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Pedestrians in bike lanes
Laura Conaway asks why pedestrians walk in bike lanes, and reprints the photo above, which might well have been taken on Broadway, just south of 42nd Street. I know that stretch well — I bike down it on my way from work — and in general I stick to the road-for-cars, rather than risking life and limb on the bike-path-for-bikes.
This is a badly designed bike path, because of the location of the pedestrian zone you can see on the left hand side of the photo. There's the sidewalk, and then the green bike path, and then the brown pedestrian zone, and then the black car lanes. When Broadway is bustling with foot traffic, it's only natural for pedestrians to move back and forth between their two zones, especially during times when bike traffic is light.
But more generally I think it's just that pedestrians were taught the rules of walking on streets by recourse to fear: look both ways, lest you get run over by a car. The natural corollary to such thinking is that if there's no danger of getting run over by a car, there's no need to look out for traffic. (If and when pedestrians do see me biking down the lane, they're generally good enough to stay out of my way; the much bigger problem is the oblivious pedestrians, often listening to their iPods, who have no idea I'm there, and never stop to look.)
There's also the natural impatience and pushiness of New Yorkers, who have a natural tendency to use bike lanes as a staging point in their rush to cross the street. No one in New York waits patiently on the sidewalk for the lights to change; instead, they inch forward on the road as far as they can without walking straight into the path of cars. They don't worry about getting into the path of bikes, though, and if they see a bike coming, they generally stay put, since they couldn't possibly step backwards. And if they're crossing mid-block, which they often do, they generally take one step out from between parked cars before looking for traffic, since they know any car driving down the road won't drive that close to the parked cars. (Bikes, again, they just don't think about.)
Bicyclists, I have to say, are just as bad, if not worse: at intersections they never stop where they're meant to, and instead stop either (a) right in the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk, or (b) right in the middle of the cross-street's bike lane. (And don't even get me started on the "bike salmon" who ride the wrong way down the block and seem to think that all bike lanes are two-way streets.) Although bikers get very mad at motorists, the fact is that car drivers are much more law-abiding than either bicyclists or pedestrians, and tend not to feel that the rules don't apply to them. I've even noticed an increasing number of car drivers who seem to know the difference between a bike lane and a left-turn lane.
In northern Europe, everybody tends to be much better behaved. I think that's learned: as the number of cyclists in a city rises, two things happen. Firstly drivers and pedestrians become more conscious of the fact that a cyclist is likely to be on the road. And secondly there's an increasing number of what you might call non-brave cyclists, who don't consider biking to be some kind of urban warfare and who are more likely, at the margin, to simply follow the rules of the road which they know so well from driving cars. Eventually their good behavior rubs off onto the more reckless.
Ultimately I think it all comes down to a combination of visibility and civility. As bikes and bikers become more visible, everybody else will be more conscious of them. And as they feel more noticed and less victimized, they will start to behave more responsibly to other road users, on foot and in cars. Who will then start to reciprocate even more. The problem is this takes years; it doesn't happen overnight. And in the meantime there will be nasty bike-pedestrian collisions, some of them unspeakably tragic. My friend Josh Phillips died in 2006 after hitting a pedestrian on his bike. The pedestrian wasn't malicious, just oblivious. But that's no solace to Josh's family and friends.
Update: Walking back from lunch, I noticed this scene on 41st and Broadway. You can shout as loud as you like, this obstacle won't get out of the way. And as a result you can see two bicyclists having to detour into the pedestrian zone.
The problem with walking in bike lanes is not brief infringements like this photo. We're not talking about people jaywalking THROUGH the bike lane. We're talking about people who walk at length in the lane as if it is the sidewalk, for blocks on end, to avoid sidewalk traffic.
It's something we NYC bikers have to deal with every block or at least every two. Bikers are trying to worry about the CARS that slip into the bike lane to pass, and we have to dodge pedestrians popping out between parked cars on one side and mailboxes on the other. It's dangerous and it's been getting steadily worse.
I'm one of those rare bikers that (generally) stops at red lights, but I've also been known to scream very loudly at pedestrians and cars that have decided my bike lane is their resting place. Just the other day, while going down the new bike lane from columbus circle to times square, I had to yell at a woman 3 times before she noticed I was there, because she was busy standing smack in the middle of the bike lane taking a picture up broadway. I couldn't even swerve around her thanks to the fact that they actually put raised curbs on the outside of the lane, ostensibly for protection.
Needless to say, the 3rd yell involved some profanity, at which point she got completely put out because I spoke rudely to her.
That being said, while taking my ride, I started thinking about what it would take for people to respect the bike lanes.
Not to use too many cliches, but I agree that we need to get to a european level of cycling, a critical mass of cyclists using the lanes to reach that infamous tipping point where people know what the bike lanes are. In order for that to happen, cyclists need to conscientiously use the bike lanes, rather than riding in the streets right next to them (I completely understand why they don't want to, but it's not helping in the long run). The flip side is that the bike lanes need to make sense. I usually just ride for fun (I live too close to work to make anything other than walking the sensible commuting technique), but in deciding to explore the broadway and 8th ave bike lanes on tuesday (rather than the greenway), I was shocked at how often the bike lanes just make no sense. They're great and protected for 10 blocks, and then they just end, dumping cyclists who perhaps aren't prepared for it into traffic (or, in the case of the times square clusterf*ck, pedestrian only zones). On my way back up 8th avenue, there was a lane most of the way up (filled with trucks, cop cars and pedestrians), and then it just disappeared around the port authority (and then appeared again afterwards). I actually saw another cyclist get hit by a car in that two blocks by a driver who pulled out from a parking/standing spot without looking (luckily, only his tire was damaged), and then the car (with out-of-state plates) zoomed off before I could get the number. To "disappear" the bike lane in during to most heavily traffic-ed and crazy portion of 8th ave is completely nonsensical and, quite frankly, inviting of accidents.
didn't mean to rant, but I got on a roll there.
As an NYC cyclist who stops at red lights more than half the time WHERE I AM SUPPOSED to, I resent your massive generalization as a cyclist and pedestrian.
Avoid using terms like "no one" when you are talking about MILLIONS of people.
