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From the party of peace and love - can´t we all just get along?
The Dems, and Libs want people to do what they tell you to do. Do as they say not as they do. They want people to have rights, Their Rights, no Our Rights. Why should people not have a choice of whether to be in a union or not. They earn their money. Unions take it and use it to Destroy our Country!! They are mad because they are losing the money that goes to the Programs our president wants to supplyWay to Go Michigan!! Oh by the way the Dems don´t like when Republicans use the passing of bills by the politicans of their states. Only they can when they pass gay marriage through the states government like they did in NYS
The Right to Choose only applies to killing babies I guess. If they start rioting... since no one lost their jobs or incurred any personal loss, that would qualify as unfair labor practices... and violates their own stupid laws.Since the MSM has a blackout on the 2 dock strikes in LA & San Diego.. striking for eliminated sec´y jobs to still be paid to unions... Is that still holding up xmas presents?
If they riot as hard as they work then there is nothing to worry about
Hoffa needs to relax and go take a long vacation with his father.
They know they have a comrade in arms in the White House. They´re feeling like "it´s time". So almost like it´s been planned and rehearsed, they´re surging, trying to provoke a violent reaction. This time they may be purposely looking for an incident that invites such a response that it would provide justification for a "Red October" type of uprising. Then the comrade´s edicts to supposedly protect the public...martial law, confiscation of firearms, etc.It certainly has the look and feel of something bigger and more "final" than your typical union thug protest. Be vigilant. Be prepared.
I thought Hoffa was dead.There can´t be a son with the same name doing the same evil deeds?Oh wait, the Jesse Jacksons are already doing that too.
# 4 has a very good point.
Yes Obe elections do have consequences. One occurs when states can no longer trust or work with feds and baby dictators they resort to state solutions.Now we have a nation almost evenly dividedright to work free vs right to bow to unions.incoming makes 30 states not progressive controlled and Obe loses his fake mandate.
I saw some video of Hoffa´s union thugs today, as they beat Steven Crowder´s teeth out of his head.These are the same jackasses who spent the past two days loudly rehearsing the lines, "We´re not the violent ones."Scum.Absolute scum.What I wish on these scum (and their entire families) isn´t printable in any family-friendly forum.
Heard Tucker Carlson on Brett Bair. He said everybody needs to find the efficient way of doing things, employers and employees alike. Unions are not efficient and are obsolete. If unions were efficient the U.S. Marines would be unionized.
I kind of hope the unions follow through on these threats, and the businesses in MI take a powder to a southern state leaving behind the union´s scum. If nothing else, I hope they strike far and wide and throw us into a recession so Obama´s second term will be one long nightmare for everyone, not just us conservatives.
Tony Camargo has been identified as being one of the union scum to attack Steven Crowder without provocation.Tony Camargo needs to be charged, jailed and sued in civil court for every dime he has.That, or Tony Camargo needs to have a busload of right-minded people show up at his home at 20 a.m., and show this fat union coward what´s up.
I don´t know how much difference this will make in Mich. from a practical standpoint.This is a very union addicted state and I´m sure this is causing ripples throughout the community.Union leadership doesn´t understand how much people have turned against them,especially when everybody else is struggling and they deamnd more.Unions can feel their power fading away so they´ll make one hell of a stink about this. It´s too bad republican interests never get this fired up when it goes against us.How many people threw an actual fit over Robert´s Obamacare decision?But I can see where a new hire will be read the riot act in a parking of at a unionized factory.They´ll find ways to intimidate people into joining the union regardless of what the law says. Afterall,they are union thugs.Unions aren´t only bad because they donate to dems but their pay and benefit scale is way out of line. On top of that,they do things like slow productivity to protect overtime.
Bring it on FATSO !
#14 a friend of mine in Austin, TX worked for UPS in the early 80s and had no intention of joining the union. They made it clear to him that wasn´t going to be tolerated. He joined for fear of... who knows what, but there was a lot of fear.
Ha ha! Now they know how we have been feeling for the past 4 years!! The only difference is they are used to being the bully...it is no fun when the other side gets the upper hand, is it? pffft
Give him a civil war......
If Obama had a son?
Well considering all of the union workers who are laid off because they can´t find work in Michigan, they maybe able to gather an army.Remember many of those guys in Lansing were from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, etc...
FTA:Hoffa also argued that those who don´t pay union dues will be considered "free riders,"At least those people who he considers "free riders" WORK.What about the 50% who don´t pay taxes?? What do you call them???
See what you get after he bamboozled the electorate for re election. He didn´t even wait for the inaugural to reveal his "vision".
Don´t bring a knife to a union fight. Crowder got punched in the face by one of these unhinged thugs.I´m so happy when we can stick it to a union, they deserve to be prison or worse.Where o where was their lord and savior Obama? Suckers
crowder is going to press charges...GOOD
Communists always degrade to mob rule groupthink (go ahead and chant Occupy Wall Streeters!). They only have courage when they have a gaggle of a thousand or so. How brave to attack a lone camera man in the middle of their pack!Plow Detroit.
Yet it is the Tea party that is violent and the Right wingers are "terrorists"Yeah right!
What a fall the union movement has taken. Just a few years ago Obama had promised them Card Check and doing away with the secret ballot in union elections. Now in the great Union State of MI, Republicans show they have some guts and role them back. Lets not forget the bravery of Wisconsin´s Republicans last year. Now if we could see some similar courage from Mr. Boehner in D.C.
To quote our lord and saviour, "I Won!"
Headline tells you all you need to know about unions and the people who support them. If unions are such a great deal, they would not feel threatened by this new law. The only way unions can succeed is by a declaration that everyone must be in one. Choice just kills them.
Why did Ø add his two cents worth to the fray? Ø has no business getting involved in a matter that is peculiar to a given state and does not interfere with Federal Law.
Workers´ paradises are such wonderful places. Take Detroit for example. Case closed.
Hoffa´s union has been closely watched/audited, by order of the congress, for years due to criminal activity. When the present potus and his minions in the congress took control (2007 for congress, 2008 for the leader)they removed the watch/audit process and let the union return to what it does best....criminal activity and funding the dem party.
