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Excellent fitness facilities Wonderful view Convenient to downtown locations
The view from our room was excellent. The location was great as well. Within walking distance to the 5th ave. mall and lots of great eating establishments. Hotel was nice, clean and staff was very friendly. Hotel could use some renovations. The decor in the hallways looks like it came from the 70s. The bathrooms are a little small, expecllly in the shower.
The room was clean, the bed comfortable, and the staff was friendly. Make sure to park in the Captain Cook garage and have your parking ticket validated. We were able to walk to dinner and shopping from our hotel - nice!
Very comfortable and clean. Plenty of food and shopping. Had to pay and additional 20 dollars a day to park my own car. The hotel did not own the lot. The desk clerk filled out the passes incorrectly and I received a parking ticket. Took some arguing but I was able to get the hotel to reverse the parking charges so I can pay for the ticket.
The location was wonderful. Both times we stayed there, about a week apart, we were given rooms right next to the elevators which ran all night long.
The hotel was nice overall and the front staff was very friendly and efficient. The hotel seemed very clean and I was always acknowledged by the hotel staff. The hotel restaurant was very good and has amazing views. I did not encounter any problems while I was there. I thought the hotel was in desperate need of a refresh or update. The rooms and the entire hotel seemed a bit dated. I stayed on the Captains Deck and the rooms were a bit small and did not impress. The sink did not drain properly. The most disappointing part of the trip was the breakfast which was never more than like warm at best. It come from the kitchen which is far away. The breakfast had 3 warm choices and one was always potatoes that were recycled from the night before. Not sure if I would spend that kind of money to stay at that hotel again.
Great hotel for business
Breakfast. Staff was nice Severely dated and in a rundown neighborhood. Did not feel clean.
Close to my home, clean, affordable!!! We had no do not disturb sign!
Close to the airport, shuttle driver excellent. Room had no air condition, in fact the heat was turned on and the room temp was close to 90. no thermostat to turn the heat off. Had to argue with desk clerk to get another room even though there were only 10-15 guest. Musty smell, outdated and dirty.
-Roomy -Wi fi was down - No business center even tho advertised as amenities - No hot water for a few hours
The price. My only real complaint is the smell that pervaded the room. It was strong enough to give me a headache, and most closely resembled the smell of urine.
Room was roomy with a separate living room and bedroom. There was a fold-down bed to accommodate more people. The hotel is on a quite busy road so it is noisy at times. The walls seem thin because I heard people laughing and cutting up outside. The internet service was down with no apologies, the front desk simply said someone "was working on it". I worked at nights so was seeping during the daytime. The maid knocked on my door for a long time to be let in despite of the locked door providing the message someone was in there. No "Do Not Disturb" sign available to place outside the door.
Location was good to hit some nearby places we wanted to go, the rooms were seperated. Immediately walking in the room smelled like cheap hookers, it was out of date and looked run down, and the tv remote didn't work for the tv.
Room was large Room was advertised as "non smoking". Smoke residue started an asthsma attack in one in our party. Also facility is not handicap accessable- the only rooms available were on floor 2 & 3 no elevator! There was no other available room to switch to.
I like inlet towers for the value Shower drain very slow to drain. Toilet awkward location behind bathroom door. Old facilities. Hair on couch. Dirty baseboards. Poor air circulation.
Compared to other Hotel rates in area, rates were great. Room was large and had a microwave and refridgerator. Restaurant had good food. Bad- hotel is dated and needs to be renovated. Tv was 20 plus years. Bath had mold around tub and hot water was like warm. Sheets were wrinkled like maybe they weren't changed. They also were very thin. There was no fitted mattress pad or a fitted sheet. Mattress was warn out and had lumps.
Front office desk staff was fairly good. Close proximity to airport (~5 miles). Decent view from our 11th floor window. The carpet in the halls were quite stained, our AC in the room did not cool. The bathroom vent fan did work at all. There was a tube of caulk left on the floor. There were several things that were not clean including the bathroom counter and trim, and bathroom vent. The TV remote for the old tube-type TV did not work and the battery cover was just taped on. The staff did bring us a fan to cool off the room. That helped the temperature some, but largely the reason for running the AC unit was for cover noise so we wouldn't hear other rooms or outside noise as well as being able to close the blinds to make it darker so we could get to sleep early for our 2:30AM wake-up time for our flight.
Coffee in lobby. Convenient to restaurants. The price for a cup of coffee
Good location. Spacious room. Comfortable beds. Nice market nearby. Walkable to city center and parks/trails.
It is always a great experience at the Inlet Tower. I always walk into a clean room, with a great view overlooking the city. The employees give great customer service, whether it be at the front desk, at the bar, or at the resturaunt. You cannot beat the quality for the price.
Their suggestion of another hotel They refused to check me in. Angel, the woman processing my check-in could not find my reservation. She was rude and inhospitable. I will never go back.
Great restaurant, location, and friendly staff. Left with 20 bug bites on my face, arms, and back...
location to airport
Close enough to everything that you could walk. Large parking lot. Big room. Hotel itself is a bit dated and could use a makeover. Friendly staff. Rooms smelled a little musty.
excellent view could not sleep due tp bed bugs
Nick at the front desk was courteous, helpful, and professional. Always greeted me with a smile and willing to help. Elevator was slow and only one was working
Great location downtown with free parking.
We enjoyed our recent stay at The Sheraton. The staff was very friendly and helpful. We really appreciated their pet policy and their welcoming attitude to our fur-child. We will be back!
My husband and I celebrated our anniversary here. We booked the 11th floor which is the club level, allowing access to a club room that has 24/7 complimentary coffee, sofa, bottled water and juices as well as light snacks. Also, every morning the lounge provided breakfast and every evening wine, beer and appetizers. We highly recommend spending the few extra dollars to stay in a club room!! The hotel does not have a pool and the spa is difficult to get information on as well as access to. Also, there is no valet parking.
It was cheap. No breakfast, very slow wifi, elevators antiquated, rooms small and not comfortable.
lockaion no vending machines no tv guide
Great hotel, staff were awesome!
Bed & linens were very nice & comfortable. We appreciated they let us check in early after a long drive from the cruise ship in Whittier. Room was nicely decorated & everything worked fine. Location not the best. Walking by the BMW dealer towards the restaurant, a sales lady came out & told us to be careful - it was not a good part of town (crime)? Overall we thought it was too much $$ per night for 3 nights. No deals. The institutional toilet was a surprise, since the other amenities in our room were nice. Very loud noise when flushing. The restaurant staff - slow, maybe overwhelmed (understaffed) and incorrect' additions' on the breakfast bill. Sky high prices, too.
Went for Valentine's day/night Check in was quick check out was quick Bed was very clean and comfy Not enough parking
Very clean room Mountain view No electric plugs on night stands Not enough plugs on desk stand No free WiFi - but knew that beforehand No free parking - but knew that beforehand Bed was too soft and sheet too starchy No vending machines on floor
Bed was great, view was nice, food was good, service was good. Bathtub was dated, awkward and mildew stains, no shuttle, no pay per view.
Location Charged for parking and no room for parking staff did not communicate where to park. Heater would make large banging sound. Neighbors were loud.
The staff was very friendly and our room was clean with a nice view. The hotel was located in a part of the city where it was easy to access many of the attractions we were interested in. Overall it is a lovely hotel. The hotel was a bit spendy and we were kind of disappointed that they didn't have an indoor pool. They also did not offer any form of free breakfast, and for the price of booking a night there, the breakfast we ordered wasn't the greatest quality.
