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Bubble?
Who says the boom's over? Boynton development sells out phase one in 5 hours
By Robyn Friedman Special Correspondent and Paul Owers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted October 24 2006
Kellie and Mike Pilicer grabbed lawn chairs, a flashlight and a few magazines, then spent the next 13 hours waiting to buy a house.
This was a familiar scene during the go-go days of the recent housing boom when people clamored for homes and condominiums before the first shovelful of dirt was turned. Ten months into a housing slump, here we are again: a developer promising to build affordable homes, prompting more than 100 people to camp out Friday night in Boynton Beach.
The lure of prices starting at $311,900 -- affordable for a new home by South Florida standards -- brought the Pilicers and many others to the sales office for Greystone, the new development.
The 134 houses in the first phase of Greystone, slated for a 144-acre site off Hagen Ranch Road, sold out in less than five hours Saturday, bringing in $50 million for builder G.L. Homes. The Sunrise-based company says it will deliver the first of the 552 homes by early 2008.
Despite the recent downturn in South Florida's housing market, prices still remain out of reach for many people. But builders that cater to middle-income consumers will stay plenty busy, real estate analysts say.
"[Greystone] is a clear indication to me that if you meet the affordability level of buyers, you'll be a very successful builder," said Anthony Trella, a homebuilding consultant in Broward County. "If you marketed 10 more of these projects, they would all sell out. There is more demand than builders can fill."
However, most area builders are accustomed to delivering homes that cost $400,000 or more. They'll continue to suffer through a slump in new orders, which experts say could last into 2008.
G.L. Homes says it pressured subcontractors to keep costs down at Greystone. It's touting the development as affordable for teachers, police officers, firefighters and other municipal workers, but many might still have trouble qualifying for mortgages there.
Teachers in Palm Beach County, for example, earned an average salary of between $40,747 and $54,343 last year. In Broward, the salary range was $42,887 to $52,537.
G.L. says someone buying a typical four-bedroom Greystone house through its lender with a 20 percent down payment and a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage could expect a monthly payment of $2,397. That includes principal, interest, taxes and insurance, but not the $141 monthly homeowners association fee.
An interest-only adjustable rate mortgage, with a similar down payment, would cost $2,129 a month.
David Dweck, a real estate agent in Broward and Palm Beach counties, estimates that 20 percent of the people who signed contracts at Greystone ultimately will back out of the deals.
"That's not workforce housing," he said. "That's affordable housing in relative terms in today's marketplace."
Both existing and new home sales across South Florida have been down this year after the five-year boom. West Palm Beach housing analyst Brad Hunter said this month that existing home sales could pick up in the next three to six months, but it might be 18 months before new home sales rebound.
The rising costs of land and construction make it difficult to build more affordable single-family homes in Palm Beach and Broward counties. To build less expensive homes, builders are delivering townhouses here or going to St. Lucie County, where land isn't as pricey.
Builders say they aren't surprised by the success G.L. had at Greystone.
"They marketed that community very well," said Jason Shelley, co-owner of Shelby Homes in Fort Lauderdale.
"Anybody that can produce a home within the affordable parameters hasn't experienced a slowdown that other market segments have," added Jeffrey Auchter, vice president of marketing for Centerline Homes in Coral Springs.
While demand at Greystone was brisk, that isn't the case at some of G.L. Homes' other subdivisions.
"At most of our communities, the price point begins at $400,000 and up, and in those price ranges, the market is a little bit slower," said Marcie DePlaza, division president of G.L.
If the market were stronger, the company might have put more expensive houses on the Greystone tract, DePlaza said.
"Obviously, we want robust sales, so we're going to give the market what it's looking for," she said. "It wouldn't make business sense to bring homes onto the market at $1 million if the market's at $300,000."
After camping out, the Pilicers ultimately found a four-bedroom home with a two-car garage for $367,900. They plan to sell their $250,000 townhouse in Boynton Beach and use about $100,000 of the proceeds to pay down their mortgage at Greystone.
