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OCan anyone share a real estate pe model, or a good spot to find one? Thanks
''Breaking Into Wall Street"
RE''Breaking Into Wall Street" has a set of real estate modules that are useful if you've never seen one... focuses on modeling development projects, etc... you've got to buy it though.
anyone got any free ones?
REanyone got any free ones?
there is no standard REPE
PEthere is no standard REPE model. sure you have to understand the underlying cash flows of the asset which will be different for office, retail, residential, student housing, self-storage, hotels etc. to be honest we use argus to get office, retail and industrial property level CFs done and export to excel. for more operationally focused assets there are standard ways to model them (i.e. look at HVS hotel reports to see the standard pro forma for a hotel asset).
once you have the property level cash flows it depends on what you are investing in - debt, equity, mezz, development, a recapitalisation/restructuring, LBO, JV etc. i've not seen one model that does all of these and it is not that difficult to model out each of these scenarios if you understand what they are.
I agree with RE_Banker on
REI agree with RE_Banker on this... For REPE, make sure you understand the asset level DCF first, then add, debt and partnerships/corporate structures as appropriate.
The ''Breaking Into Wall Street" modules look good. Focus on the asset level first.
Relinquis wrote: I agree with
?I agree with RE_Banker on this... For REPE, make sure you understand the asset level DCF first, then add, debt and partnerships/corporate structures as appropriate.
Second (or third) this. For a beginner, it doesn't have to be related to private equity in any way - for simplicity's sake, what would it look like if I just bought a hotel, held it for X yrs, and sold it?
quick example found with google https://www.reoworkout.com/pdf/property/info119_4.pdf (scroll to pg 25-27)
For a good overview of the
REFor a good overview of the valuation techniques for hotels read this chapter:
Great to see other active real estate people here.
Received this related
REReceived this related question recently via PM:
Have u ever seen the damordan RE Model? If so is it fairly accurate to work off of? http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page...
Marked "Other Assets - reval.xls"
That model is decent as an overview and for the key concepts... most actual RE investing is done on an IRR basis to target a certain return on equity, so you'll have the actual debt terms modelled out (with fees and repayment schedule) and cash flows to equity more prominently displayed.
The biggest difference in real world modelling is that the actual leases terms would be modelled to get to the rental revenue figure and the reimbursements as they will differ lease by lease, then market assumptions for roll-overs at the end of the leases and for any vacant space that's leased up (usually this will be done in Argus for large properties with several tenants). You'll also have deductions for landlord's contribution to Tenant Improvements and Leasing Commissions (TIs & LCs) in addition to Capex in the line items before you get your Net Cash Flow.... Also, one would deduct brokerage commissions/sales transactions costs from the terminal value calculation.
Also, people don't usually have beta and stuff in their models if they're just buying a building.
I am going to echoe the
REI am going to echoe the advice already given - there is no standard for modeling RE and its much more important to understand finance in the context of an RE investment (that means know going-in/terminal cap rate and un/leveraged IRR).
For an entry-level candidate, I dont expect much. I also recommend getting familiar with Argus, as it is the industry standard for projecting cash flows. Complex reimbursement methods wil be over your head, but you could at least find an offering memo off the 'net (usually from an investment broker) and try to model that in Argus for practice (that's what I used to do). Create an 11 yr run, export to Excel and play with it. You will get to see what an operating statement looks like. I wouldnt worry too much about partnership distributions and construction modeling yet.
My firm actually paid to send me to a ULI class for Excel modeling and I learned Argus on my own time.
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These should get you
PEThese should get you started.
Real Estate Investment Analysis -Reworked.xls
To be effective, you really need to combine the two. The first for tenant info (see relinquis' comment) and the second for the rest. They both do a poor job of modelling individual tenant economics, but should get you in the general place for retail/office valuations. Keep in mind that these models tend to have a focus on a RE investing (talking balloon payments, etc) which may or may not fit your needs.
They are both xls files. Scroll down 2-3 posts in the forum to see the file on the second one. Feel free to post questions, but keep them in the thread (no pm).
Three out of four RE PE
PEThree out of four RE PE modeling tests I've seen have used a hotel as the base asset. This is because it's just not practical to have a candidate model leases without Argus in an interview setting. Getting down to operating cash flow is fairly straightforward, just know the main line items (e.g. ADR, Occupancy, RevPAR, F&B, FF&E Reserve, etc.).
Two or three complexities that are normally worked in are (1) debt sizing (be able to size debt by debt yield, LTV, and fixed charge coverage), (2) development budget (option to add additional rooms / square footage for a given cost), and (3) partnership waterfall. This last part is fairly important because it is relatively unique to real estate and can make or break a candidate. The two most common promote structures are a multi-tiered promote (where the GP's split of cash flow ratchets up based on IRR to the LPs) and a three-phase "catch-up" promote (where the cash flow is generally split pari passu until the LPs receive a target IRR, then the GP gets, say, 50/50 until it has received 20% of the profits, and then 20% thereafter).
Anyone have any suggestions
?Anyone have any suggestions for templates on how to input a "catch-up" promote? I'm having a lil trouble making my promote page in the model flexible depending on different property level IRRs or changing the exit cap rates
The top-line input to the
PEThe top-line input to the waterfall is simply levered cash flow (which itself will be impacted by any changes to operating profit and exit assumptions).