The king bed was comfy, and the balcony was neat (though I'd get more use from it in the summer months...thought for next time). I found the amenities more lacking than I'd expected. I was pretty sure I saw cable TV listed, but the remote control's guide feature didn't work, and there weren't many channels. There was no mini-fridge; I thought those were pretty much standard in any hotel above "motor lodge" class. The toiletries (shampoo, body wash, etc) came out of dispensers). There were only a few cheap plastic cups in the room...so cheap that two of them were cracked and unusable before I even got them out of the plastic wrapper. I also expected parking to be included; instead, it was an extra 12 bucks. That's not awful, but for $100 a night you should be able to toss in parking.
The staff at the front desk was very friendly. They just smiled and welcomed us back when we were in and out all night with a big group of friends who also had rooms.
Location is great for shopping and downtown restaurants. Bath was in need of updating. Very limited parking lot. First floor check-in area was cramped, cluttered and needed updating.
Location Staff was rude and unprofessional, not to us but witnessed towards another guest. Hotel is old, outdated and needs a major remodel.
aCean and well-located. Getting up in the dark to catch a plane--not the hotel's fault.
Location, accessibility, value for price, helpful staff, clean and comfortable rooms False fire alarm later announced as a drill at 5:30 am.
Pretty expensive for a 1 night, no amenities stay.
accomodations room to hot and front desk wouldn't provide a copy of receipt upon check out.
I'm an incredibly high strung guy who demands a lot of myself, so I always know when I travel Alaska that I need to be more present to the amazing geography and lower my standards on the room I'll barely spend any time in while enjoying the outdoors. I travel to Anchorage one a quarter and have noticed that the Starvrating system isn't quite the same as the lower 48 states. With that said I was incredibly impressed with this hotel for its masterful balance of Alaska heritage (complete with animals) and modern hotel amenities. No need to lower any standards, but rather super clean rooms with modern furnishings and space efficient room layout. Staff was chipper, helpful, and really jovial. Nothing notable... However, I had an odd experience. I hydrate a lot on trips and typically go through a gallon a day. One night I ran out of water and I searched the hotel for bottled water, but there were zero options. Every single vending machine in the hotel was stocked full of soda and multiple brands of energy drinks. I ended up driving to a nearby gas station for some H2o. Not a big deal...
I was completely offended when the staff photocopied my driver's license and also took my credit card. I was told they do that (photo copy a driver's license) because of some of the actions that have taken place so they need to have this in case something happens - it creeped me out and made me wonder if I should even stay there in the first place! Are the clients so sketchy that everyone is a suspect? They claimed all hotels do that (copy the driver's license) they just don't tell you - I don't believe it - I hadn't had that happen before - I won't stay there again. The rooms were fine - this action is not!
Not much of anything No parking, dirty linen, uncomfortable beds
Was really disappointed with our stay. Had to pay for parking, was issued a parking pass but wasn't guaranteed a parking spot. the staff was rude and not helpful at all. The floors were dirty enough to turn my feet black. We stayed for two nights and didn't have room service. I went to front deck and the guy said the only clean the room if you stay for a week. So I could only get clean towles if I went and got them from the front desk. Had high hopes but was won't be staying here again.
Good location. The woman working the mornings was very helpful to correct mistakes made upon arrival. Free coffee. Hot tub was inaccessible. Loud guests during quiet hours. Broken key card readers.
Good location. Comfortable. Although they tried to charge me twice which was very inconvenient because I'm still waiting on my refund to get back into my account. They had inexperienced front desk workers but issue was taken care of
I liked the location, the rooms were fairly clean, it had a kitchen with cook top and dishes, and the kids liked the swimming pool. It was quiet. Parking is and additional $10/night but we were able to park on the street for free from 10pm to 8am. The breakfast was just a few items, such as fruit, packaged oatmeal, or packaged muffins. There wasn't any room service.
location and price manger needs to work on her customer relations abit
The room was filthy! We asked for an extra pillow and they were "out" the whole time we were there. If you want extra towels, you have to bring your dirty towels to the front desk and IF they have any they might let you have one. The kitchenette is not stocked with anything, but you can ask for some stuff...good luck getting any. I would not recommend this place.
When I checked in the lady was rude and unprofessional
Close location to airport Limited food options
Location, cleanliness The cafe staff were really nice but something was wrong with the food there.
We were supposed to get to Anchorage at 12:00 noon. Our flight was bumped, and we didn't get in until 12:00 midnight. Our luggage didn't make our plane either. We got to the hotel after midnight, the staff was excellent! They were able to give us tooth brushes, toothpaste, shaving cream and razor. I can't tell you how nice that was when you have nothing more than the clothes on your back! Thanks Marriott. I'll be staying with you again. Todd Greer, Wildomar CA
Location, Cleanliness and Facilities Air conditioning was not working and I was asked to open windows and sleep. After multiple calls they sent me a fan. They told me they will fix it next day and it is the same problem. They made me move next day to a different room. I was on vacation and expected little more from Marriot
Location was good and it had a free shuttle to and from the airport. Bed was very comfortable and had plenty of pillows. TV was located in and odd spot so when we pulled it out to watch it while laying in bed the cable cord came undone. Bathroom didn't have a fan either so it go steamy in there right away. Shower was very spacious.
No reward points given because it was booked online with who they call third party.
The bathroom didn't have a fan. That made me sad. The TV wasn't facing the bed either. Wtf is up with that.
Nice place, and I travel a lot. Great shuttle service. Nice and helpful people at the front desk, thanks.
New decor. Wonderful staff, especially the short-order breakfast cook. Would have liked to see the edges of the carpet in the hallways cleaned. Did mention this, and they were going to address it.
Embassy Suites is one of my favorite hotels, and the Anchorage location is no exception. The rooms are clean and quiet. The shuttle was a lifesaver. The fitness room was excellent, as was the pool. On this trip we really relied on the laundry facilities and were pleased there were enough washers/dryers so there wasn't a wait to use them or it was very little. Since we traveled in the summer, we also relied on the blackout shades. It was a phenominal experience!
Beautiful modern design, the set up of the room was very efficient The room wasn't entirely perfect. We were missing sofa bed cushions and a coffee maker. Otherwise, it was great!
I picked the hotel because of its location, I needed to be near the Alaska native medical center but found that the room was so clean and perfect. One of the nicest hotels I've ever stayed at. The staff was super friendly! There wasn't much to like! I wish they had more of a set schedule for shuttle service. And the morning I needed a shuttle to the airport the driver hadn't shown up to work but that's an isolated incident.
Clean environment. Free breakfast. Calm location. There were no locks for the toilet or the bathroom. Apparently this is the case in all rooms (!). We stayed in a 2-bed room with other family members including children. No locks don't make sense at all. I'd not pick this hotel again just for this reason if I'm going with family again.
Convenient location. Clean room. Pretty good wifi which is not the usual for Alaska . Bed was comfortable. Very thin walls. Drapes wouldn't close all the way because the a/c was in the way so light was pouring in all night. Had to sleep with a pillow over my head.
very good service from the staff, shuttle service excellent, breakfasts good. no
staff is very good, services is the best, good room, all the facilities is up to standered. nothing.
Location is great. Centrally located, but fairly quiet.
Evening front desk manager, Meagan, was extremely helpful, courteous, and professional. Not many out there can remember a clients name. Will have to be back a couple of times over the next few months and will definitely stay here. Need to add something to breakfast bar to make it stand out. The same as everyone else's. Ran out of both regular and robust coffee at the same time and neither replaced for over ten minutes. Not good when it is sub-freezing weather.
Everything was very clean. Sheets, duvet, bathroom, countertops. Staff was very friendly and helpful.