"We've been looking for a larger home for about eight months, but everything in our price range was either a condo or a townhome," said Kellie Pilicer, 31, director of marketing for a wholesale flower nursery. "Now we can afford a house."
Paul Owers can be reached at powers@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6529.
Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tactics
The inside story of criminal investigators who tried to stop abuse
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361458/
Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/bush-stay-the-course/?AmericaIsScrewed=true
Tribune Editorials
Rove aide’s all-too-quiet departure
Tribune Editorial
October 13, 2006
The White House finally caught a break on scandals. Thanks to the uproar over former GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s steamy e-mails, the departure of a top aide to White House political guru Karl Rove passed, as planned, almost unnoticed.
Susan Ralston resigned Oct. 5 but the White House delayed announcing the resignation until late Friday, its preferred time for bad news, when it was likely to draw the least attention.
Before joining the Bush White House “as the right hand to the president’s closest adviser,” as The Washington Post described her job, Ralston had worked for Jack Abramoff, a prominent lobbyist with extensive Republican connections who has since been convicted in an influence peddling scandal.
Abramoff continued to contact Ralston in her new position and she, at least occasionally, passed on inside information to her former boss, according to a report by the House Government Reform Committee.
The report said Abramoff’s records claimed 485 contacts with the White House over three years. The report did not say how many were real and substantive and how many might have been Abramoff boasting to clients but it is clear that his contacts were more extensive than the White House let on.
But with Ralston’s resignation — she did not want to be a “distraction” as the election drew close — the White House considers, or devoutly wishes, the matter closed. “Nothing more will come from the report, no further fallout from the report,” said deputy Bush press secretary Dana Perino.
Ralston may have also violated White House ethics regulations by accepting pricey sports and concert tickets from Abramoff. But now that she has resigned, the White House considers any violations moot.
How convenient, as the Church Lady used to say.
The funniest article I have read in weeks. max
Army: Troops to stay in Iraq until 2010 By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date than Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far.
The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned against reading too much into the planning, saying troops levels could be adjusted to actual conditions in Iraq. He said it is easier to hold back forces scheduled to go there than to prepare and deploy units at the last minute.
"This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better," Schoomaker told reporters. "It's just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot."
Even so, his comments were the latest acknowledgment by Pentagon officials that a significant withdrawal of troops from Iraq is not likely in the immediate future.
Currently there are 141,000 troops in Iraq, including 120,000 Army soldiers. Those soldiers are divided among 15 Army combat brigades plus other support units.
Schoomaker's comments come less than four weeks before congressional elections, in which the unpopular war in Iraq and the Bush administration's policies there are a major campaign issue.
Last month, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, said the military would likely maintain or possibly even increase the current force levels through next spring.
In recent months the Army has shown signs of strain, as Pentagon officials have had to extend the Iraq deployments of two brigades in order to bolster security in Baghdad and allow units heading into the country to have at least one year at home before redeploying.
Schoomaker said he has received no new guidance from commanders in Iraq as to when the U.S. will be able to begin reducing the number of troops there. Last year officials had hoped to be down to about 100,000 by the end of this year, but escalating violence and sectarian tensions have prompted military leaders to increase forces.
He also said the Army will have to rely on the National Guard and Reserves to maintain the current level of deployments. When asked about concerns that reserve units are struggling to get the training and equipment they need before going back to Iraq, Schoomaker said that no troops would be sent into war without needed resources.
In separate remarks to reporters, Gen. Richard Cody, the Army vice chief of staff, said soldiers need more than 12 months between deployments to Iraq so they can do a full range of combat training and complete the kinds of educational programs that enable the Army to grow a fully mature officer corps.
"We need to reset the sergeants and send them to schools, the lieutenants and captains and send them off, so that we don't erode and become an Army that only can fight a counterinsurgency," Cody said. He added that North Korea's announced nuclear test "reminds us all that we may not just be in a counterinsurgency fight and we have to have full-spectrum capability."
Schoomaker spoke as the U.S. military death toll in Iraq rose to at least 2,750 since the war's start in March 2003. On Wednesday, the U.S. command said three U.S. Marines and two soldiers were killed in fighting there.
