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Con Houlihan misses the old cut and thrust at polling stations -- and hands off our fairer election system
Published 18/05/2008 | 05:00
'The sighing Midlands" said Sean O Faolain. "Whoever heard of Offaly?" said Dick Walsh a few days after Offaly had won their first All-Ireland. These words appeared in the Irish Times. My dear departed friend wasn't being literal: he merely meant that Offaly didn't appear very often in the headlines.
Their emergence in football was remarkable; their emergence in hurling was miraculous because the ancient game is played in only a few parishes in the county. That quiet revolution produced two folk heroes -- Matt Connor and Johnny Dooley. Brian Cowen has a hard act to follow.
He has, however, the comforting thought that he belongs to a bold and successful tribe. He will need all that as in Shakespeare's words he takes up arms against a sea of troubles.
His biggest problems are in health and education; radical change here will be a long and costly process. There is, however, a field in which he can make an indelible mark without spending one euro. I am talking, of course, about electoral reform.
For a start, everybody should be obliged to vote -- and for a finish, everybody should have a proper means of identity. A driving licence is no good. You might as well take a dog licence. You need an identity card with a reasonably up to date photograph, not one taken at your First Communion.
Impersonation is all too easy. In rural Ireland the old sense of community has been breaking up since the proliferation of the motor car. People now living a hundred yards apart hardly know each other.
Things are even worse in the modern estates. As I have said, impersonation is all too easy. To go to the polls and find that your vote has been stolen is not a pleasant experience. We heard of several complaints after the last election. The possibility of this ever occurring again should be made almost impossible.
We are supposed to be a democracy but Brian Cowen has the power to make it more of a democracy. It won't be enough to eliminate impersonation: the register should be kept up to date. This is a simple task but it is often neglected. John Gormley should have a say here.
Some years ago a new law was passed that prohibited canvassing within a certain distance of the polling booths. Seemingly those that brought in this law were afraid that people would be intimidated. That was nonsense.
Activists near the polling booths create a great atmosphere and very often they come in useful by showing people how to vote. That crazy law should be amended. In the old days there was great atmosphere around the polling booths. In recent years they have the atmosphere of a suburban pharmacy.
Give us back our old ferment.
Brian Cowen must make a decision about our electronic voting machines. He must decide whether to bury them or to destroy them by some chemical process. He has a third course open to him: he can put them in some special museum where admission is free but you are charged to come out. There is a terrible danger that we will have electronic voting again. Not too long ago Bertie Ahern said "we should do away with oul pencils". I agree with him completely -- we should get new pencils.
In this context, Dick Roche takes the biscuit, I would give him a year's production of Irish biscuits. He is alleged to have said: "We have the machines. Why not use them?" Some people think because a thing is new it is better. This is a crazy fallacy. The arguments against electronic voting are so many that it is incredible that anyone should favour it.
We are told that they produce the results in very quick time. What's the hurry? Waiting for the count is one of our favourite sports; it shouldn't be taken away from us. Even if a count took three or four or five days, what about it?
Brian Cowen will probably agree that we should have bigger constituencies.
We seem to be convinced that three and four and five constituencies are ideal. This is far from being the case. There was an argument long ago for three-seater constituencies because communications were bad. Phones were very few as were motor cars: a man setting out to see his TD might have to travel 50 miles on a bicycle or perhaps on a donkey and cart. You can imagine the worry of his family as he set out, fearful that they might never see him again. Communications are very good now: the three-seat constituency should be a thing of the past.
There is no reason why we shouldn't have six and seven or eight-seater constituencies. This would give hope to the small parties and make our Dail more democratic.
There is one danger still lurking: Fianna Fail may again attempt to subvert democracy by trying to abolish proportional representation. Their last attempt was shameful and shameless: they combined the referendum with a presidential election -- the slogan was "Vote Dev and Yes." This was cynicism at its worst. Fortunately, it failed.
Under the "first past the post system" we would have seen Fianna Fail gain a huge majority. The Labour Party would have been almost wiped out. A spate of strikes would have followed; industrial action would have crippled the country and the economy would suffer damage from which it might take years to recover.
This is the system they have in Britain. You may ask why it works there. The answer is simple: Britain is such an industrial world that Labour are almost guaranteed a certain number of seats. I doubt if it can be written into the Constitution but I would be happy if the possibility of abolishing PR is put away forever.
Only America could produce such a roadshow as the OJ Simpson trial and the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. America is a democracy, kind of. Anybody can be president if he or she can come by a vast amount of money.
The system of nominating the candidate for the presidency goes back to the days of the covered wagon and the log cabin. It made sense then but it is woefully outdated now. It is a blessing for advertising agencies. That is about its only virtue. The amount of campaigning necessary makes it impossible for someone without huge financial backing to even dream about The White House.
Barack Obama's mantra is 'Change' but there is something he cannot change: the people who are paying the piper will always call the tune. The men in the street that is called after the wall that was built to keep the Indians out will go on having a major say in American foreign policy. If Obama can change that, he will make the world a far better place.
The Democrats' candidates are in danger of destroying each other and allowing the Republicans an easy run. The war in Iraq will have a huge bearing on the election: if George Bush can make some kind of a settlement or the appearance of a settlement, his party could win the election.
To make some kind of a settlement in Iraq seems almost impossible: there are three main forces there who are unlikely to come to any kind of agreement -- the Kurds, Saddam Hussein's followers, and the Arabs in the marshes.
Whom would I choose if I had a vote? I might tend towards Obama. I have my doubts about Hillary: any woman who christens her only child Chelsea is not to be trusted. It might be worse --it could have been Arsenal.

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Kona Grill Inc,. (NASDAQ:KONA)
Q1 2012 Earnings Call
April 30, 2012 05:00 pm ET
Berke Bakay – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Christi Hing – Secretary, Chief Financial & Accounting Officer
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Shawn Patrick Bitzan – Feltl & Company
David Khan – Raymond James
Lee J. Giordano – Imperial Capital, LLC
Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us to discuss Kona Grill's results for the First Quarter of 2012. Joining us today are Berke Bakay, Kona's President and Chief Executive Officer; and Christi Hing, the company's Chief Financial Officer.
Following their remarks we will open up the call for questions. (Operator Instructions) Before I begin, I would like to remind everyone that the financial guidance the company provides for its second quarter 2012 results, statements regarding the company's future sales, profits, and expectations regarding same-store sales are forward-looking.
