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Seems like this item is one of those must-haves. What kind did your child like? Is there a feature set that seems important? Thanks.
Baby Number Three is 7 months oldnow, and is much more mellow, but we have really used our baby swing a lot with this one too, from the time he was a few weeks old. Sometimes he swings so mommy and daddy can cook dinner or do laundry, and sometimes he takes his nap in the swing. I think it is really useful.
I can't recommend any specific brand but I do have some specific recommendations about what to look for in a swing.
I recommend not getting the high-end swings with all the bells and whistles. They can be hard to operate because of all the different modes and settings, 90% of which you will never use. Personally, I just want to put the baby in and turn it on, and not have to press button one three times and turn switch two to the left to make it go. Our low-end swing has two speeds only - fast and slow. We really only used one speed - fast.
Most swings nowadays probably are battery operated. This is a big improvement over the old days when you had to run back over there every few minutes to wind it up again, praying that the baby wouldn't wake up during the process. Also I think most of the new ones don't have a bar across the top, so you can slide baby in and out easily. It is 100 times easier to get the baby in and out of a top-loading swing than the front-loading ones, so look for that too. If the front tray swings open easily, that's even better. (Note: some friends of ours didn't realize the front tray on theirs would open, and they spent 6 months wedging that baby in and out behind the tray until one day we visited and they watched us take our baby out the easy way. Just goes to show you - read the manual if you have one, or if it's a second hand swing, spend a few minutes examining the underneath and back of the swing to make sure you know how it works!)
Some of the fancy swings play music or vibrate. You probably will never use this - the swinging action is the point of having a swing and the other stuff is just fluff. I would recommend getting one that has a seat that reclines all the way back so baby can sleep without pitching forward. (Again, READ THE MANUAL! Or if you have a used one, look behind the back of the seat and figure out how far it will go back - some other friends of ours never used their swing because they didn't realize the seat would recline!)
The swings with the tray on the front with little toys and things are in my opinion pretty useless. In our case, by the time our baby was big enough to reach out and grab a toy, he was too big for the swing.
If you have a choice in the matter, you also might want to consider the swing's appearance. It's big and cumbersome and is going to be a major feature of your living room for a chunk of time - can you stand looking at it day in and day out 24 x 7? I couldn't deal with bright happy pastels and Winnie or Micky greeting me every morning over coffee so I was happy when I found a boring navy blue plaid.
All in all I would say: battery operated is good, reclining seat is good, top loading is good. But other options don't matter that much -- the simpler, the better. Also I recommend borrowing one, or buying a used one, because really there are only a few months when you'll use it. Ginger
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Operator: Welcome to Forest City Enterprises First Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call.
The Company would like to remind you that today's remarks include forward-looking comments that are covered under Federal Safe Harbor provisions. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to various risks, uncertainties and other factors. Please refer to the risk factors outlined in Forest City's annual and quarterly reports filed with the SEC for a discussion of factors that could cause results to differ.
This call is being recorded and a replay will be available beginning at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time today. Both the telephone replay and the webcast will be available until July 4, 2013, 11.59 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Company would like to remind listeners that it will be using non-GAAP terminology, such as operating FFO, FFO comparable property net operating income and pro rata share in its discussions today. Please refer to the Forest City's supplemental package, which is posted on the Company's website at www.forestcity.net for an explanation of these terms, and why the Company uses them, as well as reconciliations to their comparable financial measures, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Participants on the call will have the opportunity to ask questions following the Company's prepared comments.
I would now like to turn the call over to Forest City's President and CEO, David LaRue. Please go ahead, Mr. LaRue.
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Thank you, operator. Good evening, everyone. With me today is Bob O'Brien, our Chief Financial Officer. Our results for the first quarter went out after the close of the market today. As most of you are aware, our usual practice would have been to hold this call tomorrow at 11.00 a. m. Easter Time. In order to allow us to participate in NARIET REITWeek Conference, which begins tomorrow morning in Chicago, we've accelerated our filing of our quarterly results and this call.
Let me begin today with a recap and comments on two announcements we made within the past several days. At the end of last week, we issued notice that we will terminate put rights on remaining $61.1 million of our outstanding 3.625% Puttable Equity-Linked Senior Notes due 2014, effective June 20, 2013.
As you may know, under the terms of the indenture for these notes, if our stock maintained a volume weighted average price at or above $18.90 for 20 days and a 30-day period, we had the option to terminate the holders put rights. We reached that 20-day mark last Thursday and issued notice of the termination. Owners now have until June 20 to put their notes to the Company and receive approximately 69 shares of the Company's Class A common stock per 1,000 principal amount of notes together with cash for interest payable through October 14, 2013.
Yesterday, after the market close, we issued another important announcement that advances our strategic goals and objectives. We announced an agreement to create a strategic capital partnership with QIC, one of the largest institutional investment managers in Australia, to form joint ventures to recapitalize and invest in a portfolio of eight of our regional malls. The transaction values eight properties at a total of approximately $2 billion representing a cap rate of approximately 5.75% on projected 2013 net operating income. At closing, we expect to raise cash of approximately $330 million after transaction costs, and we expect the joint ventures to close in the third quarter.
Under the agreement, we will contribute our ownership interest in each of the properties to joint ventures and QIC will contribute cash to acquire a 49% interest. We will be the managing member of each of the joint ventures and will continue to be responsible for leasing operations, financing and asset management at the centers.
We are excited about this transaction for a number of reasons. It partners us with a well-respected global investor as we continue to maintain, upgrade, and improve these great assets. It's also another example of our strategy of securing capital partners to invest with us in both existing assets and new opportunities. This transaction also validates the tremendous value of these properties and allows us to unlock a portion of that value.
We plan to use the majority of the liquidity generated by the joint ventures to further our deleveraging efforts. This transaction does not change our current objectives regarding the sale of assets in non-core markets. We continue to pursue this opportunity to focus our portfolio and raise additional liquidity.
Together, the put termination and the QIC joint ventures represent further acceleration of our efforts to reduce debt and identify strategic capital partners.
Now, let me turn to some comments on the first quarter. As we have discussed with investors on past calls, our first quarter FFO and operating FFO saw results of the impact of decreased capitalized interest as we have reduced the size of our under construction pipeline. Investors' recall that at this time last year we just opened Lord & Taylor at Westchester's Ridge Hill. The final phased opening was continuing at 8 Spruce Street in Manhattan and the construction was nearing completion on Barclays Center. This year with these three major properties fully online and operating but not yet stabilized we are seeing the impact of the increased interest expense, which was previously capitalized. In the first quarter, the FFO decrease from lower capitalized interest was $15.7 million.