In another indication of the burden the Army expects to bear, Schoomaker said he believes the Army will need $138.8 billion in 2008, nearly $40 billion more than its planned expenditures for the 2007 budget year, which began Oct. 1. Schoomaker's proposed figure is nearly $25 billion more than the initial amount discussed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Schoomaker said the Army needs the money to modernize the force, continue needed research and development programs, and keep enough combat brigades in the field, while allowing adequate time for training and restoring equipment between deployments.
The Bush administration is likely to release its 2008 budget in February.
I like the postings of buys(and sells). Keep it up.
I doubt that very few are, "The rest of us are all happy with our investment.." I am not.
There is a Feltang Pty. Limited deregistered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on 4/4/06. I have searched for Feltang many times and this is the only company I have found.
Nope. I counted them one by one by hand.
Float 30.39mil.
I owned a very small company. $300 would not even pay one months yellow page ad. So no $300/year would not be considered significant. Why don't you call some of the companies listed in on YP.NET and ask them why they chose to advertise on it?
"TT I make my money selling too soon." That's the part I am working on. max
I believe we have our floor.
One of them is going to find out and be pissed.
OK. But the boys on the bid haven't gotten squat.(Unless they are buying on the ask.).
What do all of you make of the constant buying at the ask yesterday and today?
Mike that is a very interesting research report. Everyone should read. It is 11 pages, so would be hard to paste here.
Thirty Companies Representing Twenty Industries Set to Present at the RedChip Small-Cap Conference in Santa Monica, California, October 31 - November 1, 2006
CEOs of Participating Companies Will Deliver Presentations From 8:30am - 4:00 pm on October 31 - November 1, 2006 at the Casa del Mar Hotel
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 29, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- RedChip Visibility, a division of RedChip Companies, announced today that Genesis Bioventures (OTCBB:GBIW), Electronic Sensor Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ESNR), Earth Biofuels Inc. (OTCBB:EBOF), Navstar Media Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:NVMH), Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd. (OTCBB:ACHM), YP Corporation (OTCBB:YPNT), I/O Magic Corporation (OTCBB:IOMG), Sunnylife Global, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SNYL), Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:UGHO), SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB:SPDV), Left Behind Games, Inc. (OTCBB:LFBG), East Delta Resources (OTCBB:EDLT), Linkwell Corporation (OTCBB:LWLL), Daybreak Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTCBB:DBRM), Broadcast International, Inc. (OTCBB:BCST), SuperGen, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUPG), MFC Development Corp. (OTCBB:MFCD) and fifteen more companies will present at the RedChip Small-Cap Investor Conference at the Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, California, October 31st - November 1st from 8:30am - 4pm.
The thirty companies presenting at the conference represent the following industries: Biotechnology, Homeland Security, VOIP, Oil and Gas, Solar Technology, Electronic Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Defense, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Hospitals, Telecommunications, Discount Stores, Broadcasting, Optical Storage, Diagnostic Substances, Computer Software, Business Services, and many more. Investors all over the world will be able to see and hear conference presentations streamed in real time on www.redchip.com.
Investors will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the CEOs of presenting companies. Conference attendance is free for private investors, fund-managers, retail stockbrokers, and analysts. Space is limited; to register online please visit http://www.redchip.com/visibility/conferencePages/newyork2006 or call 1-800-RedChip (733-2447).
YP Corp. to Expand Operations in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Anticipation of 2007 Growth
MESA, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- September 26, 2006 -- YP Corp. (OTCBB: YPNT), Creator and operator of YP.com™, is planning to expand its sales operations and hosting infrastructure, as well as, optimize its cost structure, to prepare for growth in 2007. The build-out in Las Vegas will include expansion in headcount, facilities, and capabilities.
"We have been firing on all cylinders in fiscal 2006 and believe we are now positioned for critical mass. We believe this will help us continue the solid growth pattern experienced thus far, this year," said John Raven, YP Corp.'s Chief Operating Officer. "For us, the opportunity lies with the more than 16 million U.S. business listings. This response to the growing demand for our services will allow YP to acquire the hundreds of sales made daily and host the thousands of users accessing our services."
