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Dennis Fink – Executive Vice President and CFO
Clarence Smith – President and CEO
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Haverty Furniture Companies Inc. (HVT) Q1 2010 Earnings Call May 6, 2010 10:00 AM ET
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to Haverty's Q1 2010 financial results conference call on the May 6, 2010. Throughout today's recorded presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. (Operator Instructions)
I will now hand the conference over to Mr. Dennis Fink. Please go ahead, sir.
Dennis Fink
Thank you, and good morning, everyone. During this conference, we'll make forward-looking statements which are subject to risk and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those made or implied in such statements which speak only as of the date they are made and which we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include economic and competitive conditions and other uncertainties detailed in the company's reports filed with the SEC.
Our President and CEO, Clarence Smith, will now give you his update.
Clarence Smith
Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for joining our first quarter conference call. As we previously reported, our sales increased 8.2% to $156 million, compared to $144 million for the quarter.
Comparative store sales for Q1 were 10.1%, which was exciting for our team to finally see a double-digit positive performance. We're pleased to report that we produced a profit of $2.4 million versus a loss for last year of $7.3 million.
Written sales for the second quarter to date are up 8.8% and for the first time in several years our recent store traffic is positive, up in the mid single digits. Our website traffic is up 13% for the first quarter, which also correlates to a 13% increase in page views.
We had 1.7 million unique visitors to havertys.com in the quarter. According to our year end brand tracking report 75% of our customers go to the web before they purchase demonstrating the importance of our fully interactive site.
While our Internet sales are not a significant part of our total business, havertys.com's high use demonstrates our customer's attraction to the site and the strength of our interactive marketing program.
Our bedding, upholstery and casual dining business is stronger this year with an encouraging recent trend of increasing bedroom business. While our promotional efforts have worked very well, we are seeing signs of strength in the better goods. We've several new better end groups and collections which will be on our floors by mid-summer.
We're having discussions of price increases with some of our companies but we've been successful in keeping our costs under control due to our long-standing commitments to our core vendors. Pricing has caused and will cause some shifts in our merchandise line up. We remain dedicated to providing a superior value in our niche.
Along with our strong relationships with traditional manufacturers, we believe that our combination of our direct sourcing model alongside working relationships with agents and sourcing companies helps to provide great values for our customers while producing good gross margins.
We did not experience some of the shipping problems with containers that many of our competitors did in the first quarter due to our strong contracts with shipping lines and our communications and logistics systems.
We have several ocean carriers available to use from all our major Asian ports which helps ensure that our merchandise will get on a ship when requested. This allows for different transit times from these major ports to even out the arrival of merchandise into our distribution centers.
Many of the factories in China did have fewer workers return from Chinese New Year than they expected and they experienced a tougher time getting ramped up back up for production.
These issues seem to have improved slightly with most of our suppliers now increasing production and shipping sooner than originally planned. We have had a few supply interruptions due to factory closures but for the most part we are in the larger and stronger facilities in Asia and have worked through most problems.
Our merchandising team is frequently in Asia working with these suppliers and several of our executive team will be visiting throughout the next few months. We are adjusting to the realities of relying on Asian production for the majority of our goods.
We are adapting our ordering patterns by factory and group to the changing environment in Asia to minimize stock outs. By analyzing each factory's performance and individual criteria such as quantity minimums and lead times we can adapt our ordering patterns accordingly. We focus on leveraging the better performing shorter lead time merchandise which helps us be in stock and to better serve our customers.
I wanted to review some of the merchandising trends from the recent market. There continues to be a shift to having more function in furniture. One example is built-in storage and wooden case goods. The storage is hidden in many places in the furniture pieces giving the customer as much spatial functionality as possible.
Other examples of higher function are in the home office where features include tilt desks that gave the customer the option of setting customized comfort positions for working at home. And the most obvious example of function in furniture is the reclining motion built into upholstery. In many cases the product has been designed to hide its ability to recline.
All of this function has been put into the furniture in addition to be an exciting accomplishes one major thing. It gives the customer ownership of how to use the furniture. She is in charge.