All forward-looking statements made during this call are based on information available to the company as of today and the company assumes no obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call.
These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the statements. Investors are referred to the discussion of risks and uncertainties contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I would now like to turn the call over to Kona Grill's President and CEO, Mr. Berke Bakay. Please go ahead, sir.
Berke Bakay
Thanks, Vince. Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us. The momentum we gained last year rolled into the first quarter of 2012. Our 8.7% same-store sales growth during the quarter represents Kona Grill's sixth consecutive quarter of positive same-store sales. We were able to leverage this strong sales growth to drive 19.9% unit level margins, which we believe are some of the best in polished casual segment of the restaurant industry.
For today's call, Christi will walk us through the financials for the first quarter and provide guidance for the second quarter of 2012. Afterwards, I will discuss some of the initiatives we're working on for the future development of Kona Grill and then wrap up the call with Q&A.
Before passing the call over, I would like to welcome Christi to our first call as CFO of Kona Grill. Christi has been with Kona Grill for over six years now, where she most recently served as a Vice President and Controller. For increasing levels of financial responsibility and leadership skills make her the perfect fit for this position and we are excited to have her on the executive management team.
With that, I would like to turn the call over Christi. Christi?
Christi Hing
Thanks, Berke. For the first quarter ended March 31, 2012, restaurant sales increased 8.6% over the same year-ago period, $24.2 million, reflecting an 8.7% increase comparable restaurant sales. Q1 comps were favorably impacted by 90 basis points due to the extra day in February and by a 170 basis points for the calendar shift resulting in 13th Friday in Q1 versus 12 last year.
If you normalize those three items, same-store sales would have been about 6%. Although, it is difficult to quantify the warm winter weather throughout the country positively impacted same-store sales as we saw double-digit increases in sales generated from the bar and patio. Patio sales from our East Coast and Midwest restaurants increased on average over 20%, compared to last year.
If you normalize our comps for weather and the above mentioned items, we estimate our comps would have been near the 4% range that we guided to you on our last call. The sales increase also includes about 1.5% in pricing that we took last year. Our comps continue to remain strong as this quarter represents our sixth consecutive quarter of comps greater than 6%. On a trailing two-year basis, our Q1 comps are up over 16% or a 11.6% if you normalize for the items discussed above.
For Q2, the comp compares and becomes increasingly more difficult, as we left 9.1% comp in Q2 of last year and well over the pricing we took last year. On a trailing two-year basis, we estimate our comps would be over 10%, which we believe this among the best in our segment.
Cost of sales as a percentage of restaurant sales decreased a 110 basis points, 26.9% during the first quarter from 28% last year. The decrease reflects lower year-over-year pricing for produce, efficiencies in the kitchen resulting from higher sales volumes, and the benefit of various purchasing initiatives implemented over the past 12 months.
We continue to work diligently with our vendors to ensure the best possible pricing. As discussed on our last call for 2012, we expect a modest increase in beef cost year-over-year, but we're optimistic that improvements in seafood purchasing will help mitigate any material impact to our food costs.
Labor expenses as a percentage of restaurant sales decreased 90 basis points to 32.9% during the first quarter from 33.8% last year. So lower labor costs percentage is attributable to the leveraging of fixed wages from the 8.7% increase in comp sales. Restaurant operating expenses as a percentage of restaurant sales decreased 170 basis points to 14% during the first quarter from 15.7% last year.
The lower operating expense percentage resulted from a 60 basis point reduction in marketing expenses. We use credit card processing fees resulting from the change in law last fall and lower utilities resulting from the warm winter weather. We will also able to leverage the fixed portion of operating costs due to higher sales volume.
Occupancy expenses as a percentage of restaurant sales decreased a 110 basis points to 6.3% during the first quarter from 7.4% last year. As mentioned on our last call, the decrease reflects the amendment of a lease provision for one restaurant and the leveraging of the fixed portion of the costs from higher same-store sales.
Combining these four line items, restaurant operating profit increased $1.5 million to $4.8 million for the first quarter of 2012. As a percentage of restaurant sales, restaurant operating profit increased 480 basis points to 19.9% during the quarter, compared to 15.1% last year. With the expectation of tough comp comparisons in Q2, we expect our margins to remain strong. However, we do expect to see the same level of year-over-year improvement that we saw in Q1.
General and administrative expenses increased 203,000 from the prior year quarter, primarily due to higher legal fees, costs associated with our general manager and executive chef pinnacle meeting, and the write-up of certain costs as we refined our design in the core specs. As a percentage of sales, G&A increased 10 basis points to 8.6% compared to 8.5% last year. We expect G&A to run in the low 8% range for the full year 2012.
Net income increased $1.3 million for the quarter to $1.2 million, or $0.13 per share, compared to a net loss of $92,000 or $0.01 per share in the prior year quarter.
When looking at net income on a sequential basis, net income increased 58.1% when compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. The 8.7% comps and tight labor and operating expense management contributed to the significant decrease of the expectation.
We ended the quarter with $5.8 million in cash and investments. During the quarter, we purchased and retired 430,000 shares at an average cost of $5.97 per share, for a total cost of $2.6 million and completed the current $5 million share repurchase authorization. In total, we purchased 859,000 shares at an average price of $5.88 per share.
For our second quarter 2012 financial guidance, we are forecasting sales of $24.7 million, and net income of $1.25 million, or earnings of $0.14 per share. Our guidance reflects the expectation of same-store sales increase of approximately 1% for the second quarter, as we rollover the 9.1% comp last year. In addition, you will not have the favorable impact of weather and the calendar shift in Q2 that we had in Q1. We believe our guidance is reasonable based upon sales results to-date.
I will now turn the call back to Berke before we go to Q&A.
Berke Bakay
Thanks, Christi. As I briefly mentioned in my opening remarks, we are very pleased with the first quarter as it represents the sixth consecutive quarter of positive same-store sales, which we believe is amongst the top of polished casual dining space for the trailing two-year period.
The first quarter was also the ninth consecutive quarter that we experienced positive traffic trends, which we believe demonstrates the strength and momentum of our brand in multiple markets. While we are pleased with our first quarter results, we know that we must continue to innovate to remain relevant with our guests.
To this end we have several initiatives in place that are designed to track guests traffic and increase average guests check.
