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By OSKAR GARCIA
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HONOLULU (AP) - A state analysis of new U.S. Census data shows Hawaii's population grew by 1% per year in the two years spanning July 2010 through July 2012, with growth distributed relatively evenly throughout the islands.
The analysis released Thursday by the research division of the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Department said Hawaii gained people through births and immigration. At the same time, the state lost population through deaths and people moving to other U.S. states.
Officials say the population breakdown among Hawaii's counties remained the same in 2012 as in 2010. Honolulu County accounts for 70.1% of the state's population, while Hawaii County has 13.6%, Maui County has 11.4% and Kauai County has 4.9%.
On average, Hawaii gained 39 people per day.
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The Tennessee Titans have released RBs Herb Donaldson, Stafon Johnson, Kestahn Moore and Joe Tronzo, WR Michael Preston, TEs Riar Geer and Cameron Graham, OL Thomas Gray, DE Julian Hartsell, LB Rennie Curran, CB Lequan Lewis and S Myron Rolle.
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|Chiefs | Four released
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The Kansas City Chiefs have released OL Tyler Eastman, RB Kestahn Moore, TE Cody Slate and QB Bill Stull.
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|Chiefs | Four sit out Saturday
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Kansas City Chiefs QB Brodie Croyle, S Jon McGraw, OL Darryl Harris, and RB Kestahn Moore did not dress for the team's preseason game Saturday, Aug. 21, reports Adam Teicher, of The Kansas City Star.
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|Chiefs | Four miss Wednesday night's practice
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Kansas City Chiefs QB Brodie Croyle, RB Kestahn Moore, FS Jon McGraw (undisclosed) and OG Darryl Harris missed the team's evening practice Wednesday, Aug. 18, reports CBSSports.com.
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|Chiefs | Several expected to compete for No. 3 RB job
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Kansas City Chiefs RBs Kolby Smith, Javarris Williams, Jackie Battle and Kestahn Moore are expected to compete for the team's No. 3 running back job if they want a traditional runner to hold the position, reports Josh Looney, of KCChiefs.com. WR Dexter McCluster and FB Tim Castille could also be in contention for the job if the team wants a player than can play multiple positions as their third back.
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Josh Looney, of KCChiefs.com, reports the Kansas City Chiefs have signed CB Jackie Bates, DE Robert Greenwood, RB Kestahn Moore, OL Jermail Porter and WR Chandler Williams to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed. All five players finished the season on the Chiefs' practice squad.
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Christopher Price, of WEEI.com, reports the New England Patriots worked out free-agent RB Allen Ervin (Lions), free-agent RB Jehuu Caulcrick (Jets) and free-agent RB Kestahn Moore (Chargers) Tuesday, Nov. 10, according to the National Football Post.
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The San Diego Chargers have released WR Gary Banks, LB Darry Beckwith, CB Simeon Castille, T Corey Clark, DE Andre Coleman, TE Charles Davis, G Ray Feinga, DE Keith Grennan, LB James Holt, DT Rashaad Jackson, FB Billy Latsko, WR Charles Martin, C Ryan McDonald, RB Kestahn Moore, CB Antonio Smith, P Truman Spencer and TE Kory Sperry.
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State media say Internet service restored in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Internet service was restored in Syria on Wednesday, after a countrywide outage cut off the country from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said.
The state news agency SANA said a problem with a fiber optics cable was to blame for the second nationwide outage since a two-day blackout in November.
There had been speculation that the regime pulled the plug, possibly as a cover for military actions in the deadly conflict, now in its third year. But no large-scale military offensives were reported Wednesday, and there were no immediate allegations of sabotage by the opposition.
In the past, President Bashar Assad's government halted Internet service in selected areas during government offensives to disrupt communication among rebel fighters trying to oust him. The last nationwide outage coincided with a major military operation in areas around the capital and near Damascus International Airport.
The current outage began when Internet service abruptly stopped at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. It was restored sometime after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, welcomed a new Russian-U.S. initiative to negotiate an end the Syrian conflict, which so far has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. A decision to convene an international conference later this month to build on a transition plan for Syria is "the first hopeful news" concerning Syria "in a very long time," Brahimi said.
The goal of the plan, set out in Geneva last year, is to bring the Assad regime and representatives from the opposition together for talks on an interim government. Each side would be allowed to veto candidates it finds unacceptable. The proposal also calls for an open-ended cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held and a new constitution drafted.
Brahimi has repeatedly expressed frustrations over the failure to find a political solution in Syria, and has lamented the divisions on the U.N. Security Council that have prevented any international action from being taken.
Iran, one of Assad's strongest allies, also said it is ready to help any attempt to end Syria's crisis.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi wrote in an opinion piece that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their political system and president, suggesting Tehran is not wedded to Assad's continued rule.
"Iran is ready to make successful any fair initiative that guarantees the interests of the Syrian people and restores stability to this country," he wrote in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
The main opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said Wednesday it welcomed efforts to reach a political solution, but reiterated that any transition must begin with the departure of Assad and officials in his regime.
Syrian officials have said that Assad will stay in his post until his seven-year term ends next year and he will run again. The Syrian opposition says it will not accept anything less than Assad's departure.
In fighting in Syria on Wednesday, government troops pushed into a strategic town along the highway leading to the Jordanian border.
The regime's advance into Khirbet Ghazaleh, a town south of Damascus along a key artery to the border, came after weeks of fighting and government attempts to secure the highway.
The push was part of a wider offensive against rebels in which Assad's troops have regained some areas around Damascus, in the central province of Homs near the Lebanese border and in the region of Aleppo to the north.
Meanwhile, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and another activist group, the Aleppo Media Center, said opposition fighters shot down a fighter jet that was bombing rebel positions in the battle for the Mannagh air base near the border with Turkey.
Rebels stormed the besieged air base on Sunday and the fighting was reported on Wednesday inside the sprawling facility, the activists said. Also on Sunday, the rebels downed a military helicopter in the eastern Deir el-Zour region, killing eight government troops who were aboard.
Assad's forces on Wednesday attacked a military post they had lost to the rebels earlier in the northern town of Khan al-Assal, the two activist groups said.
The Observatory reported heavy fighting in Qusair, a town near the Lebanese border under government siege.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said mediation is underway between people close to the regime and some regional "elements" to make the rebels withdraw from the town although many are still rejecting to leave.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Syrian forces of "ethnic cleansing" in the coastal city of Banias, where activists said troops and pro-government Alawite gunmen killed at least 62 Sunni Muslims last week.
"It is ethnic cleansing. The aim is to frighten people and drive them away," said Davutoglu in an interview with Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper.
