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The 75-year-old trucking company last year started advertising on cable TV sports programming, but plans to expand to business and financial fare in 2000 as it tries to reach executives responsible for logistics as well as its traditional target of transportation and distribution managers.
A campaign and new tagline should be out in the first quarter of next year.
Yellow Freight parted ways with NKH&W, Kansas City, Mo., this summer.
Greg Reid, senior VP-sales and marketing, said the company also plans to increase direct-mail efforts and advertising in general business and trade magazines.
It also named Valentine McCormick Ligibel, Kansas City, to handle interactive marketing.
"We are targeting primarily adult males, but the percentage of women transportation services decisionmakers has grown dramatically in the past three years," he said.
Mr. Reid said Yellow Freight is the first traditional trucking company to significantly invest in general-market advertising. However, it now competes against Federal Express Corp. and United Parcel Service, which have moved into Yellow Freight territory.
The coming campaign, which likely will be budgeted at less than the reported $15 million, should position Yellow Freight as providing more customer service than traditional competitors, such as Airborne Freight Corp., Consolidated Freightways Corp. and Roadway Express. And it plans to provide more service than it had offered, Mr. Reid said.
New services include Definite Delivery, where customers get a money-back guarantee for on-time delivery, as well as notification of delays. A year-old premium service called Exact Express is an expedited air and ground delivery service that guarantees goods will be delivered at a specified hour, 365 days a year.
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So here's the lowdown on what this transparent liquid includes: the structure of Fatty Alcohol Ethylhexanoic Acid Ester is nearly identical to a vast array of emollients used in makeup and skincare, allowing the formula to breakdown these formulations by being so similar to them. Within seconds of application, this flexible ester is able to dissolve even the most complex forms of silicones, oils, pigments and other topical formulations. Additionally, Alcohol Lauric Acid Ester is able to breakdown even the most persistent forms of UV filters used in sun care products - meaning that all traces of SPF are instantly removed. Catalyzed Avocado Butyl Alcohol Ester helps to balance sebum production while removing traces of dirt, while Gallic Acid Ester helps to remove the last traces of the product itself after it's bound to surface impurities. The result is an incredibly clean, refreshed and perfected complexion and balanced sebum production - whether you're a sufferer or dry or oily skin. Wowzer.
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Skiers Take Break in Pavilion Built of Reycled Pallets
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Matthias Loebermann and Partner built this pavilion for the World Ski Championships in 2005 with architecture students from the University of Biberach.
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India's most wanted gangster Chhota Rajan has been arrested in the Indonesian resort island of Bali on a tip-off from Australian Federal Police, ending a 28-year-old global manhunt.
Ever since the Modi government came to power last summer, the Indian security establishment has acquired a new vigour in hunting India's enemy number one — Dawood Ibrahim. His associate-turned-arch-rival Chhota Rajan was expected to play a part in the hunt that was expected to partly define Modi government's security posture.
Rajan's arrest has sparked a buzz in security circles because of long-running rumours about his connections to India's intelligence services, who hoped to use him to target the other most-wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim.
Government sources confirmed that the CBI had received a query from Australia four days back on whether the agency had any red corner notice against him. It was during the verification process that Australian authorities came to know that he was a wanted criminal in India.
Sources said Rajan has been keeping ill for close to five years now and that his health has deteriorated. With most of his trusted men either killed or behind bars, and Dawood Ibrahim's henchmen consistently on his tail to kill him, his fortunes were on a downslide.
Wanted in around 20 cases — murder and other charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), attempt to murder and cause grievous hurt under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Arms Act — the Mumbai Police is a major stakeholder in the Rajan case.
Rajan was first groomed as a gangster by former Mumbai underworld don Rajan Nair. After Nair's death in a shootout in a local court, Rajan came in contact with Ibrahim in the mid-eighties and rose to become number two in the gang. However, the two split up after the 1993 blasts with Rajan positioning himself as the "patriotic don".
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The drive to get the single Three Shirts on my Line – a parody of football anthem Three Lions – to the top of the charts began after the death of Sievey on Tuesday, following a battle with cancer.
A similar campaign to prevent X Factor winner Joe McElderry getting a Christmas No 1 last year saw a 1990s Rage Against The Machine single, Killing In The Name, surge from nowhere to gain the top spot.
Frank Sidebottom, the cult 1980s TV character known for his giant papier-mache head, was an aspiring singer-songwriter and released several singles and EPs including Christmas Is Really Fantastic, the Timperley EP and Smiths parody Panic! (On The Streets Of Timperley).
A number of groups on the social networking website Facebook are now calling for members to mass-buy one of his songs to push it up the charts and create a lasting tribute.
The largest group, Lets get Frank Sidebottom in the charts, hopes to get Three Shirts on my Line to No 1 before the end of the World Cup. The proceeds of the record will go to Cancer Relief.
Mof Gimmers, who created the group, which already has more than 1,500 members, said: "A lot of comedians get quite famous and leave Manchester, but Chris stuck around. I think most people in Manchester had some connection to him.
"The World Cup single might give everyone a bit of cheer in what has been a pretty miserable campaign so far.
"Unfortunately it does not seem to exist on iTunes - we need to get onto them so that people can buy it and make some money for charity."
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It has been on my mind for a while that I should have started to blog again so as to chronicle my learning to drive experience and after passing. Every time I drove for the first few weeks something would happen and I thought 'I should blog that'. Suffice to say it never happened!
Today I drove home from work in the dark and rain. Both are awful but together they make life so much harder! You can't see the markings on the road properly, I worry about my stopping distances, you have to NOT watch the windscreen wipers as they swish, but you have to switch them on, faster, slower, faster again in accordance with the strength and ferocity of the rain.
Also today I gave my friend a lift home from the garage after following him there in separate cars. We have very different driving styles and I have tried to make an agreement with him to appreciate our differences and not give each other grief about it. Neither of us can stick to it. Today, on the wet roads, in his noisy car, my friend did and excited wheel skid and charged down the road. I laughed and rolled my eyes thinking 'what will the neighbours think?'!! But he is an essential tool and great friend when I am having difficulties with Geoffrey. Thats my car, Geoffrey: GFV.
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June 5, 2008
LCS 1 completes gas turbine light off
The first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), has completed another testing milestone with the "light off" of its twin gas turbine propulsion engines as it undergoes final preparation for sea trials.