Turning to net operating income, three primary factors impacted our comp NOI results for the quarter. In retail, comp NOI was basically flat and was impacted by the timing of vacancies in our New York specialty retail portfolio as well as by renovation and remerchandising initiatives at our regional malls. In the office portfolio, comp NOI was down driven mainly by vacancies at One Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn. And in residential, comp NOI was up modestly but was dampened primarily by underperformance of our apartments in non-core markets.
Let me offer a little color on each of these. In our New York specialty retail portfolio we made a decision to buy out the leases of an underperforming retailer with locations at Atlantic Terminal and Queens Place in order to remerchandise with higher quality and more productive tenants. At Atlantic Terminal, which is adjacent to Barclays Center, we already have signed leases for the vacated space at rents well above those of the lease that we bought out. However, timing was such that the spaces at both locations were vacant in the first quarter and our results reflect that impact.
In our regional malls, comp NOI was up as was our rolling 12-month sales per square foot. Our results also showed the timing of impact of renovation and remerchandising initiatives. These investments will expand and improve our tenant mix enhance customer experience and ensure that the centers remain highly competitive going forward.
Our office segment saw decreased comparable net operating income primarily due to vacancy at One Pierrepont Plaza, Brooklyn.
This is 200,000 square feet of vacant space. As discussed during the New York Property tour we continue to be encouraged by the level of activity and interest in the Brooklyn office market and the prospects to lease up this space.
Our residential comp NOI was up but results were below peer averages. As I mentioned under performance by apartments in non-core markets was a major contributor to this lower growth. Seasonal factors including increased utility and operating expenses, due to the harsher winter in several markets contributed to that under performance.
Bob will provide more detail on our results. In summary despite a mixed first quarter of many moving pieces we continue to see solid underlying fundamentals across our portfolio and in our core markets. As we indicated in our press release we are confident in our outlook for the balance of 2013.
With that let me turn it over to Bob.
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: Thanks Dave. Good evening everybody. On today's call you'll be referring to our results and our earnings release and supplemental package, they are available through our SEC filings as well as in the investors section of our website. I'll focus most of my comments on results for operating FFO a metric we introduced in 2012.
We believe operating FFO provides investors with additional information in how our core operations are performing by removing transactional one time and non-recurring items that tend to distort total FFO for any given period.
A bridge depicting operating FFO results for the quarter can be found on Page 25 in the supplemental package. Looking at the bridge, you can see the primary factors impacting operating FFO in the quarter. We had a $3.1 million FFO pickup from new property openings. This was offset by reduced FFO of $3.1 million from property sold, $3.4 million as a result of lower NOI at One Pierrepont Plaza, and $3.9 million in other FFO, primarily as a result of higher overhead expense as the size of our construction and development pipeline has been reduced. As we ramp development back up, keeping it within the 15% target we set for ourselves, the majority of that overhead will again be capitalized to new projects.
As Dave mentioned earlier, the largest factor impacting our operating FFO results for the quarter was decreased capitalized interest of $15.7 million. Again, this is a function of the transition to reduce the pipeline. We expect the total FFO impact of reduced capitalized interest in 2013 to be roughly $35 million. As you can see from our results, approximately, half of that expected impact came in the first quarter.
Finally, our Corporate segment had an operating FFO decrease of $3.3 million primarily from increased interest expense formerly allocated to our Land Development Group. While we're speaking of land, I want to mention that during the quarter, we reached an agreement with our partner at Mesa del Sol, Covington Capital and with Mike Daly, a former Forest City executive, who ran that project for us. Under the agreement, we expect to transfer our ownership interest to Covington and Mike over the course of the next year. This will generate a small amount of cash and allow us to completely exit the project at the end of that time period. Mesa is the final element in lands held for disposition and we're pleased to have reached this agreement, while also allowing the project to move forward under a new ownership structure.
Turning to some of our operating metrics for the year, overall comp NOI decreased 1.9% during the first quarter compared with the same period in 2012, with increases of 1.7% in apartments, 0.5% in retail, and a decrease of 6% in office. Dave discussed the primary factors contributing to these comp NOI results and our press release and filings provide additional detail. It won't take time to comment further, but we can address any questions during the Q&A.
I do want to echo Dave's comments, however, that we are confident on fundamentals of our business and the outlook for 2013 results. Part of our confidence can be seen in other key operating results for the quarter, including stable occupancies, strong lease rollovers, and continued rent growth in multifamily.
At April 30, our comparable retail occupancies were 91.7% compared with 91.8% for the first quarter of last year. Regional mall sales averaged $476 per square foot on a rolling 12-month basis, up 4.4% from last year's first quarter. And new same space leases in the Company's regional malls increased 14.7% and more than 385,000 square feet on a rolling 12-month basis.
In the Residential portfolio, comparable economic occupancies for the first quarter were 94.5%, up from 94.2% last year. Average monthly residential rents in our comp apartments in core markets were $1,673 at the end of the first quarter, a 5.2% increase from 2012. Average monthly rents across all of our comparable apartments rose 4.1%.
As you can see from these measures, revenues grew nicely in this segment during the quarter, but results were impacted by increased expenses, as Dave alluded to earlier. Comparable office occupancies were 91% at the end of the first quarter compared with 91.9% last year. On a rolling 12-month basis, rent per square foot and new office leases increased 10.9% over expiring leases. I should point out that this pickup was driven primarily by a single large lease renewal at our University Park at MIT life science office park in Cambridge. Absent this lease, renewals in office were basically flat, in line with industry trends and economic conditions that continue to put pressure on the office market.
Now let me recap some of our financing and capital markets actions during the quarter. As part of our strategic driver to improve our balance sheet and debt metrics, we executed an exchange of $138.9 million of our 3.625% Puttable Equity-Linked Notes due 2014 for Class A common stock and cash; we also redeemed remaining $53.3 million of our 7.625% Senior Notes due 2015. As Dave mentioned earlier last week we announced a put termination on the remaining $61.1 million of the 2014 notes effective June 20, 2013.
Assuming substantially all of those holders puts their notes to the Company that's a total of approximately $250 million in recourse debt taken off the balance sheet between the 2014 exchanges, 2015 redemptions and now the put termination on the remaining 2014's.
In addition we also converted to redeem remaining shares of our 7% Series A preferred stock during the first quarter. With the substantial portion of the $330 million of liquidity we expect to generate from our capital partnership with QIC earmarked for debt reduction we are positioned to accelerate our deleveraging strategy even further.
