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Source: Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck (Original Article)

PHILIP, S.D. (AP) TransCanada officials say a proposed crude
oil pipeline that would cross western South Dakota will add $17.7
million a year in tax revenue to the state economy.

Officials say 313 miles of the Keystone X-L pipeline will cross
the state. It will enter northwestern South Dakota and leave
central part of the state at the southern border with Nebraska.

Construction in South Dakota is expected to begin in 2011.

Public meetings have been held in Philip, Buffalo, Murdo and
Faith. The final meeting is Monday in Winner.

At the meetings, company officials have fielded questions about
reclamation and construction. They say Keystone plans to pay
landowners a fair-market value for a 50-foot permanent easement for
the pipeline and for an additional 60-foot easement during
construction.

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Source: PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) (Original Article)

Chris is promoted from the position of Sales Director for BCG, which he has held for over three years. Chris’s primary responsibility and key focus in his new role will be to develop the next phase of the BCG business strategy, based at BCG’s head office in Worcester.

Chris is widely experienced in sales and marketing and joined BCG in March

2005, since then he has totally restructured and refocused the sales management process, established an effective sales training academy and led the major re-branding campaign of Broughton Crangrove Galley Matrix as BCG last autumn.

He was also behind the idea for The Big Tour, the largest travelling showcase of suppliers and product, which first took to the road for the first time in 2007 - spreading the message of the BCG XL brand proposition to over 750 customers nationally. The Big Tour goes from strength to strength and the 2008 Tour will shortly be rolled out across venues up and down the country, building on last year’s successes. The result of BGC’s sales and marketing strategy review, overseen by Chris, is one coherent corporate image which is the envy of the competition.

Prior to joining BCG, Chris achieved profitable growth within three of the largest distribution businesses in the industry. He has a large breadth of experience across all facets of a distribution business and has over 10 years’ successful track record as a company director. Commenting on the appointment, Chris Honer said: ‘BCG represents a wonderful opportunity for me personally, and for everyone else who is fortunate enough to work for the brand at this exciting time. We have already come a long way in delivering on customer expectations, a programme which we are totally committed to.

‘The headline figures of our 2008 Customer Satisfaction Survey show that BCG’s customers are generally very satisfied with our service and are becoming even more loyal to the business jetstar as a result of the various …continue reading

Source: Kansas.com (Original Article)

arryle Barth had visions of driving the backroads of Kansas with his wife, Kaye, the top down on their low-mileage 1989 Cadillac Allante convertible, soaking up the sun and the fresh air.

Then one day, a sudden hailstorm caught the Caddy out in the open. “I stood there and watched that hail storm pound the Allante right into the driveway,” Barth recalled.

But he decided the dream could still come true, in the form of a well-used 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible he had bought several years earlier in Chicago. Not only would he restore the Ford ragtop, he decided he would clone it into the more luxurious Galaxie 500 XL model.

“Changing that interior was a real challenge,” Barth said. Fortunately, he found someone who had stored an XL interior in an attic for years and was willing to part with it. His base-model Galaxie came with a worn-out red bench seat arrangement and steering column shifter, not with the nifty white bucket seats and console-mounted floor shift of the XL model.

“There was the question of where do you put that console,” he said, describing how there were no mounting holes to line up the new parts. “You have to make all new bracketry and you have to think backwards because the floor shift transmission shifts backwards of what the original shifted.” He had to build the rear seat kick panels himself.

Barth said it took over a year of intensive eBay shopping to find the right back seat for the convertible, and then it cost him $600. The new-old-stock back bumper, another almost impossible find, set him back $1,100. “That guy was so excited to sell that bumper, he delivered it personally (from Michigan). I was so excited, I bought him breakfast,” Barth said.

Someone had already swapped out the 289 V-8 in his car for a later model 302, which makes a respectable 15 mpg, he said. The car has power steering, but not power brakes and he has an air conditioner and a new Frequent Flyer Card top that are awaiting installation.

“I do …continue reading

Source: The Birmingham News - al.com (Original Article)

THE ISSUE: A lawsuit on behalf of Jefferson County sewer
customers could do more harm than good.

Jefferson County sewer customers suing county officials,
bankers, bond issuers and others involved in the sewer bond
mess most likely will make resolving the financial crisis
more difficult. In fact, the only people who stand to
benefit from such lawsuits are the lawyers who file them.

