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WOODS HOLE, Mass.--MBL Distinguished Scientist Shinya Inoué has been designated as the second Honorary Scholar within the Edward Sylvester Morse Institute at the University of Washington.
This designation honors Inoué's interactions with the university's Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL) during the 1950s and beyond, and recognizes his considerable scholarly, research, and educational contributions to the imaging and understanding of cell development in marine organisms.
The award was bestowed on Inoué by M. Patricia (Trish) Morse, one of the co-founders of the E.S. Morse Institute's scholarly exchange program between Japanese marine laboratories and the Friday Harbor Laboratories. Trish Morse is a distant relative of Morse's and the first native of Woods Hole to receive a PhD in marine zoology.
Inoué's connection to FHL began when, after graduating from Princeton with a Ph.D. in Biology in 1951, he took his first professional appointment as an Instructor in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Washington. During spring break of 1952, he drove two hours north and took the Puget Sound ferry to Friday Harbor for the first time where, to his delight, he was able to collect more than four species of jellyfish right off the dock in front of the lab. Furthermore, Inoué recalls, the lab had running seawater piped through Pyrex glass tubing that was so pure and free from excess heavy metal ions that not only sea urchins, but 100 percent of the jellyfish eggs, could be fertilized.
While at Princeton, Inoué had improved upon his hand-built polarized light microscope and in 1951 he used it to prove the universal existence of the spindle fibers, the dynamic protein filaments that move chromosomes in the dividing cells. This was his first major accomplishment in a career devoted to delving into the mysteries of living cells.
"In an attempt to better understand how cells divide, Dr. Inoué made a series of epochal innovations in the development of light microscopy," said Emperor Akihito of Japan, in 2003, on the occasion of Inoué's receipt of the International Prize for Biology. "These advances rendered it possible to directly observe dynamic changes in the supramolecular structure of living cells during cell division. This contributed immensely to advancing research in such fields of cell division, cytoskeleton, and cell motility," the Emperor said. "The products of Dr. Inoué's research are widely utilized by researchers around the world and contribute immensely to the advancement of biological sciences."
Inoué began coming to the MBL as a visiting investigator in the early 1950s, and became a year-round principal investigator in 1977. He was named MBL Distinguished Scientist in 1986.
The first recipient of the Edward Sylvester Morse Honorary Scholar award was Arthur H. Whiteley, a sea urchin developmental and cell biologist at the Friday Harbor Laboratories for more than 60 years. Previously, Whiteley had been a student of E. Newton Harvey's at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1945 and worked with Inoué's mentor, Kenneth Cooper. While not classmates, Whiteley and Inoué did become friends while Inoué served as an Instructor at the University of Washington from 1951-1953. Whiteley and his wife, Helen, were both early exchange scholars in Japan and were active supporters of Japanese scholars working on developmental biology at the Friday Harbor Laboratories. Whiteley died in April of 2013 after a long life dedicated to science, education, and international collaboration.
Background on Edward Sylvester Morse
In the 1850s, Edward Sylvester Morse was a protégé of Louis Agassiz, then chair of Zoology and Geology at Harvard University. Under Agassiz's direction, Morse studied marine biology and specialized in conchology. Morse became one of the leading natural scientists of his time and helped develop the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Agassiz's ties to the MBL include his founding of "a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology" on Penikese Island, an institution which is considered to be the precursor of MBL. Morse taught with Agassiz at the Penikese Island school in 1873 and later was a visiting scientist at the MBL.
Morse's career focused on the study of brachiopods, bottom-dwelling marine animals that have two shells and are considered living fossils. In 1870, he published The Brachiopods, a Division of the Annelida, which attracted the attention of Charles Darwin. In 1876, he was named a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. Three years later, he visited Japan in search of coastal brachiopods and became the first Professor of Zoology at the Tokyo Imperial University. At the end of his term, he recommended that the Japanese government hire, as his successor, Charles O. Whitman, later to become the founding director of the MBL. Whitman was Professor of Zoology at Tokyo Imperial University from 1879-1881, during which time he was the first professor to introduce systematic methods of biological research, including the use of microscopes, to Japanese students. Whitman went on to become head professor of the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago where he used the same systematic methods of scientific research and teaching with his students.
While in Japan, Morse became very interested in Japanese ceramics, pottery, and the Japanese way of life. He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1886 to 1889, and in 1892 he became the Keeper of Pottery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a position he held until his death in 1925. His collection of daily artifacts of the Japanese people can still be seen today at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Similar to the Order of the Sacred Treasure (3rd class) that Inoué received from the Japanese government in 2010, Edward Sylvester Morse received the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd class) in 1914 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure (2nd class) in 1922.
Written by Jane MacNeil
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.


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Game 12
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Lamade Stadium
Good Guam All Mighty
Fundamentals help Guam advance to 2-0 in pool play
By Nick Williams
Flawless defense, timely hitting and great pitching is what wins you ballgames. Just ask Guam.
Flawless defense: A six inning game with no errors, which saw the slick Guam infield execute 10 ground ball outs.
Timely hitting: A pinch hit single by Gerald Borja to break the game open with one out in the bottom of the third.
