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03-06-2012 17:10 This video captures an opportunity that I had to meet Carlos Rogers. He is an amazing guy that is a great example of personal success. Recorded during an event in Durham, NC.

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PARK RIDGE, N.J., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Hertz Corporation (HTZ) announced today an aggressive expansion of new technology-driven, customer service enhancements to more Hertz locations worldwide. The services, highlighted in the "Traveling at the Speed of Hertz" campaign, provide speed and ease helping Hertz Gold members save time via mobile and on-site service options and getting customers quickly behind the wheel of their preferred rental vehicle.

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"Hertz is responding to the exponential growth of mobile technology to streamline consumers' lives, including business and leisure travel," commented Hertz Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mark P. Frissora. "Customers love our Mobile Gold 'Carfirmations' because the service provides consumers confidence that their rental vehicle is ready to go. Hertz's suite of technological innovations is a key element of our commitment to make the car rental experience the fastest and easiest in the industry."

Hertz Gold Choice gives Gold customers the power to select their own car and go, and is now available at 48 U.S. locations and 7 European locations, with plans to add 10 additional locations within the next year. Hertz ExpressRent Kiosks, which let customers rent a car without a reservation through a live, face-to-face video kiosk, are live in 153 airport and off-airport locations across the U.S. Hertz has processed more than 100,000 rentals with its ExpressRent Kiosks and has set a new record handling of approximately 6,000 transactions per week via the kiosks.

"Traveling at the Speed of Hertz" enhancements that Hertz continues to expand include:

In addition to the success of the programs above, Hertz was recently voted the Best Overall Car Rental Company in Zagat's 2012/13 U.S. Car Rental Survey. In addition to best overall, Hertz earned top honors in 14 additional categories, more than any other car rental company surveyed. The Hertz Gold Plus Rewards program also garnered top honors for Best Rewards Program and Best Overall Benefits in the Americas, Europe/Africa, and Middle East/Asia/Oceania in the first annual FlyerTalk Awards.

About The Hertz Corporation

Hertz is the largest worldwide airport general use car rental brand, operating from approximately 8,500 corporate and licensee locations in approximately 150 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and New Zealand. Hertz is the number one airport car rental brand in the U.S. and at 119 major airports in Europe. In addition, the Company has sales and marketing centers in 60 countries which promote Hertz business both within and outside such country. Product and service initiatives such as Hertz Gold Choice, Hertz #1 Club Gold, NeverLost customized, onboard navigation systems, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and unique cars and SUVs offered through the Company's Adrenaline Prestige and Green Traveler Collections, set Hertz apart from the competition. In 2008, the Company entered the global car sharing market with its service now referred to as Hertz On Demand which rents cars by the hour and/or by the day, at various locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Hertz also operates one of the world's largest equipment rental businesses, Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, offering a diverse line of rental equipment, from small tools and supplies to earthmoving equipment, as well as new and used equipment for sale, to customers ranging from major industrial companies to local contractors and consumers, from approximately 315 branches in the United States, Canada, China, France, Spain, Italy and Saudi Arabia, as well as through its international licensees. Hertz also owns Donlen Corporation, based in Northbrook, Illinois, which is a leader in providing fleet leasing and management services. To make car rental reservations or for more information, customers can call their travel agent, or call Hertz toll-free at 1-800-654-3001. Information and reservations are also available on the web at http://www.hertz.com.

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Stakes Success for Wealthy Man

Six-year-old New Zealander Wealthy Man (NZ) (Danzighill x Tatts M' Name) claimed his first stakes success in Macau on Saturday, beating top racehorse Luen Yat Forever (Honours List) to win the M$700,000 M-2 Macau Directors' Cup (1500m).

French apprentice jockey Charles Perkins gave Wealthy Man the perfect ride in the feature race of the meeting, jumping on the speed before settling in the box seat just off the leaders and powering away in the straight. The race winning time of 1 minute 25.5 seconds was a new track record, over half a second quicker than the old record of 1 minute 26.1 seconds.

Trained by Stephen Chow, the win was Wealthy Man's eighth from 28 career starts. The six-year-old has been close to stakes success in the past having run second in the Listed Macau Sprint Trophy (1200m) in 2010 and third in the Listed Macau Hong Kong Trophy (1500m) in 2011.

Bred by Abingdon Thoroughbreds, Wealthy Man was purchased by Glenn Old from White Robe Lodge at New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds & Mixed Bloodstock for $12,000. He has now won over NZ$400,000 for his owners Lau Fu Wing & Tse Kam Po.

