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"The Art Consortium, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to create innovative forms of collaborations among museums worldwide. This new organization will be based in Milwaukee" I love that this worldwide collaborative organization will be based in little ole Milwaukee - a blue collar, beer and cheese town. This gives more credibility to this great city.
what's going on over there that so many people are using the exit door?Hide replies
perhaps someone---MLS--- should ask the management at MAM what steps they took to try to keep these folks from leaving....
Agreed- It's hard not to wonder about the culture within the institution. Ripe time for an interview with Kagan. What's the vision for the future; building, curators, programming, etc....?
interesting also that the two people at MAM whom MLS portrayed in a favorable light in her article last fall---Lisa H. and Laurie W.---are out the door.
Thank you Laurie Winters for all you brought to Milwaukee via MAM. Best of luck in your future endeavor- the Art Consortium sounds fantastic. Look forward to hearing details.
We will of course talk to MAM about its goals going forward. While it's natural to ask about the culture of an institution when a number of people leave, let me suggest there might be another way to look at this. Both Lisa and Laurie were offered extraordinary opportunities at MAM, which made them both, in turn, incredibly marketable for bigger and better jobs.
Who cares... are there not many more important pressing issues present and relevant in this Country and State? Is this actual news?
Makes me wonder whom in Milwaukee is bankrolling this, that she can stay here?
YIKES and YIKES and YIKES, again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ms. Winters track record scores far more UPs, than downs! Her space, cube, office, authority,.... will be a difficult task for MAM to complete! This is not an enviable arena for "artistic headhunters" (if there is such a thing)!
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ANAHEIM – Mayor Tom Tait said he believes he can vote "fairly" when he joins the Orange County Transportation Authority's board in January, even though his company holds a $330,144 contract with the agency.
Tait will take over a seat held the past year by Anaheim Councilwoman Gail Eastman, who said that she was ousted as political payback for opposing the mayor on several key issues affecting Orange County's largest city.
"If I didn't feel I could serve fairly, I wouldn't do it," Tait said of his upcoming two-year term on the OCTA board.
"I want to make sure the taxpayers' money is spent wisely," Tait said. "I also want to reduce commute times on our roads and freeways and increase mobility for those who don't drive."
Tait Environmental Services was awarded a $330,144 contract by the OCTA board in June 2012 to provide repairs, upgrades, tests and certification services to underground storage tanks, said OCTA spokesman Joel Zlotnik. Tait is the company's CEO.
So far, the OCTA has paid $127,483 on the contract, set to expire in June 2015.
"It's not a large contract," Tait said. "I plan to abstain on anything involving Tait and Associates" while serving on the OCTA board.
Tait currently abstains on any OCTA-related issue that goes before the Anaheim City Council, saying that he is avoiding a conflict-of-interest based on advice from the city attorney.
The OCTA does not have a policy that would prevent Tait from serving on the board while simultaneously having a contract with the agency, Zlotnik said. However, Tait will not be able to get any new business from the OCTA as long as he's serving on the board.
Tait was elected last week to a population-weighted seat in the OCTA's fourth district, where Anaheim holds 48 percent of the voting power. Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker nominated Tait, who was also supported by city representatives from Brea and La Habra. Eastman was supported by representatives from Placentia and Buena Park.
Tait briefly served on the OCTA board in 2011, but said he stepped down to focus on helping to restructure the city's deficit. Whitaker said he nominated Tait because the Anaheim mayor had "expressed an interest" in serving on the board again.
"His contract with OCTA was an issue that was stated, but he seemed quite confident that it wouldn't be an impediment," Whitaker said. "I understand they're having difficult times on the Anaheim City Council, but I see Tom as a stabilizing influence, and I feel confident that he will do a good job representing all of our interests, not just Anaheim's."
Eastman said she believes she was not re-elected to the OCTA board because of "personal and philosophical" differences with Tait. Eastman, appointed last year to the 17-member regional transportation panel, said she built relationships with neighboring cities and voted for several important transit projects that affect commuters in north Orange County.
Eastman supports a proposed 3.2-mile streetcar route that would primarily run along Katella Avenue in Anaheim and link the under-construction Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center and the Convention Center, Disney's two local theme parks and nearby hotels.
Tait has raised concerns about the project's $319 million price tag and the subsequent costs to keep the streetcar operating. The project is undergoing an environmental review and is still under consideration by the OCTA.
Tait is often on the losing side of votes cast by Eastman and the three other City Council members. Most recently, the council majority stripped Tait of the ability to place items onto City Council meeting agendas whenever he wants – one of the few powers he wielded as mayor.
