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Since early in the 19th century, railroads have been a symbol of expansion and economic growth. Americans were able to travel between major cities in a fraction of time compared to other conventional methods at the time. Railroads were a key military tool during the Civil War and certainly contributed to the rise of industrial America thereafter. Fast forward to 2013 and railroads may not have the same appeal as they did back then, but as far as commuter transportation, they are still a symbol of economic growth and even have growth potential. However, while you could buy directly into the major operators for exposure, such as CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) or Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), there is a pick that is emerging growth and could post major gains over the next several years.
I am referring to American Railcar Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARII). According to Finviz.com, the company, "designs, manufactures, and sells hopper and tank railcars in North America. Its manufacturing operations segment manufactures general service and specialty hopper railcars that are used to transport, load, and unload grains, cement, plastic pallets, and bulk products. It also transports heavy ore mineral loads and uses non-pressure and pressure tank railcars to handle various commodities including: petroleum products, ethanol, asphalt, vegetable oil, corn syrup, chlorine, anhydrous ammonia, liquid propane, and butane". The skinny is that American Railcar makes a variety of different kinds of railcars for major operators and governments.
Turning to the fundamentals, the company has a market cap of $909.17 million and is currently ranked a "hold" by analysts. Price to earnings is at 10.46, while forward price to earnings comes in at 10.03. Price earnings growth measures up at an undervalued .70, price to sales is at 1.19, price to book is at 2.19, and price to cash is at 7.91. The company has a total debt to equity of .47 and cash per share of 5.39, giving it a solid current ratio of 2.5. Earnings are expected to rise 28 percent this year, 9 percent next year, and 15 percent over the next five years. American Railcar pays a 2.35 percent annual dividend. Margins are quite decent with a gross margin of 23.2 percent, operating margin is at 19.4 percent, and profit margin of 11.4 percent.
Overall, the success of American Railcar depends on the continued recovery of the United States economy. As the economy grows, railroad majors will face increasing demand and will continue upgrading their fleet, at least in theory. To be sure, this is a long-term investment and is no means likely to turn major gains overnight. Another downside in the short-term for railroads is the falling price of oil. As oil becomes cheaper to ship, shippers will likely turn to oil based transportation. However, when oil rises, railroads see an uptick in business. In the end, I see American Railcar as a long-term winner.Back To Emerging Growth's Instablog HomePage »
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Written on the Dock of the Bay: Saturday, November 19
If your kid comes up to you on Thanksgiving and asks you, "What should I be thankful for? I can't think of anything!" you should say to that child, "Boy (or girl), do I have the book for you!" (especially if you are a character in a commercial). In the book I See Kindness Everywhere, by Lafayette mom Shelley Frost, a little girl says, "When I put on my socks, I see the kindness of people who cut and sewed the material. Thank you, sock makers!" I don't want to ruin the ending, but there's a spiderweb. Hint: Webs of kindness. (Whoops.)
You can usually tell if someone reads a lot of books based on the way they look. Right? Right. Or by the way they smell. Sometimes men sniff me, and then say, "You've been to the library, haven't you?" But the secret is: no, I haven't. There's just a perfume that smells like a library, like dusty old, books. No joke. Check this out.
Saturday, November 19
Author reading // Free. Moroccan. Food. Okay, maybe it's more like "some food and drink samples" than an entire Thanksgiving; but food is food. And you can get some eats by coming to the release of the cookbook Mourad: New Moroccan by head chef at Aziza, Mourad Lahlou. It should be "good stuff" defined, considering that Aziza has been ranked by San Francisco Chronicle "by far the best Moroccan restaurant." Reportedly, Lahlou takes Moroccan classics, like bisteeya , couscous, and preserved lemons, to whole new places – places preserved lemons have never been to before. // DETAILS: Saturday, November 19, 1pm. Green Apple Books. 506 Clement Street, San Francisco
Sunday, November 20
Reading series // At the Previously Secret Information storytelling series, you'll laugh, then cry, then produce a hybrid augh-cry, then sob and chuckle, then get out your thesaurus for other ways to say "laugh" and "cry", then cry again. Basically, the stories you'll hear will be so sad that they're funny. (Basically) all comedians are (basically) depressed … right? Hear Paul Myers tell "Ringo, Django, and My Dad." Rachel McDowell frightens with "Panic in Paranormal Placerville." Rachel Swan confesses "I'm a Closet Heterosexual." Series co-producer Joe Klocek delivers "To Love and Lose in L.A." // DETAILS: Sunday, November 20, 7pm. Stage Werx Theatre. 533 Sutter, San Francisco
Monday, November 21
Author reading // Oh! Emily Dickinson. Good to see you. Eleanor Roosevelt? What are you doing here, in my vision? Abe! Elvis! I had no idea you two were friends. In Annie Leibovitz's book of photographs, Pilgrimage, you can move through time and see the whole gang, the gang otherwise known as the gang of important people in history, as well as other parts of America, through a universe created by photographs // DETAILS: Monday, November 21, 7pm. Diesel Bookstore. 5433 College Ave, Oakland
Tuesday, November 22
Author reading // Remember Jonestown? Where more than 900 members of the People's Temple of Jonestown committed suicide drinking, or injecting with, a cyanide-laced fruit drink? Laura Johnston Kohl remembers. She says, "Survivors were talked about as brainless, and sheep led to the slaughter. I want people to know that those of us who made the commitment, made the commitment because we wanted the world different – we wanted it better." To make that point clear, she wrote Jonestown Survivor. // DETAILS: Tuesday, November 22, 7pm. Books Inc. Opera Plaza. 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Book reading // In the 1960s, scientists were experimenting to find a way to combine the best works of Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. They couldn't figure OUT how to do it. So they went home, took a nap, woke up in 2011, and, suddenly, one of the scientists knew: they could print out all these stories and staple them together. And they've done it in Four Novels of the 1960s. Philip K. Dick might not be able to attend the reading for this book at Moe's, but little Philip K. Dicks (meaning his children) will be there to read the work of their father. // DETAILS: Tuesday, November 22, 7:30pm. Moe's Books. 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley
How I learned to stop worrying and love the 880 freeway
The Bay Area's first real freeway was the 880. Completed in 1957, it connects the Port of Oakland with San Jose. Today it's a major trucking route, and the most direct way to get to the Oakland Airport, or to a Raiders game.