Tier #1 should model a capital account for the limited partner(s). This will accrue at the rate of the preferred return, just like how you would model a tranche of amortizing debt. The amount distributed to the LP under the first tier will be their pari passu interest in the levered cash flow, until the account has been depleted. You can then very easily calculate the GP's share as the inverse percentage of whatever the LP received.
Tier #2 is the catch-up. You enter Tier #2 with residual levered cash flow after paying off Tier #1. Supposing the catch-up rate is 50%, you distribute the residual cash flow 50/50 but build in a MAX function that stops this tier once the sum distributed to the GP equals the target percentage of the total profit (usually, say, 20%).
Tier #3 is easy, just split 80/20 or whatever the target percentage is.
Let me know if you need me to further clarify.
Thanks for the response
?Thanks for the response re-ib-ny! I never thought of the initial pari passu returns as a capital account, that's an interesting way to put it. I normally just think of it in terms of the NPV function. In regards to your suggestion about using the MAX function as a "stop", could you elaborate further?
I normally think of / have learned capping the GP share of the reversion CF in a catch-up based on the MIN function. For example, if the max GP reversion CF is $2MM based on some target profit or IRR and the catch-up rate is 36/64 with the remaining reversion let's say equal to $10MM, I would structure the catch-up such that the GP's incremental share of the catch-up can be no greater than $2MM-X, with X being the GP reversion CF before the catch-up. Therefore, the MIN function would be: MIN($10MM*0.36, $2MM-X) and could be sensitized based on lower or higher exit per pound and reversion.
Also, I'm curious as to how you view modeling in a catch-up that caps the GP's share of the promote at 20% of JV partner's profit, assuming a 70% JV and 30% GP interest? I'm thinking the maximum promote offered would be Total profits * 70% *20%? Sorry if this all seems confusing/ not explained properly. Either way, I'm just glad there are other RE guys on the site to bounce ideas/ discuss practical concepts with.
I think I agree with your
PEI think I agree with your explanation of handling the reversion, but think you would use MAX rather than MIN. After all, you want the catch-up CF to be 36% of $10MM, but "no greater than $2MM - X." MAX is the equivalent of no greater than, MIN would get you no less than.
As for your second question, there are two ways that GP's quote promotes. Sometimes they quote it as a percentage of cash flow, but other times (as in the case of your example) the promote is quoted as a share of the limited partner's cash flow. In this case you are correct, a 20% promote would mean 20% of the LP's 70% normal share. After all, it would make no sense if a GP that contributed 30% of the capital were entitled to only 20% of the profits.
I have a question. When
HFI have a question. When you're doing valuations based on cap rate, do you use overall NOI or do you try use income attributable to real property? Or is the real property-personal property distinction only relevant for property tax purposes?


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McIntyre's autobiography tells of his extraordinary rise from debt-ridden obscurity to super stardom.
He gives details of his showbiz roots, his appalling attempts to attract the opposite sex, his fish-out-of-water move from public to state school, and his astonishing journey from selling just one ticket at the Edinburgh Festival to selling half a million tickets on his last tour.
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Parents are once again casting a wary eye on their kids' toy boxes tonight. The Mattel Company has ordered another major recall of toys made in China.
Not at all fun and games for the world's largest toy maker. Mattel announced its third major toy recall in just over a month due to excessive amounts of lead paint. Barbie accessories, the Geotrax locomotive line and Big Big World 6-in-1 Bongo Band toys make up the 800,000 toys being recalled. The sales primarily took place between September of 2006 and August of this year.
Mattel Chairman and CEO Robert Eckert said, "In recent weeks we promised consumers we would focus on ensuring the safety and quality of our toys through extensive testing of finished products and through thorough investigation of our vendors."
In mid August Mattel recalled about 19 million toys worldwide -- those were also Chinese-made toys with lead paint and small magnets that could be easily swallowed by children. But it's the frequency of the recalls that is hard to swallow for consumers as their confidence dwindles.
Parent Michael Baez said, "It's not right to let stuff out like that if a kid is going to get harmed by it. I'd want to sue somebody if my kid got hurt by it."
Lead paint was also to blame for Mattel's august first recall of 1.5 million pre-school toys. At a press conference last month the chairman and CEO of the California-based Mattel warned more recalls could be on the way as the company ramped up its investigations into its production in China.
Eckert said, "Nobody likes to have recalls. But the fact is the safety of children is the utmost important thing here."
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i havnt fairly sensitive ears. im not expecting them to work when im shooting the mosin nagant. but i would like something that will be sufficient for the .45 with my poor little ears, yet still be able to hear ppl


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The ABI score increased from 48.8 to 49.6 from March to April, but the data represents an overall contraction in the demand for architectural services. This is because the index scores are developed from a monthly survey in which participants report whether billings during the previous month significantly increased, remained about the same, or significantly decreased from the prior month. The index value represents the proportion of respondents selecting each option. If an equal share of firms report an increase as report a decrease, the score for the month will be 50. An index score above 50 indicates growth, whereas a score below 50 indicates contraction.
