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School Briefs - Deep Run High School
Come Nov. 16, when the Deep Run High School boys' basketball team opens its 2012-2013 season against Thomas Dale High School, 270 days will have passed since head coach Curt Kassab and his Wildcats have taken the floor. And coming off a stingy loss to Highland Springs in the Wildcats' first playoff appearance under Kassab, this year's squad will be hungrier than ever.
Deep Run will be looking to build off last year's 16-9 season – the school's first winning season since Kassab took over as head coach two seasons ago. Last season also marked the first District and Regional tournament appearances in the Kassab era. "Our goal every year is to compete for a district title and a birth in the Regional Tournament," Kassab said.
Repeating last year's success will be no easy task, however, as Deep Run heads into the 2012-2013 season losing 10 players to graduation; most notably first-team All-District guard Parker Hull and second-team All-District center Lucas Dyer. This leaves a mere four returning varsity players for Kassab and company, and only one, junior guard Tim Branin, with extensive varsity game experience.
These key departures mean new faces will have to step up and lead this year's team, a challenge that senior guard Nick Butz welcomes. "I'm looking forward to being a leader of the team," Butz said, "I expect our team to be tough and have a great year."
While most are ready to write them off, Kassab sees this team with loads of untapped potential. "We have some talented young players and it's important that we develop these young kids," Kassab said. "I think that is critical in building a good basketball program."
With three-fourths of last year's team gone, Deep Run will have to rely heavily on its renowned student section, the "Wildcat Wackos."
The Deep Run basketball program has tons of momentum after last year's playoff run; however, with the large amount of turnover, repeating last year's success will be an immense challenge for coach Kassab and the Wildcats.
19th Annual Asian American Celebration planned May 21
Citizen Staff Reports 05/16/2016
The Asian American Society of Central Virginia will hold its 19th Annual Asian American Celebration on Saturday, May 21 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd St. in Richmond, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
Sandston Founders Club honors Sydnor
The Founders Club of Sandston presented lifetime membership to Charles W. Sydnor at its 12th annual meeting last month.
Sydnor, who grew up in Sandston and later served as president of Emory and Henry College for eight years, was honored by Founder Club President Alice Taylor Baldwin at the April 23 event at Sandston Memorial Recreation Center. > Read more.
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MINGO - Indian Creek scored all of its runs from the fourth inning on in besting Harrison Central.
Anthony Davis paced the Redskins (8-13), who have won six of their last seven, with two singles and three RBI.
Sammy Orr doubled and had two singles and two RBI, while Zach Williams slapped two singles and knocked in two runs.

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News and Announcements
|31 July
|New eJAAVSO preprint: Twenty-Two New Variable Stars in the Northern Sky
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Twenty-Two New Variable Stars in the Northern Sky and Light Elements Improvement for PT Lyr, [WM2007] 1157, and [WM2007] 1160
Riccardo Furgoni
|28 July
|CHOICE Fall Schedule 2014
The Fall Schedule of CHOICE courses has been set. Most courses are available to AAVSO members AND the general public. Class size is limited to 15 people, so sign up as soon as you can to save a seat. Registrations are available on a first-come, first-serve basis, and are handled through our online store. The fee for AAVSO members is $30.00. Non-members pay $50.00.
|24 July
|Special Notice #387: EE Cep eclipse and comparison stars
July 24, 2014:The eclipse of EE Cep (AAVSO Alert Notice 502) appears to be gradually beginning, according to observations in the AAVSO International Database. Please observe this system according to the instructions given in the Alert Notice.
|09 July
|Alert Notice 502: EE Cep observations requested for upcoming eclipse
July 9, 2014: The AAVSO requests observations for the upcoming eclipse of EE Cephei, a long-period eclipsing variable. EE Cep has a period of 2,050 days, and shows strong variations in the eclipse light curve from one event to the next. Observations are needed to study the morphology of the upcoming eclipse, which will be used to better understand the shape of the eclipsing disk and how it precesses. Mid-eclipse is predicted to be August 23, 2014, but the early stages of the eclipse may begin as much as a month earlier.
|03 July
|AAVSO Newsletter for July 2014 is published
AAVSO Newsletter 61, July 2014 is now available to members
The AAVSO Newsletter is a periodic, general forum that supports our various observing programs with lists of new targets, observing programming ideas, and general information that spans a wide area of interest. Guest writers contribute pieces that can range from current events to book reviews.
|30 June
|Paper copies of JAAVSO v42 n1 are now available
Paper copy from createspace.com is available for $12 plus shipping.
|26 June
|VStar 2.16.1 Release
A new version of VStar has just been released! This version contains security upgrades and will re-enable the Plug-in Manager and discrepant observation reporting that were disabled in the wake of the AAVSO Security breach. (Please note that the Members-only BSM and APASS Epoch Photometry plugins are still not available until further security measures can be implemented.)
In addition to the security upgrades, David Benn has also corrected several bugs and incorporated other changes based on valuable feedback from participants in his recent VStar CHOICE course.
|25 June
|Visual Observing Manual in Persian - 2013 edition
The Persian (Farsi) version of the June 2013 revision of Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - راهنمای رصد بصری ستارگان متغیر is now available for download here:
This Manual is available free-of-charge and may be reproduced and distributed as needed.
|25 June
|New eJAAVSO preprint: Multi-band differential photometry
Multi-band Differential Photometry of the Eclipsing Variable Star NSVS 5750160
|24 June
|JAAVSO Vol. 42, No. 1, 2014, is published
JAAVSO Volume 42, Number 1, 2014 is published. The issue can be downloaded by AAVSO members as a pdf file.
The printed version of this issue will be available soon.
|20 June
|Special Notice #386: ASASSN-14cl New large-amplitude cataclysmic variable
June 20, 2014: Kris Z. Stanek (The Ohio State University) et al. reported the discovery during the ongoing All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) of a bright transient (10.66V) on 2014 June 14.52 UT. Data were obtained using the quadruple 14-cm "Brutus" telescope in Haleakala, HI (hosted by Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network).(ATel #6233, http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=6233)
|30 May
|Three new eJAAVSO preprints: Red Supergiants; Z Cam Stars; tribute to Leslie Peltier
ej258: "Amplitude Variations in Pulsating Red Supergiants" by John R. Percy, Viraja C. Khatu
ej257: "Leslie Peltier: The World's Greatest Amateur Astronomer" by Mike Simonsen
ej256: "Z Cam Stars in the Twenty-First Century" by Mike Simonsen, David Boyd, William Goff, Tom Krajci, Kenneth Menzies, Sebastian Otero, Stefano Padovan, Gary Poyner, James Roe, Richard Sabo, George Sjoberg, Bart Staels, Rod Stubbings, John Toone, Patrick Wils
|27 May
|Charts and Sequences Update May 2014
The following objects have been given new or revised sequences since January 1, 2014. If you observe any of these objects, please check to see you have the latest versions of the charts and sequences for your targets.
