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Dan Harris - Brainerd Communicators
William L. Stakelin - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Tony Vasconcellos - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
David Miller - SMH Capital
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Lee Westerfield - BMO Capital Markets
Michael Kupinski - Noble Financial Group
Regent Communications (RGCI) Q2 2007 Earnings Call August 7, 2007 9:00 AM ET
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Regent Communications second quarter 2007 conference call. (Operator Instructions) It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mr. Dan Harris. Sir, the floor is yours.
Dan Harris
Thank you, Operator and good morning. Welcome to Regent's second quarter 2007 earnings teleconference. You should have all received our second quarter earnings release. If not, please visit our website at www.regentcom.com for a copy.
For a reconciliation of all non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures, please refer to the earnings press release.
Before we begin this morning's call, please be aware that today's call will contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Please refer to Regent's most recent filings with the SEC, as well as the earnings press release that accompanies today's call, for a list of risks and uncertainties that could impact actual results.
I would now like to turn the call over to Bill Stakelin, CEO of Regent Communications. Please go ahead, Bill.
William L. Stakelin
Thanks a lot, Dan and good morning, everybody and welcome to Regent's second quarter earnings conference call. During the call this morning, I'll provide an overview of our operating performance for the quarter as well as an update on the implementation of our strategic plan. Our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tony Vasconcellos, will then follow with a thorough review of our second quarter financial results and give you some insight into our third quarter of 2007.
During the second quarter, we continued to execute our strategy that maximizes the value proposition of our platform to both our advertisers and our listeners, with the goal of course of improving our ability to generate increased revenues and cash flow for the company and our shareholders.
As you've heard us say previously on these calls, our primary focus in 2007 is all about execution as we seek to fully extract the complete benefits of our very enhanced asset base. We continue to improve our content, strengthen our marketing and promotional resources, and we continue to build on our integrating online platform that you'll hear more about in just a little bit, creating larger audiences, better opportunities for our advertisers to spend advertising dollars. And I might say in my own view, I think we are progressing extremely well in all of these categories to date.
For the second quarter, our net revenues and station operating income climbed 25.3% and 36.9% respectively compared to the same quarter last year. This of course is driven in part by the inclusion of the Buffalo cluster.
On a same station basis, our revenues once again outperformed the industry, as well as the majority of our peers with a growth rate of 1.4%. That means that we have now outperformed the industry in 13 of the last 14 quarters and we continue on track to exceed $100 million in revenue for the full year.
We continue to prudently transform this company as we capitalize on our increased scale, our stronger asset base, and our new online platform. As a result of the M&A steps we engaged in during the past year, as well as our operating strategy that we continue to execute, our strategic position continues to improve.
While most of our markets, the ad growth continues to be -- I guess I'd use a word like tepid, we continue to outperform locally in those markets. We continue to outperform the markets totally and have posted I think some very impressive growth in a number of our markets, which in second quarter was led again by our stations in Lafayette, Louisiana, that achieved an 11% revenue increase over prior year. This was followed by our second-largest market, Albany, New York, with an approximately 7% growth rate; Evansville, 6%; Flint, 3.4%; and St. Cloud and Watertown markets posted approximately a 5% growth rate.
I would point out that in Albany and in Lafayette, Evansville and Flint, those growth rates that I just gave you are more than three times the market growth rates -- some outstanding performance from the Regent pros in those markets in driving revenues over prior year.
Obviously we continue to have markets with business being as tepid as it is from an overall standpoint that challenge us, and we have listed those markets again as El Paso, Grand Rapids, and Peoria, and we'll speak more about Peoria in just a few moments.
As we take a look at our second quarter, the categories that continue to be strong for us included entertainment, telecommunications, insurance, restaurants, and local auto dealers. As a matter of fact, over half of the Regent markets saw an increase quarter to quarter in advertising from the auto dealers.
Let me just call from the past, a couple of you have asked me, how do you account for the fact that Regent seems to have a little better rapport with the local auto dealers than some of the other companies that we are hearing about? How do you account for that?
Well, we took a look at that during second quarter and I think what we came up with, in our markets, anyway, is when ad spending is decreased during any period of time, as it is now, advertisers usually don't walk away in total from any category, whether it be radio or any other medium. What we've done in our markets is because of our strong franchises, because of the position of the stations that dominate the demographic consumers that the automobile dealers are looking for, because our stations are so strong and dominant in our market, then usually we are the last one to see the decreases.
In other words, if an automobile dealer or agency used to buy six, seven stations in a market, today what you are finding is perhaps they are buying only three stations. And because of our strength and dominance in those markets in the categories that they are looking for, we seem to be experiencing any decreases that would happen to a lesser degree.
I mentioned Albany growing at approximately 7%. As you know in 2007, we earmarked that market as a developmental year, with a lot of product changes, additional new radio station, creation of new format on the FM band and we are more than pleased with the results to date. As a matter of fact, the decision to create the only FM all sports station in the state of New York has yielded wonderful results early on and we are very excited about that.
Our other format changes in the AC areas and the rock areas continue also to improve in both ratings and revenues, and our anchor station, WGNA, the number one station in that marketplace, continues to be very dominant and very strong.
We are pleased with the latest ratings that have come out. As you know, they are coming out even as we speak but we got a peek at Peoria, Bloomington, Flint, Grand Rapids and Buffalo and we are seeing some outstanding rating results in those marketplaces.
I want to mention Peoria just for a minute in that regard, because as you know last year, we did a big strategic purchase. We bought two radio stations that greatly improved coverage in the marketplace with enhanced signals over the stations that we divested, and now we are beginning to see that that strategy was exactly the right strategy.
Peoria is a two-book market, which means of course we only have the advantage of ratings twice a year, and in the spring ratings that just came out, which we believe are the first ones to truly reflect the changes that we put in place in Peoria, we saw some tremendous results in our strategy to try to dominate the younger 18 to 34 demo, where prior to our changes Regent had not really been very strong.
We took our alternative format on WIXO radio and moved it to the stronger signal. What we have seen in the spring rating books is validation of that move in that the ratings are more than 3.5 times improved over what it was on the other signal. So you are talking about over a 25 share, 18 to 25 versus about a 8.5 share before our change.
The other move that was combined with that was buying from Triple A Entertainment a rhythmic CHR station, Power. That station also grew and when you combine those two executing our 18 to 34 strategy, you'll now find us totally dominating the 18 to 34 demographic in Peoria with well over a 35 share. So it's good to finally get validation of that strategy and see the execution carried out so well by our professionals in the field in Peoria.
As I said, the ratings to date in the other markets are extremely strong, especially in Bloomington and Flint, great ratings in Grand Rapids and Buffalo, as you know, is probably the base of our asset group right now, and the ratings are extremely good for our largest market of Buffalo, especially where we put some investment money to improve what we said the upside was when we did that acquisition, which as you know was accretive from day one.
We said we thought we could improve the AC and bring it back to an area prominent to the marketplace. That's been achieved in the spring rating book that was just released, and we said that we thought that the Jack format could be improved and have upsides for the cluster. It pretty much had been a stepchild by the former owner. We put some investment money behind it, both in research and promotion, and the results validate that strategy of the spring Arbitron that was just released.
