Graffiti-covered train cars sitting idle
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 13, 2008 by Rodger L. Hardy Deseret News
PAYSON — A string of graffiti-covered railroad cars parked on a Union Pacific spur along I-15 in southern Utah County is sitting idle, not because of the tagging, but because of the economy.
Each of the boxcars, many of which belong to Union Pacific customers, probably picked up the urban art along the rail company’s 33,000 miles of track and likely when the cars were in such areas as Los Angeles or Chicago, company spokeswoman Zoe Richmond said.
“The cars are sitting there because they’re not needed,” she said. Ironically, they are parked in an area where tagging is a problem.
A few miles south in Payson, police there say they have a particularly serious issue with taggers. In Payson, graffiti is painted over quickly because it breeds more graffiti, police say. Competing gangs often make threats to other gangs, which in turn are answered.
But rail cars move around the country in the open where they’re easy targets for taggers and where the graffiti is more difficult to remove.
Still, the company considers tagging a serious problem, Richmond said
Amid Katrina death and despair, small signs of progress
AFP, September, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) â A fragile semblance of order started to return after the chaos wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as the grim search for bodies intensified.
In worst-hit New Orleans, engineers began pumping the toxic floodwaters out of the city after finally plugging a levee breached by the storm a week ago, and recovery teams moved from house to house to retrieve the dead that Mayor Ray Nagin warned could number 10,000.
In the city’s relatively intact western suburbs, thousands of evacuees who fled the storm returned Monday to check on the state of their battered homes and salvage what they could.
Anxious residents formed miles-long lines of cars, vans and empty rental trucks clogging roads leading into Jefferson Parish for the first look at…
Out to Africa; Building a future for the children
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 27, 2009
Byline: SAM WOOD
THIS lad is on track to make a difference.
Kris Coulthard is heading out to Africa on the adventure of a lifetime to help build new equipment for deprived children.
Kris, of Throckley, Newcastle, will travel to Zambia for a month later this year to help build a tennis court and other sports facilities at a school.
The Northumbria University student will travel out with two other students, Liam Schofield and Jade Wilson, to the town of Kablunga.
All three are studying construction subjects at the university and hope to use their skills to improve the lives of the children.
Kris, 21, said: “This will be a great experience I’m sure, but I don’t really know what to expect.
“It is the first time anyone from the university has been out there, but we are hoping this could be the start of a longlasting partnership.
“This time we just hope to make some good contacts and see what they really need, as well as doing some construction.”
The Northumbria students will be joined by others from Durham and York.
They are going out to Africa as part of the Edusport charity, which aims to improve access to sports facilities for children in Zambia.
Kris added: “We have been told there is a real lack of sports facilities for the children out there.
“That is a problem because there are big issues with crime and drugs in Zam-bia. Hopefully if we can help improve the sports facilities we can give the children something else to do so they don’t have to resort to crime.
“It should a really worthwhile trip.” To help out the children and pay for the new sports equipment, Kris is trying to raise pounds 3,000 by performing a series of charity gigs in Newcastle.
“I play the guitar and sing so I thought that would be a great way to help raise some money,” he said.
“But I don’t have the equipment and its very expensive. I need lights, a monitor and a PA. I hope someone would be able to lend that to me.
“The trip is being paid for by the university so all the money I raise will go straight to new sports equipment at the school and could help to improve the lives of these children.” Anyone who thinks they may be able to help out Kris with some equipment for his fund raising gigs should contact him through his myspace page at www.myspace.com/kriscoulthardmusic
Questions and answers from the NWHN women’s health information clearinghouse. (About Your Health).
Network News, The, May, 2003
Q. I am in my late 40′s and experience heavy bleeding. My doctor suggested endometrial ablation as an alternative to a hysterectomy. What do you think of it? Are there any alternatives?