Great pitching: A one-hit, complete game performance from Sean Manley.
For Guam, it's what enabled them to beat Canada 5-0 and move to 2-0 in pool play, strengthening their chances of earning a spot in the next round of the Little League Baseball World Series.
From the start, Guam was in command, particularly Manley. The righthander retired the first three Canada hitters he faced on three straight ground balls—an indicator of what was to come.
In all, Manley retired 10 hitters on groundballs, including four that he fielded himself. He finished with six strikeouts, two walks, a hit batsman and a lone single allowed in the fourth that broke up his bid for a no-hitter.
"He was throwing strikes," said Canada coach Glenn Morache about Manley's performance. "Our boys just looked tired, maybe that's what it was. But [Manley] pitched a good game. He hit his spots. He got all those ground balls. We were way ahead of him."
Manley's counterpart, Canada's Jeff Degano, also went the distance, allowing 5 runs (four earned) on eight hits and five walks,
It could have been worse, if Degano hadn't escaped a major jam in the first when Guam was caught trying to execute a double steal.
Calvert Alokoa drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on a groundout. Trae Santos then followed with a single that knocked in Aloka for the game's first run. A single by Manley put runners on first and third with one out.
With Ryan McIntosh at the plate, Manley took off for second. Catcher Matt Catonio fired to shortstop Justin Atkinson, who was covering second. Atkinson tagged Manley out and threw back to Catonio to get Santos trying to take home, escaping what could have been a potentially dangerous inning with only one run allowed.
"It's just part of our technique," Guam manager Shon Muna said about his team's aggressiveness.
In the third, Byron Quenga sliced a one out single to right and stole second. After Alokoa drew another walk, pinch hitter Borja singled to center to score Quenga. When centerfielder Conrad Gallagher overran the ball Alokoa ran threw the third base coach's stop sign to come around to score the second run of the inning, making it 3-0 Guam.
"I just wanted to show my coach I can hit the ball and play ball," said Borja of his RBI base hit.
Guam made it 4-0 in the fourth on back-to-back wild pitches from Degano.
McIntosh led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on the first wild pitch. On the very next pitch, Degano uncorked one into the dirt in front of home plate. The ball bounced past Catonio and McIntosh scampered home, sliding in just before Catonio's tag.
Guam tacked on an insurance run in the fifth on a Joseph Duenas RBI single that made the score 5-0 and sent Guam on its way to their second pool play win.
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Film legend Michael Winner is dead at 77
FRIENDS, fans and colleagues yesterday paid tribute to film director and restaurant critic Michael Winner, who died at 77.
Mr Winner, who made more than 30 films including the blockbuster Death Wish series, had been ill for some time and died at his London home.
He was better known in recent years for his acerbic Winner's Dinners restaurant column and for catchphrase "Calm down, dear!" in TV advertisements for esure.
His wife Geraldine Lynton?Edwards said: "Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous. A light has gone out in my life."
Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous. A light has gone out in my life
Friend and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, said: "True originals come rarely in a lifetime."
Comic John Cleese said: "He was the dearest, kindest, funniest and most generous of friends."
X Factor supremo Simon Cowell said: "Laughter was never far away when Michael was around."


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The president of an Iowa ready-mix concrete company has pleaded guilty in a price fixing case.
The Justice Department says Chad Van Zee pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S District Court in Sioux City, and agreed to cooperate with the department's ongoing antitrust investigation.
Van Zee was accused of participating in a conspiracy to fix prices for sales of ready-mix concrete from 2006 to 2009. The Justice Department said Van Zee's company was located in Rock Valley, but it did not identify the company.
Van Zee is the third person to plead guilty in the investigation in Iowa and surrounding states.
Steven VandeBrake, a former executive of another ready-mix concrete company, and Kent Stewart, the president of another Iowa company, pleaded guilty in May.


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I bought this for my daughter last Christmas. We have had them for almost a year and they are still in great shape. I bought her an entire puppet show set and included these puppets. These have been very durable going through many five-year olds hands as well as a couple of dogs trying to get their turn too. We have enjoyed hours and hours of puppet shows and many marriages of a prince and princess. Any little one would love them.


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Second Sight (2007)
A woman who envisioned a friend's murder as a child starts receiving visions of another killing. This time around, she teams up with her childhood friend's brother to stop the killer.
Directed By: Allan Harmon
Rated: Unrated
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Release Date: December 1, 2007
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I enjoyed this movie. As long as you can get past the idea that Jenny has telepathy and can feel the same feelings as the killer, the movie makes sense.
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Summer is the time of the year when you can finally bring out your swimwear and show everyone the body you have worked hard for. There are places where summer is just better. This is due to the higher temperature and lovely sites. If you are planning to go on a summer trip outside of the UK, here are 5 of the best countries for you to visit.
1. Thailand
Go to Asia for some of the best summer destinations. Thailand is one of the best and most visited countries. In fact, it is a perfect destination not just during the summer, but all year round. The good thing about Thailand is that it has tons of islands with lovely beaches and endless parties. The people are also used to tourists any time of the year. Not only will you be amazed by what you see, you will also get the best reception possible.