During the quarter, we implemented several programs that contributed to our strong results. We continue to build on the success of our food-based promotions by introducing two promotions during the quarter. These food-based promotions showcase new items such as our half plate chicken caprese sandwich and carrot cake, while allowing us to source a guest feedback that is valuable and helping us to ensure, our menu is relevant.
The food-based promotions also provide opportunities to generate excitement among our guests and give them a reason to come back more frequently. These promotions continue to drive new traffic and capitalize on the success of our preliminary initiatives over the past 18 months. In late March, we rolled out our spring menu update, including a menu vehicle that improves reliability, durability, and sophistication, while reducing the cost associated with menu changes by moving to a plastic sleeve or new menus can be inserted and replaced with minimal cost.
The menu update includes several changes to existing offerings and we introduced a handful of new items several of which were successful food-based promotion items in the past, such as our Thai beef noodle salad or Spanish top brand.
Feedback from the new menu has been positive and many engineering analysis indicate a modest improvement average check. In early April, we rolled out our Wine down Wednesday program in eight restaurants. This promotion place off of our successful Valentine's Day promotion and includes half of followers of wine throughout the restaurant every Wednesday.
Initial guests feedback has been very favorable and we're seeing a significant increases in the average number of products sold in comparison to last year for these restaurants and also moderate increases in average check for those guests participating in the promotion.
We continue to monitor the program and its impact on traffic and margins. We are also testing happy hour initiatives at various restaurants to drive traffic and increase frequency of loyal customers.
The philosophy behind the happy hour initiatives is to ensure that our award-winning happy hour remains relevant to our guests for years to come, just as it was in the past. These programs are in their early stages and we will provide an update on our next earnings call.
Also as of last Tuesday, we rolled out our improved take-out program after testing it for several months in select restaurants. The program includes an improved IT component, which should facilitate faster service, better packaging quality, and improved internal training to provide a better guest experience. We feel that this initiative has significant outside potential as our take-out sales are approximately 2% of our total sales, which is well below those of our peer group.
With the recent promotion of Jenny Elkins to VP of Operations, and Chris Moran to VP of Food & Beverage, we have completed our senior leadership team and believe we have the right team in place to take the concept to the next level.
Our strategy as an organization is clear. We plan to build a premier polish casual concept that is distinguished by our award-winning sushi and new American cuisine, as well as our significant bar business. We differentiate ourselves from our competitors by successfully executing three distinct businesses in four different day parts. As of today, we operate 23 highly profitable restaurants in 16 states.
Kona Grill as stands today as industry leading operating margins and same-store sales momentum and has a great platform for further unit expansion. Our vision as the new management team of Kona Grill is to take this brand to the next level of its growth base, while we maintain a disciplined return investment strategy.
In summary, we are very excited about the growth potential of our brand, especially evidenced by our recent results. We're diligently working to build our pipeline and build continue to evaluate sites in both new and existing markets that meets our return investment targets. We are confident that we will be able to build a strong pipeline that will enable us to choose the best sites for our concept. We will update our target for new restaurant openings when new leases are executed.
In an effort to better align with our high-quality food and service offerings, we are updating the design and decor specifications for remodels and future restaurants. The design will be modern and attractive while relevant for the next stage of our growth.
This new design pallet includes variations of materials, fixtures, furniture and decor that can be used interchangeably depending upon location and trade area. We are incorporating some of these elements into the remodel of our Chandler, Arizona restaurant, which is selected for this well. I'm very eager to see how our guests and employees respond to new design elements.
It's been an exciting three months since I stepped into this role and I continue to be amazed by the talent and committed individuals that contribute to the success of our company in everything.
In conclusion, our momentum is stronger than ever. I firmly believe that we have the people and programs in place to drive additional profitability in 2012. Thank you for your continued support.
Now, with that, I would like to open the call up for any questions you might have. Vince, please open the line for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator: Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) Our first question is from the line of Mike Malouf with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please, go ahead.
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Hi, Berke, and a great job on the quarter.
Berke Bakay
Thank you.
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
A question about G&A, I was actually pretty impressed that G&A was just a little bit over $2 million in the quarter. I was expecting the spending to be a little bit higher. And I'm just wondering if you could give us a little bit color on how that numbers kind of trend going forward? And whether or not we might see some seasonal jumps throughout the year or whether our spending is pretty well contained? Thanks.
Berke Bakay
Sure. Mike, in terms of G&A, the G&A number that you saw in the first quarter, actually we do expect that number as an absolute dollar amount to decrease here for the second quarter, third quarter, and the fourth quarter, for the rest of the year. I guess, it's a function of – you mentioned, you said you were expected that number to be higher, it's a function of tight expense controls that we tried to always do a good job at controlling that line item. So and we do expect that number to go down as an absolute dollar number going forward for the rest of the year.
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Okay, great. Well, that's certainly good news. And then, if I look out the growth, I obviously get asked by investors all the time about expansion, and you touched a little a bit on the pipeline. Can you give us any kind of color on whether the pipelines are starting to get pumped back up again or you out there looking at site just haven't signed any leases, I mean and maybe if you are, can you give us a little bit of insight and how the market seems for a new concept outlook you expect? Thanks.
Berke Bakay
Sure. Well, we are out there, both Mark and I were in very different locations last week and looking for site. As I said in the prepared remarks, I will be hesitant to do give any color or unit level data to you in terms of what we're looking at doing. But here is what I would tell you, which is exact same thing I said on the last call.
We reported almost 20% operating margins. We have started 23 successful restaurants in 16 different states. So the data that we see indicates very strongly that we need to have more restaurants, assuming that we can source deals that make a great return on invested capital sense. So to accomplish that goal, we are off there, working diligently to build our pipeline, so we have the luxury to choose locations that actually make sense, but we are not honored to make decisions just because we told you guys that we were going to open stores.
So that's the mentality that we have, that's the philosophy that we have, we're very excited about it, but also we're very diligent and working very hard about it. The next piece of news that you will get from us on that will be when we execute leases to give more color. I hope this answers.
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
That's helpful. And just if I could just a quick follow-up on that. You'd mentioned that maybe the new restaurants would have a slightly different look or layout maybe slightly more modern. Can you give us a sense of as you cost that out, how much would an average restaurant cost now under the new style to the law? Thanks.