Freedom is powered by a combined diesel and gas turbine propulsion plant, with steerable water jet propulsion. The two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines are the largest and most powerful ever installed on a U.S. Navy ship -- rated at 36 megawatts or 48,000 horsepower each. They will allow LCS 1 to sustain sprint speeds over 40 knots.
Over the next few weeks, dock-side testing of the ship's engines and other systems will continue at Marinette Marine prior to open water trials later this spring. Freedom will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in 2008 and will be homeported in San Diego.
"The light off of the gas turbines is a significant milestone for both Lockheed Martin and the Navy in the life of Freedom and the LCS program," said Dan Schultz, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's Maritime Security & Ship Systems business. "This milestone brings the team another step closer to delivering this much needed capability to the Navy and the warfighter."
With construction on Freedom essentially complete, the dock-side final tests of the ship's systems continue.
In February, LCS 1's four 750-kilowatt Fincantieri Isotta Fraschini diesel generators were "lit off" and its three-megawatt electrical power plant was successfully tested, loading each generator to its full-power capacity. Further testing included synchronizing -- or "paralleling" -- the generators to attain the power levels required to support Freedom's operations at sea. In addition, the power quality was closely evaluated to ensure all ship systems and sensors requiring electrical power could operate effectively marking a significant milestone for Freedom as its electric plant is completely functional and able to support all tests, evaluations and operations at sea.
The Lockheed Martin team's LCS design is a survivable, semi-planing steel monohull that provides outstanding maneuverability with proven sea-keeping characteristics to support launch and recovery operations, mission execution and optimum crew comfort. Team members also include naval architect Gibbs & Cox, and shipbuilders Marinette Marine, a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW), and Bollinger Shipyards.


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Hill's® Prescription Diet® Metabolic Feline. I normally eat the dry, but the canned is very tasty too, and they even have Metabolic treats. ~Scylla, reporting for ATCAD
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Hill's® Prescription Diet® Metabolic Feline. I normally eat the dry, but the canned is very tasty too, and they even have Metabolic treats. ~Scylla, reporting for ATCAD
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I am down to 10.5 pounds, which TBT says is where I should be. I feel hungry though.ReplyDeleteReplies
The Metabolic helps you feel full but if you are at your correct weight, it's not for you. Perhaps TBT can find a low calorie cat food that you like. Once I lose the #2 we will be looking for one that me and the kittens can eat.Delete
WOW, you eat the same thing I do and you look really good, too. I still have a little...roundness...but mama is working on this really well. Too well, if you ask me, but no one did. I weigh 6 kg now but I've weighed that for two years. So I think I'm okay. I did GROW from a kitten to that weight, duh, mama.ReplyDeleteReplies
I thinks a lot is all the exercise I have been getting since the kittens came to live here.Delete
Keep up the good work, Scylla!ReplyDelete
Scylla, congratulations on your svelte figure! Maybe our human ought to eat the same food you get. :-DReplyDelete
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You're looking lean and strong, S. Keep up the good work. I am on treat restriction because I weighed 23.5. I am supposed to be 22.ReplyDelete
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You sure are looking pretty sweet Scylla, and yes, yes, yes!ReplyDelete
Hope your diet and exercise help you be the fittest you can be!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/26/2016 8:05 AM
We love your selfie! And good for you on reclaiming your jungle gym!!ReplyDelete
Scylla, you looking furry goods in your jungle gym! Thanks for sharing... glad you am doing well on your diet. -Katie Kitty Too.ReplyDelete
You sure look like you are having a fun time on the jungle gym and it looks like none of the kittens are around either.ReplyDelete
You look good to me & that looks like a fun jungle gym.ReplyDelete
Yo are such a beautiful inspiration, Scylla!!ReplyDelete
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Looks like you are indeed having fun on your jungle gym :)ReplyDelete
Good that you have some food you like too :)
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Scylla, you are very pretty! I like how you took your selfie posing between your jungle gym. Good job on losing some weight!ReplyDelete
Good job on your weight loss sweet Scylla you are looking great. Very nice selfie, keep enjoying your jungle gym. Hugs and nose kissesReplyDelete
Diets are no fun!I'm always on a diet,xx SpeedyReplyDelete
Good luck with your diet!!ReplyDelete
Scylla! Yous looks marvelous darling!!! Keeps up the good work!ReplyDelete
- Jenna6/26/2016 11:26 AM
So proud of you, Scylla! Good idea to check your jungle gym. Never know what those kittens have been up to!ReplyDelete
Looking good sweetie!ReplyDelete
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That vet sounds like a meanie. Congrats on losing weight. You are a cutie no matter what size you are.ReplyDelete
Now that you are so trim, Scylla, we bet you are going to have even more fun on the gym. Maybe you can join the kitties for a round of zoomies.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous6/26/2016 2:38 PM
You are looking slim and great, Scylla. YOU GO GIRL! Pawkisses for a Happy Sunday :) <3ReplyDelete
Hi Fenris and Crew.... you asked about Sagira and her peeps... Other than STARR going to the rainbow bridge... all is well with them... as of last month. WE miss them in Blogville, TOO...ReplyDelete
You sure took command of *your* gym, Scylla!ReplyDelete
You are doing so good with the slimming down!!
Good job on your diet and great job on your selfie!ReplyDelete
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Hello, nice to meet you. You look mighty cute.ReplyDelete
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Never miss a beat when you've got your Apple Watch on.
Imagine you're sitting in a cafe patiently waiting for your lunch, and a song comes on. You don't know what track it is, but you're feeling the groove. You've left your phone in the office but your Apple Watch is firmly strapped to your arm. Luckily you've downloaded the Shazam app and you'll never not know what that song is. Ever again.
If you love music — then you'll love the range of music apps available on launch with the Apple Watch.
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Three things that will impress musos about the Apple Watch
- It'll help you stay in tune. Who needs a guitar tuner when you have your Apple Watch? The AMPLIFi Remote app acts as a remote app for your iPhone. Just plug your phone into your amp and you can tune your guitar using your Apple Watch. Are you sharp? Flat? Or is the note you're hitting in tune? Your Apple Watch will tell you.