"Why do pedestrians walk in the bike lane?" is the same question as, "Why do cars drive in the bike lane?" "Why do people walk in the street?" "Why do trucks park on the sidewalk?" etc.
People aren't "bikers" or "pedestrians", they are "users of the transportation infrastructure" which, believe it or not, is actually fairly well designed, and tends to work well when everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing.
Don't succumb to the availability heuristic when thinking that it is just users of a particular class of transportation who commit the infraction of "not being where they are supposed to be, and being inconsiderate/dangerous". Most of the inconsiderate cyclists are probably also inconsiderate drivers (you just don't notice them as much when they are in their cars, because you are much more used to inconsiderate automotive behavior).
Generally speaking, people don't think much about how their individual use of the transportation infrastructure affects everyone else's ability to use it safely and effectively. This lack of awareness, without the same level of fear one has for semi-trucks, results in people wandering into bike lanes while walking around.
I appreciate what can only be called an admission against self-interest: many cyclists seem to think that no rules at all apply to them, that they can go anywhere and do anything they like. Ride against traffic, disregard signals, whatever. I have one report (from a bike _advocay_ group, mind) that shows 70% of bicycle-auto collisions requiring hospital treatment involved the cyclist breaking traffic rules, as opposed to 45% in which the motor vehicle driver did (and a certain number in which _both_ were out of order, of course). The effect is pronounced on and around college campuses, where cyclists are apt to whip out into the streets from any point, and in any direction. I'm a committed "share the road" type, but more emphasis needs to be placed on cyclist responsibilities–not just rights.
I like the term 'bike salmon'. As an auto driver near a college campus, I tire of swiveling my head around trying to spot the bike that's going the wrong way up the street, jumping off the curb, or using the pedestrian cross walk. It's a pleasure to see a bike following traffic rules so their movements are predictable.
But Felix, by definition *you* are bike Salmon. And if you get hit by a car you're chum Salmon (aka "bait.")
i want you to try driving down fordham road in the bronx. pedestrians and automobiles share the road quite well when pedestrians don't follow any rules as long as drivers understand this. traffic flows very, very slowly.
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What do you do in an advanced degree?
October 22, 2008
Those of you doing [post]graduate degrees...what exactly
you doing?
I've been looking into various advanced degree programs (Grad Cert, Grad Dip, Masters, etc) but I'm finding it difficult to imagine what sort of work one does in an advanced degree.
My family comes from a science background: my sister did biotech research for her Ph.D and my dad did coursework in engineering for his Masters. Apparently my aunt did a Masters in Sociology but I don't know what this entailed for her. I'm getting a degree in the Creative Industries, and have been looking into advanced degrees in non-profit management, arts, or education.
What DO you do in your degree? Do you do a lot of reading? Is yours more practical? Do you get to do a project?
How academic is your degree? Do you have to do a lot of writing in a certain style?
How much opportunity do you get to travel, or do experiential learning? How about conferences?
I figure this would differ wildly between programs and schools, but my only concepts of advanced degrees are either sit in a library then write a long densely academic thesis, or do research in a lab and write a long densely academic thesis (research is fun, but writing long densely academic theses is my definition of hell).
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Are you looking at U.S. programs? I think that this is different in Europe and Australia.
I am getting my PhD in Communication. I am in a quantitative program.
I'd generalize and say that most PhD programs are pretty similar. You take courses in which you read and the final result is writing a paper, you have some sort of qualifying exam, then you write your dissertation. They are research intensive and often are theoretically driven.
MA programs vary widely - some are similar to PhD program in that coursework occurs in which you read and write a final paper, a thesis is written but only sometimes. Some are much more project based and applied. I don't think that many are very research intensive, unless they are a part of a joint MA/PhD.
If you don't like writing, a PhD program might be tough. On the upside though, as you get more into it, you start writing with other people and you can work with eachother's strengths and weaknesses. I am a much better researcher than writer, so I tend to work with people that prefer writing to researching.
I did do my MA in the UK, and I imagine that the Australian system is more similar to that. There it appears that PhD students don't do coursework, rather they, as you say, sit in a library and research. There isn't as much handholding (I think) as in U.S. PhD programs.
I'd guess that getting an MA in non-profit management would be much more applied and less research oriented.
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I'm getting an MFA (Master's in Fine Arts) in poetry. I take four workshops over two years, a good number of English graduate seminars (requiring the same ~20 page research/literature/theory papers that English PhD students do), private reading tutorials with professors (requiring reading five-seven books with a professor, but no writing) and a ~30 page thesis of poetry. What you do in a graduate program is not only going to vary widely from discipline to discipline, but also from program to program. Some MFA programs don't require anything but workshops, for example. However, if my experience--in a liberal arts program with a creative focus, no less--is any indication, some measure of research is always likely, if not necessary. YMMY, of course.
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I'm doing an MS/phD in Computer Engineering. For the MS part, I'm taking courses, and these differ between theory and applied courses -- the former is a lot of math, proofs, etc. where you end up spending most of your energy and time on homework sets from books. It's a lot like undergrad, except with much more challenging and nontrivial problem sets. The applied courses involve a lab or labwork, namely designing, building, and testing something. Again, like undergrad x10 in terms of effort, freedom, and time required.
Then there's the research. This varies hugely depending on exactly what you're researching. In my case, it's a hefty dose of existing computer science/engineering theory applied to a very specific purpose. I spend my time reading background papers on the stuff, but mostly just designing and coding. We spend a decent amount of time writing papers and making powerpoint slides -- powerpoint is the universal communication medium in academia.
How much opportunity do you get to travel, or do experiential learning? How about conferences?
A decent amount, if your program and school has money. That, or you can fund it out-of-pocket; you'd have to be very good at budgeting to pull this off.
my only concepts of advanced degrees are either sit in a library then write a long densely academic thesis, or do research in a lab and write a long densely academic thesis (research is fun, but writing long densely academic theses is my definition of hell).
At least in engineering, you spend most of your time building, designing, troubleshoot/debugging. It's the same for applied sciences. The actual thesis writing itself constitutes a handful of months, and in a lot of cases doesn't require you to be on-campus. One of the students working in my group who has almost completed his dissertation did most of the writing in Europe -- this included going back to make changes to his designs as he progressed through the project.
