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The Jumbo Shrimp started a 10-game homestand Thursday night with their sixth consecutive home loss.
The Jumbo Shrimp, who lost all five games to Biloxi in their last homestand, had a 4-0 lead going into the fifth inning when the Mississippi Braves exploded for five runs en route to a 6-4 victory before 6,701 fans at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.
The five-run rally started with a throwing error by third baseman Brian Anderson – his second in the last two games — and was capped by Carlos Franco's grand slam. Four of the five runs in the inning were unearned because of Anderson's error.
Anderson is also struggling at the plate, as he went 0 for 4 as his average dropped to .215.
The Jumbo Shrimp are in last place in the Southern Division South Division with a 15-26 record.
Jumbo Shrimp starter Joe Gunkel blanked the Braves for the first four innings but was knocked out during the Braves' five-run fifth inning.
The rally started when Connor Lien reached first with one out on Anderson's throwing error.
After starting pitcher Mike Soroka put down a sacrifice to send Lien to second, Lien scored on Luis Valenzuela's double. Gunkel then walked the next two batters to load the bases. James Buckelew came in to face Franco, the cleanup hitter, with two out.
Buckelew threw nine pitches to Franco – two strikes, three balls and three pitches that Franco fouled off.
Franco then hit the ninth pitch for a 420-foot grand slam to right that put the Braves ahead 5-4. It was Franco's 11th homer and gave him 38 RBI for the season. It was the Braves' first grand slam of the year.
The Braves added an insurance run in the ninth inning on a solo homer by Dylan Moore off reliever Tyler Higgins.
Soroka blanked the Jumbo Shrimp in the fifth inning and got the win despite allowing four runs and six hits.
Two relievers, Jason Hursh and Bradley Roney, then each pitched two scoreless innings of relief to nail down the victory, and Roney got the save.
The Jumbo Shrimp built a 4-0 lead in the first four innings against Soroka.
In the first inning, Alex Yarbrough reached on an error, moved to third on David Vidal's single and scored on Anderson's grounder. The Jumbo Shrimp loaded the bases on a single by John Norwood and a walk, but Cal Towey lined out to third to end the inning.
In the third inning, Anderson walked and Norwood singled and they both scored on Alex Glenn's triple. Glenn tried to score on Austin Nola's grounder to short but was thrown out at home play.
Vidal then hit a solo homer in the fourth inning to make it 4-0.
The Jumbo Shrimp announced that two players, relievers Greg Nappo and Kyle Lobstein, were sent up to Triple A New Orleans.
To replace them, the Jumbo Shrimp called up pitchers Andy Beltre and Daniel Schlereth, the son of former NFL standout offensive lineman and TV analyst Mark Schlereth, from High A Jupiter. The Jumbo Shrimp also reinstated Tayron Guerrero from the disabled list and sent him to Jupiter.
In the second game of the five-game series Friday night, the Jumbo Shrimp will send Jeff Locke (0-0) in a major-league rehab start against Kolby Allard.


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Issues 2007
For a volatile and mixed first trading week of the year, the Dow dipped 0.5% and the S&P500 declined 0.6%. The Transports added 0.6%, while the Utilities fell 1.8%. The Morgan Stanley Cyclical index declined 1.0%, and the Morgan Stanley Consumer index dipped 0.1%. The small cap Russell 2000 dropped 1.5%, and the S&P400 Mid-cap index declined 0.5%. Technology stocks gained some relative appeal. The NASDAQ100 rose 1.5% and the Morgan Stanley High Tech index 1.0%. The Street.com Internet index jumped 1.9% and the NASDAQ Telecommunications index 3.1%. The Semiconductors gained 0.3%. The Biotechs added 0.5%. Financial stocks were mixed, with the Broker/Dealers up 0.4% and the Banks down 0.7%. With bullion sinking $29.30, the HUI gold index fell 7.1%.
Two-year government yields declined 6 bps to 4.76%. Five-year yields declined 4.5 bps to 4.65%, and 10-year Treasury yields fell 5 bps to 4.65%. Long-bond yields dropped 6.5 bps to 4.75%. The 2yr/10yr spread ended the week inverted 11 bps. The implied yield on 3-month December '07 Eurodollars fell 8 bps to 4.87%. Benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields sank 10 bps to 5.69%, this week nicely outperforming Treasuries. The spread on Fannie's 5 1/4% 2016 note narrowed one to 27, and the spread on Freddie's 5 1/2% 2016 note narrowed one to 25. The 10-year dollar swap spread declined 2 to 47.80. Corporate bonds performed well, with junk spreads narrowing as much as 15 bps.
January 4 - The Wall Street Journal (Serena Ng): "Junk has never been so fashionable. The ranks of companies whose debt is rated below investment grade, known as junk, are swelling, a sign of increased borrowing and a growing appetite for risk by investors seeking high returns. Back in 1980, the debt of slightly less than a third of U.S. industrial corporations tracked by Standard & Poor's was rated junk. By the late 1980s, more than half were, and now 71% of the pie fits into that category...'Junk bonds used to be a bad word on Wall Street,' says Joe Bencivenga, who used to be a bond analyst at Wall Street's junk-bond house Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s.'They have since gained a lot more respectability...' The rising tide of junk points to glacial changes in the nation's financial markets, and to more explosive short-term trends."
Investment grade issuers included Morgan Stanley $4.5 billion, Goldman Sachs $2.25 billion, Donnelley & Sons $1.25 billion, and MBIA $100 million.
International issuers included North Rock Building Society $2.0 billion.
Japanese 10-year "JGB" yields increased 3 bps this week to 1.71%. The Nikkei 225 began the New Year by declining 0.8%. German 10-year bund yields rose 4 bps to 3.98%. Emerging markets started 2007 trading mixed. Brazil's benchmark dollar bond yields dipped 1.5 bps this week to 5.99%. Brazil's Bovespa equities index sank 5.0% (one-yr gain 20.9%). The Mexican Bolsa declined 1.2% (one-yr gain 40.5%). Mexico's 10-year $ yields were little changed at 5.58%. Russia's 10-year Eurodollar yields dipped one basis point to 6.62%. India's Sensex equities index was little changed (one-yr gain 44%). China's Shanghai Composite index declined 1.3% (one-yr gain of 121%).
Freddie Mac posted 30-year fixed mortgage rates were unchanged last week at 6.18%, down 3 bps from a year earlier. Fifteen-year fixed mortgage rates added one basis point to 5.94% (up 18bps y-o-y). And one-year adjustable rates dropped 5 bps to 5.42% (up 26bps y-o-y), the lowest rate since the week of March 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association Purchase Applications Index increased 4.3% this week. Purchase Applications were down 3% from one year ago, while dollar volume was up 0.5%. Refi applications rose 2.2%. The average new Purchase mortgage declined to $219,300 (up 3.5% y-o-y), and the average ARM dropped to $364,000 (up 13.4% y-o-y).
Bank Credit gained $7.0 billion during the week (of 12/27) to $8.297 TN. For the year, Bank Credit expanded $809 billion, or 10.8% annualized. During the week, Securities Credit declined $5.3 billion. Loans & Leases increased $12.3 billion to a record $6.076 TN, with a 2006 gain of $621 billion (11.4%). Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Loans expanded 12.6% during the year. For the week, C&I loans fell $10.8 billion, and Real Estate loans dipped $1.4 billion. Bank Real Estate loans expanded 14.1% during 2006. For the week, Consumer loans were about unchanged, while Securities loans jumped $17.9 billion. Other loans increased $6.5 billion. On the liability side, (previous M3) Large Time Deposits dropped $15 billion.