- You can create your own music. The possibilities for music fans extend to creating their own music. The Pacemaker DJ works with your iPad app using the autopilot feature. You can skip tracks or use the app to help you choose your music. It's the ultimate companion for an up and coming DJ.
- It'll help you discover new music. Shazam has long been a staple amongst music fans. Hear a song you like? Tap your watch and your phone will listen to what's playing. Discover new music with your watch displaying the name of the song, the artist and the lyrics.
Why you will want to download the Shazam app
The Shazam app is one of the furthest developed music apps for the Apple Watch. It acts as a remote control for your iPhone, which does the listening, but you can still use your watch to enjoy the features of the app. Sing along to the lyrics once your phone recognises the song and have that 'ah' moment when you realise who the singer is. For the music-obsessed, it doesn't get much better than that.
For music enthusiasts, the Apple Watch is your new favourite listening buddy. Let it help you find new music or make your own.
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Truth About Computer Security Hysteria
Computer security means nothing to Joe SixPackRob Rosenberger, Vmyths co-founder
Sunday, 19 December 2004 I GAVE THE opening keynote at a CERT conference in 2002 — and I stunned the audience.
This is a picture of a woman [who jumped from a WTC tower]... SPLAT! Nine seconds to die. Not once did she think about you. Not once did she think about "wow, what's happening to all my computers on the 78th floor as I plummet to my death?" Not once did she care. Not once did the people who were watching this care about you. That's what's really sad here. And what you want to do ... is you want to take billions of dollars away from people who watched the towers collapse. Who ran from a 25mph 20-story-tall billowing wall of smoke. You want to take billions of dollars away from them and you want to put it into a cyber-terrorism pot. And you want to take money out of that, and you want to protect them from electrons.I wrapped up with a simple observation. "Joe SixPack doesn't know that I'm representing him here. He doesn't care about me, either. He doesn't know this conference exists and he'll never care in the slightest."
THEN I HUSTLED down to the Jokers Comedy Club in Omaha. The owner set me loose on the stage for a short set. I spewed my sense of humor to the folks in Omaha and they laughed & clapped. Not once did the audience think about computer security. Not once did they think about "wow, what's happening to all my computers while this guy is telling his jokes?" Not once did they care...


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So the boring thing that everyone predicted would happen happened and Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate for president in 2012. Along the way, however, Romney has proven himself an almost uniquely terrible candidate from every angle, hewing to the economic and anti-scientific malarkey of the current Republican Partywhile also reversing himself on basically every position he has ever held as an adult, including his signature accomplishment as Massachusetts governor, mandated health insurance to achieve universal coverage.
He's the multi-millionaire son of a multi-millionaire whose main economic proposal involves plundering the Treasury to pay for more tax cuts for multi-millionaires. He's managed to come off as preposterously out-of-touch while also endorsing draconian ideas about everything from contraception to immigration.


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Greatest Comic of All Time | Nick Fury, Agent of … S.H.I.E.L.D. #2
The greatest comics of all time don't appear on bestseller charts or canon lists or big-box bookstore shelves. They are the property of the back issue bins and thrift store crates and convention tables of America, living like the medium itself in the unseen crags and pockets of publishing history…
Nick Fury, Agent of… S.H.I.E.L.D. #2, by Jim Steranko. Cover-dated July 1968. Published by Olympia Publications, Inc./Marvel Comics Group.
Best single drawing:
This composition never made it into the pantheon of iconic Jim Steranko centerfold images, but let's see if we can't rectify that oversight here, shall we? Ask me, this might be the best image of one of comics' foremost image-makers' career.
How acquired: Back when I used to work at the back issue archive after I dropped out of high school, the Steranko comics stood out like blazing comets that had somehow been stuffed into shortboxes. I used to take them out and stare them over for hours, never reading, only being taken in deeper and deeper by the way they looked. After years of this it finally occurred to me that I could buy them from the place I worked the same way I had thousands of other comics, so then I did. But it's important to me that I dwell on those dusty, dimly lit moments spent in a windowless warehouse poring over the brittle pages of decades-old comics, because that was where I learned to love Steranko's work and, more importantly, to respect it. Like all great comics, it occupies a zone far removed from the sphere of financial transaction, one in which the space between paper and eye vanishes along with petty thoughts of price and ownership. Simply to have looked at those Steranko comics in those moments five or six years ago would have been enough for me. Then and now, the idea that I might possess them for my own seems inconsequential, secondary. It's seeing this stuff that matters. Buying it is neither here nor there.
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The history lesson: Jim Steranko, place of prominence in post-Kirby superhero comics, electric visuals that were the only thing in the mainstream able to compete with the late-'60s underground, 32-issue career and out, blah blah blah etc. Steranko's particular genius is pretty obvious from a glance at any drawing from his 1966-70 Marvel Comics heyday. And heaven knows his is a story that's been told enough times, most often by the man himself. Nah, what I want to talk about is Steranko's style. While he was a visionary colorist who contributed as much as anyone else to comics' library of visual effects, as well as a fantastic layout artist and a highly underrated draftsman, what makes Steranko truly unique is what everybody attempting to copy him has missed. In 1968, there were very, very few writer-artists working in superhero comics, and the one who gave the pictures he drew the greatest amount of privilege over the story they were telling. In a visual medium, the logic of this approach should be patently obvious, but in superhero comics, whose primary focus for decades has been the maintenance of "intellectual property" via endless continuing storylines, the importance of the picture here and now is usually passed over without a backward glance.
Steranko, though, made superhero comics the right way, ones in which the stories about big strong bossmen wrestling stood comfortably revealed as the sophomoric trash they were and would remain, and in which every single panel carried an explosive charge of pure energy, because who cares about moving such stupid plots along at an even pace anyway? The second issue of Steranko's tenure on Nick Fury's solo series is the pinnacle of his frenetic "Zap Art" style, twenty pages so extravagantly overloaded with groaner plot wrinkles and savagely inventive ideas about picture making and the comics form that it's easy to spend an hour or more just making your way through. It's just as easy to see why Steranko's influence, so prominent in American action comics until the second half of the 1980s, went on the wane in a post-Watchmen, post-Dark Knight Returns world: It's the antithesis of the incremental, structuralist novels that it hadn't previously been entirely clear superhero comics could pull off. In the years since then, superhero comics' shift away from reliably delivering a satisfying payoff in every panel to very occasionally delivering a really satisfying payoff at the end of a few hundred pages has mirrored its art's move away from Steranko's bold, free stylistic gestures. The reason "Steranko" codes today for little more than low-voltage attempts at retro psychedelia is because he created an entire language in his time, one that's been roundly rejected by the present.