A full listing of new and revised sequences, for this year and going back to 2009, is available here on Google Drive. You can also download this list as .xlasx or .csv below.
|15 May
|Solar Bulletin - Volume 70, Number 04
The April 2014 Solar Bulletin is now available. Please visit the Solar Bulletin web page to download your copy: http://www.aavso.org/solar-bulletin
|13 May
|Special Notice #385: SBS 1108+574 HST/COS observations crucial NOW
May 13, 2014: The HST/COS observations of the cataclysmic variable SBS 1108+574 described in AAVSO Alert Notice 501 and Special Notice #384 are scheduled for 2014 May 16 06:19:04 - 15:16:56 UT.
|13 May
|New eJAAVSO preprint: Multi-Longitude Observation Campaign of KV Cancri
"Multi-Longitude Observation Campaign of KV Cancri:an RR Lyrae Star with Irregular Blazhko Modulations"
by Pierre de Ponthière, Michel Bonnardeau, Franz-Josef (Josch) Hambsch, Tom Krajci, Kenneth Menzies, Richard Sabo
|09 May
|Special Notice #384: SBS 1108+574 HST/COS obs next week
May 9, 2014: The HST/COS observations of the cataclysmic variable SBS 1108+574 described in AAVSO Alert Notice 501 have been pushed back a few days. The new exact time of the observations is:
|09 May
|New eJAAVSO preprint: Seven Years of Globe at Night Data
Analysis of Seven Years of Globe at Night Data
by Jennifer J. Birriel, Constance E. Walker, and Cory R. Thornsberry
|29 April
|Alert Notice 501: Monitoring requested for HST/COS observations of SBS 1108+574
April 29, 2014: Dr. Peter Garnavich (University of Notre Dame) and Dr. Paula Szkody (University of Washington) have requested the help of AAVSO observers in monitoring the cataclysmic variable SBS 1108+574 (= CSS 120422:111127+571239) in support of upcoming Hubble Space Telescope observations. The HST COS (Cosmic Origins Spectrograph) will be carrying out far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of this target on 2014 May 12-13 UT.
|17 April
|Solar Bulletin - Volume 70, Number 03
The March 2014 Solar Bulletin is now available. Please visit the Solar Bulletin web page to download your copy: http://www.aavso.org/solar-bulletin
|03 April
|AAVSO Newsletter 60 is now published
AAVSO Newsletter 60 (April 2014) is now available:
The AAVSO Newsletter is a periodic, general forum that supports our various observing programs with lists of new targets, observing programming ideas, and general information that spans a wide area of interest. Guest writers contribute pieces that can range from current events to book reviews.
|02 April
|Alert Notice 500: Novae in Scorpius and Cygnus
April 2, 2014
|27 March
|Special Notice #383: Transient in Scorpius = TCP J17154683-3128303
March 27, 2014: Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki, Japan) report (via the IAU CBAT TOCP page, http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/tocp.html) their discovery of a transient in Scorpius:
|24 March
|The AAVSO International Database Breaks Twenty-Five Million Observations!
Over the weekend the AAVSO International Database (AID) hit an important milestone. We broke the twenty-five million mark! We would like to express our appreciation to each and every observer who has contributed even a single observation to that total.
|17 March
|Special Notice #382: SDSS J100658.40+233724.4 observations crucial now
March 17, 2014: HST/COS is scheduled to observe the the U Gem-type dwarf nova


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I recently bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro cell phone.
A truly nice little machine.
It has Android 1.6 installed.
Android has sync capability, but it does not work with zimbra.
Does anybody know if there's an manual for setup?
(the installed software "roadsync" works fine, but does not use android's built-in calendar and therefore it has to be manually started on each handy-boot)


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Oh, you guys lust after Alan Rickman? No shit, you lust after Alan Rickman. We all lust after Alan Rickman. It makes watching Harry Potter hugely uncomfortable, also, is the only good reason to watch Harry Potter. In other news, I think we all know that mine is Jeremy Irons. Here are some other lust objects that make people in the office feel bad, sort of. Bad and also tingly. More


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Why? Because the Knicks failed to improve in this past offseason..You can tell celtics are gonna be far worse than last year but I'm going to be very optimistic..oh yeah!! The knicks brought Andrei Bargnani from Toronto and Metta World Peace from the lakers..Did somebody is excited?? The Bargnani trade doesn't made the knicks better because this guy to be effective needs the ball on his hand clashing with Carmelo right from the start. Also Bargnani is not a defensive player. The knicks look a very slow team on paper. The Metta World signing could be productive or really painfully. They already got Kmart for the dirty game. It seems that knicks management needs some changes in order to obtain team success. On the other hand celtics are young and exciting!! We have four starters coming back: Rondo, Bradley, Green and Sullinger. Olynyk will be running for the rookie of the year and Coach Stevens will surprise a lot of people around the league. Our bench is solid with Wallace, Bass, Humphries, Faverani, Brooks and Lee. Rookie Pressey will fit right away too.
Felton- is on his prime / Rondo- on his prime
Shumpert- still needs to prove that can score consistanly / Bradley- same that Shumpert
Anthony- is on his prime / Green- on his prime
Bargnani- best years are in the past. / Olynyk- a lot of potential!!
Chandler- still productive when is around good players / Sullinger- is gonna be a solid player if healthy.
Stoudamire- is on his way down / Faverani- good offensive game. Could jump to the starting lineup.
Martin-is on his way down / Bass- young and prove veteran, nice jumper.
Metta - is on his way down / Wallace- still young at 31. Brings energy, defense, and leadership
Smith- on his prime but problematic / Brooks- can score in this league and is young.
Prigioni- is on his way down / Preesey- a natural point guard with good passing skills.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia State Board of Elections is advising local registrars to accommodate voters who ask to vote absentee because of the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy.
In-person absentee voting is being conducted on weekdays and the last two Saturdays before election day. The board is urging localities to keep registrar offices open and continue the in-person absentee voting unless the storm makes conditions unsafe for employees and voters.
Christine Lewis, senior registrar for Virginia Beach, said Saturday that polling places in the city have generators on standby in case power goes out. The city's information technology department also has provided two battery-pack units to power their laptops.
The state electoral board says it has been assured that polling places will be a high priority for power restoration.


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Hi everybody,
I'm currently running ZCS 4 and I didn't find any information about a feature that is running on several other collaboration servers like Lotus Domino (even if on Domino this feature isn't so complete) :
when a user activate the away message (or out-of-office auto-reply), it would be great to add (optionnally) the start times/dates and stop times/dates between which this message is enabled.