So we are very pleased with all those markets that we've talked about so far. The strategy that was executed, beginning back in 2006, we continue to be very impressed with the operating savvy of our team in the field, especially in our largest market in Buffalo. So we are happy to be able to report those improvements going forward, which better positions this company to increased value, increased advertising dollars, increased value for our shareholders.
To sum up, I guess I'd say that our operating performance for the quarter is a result of us continuing to drive strong audience shares across the entire group. We continue to outpace growth for the radio industry and for all of our markets, and we are moving forward in implementing our strategy to capitalize on our enhanced portfolio to drive future revenues and future cash flow for the company.
Now, you've heard us talk a lot in the last couple of calls about moving forward with our integrated online strategy in an effort to expand our brands and content into the digital world. This cross-platform opportunity is a very exciting gateway to the future for us, in not only this industry but certainly within Regent Communications.
This initiative, which blends our content and sales resources, will further strengthen our audience shares and offer more dynamic opportunities and larger greater opportunities for advertising dollars to be garnered by Regent Communications. The new content, the larger audiences of consumers, will be very attractive to our advertising base.
Our Chief Financial Officer, Tony Vasconcellos, has been heading up our interactive strategy. I am going to ask him when he makes his comments to give you more details on that exciting part of our future growth pattern.
So in closing my remarks, I think I would say even though we continue to experience flat to slightly up advertising growth in our markets, we at Regent continue to outperform those markets, even increasing our share of that advertising dollar base in a down market place, as we continue to focus on the execution of the operating strategy that invests in our content and increases our relationships with our advertisers and our audiences, especially as we continue building the integrated online performance.
While the overall industry continues certainly to face growth challenges, we will remain optimistic about our future in radio as well as this company. Further, we are confident that we are taking the right steps right now to improve the value proposition of our brands and to strengthen our ability to continue to drive revenue and cash flow to the benefit of our shareholders.
As a direct result of the strategy being executed, Regent's asset base will become increasingly valuable in the year ahead.
So at this point, I would like to take time and turn it over to Tony, who will not only talk to you about the interactive aspect of Regent Communications but also will take an in-depth review of our financials and our future outlook for you.
Tony Vasconcellos
Thanks, Bill. I'll begin with a report on the progress in interactive, as Bill mentioned, and talk about what has happened in the last 90 days.
We are in high gear in fully integrating our stations with rich web destinations that capitalize our brands. We are adapting the online world in a prudent and opportunistic manner, with a goal of capturing more interactive participants, both at work and at home.
We've made significant progress on three critical fronts since we last spoke to you in early may -- personnel and training, technical infrastructure build out, and website standardization and sales.
On the personnel front, we have now hired all of the key employees we need in order to implement our plan. From a leadership perspective, we are very pleased to announce that we've hired a long-time industry expert in the interactive space to head up our efforts. Larry Downs has just joined Regent Communications as Vice President of Technology and Digital Media. Larry has been in radio since 1993 and has held interactive roles with two different national companies for most of that time. For the last four years, he's actually held group level leadership positions. We look to Larry to continue to push our success in this area.
In addition, we've hired an interactive program director for each of our six markets where we rolled out Regent Interactive, along with an interactive sales manager in every one of those markets. Additionally, we provided onsite training to the sales force in each of those markets tailored to our core interactive products.
From a technical standpoint, we upgraded the infrastructure that our platform runs on. We moved our streaming vendor to Akamai because we want the top provider in the industry. We are a product driven business and this move will ensure that the quality of our stream will be as close to our over-the-air broadcast as possible.
Finally, we have standardized our website and improved upon the look, design and usability of the sites.
Now, over the next 90 days our focus will be to continue to train our sales and marketing teams on the platform and then really focus on further enhancing the content of the website, which will make them stickier and provide even more revenue opportunities.
Overall, we remain confident that our interactive strategy will allow us to build on our already large, local market audience. Our efforts have a meaningful impact on revenue beginning in the second half of 2007 as we unlock additional sources of organic growth and position Regent as the leading innovator.
On our next conference call, we'll continue to update you on how our interactive initiatives are progressing.
Turning to our second quarter results, for the second quarter of 2007 net revenues increased 25.3% to $26.4 million from $21.1 million. Station operating income increased 36.9% to $9.5 million from $7 million in 2006. As Bill previously noted, these increases are primarily attributable to our Buffalo market acquisition.
On a same-station basis, which includes results from stations operated during the entire second quarter for both the 2007 and 2006 periods, excluding barter, net broadcast revenue for the second quarter increased 1.4% to $20.5 million, compared to $20.2 million for the second quarter of 2006.
Same-station operating income was flat at $7.1 million for the second quarter of both years.
For the second quarter, corporate overhead increased to $2 million. Approximately $230,000 of this cost was related to the retirement of a senior executive. Interest expense increased to $4.3 million, attributable to rate increases and acquisitions completed in the second half of '06.
Net income for the quarter was $3 million, which was boosted by a $3.1 million pretax increase in the value of our swap contracts.
Earnings per share for the quarter was $0.08 on total shares outstanding of approximately 38.3 million shares.
Free cash flow for the second quarter was approximately $2.8 million, a decrease from the second quarter 2006 of approximately $600,000. Approximately half of that increase was the direct result of the increase in interest rates net of the benefit of our hedges.
Looking at our balance sheet at June 30, 2007, leverage for borrowing purposes is now at 7.0 times total debt to trailing 12-month EBITDA. Outstanding debt was $215.4 million at June 30th, and our cash balance was approximately $1.3 million.
Turning to our outlook, Regent expects third quarter reported net revenues and station operating income of approximately $26.2 million to $26.8 million, and $9.3 million to $9.7 million respectively. On a same-station basis, revenues are expected to be flat to down low single digits in the third quarter.
For the third quarter, we expect corporate overhead to be approximately $1.9 million, which will include approximately $130,000 of non-cash expense from restricted stock. We expect earnings per share to be approximately $0.04.
CapEx for the third quarter will be approximately $900,000, of which about $700,000 is maintenance CapEx and the other $200,000 is related to conversions of stations to HD.
Looking at the full year 2007, we continue to expect cash taxes to be at $200,000 and maintain our corporate expense estimate of $7.9 million, of which approximately $520,000 pertains to non-cash expense related to the restricted stock.
Expected CapEx for the full year of 2007 remains approximately $4.1 million, of which $1.8 million is maintenance CapEx and $1.1 million is related to the conversion of stations to HD.
With that, we would like to open the floor to questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from David Miller of SMH Capital.
David Miller - SMH Capital
Good morning. Congratulations on the stellar results. That's absolutely an outstanding performance all the way around. Bill, I have it that about 14% of your portfolio is still developing and has not yet reached a margin band that can be considered mature. Is that the correct number? The reason I ask is just because just awesome SOI performance from a margin standpoint in the quarter, but obviously we're looking for more so I want to understand what percentage of the portfolio is still developing, and then I have a follow-up. Thanks.
William L. Stakelin
David, we join you in looking for more, trust me. We're with you 100% on that desire.