Before I turn it over to Dave, let me just remind everyone again that we will be converting to a calendar year-end at December 31 of this year. We will report an 11 month transition year for 2013, including a two month stub period for November and December. Beginning January 1, 2014 we will commence reporting on a calendar year basis.
With that let me turn it over to Dave for an update on the pipeline and some closing thoughts.
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Thanks Bob. As we said before all of our efforts including those that Bob just outlined are establishing a stronger company with solid foundation for future growth. As we continue our efforts we expect to see some volatility in our results quarter-to-quarter as we did in the first quarter of this year. We are confident in the strength of our portfolio and optimistic about the future.
Let me turn now to an update on our pipeline. Our press release and filings provide details. Let me just hit some of the highlights. At the end of the first quarter, we had eight projects under construction at a total cost of $350.9 million at our pro rata share or $435.1 million at full consolidation. That level is well within the 15% target we've established for projects under construction and development, giving us room to prudently add additional projects from existing entitlement or from new developments in core markets as opportunity in the markets dictate.
During the first quarter, we opened the Continental in Dallas at our Mercantile Place on Main development. Continental is a 203-unit, adaptive-reuse apartment community. First move-ins were in March and the property is 28% leased, on pace with our projected lease-up schedule.
Also in Dallas, construction continues on 3700M, a 381-unit multifamily project in uptown area of Dallas. Initial phased opening is expected in the third quarter of 2014. In mid-May, we announced the capital partnership with AIG Global Real Estate to share ownership and fund the equity requirements for 3700M.
Work continues on B2 BKLYN at Atlantic Yards which is being built using modular construction process in partnership with Skanska USA. 32-stoery tower will have 363 units, half of which will be reserved for low, moderate and middle-income households. Work on the foundation is underway and production of modules is expected to begin mid-summer at the factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. We expect B2 to be completed in the second quarter of 2014. B2 is the first asset included in our $400 million strategic capital partnership with Arizona State Retirement System. As a reminder, we expect that fund will drive total of approximately 1 billion multifamily development across five of our core markets. During the quarter we commenced construction on 2175 Market in San Francisco, the second asset to be part of the ASRS fund. We expect this 88 unit apartment community will be completed in the third quarter of 2014.
At The Yards in Washington, D.C., construction continues on two projects. The first is Lumber Shed, an adaptive reuse office building with street-level retail which we expect to be completed in the third quarter of this year. The second project is Twelve12, an apartment/retail project with 218 rental apartments above grocery and fitness facility. Twelve12 is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2014.
In Denver, work continues on Aster Conservatory Green, our newest apartment community at Stapleton. The project will have 352 units and is our first multifamily project north of I-70 at Stapleton, taking advantage of the new interchange that opened in 2011, which substantially improved highway access and opens the northern portion of Stapleton for future development.
In Boston, construction continues on 120 Kingston, a 240-unit apartment building located on the Rose Kennedy Greenway near the border of the city's financial district and Chinatown neighborhoods. We expect completion of 120 Kingston in the second quarter of 2014.
Let me provide a brief update on Westchester's Ridge Hill and Yonkers. As you can see on our pipeline this quarter, we achieved 70% lease-up at this center, including an expansion to the anchor Lord and Taylor. Legoland Discovery Center and UNIQLO opened during the quarter. Many of the tenants that are open report that they are hitting or exceeding plans and seeing sales increases month over month on a comp basis where applicable. Current leasing momentum is picking up as we continue to target full stabilization in 2015.
I'd like to add a few additional comments regarding ICSC RECon that just happened in Las Vegas two weeks ago. ICSC estimated attendance at 33,000, which is up approximately 10% over the prior year. The feel of the convention was the most optimistic since 2008. This contrasts sharply with prior years and as evidenced we had no discussions including rent relief or store closings. Forest City had approximately 320 meetings with retailers that were interested in our properties. Again, we think this was a very successful convention.
Let me conclude by saying that we strongly believe in the quality of our retail portfolio, our strategic direction as a company, and the skill and creativity and determination of our associates. As we've said in our press release, we remain cautious as it relates to the economy and other factors outside of our control, but we are confident in the strength of our business and our ability to achieve solid full-year 2013 results.
With that let's take some questions. Operator?
Operator: Samit Parikh, ISI.
Samit Parikh - ISI: One question I had for you was in the retail portfolio you've been talking a lot about remerchandising that's occurring and I know what happened with the specialty retail centers et cetera. Is this something that you think will be an ongoing sort of negative hit to same store NOI for the entire 2013 that will be a positive momentum for '14 or is this something that's really just first half of '13, and you'll start seeing the benefits in the back half?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: I think it differs across the portfolio I can note one is example for at Sunset Gallery at Sunset Henderson, Las Vegas. That project is undergoing a complete interior remodeling. So some of the cart income et cetera will be out and that generate significant income as you can imagine temporary spaces will be out for the entire length of the renovation. Some of the other remerchandising actions that we're taking should be completed during this year as we look forward though what I would add beyond what's happening now we have great opportunity in two of our shopping centers with regard to lease rollover. Short Pump Town Center opened in September of 2003. So we will be coming up on our 10 year anniversary and rent rollovers. So as we remerchandise that center and do renovations on that center the impact will continue through 2014. In the same regard, Victoria Gardens' 10 year anniversary is in 2014, and we continue again with strong sales performance out of both of those centers and expect to take merchandising, look at the merchandising and physical space, make the improvements and do that long-term improvement. So it's going to be affecting '13 and somewhat '14 on those big rollovers.
Samit Parikh - ISI: Is there a way to quantify that though? Is it that remerchandising opportunities are affecting 200 basis points this year or is there any way you could explain the numbers on that?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: The silence I'm sitting here thinking if there's a way to quantify that into basis points, and I can't do that off the top of my head right now. Bob, I don't know if...
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: No, I will have to look at it. We anticipate this year that we certainly see what our peers are doing in the first quarter. They were up significantly more than we were. Dave said we do think that these remerchandising and rehabs that are going on are going to have an impact in '13. So I would expect we will certainly underperform industry averages in '13 but as Dave talked, we expect these to bear fruit in '14 and beyond. As we said, Short Pump is the --late this year is to we'll begin to see some of that impact in '15 and '14, and Victoria Gardens roll over in '14, and we will see that in '15. Obviously, trying to quantify timing wise, the impact of the QIC joint venture is exactly when they come in is going to obviously impact annual results depending upon the timing of that.
Samit Parikh - ISI: Then just on the office portfolio, so I know there's the expiration and the downsizing the lease at Pierrepont this quarter, I believe that you also had a decent size Mount Sinai lease come on this quarter. Is that rent paying yet?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: I don't know the specific answer whether the Mount Sinai lease had free rent in the period or not during this first quarter. So we can get back and answer that question.
