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All the candidates who have registered for online examination of Licentiate, Insurance Institute of India to be held in February 2012 must book the exam slot which will be open from 01st January 2012 to 20th January 2011.
After the online registration through website of Insurance Institute of India, if the candidates fail to book the exam slot, the system will treat the candidate as absent.
(Booking window will be available from 01st January 2012 to 20th January 2011)
The Licentiate online examination slot booking window will be available from 01st January 2012 to 20th January 2011. After login in you have to select the exam centre, exam date & time. The hall ticket will be available immediately after the slot booking. You are requested to print the hall ticket and bring your photo id at the time of examination. The examination dates is in Feb 2012.III will not send the hard copy of Hall Ticket to the Candidates.
The URL is available for enrollment up to 20th January 2012. To get the access for the above URL you have to follow below login information.
User id: Your user id is 8 digit registration number followed by word " III†example if your registration number is 98899889 then your user id is III98899889.
Password: Password is same as your birth date in numeric format (DDMMYYYY) i.e. if your birth date is 01-June-1980 then your password will be 1061980. Please ignore the leading zero.
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a. New candidates should "CREATE AN ACCOUNT" Login-ID on website.
b. After login please CREATE your PROFILE.
c. Fill in the columns on the basis of information provided by candidates in the entry form.
d. Certain information like email id and mobile number of candidate is mandatory for sending information to the candidates.
e. Once the desired information is filled in, submit the data update the missing info if any.
f. On providing complete information system will accept the profile and will generate (your)CANDIDATE ID. Please NOTE THIS ID NUMBER. .
g. View your profile for confirmation giving (your) CANDIDATE ID as above.
h. Go for Registration option. Pay registration fees ONLINE through Debit/Credit card.
i. Go for Enrollment of subjects. You will have to enroll for minimum 3 papers. Select the Subject/Language/Centre etc.
j. Pay fee ONLINE through Debit/ Credit card.
k. If you apply for Online exam after registering you will have to separately book the slot before the exam. You will have to select date and timefor appearing in the exam. If you fail to book the slot you will not be eligible for appearing in the exam.
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New Leaf, new responsibilities
posted by wolfhunter64 (PITTSBURGH, PA) Jun 9, 2013
Member since Jun 2013
18 out of 22 gamers (82%) found this review helpful
Just Pure Amazing
posted by TOXICWEED (BIRMINGHAM, AL) Jun 15, 2013
Member since Jun 2013
9 out of 12 gamers (75%) found this review helpful
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10/10 No Doubt About It
Best of the series so far.
posted by tiloho (OSHKOSH, WI) Jul 11, 2013
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3 out of 5 gamers (60%) found this review helpful
posted by GamerTech (NEW YORK, NY) Mar 24, 2014
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1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
Just not my thing.
posted by epickduck (WILLINGTON, CT) Dec 26, 2013
Member since Jul 2011
1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
about time!
posted by wiifan2009 (GRAND RAPIDS, MI) Jun 9, 2013
Member since Apr 2006
5 out of 11 gamers (45%) found this review helpful
Good but...
posted by jessica6m (BAYSIDE, NY) Nov 21, 2014
Member since Nov 2014
I am sorry I crossed here, time for a REAL review!
posted by greg137 (CALDWELL, ID) Dec 24, 2013
Member since May 2010
There are three goals of this game, and they are collecting cash(bells).
Collecting Nintendo knick knacks..
and collecting Gyroids..
Beyond that you can go online and show off your town which many people claim all look the same... It USED to be that the animal crossing series had another goal which was collecting 8 bit NES games, but that feature was droppped! Collecting things and earning money are the staple sub routine in MOST video games.. This game that sub routine is ALL that you do.. You collect things, day/night cycles according to Real time and the shops close at night, so you can only really play during the day,so there is obvious padding going on here.. This game has virtually no substance, you see, and padding is all there is.. If you are on any kind schedule in the REAL world, then this game might very well be a pain and a hassle to play! Try before you buy!