I think when you take a look at developmental, your number may be close to about right. Certainly the entire market in Albany, with the exception of WGNA, continues to be developmental, as does Peoria, to a large part, as does Fort Collins to a large part, other than our two basic foundation stations out there.
So while I don't have in my mind the exact percentage, and I'll get that for you if you need it, I don't think you are too far off on that 14%.
Tony Vasconcellos
I think the other thing we throw in there is obviously the JACK station in Buffalo where we've had the recent upgrades and programming dollars we put in there. I think that is pretty much right on.
David Miller - SMH Capital
Okay, great, and then just as a follow-up, obviously a certain activist shareholder, or an activist-oriented shareholder, has called for a special meeting of shareholders to take place in Cincinnati on September 3rd with regard to the notion of adding more director seats. I don't know if you guys have responded to that or not. If you did respond to it, how did you respond to it and do you have any comment for the audience on the call today with regard to that letter? Thank you.
William L. Stakelin
David, I would say that the company is currently evaluating the latest filings from selected shareholders. You can be assured that our management and board remain committed to maximizing the value for all of our shareholders, those that are short-term, those who have been with us for a very long time, large shareholders, small shareholders.
As we execute the strategy that we talked about this morning, you can be assured that we will continuously evaluate in conjunction with our legal and financial advisors all stockholder proposals that may be presented at any time to this company.
David Miller - SMH Capital
Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Jim Boyle of C.L. King.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Good morning. In Q3 versus the first half of the year, has there been any change in the late timing of buys, any change in the length of schedules placed, any change in ad rates?
William L. Stakelin
Primarily ad rates are driven by demand. The demand has been weak all year, Jim. I'd say in most of our markets, we're not really seeing deceleration. We're certainly not seeing a whole lot of acceleration. We don't see a lot of improvement but I think the news there may be that we are not experiencing additional deceleration of what we're seeing.
Visibility has not improved, continues to be very short with buys being made at the last minute. Our local, especially direct advertising efforts, which are working the best for us in this type of marketplace, continue to be very important to us and keeps us selling in the month longer than maybe the traditional model over the years would, but I haven't seen a lot of difference in the request of the length of spots, the timeline on which we are getting the buys into the house, and we are not really experiencing what I would call noticeable deceleration in the market for third quarter.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Has there been any change in the typical number of units and spot loads by competitors in CCU markets versus non-clear channel markets?
William L. Stakelin
I'll be real honest and say that, and I'm speaking on behalf of the managers and the regional Vice President, but I don't think that we really have focused too much on that because of the lack of demand. I mean, when there is more demand there, or I guess when there is total no demand there is when you see people adding units for different reasons. But I don't think that we have any noticeable differences as to people loading up with more spots trying to sell quantity because they can't drive their unit rate.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Bill, you've been in radio much longer than many of the young CEOs. Would you say after six plus years of slow to no growth in radio, this is still a cyclical down draft, or do you think this is more of a long-term situation, given the new landscape?
William L. Stakelin
Well, I'm not sure I'm smart enough to really analyze that and speak to it except drawing back on the years of experience that you point out, it is my personal feeling that we basically are not into a normal cyclical situation here. I think with the introduction of new media, new technology and the opportunities it presents us, the business model for us going forward as to how we generate ad dollars, how we take the new technology of our interactive platform and really enhance the traditional business that we've had, we don't see that as a totally separate business. We see it as a great opportunity that enhances and is based in a foundation of very large audiences that these radio stations bring, so I think we are seeing the model really change, Jim, for advertising expenditures, media use, and for the way that we run and conduct traditional media, whether it be radio, television, newspaper or others.
I can't just say hey, nobody is going to say this is cyclical, don't worry about it. The exciting thing for us is that we think we see the landscape out in front of us and we want to take advantage of it because we think that in the future, there's gold in them there hills, and we think we are good enough to mine it on behalf of our shareholders.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Bill, if you could take your region hat off for the moment, you have in the past sat in industry trade association seats, you've been in small, mid, large markets, so you have a fairly broad experience and expertise in the business. Looking long-term, do you expect radio revenue growth to rebound to 1% to 2% average growth, 3% to 4% average growth, or 5% to 6% average growth?
William L. Stakelin
I'm still holding out for the 3% to 4% right now and I think when the larger markets and all of us regain our focus on the fact that this is a local base, local driven advertising medium, and we get back to the basics of selling our local markets and serving the advertisers and their needs in those markets, be it in Buffalo or be it in Watertown, New York, than I think we will have more control over our own destiny as to how we can drive revenues and increase profit and get more free cash flow to continue to make this a business that people are going to want to be involved in and invest in in the future.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Final question; Tony, roughly what percentage of revenue do you invest in sales people training?
Tony Vasconcellos
That's a tough question because -- I mean, obviously the sales training is buried into various expense line items and there is a lot of training that is less than formal. For example, we just -- Mike Grimsly, our RVP that is heading up the sales effort on the interactive side, he just toured most of the country last week and was in-house in every one of our trailblazer markets, which we call the first six markets rolling out, and that's capture nowhere other than in his T&E cost. Obviously there's a pretty big effort there that goes behind that.
So that's really hard for me to say, Jim, just because it's buried in so many different places. It is very important to us.
William L. Stakelin
We have a whole lot of multi-tasking, Jim, and we are very fortunate a company this size to have some very, very talented people with a lot of experience that we can draw on, like Mike Grimsly in the interactive area, to make sure that we have continuous training.
In the traditional model, when you get into our markets, and you are looking for a percentage and as Tony has said, I'm not sure we can nail that down for you but I can assure you that from the newcomer to radio in the local markets, to the senior managers, the continuous training that is received is ongoing and very heavily thought of in this company.
As a matter of fact, one of our small market managers up in St. Cloud, Minnesota, just returned from Georgetown University in Washington where he was enrolled for a week in a very senior management strategy training course. So we try to take advantage and keep our people trained and re-train them, because right now, as you we said in your last question, it is not a matter of just basic training on the old model. There's a whole lot of brand new training and techniques that we are bringing to the table that even the veterans have to be introduced to as they face tomorrow's marketplace.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Thank you.
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Your next question comes from Lee Westerfield of BMO Capital.
Lee Westerfield - BMO Capital Markets
Gentlemen, good morning. Sorry for what's going to seem like a slew of questions here, but hopefully they are quick ones. There will be four here. First, in Albany, 7% growth I think is what you quoted in the quarter and I wonder how much of that may have been attributable to specifically to the new ESPN station versus the others in that market.
Second, Tony, on the debt side, 7.0 times leverage I believe you quoted. Are you entirely fixed out at this point and can you make a comment about the derivative gain in the quarter, which we all I think expected, but $3.1 million.
Third question is on HD radio. I think you said the last of your HD radio upgrades or CapEx investments, correct?
Fourth, sorry for so many, if you have the number anyway, at this point, the current or cash tax number in the second quarter. Sorry for so many, but thank you.
Tony Vasconcellos
I'm sorry, Lee, I didn't catch the last one.
