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Taubman Centers, Inc. (TCO), a real estate investment trust (REIT), reported strong fourth quarter 2009 results with FFO (fund from operations) of 56 cents per share, compared to an FFO loss of 57 cents in the year-earlier quarter. Fund from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income, while adjusted FFO excludes the impairment and restructuring charges.

For full year 2009, Taubman posted FFO of 68 cents per share, compared to $1.51 in the previous year. Adjusted FFO (which excludes litigation, restructuring and impairment charges) was 93 cents per share during the quarter versus $1 in the year-ago quarter. For full year 2009, adjusted FFO dipped 0.6% to $3.06 per share from $3.08 in the previous year.

Most of the operating metrics decreased marginally during the quarter due to the continued softening of the credit market and decline in consumer spending. Occupancy of the entire portfolio decreased to 89.6%, down from 90.5% in the year-earlier period, primarily due to bankruptcy and related store closings of large retailers like Linen N’ Things and One Circuit City.

Average rents in the consolidated portfolio were $42.56 per square foot during the quarter, compared to $43.96 in the year-ago quarter. For full year 2009, average rents in the consolidated portfolio were $43.31 per square foot, compared to $43.95 in the previous year. Mall tenant sales per square foot increased 3.8% year-over-year during the fourth quarter. At year-end 2009, mall tenant sales decreased 6.7% year-over-year to $498 per square foot.

Taubman has one of the strongest balance sheets in its sector. The company has moderate debt maturities in 2010. Furthermore, Taubman had $19.6 million of cash and cash equivalents at year-end 2009, providing it with additional flexibility to tide over the storm.

With improved performance and early signs of market stabilization, Taubman projects FFO for full year 2010 in the range of $2.55 to $2.75 per share. We think Taubman is better positioned than many of its competitors due to its clean balance sheet and minimal debt maturity. In addition, the current dividend at 42 cents per share appears safe and the company is covering the payout with operating cash.

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French Quarter $22.91 In 1998, we took our first trip to New Orleans as a couple, and the people we met there made an amazing impression. They were so open, so honest, so real. And the French Quarter is like no other neighborhood in America. What other district is known more by the behavior of its visitors than its inhabitants? The people who live and work in the Quarter have a story to tell, and it was our goal to tell that story without descending into stock New Orleans clichs. On the drive home from New Orleans, as two playwrights in a car with sixteen hours to kill, we soon realized that we had to create an audio play about this unique and boisterous city and her people. As audio theatre producers, we envisioned thirteen half-hour episodes. The characters were inspired by people we met on the trip; new friends. The situations came from our imagination, driven by stories these friends told us about their lives. In 1999, a cast of fifty talented actors helped us make our dream come true, bringing French Quarter to life in thirteen episodes, just as we had hoped. In moments of humor and great drama, they made our characters into people, as they told our tale. Within a year, it was picked up by National Public Radio for the nationally popular NPR Playhouse series, where it aired twice. This novel contains every scene in the seven-CD set, plus bonus scenes that had to be cut from the audio series for time. It also incorporates narration that audio theatre typically omits. If you are already a fan of the audio series, we welcome you to this book. If you've never heard it, visit us on the Web at www.minds-ear.org, and consider picking up the CDs as well.

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Telling It Like It Was $18.55 TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS: My First Quarter Century by Lloyd Root is a vivid coming of age story and intimate portrait of what it was like to grow up as a dual citizen of the vibrant shipping port city of San Francisco in the 1920s and 30s, as well as the rural ranchland and mining communities nearby. Roots neighborhood included families of Italian, French, Irish, Mexican, Serbian, Greek descent, as well as a few other Basque families like his own, making it a fascinating place for a boy to grow up. Youngsters were drawn together by the sheer diversity of their various cultural and ethnic origins. Sports played an important role. Basketball, baseball, soccer, even games of kick the can became a driving force in forming relationships, developing skills, and instilling values. In a sense they provided a preview of the way the world works. Young Root, feisty with his fists and quick on his feet, thrived on playing ball in the streets during the days when there were no computers, television, video games and handheld devices to get in the way of sports. From his active and carefree childhood years of growing up Basque in a home filled with music, laughter, and love, to the far more serious realities of life at that time, all were formative. Of the latter, this included the rebirth of San Francisco in the aftermath of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the challenging years of the Great Depression, and coming of age in the era between World War I and II. It was a time of great change in terms of politics, culture, music, innovation and technology. The advent of telephones, radios, and automobiles, alone, vastly changed the way people lived. But for young Lloyd, it was aviation that had the most impact. Reading about Charles Lindberghs triumphs in the newspapers he delivered, and watching Amelia Earhart fly across the nearly completed Golden Gate Bridge, went a long way toward fueling his boyhood passion to become a pilot, something he achieved by the time he was 25 years old. Along the way he helped his father make bathtub gin during Prohibition, followed in his father and grandfathers footsteps working in gold mines from Durango, Mexico to Nome, Alaska, discovered the joys of rousing women and music (often at the same time), and learned firsthand about dubious military intelligence and discipline as a Navy Pilot. In addition to being a firsthand account of a bygone era and coming of age during this exhilarating, but sobering time in history, TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS will resonate with readers because of the universal qualities of the experiences, insights and adventures he had along the way. Lloyd Root, a natural storyteller, is a warm, witty and wise man as well as a risqu and rebellious one both in the way he lived his first quarter century and how he tells his story. Never one to hold back from throwing a punch or speaking his mind, his is an original voice that is brutally honest. He tells it like it was.

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Bedouins of the Empty Quarter $36.97 This volume describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudia Arabia. This volume documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s and continuing to the 1960s, when this book originally appeared. The Empty Quarter described here is a place inhabited by a people so thoroughly devoted to their pastoral pursuits that they are referred to as nomads of the nomads. To the Al Murrah and other camel-keeping pastoralists, theirs is a rich and rewarding life. For either to survive, men and camels must live in close symbiosis. The camels provide food, fiber, and transport; man provides knowledge of available resources, of which the most precious are water and the grasses that grow where rains have fallen. In this work, Donald Powell Cole shows us that this existence more complex and intricate. There is the complex knowledge of the desert itself, its varieties, moods, and resources. Next, there is the knowledge of the camels, their needs, capacities, and the peculiarities of each animal. These different kinds of knowledge must be brought together to fully use, yet carefully conserve, scarce resources. As important is the structuring of social life. The tribesmen must have a flexible social system that enables the individual household to operate alone when the environmental situation requires. This necessitates a pattern of independence and equality. The Al Murrah live according to ancient traditions, but life is not unchanging. In 1932, Saudi Arabia became a nation and intertribal raiding and warfare was brought to an end. Cole highlights the adaptability of the Al Murrah as the desert became increasingly invaded by motor transport and oil rigs. He sees their experience as prototypical: man everywhere must attune his life to the requirements of his economy. In a place like the Arabian Desert these adjustments are most insistent. This work shows that even when these demands of the external world pervade behavior, life can remain rich and rewarding.

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