Berke Bakay
Sure, and we are definitely going to valid engineer, our new design. So I don't want anybody to assume that we're going to spend significantly more capital for our new remodels and new store openings. We are still expecting the same range of around $2.5 million net of TI allowance for our new store openings.
Mike Malouf – Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Okay. Thanks a lot, Berke.
Berke Bakay
Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Conrad Lyon with B. Riley & Company. Please go ahead.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Thanks. Yeah let me follow on, a nice job there, Berke. Question about your development guidance, let me ask at different way. Obviously, fantastic job with margins, fantastic job with the same-store sales, as you begin the lap these margins might stay up but, I think same-store sales might come down a little bit. Mike, you try to layer in some new stores as you start to lap these perhaps in the early part of 2013 or is it just still are you just going to try to find the best quality if that is possible to get the best ROIs?
Berke Bakay
Well, let me make it very clear one more time. The strategy behind store openings is to ensure that we have great return investment capital on these projects. We're not going to rush into something so that, we are quickly opening stores, because we have concerns about same-store sales momentum.
I mean there are two different issues. And as you indicated, our margins are very healthy, we have on the two-year basis, we have very healthy same-store sales increases. So the primary goal and concern is to establish our pipeline that has very high likelihood of generating very successful stores for us over the course of many years. So that's the primary goal and that's what we're trying to accomplish.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Okay. So I guess it differently that there is no real-time pressure from your perspective, correct?
Berke Bakay
Absolutely no.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Gotcha. Okay, that's helpful.
Berke Bakay
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Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Gotcha, okay. Digging into just the trends, I'm looking at your revenue guidance for the second quarter. If my math is correct, I think about a 4% growth in average weekly sales. Is there a more just because of the timing issues relative to the first quarter that you might see a slightly lesser amount compared to the first quarter?
Christi Hing
Conrad, this is Christi. Earlier in our prepared remarks we said comp guidance of about 1%. That's kind of where we are at today April 30th, and I know a lot of our peers that have kind of lowered their comp guidance due to the headwinds and some of the other things that we are seeing. We feel comfortable with the 1% guidance that we are giving today.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Gotcha, okay.
Berke Bakay
All right, just to add on what Christi had said, in our prepared marks, we shared – we were actually pretty detailed in terms of giving you a flavor of how our comp store sales performance in Q1 was. So if you look at that and you take away kind of the shift from extra day and if you take that extra day in February and you adjust for the calendar shift, our comps would have been really on 6%. And that what we look is, we look at our patio sales, because we've seen dramatic increases, average 20% give or take on the patio sales, and we have comp stores that we're way over 20%, that's really helped same-store sales.
And as you all of you guys know, the warm weather in East Coast, I mean our ability to open patios in our East Coast restaurant in January, February, and March, really helped us. So if you normalize for that impact, we were right around 4% range for the first quarter, which was clarified in our guidance on same-stores sales.
So couple of things from that point on just to be a little bit more granular and give you guidance, we have a 1.5% pricing increase that we have taken in June. As of today, we have no plans in words to take another price increase in the month of June. So basically double rollover, so there is an impact of that. And also there is a fact that our same-store sales comparisons in the second quarter are harder than our first quarter.
So if you look all of these factors, our guidance of 1% really doesn't indicate any slowdown in business in absolute dollars, but it is really always comps against a week before and eliminating some of the external factors. So on normalized levels, I know it's a little long in that answer, but we wanted to provide some clarity on why the guidance was, what it was.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
That's fine, that's helpful. How about the alcohol mix, maybe with the warm weather did you get any margin benefit maybe people drinking more as well?
Christi Hing
Conrad, we've really didn't see any insist in our alcohol mix, it's always been around the 30% and that has continued to remain the same for Q1.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Gotcha, okay. Final question here, you mentioned some of the turnover that we had commented up here, and then you had some new initiatives. How do you feel, I mean you're quick, let's state this way, how do we know that the newer initiatives that you're putting out are going to generate the same level of success? Are you doing the same level of testing as what was done before or is it composing new type of method for, say, looking at new on-trays, new promotions, or is it pretty much the same method as before?
Berke Bakay
Sure, well as a philosophy, I believe in testing on everything we do. So when we talk about Wine down Wednesday, that's something that we currently have in testing. We have about one month of data on that and we're not going to get too granular on the specifics for competitive reasons, but we have seen a significant increases as we mentioned on both of our guests comps or wine sales overall and our average check, even excluding the wine of sales, same thing on our happy hour initiatives, it's something that we are testing.
We have tested that to grow sales, so to answer your question, yes, everything we test first and we get feedback both from our field and from my guest, and then we make for a positive rollout to the field fully ones that are successful and we eliminate the ones that are not if that's the case.
Conrad Lyon – B. Riley & Co.
Gotcha, okay. That's all I have. Thanks, Berke.
Berke Bakay
You're welcome.
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our next question is from the line of Mark Smith with Feltl and Company. Please go ahead.
Shawn Bitzan – Feltl and Company
Hi, this is Shawn Bitzan sitting in for Mark Smith. Going back to operating expenses, I think you've touched on it a little bit in your commentary, Christi. What do you expect going forward, I'm sorry if I missed it for 2012 and op expenses since it's overall this quarter, is that something that you think can continue?
Christi Hing
Shawn, we believe that it provide guidance, a couple of things that I did mention the lower credit card processing fees that will continue throughout the remainder of the year. And also we mentioned the 60 basis point reduction in marketing expenses. Now, I'll let Berke talk a little bit about, more about that, but marketing is something that when Berke, first came on, he took a really hard look at.
Berke Bakay
Yeah, I mean you should expect the marketing expense leverage that we have to continue. So when I work in here, we made some significant changes on our marketing plan before we used to have a type of spending that I was in personally comfortable with, what I mean by that is couple of spending, we have no way of quantifying. So I would include that's the billboards and other things.
So, we have reallocated some of those marketing dollars, which actually is performing really well, one of that example is that direct mail initiative that we have in Tampa. We have seen significant guest count increases with that program. But overall absolute dollars, we have cup marketing and we have also reallocated type of the marketing spend that we have. So from that piece, you should expect the leverage going forward on the restaurant operating expenses level.
Shawn Bitzan – Feltl and Company
Okay. Will you say the same goals for natural gas and we can expect something similar to the reduction as we saw here or....
