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Potholes sink road budgets
"They spring up where they spring up. It's kind of like a teenager with acne." So said Kirk Weston, director of the St. Clair County Road Commission, about the predictability of potholes. The randomness already has started, with several area roads bearing the cratered scars of winter. .
Sunoco, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
The earnings release for Sunoco Logistics Partners LP provides a more detailed discussion of its quarterly performance but in general the solid earnings were largely due to strong demand for pipelines and terminaling and strong operations from the partnerships assets including those acquired in recent years and increased earnings from its least crude acquisition business.
For the full year 2007, logistics earned $45 million up $9 million from 2006 and the highest level since the formation Sunoco Logistics Partners in 2002.
Coke, which lost $2 million in the fourth quarter was impacted by $14 million unfavorable partial phase-out of alternative fuel tax credits due to higher crude oil prices. As a reminder, through the end of 2007, our Coke business benefited from certain section 29 non-conventional fuel tax credits, which were subject to phase-out on a ratable basis, when the annual crude oil price on the WTI basis averaged over approximately $62 a barrel, with full phase-out at an estimated annual average of about $76 barrels WTI.
Farai Chideya, NPR Biography
Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Chideya has also been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. In 1997 Newsweek named her to its "Century Club" of 100 people to watch. Chideya, who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated with a B.A. from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1990, is also the founder of PopandPolitics.com, an online journal for younger Americans based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications.
Chad to investigate new 'kidnap' claims
The reports come on the heels of Chad's kidnapping charges against six French workers with the group Zoe's Ark who are accused of trying to take 103 other children out of Chad to France. The group said the children were orphans from Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region, but the French Foreign Ministry and others have cast doubt on the claims. The Zoe's Ark affair has infuriated Chadians, but it is not known if the group was involved in the alleged transport of the 74 children whose cases have now come to light, said Masngarel Kagah of the public prosecutor's department. The Network of Human Rights Associations in Chad wrote to the public prosecutor's department with details about the 74, who were said to have been flown to a military airport outside Paris on Sept.
Drunk last night? Don't show your boss on Facebook
Don't be tempted to boast about it on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, or worse provide pictures of yourself behaving like a complete buffoon. For would-be employers could be digging for digital dirt. Readily available -- and possibly embarrassing -- information is just a mouse click away. "The best advice is -- don't put anything on your profile you wouldn't want you mother to see," said Andy Powell, director at the international recruitment agency Badenoch & Clark. He warned social networking devotees not to post pictures of debauched parties, to go easy on details of romantic trysts and never to complain about their current job or boss. "More and more recruiters are taking note of 'net reputations,'" Powell said.
Camera with built-in GPS to be unveiled at PMA?
Well, that's what the folks over at the Geotate booth were talking about during the PMA Sneak Peek event held today at the Las Vegas Convention Center. According to them, the camera will be developed by a Taiwanese vendor and introduced under a branded camera name during PMA.
Geotate believes that its GPS geotagging solution can overcome common issues faced by other similar devices in the market today such as sluggish GPS response and power drain. This is achieved by separating the GPS data capture and processing. Once the shutter is pressed, the GPS data is stored in the memory and will only be processed when it is transferred to the PC and connected to Geotate's server.
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