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Major banks have announced some 160,000 job cuts since early last year and with more lay-offs to come as the industry restructures, many will leave the shrinking sector for good as redundancies outpace new hires by roughly two-to-one.
A Reuters analysis of job cuts announced by 29 major banks showed the lay-offs were much bigger in Europe than in Asia or the United States. That is a particular blow to Britain where the finance industry makes up roughly 10 percent of the economy.
The tally of nearly 160,000 job cut plans, meanwhile, is likely to be a conservative estimate as smaller banks and brokers are also cutting staff or shutting up shop, and bigger banks have not always disclosed target numbers of lay-offs.
The tally also does not include reports of 6,000 job cuts to come at Commerzbank, for example, which the German group would not confirm last week.
Well-paid investment bankers are bearing the brunt of cost cuts as deals dry up and trading income falls. That is particularly the case in some activities such as stock trading, where low volumes and thin margins are squeezing banks.
"When I let go tons of people in cash equities this year, I knew most would be finished in this business. It is pretty dead. Some will just have to find something completely different to do," said one top executive at an international bank in London, on condition of anonymity.
The job cuts eat into tax revenues usually reaped from the sector at a time when the global economic recovery is slowing.
This year's tax income from the industry in Britain could drop to around 40 billion pounds ($63 billion) this year, compared to 70 billion in 2007/08, when the financial crisis hit, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) think-tank said this week.
The job cuts announced since the beginning of 2011 come on top of job cuts already carried since 2009.
Of the 29 banks, from Europe's biggest bank HSBC to U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley, just over 83,700 net jobs have been lost since 2009, with 167,200 jobs axed and 83,500 created.
Squeezed by regulations forcing banks to store up more capital in their trading businesses, firms are likely to shrink their investment banking units even further, as they overhaul their models to survive.
"It is structural as well as in response to cycles in the market. The market is still over-broked," said Zaheer Ebrahim at recruiters Kennedy Group.
Swiss bank UBS last month outlined a further 10,000 lay-offs after announcing a plan for 3,500 job cuts last year. It said in October it had decided to exit most of its rates and debt trading units.
Workers in retail banking operation will not be immune to job cuts either, particularly in slowing European economies. In France for instance, bank executives predict retail revenues will falter.
"There are still 300,000 too many full-time employees in the top financial services players in Europe," said Caio Gilberti from the financial services practice of consultancy AlixPartners. Gilberti said cutting those jobs could lop just over 20 billion euros off banks' collective cost base.
As banks shrink, fewer of those leaving are able to find equivalent jobs at rivals, head-hunters and bankers said, and only a small proportion of those are qualified to move into other jobs at hedge funds, for instance, which look for specialized, skilled traders.
Mergers and acquisition dealmakers are now also coming under pressure, with fees in that area down 21 percent worldwide to $13.9 billion in the first nine months, Thomson Reuters data showed.
More senior investment bankers are among those in the line of fire. Those ranking as managing directors (MDs), who can command base salaries of around 350,000 pounds ($556,000), are becoming costly to keep - and difficult to take on.
"At MD level, it is tougher to accept smaller jobs, and they do not have the same drive and ambition as the young bankers who have just graduated," Ebrahim from the Kennedy Group said.
Many of those that have enjoyed lucrative careers in the fatter years are instead leaving big banks for good, setting up their own small consultancies or different types of businesses.
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Date: 16.11.2012 [ID: 332]
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While some 70,000 visitors are expected for the Republican National Convention, it's not the only big event heading towards Tampa. On Tuesday, another important visitor could be on the way, though perhaps not directly through Tampa - Tropical Storm Isaac. As of now, Isaac is still in the Caribbean. But as NPR's Greg Allen reports from Tampa, it's likely to be a hurricane when it passes near the city later in the week.
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Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies
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Background - Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease.

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This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This course covers the music of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Nirvana, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed. Emerging out of the experimental and ambitious years of late-60s psychedelia, rock splintered into a variety of styles in the 1970s as the music business continued to expand. By the end of the decade, punk and disco had challenged the excesses of the hippie aesthetic, as rock became more commercially streamlined and radio friendly. The emergence and rise of MTV transformed pop music and propelled the careers of Michael jackson and Madonna, while heavy metal and hip hop dominated the late 1980s. Nirvana leads alt-rock's return to simplicity in the early 1990s.
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2. "... Rand Paul projected by CNN to win his Senate race in Kentucky and another conservative, Dan Coats, projected to win the Senate race in Indiana."
3. "I'm more comfortable with Fox," say I, after watching CNN for a while and then switching.
4. Oh, CNN is better. Better graphics. Lots of people saying things. Annoying much of the time, but more detail. Mary Matalin enthusing about Portman winning in Ohio, a state Obama won.