The score for new project inquiries is well above 50 and increasing. This month's index, 59.1, rose from 57.9 in March. This growth is consistent with the data from February to March.
More noticeably, however, the score for design contracts in April was 54.6, way up from 48.2 in March and 51.0 in February. Last month, the AIA added this new indicator to its report for measuring future growth within the design industry. It's a more concrete indicator of future billings activity than is the project inquiries.
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National Highlights:National billings: At 49.6, up from March's 48.8, the national billings value may have increased, but the score is still in the red. The year started off with growth, but then billings declined in March. Project inquiries: At 59.1, up from March's 57.9, this score has stayed above 50 for over five years. Design contracts: At 54.6, up from 48.2 last month, this metric reflects substantial growth in a category that has fluctuated in value over the last several months.
Regional HighlightsNortheast: April's score of 42.9 is down from 45.5 in March. The last time this region saw a score above 50 was August 2013. Midwest: At 47.0, up 0.1 points from March, this region hasn't seen a score above 50 since October 2013. South: The South is booming, with a score of 57.5, up from March's 55.6. This marks the 22th month of growth for the region. West: This region slipped from 50.0 in March to 48.9 in April, breaking a 20-month run of growth.
Sector HighlightsCommercial/Industrial: At 50.2, down from March's 50.5, this is the sector's fourth straight month of growth. Multifamily Residential: At 52.6, this sector fell slightly from March's 52.7. While its score may be on a downhill slope of late, the sector has held a score above 50 since September 2011. Institutional: At 47.1, this sector's value has fallen for another month and hasn't seen a score above 50 since August 2013. Mixed Practice: At 50.7, this value rose from 48.9 in March, and is the first growth for the sector since November 2013.
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Off with their heads! Colleen Martin and the City of Miami Beach seem to have made a good start in attempting to preserve homes and other structures with some character. Their efforts, as reported by Jeff Stratton ("A Tree, a House, a Sign," July 4), are commendable. But $16,000 in fines and the occasional rescued banyan tree won't cut it in the long run. The city needs to toughen its ordinances.
If you tear down a protected structure, Miami Beach should mandate nothing less than replacement with an exact copy, including fixtures and architectural gewgaws. The offending party should be required to replace what they have illegally destroyed. A couple of doses of reconstructive reparations might give pause to the Noah Breakstones and Franz Reuthers of this world.
Additionally the three-strikes (or two -- whatever your pleasure) philosophy might well be adapted to include something like this: The third time you've had to rebuild a Pancoast home is the last. Personally and corporately you'll be ineligible to receive a building permit from the City of Miami Beach. The regulations should apply both to owners and contractors, right down to the bulldozer driver.
After that, other municipalities in the region should take note and copy the edict. Mediterranean revival homes and other buildings, neighborhoods with character, trees, and commercial structures with human scale and details are what people want from their city. Areas with flair -- including the Gables, the Grove, and the Beach -- are beloved because they have, at their core, the human element in their planning, construction, and detailing. Cookie-cutter suburbs may be lived in, but they're hardly beloved.
Architectural and aesthetic diversity is endangered in South Florida. Every chrome-and-glass monstrosity on Brickell Avenue or in the ravaged core of Coral Gables lessens the cultural vitality of the community and rewards the public with little beyond a continuing degradation of the communal fabric. Ugly homes on barren lots do not enrich the lives of South Floridians either; they serve only those who can make a quick dollar or two. Thoughtful architecture, careful landscaping, and human-scale development can provide both a livelihood for workers and a pleasant, livable environment for all. Jobs don't mandate ugly, anti-human architecture -- greedy builders and bad architects do.
Lewis Day
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Are the inmates running that asylum? The Miami Herald definitely has many shortcomings, especially pandering to its advertisers and Hispanic-American readers. But Rebecca Wakefield's article about the paper hiring former New Times columnist Jim DeFede ("Buying Time," June 27) did not mention the biggest shortcoming of all: the terrible quality of writing, especially in the sports section. This includes but is not limited to typos and errors in the use of English, writers fabricating information and not doing any research, pandering to public officials and sports teams to the point of being biased, and not giving both sides of the story.
This all happens under the watch of the editors at the Miami Herald, and yet nothing changes or improves.
Jason Nall
Otherwise, you traitor, you'll get what's coming to you: I've just read, in "the mullet wrapper by the bay" (the Miami Herald) that Jim DeFede, who regularly hot-dogged the Herald with relish, is now just another drone of a writer there, who in time, owing to "financial restraints" at 1 Herald Plaza, will find his very testicles fed to the sharks. His journalistic testicles anyway.
There is no fucking way in hell those assholes in the Herald's ivory tower will allow the now-compromised DeFede to operate as he did over the years at New Times -- in a straight and forceful investigative manner. There are too many skeletons in and around Miami-Dade County that, for reasons other than good journalism, are taboo at the Miami Herald. It appears that DeFede has sold out to the enemy -- at least to the Herald, which is the real enemy of the taxpayers and citizens of South Florida.
Bad luck, Jim. You deserve it. What's next, the Washington Times?
Harvey Slavin
Maybe we're not talking about the same person: This is the first letter to the editor I've written in 35 years. It's about a friend, but it's also about the most talented journalist I know.