YP Corp. plans to host its next generation website and customer acquisition operations from the expanded location. By centralizing operations in Las Vegas, YP Corp. will gain access to a high-quality workforce, further optimize its cost structure and continue to enhance performance of its Internet products through an enhanced datacenter and new sales facility.
"While we have previously grown by operating our customer acquisition operations from our Mesa, Arizona operation, we see a strong value in the diversity of choices available in Las Vegas," said Daniel Coury, Sr., President and C.E.O. of YP Corp. "No other provider of local search and Internet yellow pages has the sales engine that we do; our model gives us choice and scalability while lowering overall costs."
The expansion will occur in two major phases between October 2006 and February 2007. Phase one will focus on the expansion of sales operations, while the second objective is to move and centralize all technology. The company believes that contributions in performance should be expected by the March 2007 quarter.
About YP Corp.
YP Corp. is America's Local Online Yellow Pages™ and offers businesses a simple and affordable way of creating a web presence and marketing their products and services to local audiences online. The Company offers an Internet Advertising Package which provides advertisers preferred placement in yellow page search results and their own Mini Webpage™ where they can provide potential customers with details about their products and services.
YP Corp.'s mission is to be the preferred internet local Yellow Pages by offering our advertising customers a superior marketing platform to grow their businesses and to provide them with a caliber of service unsurpassed in the industry.
Forward-Looking Disclaimer
This press release may include statements that constitute "forward-looking statements," which are often characterized by the terms "may," "believes," "projects," "expects," or "anticipates," and do not reflect historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of YP Corp. and its subsidiary to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Specific forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, (i) the Company's contemplation of future profitability and enhanced stockholder value; and (ii) the Company's expectation that it will pursue and successfully accomplish additional initiatives.
Factors that may affect forward-looking statements and the Company's business generally include but are not limited to (i) the risk factors and cautionary statements made in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2005; and (ii) other factors that YP Corp. is currently unable to identify or quantify, but may exist in the future.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement was made. YP Corp. does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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Contact Information
Roger Bedier
YP Corp.
Investor Relations
Ph: 480-325-4339
Fax: 480-325-1257
SOURCE: YP Corp
YP Corp. Expanding Sales, Hosting Operations in Las Vegas
YP Corp., home of America's local online Yellow Pages, announced its plans to expand sales and hosting infrastructure in Las Vegas in anticipation of 2007 growth, enhancing headcount, facilities and capabilities
September 27, 2006 – (TopHosts News Brief) – YP Corp. (OTC BB:YPNT.OB - News) announced plans to expand its sales operations and hosting infrastructure. The company also says it will optimize its cost structure to prepare for growth in 2007.
The Las Vegas expansion will include an increase in headcount, facilities and capabilities. The expansion will take place in two major phases between October 2006 and February 2007. Phase one will focus on the sales operation expansion, and the second objective will focus on moving and centralizing all technology. The company says it should see contributions in performance by the March 2007 quarter.
YP Corp plans to host its next generation website and customer acquisition operations from the expanded location. By centralizing operations in Las Vegas, the company will gain access to a high-quality workforce, further optimize its cost structure and continue to enhance performance.
“We have been firing on all cylinders in fiscal 2006 and believe we are now positioned for critical mass. We believe this will help us continue the solid growth pattern experienced thus far, this year,” John Raven, YP Corp.’s Chief Operating Officer, said in a Market Wire release.
For more information visit http://www.yp.com.
Ever see someone make a million at a spelling bee?
What brokerage are you using? I am using Eturd but would like to switch because of its painfully slow execution.
All buys but one in the past hour. Interesting level II.
Mike how do you keep up with the ever changing scene of 50+ stocks in your portfolio?
I can't wait for this baby to show her legs.
On 12/29/03 YPNT opened at $1.5 and ran to $3.51 closing at $3.20 on a volume of 5,709,236. About two weeks later on 3/01/04 YPNT had a high of day of $5.58 closing at $4.91.