Although Sunnis are the majority among Syrians and mostly back the opposition, the Syrian coast is inhabited by Christians and members of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Separately, in southern Syria, rebels continued to hold four U.N. peacekeepers who were abducted Tuesday near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The abduction was the second such incident in the area in two months. It exposed the vulnerability of the U.N. peacekeeping mission during the Syrian civil war and sent a worrisome signal to Syria's neighbors — including Israel — about the ensuing lawlessness along their shared frontiers.
Associated Press writer Juergen Baetz in Berlin and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.


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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Records indicate that police and fire officials failed to tell each other when and where rescuers were needed following last summer's Aurora movie theater shootings.
According to the documents obtained by the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/cp3kesp ), the fire department says it was not notified until 17 minutes after the attack that it was needed at the back of the theater.
By that time, ambulances were stuck behind parked cars, police vehicles and 1,400 fleeing moviegoers.
Police complained they had to transport some of the most critically injured in the back of police cars.
James Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the July 20 shootings. Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.
Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com
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El Salvador with its 5.7 million inhabitants (in addition over 2 million residing abroad) is a middle income country with profound inequalities in distribution of wealth (GINI: 0.52) and persisting profound levels of poverty.
The food and nutritional security situation is of concern with an estimated 16.3 percent of rural families not having sufficient earnings to cover the costs of the basic food basket. Under-nutrition figures are also worrisome: chronic under-nutrition among children under 5 years of age is 18.9% nationally, reaching 25.6% in rural areas and nearly 50% in the most vulnerable and marginal locations. Respiratory infections and diarrhea continue to be the main causes of morbidity among children.
Over the past 10 years, the country has been harshly hit by natural disasters, the most significant of which have been Hurricane Mitch (1998), two earthquakes affecting mostly affecting the Western region (2001), as well as Tropical Storm Stan (2005). In addition to their direct impact on the life and livelihoods of thousands, this chain of disasters perpetrates the cycle of poverty and under-nourishment among the most vulnerable communities. It is anticipated that the country's vulnerability to disasters will further deteriorate due to the effects of climate change.
The already fragile situation of vulnerability to food and nutritional insecurity among large part of the poor urban and rural population has been exacerbated over the last two years by the global phenomenon of food prices increases, which severely impacted poor Salvadoran households' purchasing power and access to appropriate food and nutrition. As a result, rural families started engaged in potentially harmful coping strategies. Moreover, official statistics indicate that during the period 2006-2007, poverty has deepened and become more widespread, rising from 30.7 to 34.6 % of the total population.
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WFP is working to connect farmers in El Salvador to markets through the Purchase for Progress initiative. Learn more
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Apple today unleashed iOS 5.1.1, the latest version of its iOS operating system. But don't expect any earth-shattering new features – this is more of a bug-squashing update than anything else.
According to AppleInsider, the 5.1.1 update improves the reliability of HDR photos when you're using the lock screen shortcut, fixes bugs that were affecting AirPlay video playback, fixes bugs preventing you from switching between 2G and 3G networks on the new iPad, improves the reliability of syncing Safari bookmarks and your Reading List, and finally fixes a problem where you were given an "Unable to purchase" message after buying something.
If you're a bit disappointed by that, remember that there's a big update coming up very soon: Apple is expected to unveil that at the WWDC in June.
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Rethinking the Time Clock
Best Buy is getting rid of its time clocks--and wants to persuade you to get rid of yours too.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If you walk into a Best Buy store this summer and see a tanned, rested sales-clerk clocking in or out of his shift on a whim, congratulations. You may have stumbled on a radical experiment: letting store employees work when they want.
You may also be looking at the future of your workforce, if Best Buy (Charts) has its way.
With a classic flextime structure, workers arrange their schedules with their boss in advance. But under a program called Rowe, for "results-only work environment," the boss has no say in scheduling and can judge employees only on tasks successfully completed - even if none were done in the office. The five-year-old plan now covers 60 percent of the employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters near Minneapolis.
And by all accounts, it's working. Employee productivity has increased an average of 35 percent in departments covered by the program. Rowe "has forced managers and employees to be really clear about what needs to be accomplished," says spokes-woman Dawn Bryant.
Flush with the success of Rowe in its white-collar world, Best Buy is about to start testing the program in select retail stores. The company won't release any details on this pilot project, and skeptics abound. "It's pretty tough to 'phone it in' or work on your own independent schedule in retail," says Susan Seitel, president of Minnesota-based Work Life & Human Capital Solutions.
But if successful, the program could address the retail industry's biggest problem: Historically, annual employee turnover at big-box stores is close to 100 percent, according to AMR Research senior vice president Judy Sweeney. That means that all the clerks in an average store will quit or be fired within a year.
Best Buy, whose retail floor staffers are known as "blue shirts," is particularly notorious. Ex-employees fill MySpace groups like the Best Buy Losers Club with complaints about draconian scheduling practices. The company says turnover costs - recruiting, training, and loss of operational time - are $102,000 per blue shirt, or about 250 percent of their salary.
Meanwhile, Best Buy isn't satisfied with overhauling its own work environment: It wants to use what it has learned to install the Rowe program in yours too. To that end, a spinoff consulting company called CultureRx was formed in November 2005 and is currently in talks with other Fortune 100 firms.
"Stay tuned," says CultureRx co-founder Jody Thompson. "Rowe can work anywhere."
Even in a retail environment? Yes, says Phyllis Moen, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who is conducting a Rowe study. "It's not about being free to come and go," she says, "but being free to come and go based on getting the work done, so covering the show floor will necessitate coordinating with others. It's a revolutionary idea." Will the revolution sweep the rest of corporate America?
We'll find out - in due time.
What do you think? Give us your take on Best Buy's plan.To send a letter to the editor about this story, click here.


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The future of want-away captain Fabricio Coloccini is not proving to be a problematic distraction at Newcastle United, insists Yohan Cabaye.
Argentina international Coloccini is understood to be eyeing a return to his homeland due to his wife reportedly falling ill, with former club San Lorenzo believed to be interested.
However, despite the best efforts of Newcastle's press staff in preventing Cabaye from discussing the subject, the France midfielder was quick to claim that the other players are not thinking about his situation and that the defender remains essential to the club's defence.
Speaking to reporters after Saturday's 0-0 draw at Norwich, he said: "Colo plays for Newcastle, he is a Newcastle player, so for us nothing has changed.
"Nobody was thinking about that situation on the pitch. The back four and the keeper all played well.
"For us a clean sheet was the most important thing and will give us more confidence. It will make us more solid."