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Tait, seeking a second term as mayor, denied Eastman's assertion.
"When the term is up, that's it," Tait said. "There's no guarantee that you'll get it again, implicit or otherwise."
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Lessons in Leadership and Management from Nehemiah By Joseph Maciariello, Theology Today, Oct 2003
Echoes in the Temple? Jesus, Nehemiah, and Their Actions in the Temple By Geoffrey M. Troughton in Journal of Biblical Studies, 2003
Community Building: The Case of Nehemiah By Gary A. Goreham, North Dakota State University, in Word & World, Spring 2000
Was Nehemiah Contemporary with Ezra in 458 BC? By Leslie McFall, Westminster Theological Journal, 1991
The Political Tensions Reflected in Ezra-Nehemiah By Carl Schultz, Ph.D., Houghton College, Houghton, NY
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Some questions have plagued humanity for millennia: Why are we here? Is there intelligent life on other planets? Who would finish the New York City Marathon faster, Green Goblin atop his Goblin Glider or Batman in the Batmobile? Now handy infographic holds the answer to one of those. (I'll let you guess which one.)
We've said before here on Shelf Porn that it isn't the size of the collection that matters, only the passion of the person submitting it. Sometimes it's also not about the number of pictures submitted, either. With that in mind, here are four collections I've received recently that had a lot to say in a few images.
Marvel's turning over a new leaf, so to speak, as it enters the Marvel NOW! era. But in that amid the flurry of new titles, new line-ups and new creators, we're finding some notable absences — notable to us at least. While some missed heroes like Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Mockingbird have popped up in cameos here and there, there are still a significant number of popular players waiting to be brought onto the field. In this installment of "Six by 6," we suss out six such characters and zero in on their last whereabouts, and where some of them might show up next.
Brazilian pop artist (and firm Robot 6 favorite) Butcher Billy recently told me he was working on a project that would appeal as much to readers of Time as to the readers of this blog. I believed him, and waited eagerly to see what he was going to come up with. He was right, and he's excelled himself. He's just posted The Legion of Real Life Supervillains at Behance, a gallery of images recasting some of humanity's very worst as four-color miscreants.
In Billy's own words:
"If back in the day comics and movies were pretty naive and faced only as pure escapism, today's fiction has to evoke reality to create something truly meaningful… and frightening. This series is an experiment where a dictator, a psycho, a murderer (sometimes they are the whole package) or even a suspicious figure from real life is mashed with a comics bad guy – strangely related some way or the other with his counterpart. The depressing thing? Realising that if the comic book supervillains were actually the ones threatening real life, the world wouldn't be such a bad place."
This series raises all sorts of questions and invites all sorts of controversies. Some examples below, and be aware that Billy's Legion of Doom includes a couple of choices whose presence in such nefarious ranks you may well disagree with. I might distrust Facebook's ubiquity, but Mark Zuckerberg isn't exactly a genocidal tyrant (yet).
Comic books have long cast a spotlight on the school lives, and all the associated trials and tribulations, of superheroes, from Spider-Man and the X-Men to Blue Beetle and Amethyst. But what about the supervillains? Judging from the series of yearbook portraits by
Francesca J. Hause, they haven't had it any easier than the heroes.
It turns out Green Gobin was a stoner (no surprise there), Bane was no stranger to wedgies, and Loki was an orthodontic headgear-wearing D&D player. Venom seemed to do OK, though. Check out those, plus a fashion-victim Two-Face, below.
Theater critics and even Sesame Street have had their say on the long-troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which finally — finally! — opened on Tuesday. And then Conan O'Brien took his turn, examining the assessment by Ben Brantley of The New York Times that the revamped $70-million production is suitable only for "a less-than-precocious child of 10 or so."
O'Brien reimagines a scene from the show an elementary-school nutrition play that takes a disturbing turn about the time a G-string clad Green Goblin makes an appearance waving around an enormous banana and carrot. And then things get worse …
A post-Julie Taymor Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will likely be a radically changed show, with many of the director's trademark elements altered or removed, multiple outlets report.
Among the rumored revisions are the strengthening of the love story between Peter Parker and Mary Jane, said to have been a point of contention between Taymor and some cast members, the loss of the widely panned "Deeply Furious" number, and a clarification of the Green Goblin's story arc (he dies in Act I only to reappear in Act II). But perhaps most notable are the plans for Arachne, the eight-legged villainess created by Taymor in 2002. The character, who dominates the second act, will see her scenes reduced or cut entirely, Bloomberg reports.