More, it would be really useful to add an "out of office" event in the calendar during the dates set, or from the time the message was enable to the current time.
Other users then can be able to see unavailabilities from their planning when they create new appointments ...
Do I need to create a new request in the bugzilla DB ?


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Auckland, New Zealand (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska was an
easy winner on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the ASB Classic
tennis event.
Poland's Radwanska rolled past Romania's Simona Halep 6-3, 6-1 on the
hardcourts at ASB Tennis Centre and will now face Elena Vesnina in the
quarters after the Russian took a 6-2, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Yaroslava
Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
Johanna Larsson of Sweden posted the big upset on Wednesday as she took down
second-seeded German Julia Goerges 7-5, 6-7 (1-7), 6-3 match against
Yanina Wickmayer, the third seed out of Belgium, easily advanced on Wednesday
in a 6-3, 6-0 pasting of Switzerland's Romina Oprandi, while eight-seeded
German Mona Barthel defeated Greece's Eleni Daniilidou 7-6 (8-6), 6-2.
In unseeded play, American Jamie Hampton defeated New Zealand's Marina
Erakovic 6-1, 7-6 (7-5), Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens took a 6-2, 6-2 win over
Pauline Parmentier of France, and Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands grabbed a
6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Heather Watson of Great Britain.
This event serves as a tune-up for the Australian Open, which starts January
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Prospective and Current Undergraduate Students can find information here including How to Apply to Hunter, Courses of Study, Sample Course Syllabi and Undergraduate Award programs.
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Project LEAP is a mentoring program developed in cooperation with the Pasadena City College Partnership for Excellence. It is designed to increase the retention rate of probationary, under-represented students and returning students.
Students are matched one-on-one with volunteer mentors who meet with them once each week to listen, care, motivate, and encourage them to maximize their potential. Mentors in the program are administrative staff, faculty, and classified staff who represent a cross section of the campus community. In addition to weekly meetings between mentors and students, a Guidance seminar and special programs are offered to faster student success.
Project LEAP is currently recruiting both mentors and students. To be a mentor we are asking you to commit one hour a week to provide that extra support students need to succeed.
If you know of any students who can benefit from this program, or if you are interested in becoming a mentor, please call (626) 585-7981 or visit CC-105 or apply online for more information.
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WUSA) -- Extended hours for in-person absentee voting through Saturday, Nov. 3. in Fairfax County are at these locations:
Wednesday, Oct. 31 to Friday, Nov. 2:
Government Center, Suite 323: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Seven satellite locations: Noon to 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 3:
Government Center, Suite 323, and seven satellite locations: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Officials say anyone in line at these locations by the weekday 8 p.m. or the Saturday 5 p.m. closing time will be able to vote. Voters may not join the line of those allowed to vote at any locations after 8 p.m. weekdays or 5 p.m. on Saturday.
The seven satellite locations are:
1. Franconia Governmental Center
6121 Franconia Road
Alexandria, VA 22310
2. Dolley Madison Library
1244 Oak Ridge Avenue
McLean, VA 22101
3. North County Human Services Building
1850 Cameron Glen Drive
Reston, VA 20190
4. West Springfield Governmental Center
6140 Rolling Road
Springfield, VA 22152
5. Mason Governmental Center
6507 Columbia Pike
Annandale, VA 22003
6. Mount Vernon Governmental Center
2511 Parkers Lane
Alexandria, VA 22306
7. Sully Governmental Center
4900 Stonecroft Boulevard
Chantilly, VA 20151
The deadline for mailed-in absentee voting ballots is Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m.
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FDA drew a line in the digital sand last Friday when it sent warning letters to 14 pharmaceutical and biotech firms citing them for negligent online advertising tactics. While the letters varied in terms of product specification, the main point was that pharma has been negligent in the way it presents search engine ads delivered by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
"The sponsored links cited in this letter are misleading because they make representations and/or suggestions about the efficacy of Aromasin, Caduet, Chantix, Detrol LA, Lyrica, and Celebrex, but fail to communicate any risk information associated with the use of these drugs," stated one of the letters—this one sent to Pfizer.
The main point of contention is that when you search for a term—for example, "cholesterol"—a conventional search engine text ad would have a headline that reads "Learn More About X Brand" followed by a subhead that says "Click here to see how X Brand can help with your cholesterol," followed by a URL.
FDA stated its opinion that using a condition in conjunction with a brand name in a search ad triggers the "fair balance" provisions that apply to print and television ads. According to insiders, FDA has been vague as to whether those rules apply to search ads, and most ad agencies have been operating under the assumption that there was a "one-click rule": that if the fair balance warnings are within one click of the search ad, then that satisfies the fair balance requirements FDA could impose.
Pharma can no longer display a condition and a brand together in the body copy of the ad. Here are two examples of what is now expected:
A) Branded: "Try Pharma X: Click here to see how Pharma X can help you."
B) Unbranded: "Want to learn more about cholesterol? Click here to learn more about it."
Google told Pharma Exec that since they were directed to pharma companies, Google couldn't comment on the specific letters.
"We provide an advertising platform to our customers, and we will help them advertise in a way that complies with all regulations," said Mary Ann Belliveau, healthcare advertising director at Google. "Obviously, these warning letters will change the format of the sponsored links people see next to organic search results. We expect that our pharma clients will continue to find creative ways to inform consumers and advertise in a compliant way."
New Advertising for New Media
While the pharma companies in question were quiet about what they will do in response to the letters, many experts in the marketing and online industry were shocked by FDA's reaction to the new media.
"It's seems like a regulatory overreaction by FDA," said John Kamp, executive director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication. "Warning letters are serious to pharma companies, and the fact that there are 14 companies in the zone here suggests that a whole lot of people in the industry were confused about what the rules were."
For years, pharma marketers have argued that there are no guidelines for marketing on the Internet, and this lack of information has left drug companies in the lurch when it comes to social media practices. There is fear that this type of "knee-jerk reaction" might cause pharma companies to avoid search engine marketing altogether.
Arnold Friede, a lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery, said that there must be an understanding that a search engine ad is not necessarily an advertisement, but a link to the actual ad (where risk/benefit information resides).
The whole purpose of a sponsored link is to persuade the information seeker to click on the link. The landing page is part and parcel of the entire "advertisement," Friede said. "Indeed, if sponsored links go away because of FDA's position here, then the information seeker will be relegated to wading through a list of Web sites, most of which are not even regulated by FDA and which contain all manner of information the validity of which is largely unknown."
Attention to Detail
However, there are some experts that think any attention from FDA to Internet advertising is good attention. Ignite Health head Fabio Gratton told Pharm Exec that these letters send a message that FDA is keenly aware of the importance of the online channel, that they are concerned about the public's safety, and that—despite the agency not having issued specific guidelines for this channel—the old rules still apply.