2. The Bahamas
If you have seen the adorable swimming pigs, visit this country. It is filled with great beaches and amazing hotels. You will also see exciting wildlife. Most of all, you can try the best snorkeling in the Bahamas and see marine life at its finest. This is just breathtaking.
3. Indonesia
Aside from beaches, Indonesia also boasts of places for retreat. If you want to just stay away from the loud noise in the city, visit Indonesia and find peace. You can even visit provinces that are rich with unique traditions and culture. Of course, you can always visit the tourist spots if you want to see some historic and religious sites.
4. Romania
This country is quite underrated. It is also one of the least visited countries in Europe. However, it has a lot to offer. It also borders the Black Sea. Romania is a really interesting place especially in terms of architecture and design. You would fall in love in this country the moment you see what it has to offer.
5. Puerto Rico
This American territory might be very small, but it is a perfect summer destination. You can find beaches everywhere, but you can even find Boricuas who are just the craziest people to party with. They are among the best people in the world. They just love having fun. They also love entertaining people, and making them feel at home. You might have to travel really far to reach this island, but it is a trip worth your money and effort.
Although there are a lot of great places in the UK to visit during the summer, these destinations around the world offer better choices. You have to start checking out the flights to these countries and reserve your hotels. During the summer, they are packed.
Of course, you can always come back if you have fallen in love with these countries. On the next summer, they will welcome you again with arms wide open. If not, you can always take great photos and have the best memories you can bring with you for the rest of your life.
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Thursday May 14, 2009 12:30 pm
LOST Review: The Incident, Season 5 Finale
Posted by David Torres Categories: Prime Time, ABC, Lost,
Well, the season finale of Lost is finally here and now the wait begins for the final season next year. So what happened? A lot! But before we get to that, I would like to rate this season finale up against previous Lost season finales. I wouldn't say it was the best out of all the season finales we've seen from this show. I think "Through the Looking Glass," which was the season finale of season three, is hands down the best the show has ever done. Still this episode was very good and gave viewers a major revelation that we've been wondering about for some time. By the end of this episode, the question all of us will be asking is where do we go from here? How will the story continue? How much has changed? Let the speculation begin, but first a more detailed review of season five's two-part finale "The Incident."
One of the many questions that everyone has been asking themselves about Lost is who is Jacob? All we know is that Jacob is the true leader of the Others and everything that has to do with the Island. Why is it that no one can see Jacob? Why was Christian and Claire in Jacob's cabin? What is the true meaning or purpose of the Island? Well, we don't find out the answers to any of these questions in this episode, but we do finally meet Jacob. We first meet him at the beginning of the episode as we see him in a cave weaving some tapestry. Jacob leaves the cave, catches a fish, and sits down to eat his meal. He looks out to the ocean and sees an old sailing ship. My guess is that this is the ship the Black Rock whose wreckage the Losties discovered in Season 1. So if that's the case, then this scene is taking place in the past. According to Lostpedia, the Black Rock sailed in 1845 so I guess that's the year this takes place in.
Another man approaches Jacob and sees the ship – he's not happy. He wonders how the ship found the Island and if Jacob brought the ship here. A disagreement occurs between Jacob and the unknown man about people and what happens to them when they come to the island. The man then discusses his desire to kill Jacob and that he will somehow find a "loophole" to do it. This scene takes place at the foot of the four-toed statue which is still intact at this moment in time and has yet to be destroyed; again it appears to be some Egyptian God. This scene is very important not only to this episode, but also in my opinion, probably to the series as a whole. More on that later.
The people on Oceanic Flight 815 are important for some reason and they were all destined to come to the island. I think we've always assumed that, but I think this episode solidifies that because through out the episode at various times in all of the major players lives, Jacob has been there. We flashback to when Jack was operating on his future wife Sarah and Jacob was there. At the funeral for his parents, a young Sawyer meets Jacob. As a little girl, Kate steals a lunch box, but is rescued by Jacob. So on and so on Jacob shows up in just about everyone's life. Why? Why are they all important? I guess we'll find out next season.
In the finale, we still have Jack trying to complete Faraday's mission to take the Jughead H-bomb to the Swan in order to prevent the incident which sets up the chain of events which bring all of them to the island in the 2004 with the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Sayid is able to remove the core and they carry it back to the Dharma camp. Jack and Sayid try to go by unnoticed, but are met by Roger, Ben Linus' father. He in turn shoots Sayid in the gut for trying to kill Ben. Hurley, Jin, and Miles arrive and help Jack and Sayid escape - the head to the Swan.
As they drive to the Swan, Sayid is bleeding to death. Jack tells Hurley to hurry, but the road is blocked by Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet who have escaped the sub in order to stop Jack from blowing up the the bomb. Why is Jack doing all of this? We assumed it's because he's still trying to be the leader and save his people, but he tells Sawyer that it's because he knows that he has lost Kate. I guess maybe that's some of the pain Jack was talking about with Kate in last week's episode. He loves her, but feels that their relationship is lost and can never be recovered. So to erase the pain, he will erase the time he has spent on the island.