The details surfaced today, less than 24 hours after producers finally announced what many had expected for some time: that the beleagured director would leave and the critically savaged musical shut down for two weeks to undergo a massive overhaul. Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz) was brought in as Taymor's replacement to work with an expanded creative team that includes composers Bono and The Edge, musical consultant Paul Bogaev, playwright and comics writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and sound designer Peter Hylenski. Opening night, most recently scheduled for March 15, will be delayed for a sixth time, to early summer.
Comic creators Skottie Young and Scott Morse have teamed up to launch a brand-new sketch blog called SkottieScott where "you'll get a daily(?!) punch in the face consisting of character sketches by everyone's favorite comics makers." They've been drawing Spider-Man's villains over the past few days, so head over there to see the Green Goblin, Kraven, Mysterio and more.


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The Panama Papers leak has already brought down Iceland's prime minister, but emerging markets leaders from Argentina to Ukraine have been implicated in the money-laundering scandal as well. So should investors expect more ousters to come?
Not necessarily, says Eurasia Group's Cliff Kupchan and Andrew Bishop. They warn that the near-term fallout from the revelations, already on display in the form of global outcry, will be a real issue for governments that are struggling to command the respect and trust of the people, given that the scandal further highlights the gap between the haves and the have-nots, even in the cases where the actions may ultimately be determined to be legal. However, it may not be as wide-ranging and some reformers would like.
Shares of Turkish telephony provider Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri (TKC) fell 1.5% Tuesday after it reported quarterly results and commented on the acquisition of more spectrum.
The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) also fell 1.5%.
Turkcell's net income for the quarter was at TRY 630 million ($216.9 million) and pro forma net income excluding non-recurring items rose by 17.8% year-on-year to TRY 707 million. The company cited a decrease in net income due to lower interest income; it also cited currency weakness, with most of its capital spending in foreign currency. Voice revenue slowed due to the company's "focus on restoring inflationary pricing in the market."
Turkcell Turkey accounts for 91% of revenue, which was TRY 3.4 billion, up 6.4%, in the quarter. The company has been consolidating debt in Belarus and Ukraine to reduce foreign currency risk at subsidiaries; it also does business in Germany and the portion of the Island of Cyprus that Turkey administers. Turkcell raised roughly $2.9 billion through the sale of bonds in the quarter, including a $500 million euro-bond sale that was nearly four times over-subscribed, according to a transcript of the company's quarterly conference call, quoting CFO Murat Erden.
CEO Caan Terzioglu added that Turkcell is well positioned to provide additional services to customers as it adds spectrum and bandwidth. From the transcript:
"We secured the spectrum for the next 13 years, and just like we have been the leader in 2G and subsequently in 3G, 4G will be in the same track. We have acquired 47% of the total spectrum auctioned by the Turkish government … at 47% of the total tender value. So I think this will be an important sustainable competitive advantage for us for the next 13 years …"
He added that Turkcell will be looking for partnerships more aggressively to provide content, which would be expensive to acquire. See our post, "New Turkcell CEO: Hedging For Worst, 9% Revenue Growth Ahead?"
As Russia exerts its might in international politics, debt matters in Ukraine are getting overshadowed.
In a note out today, RBC Capital Markets' Robert Stallard, Karl Oehlschlaeger, Steven Cahall and Krishna Sinha note that cash-strapped Ukraine has to repay a $3 billion Russian loan before year's end. You'll recall the history, per RBC:
"The country [Ukraine] is essentially bankrupt and without serious amounts of aid will default. In August, Ukraine reached a deal with its private creditors on $19 billion of commercial debt which reduced yields, extended maturities, and reduced the face value of the bonds by 20% – all of which reduced the country's financing needs over the next four years to a more manageable $15 billion. In addition Russia has a $3 billion official loan outstanding, which is due for repayment by the end of the year; and Ukraine had hoped that Russia would join the negotiations – no such luck. President Vladimir Putin is insisting on payment in full; and if he doesn't get it, it will mean that the International Monetary Fund will be legally unable to extend its planned $17.5 billion loan – which is where the political dimension comes into play …
Russia wants to keep Kiev guessing, unsure of how the situation in the East of the country will develop. There remain misunderstandings on both sides about the requirements of the two Minsk Agreements. … Russia wants to pressure Kiev into introducing the constitutional changes demanded by the second agreement. These require Kiev to establish quasi-autonomous regions in the East which would remain part of Ukraine and be subject to the Kiev government, but have a veto over certain areas of government policy – notably over foreign and defence policy …
President Putin's overall strategic aim – globally – is to re-establish the perception of Russian power and influence throughout the world; and ensuring that no settlement in the Middle East can now be brokered without his involvement, and that Ukraine remains within the Russian orbit go a long way to achieving this objective. Thus his actions in both Syria and Ukraine are designed to increase his leverage with the West; if the West wants a settlement in the country, it will have to accommodate in some shape or form, and for some time, the involvement of President Bashar al-Assad; if the West wants to get the IMF loan into Ukraine, it will have to pressure Kiev into implementing the Minsk 2 constitutional settlement …"
See our early October post, "Fitch Downgrades Junked Ukraine Debt After Restructuring, Default."