William L. Stakelin
Cash tax on the quarter. Lee, on your first one with Albany, I don't have the percentage in front of me. I can get it for you if you need it. I will say that the revenue stream has doubled when we took our format and launched it on FM. As you know, we had it on small AM radio station, and a large part of that growth certainly is being driven by the team as well as by our new AC, the Buzz in that marketplace. Those two are primarily driving that increase.
Tony Vasconcellos
Lee, just on the rest of the question, our leverage, you said is it seven times and I think you were asking what percentage of that is fixed and what floats. The fixed component is $165 million of the 215, and that's fixed just under 7% at a blended rate. The derivative gain obviously was pretty significant but we struck those swaps and it was a series of them last December when it was extremely advantageous, and what you are seeing now is that the debt markets reversed, there's real value there and that flows through the P&L. Frankly, it will create volatility each quarter for those of you that try to peg the EPS number. It's just a difficult thing and obviously we're on the positive side of that and hope to continue to be.
CapEx, as far as the HD upgrades, we just have a couple hundred thousand dollars more this year but as you know, with an annual commitment, and I think that that commitment will run for about another three years and will probably increase slightly, our run-rate the last couple of years has been about $1 million a year. I think that is going to go up because the number of stations we convert will go up, although costs do seem to be coming down a little bit.
I guess ongoing for the next three years, you can expect somewhere between $1 million and $1.5 million.
Lee Westerfield - BMO Capital Markets
That's what I thought. That's why the comment I wanted to -- thank you.
Tony Vasconcellos
And then cash taxes, it's about $50,000 a quarter.
Lee Westerfield - BMO Capital Markets
Gentlemen, thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from Michael Kupinski of Noble Financial.
Michael Kupinski - Noble Financial Group
Thank you for taking the question. You have such a dichotomy with strong stations and those not performing well. Have you been able to determine what differentiates some of the stronger markets from the weaker ones? Is it just format changes and a ratings, or is there something more endemic to some of your markets?
William L. Stakelin
You know, Michael, even in the markets that are weak at the current time because of ad spend, we pretty well have dominant franchises in the marketplace. So I think the real differential right now is the economy or the market growth that is in these different marketplaces.
Down in Lafayette where, you know, I told you they grew quarter to quarter by 11%, I mean, you know the situation that national business is in. In Lafayette, national business, even though it is only about 7% of our business in Lafayette, you know, that market was up 17% in national business. Well, that is totally out of kilter with the rest of the country.
I think as I look at this, the real differentials, it is the money in the markets, the growth rate or the money that we are able to compete for because even in the weak markets, we have very strong franchises.
Michael Kupinski - Noble Financial Group
What was national in terms of some of those other stronger markets, like Albany, for instance? You were mentioning -- was national a differentiating factor there as well?
William L. Stakelin
You know, Lafayette is about the third fastest growing or fourth fastest growth rate for national. Again, it is only 7% of our revenue stream but it is out of culture if you look at the whole nation and the growing rate. But you take a look at a market like El Paso, while you have Lafayette up 16 or over 16%, El Paso is down 14.1%. Up in Grand Rapids, our third largest market, it is down at 8.5%. Albany was down 6% in national. So national continues to not perform well at all and right now, we don't see that in our markets, especially. And again, we are talking about maybe 13%, 14% of our revenue stream but we don't see that improving over the year. That's why that we certainly are totally focused on our direct sales efforts especially and the local agency transitional business.
Michael Kupinski - Noble Financial Group
Bill, were there any particular, in terms of national ad categories, have you noticed any particular strength in those markets where you saw a very strong national advertising? Was it auto, for instance or was it something else?
William L. Stakelin
No, you know, the national -- the auto -- the reason we do so well and the reason that these markets beside do pretty good right now with auto is because we are dealing directly with the auto dealers and you're not going to see any corporate money. There are three pools of money basically we focus on. The corporate money out of Detroit, you're not going to see any in our markets, primarily.
The dealer associations primarily are in your larger areas and would affect markets on the top side for us, like our top three or four, and we are seeing decrease there. And your top markets across the country are seeing a decrease there, but we are really focused on the local dealer because that really is the automotive stream for this size market.
Michael Kupinski - Noble Financial Group
Okay, great. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question is a follow-up from Jim Boyle of C.L. King.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Good morning, again. Roughly what percentage of your revenue is NTR/miscellaneous? And within that, what percentage would be from the Internet?
William L. Stakelin
Well, we said with the interactive that I think this year, Tony, correct me, but I think we were at 1% to 2% for --
Tony Vasconcellos
Yes, we're at 1% on the interactive side, and on the NTR side, we're at about 3%, so the total is 4% between the two.
Jim Boyle - C.L. King
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. There are no further questions at this time.
William L. Stakelin
Well, if there are no further questions, I want to thank everybody for taking time and the interest in the company to be on the call. As we always say, you can rely on us not to limit our options on behalf of our shareholders. We will take a look at any and all opportunities on a continuous basis to try to figure out a way to grow shareholder value and we appreciate your interest and we appreciate your support. Have a nice day.
Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.
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Ravens sign Will Hill
The Ravens have signed former Giant Will Hill.
Hill is suspended the first six games of the season after another violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy. He is allowed to participate in Training Camp.
Hill had been suspended in each of the past two seasons for failed tests.
He played in 12 games with the Giants in 2013, with two interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown. He had 60 tackles.
John Fennelly, Lead Writer
Hill had constantly blown himself up here ion the NY/NJ area so a change of scenery might be the thing to get him straightened out.The Ravens will be getting a solid on-field presence in Hill, who legitimized the Giants' secondary last year after Stevie Brown was lost for the season with a torn ACL.
Speaking as a Giants fan, Hill's release stung. I knew there would be another team waiting to sign him based on his potential and production with the Giants.
The NFL's protocol for disciplining players is broken. Michael Vick received a harsher punishment for killing dogs than Donte Stallworth and Leonard Little, who both killed human beings while drinking and driving.
There's a prevalent attitude on this site that what Hill is being punished for is petty. He smoked a joint, big deal. Well the NFL as his employer forbids its employees from marijuana to protect its image. Nearly all of us comply with our employers codes of conduct.
Why should Hill not be held to the same scrutiny?
Will Hill suspended 6 games for doing something that's actually legal in certain parts of the country, Ray Rice suspended only two games for knocking a woman unconscious. Yeah, that seems about right.
Where he will be mentored by the Rays - Ray Lewis and Ray Rice......
I wish Will the best, but i seem to doubt he can get out of his own way...
@JamesWS Same. I like Will's game. NFL... weed... big deal... Isn't there a Rastafarian exception?
@JamesWS .... At the expense of who? If you can't be counted upon to show up for work in the real world, they fire you. Hill couldn't keep himself out of trouble and missed enough time to warrant getting let go. We need players we can count on to be available to play, and that does not describe Hill. He was simply not reliable. No questions about his talent level at all, the questions were about his head and decision making abilities to follow rules like everyone else.
@cj1786 Will Hill got suspended for repeatedly violating the law in the state that he lives/works in (and violating something that was collectively bargained by the NFL and NFLPA), and failing tests that he new he would have to take.
