I'm pleased to announce that I continue to be a Democratic candidate for supervisor in Stony Point.

We are very pleased to announce the groundbreaking of the Paramount. It is always challenging to orchestrate the development of a project of this magnitude, particularly in an environment of skyrocketing construction costs.

IBM is pleased to announce our intent to become a founding sponsor of The Green Grid. IBM has been a leader in innovation around power and cooling technologies and committed to implementing energy efficiency programs for more than 30 years. We look forward to working together with other like-minded companies to promote further innovation around power management in the data center.

I am very pleased to announce that we were able to raise over $190,000 for Northwest Medical Teams tonight for people in the New Orleans area. A football game seems rather trivial when you consider what those folks are going through.

We are pleased to announce the purchase of the Horizons-2 satellite which extends two significant partnerships that PanAmSat has developed over the past five years, ... First, PanAmSat and JSAT will double capacity in our Horizons joint venture, which has already proven to be a highly successful for both companies. This satellite will provide Ku-band growth capacity in North America for PanAmSat in 2007 through the next decade. And secondly, we are extending our relationship with Orbital Sciences as our primary supplier of small satellites which have become a critical part of our business strategy going forward.

[Rockville, MD.] I am pleased to officially announce that the ABA's Maryland Nighthawks team has hired Keith Williams as head coach for the 2005-2006 campaign, ... Williams has been working in professional basketball for some of the NBA's brightest stars for years and now has the chance to coach in the professional ranks.