Diverse bond funds that hold Ukraine debt, according to the most recent filings available on Morninstar.com, include: the iShares Emerging Markets High Yield Bond exhange-traded fund (EMHY), the Vanugard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF (VWOB), the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB), and the PowerShares Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt Portfolio (PCY).
Some headlines after a mostly good day in emerging markets, with the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund (EEM) down 0.2% and the iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI) down 1.5%.
The the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth outlook, citing emerging market slowness and weak commodity prices. The global economy will rise 3.1 percent from a July forecast of 3.3 percent, and next year, growth is now projected to be 3.6 percent, less than the 3.8 percent projected. For the country-by-country growth data, see our post "As IMF Cuts Emerging Market Growth, Russia, Mexico & Gold Rally."
Greece needs to successfully navigate its first review of the 86 billion-euro ($97 billion) rescue program before the euro area will release funds or ease Greece's debt burden, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said, according to Greek newspaper Ekathimerini in English. The Greek government released a budget Monday in which government debt is projected to rise to 198 percent of gross domestic product in 2016, from 187.6 percent, due to new bailout loans. The budget projects a 2.3 percent decline in the Greek economy this year and a 1.3 percent decline next year, according to the New York Times. The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (GREK) rose 2%, and the National Bank of Greece (NBG) was little changed.
The Brazilian real gained 1.2 percent against the dollar on hope that President Dilma Rousseff's cabinet reshuffle this week will strengthen her political coalition, Reuters reports. The iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF (EWZ) rose nearly 1% Tuesday. A Brazilian woman was murdered after being directed to drive through a dangerous slum by a mobile phone application called Waze, Cosmopolitan reports.
Fitch downgraded Ukraine debt. Ashmore's head of research, Jan Dehn, explains Ukraine's debt restructuring — a recent 4-year extension and 20% principal haircut to bondholders, with a coupon increase and other securities.
Some India reading: "8 Million New Toilets Later, India Isn't Much Cleaner," USA Today reports, and "India leads Asia's dash for coal as emissions blow east," by Reuters. The iShares MSCI India ETF (INDA) fell 1.2% Tuesday.
Falling oil prices are the driver of Russia's economic collapse, which has been exacerbated by sanctions due to Russia's support of rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
So says John Greenwood, the chief Economist at Invesco, who writes that Russia needs higher oil prices to help stabilize its economy and to diversify away from energy as a revenue source. He adds in a blog post today:
"Against the backdrop of low oil prices, further depreciation of the ruble and economic stagnation, I believe it's likely that the rate hikes will be reversed as market rates fall with the weakening economy. Inflation peaked in March at 16.4% year-on-year but has since stabilized. However, with the ruble falling again on the back of further weakening of oil prices, I anticipate that inflation will likely remain about 15% until early 2016 and then fall back to about 5% …
The ruble's collapse last year created much concern that Russian companies wouldn't be able to repay their $100 billion foreign debt in 2015. However, Russia has been using its large official foreign exchange reserves to help offset the currency crisis. The Central Bank of Russia launched a $50 billion program to lend dollars to companies at a concessionary rate when the ruble collapsed last December. But with the weak outlook for world oil prices, will foreign reserves, although significant, be able to sustain this support policy?
In short, Russia needs a higher oil price to help stabilize its economy in the near term. Over the long term, the country needs to diversify away from energy and restore market forces to the economy rather than relying on political patronage and cronyism.
See Greenwood's piece on the Invesco Website: "Oil and ruble: double trouble for Russia's heavily-sanctioned economy."
The Market Vectors Russia exchange-traded fund (RSX) is down 2.2% today. Among individual stocks, oil producer Lukoil (LUKOY) is down fractionally, while gas production and transportation company Gazprom (OGZPY) is down 1.9%. Bank Sberbank (SBRCY) is down 0.8%, telecom VimpelCom (VIP) is down 6.2%. Yandex (YNDX) is down 2.4%.
See our posts "3 Takeaways From Russia's August Contraction" and "Russia's Central Banker: Kudos, But Not In Rubles."
Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom (OGZPY) and oil giant Rosneft (OJSCY and ROSN.Russia) are finding it increasingly difficult to get financing.