That is more of an intelligence test then anything else.


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Seeing is Believing: America's SideshowsSeeing Is Believing is a history of midway attractions and the showmen who have presented them on American midways from the 1870s to World War II. Find out who manufactured the Polly-Moo-Zuke, the Two-Headed Giant, and the Devil Fish. Hear showmenís stories of hoochie coochie dancing bears, monkeys racing miniature racecars, and the strange people who made a living eating snakes. See war criminals, wax outlaws, and papier m'chť torture victims. Learn about illusion on the midway and how "free" Iron Lung and Wildlife shows were anything but; who suspected you had to pay to leave? Hear the barker say: Come in! Trained fleas, people exhibited in ice, and girls that change into gorillas are all inside! Under canvas, the hottest black nightclub acts perform for you in black revue shows. Many attractions are alive. Hundreds more are dead, stuffed, or mummified. Never has so much been on show for so little a price! Attractions you may never see again Ö Take a twisted journey with the last of Americaís real showmen, from an age when performers earned every nickel of your 25 cents. |
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This past weekend, I competed at the Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon in Philadelphia in pursuit of the Olympic Trials Marathon standard of 65:00. Overall, it was a great experience, and although I came up an agonizing 10 seconds short of my goal, I was able to leave with my head held high with a nine second personal best and a 16th-place overall and sixth-place American finish. I felt great going into the race, and now have all the confidence I need to know I can run 64:30 to 64:00 on the right day. It's frustrating to be so close to a goal I've had for such a long time, but I am proud to say that I stayed mentally tough in a race I could have easily given up on eight miles in.
The conditions were a bit sub-par, with about 70 to 75 percent humidity, yet a cool temperature. The biggest obstacles I faced in this race were pacing and pack running–the top group made it known early on that they were gunning for quick times, and it was hard not to get dragged along in the first few miles of the race. After a brisk 4:45 first mile, I forced myself to settle into a rhythm of 4:55 to 5:00 miles to ensure a strong performance, sacrificing running with the front 20 to 25 competitors from the get-go.
The race became a game of catching runners falling off the fast early pace of the race, and while I tried to latch onto groups and zone out at my goal pace, competitors began to either drop out or fall off fairly quickly in the middle miles of the event. I used the runners coming back to me slowly as a tool to steadily move up from miles four to eight. By mile nine-and-a-half, I had caught the 16th-place runner, and found myself chasing my dream over the last four miles all alone, with the next runner about one minute ahead.
To say that the the last four miles was a daunting task requiring intense mental focus is an understatement. There were very few spectators and fans from nine to 12 miles, and I was fighting hard to stay on pace. With each passing stride from 45 to 60 minutes of the race, I faced the challenge of pressing on, yet staying composed, as I approached the finish. With 1.1 miles to go, I knew it was close and that I would have to close a bit harder to get the standard.
With about 800 meters to go, I hit a huge wall and fought a burning sensation in my quads and calves approaching the hill to the finish. I had about 20 seconds to get to the finish from the 13-mile mark, and unfortunately came up just 10 seconds short of securing a spot at the 2016 Olympic Trials in Los Angeles. The immediate aftermath of the race was painful, devastating, and gut-wrenching. To train all summer long for this day and come up short was depressing. I could barely stand, heart-broken and exhausted, knowing my best wasn't good enough to achieve my goal on that particular day.
After regrouping and letting off some steam, I have had some time to evaluate my performance and take away a number of positives:
- Finishing 16th overall and sixth American: In a loaded field of sub-60:00 caliber runners and some of the country's best road runners, I felt I took a step towards becoming great. I got to race in a very talented field and placed well against some great competition. Witnessing some of the better competitors finish 30 seconds to a minute off their personal bests gives me a lot of hope that I am right where I need to be. I was glad I was able to be competitive given the conditions, as I anticipate the Los Angeles weather will not be forgiving for a marathon. I felt I raced smart by conserving energy after a fast first mile and moving up slowly throughout the duration of the race.
- A personal best: My training has been slightly different going into this half-marathon than it was for my debut in Brooklyn this past May. I did more mileage, quality long runs, and great strength based workouts, such as tempos in fartleks, in comparison to the training I did this past spring, which consisted of high-volume intervals and 10,000-meter based training. A personal best of nine seconds is something I am proud of given the circumstances, and I have gained a lot of confidence from this personal best that I can attribute to the training it took to get me to this point.
- Consistency: A few years ago, I may have been the most inconsistent runner I know. I'm glad that recent maturity through mental preparation and trusting in my training has given me strong, consistent results since last fall. To be disappointed in a personal best is a huge testament to the consistency I've experienced in race results over the last year, and I'm confident that the breakthrough is soon to come.
I want to give a huge thank you to Coach Fox for guiding me with training during this summer, and to the NYAC (New York Athletic Club) crew for giving me great support and teammates to train with. I'm very excited to continue to improve over the next few months and compete soon in one of my favorite disciplines of running–cross country at the Club Cross Country Championships! To everyone at New York Road Runners–thanks for all you do for the sport and I'm extremely grateful to be a part of an incredible organization with unbelievable support.
Until then, time to gear up to put on a great TCS New York City Marathon with the best running organization in the world, New York Road Runners! Seeing thousands cross the Central Park finish line in November will be all the motivation I need to have a break out performance in the half-marathon, most likely at the Houston Half-Marathon in January.
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UT Southwestern Doctors Find Cognitive Therapy as Effective as Drug Therapy for Treating Atypical Depression DALLAS, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Psychotherapy can be just as effective for treating atypical major depression as the standard drug treatment, which is monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor phenelzine sulfate, reported UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers in today's Archives of General Psychiatry. Dr. Robin Jarrett, associate professor of psychiatry, said this is the first time researchers have compared medication and psychotherapy for atypical depression in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. It is only the second time cognitive therapy for major depression has been tested in a randomized study containing a pill placebo. "The implication of the study is that cognitive therapy is an effective alternative to MAO inhibitors for patients with major depressive disorder with affective features," she said. "These findings are important because clinicians and patients now have a tested and effective alternative to pharmacotherapy." In the 10-week study, UT Southwestern researchers, led by Jarrett, treated 108 patients experiencing atypical depression. One-third received phenelzine sulfate; one-third received cognitive therapy, which teaches people to examine the relationship between emotions, thoughts and behavior; and one-third received a pill placebo. Fifty-eight percent of patients in both the cognitive therapy group and the phenelzine group responded to treatment. Twenty-eight percent in the placebo group responded positively. The central feature of atypical depression is that the patient's mood brightens when positive events occur. People with atypical depression may gain weight and spend large amounts of time sleeping. Other symptoms include feeling weighted down or heavy and being extremely sensitive to interpersonal rejection. "More research on atypical depression treatments still needs to be done, including evaluating the effectiveness of serotonin reuptake inhibitors like Prozac and Zoloft," Jarrett said. Other UT Southwestern researchers who participated in the study were Drs. Martin Schaffer and Paul Silver, clinical assistant professors of psychiatry; Dr. Greg Eaves, clinical assistant professor of psychology; Dr. Rodger Kobes, clinical associate professor of psychiatry; Dr. Dolores Kraft, assistant professor of psychiatry; Dr. Donald McIntire, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology; and Dr. Paul Orsulak, professor of psychiatry. The National Institute of Mental Health provided funding for the research, and Parke-Davis donated the medication and matching placebo. SOURCE UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:58:32 -0800 (PST), RTRwrote:
> newbie question here.. ragarding Solaris.