Best animal crossing game
posted by Angrybirdsfan (CORONA, CA) Nov 30, 2013
Member since Nov 2013
Great Life
posted by Teenkitsune (ABERDEEN, MD) Oct 27, 2013
Member since Oct 2013
posted by Thegamer1337 (RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA) Sep 25, 2013
Member since Sep 2013
Very Good
A Baby-Step Forward
posted by SteelBubblez (NEW HAVEN, CT) Aug 7, 2013
Member since Aug 2013
> Customization: As the mayor you can declare "public works projects" by talking to your secretary, Isabelle, from your desk. This lets you make things like bridges or lamp posts - things of that nature, but you can also unlock cool buildings like the cafe or police station from past games. Of course you fund 99% of the projects yourself as your fellow townsfolk aren't keen on donating their hard-earned bells, but it adds a bit more depth to the game.
> New Money-Maker: You can swim and go diving for underwater goodies after tirelessly playing minigames to earn the wetsuit at the island!
> Few New Buildings: There's "Club LOL" where you can get emotions, a shoe store, and a plant store.
(I hate to admit that that's as innovative as the game gets in my opinion.)
> Reoccurring Annoyance: New villagers can move DIRECTLY in front of your house, two squares in front. This completely ruined the experience for me and drove me to return the game out of sheer frustration, but I know that what happened to me may simply be a rare coincidence.
> Lack of Physical Customization: You STILL can't customize your character's psychical features, other than your hair which, unless you use a chart online to match the hairdresser's questions with the style/color you'd like, can completely ruin your character until you can change it again.
> Repetitive: Can still get repetitive, but I suppose that's up to the player.
All-in-all I'd say it's a step forward, but not by much. I don't say this to put the game down as I was hooked on it for a good month and a half, but it just doesn't add much. In short, it's not that different from the other games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but they could have done a lot more with it in terms of exploration, customization, collectibles, etc.
I give it a solid 8/10.
Even better than Wild World
posted by GameGirrl3 (FAIRMONT, WV) Jul 15, 2013
Member since Nov 2006
Best one yet
posted by matt5177 Jun 30, 2013
The ultimate Animal Crossing game!
posted by mrkatamari (HYNDMAN, PA) Jun 30, 2013
Member since Oct 2008
Regardless, I was very excited to play a new Animal Crossing game, and New Leaf looked to add a bit more to the game to sweeten the deal. I pre-ordered it right away and was excited for it to launch.
It was immediately clear to me that New Leaf would mix much of what was good about City Folk with the intuitive controls of both the Wii (analog stick) and DS (stylus control). There's so much more to do in this entry than the previous two!
First of all, the main draw is that you can become the mayor of the town! This means that in addition to upgrading your private house to amazingly huge proportions, you also have the role of rebuilding the town and funding projects to bring back different town centers such as the police HQ or Mr. Resetti's Reset Center.
You also have the ability to essentially take up an 'ordinance' suggested by the townsfolk. Examples of what these laws do include anything from extending the store and animal activity into the wee hours of the night, or increasing the buy/sell prices of the local shops, allowing you to rake up the bells! It's a nice way to customize the game features to your liking.
Outside of the new mayoral duties is the ability to visit 'main street' which includes basically every building from City Folk. New tools include the megaphone which allows you to yell the name of an animal into the mic in order to locate them, and the scuba suit that allows you to dive into the ocean and fish up all sorts of creatures and lost objects.
All the new features make this game the ultimate Animal Crossing game. If you're a fan of the series, it's amazing. For everyone else, I must say that the game is very casual, so keep that in mind and don't expec
Unexpected Improvements
posted by RainbowGrenade (WARNER ROBINS, GA) Jun 23, 2013
Member since Jun 2013
What I like most about this new installment, is that they've added a lot more playability by not only giving you more goals to work toward, but they've also made it so some options and locations are not available immediately. It's great having something different opening up for you every few days.
I'm still only so far into the game, but I look forward to the rest of the discoveries I'll be making as I continue to live in my town.
posted by BLITZCAT (MESQUITE, TX) Jun 22, 2013
Member since Jun 2013
Really fun!
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In order to detect the presence of nearby females, the male silk moth utilizes an oily coating on his antennae. Any female pheromone molecules that are in the air will stick to that coating, which then guides them through nanotunnels in the insect's exoskeleton, and ultimately to nerve cells that alert Mr. Moth to the fact that there are ladies in the area. It's a clever enough system that scientists from the University of Michigan have copied it, in hopes of better understanding neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Read More
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Carbon nanotubes, despite all the technological advances they're making possible, look pretty boring. When viewed though a microscope, they are, essentially, just straight tubes. Now scientists from the University of Michigan have used a process called "capillary forming" to create nanotubes that resemble twisting spires, concentric rings, and bending petals. It's not about aesthetics though, giving nanotubes complex 3D shapes is seen as an important breakthrough in the development of microdevices and nanomaterials. Read More
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Former Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry has been chosen to serve as Secretary of State, according to a Chicago Sun-Times columnist who heard it from an unidentified White House source. This doesn't exactly come from left field. Kerry, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was rumored to be on the short list for [...]