Samit Parikh - ISI: I guess you talked about the New York Property Tour, is there any sort of specific comments in terms of the momentum or any comments positive or negative momentum comment that you could give us on leasing that's occurring in Brooklyn right now in the office space?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Well, again I think the New York team, MaryAnne and Mike, as they walk through the leasing that had been done in our own projects over the course of the last 12 months to 18 months was significant. I think that new tenants that are moving into Brooklyn, new businesses that are being created in the tech sector continue to give us that confidence in our ability to continue to release our space that is available, continue to upgrade our overall property environment to capture the, I guess, new tenant feel that they're looking for in office space. So, Brooklyn is a place to be not only from an office perspective, but from a residential perspective and it is a very hot market for us and we're well-positioned, we have the professional staff in our New York office on top of this opportunity and they're executing the program very well.
Samit Parikh - ISI: I guess last question. ICSC I was there, very bullish conference. You spoke a little bit about sort of some momentum happening at Ridge Hill. Is there anything that gives you confidence that you may be reaching your targeted stabilization prior to 2015 based on the conversations you're having with retailers about Ridge Hill right now?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Again, we've targeted the 2015 stabilization. I think in the past we've talked about just the sheer size and volume of leases that have to get done. So, we're at 70% now. To get that – to stabilization in that mid-90%, that's 25%, which is almost 220,000 feet of space, that we still have to lease to get to that stabilized number. We think that it's appropriate in realistic that we can do that over the next the 18 to 24 months. The discussions that we had and the tenants that we have ongoing discussions with will help us get there. But again, until we get leases signed and execute it, I don't think we are moving from that 2015 stabilization period.
Operator: Sheila McGrath, Evercore Partners.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: Could you talk, Dave, a little bit more about the mall transaction? Was that a negotiation that you had with several bidders or was that a negotiation exclusively with QIC?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: I'll let Bob answer, Sheila, thank you for your question though.
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: Hey, Sheila. We were prepared to go to market and we had a preemptive bid from QIC that led us to an isolated transaction of Discovery with them. We never intended to make it a broad marketed transaction. It was going to be very focused on strategic capital partners who could join us in a fashion similar to the transaction we announced yesterday, and it was purposeful to both this transaction in terms of joining us in retail with a look forward to other things we might be able to do together. The price they put on the table was compelling enough to us that we felt we could get through due diligence and get to closing in a much quicker fashion than if we took it to market. We are advised on the transaction by a number of folks who assisted us with ensuring that the valuation was appropriate, and we thought that it was in best interest of ourselves, of our centers, of our shareholders to do the transaction the way that we've announced.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: Bob, did you have that all along those eight specific malls or did they go through and target which centers that they wanted to invest in?
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: So we have targeted a subset of our centers. The ones that we've excluded were excluded for one or two reasons; one is, existing partnership arrangements, where we felt it would've been complicated and difficult to bring a new partner into that partnership, as well as there are three or four centers which are – we've been open about, and that have been stabilized. And it's always difficult to obviously have an evaluation discussion when an asset is not yet stabilized. So, Ridge Hill is a good example. It wouldn't be appropriate at this time. We thought to try to assess the valuation until we get it stabilized, and that's true in a number of other situations as well. So, as those other assets stabilize, we'll take a look and have a conversation with them. There is no commitment on their part to add those on either our part or their part. But I think it may be a logical extension depending upon where these stabilize out.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: What kind of sits will you get from managing that kind of venture?
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: So we have our – I would say our standard or in place fees related to the services we provide of property management, leasing, financing, any development or construction services we provide as part of the renovations will be a place as I said in property management, and then, an asset management fee to assist in the management of the venture itself and in overlooking the assets which is addition fees that is not paid on those properties today.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: That was such a large transaction. I didn't get a chance to look at what the cost basis was in the Q, but what is that or do you have a sense of what that does to your NOL situation this large sale?
Robert G. O'Brien - EVP and CFO: So, these transactions are keyed up to be structured as a contribution into a venture. So, it's not technically a sale. Each transaction is – we'll close it separately, so we will evaluate the appropriate structure, but it's intended to be primarily a tax deferred transaction, because we're contributing our interest there, contributing capital. Some of that capital is going to stay in this for the renovations we discussed and it will generate the liquidity through that transaction.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: And then another question. I just saw something mentioned in the Q on Ten Metrotech something about it. I was wondering if you – about kind of demolishing the building and then that was a mortgage that was – it seems there's a little bit going on there. If you could just explain what's happening with that building?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Sheila, it's a very good question, and there is a lot going on with that building. I think just some background. Ten Metrotech was I believe the second office building after Pierrepont that we constructed in the Brooklyn market back in the '80s. It was actually a rehab of an existing building, so it was a much older building than even that redevelopment that we did and had the IRS lease for a number of years. What we have determined that the tenant had moved out and actually moved into our Two Metrotech building earlier last year and based upon market conditions we had negotiation with the existing debt holders. A investor purchased the debt from the existing debt holder and we made an agreement with that new investor to take a look at what the best use of the property was. We have determined that the best use of the real estate is literally the land value and we are going to take the building down and it has zoning in place, that we can convert that building to residential property.
Sheila McGrath - Evercore Partners: And then just on Ridge Hill. I know we always focus on it. But in terms of I know you can't change the stabilization date from 2015. But I am just wondering on the 70%. With the conversations that you are going on right now. Do you think that we'll see that occupancy ramp up throughout the year or are most of the conversations with tenants likely to impact in 2014?
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: We are to expect that over the balance of this year and 2014 that we continue to make progress. I know the last number of quarterly reports and our year end filings had us at that 68% for long time. But at this point we believe that we'll continue to make steady progress towards stabilization the point that I think we made last quarter or at the year when we did our conference call it's now that this property is open. Now that we are expensing the interest that we talked about earlier and taking those FFO and operating FFO hits based upon not capitalizing the interest anymore, each dollar of rents that we get each square foot of rent that we collect is accretive to the company's operating statements and again we think we have tenants that are interested in place and action plan and strategy for executing it.
Operator: There are no additional audio questions in queue at this time. I would like to turn the call back over to Mr. David LaRue for closing remarks.
David J. LaRue - President and CEO: Thank you, Patrick. I'd like to thank all of you for accommodating us with this very quick conference call in regard to our filing which occurred just after market closed today. We look forward to seeing a lot of you and other investors this week at, tomorrow and Thursday at NAREIT in Chicago and look forward to our ongoing discussions and your questions regarding not only this quarter, but the outlook for the Company and our strategic plan and execution as we go forward. So again, thank you and have a good evening.