5. DeMint already making his victory speech. Kitty Dukakis in trouble for seeming like "a walking billboard."
6. CNN says Coons wins. We won't have Christine O'Donnell to kick around anymore.
7. Rubio! David Gergen enthuses about "a Republican Latino with star power."
8. "Wow, the first time one of the fictional Althouse characters actually had a complete story arc! Bravo!" (Scroll up.)
9. It's so sad for the Democrats. They gave us so many things. Gifts. Expensive gifts. That we didn't want. That they bought with our money.
10. Tim Kaine blabs on and on, making a happy face. Eventually, Wolf Blitzer cuts hims off with "It's going to be a long night for you.
11. CNN's music for tonight is the same (or just close) to what was used in the HBO John Adams series. It's about the Framers, no? As the Tea Party clinches it.
12. Drudge says: "REPUBLICANS WIN SENATE SEATS: AL, FL, GA, IN, OH, KY, MO, NH, SC... DEMS WIN: CT, DE, MD... TOO CLOSE TO CALL: PA, IL..." Hey, what happened to California? Earlier he was calling it for Boxer.
13. Manchin. "Huge win" for the Democrats, says Wolf Blitzer, about the hot West Virginia race.
14. The GOP takes the House. It's outside of the margin of error, says NBC. Pelosi is gone. Ding dong. [UPDATE: Now MSNBC is calling that "a mistake." MSNBC is awful.]
15. NBC says Wisconsin is "too close to call," as the polls close.
16. Rand Paul victory speech: "I have a message! A message from the people of Kentucky! A message that is loud and clear and does not mince words! We've come to take our government back!"
17. MSNBC is hilarious. They're near meltdown. Rand Paul will destroy America. The Republicans "salivate at the thought" of worldwide economic collapse.
18. O'Donnell conceding. Very cheerful. Chirpy. I listened to Marco Rubio's victory speech a few minutes ago, which was, by contrast, very mellow.
19. Scott Walker has, it seems, won the Governorship here in Wisconsin. That's supposed to mean — that must mean — no to the high-speed train boondoggle. Also in Wisconsin, Russ Feingold is way behind.
20. Feingold has lost, quite decisively. I'm sorry to see him go. He's a good man. But I should admit that I voted against him. I had to vote for the Party of No.
21. Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin appear side-by-side on Fox News, analyzing the elections, denouncing sexism, and then ending on this adorable, ultra-girlie note:
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23. I just thought that was amusing, the way YouTube inserted my face into the Fox News. By the way, did you notice, at the end of the clip, when Geraldine said she wanted to go on "Dancing with the Stars," Sarah said "I'll hook you up"?
24. John Boehner tears up talking about American values, which he's chased all his life. Then, talking about his business, he sobs. Keep it together, Boehnsy!
25. That got a little... weird. I hope Boehnsy is ready to lead. Anyway, here in Dane County, Feingold's campaign manager George Aldrich is not giving up: "Russ is down by 80,000 votes, but...up to 1.4 million votes haven't been counted." None of the Madison votes were in when he said that: "We are confident that this race is going to tighten, it is going to tighten quickly, and we may be in for a long night here."
25. Over at Drudge, it's the 3 Rs:
Rubio, Rand, and Ron.
26. Charles Krauthammer on Fox News: "The Obama agenda is dead." The Democrats have retained the Senate, apparently, but, looking forward to 2012, they will, self-defensively, distance themselves from Obama — says the Kraut.
27. Feingold has conceded. NYT:
Quoting Bob Dylan, he said, "My heart is not weary, it's light and free, and I've got nothing but affection for those who have sailed with me."The Times misses that "Forward" is the state motto. And maybe that "fist in the air" was posing as the Wisconsin "Forward" statue.
It is not clear what he will do next, but Mr. Feingold, 57, told the crowd: "It's on to the next fight, it's on to the next battle, it's on to 2012 and it is on to our next adventure, forward." He raised his fist in the air and left the stage.
28. Karl Rove exclaims that he's "exhausted." I was just saying he looked tired.
29. Speaking of tired, it's interesting that Harry Reid will be sticking around. There's something so dreary about him. Does his victory cheer Democrats? Or would they have had more fun kicking Sharron Angle around?
30. I'm tired too. See you in the morning.


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Tulare Supervisor Apologizes After Critics Blast His Comments as Racial Fear-Mongering
Selma Police Chief Says Sikh Prayer Leader Killed in Car Jacking, Not Hate Crime
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Matt Chapman Says He Has 'Unfinished Business' in Bay Area After Signing Deal with Giants
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Jewish Students Evacuated After Facing Protest Mob at UC Berkeley
A 4-Year-Old Gaza Boy Lost His Arm – and His Family. Half a World Away, He's Getting a Second Chance
Girl Scouts Were Told to Stop Bracelet-Making Fundraiser for Kids in Gaza. Now They Can't Keep Up
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Sesame Street International Gives Refugee Preschoolers Emotional and Learning Lift
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When Fresno Kids Miss School, District Loses $25 Million, and Kids Fall Way Behind
Collegian Editor Exposes Measure E's 'Deceptive' Marketing Campaign
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Perl Today (February 2014)
brian d foy is the author of Mastering Perl, now available in its second edition, as well as several other Perl books. As the founder of Perl mongers, he's been active in the Perl community for almost 20 years.