Freedom left this country the day the law was put in place that created mandatory membership in a union.
This is what it looks like when a state has been paying protection money to the mob and decides to stop. Just a bunch of thugs out for themselves and the heck with their neighbors who are out of work....let them eat cake.These unions have bankrupted the state legislatures and could care less, because they have their man in the white house who can start up the presses and print bail out money.
I guess that State elections don´t mean a damn thing to the Left. Nor due process.
Let´s pray that Crowder finds an impartial judge, not one who will say that he provoked the attack (remember when the union thugs beat up that man in a wheel chair at a Tea Party gathering?).Unions are now primarily self-serving gangs of thugs, and have long outlived their purpose.Ramona (the Pest)
Press charges and do no back off.
Is that a promise -- hoffa?????Get over it!!LZK
Ah, junior´s s thug just like his old man...Hey Jimmy, wanna meet at the Red Fox for lunch?/s
Hoffa Jr lives very very large off those union dues. This could be a lifestyle changer for him.
In typical union fashion, look for many Michigan cars to have their tires poked and paint jobs keyed.
Only 18% of all Michigan employees belong to a union. This includes both public and private sector unions. I grew up in Michigan in the heart of UAW country, and I was surprised the number was so small. However, the influence of unions on the psyche of many is huge. Even though much of the state runs moderate to conservative politically (which is reflected in our republican governor and republican-controlled state house & senate), the southeast region, which includes Detroit, Ann Arbor, & Flint, has for decades supported primarily the democrat party and has been strongly pro-union, despite the fact that the majority of people here aren´t union members. I am a visiting RN, and I try to keep a "neutral" position when patients bring up political topics. I´m there to help people heal, not to recruit them to the conservative cause. But even my neutral statements about the tensions in Lansing were met with vehement denunciations of Gov. Snyder and the evil republicans. Needless to say, I quickly changed the subject.
The union says that people who are not members should not receive the benefits that they have "negotiated." I say fine, let the non-union workers work on the merit system and we will see just how much they can EARN in the way of benefits. The unions have done more harm than good in last few decades. They have done nothing to increase the productivity of their members, and have promoted an adversarial environment between labor and management. Union workers do not make up of the majority of the work force and amazingly, companies can still prosper and treat their employees well. Most of us don´t need bullies on our behalf to negotiate our wages and benefits. A person of good character and honesty with a good work ethic can do just fine. They will be more productive and produce better products and results. That is their leverage unlike the threat of violence or work stoppage.
Hoffa also argued that those who don´t pay union dues will be considered "free riders," as they're getting the same benefits from union representation without the cost.Free riders? You mean like the welfare slugs who ride on our backs as WE pull the wagon?Or the free riders who enjoy the benefits of lifetime pensions on OUR tax dollars?Or maybe the free riders who flit about on Air Force One and Two on OUR tax dollars on their myriad vacations?Or the Teachers Unions who are permitted to teach nothing and get paid for it on OUR tax dollars?Or the free riders in Congress who get generously paid for life after they retire on OUR tax dollars?If there are any "free riders" in this labor issue, it´s the union pensioners, thugs and enforcers who funnel OUR money into electing Democrat (never Republican) officials, Presidents, Congressmen and Senators.The reason the unions are so hot over workers having a choice is that union dues always, always go toward electing Democrats. It´s a huge candy store and the Democrat Party can´t afford to have the flow of dollars for Democrats stopped or slowed.For Democrats, unions hold the piggy bank.
"Either you do it our way, or we will go Syria on you."
Obama incited these pigs and is now refusing to condemn their violence. I wonder what mission he'll assign them next. These are very dangerous tim
Unions are the new KKK.
That union mob was laughable. They all could use a makeover and a trip to the mall to get some new clothes. They all seem to dress like Archie Bunker.How about that one football field-duration haymaker Camargo delivered? He´s certainly no cage fighter. The libs on other inet sites started saying Crowder´s wounds were popped pimples! You see the mindset of those sickos.Maybe Hoffa will become an involuntary Houdini. The mobsters should start a new reality show: Union roller derby: They can wear those weird "working class" clothes, carry their preprinted anti-Republican signs etc and elbow people in the gut as they skate.
Where is The Mob when you need them?Girl´s Hubby
Works for me. Then, let´s get a rope around fat Jimmy´s neck...
I view unions as a necessary evil especially in the skilled trades (carpentry, plumbing, electricians, welding, pipefitting, etc.). But the union has to make the case that their activities benefit the workers and the best measure of their (union) effectiveness is the voluntary payment of dues. The unions oppose Right to Work for the same reason that the IRS would oppose the elimination of Payroll Tax With holding. Its means that the ultimate payer will suddenly subject them to additional scrutiny.
As for the assault on Mr. Crowder, if ever there was a need for Right to Concealed Carry...
The biggest enemy to Socialism is individual liberty."One size fits all"
inre: #4- well done.i´m actually encouraged by the prediction of "civil war". It will either:a) actually happen, in which case Hoffa´s fat sausage-eating tough-guy army will get wiped out.orb) it won´t happen- which will further marginalize and embarass the silly union punks like Hoffa.
Go on and let the world see what thugs you are. You have outlived your usefulness and are just a piggy bank for the democrat party not to mention unions are responsible for sending jobs overseas.
Just once I would like to hear a Republican Governor stand up and say: ´As our president said, "I won" ´.
Obama went straight to MI to do some ´community organizing´....in short to organize violence and mayhem similar to the brown shirts. Community organizing as in ´communist organizing.´ Obama is actively away from DC out in America stirring up hate and chaos.
Wasn´t it just the other day that Obama was in Michigan politicking against State elected officials because they were considering the ´Right to Work´ law that was passed. That is blatant federal interference in legal Michigan business and you can blame the resulting rioting on the WH.If I was the state of Michigan, and any other state for that matter, I would deny the President any security normally provided by State and Local police when he´s flying in to purposely cause rioting and unrest. He should just butt out. Why pay for the expense of having to pay for Presidential protection and to pay for the ensuing rioting and law breaking encouraged by the Administration.