Berke Bakay
Well, I don't control the way, assuming that the seasonal patterns are holding. We obviously benefited from natural gas because of the warm winter weather, but that's something that is out of our control.
Shawn Bitzan – Feltl and Company
But as a whole, you'd say operating expense were trending fairly similar to Q1?
Berke Bakay
We're not going to get too much granular on that, but we don't talk line item specific. But I wanted to give you a color at least, you should look at marketing as something that is sustained and then we will continue, because all that programs that be able to cut and we feel very comfortable with it.
Shawn Bitzan – Feltl and Company
Thank you so much.
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our next question is from the line of David Khan with Raymond James. Please go ahead.
David Khan – Raymond James
Fantastic start for a great quarter, great numbers. Well, with respect to the new take-up program, can you give us any idea on what your expectations are?
Berke Bakay
Sure. Well, David to be fair, program has started last week, so we have very limited data. And I don't want to start guessing things, but we have seen significant improvements on our take-up business or the test restaurants that we have seen. So we have – and we have gotten great feedback in terms of knowledge of our staff, the packaging, the technology piece that goes into the restaurant. So, I'm excited about it, but I will be hesitant to give you any color just because I have six days of information on it.
David Khan – Raymond James
Excellent. Once again really good start for running a business, Berke. Good quarter.
Berke Bakay
I Appreciate it.
Thank you. And our next question is from the line of Lee Giordano with Imperial Capital. Please go ahead.
Lee J. Giordano – Imperial Capital, LLC
Thanks, a great quarter guys. Can you talk a little more about the Konavore program? How you see that working out, you'd still be continuing to grow that program in the future? Thanks.
Christi Hing
Our Konavore program remains strong. We have, I believe, over 230,000 members. From that data base, we are able to message different promotions regarding happy hour initiatives, anything we do for holidays like Mother's Day. So we will continue to use that as a vehicle to communicate to our loyal guests.
Lee J. Giordano – Imperial Capital, LLC
Thank you.
Thank you. And at this time I'm showing no further questions. I'd like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Bakay for any closing remarks.
Berke Bakay
Well, thank you Vince. As always, I wanted to thank each of you for joining us this afternoon and thanks for your continued support of Kona Grill.
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Ahh nice, the trinity idea is coming together now. ^_^ Lacies IS just like Alyss/Alice, AND she has the B-Rabbit power. Those Baskerville women, they all be crayzee! XD
And she told Jack to be a prostitute? Haha, that's awesome. I'd buy him!! :D
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I'm not quite sure where her tomb is. I kind of assume it's Vessalius property since that's where Oz's coming of age ceremony was, and it's not in Sablier where the Baskerville mansion was... but did the Vessalius always own it?
Oz didn't grow up there, as if the Vessalius actually *live* somewhere else: "It is a beautiful mansion, isn't it? Word has it that it was built over 200 years ago, but now it's only used for the Coming of Age ceremony. You can seldom come here, so think of it as a strange party of sorts and enjoy yourself!"
That mansion is also where the Clock Tower of Silence is, the clock that stopped ticking 100 years ago. It's linked to a prophecy: "When the one whom we await descends upon the promised land, the bell will toll to break the silence." Yura had a clock tower like that in his mansion (here + 2 pages), and when it reached midnight he said "lets reenact the tragedy." Seems important. The Clock Tower of Silence was stuck right before midnight, and when Oz touched it it moved to midnight position.
In that Pandora Hearts pilot, it's said that Black Rabbit controls time.
Anyway, point being, seems like the clock is tied to the Sablier tragedy somehow, but it's not located in Sablier. It's at the now-Vessalius mansion. And is that mansion even owned by Vessalius? Or is it some national landmark because of the prophecy so everybody goes there?
...where was I going with this? >.
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Oh yes, I'm sure Jack had a horrible time charming the skirts off noble ladies. XD
I kid. I know he had a terribly rough childhood, and I love him all the more for it. Obviously his career would have to start with much more unpleasant customers. I mean, if he started out as young as we saw him on the street, he'd have a harder time attracting female clientele. That age caters to the "creepy old man" demographic. ~_~
I just hope nobody's gonna accuse him of being a gold digger with Glen now. =/ Though it might explain why Glen kept him around 8D... Whatever way that relationship started, Jack and Glen became genuine best friends.
Speaking of Lacie hating "common sense," I was reminded of the Alice quote from the Disney cartoon: "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
And about the earrings Lacie gave Jack. They gotta be some kind of magical mood ring earrings, lol. They change color from blue to red!! (scroll down for pictures) What's up with that??
Ohhh, and this explains the amount of sympathy Jack had for finding Vince and Gil like that. And why he told Vince to be proud of his eyes. SO CUTE!! *_*
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LQ scan of the chapter is out.
Nice haircut of Jack by outgoing, no... creepy, Lucie. She's like another Alice (Intention of Abyss?). What she said at the end makes me think that my thought is correct about Lucie = another Alice.
And Jack became evil just to meet her?
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@Neiru: everything u said was sooo well!!!! i think precisely the same!*.* exactlyyyy. i agree in everything u said.
i got that sensation too, that Jack loved her more than she will ever love him. In fact, she might like him, but not "love" him, when i saw her blushing for Ozwald i got like =_= wth?!
and omg, i laughed so much with your interpretation of Lacie´s goodbye words, looool. so true. But that´s exactly how it felt.
and let me say although im very grateful to her for giving strength to Jack to live, i cannot be grateful to the way she did it. and then leaving [for YEARS], it was awful. Jack endured too much pain. so many pain that for her he killed his best friend and he´s been killing whoever he needs to kill and that he considers a hindrance. i think he doesnt love her anymore, he is only obsessed with her. i hope someone can "bring him back" u know.
Well i believe that Lacie might be alive when he met Glen, at least for the first meeting... because i find it strange if suddenly Jack appears on Baskervilles mansion and
"Hey, you! i want us to be best buddies because Lacie was important to us! lets create a pocket watch with her song, kay? oh and btw, let me make her a grave in my house"
Glen was a serious, "closed" person. He would not let a stranger to become his bf unless Lacie made them friends? or Jack just seduced him XP.
Other thing i noticed...Lotti did not know who was Lacie and she lived in the Baskerville mansion for some time right? how odd, i wonder how many years the two friends spent together after Lacie´s "death"...
and now that we know that is possible that Lacie had a crush on Ozwald, perhaps the theories that Alice/Alyss are her daughters will revive again, this time with a high possibility of Ozwald being the twin´s dad XD LOOOL
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Yeah, it could go either way, I think. Either Lacie is already gone by the time Jack gets to the Baskervilles or she's still around.