Perl's so big now that it's almost impossible to pay attention to everything going on. Instead of reading the thoughts of me, just one person, on the current state of Perl, why not gather several major players who can cover many areas that you may not have noticed? I've collected some voices from parts of the large and diverse Perl community to highlight a small fraction of everything going on, from community development, hard core coding, the job market, and various problem domains. Although not definitive, their combination makes a good summary.
Randal Schwartz is the original author of Programming perl and Learning Perl, along with numerous other Perl credits. He's the current host of FLOSS Weekly.
Perl started as a Unix shell replacement to help sysadmins get more productive with less risk and a flatter learning curve (you didn't have to learn the quirks of dozens of small utilities, just the quirks of One Larry Wall).
But then along came the web, and "scripts" could be used to provide interactive web pages, and Perl became the darling language of the web, first with "cgi-lib.pl", and then with CGI, and later with larger frameworks like Mason and Catalyst.
Of course, Perl's scripting abilities also matured, and the ability to scale Perl programs with modern testing and OO frameworks (like Moose) empowered programmers to write 10-line scripts and 100,000-line applications using the same core language features: a distinctive advantage.
Perl 5 development stagnated a bit, trigging the whole Perl 6 revival, and the relationship between Perl 5 and Perl 6 is still not understood by most people outside the direct Perl community (nor even by some who are in the community). But with the establishment of the quarterly point release, and the annual major releases, Perl 5 seems to have gotten firmly back in the saddle of modern development again. And while Perl 6 continues to be developed and redesigned, parts of it are already quite useful for early adopters.
Karen Pauley was a founding member of the Belfast Perl Mongers, a volunteer with the YAPC Europe Foundation, and is the President of The Perl Foundation.
For me, Perl is a reason for creating community systems to support Perl itself. The Perl Foundation doesn't write the Perl language, we don't influence its direction; instead we work with the Perl community to organize funding, volunteers, marketing, and legal counsel.
The Perl 5 Core Maintenance fund was created in June 2011, in collaboration with some of Perl 5's most generous supporters, such as booking.com and craigslist Charitable Fund. Our goal was to pay a few key volunteer developers to spend more of their time working on the maintenance and development of Perl 5. So far we have raised over $280,000 allowing us to compensate Perl internals experts including Nicholas Clark and Dave Mitchell to do more than they could on an unpaid basis.
The Perl Foundation, with help from our volunteers and donors, will continue to seek ways to strengthen the language, its community, and the F/OSS world in the coming years.
Steffen is a physicist-turned-software developer. A long time contributor to Perl and author of many Perl modules on the CPAN, he currently works at booking.com where he manages software infrastructure development.
With booking.com, Perl powers one of the most successful, profitable e-commerce companies on the planet. Perl is used throughout our stack from the web layer to mission-critical, highly-available infrastructure. We love it because its flexibility aligns with our aggressive pace of development on our code base of millions of lines of code. We believe that the language's versatility has given us a competitive advantage.
Outside of Booking.com, I am an individual contributor to Perl and the CPAN. Thus I have had the chance to directly support users in more than just a handful of Fortune 500 companies including major banks as well as the IT, automotive, and chemical industries. Perl is used in critical systems of many companies albeit usually in much less prominent roles. It is a humble work horse and truly deserves its reputation as a Swiss Army Chainsaw.
At Booking.com, we believe that one of Perl's great strengths is its community. Unlike many corporations, we maintain strong symbiotic ties to this development community. Many of our technical staff are active contributors to Perl and Perl modules on the CPAN. We encourage our developers to publish their code. This has both helped with getting our name out to potential future employees and improved the quality of our software overall.
Ricardo Signes is the current Perl 5 project manager, part of the CPAN toolchain maintenance team, and a prolific contributor to the CPAN.
Perl 5 is entering its fifth year of fixed-schedule releases, meaning that the first few releases on the yearly plans are now out of their supported lifetime. With the release support policy solidly in place, we've begun to hammer out exactly how we handle Perl's iffiest behaviors: deprecated and experimental features. Enumerating just which features are experimental let us get an idea of what we mean when we say something is experimental, which has led to a means to add new features to Perl without as much fear of getting locked in to bad ideas.
We've gotten a number of exciting new features in the latest perl builds, as experiments. Lexical subroutines, regexp character sets, and postfix dereferencing are the three I'm most excited about, and the prospect of experimental subroutine signatures still looks good.
Over the next few releases, I'm hoping we'll see improvement continue in three main areas: Perl 5's already-excellent Unicode support, the useful but troublesome PerlIO system, and the ability to provide annotations for improving performance.
Joel Berger has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently employed writing software for a major financial institution.