Cabaye himself made a long-awaited return to the Newcastle team when he appeared as a second-half substitute at Carrow Road and the former Lille man delighted to make his comeback, but admitted it had been slightly rushed.
"I'm very happy to be back. It was probably a little early to come back," he continued. "But I was feeling confident and comfortable on the pitch.
"The manager asked me during the week if I was ready and I said, 'Yes, no problem'. I was ready to try to help the team.
"I don't think I was asked to come back because of all the defeats. I just worked hard to get fit and help my team-mates.
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"I enjoyed my 30 minutes on the pitch. We didn't lose the game so it was a good day. Thanks to the fans for a great reception."
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Like many businesses, the computer environment where I work is mostly Windows-based; however, as more users opt for Macs at home, their desire to use a Mac at work seems to be trending up. There will come a time for many of us IT pros when it might be easier to just give the executive/marketing (etc.) department what it wants, as long as the environment doesn't become unmanageable. ExtremeZ-IP is a product that goes a long way toward filling those management gaps.
For this product review, my lab environment consisted of the following:
- one domain controller (DC) running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
- one HP Color LaserJet 2840 (LJ2840) multifunction printer installed on the server
- one Mac desktop computer, running Mac OS X 10.5.8 with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and OpenOffice 3
- one 100Mbps Ethernet switch
For a production environment, ExtremeZ-IP is supported on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server, or a Windows-based network access server (NAS). You can also install ExtremeZ-IP on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Pro, or Windows XP Embedded-but this is only recommended for test environments. The minimum hardware recommendations are a Pentium 6 processor and 1GB of RAM.
After reviewing the ExtremeZ-IP website and documentation, I came up with a series of tests I wanted to use for my evaluation. I started by installing my server. To this, I added a shared folder containing additional folders, some with large movie files and other folders with a couple thousand images. I also installed the LJ2840 on the server. Next, I installed ExtremeZ-IP's 21-day trial software, which added the service ExtremeZ-IP File and Print for Macintosh, as well as two Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) volumes. (ExtremeZ-IP refers to its AFP shared folders as volumes.) The last step to get my server going was to install Windows Search on the server and add the new folder to the Windows Search indexing list. (ExtremeZ-IP uses the Windows Search indexes for its integration with the Spotlight search tool in OS X.)
Installing the ExtremeZ-IP application on the server couldn't be any easier; you just run the download and click Next until it finishes. You might want to bind the Mac to Active Directory (AD) through the Directory Utility, located on the Mac under \Applications\Utilities. This way, your users will be able to log on with the same AD credentials that they use everywhere else, and you won't have to manage a bunch of local accounts.
With ExtremeZ-IP comes an application to simplify access to shared volumes and printers. The application is called Zidget, and you can
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It was practically self-explanatory to create an AFP-shared volume from the ExtremeZ-IP administrative console. Likewise, I had no problem accessing the volume from Zidget or using the Connect to Server feature from the OS X Finder application by entering afp://192.168.1.222/ExtremeZ-IP-Share. (My server's IP address is 192.168.1.222, and the folder I was sharing was named ExtremeZ-IP-Share.) From this volume, I copied a single file of 526MB to the Mac in about 52 seconds. After re-mapping the same volume with SMB (i.e., smb://192.168.1.222/ExtremeZ-IP-Share), I copied the same 526MB file from the server to the Mac but this time in about 65 seconds. I tried a similar test with a folder containing about 7.6GB of images; again, the ExtremeZ-IP (AFP) source was faster: 33 minutes versus 38 minutes for the SMB share. One thing to keep in mind is that just because you use ExtremeZ-IP to create a volume doesn't mean you automatically have a corresponding SMB share. ExtremeZ-IP uses AFP to share folders-so if you want your Windows users to access the same share as your Mac users, you need to share the same folder again, but using the standard Windows sharing steps. Unless your Windows client computers are running AFP as a networking protocol, they won't be able to see or access the ExtremeZ-IP volumes.
In addition to performance improvements around file sharing, I tested the volume restriction capabilities of ExtremeZ-IP. In the volume settings, there are two attributes for controlling access: Volume is read-only and Allow guests to use this volume. You can also assign a password to the volume and limit the number of users. However, as with Windows SMB shares, the NTFS permissions are in effect and the most restrictive settings will apply. ExtremeZ-IP volumes must be on a drive formatted with NTFS.
A common problem with Mac/Windows integration in the past has been the way Macs have used resource forks to optimize the performance of documents containing objects such as images or just to store certain file attributes. The resource fork information is typically stored in a dot-underscore file and hidden to Mac users. Windows users can see these files and have been known to delete them for no particular reason. Of course, this creates a big mess for everyone. After multiple edits with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, and searching the server, I didn't see any dot-underscore files in the ExtremeZ-IP volume I was accessing the document from-although the ExtremeZ-IP application on the server indicated that there were multiple resource forks. I tried the same thing with OpenOffice 3, and this time I could see that a resource fork file existed in the folder where the actual document was located when I viewed the directory from Windows. After I saved my changes, the resource fork was gone and the dot-underscore file disappeared.
Another common problem facing administrators of Mac/Windows integrated environments, especially when older versions of Windows are in use, is the incompatibility of naming options on the Mac versus the file naming option within Windows. For example, on a Mac, the slash character (i.e., /) can be used in a filename. ExtremeZ-IP gives administrators the ability to prevent Mac users from saving files with these characters or with exceptionally long filenames that might also cause problems with their Windows users, by disallowing the use of such characters or specific filename lengths in the volume filenames. Enabling this feature is as simple as checking a box and adjusting the ExtremeZ-IP application's Filename Policy options, as Figure 1 shows.
There's an option to apply the file naming policy to all volumes; alternatively, you can go to the specific volume's settings and enable the file naming policy there. After applying the default file naming policy and choosing the global option to apply the policy to all the volumes, I tested the settings back at the Mac and found that they had taken effect immediately.
One of the options when creating a share with ExtremeZ-IP is the ability to make the share compatible with the Mac's backup system, called Timemachine. To turn this feature on, you simply go into the particular volume's settings, select the Support Timemachine backup check box, and click OK. To test this feature, I turned on Timemachine support for one of the ExtremeZ-IP volumes and started a backup, using Timemachine from the Mac. After a few hours, the Mac's 100GB backup completed successfully. You'll probably want to limit this feature to non-file sharing volumes only, because turning on support for Timemachine also turns off search support.