I was disappointed -- baffled, actually -- by Rebecca Wakefield's references to Liz Balmaseda in her story about recent staff changes at the Miami Herald. The anonymous slams in the piece are not just unworthy of New Times, they are also dead wrong.
If there is a writer who has made a lasting and substantial contribution to South Florida in the last decade, it's Liz Balmaseda. She has written with honesty, passion, and grace about the thorniest issues in our community -- from unfair immigration laws to censorship to health care for the poor -- not looking for controversy but meeting it courageously when it came.
As for early promise, we should all come as close to fulfilling ours as Liz has come to fulfilling hers.


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Jepara is a small city 20 kilometres off the main highway on the north coast of Central Java and is famous for teak furniture production in traditional Javanese style and for being the home of Indonesia's foremost heroine, Raden Ajeng Kartini, who is considered a pioneer of women's rights for Indonesians.
The city lies roughly 50km (as the crow flies) to the north east of Semarang and is wedged between the imposing Gunung Muria and the Java Sea. The Regency was once an independent kingdom and a significant trading port, but that prominence has faded as larger ports in Java developed.
Despite its scenic setting, the main reason for visiting Jepara is to catch the boat to the Karimunjawa Islands which lie some 90 kilometres further to the north in the middle of the Java Sea. The port is a leisurely kilometre becak ride to the east of town and the bus station is located between the port and the main part of town.
The RA Kartini Museum on Jalan Alun Alun, Jepara (admission 3,000 rupiah) is well worth a look in if you have time. Raden Ajeng Kartini is an Indonesian heroine and was a forerunner in the battle for women's rights at the end of the 1800s in Indonesia. Jepara is the place of her birth and the place where much of the story of Kartini is based. Born in 1883 to an aristocratic family, Kartini led a privileged life as a the child of an important Indonesian who had significant contacts within the Dutch colonial administration. She was educated at a local Dutch school where she learnt Dutch language and associated with Dutch children. It was during this time that she began to ponder the ills of her countrymen who were not afforded the same rights to education as the Dutch children. Kartini decided to set up a makeshift school as a young teenager teaching all and sundry about the ways of the world. After her death at the age of 25, her legacy was continued with schools set up in nearby cities.
The museum houses a collection of photos and furniture from the Kartini household which provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of privileged Indonesians some 120 years ago. There are also artefacts in the museum unrelated to the Kartini story and these are of some passing interest. This place is worth a visit if you have some spare time in town. It'll take less than 30 minutes to spin through.
While adequate accommodation is available in Jepara along with a museum dedicated to Kartini, most travellers tend to breeze straight through.
As is usual these days in small-town Java, there are ATMs, police stations and internet cafes in the centre of town as well as 3G access via your mobile phone if you are using Telkomsel.
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ranked sistem is just broken...period. I pick what is needed , i play my role... i put wards even if i'm low on money , i "try" to be polite and comunicative.... every victory is followed by 2 or 3 loss cause at least 1 team member... act like a 16 month child. 1400 at the start now down to 1000 . no way out of elo hell ... just luck.
Well, its hard. I lose more elo with a loss, than i can get it by a win... so, if i play 50/50 i will go down on the ladder.
Man you never get out of elo hell. I was on 900 elo and fighted myself up to 1200 elo i finally got it and then i joined 20 noobs in row now i am on 1000 atm. I would say that its IMPOSSIBLE to get out of elo hell. People always troll. People always Leave. People always feed, you cant stop it thats how people is they suck, they suck at games, they doesnt deserve to freakin play. Riot should really use some money on matchmaking instead of other things so we didnt joined fail people like 24/7
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Happends to me. Ive started ranked game 1 week ago and im with 4 wins and 13 loses. If you would check my ranked stats you would believe that im not bad. Ive played last game 16-5-20 while other team mates was 2-15 and other afk. How i can win if its happends everytime i want to play ranked game.
@stomp1 You know this isn't true... I'm gradually going down thanks to trolls and it's impossible to carry the game with them. Trolls for me so far: afk/feed/intentional feed/troll picks and could continue like this for long... You can't win 5vs5 alone when enemy team has some teamplay and you have 4 retards running around without any reason. They refuse to get support, they steal buffs and don't know what strategy is... And I would like to know why am I getting players with 5 won games ranked and 100 normal? Why isn't it selecting players with the same experience.
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When Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon reteam for the fourth volume of their acclaimed spy-fi series "Casanova," they'll bring with them a literary heavy-hitter: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.
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This week's group of nominees sees a glaring Victor von Doom, an anguished Casanova Quinn, a sun-bleached Henry Baltimore, a relaxing Will and a fragmented Banshee all vying for the title of Cover of the Week.
Marvel Comics On Sale June 20, 2012
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Astonishing X-Men" #51, "Daredevil" #14, "Venom" #19, "Winter Soldier" #7, and more.
Fraction Readies "Casanova" for its First Act Finale
Writer Matt Fraction brings the first act of his creator owned sci-fi, spy-fi epic "Casanova" to an end with the fourth issue of "Casanova: Avaritia." CBR spoke to him about the series.
The Greatest Matt Fraction Stories Ever Told
The readers voted and now you can see what CBR fandom has decided are the greatest Matt Fraction stories ever told!