> when I try create a directory in "/", i get message saing file system
> is read only.
> so I try to make it rw, by using the command "mount -o remount rw /".
> but this does not work. it get the same read only error.
Are you sure it's saying ro filesystem, not permission denied?
A bientot
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"He Never Felt It". I walk lost without my soul I will find it searching alone he never felt it Today I feel unnatural ugly lost my beauty I'll look weeping he never felt it. Now I am in need of somebody wipe away one tear out of billions he never felt it. Isolation from love is slowing down towards him my depth got sick lonely he never felt it. I searched why explanation was satisfactory I am out of love He never felt it. Confusion without love erupted in tremendous pain attacked my heart he never felt it. Therese Bacha 24 June 2013


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PHILADELPHIA - A team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Utrecht University has deciphered a key step in an evolutionarily old branch of the immune response. This system, called complement, comprises a network of proteins that "complement" the work of antibodies in destroying foreign invaders. It serves as a rapid defense mechanism in most species from primitive sponges to humans.
In a study published in the December 24 issue of Science, the groups of John Lambris, PhD, the Dr. Ralph and Sally Weaver Professor of Research Medicine at Penn, and Piet Gros at Utrecht, detail the atomic structure of two key transient enzyme complexes in the human complement system.
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Star Trek Nielsen Ratings Database Updates
By ChristianApril 6, 2000 - 10:46 PM
After about two weeks of absence, Greg Fuller at the Star Trek Nielsen Ratings Information Database has brought the site up to date again, providing us with national rating reports of 'Barge of the Dead' and 'Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy', and the overnight report for yesterday's 'Alice'. Here's a short excerpt from the two national ratings reports:
"Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" rose from last week's "Barge of the Dead," taking a 2.7 rating, 4 share. That's up from "Barge"'s 2.5/4 and level with the better rerun performances of the season. This rerun rating was also better than "Counterpoint"'s 2.6/4 rating this week last season.
"Barge of the Dead" earned a lower rerun mark for Voyager, tallying a 2.5 rating, 4 share. That's Voyager's lowest-rated rerun this year with the exception of "Survival Instinct"'s encore showing in January. The lower mark was still not enough to put Voyager is the timeslot cellar with "Roswell" taking the 6th place position with a 1.9.
In the full reports for Barge of the Dead and Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, Greg looks at what these ratings predict for the future, and if they mean Voyager will see another drastic ratings drop like it did at the end of last season.
Besides those two reports, Greg also posted the overnight ratings report for 'Alice':
"Alice" fell to 6th place in the timeslot, finishing just below the WB's new timeslot occupant, "Felicity," which finished 5th with a 3.4/5. "Get Real" barely put Fox in 4th with a 3.6/5. "Seven Days" was down to a 2.9/5 at 8 p.m.
"Alice" rose slightly over last week's overnight, drawing a 3.3 rating 5 share in its rerun. That's a tenth of a point above "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy"'s mark last week and equally down from "Barge of the Dead"'s 3.4/5 rerun rating two weeks ago.
A bit more can be found in the full report.
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MUMBAI: The rupee on Wednesday closed barely steady at 44.18/19 against the U.S. currency on alternate bouts of buying and selling.
In lacklustre activity at the interbank foreign exchange market here, the domestic unit opened with nominal changes at 44.18/20 a dollar against Wednesday's close of 44.1850/1875 on lack of any major trigger. There was no intervention by the RBI on Wednesday as the central bank was happy with the rupee's current level, forex dealers said PTI
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This is my robot day submission. I made it a while ago, but it seems oddly appropriate for this. Man into machine, with the added bonus of teenage whining.
Space noises courtesy of NASA's Cassini space probe. MIDI interpretation by University of Iowa Astrophysics Dept.
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ok if i was playing a game and this came on i would mute it all i have to say about it
Fair enough, though I think it's fairly safe to say that you would never hear this in a game. It was never intended as game music.
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hot cocks this is some crazy fucking idm. squarepusher shit. there's really nothing about this i can say that would really be helpful at all other than fucking congratz on such a crazy track.
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Great Breakcore song, seems like you sampled some of the same effects used by atrists like Venetian Snares. Still a good song though but I had the feeling like I had heard some parts of other songs in here too...
the only samples I didn't make are The Winstons - Amen Brother, Opus III - Evolution Rush, and Star Wars, of course.


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COLUMBIA — Twelve games into her collegiate career, two of which she watched from the bench, Christine Flores came to a realization.
"I just need to stop worrying about every single movement that I'm making," she decided. "I just need to play my game rather than worrying about everything."
Colorado (8-8, 0-4)
at Missouri (10-7, 1-3 Big 12)
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mizzou Arena
Flores, a freshman on the Missouri women's basketball team, had just backed up a nine-point, five-rebound performance on Dec. 29 against Southeast Missouri State on with a 6-for-7, 17-point outburst five days later against Duquesne, and for the first time began to believe she could be a consistent scorer for the Tigers.
In the five games since that breakout performance, though, she has totaled just 15 points.
It is difficult to determine if the freshman's best game of the season was a fluke, or if she has underachieved, because her time on the court has been sporadic at best.
Flores scores 3.7 points per game, which makes her the team's leading scorer off the bench, but the freshman has spent an average of just six minutes on the court in Big 12 games. She has played more than 10 minutes five times this season, and been left on the bench for all 40 minutes against Indiana and Arkansas.
Missouri coach Cindy Stein said the inconsistent amount of playing time is the result of inconsistent play from Flores in practice.
"My hope was to be a little bit more ahead than she is," said Stein, who pointed out that the reconstructive ankle surgery Flores had in the offseason probably slowed her progress. "I think she's trying to do all the right things, so I think you're going to see her minutes keeps improving."
Flores said the surgery, which was the result of multiple ankle injuries over many years rather than one accident, has caused her defensive play to suffer.
"My biggest thing is moving my feet," she said. "It's been more mental than anything, moving my feet, because I always moved my feet, and then I would roll my ankle, so it's been hard."
Flores, a 6-foot-3 center, might never have played college basketball if her high school had been equipped with a swimming pool. Entering high school, her parents decided their daughter, who was also played volleyball and swam competitively, should focus on one sport during the school year.
Although swimming was her favorite activity, Flores ended up playing basketball after her mother decided the 5:30 a.m. swim practices would make for an unbearable schedule for herself as well as her teenager.
Being agreeable, this decision was fine with Flores, who continued to swim during her summer breaks. Her pleasant and positive attitude was something Stein noticed while recruiting Flores.
Stein was the first coach to send Flores, a San Antonio native, a recruiting letter, though she later received offers from perennial top-10 program Baylor and several other schools.
While she temporarily conquered her nerves at the end of Missouri's nonconference schedule, Flores said the start of Big 12 play brought on a new round of uncertainty.