A lot of people voting for Obama realized that their current financial plight is due to the unions. This is the disconnect that Democrats have long feared. There are plenty of Democrats who personally dispise unions for their power and privlege and have no problem with Michigan becoming a right to work state as long as it stays Democratic. The union proposition was defeated with the help of Democratic voters. The message is clear, belong to a union if you want but it has nothing to do with me or my party and by the way you are the problem.
It´s a depressing joke here in the Rockies : Michiganders are thot of as the ´ Okies ´ of the dust bowl . Pouring in here with a carload of rodent kids looking for a " new start " and free food . We pray they arn´t bringing their politics along as well . If that crummy state can get its act together and kick unions to the curb , maybe work will return .
Odd, isn´t it? Michigan went for Obama, yet has a legislature and a governor that are willing and able to pass a right to work law just a month after the big election. And the protests come, not from the outraged citizens of Michigan, but from thugs and goons brought in from other states. (As they were in Wisconsin.)Anyone else feel a disturbance in the force?
Not rocket science. Union chiefs want to manipulate the market to the unions´ advantage, then take their dues, pay themselves astronomical salaries and bribe democratic politicians to support them. Any other questions?When I was in high school I worked for $1/hr. doing semi-skilled labor. My unionized classmates made $4/hr. doing utterly brainless labor at a manufacturing plant. Guess what--the plant went out of business. The unions´ top principle: it´s good while it lasts.
Fine, we will be civil, you start the war...and we will finish it. I don´t think you have it in you to back up your big mouth!
For sure, the police won´t do anything to suppress the "war". They are unionists themselves.
#62 is right. If I were cynical I might question the election results.I truly believe we are being set up for a civil war.
Red states beware. When someone from Michigan comes looking for work take a look at his car. Look for the Obama-Biden bumper sticker or some other indicator that he carries the union virus. File his application accordingly into the shredder.
Unions are a bad 19th century European idea that was imposed into an attempt to solve a problem that arose in early-to-mid 19th century Europe - especially in Germany and France. The problem was the mass migration of millions of illiterate peasants off the land into the cities to take jobs in factories under horrendous conditions.Many of these peasants and their advocates - (syndicalists, socialists, communists, etc.) emigrated to the U.S., bringing their problems and their attitudes with them.We are over a hundred years past this stage, yet the Union Movement is still stuck back in the 19th century at the Homestead Mine with immigrant firebrand Mother Jones.
Next up: Jay Carney explains why Hoffa´s comments are ambiguous, that he might not mean a "real" ´civil war´./s off/BTW: When did Carney and the White House become the mouthpiece for the unions?
Interesting to see Bam Bam sided with the criminals.
Unions = death, destruction and the poorest possible quality
I guess this is what happens when you stop feeding the beast. He gets very nasty. Time to defang him.I saw that about Carney on Drudge. How can someone not know what the phrase ´there will be blood´ means? Any kid taught by a union member knows that meaning.Stay safe Steven Crowder. Breitbart taught you well.
Aren´t these generally the people with "co-exist" bumper stickers on their cars (usually right next to Obama stickers)? I´m confused. /sTrying to talk sense to these people is like banging my head against a wall: it hurts and I don´t get anywhere.
If it happens, let´s hope that Hoffa, Trumka, et. al. are right out there in front, well within range.
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No, all these employees should be wearinga vest.It would be like a marathon runner vest.On it would say: "Am I working Hard?Report goof offs" And then an employee number and an 800 number.Then we can see some correction.My relative works for a big public entity, is in a union, finishes his job in about 3-4 hrs and then he and the others hide out in an eco-preserve where there are large trees until the end of their shift.Get this, they don´t even have a time clock in the dept for them or any one !This is what is wrong with unions
Hope the thug dirt bags that call in "sick" in order to crack skulls and cause trouble lose their jobs. That would be justice served.
Memo to Jimmy Hoffa:Go back to looking for your father
Well, now at least the handyman who comes to fix the flooring will be allowed to pound a nail into the wall to hang a bulletin board... several years ago, in my office in Ann Arbor, I asked a handyman if he could help me hang something heavy...he did it but I had to promise not to tell.
Unions = Communists = Obama = Unions. Get the picture?
I recall Jiimmy get up before the prexy spoke somewhere and said let´s take the bastards out. You know what that means in unionese and the prexy said nothing. For shame.
Sooo...It´s not the Tea Party that is the one advocating violence and blood shed? What´s up with the "all inclusive" party advocating slaughter of human beings and out right destruction of their state? How does that bring about a "brotherhood" of workers all gathered together in their "one family" communist Utopia?
Boo Hoo...Hoffa not happy, no union requirement no dues, no dues my fat paycheck goes down the tubes...Hoffa not happy. Make Hoffa happy, come visit us so we can smash your face in, Hoffa happy again.
We are looking at the future of the Republican Party. Forget trying to form a conservative third party. It´s not necessary.After all the fretting about the lack of a bench at the national level of the Republican Party, this should give us all hope. While the entire current crop of would-be Republican presidential candidates at the national level are busy trying to figure out ways to not lose, there are literally thousands of conservative men and women playing take-no-prisoners triple A political hardball out in the boonies, and they´re not afraid to get their uniforms dirty. This is how the Tea Party takes over the Republican Party. From the ground up.
These people keep inciting bloodshed & riots. Typical liberals will not know what to do if they get what they want. We have the guns, the population, and the anger from being fed up with these fools. Punching Steven Crowder? Bring it on.
Does Hoffa mean that people are going to start disappearing? Just asking, because union of the union thuggery they are noted for.
I think that Hoffa should literally follow in his father´s footsteps.
The way I see it: if Hoffa wants a war, then Hoffa will arrange for one. The unions will finance it. (Just like they financed Occupy Wall Street.)
They are serious. Prepare in every way you can, because they will hurt you every way they can from strikes to sabotage to assault.
Well, it´s got to start somewhere. Michigan is as good a place as any. Bring it on you public service union thugs. How many UAW, SEIU, AFL-CIO, UMWA and teachers union members want to finance the losing side of the next civil war? Even with the DOJ and IRS gestapos on your side you won´t fare well if a civil is what your leaders are calling for. And you can be sure none of them will be on the front lines.