Perl is my language of choice for almost any task. In my research I routinely found that the flexibility of Perl allowed me to structure a script or simulation in the way that I was thinking about the problem, not the way the language wanted me to think about it. Modern tools like the Moose object framework give Perl the ability to model the most complex set of interdependent classes (as often arises in Physics) with ease. Combine that with the massive CPAN module archive, from which you can find tools to transform nearly any data format, manipulate and analyze data, or do nearly any other task.
In my spare time, I contribute to the Mojolicious web framework, which brings the trendy non-blocking web to Perl, a robust and stable language (and the only language with CPAN). Mojolicious comes with lots of functionality like a non-blocking UserAgent (which is also the backbone of the extensive test framework), DOM parser, WebSockets, JSON, and a powerful template system, all built in.
Sawyer X is one of the core developers on Dancer, a Perl web framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.
Perl is often remembered as the original language of the web. It had good CGI support and was the go-to language for any web programming. The CGI protocol had its issues and so was replaced in time by FastCGI, embedded interpreters in the web servers (mod_perl, mod_php, etc.), and servers implemented in the application language.
While you weren't watching, Perl has developed a common protocol, binding web servers, web frameworks, and web applications: PSGI. PSGI allows any web server to support any web framework and web application. It allows any web framework to support any server, and any user to use any framework on top of any server. In two words: anything goes.
On one hand new frameworks appeared (Dancer, Mojolicious, Amon2) and mature frameworks (Catalyst) started supporting PSGI, and on the other hand web servers written entirely in Perl grew into existence, such as Starman.
Stevan Little created Moose, a post-modern object system for Perl 5. He's working on adding this to the Perl core language.
Perl has had object oriented capabilities since the first release of Perl 5 almost 20 years ago. Since then, best practices have come and gone, along with a sea of modules on the CPAN to help programmers implement those best practices. Although many OO styles still abound, the current Modern Perl movement has come to settle around the style of OO implemented by the Moose module.
Moose itself is based heavily on the OO features that have been designed for Perl6, along with input from several other languages including LISP, Ruby, Smalltalk and others. Moose brings not only support for basic class based OO programming, but it also brings deep meta programming capabilities, and the idea of "Roles" to Perl OO programming. Roles - which were originally derived from the Smalltalk community where they were called "Traits" - provide a means of code re-use similar to mix-ins but with an added degree of compositional safety through the use of conflict detection. Moose was originally released in 2006 and in the past 7 years more 2,100 CPAN modules have been released which depend upon it.
David Mertens is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dickinson College and a contributor to PDL and Prima.
I have been using Perl for my scientific computing since roughly 2007. Prior to Perl I wrote the bulk of my scientific code in C++ and Matlab. My first exposure to Perl was due to its well known string processing capabilities, but I quickly realized that it was a well designed general purpose programming language. After programming in Perl, Matlab felt cludgy and C++ felt verbose. Once I discovered the PDL (Perl Data Language), I switched all of new scientific computing to Perl.
My most exciting work with Perl has been at the interface of PDL and other modules. A few years ago I discovered the Prima graphical toolkit and eventually wrote PDL-based methods for fast and flexible drawing to a Prima canvas. As my familiarity with Prima has grown, I have begun using it to write interactive simulations for talks and lectures.
Time and again I found other Perl developers had solved 90% of my problem, leaving the last and most exciting 10% to me. From numerical simulations to web servers to interactive lectures, I can always find the right Perl tool for the job, and the right Perl glue to put it all together.
Dave Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd., a Perl training and consultancy company based in London. He founded London.pm, the first Perl Monger group outside of North America. Dave blogs about Perl at Perl Hacks.
I've been running Perl training courses for six or seven years. The demand for these courses has never been higher than I've seen over the last year, coming from all kinds of companies–financial services companies, media giants, dotcoms and many others.
The nature of those enquiries has been changing. Previously I would get enquiries about generic beginners, intermediate or advanced Perl courses, these days it is just as likely to be a request for training about a specific Perl module like Moose or DBIx::Class. These enquiries are coming from companies who have been using Perl for many years but who finally seem to be getting the message that Perl has changed over the last ten years and that by keeping the knowledge of their Perl teams up to date they will retain the competitive advantage that was the reason for them choosing Perl in the first place.
Part of this, I'm sure, is driven by the recruitment market in London. There are a lot of companies trying to employ a relatively small number of Perl programmers. This means that the best programmers can be picky and only work for companies that are only using the most modern tools.
Andrew Shitov is a Perl enthusiast working with the language since 1998, the organiser of 30+ local and international Perl events in 8 countries, including two YAPC::Europe conferences. [Moscow.pm](http://moscow.pm.org leader in 2007-2013.