M2 (narrow) "money" surged $30.8 billion to a record $7.042 TN (week of 12/25). Narrow "money" expanded $356 billion, or 5.3%, over the past year. M2 has expanded at a 7.8% pace during the past 20 weeks. For the week, Currency increased $0.6 billion, and Demand & Checkable Deposits jumped $27.2 billion. Savings Deposits declined $3.0 billion, while Small Denominated Deposits increased $1.3 billion. Retail Money Fund assets rose $4.3 billion.
Total Money Market Fund Assets, as reported by the Investment Company Institute, rose $9.9 billion last week to $2.392 Trillion. Money Fund Assets increased $331 billion over 52 weeks, or 16.1%. Money Fund Assets have expanded at a 24.6% rate over the past 20 weeks.
Total Commercial Paper jumped $17.6 billion last week to a record $1.992 Trillion. Total CP has increased $344 billion, or 20.9%, over the past 52 weeks. Total CP has expanded at a 27% rate over the past 20 weeks.
Fed Foreign Holdings of Treasury, Agency Debt increased $10.9 billion last week (ended 1/2) to a record $1.763 Trillion. "Custody" holdings were up $239 billion y-o-y, or 15.7%. Federal Reserve Credit expanded $7.3 billion to $859 billion. Fed Credit was up $26.7 billion y-o-y, or 3.2% annualized.
International reserve assets (excluding gold) - as accumulated by Bloomberg's Alex Tanzi - were up $760 billion y-o-y (18.8%) to $4.806 Trillion.
Currency Watch:
The dollar this week gained 1.2% to 84.40. On the upside, the Indonesian rupiah increased 0.5%, the Canadian dollar 0.4%, the Japanese yen 0.4%, and the Malaysian ringgit 0.3%. On the downside, the South Korean won declined 2.4%, the New Zealand dollar 1.8%, the Turkish lira 1.7%, and the Hungarian forint 1.0%.
Commodities Watch:
January 2 - Financial Times (Kevin Morrison): "China is scouring the world to secure supplies of key raw materials to feed its fast-growing economy and - apart from oil - the greatest need is for iron ore for steelmaking. China imports more iron ore in weight terms than any other commodity to feed the demand for steel to build more roads, bridges, tunnels, industrial complexes, housing and office buildings to underpin the country's surging economic growth. Iron ore imports for 2006 are expected to have totalled 330m tonnes, up from 275m tonnes a year earlier. The figure is expected to increase to 370m tonnes in 2007."
January 2 - Bloomberg (Eduard Gismatullin): "Russia, the world's second-largest oil supplier, raised output 2.2 percent in 2006, the smallest annual increase since 1999, after companies cut investment because the state is increasing controls on the industry."
For the week, Gold dropped 4.6% to $607.40, and Silver declined 4.9% to $12.295. Copper sank 11.3% to a 9-month low. February crude dropped $4.81 to end the week at $56.24, an 18-month low. March Gasoline sank 7.5%, and January Natural Gas declined 1.0%. For the week, the CRB index dropped 5.3%, and The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) sank 6.0%.
Japan Watch:
January 2 - Bloomberg (Issei Morita): "Japan's economy will grow about 2.2 percent a year through March 2016, the country's biggest business lobby projects. That compares with the government's estimate of 1.9 percent growth for this fiscal year and 2 percent for next."
China Watch:
January 2 - Bloomberg (Dune Lawrence): "China's tax revenue climbed 22 percent to 3.76 trillion yuan ($482 billion) in 2006, buoyed by its expanding economy."
January 5 - Bloomberg (Nipa Piboontanasawat): "China told banks to set aside more money as reserves for the fourth time in seven months to prevent a rebound in lending and investment in the world's fastest-growing major economy. Banks must put aside 9.5 percent of deposits starting Jan. 15, up from 9 percent..."
January 2 - Bloomberg (Nipa Piboontanasawat): "Hong Kong economic activity rose to the highest in more than six years in December as companies received more orders and production increased, a survey of purchasing managers showed."
India Watch:
January 5 - Financial Times (Joe Leahy): "Forget "Incredible India", the government advertising campaign that uses images of sari-wearing princesses and trumpeting elephants to attract tourists to the sub-continent. India has a new kind of visitor - the real estate investment tourist, or "reit", as Ravi Raheja, group president of K Raheja Corp, the Mumbai-based developer, likes to call the foreign private equity investors, bankers and others looking to buy into its property market. In fact, so hot has Indian property become, domestic developers no longer have to wait for foreign investors to come to them - they are increasingly able to sell their paper overseas, particularly on Aim, London's junior market. The trend is prompting some to question whether it really is wise for foreign investors to be buying into a distant, chronically under-developed real estate sector that even on the domestic market is only just emerging as a credible asset class."
Asia Boom Watch:
January 1 - Bloomberg (Kevin Cho and Seyoon Kim): "South Korea's exports rose in December as companies sold more goods including cars, chips and other goods. Exports increased 13.8 percent to $29.2 billion from a year earlier..."
January 3 - Bloomberg (Seyoon Kim): "South Korea is planning'aggressive' measures to stem the won's gains to protect the economy, President Roh Moo Hyun said. 'We will put together aggressive measures and manage so that the currency issue does't burden the economy...We need to set longer-term management strategy so that the currency situation doesn't deteriorate.'"
December 31 - Bloomberg (Shamim Adam): "Singapore's economic growth accelerated to 7.7 percent this year due to'robust' performances in manufacturing and services, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said... The $118 billion economy expanded 6.4 percent in 2005."
January 5 - Bloomberg (Clarissa Batino): "Philippine money-supply growth quickened for a third month in November on higher remittances, investment and lending, the central bank said... Domestic liquidity expanded 18.5 percent in November...from a year earlier..."
Unbalanced Global Economy Watch:
January 5 - Bloomberg (Alexandre Deslongchamps): "Canadian employers added 61,600 jobs in December, more than four times what economists expected and the fourth-straight gain... The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1 percent from November's 6.3 percent, matching a 31-year low..."
January 4 - Market News International: "Bank of England November personal lending data highlighted the continuing strength of the housing market, with mortgage approvals climbing to a near 3-year high."
January 2 - Bloomberg (Brian Swint): "U.K. house-price inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in 18 months in November, led by gains in London and the east of England... Home values rose 6.8 percent from a year earlier..."
January 3 - Bloomberg (Andreas Cremer): "German unemployment in December fell the most since reunification in 1990 as accelerating economic growth encouraged companies to hire and the construction industry retained workers amid unseasonably warm weather. The number of people out of work...fell 108,000 to 4.12 million... The jobless rate fell to 9.8 percent from 10.1 percent."
January 4 - Bloomberg (Tasneem Brogger): "Denmark's jobless rate dropped to 4 percent in November, raising the prospect of increased wage demands when about 600,000 workers start pay talks this quarter, and threatening to push up inflation."
January 2 - Bloomberg (Ben Holland): "Turkish exports rose 19 percent in December from a year earlier...Exports increased to a record $8.72 billion..."
Latin American Boom Watch:
January 2 - Bloomberg (Bill Faries): "Argentina's tax revenue rose 25 percent in December from a year earlier, the country's tax-collection agency reported."