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I don't know how much it'll relate to your study, but here you go.
I'm at the end of my honours year in Environmental Geoscience. My work involved:
- some time spent out doing field work. This means mapping the geology of the field site, taking samples, trying to figure out what the hell has happenedover the last 2 billion years to make the current, ridiculously complicated scenario.
- a whole lotta reading. Reading all the articles I could find on the field area, then checking out their references and reading any of them that related. Taking notes.
- preparing all the samples. Grinding, crushing, bagging, etc. Sending them off to a lab for analysis.
- getting results back. Playing around with hundreds of thousands of various numbers looking for correlations and relationships and trends. Then thinking about the geochemistry, what it is about this particular element that would make it behave like it is. What minerals it's found in, how mobile it is, how easily weathered it is, it's relationship to other minerals.
- writing up. Abstract, intro, setting, regional geology, methods, results, discussion. That's the tough one. Explaining what you got, and what it means. Conclusion. Making a bunch of figures and graphs and tables that best explain what's going on without being confusing or over the top.
-printing. That's what happens tomorrow! And then it all gets handed up!
-then a presentation in front of the department, an 'oral defence', and making a poster.
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k8t: I'm looking all over, and so far have found stuff in Australia, USA, and Canada. but feel free to share from anywhere. I actually like writing, but I'm a bit burnt out from uni assignments that care more about the # of references then what you've actually written :P
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I did my master's in training & development. It was less academic and more learning the skills required in a training position (assessments, developing trainings, classroom facilitation, evaluations). All of my classes required a research paper and a project, related to whatever aspect of training and development the class was focused on. Also, my particular program gave us the choice of doing a traditional thesis (recommended for those who wanted to go onto a doctorate program) or a thesis project which was basically a larger-ish literature review and then creating a training manual or program of some sort (I chose the project, which seemed like it would be much more beneficial to me in terms of producing some kind of work sample).
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on October 22, 2008
I'm guessing you're Australian if you're talking about Grad Dips (which don't exist anywhere else except South Africa). I have done both a research and coursework masters (and a Grad Dip).
Research: one research methods course, same as any other course you would have done. Thereafter, writing a 30000 page thesis. I collected around 250+ articles that took up a huge amount of space in my house. No contact with university other than supervisor. Interesting, glad I was able to do it, but somewhat lonely. I did not go to conferences with this topic or publish out of it. I was totally bored with the topic by the end of the course. I do now go to conferences and publish, but in a different area.
Coursework: A bunch of courses no different from what you would do in undergrad. Although I'd like to think my writing got a little more sophisicated between the two ;) Required for my vocation otherwise I would not have done it.
If you are in Australia, funding at the masters level for conferences is very limited, around $1000 for your whole course. There are more opportunities at the PhD level. Masters by research students really are the poor cousins in the system. The one big advantage of course is that they can often be fee-free depending where you go, unlike coursework masters which attract full-fees.
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on October 22, 2008
Should add, my husband is doing his masters in arts managment right now. Is very unhappy with the lack of support he's getting.
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on October 22, 2008
Master of Healthcare Administration. Spent one year largely in classrooms, reading large books, with occasional guest speakers and day-trips to healthcare institutions to see how things "work" in various settings. An occasional conference or seminar. Next year: administrative residency at large medical center, spending a week or two in various departments, learning how different managers, physicians, etc, actually administer their programs and services.
All told: tons of reading, lots of writing, lots of meeting people, some practical stuff.
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As others have mentioned, I'm unsure if my work bears any relevance to your areas of interest, but here goes anyway:
I'm a researcher in a practise-based Design PhD program in Australia. I'm what you'd call a practitioner/researcher, which means I work as a designer, and I research in design, and the "practise-based" part of my research means that I both create visual media and write. My research will be presented as a written thesis and a design work.
My area of interest is designing for girls, in particular tween girls. I'm creating an omnimedia toy (of sorts) for girls to enhance their own creativity.
At the moment I'm doing tons of writing and tons of reading, but my project also (happily) includes the opportunity to do quantifiable research and make design, illustration, creative writing and animation as an expression of my findings. It's a relatively new way to do a PhD, and I'm still required to submit a sizeable thesis. Academic rigor is crucial to my work because of the potential for flimsy doctoral outcomes with this mode of researching. I will eventually move on in my research to a generational phase, when I will start making design solutions relevant to my writing. The writing is dense and academic in tone, but I enjoy it as a problem solving and strategic problem to be resolved.
My research work is a personal obsession - I think about it night and day. It's more of a lifestyle than a task. I can't speak for everyone else here, but I do find that it's a very personal pre-occupation, and it sometimes has other people going "Oh right...yeah...ho hum.." but I think is the most fascinating thing imaginable. I can be a fantastic bore about it for this reason.
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on October 22, 2008
From your language use I think you're in the USA but it would be helpful if you can confirm that, because the postgrad experience varies wildly between countries.
For what it's worth, I'm doing a PhD in biology in the UK. About 80% of my time is spent in the lab doing practical work to get data, with most of the rest spent analysing and recording the data, reading relevant journal articles and planning my next experiments. My department also has regular seminars where we hear people talk about their recent work in fields loosely related to ours, and we go to a few conferences to keep up with other groups and gossip about our work and what's going on in the field. My lab work is almost finished now so I am, as you say, working on my dense academic thesis along with couple of articles for publication. When my examiners have read my thesis I'll have an oral exam lasting a few hours to check that I know my stuff, and either pass, "pass with corrections" (the most common outcome, meaning it's basically OK but a couple of things need to be re-written) or fail.
Typically for the UK, I have funding for three years and have to get my PhD within four. Many European countries give you slightly longer but have higher graduation requirements; In the Netherlands, for example, I think you need to publish three articles before you're allowed to submit your thesis for examination. I don't know a huge amount about the USA's system, but the first few years typically involves attending classes and doing small projects. You then take qualifying exams to pass to the full PhD ("quals") and move on to taking far fewer classes and spendng much more of your time on your research project. Depending on your field and institution, a PhD in the USA usually takes 5-7 years.