Upholstery has started to migrate to lighter, softer colors. They are more neutral, a few shades lighter than what we have seen in the past. We're seeing more light gray based colors now as opposed to the browns that we've seen for so many years.
Upholstery continues to move to cleaner lines, more transitional styles and this is being achieved without losing the warm inviting feel that our customer is wanting.
There is a new move to what one supplier called outside-in furniture. This is different from simply achieving a distressed look. The product is designed and manufactured to obtain a beat up weathered look. The wood has gone through a bleaching and a staining process to make it lighter in appearance. It achieves a more relaxed comfortable feel that is very inviting and it takes casual to another level.
But more importantly, it does add an exciting new dimension to furniture. We're enthusiastic and excited about the upcoming new trends and the new designs that we've planned to arrive in our stores in the coming months.
An important focus of our team this year is to enhance our store presentation with stronger graphics and a more open, brighter presentation. We engaged a design firm who has helped us develop our new look. After initial testing we've begun to roll out new displays to eight additional stores with our restructured store display team this spring and summer.
We will set plans to continue to move the new store program to other stores as we confirm the positive feedback from our customers, our associates in the sales results. We believe that the new presentation is more consistent with our look and our advertising and on our website and helps us to strengthen our brand.
A significant part of our capital spending this year and for 2011 is to invest further in MIS enhancements. We will be significantly upgrading our operating system platform which will allow us to consolidate havertys.com infrastructure with a more versatile computing environment. We will be refreshing our equipment in our stores, as well as our scanning equipment in the distribution centers to maintain payment card industry compliance.
We recognize that staying at the forefront of operating systems and the latest technology is critical in the retail furniture business. This is especially true when we are developing and moving product from Asia while selling both on the web and delivering to individual homes in 75 markets throughout 17 states.
Our experienced IS team is an important strength of our company and we will continue to invest in strengthening the team and the infrastructure behind our associates. We have ramped up our research efforts to better target our messages and to strengthen our relationship with our customers.
Our primary customer is a woman over 35 with household income over $50,000 with the real sweet spot of $75 to $150,000. 80% are homeowners. They have lived in their homes for over three years and are likely to have children.
We were able to track our customers because we deliver to their homes and we listen closely to her suggestions through thousands of customer reviews on our website and through customer intercepts and follow-up phone questionnaires.
We believe that we are connecting better and more efficiently with our core customer. Recent research shows that we lead in top of mind awareness in most of our markets. We will continue to invest in listening and researching our customers to help us provide her with the furniture and service values she wants.
Our objective is to provide excellent values in the better part of the furniture market, appealing to our long-term core customer while gaining share, market share, from the broader market on either sides of that core customer. We want to be known as the better furniture store providing better quality, exciting and exclusive merchandise with the best service levels in the industry.
I'll now turn the call over to Dennis Fink.
Dennis Fink
Thank you, Clarence. I'll first make a few comments on the P&L. The gross profit for the first quarter of 2010 was 52.1%, compared to 51.1% in the prior year period. This expansion was a result of improvements in product mix and pricing discipline and a reduction in the volume of damage from closeout merchandise.
We plan to remain competitive with our pricing structure as we strive to maintain our gross profit margins at or near our 2008 full-year level, which was 51.7%. We anticipate increasing freight rates and material and labor costs for our suppliers to generate potential pressure on our product costs. While it may be difficult to initially recover these increases through our retail pricing, future product costs increases will have a relatively immediate impact on our LIFO reserve.
Our first quarter 2010 sales were up 8.2% and through rigorous cost reductions. We were able to decrease total SG&A by $2 million, compared to last year's first quarter.
Selling expenses generally vary with sales volume. However for the first quarter of 2010, they decreased 55 basis points, compared to the prior year period due in part to lower third-party finance costs. Customers used less of the private label card programs we offer this year at 38% of sales versus 43% of sales for last year's first quarter.
Occupancy expenses decreased $900,000 for the quarter with depreciation expense within that approximately $700,000 less than last year and utility costs also running lower.