Obama Administration Denies Imminent Bilateral Talks With Iran
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The White House is denying a report in the New York Times claiming that they will conduct one-on-one talks with Iran over their nuclear program. The bilateral negotiations, the fruit of a secret back-channel process according to the Times, would not occur until after the Presidential election, at the Iranian's request, so they can have [...]
After Karzai Criticism, US Looking for Exits in Afghanistan
|By: David Dayen Thursday October 4, 2012 12:14 pm
Not a good sign for your signature war policy when the lead partner in the country in question says it's doomed to failure. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the U.S.-led war on militancy would "not be successful," and accused Western media of waging "psychological warfare" on his country. The outgoing leader said [...]
Netanyahu Stirs Controversy With Remarks on Iran and "Red Lines"
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In addition to the tragic situation in Libya, another international incident simmered last night, on the subject of Israel and Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech claiming that the US had "no moral right" to intervene in a potential Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, unless they too set a "red line" [...]
Former Bush CIA Director Michael Hayden Explains Folly of an Attack on Iran
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The Democratic platform on Iran has a mix of pleas for a diplomatic solution combined with the ever-present threats and vows of military force if required. It acknowledges straight-out that "Iran has yet to build a nuclear weapon" but adds that the country has "failed to meet its obligations under the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty). [...]
Forthcoming IAEA Report Will Announce Continued Uranium Enrichment by Iran
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Looks like we're scheduled to endure another round of hype about Iran's nuclear program. David Sanger writes in today's New York Times about an imminent IAEA report. International nuclear inspectors will soon report that Iran has installed hundreds of new centrifuges in recent months and may also be speeding up production of nuclear fuel while [...]
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Police have been searching for a sweet-toothed, fleet-footed thief who got away with two bottles of flavored vodka after telling a western Pennsylvania state store clerk, "See ya!"
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The live-in caretaker of a Greensburg mansion faces criminal charges for allegedly drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner's whiskey.
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Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday afternoon outlined his plans to open up liquor and beer sales in Pennsylvania. He estimates the plan will generate $1 billion in revenue and get the state out of the alcohol business.
Fine Wine And Good Spirits App Released
The Liquor Control Board's fine wine and good spirits app lets you find the nearest liquor store.
Pricey Bars That Are Worth It In Pittsburgh
The majority of the bars in Pittsburgh can tout affordability as one of their top selling points. Occasionally though, quality trumps quantity and sitting down with a good glass of wine or a delicious appetizer is more appealing then wings and an Iron City.
Pittsburgh's Buzz Worthy Bar: Burgatory
Rather than offer a cute, but probably overdone, analogy tying Burgatory's name to its heavenly menu selections, I'll just say this. Burgatory Bar is awesome. But really, it's where all other burgers go to die. I couldn't resist.
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This week Facebook has released figures demonstrating that over 83 million of its profiles are 'fake' - with millions of pages taken up by people pretending to either be Tiddles the cat or a fictional Kardashian sibling.
Social media has made it possible for any of us to masquerade as any big-name celeb we wish. Here are our five celeb parody accounts on Twitter - along with some choice recent tweets.
5. Not Boris Johnson @NotBorisJohnson
SAMPLE TWEET: "Lorks! Lost at cards to Tessa Sanderson at drinking party before Olympic ceremony dress rehearsal. Had to shut Central Line as forfeit."
4. John Terry (Not) @BigJohnTerry
SAMPLE TWEET: "#DontYouJustHateWhen The husbands car is in the drive... #cockblock."
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SAMPLE TWEET: "I deserve the credit for the golds yesterday! I once rode a bike. I've seen a canoe. And I've shot hundreds of peasants from my car #inspire."
2. The Dark Lord @Lord_Voldermort7
SAMPLE TWEET: "Note that 'Voldemort' isn't trending. Twitter knows better than to say my name."