"This doesn't mean that there won't be an increased demand for more explicit guidance. And perhaps the FDA will even respond," Gratton said. "Until then, I believe these letters demonstrate that there is a keen awareness that the Internet is a critical and influential medium for health consumers—and that is a great step in the right direction."
In response to criticism of the warning letters, FDA wrote: "We are concerned from a public health perspective whenever promotion undermines the safe use of a drug by minimizing the risks associated with the product or by failing to appropriately communicate its approved uses."


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Emergency responders were called to a fire at Meridian's Threefoot building just after 11:00 on Monday night.
Newscenter 11 spotted flames coming from a room on the 12th floor of the building.
Firefighters quickly arrived on the scene and the fire was extinguished.
There are no reports of any damage or injuries associated with the fire.
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Charlottesville, VA (Sports Network) - Joe Harris scored a game-high 22 points
and Akil Mitchell recorded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds as
Virginia took down No. 19 N.C. State, 58-55, Tuesday, in a battle of the ACC's
the top scoring defense (51.1), and offense (79.8), respectively.
After Virginia led by one point with 3:20 remaining, the game stayed
deadlocked until Jontel Evans netted two critical free throws which expanded
the lead to three points and eventually, made the difference, for the
Cavaliers (15-5, 5-2 ACC), who have won four straight.
C.J. Leslie collected 20 points and 14 rebounds for the Wolfpack (16-5, 5-3),
who fell to 0-5 all-time when playing at John Paul Jones Arena, remaining the
only team in the conference which has not recorded a victory there. Richard
Howell also recorded a double-double with 12 points and 11 boards in the
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Advocates press Brown on records law
Plan could save state millions, but some question the cost
SACRAMENTO Gov. Jerry Brown is being urged to use his veto powers to undo a portion of the state budget that open-government and media organizations believe would undercut the public's right to access government records.
The budget provision, originally proposed by Brown himself, was amended and approved by state lawmakers on Friday as part of a broader budget bill. It would save money by reducing costs for local governments, some of which might have been billed to the state.
Specific provisions of the law that will be eliminated on July 1 if Brown doesn't act:
• The requirement that governments respond to records requests within 10 days.
• The mandate that governments help members of the public — who don't know what records are on hand — to shape a request for something tangible.
• The requirement that documents be provided in an electronic format if the government has them available that way.
The revisions were first reported by U-T Watchdog in February, but few policymakers picked up on its implications until the budget came down to the wire over the weekend.
- Background: Public records law faces budget ax
Sen. Joel Anderson, R-La Mesa, who voted against the bill containing the changes, said limiting transparency of public records would encourage secrecy in government.
"The media and the public need to have efficient access to government records to hold elected officials accountable," he said.
Brown's office has a policy of not commenting on potential vetoes until the governor signs the budget. Administration officials have said repeatedly that the main tenets of the California Public Records Act will remain in place and that citizens would continue to have a constitutional right to access the writings of public officials and agencies following voter-approved Proposition 59 in 2004.
They also pointed to a requirement added to Brown's budget proposal that mandates governments at their first regularly scheduled public meeting of the year to announce whether they plan to comply with the open-records provisions of their own volition — even though the law does not require it.
The proposal, if signed by Brown, would suspend statues that took effect strengthening public records laws in 2001, 2000 and 1992.
Was the state right to ease potentially costly provisions of the public records law?
Yes 22% (33)
No 78% (120)
153 total votes.
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said in those years the state was "rolling in money and legislators couldn't spend it fast enough."
Leno, the Senate's chief budget writer, questioned why the state should have to pay the tab for local governments to "do what they should be doing" anyway.
"For someone to have said this 'eviscerates' the Public Records Act, that is such hyperbole, you should doubt anything that comes out of their mouth," Leno said. "We don't think anything will change."
The legislation has its roots in a decision two years ago by a constitutional commission that enforces a prohibition against the state imposing mandates on local governments without funding. The commission decided the 10-day requirement and other recently added provisions to public-records law constituted such a mandate.
The budget prohibits any state funding for the mandate, and therefore makes the provisions null.
No local governments had yet submitted bills to the state to cover the costs, so it's difficult to say how much money might be saved.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimated statewide costs could be in the tens of millions of dollars annually out of the state's $96.3 billion budget.
The figures are loosely based on the roughly $20 million in annual savings from suspending parts of the open-meetings law known as the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Jim Ewert, general counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said harder numbers should have been used before giving up such basic rights for the public.


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- No. 25 Iowa State will look to extend its winning streak to six, and redeem one of its two Big 12 losses Saturday when the Cyclones host Oklahoma at 5 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum.
- The Cyclones picked up a non-conference sweep Tuesday night over South Dakota.
- Ciara Capezio had one of the top matches by a freshman in Iowa State history, recording 19 kills at a .593 hitting percentage to go wtih five digs, two aces and a solo block. Jenelle Hudson had her third consecutive double-double with 41 assists and 17 digs and was joined with at least 10 digs by Kristen Hahn (15) and Caitlin Nolan (10). Mackenzie Bigbee had 10 kills.
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- ISU has three of the top six servers in the Big 12 at its disposal. Middle blocker Tory Knuth leads the Big 12 at 0.47 aces per set, Ciara Capezio ranks second at 0.37 aces per set and Caitlin Nolan ranks sixth with 0.29 aces per frame. Knuth and Capezio are first and second, respectively, in aces per set in Big 12 play with Kristen Hahn sixth in conference action.
- Five of Iowa State's six losses have come to teams with an RPI in the top-25. Those losses were to Texas (No. 1), Nebraska (No. 8), San Diego (No. 15), Oklahoma (No. 19), and Illinois (No. 23). At No. 35 in the RPI, St. Mary's is ISU's other loss in 2013.
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- The Sooners went through a unique schedule en route to dropping a pair of Big 12 matches last weekend.
- OU's Oct. 30 match at Kansas State was postponed to Sunday due to weather, setting up a stretch of two matches in just over 24 hours for Oklahoma.
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- The Sooners are one of the strongest back-row teams in the Big 12, ranking only behind Iowa State in digs per set. Libero Taylor Migliazzo is fifth in the league at 3.85 digs per set and outside hitter Keila Rodriguez is ninth at 3.28 digs per set.
- The Sooners lead the all-time series 43-29 after defeating the Cyclones in five sets back on Oct. 5.
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Trucking's game-changing moment
April 01, 2010
Trucking is coming out of its worst three-year slump since the 1930s. Housing and automotive, two hugely important sectors to trucking, both cratered simultaneously starting in early 2007 and have not fully recovered yet.