Can the Republican Party pose the question:Why should union members get paid more than the rest of us? Why should they have government power to enhance their own standard of living while the rest of us don´t?The Unions add no value to the products the workers make- so we are paying higher prices so they can have higher wages. Why should this be?
#4 is right on!
Civil war in Michigan.Who would notice?
I read or heard an article a couple of days ago that companies searching around for some other place or state to relocate to have told the searchers to NOT even consider ANY state that in NOT a right to work state. Now, I just wonder if the unions have heard about this? My guess is that they have and are scared ****less because of it. And for all the uproar caused by unions, it´s amazing that unions only make up 8% of the non-public sector work force. Yet they cause a large amount of trouble.And if memory serves me, I seem to recall that a some time in the past that most of the large labor unions were controlled by the Mafia. Have the Dims simply evolved into them?
Look how well dems and unions run a place - too many cities to mention.Do you remember when zippy said he´d walk the protest lines with his union buddies? Haven´t seen him do that yet. Maybe too much for the SS to protect him.If Detroit was dozed, we could call it urban renewal. A definite improvement.What happened yesterday was not my America - look how we´ve changed! Along with zippy trashing the Tenth Amendment by stepping on individual states´ rights.
Hopefully the union thug ´Tony Camargo´ that punched Steven Crowder will be charged with assault. Unfortunately because he is a union thug and a democrat nothing will be done about it.
Oh No! Not a Civil War.Detroit will be reduced to....Burned out neighborhoodsbroken familiespovertyviolence.......We can´t let that happen!
Call out the militia to stop the union thugs!
Tony Camargo aka "Tony The Enforcer"? How´d you like to have a fat useless sausage-eating union thug like that for a next door neighbor? One thing we can probably be sure about. Hoffa´s dad is probably either sitting at the bottom of a river somewhere or he´s in a million pieces. Nice crowd that union bunch. Obama kinda fits in with that crowd. Lies through his teeth, wants to take your money.
Civil war IS inevitable... because of geniuses like you, Jimmy. But when you get what you want, don´t complain about the result, awright big guy?


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This is one of the most pathetic, self-serving statements I have ever read. The Mayor sounds like an eight-year old, who had broken his neighbor's window with a baseball, lied about it, got caught and was told by his Mommy and Grandpa to go back to his neighbor and admit it was him.
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And what about the sources of funding? Where did the $7.4 million in Quimby fees come from? Quimby fees are designated for certain neighborhoods. The City must have just gone and raided those funds, pilfering those neighborhoods' park money.And the general fund portion of $3.2 million, I would not be surprised if that came from the Casden land sales proceeds and later redesignated as unobligated reserves.
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That's why when I play The Beatles: Rock Band I play more than one song.
I wish it would happen, otherwise I will never play The Beatles game again especially after RB3.
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No, it is not difficult... and I stand when I play and I don't own an iPod and I still buy CDs and sometimes vinyl.
But, I don't play The Beatles anymore because there is just too much to choose from in RB. I can either play another song or load a new game... So, yeah, I would much rather play another song while I am jazzed up from playing the last one and not "kill the moment" by swapping discs. I know, I know, it is not that hard, but I also don't like answering the phone while having sex, it kinda ruins the mood... even though that doesn't take very long either.
So, my The Beatles game and the $52 world of DLC was just a waste of money and I regret buying it... a great game, but it just doesn't get played...
...why are we having this conversation again? We all know one another's position on it and arguing about it will not change anyone's thoughts.
Pushing 50 and still rockin' like a teen, only now I can afford it and it takes longer to recover.
I take from the comment that your ADD riddled attention span is far too short to be diverted for the 20-30 seconds it would take to ... look a squirrel! Answering the phone when having sex? You're comparing that to swapping discs? Take the phone of the hook next time. Problem solved.
True, arguing is not going to change anything. Also, asking the same question over and over.... and over... and OVER again is not going to change anything either. It's beginning to look like the Bill Murray movie "Ground Hog Day" around here.
No. He just doesn't want to when he can just stay with RB2 and have thousands of songs available to him, instead of just less than 100.
Once again, this has NOTHING to do with having a short attention span because we live in the "iPod" generation. Especially with someone like Sayburr, who to my understanding is fairly old (in comparison to most people on the RB forums Sayburr, don't take that offensively ) and didn't grow up in the "iPod" generation.
All it comes down to is that switching discs kills the mood. When you've just rocked out to Iron Maiden or something on RB2, it really puts a damper on the mood when you stop to switch discs. I don't know if you've ever played RB with a large group of people and done this but trust me, it's a mood killer.
And then there's the even bigger issue of just wanting to play one Beatles song. I don't want to have to switch the disc to TB:RB and back just to play Hello, Goodbye then go back to playing Queen or something. Are there times where we just wanna play Beatles songs? Of course, and we do that. But there are even more times where we want to play one or two songs from a variety of different artists. And that's kind of hard to do with the Beatles when you have to switch discs just to play a few songs and then have to switch back.
Look, I'm not saying an export should happen. I'm not demanding one. I don't even care if we ever get one or not. All I'm saying is that it would be nice for the option to be there because it makes things more convenient and would probably give Beatles songs more play time during RB parties since they're there with all the other 800+ artists in RB.
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Elizabeth Blake Straughn
RE: Cimmaron Family Legends book
Do you happen to know or have you come across the names of Straughn or Hohimer in the Cimmaron Family Legends book? They were in the 2nd land rush in Gutherie, OK. Any knowledge you know of them would be great. I'm just curious if they are in the book, so I can know if I should spend that much money on the volumes. Hate to spend that much if they aren't in there anywhere. Thanks!
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Greetings from Florida. Please advise I'm try to prove or disprove that ...
ROBERT ARNOLD (Speare) LOWRY Sr. (1859 - 1920) is my husband's great grandfather.
CHESTER HIRAM (Keeler) LOWRY Sr. (1884 - 1931) is the son of ROBERT ARNOLD LOWRY.