"It's all a learning process your freshman year pretty much," she said. "A lot of the jitters I had first coming in (to conference play) are finally going away, and so now I just really go out and play my hardest and do what I can for the team."
In Missouri's road loss to Iowa State on Wednesday night, Flores was called for two quick fouls after entering. She eventually fouled out, scoring just two points in 11 minutes.
"That's what most freshmen make their first mistake at is they mess up or they're afraid to mess up, and so they keep messing up and instead of correcting themselves they just stop playing," teammate RaeShara Brown said. "I think she probably was one of the first ones to realize that we don't expect anybody to be perfect, we just ask that you give a full-blown effort."
Stein, who thinks Flores could start recording double-doubles at some point this season, has repeatedly said that the amount of playing time Flores and other freshmen receive is decided more by how consistent they play in practice rather than their performances in games.
"It's not that you practice well, it's just that you go as hard as you possibly can," Flores said. "It's tiring, but in the end you've just got to keep thinking that it's going to get me somewhere, some day."
She thinks she's ready now.
"I do. I hope it comes soon," she said. "I hope I can help out the team."
Missouri hosts Colorado at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at Mizzou Arena.


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Kevin Millwood
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MLB debut
July 14, 1997 for the Atlanta Braves | |||
Last MLB appearance
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Career statistics
Win–loss record | 169–152 | ||
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Strikeouts | 2,083 | ||
Career highlights and awards
Kevin Austin Millwood (born December 24, 1974) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies and Seattle Mariners.
While with the Braves, Millwood was part of a pitching rotation which featured Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz. In 1999 he was selected to his only All-Star Game and helped the Braves to the 1999 World Series and two seasons later the 2001 National League Championship Series. As a member of the Indians, his 2.86 ERA lead all American League pitchers. In 2012, Millwood became the 67th pitcher to record 2,000 career strikeouts.
Personal life[edit]
Millwood graduated from Bessemer City High School in North Carolina. He has a League ballpark named for him in Bessemer City.
Baseball career[edit]
Atlanta Braves[edit]
Millwood was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 11th round of the 1993 MLB Draft. After four years in the minors, Millwood made his debut with the Atlanta Braves on July 14, 1997. A year later, he won 17 games. Millwood formed a part of the Braves' star pitching rotation, which also consisted of Greg Maddux, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine. According to Nate Silver, the 1997 Braves starting rotation was the best in the history of baseball.[1]
The 1999 campaign was one of Millwood's best. He posted career-highs in wins (18, also achieved in 2002), ERA (2.68), strikeouts (205) and WHIP (0.996). He finished third in the National League Cy Young voting (losing to the Arizona Diamondbacks' Randy Johnson) and 26th on the National League MVP ballot. He was selected as an All-Star in 1999, his only appearance in the Midsummer Classic.
Philadelphia Phillies[edit]
Before the 2003 season, Millwood was traded by the Braves to the Philadelphia Phillies for catcher Johnny Estrada in order to cut their payroll in the midst of economic difficulties. He went 14-12 with his new team, including throwing a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants on April 27 coming in the Phillies final season at the stadium. This was one of only two no-hitters ever thrown at the now-demolished Veterans Stadium. He also led the majors in stolen bases allowed, with 41.
Cleveland Indians[edit]
In 2005, Millwood signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the Cleveland Indians. He came back from injury well, leading the American League in ERA (2.86). However, he managed a record of only 9-11, due to poor run support.[quantify] During 2005, he again led the majors in stolen bases allowed, with 33. He was tied for 6th in the balloting for the AL Cy Young Award.[citation needed]
Texas Rangers[edit]
On December 26, 2005, the Texas Rangers signed Millwood to a five-year, $60 million deal.[2]
In 2006, he and Vicente Padilla won 15 games; a total not matched by a Rangers pitcher until Scott Feldman in 2009.[3]
In 2008, when batters did hit the ball against him, it was with uncommon success, as his .358 batting-average-against on balls in play was the highest in the major leagues.[4] 26% of all balls put in play against him were line drives, the highest percentage in the majors.[5]
Baltimore Orioles[edit]
Millwood was traded to the Baltimore Orioles on December 9, 2009, for Chris Ray and a player to be named later (left-handed pitcher Ben Snyder, a Rule 5 pick from San Francisco).
During the 2010 season, Millwood went 4-16 with a 5.10 earned run average, leading the league in losses.
New York Yankees[edit]
On March 25, 2011, Millwood was signed to a minor league contract by the New York Yankees.[6] After making three starts in the minor leagues, he opted out of his contract on May 1.[7]
Boston Red Sox[edit]
Millwood signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on May 19, 2011.[8] He was released on August 7, exercising an opt-out clause.
Colorado Rockies[edit]
On August 8, 2011, Millwood signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies.[9][10] Millwood was called up August 10 to fill a void after an injury to Juan Nicasio.
Seattle Mariners[edit]
On January 22, 2012, it was reported that the Seattle Mariners had signed Millwood to a minor league contract.[11] He was called up from Triple-A and made his first major league start of the season on April 22 against the Chicago White Sox.[12] On May 13, Millwood became the 67th pitcher to record 2,000 career strikeouts when he struck out Yankee Curtis Granderson.[13][14] Millwood notched a win over Yankee starter Andy Pettitte, who was pitching in the majors for the first time since 2010.[15][16]
On June 8, Millwood pitched the first six innings of a combined no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers before leaving the game due to a groin injury.[17] Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League, and Tom Wilhelmsen helped him complete the bid. Millwood was put on the disabled list in September with soreness in his shoulder and missed the remainder of the regular season.[18]
On February 3, 2013, Millwood was reported to be retiring.[19]
Pitching style[edit]
Millwood is a sinkerballer. His sinker is 89–92 mph and is complemented mostly by an 89–91 mph cutter and 83–86 mph slider. He also has a curveball (71–74) and a changeup (82–84) that he uses against left-handed hitters. His cutter tends to be used early in the count, with higher use of his breaking balls in 2-strike situations.[20]
See also[edit]
- List of Major League Baseball ERA champions
- List of Major League Baseball no-hitters
- List of Texas Rangers Opening Day starting pitchers
- List of top 100 Major League Baseball strikeout pitchers
- ^ The New York Times. April 3, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/04/03/magazine/03phillies-graphic.html?ref=magazine. Missing or empty
(help) - ^ "Millwood signs five-year, $60 million deal with Rangers". USA Today. December 29, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ Wilson, Jeff, "Road-warrior Feldman paces Rangers again," The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9/4/09, accessed 9/4/09
- ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2008-batting-pitching.shtml
- ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2008-ratio-pitching.shtml
- ^ http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20110325&content_id=17113614&vkey=pr_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy
- ^ Kevin Millwood opts out of contract, ESPN.com, May 1, 2011.
- ^ Red Sox sign Millwood, CBS Sports, May 19, 2011.
- ^ Renck, Troy E. (August 8, 2011). "Rockies sign veteran pitcher Kevin Millwood; could replace Juan Nicasio". Denver Post.