CBR TV: Fraction on "Defenders," "Casanova" & More
Matt Fraction spoke with CBR TV about his recently completed "Fear Itself" event comic for Marvel, the upcoming "Defenders" title, his work on "Casanova" and plans for the future of "Invincible Iron Man."
REVIEW: "Casanova: Avaritia" #2
Chad Nevett gives "Casanova: Avaritia" #1 4.5 stars calling Matt Fraction and Gabrial Bá's latest chapter a "skillfully done issue...a really good comic."
Marvel Comics On Sale October 5, 2011
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Deadpool" #44, "Hulk" #42, "Superior" #5, "X-Men" #19, "X-23" #15 and many more.
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REVIEW: "Casanova: Avaritia" #1
Ryan K. Lindsay gives the first issue of Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba's "Casanova: Avaritia" 3.5 stars, calling the new series' debut "a good issue...with some very fun ticks."
Fraction Plots Inter-Dimensional Intrigue in "Casanova: Avaritia"
On September 7, Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba kick off "Casanova: Avaritia," the latest chapter in their creator-owned psychedelic, sci-fi, spy title. We spoke with Fraction about the new series.
Comics A.M. - Kids Comic Store Opens; Questioning DC's Digital Sales Claims
Toronto's The Beguiling opens kids comics store! A call for DC to release digital sales figures! More on DC's New 52! What makes a good first issue! Matt Fraction talks "Casanova"! Plus much more!
Marvel Comics On Sale January 12, 2011
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new comics on sale next Wednesday including "Black Panther: Man Without Fear" #514, "Deadpool" #31, "Thor the Mighty Avenger" #8 and many more.
10 Comics Ready for Prime Time
With the success of AMC's adaptation of "The Walking Dead," it's likely more non-superhero series will make their way to the small screen. CBR's staff came up with a list of ten titles that deserve that treatment.
When Words Collide - 11/8/2010
This week, Timothy tackles five burning questions, including what's the deal with Doctor Hurt? How does "Casanova" fare in color? What are the five most underrated comic book series of all time? All this and more!
CBR TV: Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá stopped by CBR's NYCC tiki room to discuss who the better writer and artist is between the two, their collaborative process, the concepts behind the acclaimed "Daytripper" series and more.
Bá and Moon on the Finer "De:Tales"
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ADVANCE PREVIEW: "Casanova" #3
Marvel Comics has released and advance look at "Casanova" #3 by the critically acclaimed team of Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. The third chapter of the remastered series hits stores September 22.
Marvel Comics on Sale July 8, 2010
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR presents an advance look at new comics on sale next Thursday, July 8, including "Fantastic Four Annual" #32, "Shadowland" #1, "Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier" #1, "X-Men" #1 and more.
ADVANCE PREVIEW: "Casanova" #1
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C2E2: Fraction Makes "Casanova" an Icon
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WC: Spotlight on Matt Fraction
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CBR TV @ NYCC 2009: Matt Fraction
Rising superstar Matt Fraction stopped by the CBR TV skybox on Saturday and spilled the beans on how his and Ed Brubaker's co-writing works, the future of Casanova and a special Spider-Man project he has in the works.
When Words Collide - 12/24/2008
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PRESS RELEASE: Matt Fraction signing at Midtown COmics 11/15
The Buy Pile - 5/16/2008
A trip to Hawaii leads to the first week in memory where nothing really sucked, we try to tabulate Tony Stark's body count, visit family in DMZ and pick up some Image books with all new craziness.
Why "Casanova" Matters
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Image Comics On Sale May 14th
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CBR Reviews - Week 1
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The Buy Pile - 4/3/2008
A thin win with Matt Fraction's cleverness and Freddy Freeman's determination, plus a whole lotta Skrulls, good times in Gotham and a lot more.
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What is endometrial cancer?
Endometrial cancer is a cancer that starts in the inner lining of the womb (uterus). This lining is called the endometrium. The pictures below show where the uterus is found and then provide a closer look at the uterus.
The uterus (womb) is a hollow organ, about the size and shape of a medium-sized pear. The uterus is where a fetus grows when a woman is pregnant. It has 2 main parts. The lower part, which extends into the vagina, is called the cervix. The upper part is the body of the uterus (also called the corpus). The body of the uterus has 2 layers. The inner layer is the endometrium. The outer layer of muscle is known as the myometrium. This thick layer of muscle is needed to push the baby out during birth. The tissue coating the outside of the uterus is the serosa.
During a woman's menstrual cycle this inner layer changes. In the early part of the cycle it gets thicker in case the woman becomes pregnant. If she does not become pregnant, the tissue is shed from the uterus and becomes the menstrual flow (period). This cycle repeats throughout a woman's life until change of life (menopause).
Types of cancers of the uterus and endometrium
Nearly all cancers of the uterus start in the endometrium. They are called endometrial carcinomas. Cancers can also start in the muscle layer of the uterus. These cancers belong to the group of cancers called sarcomas.
Cancers that start in the cervix are different from cancers that start in the body of the uterus. They are described in our document Cervical Cancer.