Eventually everyone is willing to help Jack and as the drill is drilling into the future Swan station, Jack throws the bomb down the hole. Sayid mentioned earlier that it will detonate on impact. Unfortunately it doesn' t and the incident that Daniel warned about happens. This was an intense moment as I was sure that was it. The bomb will explode and we would be given a preview of the new timeline before the show ended. It doesn't explode and the electromagnetism is unleashed causing all the metal around them to be sucked down.
Juliet gets caught up by a metal chain and gets sucked in. Sawyer holds onto her, but fails to save her. A HEARTBREAKING moment here in Lost. I love the character of Juliet and have had tremendous sympathy for her because of not being able to find lasting love with either Jack or Sawyer thanks to Kate. But is this the end of Juliet? No. the final scene has her still alive at the bottom of the hole next to the bomb. Is this unbelievable? Yes. She should not have been able to survive a fall like that - especially at the speed she was going while getting sucked in. I love this show and I'm giving them a little leeway here as the final scene with a injured Juliet taking a rock and banging on the bomb cartridge until it blows up was powerful and moving. I'll come back to this final scene in a bit because the other big storyline in this episode dealt with Jacob.
John Locke, Ben, Sun, and the Others are marching to the four-toed statue where Jacob lives. Locke enters the statue with Ben whom he wants to kill Jacob. While they are in the statue, the Others meet up with Ilana and her crew who are carrying a piece of cargo. Inside the cargo bin is…JOHN LOCKE'S DEAD BODY!!!!!! What the $%&@?!?!?!?! So who is the John Locke we've been seeing for the past season? It seems that the other man who wanted to kill Jacob back in 1845 has found his loophole. Somehow that "man" (Are he and Jacob men or are they something else?) has taken over John's body and is inhabiting it. The faux John succeeds and has Ben kill Jacob and the faux John kicks Jacob into the fire. For some reason the relationship between Jacob and the faux John reminded me of God and the Devil. I know the creators of the show have said that this is not the after life and that the Losties are not all dead, but what if God and the Devil are on Earth and the Island is the center of the universe?
We know that the Devil has always wanted to defeat God. The betrayal of Jacob by his "disciple" Ben is almost Christlike paralleling Judas betraying Jesus. And the faux John kicking Jacob into the fire is reminiscent of God condemning the Devil to burn for eternity and the faux John/ The Devil is returning the favor here. I would be okay if all of this has to do with the souls of men and God vs the Devil. It makes sense after viewing this episode. At the beginning, Jacob has faith in man and the pre-faux John doesn't. Doesn't God always love and forgive man no matter what their sin? Also, another reason Jacob maybe God is that Richard says that the reason he is ageless is because of Jacob. Is Richard a servant of God?
Back to the end of this episode. We've always seen at the end of each Lost episode, the final scene and then a quick blackout with the word Lost flashed on screen. This time as Juliet detonates the bomb, instead of the fade to black we get a flash to white and the word Lost. Now that could be just because it was an explosion and the writers decided to change it because of that, but what if the white symbolizes the change that has occurred in the show. What if Jack is successful and everything has been wiped clean since the crash? What if the whiteness symbolizes that? What if the white symbolizes God aka Jacob and about how this show has been revealed to be about religion and the struggle of God vs the Devil; good vs evil?
Season Five was fantastic! So many questions answered and yet so many more questions have risen. What's with Hurley and the guitar? When he meets up with Jacob, Hurley is left this guitar. What is it's significance to everything? Does it have to do with Charlie whose ring we saw Sun discover when she and the Others returned to the Lost camp. The countdown to the final season of Lost is underway and all of our questions will be answered. The best show ever!
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Though the AOL concept is not new, AOL Phoneline has the potential of overtaking existing players as it plans to provide the telephone number for free.
Skype charges about $4 a month for a phone number. Yahoo Messenger 7.5 also provides a personal phone number (with any city area code) for receiving incoming calls to their PC from regular phone lines and mobile phones but at a price.
Other services charge about $30 to $40 a year for a telephone number to receive incoming calls, and about 2 cents a minute to place phone calls from a computer to an ordinary telephone line.
AOL plans to make money both from displaying advertisements to users and from the outbound calling charges and additional services, like ring tones and call forwarding.
Related: Using Jajah to make Phone Calls
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U.S. pension-plan managers are pouring cash into debt from the smallest speculative-grade borrowers, seeking to meet targeted 8 percent returns at a time when average yields are at about record lows.
California's San Bernardino County Employees' Retirement Association, which oversees $6.1 billion, is poised to recommend investing in a fund from Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC that exclusively focuses on lending to smaller companies. The New York State Common Retirement Fund, with about $150.3 billion of assets, committed money to funds from Brightwood Capital Advisors LLC and Monroe Capital Partners LP this year.
Fund managers that oversee retirees' health and pension benefits are seeking the debt of smaller junk-rated borrowers, pushed toward riskier investments as the Federal Reserve pledges to hold interest rates near zero through 2014. Borrowers with $500 million or less in annual revenue are paying disproportionately higher yields as U.S. banks reduce commercial and industrial lending by 12 percent from the 2008 peak.
"We like this space," Donald Pierce, chief investment officer of the San Bernardino County pension plan, said in a telephone interview. "This segment of the marketplace is having a tough time accessing capital," he said.