Perl is not the only programming language in the Universe any more, and thus it might feel that developers do not consider it as the only option. This, on the one hand, is a very pleasant time for improving the language, but on the other hand, Perl suffers from the fact that the language core developers might not feel the responsibility for keeping their product perfect, compatible and suitable for the need of modern programming. Perl faces the danger coming from inside of itself: we have seen a number of annoying incompatibilities introduced in recent releases, not counting the delay of Perl 6 which made Perl less competitive. All in all, Perl is now in a very comfortable position to be able to flush all the bad stuff and be re-born.
from brian: since Andrew is active in the Russian Perl community, I wanted to publish his response in Russian too.
Сегодня перл находится в таком состоянии, когда он уже не единственный язык во Вселенной, поэтому ему может казаться, что разработчики больше не выбирают его. Это, с одной стороны, очень приятное время для развития языка, но, с другой стороны, перл страдает от того факта, что разработчики языка не ощущают ответственности за поддержание своего продукта качественным, совместимым и отвечающим нуждам современного программирования. Перл столкнулся с опасностью, исходящей из самого себя: мы видели много раздражающих несовместимостей, введенных в последних релизах, не считая задержку с Perl 6, которая сделала перл менее конкурентноспособным. Так или иначе, сейчас перл находится в очень удобном положении и способен сбросить все плохое и переродиться. Мы должны воспользоваться этим шансом.
Neil has managed research and development teams for startups and multinationals. He's currently working on a startup that uses Perl, and also likes to work on projects related to CPAN curation. He started programming in Perl in 1993.
The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), our gateway to CPAN, has been seeing more and more action. 844 people created a new account in 2013 (second only to 2012, with 858). Of those 844 new users, 389 have released something on CPAN to date. Overall, 1803 of the 11k PAUSE users released something in 2013 (2012's total was 1759). Those 1803 users released 7440 different distributions in 2013, the best year ever. Read more about CPAN in 2013 on the CPAN Report.
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Opera Memphis is opening its 2013-2014 season with a month of free opera performances staged at various public venues around Memphis and Shelby County.
The free performances will be presented every day in September, and will lead up to the company's season-opening production of Rigoletto on Oct. 3 and 5.
Ned Canty, general director of Opera Memphis, said more than $70,000 in national and local grant support helped finance the month of free performances, called 30 Days of Opera. Evolve Trust & Bank is the presenting sponsor for a second year.
"Along with other donor gifts, this funding has helped us reach a five-year high in total giving," Canty said. "In a decade when opera companies in many other cities – Baltimore, Md.; Rochester, N.Y.; Santa Ana, Calif.; and Hartford, Conn. – have been forced to close, Opera Memphis is doing what Memphis musicians have always done: innovate."
This season's financial support is a result of the company's work in seeking out and applying for grants from national organizations like OPERA America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Foundation and the Harnisch Foundation, as well as receiving local support from Watkins Uiberall and the Downtown Memphis Commission.
The full calendar will be available after Aug. 31 at www.operamemphis.org.
River Oaks restaurant has received an award for its wine program.
The Award of Excellence was presented to River Oaks in July and published in the August issue of Wine Spectator magazine. River Oaks' wine list showcases more than 300 selections available by the bottle and more than 75 available by the glass, and it was one of only eight restaurants in Memphis to receive this 2013 restaurant award.
The magazine's restaurant wine list awards recognize restaurants who offer an appealing and interesting selection of wines that are appropriate to their cuisine offerings.
Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has joined U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's campaign for re-election in 2014.
Huckabee, who carried Shelby County and Tennessee in the 2008 Republican presidential primary, sent a statewide fundraising letter this week on Alexander's behalf. The appeal to Tennessee citizens compares Alexander to former President Ronald Reagan.
The Huckabee letter comes the same week that State Rep. Joe Carr announced he will challenge Alexander in the August 2014 Republican Senate primary.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week after reaching the lowest level in 5.5 years. But the broader trend suggests companies are laying off fewer workers and could step up hiring in the months ahead.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for first-time benefits rose 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000 in the week ending Aug. 17. That's up from 323,000 in the previous week, which was the lowest since Jan. 2008.
The four-week average, which smoothes week to week fluctuations, fell by 2,250 to 330,500. That's the sixth straight decline and the lowest for the average since November 2007.
At the depths of the recession in March 2009, applications numbered 670,000.
Applications for unemployment benefits generally reflect layoffs. The four-week average has fallen 5 percent in the past month. The drop suggests employers added nearly 200,000 jobs in August, an improvement from the 162,000 added in July.
The unemployment rate fell to a 4.5-year low of 7.4 percent last month, down from 7.6 percent in June. That's still well above the 5 percent to 6 percent range associated with a normal economy.
The drop in layoffs helps explain why job growth has increased this year to an average of 192,000 net jobs a month, even while overall economic growth has stayed sluggish.
A gauge of the U.S. economy's health rose in July, pointing to stronger growth in the second half of the year.
The Conference Board said Thursday that its index of leading indicators increased 0.6 percent last month to a reading of 96.0. The increase followed no change in June and a 0.2 percent increase in May.
The index from the business research group is comprised of several previously released data points and can signal economic conditions over the next three to six months.