Good central location for shopping and dining. Friendly staff. A decent breakfast included. Pool My five year old son found an empty vodka bottle under the bed. There was popcorn, bottle caps and other debris under the bed. My wife had to borrow a vacuum from staff to finish cleaning the room. Just as we were planning on using the pool, it was closed for cleaning at 3pm until sometime the next day so we had to use a pool at another Hilton property, an inconvenience since our room was just across from the pool but at least they did give us another option to swim.
The chocolate chip biscuits at the front desk were an indication of the warmth of the staff at the hotel. The free breakfasts were pleasant and there were plenty of inexpensive restaurants near by. The hotel is a little out of the way for those who aren't working mid-town. It is neither near the vibrant downtown nor the airport where there are some interesting walks. The shuttle to the airport is helpful and I believe the shuttle takes guests to some other places too but alas not to the golf course!
breakfast i lost internet twice but it could be the provider
It was nicely decorated as updated and very clean. The heater/ac unit I my room ran constantly wich was ok kind of sounded like a fan but it would squeak/ chirp every so often and I had to turn music on to drowned it out. And I should just travel with my own pillows but I really hate hotel pillows that are so fluffy and soft. But it's a nice hotel and I'd stay there again.
Clean and safe. Perfect central location. Walking distance to TGI Fridays. Golden Coral and Starbucks. Friendly staff and large hot tub.
Hot tub fantastic but facilities could use and upgrade on paint and ceiling. Acoustics are wonderful in there great design to minimize sound.
Clean room, friendly, personal staff. great location. Noisy A/C. Price too high in light of property. Price jacked up for summer guests. What about us who are Honors people? Most Garden Inns have a cocktail hour and snacks for business travelers, but not this one.
Lovely hotel, beautiful room
Attractive decor Not enough towels and supplies
the beds the remodel
All of the staff were very friendly and helpful. No pay-per-view movies
clean and close to the airport I could hear the motors of the elevator running all night, very noisy. Police were in at 4:00 am pulling a tenant out of their room. It took an hour to do so which made it impossible to get any sleep.
The young lady that checked us in was very good at her job but she had a lot to do. Only one person at the front desk. We waited 20 minutes to check in, people behind us waited a lot longer.
Super clean, close to airport, nice bar and very good restaurant.
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Breakfast was not included and this was not communicated well at the time of booking.
This hotel is always on my 'go to' list. The staff at the hotel are amazing and attentive. The pool and room service was the big seller on this trip.
Overall, the location, staff, pool, room service/restaurant and rooms are great. The cleanliness of the rooms are hit and miss; when it's a miss it's definitely something worth saying.
Clean quiet rooms with comfortable beds and lobby coffee service
Clean and friendly No
Swimming pool Bed bugs! Bed is gross af! Probably didn't change it... The following morning a had this red swollen marks all over may body.
near the airport location No everything was good
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clean, staff friendly and helpful, nice little restaurant/bar on location, conveniently located
The first room was not vacuumed and to small for the five of us. Fortunately the family didn't complain. We were only there for 12 hours and that was enough. It was just a pace to flop and to allow us to see downtown Anchorage. I should have paid the $70 more for the Hilton downtown. The woman at the front desk moved us immedistely to a larger room with a rollaway bed. She was very pleasant and helpful. She made our stay there bare able . Kudos to her.
Location was great. Very close to all of the Fur Rondy activities. Staff not super friendly. Airport advertising said Ramada included free breakfast but it did not.
I booked this place on the fly for a last minute business trip. The room was ~$92 and since I was only staying there for 11 hours, the price was right. The bed was comfortable. The locks on the doors worked. When I arrived at 9:30 pm, people were just sorta hanging out in the dimly lit parking lot. The car next to mine had interior lights on with no one inside. There was ~$60 in cash scattered around on the ground by the driver's door. I went inside and told the font desk attendant before she gave me my hotel key and she said she'd look into it. When I arrived at my room, I opened the door and found a pantless man laying in one of the beds. I apologized, walked downstairs and informed the front desk lady after she returned from the parking lot. crime scene. She apologized and asked if the pantless man was, "...at least good looking". I actually thought that was really funny- And this night was just getting stranger! She gave me another key and promised the room would be empty. On the elevator ride up, I got to hang out with two mildly drunk/drugged out early 20-somethings before arriving at my room. The bed was comfy but the heat didn't work. In an Alaskan hotel in October..the heat didn't work. Sigh...so I bundled up, enjoyed the comfy bed while the majority of my fellow hotel guests partied the night away. This is a weird place and if you're not up for that, stay far far away.
The only thing I didn't like was the train station is right next to the hotel.
The staff was really great! Dirty, dangerous location.
Great location to everything and a good pub attached to it Bathrooms need work
Free Airport pick-up. Close to Downtown and Train Station. Nice little restaurant attached. Awsome smoked salmon omelet.
It's great location for my meetings and also walking distance to mall and restaurants. Nothing, every time we stay there, we are treated great and staff always with great smiles day or night.
Nice large suite. Clean, comfortable. Good location downtown. Hotels in downtown Anchorage are expensive, although this one was a little more reasonable than others. Room had a a slightly smoky smell when first entering ( it is a non smoking hotel). Mention to desk on check out and they said they would check it.
LARGE ROOM IT was not a full service hotel but there was a hotel across the street that owned it and you could use there things.
Nothing we never got to stay their. They put us up in a Manor a half a block a way. It way dirty and trashy. Their was a apartment building in between us and the Puffin Inn. This was a terrible booking, we did not even get to stay at the Puffin Inn. We stayed at the Manor a half a block away. It was filthy dirty, stained and very run down. I would never recommend this to any one traveling.
good location to airport
Close to airport. Management tries to make most of what it has Starting to show its age. Rooms are small, at least the out buildings. These rooms need to be renovated.
Clean quiet Crack queen
NOTHING OLD AND DINGY ROOM BED SLANTED TO THE HEAD WATER IN SHOWER GOES FROM FREEZING TO SCALDING HOT IN .001 SEC's WAIT AT AIRPORT FOR SHUTTLE WAS NEARLY 1 HR W MOTEL ABOUT 5 MIN AWAY. RM WAS 89 DOLLARS FOR A 20 DOLLAR A NIGHT DIVE, AND I WOULDN'T PAY 20.. I HONESTLY WILL SLEEP ON AN AIRPORT BENCH BEFORE I BOOK THERE AGAIN!
Great staff Everyone works with what they've got Cheap and easy Close to airport 24 hour shuttle I got a late check out as I arrived after midnight. Stored luggage for me after I moved out. Price is right for travelers on a budget That old, familiar motel smell in the room .
My husband really enjoyed the breakfast! Everything was clean. Overpriced for the accommodations! No exhaust fan in bathroom!
The breakfast and coffee were great. The thin walls, rumbling cars, and aggressive hotel guests with laundry problems.


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pre-modifier, post-modifier?
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B: the countries involved, the people concerned, the rivers navigable
What's the difference in meaning between A and B?
-Ed verb forms do, however, often post-modify, because they can be construed as elliptical clauses: the countries (that are) involved, the people (who are) concerned. Aside from the fact that some -ed forms do not normally pre-modify (*the found keys, *the built house) and others do not naturally post-modify (*love unrequited, *dancer tired), I see difference only in style and not in meaning. I suppose that premodification would suggest more of a done condition than the event, and vice versa for post-modification.
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the involved countries, the concerned people, the navigable rivers.
To me these mean that the nouns are actively 'doing' the verb. The countries are involved in something, the people are feeling concerned about something.
B: the countries involved, the people concerned, - this suggests to me that the countries and people could be quite passive here - someone else could be talking about or taking action on the countries involved, the people concerned.