1. Ian Beale @_IanBeale
Our top spot goes to a man arguably more popular on Twitter than he is on the telly. With over 59,000 Bealeiebers, it's the one, the only, Ian Beale, from off EastEnders (sort of).
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March 27, 2104 - "[T]ax breaks might save you a serious chunk of change when April 15th rolls around. ... '[Tax credits] are a financial benefit, but you don't get it at the time your tuition bill is due,' explains Karen McCarthy, a policy analyst for [NASFAA]," Schools.com reports.
December 11, 2014 - "Choosing the right college at the right price is a daunting task, especially considering nearly two-thirds of Americans think pursuing a degree at any institution has become unaffordable, according to a Huffington Post/YouGov poll," FOX Business reports. "Prices have climbed so far, so fast that ability to pay is the top reason students cite for why they don't go to college or drop out before graduating, says Justin Draeger, president and CEO of [NASFAA]."
November 18, 2014 - "Following are some tips from college financial experts on steps to take before, during and after college to help ensure that your debt load remains manageable so it doesn't ruin your life," CNBC reports. "It's best to determine in advance how much you will spend in total on college and how much you're willing to borrow, said Justin Draeger, president of [NASFAA]."
March 24, 2014 - "Whether students leave college with a degree or without one, they face a dizzying array of challenges—where to live, how to get a job, and increasingly, how to repay their loans. Five organizations, including the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and Young Invincibles, have a proposal that aims to answer that last question with a streamlined and automated alternative to the complex system of repaying loans," Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
July 1, 2013 - "As student loan interest rates doubled Monday, Republicans and Democrats in Washington criticized each other for failing to come to a last-minute agreement and stave off the increase," the Washington Times reports. "'We're disappointed that lawmakers were unable to find a bipartisan solution that would bring down interest rates for all federal student loan borrowers — despite the fact that the Obama administration and members of Congress have proposed similar solutions that would bring federal student loan interest [rates] down,' said Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."
November 13, 2014 - "Though college tuition and fee prices still outpaced the rate of inflation in the past year, the average increases were lower than those posted in the past five years, the past 10 years and the past 30 years, according to the report published Thursday by the College Board," The Chicago Tribune reports, in an article that quotes NASFAA National Chair-Elect Dan Mann.
April 1, 2014 - "If you think you don't have enough money to pay for college, the U.S. government can help through the Federal Pell Grant Program," NASFAA president Justin Draeger penned for HigherEducationUpdates.com, a division of Mediaplanet.
June 6, 2013 - "Now that you know what the student loan debate is all about (if not, you should read this), it's time to hear from some of the lesser heard voices who are apt to be greatly impacted by whatever decision is to be made about the interest rates on subsidized Stafford Loans," In The Capital reports. NASFAA is mentioned in the article.
January 17, 2014 - "Next to buying a home, college tuition is the biggest expense most people face, but at least homebuyers know the total cost and can plan accordingly. 'It's kind of strange when you think about it that students and parents are expected to make this enormous investment in a school (and) for the most part they don't know the final price tag,' says Justin Draeger, president and CEO of [NASFAA]. 'That lack of clarity can really make it hard to be financially prepared,'"FOX Business reports.
June 20, 2014 - "The Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act of 2014 would amend the Higher Education Act in several ways. ... 'We're with Sens. Alexander and Bennet in the spirit of what they're doing,' [NASFAA] President Justin Draeger said, adding that 'there are a lot of logistical questions that still need to be answered,'" POLITICO Pro reports.
July 9, 2014 - "Last year, [NASFAA] developed a ... year-round [Pell Grant] concept — the 'Pell Well' — that would allow students to draw funds based on their financial needs," Minnesota Daily reports.
April 25, 2013 - "In a post for University Business, Justin Draeger of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators stated that the myth that 'increases in student aid drive up college costs' is one that lawmakers use 'when justifying proposals to cut federal student aid spending,'" Media Matters for America reports.
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June 5, 2014 - "Widener University announced that it would award $100,000 scholarships to every eighth-grade student who graduates from Widener Partnership Charter School in Chester," The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. "'The earlier the better,' Jesse O'Connell, a spokesman for [NASFAA], said about awarding scholarships to eighth graders. 'It kind of gets them thinking that college is possible and finances aren't a barrier.'"