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ATLANTA, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Equifax Inc. (EFX) announced today that its Personal Solutions unit is launching an innovative program to address credit literacy among U.S. Hispanic consumers, including a Spanish-language web site (www.equifax.com/espanol) and three Spanish-language products.

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Equifax is among the first of the major consumer credit product companies in the U.S. to target Hispanics with a program to educate the community on the importance of credit and also empower consumers with educational resources, products and tools to make sound decisions. Both the web site and products have been designed to meet the unique needs and preferences of the Hispanic consumer.

Equifax has collaborated with a trusted financial advisor and media personality in the Hispanic community, Julie Stav, to develop and launch this important program. Stav engages millions of Hispanic consumers each month through her national radio show, Tu Dinero con Julie Stav, and other media platforms. She is now serving as the Equifax program's ambassador, generating awareness and promoting engagement among Hispanic consumers.

"Understanding and serving the Hispanic market is and will continue to be critical to the success of any company in the U.S. We're proud to be among the first consumer credit product companies to launch an initiative specifically designed for this market," said Trey Loughran, president, Equifax Personal Solutions. "Hispanic buying power in the United States is increasing significantly every year, and these consumers must understand and have access to credit to purchase homes, cars and other significant items. It's why we created this program and why we are teaming with Julie Stav, an expert in understanding Hispanic consumers' personal finance and credit education needs."

The Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to grow 167 percent from 2010 to 2050, according to the U.S. Census. Hispanic buying power in the U.S. is estimated to be $1.2 trillion in 2012 and is projected to increase to $1.5 trillion in 2015, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth.

Equifax's Spanish-language web site for Hispanic consumers features educational content on a range of credit-related topics, including broad use of video and graphics. The site also features a new credit monitoring subscription product and two credit reporting products. For more information, visit http://www.equifax.com/espanol.

"Everything we are doing with our Hispanic-focused initiative from the educational web site and Spanish-language products to the relationship we have developed with Julie Stav ties directly to the Equifax Personal Solutions mission: empowering consumers to be their financial best," said Loughran. Our Spanish-language program and offerings enable us to reach, educate and empower many more people."

About Equifax

Equifax Personal Solutions empowers consumers with the confidence and control to be their financial best. Find out more about Equifax's innovative suite of credit monitoring and identity theft protection products designed to enable consumers to maximize their financial well-being at http://www.equifax.com. Get smart information on everything from credit to retirement, all in one place at the Equifax Finance Blog, http://www.blog.equifax.com.

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At Large By: Rina Jimenez-David Philippine Daily Inquirer

JAKARTAIndonesia has been called the smiling face of Islam. Where the religion spread through much of the Middle East through military conquest, Islam in Indonesia (and in much of Southeast Asia) was brought in by Arab traders, proselytizing even as they were establishing commercial routes.

Which is not to say that Islam in Indonesia is less Islamic. I remember visiting the office of a judge in a Shariah court in Pakistan with women leaders from Southeast Asia. An Indonesian delegate remonstrated with the judge about his rather harsh interpretation of a point of law, and he asked: What country do you come from? Are you even Muslim? Of course I am Muslim, I come from Indonesia! she replied. Oh, Indonesia, said the judge with a smirk, you arent real Muslims!

We all left in a huff, and none was more irate than our Indonesian friend. Indonesia, after all, has the worlds largest Islamic population, and while Indonesian Muslims present to the world a gentle, smiling and tolerant face of Islam, they are no less religious, observant or loyal to their faith.

The women of Asyiyah-Muhammadiyah came to our Womens Edition seminar to talk about the role of this faith-based organization in promoting family planning and reproductive health in Indonesia. Dr. Atikah Zaki, the health and social coordinator of the womens branch of Muhammadiyah, came into the room dressed in a floor-length skirt, long-sleeved blouse and her head and neck covered in a scarf that reached down to her chest. Her two companions were dressed similarly. They were the very picture of Islamic modesty, as were most of the other women speakers.

And yet Zaki in particular was unabashed in her pride at the work that Asyiyah, the womens wing of Muhammadiyah, was doing in promoting family planning among their members. While Muhammadiyah was founded as a faith-based organization by a very influential and famous ulama (Islamic religious leader) in 1912 in Yogyakarta, Asyiyah was founded just five years later, and its work of upholding the status of women and promoting Islamic life has only been enhanced by its promotion of family planning and reproductive health.

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AS EARLY as 1968, just when the BKKBN, the national family planning coordinating board, was established, a national congress of ulama issued a fatwa (decree) declaring that Muslims could practice certain family planning methods without committing offense.

