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S ome people have a way with words, other people have...oh, uh, not have way (thank you Steve Martin, classic 1970’s standup routine), and then there is one who has…a teleprompter. Once upon a time-and-a-half-ago, there was a man who not only had a way with words, with cutting remarks

and a dry wit, with legendary unscripted off the cuff comments, a man who could inspire and amuse at the same time, a man who offered real hope when backs were squarely against the wall. The world could use a man (or woman, channeling the Iron Lady) like him or her today…the man on the cover. Of course every 2012 graduate of a U.S. high

school will recognize this photo of Franklin Roosevelt. Or would you believe it’s Winston Churchill? We can all agree that the world is different in 2012 and it changes every second, faster than a speeding bullet. It is true that no matter how bad things feel, we don’t live in pre-WWII Poland, 1939. And we all have the instant e-mail alerts to prove it on our multiple “gadgets” and Facepage/Twister accounts, 24/7, where the “news” is 100% correct, 60% of the time. As bad as it seems to way too many people at the mo-ment, it is starting to stink just a bit from coast to coast (denial is not just a Justin Timberlake cry-me-a-river in Egypt). Yes, it is truly sad that the happiest man in America at the moment is Jimmy Carter, but the prob-lems of today pale by comparison to those of past

decades, let alone centuries ago when the work week in every country but France was 25 hours

per day, 8 days a week, starting at age 7, when you walked every day to the coal mine, barefoot in the snow, uphill, both ways, until you died at 25. Truthfully – what a bunch of whiners. For real misery – how about the 1970’s? Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate, the first Carter, Disco, gas ration-ing, Angel Flight pants, platform shoes (for men – though it was nice to be 6’-4” tall every Saturday night)… anyone? So yes, we know we’re not living in WWII, yet something doesn’t feel quite right, some-

thing is “in the air”, and maybe “WWIII” appears to be just around the corner. Not sure what corner, and of course the average American can’t spot the United States on a globe, let alone Irani-stan…a new country not yet on the globe…but a new secret BRADY client. “Interesting times”, but this is what some Roman guy said on March 15th after eating his “Ides of March” salad, se-conds before “Et tu, Brute?” He wasn’t ordering Champagne, and the renamed salad is now all that most Americans know about Julius Caesar. The only difference between Rome in 44 B.C. and Beverly Hills today is the color of the robes worn to the spa/vomitorium. The more things change, the more they remain

HERE’S TO YOU...

M rs. Robinson, as in mom Jesse, and the other Robinson, as in Aaron, one of BRADY’s fine young engineers, are now the proud parents of Cove Wade Rob-

inson. And strangely enough, Cove shares the same date of birth as Makenna Marie Reilly, De-cember 29, 2011. Sounds like some future match-making might be in the stars. There is no doubt that the Robinson’s are also happy for the perfect tim-ing of a pre-January 1 delivery, as in the nice tax deduction, but if you know the Robinson’s they more likely had their eyes on the tide tables than the tax tables. Birth stats: 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and 21 inches...thanks to the high tide at 1:33 a.m. A bit of a minnow, but long and lean for sure, no doubt Cove will be surfing soon with his Daddy. Congrat-ulations to the American Family Robinsons!

INTENTIONAL PARENTING

R ick’s two-time Super Bowl loser nephew may be re-sponsible for some of the dumbest plays in NFL history on February 5, 2012, and we’re not talking about de-ciding to cut his own hair

once again or asking the NFL’S Yoko Ono to be his post-game spokes model. On the contrary, there is no doubt that Scott Reilly called the perfect play on December 29, 2011 in San Diego, CA. Scott, BRADY’s Vice-President of Construction Ser-vices, and his sports-fanatic wife Reena are now the proud first-time parents of Makenna Marie Reilly. No surprise -- they beat the two-day

warning -- nice audible on the tax break! Scott and Reena’s first dream is now a reality. Stats as reported to the Elias Sports Bu-reau and NFL Films: 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and just 18 inches from a first down. In addition to his many duties at BRADY, Scott is al-so a Division I college football referee, and if his other dream comes true someday, he will be making the next intentional grounding call in the NFL, hopefully before Super Bowl L…to be held in the Chargers new stadium…in Los Angeles. Congratula-tions also to Reena for the birth of your number one draft choice. Feel free to throw the flag on Scott when he pretends he is sleep-ing – it is his “doody” to change a diaper every now and then, not just at halftime!

STAYIN’ ALIVE!

ANOTHER HARD DAY AT WORK!

STAYIN’ CLASSY!

“YES, I WAS A CROOK”

I’M #2!

A RED BUTTON THAT YOU CAN NOW PUSH WITHOUT DETO-NATING ANYTHING...BECAUSE HE’S DEAD

W e are sad to report that the news from North Korea

late last year is true -- the world’s greatest golfer (38 under par on his first and only round), and our favor-ite Spokes-Nut, Kim Jong II is not only merely dead, he’s

really most sincerely dead. As reported on North Korea’s one and only TV channel, he will address the nation about his death in due time. In the meantime, our “Ask the Expert” Red Button service still remains open for business, for any problem large or small. As before and since, we promise you will get an answer to each and every question faster than it will take Newt “Dough Boy” Skywalker to be the first American to get divorced on the moon. Many of our Ask the Expert questions have come from IP addresses...within BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters. Like Jeopardy, a few answers to a sampling of our internal Red Button inquiries…you can attempt to figure out the Questions on your own. Answer: “The se-cret to our success is knowing who to blame for our failures.” Answer : “If at first you don’t suc-

ceed, failure may be your style.” Answer: “Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” Answer: “If you never try anything new, you’ll miss out on many of life’s great disappointments.” An-swer: “Just because you think you’re a star here doesn’t mean you’re going anywhere.” Answer: “The less you stand out, the longer you’ll last.” Answer: “A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” Answer : “Yes, the Mon-kees were a huge influence on the Beatles”.

the same. And in Beverly Hills today, things are so bad people are walking their own dogs. Maybe what we need right now to unite the world is a Global Toga Party. We are the World! Think about the eco-nomic boost from having to wash all of those togas the next day…on second thought, that might not pencil out financially once again for the U.S. Upon hearing all of this b-sh*t nonsense, Sir Winston Churchill would have said – “Get me a bottle of whiskey, a cigar, and directions to the vomitorium.” Needless to say, Sir Winston would not be happy with the

current state of world affairs and the “colonies” in particular. Paraphrasing Sir Winston, using well-known quotes from his legendary speeches (he would start by saying: “I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks”), his speech in the Oval Office as a guest of the second Roosevelt would sound something like this: “There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. A politician is a person who has the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. Never in the field of political conflict was so little owed by so many to so few.

It is true that many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe, and no one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all of those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Fortunately, socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent vir-tue is the equal sharing of misery. The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the aver-age voter. But I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having ex-hausted every other alternative. The truth is inconvertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may dis-tort it, but there it is. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Success is the ability to go from

one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Thank you America for having me here tonight. Meeting the first Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne. Knowing him was like drinking it. But I have nothing to offer to you, our greatest ally, but blood, toil, sweat, and tears. The day may dawn when fair play, love for one’s fellow men, respect for justice and free-dom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never des-pair, and never surrender. America’s finest hour is yet ahead. God Bless America!”

“WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?”

“SO, HITLER WALKS INTO A BAR WITH A DUCK ON HIS HEAD…”

LOOK, IT’S DEAN WORMER!

KIM JONG IL? MORE LIKE KIM JONG DEAD!

YOU’RE WELCOME, BEATLES!

