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And that's an important part of the direction of the business moving forward, is to make sure we only develop in areas where we have deep demand, and we're highly confident of achieving those targeted return outcomes.

Yes, Michael, we're not planning near term having an external technology offering.

But again, we don't expect any significant impact of that aging to our ability to generate revenue.

Maintaining the infrastructure and capabilities to provide continuous care and inpatient care allows a greater percentage of our patients to remain in hospice, and in many cases, in their homes till death.

Again, I'll just close by thanking everyone for taking the time to be on the call and we look forward to talking with you again.

So I believe that the new product, the FPA in the cloud product, is well attuned to a much more of a high-velocity sales model, enabled by marketing automation.

So you have -- I mean, you have quite a few of the projects that are in there, like the Eastern Shore 2017 expansion project.

And I believe the legislation that's in place today has also reduced any uncertainty, or a lot of the uncertainty around the cost estimate and closure methods, which I also think is important.

And so as the market and our performance normalizes, 1.2 is probably a more realistic expectation in terms of a net book-to-bill.

So this new level, is it the sustainable level or do we expect your distribution and some of your expenses to go up?

So we're measuring ourselves against '19 in all the stretch goals and focus as it relates to how we're planning the business.

PAA delivered very strong performance for the first quarter of 2012 and we believe we are well positioned to continue to perform well throughout the balance of the year and to accomplish our 2012 goals, including delivering year-over-year distribution growth of roughly 8% to 9%.

Could you give us a sense of new products that we have developed for future growth?

While we are encouraged by our recent success in securing additional sales contracts for our EEMT products, which we expect will go into effect in the second and third quarters of 2015, we experienced a decline in both our unit sales and average selling price of our Vancocin product.

Total revenue for the first quarter of 2012 is expected to be in the range of $218 million to $219 million or 4% to 5% year-over-year growth.

As the quarter progressed, this turned into much lower North American revenue and earnings than anticipated, resulting in a lower tax rate for the full year.As I've said before, variations in mix of forecasted earnings between taxing jurisdictions can have a significant impact quarter-to-quarter on our estimated tax rate.

As I have stated in our fourth quarter 2014 conference call in March, we are optimistic about our business development activities in Europe where we have recently actively demonstrated our technology to assist utilities and other facilities as they prepare for compliance with the requirements of the European unions industrial emissions directive, also known as IED, that has effective dates that commence in January of 2016.

With regards to same-property NOI growth, are those clean figures in that they don't include any lease termination income in either the future and the prior year periods?

Again, from the operating standpoint, we are expecting that the fourth quarter EBITDA generation will also help increasing the cash position and the since debt will not increase, that will help to lower the leverage ratio.

The current fundamentals of the housing market in China remained healthy as expected on the general housing prices were stable in the first quarter.

So please don't interpret the $200 million is the target or the cap.

So we're trying to collaborate with industry now, and we expect to be collaborative with government and have rules that accommodate their needs and our capabilities.

Consistent with our plan for the quarter, the gross margin was driven by several factors: factory utilization that was slightly higher but still relatively low overall; sales of higher cost LED inventory that was produced in Q4; increased percentage of LED lighting products, which currently have slightly lower margins and the continuing competitive LED pricing environment, which was partially offset by yield improvements and other cost reductions.

We're continuing to see an improvement in the M&A market, and we have a good pipeline of targets.

We previously announced the Callahan Pipeline, West Palm Beach expansion, DelMar Energy Pathway and Guernsey Pipeline projects, which combined represent approximately $108 million of new capital investment and are expected to generate $10.8 million in margin in 2020 and $17.1 million in margin in 2021.

But could you give us an idea of the revenue opportunity we're talking about here in terms of what you can target by spending this additional OpEx?

First, we believe that innovating across the artificial dividing lines of today's individual work packages to create hardware technology with a broader scope, a smaller footprint and fewer interfaces holds huge upside potential in terms of both hardware costs and performance.

[Foreign Language] For development of growth of solar farm project, because no land has been used.

We spent $14.3 million on a project, which included a new with a direct return of 9.8%.