Cancers that start in the cells that line organs in the body are called carcinomas. Most endometrial cancers are not just carcinomas they are adenocarcinomas. This is a type of carcinoma that starts in the cells lining glands – such as the glands that line the uterus. The most common type of adenocarcinoma of the uterus is called endometrioid adenocarcinoma. There are other types that are far less common.
The grade of an endometrioid adenocarcinoma is based on how much the cancer cells form glands that look like the glands found in normal, healthy endometrium. In lower-grade cancers (grades 1 and 2), more of the cancer cells form normal-looking glands. In higher-grade cancers (grade 3), more of the cancer cells are kind of jumbled up and do not form normal glands. Higher grade cancers tend to grow faster and are more likely to spread than lower grade cancers.
Uterine carcinosarcoma (CS) is another cancer that starts in the endometrium and is covered here. When looked at under the microscope, this cancer looks like both endometrial carcinoma and sarcoma. It acts much like a high grade adenocarcinoma and is treated much the same way.
Uterine sarcomas
Less common uterine cancers that do not come from glandular tissue of the endometrium are called uterine sarcomas. These types of cancer are not covered here because their treatment and outlook for survival are different from the most common cancers of the endometrium. If you would like to know more about this type of cancer please see our document called Uterine Sarcoma.
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Last Revised: 01/08/2015


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sooooooo big! and the one he plays after it completely destroyed cable when rockwell dropped it, propbably a new rockwell tune
Video of me doing a 3 deck mix- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIo4kLbpL44
Deep, Dark & Dangerous (3 Decks, 2.5 Hours)
It's June Miller - Snapcase, id'd by nelsonr
thats a real sweet remix..
sounds enormous
Ridiculous! Is Enei human?
fook me enei loves a remix
this is actually rather nice, go enei!
thats a fucking menace! I NEED that for the collection.
Big! That No Fear remix is ridiculous, as well (on the related videos bit - "Rockwell on Critical Halloween")
enei you crazy thing you i dont know whether to make love to you or buy you a fish tank
Oh man...that's all I can say, absolutely ridiculous!
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Block Party: Carving Glass with Heat
Leave your chisel at home. All you need to create luscious numbers (or letters or other graphic imagery) is a block of glass, ceramic fiber paper, and the right amount of heat. This class introduces you to "kilncarving," a kilnforming technique that achieves a bas-relief, textured, or sculpted look in billets (slabs of glass most often used for casting because they have very few bubbles). You'll create a design from fiber paper, stack the billet on top of the design, and fire the piece in a kiln. No previous experience necessary.
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Two Poems for the 10th Anniversary of September 11th
Trigger warning for violent imagery
Instead of doing the whole 'this is what September 11th means to me' essay post (which, to be fair, I did sort of do on the video blog you'll be able to access next month), I'm going with poems. Yes, I write poetry. Yes, this is three days late. Now that that's out of the way, let's see how poems go over with this audience (be warned, the second one is mildly epic):
for the Second Week of September
Across Septembers certain things
still sound the same—
my little ornamentals:
secret sadnesses that swell
as low and shallow mordents,
slipping up sometimes to wash upon
the groaning principal:
shared sorrow necessarily
sustained on a sea string
of a cello
___________It is braced
this country's absent calves,
and music flows from where they aren't
like water through canals
Across Septembers certain things
still sound the same—
a stoic giu' arco stretches out
from the clear, cool morning,
from the sun-scorched mourning,
from the rain-rimmed mourning,
From the clear, cool mourning,
the same stream spirals on
in a fathomless fermata;
there's no signal, yet,
to stop
Reaching for Butterflies
(A Found Poem*)
* Sources:"Let There Be Peace, and Trade," by Iver Peterson, from the June 21, 1998 issue of The New York Times; "The Height of Ambition" by James Glanz and Eric Lipton, from the September 8, 2002 issue of The New York Times.
____All successful people have ___stories that are part of their ___personal mythologies. ___The story about Guy ___Tozolli began in 1930, ___when he went to see ___All Quiet on the Western Front.___He left the old Loew's ___transfixed by the closing image, ___Lew Ayers being shot ___as he reached for a butterfly ___in the trench mud of World War I.
Guy Tozzoli led the team
of dreamers, planners,
architects, and builders of
the World Trade Center.
Sometimes it seemed as if
he had personally willed
into existence the tallest buildings on earth.
The most beautiful moment
on his daily commute each morning
was his first view across the Hudson.
Some days the skyline appeared
with such clarity, contours
so stark, the view suggested
abstract sculpture,
carved of the water and the sky.
The eye rose
from the Battery,
settling at the obvious trail head.
But on that morning, Tozzoli
lurched to a stop.
In a motionless mass of cars,
he stepped out and stood
among dozens
confronted with an incomp
rehensible sight:
not far above his office
in the north to
wer, waves of thick,
oily smoke, bill
from a gash.
"It's going to take us a long time
to fix that."
No one answered.
Then he heard the scream:
the second plane gunning
past the Statue of Liberty,
an orange billow of flame,
chunks of steel, a blizzard
of paper.
Tozzoli got back in his car.
On the Manhattan side
he said, "Listen.
I built that place.
I've got to get down there
to help."
"I don't care if you're the pope,"
the policeman replied.
"You turn this car around."