O ver the course of our special relationship with our Mentor and “Big Brother” Fluor Corporation, BRADY has been for-tunate to host a number of visits by assorted Fluor dignitar-ies and VIPs. With much anticipation, Bill “Waz” Wa-

silewski, Vice President of Global Sales, followed the yellow brick road all the way from Greenville, SC to BRADY’s World Domination Head-quarters in San Diego this past December to check on the “little en-gine that could”. To Waz’s surprise and amazement, he discovered that BRADY is a real company full of really good people, with hearts and brains galore and courage to spare. Unfortunately, we were un-able to take Waz on a visit to his most cherished destination, Temecu-la, CA, but as a consolation prize he was able to see the best of San

Diego in a few short days. We cannot reveal the results of our multi-day “over-the-rainbow/thinking-outside-the-box” meetings of the BRADY/Fluor “brain trust”, as this is all tippy-top secret stuff, but we can say it involves work with many of Fluor’s Fortune 500 clients including General Mills, Alcoa, DuPont, Kimberly Clark, and Proctor and Gamble, to name a few. On Waz’s departure, Rick was asked by BRADY staff to summarize the outcome of Waz’s visit and all he could mumble was “the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” Sounds like “code” for it all went well and we very much look forward to our fu-ture with Fluor’s Global Services Group. And thank you Waz for helping Rick find his brain once again – we can’t ever thank you enough!

THE WIZARD IS WAZ

ANCHORMAN

I n BRADY’s ongoing conquest to keep California’s unemployment rate under 90%, we are pleased to announce our first engineer hire of 2012, Dan Cavanaugh, EIT. Dan is a near 4.0 graduate of the greatest educational/party institution west of the Salton Sea, San Diego State University, joining the

roughly 427 alumni currently on the BRADY staff. Not really, but would you be-lieve 10? After watching way too many Popeye cartoons during his first attempt at college, Dan decided to enlist in the greatest Navy in the history of the world in 1998. He spent the next 8 years absorbing unknown amounts of radiation aboard nuclear submarines while traveling around the world. He retired from the Navy as a dec-orated Petty Officer in 2006. When asked about his experience in the Navy, Dan responded, “I can nei-ther confirm nor deny the things that may or may not have occurred while serving aboard the U.S.S. To-peka. We went places, did things, and lived to not tell the tales. I can say that the business end of a

rocket propelled depth charge is not on my list of experiences to repeat.” Although Dan is not a huge fan of spinach and he is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, think Popeye and Brutus and you’ll get a nice picture of

Dan the (former) Sailor Man. Dan will be working under the supervision of Jim Bowen in our Federal Construction Services Group. He will be doing QA/QC, contracting, construction support, and designing nuclear subs once we acquire General Dynamics. Given his background, it’s safe to say he knows his way around a military base. Although the only sub Dan will command from now on is the thousands of

$5 foot longs he is earning as salary, he is happy to finally begin his career as a civil engineer…at the ripe old age of 35…and he is even more excited to be a member of BRADY. Good answer! Welcome aboard, Dan, full speed ahead!

WE GOT A FEMA

I t has been almost two years since we reported our first FEMA PA contract win as a teaming partner with our Big Broth-er Fluor…that has been pending for

nearly six editions of The Quote because the 6th place whiner/loser decided to ad-

vertise their loser status by suing FEMA over their loser sta-tus. We are now very happy to report that the 6th place loser’s lawsuit against the Federal Government is now not only merely dead, it is really most sincerely dead. As a result, on March 15th Fluor announced that they were “awarded a contract

by the Department of Homeland Securi-ty’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide technical as-sessment and project management ser-vices in support of the agency’s recovery efforts after national disasters. The Public Assistance Technical Assis-tance Contract has a potential value of up to $500 mil-lion over five years. Fluor will book work into backlog as it is awarded by FEMA.” Amen to that! So, before BRADY expands beyond our Moon projects and opens our first Galaxy Domination Headquarters of-

fice, we feel it is first important to learn how to clean up the messes caused by Mother Nature here on Earth before we tackle that methane gas plume on Jupiter. Talk about a true site closure challenge! In the meantime, we will do all we can to assist with dis-aster relief support resulting from the next batch of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, Darth’s next heart transplant…not that we are hoping for any, except maybe that pest control subcontract…and when the time comes to clean up that oil spill in Nebraska from the Keystone Pipeline, we’ll be ready!

D ick Welsh says it is. With apologies to Yogi Berra, Dick’s room-mate from his days with the 1927 New York Yankees, Dick has declared that the time has finally arrived for the curvy

big-boned calorie challenged ba-con wrapped glazed donut lovin’

Opera Lady to finally sing. Richard “Dick” Welsh, BRADY’s be-hind the scenes leader and two gallon per day Starbucks drinker in our booming Hampton Roads, Virginia office, has decided, after 49 years, to hang up his abacus and hard hat as of March 31, 2012. As reported a few issues ago in The Quote, Bill Colden, BRADY’s VP and Manager of our Hamp-ton Roads office, is so old he was present when Roman Nu-

IRON DICK AND THE GREAT BAMBINO

YOU’RE WELCOME, RICK!

IT AIN’T OVER TILL...

T hough most readers of The Quote think that working at BRADY is all fun and games, we must report that some of us actually work our a**** off on a daily basis. Leading this “rarely seen in the office” group is Don

McHugh and his collection of misfits and mavericks that make up our P-401 team. Though the last time we saw Don it was on the side of a milk carton, he has recently reported, in his own words: “at the end of February 2012, the P-401 Military Construction Project reached 75% completion. The P-401 project is a four year effort to replace the aging fuel storage and processing facility with a state of the art LEED certified new aboveground facility. The P-401 project is be-ing constructed by the Nova Group/Underground Construc-tion Joint Venture in partnership with the Naval Base Point Loma FEAD and Fleet Logistics Center San Diego.” For more scintillating facts, BRADY has been subcontracted to pro-vide environmental oversight on this extremely large and critical four year project. Furthermore from Don, “ in addi-tion the project has now exceeded 800 safe days without a lost time accident which represent over 40,000 man hours since construction activities began in May 2009. The P-401 project involves the demolition or in-place closure of 11 Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs), 22 Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), over 1,000 vadose and monitoring wells, the old Fuel Oil Recovery (FOR) Plant, and three Pump Houses, and their replacement with eight new 125,000 barrel ASTs, a new FOR Plant, and Pump House all while keeping 300,000 barrels in storage for the fleet.” By now you can tell this is a real Government job! BRADY staff oversees all environmental

aspects of the project including the characterization, excavation, and thermal treatment of over 49,000 tons of petroleum impacted soil. If you are still reading this, yes, tons, do the math, we’re talk-ing a serious mess. And lastly from Don: “the work also involved the permitted closure of all of the ASTs, USTs, and associated fuel piping. The project is striving to achieve LEED Silver Certification. At present time the project has currently diverted over 92% recycled materials from the landfill. This rep-resents the elimination of over 8,000 trucks coming to and from Point Loma. The pro-ject is now projected to be complete in mid 2013.” Nice job Don, Craig Haver-stick, Jason Williams, Hunter Butler, and Ulf Richter, as well as Fred Essig, Aaron Heidt, Mary Epperson, Scott Shroyer, Steve Blanchard, Jim Pierce, Tim Shields, Tim Stanton, Bob Ryan, Peter Lloyd, Jesse MacNeill, Don Whittaker, Joanne Rivera, and Tara Lieberman. Keep up the great work!