But those things aren't what set it apart from other freeways. Of all the Bay Area's roads, the 880 — also called the Nimitz freeway — is arguably the one that gets the most people the most worked up.
AAA once named the "Nasty Nimitz" the "rudest road" in the Bay Area. And as far as we can tell, it's the only highway with Yelp reviews, which say things like, "880 is like the backwards bigotted (sic) relative in the family that everyone is ashamed of." And, "Dammit 880, why can't you be nicer and more manicured like your East Bay cousins 80 and 580? And, "There is a stretch around Downtown Oakland that is sooo freakin' bumpy it's like ridin' in a horse-drawn buggy down the Oregon Trail. You have died from dysentery."
Why so much distaste for one stretch of pavement? Julie Caine set out to learn the real story of one of Oakland's most maligned roads.
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JULIE CAINE: Start driving on any freeway in the Central Bay Area, and you'll soon find yourself in a maze of 80s: the 280, the 380, the 580, the 680, the 980, the plain old 80. And then … there's the 880.
CECILLE ISIDRO: It feels like Frogger. You know?
RON LIGHT: I'm scared to death. I feel hemmed in.
ROSALINDA MONTEZ PALACIOS: Everybody is literally locked in like a puzzle.
LIGHT: It feels like there's a big rig always on either side of you.
PALACIOS: Because they don't want to slow down for you to let you in to that lane or whatever you want to get into.
WHITFIELD MCTAIR: That lane, for the past five years as always been, just like, ba doom ba doom ba doom.
ISIDRO: Avoid the pothole here, don't hit the semi, stay in your lane, you know, exit 200 feet!
Cecille Isidro, Ron Light, Rosalinda Montez Palacios, and Whitfield McTair are four of the 220,000 people who drive the 880 every day. And they all agree that there's something uniquely terrible about it – some perfect storm of traffic and design that doesn't affect any other freeway. Here are a few things you should know about the road.
It's the only freeway route between Oakland and San Jose that semi trucks can use. Part of it collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and since then, seismic retrofitting and construction have been pretty much ongoing. Which brings us back to Cecille Isidro.
ISIDRO: I mean, like, I don't want to blame the shortcomings of my personal life on a stretch of freeway.
She lives in Alameda and works in Oakland's Fruitvale district, about a mile away. She used to live in San Francisco. She moved to avoid the 880.
ISIDRO: My relationship with the 880 has reached that point where it's like, you know, why I stayed home that night? Because I didn't want to get on the 880.
The idea of the 880 as a freeway you have a personal relationship with – for better or for worse – came up a lot in my interviews. A truck driver named Gary Fawcett described it as…
GARY FAWCETT: That hairy, smelly uncle with the stinky cigars.
The consensus opinion got me wondering – how did the 880 get to be the way it is? And could anything change it for the better? Fawcett might not believe this, but there's actually somebody who's job it is to groom that hairy, smelly uncle. His name is Scott McCrank, and he manages traffic and construction on the 880 for Caltrans.
SCOTT MCCRANK: They had this position created so I can help manage the mess, let's say.
As we talk, McCrank is taking me on a tour of the section of 880 between downtown Oakland and Hayward. Right now, there are seven different construction projects on this 15-mile stretch. Hence the bumpy roads, the short merges, the unmarked lanes, the lack of shoulders, and all those white knuckle rides.
I ask McCrank to explain some of what drivers experience when they travel on the road. I thought about it the way I'd consider a family member. Maybe if we knew more about what's behind the dysfunction, we could learn to love the 880.
First question: when we drive past downtown Oakland, what are those little ridges in some of the lanes that make the ride so turbulent?
MCCRANK: That's because we have replaced the concrete panels, but we haven't done the grinding yet. There's a little bit of undulation, so sometimes when you're driving it, you feel like it's, kind of, not really like a roller coaster, but it kind of goes up and down a little bit. Your steering kind of bumps up and down.
We keep driving, crossing over 5th Avenue. I notice that the lanes really do feel especially narrow. Are they?
MCCRANK: A typical lane would be 12-feet wide. But when you're driving in a construction zone, and we don't have all the usable width just yet, we do narrow the lanes down to 11-foot lanes. And so you'll notice it. It may not seem like much, but it's a foot across all the lanes.
Is that safe?
MCCRANK: To do some of the work that we need to do, with keeping full lanes open, we'd probably have to reduce the amount of lanes. So instead of having four lanes, we'd have to eliminate one all together and we'd probably be causing a huge backup. So it's kind of one of the trade-offs that you have.
But there's not even a shoulder in some places. What if you break down or if there's an accident?
MCCRANK: If you're stuck in an area where there's no shoulder, just get as far to the right as you can, turn your flashers on and stay inside the vehicle is the best advice we have.
In case you're wondering, the lanes aren't going to be shoulder-less forever. There are places where they've built one in. But in other spots, there's only so far they can go.
MCCRANK: The brick building, it's probably, it's our choke point, essentially. There's not enough room to get any extra lanes through there.