To stretch a metaphor, S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 is the Rosetta Stone …
Why it's the greatest comic of all time: As with any Steranko comic, the drawing is a huge part of it — the biggest, probably. Figure after figure, background after background, panel after panel, page after page, no quarter is given here: everything set down on the page is set down with an almost frightening drive, the clear intention that this one is going to be the best picture in the comic, at least until it comes time to draw the next. One of the more unusual things about Steranko is that for a cartoonist with a profile as high as his, he never really managed (or simply wasn't in comics long enough) to fully assemble a style of his own — the heavy Kirby riffing of early Steranko gives way to Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino nods in his middle period before fading into a fascination with the photorealistic comics art of Alex Raymond and Frank Frazetta toward the tail end of his Marvel career. Perhaps this is another reason why "Steranko" today is widely perceived to be little more than a kit of cheap op-art effects: there's nothing else to function as a signature, no single type of line or shape or feathering around the eyes to stand out as a telegraphing code for the man's style. S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 sees Steranko's art momentarily occupying a place of relative balance, a basic Kirby-derived style with heavy doses of Wally Wood slickness and Peter Max psychedelic overload ground into it.
There's a good amount of pleasure to be gotten from looking at a Steranko comic that just looks like Steranko, seeing a master cartoonist pause somewhere comfortable for a few pages before stretching out once more. More than this, though, the slight self-consistency displayed in Steranko's drafting becomes absolutely necessary in the face of how completely pedal-to-metal overdone everything else is. This is noise comics long before Gary Panter: Steranko was never more willing to follow his graphic ideas to a fever pitch than he is in this issue. The steadiness of the artwork is quite simply the only thing one can hold onto once the covers of this issue are cracked: S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 resembles several separate comics thrown together into one pamphlet as much as any kind of continuous narrative.
FUN HOUSE, reads the bold lettering on the opening splash page, bigger than the creator's name, the story's title, or even the opening picture of the main character. And if any comic ever lived up to the billing, this is it. It's a spy comic, opening with a sequence of Nick Fury's right hand man Jimmy Woo breaking into a funfair fortress guarded by living skeletons and using all the skills at his disposal to survive (the place is "like a huge puzzle… but not impossible for the Eastern mind to easily grasp!" one of Woo's thought balloons tells us; that's right, folks, one of Jimmy Woo's superpowers is being Asian). It's a romance comic, breaking from Woo's narrative into a single page featuring a moment of solitude between Fury and his girlfriend Valentina (hello, Guido Crepax) that's breathtakingly elegant and sensual even by today's standards — and judging from the reactions to this comic seen in the letters page a few issues later, severely blew a few old-school Marvelites' sweet little minds. Just look at it, Jesus Christ:
But after the most sublime moment superhero comics had ever managed in 1968, it's back to the action. We're just getting started: it's a superhero comic, as Fury pivots without warning from the embrace of a hot girl to that of a giant butterfly, which carries him to the technofied island lair of Centurius, a kind of latter-day Dr. Moreau, and also the first-ever African American supervillain, thankyouverymuch. It's a sci-fi comic, with the evolution of all life of Earth recapped in four panels before a fifth brings us into the future with a terrifying doomsday scenario. And it's an old-school jungle action comic, as, I swear to God, King Kong and dinosaurs end up saving the day when the efforts of our heroes prove futile. Of course, it's an underground comic and it's an experimental comic throughout as well, with Steranko's vacuum-packed psychedelic spreads matching any of the West Coast's Zap Comix crew for sheer immensity of vision (occasionally presaging the great Rob Liefeld in their overwhelming lust for filling space with line), his layouts constantly moving from one previously unseen form to the next, chopping tiers of panels to ribbons before breaking free with full-page vistas of destruction. There isn't really a succinct way to adequately describe S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 — rather than sum it up, one can only look at its pictures and catalog its vast array of different parts. In the end, as with every Steranko comic, those parts don't add up to a whole greater than their sum, but it's impossible not to be taken in by the sheer creative energy powering a cartoonist willing to try so much, and at such a dizzying pace. Whole careers in comics have showed less range than Steranko does in these 20 pages.
And in the end, maybe that's the real reason for the brevity of Steranko's career in the comics, the failure of his work to make its mark in some other art form, the lack of the true second act he's been promising the medium for over 40 years now. Comics just can't do enough things at the same time for the pace and heat that Jim Steranko's imagination boiled forward at, and if that's the case, what chance do painting or set design or pulp prose have? Steranko's attempts at all those media were total non-starters, but in sequential art he found a momentary repository for his energies. It was never going to last forever. But nothing truly fascinating does.
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Your First Halogen Oven Cookbook
When you decide to treat yourself to a halogen oven, you'll get everything you need to get started. Most of them come with racks, baking trays, tongs and an extender ring. The large majority have a small recipe book – more of a pamphlet really – included.
Whilst that should be enough to get you going, you will pretty soon be looking for some new ideas. That's when you need to think about a recipe book specifically designed for those using a halogen oven.
If you're looking to dip your toe in the water, halogen oven recipe wise, I really recommend "The Halogen Oven Everyday Cookbook" – by Sarah Flower. It has over 250 pages of halogen oven recipes and is a great introduction to cooking in a halogen oven.
For some reason, which I'm not sure of, the UK version is called "The Everyday Halogen Oven Cookbook" – just a little different from the US version. Whichever one you choose, it's a great way to embark on your halogen cookery journey.
The book is very well laid out, and is simple to use and understand. Each recipe is divided into two columns. The ingredients are listed in one column, and what you do with them is laid out in the other. It makes it really easy to gauge just how complex a recipe is at a glance – either in terms of ingredients required or the amount of work involved in preparation.
In fact, most of the recipes in the book will be well within the capabilities of the average home chef, so complexity will rarely be an issue. The layout and clear, well written instructions mean that even the (slightly) more complex recipes will be quite manageable.