THE A-TEAM MINUS MR. T merals were created. The truth of course is that Dick cre-ated Roman Numerals and also invented Twinkies, amongst many other achievements too numerous to list, though fortunately they have been permanently docu-mented on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is so old he claims to have heard the “Big Bang” with his own ears and his first hard hat was made out of a Triceratops dinosaur skull.

And he claims he told Adam not to eat that apple! There is no doubt that Dick will be missed, but after his departure, the average age of all 100+ BRADY staff will drop from 48 to 2. In all seriousness and with sincere heartfelt gratitude, thank you Dick for all you have done to help make

BRADY the company we are today. We could not have done it without you! And when you get sick of retirement in a few weeks, we promise to have an office, 55 gallon drum of Starbucks coffee, cozy blan-ket, and a down pillow ready for you on your return. In the meantime, hit ‘em straight and long!

JOHNSON & JOHNSON

A dam and Eve. Romeo and Juliet. Bonnie and Clyde. Batman and Robin. Tarzan and Jane. Carter and Obama. Lloyd and Harry. Welsh and Ruth. The Green Hornet and Bruce Lee. Peas

and carrots. And now, BRADY is excited to introduce John-son and Johnson, and we’re not talking band aids and ba-by oil. After discovering that having one Johnson, as in Howard, on the BRADY payroll was a good idea, having a second Johnson, as in Andree, would be a great idea. As of March 26th, BRADY is proud to announce that Ms. An-dree Johnson has joined the firm in our Santa Ana, CA of-fice to help the other Johnson make this office a kick-a** success. The addition of Andree represents 100% staff growth while requiring no change to our OC office’s monogrammed unisex executive bathroom towels. Andree graduated from UCLA in Environmental Studies in 2006. After an internship with the West Basin Municipal Water District she start-ed her career with the great en-gineering firm formerly known as

Malcolm Pirnie. She is a specialist in many things too numerous to list, but

with the addition of Andree, BRADY is certain that “Mega” results are around the corner. Welcome aboard Andree – now let’s start selling some baby powder!

STAY RETIRED, DICK!

WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND

A FLIGHT TO REMEMBER

O n the day of perhaps one of the great-est moments in BRADY company history, Rick “Lloyd Christmas” Brady and Sean “Harry Dunne” Sudol experienced a

moment straight out of “Dumb and Dumber” – just when Rick thought he couldn’t possibly be any dumber, he went ahead and did something…to totally redeem himself. Drum roll please: Rick/Lloyd attempted to check into his Emirates flight from LAX to Doha with an expired passport. The gate agent ignored his plea that he should be al-lowed to board because he was a limo driver, nor did she believe he was on his way to Qatar to give a lecture at a medical school. In all fairness, Sean/Harry was an innocent bystander, though unbeliev-ably, this was Sean’s first trip out of the U.S. of A. Sean proceeded to board the flight “solo”, looking like he just got dropped off for the first day of kin-dergarten, middle seat in coach (BRADY does have a tight travel budget, even with that last mi-nute sale to Billy in 4C), while Rick pondered his next genius move. At least he did not fall off the jet way once again, per his usual custom. Due to some clever work by the SWAT travel team at BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Di-ego, our “Idiot President” was on another flight the very next day with his Samsonite luggage and a new passport in hand. In the back row of coach, window seat, he was reported to comment when flying over the Rocky Mountains that John Denver was full of it; after five hours of viewing

the video monitor of the flight path he blurted “we’ve only gone four inch-es!”; he proceeded to order the “Soup Du Jour” by saying “I’ll have that” and called the “stewardess” Flo; and was overheard after his eighth mini vodka to say he was on his way to someplace warm where the beer “does not flow” like wine…to a little place called Doha…that is surprisingly also full of French a**holes. Fortunately Rick arrived just in the nick-of-time for the Mega Reservoirs kick-off meeting with Hyder and KAHRAMAA on February 19th, so in the end BRADY avoided a Titanic “Night to Remember” experi-

ence, but more like an “Affair to Remember”. Rick is clearly no Cary Grant, but “winter is surely not a cold time for him, as he has plen-ty of warm memories”. This particular memory will remain as hot as a July day in Qatar. Thank you Sean for leading the way for BRADY, otherwise we might have been called to retrieve Rick from the top of the Empire State Building.

B RADY Hampton Roads is growing faster than the balance on the U.S. Government’s Bank of China Credit Card. On February 3rd we moved to a spacious new office on the ground floor in

our Class C building, almost doubling our office space. We’ve added a few new faces: Jodi Wyatt and Russ Ludwig joined the BRADY Bunch on Feb 27th. Jodi will handle the front office duties and Russ is our new Dick. We received our first award on our Hampton Roads MACC for replacement of the steam line on Pier 14, Naval Station, Norfolk. In addition to the steam line, the $2.4 million contract requires extensive concrete repairs

to the utility trench which runs the length of the pier before the new steam line is in-stalled. Exciting stuff! We’re also having a FEMA experience of our own in the making, requiring the need for BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Diego to issue a FEMA alert to our Hampton Roads office – as in a Fashion Emergen-cy Management Act. Looks like we’re getting ready for Global Warming in our ground floor office, as most of our men are sporting some nice high water pants. Too bad Costco doesn’t sell pants any longer than a

30-inch length. Salvatore Ferragamo is on his way at this very moment to render disaster relief!

W ell, it appears we are. Though BRADY is nearly “zero for the 21st century” in municipal engineering contract wins in our home town of San Diego, the “little engine that could” landed a whale of a decent contract, as in a Base Operations Support Services aka BOSS contract in another Navy town on

the other side of the country – Jacksonville, FL. And given this is our first union services contract, we should begin the story with a “union” introduction. Once upon a time-and-a-half ago, as a subcontractor to our “Big Brother” Fluor, we submitted together on this

contract with BRADY’s role to operate the water, wastewater, and of the most importance – swimming pools – for the Navy’s Facilities in Jacksonville and Mayport. After nearly 18 months, we are pleased to announce that the BRADY portion of this “Mega Win” is nearly $38,000,000, for 7-1/2 years. Though lately we feel like the San Diego Chargers of local engineering – as in zero Super Bowl wins – we are happy to note the eight figures is not a typo. Not a bad consolation prize once again. Jacksonville aka “JAX” may be home of the Flori-da Gators and Rick’s new adopted nephew Tim Tebow, but it is now time to make a little room for BRADY in the U.S. state most likely to be under water within 50 years. After hearing news of the

JAX win, Tim placed a call to World Domination Headquarters and said: “If you be-lieve, then unbelievable things can sometimes happen.” There is no doubt that we are still in a state of shock, as this is truly unbelievable. Thank you Fluor, Kent Smith, Matt Carroll, Ron Hertwig, and Saka Zadoian amongst many others, for including us on your winning team.

LITTLE BILLY COLDEN

HIGH TIDES IN TIDEWATER!

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

THE UN-RICK

WHO’S THE BOSS?