Delivery and warehouse expenses included in SG&A in the first quarter of 2010 were relatively flat in total dollars as compared to the prior year even with the higher sales volume and increased fuel costs, although last year we adjusted our routes in many of our markets and reduced total headcount, equipment and related delivery expenses.
As a percent of sales, first quarter delivery and warehouse expenses were down 61 basis points, compared to the prior year period due to the cost controls and improved efficiencies that resulted.
Our advertising and marketing expenses were 6.8% of sales and 7.7% for the first quarter of 2010 and 2009, respectively. Our spending decreased by $400,000 for the first quarter of 2010 compared to the prior year.
We expect to continue our advertising and marketing strategies as our campaigns have resulted in high brand awareness relative to our spend. Our administrative costs were down $1.4 million for the quarter, as compared to the prior year period due in part to reductions in headcount and compensation.
The tax expense generated by our income during the first quarter of 2010 was approximately $969,000 and was offset by an $891,000 decrease in our deferred tax valuation allowance.
For last year's first quarter, the tax benefit resulting from our loss was mostly offset by an increase in our deferred tax valuation allowance. The net tax expense reported for the first quarters of both years is for the Texas state taxes which are based on gross profit and not pre-tax income or loss. I refer you to the end of our press release for a table which shows year-to-year comparative income tax component amounts.
Our balance sheet as of March 31, 2010 remains in very good shape with cash increasing by $8 million during the first quarter and up by $43 million, compared to a year ago. Our planned capital expenditures for 2010 are $15.2 million. This includes $10.5 million for new stores and store improvements, and $4.4 million for information technology.
Operator, at this time we will take questions from the audience.
Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions) First question come from Todd Schwartzman. Please state your company name followed by your question. Thank you.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Yeah. Sidoti & Company. Thanks. Good morning, guys.
Clarence Smith
Good morning, Todd.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
First off on the credit promotions, if you can just give us a sense of what was hot for the quarter, what was most popular?
Clarence Smith
The most popular was the 18-month which is a no interest program that requires a 1% monthly payment and then the whole thing has to be paid off before the end of the 18 months.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Okay. And Dennis, on the tax rate going forward for the balance of the year, how should we think about that?
Dennis Fink
It is going to depend on the exact circumstances each quarter end and where deferred tax assets are projected to be for the current year, which arise from temporary differences in book and tax income.
But it would be likely that the deferred -- that the similar situation occurs in the second and third quarter as it did in the first quarter with some increases in the deferred tax or, excuse me, in the income tax expense category that are offset by decreases in the deferred tax allowance.
At some point there is a release of the deferred tax allowance that comes after cumulative three-year book profitability and we're not sure when that will happen but that would be out there in some future quarter we would hope.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Got it. And any comments would you care to make any on share gains and that you maybe are benefiting from in this first quarter who the -- who the offsetting losers might be?
Clarence Smith
Well, I still think that the independents will continue to suffer and fall out of the marketplace just because they can't get the overall support. We're seeing some of that in a number of our markets. Some of the fact that I think we have had some market share gain is just in the fact that we had a 10% comp and we're not hearing that from other places.
So as you know, there are very few people that do release in our industry. But I think it is going to continue to be on the independent side of the market those who are not matched up with major players and who don't have the resource to do that.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Principally imports?
Clarence Smith
Well, that is a big part of it. They're going to have to go through middle-men, they're going to have to pay higher margins, higher costs. They are not going to have goods that are exclusive to them that they can support higher margins and they're not going to be able to get the product.
I think that is going to be a real challenge as business starts to get better is who gets the product from the major factories in Asia. And that is why we're spending a lot of energy building those relationships, staying on top of them, giving them larger cutting, paying our bills on time, all of the things that we think are important to maintain those relationships.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
And Clarence, on the customer deposits both sequentially and year-over-year, it looks like you had between 25% and 30% close to $4 million increase there. Does that speak to the mix shift, can you give us some more color, you had alluded to maybe customers going somewhat more upstream? Can you talk about what is going on with the customer deposits as well as your own mix?