Today, Asyiyah and Muhammadiyah endorse the following family planning methods: the contraceptive pill, the IUD, and withdrawal (although this last is considered a traditional method that is unreliable), while forbidding the promotion of abortion, menstrual regulation and sterilization.

Despite the limitations, Asyiyah effectively promotes family planning through a network of 86 hospitals and hundreds of clinics, while teaching responsible sexual behavior (though I doubt if they use the term) in their network of 87 universities and over 4,000 schools. As part of the associations commitment to look after the welfare of members, local leaders also conduct regular counseling sessions, mediating disputes between a husband and wife and even addressing such sensitive issues as domestic violence and premarital sex.

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WE'VE heard a lot about Europe's debt, China's growth and the US's unemployment. It supposedly creates a poor picture of the global economy and the prospects for business owners.

So I was heartened this week to see such a good turnout to a business seminar I held in Parramatta.

It's interesting when you speak to a room filled with business owners or prospective business owners, because even with the best-planned presentation, it's the questions that come from the audience that really tell me what's happening in the economy. It also tells me about consumer and business confidence and how good people feel about what's happening out there on Main Street.

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From the questions asked this past week, I can gauge that there is still quite a bit of hesitation. People are still confused with what's happening and are struggling to come to terms with how the global financial turbulence will affect their businesses in the future.

While I can't answer everyone's concerns specifically, I can offer a few thoughts for business owners who are looking for some resolve.

The first one sounds simple, but so many businesses go bust because they don't make it a priority. It's to have a plan. Lots of people who talk to me about business have an idea but what they really need is a plan. A plan can change and it can be improved as you move forward but without it you really don't have a sense of where you're trying to go.

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At the IASA Annual Conference, Insurity, Inc., a provider of core insurance processing software and services, today announced that they have replatformed Policy Decisions Personal to the .NET platform. With the replatforming of the personal lines policy application, Insurity now offers a common platform for all P&C lines of business commercial, personal, and specialty lines.

As a result, clients are able to leverage Insuritys configuration capabilities and common components across all product lines, resulting in a simplified operating environment for improved efficiencies and reduced costs. Insurity is currently implementing the new .NET version of Policy Decisions for an existing personal lines customer.

Additional benefits with personal lines now on .NET include:

Jeffrey Glazer, Insurity CEO, said, With all of our solutions now supported on a common .NET platform, our clients are better able to take full advantage of all we have to offer and leverage capabilities across all Insurity core processing systems. The replatforming of Policy Decisions Personal was a priority for us and a direct response to client and industry feedback. We will continue to enhance our product suite and the underlying technology, but we will always take the time to do our due diligence and invest the time and effort to get it right. Its this approach that has made us successful and allows us to boast a 100% success rate and a 25 year history of helping insurers modernize core processes.

About Insurity

Headquartered in Hartford, CT, Insurity, Inc. provides policy administration, claims, billing, and analytics software to more than 100 insurance companies. A market leader in deploying policy administration software and full service solutions to the property & casualty insurance market, Insuritys solutions process billions of dollars of premium each month and address the needs of all carriers large and small, national or regional, commercial, personal, or specialty lines writers, as well as MGAs.

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Much more is expected of the men and women competing at the Visa Championships this week at Chaifetz Arena than their counterparts who competed here in the same event a dozen years ago. The best of the best here and at the Olympic Trials later this month are expected not only to represent the U.S in London but to bring home the mother lode of medals.

The U.S. gymnasts are the only ones to bring home team medals in both men's and women's gymnastics from the past two Olympiads. But they want more than a three-peat. Once an also-ran, the U.S. women have become the dominant force in the sport over the last decade. The men are an ascending program expected to bring home multiple medals.

"The magic of what's emerged through our program is that we've cultivated a team environment," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. "The team has gone from being a collection of individuals to a true team effort."

Through the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. women's team had its moments, starting with Mary Lou Retton's gold in the all-around in 1984 and peaking with the 1996 team, whose gold medal performance in the team competition and three individual medals earned them the name The Magnificent Seven. Many of the U.S. medalists in that span trained full-time with Bela and Martha Karolyi, uprooting their lives and families to train at the Karolyis' facility near Houston. The rest of the top U.S. gymnasts, though, felt they were at a disadvantage in national team selection.

Then in 1999, the U.S. finished sixth at the world championships.

