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LUMBERJACK DAYS MILWAUKEE (Dow Jones) Motorcycle icon Harley-Davidson Inc. (HDI) on Wednesday said second-quarter earnings rose 22%, beating expectations, amid strong demand for its redesigned Sportster motorcycle. Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson reported net income of $247.2 million, or 83 cents a share, for the latest quarter, up from $202.2 million, or 66 cents, in the same period a year earlier. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson First Call was for earnings of 75 cents a share. Revenue in the latest quarter rose 8.9% to $1.33 billion from $1.22 billion in last year's second quarter, Harley-Davidson said. Wall Street had been expecting second-quarter revenue of $1.31 billion. Doctors
have cleared Rikishi to return to the ring. The general feeling towards
him is that he no longer fits in with the current WWE scene, alas WWE may
opt to just let his contract run and eventually expire.
A small boy was lost at a large shopping
mall. He approached a uniformed policeman and said,
"I've lost my grandpa"
The cop asked, 'What's he like?"
The little boy replied, "Jack Daniels
and women with big tits".
Thanks Geri
Baby wipes are miracle-workers on carpet stains, from
motor oil to blood, they remove almost anything!
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most
males have 40, females have 36.
Filled with water, gas, electric, telephone,
cable, steam, and sewer lines, Manhattan is the most dense
underground site in the United States
Brazil, Jul 9, 2004 (Gazeta Mercantil/SABI via
COMTEX) -- Brazil is to be the export basis of Haley-Davidson. The
company through its representative in the country will export clothing
and accessories to Latin America - Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay.
The goal is of a growth of 60% in the 2004 income.
Brazil is one of the few countries to manufacture the brand clothing and accessories in large scale. Currently 40 items are manufactured by 50 outsourced suppliers. |
The
bastard gets away with it. Sioux Falls, South Dakota-AP -- Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for any civil damages that may arise from a deadly fatal traffic accident involving a former congressman. A federal judge in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has ruled that Bill Janklow was on duty when he caused the accident. The judge sided with a prosecutor's conclusion that Janklow was on official business during the 2003 accident. Janklow sped through a stop sign on a rural road and collided with motorcyclist Randy Scott. Janklow -- a former South Dakota governor -- spent 100 days in jail after his manslaughter conviction in the highway death. He resigned from Congress in January. SHIRLEY -- Police say they cracked down on a local stronghold of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club with the arrest on Route 2A of two South Carolina members of the organization for drug and gun charges last week. But a lawyer for the suspects said state police detectives and the FBI took "unconstitutional" measures when they pulled over Hells Angels members Mario Sepulveda, 45, and Jonathan Davenport, 26, and seized loaded handguns from their car Saturday. "They were going to a store to buy ice," said Boston lawyer Michael F. Natola, who has defended Hells Angels members in New England for 26 years. "I'm sure that they probably had their colors on. The Hells Angels are not shy about advertising the fact that they're Hells Angels. They're very proud of it," Natola said. P.J. Guercio, who has owned the Shirley Package Store on Route 2A since 1984, said he was away when police arrested the two out-of-state motorcyclists in his parking lot Saturday evening.
The Perth District Court has heard that two men arranged for a former member of the Rebels motorcycle club to be set on fire because he refused to remove his club tattoos. Rebels Motorcycle Club member Dean Anthony Francis and associate John Di Lena are on trial charged with causing grievous bodily harm to former member John McMaster at Casuarina Prison in June last year. Mr McMaster was doused with avgas and set alight, leaving him with burns to 60 per cent of his body. Prosecutor Patti Chong described Mr McMaster's injuries as horrendous, catastrophic and requiring medical treatment for years to come. The trial is set down for five days. LAVAL, Que. (CP) - A founding member of the Hells Angels in Quebec was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. Yves (Apache) Trudeau pleaded guilty last April to six sex-related charges. Trudeau, who is in his late 50s, is known as one of Quebec's most prolific killers. In 1986, he admitted killing 43 people and was given a life sentence. He turned police informant and was paroled in the early '90s. He assumed another name under the witness protection program. He was arrested last March. The term "unmanned combat air vehicle"
(UCAV) was coined less than a decade ago, but armed, unmanned aircraft are
in service and the subject of major programs worldwide. The biggest single
effort, the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) managed by the
Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is budgeted
at more than US$4 billion over the next five years. DARPA is also
developing the ambitious Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) for the
US Army. The French government is pushing the formation of a Dassault-led
UCAV project, named Neuron, and Dassault has formally joined forces with
Saab and EADS to fly a demonstrator by 2009. Victim's brother says leave shark alone The
brother of a surfer killed in a shark attack off western Australia
appealed Monday for authorities not to hunt down and kill the maneater. A
helicopter and boat have been hunting for two sharks involved in
Saturday's attack on Bradley Smith, 29, but his brother, Stephen, said
killing them would be "an act of senseless revenge," The Times
of London reported. "We're still in the process of coming to grips
with what's happened," the brother told reporters. |