FEMA HAMPTON ROADS

GET SMART, PART DEUX

A t least we hope so. Though an award has yet to be made, BRADY staff worked for forty days and forty nights to pull to-gether our first BRADY-Fluor LLC “ISS” pro-

posal for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Red-stone, Alabama. ISS is one of a million military acro-nyms – this one means “Installation Support Ser-vices”. The significant part of this five year contract is the Mega contract value -- $XXX,000,000. Yes, nine figures – not another typo. We’re feeling a bit like how the Comedian in Chief will be feeling on November 6, 2012 while pacing the Oval Office -- on his ninth pack of Marlboros, waiting for the news. We’re just hopeful our news will be better than his. This was truly a team effort, led by Sean “three hours of sleep per night” Manning, that involved the com-bined 24/7 efforts of our Charlotte, Virginia Beach, and San Diego offices. Thank you Sean and the team -- Aaron Robinson, Ben Sharon, Brett Patter-son, Don Whittaker, Jeff Johnson, Jennifer Funk, Mark Owens, Mike Slawson, Richard Riser, Robert Manning, Ryan Nishimura, Sean Sudol, and Tim Stanton -- for your stellar performance and for Fluor in believing that the “little engine that could”…actually did pull it off with a day to spare. Sean delivered the 8,000 page proposal with a forklift. Would you believe a 2-inch binder in his Chevy Malibu? Next up – the ISS contract pursuit for Newt “Dough Boy” Skywalker’s Moon Base in 2013 that should only cost a kajillion bajillion dollars. No word yet if the moon unit will be split into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa. Good thing Mrs. Skywalker No. 3 already has her own space hel-met. For all of you ex-Pats out there thinking this is your next dream job – and we’re not talking retired New England Patriots – just because it is zero gravity on the moon, it will not mean zero per-sonal taxes. But the project should be no sweat for BRADY – we’ve already built a reservoir up there!

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

W hat’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the initials IBM? Computers, Innovation, Wat-son, Jeopardy…or perhaps International Behemoth Megacorp? How about this one…WATER?! Anyone

who has spilled some on their laptop would agree that comput-ers and water go together like Democrats and Republicans. But it is true; one of the biggest tech companies in the wide wide world of business is now making a name for themselves in water, with a big hand from their ace-in-the-hole, BRADY. And why not, with water rapidly becoming the petroleum of the future, IBM is testing its prowess with complex and innovative leak detection and pressure management technology in the municipal water world. The first step for IBM and their team of mathematicians and com-puter geeks/gurus was to get familiar with water systems, how they operate, and the people that run them. Insert BRADY…hydraulics and potable water systems happen to be our forte, if we must say so ourselves. BRADY and IBM fit together like a leath-er glove, minus the Ford Bronco.

With much fanfare, the City of San Diego, BRADY, and IBM kicked off a “smart water” pilot study in January with people coming from around the world (literally, an IBM PhD, Segev Wasserkrug, came all the way from Israel) to BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Diego for the face-to-face project kick-off work-shop. In attendance were several members of the City of San Diego’s water operations staff led by Jim Fisher, Neptune Metering Company led by Andy Bohn, IBM led by Peter Williams, and your friendly crack staff of BRADY engineers. Word got out early that there would be free breakfast, coffee and lunch, and Jen-nifer Aniston, so the turnout was quite impressive. The City of San Diego’s City Council is excited to see the results…and so are we. The pilot is now underway – wish us luck, as in the 21st century and beyond, eve-ry drop will count!

WOULD YOU BELIEVE…?

IS JENNIFER HERE YET?

LIVE LONG ON THE MOON AND PROSPER...SO I CAN TAX YOU

MEGA RESERVOIRS—A TRUE STORY

I n the words of one of The Quote’s favorite spokes-reptiles, Godzilla…Size Does Matter. It is true that BRADY was unable to win a little reservoir job with another former great client (ask Ron Burgundy if you need a hint) just a few miles up the I-15 freeway from World Domination Head-

quarters, involving two circles, or squares, depending upon your reservoir preference. C’est la vie, Part Deux. Wounded yes

and a bit heartbroken to “drop the ball” in our own backyard, and it is painfully true what the Yoko Ono of the NFL (Gisele Bund-chen) said post XLVI, “you can’t throw the

ball and catch it at the same time”. Sorry, Yoko, we do not deny we are a bunch of fashion emergency nerd en-gineers who do not know the difference between Salvatore Ferraga-mo and Forrest Gump. And we realize that maybe we’ve been “wookin’ pa nub” in all the wrong places (Qatar, anyone?) for the past two years. But in the words of Rick’s two-time Super Bowl loser nephew, “Pats not all, folks”. BRADY is not only back, but we are proud to announce that alt-

hough we did not catch the ball right in our pocket protectors in our home town (aka Whale’s ******), we managed to land a “whale of a project” aptly known as MEGA RESERVOIRS in a place that seems like the dark side of the moon for most – Doha, Qatar. MEGA RESERVOIRS is a water security project for KAHRAMAA in the country of Qatar involving the design and construction support services for twen-ty-nine (29), seventy-three (73) million imperial gal-lon (1.2 times a U.S. gallon – feel free to do the math) prestressed concrete reservoirs. Each tank will be the world’s largest – 29 times over. It will take some serious pipe to connect all of this together (hydraulics an-yone?), as in 125 miles of 72-inch diameter steel pipe. A few giant pump stations are needed to move the two billion plus gallons of water around the country over a seven day period. BRADY is pleased to be a reservoir/hydraulics teaming partner of Hyder, a UK

based company who has the prime responsibility for this US $6 billion dol-lar project. It is true that you can’t have it all, and in this case, we are

happy to have the consolation prize. MEGA RESERVOIRS here we come!

Rick Brady, President of RBA, and Bill Hendrickson, CEO of DYK, agree to Moon Deal.

“I think 41 MG will fit in this crater, which will be the largest prestressed concrete reservoir in the universe!”

“Bill, I think you have the moon upside down.”

As a follow up to the joke, to address those of you who believed it:

“We wish to extend our thanks to those who expressed genuine interest in our NASA moon project. As far-fetched as building a reservoir on the moon sounded to us when we wrote our little April Fools joke story for our most recent newsletter, we were nonetheless surprised at the high volume of calls we received inquiring about joining our team, or simply congratulating us on this exciting new contract. Unfortunately, half of the inquiries came from the staff of Richard Brady & Associ-ates. However, this is the same half of our staff who are curious about who is bur-ied in Grant’s Tomb. We wish it were true, but alas, we are not building a reservoir on the moon, at least not until next century. Thanks for the feedback, nonethe-less. We were not intending to insult anyone’s intelligence (you know who you are), but come on!”

And lastly, Rick’s apparent temporary weight gain is due primarily to the negative G effects experienced when working on the moon for prolonged periods.

TO THE MOON—NASA AWARDS IMPORTANT CONTRACT TO BRADY (Not a True Story)

T he Joint Venture of Richard Brady & Associates (RBA) and DYK Incorporated was recent-ly awarded an 8(a) set aside contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-istration (NASA) to perform preliminary studies for the future construction of water stor-age structures on the moon. The studies will include determining the practicality of using

moon based natural materials to batch concrete with sufficient strength in a zero gravity at-mosphere that someday could allow colonization of the moon. Recognizing that infrastruc-ture will be needed to support future colonies, NASA has directed Richard Brady & Associates and DYK to develop a prototype prestressed concrete reservoir design that can withstand the harsh conditions expected for moon based construction. NASA’s Mission Director Dr. Sid Finch of the Johnson Space Center, Houston proclaimed “This is an important first step in our multi-decade program to someday have facilities on the moon that will allow human habitation. With global warming and world overpopulation concerns accelerating daily, colonization of the moon is a vital necessity to insure the survival of the human race. We are pleased to have the Joint Venture of Richard Brady & Associates and DYK under contract for this critically im-portant assignment”. Work on this 5 year, $20M assignment will commence April 1, 2006. For more information on the Moon Colonization Program for the 21st Century, contact NASA at 704-401-7257.

STAY CLASSY, BRADY!

NEGATIVE Gs MY WHALE’S

A**!

