| Morgan Pressel Interview
Editor's Note: Back for her first tournament since winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship, Morgan Pressel sat down with the media on Tuesday. Pressel's next event is the LPGA Tour's Ginn Championship this week in Reunion, Fla. Pressel discussed how her life has changed since breaking through with the first major victory of her brief but impressive career. MODERATOR: Thank you for joining us, your first tournament back since winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship. What have you been doing to refocus to get ready for the Ginn and possibly becoming only the second person in history to win the first tournament after the Kraft Nabisco? MORGAN PRESSEL: Well, it's been a really hectic week. It's been crazy with first losing my clubs and getting back and just being home with all of my family and my friends and everybody coming up to say hi, going to couple of the places that I practice at home and people calling me nonstop.
Mixed Use Mania
Mixed use developments are coming in more shapes, styles and sizes these days, creating a veritable buffet of options for master planners. The phrase has nearly turned into a catch-all expression for any hotel construction project that is combined with, or near other elements. And these types of developments are gaining importance to the overall economics of new projects. Many developers look at getting into mixed use developments as a smart way to get hotel projects approved by financiers since they spread the costs over multiple channels and lower risk by creating a variety of revenue streams. The glass half full view is its the best way to spread risk over different product lines, said Peter Connolly, President & CEO Palladian Development, as part of a panel discussion at the inaugural RealShare Hotel Investment Finance Summit.
Conservation group pushes easements to protect open space
Corwin said several easement projects are in the pipeline, including more than 500 acres east of Watsonville being set aside by the Borina Foundation, part of which the foundation owns with brothers Miles and Garland Reiter. "The idea is catching on," Corwin said. "We're finding a lot of enthusiasm for using this tool to protect the lands we love" For Cooley the easement means not only protection of watershed and the view, but also that the Circle P, which her parents bought in the 1940s and includes a farmhouse dating to the 1860s, will remain a working ranch. "This is not a replica of a ranch. This is not the way it was. This is the way it is," Cooley said. "We brand 200 head of calves here each year" In December, Miles Reiter, chief executive officer and an owner of Driscoll Berries, explained his decision to participate in the Borina deal with the Land Trust.
Bed Bath & Beyond Fourth Quarter Earnings Call
This summary is based on the fourth quarter fiscal 2006 earnings call conducted by Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (BBBY: chart) on April 11, 2007. Key Investors Issues - Earnings per share were up 12% from the 52-week fiscal 2005 to $2.15. - Net sales were $6.6 billion, up 13.9% from the prior fiscal year. - Capital expenditures for fiscal 2007 are estimated at $375 million, constituting the companys largest capital expenditures program to-date. Fiscal Year 2006 Financial Highlights The company achieved its 15th consecutive year of record earnings since becoming a publicly-held company in 1992, partly due to the effect of the additional week in the fiscal year. The earnings per share value excluded the non-recurring 7 cents per share charge related to Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. Fiscal 2005 included only half a year of stock option expense due to the early adoption of FAS 123(R) starting in the third quarter.
Taking the kids to Washington, DC
(Tribune Media Services) -- Make faces at the oh-so-cuddly panda cub or inspect a moon rock. Cheer on a big-league baseball team or practice spycraft. Who says a learning vacation can't be fun? Maybe the kids griped when you suggested heading to the nation's capital rather than the beach this spring (they were studying American history this year, after all). But that was before they knew how much fun they could have. Washington, D.C., is a lot more than boring monuments and stuffy museums. In fact, Washington may provide just the right blend of hands-on museum activities, outdoor fun, hip shopping and kid-friendly restaurants and hotels. (Visit www.washington.org for the best weekend hotel deals, and remember that most museums are free!) Besides, you can regale the kids with tales from your trip here as a kid.
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