CHESTER HIRAM (Gilges) LOWRY Jr. (1914 - 1965) is the son of CHESTER HIRAM LOWRY Sr.
My husband JAMES SHAWNEE (Shawn) LOWRY 1951 is the son of CHESTER HIRAM LOWRY Jr.
I'm pretty sure that the above mentioned are all born in Stillwater, OK except my husband who was born in Balimore, MD.
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Hi Pammy
I'm sorry I told you that John Emery was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater, OK. He was actually buried in Evergreen Alameda Cemetery in El Paso, TX. His wife, Laura Ann (Jones) Sater (12110901) was buried at Fairlawn in Stillwater, however.
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My name is Mary Ann Sater Wheeler. I am the great granddaughter of John Emery Sater (115014613) and Laura Ann Jones Sater (12110901,) who are buried in Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, OK. I would request that you add John Emery's parents to his memorial. The info is listed below:
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I have been trying to get this information added for over a year. However, I just noticed that John Emery's memorial number is different now than the one I had in my notes. I am not sure what happened, but his current memorial was created by you in August of this year. Thank you. I appreciate that you took the time to include a copy of his obituary. Please note that the obituary included John Emery's surviving brother, George Righter Sater(12110900). George's memorial does include family links to their parents, Oliver and Maria Sater, as listed above. I would appreciate it if you could add their parents' family link to John Emery's memorial, as well.
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Good to hear from you, Pam. "Prehistoric" is sort of a strange word; prehistory can occur only one generation ago, eh? Did you find that "Main Street" on Google Earth, or one of those map sites? When I put a compass on it, it appeared to be 5.9 miles, or so east of Cushing! "Circumstantial" convicts killers, so I have some pride in what you and I have found for genealogy. (Mostly you by any account.) There is a point where it becomes good enough short of digging up the "Indian City town limits" sign.
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I see you posted 4 burials for the Lyman Inman Cemetery in Rock township, Rock Co., Wisconsin. May I ask where you got your information? I am particularly interested in Oscar Watts who is listed as being buried there, but there is no stone.
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Hello again
Would you mind terribly checking your two volumes for the names Pounds / Olson / Jenkins? They lived in that area between 1900 and 1910, maybe even longer. In fact, they were mostly on the Lincoln Co. side of the line, but just barely. I have found some of their doings in the Perkins paper.
If your index includes place names, could you check Grand Center? That's the village that was closest to them.
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Do you know if there is any information regarding the Straughns or Hohimers in the Gutherie area? I hate to spend that much money if there is no information regarding family. Thanks for any info. you can give me! Liz
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Right you are about the east-west! Stupid me!! So, now I guess we are talking Indian City being relative to Drumright (very close to six miles), instead of Mehan. Thanks for your discerning eyes, and writing. I'll tune up the biography. -Ernie-
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China GrenTech Corporation Limited (GRRF)
Q4 2006 Earnings Call
March 12, 2007 8:00 am ET
Jane Liu - Christensen
Yingjie Gao - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Rong Yu - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Director
Qingchang Liu - Vice President
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Daniel Amir - W.R. Hambrecht+CO
Adele Mao - Susquehanna Financial Group
Li Tang - Pacific Crest Securities
Adam Clarke - Bear, Stearns & Co.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is Nicole and I will be your operator for this conference call. I would like to welcome everyone to the China GrenTech fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions)
A broadcast replay of the call will be available for three months at the website of the company at www.grentech.com.cn. Telephone replay of the call will be available through 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, 2007, Eastern Standard Time. To access the replay, please call 1-888-286-8010, or 617-801-6888 if you are calling from outside the U.S. The access code will be 14718471.
The presentation slides for today's conference call can be downloaded from the website of China GrenTech in the investors section, under Investor Events.
Now I would like to transfer the call to the moderator, Ms. Jane Liu of Christensen.
Jane Liu
Thank you, Operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the fourth quarter fiscal year 2006 earnings conference call for China GrenTech. I am Jane Liu of Christensen. With me today are Mr. Yingjie Gao, Chairman and CEO; Ms. Rong Yu, CFO; and Mr. Qingchang Liu, Vice President.
For your reference, you can download the presentation materials from the company's website. The address is www.grentech.com.cn.
Before we begin the call today, I would like to remind everyone of the company's Safe Harbor policy regarding forward-looking comments. Such comments are based on current expectations of China GrenTech and therefore there can be no assurance that these expectations will prove to be correct. Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, China GrenTech's actual results could differ materially from these statements.
Information for the fourth quarter of 2006 is also included with the company's earnings press release that was made available this morning and in our 6-K that will be subsequently filed with the SEC.
Now, I would like to pass the call over to Gordon Gao of China GrenTech. Gordon, you may begin.
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Gordon Gao
Thank you, Jane, and welcome everyone to our call. The agenda for today's conference is first we will start with a review of our results, then we will provide a broader overview of our business. Afterwards, we will move on to the guidance for quarter one 2007 and the full year. Finally, we will be happy to take your questions.
I will try to be somewhat brief about our comments on the financials. I hope most of you will have seen our results by now, so we will try to go through this and leave more time for Q&A. As you can see on this slide on page four, for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006, revenue for quarter four 2006 increased 19.1% year over year and a 16.3% increase for the full year.
Gross profit for quarter four 2006 increased 2.8% year over year and a 1.9% increase for the full year.
Net profit for quarter four decreased 26% year over year to RMB 114 million, and decreased 18% to RMB 148 million for the full year.
Diluted earnings per ADS for quarter four 2006 were RMB 4.58, or in U.S. dollars, $0.59, and diluted earnings per ADS for the fiscal year 2006 were RMB 6.25, or in U.S. dollars, $0.80.
We had a very good quarter from a top line perspective. However, decreased gross profits is an industry trend. We are no exception. However, a few factors drove down our results, including spending R&D for base station RF modules, internal control systems 404 compliance, and sales and marketing expenses.