The brick building he's referring to is one of several near the 23rd Avenue exit. They mark the spot where freeway construction cut directly through the middle of the now defunct California Cotton Mills, back in the 1950s. It's a historic site – so, the 880's probably not getting any wider.
Now that I'd learned so much about the 880, I wanted to experience it on its own terms.
CAINE: I'm just getting on the 880. It's rush hour, and it's raining. And I wanted to get on the road and just see if I could make my peace with it. I was thinking about the 880 as this, you know, crotchety old uncle that you're going to have to sit down with at the Thanksgiving table, whether you like it or not. And, how do you reconcile with that?
You know, the 880 is a feature of our lives, and it kind of makes us who we are. Sort of like those family members who, you know, you just have to learn to love 'em. I guess the thing I have to say is 880, where would I be without you?
Somewhere between downtown Oakland and the Coliseum, dodging semis, I'm Julie Caine for Crosscurrents.…
Reporter Charles Piller talks possible structural flaws on the new Bay Bridge
Earlier this week, two Caltrans workers were fired for allegedly falsifying test results on various projects around the state, and neglecting proper testing procedures of the new span on the Bay Bridge. The news comes from an investigative report published Sunday in the Sacramento Bee. The two Caltrans employees – a technician and his supervisor – were fired that same day, even though Caltrans knew about the falsified test results back in 2008. Caltrans acting director Malcolm Dougherty said in a press conference that the problems stemmed from an isolated incident with one employee, and that all the structures in question are safe. Tony Anziano, the toll bridge program manager for Caltrans, said that the agency has no concerns about the safety or quality of construction of the new span.
TONY ANZIANO: There has been absolutely no evidence of any kind of falsification of any testing data on the Bay Bridge project. We remain extremely confident about the safety of the tower foundation piles for the Bay Bridge.
So CalTrans says the tower foundations are safe. Nonetheless, the California Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, which includes Caltrans, the California Transportation Commission, and the Bay Area Toll Authority, have called for a review by the state Seismic Safety Peer Review Panel of all the aspects of the bridge that were tested by the fired technician. Actual re-testing of the bridge foundation, however, is "virtually impossible" according to the Bee's investigation. Charles Piller is the Sacramento Bee reporter who led the investigation. KALW's Julie Caine called him up to talk about his findings.
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CHARLES PILLER: Well what happened was that for a period of years there were irregularities in the branch of Caltrans that passed the foundations for freeway structures. These are the deep concrete and steel foundations for bridges, overpasses, and elevated roadways, among other freeway structures. And, the individual who we wrote about in the story, Duane Wiles, who was a technician who was involved in testing some of these structures, dozens of them across the state, and Caltrans knew, in 2008, that he had falsified some of these structures. The story unfolds from the detection of falsification of data on a single structure —a freeway overpass in Riverside, (Southern California). What came out of that was a very cursory, short and incomplete examination of Wiles' record of testing.
And, soon after, it was found that he had falsified at least two other structures. The implications of falsified tests of course, are at the very least, uncertainty about the public safety of the structures in question. Because no through investigation has been done on the extent of fabricated data by Duane Wiles, its difficult to say how many structures might be involved, that's a first step. Caltrans has repeatedly said that they have made a thorough investigation of Duane Wiles work and have certified the structures he worked on as safe for the traveling public. This is contradicted directly by their own documents that I am in possession of. Contradicted in a multitude of ways.
JULIE CAINE: Can you talk about implications as they relate to the new structure of the Bay Bridge?
PILLER: Yes. We do not have evidence that data was falsified on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. We do have evidence that DUayne Wiles used improper testing techniques, associated with all of his work on that bridge and all of his work actually, for nearly every structure he tested for a period of two years.
The implications of that improper testing technique are somewhat uncertain. It depends on other factors. Caltrans has dismissed concerns about improper technique as irrelevant. Unfortunately their own test method, the test method that they require their engineers and their technicians to use, requires certain elements of technique that Duane Wiles routinely violated. So, there's a degree of uncertainty about the testing process itself. Now, does this mean that the bridge is vulnerable to collapsing or to serious damage during an earthquake? No one is suggesting that. All the engineers I've talked with are suggesting is that this was not well-thought through. The testing was not well-thought through, the design of these piles contradicts the standard testing methods that would normally be used for these structures and consequently, it has raised questions about whether a team of qualified experts should get a close look at these structures and try to determine whether there's anything in there that can help understand whether there's vulnerabilities that were previously undetected.
CAINE: And is that possible to do?
PILLER: What can be done is a reassessment based on new assumptions. Assumptions that certain mistakes were made. Certain flaws are present that are perhaps undetectable but still present. And a calculation can be made about the stability of the structure even under a worse case scenario of substantially flawed foundations that have not been detected as of yet. And it's a calculation that I think Caltrans has already said it would get a look at but they're being a little bit ambiguous about their comments about this. But they claim that they're going to put out the test findings to peer review to try to examine whether there's any cause for concern.
CAINE: Would you drive across the new Bay Bridge?
PILLER: I live in Oakland and this story is very important to me and I have to say that it was very disheartening for me to even have to write it because of the public safety and economic implications for California. I think for me, I would certainly like to see a through evaluation of the bridge by experts and some bridge consultants and experts that I've spoken with have suggested that. Fortunately for all of us, no one is going to be driving across that bridge until 2013 when it's completed. That's plenty of time to do the kind of re-evaluation that's been proposed and, I'm very hopeful that if that re-evaluation shows favorable information the public will be able to be reassured and myself among them.
You can read Charles Piller's original investigation, and find links to subsequent updates, at the Sacramento Bee.