The book is divided into 9 chapters:
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It's a good demonstration of the versatility of halogen ovens. There is, quite genuinely, something for everyone. You can start with simple things like snacks and potatoes if you like – but you'll be cooking lovely roasts before you know it – and there are a few recipes in there that you might not have thought to prepare in your halogen oven.
It really is the ideal introductory recipe book for those new to halogen ovens – but it is comprehensive enough that you probably won't need another recipe book for your halo oven. However, if you do feel the need for further experimentation once you have "graduated", Sarah Flower has written a number of other recipe books specifically aimed at halogen oven users including:


text: P&G stock price slides on glum earnings news Published on March 08, 2000. Procter & Gamble Co.'s share price plummeted 30% to $61 in New York Stock Exchange trading March 7 following an announcement by P&G that it will fail to meet earnings forecasts for the current quarter and full fiscal year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which P&G is a component, fell 374 points, or 3.68%, to 9769.03.P&G cited a host of reasons for the lower than expected results, including the cost of new-product rollouts. The company said earnings will fall 10% to 11% in the third quarter, compared to projections of 7% to 9% growth only six weeks ago. P&G also trimmed its forecast for full fiscal 2000 earnings growth to 7% from 13%. It projects sales growth of 7% to 8% for the fiscal year ending June 30. The company blamed higher material and oil prices, the high cost of European product launches and reorganization, a delay in regulatory approval of its Actonel osteoporosis drug in the U.S., and a price war, primarily with Unilever, in Latin America. The news appears to signal belt-tightening and a less ambitious new-product rollout schedule. "We are making changes in the way we launch initiatives to better balance long-term growth and near-term earnings, and are resharpening our focus on cost reduction," Chairman-CEO Durk Jager said in a prepared statement. Mr. Jager backpedaled on his earlier schedule that called for an additional 13 new brands or major line extensions by December, saying P&G will launch 10 to 15 major new initiatives in the next year or two.Copyright March 2000, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News


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Lodi Unified school board reviews district safety procedures
By John Bays/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Prompted by the tragic shooting in Parkland, Fla. in February, the Lodi Unified School District Board of Education examined the district's safety and security plans during Tuesday night's meeting in the James Areida Educational Support Center.
Chief Business Officer Leonard Kahn gave the report, along with Mitch Slater, director of maintenance and operations, and former Lodi Police Chief Jerry Adams, who helps coordinate the district's annual active shooter drills.
Slater began by outlining safety measures such as single-point entry, visitor identification systems and ensuring that all classroom doors remain locked at all times.
Slater then explained that district staff review approximately half of all school sites each year to determine if changes to procedures are necessary, adding that eight sites were found with outstanding issues in the past year.
"What we first noticed, years ago, was that doors were open, people weren't paying attention to what was happening around them. Compare that to where we are today — none of the doors were open, although some had locks that weren't engaged," Slater said.
Elementary schools are required to conduct four active shooter drills each year, Slater said, and secondary schools must conduct two. Schools may have more than the required number of drills, Adams added, at the discretion of each site's administration.
Adams visits school sites to observe the drills and train staff, he said, as well as to physically assess each site and report to Slater each year.
The most recent drill at a high school was held at Bear Creek High School in Stockton last year, Adams said, and at Lodi High School the year before that. Both drills involved the cities' respective police and fire departments, he added, as well as simultaneous training of the District Emergency Operation Center.
"We worked on training fire departments on getting into hot zones. A few years ago, the standard training was for fire to wait outside until SWAT had cleared the building before going in to rescue injured people," Adams said.
"We've also adopted the procedure of keeping classrooms locked throughout the day. What we've learned from incidents around the country is that a shooter can be in and out of two or three classrooms in a couple of minutes," he said.
Kahn informed the board that he met with five principals about the possibility of replacing locks at the district's schools. The principals reported their current locks are functioning properly, Kahn said, and would rather the district spend money on installing additional security cameras.
Slater and Adams also spoke on the importance of cameras, saying that they proved invaluable during the active shooter drills.
"The Bear Creek exercise was unique because as we were viewing it from the live feed, we were able to tell law enforcement where to go, we could tell them where the shooter was," Slater said.
"When we did the Lodi High scenario, we had the ability at that time to transmit real-time feeds directly into fire or police command posts where they can be seen by a SWAT commander. The district also had a great set-up. I think at one point we were viewing up to 41 cameras. From what I heard from police and fire, they were very impressed with our ability to do that," Adams said.
Board member Ron Freitas applauded Slater and Adams for their work, saying that their efforts help the district achieve their goal of creating a safe atmosphere for students, staff and teachers.
"I think being on campus and having that presence is going to compliment our anti-bullying campaign and anti-violence campaign, and that's going to give students the best possible environment in which to learn," Freitas said.
Board president George Neely also commended the safety policy, saying that it is far more advanced than many other school districts. He also stressed the importance of not only training staff and students, but also reaching out to troubled students and getting them the help they need.
"The first thing we have to do is restrict entry. The second thing we have to do is teach people what to do when that security is breached. These drills aren't just for students, they're for the people responding, as well. The third thing we have to do is make sure that kids aren't feeling bullied and like they want to respond that way, and that's on us (the school district)," Neely said.


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August 8, 2009 (CHICAGO) --A Chicago summer tradition since 1929 continued with ABC7 Chicago's broadcast of the 80th annual Bud Billiken Parade, live and in HD, Saturday, August 8, from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.ABC7 co-hosts Cheryl Burton, Jim Rose, and Bill Campbell were in the broadcast booth capturing all the fun for viewers watching at home. ABC 7's Karen Jordan and 190 North's Doug Banks were also part of the festivities, checking out the action along the parade route. In addition, members of the ABC7 news team including Charles Thomas, Ron Magers, Ravi Baichwal, Hosea Sanders, Mark Giangreco, and Leah Hope rode atop the station's colorful float.
With more than a million people in attendance, the Bud Billiken Parade is the largest African-American parade and the second largest parade overall in the country. Recognized as a day of family fun and celebration, the parade has become an anticipated event in Chicago each August. The Bud Billiken Parade makes its way down Martin Luther King Drive from 39th Street to Washington Park.