Clarence Smith
I don't think it's related directly to the mix. I think it has other things. I'll let Dennis comment on some of that.
Dennis Fink
Yeah. The backlog was a little higher at March 30, than it was a year ago or at year end, which is normal when you have an increase in business. We have a few weeks between point-of-sale and purchase at point of sale and the actual delivery when we recognize income.
The other part about it is we mentioned that there is less volume under our private-label programs and so people are paying more cash, more Visa and MasterCard, and therefore the deposits would be higher because we are not financing as much.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
And what was the mix of the third-party financing for the quarter?
Dennis Fink
The third-party was down, I had mentioned there is like a 6% decrease in the usage as a percent of sales and all of that was in the third-party programs.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
6 percentage point decline?
Dennis Fink
6 percentage points of sales, the total volume we did of total sales was down. The difference in the number was 6%.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Got it. Can you just remind me was there any restructuring in the downturn with respect to the compensation mix for your sales force?
Clarence Smith
Nothing significant. We had a few adjustments but, do you have a comment on that?
Dennis Fink
No. Just the number of people also obviously with lower volume.
Clarence Smith
We tried to make sure that our best sales people we took care of but we didn't really have any major adjustments with their individual compensation plans.
Todd Schwartzman – Sidoti & Company
Okay. Thank you very much.
Dennis Fink
Thank you.
Clarence Smith
Thanks Todd.
Next question come from Budd Bugatch. Please state your company name followed by your question.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Good morning, Clarence. Good morning, Dennis. Budd Bugatch, Raymond James.
Clarence Smith
Good morning, Budd.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Historically when you go back and you look second quarter has a little bit of seasonality to the first quarter down, but some years it was relatively flat to the first quarter. And with the backlog up as nicely as it was, what are you thinking about the normal seasonality or the abnormal seasonality?
Dennis Fink
I think it will be more normal, Budd, than abnormal and it is pretty unusual to see anything other than a decrease in the second quarter…
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Dennis Fink
… from the first quarter.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
From the first quarter?
Dennis Fink
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Okay. And then that's what we should expect the second quarter is usually the weakest quarter of the year, is that right?
Dennis Fink
Absolutely, it is.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Okay. When you look at your gross margin, you've done very nicely with essentially about 100 basis points improvement year-over-year. And with the pricing increase you had kind of warned us, did I catch you properly to say that you think margin could be under a little bit of pressure in the near-term and then returning as you take the pricing actions you need to take?
Dennis Fink
Budd, I think that's a fair way to say it. We are on LIFO and so we get a quick impact of cost increases and we would like to pass those along with the normal margin, but it's still a competitive marketplace, so we'll have to see.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Okay. Looking at the balance sheet, you have historically until about a year or two ago paid a quarterly regular dividend. And you paid a special dividend last year I think to keep your record intact of consecutive years? And now with the world looking like we're no longer coming to the biz?
What are your – what's your thought process on that? How does the board think about it? I realize it is a board decision, but I suspect you discuss it at every board meeting?
Clarence Smith
It is a board decision, Budd. I'm sure it will be discussed. The only thing I would say as management is that I would like to keep that record intact.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Okay. And would you like that record to include a regular dividend again as opposed to a special one?
Clarence Smith
Well, I don't think that's something I determine. I just want to make sure we earn that record and keep it going.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Okay. All right. Thank you.
Clarence Smith
Okay. Thanks.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Congratulations. Nice to see the turn and nice to hear about case goods coming back a little bit.
Clarence Smith
Yeah. We hope that is a continuing increasing trend. Thank you, Budd.
Budd Bugatch – Raymond James
Thank you, sir.
(Operator Instructions) There appears to be no further questions, sir. Please continue.
Clarence Smith
I want to thank you for joining us on our Q1 call. We appreciate your interest in Havertys. Thank you.
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
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But -- drought is already affecting crops and the question is how will this shortage of these farm products like corn and wheat.
Soybeans affected commodities market and more importantly.
How much will it affect your grocery bill joining me now Fox Business network's Sandra Smith and commodities is sure we allows so that somebody about food prices.