Middle-market loans have average yields of 7.8 percent compared with 6.6 percent on large corporate obligations, according to Standard & Poor's Capital IQ Leveraged Commentary & Data. S&P LCD defines middle market as issuers with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $50 million or less.
Loans to smaller companies had a 12-month trailing default rate of 1.25 percent in May, compared with 1.05 percent for bigger companies, according to S&P LCD.
Pension plans are poised to play a bigger role in financing the smallest companies after banks reduced commercial and industrial loans and leases to $1.4 trillion as of May 30, from $1.6 trillion on Oct. 22, 2008, according to Fed data.
"The strategy is definitely getting traction," said Frank Barbarino, a consultant with NEPC LLC, an investment adviser. "It's that magic 7 to 8 percent number that institutions are shooting for at the plan level. Many are willing to lock up their capital for a few years in order to add strategies that help them get there."
Elsewhere in credit markets, the cost of protecting corporate bonds from default in the U.S. rose, with the Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index, which investors use to hedge against losses or to speculate on creditworthiness, climbing by 0.9 basis point to a mid-price of 124.3 basis points as of 11:24 a.m. in New York yesterday, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg.
The index typically rises as investor confidence deteriorates and falls as it deteriorates. Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
The U.S. two-year interest-rate swap spread, a measure of bond market stress, declined 0.03 basis point to 30.18 basis points as of 11:24 a.m. yesterday in New York. The gauge narrows when investors favor assets such as corporate bonds and widens when they seek the perceived safety of government securities.
Bonds of Brazil's Embraer SA are the most actively traded dollar-denominated corporate securities by dealers today, with 60 trades of $1 million or more as of 11:26 a.m. in New York, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The world's fourth-biggest plane-maker sold $500 million of 5.15 percent, 10-year bonds yesterday.
San Bernardino's pension plan, attracted by bigger yields and more favorable covenants, is setting its sights on the smallest borrowers as it faces an actuarial rate of 7.75 percent, Pierce said. Pensions for public employees typically trail the 8 percent average yearly gains that officials set as their benchmark to cover rising costs.
The New York State Common Retirement Fund allotted money for the first time this year to funds from Chicago-based Monroe and New York-based Brightwood Capital, which is led by Damien Dwin and Sengal Selassie. Both firms focus on investing in smaller companies.
Pennsylvania's Public School Employees' Retirement Board, which oversaw $50.8 billion as of March 31, 2011, agreed in March to invest as much as $200 million in Cerberus Institutional Partners V LP.
The fund will buy "distressed assets on a global basis" and invest in "private-equity turnarounds focused on the middle market," according to a Feb. 16 letter to the pension plan's trustees from Portfolio Advisors LLC, recommending the investment.
"All these pension funds have a huge issue right now: they need to hit a 7 to 8 percent annual return in order to hit their actuarial needs," said Theodore Koenig, Monroe Capital's chief executive officer. "The market isn't giving them that."
Demand for the debt comes as smaller companies seek a place to borrow. Issuance of loans to the smallest companies has declined to $3.77 billion for the first five months of the year, compared with $7.59 billion during the comparable period in 2011, the S&P LCD data show. In the first five months of 2007, the borrowers sold $15.3 billion of loans.
"In the large-cap market, the maturity wall has been pushed out with the ability to issue high-yield debt in 2011 and 2012," Monroe Capital's Koenig said. "In the middle market, that has not been the case."
About $130 billion of loans that are less than $100 million each are coming due in the next five years, according to Newstar Financial Inc.
"The banks have pulled away in fairly significant ways over the past several years although they're returning to the market in some capacity," Barbarino said. "Middle-market loan volumes are down, and banks are focused on larger companies."
Corporate bonds and loans set to mature through 2014 tumbled 66 percent to $413 billion as of last September from $1.2 trillion at the end of 2008, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. research.
U.S. leveraged loan issuance has totaled $257.7 billion this year and $603.6 billion in 2011, Bloomberg data show. U.S. junk bond sales have totaled $138.5 billion this year.
Issuance of collateralized loan obligations may reach $30 billion this year, JPMorgan said in April. That's down from $91.1 billion at the peak of the market in 2007, according to Bloomberg and Morgan Stanley data. CLOs buy high-yield, high-risk loans, including those from smaller companies and slices them into securities of varying risk and return.
"We have seen a couple of new entrants in the market, but as you know, the middle-market lender universe has been thinned dramatically over the past few years," said Timothy Conway, Newstar's chief executive officer, in a May 2 earnings call.
Pension plans are facing "lackluster" returns in 2011 that weren't sufficient to offset rising liabilities, causing funding gaps that are poised to widen, according to a Feb. 14 Fitch Ratings report.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension, has seen its market value decline 4.8 percent this year after stocks fell amid the brewing fiscal crisis in Europe and slowing of the U.S. economic recovery.
Investment-grade bonds yield 3.49 percent, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data, while U.S. Treasury 10-year notes are at 1.66 percent. Including reinvested dividends, the S&P 500 has returned 6.3 percent this year after gaining 2.1 percent in 2011.