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26 May 2010 07:32:17 AM
Dana White Changes His Tune on Rampage's Movie Career
Dana White last September, on the DAM Show:
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26 May 2010 07:32:17 AM
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26 May 2010 06:03:24 AM
(Come on. Like you wouldn't rock that. Props: Quik)
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25 May 2010 16:58:31 PM
(Wright is Dana's antithesis: Quiet and unassuming, with a full head of hair)
In case you missed the announcement this afternoon, the UFC announced that they will be opening a Canadian office in Toronto in the coming months and that it will be headed up by former Canadian Football League Commissioner Tom Wright, who will step into his new role as the UFC's director of Canadian operations, effective May 31.Read More DIGG THIS
25 May 2010 13:33:59 PM
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Of the many things that set UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre apart from his competition, one of the most notable is his willingness to travel great lengths in order to improve elements of his game. While many fighters are content to hang out in one camp, GSP has traveled to Brazil for jiu-jitsu training, spent time learning from the Canadian wrestling team, and regularly leaves his Montreal home base to bang with the all-star team at Jackson's MMA in Albuquerque or drill his Muay Thai at the Wat in New York. The latest piece of the puzzle is a familiar one: St. Pierre is now working on his boxing with legendary trainer Freddie Roach, at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood. As he told Yahoo! Sports:
"It is time to focus on my boxing. When I get to the other side of my career I don't want to be one of those fighters who have been hit too many times, so they keep getting knocked out. If you have the opportunity to work with someone like Freddy, you take advantage…I've only been here a few days with Freddie and each time I left feeling like I was better."
GSP plans on spending a week with Roach before taking off to film TUF 12, opposite Josh "Booooooo!" Koscheck. As for Roach, the soft-spoken trainer is beginning to occupy a very unique place in the world of MMA.
25 May 2010 10:00:50 AM
Will they be announcing an unlockable Harold Howard police chase sequence for UFC Undisputed 2010?
Has the UFC bought Ontario?
Will Kalib Starnes be the latest inductee into the UFC Hall of Fame?
Will Zuffa be holding an event in Toronto in the near future?
Tune in here live at 1:00 ET to find out.
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25 May 2010 08:29:51 AM
(Dude, I told you I was wearing the green shirt today.)
To the average fan, Marc Laimon is the jiu-jitsu coach from The Ultimate Fighter 4 who got in a heated debate with Matt Serra about Royce Gracie's loss to fellow TUF coach Matt Hughes at UFC 60.
You may recall, Hughes asked Laimon if he was disappointed in seeing Royce beaten like he was. Almost on cue, when the words "It was great," barely escaped Laimon's lips, Matt Serra, a Renzo Gracie black belt coincidentally happens upon the conversation and asks, "What's that?"
Sure, Laimon's reply of "Matt Hughes' utter decimation of Royce Gracie," may have been a bit inflammatory to a guy who runs a Gracie affiliated school of his own, but for Serra to fly off the handle and tell Laimon that he had no right to his opinion of Royce's performance or fighting in general because he wasn't a fighter was a bit asinine, considering Laimon's background as a renowned jiu-jitsu trainer, MMA coach and cornerman. That's like saying a cancer specialist doesn't know anything about the disease because he or she has never had it.Read More DIGG THIS
25 May 2010 08:06:42 AM
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After making a solid profit on Heavy Artillery, the Gambling Enabler is ready to let it ride on UFC 114. Are you ready? Or are you too chickenshit to claim what's yours in this life? Seriously, if you don't have the balls to make hypothetical online wagers on UFC fights, then LEAVE NOW BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT YOU. Odds are only being offered on seven matches from the #114 card, but that's enough to make us a little cash, so lets take a look at the numbers courtesy of MMAMoneyline…
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25 May 2010 06:19:56 AM
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Just a month after he scored a first-round TKO over Eddy Bengtsson via mind-bullets, nomadic heavyweight Aleksander Emelianenko was back in the ring this weekend at an Azerbaijan Pankration Federation event, proving absolutely nothing against another middle-of-the-food-chain European opponent. This time it was Miodrag Petkovic (29-12-1), a 40-year-old Serbian who holds wins over Igor Pokrajac, Tim Hague, and Travis Fulton. I wish we had a better video of this — perhaps, one that shows how Petkovic originally ended up on his back, and didn't include another fight tacked onto the end of it, and didn't look like it was edited together by Azamat Bagatov — but the basic gist is, Aleks spent the majority of the fight smashing Petkovic from the top until the ref stopped the fight at the 3:00 mark. It was Emelianenko's eighth consecutive first-round victory. But of course, quantity is no replacement for quality. Did he forget about his plan to come to America and beat everyone in the UFC?
24 May 2010 16:20:43 PM
(Don't look into his eyes, Wand. You'll be paralyzed like thousands of ladies in the past have been before you.)
In a recent interview with TATAME, Wanderlei Silva said that he is progressively getting more comfortable with fighting as a middleweight and that he doesn't plan on retiring any time soon.
"I want to keep on fighting for the next six years, at least until I'm forty. This division change was good, I had to change my diet and I'm feeling just fine",Read More DIGG THIS
24 May 2010 14:50:05 PM
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Apparently the beginning of the video was shot in the parking lot of an open casting call for The Hills Have Eyes 4.
The production value of the latest edition of these series of mini-documentaries is stellar, as usual.
I never noticed them before, but check out the wicked stretch marks caused by Alistair's growth spurt (around the 6:20 mark).
As a bonus, we get to see Strikeforce commentator Mauro Ranallo doing his best Muhammad Ali impersonation with an impromptu freestyle rhyme counting the ways he loves Ubereem.
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I was cleaning out my mac and came across some old photo booth pics. I forgot how much Adrian used to get on this and take a million goofy pictures. So much fun!
His first love... mom :)
I'm sure you can guess what he was about to do here... moon the camera perhaps!?!? Little stinker!
Adrian had 100's of these pics on here!!
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On March 31st, 2014, the QC Child Development Center (QCCDC) in Davenport is closing.
On Thursday, February 27th, 2014, a letter was passed out to parents stating:
"The QC Child Development Center was recently approached with a tremendous opportunity for local families. In January, the ownership was presented with an offer to purchase the property and assets, even though the facility was NOT marketed for sale. As a result, a difficult decision has been made to discontinue operations effective March 31, 2014."