I expected them to go up right now -- -- US Department of Agriculture says that -- prices are gonna got three to 5% next year.
You don't might be the best case scenario -- we're looking at core prices at a record high if you haven't looked late Leary have it -- back at history.
-- we've been trading over eight dollars a bushel.
Got to tell -- -- there was a period of time when I was a kid were core prices were tuned to two dollars and fifty cents a bushel for over a decade they sat there.
We're looking at eight dollars I've talked to folks who think that we could top ten dollars a bushel.
Corn goes in the 75%.
Of all grocery store products for the you like -- or not it's a -- -- from cereal to that meet the he would eat this scheme Karen your these goes into it or not to -- Heard that number recently I was suppose the stunned that is its corn and soybeans are going to the grocery store 7580%.
Of their grocery store is.
Is that absolutely somewhere in that bring Heidi getting -- the grocery store you're putting gasoline and your take what's and that gasoline tank.
At at -- -- at the -- primary ingredient is corn -- you're talking about pretty much the price of everything as a consumer going up as a result of this drought.
-- as a result of just overall growing global demand and appetites.
For meat and food -- in general.
To tell me about -- ethanol because that's growing.
You should grow I think you should grow food for food right but -- grow food for -- gasoline.
I thought there were some limit or they were gonna change -- -- wasn't going to be as bad as in the past what's what's the ethanol I've.
About 40% of our US corn crop and we are the biggest corn exporter in the world about 40% of our US crop.
Is going into the gas tank right now there's a government mandate and that at an -- Tom I ain't been predicting right now that if corn prices stay above eight dollars.
And if we continue to see food prices continue to escalate and consumers will start to feel the effects of this.
This is -- -- come in need your election issue you're gonna start to hear politicians talk about that ethanol mandate more and more.
As people are paying more for their food -- we are sacrificing our corn crop to go into our gasoline tank right now people are gonna have a major problem.
Well we can take the bus -- we can take public transit -- do something to cut back on our gas usage.
But we can't cut back on our our food usage.
You're talking about our Staples this is going into the cereals that we -- the bread that we.
They in India other angle of the story is the ranchers out in the midwest that have suffered through this drought and they're now paying eight dollars -- for corn.
They feed their animals corn weathered the cattle are the hogs are they -- the -- green -- that.
Are uninsured and are they at some point saying you know what I'm not gonna put more money into my a -- because I got an insurance policy.
Great question is a great question I've actually been exploring that in my reporting.
Some of the ranchers do have insurance in some cases they'll be profitable and be just fine.
That insurance is very very costly so -- those farmers that -- willing to to take on at risk of paying for that insurance.
Their stock in their stock backwards and they're basically having just kill off there.
On their animals because it can't afford to feed them anymore and that could mean in the future very tight supply of -- On those grocery store south -- -- it has -- up on anything right now and -- this drought continues in these high prices remain high -- your freezer -- -- let me tell you something.
That that global impact to not only what not or this is another headwind for our economy to recover if we're overall paying more for.
Food that but you hear these stories about the fact that there's concern of global security problems.
The riots in in different parts of the world because of a shortage.
While I mean we saw that -- is on a decade could eventually happen here at home.
We went through that with the rice remember there's a shortage of rice in the United States there's a big problem.
And it if we continue to see prices if for instance court we're not -- -- -- -- -- -- -- soy beans.
This is also wheat prices this is the general make up of everything that we we continue to see these prices go up and we continue to see global to growth in places like China.
In India and Russia and they continue to buy more of these grains because they're having problems -- that's gonna skyrocket prices for everybody and we will be in a global fight.
For that food town one more thing to add to the list Sharon Covert of headwinds for our economy thank you think repeated the -- him.