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Good week / Challenging Week @ 34.5 wks
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sorry I haven't blogged in awhile. I wasn't really feeling like sharing much I guess.
This was both a good week and a challenging week.
Challenge wise, my 2.5 yr "puppy" had a cyst rupture on Monday night. We took her to the vet that we have only seen one other time for a wellness visit. He proceeded to "clean out" the cyst without giving her any anesthesia / pain meds / etc, with her screaming bloody murder the whole time. Poor baby - it was so irritated and she was so miserable for the next several days. I ended up taking her to a different vet on the recommendation of a friend on Friday, got some pain meds, different antibiotic and a whole lot more comforting rather than the scolding I received from the first vet about being "too upset" because "he wasn't hurting her," she was "just being sensitive." Are you kidding me?!#!:!: If I came at you and dug around in an open, bleeding, fairly deep wound with a pointy metal probe, I bet you would be pretty unhappy and vocal about it. I already called his office to tell them that we would never be back, but still....Puppy dog is doing much better now - actually wants to eat, play with her toys and generally be her little princess self. I am a much happier pet mama.
Good week wise, I am finally settled in my new office space and my patients love it. I need to plan an open house to celebrate the space prior to leaving for maternity leave. Hopefully that comes together this week.
I also had a prenatal visit on Friday with one of the last midwives I had yet to meet out of the 9 person group practice. She was great - energetic, attentive, informative and professional. I really appreciated my appointment with her as I felt like she addressed my questions but kept things moving. I was also ecstatic that I was back down to a reasonable weight from my last visit; last visit three weeks ago I had gained "10 lbs" that I think was a lot of water weight, which since I have been much more diligent about Sparking and watching my salt intake has disappeared. I was really happy to see that 9 of those pounds were gone on Friday and midwives were just fine with it. Baby Sunshine is doing perfect - head down, heartbeat in the 130s, measuring just fine. Looking just great to be on time or hopefully a little earlier than 40 weeks :)
Mostly, I'm just looking forward to getting the baby here and getting started on our little family. Nursery is coming together more. My mom is buying us our crib and furniture, which she will be ordering next weekend. That will make things look a lot more finished in there. Also, the rocker/recliner we ordered at the beginning of July should be arriving soon. I'm excited about it because it is super comfortable but also pretty stylish and should transition nicely out of the nursery when we don't need it anymore. I have never liked the traditional wooden glider rockers that apparently I'm supposed to love for a nursery - too much like grandma's country house for me. I think the chair we picked out will be a good alternative for us, plus, it will great with the rest of our furniture when Baby Sunshine needs more room in their room.
All in all, 34.5 weeks is feeling good. Just excited about finishing this process; now is the time to start gearing up to give 110% to cross the finish line.
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Glad you had a good appt. I'm fine with my LO coming a bit early too! ;) Way to go on cutting back on your sodium-that is so hard! Hope you have a good week.
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You look absolutely adorable! Great job on losing the water weight. I had an appointment on Thursday and we found out the baby is a boy! My doctor was also a lot better about the whole weight gain thing and told me I am right on track and stop worrying about it. As long as I am being active and eating healthy that is all that matters! I've been a lot more diligent about keeping track (except for this weekend) and watching what I eat too. :)
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Two employees of Brampton Works & Transportation Department present information about careers in public works to a student in one of their many career forums.
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November 17, 2011: 2011 EcoBuzz Conference held at the David Suzuki Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. David Suzuki was on hand to visit the local exhibitors at the conference and talk to students and faculty.
Marketing Administrative Assistant Diana Sabatino and Training & Safety Coordinator for Brampton Transit Deepak Bains hand out informational pamphlets at one of Brampton Works & Transportation Department's booths at a career fair in 2012.
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St. Charles, Mo., day care children sign a snow plow blade at last years National Public Works Week celebration. The blades are then used the following winter.
St. Charles, Mo., day care children sign a snow plow blade at last year's National Public Works Week celebration. The blades are then used the following winter.
The organizers of the St. Charles, Mo. Public Works celebration suggest that for a good turnout you need to "Invite people and feed them." They have done just that with this group of local schoolchildren.
Works & Transportation Department, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Population: 524,000
Service area: 166 square miles
No. employees: 1,000
Annual budget: $99,408,083 (operating); $157,174,000 (capital)
Services: Operations, Engineering and Construction, Transit, Fleet Services, Business Services
Approximate cost: $300
Five Tips from Brampton Works & Transportation Department
1) Open a dialogue with the school as soon as possible once school begins. Ask to speak with principals, guidance counselors, or the people responsible for organizing a career day event.
2) Don't limit outreach to one age or grade. Brampton's presented at elementary schools, high schools, and even colleges.
3) Provide a full cross-section of possible careers. Some students are interested in positions such as fleet maintenance welder or bus operator, that require only a high school diploma.
4) If you have a choice, conduct an in-class presentation instead of exhibiting at a career fair where you'll be competing for students' attention.
5) Have lots of giveaways like magnets and pens to draw students in and get them asking about your services and roles.
The approach varies depending on what each school allows, but for six years the City of Brampton's Works & Transportation Department has used NPWW to promote the profession by both participating in already established career days and going to schools to present its own career forum.
Each year, six members of the department's 23-employee NPWW committee schedules the visits, works with the schools on content and format, and decides what each Career Forum Subcommittee member's role will be. Generally, a team of five rotates attending the events; some or all attend depending on their availability.
"We try our best to have staff who can represent the various positions available across our department," says Roxanne Van Damme, support services coordinator for Works & Transportation and Career Forum Lead. In the past, that's included a construction inspector, traffic signal technologists, planning, and maintenance field technologists. "We also have an organizational chart that visually shows the wide variety of opportunities available in public works," she says.
Waiting until NPWW in May often meant teachers couldn't find time to fit the presentation in, so this year the subcommittee worked around each school's curriculum. The schools generally have career forums during the beginning of the school year.
This year, employees participated in the 10th Annual EcoBuzz Conference, Fall Destination Fair at Turner Fenton Secondary School, and Post Secondary Conference at Mayfield Secondary School as lead-up toward the department's NPWW celebrations May 19–25.
"We have the most success participating in events that have a presentation component," says Van Damme. "You don't have as much interaction with students when you're just standing at a display table handing out swag. There's less opportunity to get them interested in public works."