"I'm just bummed because now I'm going to have to probably try to find another job and a different daycare for my kids and so it's going to be hard - really hard," says Susan Dexter, who works at the QCCDC as a Teacher's Aid and whose children go to the QCCDC before and after school.
"We're going to have to decide whether or not we're going to take him to a new place or, you know, it's so close to the end of the school year maybe just call it quits so he doesn't have to get reacquainted with new friends," says Mike Ziebell, whose son attends Pre-K at the QCCDC.
A non-profit organization will take over the spot. The Homestead is based in Central Iowa and provides services for people with autism.
Executive Director, Steve Muller, says they have expanded to Clive, Iowa and the Cedar Rapids area and they're excited to expand to the Quad City area.
"We're glad that we found a space that will be easily accessible to the families," he told News 8's Angie Sharp. "It's centrally located between Davenport and Bettendorf along the corridor that gets access to across the river and it should be a great location for us."
"We expect that children may come to us from 25 to 30 miles away."
Muller says they are already looking for families to help. If interested, he says to call Dan Budd at (515) 957-3344.
"We've already gotten some great response from the community," he says. "There're some wonderful professionals who are doing some interesting things with autism and that's great and we want to supplement that. We want to complement those opportunities."
The letter from the QCCDC sent home with parents say "the facility was NOT marketed for sale." However, Muller says it was for them.
"The ownership had expressed a strong concern for doing what was right for their current kids and making sure that transition happened," he said. "It was brought to us as an option to purchase and it turned out to be the right option."
Muller says he plans to re-open the building in July 2014 and hire 20-25 people over the next 12 months.
"I'm sorry for those that are struggling," he says. "It was not our intent to dislocate anybody, but this is a great opportunity. It was the right price. It was an efficient use of our resources to take a kid-friendly space and use it for kids in the community that are still not having their needs met and we're looking forward to getting in there and working with some wonderful kids."
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- fingerprints will be collected from all applicants above 16 years at the head office and three regional offices in sri lanka
- applicants submitting passport applications through sri lanka diplomatic missions overseas could do so without providing fingerprints and digital photograph. holders of such passports could provide fingerprints on their first arrival in sri lanka at the head office or any of the regional offices of the department.
- inclusion of children in parents passport will no longer be allowed and children will be issued separate passports
- children below 16 years of age whose passports are issued after 10th august 2015 are required to provide fingerprints to the department upon reaching the age of 16 years. holders of such passports living abroad should do so upon first arrival in sri lanka.
- no emergency certificate (ec) shall be issued for applicants below 60 years
how to submit a digital photograph to the department
- visit a authorized photo studio of your choice to obtain a digital photograph
- studio will send your photograph online to our computer system and will issue a studio acknowledgement note to you. no printed photographs are required for passport application.
- studio acknowledgement note must be presented with your application and other supporting documents to the department.
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[USA RUGBY] MARIETTA, Ga. – San Diego Surfers won their first Women's Premier League Championship Sunday at the expense of two-time defending champions Glendale Raptors in a competitive, 26-16, Final at Life University Rugby Complex.
Brigham Young University graduate and capped Eagle Jordan Gray was recognized as Most Valuable Player for her play at inside center through the weekend, scoring one try in Friday's semifinal defeat of Twin Cities Amazons and influencing Sunday's Final in favor of San Diego.
The Surfers had scored more points in six regular season matches than any team in the competition and came out of the gates Sunday intent on scoring as many points as possible. Their first attack covered nearly the entire field of play before Glendale forced a turnover, only for San Diego to get it back through a penalty. Prop Hope Rogers went through several defenders from the quick tap before the capped sevens duo of Hunter Griendling and Kate Zackary found fellow Women's Eagles Sevens player Dana Meschisi for the opening try three minutes into the match.
Raptors flyhalf Hannah Stolba's failed grubber kick near the Surfers' 22 could have turned into a San Diego try a few minutes later if Glendale had not forced a turnover via a penalty at its own 22-meter line. Meschisi was close to doubling the lead and her scoring tally when Gray freed space for the No. 13 and wing Hanna Lockwood, but the chance was lost forward in-goal.
Gray fended a single tackler at the San Diego 10 and ran past the defense into the attacking third of the field before two Raptors converged to bring down the center. The MVP found Lockwood in space before she was taken to the ground for the wing to extend the lead to 12-0 after 13 minutes.
The Raptors pulled one back through Carmen Farmer when the Rio 2016 Olympian ran over two defenders on the try line, but Samantha Pankey nullified the score with her own try from an Elisabeth Henry offload in front of the posts. Stolba's penalty goal two minutes from halftime hit an upright and bounced behind the bar for a 19-8 score at the break.
Try-scorer Meschisi was shown a yellow card in the 55th minute after San Diego had conceded consecutive defensive penalties. It took the full 10 minutes of the sinning, but Glendale turned the advantage into points after continuous offensive pressure within the 22. Hooker Jenna Beard finished the attack in-goal to cut the San Diego lead to 19-16.
The Surfers were going forward with their attacks while defending a slim margin with big runs from the likes of Gray, Rogers, and replacement substitutes such as Jamila Reinhardt. In the latter stages, an apparent kick to touch found the hands of a Surfer to start an attack with the Raptors somewhat out of position. Molly Kinsella found a gap to run for the corner and Reinhardt held off a few defenders to inch towards the line before Zackary dove over for the try and 26-16 Championship-winning victory.
Morning session: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Afternoon session: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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The current Women's 7s National Champions San Diego Surfers are partnering with the UC San Diego Women's Team to host a Women's 7s Rugby Clinic on May 9. The morning session will include 7s skills and drills, and the afternoon will feature tournament style 7s games. Surfers coaches and players will lead the clinic and participate in player development throughout the day. This clinic is open to any women's rugby players age 18 and up (high school, college, women's). Please register as an individual ($25) or team ($200) here:
Since there are very few collegiate women's sevens sides up and running in the SoCal area, we thought this type of introductory event combined with scrimmages would be a great learning and development opportunity for all. The Surfers will continue to feature similar events in the future with hopes of growing the sport of 7s to collegiate and other developing players in the San Diego and Southern California region.
We would love to have you and your team attend! Please forward this information on to your team and any others in your area that may be interested!