Perspectives: What Occupy Oakland demonstrators are saying
"The attack on Tuesday, October 25,… …
Connecting the dots: top news stories for Wednesday, November 16
As many as 10,000 protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza last night for the Occupy UC Berkeley General Assembly. Despite clear warnings from school officials that setting up an encampment would violate university policy, dozens of tents were pitched…
A man who was arrested during OPD'S Monday night raid of Oakland's encampment may be deported. It is uncertain whether the police will turn Francisco "Pancho" Ramos Stierle over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
In San Pablo, the Doctors Medical Center will remain open after voters approved an increase in taxes. Its closure would have left no full-service emergency rooms between Berkeley and Vallejo…
According to AARP, more than 7,000 Americans qualify for Medicare every day. Still, some say that training to care for seniors isn't a priority in medical education. Oakland's Samuel Merritt School of Nursing addresses that through a senior performance troupe…
Across the Bay, the San Francisco 49ers are enjoying their best season in years. Meanwhile, Santa Clara's City Council approved a $10 million project to prepare the site of a new 49ers football stadium. The first game in Santa Clara is slated for 2015…
The Bay Area may be losing more than just a longstanding sports franchise – we might lose an entire sport. After 70 years, Golden Gate Fields horse racing track may close, leaving no year-round tracks north of Bakersfield. Instead, a new Lawrence Berkeley Lab may take its place.
Connecting the dots brings together the day's news.
Connecting the dots: top news stories for Tuesday, November 15
After record low turn-out for a competitive mayor's race in San Francisco, some critics are calling for the end of ranked-choice voting, labeling it a "failed experiment." They claim the system only exacerbates the problems it was meant to fix, including campaign finance issues, negative campaigning, and voter turnout…
San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who was just elected sheriff in a ranked-choice race, has proposed legislation that would require San Francisco shoppers to pay a 10-cent fee for each bag provided by a store at checkout. The legislation would also extend the current ban on plastic bags at grocery and drug stores to encompass all retail stores…
Another official elected by ranked-choice voting, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is dealing with yesterday's resignation of two top staff members. Dan Siegel, her chief legal adviser and longtime friend, sharply criticized her handling of the latest Occupy Oakland Raid. Co-deputy mayor Sharon Cornu, meanwhile, left more quietly. She praised the mayor's handling of the Occupy Oakland situation, and was not specific regarding the cause of her resignation…
In other Occupy news, Santa Rosa city officials are planning to issue a limited number of camping permits to some members of the Occupy Santa Rosa encampment outside City Hall. There are currently over 100 tents, but the city is planning to issue only 57 permits, meaning the others could still face possible eviction…
In contrast to Santa Rosa's quietly supportive relationship with protesters, the UC Board of Regents canceled their bimonthly meeting that was to take place this week in San Francisco, after receiving "credible intelligence" about possibly violent protests. Meanwhile, trustees of California State University are proceeding with their own meetings today and tomorrow, but adding more security. Both systems are facing criticism for more tuition hikes and layoffs in the face of continuing budget woes…
Budget issues are also underlying continued opposition to California's high-speed rail project. The Palo Alto City Council has tasked their Rail Committee to draft a letter to the state legislature opposing the now-$99 billion project. Kings County in the Central Valley has already filed suit to stop construction on the line, slated to begin next year…
And in other transportation-related news, San Francisco cyclist Raymond Ang will be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the death of an elderly pedestrian. Ang collided with the woman after he ran a red light on his bicycle in July. While the case has drawn a lot of attention, both bike and pedestrian advocates point out that cars still remain the biggest danger to pedestrians on the street.
Connecting the dots brings together the day's best news.
Crosscurrents: November 14, 2011
Battles with urban wildlife
You don't have to be outside for long to realize that here in the Bay Area, we are surrounded by wildlife. Long before houses and roads and cities popped up, wild animals reigned supreme. As we negotiate our relationship to the remaining members of that wildlife, there's bound to be some tension.
One particularly sneaky animal is on the prowl in almost every neighborhood – digging up garden beds, living in attics, scavenging through garbage…
They're raccoons, one of the most common urban animals in America. But just because they're everywhere doesn't mean our relationships with them are peaceful. KALW's Hadley Robinson has more.
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HADLEY ROBINSON: If you've ever walked through a campground at night, you might have had this experience: You shine a flashlight into the woods and see glowing, beady eyes staring back at you.
Haven't had that happen while camping? You don't need to go far. Shine your lights in a sewer drain in the Bay Area, and you'll likely catch a glimpse of those same flashing eyes.
Though raccoons are common in cities, people's opinions of them vary wildly. "Annoying" is how Dan Ryan describes the 10-20 pound nocturnal creatures. He's been battling them for years in his Oakland home. First, he found a family living in his walls.
DAN RYAN: You get in your head that this thing is out there and you get sorta paranoid about it, and you start feeling like it's me against the raccoons and they're out to get me. And you start cooking up little solutions, whether it's calling the exterminator guys or buying the electric fence or secretly designing weapons in your head.
Ryan and the wildlife removal company tried everything they could think of to evict the raccoons from the attic from patching holes in the roof, various chemical repellents, even spraying with coyote urine.
RYAN: I found I get kind of medieval because it's you versus the dark forces. Of course because they're masked and it's at night, it helps that imagery.
Ryan ended up with a raccoon-free attic. But then his backyard grapes started to go. So he called the same wildlife removal company to trap and remove the animals. The removal team came, set up a cage, and baited it with Fig Newtons. After first catching a baby skunk by accident, they snared a raccoon.
RYAN: Great, they come and get the raccoon and they leave the cage out just in case there's another one. And we catch another raccoon, and the next day we catch another raccoon, and this went on to the point where we caught, I think in the end, 10 or 12 raccoons and spent tons of money disposing of them all.