Since employees who conduct the forums travel to the schools, the cost to the department is minimal: time out of the office and trinkets like pamphlets, notepads, magnets, pens and pencils. Because of the low cost, the event hasn't been affected by budget cuts.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
I just can't stop adding stud earring designs to my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes line! Last week, I introduced my Heisenberg hat stud in honor of Breaking Bad's finale. Now, in time for Halloween, I've got a miniaturized earring version of the skull design that first appeared in my Juana peekaboo skull ring and Juana locket, inspired by the 16th-century queen known as Juana la Loca. Here is the original 18K-gold poison ring, shown both open and closed …
… and here are the new stud earrings, in 18K gold with diamond eyes.
Aren't they cute? They're also available in sterling silver with diamond eyes.
If you're as into the single-earring look as I am, you can buy a single gold or single silver skull earring, rather than a matched set. That allows you to mix the skull with one of my other studs to create your own pair. Allow me to suggest one of my other new studs: an anatomical heart in sterling silver (you can special order it in 18K gold).
My tiny stud earrings are getting more elaborate. You can see raised areas on the heart as well as both shiny and matte finishes. Having two textures was crucial for my third new design, a sterling-silver pill stud that was partly inspired by the emoji pill.
The emoji uses two colors to give it a capsule-like look.
Without two textures, the earring would look more like a plain oval than a pill.
The emoji wasn't the only two-hued inspiration for the pill earring: the other was, appropriately enough for October, a tombstone. But I'm not talking about something you'd find in a graveyard. A "tombstone" is the name for a type of newspaper advertisement placed by an investment bank when a deal closes. The banks like to turn those ads into tangible souvenirs for people involved in the deal. Sometimes the gift is simply the tombstone in a hunk of lucite, but it can be more elaborate as well. When I started working at the hellish, now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2000, I became enthralled by a pill-shaped tombstone creation marking a 1999 pharmaceutical industry deal. It had been left in the graphics department, and I coveted it because that company really made me want to take a huge pill. When I left Lehman in 2005, a friend in graphics gave me the tombstone as a going-away present. I still have it!
What I really love about this thing is that the pill comes off the stand.
I stuck with my hospital theme — body parts and medication! — for the final new earring design of the month. The emoji syringe was the logical companion for the emoji pill.
I did the earring version in gold …
… and in silver.
It was tricky to get the "needle" as thin as it needed to be to make the syringe look right, but I did it!
The theme song of this Jewel of the Month post is clearly Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor," which features Eminem and gorgeous jewelry customer Skylar Grey, who wrote and sang the chorus.
Come back next month for two more stud earring designs — I'm swear, I'm addicted to them!
Categories: earrings, jewel of the month, my designs, skulls, Skylar Grey, social media
6 Responses to "Jewels of the Month: Skulls, a Heart & Other Doctor-Worthy Studs"
Patti @ NotDeadYet Style says:
fantastic new ear-wear, Wendy! I hate Lehman Bros; when they tanked we lost a lot of $$$, those bastards. There, got that off my chest : >
I share your feelings about Lehman. It was dreadful working there, then I escaped and then … of all the firms that needed to be central to the economic catastrophe, it HAD to be them!
Pearl Westwood says:
These new guys are great! x
Thank you!
Megan Gann says:
I'm head over heels for these new designs. If I can ever get caught up on medical bills, I'll totally be shelling out for medical inspired jewelry!
I'm sorry you haven't been well!


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Clubs: FC Barcelona, Villarreal CF, Liverpool FC, SSC Napoli (loan)
• Although Madrid-born – and the son of Miguel Reina, a former goalkeeping great with Club Atlético de Madrid – he began his career in Catalonia with FC Barcelona and played in both UEFA Cup semi-final legs against Liverpool during his debut season in the first team, 2000/01.
• Left for Villarreal CF after struggling to displace Argentinian international Roberto Bonano at Barça and had three seasons with the Yellow Submarine, helping them to the UEFA Cup semi-finals in 2003/04.
• Joined Liverpool and was the penalty shoot-out hero in Liverpool's 2006 FA Cup final triumph over West Ham United FC; also saved two spot kicks against Chelsea FC in the 2007 UEFA Champions League semi-final and kept seven clean sheets in 12 games as Liverpool finished runners-up to AC Milan.
• Given his international debut against Uruguay in an August 2005 friendly and made one appearance in Spain's UEFA EURO 2008 triumph, but remained on the bench at the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups, picking up a winners' medal in the latter.
• Broke Ray Clemence and Bruce Grobelaar's Liverpool record of 150 clean sheets when he kept goal in a 2-0 League Cup quarter-final victory against Chelsea FC on 29 November 2011.
• Kept goal in both domestic cup finals in 2011/12, helping Liverpool to a penalty shoot-out victory against Cardiff City FC in the League Cup showpiece; remained on the bench for Spain's historic UEFA EURO 2012 triumph.
• Opted to join former Liverpool boss Rafael Benítez in Italy at the start of the 2013/14 season when the Spaniard took over at Napoli, and immediately became first choice. Became the first man to prevent Mario Balotelli scoring from the penalty spot in his fourth league game for the club.
UEFA honours
UEFA European Championship: winner 2008, 2012
UEFA Champions League: runner-up 2007
UEFA Super Cup: winner 2005
UEFA European Under-16 Championship: winner 1999


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Sagging floor Joist: Common Causes
If you live in an older home, lets say pre-1970, and you are noticing a sag in your floor, then take a look at these pictures I've included in this post for the most common root of the cause. These pictures are good examples of what happens when a worker (usually a plumber or HVAC installer) gets in a hurry and does not care about the long term effect of weakening a floor joist by notching or cutting it.
I see floor joists notched most often by someone trying to get a plumbing waste line through the joist for a toilet flange. I would like to think a professional plumber would have been able to prevent the need to drill or notch large holes through the floor joist by simple foresight and planning where to run the main waste (drain) line.
Depending on the "live load" (weight bearing downward) and the span of the floor joist- together determine, how soon a noticeable sag in the floor joist will appear. All of these pictures are from the last two consecutive homes I have been renovated. In other words, this is a widespread problem!
Keep in mind residential construction was not regulated by way of city building inspectors until the early 1970's. It was only then that Cities started requiring structural engineering, and plan checks before a building permit will be issued. This is one of the biggest contributing factors that helped improve the overall quality of homes that were built. It was not just left up to the skill and knowledge of the general contractor to decide to why many older homes have settling and structural issues. two most recent homes I have been working on. some of the most recent hack jobs I have seen. But unfortunately, I come across floor joist that have been completely cut out. Completely compromising the integrity of the floor. Over time everything starts to droop and
I am not sure why the person even bothered to leave the sliver of wood below the heat register. Did he think that would do something? This floor was already undersized and framed completely wrong. The floor became completely ruin and unsafe after this main structural member. Its really amazing this floor did not completely drop out from under someone walking across it!