"That was like the stock market plummeting more than 1,000 points," Penny said. "There was no coaching figure who had accountability. There was no one person who was keeping the bar raised. We had to fix it."

Karolyi seemed the likely figure, and the beginnings of a national team program were launched in the leadup to the Sydney Olympics. The results the following year at the Olympics in Sydney showed little improvement, though. The team earned a bronze but was shut out of individual medals. Romania, China and Russia divvied up the bulk of them.

"All the top nations have permanent training centers, which we felt represented a huge advantage," Martha said. "But we knew it was not possible to take a 6-year-old away from their parents here."

Despite the dominance at the time of Karolyi's athletes, the plethora of other gyms scattered throughout the country meant there was no centralized system. So, USA Gymnastics, with the help of the Karolyis, reached a compromise, a semi-centralized system in which the top athletes and their coaches gathered periodically, typically four days a month, at the Karolyis' facility.

Bela initially was named team coordinator but after nearly two decades of stepping on the toes of many a gym director and coach, he was viewed as a polarizing, rather than unifying, force. Thus, USA Gymnastics chose Martha to replace him as team coordinator.

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Home business Innovation, leadership main factors behind top companies' success: study

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Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, has released its seventh annual "Best Companies for Leadership Study", identifying the top 20 global and top 10 Asian companies for leadership and examining how they nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. This year, General Electric topped the global list, followed by Procter & Gamble, IBM, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. Here in Asia, Samsung Group, Toyota Motor and Unilever led the ranking.

According to Hay Group's study, the Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) create workplace environments and processes that enable innovation to thrive. In fact, 90 per cent of the Asia's top 10 companies reported that their leaders regularly celebrated innovation, compared with just 59 per cent of other companies. In addition, 84 per cent of Asia's top 10 companies reported that ideas from subsidiaries were just as likely to be implemented as those from headquarters, compared with only 63 per cent of other companies.

"In Asia, there is a keen hunger to capitalise on the abundant business opportunities," said Mohinish Sinha, leadership and talent practice leader for Hay Group Asean, India, Pacific and Africa and co-author of the BCL Asia report. "The Best Companies for Leadership recognise innovation is key to their future growth and sustainability in a fiercely competitive global market.

"Many companies prize innovation, but the Best Companies for Leadership approach it in a disciplined way by building agile organisations, promoting collaboration, and celebrating successes."

The global top 20 Best Companies for Leadership are GE, P&G, IBM, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Accenture, Wal-Mart Stores, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Toyota, Nestle, 3M, Southwest Airlines, ExxonMobil, PepsiCo, Siemens, Shell, Dow Chemical, and FedEx.

Asia's BCL top 10 are Samsung, Toyota, Unilever, Nestle, Tata Group, IBM, Sony, P&G, Coca-Cola, and Petronas.

"There are plenty of ideas that we could learn from the best companies in driving a culture of innovation," said Thachasha Phuangpornsri, leadership and talent practice leader, Thailand. "Innovation does not happen by chance any more; the highlight this year indicates that best companies focus on promoting an environment that encourages meaningful innovations throughout the organisation. This is seen as a crucial way to survive and drive their market leadership."

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ST. CHARLES Kerry Cox was raised to reach the unchurched on college campuses.

In fact, he's so good at it, his efforts have engulfed Lindenwood University in a dispute that includes allegations of cult activity, two resignations and a broader debate about the proper bounds of evangelizing on campus.

The son of a pastor, Cox grew up sharing his father's fiery zeal to mine the faithful amid the indulgences and parties of youth.

He watched his father, the Rev. Robert Cox, launch a successful campus ministry at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville two decades ago. The son would later take over that ministry while enrolled as an SIUE student, sending hundreds of believers to his dad's Greater Alton Church.

So when the church was looking to expand its evangelization to Lindenwood, Kerry Cox was the perfect choice.

He enrolled as a student in 2004, quickly establishing a ministry called A Cross Between.

He and his new wife bought a house with a big living room to better host all of the college students who would be stopping by for small group worship services. It was the way he had grown up, with college kids coming and going at all hours from his parents' home.

"College is the time when people meet their mates," said Cox, 34. "It's when they meet the friends they'll have for the rest of their lives. People are at their most open-minded in college, and we can talk to them about these things they might not know about. It's just a good opportunity."

In the case of Lindenwood, that opportunity paid off beyond anyone's expectations.

A Cross Between accomplished its goal of sending worshippers to Robert Cox's new congregation, the Crossings Church in Wentzville. It claimed as many as 125 students, and its influence on campus grew, with several staff members becoming active in the group.

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