January 4 - Bloomberg (Eliana Raszewski): "Buenos Aires is putting the brakes on construction after a four-year boom overstretched water, electricity and sewage services -- and prompted residents to protest the destruction of their barrios. City Hall has a moratorium on new building permits for six neighborhoods to prevent developers, spurred by surging residential real estate prices, from ripping down two-story houses to build apartment buildings."
January 3 - Bloomberg (Alex Kennedy): "Venezuelan government spending soared 94 percent in October to its highest in at least eight years as President Hugo Chavez boosted outlays on health, education and food programs ahead of last month's presidential election."
Central Banker Watch:
January 5 - Bloomberg (Ye Xie): "China's central bank may have earned $29 billion last year on investment of its foreign reserves, according to Standard Chartered Plc. ...China's foreign reserves, the world's largest, exceeded $1 trillion in November. Analysts estimate that about 70 percent of the holdings are invested in U.S. Treasuries and other dollar-denominated assets."
Bubble Economy Watch:
January 2 - Financial Times (Brooke Masters): "Corporate legal bills soared nearly 20 per cent this year and could increase by a further 9 per cent in 2007, according to a survey of leading companies in the US. The survey of Fortune 1000 companies by the BTI Consulting Group found that total spending on outside counsel reached $56.4bn in 2006, driven by large increases in spending by the biggest US and multinational firms. A typical company in the BTI survey spent $19.5m on outside lawyers, nearly double the $10.5m average only five years ago."
January 5 - Bloomberg (Kristy McKeaney): "U.S. same store sales rose 3.1 percent in Dec. from a year earlier, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. Total store sales rose 8.3 percent from a year earlier."
Financial Sphere Bubble Watch:
January 4 - Financial Times (Richard Beales): "Investment banks pulled in 18 per cent more revenue from US debt capital markets deals last year than in 2005, with fee growth on Wall Street outpacing the increase in revenues earned in Europe, according to...Dealogic.
Real Estate Bubble Watch:
January 3 - Bloomberg (Sharon L. Crenson and Kathleen M. Howley): "Manhattan apartment prices rose 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, the smallest annual gain in a decade... The average sales price was $1.22 million in the three months ending Dec. 31, compared with $1.19 million in 2005, according to Miller Samuel Inc...broker Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Sales volume rose 15.5 percent from the third quarter to 2,441 units in the fourth."
January 4 - The Wall Street Journal (Jennifer S. Forsyth): "Office landlords had a heyday in 2006 as rents rose at the fastest pace in six years. Yet there are signs that conditions could be turning a little more in the favor of tenants. Newly released data by Reis Inc., a New York real-estate research firm, show that office rents rose 9% nationally last year, the heftiest increase since the height of the technology boom in 2000. However, the report also found that demand for new office space slowed sharply near the end of last year, a sign that large rent increases may not continue."
M&A and Private-Equity Bubble Watch:
January 4 - Bloomberg (Edward Evans): "Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. will pay at least $837 million in fees to investment banks for deals in 2006, more than any other private equity firm, in an unprecedented year for leveraged buyouts. Henry Kravis and George Roberts' firm spent three times more in the first 11 months of 2006 on fees to securities firms than in the whole of 2005...A record amount of LBOs last year will generate $11 billion in fees for banks..."
Financial Sphere Bubble Watch:
January 3 - The Wall Street Journal (Alan Murray): "The New Year's forecasts are so unrelentingly sanguine that you have to wonder whether a tanker of strong, black coffee is in order. The U.S. economy will keep growing. The housing market will recover. The Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. And financial markets will soar. The world, it seems, has become intoxicated by the steady flow of what my fellow financial writers call'liquidity.' Money flows freely, like the vodka from Dennis Kozlowski's infamous ice-hewn David, filling every dark and desolate crevice of the financial world. There is a steady stream of resources to the most perilous of emerging markets, the most hopeless of troubled companies and the most overextended of home buyers. That's great fun while it lasts. But does anyone seriously think it will last forever?"
Energy Boom and Crude Liquidity Watch:
January 3 - Financial Times (Ed Crooks and Javier Blasin): "US dependence on the Or-ganisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries for its oil imports has risen to its highest level in 15 years, following Angola's arrival this week as the 12th member of the oil producers' group... The move comes at a time when Opec is trying to exert more influence, as seen in its decision at the December meeting to cut 500,000 barrels a day from its output from February. Including Angola, Opec now supplies more than 54 per cent of the oil imports of the developed countries, its highest level for five years. For the US, the increase is even sharper: at more than 52 per cent, Opec's share of US oil imports is at its highest since 1992."
Climate Watch:
January 3 - Financial Times (Michael Mackenzie): "Summer has come to Argentina with a vengeance, bringing temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius this week and almost unbearable loads on the power system. The national grid is groaning under the strain of soaring demand for price-capped electricity and as sticky residents in Buenos Aires flip on their air conditioning en masse, consumption has hit a new peak, surpassing last summer's high and plunging parts of the capital into sporadic blackouts.
Power cuts are one of the most tangible signs of trouble in Argentina's energy industry..."
Speculator Watch:
January 3 - Financial Times (Michael Mackenzie): "When it comes to easy money, it is hard to overlook a dramatic distortion in the credit market that has generated virtually risk-free returns for some investors in recent months. Thanks to surging demand for credit exposure in the derivatives market, the cost of offloading credit risk through credit default swaps (CDSs) - which provide an insurance against corporate default - has dropped. For some companies, the annual cost of buying credit protection has fallen below the risk premium, or spread, a bond investor receives on the same company's bonds over and above benchmark risk-free interest rates. This situation is known as'negative basis'. Investors can buy both bonds and CDS protection, leaving them with net credit risk of almost zero but still able to pocket a spread above risk-free rates."
Issues 2007:
I simply have a difficult time getting on board with the view that our housing markets will be this year's major Issue. And, actually, I'll be surprised if the U.S., Chinese or the global economy takes center stage. When it comes to Issues 2007, I fully expect developments in and around finance and the financial markets to overshadow economic issues, concerns and risks. I'll even go out on the analytical limb and predict it will be one captivating, historic and, likely, fateful year - and very much All About Finance.
The concurrent Credit Boom and Economic Transformation are these days quite comfortably entrenched. Contemporary unchecked "Wall Street" finance can now so easily adapt to changes in the quantity and composition of demand for borrowings from both the real economy and the securities markets. And today's energized Credit mechanism has no problem adjusting to well-telegraphed marginal changes in short-term interest-rates. A quasi-pegged cost of funds suits the markets just fine.
The "resilient" U.S. services-based economy efficiently adapts to (finance-driven) changes in demand - effortlessly expanding the volume, type and price of "services" rendered, while imports freely satisfy whatever quantity of foreign-produced goods is desired. Traditional measures of inflation are now far removed - and capture little of the effects - from Prevailing Inflationary Manifestations. Meanwhile, manufacturing and inventory cycles these days engender only a secondary impact on the overall economy. As we witnessed in 2006, even major downturns in housing and auto manufacturing leave much of the Bubble Economy unscathed and even (through exacerbating loose financial conditions) stimulate key sectors such as financial services.
Don't, however, even during a moment of weakness allow this feel-good backdrop to seduce you into the complacency that has enveloped the vast majority. The Financial Sphere's Miraculous Adaptability and the Economic Sphere's Trumpeted Resiliency owe everything to an Unprecedented and Continuous Flow of New Credit and Liquidity. This predicament is both the secret of recent success and the magic elixir offering the possibility for the inordinate stretching of this venerable boom - one person's so-called "bullish" 2007 and another's disastrous extension of "blow-off" excesses. Today's acute dependency on massive Credit creation and superabundant liquidity is also the system's fatal flaw, playing guilefully into ingrained optimism and for the duration of the boom toying with calamity.