Look at the bottom of this beam. Can you see how far down the left side has dropped?
This structural beam supports not only the floor above, but a bearing wall on the main floor and the roof above that. This beam originally rested in a small beam pocket on the foundation wall. Over time the back of the house settled enough that the foundation tilted away and the beam slipped out and the whole kitchen floor sagged a couple inches from one side to the other.
So to fix the sagging floor, we had to lift the beam back up to level and put a post under it for support.
The first step in all sagging floor joist repairs is to find the root of the problem. Only then can you remedy the situation. Two common solutions include what is called "sistering up" joists, which simple means add another floor joist to the side of the sagging floor joist, or using a beam and posts to provide support under the sagging joist.


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(Mormon couple confront suicide of gay son)
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"The theatre was packed with so much emotion.... Every one there, I'm sure, had a story--of pain, of betrayal, of confusion, of sacrifice and the struggle for love. They were looking to find redemption, hope, and searing honesty, no matter what the cost. Thank you for holding nothing back. You never let up, except for an occasional gift of humor so we could breath. There was a shared compassion that held us in a place beyond words. It was an amazing experience to be part of." --Jan


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Why do you need to drink your cocktail when you could inhale it instead? When you inhale the alcohol, the flavors come alive on your tongue.
This sounds like some sort of an idea that evolved from a late night of binge drinking and may be unsatisfying to those that enjoy drinking for the sheer pleasure of… well, drinking! Plus, many people may confuse the contraption with something typically used for freebasing, which (for obvious reasons) doesn't look too appealing.
But! Just like the liquid nitrogen martinis that took over San Francisco, the attention-grabbing "Vaportini" has just arrived.
Julie Palmer, a restaurateur, came up with the wild idea after visiting a friend in Helsinki, Finland. "She would go into the sauna with a bottle of vodka and pour it over the coals," Palmer told The Salt. "You could really feel the effects of the alcohol without drinking it."
When she returned home to Chicago, she recreated the experience at her cocktail lounge, Red Kiva. With the help of her father, an engineer, Palmer began experimenting with some extravagant designs. "I even taught myself to solder," she joked.
It's become quite popular with the cocktail scene since the Vaportini causes alcohol to directly be ingested into the bloodstream through the lungs. The process totally bypasses the digestive system.
Palmer ended up settling on a straightforward setup for the intoxicating device. A hand-blown glass globe rests on top of a candle and after a shot of alcohol heats up in the sphere, the liquid evaporates. This process fills the device with flavorful, invigorating vapors – then you suck them up through a glass straw.
We're not sure if vapor cocktails will replace the usual liquid versions anytime soon, but it could be a fun experience to take part in to start your night off right. You can sip on a Vaportini and catch a quick, mild buzz from it.
But is it safe? It has been reported to give users an instant but intense high.
Dennis Thombs, a behavioral biologist from the University of North Texas, who studies alcohol abuse, doesn't know if a Vaportini poses any additional health risks when consumed. "What I will say, though, is that inhaling is a very efficient and rapid way to deliver drugs to the brain," Thombs explained to The Salt. "So I would think one would get intoxicated quickly."
The $30 Vaportini was officially launched last year. It was so popular that Palmer had to stop taking orders because she ran out of supplies.
"I'm negotiating with bars all over the country to bring it in, and I'm working with a local distiller to develop spirits specific for it," she says. "I made a lemon-and-tarragon-infused vodka — it was incredible."
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The Republican Party was born in 1854 in Ripon Wisconsin. It could die in 2012.
What will be the cause of death? Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney's messaging has been simple. He is the inevitable nominee. His campaign also claims he is the only who can beat Barack Obama. Ignoring the fact there is really no evidence to support that claim, all we really need to do is look back at the GOP's history of picking the "electable" guy and see how that has panned out.
There is a reason why there was never a President McCain or a President Dole. If Ronald Reagan had not picked him to be his Vice President, there would not have been a President Bush either.
The media is telling us that none of the other Republican candidates measure up and could beat Barack Obama. Even people like Eric Erickson at RedState are starting to buy this line and today Erickson even talked about reconsidering Jon Huntsman, just to stop Mitt Romney.
If Romney is nominated, he will destroy the conservative movement and will destroy the Republican Party. Period.
Romney is certainly no conservative. Even after he decided he was only going to serve one term as Governor of Massachusetts, so he could run for the Republican nomination for President, he continued to act as a liberal. Remember, Romneycare, his cap and trade regulations and even his "Wheels for Welfare" program all came about after he made the decision to forego a second term as governor to run as a Republican for President.
Romney has made his run for the nomination specifically by ignoring conservatives. He has played it safe, trying to avoid controversy and be the last Republican candidate standing.
The conservative vote has been volatile this year. It has gone from Bachmann to Perry to Cain and may now be shifting to Gingrich. Three quarters of Republicans do not want Mitt Romney, but unfortunately their votes are divided among the conservative front-runners.
If Mitt Romney wins, it will be the death of the Republican Party. The GOP may be dying anyway. If Romney wins, significant numbers of conservatives will be staying home on Election Day. Or if not staying home, at least not voting for him and certainly not going out in the days before the election campaigning for him and working for him.
In Washington, the surrender brothers, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have shown no interest in a conservative agenda. They have done nothing about cutting spending. They have surrendered to the Democrats every step of the way. Instead of standing firm for conservative beliefs and making the Democrats offer concessions, they have simply agreed to nominal changes, which are basically no changes in the way Washington operates.
Now, one by one, Washington Republicans are crumbling on the issue of tax hikes. Boehner and McConnell gave us the Supercommittee, which is going to come out with tax increases. The Republicans can call them "revenue increases" all they want, but a pig is still a pig not matter what you call it and Americans understand what revenue increases really mean.
If Mitt Romney wins, he will rip the conservative heart out of the Republican Party.
If Romney is the nominee, either he will win or he will lose, but either way the American people will be the real losers.
We have been down this path before. In 2004, George Bush was reelected primarily because of the War on Terror. During his first term he had shown himself to be a big government Republican and the Republicans who controlled the House and Senate were spending money like drunken Democrats. By 2006, the shock of 9/11 had faded and Americans started paying attention.
What happened?
In 2006 and 2008, America grew tired of Republicans who were no different than big spending Democrats and sent a message. In 2008, the GOP had not learned its lesson and gave us John McCain.
