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SUGAR LAND, Texas, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN) today announced that it will release its fourth quarter and year end 2012 results on Wednesday, Feb. 27, after the close of New York Stock Exchange trading. Chief Executive Officer Byron Kelley and other executives will host a teleconference call for analysts and investors on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. Eastern. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080226/CVRLOGO) The Earnings Conference Call will...
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In the Midwest Transplant Network service area, no other hospital has transplanted more organs than The University of Kansas Hospital. Two recent patients help the hospital reach a liver transplant milestone. Brenda Higgins of Kansas City was the hospital's milestone 1,000(th) liver transplant patient, followed shortly thereafter by Deborah Ellerbusch, Ph.D., a psychologist who works in Newton, Kan. "I'm overwhelmed and overjoyed at...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- YRC Freight, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: YRCW), today announced that professional drivers Byron Bramwell and Donald Conklin have been selected to serve as America's Road Team Captains by the American Trucking Associations (ATA). Bramwell and Conklin join an elite group of 18 Captains - million-mile, accident-free professional truck drivers - who are chosen to represent the industry and promote highway safety to...
SUGAR LAND, Texas, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer products, today provided an update regarding the UAN expansion project at its Coffeyville, Kan., fertilizer facility that is expected to increase UAN production capacity to more than 3,000 tons per day. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080226/CVRLOGO) All machinery and equipment for the...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amerigroup, a wholly owned subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc., announced it has begun serving members statewide in Kansas as of Jan. 1, 2013. Amerigroup Kansas is one of three health plans selected by the state to administer KanCare, helping to coordinate physical and behavioral health care, as well as nursing facility and home and community-based services to approximately 380,000 residents enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health...
MANHATTAN, Kan., Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The 2013 Buick Verano has been awarded a five-star Overall Vehicle Score for safety from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Earlier in the year the Buick Verano was also named a 2012 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The rating system uses three test segments; frontal and side crash tests and an evaluation for rollover resistance. These three segments are combined to come...
TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Purchasing a new car can be an exciting time in itself for people. But when some great incentives are thrown in as well, it really tips the scales. When consumers purchase any car from a participating KansasStateCars.com dealer, they get a free membership to the K-State Alumni Association as well as 100 K-State Athletics Priority Points. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121231/CG35199 ) With Priority Points to...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the 10th annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, 35 states and Washington, D.C. scored a six or lower on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100204/TFAHLOGO ) The report, issued by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), found that while there has been significant progress...
WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., [NYSE: SPR] today celebrated completion of the 100(th) Boeing 787 composite forward fuselage section. This section will be shipped to Boeing's final assembly facility in Charleston, S.C., early next year. "As we roll out the 100(th) 787 forward fuselage today, I would like to congratulate all Spirit AeroSystems' employees who support the 787, many who have been on the program since 2003," said Terry...
NOVI, Mich., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Great Plains, LLC, in conjunction with Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and Midwest Energy, Inc., has placed Phase II of the KETA (Spearville-Axtell) high-voltage electric transmission project into service, marking completion of the project. The 227-mile, 345,000-volt line from Spearville, Kan., to Axtell, Neb., will improve the reliability and efficiency of the regional grid and make more affordable energy available. It entered service...
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The Flint Hills, known historically as Bluestern Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a group of hills located in eastern Kansas reaching into north central Oklahoma, extending from Marshall County and Washington County in Kansas in the north to Cowley County, Kansas and Osage and Kay counties in Oklahoma towards the south. The people of Oklahoma usually refer to the same geologic formation as the Osage Hills or “The Osage”. The Flint Hills are designated as a unique ecoregion due to it...
Steven Hawley is a former NASA astronaut. He was born Steven Alan Hawley on December 12, 1951 in Ottawa, Kansas. He graduated from Salina High School Central in Salina, Kansas in 1969 and continued on to The University of Kansas, where he received two Bachelor of Arts degrees in physics and astronomy. After graduating with the highest distinction of his class and spending summers as a research assistant at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, Hawley received...
Looking at our weather map above we can see a cold front moving through the states of Oklahoma and Kansas. The major thing about a cold front is the weather it can bring with it. The eastern side of the cold front provides two chances to receive precipitation. The first one is known as a squall line which usually forms some 50-150 miles ahead of the cold front. The squall line can be responsible for bringing severe weather in the form of super-cell thunderstorms. The second part...
Symbol: SAAM4 Group: Monocot Family: Alismataceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Forb/herb Native Status: L48 N Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:KS, MO, OK Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class...
Symbol: PEKA8 Group: Lichen Family: Lichinaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Synonyms: OMKA Omphalaria kansana Tuck. Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lichinales Family Lichinaceae Genus Peccania A. Massal. – peccania lichen Species Peccania kansana (Tuck.) Forss. – Kansas...