Compared to the previous year, we witnessed a significant increase in both the quarterly and full-year revenues. This increase was mainly due to higher sales to Chinese operators, with the exception of China Unicom, while our overseas sales to other wireless coverage integrators and base station OEMs also demonstrated growth during this period. Revenues from China Unicom decreased by 7.5% for the fiscal year 2006 as China Unicom reduced its investments in CDMA.
In 2006, our revenues still derive mainly from domestic carriers. The revenues from China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Netcom, overseas carriers, other integrators and OEMs were about 36%, 33%, 11%, 8%, 1%, 7%, and 4% respectively of the total turnover. The proportion from our largest customer, China Unicom, declined to 36% from 45% in 2005.
In terms of products, wireless coverage products and services and RF products accounted for about 96% and 4% respectively of the total revenue of 2006. This composition is similar to that of last year.
Our gross margin for quarter four 2006 was 46.5%, a decrease from 53.9% in the fourth quarter of last year. Our gross margin for fiscal 2006 was 47.5%, a decrease from 54.2% of last year. The decline was mainly due to pricing pressure of wireless coverage products.
Our operating margin for quarter four 2006 was 29.6%, which decreased from 41.9% in the fourth quarter of last year. Our full year operating margin was 21.5%, a decrease from 31.4% of last year.
The operating margin decrease is because in a strategic response, we expanded our marketing spending in an effort to aggressively strengthen our market share and we also increased our R&D spending for base station RF components and 3G-related products. Additionally, the 404 compliance required us to boost the spending on our internal control systems. These factors combined to drive our operating profit down. It also resulted in a decrease in net income. However, we believe those spendings will help prepared the company for expected growth in the 3G wireless coverage and base station RF markets in China.
Total cash increased from RMB 204.9 million as of December 31, 2005, to RMB 706 million as of December 31, 2006. Total cash includes cash and cash equivalents and pledged time deposits. This increase in cash was mainly attributable to the net proceeds from the IPO completed on March 30, 2006.
Total accounts receivable increased from RMB 999 million as of December 31, 2005 to RMB 1,016.1 million as of December 31, 2006. This increase was mainly attributable to the growth in revenues and a slower settlement from the major accounts receivables during the year, as well as the increase in long-term accounts receivables.
Inventory increased from RMB 370 million as of December 31, 2005 to RMB 434 million as of December 31, 2006. The increase was mainly due to an increase in finished goods inventories which are in the process of installation with customers.
Now I will turn to our business overview. Now this is on page nine; on the agenda, second, business overview.
While China Unicom decreased CDMA investment, the results being a slowdown in our network coverage business, all the other operators have been increasing their investment in network coverage. In order to fulfill their investment plans for the fiscal 2006, all the operators have accelerated their network coverage construction in quarter four, which contributed significantly to our growth in the quarter.
In addition, China GrenTech successfully won the bid from China Mobile centralized bidding for eight series of GSM wireless coverage products. The success of China GrenTech's in this process qualifies the company to supply coverage equipment to China Mobile for its GSM network, which will help increase the company's market share from China Mobile.
Let's turn to the next page, 11. Let us move on to the RF product sector. Currently, we have been qualified as the supplier for six major base station OEMs. In quarter four, a variety of company series products passed certification by Huawei and ZTE. The company won a bid for two major CDMA RF modules, taking 80% of the deal from Huawei and won a bid from Shanghai Bell Alcatel's first tender for TD-SCMDA filters.
We are in volume supplies to three major base stations OEMs; ZTE's, Siemens and Shanghai Bell Alcatel. The company became the primary supplier to ZTE for TD products and two key types of CDMA RF modules, and began the delivery of TD-SCMDA filters to the other two. We are also in the process of a trial supply to Huawei.
With GSM capacity expansion and the TD-SCDMA commercial trial network construction launching in China, as well as increasing demand for base stations from oversea markets, domestic and international base station OEMs are expanding the demand for base station RF modules. Management expects revenues from base station RF modules will have a big jump, growing 300% to 400% from 2006 to account for 10% to 15% of the total revenues in 2007.
Let's turn to slide 12. However, we also faced the following challenges during quarter four: one, decline in ASP for 2G products -- this is an industry trend; second, China Unicom's investments in CDMA has been slowing down; third, our production process for base station RF modules still has room for improvement.
In order to reduce the costs, China GrenTech made use of its proprietary technology and low-cost production patents to redesign various parts of the company's trunk amplifiers and network coverage equipment. Such redesigns not only improved the product portfolio but also lowered product costs by reducing material use and simplifying the production lines. As a result, the company has minimized the impact on gross margins.
On the other hand, the company also changed its sales and marketing strategy to control the increase of sales costs, improving the sales cost utilization rate. The company is spending more resources in production lines and logistic platform to improve mass production processes.
Now let's turn to the slide 13, the guidance for the first quarter and full year of 2007.
In the year 2007, the company will have four growth opportunities. First, the construction of the TD-SCDMA commercial trial network will start very soon. Secondly, the expansion of 2G network and demand for the Olympic stadiums 2G network coverage create the stable demand for 2G wireless coverage products. Third, revenue from overseas wireless coverage is expected to grow steadily. Fourth, growing demand for TD-SCDMA 2G expansion and demand for base station products from oversea markets continue to create significant need for RF products.
Slide 15. TD-SCDMA commercial trial networks construction will provide ample opportunities for both our wireless coverage business and base station RF module industry. GrenTech is well-prepared in the TD-SCDMA sector for future opportunities.
For TD-SCDMA wireless coverage, we successfully developed TD-SCDMA trunk amplifiers, optical repeaters, and radio repeaters. Our TD-SCDMA repeaters and trunk amplifiers were awarded approval certificates by the government. The company is ideally poised for TD-SCDMA equipment production and technology training.
For base station RF components in TD-SCDMA, China GrenTech newly developed four types of TD filters, of which two are available to the market, and three types of TD-SCDMA amplifiers have yet to be introduced. We have started to supply in volume TD-SCDMA filters to Siemens and Shanghai Bell Alcatel.
Slide 16. We are confident about the growth prospects in 2007. As the RF module orders from base station OEM manufacturers increase rapidly, we estimate first quarter 2007 revenue will have a significant growth rate of 89% to 116%, and the revenue will be RMB 28 million to RMB 32 million, compared to RMB 14.8 million of last year.