A. Many women (especially in their teens or forties) experience long or heavy periods. Menopause, of course, resolves the problem for the latter group. Although heavy bleeding can be disruptive, it is only a medical problem if it causes anemia. Currently the best treatment for heavy bleeding is birth control pills, not surgery. Alternative treatments include the herb chaste-tree berry (Vitex agnus-castus) or an individualized Chinese herb mixture
COURT UPHOLDS PATENT VALIDITY FOR LAMPS PLUS FLOOR LAMP.
HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, October, 2004 by Meyer, Nancy
Byline: Nancy Meyer
DALLAS-A federal court here entered a final judgment in favor of Lamps Plus and against Patrick S. Dolan, Design Trends LLC, and Craftmade International on a jury verdict of $143,385 for willful infringement of Lamps Plus patents. The judgment included a permanent injunction banning further infringement and an award of $600,000 in attorney’s fees.
At issue were three-in-one “tree” torchieres, for which Lamps Plus and its wholesale arm, Pacific Coast Lighting, hold utility and design patents
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Annuities: Helping hand for the future.
Investment Adviser, March, 2009
Byline: Nigel Barlow
Advisers face the challenge of a lack of understanding of annuities among their clients, along with an increase in the choice of products that are available
The at-retirement market is considered the place to be, as an adviser or provider, for the next few years. An increasing number of people – baby-boomers – are starting to reach retirement age each year, bringing with them an increasing number of individual pension funds. Confusion is rife, and the demand for advice from this group is likely to grow substantially.
Despite the gradual disappearance of defined-benefit (DB) occupational schemes, the largest number of people reaching retirement will receive the bulk of their private income from such plans
Warts And All
New York Jewish Week, The, January, 2008 by Wolpe, David
A rabbi is speaking with a doctor, who says, “You know, Rabbi, I often treat patients without asking them to pay.” Hie rabbi responds, “I do that too.” The doctor, perplexed, persists: “You know, I often write prescriptions and cover the cost myself.” The rabbi muses, “Yes, I do rJhat too.” The doctor, frustrated, says, “I even do surgery and forgo my normal fee!” The rabbi nods, and says, “Yes, I do that too.”
“Wait a annate,” exclaims the doctor. “You aren’t a doctor you don’t write prescriptions, do surgery and examine patients!” The rabbi is startled: “Oh no, I didn’t mean that. I just meant yes, I say good things about myself too.”
When I conduct job interviews and ask people to name a fault, they often answer with a disguised merit: “Well, I can’t stand it if…
Good riddance to tire age bill.(News)
Tire Business, July, 2009
Tire dealers everywhere should be breathing a sigh of relief now that a California bill designed to require them to provide tire age information on sales contracts has been withdrawn by its sponsors.
The action came none too soon and just a day before a California Senate committee was to hold a hearing on it. This follows the bill’s passage by the California Assembly.
Simply put, AB 496 would have been a huge hassle for tire dealers not only in California but in every state across the nation should the idea spread, with no quantifiable benefit to consumers
A Practical Look at Bundling Transactions: Let's Bundle in the Jungle
Journal of Equipment Lease Financing (Online), The, Winter 2009 by Hamroff, Marc L, Cohen, Robert S
A continuing trend in the leasing industry has been to combine or “bundle” maintenance and other soft costs with equipment in an equipment lease. Lessees have found such arrangements to be a practical, efficient, comprehensive solution to their needs, as the lessor would be financing all the goods and services necessary to operate the leased equipment.
Bundled leases are being used in all aspects of the marketplace. They are not simply limited to large-ticket technology deals. Examples of bundled leases range from leasing high-end, sophisticated medical equipment (inclusive of all software licenses, training, maintenance, and/or other supplies necessary to operate the equipment during the lease term) to a small-ticket, basic photocopier with maintenance for the term of the lease.
Bundled transactions are often required by the vendor and manufacturer in an effort to create “one payment” packages for both the equipment and services, perhaps to discount a prepaid maintenance agreement, to attempt to create hell-or-high-water protection for the entire payment, or to structure the transaction pursuant to certain tax or accounting considerations. Accordingly, lessors are assembling these packages in an effort to be more competitive in the marketplace.
This article will focus on the jungle created by a wide variety of methods of documenting bundled transactions
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