With Windows Search (a free Microsoft download) installed on the ExtremeZ-IP server, the Mac's built-in Spotlight search tool can be used to search ExtremeZ-IP volumes. Just be sure to add the volume to the Windows Search indexing list on the ExtremeZ-IP server and search under Shares within Spotlight. When I tried this feature, Spotlight searched the Mac's hard drive and didn't give me the results I expected. But as soon as I selected the volume I meant to search, I received the expected results.
Another ExtremeZ-IP feature I tested was its version tracking/recovery of documents. Configuring Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) copies on
the server and installing ExtremeZ-IP's ShadowConnect client software (downloaded from the server at http://
The one area where I had problems relates to using ExtremeZ-IP with a DFS share that I was trying to automatically mount on login. I wasn't able to consistently get the product to access a DFS link where the domain name was used in the name space (e.g., //example.com/dfs-root). I had no problems mapping to a server and folder within the DFS (e.g., afp://server.example.com/dfs-root). Also, at press time, DFS integration wasn't supported on Apple's most recent OS version, code-named Lion. I contacted an ExtremeZ-IP representative and learned that there are known issues with OS X 10.5 and that my problem was most likely that OS X wasn't unmounting correctly upon logging off. According to the representative, my problem would probably be resolved if I upgraded to OS X 10.6.
Overall, ExtremeZ-IP brings a lot to the table. The number of features the tool provides greatly simplifies the administrator's job of integrating Macs into a Windows server environment. In addition, tools such as Zidget and the performance gains of using AFP should go a long way toward making end users happy and more productive.


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Jeanine Wine with student worker Haley Steinhilber
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A brief history...
Mount Morris College, in Mount Morris, Illinois, had its beginnings in 1839 as Rock River Seminary, a Methodist school. After closing in 1878 due to lack of funds, the property was purchased by the Brethren and reopened as Mount Morris Seminary and Collegiate Institute. The college gradually evolved and began to enjoy steady progress. The campus expanded to include several buildings, and numerous student organizations were formed.
On January 15, 1912, fire destroyed one of the campus's main buildings, "Old Sandstone." Efforts to rebuild began immediately, and funds were quickly raised.
"New Sandstone" housed the library and the science labs and classrooms. A men's dormitory was built at the same time. Meanwhile, the college began to suffer from declining enrollments and financial problems, and the future seemed bleak until C. Ernest Davis became president in 1929. Enrollments increased and by 1931 things seemed more optimistic for Mt. Morris College.
A second fire, which destroyed the Ladies' Dormitory and the Gymnasium and heavily damaged New Sandstone and College Hall, occurred on April 12, 1931. Supreme effort was made to continue the college. However, after the financial strain became too much, the decision was made on May 5, 1932 by the trustees to merge with Manchester University. Mt. Morris College closed its doors.
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Our Young People, a publication focused on "character moulding [sic]," was published from the late 1890's until 1903. The College Campus, which was more of a student newspaper, began publication in 1903. After the 1912 fire, publication lapsed until it began again in October 1916 and continued until 192?. Mountaineer, another student newspaper, began publication in 1926 and continued until Mt. Morris merged with Manchester University in 1932. The Archive's holdings of all three publications have been indexed.
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On this day of giving thanks, Joni Vaughn of Inman tells how thankful she and her family are after recently being touched by an act of kindness, and she hopes the responsible person learns just how much it means to them.
On this day of giving thanks, Joni Vaughn of Inman tells how thankful she and her family are after recently being touched by an act of kindness, and she hopes the responsible person learns just how much it means to them. She and three of her children were having lunch at Kanpai of Tokyo when they were informed by the server that someone had paid for their meal. "I looked at my 13-year-old, and she looked at me, and we were stunned," says Mom. "I said to the server, 'Excuse me!' and he just smiled and said, 'Your bill has been taken care of.' 'OK, who did that, can I ask?' her conversation with the server continued. He just shook his head and said, 'No, ma'am. Just know that it's been taken care of.' I told him to thank whoever did that. I tell you, there are still some nice and caring people in the world. I don't know who paid for our meal, and I don't know why, but it's such generosity that makes the world go around. People doing random acts of kindness is something that never happens anymore. I thank this person so much. You made our day so happy on that Sunday."
'IT'S UP TO YOU': A big bite was taken out of South Carolina's tax dollars when hiring Experian to monitor credit report activities after hackers stole personal information from the Department of Revenue, but Dean Plaia of the Lake Bowen community cautions folks against thinking that the $12 million expense is going to protect their bank accounts. "I'm not knocking the cost of the credit report monitoring service. It's better than nothing. But I have already received three unauthorized charges on my bank account that were caught by my bank, not Experian," says Mr. Plaia. "If you are concerned, as I am, my best advice is to monitor your bank account daily. If there are charges you did not authorize, the wonderful $12 million Experian deal will not catch it. It's up to you."
'I NOW KNOW WHY': Betty Weber of Cowpens says she received a big surprise on her latest birthday. It was a call from retired Gaffney Municipal Court Judge Jack Allison. "He sang his version of happy birthday to me, and I now know why everyone says you have to hear him to believe it," she says. "I think the judges on 'American Idol,' 'The X Factor' and 'The Voice' should hear him. Believe me, he would blow them away, and I mean far, far away." Oh, but payback time is just around the corner. Mr. Allison's birthday is Saturday, and The Stroller encourages everyone to give him a call at 864-489-4640 and sing happy birthday to him — in your worst voice, of course.
ODDS AND ENDS: Ed Hall, author of "Spartanburg Memorial Airport," which gives a history of the airport, will be in WestGate Mall on Friday and Saturday, beginning at 6 a.m. each day, to autograph his book during a wrap-up sales event to raise money for a playground and picnic area at the airport. The cost of the book is $25 and would make a nice Christmas gift.


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Roll over your 401(k) to a Roth IRA?
Earlier this month, we wrote about rolling over your 401(k) into a traditional IRA when you leave your job. But what if you want to roll into a Roth IRA?
Roth IRAs offer a smart tax break that you should know about for your retirement plan. They're funded with after-tax income (so you don't get any sort of tax break up-front), but when you retire withdrawals are completely tax-free.
In other words, you're getting a a tax-free gift from the government on your earnings when you retire.
Traditional IRAs, meanwhile, are generally funded with pre-tax income. When you retire, you'll pay ordinary income tax on those withdrawals.
Roths are great, but to roll over your 401k funds into a Roth, you've gotta ante up to Uncle Sam. Remember, Roths are funded with after-tax money. So if your 401(k) has been growing nice and plump with your pre-tax contributions, to shift those funds into a Roth, you will have to pay taxes on that money.