Oh, and I'll second lottie above: You need to think that your subject is really cool, to the point of geekish obsession, or have an amazing work ethic (ideally both). Research can be incredibly hard work and frustrating when, for whatever reason, you go for a while without making good progress despite all the hours and effort you're putting in. You need something better to keep you going through the years of hard slog than "I fancy calling myself a doctor".
If you're thinking about starting a PhD or want to know what it's like, come across to the forums at www.phdcomics.com . There's a constant stream of bizzarre humour and stress relief going on in there, but if you ask a serious question you'll probably get some serious answers from some American students in all sorts of fields.
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I've done two Masters in the UK. Actually "done" is a misnomer as I'm still writing my second dissertation but for that degree I completed my classes long ago (actually taking a year off from work to complete that dissertation).
But in any case they were two very different degrees and the course work differed accordingly.
My first post grad degree is an MSc Quantitative Finance. A broad capital markets education, lots of reading (one of my economics professors typically gave us about 300 pages a week), books of course but lots of journals as well. All of the lectures and reading culminated in hands on labs where we'd build mathematical models exercising
aspect of what we'd learned.
Grading was structured fairly consistently across the program; each class had a mid term, counting for between 30% to 50% of overall grade, with a final three hour exam accounting for the remainder. Mid terms differed from an in class exam to a "take home" (which is generally graded harsher than an in class). Almost every class required a fair amount of hands on computer skills (programming in VBA, C++, some RDBMS) to complete the course work, which was a critical part of the program as getting hands on with data and models is what Quantitative Analysts get up to on a trading desk.
I would say my MSc was very rigorous from an academic viewpoint, but at the same time the hands on component helped folks who perhaps had problems with writing to still get good grades. We did get the opp to attend conferences but since I was already working in the field and had my own seminar track established, I didn't take up any University extended invitations.
This degree did culminate in a dissertation, guidelines about 10K words, the work to integrate existing research with some primary research we undertook on our own. The issue here generally is finding someone to supervise you in your chosen research area.
My other Masters is (will be) an MBA. For that degree I was determined to broaden my outlook and intentionally took a General Management track. Once again, lots of reading on a much wider variety of topics, but one thing my MBA emphasized were presentation skills. Each course graded us on oral presentations
the professor as well as the class, and the post presentation debates. In other words, we were graded on how well we presented an assigned argument to the class, and how effectively we defended it when queries were raised. Also, we were graded on how well we critiqued someone else's arguments. This aspect of the program forced folks to, as I like to say, "speak up early and speak up often", 'cause that professor would make sure everyone commented and if you didn't say anything odds were she / he was gonna call on you when you didn't have anything notable to add.
Presentation skills accounted for perhaps 20% to 40% of the overall grade depending upon the class, with the remainder being determined by a case study we'd have to submit no later than three months after the final lecture. Each case was targeted at between 4K to 5K words, so clearly research and writing skills were emphasized by the case study, in particular one's ability to concisely distill and present information.
My MBA also had a very rigorous academic orientation but some folks did well by emphasizing presentation skills. This program also offered the opp to study at different Universities but I live in London and didn't want to move to Nice for a year. I think MBAs perhaps build in more opps for international study; when I was evaluating programs it seemed almost every one I looked at featured the opp to live / study abroad for varying periods of time, and frequently in not just a single location - one degree I looked at divided the study time up as London / New York / Shanghai.
I had to / am doing a dissertation for my MBA as well, and the program was flexible here and allowed me to change topics to something more current and timely.
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My MFA in Dramaturgy (three years) is a curious mix of the practical and academic. Work ranges from longish academic and research papers on theatre history and structural models of narrative, to papers and discussions on elements of theatre that are really practical, such as picking a theatrical season, to artsy stuff like playwriting and learning to work with playwrights to develop work, to working with producers and creating and budgeting a theatre company of our own as artistic directors. Everyone who teaches us for the most part has worked or is constantly working in the field - whether as associate artistic director for a respected company, or partner at one of the big two theatre PR firms in New York.
We're also required to do at least two internships with theatre companies, we work on productions, and are encouraged to go to conferences if we can. For a thesis, it can be as dustily academic or as casebook-practical as you want. I personally love, and thrive, on the variety, which is why I chose this academic/practical field in the first place. I think it's a particularly fluid program because the field is such a fluid one - there's really no one career direction to point to for us. The management students in our program have some academic electives but definitely steer toward the practical and connection-making experiences. If you want to go into arts or management, you do not necessarily have to sit in the library going cross-eyed over papers. You may, however, have to sit at the bar going cross-eyed over who bought what size ad on what page in
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I know this threads about 10 days old now, so traffic is waning, but I discovered it link to the more recent PhD thread and thought I'd throw my tuppence worth in, for what it's worth. I have a PhD in Information Technology, as well as a Grad Cert and an MBA, all obtained in Australia.
Basically, the Grad Cert and the MBA were as you'd expect. Each involved mainly coursework and assignment writing, and the MBA also had exams at the end of each course. Basically, my MBA felt like a harder version of an undergraduate qualification, but no research involved really (MBA was my latest qualification, I only graduated beginning of this year).
The PhD, on the other hand, was pure research (as is common in Oz). Because I was in IT, I started off with a lot of reading papers and summarising, but my goal was always to find a gap and fill it, so after about 6 months I was ready to start writing some code and running some simulations on the super computer. The rest of the time was basically the same, with some light literature review when I wanted to head off in an uncharted direction, followed by some coding and experimentation once I knew the area and wanted to try something of my own.
On the other hand, I knew other IT PhD students that did NO experimentation in their PhD at all (it was all theoretical, or mathematical) and others who did MUCH more (like the fellow who ended up working on AI for a robot soccer team!). It really varies, even within a single field, so as others have said, you need to find something you are passionate about and pursue that area. When I started this is what I did and it took quite a bit of negotiating with my supervisor to work out my PhD research area.
At the end, you generally do have to write a thesis. If you work it right though, your thesis can be a combination of the papers you've written over the PhD about your results, all wrapped together into a finished document. This is what I did and it helped to keep me on track. In the end the actually thesis writing only took me about 3 months, because I actually already had most of it written! Having said that, if you don't like writing at all, a PhD (or research-based Masters) might not be for you.
Have fun!