"Pension plans are really looking to expand the list of approved investments," said Mark Oline, Fitch Ratings' global head of corporate ratings in Chicago. "Secured loans were not very common in the asset list but are gaining favor in portfolios."
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The Hastings boys cross country team placed second at a 10-team meet held in St. Bonifacius last Tuesday.
Delano won the meet with 35 points. Hastings had 86.
Individually, Zack Benning was the overall winner. He finished the 5k course in 15 minutes and 39.2 seconds.
Will Caturia was 12th overall in 17:54.3. Will Briercliffee was 21st in 18:32.2. Nate Holm took 23rd in 18:37.7. Mike Tappella was 34th in 18:54.8. Nick Johnson finished 37th in 18:58.3 and Brendan McCabe was 50th in 19:33.2.
For the junior varsity, Colby Smith took second in 18:51. Isaiah Gardell placed sixth in 19:07.1. Kyle Gudmunson placed 11th in 19:26.0. Brandon Haraldson finished 14th in 19:31.6. Finley Meyers was 16th in 19:35.1.
Also running were: Bobby Verchota, Joshua Brown, Seth Greengo, David Syverson, Austin Reuter, Jake Spitzack, Ethan Kimmes, Christian Flanders, Victor Lindgren, Dan Eggert, Tate Gahnz, Nick Sampson, Forrest Close, and Blake Woolard.
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Michaela Mills was the top Hastings finisher, taking ninth in 17:17.9 on the 4k course.
Quinn Meyers was 15th in 17:45.6.
Ciara Carlson took 18th in 17:49.1.
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Rustic Lumber Company an award winning wholesale lumber supplier in Utah is in promo with their cedar t&g for only $0.36/lf
January 8, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Rustic Lumber Co, a leading and award-winning supplier of wood in Kaysville, Utah, has just announced that their top-selling product, Cedar T&G, is now offered at a discounted rate. As sources have reported, the supplier's Cedar Tongue and Groove is currently being sold at $0.36 per linear foot. According to Landon Edgington, an official representative of the company, this promotion is applicable to all outlets of this supplier of wood. This latest development is by far good news to all professional home builders and DIY woodworking enthusiasts. With this promotion, home builders now have a chance to build high-grade and classic-looking woodworking projects without having to spend a fortune.
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Nov 23, 2012
Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen says, nobody ever talked about the most important historical event ever to happen there: in 1862, it was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged after a war with white settlers. John went back to Minnesota to figure out what really happened 150 years ago, and why Minnesotans didn't talk about it much after.
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- Ira talks to John Biewen about how remarkable it is that he could grow up in a town and never learn about the most significant event in its history. This show about Native Americans and settlers was first broadcast on Thanksgiving weekend, on the 150th anniversary of the war. (4 minutes)
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Abbas Stole the Comeback Show
WASHINGTON - It was supposed to be Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's big comeback. A shot with U.S. President George W. Bush in the Rose Garden, an image that would lead all Israeli television viewers to realize that Olmert has come out of the crisis and that his leadership has been accepted anew by the president of the most important world power.
But this week will be remembered not for Olmert's comeback, but for that of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - the same Abu Mazen whose weakness was a source of laughs for Israeli officials, the same Abu Mazen who lost almost half the Palestinian Authority just last week, the same Abu Mazen who recently called off his meeting with Olmert in anger. That same Abu Mazen has suddenly become the object of Israeli and American hopes.
Since landing in the United States, Olmert's delegation has depicted Abbas as the last bulwark keeping out the flood of Islamic fundamentalism and preventing Hamas from getting a foothold in the West Bank. The Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip caught Israel unprepared, although it shouldn't have surprised anyone.
Israel's initial reaction was confused, and dealt with the deployment of an international force in Rafah, as though any country wants to send its troops to clash with a well-organized and well-armed terrorist movement. Only a few days later did Olmert provide a different response: The Hamas victory in Gaza is an achievement for Israel, because it creates the opportunity to hold talks with the friendly Fatah government in the West Bank, and breaks the political freeze that resulted from the embargo of the Hamas government.
Washington was no less surprised by the Hamas takeover. In America too, administration officials attempted to turn the fall of another Middle East outpost to the hands of an Islamic organization with close ties to Iran into a diplomatic victory.
Once again, the buzzwords are "breakthrough" and "great opportunity," not to mention "political horizon" regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state - even if one of its arms has been cut off.
The problem is that the basic conditions have not changed. Abbas does not control contiguous territory, since the Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank are under Israeli military control. Renewed funding from the United States and Europe doesn't guarantee Abbas public support from the Palestinian people.
It's tough to envision Abbas suddenly bringing order to the territories. It's also tough to envision Israel showing a generosity that goes beyond declarations or marginal steps like unfreezing Palestinian funds. And the Hamas takeover of Gaza has diminished the possibility that Israel will withdraw from additional territory.
Under these conditions, Abbas' comeback is likely to be short-lived, just as it was in the past. Aas the events in Gaza demonstrated, Abbas, Olmert and Bush are not alone on the playing field. They face devious and determined rivals - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Hamas leaders Khaled Meshal and Ismail Haniyeh - who have doubtless read the reports from Washington on the "new American strategy," and are doubtless figuring out how to ruin it, as they did its predecessor.