Since there are limits on where captured raccoons can be released, the animals from Ryan's yard were all euthanized. But his raccoon problems aren't over.
This year, grape splotches are all over the ground again. So Ryan has a new plan: He's installed a small electric fence around his grapevines.
RYAN: They went from being cute to being annoying and then there was a period where it was a pretty visceral. There were times I'd say, "I'm going to go and get a spear and attack them." Of course I wasn't going to but I wanted to find something to get my edge over them because they clearly had gotten the edge over me.
Dan Ryan is the type of person Jamie Ray likes to talk to. Ray lives in San Francisco, and she's the person Animal Control will refer you to if you're having problems with animals in your house or yard. She was the one who described raccoons as playful and curious.
JAMIE RAY: Pretty much all the calls have to do with seasonal behaviors, things that are just natural behaviors for wildlife. People take it personally and think that their intentionally trying to bother them but they're not.
Ray thinks raccoons deserve to live among us. And she's not just saying that. She's the only person in San Francisco with a permit to rehabilitate orphaned or injured mammals. There's no wildlife hospital.
RAY: We have 100 clinics for cats and dogs and domestic animals and no place for native animals if they need it.
So the place has become Ray's outer Richmond home. She rehabilitates the injured ones, and the orphaned ones go in foster homes, where people are trained to take care of them.
I asked her what she has right now.
RAY: A little raccoon who was hit by a car, a skunk with his foot snapped in a rat trap… What else do we got? Opossum with eye infection, another one with an injury.
We rehabilitate them for release back to the wild and we have a pretty good success rate with rehabilitating and releasing them back and giving them a chance to live…
ROBINSON: And when you say wild, you mean, back to where you found them?
RAY: Yes, back to their natural environment.
Ray says that raccoons are very afraid of humans and don't like to get close. But San Francisco resident Tegwyn Lewis-Pine has to disagree. She recently got extremely close to one while walking her dog at the Palace of Fine Arts.
TEGWYN LEWIS-PINE: As we were walking we saw this raccoon sorta standing there and my immediate thought was, "Okay, I gotta scare the raccoon." So I ran towards it and as I ran towards it, and it just got up on his hind legs and sorta just stared at me. And so I was like, "Oh my god."
Lewis-Pine was unsettled. In all her past experiences with raccoons, they'd run away when frightened. Her dog Athena started sniffing around where the raccoon had appeared.
LEWIS-PINE: The raccoon came out in full-fledged attack mode, growling and hissing. As soon as I saw it attacking Athena, and on her nose, I started kicking at it, to try to get it to go away. So I kicked it and kicked it and kicked it.
She started tugging on Athena's leash, trying to get out of there.
LEWIS-PINE: As I was pulling her away and as I was kicking I fell backwards in the process and then as I was on the ground and kicking, at some point in that scuffle the raccoon came over and scratched and bit my inner thigh.
She says the rest is hard to remember, but at some point she and her dog ran away and went to their respective emergency rooms for rabies shots. Reginald Barrett, a Professor of Wildlife Management at UC Berkeley, says that was probably a wise move.
REGINALD BARRETT: I think it's not such a good thing to have wild animals habituated. The closer the contact humans have with wild animals, the more chance you have of getting diseases, getting bitten. Even squirrels will bite. Wild animals are wild.
Barrett had a few ideas for how to minimize contact.
BARRETT: I think if you don't want raccoons around, it helps to harass them a bit. They have to learn they're not wanted.
But that was before I told him Lewis-Pine's story.
BARRETT: That seems pretty abnormal to me. I worry about the rabies thing. Rabies is still around; it's with us. If you have wild animals that are charging you or chasing you or trying to bit you, that's really bad.
We'll never know what got into that raccoon. There is some chance it could have been rabid, or maybe like the squirrels or pigeons who get too close for comfort in urban areas, they're just used to us. Lewis-Pine, for her part, is done trying to scare them out of her way.
LEWIS-PINE: I certainly have an increased respect for raccoons and also just all wildlife – a renewed sense of "live and let live," and they're not really involved in what I'm doing, that I'm going to even more stay away.
And if you're out walking late at night, you might want to keep an eye on those sewer drains.
For Crosscurrents, I'm Hadley Robinson.
Hadley Robinson is a reporter with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. If you've had a run-in with urban wildlife, you can tell us your story at 415-264-7106.


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Local boy scout Kameron Nab presented his proposed Eagle Scout project to the Carroll County Fiscal Court Sept. 13. He plans to place benches at the county park playground near the baseball fields and batting cages, as well as picnic tables under the oak trees by the walking track. Nab asked fiscal court to purchase three benches for the project, which fiscal court voted to do.
Nab and the Boy Scout troop will build the picnic tables, set the benches and spread the mulch.
The library is getting ready for the October Quilt show. If you have any old or new quilts you would like to share in the quilt show, please contact the library. Limit two per person.
Food for Fines! Pay off your fines with a donation to the Carroll County Food Pantry. Week four is mac and cheese and week five is jams and jellies.
New on Fridays 9:30-11 a.m., Babies & Books; drop in story and playtime for babies from birth to 18 months with their caregivers. Coffee and muffins for moms! For more information call (502) 732-7020.
VF Outlet will host its second annual Fashion Night Out from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.
Fashion Night Out will kick off with a Stock-Up & Save event, where the first 25 people through the doors will receive a limited edition bag. These lucky shoppers will receive 25 percent off all the merchandise they can fit into the Stock-Up & Save bag. The fun continues all day with an in-store DJ, games and prizes. There will be a fashion show at 2 p.m., followed by informal modeling to showcase new Fall arrivals.