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i tend to only really use tumblr when im going through things. when i reblog picturess & stuff , thats just because theyre there . when im going through things is when i really actually put my blog to use . its like an outlet . but hmm , i dont know if thats bad or good ?! this is the world wide web . ohh well . until someone buys me a diary , this will be my diary .
this is my songgg . <3 .
Today's a new day, and there is no sunshine. (I'll be honest with you) (When I think how much better I'm gonna be when this is over)
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and it feels like a cold night.
Today's a new day, where are my blue skies,
where is the love and the joy that you promised me
you tell me it's alright.
I almost gave up, but a power that I can't explain,
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I smile, even though I'm hurt see I smile,
I know God is working so I smile,
Even though I've been here for a while
I smile, smile..
it's so hard to look up when you look down.
??, hate to see it when you give up now
You look so much better when you smile, so smile.
Today's a new day, and there is no sunshine.
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i feeel like a coward ! i allowed my problems to get the best of me today ! i didnt go anywhere , i didnt do anything & that cant be good . tomorrow im waking up with a totally different mindset noo matter how tonight ends . i refuse to waste another 24 hours of my week being down . im sure im insulting God because im tryna handle problems on my own without giving it all to him . tomorrow im gonna wake up at 5:47am & get back on the grind . im gonna wipe my tears & presss forward .


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The Business of Penance — "Yes, Bible School makes a HUGE difference!"
My husband got a gift subscription to Forbes magazine, it's a perennial favourite in our household because both of us are self employed. Problem is, somehow Forbes got the wrong address, so it appears that a neighbour 100 houses away has been enjoying one of our favourite magazines. Managing a business, a household and two kids, meant my phone call to the customer service department got delayed. We missed several issues of Forbes. In phoning the the customer service department in the United States, I wondered how difficult it was going to be to build my case and extract the missing issues. I was delightfully surprised. Forbes not only apologized for the error, but offered to extend the subscription to compensate for the missing issues. No questions asked.
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At this point, you might be wondering why this story is appearing in a Catholic blog. How does this story relate to the Catholic Faith. Well, read on my dear friend, I just can't wait to tell you.
For well over 20 years, I have been delivering customer service seminars, many through the Schulich Executive Education Centre here in Toronto. Whenever I have instructed customer service seminars there is always a module on the concept of service recovery.
Service recovery has a simple but powerful premise: if a business does something to disappoint or frustrate a customer, it is critical for the organization to assume responsibility for the error, apologize and correct the problem. No questions asked. Service recovery also teaches customer service associates that it is also very important to do something additional to make up for the inconvenience or the error. To me, this has always sounded an awful like the Catholic concept of penance that my mother taught me as a child. I have always been amazed that some folks have not learned this from home.
In my household growing up as a child, it might have sounded something like this: "Dorothy, when we were over at Mrs. Frankfurt's house, you broke a vase. I know you didn't mean to do it, but let's go out and buy her a new one. Let's pray we can find an exact match, or one that's even prettier. Let's write her a nice card, saying your sorry. Let's wrap it up in the most beautiful paper we can find." Then, on the way to Mrs. Frankfurt's house — we would of course get a beautiful bouquet of flowers or maybe some delightful pastries from the best bakery in our neighbourhood.
To this day, my devout Catholic mother at 84, is also relentless about sending thank you cards and expressing gratitude. Something that is so clearly taught in the Bible.
In this day and age, with mothers being as busy at they are, I often wonder if they have the time to do these things, talk about these things and show their children that what the Catholic Church teaches, what Jesus taught, is extremely relevant in the year 2010. It makes a heck of a lot of sense too, but our children do need us as parents to help make the connections for them.
In delivering corporate seminars on a variety of different topics — I have made dozens and dozens of connections between what the gospel teaches and how it makes good sense in so many aspects of daily living. I can't talk about it openly in a corporate seminar, so I am thrilled to do it here!
Many of us recognize goodness when we get it. That goes without saying – it resonates with a strong sense of justice that is embedded in our very souls. But how many of us are actually good at teaching our kids to deliver — and I mean deliver a spirit of service to friends, family, employers, schools and the community at large.
I have often been flabbergasted in working with corporations that are challenged in managing loss prevention, that's another corporate term. What does it mean? It means corporations are having to increasingly manage people (both employees and customers) who are stealing.
I can't help but wonder, didn't anyone teach them about the ten commandments?
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New York Police Lt. Cmdr. Vertel Martin, commanding about 100 Internal Affairs Bureau officers from Queens, arrived at the World Trade Center 25 minutes after the South Tower collapsed.
Three minutes after their arrival, the North Tower came down. Not long after, something else terrifying happened: an airplane headed toward Ground Zero.
"Is it the enemy?" Martin asked. "'Arm yourselves! Take cover!' We scatter. We hold on to the injured and with our bodies cover them.
"Our adrenaline is pumping. Our hearts are about to jump out of our chests. And just when we thought we couldn't take the suspense anymore--guns drawn and pointed--we see it: The Stars and Stripes. 'Hooray! It's us! It's ours!'"
Martin, now retired from the NYPD and a criminal justice professor at in Bethlehem Township, recounted her experience Thursday in a riveting speech delivered at a September 11 Commemoration in the school's College Center.
Though it is admittedly not easy for her, Martin discussed her experience, not just on that awful day, but in the months that followed, as she commanded the police department's World Trade Center Missing Persons Task Force.
"The recollections...about this time in my life are still very painful," Martin told the more than 100 students and faculty members who gathered to hear her speak.
"Even though 10 years have passed, time does not heal all. There are emotional and psychological scars that remain. It is difficult for me to revisit this period, which I recall as my final call to duty," she said.
"The true heroes in my eyes are the men and women first responders and volunteers who provided auxiliary support to them as they did their work in the wretched trenches," she added.
The "wretched trenches" Martin described were part of Ground Zero itself, as well as a closed landfill on Staten Island where World Trade Center debris was transported in the months that followed the attack.
There, investigators and emergency personnel combed through 1.8 million tons of debris, spread out over a 175-acre field. They found remains of 200 victims and about 75,000 personal items.
More than 2,600 people perished in the buildings and on the ground as a result of the attack, in which terrorist hijackers flew two jets into New York's iconic skyscrapers.