For the first time,
was doomed to come undone.
Tozzoli and the others made
dozens of decisions, small and large,
many now half-forgotten,
deeply buried, like clues
beneath the rubble.
They determined the enormous size,
they shaped it
into an icon, they drew
the blueprints for its construction,
they had written the script
for its eventual destruction.
Dozens of decisions, become matters of death.
___A young engineer, a graduate ___of Fordham University, ___and a veteran safely returned ___from World War II, Mr. Tozzoli ___went to work ___at the Port Authority. ___"I come back and I go ___to work at the port ___building piers," he said, ___"and who do I meet? ___Japanese, guys who went ashore ___at Iwo Jima before we did, ___and now we're working together!" ___He began formulating one ___of his many ideas— Tozolli's Laws— ___about the nature of business: ___"If we're doing business together, ___we're not going to fight each other."
Minoru Yamasaki was introspective,
sensitive, small, delicate,
a Modernist.
He was enamored with sleek
new materials and minimalist
techniques. He had also
fallen in love with the romantic,
rhythmic arches
on the Doge's Palace,
the curves and vista
of the Taj Mahal,
the austere elegance
of Japanese gardens.
His design forced the eye
straight up toward the sky.
"There was a wish and a need
to be able to stand back,
to see and comprehend."
The World Trade Center would rise
from a broad,
open plaza,
and for all his focus on the practical,
Tozzoli could not help
being impressed.
The buildings themselves:
two tall but slender towers,
positioned at
a diagonal.
"Two just seemed right,
in terms of distribution
of mass, in terms of
elegance, in terms of
But Tozzoli growled—
the towers would contain
eight million feet,
two million short. "Yama,
I have to tell you," he said,
"Kennedy is going to put a man
on the moon. You're going to figure out
a way to build me the tallest buildings
in the world."
The architect had to contend
with constant second-guessing.
"He would suffer and he would burn."
The demands would wound his pride
so deeply it affected his fragile health.
But Tozzoli had his architect
pegged correctly; Yamasaki
was not going to question.
____Business people from around the country ___and around the world ___"What's a trade center, ___and if it's good for New York, ___why shouldn't it be good ___in other cities?" ___Once retired, Mr. Tozzoli set out ___to institutionalize the answers, ___creating the World Trade Centers ___Association, ___a nonprofit that helps businesses ___create their own trade centers, ___across the country ____and overseas.
The towers were not only big;
they were unmistakable.
One hundred ten stories
into the sky, Yamasaki and Tozzoli now
had to figure out how
to build two towers that wouldn't crumble
under their weight.
The man charged with designing:
Leslie Robertson,
intense, doe-eyed,
a hotshot rising star.
"We were younger," he said, "we were not burdened"
with all the baggage of buildings of the past.
Robertson chose the most extreme
way out, a leap
into lightness.
Yamasaki's steel
pinstripe facade,
columns spaced narrowly because
he had a fear of heights,
were put to work in Robertson's design.
The key: using those columns
to carry almost half the building's weight.
Stiffening them against the wind
were Robertson's solution of wide steel plates,
spandrels. The floors, the feathery branches
for these exotic steel trees,
were weblike networks of thin
steel bars.
They chose not to use thick masonry
or cement for the stairways,
but light sheets
of gypsum.
The skeletons let the buildings sway
like the biggest, leafiest trees.
Robertson still had one more
calculation: the impact
from a Boeing 707.
Critics charged that the towers
would represent a greater risk
of collision.
They ran an ad with
a commercial airliner
about to ram the towers.
So Robertson chose the largest jetliner,
assumed a plane lost in fog,
searching for an airport at low speed and concluded
the towers would remain.
How he performed the calculation
is apparently
lost. Several engineers have no
recollection, and no one thought
of the fires that would inevitably break out.
For fireproofing, a lightweight,
low-cost material
called mineral wool was sprayed.
It had problems staying attached.
Rain would often
wash it off, it would flake
off of steel that was rusty.
The contractor was connected to the Mafia.
John Gotti was later caught on tape
explaining that the company's
president had to die, for the sin of disrespect.
His body was found
riddled with bullets
in the basement of the trade center.
Decades later, engineer
Frank Lombardi
discovered the fireproofing
was only half as thick
as it should have been. His best guess
is that the faulty calculations were done by someone
who reported directly to Tozzoli.
He does not know for sure.
___Mr. Tozzoli came to see world trade ___as not only a producer ___of money and jobs, ___but also as a promoter ___of international peace. ___This connection reached a pinnacle ___last year when he was nominated ___for the Nobel Peace Prize.
A midnight blaze in February
1975, set by a custodian
turned arsonist, should have merely been
a nuisance.
It started in the north tower,
eleventh floor, and spread
up and down six others.
TheTowering Inferno came out
just as fear was escalating.
The possibility of a disaster
was "a clear and potential danger."
But somehow a turnaround took place.
It is hard to pinpoint
the moment the most outsize giant
in a city of superlatives
began to seem more human in its scale.
Philippe Petit helped when he proved
to the world a man in black tights
could stand taller than the towers.
Owen Quinn parachuted
from the north tower, George Willig
pulled himself up
the south tower's face, and when
the observation deck opened,
access to the sky
the towers' haughty air.