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Internet casinos are outlaw operations in the eyes of the federal government, but they look like solid investments to many of Wall Street's...
Internet casinos are outlaw operations in the eyes of the federal government, but they look like solid investments to many of Wall Street's largest firms.
Blue-chip investment houses such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity hold hundreds of millions of dollars in shares of online casinos and betting parlors, which are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered outside the United States in places such as Costa Rica or Gibraltar, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
The growing participation by U.S. investors highlights a striking gap between the federal law-enforcement position on online gambling and the realities behind what has emerged as a booming business.
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It also illustrates the difficulty of policing cross-border activity in the Internet age at the same time electronic commerce and a global economy are creating fast economic partners across national boundaries.
Legal experts are divided over whether U.S. investors and the investment houses that operate mutual funds could be seen as criminally liable for their actions by providing financial backing for these offshore casinos.
It is not uncommon for Americans to invest in overseas companies whose operations may be considered illegal or unacceptable in the United States, from manufacturers who use sweatshops to European energy producers that do business in Iran. The difference with Internet gambling is that the activity takes place on domestic shores — with Americans placing bets online using their computers — and the Justice Department has stated clearly that the operators are violating U.S. law.
Jaclyn Lesch, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the agency considered online gambling illegal, but she declined to "comment on the liability or hypothetical liability of a company or an individual."
Internet gambling analysts and company executives said the investments illustrate how widely the federal policy is, in essence, being ignored.
Millions of Americans use the Internet to play poker, blackjack and roulette, or wager on sporting events. Online casinos advertise in magazines and on television and fill billboards in Times Square and other places where crowds congregate. Celebrities such as Jesse Ventura, the former governor of Minnesota, hawk for them.
"It's very bad"
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., an opponent of gambling, said the federal government had essentially given up enforcing laws against offshore casinos. He noted that casino operators travel freely within the United States, gathering at trade conventions even though, he said, prosecutors would be within their rights to arrest and bring charges against them.
He said the involvement of investment firms could be part of a pattern of flouting laws.
"It's very bad, and the Congress ought to investigate it," Goodlatte said, adding that it may turn out that the investment houses are knowingly supporting and promoting illegal enterprises.
The investment houses have taken the position that they know there are legal risks involved in investing in offshore casinos but that the risks are outweighed by the benefits of owning shares in growing, highly profitable businesses. Those shares can give a lift to mutual funds and other investments sold by the investment houses, meaning bigger returns for clients.
"Our analysis shows the gain from these stocks outweighs the very small risk" of owning them, a spokesman for one major investment house said. The spokesman would not agree to be identified by name or to have his firm identified, citing regulatory policy that could restrict the company's ability to buy and sell individual securities if he commented on them.
The ownership rolls of offshore casinos read like a Who's Who of the nation's top investment firms. For example, public filings show that tens of millions of shares of SportingBet, a company on the London Stock Exchange that allows people to place bets on sporting events, are owned by Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
Fidelity Management holds shares worth about $363 million, or 14.1 percent of the outstanding shares. Those shares are largely held in mutual funds. Merrill Lynch Asset Management has $164 million in holdings, and Goldman Sachs Group has $137 million.
Similarly, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Securities hold big positions in BetOnSports, another publicly traded firm in London that facilitates sports betting, according to public filings. Morgan Stanley has one of the biggest stakes — worth about $25.6 million — but the company said the position is held on behalf of one large investor, whose identity it withheld.
Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity all declined to comment.
George Hudson, a spokesman for SportingBet, said there had been growing interest from the investment houses, not just their European arms.
"It's not just London, it's New York," Hudson said, noting that the interest represents a change from two years ago, when "the big banks wouldn't touch the industry with a barge pole."
According to Hudson and several other industry executives and analysts, a watershed event took place June 30, when PartyGaming began trading on the London Stock Exchange. It was not the first Internet casino to go public in Britain, but it drew attention because of its popularity. The ensuing demand for its shares put it among the exchange's top 100 companies in its market capitalization, currently about $9.6 billion.
At the time, I. Nelson Rose, a professor at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, Calif., who has written extensively on gambling law, was flown to London to advise a number of large investment houses — both American and European — on the risks involved in owning shares. Rose declined to specify the companies for which he consulted but said he had told them there was at least some risk.
Today, Rose said he believed there was only a 10 percent chance that the U.S. government would take action against the investment houses under the Wire Act, which covers online gambling, or under federal laws that permit the government to charge the partners of illegal operations with aiding and abetting their activities. But he said that if prosecutors did so, they could make a decent case.
The companies are shareowners "in an illegal enterprise," Rose said. "Therefore they are liable." Potential penalties could range from small fines to prison terms.
But Lawrence G. Walters, a Florida lawyer who specializes in investment law and who has consulted for some prospective U.S. investors, said the government would have difficulty pressing a case, given that the investors do not control the offshore casinos or direct their activities. They are "passive investors," Walters said.
"Nobody takes them seriously when they say this is a serious crime," he said of the government and anti-gambling laws. "But there is stuff still on the books, and somebody could go down heavily if government decides to turn its attention to them."