The solid gain suggests economic growth is picking up after a weak start. The economy grew at an annual rate of 1.4 percent from January through June. Many economists expect growth could improve to a 2.5 percent rate in the second half of 2013.
The pace of growth measured by the index over the last six months has nearly doubled, "pointing to a gradually strengthening expansion through the end of the year," said Conference Board economist Ataman Ozyildirim.
Raymond James is renovating an office near the top of the skyscraper that's a key fixture of the Downtown Memphis skyline.
The company, which had its real estate officials in town in recent days as it moves toward a decision on its Downtown lease that expires in two years, has pulled a permit for work that's described as "renovation of office" on the 20th floor of the 21-story tower, according to The Daily News Online, www.memphisdailynews.com.
The dollar amount listed on the permit is $65,000. The contractor is listed as B&B Specialty Contractors Inc.
A Raymond James spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The Memphis City Council approved Tuesday, Aug. 20, a 2014 city referendum on a charter change that would change the city's civil service board system.
Part of the proposal by council member Kemp Conrad is aimed at better staffing the review board, which decides employee appeals, to hear a current backlog of cases and resolve them more quickly. Under another change in the proposal, employees could be cited for – and appeal – performance issues, in addition to violations of policies.
The administration of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. withdrew its ordinance to create the position of "revenue manager" within the city's division of finance as the council prepared to vote Tuesday on its third and final reading. Some on the council, as well as council attorney Allan Wade, questioned why the administration couldn't simply create the position without council approval.
"I don't think we ever saw Dick Hackett do this," Wade said, referring to the former mayor.
Among other action, the council approved a Corrections Corp. of America residential re-entry center at 3420 Old Getwell Road at Holman Road.
It also approved the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division plan to have Brookfield Infrastructure Fund II manage $20 million for the utility's retirement and pension fund.
And the council approved on third and final reading a long-delayed ordinance that prohibits city employees from pension "double dipping" by continuing to collect a city pension if they go back to the work for the city or another local government.
The council also approved the $30 million budget for the Main Street to Main Street Connector project that outlines how and when state, federal, local and private funding will be spent.
Assistant U.S. Attorney C. David Biggers Jr. will coordinate prevention and re-entry programs within the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton appointed Biggers Tuesday, Aug. 20, just a week after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder outlined initiatives that call on federal prosecutors to rethink the criminal charges they file against defendants, particularly in drug cases that have mandatory minimum sentences. Holder outlined the initiatives in a speech at the American Bar Association's annual convention in San Francisco.
Each federal prosecutor's office across the country will have its own plan and coordinator. Biggers is a career prosecutor who previously served as the U.S. Attorney's office representative to the Drug Court program in Birmingham, Ala.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen says Shelby County has been awarded a $3.6 million federal grant to support projects that get children ready to start school.
In a Tuesday news release, Cohen said the grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will support Head Start projects that promote school readiness of children from birth until the age of 5 by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development.
The grant completes the current year's funding for a total of more than $23 million.
Head Start is a federal program that provides health, nutrition, social services and other services to needy children and their families.
Shelby County Head Start provides these services to more than 3,000 children.
Paragon National Bank has shown enough progress to be able to end a special oversight arrangement the bank had with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
The agreement, which was dissolved Aug. 14, had been in place since September 2008.
Measures taken by the bank to address key items defined within the OCC agreement include, according to the bank, drastically reducing the level of problem assets, improving the concentration risk management program, developing procedures and policies to identify and control non-accruing loans, and maintaining an adequate allowance for losses.
Indie Memphis is rounding out this year's programming with the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.
The series, sponsored by the Department of Communications at The University of Memphis, will present six independent feature and documentary films through April. Each will have the filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening conversation with the audience.
All screenings will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Malco's Studio on the Square. Tickets are $8 each, with a $2 discount available for seniors. Admission is free for Indie Memphis members and for students with valid IDs.
Memphis-based accounting firm Cannon Wright Blount has acquired The Wormser Firm, effective Aug. 1.
All Wormser Firm employees have moved to Cannon Wright Blount's office at 756 Ridge Lake Blvd. and will maintain their roles within the firm.
This is the fourth acquisition for Cannon Wright Blount since its founding in 1994.
For the first time since 2009, previously occupied U.S. homes are selling at a pace associated with a healthy market.
Sales jumped 6.5 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.4 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Over the past 12 months, sales have surged 17.2 percent. The trend shows that housing remains a driving force for the economy even as mortgage rates have risen from record lows.
Buyers have been purchasing previously occupied homes at an annual pace above 5 million for three straight months. The last time that happened was in 2007. Sales are above the 3.45 million pace of July 2010, the low point after the housing bubble burst. Analysts think a healthy pace is roughly between 5 and 5.5 million.
Buyers last month weren't dissuaded by higher long-term mortgage rates, which have jumped, on average, a full percentage point since early May.