The bottom line is that the U.S. Credit and Economic Bubbles have no alternative than to expand ("failure is not an option"). But with risk intermediation and speculation having already been pushed to risk-taking extremes, sustaining this boom will be no small feat. Indeed, it will require another Herculean pushing of the Finance envelope. We did witness as much last year with developments in global Credit derivatives, high-risk lending, financial leveraging, and M&A. One can at this point safely assume the U.S. financial sector is up to 2007's challenge, which leaves me pondering the ramifications for only greater Monetary Disorder.
There are these days commanding institutional enrichment and preservation "biases". Wall Street investment bankers, traders, derivatives specialists, and brokers have every intention of earning even fatter bonuses in 2007. "Bank" executives appreciate that last year's double-digit Bank Credit expansion was welcomed and well-rewarded. They surely expect to do more of the same this year to satisfy Wall Street's (inflating) earnings expectations. Corporations (led by the financials) were remunerated handsomely for buying back stock and will plan on only larger repurchases in 2007. Coming off a decent year, the leveraged speculating community will enjoy additional robust inflows, while incorporating only greater leverage in the successful corporate debt and "Credit arbitrage" speculations that served them so well in 2006.
Admittedly, it is too easy to extrapolate current liquidity conditions and perhaps even the four-year liquidity-driven "bull market." And, let's face it, Credit Bubble inertia is a force to be reckoned with. The continued rapid increase in total system Credit and liquidity in the face of rapidly decelerating U.S. nominal GDP was the prevailing dynamic of 2006. And while we'll know more come the March arrival of 4th quarter data, there is already ample evidence to indicate that the extended discord between system Credit creation and economic "output" took a decided turn for the worst during the closing months of 2006. The Economic Sphere's moderate expansion has been perfect for immoderate Financial Sphere ballooning.
Apparently focused on housing sector vulnerabilities, the Fed halted rate increases mid-year. Whether one believes this was appropriate policy or not, inarguably our energized Financial Sphere - feasting in Ultra-Loose Financial Conditions - was waiting keenly to take full advantage. Bubble Economy Fragility set the stage for a record year in M&A, corporate debt issuance, junk issuance, "leverage lending," and global financial (trade, investment, and speculative) flows. The Credit derivatives marketplace went nuts; global liquidity excess went bonkers; and global equities went crazy. U.S. and global finance completely lost their moorings. As I have written previously, the degree of Credit, speculative, and asset inflation experienced over the past year (or the past four or 14) does not unfold without the impetus of some underlying Credit System Disorder.
For Issues 2007, we'll contemplate some key marketplace assumptions - Today's Defining Tenets of Contemporary Finance - that are suspect and increasingly susceptible to miscalculation and eventual repudiation.
- Marketplace Liquidity: The long boom has participants convinced that liquidity is a permanent fixture of contemporary financial markets. This is especially problematic in an age where marketable instruments and securities markets have become such an instrumental force in the Credit creation process - and where speculative endeavors play such a profound role in Credit Availability and Marketplace Liquidity. The perception of unlimited liquidity, especially with Fed "tightening" having been removed from the equation, has fueled an extraordinary expansion in securities leveraging - a self-feeding liquidity-creating dynamic that only further reinforces the pretense of endless marketplace liquidity. Market dynamics are also increasing the likelihood that a problematic reversal in leveraged positions could at anytime abruptly degrade the liquidity backdrop.
- Derivatives are a Boom to Finance and Economics: Despite some notable setbacks over the years, markets have nonetheless come to believe derivatives reduce market volatility and overall systemic risk. To be sure, finance evolves and adapts in its constant pursuit of profit opportunities. With prospective returns having been largely wrung from the investment-grade securities markets, the leveraged speculators last year shifted more aggressively into "Credit arbitrage" - leveraged positions to profit from Credit spreads, as well as booking gains from writing Credit insurance. This powerful dynamic feeds risk-taking and general liquidity excesses, fueling self-reinforcing global asset inflation. The upshot is dramatically heightened systemic fragility, including vulnerability to unpredictable speculative trading dynamics and asset markets susceptibility to any waning of liquidity excess. The perception that market insurance will always be available at a reasonable cost is a major factor championing late-cycle financial excess.
- Liquid and Continuous Markets: Markets, especially the derivatives marketplace, operate under the assumption that the Federal Reserve and global central banks guarantee that markets will always remain abundantly liquid. This is an essential premise for computer and model-based "dynamic" hedging strategies (market-dictated buying or selling of instruments to offset changing derivative exposures) that these days dominate the market landscape. Unprecedented foreign central bank buying of U.S. dollar securities ("backstop bid") has fed the misperception of endless marketplace liquidity. In particular, potential liquidity issues related to the reversal of the Credit Insurance Bubble, including the unwind and hedging of (corporate) Credit derivative positions in an unfavorable market environment, could emerge as a major Issue 2007.
- Credit Insurance: As much as the markets are determined to reckon otherwise, Credit losses are not insurable risks. Losses are categorically non-random and non-independent (as opposed to auto and fire accidents). By their very nature, they come and go in waves, and that infrequent Tidal Wave of Destruction can be expected to come precisely when it is least expected. Boom-time exuberance, with its intoxicating run of inflated financial profits and minimal Credit problems, propagates the crescendo, reversal and dismal downside of the Credit Cycle. The current Credit Derivatives Mania is putting the finishing touches on a Credit system and economy distorted to the point where there is no applicable history that might offer guidance as to downside cycle risks and expected Credit losses. Certainly, forecasting future losses based upon recent (cycle "blow-off") Credit performance - as derivatives models do - lays the foundation for some very ugly surprises when the cycle reverses (recall the lesson not learned: CDO losses from telecom debt defaults).
- Overvaluing Risk Intermediation: The markets today perceive that the more aggressive the risk intermediation, the higher the value of the enterprise. The more rapid a financial institution issues (perceived safe) liabilities and expands its holdings of risky loans, securities, and instruments - the better. The more rapidly Goldman Sachs balloons its balance sheet, the greater the value of its stock. The more rapidly the financial guarantors ("Credit insurers") grow earnings the happier are shareholders. This bullish market mindset continues to play a major role in promoting Credit expansion and excess. Still, at this stage of the cycle, the perception of grossly inflated intermediation profits and unrecognized risks creates the backdrop for some rather abrupt and consequential market reassessments.
- "Moneyness of Credit": The markets vigorously advocate the fallacious notion that Wall Street "structured finance" (alchemy) can interminably transform risky Credits into top-quality and highly liquid marketable instruments (that are blessed with virtually insatiable demand). Subprime mortgages will certainly not be the only 2006 vintage recognized as the residual of a banner year of atrocious lending. Booms are traditionally at some point restrained by the hesitancy of participants to expand holdings of increasingly risky market securities and/or Credit instruments. The evolution of contemporary finance (certainly encompassing the GSEs, MBS, ABS, derivatives, Credit guarantees, "repos," CDOs, mutual funds, hedge funds, Wall Street, "structured finance," and ballooning global central banks) has revolutionize the intermediation of risky Credits into perceived "money"-like instruments. This revolution has radically altered the efficacy of efforts to sustain the Credit cycle. It would, however, be a huge analytical blunder to surmise that these dynamics have mitigated cycle risk. Quite the contrary. At this point, we are left to ponder to what extent The Illusion of "Moneyness" with respect to ($Trillions of) U.S. Credit instruments has buttressed our currency and prolonged a precarious boom.