Also, including that extra income on your tax return could disqualify you from certain income-based tax breaks, like the child tax credit, warns Mark Steber, chief tax officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Service.
Bottom line? Roths rock, and can save you in taxes in the long-term. But before rolling into one, chat with a tax pro.


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Monday, July 08, 2013
London Outdoors
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How cute is Bear looking onto his terrace?ReplyDelete
Beautiful view!
The aquarelle too..I saw litte figurines EBAY..in different poses and wondered if they were used for art..the name escapes me..but the sizes were confusing also?
I will show you one day..not for you!
:) Obviously..
I just thought it might be a good way of learning how to sketch and paint poses..
The diver.. all of them are so cute in your scene.
What are you doing for breakfast?ReplyDelete
jolly olde is glorious in the good weather! if the tiniest bit sweaty and whiffy!ReplyDelete
taking note of "pique" - do i have time to buy me some before i get there? hmmmmmm
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Over here in the damn dessert it is 113 to 120 and humid...but our saving grace is air conditioning..one of the news casters fried eggs on the dash board...ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giggle ;))
Not so funny I guess...
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I have always seen London as sensible walking shoes and Paris as stilettos! I love them both! PatReplyDeleteReplies
Days of British Brevitts are long gone and now is not the time for stilettos in Paris.Delete
But strappy Sandals yes
Carol, it continues to be very hot and humid here in NYC...that ozone changing thunderstorm just won't show up.ReplyDelete
Over at the V&A, the interior garden courtyard has got a great water feature. When I was there in unseasonably warm weather spring 2012, lots of folks (mostly under five years old) were getting cool in their own little wading pool.
Try it! xo
Love your posts as well as your journal pages. Love that court yard that Bear is looking down on. Enjoy the warmth.. when winter comes you will be complaining about the cold. :)ReplyDelete
Somerset House with lovely fountain/pool looks great! You really had a great fun in this scorchy summer. Nice post with lovely pics.ReplyDelete
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What was the saying, the coldest Winter I ever spent was Summer in San Francisco (Mark Twain) ...ReplyDelete
Well, mine was in London one year.
I wore sweaters and shivered for a week, before taking off to sunny Paris. But that said, I would love to be shivering or sweating in London right now .. anything but looking at movers boxes :)
besitos, C


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Fighting in Aleppo, Syria, has not spared the residences of the local Melkite and Maronite Catholic archbishops, according to the Vatican's Fides news agency. The residence of Melkite Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart was ransacked during clashes on Aug. 23. The archbishop and several priests who live in the building had fled a few hours earlier to a Franciscan residence in a safer neighborhood. Franciscan Father George Abu Khazen, who cares for the city's Latin-rite Catholics and offered shelter to the Melkites, said that Archbishop Jeanbart was very worried and shaken. "He kept repeating one word: 'Why?'" The archbishop has gone to Lebanon, but one of his assistants was able to return to the house once the Syrian military regained control of the area. He said the house had been broken into and a variety of objects, including computers and a projector, were missing, Father Khazen said. The Maronite archbishop's residence and a museum of Byzantine Christian art in the same neighborhood were both ransacked as well. Father Khazen said it still seems like there is no solution to the Syrian conflict in sight because no one, nationally or internationally, seems able to pressure either side into beginning a real dialogue. The tensions began in March 2011 as part of the pro-democracy Arab Spring movement that swept across North Africa and the Middle East. Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, said it spoke to another member of "the local hierarchy, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons." He told Fides that "groups of jihadists"—militant Islamic fighters—from Chechnya, Pakistan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Libya have joined the fighting in an attempt to increase "hatred and sectarian conflict." The groups, he said, "have the sole aim of bringing chaos, destruction, atrocities and paralyzing social life. The Syrian civilian population is the victim, but they won't fall for this trap."
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Skip to comments.Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Dies - Possibly killing Regime
Posted on 12/20/2009 9:30:01 PM PST by FARS
One of Iran's most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87.
Hossein Ali Montazeri was a moving spirit in the 1979 revolution which created Iran's Islamic state, and was at one stage set to become its leader. His fierce criticism of the slaughter by Khomeini in his prisons - ended in his being "banned" and theoretically "demoted".
Announcing his death, the Mullah regime refused to even give him an Ayatollah title let alone his true Grand Ayatollah one, mentioning him only by his name.
One of Shia Islam's most respected figures, he was also a leading critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and consequently the lunatic, Hojatieh sect 12th Imam leader, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi (nicknamed "crocodile").
(Excerpt) Read more at antimullah.com ...
Detailed report and analysis
I wonder just how long the people of Iran are going to continue to put up with this?
We should ask ourselves the same question.
I keep seeing a stark parallel in these situations/articles with our own challenges with the American Oba-Hussein-Khomeini
.......and another one gone; and another one gone......another one bites the .....
The fact that he could not support the Democratic Movement in Iran spoke volumes.
Ayatollah Boroujerdi, son of Grand Ayatollah of the same name being slowly killed in prison. they canot execute him so they are ensruing he dies without the medical care he urgently needs
Meanwhile US Senate passes first big hurdle and approves Health Care bill, which will do the same to us.
Maybe they can show us Maircun good ol' boys the way.
My understanding is an strong possible alternative to the Islamic State of Iran is a Communist state. Not a great improvement from my perspective.
There is no reason whatever Iran cannot have a democratic and pro-American government. It had one for decades in living memory and it can again. If there are a million rat-bastards between where we are today and that outcome, we should murder a million rat-bastards and get there.
Some things are too simple for moral idiots to understand. The rule of jackasses cannot be justified by the existence of other jackasses.
Let's see,
The late shah while pushing Iran to be an educated society also was a bit ruthless in how his security folks dealt with dissent.
And for 30 years this "religious" group of nuts have been even more brutal.
Ya get rid of these crazies and I think Iran will simply choose a different thug to lead.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we had that here as well.....
Pro-American? Soon, we'll be so unrecognizable, probably under Sharia, that it will be no big deal for Iran to be, As Is, Pro-American.
We're watching what was once the greatest country and force for good in the world being torn down brick by brick by a regime that was freely elected by its people.
We have no room to talk.
Thanks FARS.
So you do not see the danger we are in with the number of Muslims in this country, their ever increasing demands to accomodate? My point is that if we do nothing and allow this to continue, there will be no need to change anything in Iran, they will accept us as a fellow country.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A judge should not allow New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's two-time campaign manager a blanket refusal to comply with a subpoena from a state legislative panel investigating a political payback scandal, lawyers for the panel said in a court filing Friday.
The lawyers say that in order to claim privilege, witnesses like Bill Stepien must raise specific objections to particular requests or questions.