The Carroll County Senior Center is located at 110 Sixth St., Carrollton, Frances Steurer, Center Manager, (502) 732-7026; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Breakfast is served 8:30 a.m. Monday and Wednesday, call to make a reservation, lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. each day, please call to make reservation to eat lunch the following day.
New York Fashion Week. It's an event even those who do not stay up to date on the latest trends have most likely heard of.
One of the four most famous fashion weeks in the world, New York Fashion Week is held in February and September in New York City and features models showing off the hottest designs from internationally acclaimed designers.
It's not something every eighth-grader can say they have done in their life, but Carrollton's Gabriella Hembree can now say she is one of the lucky few.
The Carroll County High School girls cross country team competed in the Grant County Invitational Sept. 3. Haley Dermon finished with a time of 24 minutes 22.2 seconds, followed by Sarah Marshall with a time of 25 minutes 35.8 seconds. Savanna Martinez, Lauren Cox and Abby Blankenship finished close together in the race. Martinez finished in 33 minutes 3.5 seconds, Cox finished in 33 minutes 33.1 seconds and Blankenship finished in 34 minutes 14.1 seconds.
Weather conditions during July were favorable for infections by a couple of fungi that are known to cause ear rots of corn. Diplodia ear rot has been observed in some corn fields in Kentucky this year, but Gibberella ear rot has yet to be seen. Let us learn a little more about both.
Ears affected by Diplodia may have a white mold growing on and/or between the rows of corn kernels. Ears affected within two weeks after silking may be completely "mummified," while in later infections, a light, cottony growth may be observed growing on the ear.
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You are hereActivism
Where to Protest Peacefully
January 19 - 21, 2006
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE in Washington, DC: The RNC will hold its
annual winter meeting. [ABCNews.com, 1/18/06]
Thursday, January 19, 2006
NEW* BUSH in Sterling, VA: President Bush will give a speech on the
Craig Murray to Receive Annual Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award
This coming weekend in New York at the Bush Crimes Commission, www.bushcommission.org , the annual Sam Adams Associates for Integrity In Intelligence Award will be presented to Craig Murray, the former United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan who publicly criticised the human rights situation there, and privately criticised the UK government for committing torture by proxy and "selling our souls for dross". Last year's recipient was Katharine Gun.
Conyers and Others To Hold Democratic Hearing On Domestic Spying Program
Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Michigan, 14th District, Ranking Member, U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Dean, Congressional Black Caucus
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressmen John Conyers, Jr., Bobby Scott and Chris Van Hollen and other Members to hold a Democratic Hearing to consider the legal ramifications of President Bush's warrantless surveillance.
Congressional Progressive Caucus
"62 Strong and Growing
Making Change/Creating Peace! - Event in Santa Cruz, Calif.
On Wednesday, February 15th, please join
at 7:30PM, at the Veterans Hall in Santa Cruz
speaking about:
Making Change/Creating Peace!
What Each of Us Can Do Today, Tomorrow, the Next Day, the Day After
Where to Protest Peacefully
Wednesday January 18, 2006
NEW* Washington, DC: U.S. Senate reconvenes at 10:00 AM.
[www.ABCNews.com, 1/18/06]
NEW* PRESIDENT BUSH in Washington, DC: President Bush will meet with
victims of Saddam Hussein's regime at 10:55 AM in the Roosevelt Room.
ISSUE: Nothing to hide (except everything they're hiding)
By RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK
Whether or not you have "nothing to hide" isn't the point. The thousands (perhaps millions) of Americans who were illegally spied on didn't have anything to hide http://tinyurl.com/8btut
International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration
305 West Broadway, #199, NY, NY 10013 212-941-8086 www.bushcommission.org
FRIDAY EVENING, January 20, 5:30 – 9 pm, Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue
The New Fascism
By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | www.truthout.org
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
NY Times' Nonresponses to FAIR Alert
On January 11, FAIR issued an action alert on the New York Times' decision to hold its explosive story on the NSA's secret wiretapping for over a year, and executive editor Bill Keller's refusal to answer questions about that decision. In the days that followed, FAIR activists called and emailed Keller's office, and several received responses from Keller and his assistant, Diane Ceribelli.
War's Stunning Price Tag
By Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz, Los Angeles Times
Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Economic Assn., we presented a new estimate for the likely cost of the war in Iraq. We suggested that the final bill will be much higher than previously reckoned — between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, depending primarily on how much longer our troops stay. Putting that into perspective, the highest-grossing movie of all time, "Titanic," earned $1.8 billion worldwide — about half the cost the U.S. incurs in Iraq every week.
Where to Protest Peacefully
Tuesday January 17, 2006
BUSH in Washington, DC: President Bush today meets with Belgian Prime
Minister Guy Verhofstadt at 9:10 am, and with the National Commander of
the American Legion at 9:55 am. [MSNBC.com, 1/17/06]
The following resolution is coming before the California Democratic Party Executive Board meeting on January 27-28.