The reaction to the Tsunami - concerned people (in other countries) donated money to help the people concerned (who were suffering in the aftermath). Likewise the involved countries (who were taking part in the rescue and aid) were working to assist the countries concerned (who were hit by the Tsunami)
The river part is a little different somehow. I can still see a difference in meaning though. The navigable rivers is pointing out which rivers from many are navigable. 'The navigable rivers are the River Wet, the River Wild and the River Windy'. The rivers navigable sounds more like a description or recommendation overall for the region - 'the fruit is sweet, the people friendly and the rivers navigable.'
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Singer-songwriter pop duo A Great Big World teamed up with Christina Aguilera for a duet performance of their newest single "Say Something" on NBC's "The Voice" on Tuesday (November 5th). The AGBW guys recently re-recorded "Say Something" with Christina in the studio, and have made the new duet version available on iTunes, and will be included as well on their upcoming Epic debut album "Is There Anybody Out There?", which is available for pre-order now, but won't be released until January 2014.
The original version was outstandingly beautiful, but Christina's addition certainly brings a new layer of amazingness to "Say Something". After A Great Big World and Christina's performance on "The Voice" last night, the single climbed hugely on the US iTunes chart. As of this post, it stands at #2. The song was just too good to be ignored!


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By Judy Brandon: Local columnist
While Mother and Daddy were in seminary, the family budget was tight. So frugality was a word we lived by. Early on I became familiar with thrift shops and the exciting bargain basement at the Kansas City Macy's Department Store.
One time Mother bought an old sofa at a thrift store. The couch looked terrible but had possibilities. It needed new fabric. The money wasn't there to have it professionally upholstered so that's when Mother enrolled in the upholstery class that was free at the downtown YMCA.
So once a week, Mother packed a sack lunch and Susie and I would accompany her to the downtown YMCA. We'd entertain ourselves during Mother's class. The enormous gym where the class met made it easy for many activities to run concurrently. The upholstery class was in a corner. Then there were people playing dominoes in one corner and in another shuffle board games were going on.
But the most intriguing activity took place in the middle of the gym. That's where the boxing ring stood. It was a place for young hopeful boxers to train and work out with other boxers. When there was no boxing action, Susie and I would walk over to the ring, and climb up into the ring. The gym looked huge from there! Then we would hear the commotion and out of metal swinging doors on the far side of the gym, the boxers would come in with a frenzy of activity. That was our cue to get out quick, jumping down and running back to the corner where Mother and the rest of the class were tapping away with upholstery mallets.
Then we watched the show from the safety of the upholstery class. All the boxers would warm up, going through the boxing motions, jabbing at nothing, dodging from nothing and punching at nothing. Sometimes they punched at make believe things for 15 minutes. Even though they had no opponent, they were dead serious — just like in the middle of a real match. What good did that do?
Now, the couch that my mother reupholstered is very old and sits in my living room. It reminds me of boxers.
Yet, when I think of those boxers, I think of my spiritual life and how I have at times pranced around and wasted good time and energy on things that don't matter. Sometimes I have capitalized on activities or projects that have made no difference. The point is that many times I have spent my best efforts on things that were just not worth it.
Paul warned us against that. He said, "I do not fight like a man beating the air." (1 Cor. 9:26) Paul meant that he didn't waste his time on things that did not count. It is better to spend our time on things that count in the kingdom of God.
Those boxers in training did spend time on activities that counted for something — they were training for the big event. Yet, I don't want to come to the end of my life and realize that I have spent all my energy "beating the air." I am in training now and must use my best energies on activities that further the kingdom of God — doing good, sharing and telling the good news of the Gospel because the really big event may be sooner than we think.
Judy Brandon is an instructor at Clovis Community College. Contact her at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Pacific Ethanol Inc (NASDAQ:PEIX)
Q1 2008 Earnings Call
May 19, 2008 10:00 am ET
Gregory Pettit – Hill & Knowlton
Neil Koehler – Chief Executive Officer, President
Joe Hansen – Chief Financial Officer
Ron Oster – Broadpoint Capital
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
Jinming Liu – Ardour Capital
Joe Gomes – Oppenheimer
Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the first quarter 2008 Pacific Ethanol Inc earnings conference call. (Operator instructions) I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's call, Mr. Gregory Pettit of Hill & Knowlton, you may proceed.
Gregory Pettit
Good morning and welcome to Pacific Ethanol's first quarter conference call. First I'd like to point out that there is a PowerPoint presentation to accompany this call on the company's investor page, so click through to the investor page and scroll down to the bottom and you'll find a presentation to download. Furthermore, this call can be accessed through dial up and web based replay for the next two weeks, you can check our website for details on that.
For some Safe Harbor language, this conference call may includes forward-looking statements, including statements concerning future conditions in the ethanol marketing and production industries and concerning the company's future business, financial condition, operating strategies, and operational and legal risks.
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Except as required by law the company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement after the date of these materials either to conform any statement to reflect actual results or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. With that I would like to turn the call over this morning to CEO and President, Neil Koehler.
Neil Koehler
Thank you Gregory and welcome everyone to Pacific Ethanol's investor call to discuss our 2008 first quarter financial results. I am joined today by Joe Hansen our Chief Financial Officer. I'll make a few opening remarks followed by Joe walking us through the numbers. After a closing comment or two on the market environment, Joe and I will be available for questions and answers.
We are pleased to report a strong operating quarter. We achieved record sales of $161.5 million, an increase of 63% compared to $99.2 million in the first quarter of 2007. In the first quarter of 2008 we sold a record 59.2 million gallons, a 58% increase compared to the 37.5 million gallons in the first quarter of 2007.
We reported a net loss for the quarter after dividend payments of $36.3 million, or $0.90 per share. $0.96 per share of this loss was due to a non-cash good will impairment net of non-controlling interest. Without this charge we would have reported positive net income of $0.06 per share. Our gross profit was $15.7 million compared to $15.3 million in the first quarter of 2007 and EBITDA grew 159% to $12.4 million compared to $4.8 million in the first quarter of 2007.
Of our 59.2 million gallons sold in the quarter, 23.2 million gallons were from equity production with the balance of 36 million gallons from third parties. Our equity production will increase significantly in the second quarter as we successfully started up our Magic Valley plant in Burley, Idaho in April.
I'm pleased to announce that last week we completed a seven day bank test verifying a 60 million gallon operating capacity for our Idaho plant subject to confirmation from our independent engineer. We remain on track to finish our Stockton, California ethanol plant in the third quarter of 2008 and we'll enter the fourth quarter with an annual operating capacity of 220 million gallons.
In the quarter our plants achieved production levels that were 107% of design capacity. We are very focused on improving our operating efficiencies at all of our plants and in developing the next generation of ethanol production processes. We're working with our technology partner, PDX of the UK to install and operate proprietary equipment at the front end of our Oregon facility to increase ethanol yields per bushel of corn input.
We're working with our cellulose technology partner, BioGasol of Denmark and the Department of Energy in developing the specific work plan for building our 2.7 million gallon commercial cellulose demonstration plant, also at our Oregon facility and we'll begin construction in 2009 with commercial production expected in 2010.
With that I'd like to now turn it over to Joe to run through the financial details of our first quarter 2008 results.
Joe Hansen
Thank you Neil and good morning everyone. The first quarter results included both a goodwill impairment charge and positive income on an operating basis. The following discussion should assist you in understanding the elements affecting both.
Slide 2 has a list of the items we will cover. On slide 3 we summarize the income statement. Our net sales increased to $161 million in Q1 08 from $99.2 million in Q1 07, a 63% year over year increase. Going to slide 4, our net sales and gallons sold, we sold 59.2 million gallons of ethanol in Q1 08, up 58% from 37.5 million gallons in Q1 07 and also up 2% over the prior quarter.