Instead, the lawyers say Stepien is trying to "have it both ways," by arguing that the subpoena is too broad when it asks for records of his conversations with certain people, and too narrow when it asks that he self-select documents related to an apparent plot by Christie aides to tie up traffic near the George Washington Bridge.
If granted, Stepien's claim against self-incrimination would eviscerate the government's ability to use subpoenas to conduct investigations, the lawyers argue.
Stepien and fired Christie aide Bridget Kelly are fighting efforts by the special legislative investigative committee to force them to hand over more documents about the September lane closings that caused massive traffic jams in the town of Fort Lee, and have ensnared Christie, a possible contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Oral arguments are set for Tuesday.
Kelly's lawyer also filed papers Friday, asserting there's a "real and substantial threat" of self-incrimination if she gives over what state lawmakers have requested.
In the filing, Kelly's lawyers say federal authorities have requested interviews with Kelly, her parents, her ex-husband and former in-laws. The lawyers say none of them has been willing to talk.
Christie fired Kelly in January after her text message saying "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" was made public.
The court documents are similar to those filed earlier this week on behalf of Stepien. He, too, has been pursued by federal authorities as they investigate possible criminal wrongdoing.
Like Stepien, Kelly is relying largely on her right not to incriminate herself by giving information to the lawmakers. To do that, her lawyer, Michael Critchley, is asserting that she could be subject to a criminal prosecution. Critchley argued in the court filing that the right not to self-incriminate extends to documents as well as testimony, and that even confirming whether certain documents exist could subject her to prosecution.
More than a dozen other people and organizations close to Christie have complied with documents subpoenas from the legislative panel, which is sifting through thousands of pages of materials.
There has been no evidence directly linking Christie to the planning or execution of the plot.
Associated Press reporter Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield contributed to this report.
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Steve Spear: Re-purposed Pastor Begins Trek April 8
Chicago Pastor Leaves Santa Monica in About a Week
Plans to Run Five Marathons a Week for Five Months — Starts Monday, April 8
Quits Job to Help Kids in Africa Get Clean Water With international Christian Relief Group World Vision
Forty-nine-year-old Steve Spear hates to run.
But Spear is now in the final stages of training for the run of his life. The Chicago-area pastor recently quit his job as a Willow Creek pastor after 15 years, to focus on raising $1.5 million to provide clean water for 30,000 people living in Kenya.
Spear, who only took up long-distance running five years ago, has completed numerous marathons and ultra-marathons but none like this. He plans to start a coast-to-coast run on April 8 in Southern California, and finish five months later in New York City. Spear says his former senior pastor at Willow Creek Church, Bill Hybels plans to run with Steve on the final leg of the cross-country odyssey into New York in August.
Last summer, Spear traveled to Kenya to see how World Vision's water projects are literally saving lives. Right now, he is training extensively in Chicago, building his tolerance. He's also fundraising. Currently he's raised more than $75,000, some checks coming in as large as $10,000; but the majority come in $10 and under.
Once the run begins, Spear says he'll petition churches along the way for funds. "I've never done anything like this before in my life."
For donations: www.teamworldvision.org/runningforwater
Twitter: @SteveSpear30
Rare Feat: Since 1909 when it was first attempted, only 260 people have tried to cross the continental United States, from coast to coast on foot. How rare is that? Imagine The Empire State Building. Now take a grain of sand and lay it at the base of the New York City landmark. Now lay another grain on top of that. Eventually, you'll have enough of them stacked up to equal the height to that skyscraper. Now take one grain away. Notice how small it is. That's how rare it is for someone to succeed at what Steve Spears is trying to do. He plans to average more than 170 miles a week or a marathon a day for five months.
Training schedule: Steve runs Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays taking Thursdays and Sundays off.
Important dates: April 8, 2013 (start date); planned arrival mid-August in New York City.
Multi-media content: http://www.kcchronicle.com/2012/12/19/st-charles-resident-to-run-across-america-to-raise-money-for-clean-water-in-africa/ab0t8zj/
Extra notes:
- Spear will run 3,200 miles, averaging a marathon a day for 5 months.
- Spear will consume 6,100 calories/day & go through 10 pairs of running shoes.
- 900 million people lack access to safe water.
- 6,000 children die each day from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A jury convicted former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner of federal bribery and extortion charges Tuesday, saying her acceptance of $36,000 from a bond trader who did business with the state was a felony rather than just a lapse in ethical judgment.
Shoffner wept quietly at the defense table before the jurors, who deliberated for about three hours, returned to the courtroom. But the former Democratic official regained her composure and showed no reaction as U.S. District Judge J. Leon Holmes read the 14 consecutive guilty verdicts.
Holmes still must rule on a motion to acquit that was filed by defense lawyers, who argued that the government didn't prove key elements of its case, including that the payments affected interstate commerce and that the bonds involved federal funds. Holmes had delayed ruling on the motions, saying he would only do so if a guilty verdict was returned and after the sides filed written briefs arguing their positions.
Shoffner was arrested in May when FBI agents raided her home in Newport, finding $6,000 that was delivered in a pie box by bond dealer Steele Stephens after he began cooperating with authorities. That cash had been supplied by the FBI, though Stephens testified that he'd made a series of $6,000 payments with his own money, totaling $36,000 that he gave in exchange for getting more state bond business.
Prosecutors showed that Stephens had twice as much state bond business as any of the other 10 or so dealers approved to do business with the treasurer's office.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Mazzanti told jurors in her closing arguments that the case before them was simple: Shoffner accepted money from the broker and let him control a larger share of the state's bond portfolio.
"She's guilty. She did this. She's guilty," Mazzanti said.
The defense opted not to call witnesses Tuesday, instead moving straight into closing arguments.
Stephens, 52, was granted immunity by prosecutors, which enabled him to escape any federal charges and keep the $2.5 million in commissions he picked up while doing business with Shoffner's office.
Prosecutors kept Stephens on the witness stand for nearly a day and a half, which included playing a two-hour audio recording of Shoffner and him conversing while he wore a listening device in January 2013. The jury also watched a one-hour video recording from the day of Shoffner's arrest. Stephens wore a hidden video camera for that exchange.
In one of the recorded conversation between Shoffner and Stephens, Shoffner says, "I feel like I'm a (expletive) criminal."
Mazzanti told the panel Tuesday: "There's a reason she felt that way," adding Shoffner had "betrayed the trust of the people of Arkansas."
Stephens testified that he and Shoffner first discussed a financial arrangement because she didn't have the money to maintain her home in Newport and a Little Rock residence.