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2-B Wed., Feb. 27, 1980 SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER The Times Medical Beat 'Scared to death' may he more than a saying, pathologists find By SALLY REESE Times Medical Writer Two Ohio pathologists say being "scared to death" may be more than a figure of speech. Dr. Marilyn S. Cebelin of Cleveland, Ohio, says she and her colleague, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch of Cincinnati, identi-fied 15 cases of people dying after physi-cal assault even though none of their injuries was lethal. She addressed the International Academy of Pathology's U.S.-Canadian Division meeting in New Orleans this "SEreveport pathologists at the meeting .included Dr. Marjorie Fowler, Dr. I.D. Sanusi and Dr. Enrique Gonzalez of the Department of Pathology at LSU Medi- .cal Center. Dr. €egeGh believes the Ohio study provides the first objective medical evidence of stress as a cause of death. She said acute stress in humans ap-parently can provoke lethal changes in the heart muscle. These changes, unlike those produced by heart attacks, mimic "lesions seen in experimental animals subjected to severe stress, she said. Eleven cases showed a type of heart cell death typical of the "stress cardiomyopathy" that develops in ex-perimental animals rendered helpless to anticipate or avert noxious stimuli, Dr. Cebelin reported. ' Four of the victims, including three children, were free of any sign of heart disease. A 2-year-old girl had been tied up in a vacant room overnight after being beaten by a stepfather. Dr. Cebelin regarded this situation as "horrifyingly similar" to the stressed animal experi-ments. She and Hirsch did their study at the Cuyahoga County coroner's office where Dr. Cebelin is deputy coroner. She also is assistant director of autopsy pathology [at the Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. I Hirsch has become director of forensic pathology at Hamilton County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Toxicology and Criminalistics. He teaches at the Univer-sity School of Medicine in Cincinnati. They initiated their study because pathologists are sometimes asked to determine whether a person was beaten to death. They culled the 15 cases from 497 homicidal assaults without any identi-fiable mechanism of death. The injuries, mostly cuts and bruises, were inflicted by such a cane, a coat hanger, a metal bar and, in the children's cases, a belt and an electric cord. Two victims survived in the hospital for a time after assault and recorded abnormal heartbeats. Cebelin said the heartbeats suggested that stress-related cell changes can alter the rhythm of the heart and thereby produce death. Doctor to lecture Dr. Gerrit W.H. Schepers, director of heart and lung programs for the Veter-ans Administration, will lecture at the VA Medical Center and LSU Medical_ Center here Thursday and Friday. Schepers is with the VA's central office in Washington. He is said to be an authority on industrial diseases of the chest. His primary specialty is internal medicine; his secondary speciality is pulmonary diseases. Schepers will lecture at 8 a.m. Thurs-day during the ground rounds of the Department Medicine at LSU Medical "Cenfer~ Industrial diseases of the chest will be his subject. AsBestosis, which he has studied, will be his subject at VA Medical Center at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Before his VA appointment, he was chief of pathology for the Washington, D.C., hospital system. Previously, he was chief of industrial pathology at Haskell Laboratories of DuPont Co. and the Saranac, N.Y., Laboratory. He is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in Johan-nesburg, South Africa. Doctor to visit Dr. Worthington G. Schenk Jr., chair-man of the surgery department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will visit LSU Medical Center here Fri-day. He is an expert on blood flow and hemodynamics, an LSU spokesman said. Medical journals have published 177 of his articles. He is a member of 15 professional groups and a past president of the Socie-ty for Vascular Surgery. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1945, and did his surgical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1945-1946. He has been director of surgery at E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospi-tal since 1966.
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Title | Scared to Death' May be More Than a Saying, Pathologists Find |
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Reese, Sally |
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Fowler, Marjorie Sanusi, I. Daniel Gonzalez, Enrique Meetings Schepers, Gerrit W. H. Schenk, Worthington G. |
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Date | 1980-02-27 |
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Was your reaction out of the senate slashing aid in Pakistan a punishment for the sentencing of a Pakistani Doctor Who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden.
Senator Carl Levin says the anger over this is widespread on the.
The fact that there's so many places on the hill that are reacting this way shows that coordination.
I wish frankly it did.
Have more coordination but it shows -- a -- and outrage he common response.
In just about every place you can look.
So from Capitol Hill to the White House top administration officials joining that level of outrage and Peter -- -- on the north on this white house on this Peter good morning.