And, Martin pointed out, it could have been worse. About 15,000 of the estimated 17,500 people believed to have been inside emerged from the Twin Towers alive after the hijacked airplanes struck.
Under normal conditions, there would have been about 40,000 people inside the World Trade Center, Martin said. But on this day, there was a municipal primary in New York State and the first day of school in New York City, and those factors, as well as the early hour, may have kept the Tower workforce and casualties lower than they might have been.
While rescue and recovery was the primary focus of emergency responders in the weeks that followed, Martin was tasked with leading the effort to sort out the thousands of missing persons reports that the tragedy generated from a multitude of sources, including the Red Cross, the media, friends, relatives and acquaintances.
"It was not uncommon to have 10 reports generated naming the same person," Martin said.
"Many reported their acquaintances, friends or relatives' information using variations of his or her name, dates of birth that differed by month or year, incomplete or inaccurate last known addresses or places of employment.
"Reports were also generated from people who hadn't seen or heard from their relatives in years," with information that was very outdated.
There were reports of missing homeless people or illegal immigrants whose presence would be hard to trace or verify. Some people with mental illnesses filed reports of missing personalities, non-existent people or long-dead relatives, Martin said.
There were also scam artists who made reports of missing relatives to score some assistance from nonprofit agencies helping victims' families. Arrests were made as a result, Martin said.
Martin described the investigatory process for the operation as "painstakingly meticulous" and "protracted."
"In the majority of cases, they discovered that people who were originally reported to be missing as a direct result of the World Trade Center attack were, in fact, alive somewhere in the world," she said.
That happy news, which had to be verified through a personal contact by a police officer in New York or another jurisdiction, was trumpeted with a bell that rang in the hallway of the task force offices.
"When an investigator found someone who had been reported missing alive, she or he would sound the 'found' bell. 'Ding!' That ring was cathartic and gave us the psychological fortitude to carry on," Martin said.
"When I retired, the task force investigators gave me that bell as a memento and I will cherish it for the rest of my life," she said.
Investigators in the task force worked double shifts, seven days a week for months on end, trying to bring closure to the families of the missing. Some paid a heavy price with illness and psychological trauma.
"I label my own state of being today as wound-struck," Martin said. "Back then, I created a protective shell around myself in order to accomplish the mission."
When one of her colleagues would get ill on the job, she said, she would pray, and not just for the other officer's speedy recovery. "I would pray for the strength to go on myself," she said. "I knew that at any time I could falter.
"I did stumble once when an investigator had taken ill and had to be whisked away in an ambulance."
She had what she described as a flashback of September 11--a "personal tremor."
"I yelled at myself: 'Vertel!' And I prayed--'Please, God'--for the ability to continue to discipline and control myself, physiologically and psychologically.
"I fought off the tremor with every bit of my being," she recalled. "And finally, it passed. Just as quickly as it had arrived. I looked around, somewhat startled, but still standing."


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Just as he said he would, Arnold Schwarzenegger came back. I think there's reason to be excited about anything new that the guy stars in, but let's face it, he first needs to figure out a way to reprise a large handful of his roles from way back. This, I'm sure, is probably unlikely to happen on the scale that I would prefer, but I'd be willing to call it even if someone could at least manage to get The Legend Of Conan made. I know it would be stellar, and I have 71 reasons that could convince you to be on my side. For now, though, let's just talk the last entry in the series, Conan The Destroyer.
I love the way the film begins. The story gets set via a voiceover, there's a quick shot of Conan glistening in the sun, and then it's off on an adventure! OK, so there's a little more to it than that, but it's mostly stuff like Conan punching a horse, Conan punching a camel, or Conan gracefully swinging his sword around (this is not a euphemism). Those are just silly details, though. All you really need to know is that our titular character is told by the Queen (played by Sarah Douglas from Superman II) that she can resurrect his long lost Valeria if he takes her teenage niece, Jehnna (played by Olivia d'Abo from Wayne's World 2) to retrieve a special jewel. Naturally, this makes Conan's muscles smile, and he agrees to do what must be done.
From there, to be honest, Conan The Destroyer is a pretty standard fantasy adventure flick. He sets out, shit happens, he completes the quest. The end.
What's surprising about it, though, is the spotlight isn't solely on Arnold. Sure, he gets in his fair share of muscle flexing glory, but there's also a lot of humor and action to be had by the other members of his team, which includes the thief Malek (played by Tracey Walter from Batman), the wizard Akiro (played by Mako from Robocop 3), the warrior Zula (played by Grace Jones from A View To Kill) and Jehnna's bodyguard, Bombata (played by Wilt Chamberlin from the NBA). I really liked this. I felt as though it kept the film from just being a promotional vehicle for Arnold, and it did well to keep things light and entertaining.
Speaking of Arnold, his acting in Conan The Destroyer isn't particularly good. There's a few hints of the on-screen charisma that eventually comes to define him, but here it's mostly like watching a giant wad of muscles talk and punch things.
One last thing about the movie, there's a scene that takes place in a forest where Conan battles a bunch of the Queen's guards. It's silly and epic, and I just love the way that Arnold eats every moment of it up. If for some reason you decide you only want to spend a few minutes with this flick, then jump straight to here.
So, should you see Conan The Destroyer? Definitely. Just don't expect the semi-serious tone of Conan The Barbarian.
Useless Conan The Destroyer Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger put on an additional 10 pounds of muscle for the movie.


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squeakity replied to your post: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Oh why thank you. =3
squeakity replied to your post: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Oh why thank you. =3
Welcome followers. It's been too long. Can I get a welcome back hug from everyone? =D… no? Ok…-_- I'm a tad bit late with all my updates, but I've been busy quitting work and shit. LOL. Ughhh…
This Christmas was probably the warmest one ever. I'm a little bit scared of whats to come considering it snowed like… twice this whole December. I'm dreaming of a brown Christmassss? Whatever.
Fuck I can't believe it's almost the end of the month already. I blame my exam for being on the last day. Ruined my life.
Anyways had our annual Christmas meet up once again, was kind of bland considering no one got rowdy cuz we all decided to have a snowboarding trip the next day.