Under questioning from prosecutors, Stephens acknowledged he felt the payments would generate more bond business for him but he also said he looked at the payments as giving money to help a friend.
Defense attorney Chuck Banks worked to convince jurors that Shoffner should not have been charged federally but instead should have faced state ethics charges for not reporting the cash gifts.
Shoffner also faces 10 counts of mail fraud after prosecutors accused her of misspending campaign funds on personal items. Those charges were set for trial March 31, but Holmes said he would reset that trial. The judge also put off a pre-sentence investigation until the separate campaign money counts are decided.
Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Harris called Tuesday's verdict sad but dismissed the defense's notion that it was only an ethics violation.
"It's an ethics problem and a criminal problem," Harris said. "She took the money."


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Reed claims maiden PGA tour win at Wyndham ChampionshipBy ANDREW BOTH
August 18. 2013 8:33PM
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Patrick Reed won a battle of two of the PGA Tour's best rookies to capture the $5.3 million Wyndham Championship in a dramatic playoff on Sunday.
Texan Reed, 23, birdied the second extra hole to beat Jordan Spieth at Sedgefield Country Club and secure his first victory on tour.
Reed carded a closing 4-under-par 66 to tie with Spieth (65) at 14-under 266, two strokes ahead of John Huh, who bogeyed the final two holes, and Brian Harman.
Spieth, 20, was gunning for his second victory in his past four starts, after his breakthrough at the John Deere Classic last month. He almost became the youngest two-time winner in the modern era on the PGA Tour, but his runner-up finish nonetheless confirmed his status as one of the game's rising stars.
Spieth, who had to lay-up with his second shot after a wild drive, sank a clutch 26-footer for par at the first extra hole to keep the playoff alive. He looked to have the upper hand at the second extra hole after Reed sprayed his tee shot almost out of bounds at the par-4 10th.
But Reed conjured up some magic, firing his second shot to seven feet and he sank the birdie to win after Spieth missed a 10-footer that shaved the hole but stayed out.


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Lego: The Lord of the Rings
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"During lingering economic pressures and unsteadiness in the general freight markets, intermodal and dedicated contract services once again revealed a higher degree of resiliency than that of traditional, full truckload transportation models." –John Roberts, president and CEO of J.B. Hunt Transport Services in the company's second quarter earnings report
By any statistical measure, the U.S. economy seems mired in a very slow patch of late.
Take the all-important jobs report for June released last week: Only 18,000 jobs were added in total, with 57,000 private jobs added but 39,000 government jobs lost, pushing the unemployment rate up from 9.1% to 9.2%.
"The June jobs report was a shocker. It was far worse than expected, and weak on all key dimensions—job creation, unemployment, the length of the workweek, and hourly earnings," said Nigel Gault, an analyst with research firm IHS Global Insight.
"The recent pattern of jobs suggests that the economy hit a brick wall in May. It added an average of 215,000 jobs per month in the three months ended April, but only 22,000 per month in May and June," he noted.
"Supply-chain disruptions and bad weather are unconvincing as explanations for the extent of the weakness," Gault added. "A delayed response to the cumulative impact of surging commodity costs during the first half of the year is a more plausible explanation, but this report has dashed hopes that the economy was about to accelerate again now that those costs have eased back."
It didn't help that the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau noted that retail sales for June only increased 0.1%, while U.S. exports of goods and services in May decreased 0.5% from April to $174.9 billion.
And such data is convincing many economists to pull back on their U.S. economic forecasts for growth. Investment giant JPMorgan, for example, cut its U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the July-September period from 3% to 2.5%.
Doesn't sound like a lot, I know, but economists say 3% GDP is just enough to keep unemployment steady and keep up with population growth, whereas a GDP growth rate of 5% is required for a year to knock down the unemployment rate by a measly one percentage point.
OK, obviously, this all adds up to something far less than a pretty picture for the U.S. So what happens to trucking in to all of this?
Well, first of all, trucking – along with other freight moving transportation modes – remains in what many experts are calling a "recovery phase" with sustained growth throughout the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region.
For the clearest example, just look at the continued growth in freight and rates. For the month of June, TransCore's North American Freight Index recorded the second-highest load volume this year and in its 15-year history, with freight availability higher only in the month of March this year.
Compared to May, June freight increased 15% and soared 37% compared to June of last year. June also marked the sixth consecutive month to exceed its five-year historical comparison.
Simultaneously, TL spot market freight rates kept climbing in June for all equipment types, according to TransCore's Truckload Rate Index. The national average rate rose 4.5% in June for dry vans compared to May this year and 3.8% compared to June 2010. Refrigerated van rates were up 5.6% month-over-month and 4.9% year-over-year, while flatbed rates increased 0.6% for the month and 7.4% compared to June of last year, said TransCore.
"The prolonged period of falling and subdued [freight] volumes had a systemic impact on much of the industry, resulting in greatly reduced capacity," noted global consulting firm Research & Markets. "In turn the rebound of the economy is having the impact of creating tighter trucking capacity, a shortage of truck drivers and higher rates."
Interestingly, the uptick in freight demand combined with the surge in fuel prices we suffered through during the first part of the year helped drive the growth of more cost-effective rail intermodal services, the firm added.
"This trend has been compounded by greater government regulation of the trucking sector," it reported. "Overall, the outlook for the industry is good. However the one major cloud on the horizon is the impact of global oil prices. Soaring costs will drive trucking volumes to intermodal, but could potentially strangle the entire sector's recovery by suppressing demand."
Still, those truckers that have diversified their freight transport offerings are finding themselves in a catbird seat of sorts.
Take J.B. Hunt Transport Services, for example. That company posted record net earnings for the second quarter this year: some $65.7 million on $1.15 billion in total operating revenue. The reason? Big growth in the company's intermodal and dedicated contract services (DCS) divisions.
In particular, load growth of 18% in intermodal helped drive a 29% increase in segment revenue, while J.B. Hunt's Integrated Capacity Solutions (ICS) and DCS segments increased operating revenue by 27% and 16%, respectively. That makes the 4% revenue growth in the company's TL division look miniscule by comparison.
"Intermodal and DCS, which make up over 80% of the Company's total revenue, continued to demonstrate the differentiation qualities we have been working to highlight for some time," noted John Roberts, J.B. Hunt's president and CEO, in a statement.
"During lingering economic pressures and unsteadiness in the general freight markets, intermodal and DCS once again revealed a higher degree of resiliency than that of traditional, full truckload transportation models," he added. "While the bid season is substantially over for 2011, customers continued to inquire about converting freight from over-the-road tractors to intermodal as a method of managing their freight budgets."