It's gotten so bad that veteran trucking analyst John G. Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus, worried about continuing overcapacity in the industry, continues to "de-emphasize" trucking stocks to his clients in favor of railroads. Except for recommending a couple of small-cap trucking stocks and perhaps a non-union carrier or two, Larkin really is not recommending any general trucking companies these days.
Less-than-truckload (LTL) companies have been particularly hard hit, according to analysis compiled exclusively for Logistics Management (LM) by Satish Jindel of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting. He says that the average operating margins of LTL carriers fell by 5.5 percent last year, with Old Dominion Freight Line being the only LTL carrier to report positive operating margins during every quarter in 2009. Con-way Freight was the only other reporting carrier to have positive operating margin for the entire year, a scant 1.9 percent.
All reporting LTL carriers posted year-over-year declines in shipments, with YRC National suffering the worst decline at 36.3 percent. Con-way was the best, ringing in a 0.3 percent decline in shipments.
Just how bad is it out there for the nation's top LTLs? Let's ask some survivors.
Myron P. "Mike" Shevell, chairman of the Shevell Group, the parent of New England Motor Freight (No. 17 on LM's Top 25 LTL list), says conditions today in the industry are the worst he's seen in his 60 years in the industry. "Brutal," Shevell says simply. "Everybody is just trying to hang on."
Others agree. Ray Slagle, senior vice president of sales and marketing for ABF Freight System (No. 5 on LM's Top 25 LTL list) says :"The past couple years are the worst that I've seen in my 37 years in the business. While we have seen some incremental improvements, there has not been a material change." In fact, Stifel Nicolaus is not forecasting a profit for this venerable Teamster long-haul carrier until 2011.
"It is still a game of survival in many respects," says Chuck Hammel, president of Pitt Ohio Express (No. 18 on LM's Top 25 LTL list). "But there are also opportunities for those brave enough to move forward."
Pitt Ohio, for example, has branched out from its regional LTL roots to offer longer-haul and specialized logistics services. Old Dominion Freight Line, another old-line regional carrier, now is offering everything from long-haul truckload to other specialized services for shippers.
David Congdon, CEO of ODFL (No. 8 on LM's Top 25 LTL list), says he believes the economy has bottomed out. "We have seen some hints of an improving economy, albeit from a low bottom," he says. "It's nothing to jump up and down and scream about. But we are seeing a little bit of strength."
On the truckload (TL) side, the story was slightly better. That's because the non-union TL carriers were able to react to the sudden drop in freight volumes somewhat quicker than the LTL sector, which has higher fixed costs in general because of the extensive hub-and-spoke terminal networks they operate.
For TL, according to Jindel's analysis, average operating margins fell 0.4 percent last year from 2008 levels, while average operating margin was 3.4 percent last year compared with 3.8 percent in 2008. Among the best were Heartland Express, Knight Transportation, Celadon, and Con-way Truckload, all reporting positive operating margins last year.
Still, total TL loads fell 3.3 percent last year from 2008. J.B. Hunt and P.A.M Transport showed the largest declines, falling by 20 and 15 percent respectfully. That was part of a conscious decision by both carriers to diversify—especially Hunt where pure truckload revenue now accounts for just over one-third of total revenue. The reporting TL carriers moved a combined 200,000 fewer loads last year than in 2008, Jindel says. In fact, at the depth of the downturn last year, many TL carriers were faced with freight volumes falling as much as much as 25 percent in some lanes.
TL carriers have responded by parking trucks at an unprecedented rate during the depth of the recent recession. As Steve Williams, chairman and CEO of Maverick Trucking, a large Little Rock, Ark.-based TL carrier, recently told the Arkansas Trucking Report: "It took us 30 years to get up to 1,500 trucks. It took us three months to park 300 of them."
So, was this trucking's worst recession ever? "The others weren't anything compared to this," Williams told ATR. "This is the 'Big Kahuna.' It's a game-changing moment."
Those days, thankfully, appear to be over. The current forecast is for TL volumes to rise modestly after hitting the floor the first half of 2009. But analyst Larkin says TL volumes "are still not robust" and that there is no clear consensus on how strong the recovery will be.
In interviews with LM, some trucking executives believe that we're at the cusp of a steady, prolonged recovery with solid price increases to match. Others aren't so sure. But nearly all agree that shippers should expect rate increases when their contracts expire, some in the 3-percent to 5-percent range.
So what are the industry leaders in trucking doing to hasten their recovery? LM spoke with more than a dozen top trucking executives and have broken down their analysis into four broad market issues that could directly affect shippers during the remainder of 2010.
Issue #1: Overcapacity
This recession had survivors. Unlike past recessions, there wasn't the one mega-carrier bankruptcy or closing that immediately took, say, $3 billion of capacity out the market. That immediately caused an imbalance in supply and demand, favoring shippers. But some executives feel that pendulum is swinging back in favor of the carriers as industrial and retail demand recovers.
Perhaps the carrier with the biggest impact in trucking these days is YRC Worldwide. Rivals say it's nothing personal against CEO Bill Zollars, a nice enough guy, it's just that they were counting on YRC's battle with bankruptcy to fail—and take perhaps as much as $5 billion of capacity out of the market. Instead, Zollars engineered a debt-for-equity swap that basically diluted current YRC shareholders' worth by 90 percent, and the company has stayed in business, albeit with a smaller footprint.
"YRC used to be a four-legged stool, comprised of employees, shippers, banks, and shareholders," says Jindel of SJ Consulting, a firm that closely tracks the LTL sector and produced the market share charts for this Special Report. "With this debt-for-equity swap, they have gone to a three-legged stool—the stockholders have gone away. You can still balance something on a three-legged stool, but the third leg is now the shippers. If they were to leave, YRC could not survive."
Jindel believes that YRC could still get out of the woods, but only if all their management and employees are single-mindedly focused on getting more profitable freight into its networks.
Others are echoing Jindel's analysis that YRC is not yet out of the financial woods. Some analysts are saying that YRC's financial position is still precarious, and that it still might have to further downsize or exit the market completely.
"From a cash flow standpoint, there certainly is the possibility for more carriers to fold before the economy picks up again," says Phil Pierce, executive sales director for Averitt Express (No. 13 on LM's Top 25 LTL list). "You simply cannot survive without cash flow."
Other carriers agree. Old Dominion's Congdon says, "There is a minimum 15 percent to 20 percent overcapacity" currently in the $25.6 billion LTL sector. And some carriers have even more." Others are more sobering in their view. According to analyst Larkin: "The unfortunate reality is that capacity will not likely exit in a big way over the near term."
Carrier executives seem intent on increasing yields. John Labrie, president of Con-way Freight, says that demand is improving and the economic indicators are clearly showing an improved economy. "I think that will continue this year," he says. "LTL is more affected by supply side than demand. We're in excess capacity situation that's pretty severe and it's going to take service to offset that excess supply. Customers have lots of options."