Our third party purchases and marketing activity represented 61% of our gallons sold in the first quarter. Going to slide 5, we saw a strong rebound in gross profit margin in Q1 08 from rapidly rising ethanol prices and advantageous corn positions benefitting our production margins.
Our gross profit was $15.7 million or 9.7% as a percentage of sales in Q1 08 compared to gross profit of $15.3 million or 15.4% as a percentage of sales in Q1 07. Going back to slide 3, our SG&A expenses as a percentage of sales decreased to 6.1% in Q1 08, down from 9.6% in Q1 07.
We expect our SG&A expenses to continue to decrease on a per gallon as well as a percentage basis relative to sales. The goodwill on our balance sheet was primarily related to the acquisition of our interest in Front Range Energy LLC. Following our annual goodwill impairment test as of March 31, 2008, we recorded a non-cash charge for goodwill impairment of $87 million.
Keep in mind that our financials reflect Front Range's data on a fully consolidated basis and of the full impairment amount, $48.4 million relates to the non-controlling interest resulting in a net impairment charge of $38.6 million.
Changing equity and industry market factors since the time of our acquisition, such as stock price decrease, the compression of production margins and decrease in valuation of ethanol firms in general indicated impairment of goodwill. After the net impact of the goodwill impairment, we recorded a net loss of $35.1 million compared to $3 million of net income recorded in Q1 07.
Excluding the charge for goodwill, our operations generated net income of $3.5 million for Q1 08. The quarter also includes other special items totaling $0.5 million of expense. During the quarter we recorded a non-cash charge of $5 million to reflect the decrease in fair value of interest rate hedges against our construction debt facility. As mentioned in prior periods, this is to record the change in fair value of our interest rate hedges in a declining interest rate environment.
This charge was partially offset by $4.5 million of income from Oregon business energy tax credits related to our Boardman ethanol plant. We also recorded a net commodity derivative gain of $2.2 million for the quarter. This figure is comprised of derivative gains of $900,000 related to hedge positions that settled during the quarter and $1.3 million of unrealized mark to market gains on open positions that will settle in future periods.
After deducting preferred stock dividends of $1.1 million, or net loss available to common shareholders is $36.3 million or $0.90 per share of which $0.96 is related to the net impairment for goodwill. Moving to slide 6, EBITDA was $12.4 million for the quarter, up from $4.8 million in Q1 07 resulting from improved performance in our marketing and production activities and reduced SG&A expenses as a percentage of net sales.
Please keep in mind that the special items discussed earlier with the exception of the commodity derivative impacts are already added back into these EBITDA figures. On slide 7, we summarize our commodity price performance. As pointed out, we grew both our production and third party sales gallons.
Our average selling price of ethanol was $2.30 during the quarter, down slightly from $2.34 in the same quarter a year ago, but up from $1.97 in Q4 07. During the first quarter, our delivered cost of corn were $5.33 per bushel, up about 20% from our delivered Q4 07 delivered cost of $4.45.
Our corn basis averaged $0.77, giving us a CBOT equivalent corn cost of $4.56 per bushel compared to the average CBOT market price of $5.17 during the quarter. Corn basis was up from $0.59 a year ago and $0.65 in the prior quarter due to rising mileage based rail fuel surcharges and increases in tariff freight weights.
Our $0.61 per bushel corn cost advantage over CBOT helped improve our co-product return to 26.4% for the quarter up from 23.7% in Q4 07 but still down from the 30.9% co-product return in the same quarter last year. As indicated in our previous call, we have fixed price sales contracts for a portion of our co-products that continued through the third quarter of 2008 which have acted to dampen the co-product return.
As CBOT corn prices have continued to rise into the second quarter, our co-product return may remain under pressure. The net impact of the ethanol, corn and co-product metrics just discussed resulted in a production commodity margin of $0.91 per gallon for the quarter.
While the production margin is down versus Q1 07 due to higher corn costs, it was up from the $0.75 per gallon recorded in the previous quarter. At quarter end, we had forward fixed price ethanol sales contracts with a dollar value of $47.3 million as well as 15.7 million gallons of forward indexed based ethanol sales.
Our forward corn purchase commitments consist of $1.4 million of fixed price contracts as well as 7.6 million bushels of forward indexed based purchase contracts. Additional details of our purchase and sales commitments will be available later today in our 10-Q under the commitments note to the financial segments.
Referring to the balance sheet on slide 8, we improved our cash position as a result of the $40 million preferred equity offering completed near the end of the first quarter. However, we recently entered into a forbearance agreement with Comerica whereby our credit limit was reduced from $25 million to $17.5 million as a result of non-compliance with certain financial covenants.
The forbearance agreement gives us time to seek alternative financing but at the same time has the effect of restricting our use of credit facility funds for general corporate purposes. This coupled with elevated commodity prices has increased our need for working capital. To solve this problem, we are seeking to secure additional working capital credit lines and equity, part of which is expected to include $5 million in a near term capital infusion as to which negotiations are ongoing.
We are also seeking a replacement for the Comerica line of credit with less restrictive terms. Finally, it should be noted that at Stockton facility will require an additional $6 million and these funds will be used to satisfy most of that need. Later today when our Q is filed, you will see a more detailed discussion of these matters in the liquidity section of our MD&A.
In our construction program, we have contributed a total of $241 million in equity and drawn a total of $142.4 million of debt as of the end of the first quarter. Our construction loan facility has remaining availability of $108 million. For the balance of the year, April 1 forward, we expect a total cash outflow of approximately $106 million related to completing construction at the Stockton facility and to a lesser degree, finishing up expenditures at the Burley facility.
Of this remaining amount, $83 million is expected to come from availability under our construction debt facility and the balance of $23 million is expected to be contributed from equity. As we previously described, upon completion of the Stockton plant and required performance testing, we expect to make a final draw of up to $24 million from the construction facility which would essentially be a return of our equity.
That concludes the summary of the financial results for Q1. Before we go back to Neil for further comments and the Q&A, I'd like to go to slides 9 and 10 to summarize the status of our operating assets and plants under construction.
Slide 9 shows our operating facilities, consisting of Madera, Columbia, Magic Valley and our 42% ownership in Front Range Energy. Our plant in Magic Valley has completed the startup phase and is operating well within bank performance tests nearly complete. Slide 10 shows the plants under construction. We continue to project a target completion date for Stockton in the third quarter.
That concludes my remarks. I now turn it over to Neil for further discussion before opening up the lines for questions.
Neil Koehler
Thank you Joe. Let me just take a moment to share our current view of ethanol market dynamics. As oil prices reach record highs almost on a daily basis, the value of ethanol in the transportation fuel supply has never been greater. Supply and demand remain balanced as new demand is staying ahead of new supply.
Ethanol is now supplying 6% of all gasoline demand and will reach 8% by the end of the year. The clear need for new fuel supply given limited new supplies of gasoline combined with very compelling ethanol blend economics and increasing renewable fuel standard requirements is pushing new ethanol demand.
As a company, we continue to develop new markets around our new plants. Our Magic Valley plant is the most recent example. There's been almost no ethanol blended in the State of Idaho but with our new production, new infrastructure is now being built in the state and starting next month, significant new ethanol blending will begin in Idaho.
Our Magic Valley plant produces enough ethanol to support 10% ethanol blending in the entire state. As we move through 2008 into 2009, new plant openings are slowing in the industry while ethanol demand will continue to accelerate. We believe that production margins will improve as this will be necessary to initiate a new round of production expansion needed to meet future demand.
There's also been a tremendous onslaught of misinformation about the role of ethanol in rising food prices. Two important observations: first, the corn used in ethanol production is a feed variety and is not converted into food for human consumption except in a small percentage that is processed into high fructose corn syrup.