WHEREAS, (1) the Downing Street Memos show that President George W.Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, CondoleezzaRice, and various others began planning and executing the illegal waragainst and occupation of Iraq months before seeking Congressional and UNapproval; (2) in furtherance of this planning, (a) intelligence wasshaped to fit these plans, (b) illegal bombing runs were made againstIraq and various other potentially illegal operations and actions weretaken with the express intent to provoke Saddam Hussein to take militaryaction and decline to cooperate with the UN and other internationalentities, and (c) false statements to the American people were made byBush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others with the apparent intent todeceive Congress and the American public in order to allow the BushAdminstration to carry out its plan for an unnecessary war; (3) as adirect result of the above actions, the U.S. and U.K. began an unapprovedwar of aggression against Iraq, killing thousands of American and Iraqimilitary forces, wounding tens of thousands more, and killing or woundingpotentially hundreds of thousands of civilians, women, children and otherinnocents; (4) that the U.S. has invested hundreds of billions of dollarsin this potentially illegal war, to the detriment of the national debt,all citizens of the U.S. and all government programs for which this moneymight otherwise have been appropriated, and to the benefit solely of themilitary contractors and supplier corporations who have been shown to beovercharging and otherwise cheating the people and the government of theU.S, and (5) these actions on the part of the Bush Administration fit thedefinition of high crimes and misdemeanors, and
Forum Planned in New Jersey
By Paul Surovell, chairperson, South Mountain Peace Action, a local affiliate of NJ Peace Action in Maplewood and South Orange, NJ.
SMPA is sponsoring a public forum on February 8th in Maplewood that will discuss the main withdrawal proposals in Congress, and some citizen group proposals, as well as the Administration's "National Strategy for Victory."
Powerful Protest in Temecula, Calif.
By Barbara Cummings
Jeeni Criscenzo, former Kucinich campaign worker, now a candidate for congress in the 49th district in California held another bringtheirbuddieshome vigil this Sunday in Temecula, Calif. It was a silent, respectful tribute to the troops. All who come dress in black, pin a profile of a soldier to the front of their clothing, and stand in silent respect.
Impeachment Activism Hits Bush Family Home Town
By Bill Crosier, Progressive Action Alliance, http://paa-tx.org
Monday, Houston activists distributed flyers at the local Martin
Luther King, Jr. parade. The flyer contrasts King's ideas with
Poets Against War
Poets Against War
It is three years since we began Poets Against War. It seems altogether
appropriate to note the occasion with three comments from Walt Whitman. It
was, after all, Whitman to whom I turned that cold January afternoon after
Bush on Trial in New York This Weekend
Is the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity? Even raising this question has been ruled out of order and out of bounds in the U.S. today, but on January 20-22 in NYC an unprecedented citizens Commission of Inquiry will ask -- and seek to answer -- exactly these questions and alter the terms of debate about this government.
Iraq: Blair's Big Lie Confirmed
By David Morrison, www.david-morrison.org.uk
A thirteen-page useful summary of the evidence that Blair (and Bush) lied about the war: PDF.
Demand that Republican Senate Leadership Let the Truth Out
President Bush has said over 100 times (documented below by Sentor Edward Kennedy) that Congress was shown the same pre-war intelligence he was. While we could take the President's word for that, Senator Kennedy thought he would just check to make sure. He submitted an amendment in December to an intelligence bill asking the White House to turn over to the Senate Intelligence Committee the President's daily briefings, beginning with the last term of the Clinton Administration and ending on first day of the war in Iraq in 2003. In response, an anonymous Republican Senator afraid of the truth, and afraid even to reveal his name, blocked the bill and is still blocking it. For the first time since 1978, the Senate recessed with this national security legislation left undone.
Email and phone these three members of the Republican leadership and demand that they have the hold taken off the bill:
One-Pager on Polls of American Public on Impeachment
From the Interfaith Network of Concern for the People of Iraq (INOC), and
Michael Ramos, Director of Social Justice Ministeries, Church Council of
Seattle - January, 2006.
Most national leaders would have us believe that our choices in Iraq are
Listen to Al Gore on Monday in DC
Get tickets to Al Gore's speech in DC on Monday, Jan 16th.
And bring these signs!
And if you can't get tickets, show up anyway, at 11:30 a.m. at Constitution Hall, 1776 D St NW.
And if you can't bring signs, we'll give you one!
Talking Impeachment
By David Swanson
Here are some events I'll be speaking at about war lies and impeachment:
Jan. 18, 2006, "Defining the Issues," with Marcus Raskin and John Conyers, taped at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
Democrats Buried Al Jazeera Memo, Guardian Buried Lead
Labour MPs leaked Bush's proposal to bomb al-Jazeera
By David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
Two Labour MPs have defied the Official Secrets Act by passing on the key contents of the British document revealing that President George Bush wanted to bomb the Arabic TV station, al-Jazeera.
Signs for Any Occasion
What event would you not want to take these to? Here are signs, letter size or poster size: "Impeach Bush & Cheney" on one side, and the ImpeachPAC Logo on the other.
Impeach Bush & Cheney large PDF
San Diego on the March
By Barbara Cummings
It was a sad day for me to see my friends so scared of what the right wingers might think of us. Today is the BRINGTHEIRBUDDIESHOME event in Temecula and I will report back on that. The articles on freepress.com have actually scared many into staying home. The police have assured protection but people are still scared.
LA Times Calls Majority of Americans "Weak Kneed"
Antiwar Protesters Jeer Pelosi at Town Hall Event
Top House Democrat rankles some when she declines to endorse the impeachment of Bush.
By Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 15, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — Swarmed by antiwar protesters, Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called the invasion of Iraq "a grotesque mistake" but rejected calls for President Bush's impeachment.
New York Martin Luther King Day Events
Sunday, January 15
4:45 p.m.
Riverside Church
Realizing the Dream: A Call to Conscience
in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Realizing the Dream — a coalition of civil rights and social justice organizations - is sponsoring this tribute from the same pulpit where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic speech "Beyond Vietnam


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- Two men seriously hurt in crash near Fruitland (9/21/16)3
- Perryville man arrested for alleged patronizing prostitution, harassment (9/23/16)6
- Video and evidence largely confirm trooper's claims in April traffic stop shooting (9/23/16)7
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On 75th anniversary, flood of '37 draws parallels to, questions about last year's high water
"You can drown downtown, when the water is high
It's been happening here, since I was a child
There ain't nothing you can do to stop it
Just hope for the best, and mop up the rest."