Profit is just too good
The bottom line, according to casino-industry executives and some financial analysts, is that the opportunity for profit may be too good for the investment houses to pass up. Overall, Internet gambling is projected to reach almost $12 billion in business this year, up from $8.3 billion in 2004, said Sebastian Sinclair, a gambling-industry analyst with Christiansen Capital Advisors.
Companies are enjoying strong growth and big profit margins. Morgan Stanley on Dec. 1 published an analysis of SportingBet that noted the company had acquired 700,000 new customers in a recent quarter, almost equal to the number it signed up all of last year. The Morgan Stanley report said the company was taking in $530,000 a day just from poker.
"There is no other leisure business in the world with the same potential for growth and shareholder returns as online gaming," said David Carruthers, the chief executive of BetOnSports, noting that the major casinos project 20 percent annual sales growth. "We're in our embryonic stages."
Carruthers said the investments from U.S. financial institutions have provided the stability and legitimacy needed to help the casinos grow. "It says we're running a business legitimately and responsibly, and we're seen as a worldwide leisure product — similar to KFC, Ford, Coca-Cola, IBM or any other global brand," he said.


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Friday the 13th was not a bad night after all on risk markets, with a surprisingly good German 4Q GDP lifting all boats amid continued optimism of a Greek debt resolution soon.
The 1.6% yearly growth in German economy sent the DAX to a new record high, above 11000 points for the first time:
This has been a huge recovery since the October 2014 low and up 10% since the mid January breakout. Where does it stop? The FTSE too built on its gains, up 0.7% as momentum maintains a positive setting:
Peripheral European markets did even better, with the Eurostoxx index up nearly 0.9%, which fed into a continued optimism in US stocks, the S&P500 up 0.4% to just below 2100 points in the cash market. It has hit a new daily high and broken out above resistance with a positive outcome in Greece surely to lift it higher:
SPI futures are pointing to solid gains this morning on the ASX200, up around 30 points or so with oil stocks to benefit from crude's continued volatility and the banks lifting everything up on yield/capital flow.
In the FX world the US Dollar Index (DXY) finished flat with no change, the Euro finishing the week just below the 1.14 handle and remaining in a sideways pattern:
Pound has broken free of the 1.54 handle after inflation in the mother country falls to 0.5% and the BOE holds fire on future rate hikes (like every other major CB out there):
The Australian dollar remains under pressure, trying to break out above 78 cents and its downtrend from the late January failed breakout:
Yen has fallen back to the 118 handle on the USDJPY pair after trying to break free of the 120 resistance level – the deceleration here is complete as it remains just above local resistance for now:
In commodities, a small rally in iron ore and copper is dwarfed by the now usual 2-5% daily moves in oil, with WTI up nearly 3% but again I'm not excited until a break above $54USD per barrel:
The data today will focus mainly on the Japanese 4Q GDP print this morning with nothing else on the radar, apart from Aussie new motor vehicles and the US having a long weekend.


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Since tying the knot with Sinclair, like hasn?t been all marital bliss for Betsy. Sinclair has been perusing The Book fo the Dead, Betsy?s being hounded by a ghost who?s even more insufferable in death than in life, and a pack of ancient vampires has decided to pay an unwelcome visit.
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Qin Dynasty Grave Pit Unearthed in China's Xi'an
An ancient mass burial pit has been found by Chinese archaeologists close to the world-renowned Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xi'an, capital of Northwest Shaanxi Province.
An ancient mass burial pit has been found by Chinese archaeologists close to the world-renowned Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xi'an, capital of Northwest
"It is the first time that a pit containing such a large number of corpses buried together has been found. The initial research shows that those buried in the pit were potters from the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC), the first feudal dynasty in Chinese history," said Wen Xinhua, an official with the local archaeology administration.
The grave pit is located some 300 metres northeast of the main gate of the Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum, and contains a large number of skeletons, said Wen.
"The dead were buried layer upon layer carelessly which makes us think they were thrown into the pit and buried without particular respect. So far, some thirty skeletons have been unearthed, we expect more to be discovered later," Wen added.
Not far from the grave pit, to the east, two pottery kilns dating from the Qin Dynasty have also been discovered. They have proved to be the best preserved Qin pottery kilns found to date, said Wen.
By piecing together historical records and other evidence, experts have concluded that a large number of buildings surrounded the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang (256-210 BC) the first Qin emperor, and therefore there would have been many kilns for producing bricks and tiles. Over the passage of time, however, the kilns were mostly destroyed, so these two newly-discovered ones are of great significance in providing clues for greater understanding of the pottery skills of the period.
"Those buried in the mass burial pit are believed to be the potters who worked in these kilns making pottery bricks and tiles for the construction of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and were killed after the project was completed," explained Wen.
Fetters and chains were found on some of the skeletons which suggests that many of the potters were criminals put to work, said Wen.
The official went on: "Because the digging work is still ongoing, archaeologists do not, as yet, have all the details about the kilns, although it's believed they were not the kilns used for making the terra-cotta army."
The Qin terracotta warriors and horses, named the eighth wonder of the world, were discovered in 1974. The museum built to cover and house the treasures opened to the public in 1979.
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