If Lacie's dead: Jack might come in asking about Lacie, wearing her earring. Judging by Lacie not being allowed to go out without Glen's permission, she might not have been very well known, or even kept a secret. Glen would want to meet with Jack to see how Jack knows about Lacie. He could hear out his story and sympathize with Jack because he knows what a headache Lacie is, and maybe feel bad that Jack had to go through all that and feel somewhat responsible. He seems like a pretty reasonable guy (like Leo) when you don't push specific buttons that make him lose his temper.
And I'm sure Lacie meant a lot to Glen even though she was so much trouble, so him and Jack could bond over that. Glen could give Jack the second earring, they could make the watch, and... the grave? I'm still not sure whose property that was 100 years ago. Maybe it was Glen's or Oswald's property and Vessalius just claimed it after the tragedy. Though, since Jack took Alice to visit the grave 100 years ago, it must've been a place he had access to, so maybe it was Vessalius' back then... or Glen's.
If Lacie's alive: I'd really like to see the interaction between Jack and Lacie when they meet again. How she'd feel about what he did, what she'd tell him now. I suspect she wouldn't be officially available romantically. Maybe she'd be married off to Oswald. =/ In this case, yeah, she'd probably introduce Jack to Glen. Jack keeps holding a yellow rose in pictures, meaning jealousy, so I expect him to be jealous over Lacie at someone somehow. Maybe Lacie got bored of Oswald and would ask Jack to kill him. ~_~ Well this is all wild speculation. But, if she is alive when they meet, I wouldn't imagine that Jack would take the idea of Lacie being sacrificed sitting down, and he would do something to sabotage that. Yet he seemed to be okay in the flashbacks with Glen.
@Tomacco: where'd you see the green earrings? (I'm collecting earring colors.)
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OZwald. OZ. Okay. Did you people say that already? You probably did. Okay, I'm really tired.
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Though I think shit-flinging should also have standards - no personal, no behind the scenes.
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Where did toy find it to read, I cannot find it anywhere yet
Despite the fact you know you have fallen into despair, you still fight for hope.
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Ah I see I see, thanks for the information Neiru
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Lacie is one crazy bitch lol
I have mixed feelings about Jack. What he did wasn't good, so many died just cause of one person and his obsession with her but then again he was an abandoned person without will till he met her so mehh.
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Look guys Blood Red Rain~ AHAHAHAHAH~
O_O...Lacie seems like a nice girl.
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Lain666 said:
Now that Jack turned out to be a gigolo, I wonder how many fans he will have?
Another thing I have been thinking about is why Laice's tomb is in a property of the Vessalius, not of the Baskervilles.
Sorry about the caps, I'm making a very important point.
hum, in fact...and I never had thought about that! Lacie was always strongly connected to Jack. The song...The TOMB! I wonder...
I love Lacie. I really don't care what sins/crimes she may have committed...Her arguments about the common sense were just great. Even if you come to the same conclusion, you should ask 'Why'. Plus she likes blood red rain. Totally creepy.
She's as creepy as Alyss.
And now, there's something with this manga and cutting hair; there's something with this manga and scissors (srsly just by looking at the scissors, I went 'OMG scissors!!') there's something about this manga and wounded ears!
***lol not because he was a whore. His character is much more interesting now, before he was just the hero everyone worshiped, and appeared to say some nice words or pwn some bad guys through Oz's body... I'm so curious about all this...Jack, Jack, what have you done, what did you want, what do you aim for?
If Lacie was all that mattered to him...what happened when she died? Jack's been smiling since the manga started! wtf has happened?!
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Vincent, Oscar, Glen, Reim, Gilbert, Fang, and prolly other guys, all wear earrings... but Jack's are magical color-changing earrings! ^^;
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Neiru2012 said:
Lacie: "What? Oswald? *blush* .... *turns to Jack* aww, you're real cute but I gtg now! ciao!!"
Jack: "will I ever see you again?!?"
Lacie: "uh, ya, sure... go out and kill, steal, and prostitute yourself until you find me! ^_~"
That's exactly what I thought!! Poor kid, he definitely loved her cause she was the first person to actually care about him and not what his background was but the way she left him just made me mad.
Hope we get to see more of his past next chapter.
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Awww Jack. D: I still support him as ever though.
Lacie is so adorable.
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I LOVE Jack even more now. He always my fav, and now that he got some naughty past, i adore it. I dont get the point of Jack haters. Jack did what he did, to survive, and so that way, to be able to see Lacie someday, which he deeply loved. It must have been so hard to steal and sell his body T_T
yet he carried on, always smiling with pain and hoping to see Lacie again. He might not be the Hero of the tragedy of Sablier, but he is definitely MY hero XD
Liinah said:
When Jack said he didn't want to be called a hero because he killed his best friend, i don't think he was lying.
Btw, i got my first Pandora Hearts volume yesterday, didn't buy before because where i live doesn't sell it, so i had to import it. I'm so damn happy. ^o^
Oh, and couldn't help but remember this when i read Lacie had red eyes:
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oL9jzBjmdmc/TOMBNtYBhUI/AAAAAAAAAKc/g8KV-_pzu2k/s1600/412493.jpg" alt="412493.jpg" />
So true. I dont believe everything Jack said about glen is a lie. Even if turns out that Jack was evil, i believe he really treasured Glen as a best friend.
what a coincidence!i got my 7th vol yesterday and i jumped of joy;3 and its Jack on the cover, kyaaaaaaa
oh that pic really resembles Lacie and Jack. Because im sure that Jack without his hair unbraided must have precisely that hair!!!*.*
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Neiru2012 said:
Maffy said:
I have mixed feelings about Jack. What he did wasn't good, so many died just cause of one person and his obsession with her
What Jack did? You mean the part where Glen ordered the massacre of the whole city? We don't know what Jack did yet... besides kill Glen.