- Orderly Currency Markets: It is today lunatic-fringe market blasphemy to suggest that currency markets could dislocate, with unmanageable dollar selling instigating a full-fledged global financial crisis. But the confluence of acutely vulnerable U.S. debt, risk intermediation, and economic structures make such an eventual outcome a high probability event. Sustaining the U.S. Credit Bubble is dependent upon the markets' adherence to a confluence of (interdependent) specious assumptions with respect to marketplace liquidity, the Fed and global central bankers' capacities, derivatives, risk intermediation, and the "moneyness" of Credit.
It is impossible to predict when markets might begin to seriously question some of contemporary finance's more suspect premises. And it is a reasonable assumption that some unexpected geopolitical event, development or crisis could prove the catalyst for a radical market reassessment. Much more knowable, however, is that last year's Acute Monetary Disorder (especially the four quarter's) has set the stage for speculative dynamics to dominate global financial markets. After recent serial melt-ups, one would expect Monetary Disorder to more regularly give rise to some hair-raising market reversals and downdrafts. Coming out of the 2007 starting blocks, the marketplace has turned mercilessly against the energy and commodities bulls.
With no apparent end in sight to U.S. Credit Bubble excess, along with resulting Current Account Deficits and a world awash in dollar liquidity, the already massive global pool of speculative finance is poised to continue its ever increasing rate of expansion. Therefore, trend-following and leveraging dynamics can be expected to remain powerful instigators of destabilizing speculative runs on the upside, while also dictating that market retreats will be especially dramatic and ruthless ("Dog Eat Dog"). When global asset prices are rising in concert, a certain gentlemanly order seems to prevail. But when things turn erratic - the natural tendency following periods of wild speculative excess - the hunt for gains turns more desperate. This dictates increasingly cutthroat markets where the easiest trading gains are often achieved by pounding those caught on the wrong side trades gone sour (i.e. copper).
To what extent the cumulative effect of these speculative frenzies turned nasty tumbles (i.e. natural gas and crude) finally instills sufficient speculative consternation for contagious declines in major markets is a key Issue 2007. I will add that the ongoing energy sector downdraft is not an especially illuminating indicator of contagion vulnerability, as falling energy prices are a clear positive for much of the system. Similarly, I don't want to overstate the impact of escalating problems in the subprime mortgage market because they are today counterbalanced by gains in the much larger investment-grade market in anticipation of housing-related problems forcing the Fed to cut rates.
A significant reversal and speculator bludgeoning in, say, the interest-rate, Credit default swap, yen-carry trade, or global equities markets would provide much more challenging (for the system) and telling (for analysts) dynamics. As such, a top analytical focus for 2007 has to be discerning at what point speculator-driven market volatility begins to evolve into liquidity-reducing position unwinding. The challenge will be to distinguish the elevated noise of volatile and scheming trading dynamics from important liquidity-impacting market developments. At this point, I will give benefit of the doubt to ongoing liquidity excess and don't believe we've witnessed the demise of the anti-dollar bull market in energy, metals and commodities.
The flaw of the fateful late-twenties period was that vulnerabilities and fragilities, certainly including obvious and mounting U.S. and global economic risks, had monetary authorities acquiescing to increasingly egregious Credit and speculative excesses. And the more encompassing, commanding, and towering the Financial Sphere Bubble became, the more intimidating the process of reigning in excess appeared to a shrinking Federal Reserve. It is the nature of Credit and Economic Bubble imbalances, disparities and asset price inflation to keep policymakers confused, unassured, hesitant, and, in the end, accommodative.
I find it rather astounding that some are today calling for the Fed to soon initiate an easing cycle. This would be an enormous mistake that I don't expect the Fed to be in any hurry to make. Unrelenting Financial Sphere excesses today pose by far the greatest systemic risk. To what extent the Fed and global central bankers recognize this reality may very well be The Key Issue for 2007. The Fed and the markets are in an especially tenuous position if the Bernanke Fed actually attempts to wrest some control of "money," Credit and the entire financial system back from Wall Street and the speculator community. Ditto if foreign central bankers dare enter the fray.

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Senator Alesi And New York State Senate Honor West Point Cadets
On Wednesday, April 5, Senator Jim Alesi (R,C - Perinton) welcomed Cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the New York State Senate in honoring their bravery, courage, and selflessness.
"These young men and women truly live by the standard that all of us should strive for," said Senator Alesi. "I'm honored to join my colleagues in the Senate in honoring their committment to protect freedom throughout the globe; they serve as role models to us all."
Joining West Point Commanding Officer, General Lennox, were cadets from every region of the country and from all walks of life. Senator Alesi was especially proud to welcome Matthew Grinnell, a sophomore at West Point and a resident of Fairport, New York. Matthew spent two years at the University of Rochester before entering West Point and is currently studying Military History. Follwing his term of active duty, Matthew plans on working for his family's Restaurant - Grinnells Steak, Seafood and Pasta in Brighton, New York.


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Mkilbride wrote:Also, yer Summary sounds like Spoilers I just realized(after starting the game), so I'd hope you can put them in Tags or so.
Also, the game crashed for me right after that girl had "Resigned herself", I'd assume the first video was starting, as she was about to give her name, and it crashed. Could it be due to Vista? Thanks...
The forums over there had this to say:
The game crashes after the intro movie.
Your video card is really out of date. PM me, and I'll send you a fix that resolves the problem.
It's a GeForce 800 GT, I know it's not the latest, but I highly doubt it's out of date for a game that came out a year before it did. Latest stable drivers, no other video issues in anything...
I highly doubt it's the CCCP's fault, never caused an issue and has only helped in Video Decoding. I've tried Admin / Compat mode, nothing.
New information. It appears it works in Full Screen, but NOT windowed, NOT windowed.
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the main purpose of this post is to tell you all i am still alive, just very distracted having fun with fantastic visitors and FInally getting drunk in austin (took long enough) and enjoying beautiful weather and wonderful company. the past few days have been a whirlwind as i returned from dallas only to be immediately greeted by two familiar faces, after which we subsequently embarked on a wknd of good times. there was lots of eating, and shopping, and pedicures, and time laying out by the pool, and ridiculous hangovers (not so good - apparently drinking large amounts requires consistent practice), and austin explorations, and coffee, and pho! i am happy to report that austin has decent pho restaurants! i cannot tell you what a relief this was.
the madness continues tmw as i depart for business trip #2 of 5... ironically enough, to new york, where i will see di and stephen again... and hopefully some other good people as well. will check in again soon, apologies for being so completely MIA. not that i have millions of readers that i am disappointing by not posting or anything like that... alas.


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It contains 50 ten-minute outlines, each based on a key theme and including an interactive game, a thought for the day, a Bible story and a reflection time.
Each school month has been matched to Christian Festivals, topics and themes, as well as exploring traditional Christian values, such as caring for the poor and speaking out fro others, in the context of social issues. Cultural issues and world focus are also included. An appendix provides a suggested calendar of assemblies to use throughout the year and a list of themes linked to world international day or other significant events for the school year.