This results in $40 million in estimated annual sales for net new stores.

So in terms of Internet connections on the business side, what drove the decline -- you believe you talked about some weakness in the economy in Northern Alberta.

We expect to be able to connect that Limon well though to a nearby sales line and be able to test it in the sales subject to its productivity.

And kind of how you expect this latest foreign hack attack to kind of filter down to the budget and down to your specific customers, both on the Fed-Civ side and on the DoD side?

Can you just talk a little bit about the sort of outlook and disaggregate the trends you're seeing in the aggregation margin?

So that's really why we're seeing a strong end of the year, even though the unit growth was not as strong as we expected in Q1.

We believe principally as a result of the structural changes that are taking place in our channels, the big players are under a huge pressure and that shows -- the dynamic shows.

In Europe, we plan to accelerate our Water Refill, Water Exchange and Water Dispenser businesses to diversify our customer base and capture growing demand in the residential market.

Mainly in Japan, adoption of this product at university hospitals has accelerated, and an increase in treatment cases will further expand product use in clinics and other countries as well.

But excluding that, I think we would potentially see maybe a little pressure from freight and DC cost in the quarter, but expect SG&A cost to continue to leverage.

Thereafter, it is projected to grow at 5% annually till 2021.

Slide 7 shows our Tier 1 common equity capital, and that remained flat at about 10.6%.

You gave us kind of the total, but can you break that out a little bit in terms of your expectations for North Carolina relative to Tennessee, and then how we might think about your annual spend going forward?

We have addressed 1/3 of CenturyLink's initial space and are ahead of pace with our projected leasing there.

The target for this ratio will be less than 5% of revenue.

Looking specifically at designs wins, in our first year as a combined company, this brings our total design win count to 91 with 33 new customers and a future 5-year value of over $300 million in revenue.

And then three, what sort of yield are you expecting on these developments at your basis and then also at a fair market land basis?

We do see that the whole stay-at-home phenomenon of people putting additions on their house for their studies or people really prioritizing spend on resi -- residential air conditioning because their families are spending more time at home, I think that will certainly continue into next year.

Has the change your outlook for the whole year and can you share with us your view on the top line in the organic business.

Looking at consumer highlights for the quarter, our goal is to convert our audience of engaged property seekers interactive members.

First, just looking at the auto finance portfolio, I'm wondering, do you have a target on how large this portfolio could get either as a percentage of total loans or on a dollar basis over the next few years?

On Slide 20, we present BB Seguridade's performance, a company that leads in several segments such as life, pension plans and premium bonds.

One is that we look at the world in 5-year chunks, commensurate with our strategic plan, and we really do think we can double the size of the business.

In addition, team members in our enhanced call center, with longer operating hours, made an average of 1,500 to over 2,000 outbound calls each week to prospective residents and their families.

The results of this model estimate an increase to net interest income of approximately $1.3 million or 0.61% and an up 200-basis point rate move.

We recently announced encouraging results from our Diamond Drill program at our 100% owned project in Senegal.

The brand can then focus on customer engagement and marketing while we provide expansive access to mass market channels, urgently seeking new high-margin products to meet growing consumer demand.

So we believe these patents are not readily circumventable.

Trust fees, which are impacted by declines in the equity and fixed income markets are likely to be lower due to lower assets under management; securities brokerage revenue should continue to benefit from organic growth; and electronic banking fees and service charges on deposits will most likely remain in a similar range as the last few quarters.

So I certainly expect the ramp-up of this capacity to be quicker than the ramp-up of our capacities that have happened in Mundra.

As we discussed last quarter, we recently expanded our fiber network to include select areas of Wichita Falls, and during the third quarter we began our sales in debt market, targeting more than 1,000 potential business customers.

We’ve got NMA project.

Well, a fair question, and we’re not at the $10 million level, but we are not in the business of just buying back stock, that there is just a point when you feel like your share price is not properly valued and so you have this kind of a plan, but we want to preserve most of our cash for investments in our current core businesses.

So we, again, look at our pipeline of projects under development on an ongoing basis.

And do you intend to turn on CET1 still to be your primary metric rather than return on tangible equity?