December 9, 2014 - "Student loan guarantee agencies faced an uncertain future in 2010, when the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress eliminated government-backed private lending," Inside Higher Ed reports, in an article that cites Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation's collaboration with NASFAA.
September 19, 2014 - "It's important for colleges, universities, financial aid administrators to be thinking about ways that they can experiment in getting information to [students] that will be effective in helping them manage their loan debt as they leave school," NASFAA President Justin Draeger said in an interview for CNBC's Nightly Business Report.
August 29, 2014 - "In June the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the National Direct Student Loan Coalition announced the formation of a task force to focus on possible improvements in the servicing contracts," The Chronicle of Higher Education's The Ticker blog reports.
February 4, 2014 - "A task force of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators on Monday submitted proposed revisions in its ethics documents to its members for their feedback," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. NASFAA has an important role in shaping the profession's standards, said Justin Draeger, its president. "If we don't police ourselves and hold ourselves to the highest standard,'" he said, "we're inviting others to do it for us."
December 8, 2014 - "Follow these steps to ensure you're making the best decisions on student loans," The Fiscal Times writes. "'Students often start their search for schools based on things like location, faculty, and extra curriculars,' said Megan McClean, director of policy and federal relations for [NASFAA]. 'Cost and affordability also need to be part of college fit.'"
June 13, 2014 - "The last lines of defense between teens and decades of debt are generally college financial aid offices. ... 'I can guarantee that students are doing entrance counseling because schools face program reviews and audits all the time,' says Justin Draeger, president and CEO" of NASFAA to Yahoo Finance!, adding that "The timing of entrance counseling is not great. You're doing it at the same time as you're moving on to campus, enrolling in classes, buying books. There's a lot going on competing for a student's attention."
November 13, 2014 - "College prices are still climbing, but they're doing so at a slower pace than they were for the past several years, and the amount of money borrowed for higher education last year fell for the third straight year, according to two reports released today by College Board. Justin Draeger, president of [NASFAA], said this year's reports are good news over all," Inside Higher Ed reports.
November 12, 2014 - "'PLUS is a tricky program because you want families to have access to education, but at the same time you want to make sure they are not being burdened by excessive debt,' said Jesse O'Connell, assistant director for federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, The Washington Post reports.
February 5, 2014 - "As the price of college continues to outpace the rise in inflation, many students and their families are making tuition costs a top priority in the application process. But getting an accurate sense of how much a diploma is going to cost can be hard to do," FOX Business reports. "Colleges are highly subsidized, [says] Justin Draeger, president of [NASFAA]. 'State and federal appropriations, institutional aid and alumni donations make up the bulk of their funding and they can change at any time and affect the prices students and parents pay.'"
August 27, 2014 - On August 27, NASFAA's Director of Policy and Federal Relations Megan McClean was a featured guest on San Francisco's KALW Local Public Radio show, "Your Call." Tune in to the recording for McClean's interview and question-and-answer session.


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"On Christmas Eve, if you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your one true love, he will be your destiny."
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If there's a lesson from U.S. railroads' first quarter financial performance, it's this: They're not likely to let any slowdown in the economic recovery in the coming months derail healthy earnings.
The major U.S. railroads displayed a new level of pricing power in the first quarter, reporting robust earnings on slim volume growth. The top three U.S. railroads, excluding BNSF, which doesn't publicly report earnings, registered double-digit profit growth on a volume gain of a mere 1 percent. Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation reported record profit, while Union Pacific posted record revenue despite the sluggish traffic growth. The four publicly traded major U.S. railroads, including Kansas City Southern, increased total profit 26.2 percent.
KCS, the smallest of the five major U.S. railroads, boosted traffic roughly 7 percent year-over-year, but the gains were less impressive, considering the company's smaller market share. More telling was the 78 percent year-over-year jump in intermodal traffic on the railroad and its Mexican subsidiary, Kansas City Southern de Mexico, in the same period. That's driven by increased manufacturing in Mexico, the Port of Lazaro Cardenas's double-digit volume growth and the hundreds of millions of dollars KCS has invested south of the border in recent years.
Among the four U.S. railroads, revenue per carload and intermodal, a key indicator of pricing, rose about 7 percent. About half to two-thirds of the increases are driven by increased pricing, with the rest gained through more efficient operations, wrote John Larkin, managing director at Stifel Nicolaus. More efficiency gains are expected, as the North American Class I railroads plan to spend more than $16 billion on network improvements this year.