So instead of getting sloched and puking all over the place, we decided to keep things classy by playing an intense game of TABOOO!!!! **Seriously gonna miss Christina when she moves to Van. WHO ELSE IS GOING TO ROCK BOARD GAMES THE WAY WE DO?! Shiiiiiiiittt! -_-
Oh yea we all FINALLY decided to wear our bracelets at the same time. After 6 months, you'd think we'd already have a picture. Densa doesn't get one, cuz that shits gay. YAYERzzz!
On our snowboarding trip I seem to have conjured up an assortment of bruises. As if my body wasn't battered enough from 1 days worth of bruises, I decided to take a second beating landing more bruises on top of previous bruises. I'M HARD FUCKING CORE!
You can't really see the knees one cuz of my camera flash, but trust me they are there! ANDDD there are some more in various other places that should not be photographed for the public.
Oh yea enough about me. Let me show you some pictures of the house we stayed in. It was pretty sweet if I do say so myself.
Actually… this was the only full size house picture. TOL just happen to get in the way. LIKE MOVE MAN! YOU'RE IN THE MONEY SHOT! Just imagine a fireplace towards the left and a set of stairs behind the couch. Classy.
Oh BTW Howard and I got to take a picture with Santa. Did anyone else know that he is Australian?
I also had a fam jam thing on Christmas eve, but double boxing day shopping has really wiped me out. I'll make another post sometime this week or something. -_- oiyy…
Later days.
My last exam is tomorrow, hopefully that shit is gonna be easy cuz I'm retarded!!!! Then it's party time and our first ever BOARDING TRIP!!!!!!! WOoOoOoo!!! I'm especially excited to give out gifts tomorrow.
Good thing she doesn't use the internet. ;)
Get off my dick and give me free shit!
Been slacking lately. Haven't really been doing anything, but I just wanted to say happy late birthday to @jenbaenium. Had an interesting night. Darn my phone and it's shitty Camera. -_-
I swear you guys were good. IDK what happened. LOL Actually… I take that back. Christina happened. HAHA! MmMMmMM LOBSTER!!
Oh and here's a picture of me and my gramps. <33 Get well soon player!


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I was flying to Los Angeles today to visit my sister (and my wife, at a conference). So I'm just going to do a quickie blog entry today. While I was somewhere over Arkansas, Adam Lambert's dance song "For Your Entertainment" debuted on KISS-FM here in Los Angeles via Ryan Seacrest.
As MJ noted, it's very highly processed vocally. He is definitely fishing in that Lady GaGa/Katy Perry arena. While he is fairly restrained for the first three minutes, he throws in a few of his distinctive vocal gymnastics at the end, and not in a bad way. Tell me what you think. (MJ has it here.)
While on the plane, I listened to Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted" on the Delta seatback entertainment system. Great CD. And while reading a cover story on EW about "Glee," the creator Ryan Murphy said he's thinking about asking Adam to make an appearance.
October 30th, 2009
3:42 pm
I like it. I don't love it. I think it's just generic enough to attract an audience.
October 30th, 2009
3:45 pm
Another reason to avoid watching "Glee."
October 30th, 2009
4:34 pm
Mercedes – I usually turn in at night between 11:30 and midnight. If I sleep around 3 hours, I'm good to go.
Rodney and wife – have a safe flight.
October 30th, 2009
4:40 pm
Thanks, Rodney for the post. Deirdre, I agree with you, it does seem to be generic enough to attract an audience. I expected Adam's voice to not have been so processed. It is a catchy song, though.
October 30th, 2009
4:59 pm
Ladies & Gents.. I hope everyone has a good weekend. Stay warm & dry!
October 30th, 2009
10:55 pm
He has a fabulous voice, but this oversynthesized, monotonous pop tune doesn't give him room to show off his assets.
October 31st, 2009
2:59 am
Meh. I love Lady GaGa, Adam is no GaGa. It's ok, I wouldn't change the radio if it came on, but I'm not going to download it.
October 31st, 2009
8:25 am
It's doesn't grab you because his powerful voice is not out front! I know he or the powers that be want him to get radio play as well as fans who like Ga-Ga but his fans were drawn in by his VOICE! Covering it up with music from a mixing board is a real loss for those of us who like the raw real vocal scaling he can do. If you want to listen to this stuff you can buy CD's by people who really cannot sing and need to cover their poor vocal ability like Spears.
He was such a stand out on AI–due to the vocal pyrotechnics and just plain old fashioned belting-it- out. Because his voice is so unusually great–with octaves that give you a chill that is what magnetized people to him. Hopefully, there are better tracks on the CD.
November 1st, 2009
8:26 am
When JORDIN released TATTOO, it was also radio-friendly as it did not really showcased her great voice. It was teeny-boppy. Still, it went DOUBLE PLATINUM.
Many people were complaining about ADAM not having a radio-friendly voice. Now HE proves them wrong. I am confident that HE has songs that will really showcase his GREAT VOICE.
As he noted many times before, his album is a FUSION. Therefore, I am not surprised at all with this first single. Besides, I love ADAM.
November 1st, 2009
9:42 pm
Rodney, you are married? Thought you were gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
November 2nd, 2009
12:43 pm
Roger – Me too. I think it is the fedora.
November 2nd, 2009
1:34 pm
It's OK…the song is very typical and generic…and really does not do too much to showcase his singing talents….I'm sure it will get plenty of radio play….but a year from now you won't hear it at all….but for a first single it should do OK
November 10th, 2009
6:14 pm
This song is not doing well. Not at all. It isn't getting radio play, and it's not doing well on iTunes either. Adam will not have a Top Ten hit with this one. The first-week sales will be the lowest for an Idol contestant in a long time.


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In the last five years, the government's infrastructure initiatives and tax credits have driven railroad companies in North America to spend more than $50 billion on improving and building new tracks for better connectivity. This capital expenditure has helped the trains to travel all across North America. A railroad company's revenue is mainly driven by its chemical, coal, and intermodal segments. These companies are facing problems in coal shipments, as the demand for the coal has decreased due to the availability of natural gas at a cheaper price.
I have analyzed three railroad companies, as these companies are looking to enhance their revenue by spending on improving and adding new routes.