The National Civil Rights Museum is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a concert.
The museum says the free concert is scheduled to take place Aug. 28 at the museum's outdoor courtyard.
The concert will include performances by "American Idol" contestants Alexis Grace, Keia Johnson and Trump Tight, who are from Memphis.
Representatives from the political, educational and religious communities also are expected to speak.
The museum says the concert is inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech and the people who attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963.
The last time David Brookings played a show in Memphis, it was 2009, the same year he was working as a tour guide at Sun Studio.
That was also the same year late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took a private tour of the studio and offered Brookings a job at iTunes. Now, four years later, Brookings will be back in Memphis this month and will play a show while he's in town.
He will be at the Poplar Lounge Aug. 31 with special guests Chris Wilhite and Bryan Dease.
Brookings worked at Sun from 2003 to 2009. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area in the fall of 2009.
He still writes songs and has a sixth album due out in September.
Shelby County Commissioners met Monday, Aug. 19, in a closed-door executive session with attorney Lori Patterson, who, along with attorney Leo Bearman, represents the commission in the federal court lawsuit over the schools merger and the formation of suburban school districts.
Patterson would not comment after the hour-long session. Friday is the deadline set by U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays for all sides in the case to submit their positions on what is left for him to decide in the part of the case that deals with the suburban school districts.
The filings will determine whether all sides agree on whether to pursue a remaining claim involving the Tennessee Constitution and a federal claim in which the commission alleges the suburban school districts would violate the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause through a racial "resegregation" of public schools in Shelby County.
In other action, the commission approved a new 50-year lease with the Shelby County Health Care Corp. for the operation of The Regional Medical Center at Memphis, as well as a companion resolution authorizing up to $35 million in new market tax credit-based financing the corporation has worked out to fund renovation work on its facilities.
An event for technologists, developers, makers, hackers and other members of the tech community is happening next month.
HACKmemphis 2013 will be Sept. 14 and 15. The goal is to bring together tech communities to develop hardware and software projects in Memphis.
The gathering will happen at EmergeMemphis, 516 Tennessee St. Visit www.hackmemphis.com for more information.
Sen. Lamar Alexander's efforts to ward off a primary challenge from the right fell short Tuesday with Tennessee state Rep. Joe Carr's announcement that he will mount a tea party challenge for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
Carr, a Murfreesboro business consultant, told WTN-FM host Ralph Bristol that he decided to abandon his challenge to embattled U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais to instead take on Alexander because he considers the senator "the most liberal member of the delegation from Tennessee."
DesJarlais, a Jasper physician, is considered vulnerable because of revelations of past infidelities with patients and once having encouraged his wife and a lover to seek abortions.
In response to the switch to campaign against Alexander, Carr's top campaign strategists, Chip Saltsman, resigned.
"It is because of Lamar Alexander that people like you have the honor of serving in the majority of the state legislature," Saltsman said in his resignation letter to Carr.
Meanwhile, Alexander is one of Tennessee's most seasoned politicians. He is a former two-term governor who twice ran for president, served as U.S. secretary of education and as president of the University of Tennessee.
He also had $3.1 million in the bank for his re-election effort through the first half of the year.
Carr said he expects it will take more than $5 million to defeat Alexander, including independent expenditures. He had about $275,000 on hand from his House race through the middle of the year.
Memphis-based pest and termite control provider Terminix, a division of The ServiceMaster Co., has entered the Canadian pest control market by acquiring substantially all the assets of Toronto-based Magical Pest Control.
Terminix's Toronto operations will provide commercial and residential pest control services under the Magical Pest Control name.
Terminix president Larry Pruitt said Magical's focus on customer-centric service and innovation, as well as its commitment to team members, made for a perfect match as the company begins to establish the Terminix footprint in Canada.
Four startups from Memphis will take part in Tennessee's first-ever statewide "demo day," being organized by LaunchTN on Aug. 27.
The four companies are Mobilizer, Screwpulp, Health & Bliss and View Medical. During the event in Nashville, 20 companies – all graduates from Tennessee's nine startup accelerators – will make pitches, and 10 will go on to participate in The TENN, the state's first master accelerator program, sponsored by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation.
After demo day, The TENN companies will leave for a statewide bus tour and will meet with leaders of Tennessee's top corporations as well as leading angel and venture capital investors from the state. During the master accelerator program, the members of The TENN will fly to California and the East Coast to network with venture capitalists and angel investors.
Tennessee Tourism Commissioner Susan Whitaker has been chosen 2013 State Tourism Director of the Year. The honor was expected to be announced Monday by the U.S. Travel Association's National Council of State Tourism Directors at a luncheon in Richmond, Va.
The award is made annually to the state tourism director who contributes to successfully raising the profile of their state as a travel and tourism destination, selecting the individual exhibiting the most impressive achievements.
Whitaker was reappointed to her post at the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development by Gov. Bill Haslam in January 2011. She served in the same capacity through both terms of Gov. Phil Bredesen's administration.