The railroads flexed their pricing power even more when it came to intermodal traffic. The average revenue per intermodal unit among the four U.S. railroads expanded 9.1 percent against volume growth of about 5.6 percent. The disparity between volume and pricing growth helped push the four railroads' intermodal revenue up 14 percent from the first quarter of 2011.
The majority of the intermodal growth comes from the domestic side, driven by steady expansion of U.S. manufacturing. CSX, for instance, said domestic volume rose 9 percent year-over-year, setting a first quarter record. The 9 percent jump in international traffic was largely due to the railroad's new deal with Maersk Line, not organic growth of port traffic.
"We've been growing that domestic intermodal 6 percent to 7 percent for the last six or seven years. And we think the conditions in the highway trucking are going to continue to fuel that," Michael Ward, CSX CEO, president and chairman, told investors on April 18.
The railroad's major rival, NS, boosted intermodal traffic 10.4 percent, outpacing CSX's growth of about 8.5 percent. NS handled roughly 30 percent more intermodal volume in the first quarter than its Jacksonville, Fla.-based rival.
Domestic intermodal growth might slow if manufacturing analysts are right in expecting U.S. production to slip into a lower gear. A quarterly index by the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation suggests factory output will continue to grow but at a more modest pace for the rest of the year. A potential dip in domestic intermodal growth could be partially offset by shippers' overall push of freight from truck to rail, as diesel prices stay volatile and truck capacity tightens.
A boost in container volume at the ports of Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., in March also could signal an uptick in intermodal volumes down the road.
Similar growth at West Coast ports is particularly needed, as UP's intermodal volume rose just 1 percent year-over-year in the first quarter. A 6 percent increase in intermodal traffic helped the railroad weather the 3 percent decline in international loads, said Eric Butler, UP's executive vice president of marketing and sales.
"In international intermodal, we're still cautious and, as a result, only expect slow growth," he told investors on April 19.
International intermodal appears to have fared better for the two major Canadian railroads. Canadian National said intermodal volume at its two west coast gateways, Vancouver and Prince Rupert, outpaced the total trans-Pacific market. Volume tied to the Port of Halifax slipped, however, and traffic driven by the Port of Montreal was flat. A 22 percent bump in cross-border traffic helped push total intermodal volume up 13.4 percent year-over-year.
"For intermodal, there's no reason for it to really slow down. It might go from market to market, east to west, but we have a solid plan," CN President and CEO Claude Mongeau said.
Canadian Pacific, the smaller of the country's two top railroads, saw a smaller pace of intermodal growth, a 3.3 percent year-over-year gain. Volume tied to the ports of Vancouver and Montreal was up from last year, and domestic intermodal in the U.S and Canadian lanes "delivered growth over last year," said Jane O'Hagan, CP's executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
The Canadian railroads were less aggressive in capitalizing on their intermodal pricing power. CN and CP raised revenue per intermodal unit 3.9 percent total, while the average gain from carload and intermodal unit increased 8.2 percent in the same period. CN kept its industry lead in terms of operating ratio, and CP improved its own ratio, a key measure of profitability, amid a proxy fight.
The already contentious fight over leadership of the railroad will heat up further ahead of the proxy vote slated for May 17 at the annual shareholder meeting. With the industry delivering robust profit regardless of the volume growth, the CP battle adds a rare element to the railroad landscape: uncertainty.
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Tech Tip: Fun With Gawk
When grep and sed aren't enough, gawk may provide the extra horsepower that you need. The following tip contains a sampling of some of the things one might do with gawk.
Extract the last column from a text file, whitespace-separated:
cat myfile | gawk '{print $NF}'
gawk '{print $NF}' myfile
List counts of files owned by each user in the current directory:
/bin/ls -l | \ gawk 'NR > 1 {counts[$3]++;} END {for (s in counts) { printf(" %-15s : % 5d\n", s, counts[s]);}}' | \ sort
Kill your processes (one use is to kill a hung login if you can remotely log in to the workstation from another machine):
ps -elf | \ gawk -v me="$USER" '$3 == me {print $4}' | \ egrep -v $$ | \ xargs -i@@ kill -9 @@; kill -9 $$
Thanks for the tips, especially pkill (which is new with Solaris 7; 1998! :) ).