Issue #2: Pricing
The past three years of overcapacity has led to bargain-basement pricing, carriers say. The YRC situation exacerbated that as some non-union rivals "went for the kill" with pricing that was nearly predatory, some rivals say. But that is not expected to continue much longer.
"There's some crazy stuff going on out there," Old Dominion's Congdon says of rates. "Some of our competitors are pricing at unsustainable levels."
With this in mind, shippers should be bracing for higher rates, though perhaps not this year. Jindel is forecasting LTL rate increases of just barely 1 percent or so. Truckload rate increases might even be higher, as some owner-operators parked their trucks in mid-2008 and have not returned.
The pricing worm appears to be turning in TL as well. According to Mark Rourke, president of the truckload division of Schneider National (No. 2 on the LM list of Top 25 TL carriers), even with the fragmented TL market, rates are rising. "There's a firming of capacity and demand the last couple of months," says Rourke. "Whether it's capacity coming out or more demand on a macro level, it's uncertain."
Spot truckload rates, which at the depth of the recession in late 2008 were some 20 percent to 30 percent less than contract rates, now in many markets are trending above contractual rates in some head-haul lanes, Rourke says.
That has caused Schneider and other large TL carriers to examine their pricing, especially for the bottom 10 percent of their customer base. "We're going after that bottom 10 percent in a more aggressive fashion," says Rourke. "More of those rate increases are sticking and we're now taking a much firmer look at pricing."
Issue #3: Recapitalization
Trucks do not last forever. As wonderfully engineered as the modern 18-wheeler is, that $125,000 bundle of steel, rubber, and computer microprocessors tends to wear out. And while carriers slashed their capex budgets during 2008 and 2009, they now say that the time has come to trade in those 5-year-old and 6-year-old trucks in favor of the newer, more fuel efficient, EPA-compliant 2010 models.
"If you look at our industry's lack of investment in equipment the past couple of years…that's unsustainable," says Schneider's Rourke. "Our rolling stock wears out and we need to recapitalize our industry."
The two main drivers holding back freight rates, trucking executives say, are consumer spending and expansion of manufacturing. Both are linked directly to the credit markets, which still have not recovered to pre-2008 levels. But if credit loosens, some carriers expect freight flows to be robust—and shippers will have to pay more.
"Pricing is way too low right now," Con-way's Labrie says flatly. "The industry is not producing enough profits to recapitalize our asset base. I would not call pricing irrational; in fact, it's been very rational, reflecting supply and demand. But it needs to change in order for this asset-heavy business to recapitalize itself."
Issue #4: Diversification
For more than a decade, truckers have tried to offer exactly what the marketplace wanted. That has caused once regional LTLs to expand coverage to become virtual long-haul carriers. Pitt Ohio and Averitt are charter members of the Reliance Network, an interline long-haul arrangement that has exceeded $1 billion in revenue in its first two years.
ABF Freight System, once a traditional long-haul carrier, has branched out into the regional markets through its new network for under 500 mile shipments. "We are the only carrier operating parallel regional and national line-haul networks, which enables ABF to offer reliable next-day, second-day, and transcontinental service without the hassle of processing multiple drivers from the same company every day," says ABF's Slagle.
Truckload carriers are changing as well. Schneider has recast its business model so that now 30 percent of its volume is regional, up from the low single digits just a few years ago. It's also expanding its mix of freight, expanding its offerings in the food and beverage sectors, and has continued to take over some private fleets, a segment that remains a $300 billion slice in the nation's $745 billion freight transportation pie.
One leading LTL carrier recently hired a person from the commercial airline industry who had a doctorate degree in operations research involving airline traffic. After one week of dealing with the load complexity at this trucking company, she remarked to a colleague: "Compared with trucking, optimizing air freight is like a preschool program."
And network reengineering is a task that never ends in trucking. Greg Lehmkuhl, executive vice president of operations at Con-way Freight, says reengineering is an ongoing exercise at Con-way, with teams of research engineers constantly developing tools and models to modernize its own network as well as tweaking freight flows and forecasts of freight demands from customers, which vary widely from month-to-month as well as seasonally. "Nothing is more competitive than the LTL industry," Lehmkuhl says.
Old Dominion set out its diversification plan in 1997. Once exclusively a Southeast regional carrier, Old Dominion now pursues freight in all regional markets and fills out with global and expedited services. It now has 5 percent market share in the LTL sector. "That's a respectable share, but we see room for more growth, especially with smaller accounts," adds CEO Congdon.
Message from carriers to shippers
The overall industry simply can't go on with its current state of excess capacity and unsustainable pricing levels. Trucking has had negligible price increases for three years while its costs have continued to rise.
The message from carriers to shippers is blunt: Be prepared for price increases to start this year and continue in proportion to the strength of the economic recovery.
"We operated at a 94.2 operating ratio last year," Old Dominion's Congdon's says. "But the rest of the LTL industry was at 105. Excluding YRC, it was 101. That is not sustainable. We have to get some pricing improvements and I certainly anticipate that we as an industry will we get them."
If shippers want a hint of their rates, just look at the government numbers regarding industrial capacity, Gross Domestic Product, and other productivity trends. Unemployment, which is still 10 percent and forecast to stay above 6 percent through 2015, is one number truckers look at regularly.
"In the end it's consumers," Congdon says. "These industrial numbers may be rising, but unemployment greatly offsets everything that's going on. If you're unemployed, you're not buying. Those people employed are not spending as much as they once did. We have to get our consumers back out there spending and to do that we have to get that unemployment number down."
Analyst Jindel is calling for a modest economic recovery: "I'm not finding any hopeful signs that life for LTL carriers will get better any time soon. It will be a very slow process in improving tonnage levels. Things are getting lighter and smaller; and that does not portend well for an industry that bases its pricing on weight."
What should shippers expect? In two words: rate increases.
"We've been chopping at the bottom for several months," Schneider's Rourke says. "Pricing will certainly go north, no question. Whether that's in a big way in 2011 or starts to manifest itself in 2010, that is the big question. That's our crystal ball moment for this industry."