If John McCain had been elected President in 2008, we would have at least eighty percent of what we have had under Obama and there would have been no Tea Party because so much of the Tea Party came from dissatisfied Republicans.
If Mitt Romney becomes the nominee or the next President, the GOP will implode. He will not run as a conservative and he will not govern as a conservative.
Where will conservatives go? If the only choice is between a liberal party and a socialist party, where do conservative Republicans go?
In surveys on Tea Party Nation, between one third and one half of those surveyed have said they would not vote for Romney if he were the nominee.
If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he will split the GOP at a time when GOP unity will be paramount in the second Obama term that Romney will be instrumental in bringing about. We will need Republican solidarity to not only stop further spending by the Obama regime but also to stop judicial appointments and an almost certain third Supreme Court justice that Obama would get to appoint.
The complaints are we do not have good candidates. We do. I have endorsed Newt Gingrich because I believe he is the best Republican in the field and can not only beat Obama, but help us achieve a conservative agenda.
There is Michele Bachmann. I think the world of her and would gladly support her if she came out with the nomination. While I don't think she has a chance of winning, she is a good candidate.
I like Herman Cain. However, I fear these recent allegations against him have now doomed him and made him unelectable.
There is also Rick Perry. I am not a huge Rick Perry fan. He is much closer to Mitt Romney than he would care to admit, but if I had to choose between him and Obama, I could pull that lever.
I have said it before and will repeat it. Gingrich is the best candidate. We do have other good Republicans. I want to see Gingrich get the nomination because I believe he can destroy Obama in the general election.
Right now, the future of the conservative movement, the Republican Party and America hang in the balance. If the GOP establishment prevails and Romney is the nominee, all three will be lost.
Now is the time we must all work to make sure a conservative is elected as the Republican nominee and the next President.
Mitt Romney is no conservative.
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Yes. Just what I was thinking.
How about this for something to think about? If Romney wins the Tea Party will have to run Newt as our candidate.
Maybe we can be Machiavellian enough to influence the Left to run Ralph Nader and split the Liberal vote. I remember years ago in California a large number of Democrats registered as Republicans to defeat a strong Republican candidate in the primary. Maybe we could nationally do something likewise to them.
I agree, Judson, about Romney. Cannot STAND his wishy washy-ness. However, though Gingrich is the most knowledgeable and clearly very intelligent and well spoken, there are still issues with his personal life.
I don't know if you are aware of this, but Ron Paul's campaign placed a full page ad in the Austin Chronicle, seeking ANYONE who slept with, or had any inappropriate contact with Rick Perry. The ad offered 5K for a provable claim. I still have the paper. No one apparently came forward. Though there are issues with Perry's stance on immigration and the required immunizations for young girls, etc. NO ONE came forward. This at least tells me that the man has some personal integrity. I respect that.
Regarding the immigration issue, this is a Texas problem. And Texans voted for this law because either the children of illegals could be tax contributors or tax drainers. We clearly wanted contributors. And to get into UT is so difficult, if a child of an illegal can qualify, then ROCK ON! Though this stance does not translate to other states, except for maybe AZ, we are forced to deal with hundreds of thousands of illegals that the federal government simply ignores. Illegals are a drain on our state resources. This is one lesser-of-two-evils that Texans see as not ideal, but better than the alternative.
TC in Austin.....It is far more than a Texas or Arizona problem. We are overrun here in Western North Carolina also since they work as apple pickers and hristmas tree workers. All states have their sharo of problems. You can check out many of our problems with illegals at ncfire.com .
Perry promoted illegal immigration because the organizations of traitor ( LA RAZA, MALDEF, MECHA, LULAC, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE TEXAS HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE NATIONAL HISPANIC LEARDERSHIP, AND THE PROMOTERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION), used their political power, He want the hispanic votes and he sell out. this traitor declare it that enforcing the immigration laws was the job of the federal government; Austin, the Capital of Texas is sanctuary city, most of texas is sanctuary to illegal aliens, and the people of Texas are force to pay for the education and welfare of the illegal immigrants. I paid over Ten thousand Dollars per year in property taxes to support Rick Perry legislations that are not in support of our laws. We have immigration laws, but they are void by Obama and Rick Perry. A vote for Rick Perry is a vote for amnesty to illegal aliens. Vote for Ron Paul.
TC in Austin. Perry promoted illegal immigration because the organizations of traitor ( LA RAZA, MALDEF, MECHA, LULAC, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE TEXAS HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE NATIONAL HISPANIC LEARDERSHIP, AND THE PROMOTERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION), used their political power, He want the hispanic votes and he sell out. this traitor declare it that enforcing the immigration laws was the job of the federal government; Austin, the Capital of Texas is sanctuary city, most of texas is sanctuary to illegal aliens, and the people of Texas are force to pay for the education and welfare of the illegal immigrants. I paid over Ten thousand Dollars per year in property taxes to support Rick Perry legislations that are not in support of our laws. We have immigration laws, but they are void by Obama and Rick Perry. A vote for Rick Perry is a vote for amnesty to illegal aliens. Vote for Ron Paul.
What a joke. Huntsman is no different than romney. progressives both and both have the same boat to china obama has only a little bit slower.
Ron Paul has some great idea's, but way to liberal for my taste. He would allow Iran to blow us out of the water. Newt would repair the Constitution, De-fund the UN, and could be trusted to repair the Tax Code,SS, Medicare with innovative solutions. He has a good handle on foreign policy an would not apologize for the U.S.
Cain is history.
Bachman is a no go.
Newt is a hypocrite.
We need to find someone with integrity.
Yes, but he is still alive!! Keep praying , most of all . God taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
What eventually takes them down will probably be something they never thought of.
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Educator, Author, Social Critic and Nationally Acclaimed Lecturer Jackson Katz presented to an audience at Emory University on March 23rd, 2011.
His speech introduced concepts in his new book, The Macho Paradox Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. During his talk, he discussed reasons why many men believe violence against women is solely a women's issue and how he has used his connection with major league sports in America to teach men how and why they should become involved through the bystander approach.
To learn more about the work of Jackson Katz, please visit his website www.jacksonkatz.com.


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In The Chase, I followed the black ghost thing through the level until I got to a point where the only path I can see leads to a glass box. When I walk into the box and turn around, I am surrounded by glass on all sides and I can see the ghost moving outside of the box. The ghost sighting seems to indicate I was supposed to go there, but once I am in the box I can't figure out what to do next. What am I supposed to do one I enter the glass box?
Face the white ring. Then move backwards.