Our full-year revenue growth from wireless coverage products is expected to be in the high-teens, while the revenue growth from the RF business to be approximately 300% to 400% in 2007, but our gross margin and operating margin will continue to decrease in 2007.
That takes us to the end of our presentation. We are now happy to answer your questions. Thank you.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions)
Your first question comes from the line of Mike Walkley from Piper Jaffray. Please proceed. Mr. Walkley, your line is open.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Thank you very much. I was wondering if you could give us a little more guidance on your gross margin and operating margin targets for 2007 guidance.
Rong Yu (Translation)
To respond to your question, since it is mostly on the gross margin of those two products for the year 2007, while we believe that the 3G products will not necessarily be lower than 2G products, we expect that for the wireless coverage products, they will be roughly about 35% to 40%, and for the RF products, around 30%.
The proportion of RF products would increase slightly in the year 2007, about 10% to 15% in the total proportion of sales. So in sum, they will be roughly about 35% to 40% of the gross margin.
If I could just add one more impact; the impact on the gross margin also comes from the centralized bidding of China Mobile as well. Thank you.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Thank you. And on your operating margin, with your continued investment in the RF component side, would you give us a range where you think your operating margins will be for 2007?
Rong Yu (Translation)
If we take the cost, for example, for the -- because we invest 65% of the total R&D investments are RF, so the cost for the RF would be about 6% to 6.5% and for the marketing it would be 13% to 14% for the development of our customers. For the general administration, it would be about 6% of the cost of the R&D. Thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Daniel Amir with W.R. Hambrecht. Please proceed. Mr. Amir, your line is open.
Daniel Amir - W.R. Hambrecht+CO
Good morning. A couple of questions here; first of all, on the 3G side, can you expand a bit -- now that we seem to see that TD-SCDMA are the first licenses that are going to come out and then the others, it is a question whether they are going to come out in '07 or not, what is in your guidance here for 2007? Can you expand a bit what portion of this and when do you expect this to start hitting your top line?
Gordon Gao
This is your first question, right? Would you like me to respond to the first question first?
Daniel Amir - W.R. Hambrecht+CO
Yes, related to 3G.
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
The first point Mr. Liu is trying to make is actually in our current portfolio, 30% of our wireless products comes from TD-SCDMA and 20% of the TD-SCDMA actually goes to the RF products, so in total roughly about 50% of the total revenue.
Daniel Amir - W.R. Hambrecht+CO
My question was more related to the fact that -- what is your exposure to 3G? Considering some of the 3G has been pushed out, how is that impacting your revenue growth rate here for 2007?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
Actually, in China, when we talk about the 3G we talk about the TD-SCDMA. We are not really talking about the WCDMA and CD-2000.
To just elaborate on the TD-SCDMA scenario, as our reports mention, the Chinese Government has planned the trial in ten major cities of China. The licenses have not been issued yet but the rumors on the streets expose that the China Mobile is planning for the bidding for the TD-SCDMA for the trial networks, and actually for the total revenue investment involved doubled to 26.7 billion, among which 23.7 billion will go to equipment. So we perceive that such a market trend is inevitable. That is why we deal with 30% based on the current market perception.
Of course, if it does not happen, the 3G things, we also actually guide that we will maintain the low-teens, the two-digits development. Thank you.
Daniel Amir - W.R. Hambrecht+CO
My last question is; beyond 2007, what type of operating margins are you planning to run the company at? What is your long-term operating margin model?
Rong Yu (Translation)
Actually, the operating margins, as I just mentioned, the R&D actually would decrease about 5% to 6% because we are involved more with the RF products. The same goes with marketing. Because of the change of the structure, we put more effort on RF product development, so the marketing costs will slow down. But for the moment, it will be roughly about the 13% to 14%. For the general administrations, it will go down but because the 404 compliance, that is why now it is slightly higher.
Your next question comes from the line of Adele Mao from Susquehanna. Please proceed.
Adele Mao - Susquehanna Financial Group
Thank you. You mentioned just now that China Mobile is expecting to spend RMB 23.7 billion in 3G equipment. That is equivalent to about $3 billion. I assume that is for the ten cities that will go on commercial trial, so those expenditures should be expended in 2007 and some part in 2008. Is that correct?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
The expenditure I was just talking actually does not just come from China Mobile. It comes from China Telecom, China Netcom, the CapEx they expect to spend is actually, from our understanding, it is about the year 2007 only.
Also, just now we were talking about the RMB 23.7 billion and where they are going to spend, on what products. Especially I think what we are concerned on the wireless coverage products, which is our main market. According to the findings of the research institutions, about $100 million will be spent on our main market, i.e. the wireless coverage product. Thank you.
Adele Mao - Susquehanna Financial Group
What kind of market share -- out of this $100 million, what kind of market share are you looking to capture in 2007? Also, would you expect the mobile carriers expand their capital expenditure in the second phase of TD-SCDMA build-out in 2008? And what kind of market size of the expenditure would you expect for the industry overall?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
To respond to your first question, in our guidance we did not really specify the specific numbers because actually we expect with our relationship with China Mobile in particularly involved with our RF business, we will get more market share in TD-SCDMA products.
On the wireless coverage product, essentially we have been growing in market share. In the year 2005, our market share was roughly about 10% to 15%, and in the year 2006, 16%. In 2007, we have every reason to expect more market share in this market segment.
Adele Mao - Susquehanna Financial Group
So this quarter versus last quarter's earnings call, has the official delay really changed your expectation for 3G revenue ramp-up? You know, if the delay has negatively impacted your business pipeline for '07? I assume not, right?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
Actually, in fact when we talk about the 3G, we mainly talk about the delay of the issuing of license. In our real market expectations, it is more or less not really affecting us too much because we focus mostly on TD-SCDMA. Of course, without issuing the WCDMA and MT-2000, that would affect us, certain business, but not too much. In fact, if our market would be affected negatively, there would not be for the moment the WCDMA and MT-2000, but rather the TD-SCDMA.