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Lighter side of science: Study on beer goggles among Ig Nobel Prize winners
A winner holds an Ig Nobel Prize during the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 12, 2013. Organized by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), in cooperation with several Harvard student groups, the awards celebrate the unusual in the world of science. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Published Friday, September 13, 2013 9:54AM EDT
NEW YORK (AFP) -- The tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel awards were handed Thursday to dozens of scientists, including those who confirmed drunk people think they are more attractive and studied the onion enzyme that makes us cry.
The Nobel prize spoof honors achievements "that first make people laugh and then make them think," according to a press release.
The Ig Nobels invite real Nobel laureates to confer honors on serious scientists for work that is generally only unintentionally funny.
There is also a peace prize, which this year was jointly awarded to the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding."
The safety engineering prize went to late American researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap airplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police.
A team from the Britain, Netherlands and Canada were awarded the probability prize for determining that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely it is it will soon stand up.
They also discovered that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon it will lie down again.
The physics prize went to researchers who discovered that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond -- if those people and that pond were on the moon.
A joint award in biology and astronomy was given to a team from Sweden, Australia, Germany, Australia and the U.K., who uncovered the fact that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.
The study by researchers who confirmed drunk people really do think they are more attractive won the Psychology Prize.
A team from Japan and Germany tackled the age-old question of why onions make us cry and discovered merely that the biochemical process is "even more complicated than scientists previously realized."
The archaeology prize went to a U.S.-Canada team who parboiled a dead shrew, swallowed it without chewing, and then carefully examined their excretions to see which bones dissolve inside the human digestive system.
It was the 23rd edition of the Ig Nobels, awarded at the uber-prestigious Harvard University in Boston.
The prize-winners, who travel to the ceremony at their own expense, were given 60 seconds for an acceptance speech, a time limit enforced by an implacable eight-year-old girl.
The ceremony also included the premiere of a mini-opera called "The Blonsky Device," inspired by the life and work of 1999 Ig Nobel Prize winners George and Charlotte Blonsky.
The couple invented a machine to aid women in giving birth by strapping her onto a circular table, which is then rotated at high speed.
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Bitter Bowyer Bites Back
Speaking to the Daily Express following the completion of his permanent move to Brum City, an increasingly incensed Lee Bowyer has obviously not forgotten the way the club treated him following the notorious Aston Villa dust up with Kieron Dyer.
Bowyer, who spent the weekend of the FA Cup semi in question on the sauce in London, said:
"They hung me out to dry. The club tried to get Dyer off the ban because we were in the FA Cup semi-final, so they said, 'Look, hold your hands up and we might be able to get Kieron off`.
So I took the blame. So then I got fined six weeks` wages, Kieron got nothing. I got a six-game ban, Kieron got what? Did he get a ban?
They said I can`t really get off, but they might be able to get Kieron off. I said it was both of us, not just me, but if it looks worse on my part then I`ll do that. People don`t know what goes on behind closed doors. I tried to do the right thing."
Meanwhile, Bowyer also downplayed any comparisons with our current 'bad apple' Joey Barton saying:
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Three people are arrested and police are looking for one more person after a driver rammed a police car on Capitol Hill Monday afternoon and the car's occupants tried to run away.
Patrol officers spotted a car making an illegal turn about 1:30 p.m. at 12th Avenue and East Denny Way, according to police reports. The officers learned the driver had a felony warrant and tried to pull over the car, but the car sped off, initiating a chase.
The car, carrying two men and two women, hit a parked vehicle near 10th Avenue and East Denny Way. The patrol car pulled up behind the suspects' car, but the driver put the car in reverse and rammed the police car, according to Seattle police.
That proved to be a tactical error when the suspect vehicle tried to speed from the scene, but was wedged between the cop car and another parked vehicle on the street, reports say.
Two men and one of the women from the car ran away, leaving the second woman behind at the scene to be arrested by police. Officers then chased after the remaining suspects.
Police nabbed one of the men two blocks away. A bystander tripped the second man at Broadway and East John Street, allowing police to catch up to him.
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Nova Scotia bucks national trend by creating new protected areas
HALIFAX - In the run-up to Canada Parks Day on the 3rd Saturday in July, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is releasing its fifth annual report on how Canada's parks are faring. The report shows an overall worrying trend in Canada of a slowdown in creating new parks and protecting existing ones.
But Nova Scotia is bucking this national trend. The province stands out as one of the few examples across the country where an ambitious plan to create new protected areas is turning into real conservation outcomes on the ground.
"The proposed new protected areas will vault Nova Scotia from its current status of middle-of-the-pack to second in Canada for the total percentage of lands protected, behind only British Columbia", says Chris Miller, National Conservation Biologist for CPAWS, based in Nova Scotia.
"Nova Scotia is emerging as a leader in Canada for conservation," says Miller. "In a year with very little progress across the country creating new protected areas, Nova Scotia is a noteworthy standout. Good progress is being made here and the province is definitely bucking the national trend".
The Nova Scotia government released a protected areas plan earlier this year that will see over a quarter million hectares of additional lands in the province dedicated for conservation. This plan includes some of the best remaining wilderness in the province, including the St. Mary's River, Eastern Shore Islands, Kelly's Mountain, Wentworth Valley, and several expansions to the existing Tobeatic Wilderness Area, among many other sites.
In total, an additional 700 kilometres of Nova Scotia's coastline will be protected as a result of the new protected areas when officially established. The new protected areas will also result in about half of all remaining large intact forests in Nova Scotia being protected.
When fully implemented, Nova Scotia's protected areas plan will result in 13.7% of the province dedicated to protected areas. The current level of protection is 9.4%.
In Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia is well ahead of neigbouring jurisdictions creating new protected areas. Newfoundland and Labrador has 4.5% protection; New Brunswick 3% protection; and Prince Edward Island 2.5% protection.
The CPAWS Parks Report does raise some red flags for the management of national parks in Nova Scotia, including the decision to leave Sable Island National Park Reserve vulnerable to potential future oil and gas exploration on the island, as well as the seasonal closure of Kejimkujik National Park from October to May.
"We remain very concerned about the overall cutbacks to Parks Canada and what this means for the management of Nova Scotia's national parks for ecological integrity", says Miller. "We will be monitoring this closely and keeping a very close eye on it over the coming months".
CPAWS has been issuing an annual report on the state of Canada's parks since 2008. The first report lauded the rate of new parks creation by the federal government that year. Subsequent reports noted the slowdown in parks creation, the need to increase the number of marine protected areas, and some inappropriate developments that were starting to be noted.
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Call For Obstruction ( The Courier ) ( Volume 1 ), by W. J. Howard, is available for sale in e-book as well as paperback version. W. J. has all kinds of plans in the mix. To keep current with all she is involved in, go to her website http://wjhoward.com/ . I can vouch for the fact that Call For Obstruction is a great read. I was fortunate enough to be privy to reading this novel in its earlier stages. Now, W. J. has even improved on that. Alrighty!
This is gritty read that I guarantee you will love.
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In a supernatural world where Hell's been over capacity since World War II, Satan has no choice but to open the Gates of Hell. When Barry's tricked into signing a contract to serve Satan, he's faced with a choice to help release the damned souls onto Earth or turn against Satan's evil plan. Either choice comes with a price, and with a screw up like Barry at the center of it all, there's no telling if God, Satan, or rogue demons will prevail.


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The Velvet June 2012 editorial will get people revved up for the summer season, if they aren't already. Soon enough people's schedules will be chock-full of beach dates, barbecues and, of course, a few good ol' pool parties. If they aren't, the Velvet June 2012 editorial will inspire some to host their own.
