NLF: How has the transition gone, and can you give usan update on our investment activities?

Fleischer: That's one of the benefits of beingprivate. We're thrilled with our new partners. We were takenprivate by a private equity consortium with Macquarie Bank Ltd. inthe lead. Our thought process, on the equity side, is to bringglobal pension and global institutional capital to the US net-leasemarket, which is a model that would be new for the US. There arefirms that have a retail investment strategy, and there are firmsthat have a US institutional strategy, and so the different twisthere is to find the most efficient pockets of global equity capitaland direct it to the market here. We're excited about it.

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