The file count routine I use for counting source files in the current directory, so strange filenames are not an issue (also I find find to be kind of slow).
Here is the online manual for gawk: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
Here is a little program people might remember coding from FORTRAN class; maybe it can help put the baby to sleep:
echo 100 1 10 0.01 | gawk '{amp = $1; freq = $2; cycles = $3; tdelta = $4; for (i = 0; i <= 2 * 3.14159 * cycles; i += 2 * 3.14159 / 360) {printf("%*s\n", int((amp/2.0) * sin(i * freq) + (amp/2.0)), "*"); system("sleep " tdelta); }}'
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What does this have to do with Fortran? I use Fortran every day, and have no idea what you're talking about. Also, I was born in '84, long after punch cards and FORTRAN IV etc., which may explain my confusion.
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Too many odd things can be in file names, spaces, newlines, etc.
It's a rare case that all you want is a list of file names. In most cases you want to do something to the files based on their names, and if that's the case, 'find' can be a better tool, or maybe ' stat -c %n [glob]'.
Start learning basic unix commands before playing with awk
Sorry, but there is no need to use (g)awk here. I really like (g)awk, but your examples are just poor. Ok, maybe first one is a typical case for awk.
You forgot about dot files, but second one can be replaced with:
ls -Al | sed '1d;s/\([^ \t]\+[ \t]\+\)\{2\}//;s/[ \t].*//' | sort | uniq -c
or even better:
find . -printf "%u\n" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | sort | uniq -c
Third one (really badly and also wrongly implemented) is a perfect case for pkill:
pkill -9 -U "$UID"
I can agree that your second example might be faster than mine, but it's irrelevant here.
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Rochester, N.Y.-Wednesday will be the culmination of many things for those in public safety and the rest of the University of Rochester campus community. A graduation ceremony will be held for dozens of new peace officers.
The group of fifty officers completed 400 hours of training over the past five months, according to a campus spokesperson.
"It's not for us having status per se, it's for us to serve the university better, but having the status gives us opportunities we didn't have before," said Walter Mauldin, Director of Public Safety for the University of Rochester.
Beyond the new designation they will have the power to arrest people, an action only city police and sheriffs could perform prior to this change. Peace officers will not be armed.
"It makes it harder in the sense that a lot of people know we have the power of arrest and nobody really wants to be arrested," said Nicholas Bush, a soon-to-be peace officer.
Bush has been with campus public safety for four years, and said the power to arrest is also helpful because peace officers do not always have to wait for RPD.
"As a girl especially, we've had a lot of cases of insecurity, both in and off campus and if we can do something to try and reduce these instances, I'm in full support," said Lendsey Achudi, an international student at the U of R.
Beyond arresting powers, peace officers are able to bring people having mental health crisis into protective custody, gain access to federal criminal information and enter police reports into RPD's system in real time, according to Mauldin. The do not have to wait for a police officer to arrive to complete paperwork. Public safety will install new lap tops in its vehicles to help enhance reporting at the scene of crime, said Mauldin.
Reason for adding peace officers
A commission made of staff and students was formed in 2010 to study safety issues at the university.
The commission determined that crime had not increased significantly on campus, but there was an increase in calls for service leading to recommendations of peace officers, according to a school spokesperson.
Bordeaux's impact
Less than two months after the commission was formed, an undergraduate student named Jeffrey Bordeaux was stabbed to death during a fight in a fraternity house on campus by fellow student, Darren Venable.
The court found that prosecutors failed to prove that Venable acted out of anything but self-defense.
Mauldin, who has been in campus public safety for four decades said peace officers would not have made a difference as campus safety arrived to the fraternity within one minute and were able to intervene.
"What I think is important is that we have so many instances where we need to make sure things go ok," said Mauldin.
"A lot of things almost happen, but because we are able to arrive properly, intervene, separate disputing parties, if necessarily take some kind of action, the more we are able to do that quickly, the better able we are to make sure it does not accelerate and not become a more dangerous situation," added Mauldin.
Next step
A ceremony to honor the sworn peace officers will take place Wednesday. They will officially begin their work on October 1st.
Other local schools
Monroe Community College, The College at Brockport and SUNY Geneseo are among the other local schools with peace officers or police.