Second, the feed value of the corn used in ethanol production is processed into a high value protein feed distillers grains. Ethanol producers are both fuel and feed producers. With recent reports that the Grocery Manufacturers Association has engaged in a well funded campaign to discredit ethanol, it is clear to use that these attacks are in large part fabricated by interests that are trying to deflect attention from the real root causes of food inflation of which dramatic increases in energy prices are near the top of the list.
Ethanol producers by supplying both critically needed new supplies of transportation fuel and high quality feed products are clearly part of the solution, not the problem. It is encouraging to see over the last couple of weeks a swing in public media reporting to a more balanced view of this issue.
We as a company, together with our industry partners and other stakeholders will continue to work hard at setting the record straight as to the very positive contribution that ethanol producers are making to address both the world's food and fuel challenges. Operator, at this time, please open up the lines for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator instructions) Your first question comes from Ron Oster – Broadpoint Capital.
Ron Oster – Broadpoint Capital
I was wondering if you could expand on your plans for your cellulosic facility, maybe and the potential costs of the demo plant and then any additional future plans with regards to a commercial scale facility down the road and also how you might fund this facility in 2009.
Neil Koehler
We're very excited about our program with BioGasol and the Department of Energy. The project that we received a $24 million matching grant from the Department of Energy, so the total projected cost of this project is $48 million. We are in the process as I mentioned in the prepared remarks of putting the plan together and do expect to be in construction of that in 2009.
It is designed as a commercial demonstration that we can show as integrated into our existing corn ethanol platform as sharing much of the infrastructure and facilities. It is our plan to look at cellulose as a bolt on opportunity essentially to our existing fleet of corn ethanol plants as well as look down the road at new facilities that we would be building that would be dedicated exclusively to that technology.
It is also designed to scale up from there after we bring this online and projected in 2010 expect that we would scale it up from there to a 10X, to a roughly 30 million gallon side, either do that at Boardman or we could do it at one of our other facilities, that is yet to be determined.
In terms of the funding, that is a capital requirement that we will have to fund together with our partner, BioGasol. I will point out that in kind contributions do qualify under this and just as we have shown the ability to internalize a tremendous amount of the expertise in our current business model, there is a fair amount of that which we will build to provide in kind as opposed to going out and having to contract for the services.
But there's no question that there will be additional capital required in 2009 and we are exploring different avenues for raising those funds and feel that right now there is a tremendous amount of interest on the part of the investment community in supporting this development and we are confident we will be able to raise the funds to keep that project on schedule.
Ron Oster – Broadpoint Capital
Also you mentioned your basis differential for corn costs had risen, I'm just wondering if, with that in mind along with the improvement with some of the unit train capabilities on the West Coast if there's any concerns about the validity of your destination business model with regards to your transportation discrepancy there might narrow thereby compromising your competitive cost position.
Neil Koehler
Ron, we're still very confident of that. Yes, rates have gone up on bringing our corn in but again if you look at the rates of the shuttle trains on corn versus the rates of single cars of ethanol and distillers grain and even shuttle trains of ethanol the rate increases have been more rapid on the ethanol and the distillers grain, both singles and unit trains and have not risen as quickly on the shuttle trains of corn.
So that spread differential while it certainly narrows a bit with unit trains of ethanol, it's still very much intact. We continue to minimize our transportation costs for moving our product form our facilities.
It is very important to note that we have single handling of corn into our plant and single handling of our ethanol and distillers grain out of our facilities and with the unit trains of ethanol to the West Coast, and I'm not sure what you're referring to improvements, there's still only one facility on the entire West Coast in Carson, California that can receive unit trains. We're seeing more of that development on the East Coast.
But even with those facilities which are important and we support to improve the logistics of moving ethanol to the market as we rapidly expand, there is double handling and there's a fair amount of cost once these unit trains are received, they need to be handled and moved back out to market.
So the double handling cannot be avoided in those, we avoid that and that is a very important part of our cost advantage. So we are still very comfortable and confident of our model and transportation savings along with energy savings are the two critical elements of that advantage.
Ron Oster – Broadpoint Capital
Can you disclose what your co-product returns might be without the contracts that were in place through the third quarter that you mentioned?
Joe Hansen
No, we don't provide that information. And so you know, these contracts extend through 2008. But quite frankly we don't disclose that information.
Neil Koehler
I would just add to that is that if you look at it just generically in the markets that our [webstillers] grain has a value on the spot market basis that is going to be roughly equivalent to delivered price of distillers grain and again double handling, the distillers grain, the price that we're competing with is delivery to dairies where distillers grains comes to our markets have to be double handled into trucks to be delivered to dairies that don't receive by rail.
And we compete on a delivered basis on a moisture adjusted basis with dry distillers grain. We are moving quickly actually to not having that be the case. We are, in our feed division, we are developing a proprietary product that is really an analogue to corn as opposed to distillers grain and is priced against corn rather than distillers grain and giving us a better hedge on corn prices.
So we are seeing our overall values as we move forward increase and would expect our co-product returns to evidence that as we move forward.
Your next question comes from Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
Last quarter, last conference call you gave us perspective on marketing segment results, can you provide some color on the first quarter earnings in that area?
Neil Koehler
Sure I can in a general way like we did last quarter. So last quarter when we reported a loss we did indicate that the marketing business due to the falling market and other dynamics on some fixed price contracts had experienced a loss.
I would say that it's reasonable to conclude that there was a swing with the market going up and a more advantageous position that we swung the other direction. And to the extent that we had below budgeted realizations in the fourth quarter, we had above realized results in the first quarter.
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
The $106 million projected to complete the two plants, does that allocate for additional working capital and if not can you give us some perspective on the amount of working capital required to get these two plants up and running just in terms of obviously corn inventories and such.
Joe Hansen
It does include some working capital. Working capital as we've talked about before has been underfunded. Our debt facility agreement with WestLB, however we are working right now to secure additional working capital for both of those plants and our two existing plants.
Neil Koehler
Just a little additional color on that because it's all in the details on our credit facility is that they provide $5 million of working capital per facility so the $106 would include that $5, but it is clearly the case that at nearly $6.00 corn that the working capital requirements per plant is at least double that.
So that is very much a part of our current constraints on working capital that we are addressing with the banks to make sure that we have adequate working capital to make sure that we are efficiently operating the plants and maintaining adequate inventories of corn. So that is a real focus for this quarter is to improve the working capital position and that would include some additional total debt.
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
Doing the math, can we assume basically that for the $106 or about cap ex spend and the financing, $83 million from credit facilities, $25 from equity, can we assume that basically you just need equity by the end so that can be back loaded or is there something in the development of it where you need the equity sooner in the process rather than later?
Joe Hansen
A portion of the equity, roughly $5-$6 million is needed to bring to begin construction of the Stockton facility. The remaining equity will probably come from the top off from the Burley, once Burley is totally completed.
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
If you guys could address just some of the issues around the credit covenants and financial controls basically following, the forbearance agreement with Comerica, to the extent that you guys have gone through your terms and covenants and can provide investors with comfort that there's not going to be some other announcement in future quarters where there's another some sort of covenant issue?
Joe Hansen
The Comerica agreement was negotiated in 2007 and established then. And we first began to realize, when we received the results of a separate audit of our Kinergy subsidiary which is the party under the Comerica agreement, we received the results of that audit on April 29. At that point we became aware that we were out of compliance with a net work requirement.
The forbearance agreement itself reduced the credit limit, the $25 million credit limit down to $17.5 million which is a $7.5 million reduction, it also reduced our eligible inventory down by $6.4 million to $7.6 million. This has had somewhat of a limited affect on us in some respects because of the fact that our historical, under our historical borrowing practices we have never drawn more than $17.5 million under that particular facility to begin with.