Learning of the coming honor, entertainer Dolly Parton said Whitaker is one of the best friends Tennessee tourism has ever had.
RE/MAX Holdings Inc. filed plans Monday to take the real estate brokerage firm public and raise up to $100 million.
The company, based in Denver, has not determined the timing, price or number of shares to be offered.
The maximum value of the offering was set for the purpose of calculating the registration fee.
It plans to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "RMAX."
RE/MAX, founded in 1973, is a franchisor of real estate brokerage services. It recruits agents and sell franchises and franchising rights to those who want to operate under the RE/MAX brand.
The company has more than 90,000 agents and 6,300 offices around the world but gets the bulk of its revenue from the U.S.
In 2012, the company reported net income of $18 million on revenue of $143.7 million.
RE/MAX said that it plans to use the proceeds from the offering to acquire two franchisees that it currently manages, which will give it back the regional RE/MAX franchise rights that those businesses hold in the Southwest and Central Atlantic regions of the U.S.
Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan will act as joint book-running managers for the offering.
Following the offering, shareholders will own all the Class A common stock in RE/MAX. Its existing owners, RIHI and private equity firm Weston Presidio, will hold all of its Class B stock.
The Fire Museum of Memphis is launching a list of upgrades to its educational programs and fire prevention and life safety exhibits in celebration of the museum's 15-year anniversary.
It's a result of grants the museum has received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Plough Foundation.
The museum was awarded two grants by FEMA – one for $197,245 and one for $481,740, which is the third-largest FEMA fire prevention grant ever awarded to a museum – and a grant for $250,000 from the Plough Foundation.
The museum is using the money to update existing exhibits, including the Fire Safety House, the Maze, the Juvenile Fire Setter exhibit, the Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Detector exhibit, the Family Meeting Place exhibit and the FedEx Fire Room.
The museum also plans to install several new exhibits and to enhance the fire safety and prevention education curriculum used at the museum and by firefighters visiting schools across the region.


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Now to Hungary, where the only independent radio news station in the country may soon go silent. Klubradio lost its license in what its owners charge was a government move to muzzle critics. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Budapest.
GEORGE BOLGAR: (Foreign language spoken)
ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: George Bolgar has been on the air in Hungary for more than 40 years. For the last decade, he's hosted an afternoon-drive-time, news talk show on Klubradio. It's a privately owned, liberal-leaning radio station based in Budapest. Bolgar's show is one of the most popular in Hungary.
BOLGAR: (Foreign language spoken)
WESTERVELT: The 65-year-old says even back in the communist era, media freedoms slowly improved over time. The climate today, he says, is the worst since then.
BOLGAR: That is the really most shocking difference between the communist times and today's times. We are marching backward.
WESTERVELT: These days, listeners mostly call in to talk about politics and the wretched economy. All the ratings agencies have cut Hungary's credit rating to junk status. And the currency, the forint, has hit all-time lows. Bolgar says he also hears lots of complaints about Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz Party. Bolgar charges that Orban wants to silence opposition voices.
BOLGAR: They didn't want to hear the voices of ordinary people call in my talk show and say something very critical of the government.
WESTERVELT: When Klubradio's license came up for renewal recently, the newly established Hungarian Media Authority awarded the frequency to a previously unknown media group. The new owners want to broadcast pop music. Klubradio is appealing the decision but unless a judge overturns it, the news station will go silent in early February. The media authority says it has no political agenda, that Klubradio simply lost out to a higher bidder in a fair process. But Bolgar and his network supporters see politics trying to silence the only opposition radio station in Hungary.
BOLGAR: Can it be otherwise? I don't think it can. That was the definite wish of the media authority, which have only delegates appointed by the ruling party.
WESTERVELT: Hungarian state TV did not cover a mass protest on New Year's Day against the controversial new constitution Prime Minister Orban pushed through Parliament. Klubradio covered it - more than 100,000 Hungarians had taken to the streets. This past week, the European Union took Hungary to task, and instructed the government to change provisions of the constitution that undermine the independence of the judiciary, the central bank and state data agency. Journalists for state-funded TV and radio have also protested what they say is direct political interference by the government. Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary's minister of communication, dismisses those allegations.
ZOLTAN KOVACS: Well, it's easy to come up with these kind of opinion concerning the media. You know, it's a field where these kind of emotional approaches can be easily made. The freedom of press is a sacrosanct issue in this country.
WESTERVELT: But the EU isn't so sure. This week, EU watchdogs noted that the Hungarian government has taken away the licenses of several stations, including Klubradio affiliates. They again voiced concern about basic media freedom here. Klubradio's George Bolgar, meantime, vows to fight to stay on the air - and to keep speaking out.
BOLGAR: What I feel and sense now is a looming darkness descending upon us. And one wants to shout lights, lights, please. And the lights don't come.
WESTERVELT: Eric Westervelt, NPR News, Budapest.
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