Oil shipments and re-pricing of old contracts enhance revenue
According to the Association of American Railroads, crude oil shipments by U.S. railroads tripled in 2012 to 233,811 carloads, which resulted in a 46% annual rise in crude oil and petroleum product shipments by U.S. railroads. Growth in crude oil production and places where pipeline infrastructure is not adequate to transport oil helped in the growth of crude oil shipments made by the railroad.
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP)'s chemical segment reported a freight revenue growth of 14% year over year in the first quarter ending in March 2013, which is contributing nearly 18% to the total freight revenue. This growth was mainly driven by the increase in crude oil shipments, holding the highest proportion of 34% of its chemical carloads. Its crude oil shipments grew more than 90% in 2012 and are expected to grow significantly in 2013, as the crude oil production is expected to exceed pipeline capacity. Its rail line is well connected with the oil-producing areas such as Bakken, Permian, and Eagle Ford Shale formations.
These oil fields – especially Bakken, which lacks an oil-transportation pipeline system – are likely to drive the company's oil-shipment business. Union Pacific hauled 325,000 barrels per day in the first quarter of 2013 from Bakken. Crude oil production in the U.S. is expected to reach 7.05 million barrels per day in 2013 and the Bakken and Eagle Ford contribute two-thirds of the U.S. oil production, which will help it to drive its revenue higher. The company is charging an average fare of $3,225 per carload for its chemical segment.
Moreover, Union Pacific, to improve its overall revenue, is focusing on re-pricing its legacy contracts. The rail re-pricing remains the key driver supporting the growth of the rail freight company. It has re-priced 80% of its $350 million legacy business in the first quarter of 2013, which has not been re-priced since 2004. This re-pricing contributed around 1.5% of the total revenue. The remaining re-pricing opportunity is worth $950 million, which is estimated to generate around 4%-5% of the total revenue through 2016 and, out of which 85% of the remaining legacy contracts are of coal.
Nearly 30% of the coal contracts have one year left and it is expecting a rebound in domestic coal demand, as natural gas prices are trading above $4 per million metric British thermal unit, or MMBtu, compared to coal prices of $2.40 per MMBtu. This re-pricing of the freight contracts will enhance the revenue of the company continuously through 2016.
New agreement will increase coal shipment business
Canadian National Railway (NYSE: CNI), to enhance its coal shipment segment, signed a seven-year memorandum of understanding with Coalspur Mines that began on Jan. 01, 2013. This agreement will provide synergy to the company to boost its coal shipment revenue. In this agreement, the company will supply the equipment to carry Coalspur's coal to tidewater, as well as construction of a 6.5 km railway track to serve its mine. The key element of this contract includes transportation of more than 12 million tons per annum, or Mtpa, of coal. The company is anticipating revenue of $1,712 per carload and, overall, it is expected to generate $740 million from its coal segment for fiscal year 2013.
Canadian National has reiterated its 2013 guideline to achieve a high single-digit EPS growth with a 3%-4% carload growth and higher-revenue ton-miles. To achieve this target, the company has planned for capital expenditures of $1.9 billion in 2013. It will spend $1 billion on track infrastructure, $700 million to expand its business, and $200 million on acquisition of locomotive and intermodal equipment.
Severe winter conditions in Winnipeg last year led to a 2.2% decline in its operating revenue in the first quarter of 2013. It has planned to spend an additional $100 million to improve infrastructure between Edmonton-Winnipeg corridors by including double-tracking railway lines in the Saskatchewan region, which will improve the network resilience during winters.
The company will also add long sidings which will give it an additional route and increase capacity. Business in this corridor, in the last two years, increased by 20%, and the flow of traffic has moved toward the company. This flow is considered a good sign for the company and will improve its future revenue growth.
Capital expenditure to enhance footprints
CSX (NYSE: CSX), with the target of increasing its coal shipments, has shifted its utilities to more competitive coal-sourcing regions, especially Illinois basin coal. This basin has contributed an overall shipment volume of around 29% in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 25% in 2012 and 12% in 2010. The company expects the Illinois basin will help in building a strong coal portfolio, as the coal price of the Illinois basin is more competitive and trading around $3-$3.5 per MMBtu when compared to the natural gas price, which is trading above $4 per MMBtu. It anticipates a positive impact on its coal shipments, as the higher natural gas price and a colder winter will increase the demand for coal consumption and provide relatively stronger coal shipment traffic.
On the other hand, it has spent $7.8 billion on its network in last four years and is planning for $2.3 billion capital expenditure in 2013. This expenditure will be used on the development of the National Gateway route. This is the key freight rail corridor, connecting Mid-Atlantic coast ports to the upper Midwest distribution points and population centers. The company is planning to develop new tracks on the National Gateway line so that it can offer competitive rail rates compared to trucks. This new track will also connect CSX operations at the APM terminal, permitting shippers to access the upper Midwest. CSX is looking to gain market share in the containers segment, as the Baltimore port, which is the takeoff point of the CSX National Gateway route, carries only 4% along the east coast.
Since 2005, CSX has increased its quarterly dividend 11 times, representing the compounded annual growth rate of 29%. The company has increased dividend for this quarter by 7% to $0.15, or $0.60 on an annualized basis, compared to its annualized dividend of $0.56 in last year. The dividend yield of the company is 2.4%, which is higher than the Dow Jones Transports dividend stocks, yielding 1.9%.
Union Pacific, with its wide network in shale oil and the re-pricing of its legacy contract, will increase revenue in the long term.
Canadian National, with its Coalspur agreement of seven years and the capital expenditure in the Edmonton-Winnipeg will enhance its future shipments.
CSX, with capital expenditure of $2.25 billion in 2013 on the National Gateway line and its move towards the Illinois coal basin, will boost its coal shipment revenue.
I recommend buying all these stocks.
With 21,000 miles of track serving two-thirds of the U.S. population, CSX maintains a valuable proprietary asset. Still, this railroad will face difficult obstacles in the years ahead due to a domestic surplus of natural gas and coal's declining popularity. To help investors better understand how CSX can deal with these challenges, The Motley Fool has released a brand-new premium research report authored by Isaac Pino, Industrials Bureau Chief and transportation expert. Isaac provides an in-depth look at CSX's competitive advantages, risk areas, and prospects for the future. Simply click here now to access your copy of this invaluable investor's resource.
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