The lesson here is that even though some intermodal shipments means sharing revenue with the railroads, it also means keeping a good bit on trucking's side of the ledger while remaining a critical "point of contact" for shippers. It's not a panacea, by any means, but intermodal surely also offers carriers an opportunity to craft shorter, more predictable routes for drivers that get them home on a more frequent and regular basis.
In the end, it just shows that by staying flexible, trucking should be able to continue successfully – and profitably – navigate the uncertain economic tides now lapping upon its steely shores.


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The Nokia Lumia 505 has been featured in an unboxing video on YouTube. Mexican mobile operator Telcel is the company behind the video and shows off what consumers can purchase for use on the network. The Windows Phone is exclusively targeted to Mexico and Telcel in particular. It's the sister to the Lumia 510, both are low-end hardware.
Nokia announced the Lumia 505 back in December and unveiled it would be launching in Mexico. The Windows Phone sports a 3.7" AMOLED screen, an 8MP rear camera (with no Carl Zeiss), the budget phone does not feature a front-facing camera for video calls. In addition, it has Bluetooth 2.1 and just 4GB of on-board storage, which may be a little tight for some. Rounding it out is a 1300 mAh batter and a weight of 131 grams.
While not the most advanced specifications for a smartphone, the device is running Windows Phone 7.8, but does come with only 256MB of RAM.
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Ubisoft is following in the footsteps of Microsoft and releasing three of its digital titles in retail form for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
The Ubisoft Triple Pack will feature Beyond Good & Evil HD, From Dust and Outland, according to a listing on Play.com spotted by Gamerzines.
You'll be able to pick up the collection on March 23 priced £19.99 (reduced to £14.99 at Play.com), which is marginally cheaper than buying digitally.
Previously Microsoft has released Xbox LIVE Arcade titles Limbo, Trials HD and 'Splosion Man in a retail triple pack for Xbox 360.


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Yeah, it's Friday and I'm just now posting TWD. But that's okay but the lovely TWD ladies allowed us to be late since this was a Thanksgiving pie. Vibi of La Casserole Carree chose the Thanksgiving Twofer Pie for us.
I was a little scared of this pie. It's like a pumpkin pie on the bottom and a pecan pie on top. I like both pumpkin and pecan pies but together? Not so sure. But I went forward with it. I ended up taking it over to my mother-in-law's for their Thanksgiving celebration and then guess what? I didn't try it. Wanna know why? Because my sister-in-law was trying to give away her amazing orange cat named Gus so Landon and I were following around my husband going "Pleeeeeassssse?!" all night long. Alas, Gus did not come home with us. I didn't remember my pie until we were home. 😦
I think I'm going to make it again at Christmas though because all the other TWD posts I've read have given it very good reviews. If you want the recipe, go visit Vibi and make sure you actually have a bite of your Twofer pie!
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While I love a magazine that features fabulous frocks on six foot models and the current "It Girl" – editor Anna Wintour has managed to make Vogue so much more, without being celeb-obsessed (InStyle), preachy and desperate (Marie Claire), out of touch (Harper's Bazaar), or vulgar (W). From books to body talk, from cinema to the stage, here are the top ten highlights of "my" October Vogue.
#10 Ivanka Trump's new book, "The Trump Card." Page 197. I like Ivanka Trump. Brains, beauty and now a book of career tips. Even though I read somewhere that she hunts foreign pheasants for fun, I still think she's rather classy and does her mother proud. Book available at Amazon.com.
#9 Knits from lutzandpatmos.com. Page 178. Modeled by the exquisite Charlize Theron, the hand-made knits of Lutz & Patmos are made of environmentally friendly yarns and produced in environmentally friendly production facilities. If I were rich, I'd buy the Gauze Knit Poncho. http://www.lutzandpatmos.com/.
#8"Screen Test" article. Page 194. Concise article about the debate on when to start getting mammograms. Breast cancer articles are so frightening that I usually don't read them; this piece, however, provides information in a level-headed way that makes you feel like you're in the driver's seat.
#7 Actress profile: Carey Mulligan. Page 196. A small feature on the up-and-coming actress who was so charming in "Bleak House." Can't wait to see her in "Never Let Me Go" – see #5 below, due in 2010, and this month's "An Education," with Peter Sarsgaard.
#6 Michelle Williams Interview. Page 204. Michelle Williams has been a favorite since "Brokeback Mountain." This interview is a sensitive look into the private life of a very talented actress, and manages to entirely avoid being crass about her connection to the late Heath Ledger.
#5 Ishiguro's 2005 novel "Never Let Me Go" – mentioned in the article about Carey Mulligan, who will star in the film version scheduled for 2010 release. I bought this book about a year ago and hadn't gotten around to reading it; now that I know that the book's narrator is a (?!) (don't want to spoil it for you) (oh my god how weird) I've picked it up again – and it's fantastic!
#4 Photo of Karlie Kloss. Page 216. The 15-year-old, 5-foot-11-inch model of the moment in a truly wonderful shot (not the photo above). See a video of the very charming Kloss demonstrating her "death stare" at: http://vainandvapid.blogspot.com/2008/05/modeling-talk-with-karlie-kloss.html.
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MOSCOW, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Russians can face the Mayan apocalypse fully prepared thanks to a kit being sold that includes a bottle of vodka and -- as a nod to pessimists -- some rope.
For those who think they might have a chance of surviving whatever comes on Dec. 21, the kits contain other staples: a packet of buckwheat, a can of fish, candles, matches, notepad, pencil, heart and other medication, and soap. It also has a helpful tutorial on post-apocalypse board games to pass the time after the world as we know it comes to an end.
The kits, produced by a local bridal party operator as a joke gift, cost 890 rubles ($27), RIA Novosti reported Monday. Funny or not, the sale of more than 1,000 of the kits prompted local officials to put the kibosh on the operation because special permits are needed to sell alcohol or medication.
The kits are in response to the supposed cataclysm to come at the end to the 5,000-year Mayan calendar, which lists Dec. 21 as its final date.


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I really didn't think there were still companies that delivered customer service and support like that anymore. A big thumbs up to NSS for being there whenever I needed you guys. They got me level of security I wanted well with in my budget. No high pressure sales or upselling, but after talking with them we did add-on some really cool lighting upgrades and automation for our interior.
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I had contacted several other local (national) companies and no one could service my ELK system. Then Gary arrives and brought my system back to life and operational. He not only had the knowledge but a amazing passion for the ELK product. Thanks a lot looking froward to years of service with you.
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