| Orbitz Worldwide Signs New Distribution Agreement With Avis Budget ...
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: OWW) , a leading global online travel company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) to distribute Avis Rent A Car (http://www.avis.com) and Budget Rent A Car (http://www.budget.com) inventory through its Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com) and CheapTickets (http://www.cheaptickets.com) consumer brands and corporate travel offering, Orbitz for Business (http://www.orbitzforbusiness.com). "We're pleased to renew this alliance with two car rental brands that have a strong history with Orbitz Worldwide and its customers," said Sam Fulton, vice president and general manager, transportation, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. "As Orbitz Worldwide works to offer more environmentally sound alternatives to our customers, we're pleased to immediately make available Avis Budget Group's fleet of gas/electric hybrid vehicles." In April 2007, Orbitz launched http://eco.orbitz.com, a microsite that enables its customers to book more environmentally friendly travel.
KRIEGER: More character, not characters, needed
Mike Shanahan has been taking his chances on sketchy characters for some time. In fact, enough of these risks have blown up in his face that it will be hard for any player to break into the top three on his flawed character hit parade: Dale Carter, Daryl Gardener and Maurice Clarett. But when you hear players talk vaguely about qualities missing from the locker room last year, about a lack of commitment, you begin to wonder if Shanahan's gambles on athletic talent over character are sabotaging his team. Take Todd Sauerbrun. Sauerbrun has a great leg and a roster of personal issues. This is no secret. When Shanahan signed him, he signed a punter with serious baggage. Normally, a punter couldn't get away with any baggage, but Sauerbrun had that leg. You could measure how far the ball traveled.
ZigBeef system may span industries
The start-up's data reader could move beyond livestock.
Tulsa start-up ZigBeef LLC is ready to go into the cattle market with its new long-range, handheld tracking system, and applications such as rodeos and auto fleet records may not be far behind.
ZigBeef's system uses a USB stick and battery-powered tags to help clients track their assets. The data readers can sell for about a third or less of the $2,000 to $3,000 for similar products, says company founder and president John Hassell.
"Various people are trying to address the same segment," he said. "We think we have the best product."
ZigBeef's original intent was to serve cattle producers trying to keep up with animal identification needs and standards. The small tag -- imprinted with an ID number and other data such as vaccination records -- is attached to a cow's ear and can be read by radio frequency without pointing the USB stick directly at the subject.
We are looking for voluntary translators from Arabic into English.
All the bodies were covered of dark powder so to look black, but were not burnt. Clothes and hair were not damaged or burnt." Samples from the skin of six corpses were analyzed for histology in two independent laboratories. The results revealed no altered elements in the skin and derma and no sign of burns. All samples showed particles of dark color covering the skin, histologically staining for iron. Electron microscope scans showed the presence of phosphorous, iron and magnesium at below the normal level of detection. Analysis of the dark refractive material layered over the skin of one victim showed it contained mainly carbon and oxygen, and lesser amounts of iron, silicon and calcium. Some of these elements are used in particle form as fuel additives to boost the blast of thermobaric bombs or grenades.
Australian market shows encouraging resilience
WE are caught between the US slashing interest rates and our Reserve Bank putting them up. And it's against the backdrop of an Australian broker failing to settle trades for the first time since the Australian Stock Exchange switched to computers almost 20 years ago. For almost five hours last Tuesday, hundreds of millions of dollars of share trades were frozen in limbo. Video: Terry McCrann's business wrap Throw in that $8 billion forex loss by giant French bank Societe Generale, another multi-billion dollar sub-prime write-off by Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, and it all adds up to disturbing confusion and complexity. Certainly, we are living in "interesting times". Are they about to turn interestingly nasty? For investors? For jobs? For your standard of living? In fact, the local outcome from all of this is encouraging resilience.
ClayNation: Combine hopefuls meet Battle of Franklin
As the final days of training come to a close here in Nashville, players are looking for ways to relieve the tension and stress of their upcoming trip to Indianapolis for the NFL combine. Some guys are spending extra time walking through the steps of the three-cone drill to make sure their foot and head positions are correct, others are getting massages to relieve tired and aching muscles and ensure their legs are as spry as possible, some are sleeping a ton and reclusively avoiding all contact with the outside world -- and two Pac-10 football players are going to Civil War battlefields with a bearded writer who also happens to be a Civil War buff. Bang, welcome to the first ever column to tie the NFL Combine with the Battle of Franklin. DDT style. 1. Our Sunday field trip to Franklin gets off to a rough start for me when my wife deposits Fox in my lap at 7:30 Sunday morning.
CW can no longer play newbie card
All last TV season the people at The CW talked about the challenge of establishing its identity because viewers were adjusting to the new network, formed after UPN and The WB went away.
Now, viewers presumably have adjusted, and they're the ones going away.
The CW's overall viewership is down about 20 percent this season compared with a year ago, to an average of about 2.6 million viewers. Among its targeted audience of viewers age 18 to 34, its numbers are off about 25 percent, to a mere 750,000 or so.
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Victims claim sales staff colluded with syndicate
Buyers bought new cars to lease to the ring, expecting to receive income, not knowing their vehicles would not be leased out at all but become part of a pyramid scheme. Many vehicles were resold in neighbouring countries. More than 400 car buyers claim to have fallen victim to the scam. News of the ring broke two weeks ago. To make the scheme run quickly, the victim said buyers were seduced by very low down-payment schemes to prompt them to buy vehicles and "lease" them to the syndicate. The woman, who calls herself Sommai, said she learned Yufuku Co had allegedly paid kickbacks to sales staff to lure buyers to join the scheme. She said the staff allowed new luxury vehicles to be sold with down payments as low as Bt55,000. Another victim, a 40-year-old female employee at an industrial estate in eastern Bangkok, also accused staff of another leasing company of colluding with Yufuku by granting easy loans with easy terms to facilitate the scheme.
Cape Cod History
Power was lost at 11:14 a.m. and not restored in the business district of the Whaling City until 7:30 p.m. Officials with the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Co. attributed the outage to insulator failure at a power plant.Faced with the specter of the next day without a newspaper, an editor in New Bedford "gathered up page mats and news copy and flew to Hyannis where the edition was completed on the presses" of the Cape Cod Standard-Times.(illustration credit, www.metaltype.co.uk) .
Weather blog: Winter storm warning canceled
The wintry weather has led to about 500 cancelled flights at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Thursday. And as businesses let employees leave early, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported throughout North Texas. Here are the latest reports from our reporters and other sources: 10:44p UNT clases on the Denton and Dallas campus have been canceled Friday.
- Mark Wright, UNT 10:01p The snow and rain has all moved out. There is nothing more in the forecast than a few snow flurries overnight. We are now watching storm number two. The core of that storm has run into some stable areas and some dry air, which has led to that storm just falling apart. Around daybreak tomorrow, there will be no additional snow in the forecast. But, temperatures are going to drop to freezing or colder.
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