This week, though, lawyer Kathryn Harrington sued in
Jefferson County Circuit Court on behalf of sewer customer
Charles E. Wilson. The suit seeks to recover monetary
damages for sewer customers and others who have suffered due
to the “wrongful conduct and dereliction of
duties” by county officials and financial firms.

Named as defendants are nearly two dozen people and
companies. They include current county commissioners Bettye
Fine Collins and Shelia Smoot; former commissioners Larry
Langford, Mary Buckelew, Gary White, Steve Small and Jeff
Germany; former county Finance Director Steve Sayler;
Montgomery investment broker Bill Blount and his company,
Blount Parrish & Roton; Regions Bank; bond insurers
Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. and XL Capital Assurance
Inc.; and several large Wall Street banks and investment
firms, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Keegan
& Co., Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, Bear
Stearns Funding, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and CDR
Financial Services. Conspicuously absent from the list is
former County Commissioner Chris McNair, who for years
oversaw the county’s sewer program.

Harrington wants the lawsuit treated as a class action on
behalf of all sewer customers and county residents. She asks
that the defendants pay for the monetary damage they caused,
forfeit “fees, kickbacks and premiums” they
received and be barred from receiving future excessive fees.
And, of course, the lawyer wants to be awarded
attorney’s fees.

The problem with this lawsuit and others like ANZ Frequent Flyer it that are
likely to follow …continue reading

Source: Seeking Alpha (Original Article)

Each day, Wall Street is flooded with stock research offering a multitude of conflicting investment opinions. As such, TickerMine is not in the business of providing more opinions. We believe that accurate raw data points can be used to gain insight in to the stock selection and valuation process.

Samsung Phones Floundering as Music Devices; Nokia (NOK) 5310 Comes in First, Survey Says

Deutsche Telecom (DT), owner of T-Mobile, the cellular phone company, was surveyed this month. Tickermine researchers consulted 24 stores nation-wide and asked which was the best selling phone, which sells best for email and which is best for music?

The best overall selling phone was the Blackberry (RIMM), a first in Tickermine surveys. Previous studies had the Motorola (MOT) RAZR up top with 31% of the votes. Blackberry was cited this round by 7 respondents, or 29%, followed by the Motorola Razr (6 respondents or 25%), the Sidekick XL (5 respondents or 21%) the Samsung Beat (4 respondents or 17%) and the Nokia 5310 got two mentions (8%). The Blackberry came up trumps as the best email phone also with 57% of respondent’s votes.

This is a slight drop from our last survey which stated that the Blackberry gathered 66% of the votes. The Sidekick came in second (7 respondents or 29% of the votes) and the rest did dismally in this group - - the Nokia 2610, Palm Treo 650 Smartphone, Samsung Blast and Samsung t429 were each mentioned once only or by 4% of those polled. For music, interestingly it was the Nokia 5310 which did best (8 respondents, 33%). This is a big jump from before when Samsung phones dominated this group. The Nokia 5310 was followed by the Samsung Beat (6 respondents or 25%), the Motorola RIZR Z3 and then the Sidekick XL (3 or 13%). Finally, for the best music phone, the Samsung Blast and then the Blackberry Curve were each cited twice, or by 8% of those quizzed.

Samsung SCHr400 Best-Selling Phone for I dream of jeannie dvd PCS

26% of MetroPCS outlets in a …continue reading

Source: CNNMoney.com (press release) (Original Article)

BASINGSTOKE, UK and PHILADELPHIA, US June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –
Shire Limited (LSE: SHP, Nasdaq: SHPGY), the global specialty
biopharmaceutical company, today announced the publication of data from a
randomized, long-term safety and tolerability study (study 303) of ulcerative
colitis (UC) drug Lialda(TM) (mesalamine). The primary endpoints of this
study were to assess the safety and tolerability of Lialda in mild-to-moderate
UC patients over 12 months. Data were published in the July issue of Gut, the
official journal of the British Society of Gastroenterology, a leading
international journal in gastroenterology.

"This published data demonstrates that Lialda is generally well tolerated
and has a strong safety profile," said Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD, co-author of
study 303 and director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. "Not only does this data
demonstrate Lialda’s safety and tolerability, but secondary endpoints from the
maintenance phase of the 303 study show that a majority of patients on Lialda
continued to remain in remission through 12 months."