- ^ "Kevin Millwood latest hired help for Colorado Rockies' rotation". Denver Post. August 9, 2011.
- ^ Walker, Richard (January 22, 2012). "Millwood to sign with Seattle Mariners". Gaston Gazette. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
- ^ http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=320422112
- ^ "Career Leaders & Records for Strikeouts". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
- ^ Baker, Geoff (May 14, 2012). "Millwood reflects after reaching milestone 2,000th career strikeout". Seattle Times. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ^ Pouliot, Matthew (May 13, 2012). "Kevin Millwood notches 2,000th strikeout in beating Yankees". Nbcsports.com. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ^ Silva, Drew (May 13, 2012). "Andy Pettite allows four runs in return to major leagues". Nbcsports.com. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
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- ^ Meisel, Zack (February 3, 2013). "Report: Millwood steps aside after 16 seasons". MLB.com. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
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The 15m & 5m with 3/10macd below. If you didn't buy the open I prefer to wait until the 3/10macd fast line on the 5-minute crosses (or anticipate a crossing of) the slow line. First long entry a small loss. Second long entry, a small gain. The 3rd up arrow long entry indicates the "trigger" but I actually entered closer to vwap and added to the position at around the last up-arrow.
During these extreme advancing days I find it's often best to look for an entry (or build a position) on new low TICK readings, with the anticipation of closing near the higs of the day.
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Price strongly recovered the 200-day Moving average, however it has a downward sloping 20-MA directly overhead and a downward sloping 50-MA. Corresponding with the 20-day MA is the 38.2% Fib. retrace. Still very much in a down trend which will start to come under pressure from short sellers once momentum begins to wane.
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A basic program that concentrates on building the muscle tissue itself (rather than filling you up with liquid) in the 1-8 rep range (most of the time), that concentrates on the compound lifts and is ideally a fullbody or upper/lower split.
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MAster the basics before trying anything too fancy. Alot of new guys want to jump right into a crazy split before even mastering the big compound lifts. These lifts take time to learn solid form. Squats,Deadlifts,OHP and Bench are all works of art in my opinion when done correctly and are the building blocks for everything else you need.
I agree with this 100%. Over-splitting and over-complicating your routine are some of the main mistakes beginners make. Somewhere in the 5-8 rep range on the basics (squat, deadlift, etc) are what beginners should be doing.
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Attitudes to aging in mid-life have been found to be a predictor of health and well-being. The main purpose of the study was to assess the contribution of the Reactions to Aging Questionnaire (RAQ) to the understanding of middle-aged women's attitudes towards their aging. An additional purpose was to expand the existing information regarding the dimensions of the new version of the RAQ. Middle-aged Melbourne women (n = 381) were asked to complete the RAQ, in addition to another attitudes-to-aging scale (Worries About Aging). Factor analysis of the RAQ was used to explore its dimensionality, and frequencies of responses were used to assess the spread of response of both instruments. The factors extracted in the factor analysis of the RAQ were interpretable and meaningful in terms of emotions related to aging. They were also similar to the factors described by previous data. The RAQ was more effective in its distribution ability than the Worries About Aging Scale. With some modifications, the RAQ may be more informative than was the Worries About Aging Scale in its ability to assess emotions, opinions and beliefs associated with aging in middle-aged women. |
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COLUMBIA — Phyllis Nichols didn't expect to purchase a piece of history when she bought a tract of land off West Boulevard North in the fall of 2005.
Hoping to use the property to build a new State Farm Insurance building and parking lot, Nichols ended up buying an existing home and garage, too.
The building was a Lustron home, a porcelain-enameled steel house engineered for mass production after World War II.
Knowing something about these homes, Nichols said she couldn't tear it down.
"I felt like it was something and should be kept around," the State Farm agent explained.
Nichols decided to donate the house to the Boone County Historical Society. She and David Sapp, president of the society, had it disassembled and moved the pieces to Nifong Park, where it will become part of a village of vintage homes.
Lustron homes were developed after World War II, when the U.S. was facing a major housing shortage. The government also needed to revive vacant factories no longer needed for military production.
In January 1947, the Lustron Corp. in Columbus, Ohio, received a $12.5 million government loan to manufacture homes built with interlocking steel panels as the roof and exterior walls.
Carl Strandlund, a Chicago inventor and entrepreneur, developed the company and patented the process after constructing pre-fabricated gas stations. In business for only four years, the Lustron Corp. shipped nearly 2,000 homes around the country at its peak in 1949. Ninety-seven of them ended up in Missouri.
A typical Lustron home looks more like a compact bungalow than an extravagant vision of the future.
The homes fit a simple, one-story plan with a small covered porch. They followed the trend at the time of ranch-style architecture with five rooms in approximately 1,000 square feet of floor area.
Everything was standardized and duplicated on an assembly line, from the steel panels to the furnace, wiring boxes, plumbing and cabinets.
Lustron homes required little maintenance. Soap, water and a damp cloth were the only cleaning materials required, and the roof and walls never needed replacing.
Features inside included built-in bookcases and cabinets, a combination dishwasher and clothes washer, a built-in china cabinet with a "pass-through" to the kitchen, an automatic water heater, a built-in vanity and storage cabinets in the master bedroom, large closets, bathroom fixtures and screens.
Just two Lustron homes were built in Columbia. The one that is being reconstructed was located at 1006 West Blvd. N.
"Timing is everything," said Byron Claghorn, 66, who lived in the house for a year. "It just didn't take off."
The Claghorn family moved in during the spring of 1949, when Byron was 7. It was the same house that would catch Phyllis Nichols's eye more than 50 years later.
In 2005, Claghorn heard from Sapp, who told him the historical society had obtained the old house as a donation. Sapp was planning to add it to the village of historical homes taking shape in Nifong Park, called Boone Junction.
"It was rather amazing to see a picture of it 55 years later because Lustron homes do not need to be painted and do not require much maintenance," Claghorn said. "All the panels were made of polished metal similar to the finish on an automobile."
He said Lustron homes were relatively inexpensive for the time period, ranging from $2,000 to $3,000.
Claghorn remembered the house being cold in the winter. It had an integrated heating system in the ceiling that didn't heat the floors. The house was also built before the advent of air conditioning.
"In those days, buildings, homes and automobiles normally were not air-conditioned," he said.
The Lustron home will be set up in Nifong Park near the Gordon-Collins log cabin, built in 1818 and moved there from Stephens Lake Park in 2005. Next to come, in 2007, was the Easley country store, a building constructed on the banks of the Missouri River in 1890 by William Greene Easley. A shotgun house built in the 1920s on Garth Avenue and owned by a black realtor and developer was moved to Boone Junction this year. Historical society officials hope the Ryland House, a Victorian home built by William Ryland, will be reconstructed this fall.
The Boone Historical Society is currently offering an exhibit on the Lustron home, including photos of exteriors, rooms and furniture.
The furniture ranges from an old-fashioned black sewing machine to a set of yellow chairs, and a set of blue, green and brown dishes from the post World War II era.
Reconstruction of the Lustron House is expected to be completed in the summer of 2010 at an estimated cost of $35,000.
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