MEGA RESERVOIRS—A TRUE STORY

I n the words of one of The Quote’s favorite spokes-reptiles, Godzilla…Size Does Matter. It is true that BRADY was unable to win a little reservoir job with another former great client (ask Ron Burgundy if you need a hint) just a few miles up the I-15 freeway from World Domination Head-

quarters, involving two circles, or squares, depending upon your reservoir preference. C’est la vie, Part Deux. Wounded yes

and a bit heartbroken to “drop the ball” in our own backyard, and it is painfully true what the Yoko Ono of the NFL (Gisele Bund-chen) said post XLVI, “you can’t throw the

ball and catch it at the same time”. Sorry, Yoko, we do not deny we are a bunch of fashion emergency nerd en-gineers who do not know the difference between Salvatore Ferraga-mo and Forrest Gump. And we realize that maybe we’ve been “wookin’ pa nub” in all the wrong places (Qatar, anyone?) for the past two years. But in the words of Rick’s two-time Super Bowl loser nephew, “Pats not all, folks”. BRADY is not only back, but we are proud to announce that alt-

hough we did not catch the ball right in our pocket protectors in our home town (aka Whale’s ******), we managed to land a “whale of a project” aptly known as MEGA RESERVOIRS in a place that seems like the dark side of the moon for most – Doha, Qatar. MEGA RESERVOIRS is a water security project for KAHRAMAA in the country of Qatar involving the design and construction support services for twen-ty-nine (29), seventy-three (73) million imperial gal-lon (1.2 times a U.S. gallon – feel free to do the math) prestressed concrete reservoirs. Each tank will be the world’s largest – 29 times over. It will take some serious pipe to connect all of this together (hydraulics an-yone?), as in 125 miles of 72-inch diameter steel pipe. A few giant pump stations are needed to move the two billion plus gallons of water around the country over a seven day period. BRADY is pleased to be a reservoir/hydraulics teaming partner of Hyder, a UK

based company who has the prime responsibility for this US $6 billion dol-lar project. It is true that you can’t have it all, and in this case, we are

happy to have the consolation prize. MEGA RESERVOIRS here we come!

Rick Brady, President of RBA, and Bill Hendrickson, CEO of DYK, agree to Moon Deal.

“I think 41 MG will fit in this crater, which will be the largest prestressed concrete reservoir in the universe!”

“Bill, I think you have the moon upside down.”

As a follow up to the joke, to address those of you who believed it:

“We wish to extend our thanks to those who expressed genuine interest in our NASA moon project. As far-fetched as building a reservoir on the moon sounded to us when we wrote our little April Fools joke story for our most recent newsletter, we were nonetheless surprised at the high volume of calls we received inquiring about joining our team, or simply congratulating us on this exciting new contract. Unfortunately, half of the inquiries came from the staff of Richard Brady & Associ-ates. However, this is the same half of our staff who are curious about who is bur-ied in Grant’s Tomb. We wish it were true, but alas, we are not building a reservoir on the moon, at least not until next century. Thanks for the feedback, nonethe-less. We were not intending to insult anyone’s intelligence (you know who you are), but come on!”

And lastly, Rick’s apparent temporary weight gain is due primarily to the negative G effects experienced when working on the moon for prolonged periods.

TO THE MOON—NASA AWARDS IMPORTANT CONTRACT TO BRADY (Not a True Story)

T he Joint Venture of Richard Brady & Associates (RBA) and DYK Incorporated was recent-ly awarded an 8(a) set aside contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-istration (NASA) to perform preliminary studies for the future construction of water stor-age structures on the moon. The studies will include determining the practicality of using

moon based natural materials to batch concrete with sufficient strength in a zero gravity at-mosphere that someday could allow colonization of the moon. Recognizing that infrastruc-ture will be needed to support future colonies, NASA has directed Richard Brady & Associates and DYK to develop a prototype prestressed concrete reservoir design that can withstand the harsh conditions expected for moon based construction. NASA’s Mission Director Dr. Sid Finch of the Johnson Space Center, Houston proclaimed “This is an important first step in our multi-decade program to someday have facilities on the moon that will allow human habitation. With global warming and world overpopulation concerns accelerating daily, colonization of the moon is a vital necessity to insure the survival of the human race. We are pleased to have the Joint Venture of Richard Brady & Associates and DYK under contract for this critically im-portant assignment”. Work on this 5 year, $20M assignment will commence April 1, 2006. For more information on the Moon Colonization Program for the 21st Century, contact NASA at 704-401-7257.

STAY CLASSY, BRADY!

NEGATIVE Gs MY WHALE’S

A**!

GET SMART, PART DEUX

A t least we hope so. Though an award has yet to be made, BRADY staff worked for forty days and forty nights to pull to-gether our first BRADY-Fluor LLC “ISS” pro-

posal for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Red-stone, Alabama. ISS is one of a million military acro-nyms – this one means “Installation Support Ser-vices”. The significant part of this five year contract is the Mega contract value -- $XXX,000,000. Yes, nine figures – not another typo. We’re feeling a bit like how the Comedian in Chief will be feeling on November 6, 2012 while pacing the Oval Office -- on his ninth pack of Marlboros, waiting for the news. We’re just hopeful our news will be better than his. This was truly a team effort, led by Sean “three hours of sleep per night” Manning, that involved the com-bined 24/7 efforts of our Charlotte, Virginia Beach, and San Diego offices. Thank you Sean and the team -- Aaron Robinson, Ben Sharon, Brett Patter-son, Don Whittaker, Jeff Johnson, Jennifer Funk, Mark Owens, Mike Slawson, Richard Riser, Robert Manning, Ryan Nishimura, Sean Sudol, and Tim Stanton -- for your stellar performance and for Fluor in believing that the “little engine that could”…actually did pull it off with a day to spare. Sean delivered the 8,000 page proposal with a forklift. Would you believe a 2-inch binder in his Chevy Malibu? Next up – the ISS contract pursuit for Newt “Dough Boy” Skywalker’s Moon Base in 2013 that should only cost a kajillion bajillion dollars. No word yet if the moon unit will be split into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa. Good thing Mrs. Skywalker No. 3 already has her own space hel-met. For all of you ex-Pats out there thinking this is your next dream job – and we’re not talking retired New England Patriots – just because it is zero gravity on the moon, it will not mean zero per-sonal taxes. But the project should be no sweat for BRADY – we’ve already built a reservoir up there!

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

W hat’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the initials IBM? Computers, Innovation, Wat-son, Jeopardy…or perhaps International Behemoth Megacorp? How about this one…WATER?! Anyone

who has spilled some on their laptop would agree that comput-ers and water go together like Democrats and Republicans. But it is true; one of the biggest tech companies in the wide wide world of business is now making a name for themselves in water, with a big hand from their ace-in-the-hole, BRADY. And why not, with water rapidly becoming the petroleum of the future, IBM is testing its prowess with complex and innovative leak detection and pressure management technology in the municipal water world. The first step for IBM and their team of mathematicians and com-puter geeks/gurus was to get familiar with water systems, how they operate, and the people that run them. Insert BRADY…hydraulics and potable water systems happen to be our forte, if we must say so ourselves. BRADY and IBM fit together like a leath-er glove, minus the Ford Bronco.