Good morning bill -- and we still haven't found anybody to Pakistan is still haven't found anybody who helped hide Osama bin Laden but the pakistanis have found.
This Doctor Who helped us bring bin Laden to justice and secretary of state Hillary Clinton is strongly condemning.
His 33 year prison sentence.
We regret but the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence.
His help after all was instrumental.
In taking down one of the world's most notorious.
And the White House this Press Secretary Jay Carney said this doctor wasn't working against Pakistan he was working against al-Qaeda and that -- there's a senate committee up the street capital up on Capitol Hill yesterday who voted to withhold 33 million dollars in aid.
From Pakistan that's.
One million dollars for every year of his sentence and they're gonna withhold that bill and tell he is free.
I'm not sure this next part matters or not but -- allegations the US Al that the doctor.
And now out -- -- goes right through.
Too soon to tell but the chairman of the house homeland security committee Peter King thinks that he was touted by some people and our government -- some loose -- he's basically saying that he thinks someone in the -- in the administration.
Did the pakistanis just enough Intel to figure out who was helping us out.
In the immediate days after.
The killing of bin Laden.
You had sources the government talking about.
DNA samples are we wanted to come here DNA.
Then soon after that the pakistanis to unlock your various health officials.
A -- story in the British papers and also the McClatchy news how the officials and our government -- off the record confirming that there was a doctor.
And a senior administration official tells us that there were some efforts made.
To try to help the doctor out before he was captured.
Before his arrest but it's not clear why we were not able to get him out of the country before it was too late but congressman king says that he thinks this is definitely gonna hurt us.
When it comes to recruiting foreign assets in the future whether elderly or not 33 years jail.
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So how do you know that an offender means it when they say sorry?
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I attended a session in a well known, inner city prison full of local, inner city, young men with all the airs and graces of inner city life, drugs, violence and gang culture. These things don't cease upon sentencing – if anything they can sometimes be more intense on a prison wing than on the street. Status can be everything on the wing and a new pair of trainers will do wonders for you on the respect scale.
To see a young man in an environment like this full of masculine front stand up to read a letter he has written to the parents of another young man he had beaten up in a gang related incident. To see this man physically shaking and weeping in front of the room I have described. To see some of the other men welling up at what they are hearing. To hear the regret that the realisation of their actions has induced: a realisation not at all prompted by the court process. To witness all this is the only way to have that big question answered. This is what I witnessed and I have absolutely no doubt as to their sincerity.
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Awesome things happen when people come together
Recently, I met with representatives from Prison Fellowship Italy (PF Italy) visiting the Washington, DC area. In early 2010, a colleague and I had visited Italy to train members of the new organisation in the Sycamore Tree Project® so I was really looking forward to hearing about their experiences and the lessons learned. I wasn't prepared for the awe inspiring stories that they told.
The Sycamore Tree Project® is an in-prison restorative justice programme bringing together unrelated victims and prisoners for a series of six to eight sessions. Through the sessions, participants explore the impact of crime, taking responsibility, confession, repentance, making amends, forgiveness and reconciliation. PF Italy worked quickly to implement this programme in Italian prisons but faced a few obstacles. In the end, the prison administration allowed them to start but with the proviso that the first group consist of prisoners who were mafia members convicted of committing murder and survivors of victims of such mafia activity. I remember receiving that news and thinking, "That's not where I would want to start."
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Interview with Debbie, a rape victim of Robert Power
from the interview by Ines Aubert:
Ines Aubert was a pen pal of Robert Powers who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. She discovered over time that Robert had changed profoundly and that he wanted, among other things, to extend an apology to any of his victims who wished to receive that.
This took on some urgency at the end of 2010 as Robert neared the end of his life (he died of cancer on December 3). Ines contacted restorative justice consultant and RJOnline Correspondent Lisa Rea for assistance, but they were unable to find a way to reach out to Robert's victims. Lisa wrote about this in an earlier blog entry on RJOB.