But for us, from our market knowledge, the TD-SCDMA is inevitable that we are surely going to go to the market. That is why that supports our market share. Thank you.
Adele Mao - Susquehanna Financial Group
I just have a last question about your margin, just sort of a clarification from Ms. Yu's earlier comments. She mentioned that wireless will be about 35% to 40%. I remember last quarter you guys were talking about 40% to 45%, and then RF close to 30%, while you talked about 30% to 40% before. Is this a lowered expectation from last quarter?
Rong Yu (Translation)
Actually, the reason we have mentioned in our report is it is on the centralized bidding by China Mobile, which had not been thoroughly calculated in our previous number or figure of 40% to 45%, so that leads to the slight decrease of that margin.
As to the decrease on the margins of RF products, it is based on our design of seizing more market share in 2007. That is why we lowered down our price a little bit, which effects the margin.
Your next question comes from the line of Li Tang from Pacific Crest Securities. Please proceed.
Li Tang - Pacific Crest Securities
Thank you. First question is when do you expect to start recognized revenue from TD-SCDMA wireless coverage products in 2007?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
Quarter three.
Rong Yu (Translation)
Mostly focusing on the quarter four.
Li Tang - Pacific Crest Securities
Okay, great. The second question is on your RF component revenue guidance in 2007. That 300% or 400% is a very healthy growth. What gives you the confidence that your RF component revenue could ramp up in such a speed in 2007? Do you already have some order in hand, or do you have the pipeline that you can see that revenue to ramp up significantly in the second quarter or third quarter this year?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
My first point to respond to your question is actually there are three factors. The first factor is coming from the OEM, the overseas, the base stations conduct a lot of procurements on the RF modules.
The second is coming from the TD network because there is a lot of procurement and there are a lot of orders increase, which gives us the confidence.
The third factor is coming from the GSM because of the overseas and domestic base stations have higher demand for RF modules.
Actually, for the TD-SCDMA, we have expectations of about RMB 5 billion.
We all know that among the six major players, ZTE, Huawei, Siemens, Alcatel, actually we have already started the order process. We have so far about RMB 25 million in orders. There are also orders from the GSM, the TD for the main products. Also, we have some small orders from Huawei, which is going to be very big very soon, and we also have the orders from Siemens and Alcatel for the TD filters.
Yingjie Gao (Translation)
I am Yingjie Gao, the Chairman of GrenTech. I would like to add one point on our RF products. Actually, RF products is our core distinction, the core competence of our company which distinguishes our company from other competitors.
Actually, RF products is our major strategy for our sustainable development and growth. We could see that from the year 2006, we invested more RF R&D. In fact, our R&D staff on RF exceeds the number of R&D staff on wireless coverage.
The RF base products actually have maintained the strong momentum for growth for the coming few years. Actually, the regulatory framework also provides an optimal environment for such development. For example, the Ministry of Information Industry has given the five-year plan, among which the base chips and also our RF products are the major targets for the planned development.
Your next question comes from the line of Adam Clark from Bear Stearns. Please proceed.
Adam Clarke - Bear, Stearns & Co.
Congratulations on the quarter. I was just wondering if you could give anymore detail in terms of the visibility on the TD-SCDMA indoor coverage. I know you said that you would be booking revenue potentially in Q3 or Q4, but do you know when you would expect to be submitting bids for those projects? Is that anything in the near-term? Thanks.
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
Thank you for your questions on the visibility of the development of TD. Actually, China Mobile is still in the preparations for bidding and has not started bidding yet. That is why we cannot give you exactly the detailed visibility. But according to the roadmap of TD development, by the end of May, the equipment bidding will be completed. By the end of October, the network will be completed in construction. So that is why we expect that the quarter three, we start building all that equipment. On quarter four, we are going to see some revenues from this market share. Thank you.
(Operator Instructions)
Your next question is a follow-up question from the line of Mike Walkley from Piper Jaffray. Please proceed.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Thank you. I just wanted to follow-up on your RF business. Could you give us some more details? I thought I heard you say you had an 80% share of something for Huawei. Can you give us a little color on your Huawei business and when that starts to ramp in terms of revenue?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
If I could introduce the scenario of Huawei, just to clarify first about that 80%. The 80% is actually coming from the CDMA bidding of Huawei, one of the modules. Actually, we are already the qualified supplier for Huawei, in comparison of the audits or certification of Huawei, and we have already started small quantity supply. Actually, we are going to provide more in quantity very soon. That is why there is the close relationship with Huawei and our strong confidence in the market. Thank you.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Thanks, and then on your RF coverage business -- would you expect that business to be up sequentially in terms of Q1, above Q4 levels?
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
We could predict the RF products in the whole year from quarter one to quarter four, we already know that so now we have RMB 25 million in orders in RF, mostly from ZTE, Huawei and Siemens and Alcatel. So the whole year we will proceed in quite a steady growth on that, and of course the orders are mostly coming from ZTE and Huawei. Thank you.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
One last question for me; for 2007, what tax rate are you assuming? Just the tax rate for 2007.
Qingchang Liu (Translation)
2007, we are facing two opportunities. First is coming from RF, and we expect there will be a higher gross on that market. Secondly coming from the TD network wireless coverage, because there is more demand on that. We also think that there is still market existing on 2G. Of course, there is also the oversea market, the OEM procurement. That is why we, based on all this information and opportunities, we predict a revenue growth of 13%. Of course, there are other factors, as Ms. Yu just mentioned -- the decrease of ASPs, which affects our gross and net margins, but we firmly believe that we are still here in the industry and one of the top players in revenue generation. Thank you.
There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Ms. Jane Liu.
Jane Liu
Thank you, Operator. A link to the replay of this call will be available for three months at www.grentech.com.cn in the investors section under Investor Events. A dial-in version of the replay can be heard at 888-286-8010 if you are in the U.S., or at 1-617-801-6888 for international calls. The dial-in replay will be available until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Eastern Time. The access code will be 14718471.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact Mr. Qingchang Liu of GrenTech at 867-558-350-1796, or e-mail email@example.com. Thank you again and have a nice day.
Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Good day.
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