With much fanfare, the City of San Diego, BRADY, and IBM kicked off a “smart water” pilot study in January with people coming from around the world (literally, an IBM PhD, Segev Wasserkrug, came all the way from Israel) to BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Diego for the face-to-face project kick-off work-shop. In attendance were several members of the City of San Diego’s water operations staff led by Jim Fisher, Neptune Metering Company led by Andy Bohn, IBM led by Peter Williams, and your friendly crack staff of BRADY engineers. Word got out early that there would be free breakfast, coffee and lunch, and Jen-nifer Aniston, so the turnout was quite impressive. The City of San Diego’s City Council is excited to see the results…and so are we. The pilot is now underway – wish us luck, as in the 21st century and beyond, eve-ry drop will count!

WOULD YOU BELIEVE…?

IS JENNIFER HERE YET?

LIVE LONG ON THE MOON AND PROSPER...SO I CAN TAX YOU

A FLIGHT TO REMEMBER

O n the day of perhaps one of the great-est moments in BRADY company history, Rick “Lloyd Christmas” Brady and Sean “Harry Dunne” Sudol experienced a

moment straight out of “Dumb and Dumber” – just when Rick thought he couldn’t possibly be any dumber, he went ahead and did something…to totally redeem himself. Drum roll please: Rick/Lloyd attempted to check into his Emirates flight from LAX to Doha with an expired passport. The gate agent ignored his plea that he should be al-lowed to board because he was a limo driver, nor did she believe he was on his way to Qatar to give a lecture at a medical school. In all fairness, Sean/Harry was an innocent bystander, though unbeliev-ably, this was Sean’s first trip out of the U.S. of A. Sean proceeded to board the flight “solo”, looking like he just got dropped off for the first day of kin-dergarten, middle seat in coach (BRADY does have a tight travel budget, even with that last mi-nute sale to Billy in 4C), while Rick pondered his next genius move. At least he did not fall off the jet way once again, per his usual custom. Due to some clever work by the SWAT travel team at BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Di-ego, our “Idiot President” was on another flight the very next day with his Samsonite luggage and a new passport in hand. In the back row of coach, window seat, he was reported to comment when flying over the Rocky Mountains that John Denver was full of it; after five hours of viewing

the video monitor of the flight path he blurted “we’ve only gone four inch-es!”; he proceeded to order the “Soup Du Jour” by saying “I’ll have that” and called the “stewardess” Flo; and was overheard after his eighth mini vodka to say he was on his way to someplace warm where the beer “does not flow” like wine…to a little place called Doha…that is surprisingly also full of French a**holes. Fortunately Rick arrived just in the nick-of-time for the Mega Reservoirs kick-off meeting with Hyder and KAHRAMAA on February 19th, so in the end BRADY avoided a Titanic “Night to Remember” experi-

ence, but more like an “Affair to Remember”. Rick is clearly no Cary Grant, but “winter is surely not a cold time for him, as he has plen-ty of warm memories”. This particular memory will remain as hot as a July day in Qatar. Thank you Sean for leading the way for BRADY, otherwise we might have been called to retrieve Rick from the top of the Empire State Building.

B RADY Hampton Roads is growing faster than the balance on the U.S. Government’s Bank of China Credit Card. On February 3rd we moved to a spacious new office on the ground floor in

our Class C building, almost doubling our office space. We’ve added a few new faces: Jodi Wyatt and Russ Ludwig joined the BRADY Bunch on Feb 27th. Jodi will handle the front office duties and Russ is our new Dick. We received our first award on our Hampton Roads MACC for replacement of the steam line on Pier 14, Naval Station, Norfolk. In addition to the steam line, the $2.4 million contract requires extensive concrete repairs

to the utility trench which runs the length of the pier before the new steam line is in-stalled. Exciting stuff! We’re also having a FEMA experience of our own in the making, requiring the need for BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters in San Diego to issue a FEMA alert to our Hampton Roads office – as in a Fashion Emergen-cy Management Act. Looks like we’re getting ready for Global Warming in our ground floor office, as most of our men are sporting some nice high water pants. Too bad Costco doesn’t sell pants any longer than a

30-inch length. Salvatore Ferragamo is on his way at this very moment to render disaster relief!

W ell, it appears we are. Though BRADY is nearly “zero for the 21st century” in municipal engineering contract wins in our home town of San Diego, the “little engine that could” landed a whale of a decent contract, as in a Base Operations Support Services aka BOSS contract in another Navy town on

the other side of the country – Jacksonville, FL. And given this is our first union services contract, we should begin the story with a “union” introduction. Once upon a time-and-a-half ago, as a subcontractor to our “Big Brother” Fluor, we submitted together on this

contract with BRADY’s role to operate the water, wastewater, and of the most importance – swimming pools – for the Navy’s Facilities in Jacksonville and Mayport. After nearly 18 months, we are pleased to announce that the BRADY portion of this “Mega Win” is nearly $38,000,000, for 7-1/2 years. Though lately we feel like the San Diego Chargers of local engineering – as in zero Super Bowl wins – we are happy to note the eight figures is not a typo. Not a bad consolation prize once again. Jacksonville aka “JAX” may be home of the Flori-da Gators and Rick’s new adopted nephew Tim Tebow, but it is now time to make a little room for BRADY in the U.S. state most likely to be under water within 50 years. After hearing news of the

JAX win, Tim placed a call to World Domination Headquarters and said: “If you be-lieve, then unbelievable things can sometimes happen.” There is no doubt that we are still in a state of shock, as this is truly unbelievable. Thank you Fluor, Kent Smith, Matt Carroll, Ron Hertwig, and Saka Zadoian amongst many others, for including us on your winning team.

LITTLE BILLY COLDEN

HIGH TIDES IN TIDEWATER!

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

THE UN-RICK

WHO’S THE BOSS?

FEMA HAMPTON ROADS

T hough most readers of The Quote think that working at BRADY is all fun and games, we must report that some of us actually work our a**** off on a daily basis. Leading this “rarely seen in the office” group is Don

McHugh and his collection of misfits and mavericks that make up our P-401 team. Though the last time we saw Don it was on the side of a milk carton, he has recently reported, in his own words: “at the end of February 2012, the P-401 Military Construction Project reached 75% completion. The P-401 project is a four year effort to replace the aging fuel storage and processing facility with a state of the art LEED certified new aboveground facility. The P-401 project is be-ing constructed by the Nova Group/Underground Construc-tion Joint Venture in partnership with the Naval Base Point Loma FEAD and Fleet Logistics Center San Diego.” For more scintillating facts, BRADY has been subcontracted to pro-vide environmental oversight on this extremely large and critical four year project. Furthermore from Don, “ in addi-tion the project has now exceeded 800 safe days without a lost time accident which represent over 40,000 man hours since construction activities began in May 2009. The P-401 project involves the demolition or in-place closure of 11 Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs), 22 Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), over 1,000 vadose and monitoring wells, the old Fuel Oil Recovery (FOR) Plant, and three Pump Houses, and their replacement with eight new 125,000 barrel ASTs, a new FOR Plant, and Pump House all while keeping 300,000 barrels in storage for the fleet.” By now you can tell this is a real Government job! BRADY staff oversees all environmental

aspects of the project including the characterization, excavation, and thermal treatment of over 49,000 tons of petroleum impacted soil. If you are still reading this, yes, tons, do the math, we’re talk-ing a serious mess. And lastly from Don: “the work also involved the permitted closure of all of the ASTs, USTs, and associated fuel piping. The project is striving to achieve LEED Silver Certification. At present time the project has currently diverted over 92% recycled materials from the landfill. This rep-resents the elimination of over 8,000 trucks coming to and from Point Loma. The pro-ject is now projected to be complete in mid 2013.” Nice job Don, Craig Haver-stick, Jason Williams, Hunter Butler, and Ulf Richter, as well as Fred Essig, Aaron Heidt, Mary Epperson, Scott Shroyer, Steve Blanchard, Jim Pierce, Tim Shields, Tim Stanton, Bob Ryan, Peter Lloyd, Jesse MacNeill, Don Whittaker, Joanne Rivera, and Tara Lieberman. Keep up the great work!