Lensed by Swedish photographer Marcus Ohlsson, the Velvet June 2012 editorial is all about fun in the sun--in a luxurious way. It stars model Valentina Zelyaeva as the hostess with the mostess. Captured amongst her equally chic guests, the Russian beauty was outfitted by stylist Laura Bianchi. Clad in striking tropical prints and bold colors, her looks were perfected by hairstylist Mike Lundgren and makeup artist Katarina Håkansson.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kite Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq:KITE) today announced that Owen N. Witte, M.D., the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a renowned cancer researcher, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Dr. Witte will continue to serve as Chair of Kite's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and will play a vital role advising the Board of Directors on the future of engineered cell therapy and synthetic biology.
"Owen is a brilliant scientist with a rare combination of understanding for basic research and translational medicine across academia and the biopharmaceutical industry. For well over two decades, Owen has made significant scientific discoveries resulting in medicines that have changed the course of medical history," said Arie Belldegrun, M.D., FACS, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kite. "Owen's decades of pioneering cancer research will be invaluable as Kite rapidly accelerates new scientific programs for the next generation of engineered cell therapies. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to again work with Owen developing innovative cancer treatments for patients in need."
Dr. Witte's seminal scientific work laid the foundation for the fundamental understanding of human leukemias and epithelial cancer stem cells which propelled the development of approved targeted cancer therapies, including Gleevec® (imatinib) and Imbruvica® (ibrutinib). He will bring extensive scientific experience to the Board as Kite plans its future portfolio of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) therapies, including allogeneic cell therapy, TCRs targeting neoantigens, and other novel TCR approaches.
"Over the past eight years and as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, it has been a privilege to witness Kite become a leader in the field of engineered cell therapy for the treatment of cancer," said Dr. Witte. "I am honored and excited to bring my scientific perspective to the Board during this transformational time for the Company and for the field. I look forward to continuing in my role as Chair of the SAB, and contributing to the continued development and advancement of Kite's industry-leading pipeline of CAR and TCR therapies."
Dr. Witte is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2015, he was re-appointed by former President Barack Obama to serve for a second term on the President's Cancer Panel, which monitors the development and execution of the National Cancer Program. Dr. Witte has received many awards for his research, including most recently, in 2016, the AAMC Award for Distinguished Research in Biomedical Sciences as well as the Stanford Medical School Kornberg-Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biosciences.
Dr. Witte joined the UCLA faculty in 1980, where he is presently a University Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, holding the President's Chair in Developmental Immunology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. For 30 years, until 2016, he was also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Prior to UCLA, Dr. Witte completed his postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Cancer Research, working in the lab of Nobel Laureate, David Baltimore, Ph.D. He also completed pre-doctoral research training in the lab of Irving Weissman, M.D. while a medical student at Stanford University. Dr. Witte received his Bachelor of Science Degree with highest honors in microbiology from Cornell University and his Medical Degree from Stanford University.
About Kite
Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.
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One of the limitations that Jim identified was:
Finally, amending GDB to produce two kinds of output increases the complexity of the code. In contrast, imposing a well-defined interface between GDB's core functionality and its user interface reduces total complexity, by segregating the code into separate modules with well-defined interactions.while for Stan's part, he argues that:
[...] the CLI effectively defines a robust protocol - by being text-based, encoding and byte-order issues go away, the command processor already has error-handling built into it, and the user manual constitutes a fairly precise specification of the protocol's "messages".The architecture below incorporates a design that both addresses Jim's concern of code duplication while at the same time retaining the flexibility of an interface based around the existing command line.
This architecture breaks the rendering of data into two distinct phases:
Importantly, the architecture is not limited to just a CLI based server. If the Server was replaced with TK/TCL, for instance, GDB would be able to build TCL data structures directly.


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Ten Money Questions for Erica Mauter
1. What do you do for a living?
I'm a validation engineer at a pharmaceutical company. Because we're so heavily regulated, there's an extra layer of documentation for every single thing we do. I document that the equipment, cleaning procedures, and manufacturing processes we use all do exactly what they're supposed to do and are in compliance with federal regulations and current Good Manufacturing Practice. My job is about 70% technical writing, 15% manufacturing, and 15% regulatory.
2. What you want to do, if not at your dream job right now?
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up! I think my dream job would involve philanthropy or arts management. Or something that would allow me to travel extensively. I've very recently kicked around the thought of owning a yoga studio or some kind of holisticly-oriented wellness center. Definitely something less left-brainy and technical than what I've been doing.
3. Have you been deeply affected by the economy? If so, how?
I somehow feel guilty admitting this, but I have not personally been significantly impacted by the recent economic downturn. While all this has been going on, I've managed to finish paying off my biggest debts and start socking away cash. Early last year, my employer's parent company announced that they will close our plant and transfer all our manufacturing to another facility. The plant shutdown is a 3+ year project, so while I know I'll likely be laid off at some point in the next year or two, for now it's business as usual. I'm hoping by the time my number comes up, the availability of jobs will have improved.
4. Do you rent or own your home?
My partner owns our home. Technically, I rent from her. We're looking to move and purchase a home together next year.
5. You're a blogger. Have you gotten any writing or speaking gigs because of your blog?
I have. I've been a cityblogger for several years. I started out at the Minneapolis Metblog and then last year I left to start my own cityblog, fresh.mn. Within the local blogging ecosystem, I've made connections with mainstream journalists, bloggers of various stripes, and pro-am citizen journalists. The fact of the matter is that the popularity of the blog as a publishing platform and the evolving social nature of the web has changed the way news is delivered. So while I'm not a journalist, nor do I have journalist aspirations, I will staunchly defend the right of the blog to be a platform for citizen journalism and am have been asked a number of times to speak on that topic. I have another blog, cinna.mn, which is about minority experiences in Minnesota. I was fortunate enough to be asked to cover a speaking gig with Peggy McIntosh, author of Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, a groundbreaking essay on white privilege. I got a chance to speak with her myself, and that was just mindblowing.
6. Do you and your partner see eye to eye on finances? Do you ever argue while shopping at Ikea or any other "big box" store (no pun intended.)
We have a congruent sense of what to spend money on and how much to spend on it, whether it's around-the-house stuff or entertainment or travel or food, etc. Neither of us spend flippantly or carelessly. We're also pretty good about letting each other spend our own money freely. I don't feel like I need to check with her before I buy something or vice versa, but we also trust each other to make reasonable purchases and to discuss big ticket items in advance. We've never fought over money. There has been an interesting evolution over the course of our relationship. I was in a world of financial hurt years ago (right before we got together) and have become accustomed to obsessively tracking every penny. As I've paid off all my debts and begun to save aggressively, I'm adjusting to the "loose" feeling of having a little extra money around. She's coming from a place of not having had to worry about money at all and has been learning to track her spending and budget accordingly. We're meeting in the middle in a
pretty good place. I think I'll always be the household CFO, though.
7. When you were a kid, did you get an allowance? What would you buy?
I got a small allowance when I was very young, but I was "working" by the time I was 11 or so. I don't remember too much about it, though. I know I had a bank account. I'm sure I mostly spent it hanging out at the mall with my friends, buying food or music or movie tickets.