Commenting on an article about Robert's death in a Florida newspaper, Ines wrote that he had wanted to apologize before his death but had been unable. Another reader -- one of Robert's victims -- replied to Ines that she had forgiven Robert. The two were able to connect, and Ines recently interviewed Debbie about her experience as a victim and the reasons for her forgiveness. The following is a short excerpt of an answer Debbie gave to Ines' question about how she felt when she learned that Robert had a pen pal.
Feb 11, 2011 Apology, Offender, Prison, Other, Case:Violence, Victim, Case:Sexual, Forgiveness, Country:USA


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Posted: Mon Sep 10th, 2007 10:40 pm |
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younglobo Member
Hey all lookin for some suggestions the wife and I are thinking on going to Memphis, TN for our Anniversary in OCT. and plan to go to Graceland (my mom is a big Elvis Fan even got to see him once in concert when i was small course it was fat Elvis in a jumpsuit ) we also plan to go to Stone River Battlefield anywhere else you all would reccomend know that some of you all live close by. |
Posted: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 03:50 pm |
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David White Member
Shiloh and Corinth are closer than Stones River (and in more pristine shape I might add) but the Natchez Trace is a nice if slow drive to Murfreesboro. You can see the site and monument where Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Calrk fame was murdered/committed suicide along that route. If you hit Stone's River, Franklin and Spring Hill are close enough to go there. I've never stopped in Memphis for more than gas so I don't know what else to see or do there but I hear there is great nighlife and music on Beale St., if that is where your interests lie. |
Posted: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 03:51 pm |
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ole Member
To get from Memphis to Murphreesboro by the most direct route, you must pass very close to Shiloh and Parker's Crossroads. To get from Nashville to Murphreesboro, you must pass very close to Franklin and Spring Hill. What you can do in the time you have is limited only by your bride's tolerance for your time-consuming hobby. I got to visit Franklin on our 2006 vacation only because of the Carter House and Carnton. ole |
Posted: Mon Sep 17th, 2007 08:20 pm |
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younglobo Member
Thanks for the replys thought stones river was close to memphis guess i will have to check my map . |
Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 06:50 am |
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susansweet Member
It's halfway across the state. Shiloh is much closer and easiter to get to from Memphis. Parker's Crossroads is a ways down the interstate *40 that is , but you could visit there and be back to Memphis easy enough. It is nicely laid out . Not a major field but they have done a nice job with signage and driving tour. Brice's Crossing is also close in Mississippi . They have a really well done video in the visitors center narrated by Shelby Foote . The battlefield again is small but interesting . Holly Springs is also close by. They have the Marshall county historical museum which has some interesting items. Holly Springs changed hands back and forth many times. |
Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 04:39 pm |
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younglobo Member
susan Thanks for the info. Came up with a question while surfin the Shiloh website it says to go to the visitor center in Corinth first then got north to the site itself. Is it worth the trip? How far is it ? And is it necessary or can a person just go to the main site? |
Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 04:44 pm |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
yb- It's about 20 miles from Shiloh, and certainly worth it. Having said that, you can go to Shiloh without the Corinth sidetrip and easily spend a full day. Just make sure you eat at Hagy's. Best catfish - period! |
Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 04:52 pm |
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younglobo Member
Javal thanks love the catfish |
Posted: Wed Sep 19th, 2007 04:35 pm |
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David White Member
I'll second Hagy's, my youngest started eating seafood for the first time in his life the day we went and he has to be the pickiest eater in the family. |
Posted: Wed Sep 19th, 2007 06:13 pm |
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ole Member
Wolfpup. If you have time, go to Corinth. The drive to Shiloh isn't that far and, if you're staying over, Corinth will give you a variety of places to stay. If you are short of time, sorry Calcav, go directly to Shiloh. Although a must-see, the Corinth interpretive center is on the site of one battery emplacement. At Shiloh, they're ALL there. Re Hagy's. If you get to hankerin for food while at Shiloh, Hagy's is about your only choice. I think it's overrated, but you might get there on a good day. Come prepared with really good maps. I'm convinced that, when it came time to budget for road signs, every state east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio ran out of money. Oh yes, do have your most comfortable walking shoes with you. ole |
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