THE A-TEAM MINUS MR. T merals were created. The truth of course is that Dick cre-ated Roman Numerals and also invented Twinkies, amongst many other achievements too numerous to list, though fortunately they have been permanently docu-mented on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is so old he claims to have heard the “Big Bang” with his own ears and his first hard hat was made out of a Triceratops dinosaur skull.

And he claims he told Adam not to eat that apple! There is no doubt that Dick will be missed, but after his departure, the average age of all 100+ BRADY staff will drop from 48 to 2. In all seriousness and with sincere heartfelt gratitude, thank you Dick for all you have done to help make

BRADY the company we are today. We could not have done it without you! And when you get sick of retirement in a few weeks, we promise to have an office, 55 gallon drum of Starbucks coffee, cozy blan-ket, and a down pillow ready for you on your return. In the meantime, hit ‘em straight and long!

JOHNSON & JOHNSON

A dam and Eve. Romeo and Juliet. Bonnie and Clyde. Batman and Robin. Tarzan and Jane. Carter and Obama. Lloyd and Harry. Welsh and Ruth. The Green Hornet and Bruce Lee. Peas

and carrots. And now, BRADY is excited to introduce John-son and Johnson, and we’re not talking band aids and ba-by oil. After discovering that having one Johnson, as in Howard, on the BRADY payroll was a good idea, having a second Johnson, as in Andree, would be a great idea. As of March 26th, BRADY is proud to announce that Ms. An-dree Johnson has joined the firm in our Santa Ana, CA of-fice to help the other Johnson make this office a kick-a** success. The addition of Andree represents 100% staff growth while requiring no change to our OC office’s monogrammed unisex executive bathroom towels. Andree graduated from UCLA in Environmental Studies in 2006. After an internship with the West Basin Municipal Water District she start-ed her career with the great en-gineering firm formerly known as

Malcolm Pirnie. She is a specialist in many things too numerous to list, but

with the addition of Andree, BRADY is certain that “Mega” results are around the corner. Welcome aboard Andree – now let’s start selling some baby powder!

STAY RETIRED, DICK!

WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND

O ver the course of our special relationship with our Mentor and “Big Brother” Fluor Corporation, BRADY has been for-tunate to host a number of visits by assorted Fluor dignitar-ies and VIPs. With much anticipation, Bill “Waz” Wa-

silewski, Vice President of Global Sales, followed the yellow brick road all the way from Greenville, SC to BRADY’s World Domination Head-quarters in San Diego this past December to check on the “little en-gine that could”. To Waz’s surprise and amazement, he discovered that BRADY is a real company full of really good people, with hearts and brains galore and courage to spare. Unfortunately, we were un-able to take Waz on a visit to his most cherished destination, Temecu-la, CA, but as a consolation prize he was able to see the best of San

Diego in a few short days. We cannot reveal the results of our multi-day “over-the-rainbow/thinking-outside-the-box” meetings of the BRADY/Fluor “brain trust”, as this is all tippy-top secret stuff, but we can say it involves work with many of Fluor’s Fortune 500 clients including General Mills, Alcoa, DuPont, Kimberly Clark, and Proctor and Gamble, to name a few. On Waz’s departure, Rick was asked by BRADY staff to summarize the outcome of Waz’s visit and all he could mumble was “the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” Sounds like “code” for it all went well and we very much look forward to our fu-ture with Fluor’s Global Services Group. And thank you Waz for helping Rick find his brain once again – we can’t ever thank you enough!

THE WIZARD IS WAZ

ANCHORMAN

I n BRADY’s ongoing conquest to keep California’s unemployment rate under 90%, we are pleased to announce our first engineer hire of 2012, Dan Cavanaugh, EIT. Dan is a near 4.0 graduate of the greatest educational/party institution west of the Salton Sea, San Diego State University, joining the

roughly 427 alumni currently on the BRADY staff. Not really, but would you be-lieve 10? After watching way too many Popeye cartoons during his first attempt at college, Dan decided to enlist in the greatest Navy in the history of the world in 1998. He spent the next 8 years absorbing unknown amounts of radiation aboard nuclear submarines while traveling around the world. He retired from the Navy as a dec-orated Petty Officer in 2006. When asked about his experience in the Navy, Dan responded, “I can nei-ther confirm nor deny the things that may or may not have occurred while serving aboard the U.S.S. To-peka. We went places, did things, and lived to not tell the tales. I can say that the business end of a

rocket propelled depth charge is not on my list of experiences to repeat.” Although Dan is not a huge fan of spinach and he is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, think Popeye and Brutus and you’ll get a nice picture of

Dan the (former) Sailor Man. Dan will be working under the supervision of Jim Bowen in our Federal Construction Services Group. He will be doing QA/QC, contracting, construction support, and designing nuclear subs once we acquire General Dynamics. Given his background, it’s safe to say he knows his way around a military base. Although the only sub Dan will command from now on is the thousands of

$5 foot longs he is earning as salary, he is happy to finally begin his career as a civil engineer…at the ripe old age of 35…and he is even more excited to be a member of BRADY. Good answer! Welcome aboard, Dan, full speed ahead!

WE GOT A FEMA

I t has been almost two years since we reported our first FEMA PA contract win as a teaming partner with our Big Broth-er Fluor…that has been pending for

nearly six editions of The Quote because the 6th place whiner/loser decided to ad-

vertise their loser status by suing FEMA over their loser sta-tus. We are now very happy to report that the 6th place loser’s lawsuit against the Federal Government is now not only merely dead, it is really most sincerely dead. As a result, on March 15th Fluor announced that they were “awarded a contract

by the Department of Homeland Securi-ty’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide technical as-sessment and project management ser-vices in support of the agency’s recovery efforts after national disasters. The Public Assistance Technical Assis-tance Contract has a potential value of up to $500 mil-lion over five years. Fluor will book work into backlog as it is awarded by FEMA.” Amen to that! So, before BRADY expands beyond our Moon projects and opens our first Galaxy Domination Headquarters of-

fice, we feel it is first important to learn how to clean up the messes caused by Mother Nature here on Earth before we tackle that methane gas plume on Jupiter. Talk about a true site closure challenge! In the meantime, we will do all we can to assist with dis-aster relief support resulting from the next batch of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, Darth’s next heart transplant…not that we are hoping for any, except maybe that pest control subcontract…and when the time comes to clean up that oil spill in Nebraska from the Keystone Pipeline, we’ll be ready!

D ick Welsh says it is. With apologies to Yogi Berra, Dick’s room-mate from his days with the 1927 New York Yankees, Dick has declared that the time has finally arrived for the curvy

big-boned calorie challenged ba-con wrapped glazed donut lovin’

Opera Lady to finally sing. Richard “Dick” Welsh, BRADY’s be-hind the scenes leader and two gallon per day Starbucks drinker in our booming Hampton Roads, Virginia office, has decided, after 49 years, to hang up his abacus and hard hat as of March 31, 2012. As reported a few issues ago in The Quote, Bill Colden, BRADY’s VP and Manager of our Hamp-ton Roads office, is so old he was present when Roman Nu-

IRON DICK AND THE GREAT BAMBINO

YOU’RE WELCOME, RICK!

IT AIN’T OVER TILL...