So the reduction down to the $17.5 million is not having a dramatic effect. It also has limited our ability to use cash at the corporate level for general corporate purposes. We're in the process right now of talking with other lenders and negotiating a more suitable agreement for the company in general. That would also hopefully expand and allow us to grow the Kinergy operation.
Neil Koehler
To address your comfort issue, Joe is being a little too humble, he should be tooting his horn but as our new CFO has done a tremendous job of really reforming our internal controls and making sure that we are addressing these issues to be going through all these agreements, these are very complicated agreements, we have been, if you will, a new user of these sorts of agreements.
And we're under staffed and have had issues with not having someone with Joe's caliber in the past. These issues on covenants in this case it was a technical financial covenant on the net worth, we discovered these issues just as in the WestLB, we were the ones to discover these and to self report and have taken tremendous steps to make sure that we are in compliance on a go forward basis.
So we are confident that we have addressed these issues and that we will not have to be reporting these sorts of issues in future quarters.
Eitan Bernstein – Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
Any guidance at all on when we may get the next update on financing?
Neil Koehler
No forward projections on that but I think you can see from what we've discussed that it's an ongoing effort and that we do expect to have other developments this quarter.
Your next question comes from Jinming Liu – Ardour Capital.
Jinming Liu – Ardour Capital
About your co-product sales, I know your company is trading corn, how much of that $25 million co-product sales were from the sale of corn?
Neil Koehler
Virtually none, we actually given the current dynamics in that market, we in the quarter sold, get back to you on the exact numbers but virtually no corn. It would have been an imperceptible impact on the total sales and margins.
Jinming Liu – Ardour Capital
I noticed that your equity of production is below your nameplate capacity, what has happened there?
Neil Koehler
It's actually above our design capacity, it's important to look at the design capacities and the operating capacities. It is above design capacities by 107%, it is slightly below the operating capacity that we expect and that in the quarter was largely due to some issues we had at our Madera ethanol plant, some problems that we were having in the facility that required us to take the plant down for a number of days and we made improvements in the process.
And I can tell you that the Madera plant which really of all of our facilities was the one that was lagging the most is now leading the pack in terms of exceeding both design and operating capacity. So we do feel that we've positioned ourselves very well as we move through the second quarter here to achieve better operating results at our plants. That together with our efficiency improvements on yield and energy will continue to show strength at the processing level.
Jinming Liu – Ardour Capital
Going back to co-product sales, should we expect that trend to continue in the future, the increase?
Neil Koehler
That's hard to project because it depends a lot on corn prices and how co-products sales track corn prices. There is often a lag as they go up and they go down, for instance if corn prices were to suddenly pop up then you could see quite a lag there.
If they were, which is the indications now that corn prices may be beginning to moderate, then we could see some improvements, particularly given that into the through the third quarter we do have some of these contracts that are fixed price and that has a disproportionate impact on that co-product return.
If we were to see corn prices drop against these fixed price contracts then our co product would continue to see some improvement. That really is going to be a function of the average corn price in the third quarter.
Your final question comes from Joe Gomes – Oppenheimer.
Joe Gomes – Oppenheimer
I was wondering if you could give us a little more detail on the PDX, how that's performing, what you guys expect to get out of that test, when you think you'll see some results from that?
Neil Koehler
In terms of expectations we're very optimistic, we try not to make too many projections on things that we don't know and haven't seen the results for. I can update you to the extent that we have installed the equipment at our facility in Boardman.
We have PDX people on site as we speak over the next couple of weeks we are establishing the baseline from which over the next four to six weeks we will be running the test and certainly by this time next quarter in our conference call if not before, we will have some update on that. Every percent increase in yield obviously on a bushel is going to be significant and we are very optimistic that we're going to see some improvements.
Joe Gomes – Oppenheimer
Any new or proposed legislation on the West Coast that would continue to help fuel the use of ethanol?
Neil Koehler
Yes there are a couple of initiatives, I mean certainly we've seen with the mandate in Oregon, that whole state now is blending 10% ethanol, it was a very seamless transition and very successfully been implemented. The state of Washington at the end of this year begins with a 2% requirement that then with various triggers being met will move to a 10% mandate.
With Oregon already blending much of the gas comingled with refiners wanting to optimize the blending of ethanol and produce a sub octane product coming down the Olympic pipeline from the refineries up in the north end of the State of Washington, that we are seeing a movement in Washington to ethanol blending really to comingle the gasoline streams between the two states and also in anticipation of Washington's requirements.
So really all of southern Washington right now is moving quickly to 10% ethanol. There's blending that's just beginning in Tacoma, Washington, we expect by the end of the year to see Seattle. So it is our expectation that over the next 12 months, most of the state of Washington, partly by way of their legislation, party by way of the impact of the region to be moving to 10% blends.
In California, right now we've been working very hard as we've talked about in prior calls to move the state to a 10% requirement. There are new rules that take effect in 2010 that will in effect move the entire stream to 10% ethanol to meet the new fuel specifications. We've been working with the state and stakeholders to provide a transition opportunity for refiners to move to the higher level blends in advance of that.
There is a rule that is currently in the office of administrative law, it is just the final step of approval that we expect out in one to two weeks that will then finalize and opportunity for refiners to use the new models earlier to gain some additional flexibility to produce the gasoline that could be blended with higher levels of ethanol, without combining that same molecule of gasoline with the ethanol which is required under today's very inflexible regulations.
And we do in conversations with our customers expect that yet this year in 2008 we will see elevated ethanol blending on the part of some customers and that we expect to see a gradual transition between now and 2010 to 10% blends in the entire state.
At this time we have no further questions in queue.
Neil Koehler
Thank you very much for participating on our call and we will continue to work hard for all shareholders and look forward to updating you next quarter. Thank you.
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MONMOUTH, ILL.-The Central College men's soccer team outlasted Monmouth 2-1 on Wednesday night for its second straight one-goal win.
"We certainly have made it interesting these past two games," coach Garry Laidlaw said.
The Dutch took the early advantage, as forward Aleksandar Glavas (junior, Loves Park, Ill., Guilford HS) scored his seventh goal of the season on a direct free kick in the 11th minute.
"It was a spectacular goal from Glavas," said Laidlaw. "It was a free kick from 40 or 45 yards out and he blasted it past a two-man wall into the back of the net."
The remainder of the first period was scoreless. Central led by a wide margin in every offensive category at halftime. The Dutch led in shots (10-3), shots on goal (5-2) and corner kicks (6-2).
The Fighting Scots (1-5-1) were quick out of the gate, scoring less than two minutes after the second period began.
The two teams were scoreless for the next 13 minutes, but midfielder Dillon Thornbury (senior, Memphis, Tenn., Collierville HS) ended the drought and put the Dutch on top for good. Midfielder Daniel Peacock (senior, Ankeny) helped set up the score.
"Dan played a great ball into the box and Dillon swatted it home from close range," Laidlaw said. "The period did not start well, but we faced the adversity, stayed with the game plan and it paid off.
"It was not always pretty today, but we enjoyed a fair amount of possession. Defensively we were solid throughout, partly because we controlled the ball. We limited their chances after the goal and we turned up the pressure offensively."
Laidlaw praised the efforts of defenders Jeremy Dolder (sophomore, Iowa City, West HS) and Owen Shawgo (freshman, Nevada), midfielders Jake Stein (senior, Prairie City, PCM HS), Kyle Maynard (senior, San Diego, Calif., West Hills HS) and Thornbury.
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The formal student years began 65 years ago at Central School and will continue as long as I can manage to think and to learn. When we quit learning, we really quit existing as human beings.