-- "Get Down, River," by the Bottle Rockets
With the gauge at Cairo, Ill., at 58 feet and rising, an officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made the decision -- prepare the levee near Birds Point for blasting.
A team of engineers, working against the manic pace of the rising waters, place 1,000 pounds of dynamite into holes that are spaced 350 feet apart. The charges are blown, creating a 70-foot gap that allows the river waters to rush through.
A time later, they open a second gap. More water gushes in. The crews repeat the process, inundating 130,000 acres of Southeast Missouri farmland.
The scene seems singular, but it describes two events that are separated by more than seven decades -- the only two instances when the federal government opted to intentionally breach the Birds Point-New Madrid levee.
Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the crest of the Ohio River at Cairo, the high-water mark for what has become known as the Great Flood of 1937. The water topped out at a protection level of 59.5 feet and slowly -- so slowly -- began to recede after the corps took action.
That record would stand for the Ohio River gauge at Cairo until May 3, 2011, when the corps again activated the floodway when the water reached 61.72 feet, a new benchmark.
Some data suggests that, between those two pivotal flood-fighting decisions, the weather has gone haywire -- at least locally -- causing floodwaters to rise more frequently than at any time in recorded history.
Besides last year's record crest, historic high-water marks have happened at the Cairo gauge in 1997 (fifth highest), 1995 (seventh), 2002 (eighth) and 1994 (10th).
In Cape Girardeau, the 1993 flood along the Mississippi River holds the top record crest at 48.49 feet, which caused $15 billion in damage, second costliest nationally only to Hurricane Katrina. That flood caused 50 deaths and displaced hundreds.
Also noteworthy is the fact that the top five crests in Cape Girardeau have all happened since 1993, with records being set in 2002, 2011, 1995 and twice in 1993.
At 46, Bob Holmes is too young to have been around in 1937 when the rain began to fall in buckets, starting with a three-week period in January. But Holmes, the U.S. Geological Survey's national flood hazard coordinator, remembers his grandparents talking at length about it.
While Holmes now works for the USGS in Rolla, Mo., he grew up in Harrisburg, Ill. Some of his fondest memories are of his grandparents sharing their stories.
Some of the doozies are about the flood of 1937. They lived through it. Harrisburg was flooded, he said, even though it was 30 miles from the Ohio River.
"People came and lived with them," he said. "They didn't have a choice. If you had a house above water, you had to take people in."
The 1937 flood caused $20 million in damage, which is more than $300 million in today's dollars. People were left homeless for miles. It displaced people for months and some forever. Tent cities went up. The cleanup and recovery lasted years.
Those stories nudged Holmes toward his profession as a hydrologist and one of the leading authorities on flooding and flood-control. He was one of the specialists who was feeding information to the corps last year in the days leading up to -- and after -- the floodway activation.
"Obviously there are parallels," Holmes said. "There was massive flooding on multiple fronts. The Missouri, Mississippi and the Ohio were all kicking in a lot of water in both of those floods."
But in the end, Holmes says, flooding is simply a natural phenomenon that is going to occur -- even if it is taking place more often.
Locally, at least, the occurrence of flooding has increased, according to gauge readings at Cairo and Cape Girardeau.
According to readings compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 21 of the top 40 historic crests for the Ohio River at Cairo have occurred since 2000. A similar story is true for the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, where 30 of the top 40 historic crests have taken place in the same period.
Charles Camillo, the historian for the Mississippi River Commission, says man is perhaps as much to blame as Mother Nature for the more frequent floods. He points out that levees and other flood-fighting measures have been constructed up and down both rivers.
"When you put levees on both sides of the river, it's going to cause the stages to go up," he said. "Without the levees, the crests would go down. But the river would be 18 miles wide."
The higher frequency of crests also has some wondering about the true meaning of a 100-year flood when flooding takes place every year or so. Holmes says he tries to avoid using the phrase "100-year flood" when talking to people because it is confusing.
What it really is, he said, is a 1 percent annual probability. In laymen's terms, Holmes said, a 100-year flood has a 1 in 100 chance of occurring in any one year.
And it's not all that precise, he said. Data used for making such predictions only goes back about 100 years, he said. If the record was longer, say 500 years or even 1,000, they could come a lot closer to making accurate predictions, he said.
As for the frequency of flooding, Holmes said, debate continues about global warming and climate change.
"Climate change is real," Holmes said. "But the big debate is what's causing it and whether people are to blame. But people say there's absolutely no such thing as climate change. We had an ice age. We know the climate changes through time."
For his part, Holmes believes it's cyclical. The Midwest happens to be in a wet cycle, he said. But in other parts of the country, the flooding frequency is stable or decreasing, he said.
"It's a very complex system," Holmes said.
So floods will continue to come, he said. Predicting them is difficult and dealing with them is worse. The worst part, he said, is when floods like the ones that took place in 1937 and 2011 come, the waters stay awhile.
"The thing about floods that are so devastating to people is they stay so long," he said. "They're like a bad house guest."
Related links
- Return to Birds Point (05/20/11)
- Return to Birds Point (05/20/11)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers keeping watch on levees (01/30/12)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers keeping watch on levees (01/30/12)
- Corps: Damage from 2011 floods could mean more danger in 2012 (01/27/12)
- Corps: Damage from 2011 floods could mean more danger in 2012 (01/27/12)
- USDA announces $308 million in aid to states; Missouri to receive about $49 million (01/18/12)
- USDA announces $308 million in aid to states; Missouri to receive about $49 million (01/18/12)