On the commodity front, we remain bullish on the outlook for crude oil and natural gas liquid and had focus on increasing our oil and liquids presence in the relevant activity areas.

Full year 2019 adjusted EBITDA is expected to be in the range of $52.9 million to $53.9 million.

But the way we run the operations, we've got to new manufacturing leadership in both of our plants, and we've just kind of done a blank sheet of paper in terms of what the operating practices are.

Goodwill will be reviewed periodically for impairment, otherwise it will remain as is on the GAAP balance sheet, but is deductible over 15 years for tax purposes.

But then there was a comment made up on the spring '16 outlook in the sense of taking a cautious stance on inventories and hoping to chase product.

The renewed emphasis by the U.S. administration and climate change and associated water, environment and renewable energy programs will begin with the allocation of work under the $1.4 trillion fiscal year 2021 budget that was just put in place on December 27, 2020.

The future, as Chris has outlined, there is opportunity for outperformance not only in financing but also importantly on topics and.

Also, Deloitte Canada has signed a new partnership with Qlik by seeking to further grow in market in North America.

So the basic message that I have is that we don't look at the projects like, oh, this project is in China, we don't want to do it.

These forward-looking solutions, term contract center and spending forecast center, help clients identify projects early in the procurement process, strategically target opportunities, build informed capture plans, and improves at our contract win rates.

We took a 4-year lease-out on the existing plant.

And then last question just on the Fertilizer business going forward, by getting rid of the back, the upstream assets, how will this impact margins whether it be on a gross or an EBIT basis going forward in terms of expectation?

And of course these vehicles come with what you would expect in terms of modern technology and kit, UBS charging and WiFi capability.

These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance, although actual results may differ materially.

And maybe -- or just a number sort of maybe across the whole program, how much of a loss are you expecting on that?

For the purposes of this call, we assume that everyone has seen the news release and financial statements for the fiscal 2011 fourth quarter and year ended that are posted on web -- at Vecima's website.

And we're pleased to note that Fitch recently upgraded our credit rating in recognition of the credit outlook of the company.

Also, there was no effect of the flood in Thailand, which remained in the same period of the previous year, so recovery in production and sales resulted in contribution to the improvement of business results.

We talk about that sort of value chain on how we think about the projects, both from the upfront modeling and proposal generation, and that's what the software package that Energy Toolbase would have created and that we would have acquired.

It's also reflecting our growing confidence that even generally we do not see the material market to improve through the year.

So we expect the industry to continue growing, and we continue to see high potential volume growth, particularly in emerging categories.

We continue to see strength in the demands of image sensors, which leads us to expect our third quarter revenues to continue at a level similar to our record second quarter revenues than we reported today.

I'm interested in how far the Cristal project is?

That's why we expect the supply and demand to remain tight in the second half.

We don't want to talk about the profitability of our assets because this is confidential.

And you saw us build inventory last quarter and work it back down this quarter, which is what I predicted.

So do you think, in coming quarters, we might see some additional tens of millions of dollars of kind of mid-single-digit accretive growth projects that could be announced?

I think it's important that you note that the way that we planned our implementation would SASSA and the way we've agreed with SASSA is that we first focused on the rural areas and specifically the deep rural areas due registrations, those are the areas that are very expensive to service in terms of taking out equipment and people into these areas to do their bulk registration.

Within DelStar, we expect growth across the business with the exception of some share loss with 1 customer.

Our teams continue to evolve in the 0 base budgeting model to actively identify additional cost-saving opportunity, and we believe we are building a sustainable competitive advantage for our company regardless of market conditions.

And the same for net income, how do you expect the net income in this year?

But next to next year, definitely, we'll be opting for the new tax regime.

Can you give some idea of -- like are you expecting margins to be flat in the second half of the year, similar to Q2?

Metalico expects to augment smelter production in 2012 by introducing 2 new aluminum alloy products intended to diversify its sales mix.

China will continue to accelerate exploration production to energy -- to ensure energy's security over the next 7 years.

Or are you looking for potential acquisition targets in LatAm or in North America or which markets are you looking for acquisitions?