adding that it seemed like Malaya was just working up to the Big Note throughout the entire performance.
Second duet: Caleb and Jena
Song: "It's Only Love" by Bryan Adams
The performance: Finally! A duet where the participants not only look like they're having fun, but one that sounds pretty damn good to boot.
What the judges say: Not much, because Harry derails the performance by watching it from the audience and putting a young girl on his shoulders. (Side note: Ryan Seacrest looks so concerned about this, does he not? The girl looks a little frightened as well.)
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Song: "Call Me" by Blondie
The performance: Jessica looks super uncomfortable without her guitar, but does her best to settle into the performance. Her vocals are great, but would pack more of a punch if she was a little looser on the stage and put a little more passion into the performance.
What the judges say: Harry tells Jessica to "feel the groove" and "sing the shuffle." Hopefully she knows what he means, because we don't! Keith says he's waiting for Jess to "release completely" into her performances. J.Lo suggests that she put a little more attitude and sex appeal into the song.
Sam Woolf
Song: "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper
The performance:Idol continues to hammer square-peg Sam into the "Ladies Man" hole by surrounding him with a group of starry-eyed girls. (Many of them look to be about 12, and this is awkward.) His folksy arrangement of "Time After Time" is fine, but might've worked better on a piano or just as a straightforward cover. There's still nothing exciting about Sam, unfortunately.
What the judges say: Keith loves the arrangement but says Sam still needs to loosen up. Jennifer loves his voice and notes that he's trying, and Harry says Sam should be looking at the girls around him rather than the camera. Oy, this is painful.
Third duet: Malaya and C.J.
Song: "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" by Aretha Franklin and George Michael
The performance: "You know who we should put together for a duet? The two contestants who have most consistently struggled with pitch and tone throughout the competition." The less said about this, the better.
What the judges say: Harry calls the performance "more regional theater" than anything, but Jennifer says Malaya and C.J. were at least cute together.
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Song: "Every Breath You Take" by The Police
The performance: Alex's strings-and-plucked-guitar arrangement is a little too treacly for us, but the vocals are great and transform the somewhat stalker-ish song into a wistful ode to a lost love. He'll earn points for originality, and again, there was nothing wrong with the vocals.
What the judges say: Harry loves that Alex made it sound like his own song, but notes that Alex needs to be an entertainer rather than just a performer. Keith agrees that Alex needs to move past the coffeehouse schtick. J.Lo is the dissenting vote, saying that Alex's arrangement "lost the soul of the song."
Fourth duet: Dexter and Jessica
Song: "Islands in the Stream" by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
The performance: The lack of chemistry between these two is almost comical, and totally distracts from the vocals. Dexter is at least trying, but Jessica looks like she'd rather be anywhere else than on that stage with him, and almost visibly recoils when he touches her elbow at one point. Also, she should sue whoever put her in that dress.
What the judges say: Nothing. Harry and Keith leave Jennifer at the table to go sit among the audience members.
[Ed. Note: Keith and Harry's impromptu rendition of "Like a Virgin" at this point in the broadcast is the best performance of the night.]
Song: "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty
The performance: We'll choose to focus on C.J.'s pretty jacket to take our mind (and ears) off of this extremely, um, rough rendition of the Tom Petty classic. Let's just say Jerry Maguire did a better version in his car.
What the judges say: Jennifer says it "started off shaky" but got better by the end. Harry agrees, but gives C.J. another lesson in pitch and intonation. (Seriously, how long can this routine continue?) Keith loves the originality of the soft arrangement and compliments C.J.'s "survivor tone."
Song: "Faithfully" by Journey
The performance: Automatic points because this is not "Don't Stop Believin'." More points for Caleb listening to Harry's advice and doing something softer (but still with a little bit of an edge) this week. He has a few intonation problems, likely because he's out of his element, but this is definitely one of the better performances of the night.