Well tbh I don't think Glen did something bad. I had all my faith on Jack and guess what, he didn't seem like he actually deserved it. Whatever he did, it seems he was the cause of the massacre, not Glen. And besides killing Glen, he didn't seem so eager to help Gil when he himself slashed him and almost killed him lol
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Jack cause of the massacre?? D: That's completely unfounded at this point, especially considering it's blatantly shown that Glen ordered the massacre and that Jack was very unhappy about the massacre. But I'm sure... Glen... had a perfectly reasonable explanation for wanting to kill the entire city? O.o;; I'm sure he had SOME "ends justify the means"-style explanation for it, but to say "I don't think Glen did something bad" is willful ignorance. Nobody's innocent here and, as far as we know right now, Glen still has the most blood on his hands.
Also, Jack did not "almost kill" Gil. He very explicitly and deliberately gave him a non-lethal slash - much lighter than the one Oz gave Gil during the coming of age ceremony, btw, since Jack's slash didn't even leave a scratch - and Jack still stayed at Gil's side for a bit after that before going to find Glen again (because, y'know, Glen was massacring the whole city and most likely about to do something bad to Alice). What else could Jack possibly do right then? He was probably on a deadline (judging by Yura's reenactment of the massacre at here + 2 pages) to stop something by midnight, and considering that the Clock Tower of Silence was frozen right before midnight, he barely made it.
Okay, Theory Time!
I'm... preeetty convinced that Jack was partially possessed by somebody - Lacie or Alice (or Lacie possessing Alice who possessed Jack XD) - during the tragedy:
First, we have the picture of Alice with unconscious Jack who has his sword arm on a string, strongly implying manipulation.
Second, we have the fact that Jack was crying and terribly unhappy throughout the entire tragedy. He wasn't acting like himself (based on Gil's surprise at being slashed, Vince saying that everyone was acting weird because of Alice, how what Jack was saying out loud didn't always match with the agonized emotions he was showing). I mean really, there's a scene of a very miserable-looking Jack, apparently arguing with somebody in his head, saying "Stop it. I don't want to kill people!!"
Third, there is the scene where Jack first confronts Glen. Two odd things happen. First, Glen warns Gil not to come near them, because Jack isn't acting normal (as reinforced by Gil's surprise). Then, Glen attacks Jack. Now, Yen Press translated that last speech bubble of Glen's as "Jack... I must... I have no choice but to take your life--!!" but the actual Japanese volume says "Jack... I... [action particle towards] you--!!"
I dunno how Yen Press got all that out of the vagueness of the phrase (even though, based on the context of Glen charging Jack with drawn sword, we're expected to understand that the "action particle towards" is one of violence), but it still makes me wonder why Glen would have "no choice" but to kill Jack. I don't think Jack non-lethally slashing Gil would provoke that, and Glen was already on a killing spree, which is why Jack was confronting him with desperate questions in the first place. Maybe Glen thought Jack was contaminated and so Glen had "no choice." Maybe the whole city was.
Fourth, we got Glen standing around dead bodies muttering "Lacie." It's too soon to tell if Glen's words are of lament, longing, or blame, but it's clear that something related to Lacie was happening.
Also, it seems that Glen might've done something way in the past that triggered a chain reaction leading to all this, and it weighs heavily on Glen's conscience and karma. Just... the way he talks to Leo during this scene: "Remember that you are the cause of all this. Remember, the fact that you brought him back to life does not mean you saved him. Don't forget that you did this!" And later Leo has internalized this too: "Everything that's happened is because of me!! Well, me and the Will of the Abyss."
While it's understandable why Leo feels this way, Glen's words are interesting. They imply that Glen might've done something similar. This could actually be the reason he wants the Will destroyed. Something he tried to do backfired. Maybe this could also explain why he's hoarding Alice clones. No basis for this yet, but I think it'll be revealed that the Baskervilles are conducting secret experiments to draw the Will into a human-ish body in order to destroy/claim it.
Modified by Neiru2013, Oct 26, 2011 5:59 PM
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Neiru2012 said:
I'm... preeetty convinced that Jack was partially possessed by somebody - Lacie or Alice (or Lacie possessing Alice who possessed Jack XD) - during the tragedy
Now that you said that, it's kinda possible. This page made me a little curious, more specifically the part where Jack says "Her eyes... are pulling me in", it feels like she would be able to control someone and make them do something for her if she really wanted to.
By the way, i don't know if anyone noticed something when Lacie started killing those guys in this chapter, take a look here. And we even started a theory that Lacie may be Alyss. I'm belphegar there
shadowii said:
It's kind ironic how Lacie said all these things to Jack, about not accepting everything he's being told, but in the end he ended up doing all she said "If you are hungry, eat. If you have no money, steal. You've got good looks, Jack. You could sell your body if you wanted to." Everything just to find her, i kinda loved that. It was... crazy, but awesome somehow.
shadowii said:
Those pages... Who is the harmony of the abyss?
Now that i stopped to think about it, there's nothing buried in that grave if it's really Lacie's, right? If she was really sacrificed, i don't think her body would stay in the human world.
Modified by Liinah, Oct 26, 2011 8:01 AM
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Yeah, I noticed the B-Rabbit shadow, but I don't know what to think of the connection between Lacie and Alice yet. They act very similar, but I think there's other explanations for that. Unfounded speculation incoming: I think they were both possessed by the Will as a result of experiments conducted by Glen to harness its power and find a way to destroy it. I think the Black Rabbit is separate from both Lacie and Alice, but I do also entertain the possibility that Lacie was the first one linked to Black Rabbit. The Alices, however, were born from a human womb into the Abyss.
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Second, we have the fact that Jack was crying and terribly unhappy throughout the entire tragedy. He wasn't acting like himself (based on Gil's surprise at being slashed, Vince saying that everyone was acting weird because of Alice, how what Jack was saying out loud didn't always match with the agonized emotions he was showing). I mean really, there's a scene of a very miserable-looking Jack, apparently arguing with somebody in his head, saying "Stop it. I don't want to kill people!!"
Interesting, it explains this (The picture in which dead bodies are shown. The one beside the picture of stabbed Yura)
It seems that Jack did kill people, but, as you say, he might have been manipulated.
I wonder if he killed those people because of B-rabbit's power?