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Gearing up to play in our own Champagne Classic, SD Surfers traveled up to Long Beach this past Sunday for a friendly Scrimmage against Belmont Shore Women's Rugby D1. It was a wonderful day of rugby where both teams got the opportunity to have players try out new positions. Surfers emerged victorious in a 33-3 final.
Many thanks to Belmont Shore Women's Rugby for being such gracious hosts and providing a wonderful social at Panama Joe's. Special thanks to Kara Mathews of the Surfers for organizing and driving a team van up to Long Beach!
Congrats to Women of the Match voted by both Belmont and Surfers – Leilani, Claire, and Crush!
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The Triangle's own spicy take on New Orleans funk and party music, the Countdowns take the evening toward the midnight hour in the late set, with horns blaring and feet stomping. Practicing some of the native old-time music of Appalachia, the Piedmont All-Stars will pluck banjos and fiddles starting in the early set. --Chris Toenes
Red Clay Ramblers Reunion
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In honor of founding member Tommy Thompson, who died in January, George Holt, the dean of North Carolina music presenters, has achieved a major miracle. For the debut WUNC Back Porch Music Concert at the N.C. Museum of Art, Holt has pulled together a reunion concert by the Red Clay Ramblers. Formed in Chapel Hill in 1972 as a revival old-time string band, the Red Clay Ramblers have scored movies and musicals, evolving into America's premier whatzit band blending hillbilly, ragtime, Celtic, original and show music into a sound they pioneered. Founding members Jim Watson and Bill Hicks, along with almost-original Rambler Mike Craver, will join the current band for the concert. --Art Menius
Scott Miller & Commonwealth
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Scott Miller's V-Roys straddled the line between roots, rockabilly and pop. The band released three albums with Steve Earle's E-Squared label before splitting up in 2000. Milller's new band, the Commonwealth, has been compared to the Replacements, but Miller is more folky with a better sense of humor. His latest release with the Commonwealth, Upside Downside is such a mix of styles and genres that it defies classification. Miller rocks pretty hard with the Chuck Berry-ish shotgun wedding tale "It Didn't Take Too Long," exhibits some Steve Earle influence on "Raised by the Graves," and goes country-folky with the John Prine sounding "The Way." "Pull Your Load" sounds like latter day John Lennon, "Chill, Relax Now" sounds like something that Booker T and the MG's would have cranked out in the '60s and "Ciderville Saturday Night" is a rollicking bluegrass tune. The end result makes Scott Miller the most enjoyable musical multiple personality sufferer you'll encounter this side of an asylum. --Grant Britt
Karl Hendricks Trio with Cold Sides and Disband
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Tuesday, June 17
Pittsburgh's Karl Hendricks and his band work in the vein of rock bands such as Merge Records label mates Versus, marrying melodic pop with edgy guitar overtones. If you haven't caught the recent work of locals Cold Sides, now is a great time for it, as they often split their post-punk with some head-bobbing dance floor grooves. With math-punks Disband. --Chris Toenes


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CSX Corporation Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) today reported fourth quarter 2012 net earnings of $443 million, or $0.43 cents per share, compared to $457 million, or $0.43 cents per share, in the prior same period. For the full year 2012, net earnings were $1.9 billion, or $1.79 per share, up from $1.8 billion, or $1.67 per share, in 2011. For both the fourth quarter and the full year, the EPS performances reflected shares repurchased in 2012.
"CSX continues to demonstrate the underlying strength of its business model, the ability to respond quickly to significant events in the marketplace, and a steadfast focus on creating substantial shareholder value over the long term," said Michael J. Ward, chairman, president and chief executive officer.
For the quarter, total revenue of $2.9 billion declined 2 percent. The company saw an increase in merchandise and intermodal shipments, but these gains were more than offset by declines in coal resulting from low natural gas prices, high coal inventory at utilities and lower global demand. As a result of the lower revenue, which was partially offset by strong efficiency gains, operating income declined 4 percent to $804 million and the operating ratio increased 60 basis points to 72.1 percent.
For the full year, operating income increased 1 percent to $3.5 billion and the operating ratio improved 30 basis points to 70.6 percent. Both improved on the strength of efficiency gains and resource adjustments.
CSX also delivered exceptional safety and service levels throughout 2012. Its personal injury rate was the best ever recorded for both the quarter and the full year, and the train accident rate for both time periods was near all-time best levels. Additionally, service levels remain high across all key measures, with customer satisfaction ratings at record levels. This sets a strong foundation for long-term growth and value creation for the company's shareholders.
CSX executives will conduct a quarterly earnings conference call with the investment community on January 23, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Investors, media and the public may listen to the conference call by dialing 1-888-327-6279 (888-EARN-CSX) and asking for the CSX earnings call. (Callers outside the U.S., dial 1-773-756-0199). Participants should dial in 10 minutes prior to the call. In conjunction with the call, a live webcast will be accessible and presentation materials will be posted on the company's website at http://investors.csx.com. Following the earnings call, an internet replay of the presentation will be archived on the company website.
CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. The company's transportation network spans approximately 21,000 miles, with service to 23 eastern states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSX's network connects more than 240 short line railroads and more than 70 ocean, river, and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at www.csx.com. Like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCSX) and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/CSX).
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This information and other statements by the company may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act with respect to, among other items: projections and estimates of earnings, revenues, margins, volumes, rates, cost-savings, expenses, taxes, liquidity, capital expenditures, dividends, share repurchases or other financial items, statements of management's plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, and management's expectations as to future performance and operations and the time by which objectives will be achieved, statements concerning proposed new services, and statements regarding future economic, industry or market conditions or performance. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate," "preliminary" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement. If the company updates any forward-looking statement, no inference should be drawn that the company will make additional updates with respect to that statement or any other forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, and actual performance or results could differ materially from that anticipated by any forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by any forward-looking statements include, among others; (i) the company's success in implementing its financial and operational initiatives; (ii) changes in domestic or international economic, political or business conditions, including those affecting the transportation industry (such as the impact of industry competition, conditions, performance and consolidation); (iii) legislative or regulatory changes; (iv) the inherent business risks associated with safety and security; (v) the outcome of claims and litigation involving or affecting the company; (vi) natural events such as severe weather conditions or pandemic health crises; and (vii) the inherent uncertainty associated with projecting economic and business conditions.
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