What the judges say: Harry thanks Caleb for showing off his softer side, and Keith (who was holding up a lighter via his iPhone) also loves the performance. J.Lo says it was "amazing" even though Caleb was visibly "out of his element."
What did you think? What were your favorite performances of the night? Which '80s hits are stuck in your head now? And who do you think will be going home on Thursday? Sound off in the comments!
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Promised Land
Matt Damon must love Frank Capra. In "Promised Land," which he wrote and planned to direct (before handing the reigns to Gus Van Sant,) his character's name may as well be Jimmy Stewart. As written, he plays Steve Butler: a common everyman (he's set up as a former farmboy, for God's sake,) traveling from county-to-county on duty to his corporate overlords. While he professes his belief in the benefits of fracking to gymnasiums full of townies, Van Sant frames him in front of an American flag. It's that type of movie.
Fracking - hydraulic fracturing - is a process used to extract oil from the ground; the environmental negatives of which are becoming a major political talking point. But, at least for a while, you'd be tricked into thinking Damon, Van Sant, and co-writer/co-star John Krasinski had actually transcended the message movie; had actually avoided making a "political-controversy-of-the-week" picture. "Land" appears to be less about fracking than about small county culture; prodding Damon through a comedy-of-manners where he tries to find the 'right' kind of low-class-looking trapper-hat, and constantly re-uses intro lines and sales pitches to increasing cynical effect.
This is Americana filmmaking; the type of vaguely romantic, somewhat-cynical-but-only-in-subtext entertainment that Old School Hollywood used to thrive off. For the first hour, and the last ten minutes, it proceeds exactly like that. But a third act twist involving Krasinski's anti-fracking character, named Dustin Noble - I told you it was that type of movie - betrays everything that comes before it. Damon and Krasinski DO have a message they want you to hear, and their picture stops dead in its tracks so the characters can stare into the camera and, in lieu of a climactic moment, deliver them as soliloquies.
Luckily, the film still has Gus Van Sant going for it. Van Sant has had one of the weirdest careers in recent memory; pinballing back and forth from magic realism ("Drugstore Cowboy" is still one of my favorite films ever made), to Oscar-bait swill ("Good Will Hunting" is one thing, "Finding Forrester" is another entirely); from middlebrow melodrama ("Restless", really?) to art-house experimentation (I just recently saw "Gerry" for the first time, and well, holy shit!)
But here, he's just a helmer-for-hire. He shoots the hell out of every scene - an action as miniscule as driving down the street becomes a visual feast; Damon's car cutting across otherwise uninhibited roads becomes his de-facto signifier of "progress". But he can't save the film from its own script. Sure, he can make the played-out romance that develops between Damon and Rosemarie Dewitt not only believable, but also sexy. And yes, he can turn an environmental activist named Dustin Noble - a guy who wears backward baseball caps and does karaoke to Springsteen in his spare time - from a screenwriter's clich� into a real person.
But he can't save the film from its own raison d'etre; the third-act twist that turns a low-key inquiry into townie culture into a self-important lecture on capitalism. And so for the second Christmas in a row (hello, "We Bought a Zoo"), I'm left asking myself: how much pandering crap am I willing to sit through in order to enjoy yet another magnificent Matt Damon performance? He's obviously on another level from the rest of the picture. It's just a damn shame that he's responsible for the rest of the picture himself. Matt Damon the writer isn't nearly as good as Matt Damon the actor.
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Certified Genealogists represent those whose work has been judged to meet the stringent BCG Standards. Among the CGs active today are the best and brightest genealogists nationwide. A look at the online roster on the website of the Board for the Certification of Genealogists is like reading a "who's who" of genealogy.
Certified Genealogists are many things to many people.
But the short answer to that question, as you will see in my new profile, is that, as of 9 July 2011, I am now a Certified Genealogist! It was a long, two-year process (I needed an extension just to be sure I had my portfolio ready!), but the results finally came in!
If you would like to cite this post: Michael Hait, "What is a Certified Genealogist(sm)?," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 11 Jul 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]).