The day during which we don't learn something new must be a black day indeed because we have to but awaken each morning to begin adding to our knowledge. Of course, as we age, we tend to lose some of that knowledge in the cobwebs of our minds, but if we pause to clear a path, we can usually find the missing files in order to add to them.
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Skip to comments.If not Romney, then .. who?
Posted on 04/30/2012 3:44:52 PM PDT by knarf
..and do we have the numbers and the clout to pull it off?
A legitimate third party?
If not Romney ... then Obama. Sorry to say.
Some here are suggesting to vote for Obama.
I think it's too late for that (this cycle)
I intentionally posted this to prove how we are screwed and stuck with McCain again ... and no Palin to pull us out or give us hope.
how about voting your conscience?
There is a republican candidate who is drawing crowds from 1,000 to 5,000 where ever he holds a town hall. He's been doing this for a couple months now.
"I intentionally posted this to prove how we are screwed and stuck with McCain again ... and no Palin to pull us out or give us hope."
IMO Mittens is worse than McLame. Doesn't matter though, many here would rather Obama be re-elected than Mittens.
I don't think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.
If it is not the Leftist or the Loon, who is it?
Will a 3rd party win this time? Probably not. Vote 3rd party to keep whichever of the two lying, backstabbing, abortion-supporting, gun-grabbing statists that do win get much less than a majority.
The way I see it.
Romney will be the nominee and will lose but enough 3rd party and write in voters can save the down ticket races.
I just don't think the GOP has the courage to win the white house and face the wrath of liberals.
"There is a republican candidate who is drawing crowds from 1,000 to 5,000 where ever he holds a town hall. Hes been doing this for a couple months now."
Does that republican candidate have a chance of winning the nomination? Does he have the national organization to conduct a real campaign? Heck he didn't even manage to get on the ballot in all 50 state primaries.
Well. Uh. How long has it taken FR to raise $37k for this freepathon? That's $0.037 million. Campaigns need 100's of millions.
Horse hockey.
"Horse hockey."
Look to history, the script is proven. This will be the last election (ok free election) if BO wins.
Actually, the only scenario I can see in which a third party push on the right would not simply throw the election to Obama would be if the Libertarian Party nominated Ron Paul. He'd pull a hefty youth vote, mostly drawn from Obama's 2008 vote plus a don't-nominate-RINOs protest vote, presumably at Romney's expense, and the usual 1-3% who vote Liberterian anyway. Even on that, the devil is in the details: Would the youth vote defection form Obama to Paul throw some states into Romney's column? Or would the anti-RINO protest vote push some states from the Romney column to Obama? Could Paul win any states (or pick up an EV in Maine or Nebraska?) enough to toss the election to the House of Representatives? And in that case (which would end up realistically being Romney vs. Obama) which party controls a majority of the delegations?
So did Ralph Nader. Just like Ron Paul, the guy could get large numbers of naive college kids to turn out for his rallies - unfortunately those kids are not so good at actually voting. They like to do the fun stuff, not so much the actual trudging to the primary sites and casting a ballot.
Ron Paul is a non factor. He simply holds too many wacky positions to attract mainstream conservative support.
All is not lost. This dude is still running...
I also hear he has $150 dollars in his war chest and is very rested for the upcoming battle against Obummer.
Probably too soon to say. I've been hoping that some good conservatives are working behind the scenes, and will come up with a candidate that we can get behind.
Sarah Palin is an obvious name, either as organizer or as candidate, but she certainly won't say anything at this stage. She did speak up once, when she threw her support behind Newt, but unfortunately Newt just couldn't seem to cut it, after some initial success.
The difficulty is that, as we've seen on numerous threads for the past month, conservatives are divided on what they want, and the media have been pretty successful at playing on those divisions. This won't work unless the conservatives can be united behind one candidate.
But I don't see much choice. The Republican party has been getting worse and worse for the past 50 years, with the exception of Reagan, who pushed his way in against the wishes of the party establishment. Romney is by far the worst choice they have ever made. He is very little better than the Communist Muslim illegal Obama.
Romney wrecked Massachusetts worse than any Democrat governors had been able to do, putting through both gay marriage and Romneycare which his Dem predecessors had failed to do. And he did zero to fix the Mass. economy, while appointing flaming liberal judges to the courts.
We just can't afford to go through this corrupt GOP mess yet again, whether Romney wins or loses. It's not that they are really the stupid party. They have become the corrupt party. They would far rather lose than let someone into the White House who might try to straighten things out.
>>I dont think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
>>I dont think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
>>I dont think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
Bears repeating.
All the big talk of teaching the GOP a lesson and all that will be worth squat if we have no Constitutional Republic. If Obama wins we are totally gone.
..and do we have the numbers and the clout to pull it off?
My God, you're right! There are so many times in this country when an election was the last one!
The folks who say that the RNC is identical to the DNC claim that 2004 or earlier was the last election we had.
To which I say horse hockey too.
Oh for heaven's sakes.
One thing the communists know is how to bring down a country. Whats funny is they do the same thing, and 'conservatives' do the same thing time after time. The communists win and the conservatives can't figure out what happened.
If you want a different result out of the GOP you have to control the GOP.
That's a good thought. I can't see a scenario where anyone other than Romney or Obama will be President, so let's hope Romney makes an acceptable choice for VP.
Sadly... I agree.
There is no choice.
Who on FR is saying to vote for BHO?
Name names.....
People said that about Clinton, and also Bush. Looking to history, the hysterical little girls who said that were retarded.
And can we even agree about who that third party would be?
That's what we get for falling for McCain's Palin trick last time.
We can't keep doing the same thing over and over.
Easy for me. I will cast my vote "against Obama". If that vote happens to have Romney next to the box, so be it.
Boy I like your optimism. So you think that you will still be able to afford to own a mirror in 4 years?
If you are talking about Ron Paul, just to let you know he is not a Republican.
I could beleive that Gingrich could draw those kinds of crowds.
Yes! We are forced by law to vote for the candidates that have been chosen for us! It's either one, or the other!
Wait! Aren't there more than two people running for President? [slaps head]
Ya know you're right. All those elections they have in communist countries really are fair and open. Those stories of millions dying in Russia, Cambodia, and China are just propaganda.
I agree. We have all heard the Chicken Little pronouncement before.
If Obama wins the Presidency, the Dems will probably win the House and hold the Senate. How many people go to a presidential vote just to vote down ticket? Not enough to change an election.
Write-in votes will send a message.
All the way to the trash can.
Voting for non-candidates is like ordering fried fish at Pizza Hut.
We're glad you like it, but it ain't on the menu.
Virgil Goode is a step in the right direction for the Constitution Party, but they have a long long way to go before they will be taken seriously in most peoples' eyes. In 2008 they ran Zippy the Wonder Dog and I think the guy who ran as his running mate was the actor who played the Blueberry in the old Fruit of the Loom commercials.
What? Between taking Obammy orally, or letting Mittens enter you from behind? Of course there's a choice. Choose not to be a queer. Vote for Virgil Goode. Your mouth and butt will thank you for choosing to stand up and be a man.
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usually I ring it and they tell you who they are :-) Why? is someone bothering you?
I have previously just typed the number into ask/google etc and if it is a company or the person has a website it ususally comes up.
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my partners ex has moved back to the area and we think it might be her. she caused a lot of trouble in the past!
If its an ex, just ignore it. Rise above it and she will soon get bored. Why you going to all the trouble
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because of the trouble she caused in the past. we know she has returned to the area and if it is her then we may need to change our number but don't really want to.
you can also go on www.192.com and do a search you may be on there (depending on if you vote or are ex directory) or not.
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