8. What is the one personal item that you always splurge on?
Travel. Not that I spend a lot on any given trip. I'm actually pretty good about budget travel. But the choice to travel at all is a luxury, especially in this country where you often have to fly because you don't have much vacation time to spend getting from Point A to Point B and you can't just hop on a train and get somewhere. Travel is very important to me. I love to see new places and visit people and just not be in the same place all the time. It's particularly important to get away from Minnesota for a bit in the middle of the long winter! Not being able to travel was the thing I missed most when I was broke and one of the first things I did when I scraped up spare cash. I know so many folks who would love to travel but feel like they can't because it's too expensive for them.
9. What is one thing that you feel is always overpriced?
Transportation in general.
10. If money can't buy happiness, what can it it buy?
Money can buy freedom from the stress of not having any money. I'm lucky that in my darkest financial days I wasn't living on the street or on food stamps or anything, but I was barely scraping by and it was very stressful to not have extra money. To have to think hard about which bill to pay first, how far you can stretch $20 at the grocery store, to have to turn down your friends' invites to go to the bar or other places that are too expensive for you. To have to constantly choose one basic comfort over another. And then there's the shame of it on top of all that. I hope I never have to go through that again. I like to think that I know enough now to avoid it but if something terrible happened I also have learned enough to manage it better.
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- 1986 — Vampire Killer, the famous theme first introduced in the game Castlevania.
- 1986 — Vampire Killer, the 1986 MSX2 game.
- 1994 — Vampire Killer, the Japanese name for the Sega Mega Drive game Castlevania: Bloodlines.
- 1994 — Vampire Killer, the mysterious whip owned by the Belmont Clan. Its name is first introduced in Castlevania: Bloodlines.
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The longtime school superintendent of SAD 51 in Cumberland and North Yarmouth will step down in November, according to the district.
Robert Hasson, who has served as superintendent since 1993, will leave Nov. 1 to become assistant deputy director of the Maine School Management Association, where he will lead the Maine School Superintendents Association.
"This is a good match for me," Hasson said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "It's something I wouldn't have been able to do 10 years ago because I didn't have enough experience. I think I'll get a lot of satisfaction out of it."
The school district said the school board will meet next week to discuss appointing an interim leader, and eventually, initiate a search for a permanent replacement.
In his new position, Hasson will be responsible for supporting superintendents around Maine, working specifically with newly appointed superintendents; helping to recruit prospective candidates for superintendent positions; and lobbying lawmakers on education issues.
In a statement announcing the move, SAD 51 school board chairwoman Karen Campbell lauded Hasson for his work improving the quality of education during his 20-year tenure.
"Under Bob's tutelage the district has emerged as a leader in implementing innovative programs such as all-day kindergarten and the International Baccalaureate Program. We are grateful for all that he has been able to accomplish for the students who live in our two communities."
During Hasson's tenure, Greely High School increased its graduation rate to 96.41 percent, the fourth highest in the state, the district said.
He drew criticism earlier this year from some school board members, who took issue with his handling of a security system installed in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The security system cost significantly more than initial public estimates.
One board member eventually resigned over the issue, although Hasson said the tussle had nothing to do with his decision to move on from SAD 51.
"Those are the types of things that face all superintendents and boards. That did not in any way affect this move," he said.
In the new job, Hasson said he hopes to help educators around the state improve educational opportunities for Maine students. Hasson, who lives in South Portland, said he plans to commute to Augusta.
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Footprints on property caused a man to panic and think it was Malaysia's Bigfoot.
Giant footprints are not that of Bigfoot, says Wildlife Department – Nation | The Star Online.
The Department of Wildlife and National Parks (PERHILITAN) has poured cold water on bizarre claims by villagers that they found footprints belonging to a Bigfoot in Kampung Gudang Garam, Segamat.
"Investigations revealed that the footprints in question was that of a tapir's. We believe it wandered into the area after getting lost. A villager here also said he saw what looked like a tapir moving through his farm a day ago.
"Therefore, PERHILITAN would like to request the public not to panic and make any assumptions relating to the discovery of this 'footprint'," said the spokesperson.
Quite a difference.
The man seemed panicked. Why he jumped to the Bigfoot conclusion is not clear. Is it going around in the culture? Are there other reports? Well, Malaysia has it's own version of Bigfoot called the Orang Lenggor, and his footprints are well known. See this piece from last June.
The world has gone Bigfoot crazy. Every track is Bigfoot. Take a look at this video which is CLEARLY tracks of a bounding whitetail deer. Nope, Bigfoot.
Actually this was a joke, but one idiotic Bigfoot blog took it seriously.


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Picts. The Cowgil family lived in the lands of Cargill in east Perthshire where the family at one time had extensive territories.
Early Origins of the Cowgil family
Perthshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland. Cargill is a parish containing, with the villages of Burreltown, Wolfhill, and Woodside. "This place, of which the name, of Celtic origin, signifies a village with a church, originally formed a portion of the parish of Cupar-Angus, from which, according to ancient records, it was separated prior to the year 1514." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Early History of the Cowgil family
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Cowgil Spelling Variations
Cowgil Spelling Variations
Scribes in the Middle Ages did not have access to a set of spelling rules. They spelled according to sound, the result was a great number of spelling variations. In various documents, Cowgil has been spelled Cargill, Cargille, Carnigill, Cargile, Kergylle, Cargyle, Carrigle, McGirl and many more.
Early Notables of the Cowgil family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Cowgil family to Ireland
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Migration of the Cowgil family to the New World and Oceana
Migration of the Cowgil family to the New World and Oceana
The cruelties suffered under the new government forced many to leave their ancient homeland for the freedom of the North American colonies. Those who arrived safely found land, freedom, and opportunity for the taking. These hardy settlers gave their strength and perseverance to the young nations that would become the United States and Canada. Immigration and passenger lists have shown many early immigrants bearing the name Cowgil: David Cargill arrived who in New York State in 1740; with James, Jean, John, Margaret; Elizabeth Cargill settled in New York State in 1740; J. and William Cargill settled in Baltimore Maryland in 1820..
The Cowgil Motto
The Cowgil Motto
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Domino confido
Motto Translation: Confide in the Lord.
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Former Vice President Al Gore won't be endorsing Hillary Clinton. Or speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Could it be his long, complex history with the former first lady? Or that he secretly favored climate change champion Bernie Sanders? Maybe it's the treasure trove of emails posted over the weekend on WikiLeaks showing how the DNC colluded with the Clinton campaign and Democratic-leaning news organizations to deprive Sanders the nomination.
Either way, Gore's self-provoked expatriation from the Democratic party is just one more indication of an convention in chaos. Some have speculated Gore is too busy focusing on climate change, and can't take the time for a video address à la Marco Rubio at the RNC.
The Protesters were Chanting "Hell No, DNC, we won't vote for Hillary" and "This is what democracy looks like," https://t.co/2pCgCn3wtC
— Chuck Hutchinson (@chuckghutch) July 25, 2016
Gore won't endorse Hillary.
Unlike past elections, this time Gore has refused to formally endorse the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and is one of the most conspicuous holdouts not joining the Clinton coronation. But if anyone knows Hillary at her best (and worst), it's Al Gore, who spent eight years in the White House working with her and President Bill Clinton. Sources also say he has a "complicated" relationship with the nominee. Gore has also maintained an eerie silence since Clinton officially became the nominee, something rare for a party that demands unity above all else. But people familiar with Gore know he thinks climate change comes first and everything else is secondary.
In May, CNN made a ruckus when Mitt Romney and a few prominent Republican establishment figures decided not to attend the Republican convention. Alex Burns of the NY Times even tweeted:
Imagine if Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy all declined to show up at the 2008 Dem convention. That's Cleveland 2016.
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 5, 2016