Top 25 less-than-truckload carriers 2009 revenues (including fuel surcharges)
|2009 REVENUE ($ million)
|FedEx Freight
|YRC National
|Con-way Freight
|UPS Freight
|ABF Freight System
|YRC Regional
|Estes Express Lines
|Old Dominion Freight Line
|R+L Carriers*
|Saia Motor Freight Line
|Southeastern Freight Lines*
|Vitran Express
|Averitt Express
|AAA Cooper Transportation*
|Central Transport International*
|Roadrunner Transportation
|New England Motor Freight
|Pitt-Ohio Express
|Dayton Freight Lines*
|A. Duie Pyle*
|New Century Transportation*
|Central Freight Lines
|Daylight Transport
|Wilson Trucking*
|Oak Harbor Freight Lines*
Top 25 truckload carriers 2009 revenues (including fuel surcharges)
|2009 REVENUE ($ Million)
|Swift Transportation
|Schneider National
|Werner Enterprises
|U.S. Xpress Enterprises
|J.B. Hunt Transport Services
|Prime Inc.
|C.R. England
|Crete Carrier Corp.
|CRST International
|Knight Transportation
|Ruan Transportation Management Services
|Covenant Transport Group
|Celadon Group*
|Ryder Systems
|Heartland Express
|Western Express
|Interstate Distributor Co.
|Stevens Transport
|Anderson Trucking Service
|Comcar Industries
|Marten Transport
|National Freight
|Dart Transit
|USA Truck
|Con-way Truckload
ATA reports February tonnage is up
ARLINGTON. Va.—The American Trucking Associations reported that its advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index dipped 0.5 percent in February following a revised 1.9 percent January gain. February's decrease put the SA at 108.5 (2000=100), following a 109.1 January reading.
Despite the sequential decrease, the ATA said the SA was up 2.6 percent year over year, marking the third straight year-over-year gain. The ATA added that for the first two months of 2010, SA tonnage was up 3.5 percent compared to the same time a year ago. This is a better beginning to the year than 2009 when the SA was down a revised 8.7 percent), which marked its largest annual decrease since the 12.3 percent decline in 1982.
The ATA also reported that its not seasonally-adjusted index (NSA), which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by fleets before any seasonal adjustment, hit 97.6 in February, which was down from January's 99.5 but up 2.6 percent year over year.
ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said in a statement that February's tonnage reading is somewhat difficult to gauge due to the various winter storms that occurred in February, especially on the East Coast. Despite February's weather, Costello said that he is optimistic about the industry's recovery prospects.
"I continue to hear from motor carriers that both the demand and supply situations are steadily improving," said Costello. "Certainly it will take a while to make up the ground lost during the recession, but the industry is on the path to recovery." Costello added that he expects to see some volatility on a month-to-month basis throughout this year, but the trend line should be for moderate growth.
February weather cited for flat growth
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Harsh weather conditions in February had a negative impact on economic growth, according to the results of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI), leading to flat economic growth over the first two months of 2010.
The PCI, according to Ceridian and UCLA, is based on an analysis of real-time diesel fuel consumption data from over-the-road trucking and is tracked by Ceridian, a provider of human resources and prepaid card payment services. The PCI data is accumulated by analyzing Ceridian's electronic card payment data that captures the location and volume of diesel fuel being purchased by trucking companies.
The PCI had a strong start to the year with a 0.6 percent gain but fell in February by 0.7 percent. December's PCI was up 2.8 percent. Unlike previous PCI readings, UCLA and Ceridian said that the February PCI was adjusted for monthly workdays, which they said create less volatile month to month index changes.
"This change is a correction for work days and traditional seasonal adjustment," said Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and PCI chief economist. "We discovered that the weekend days have about half the volume of diesel fuel transactions as the weekdays; and because that varies from month to month as the year changes, that creates a lot of volatility due to the number of weekend days and week days in any given month."
Leamer explained that on average, a weekend day sees 46 percent of the diesel fuel consumption that is seen during a week day, but it is lower in the Northeast, which has a 36 percent diesel fuel consumption rate. In turn, there is little difference between week days and weekends in the Mountain region.
Prior to this adjustment, the PCI mainly focused on a three-month rolling average for diesel fuel consumption to eliminate varying up and down swings, which mostly had to do with differences in workdays, said Leamer. Now that the PCI takes a month-to-month approach towards its data, Leamer explained that after a strong December, the first two months of the year are flat.
"Of the 5.9 percent fourth quarter GDP growth, 3.9 percent had to do with inventories, which is not a sustainable phenomenon," said Leamer. "It is very volatile and has no sort of persistence to it. Most people look at that GDP number as 2 percent growth quarter. If we have 2 percent growth quarters the rest of the year, the job market is going to remain dismal."
Ceridian Vice President and Index Analyst Craig Manson told LM that despite the flatness in the current quarter, it is worth noting that year-over-year diesel fuel transaction volumes are up for the third straight month. December's increase was the first time that had occurred in 21 months.
Capacity driving potential volume/rate uptick
NASHVILLE—A fourth quarter survey of roughly 100 trucking carriers conducted by Transport Capital Partners (TCP) indicated that trucking companies are optimistic about market conditions, especially if rates and volumes go up as they suspect.
This mindset appears to be ongoing based on the results of TCP's recently released "Business Expectations Survey." A prevalent theme of the survey focused on projected 2010 rates and volumes. For large carriers—with revenues over $25 million—TCP found that 64 percent expect rates hikes, compared to 37 percent of smaller carriers with revenues below $25 million.
As for volumes, TCP found that more than 70 percent of large carriers expect volumes to rise in the next 12 months compared to the last 12 months (about 10 percent more than small carriers), with slightly more than 30 percent of small carriers and about 25 percent of large carriers calling for volumes to remain the same. Only 5 percent of small carriers anticipate volume declines.
TCP Managing Partner Lana Batts told LM that the projected rate increase is directly related to the ongoing excess capacity in the trucking sector. This is simply due, said Batts, to the fact that when there is excess capacity rates go down.
"Carriers have not purchased a substantial number of trucks over the last three years, and last year was a perfect example of that with only 90,000 Class 8 trucks purchased," said Batts. "We have always expected that, just to maintain a 'normal' replacement cycle, it took more than 250,000."
This point was further validated by a research report from BB&T Capital Markets analyst Tom Albrecht that said that a number of Class 8 tractors 8 years old or newer has shrunk by 13 percent or 211,000 units. In short: fleets are getting older and smaller.
While the trucking sector has had its fair share of bumps and bruises in the recent past, Batts pointed out that rates are stabilizing not declining, adding that in some spot areas there are equipment shortages. These areas include dry van capacity in the Midwest due to a rebounding automotive market.
Another factor cited by Albrecht's report was the Monthly Market Demand Index (MDI) from the Internet Truckstop. An MDI above 7 benefits truckers while below 7 benefits brokers and shippers. Batts said the MDI was as low as 1.43 in February 2009 and is now above 7.
"The spot market tends to be an indicator of what is going to happen in the contract market," added Batts. "And even though carriers have contracts with shippers for mega-bid packages [not dedicated], the shipper does not guarantee traffic, and the carrier does not guarantee trucks. All they have negotiated is price."
This has led to a situation where shippers have continually re-bid packages and are now under a false illusion that there is going to be capacity to go with those rates, said Batts. But this will not happen, she said, because that capacity is going to go to the higher rate and not the lower rate.