A RED BUTTON THAT YOU CAN NOW PUSH WITHOUT DETO-NATING ANYTHING...BECAUSE HE’S DEAD

W e are sad to report that the news from North Korea

late last year is true -- the world’s greatest golfer (38 under par on his first and only round), and our favor-ite Spokes-Nut, Kim Jong II is not only merely dead, he’s

really most sincerely dead. As reported on North Korea’s one and only TV channel, he will address the nation about his death in due time. In the meantime, our “Ask the Expert” Red Button service still remains open for business, for any problem large or small. As before and since, we promise you will get an answer to each and every question faster than it will take Newt “Dough Boy” Skywalker to be the first American to get divorced on the moon. Many of our Ask the Expert questions have come from IP addresses...within BRADY’s World Domination Headquarters. Like Jeopardy, a few answers to a sampling of our internal Red Button inquiries…you can attempt to figure out the Questions on your own. Answer: “The se-cret to our success is knowing who to blame for our failures.” Answer : “If at first you don’t suc-

ceed, failure may be your style.” Answer: “Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” Answer: “If you never try anything new, you’ll miss out on many of life’s great disappointments.” An-swer: “Just because you think you’re a star here doesn’t mean you’re going anywhere.” Answer: “The less you stand out, the longer you’ll last.” Answer: “A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” Answer : “Yes, the Mon-kees were a huge influence on the Beatles”.

the same. And in Beverly Hills today, things are so bad people are walking their own dogs. Maybe what we need right now to unite the world is a Global Toga Party. We are the World! Think about the eco-nomic boost from having to wash all of those togas the next day…on second thought, that might not pencil out financially once again for the U.S. Upon hearing all of this b-sh*t nonsense, Sir Winston Churchill would have said – “Get me a bottle of whiskey, a cigar, and directions to the vomitorium.” Needless to say, Sir Winston would not be happy with the

current state of world affairs and the “colonies” in particular. Paraphrasing Sir Winston, using well-known quotes from his legendary speeches (he would start by saying: “I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks”), his speech in the Oval Office as a guest of the second Roosevelt would sound something like this: “There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. A politician is a person who has the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. Never in the field of political conflict was so little owed by so many to so few.

It is true that many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe, and no one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all of those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Fortunately, socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent vir-tue is the equal sharing of misery. The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the aver-age voter. But I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having ex-hausted every other alternative. The truth is inconvertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may dis-tort it, but there it is. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Success is the ability to go from

one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Thank you America for having me here tonight. Meeting the first Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne. Knowing him was like drinking it. But I have nothing to offer to you, our greatest ally, but blood, toil, sweat, and tears. The day may dawn when fair play, love for one’s fellow men, respect for justice and free-dom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never des-pair, and never surrender. America’s finest hour is yet ahead. God Bless America!”

“WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?”

“SO, HITLER WALKS INTO A BAR WITH A DUCK ON HIS HEAD…”

LOOK, IT’S DEAN WORMER!

KIM JONG IL? MORE LIKE KIM JONG DEAD!

YOU’RE WELCOME, BEATLES!

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PRESIDENT

S ome people have a way with words, other people have...oh, uh, not have way (thank you Steve Martin, classic 1970’s standup routine), and then there is one who has…a teleprompter. Once upon a time-and-a-half-ago, there was a man who not only had a way with words, with cutting remarks

and a dry wit, with legendary unscripted off the cuff comments, a man who could inspire and amuse at the same time, a man who offered real hope when backs were squarely against the wall. The world could use a man (or woman, channeling the Iron Lady) like him or her today…the man on the cover. Of course every 2012 graduate of a U.S. high

school will recognize this photo of Franklin Roosevelt. Or would you believe it’s Winston Churchill? We can all agree that the world is different in 2012 and it changes every second, faster than a speeding bullet. It is true that no matter how bad things feel, we don’t live in pre-WWII Poland, 1939. And we all have the instant e-mail alerts to prove it on our multiple “gadgets” and Facepage/Twister accounts, 24/7, where the “news” is 100% correct, 60% of the time. As bad as it seems to way too many people at the mo-ment, it is starting to stink just a bit from coast to coast (denial is not just a Justin Timberlake cry-me-a-river in Egypt). Yes, it is truly sad that the happiest man in America at the moment is Jimmy Carter, but the prob-lems of today pale by comparison to those of past

decades, let alone centuries ago when the work week in every country but France was 25 hours

per day, 8 days a week, starting at age 7, when you walked every day to the coal mine, barefoot in the snow, uphill, both ways, until you died at 25. Truthfully – what a bunch of whiners. For real misery – how about the 1970’s? Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate, the first Carter, Disco, gas ration-ing, Angel Flight pants, platform shoes (for men – though it was nice to be 6’-4” tall every Saturday night)… anyone? So yes, we know we’re not living in WWII, yet something doesn’t feel quite right, some-

thing is “in the air”, and maybe “WWIII” appears to be just around the corner. Not sure what corner, and of course the average American can’t spot the United States on a globe, let alone Irani-stan…a new country not yet on the globe…but a new secret BRADY client. “Interesting times”, but this is what some Roman guy said on March 15th after eating his “Ides of March” salad, se-conds before “Et tu, Brute?” He wasn’t ordering Champagne, and the renamed salad is now all that most Americans know about Julius Caesar. The only difference between Rome in 44 B.C. and Beverly Hills today is the color of the robes worn to the spa/vomitorium. The more things change, the more they remain

HERE’S TO YOU...

M rs. Robinson, as in mom Jesse, and the other Robinson, as in Aaron, one of BRADY’s fine young engineers, are now the proud parents of Cove Wade Rob-

inson. And strangely enough, Cove shares the same date of birth as Makenna Marie Reilly, De-cember 29, 2011. Sounds like some future match-making might be in the stars. There is no doubt that the Robinson’s are also happy for the perfect tim-ing of a pre-January 1 delivery, as in the nice tax deduction, but if you know the Robinson’s they more likely had their eyes on the tide tables than the tax tables. Birth stats: 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and 21 inches...thanks to the high tide at 1:33 a.m. A bit of a minnow, but long and lean for sure, no doubt Cove will be surfing soon with his Daddy. Congrat-ulations to the American Family Robinsons!

INTENTIONAL PARENTING

R ick’s two-time Super Bowl loser nephew may be re-sponsible for some of the dumbest plays in NFL history on February 5, 2012, and we’re not talking about de-ciding to cut his own hair

once again or asking the NFL’S Yoko Ono to be his post-game spokes model. On the contrary, there is no doubt that Scott Reilly called the perfect play on December 29, 2011 in San Diego, CA. Scott, BRADY’s Vice-President of Construction Ser-vices, and his sports-fanatic wife Reena are now the proud first-time parents of Makenna Marie Reilly. No surprise -- they beat the two-day

warning -- nice audible on the tax break! Scott and Reena’s first dream is now a reality. Stats as reported to the Elias Sports Bu-reau and NFL Films: 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and just 18 inches from a first down. In addition to his many duties at BRADY, Scott is al-so a Division I college football referee, and if his other dream comes true someday, he will be making the next intentional grounding call in the NFL, hopefully before Super Bowl L…to be held in the Chargers new stadium…in Los Angeles. Congratula-tions also to Reena for the birth of your number one draft choice. Feel free to throw the flag on Scott when he pretends he is sleep-ing – it is his “doody” to change a diaper every now and then, not just at halftime!

STAYIN’ ALIVE!

ANOTHER HARD DAY AT WORK!

STAYIN’ CLASSY!

“YES, I WAS A CROOK”

I’M #2!

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