Finally, the financial success,
the complex's rise as a center of commerce,
the blooming of Battery Park,
the flourishing of TriBeCa,
brought it respect worldwide.
Terror would not come until
Frank Lombardi was in an elevator
as black soot seeped in. The lights went out,
thousands had to feel their way
down stairwells, choking in total darkness.
The towers had become a symbol, they had become
a terrorist target.
Lombardi tried to fix the problem
with the fireproofing,
though in private he worried.
"After '93, I knew, somehow
they were going to come back."
___This year, Guy Tozzoli has
___been nominated
___for the Nobel Peace Prize again,
___with testimonials compiled
___in a little book
___put out by the World Trade Centers
___Its title is Reaching for Butterflies.
On that morning of soft breezes,
of flawless skies, a plane banked
and flashed in the sun.
In the instant before it rammed the upper reaches
of the north tower, it bore an eerie resemblance
to that long-ago newspaper ad:
the direction, the location of impact.
But the reality was far more terrifying.
The second jet accelerated northward,
shot past the Statue of Liberty
and the Battery, and at the last instant,
canted up
toward the south tower.
The plane simply entered the building,
slicing the south face like
a machete
hacking palm fronds.
Resistance was so slight, the plane did not explode.
It scooped up furniture, carpeting,
computers, combustible office contents,
shoveled it all toward the northeast corner.
At some point the fuel ignited.
Fireballs blew out of the north,
south, and east.
The rest of the fuel splashed
across floors and floors,
setting fires, spewing down
elevator shafts,
dribbling across
the facades.
The impact knocked loose
the flimsy fireproofing,
so the fires were licking naked steel.
The stairwells were knocked out.
In the north
tower, all three were severed,
in the south
tower, two.
Running within them
were pipes carrying water
for sprinklers and hoses. Those pipes
were cut.
The towers rocked back and forth
a half dozen times,
perhaps a few feet
each way at the top,
jamming doors to conference rooms,
jamming doors to elevators,
jamming doors to stairways,
and ripping up
the gypsum
around the
In his office in the north tower,
seventy-second floor,
Lombardi felt the room jerk
to and fro. He saw
the bottom of a fireball.
He heard people screaming, he
hustled down a stairway and as
he did, the fires
began to spread.
Two thousand degrees,
the power output
of a nuclear plant.
The trusses expanded, began to
and sag,
tugged inward, and
Floors began to slip away
and fall one upon the other.
The exterior columns had nothing to keep them.
They snapped,
by one,
the entire top of the building tipped,
like a tree leaning,
began to fall.
The force crushed the tower, ripping apart,
at one hundred twenty miles per hour.
The other tower followed
soon after.
Robertson often stammered into silence
when trying to explain his feelings.
"Had it been more stalwart, surely,
one hundred,
one thousand people
might have gotten out."
In other conversations,
he became resolute.
"Maybe it was as good as anyone
would have made it,
or maybe it was better.
But even so…"
Something drastic was happening,
but it was almost like a dream.
When the smoke thinned, the sky
had been invested
with a horrible meaning.
History had been undone.
restoressp permalinkSeptember 24, 2011 1:24 pm
Interesting… I didn't think of the floors collapsing inward before, although I suppose it should have been obvious. How terrifying it must have been.


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Once you have made a decision on what major you would like to declare and have met with an advisor from the department you would like to change your major to, you can obtain a Change of Major form from either the Griz Central Registration Counter in the Lommasson Center or the Undergraduate Advising Center in Lommasson Center room 269. Fill out the appropriate information as indicated on the Change of Major form, and then get the required signatures from the Department Chairs of the major you are declaring AND from the major you are changing out of. Return the form to the Registration Counter in Griz Central or leave the completed form in the drop box outside Griz Central.
If you are uncertain about which major you want to change to, go to Discover a Major for help with exploring the right major for you. Another helpful resource is the College of Arts and Sciences' Areas of Interest website.
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Drawing Inspiration: Family Fun
by npadavick in Holidays, Recipes, December 17th, 2010The Dish is teaming up with Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell, founders of They Draw and Cook, all December to share holiday recipes rendered by artists and inspiring all sorts of seasonal cooking with Food Network chefs. Each day, stop by the Dish for a new drawing and Nate and Salli's liner notes about the illustrations and the artists. Tell us which you like and why. A dollop of this, a dash of that and some talent add up to interesting ideas in the kitchen. Visit theydrawandcook.com for more info.
Here is a great twist on a traditional side dish that can be found on lots of Christmas dinner tables this year. We know sweet potatoes are a definite must-have, according to our mom, and we hope she'll let us try this version this year. Sweet potatoes and apples and spice; how nice. We love the smart and cute symbolism that the artist, Colleen Madden, used to illustrate this recipe: "Grannies" for Granny Smith apples and "Sweety" little girls for sweet potatoes! The other little details like the apples on Granny's walker and the "snowgranny" are adorable, all making for a memorable holiday with the family.
See more illustrated recipes that are cute and funny and sweet and silly today on They Draw and Cook. And get all sorts of holiday recipes at FoodNetwork.com.
—Nate Padavick & Salli Swindell from They Draw and Cook.
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