The TCP survey data found that 45 percent of respondents will add capacity when the current fleet is fully utilized and rates increase significantly, while roughly 15 percent cited they will not add capacity until the economy improves and is more stable.
What's more, TCP noted that large carriers are twice as likely not to add capacity until their fleet is fully utilized and rates increase sufficiently; whereas smaller carriers are waiting for the economy to stabilize; which, TCP said, could explain why a higher portion of smaller carriers are currently adding capacity compared with larger carriers.
YRCW reports $622 million loss in 2009
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—In a recent 10-K report, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provider YRC Worldwide (YRCW) reported a $622 million net loss in 2009.
The company did not make this information available during its fourth quarter earnings release because it was in the process of completing its income tax provision that was part of its now completed debt-for-equity exchange in which it received tenders—or exchange offers—for roughly $470 million, representing about 88 percent of its outstanding notes.
The $622 million net loss came along with $5.3 billion in operating revenue, which was down 40.4 percent compared to 2008's $8.9 billion in operating revenue. The 2009 numbers were an improvement over the $976 million net loss the company posted in 2008.
YRCW's financial condition has been closely watched by industry observers due to the extensions leading up to the debt-for-equity exchange as well as the difficult LTL market conditions caused in large part by excess capacity, decreased fuel surcharge revenues, and pricing issues. The current market has also led to lower tonnage volumes across the board for YRCW, with fourth quarter shipments per day at YRC National Transportation down 39.9 percent.
Despite these losses, YRCW Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars is optimistic about where the company is headed. In a Web video for customers, he explained that 2009 was a year that "tested YRCW's strength as a corporation, and [YRCW] did more than prove the cynics wrong, not only by surviving the worse business downturn since the Great Depression but by positioning YRCW to grow financially and operationally."
Zollars cited how YRCW accomplished the integration and right-sizing of its Yellow and Roadway networks, executed the turnaround of its regional business, implemented cost-reduction and process improvements, and concluded its debt-for-equity exchange offer, which he said improved the company's balance sheet and liquidity.
"Our comprehensive recovery plan, which was the basis of our efforts in 2009, continues to guide us as we move through 2010. We are optimistic and we are confident," said Zollars. "And above all, we continue to win back business and gain new customers every day."
Last month, YRCW reported that it's seeing improving first quarter shipment trends at YRC National Transportation and YRC Regional Transportation. Company officials explained that shipment volumes in the latter end of December and early January were affected by the extensions to its note exchange, along with difficult weather conditions in January and February having a negative impact on shipment growth.
Continuing to keep costs in line will remain a major part of YRCW's strategy, according to Zollars. Recent media reports noted that YRC has eliminated roughly 2,000 jobs since the end of 2009. A Kansas City Star report quoted Zollars as saying by the end of 2010 YRCW plans to take out an additional $300 million in annual costs, with $200 million removed by the middle of this year.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst David Ross recently wrote that he remains skeptical of YRCW's long-term viability, although the company likely has sufficient access to funds to operate through 2010 after undergoing a complicated out-of-court financial restructuring to eliminate near-term debt payments.
"A high-degree of uncertainty lingers, in our opinion, around the company's future," wrote Ross.
About the Author
Contributing Editor
John D. Schulz has been a transportation journalist for more than 20 years, specializing in the trucking industry. He is known to own the fattest Rolodex in the business, and is on a first-name basis with scores of top-level trucking executives who are able to give shippers their latest insights on the industry on a regular basis. This wise Washington owl has performed and produced at some of the highest levels of journalism in his 40-year career, mostly as a Washington newsman.
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Every year, around 300 deer and elk are hit and killed by vehicles on Interstate 70 in the Rifle area, putting the stretch from West Rifle to Rifle in the top 5 percent of all state highways, two engineers told Rifle City Council.
Colorado Department of Transportation resident engineer Roland Wagner and project engineer Graham Riddile told council at a March 6 workshop how they hope to reduce the numbers of animal-vehicle collisions.
Ideal Fencing Corp. has been contracted for a $4.2 million project to install new wildlife fencing, road guards and ramps along a 24-mile long stretch of I-70, between West Rifle and Canyon Creek, west of Glenwood Springs.
The work consists of removing existing state right of way fence where necessary, and repairing or installing approximately 150,000 linear feet of eight-foot-high wildlife fence.
"We consult with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on these mitigation projects," Wagner said. "Since fencing and escape ramps were constructed along sections of State Highway 82 over the past couple of years, we've seen a dramatic reduction in animal-vehicle collisions on that highway."
On average, animal-vehicle collisions on I-70 from Utah to the top of Vail Pass account for 13.6 percent of all reported collisions along the stretch, according to CDOT figures. However, in the section from West Rifle to Canyon Creek, they make up 31.6 percent of all collisions.
In a presentation to the council, Wagner and Riddile explained the project will include:
• 48 miles of wildlife fencing, 24 on the south side, 24 on the north side. This includes 35 miles of new fence and 13 miles of repaired fence.
• 54 wildlife escape ramps, 27 on the north side and 27 on the south side of I-70, will replace game gates. These one-way escape ramps are soil ramps, with mesh material for erosion control. Ramps are built on the highway side of the fence, at a six-foot high "notch" in the fence, allowing wildlife to jump down to safety on the other side. Previous ramp construction was done on I-70 near Gypsum in 2010.
• Seven deer guards, similar to cattle guards, installed at highway accesses, but wider, since deer and elk can jump the narrower cattle guards. Three of those will be installed at the exit 94 interchange, the Garfield County Regional Airport.
• Eight-foot "special" deer guards installed at interstate ramps in West Rifle, Rifle and at Tibbetts Landing (a boat put-in access point further west). They consist of plastic pavement markings inlaid into cut depressions in the pavement and function as a highway rumble strip to slow exiting motorists down, while also deterring wildlife from crossing over and entering the interstate. They are about the same size as regular metal deer guards, 16- by 30 feet. Two of these will be added to the West Rifle interchange and four at the Rifle interchange.
Riddile noted the goal of adding new, high-tensile wire mesh fencing and guards on the roadways at the Rifle interchange is to "completely seal this area off" to deer and elk.
Wagner noted the animals will find other water sources if they are prevented from reaching the Colorado River at the interchange.
Councilman Keith Lambert asked if the city's plans to make aesthetic improvements to the city's entrance off I-70 could proceed, after the new fencing was installed.
Wagner said CDOT would "always work with you. Fencing isn't a high dollar item, so it's not a problem" to relocate sections to allow a city project to proceed.
"We just didn't want this fence to be something that's cast in stone," Lambert said.
Wagner also said using the high-tension fence along the Rifle interchange stretch is something that should not be a problem, after some councilmembers asked for it to be included.
Work began in February and will continue through October, said Riddile.


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