Eagerly expecting the release of EPS.
Thanks for the timely updates.
Debate? I thought we were agreeing. I am looking get back in very soon.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
A little old but still a nice read.
September 25, 2006 05:59 PM Eastern Time
uWink CEO, Nolan Bushnell, to Speak at MUFSO Conference – October 16th Panel Explores Non-Traditional Media Marketing
Conference Focuses on Growth Strategies for Multi-Unit Food Service Operators
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--uWink, Inc. (OTCBB:UWNK), a publicly-held digital entertainment company, today announced that CEO Nolan Bushnell will participate in a panel discussion at the Multi-Unit Food Service Operators Conference (MUFSO) in Dallas entitled “Opportunities in Non-Traditional Media Marketing.”
The panel will take place on October 16, 2006 at 2:45 p.m. and will explore the sales and community building potential of marketing messages targeting new communications devices, environments and formats. Also participating in the panel will be Gregg Cebrynski, marketing editor at Nation’s Restaurant News, Howard Gordon, SVP of business development & marketing for The Cheesecake Factory Inc., and Antonio Swad, CEO of Pizza Patron Inc.
uWink is a new restaurant concept that combines food, drinks, and entertainment, inviting guests to eat, drink and play at their tables. uWink is designed to offer new entertainment options (including games, movie trailers, horoscopes, and other media) for its customers, allowing tables to participate together, engage other tables, and eventually interact with guests and tables at other uWink restaurants. The first restaurant, which is fully staffed and in its final construction phase, will open shortly at the Westfield Promenade in Woodland Hills, California.
The MUFSO conference allows multi-unit food service operators to network with hundreds of restaurant industry professionals and learn sustainable growth strategies for expanding their businesses. More information about the conference can be found at: www.mufso.com.
uWink, Inc. is a publicly-held digital entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California that develops interactive entertainment for restaurants, bars, and mobile devices. Led by entertainment and restaurant visionary Nolan Bushnell, founder and former CEO of Atari (NasdaqNM: ATAR) and Chuck E. Cheese (NYSE: CEC), uWink is currently building a new entertainment dining experience called uWink that leverages uWink’s proprietary network and entertainment software. For more information visit: www.uwink.com.
Contacts
uWink
Alissa Bushnell, 415-235-9532
alissa@uwink.com
or
104 West Partners
Ashley Cox Cohen, 303-522-0783
ashley.cohen@104degreeswest.com
Are you sure? " European majors who have succesfully struck oil in the JDZ such as Total (France) and Fina (Spain)."
Thanks Striper. After your question on another board, "are you waiting for the audit?" I thought about that being the only way to go was down at that point.
UWNK having a great day.
Is smirking contagious?
Bill Clinton defends bin Laden handling By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer
13 minutes ago
NEW YORK - In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize him for not doing enough.
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"That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try."
Clinton accused host Chris Wallace of a "conservative hit job" and asked: "I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked, 'Why didn't you do anything about the Cole?' I want to know how many people you asked, 'Why did you fire Dick Clarke?'"
He was referring to the USS Cole, attacked by terrorists in Yemen in 2000, and former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke.
Wallace said Sunday he was surprised by Clinton's "conspiratorial view" of "a very non-confrontational question, 'Did you do enough to connect the dots and go after Al Qaida?'"
"All I did was ask him a question, and I think it was a legitimate news question. I was surprised that he would conjure up that this was a hit job," Wallace said in a telephone interview.
Clinton said he "worked hard" to try to kill bin Laden.
"We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since," he said.
He told Wallace, "And you got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could."
The interview was taped Friday during Clinton's three-day Global Initiative conference.
Congrats Ben. Do what I did and tie that thing in a knot. max
Jane Wells is a great idea. Just her kind of story.
Thanks timmage. I have been looking for the news all afternoon. ;) max
Strange, I got three news alerts ; ELN, SLJB, and UWNK. The first two are out. Nothing on UWNK. max
I got a news alert for UWNK but can't find any news. Anyone else?