Specifically, the primary endpoints of the Phase III, open-label, 12-month
extension study were to evaluate the safety and tolerability of Lialda dosed
once (2.4g/day) or twice daily (1.2g twice daily) over 12 months, including
adverse events (AEs), treatment exposure, and time to withdrawal. AEs refer
to any untoward medical occurrence that happens in a clinical trial patient.
AEs can be "treatment-related" (TRAEs) and occur as a result of the study drug
or they can be considered unrelated to the study drug. In study 303, all AEs
were classified in one of three categories according to severity: mild,
moderate, or severe.

Results of the study showed Lialda demonstrated a good safety profile,
with 37.9 percent of patients (safety population n=459) experiencing AEs, St George Vertigo MasterCard the
majority of which were mild …continue reading

Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (Original Article)

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 28,000 Children’s Place Camouflage Pajama Sets because the screen print on the shirts contain excessive levels of lead.

The recall involves long- and short-sleeved pajama sets. The sets have a blue shirt with a red screen print that reads “Athletics 90″ and coordinating camouflage pants. The pajama sets were sold in boys’ sizes XXS (2/3) to XL (14).

These pajama sets were sold at The Children’s Place stores nationwide and www.childrensplace.com from December 2006 to January 2008 and cost between $15 and $17.

Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately and return them to any The Children’s Place store for a full refund.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact The Children’s Place at (877) 752-2387 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site laguna beach dvd at www.childrensplace.com. Consumers can also email the firm at customerservice@childrensplace.com

Source: Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) (Original Article)

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/08c4d3/analysis_of_xl_cap) has announced the addition of the “Analysis of XL Capital Limited” companyprofile to their offering.

We present Analysis of XL Capital Ltd. A complete and comprehensive analysis of XL Capital Ltd., includes an overview of the industry the company operates in, a PEST Framework Analysis of the industry, and then moves on to analyzing the company itself.

Company analysis includes a history of XL Capital Ltd., a business segment analysis of the segments XL Capital Ltd. operates through, a look at the organization structure of the company, a geographical operating segments analysis, an analysis of the company’s major competitors.

A financial analysis of XL Capital Ltd. is presented in the report which includes a ratio analysis, basic profit and loss analysis, presentation of the company balance sheet, and much more.

A SWOT Framework Analysis of XL Capital Ltd. and its competitors completes this in-depth company analysis.

Key Topics Covered:

- Executive Summary

- Looking at the Industry

- Industry PEST Framework Analysis

- Looking at the Company

- Looking at Business

- SWOT Framework Analysis

- Profiling the Competition (Includes SWOT Analysis of Competitor Companies)

- Financial Analysis of the Company

- Future Perspective

- Appendix

- Glossary of Terms

Companies Mentioned:

XL Capital Ltd.

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For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/08c4d3/analysis_of_xl_cap

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Source: Chicago Daily Herald (Original Article)

Over the years, giant SUVs have become status symbols.

But as fuel exceeds $4 a gallon, some suburban drivers are changing the way they look at the gas guzzlers. Others aren’t ready to squeeze into something smaller. Children, athletic bags and sporting equipment, emotional attachment or lifestyle have them still clutching the keys to their large vehicles.

With General Motors announcing that it’s closing four plants making large vehicles, we asked local residents: Do you still love your SUV?

Stephanie Brown of Lake Zurich, plans to get rid of her full-size conversion van, which she’s keeping in the garage because she doesn’t want to pay more than $100 to fill it up. The gas bill for the minivan her family of six is using is bad enough.

“Instead of taking six road trips to St. Louis and Eagle River to visit relatives as we have in the past, this summer we’ll go one time. And we have to take the minivan instead of the conversion van.”

Miki Thomas of Naperville, a stay-at-home mom with two children, sticks with her 2007 Acura MDX for errands and other short trips.

“Right now, we’ll keep the SUV because I need more space for the gigantic stroller.”

Rather than sacrifice her Volvo XC90 to spiking gas prices, Cheryl Zeller of Wauconda is cutting back on other items, such as her daily Starbucks run. It costs about $75 to fill the tank, which lasts about 330 miles, or about 10 or 11 days.

“We have kids in sports. We have to travel for softball. We need the size for the bat bags.”

Jason Beckner of Bartlett needs his 2005 Ford Explorer for camping and snowboarding. He bought it last summer, just before gasoline spiked. Now, he winces when driving 20 miles each way to work. Still, he wouldn’t trade it in. He loves the vehicle.

“If gasoline reaches $6 a gallon, well, then maybe I would reconsider.”

It costs Rick Champine of St. Charles $130 to fill up his Yukon XL. He’s ready to The King of Queens dvd trade it in for a smaller, …continue reading