Modified by Lain666, Oct 26, 2011 8:19 AM
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Claude Debussy and Manuel de Falla have in common a close relationship to piano music (both composers were excellent performers on that instrument). Manuel de Falla, one of the most important Spanish composers of the 20th century, was heavily influenced in his creative work by the music of France and in particular by Claude Debussy, but that tendency brought him not only a great deal of inspiration, but also, unfortunately, a severe lack of comprehension in his native Spain. The conservative critics there accused him of accepting foreign influences into his music, and this was related to, among other things, the abrupt political and societal changes in the country before and during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939). The new circumstances greatly distressed the composer and had, unfortunately, a severe impact on his mental health to such an extent that he was forced to flee to Argentina in 1939. A counterpoint to de Falla's virtuosic composition Fantasía bética will be Debussy's famed Preludes with a selection from Book I. Like de Falla, Debussy also encountered incomprehension, if in a different respect, especially at the beginning of his artistic career. In creating his set of Preludes, he took inspiration from the set of 24 preludes by Fryderyk Chopin. The individual compositions with their own programmatic titles are today undoubtedly among Debussy's best known works.
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For his recording of de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish pianist Javier Perianes was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2012. At the age of thirty-seven, he has given recitals in New York at Carnegie Hall, at London's Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, and Royal Festival Hall, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the Philharmonie in Berlin, at the Musikverein in Vienna, and at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, and other important conductors. In the 2015/16 season, his engagements include concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic. Last season he made his debut before the Prague public with the illustrious San Francisco Symphony.
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Three state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar public spaces are changing Halifax's cityscape: Nova Centre, Halifax Central Library, and the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market. But these are more than just structures. They are fusions of ideas, dreams, and desires captured in a series of unique public-engagement activities. Their designs, from construction materials to landscape features, were shaped by comprehensive consultation processes that not only welcomed but also actively sought community input.
The consultation processes merged both traditional and unconventional methods of public engagement to identify what Haligonians wanted in these buildings. From community gatherings to pop-up public-space dialogues—a strategy that aims to connect with people on the streets or in public spaces—these meetings and conferences offered residents multiple opportunities to participate both face-to-face and online. All of the meetings were live streamed. Participants exchanged views through social media, and websites acted as platforms to make public opinion visible and inform dialogue.
"The new library is truly a public space, so we plan to keep creating ways for all citizens to feel their ownership," says Halifax Public Libraries fund-development manager Terri Fraser. One of the creative ways the organization approached the public was by installing a "talking fence," a display of chalkboards that allowed citizens to post their thoughts on the Halifax Central Library construction site.
The public-engagement process for the library was led by Tim Merry, a founding partner of Myrgan Inc., a leadership-guidance company based in Mahone Bay, N.S. "One of the things that made the library project so vibrant in the city has been the public involvement in its design," says Merry. "There's something so exciting about the work when you hear your voice back and see it influencing the heart of the project. That feeds the creativity of it; that feeds the energy of it."
Merry is one of the founders and global stewards of Art of Hosting, a community of practice that has reinvented the way meetings are developed and delivered, from town-hall forums to large conferences. He describes Art of Hosting as the architecture for participatory methodologies that allow people to self-organize and harness collective wisdom, ranging from World Cafés to Open Space Technology. In just a few years, Art of Hosting has evolved from a handful of meeting facilitators to thousands of practitioners who are helping corporate and civic leaders worldwide set the stage for honest and meaningful dialogue.
Mind-blowing revolution
Among them is Amanda Hachey, a part-time independent consultant and part-time co-op developer with the Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick. She contributed to Greater Moncton's Regional Sustainable Transportation Master Plan (RSTMP) Destination 2040 as the leader of its on-street engagement. Destination 2040 aims to build a sustainable, integrated transportation network to meet the community's needs until 2040.
Last September, Hachey and her team hit the streets, sidewalks, buses, bike trails, and parking lots to ask what matters to residents about transportation in their community, gathering insights to inform Destination 2040. They used dialogue bubbles with suggestions such as "increase bus service at peak times" and "better connection between the three communities" to encourage people to think about how transportation affects them and to raise awareness about upcoming public-engagement meetings. They strapped the bubbles on like backpacks, attached them to car windows, and team members carried them.
Recently named one of Atlantic Canada's Top 50 Emerging Leaders, Hachey was introduced to Art of Hosting when she was in Sweden pursuing a master's degree in sustainability. She admits that she went from thinking the process was "flaky" to believing it was visionary. While working with 70 classmates from 30 different countries, she discovered how Art of Hosting invites people to step in and participate. "It blew my mind," she says of the collaborative approach she and her fellow students took to draft a five-page document in three days that decided what they would create together for the coming year, including a commitment to create a community garden and host a film festival. "It's really, really energizing when it works."
Hachey has since applied Art of Hosting's conversational processes to a wide range of functions that she has facilitated, from visioning a marketing plan for organic farmers to action planning at the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council's AGM. Indeed, the co-op she helped co-found, La Bikery, was created in typical Art of Hosting fashion, evolving from a dinner-table discussion among friends to an organization that represents more than 350 members. "We [tend to] hear the loudest voices," she says. Traditional meetings are often geared toward extroverts. "It's in our DNA. But we're missing the potential of 50% of the people in the room."
Merry agrees: "It has become so unsatisfying to go to an event where someone stands up in front and tells you what to think, then we all leave. That is an unsuccessful way of dealing with the economic, environmental, and social challenges we are facing." That's not to suggest that meetings no longer require speakers. In fact, Hachey says that good speakers can "ignite" the discussions that follow.
Online communication tools such as webinars can be great for saving time and money, but there is no replacement for those times when people need to get together in a room. Merry was a team lead for the Nova Centre's six-month province-wide consultation process. Nova Centre's objective to provide a world-class mixed-use development that revitalizes the heart of Halifax is ambitious, and therefore, contentious. "My work is about not buying into right and wrong," says Merry. "My work is about creating the conditions for many, and often conflicting, opinions and perspectives to come together. This way we can see a bigger picture, discern common patterns, and make smart strategic choices about how to move forward."
Months after the Build Your Centre public-consultation process, Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia unveiled a completely new design for the $500-million project. The redesign reflected significant changes requested by members of the public.
As Merry reminded residents in his closing remarks at the Halifax Central Library's final meeting, public engagement is an ongoing process, even after the shovels have gone into the ground. "There's a real invitation to stay in this," says Merry. "The success and potential of this project is as dependent upon the engagement and involvement of the citizens of Halifax as the architects, the libraries, and the library staff."
Merry adds that he is pleased to see more and more meetings becoming highly participatory and responsive. "We're at the point where the culture of participatory has become increasingly mainstream."


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