Low commodity prices combined with recession in Russia are hurting revenues. And Western sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine are a hindrance, though French president Francois Hollande said this week he would support lifting sanctions. Meanwhile, new energy supplies could come online from Iran, and Egypt just discovered a massive new offshore natural gas field.
All this means Gazprom is in a weakened position as it negotiates this month in a natural gas antitrust case brought by the European Union earlier this year. In early August, Citi research noted Gazprom's push to diversify its customer base, with a pipeline project east to China (Power of Siberia) and another headed through Turkey (Turkish Stream), each of which need financing. Citi Analyst Ronald Paul Smith wrote:
"We think a potential squeeze on cash by competing high-priority projects and dividends would be a good [thing] for Gazprom's shareholders, as it might inject some discipline into the company's investment plans, which often seem profligate."
In a Barron's column in July on the launch of the BRICs bank, I noted that Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov suggested Rosneft could qualify for BRIC financing. Rosneft recently was unable to tap Russia's €65 billion ($72.7 billion) sovereign wealth fund for a handful of projects. New Europe online quotes Justin Urquhart Stewart, director at Seven Investment Management, who says that as Rosneft and Gazprom find it increasingly difficult to tap international markets, the pressure is mounting on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) rallied more than 3 percent Tuesday but was falling after hours.
See the Barron's Emerging Markets Column dated July 11, "BRICs Create Their Own IMF." (Subscription required.)
Russia's state consumer protection service is telling retailers to stop selling popular products from Procter & Gamble (PG), Germany's Henkel (HEN.Germany), Colgate-Palmolive (CL) and Clorox (CLX).
In trading today, the ruble — which has been tracking the price of oil — was weak at a recent 64.28 to the dollar. The Market Vectors Russia exhange-traded fund (RSX) is up 1.6%. Shares of P&G and Colgate-Palmolive are down nearly 1%, while shares of Clorox are down 0.5%.
The word came down last week: Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) cited safety concerns in soap, cosmetics and other products, according to a Euromonitor blog post. P&G and Henkel control about 40% of the otherwise fragmented Russian home-and-personal care market, and more than half the market share in the categories targeted. Also affected: Werner & Mertz and Russian company Nevskaya Kosmetika. Unilever (UN) appeared unaffected, with a small 2% share of the market, according to Euromonitor.
Western sanctions against Russian companies and individuals have persisted this year; they resulted after Russia's annexation of Crimea, formerly in Ukraine. Euromonitor researcher Vitalij Vladykin writes:
"In June 2015, Henkel opened one more factory in Russia and announced that it is still interested in investments into local market. If these restrictions from Rospotrebnadzor are indeed connected only to insufficient quality of products, this issue will be quickly solved by manufacturers. However, if this decision has deep political roots, international companies will need to review their business plan for Russia, which will affect not only local consumers, but also thousands of employees. The popular idea of import replacement which is proposed in Russia will be hard to implement in the case of home care. Multinational companies managed to get dominant positions due to strong brand names, which were consistently supported with innovative product launches and wide promotional campaigns."
Ukraine and creditors — Franklin Advisers, BTG Pactual Europe, TCW Investment Management and T. Rowe Price Associates — agreed to restructuring 14 sovereign and sovereign-guaranteed Eurobonds with a value of $18 billion.
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund (EEM) was up 1.8% in pre-market trading.
After months of negotiations, the terms reached with Ukraine's most significant creditors allow the country to tap International Monetary Fund assistance agreed to in March. According to a Ukraine finance ministry press release, here are the terms of the debt restructuring:
A 20% nominal haircut, yielding up to $3.6 billion of debt relief — and up to $3.8 billion — for Ukraine on bonds.
Eurobonds within the IHT [ Indicative Heads of Terms] perimeter to be rolled into nine new bonds, with a repayment schedule stretched out through 2027
A coupon of 7.75%, an increase of about 50 basis points (0.5%) from current agreements
A value recovery instrument in the form of a real GDP growth warrant, providing potential upside to holders from 2021 to 2040.
For more, see the Ukraine Ministry of Finance press release and the BBC story on the Ukraine debt restructuring.
Ukraine's latest proposal to restructure $19 billion of debt is unacceptable to bondholders including Franklin Templeton.
Creditors want to meet next week, while Ukraine was hoping for a resolution this week, indicating negotiations are losing momentum, according to an article by Bloomberg and a summary in The Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg: "Ukraine's $2.6 billion of 2017 notes fell the most in a month after a person familiar with negotiations said a creditor committee led by Franklin Templeton aims to hold a call to discuss the offer next week, rejecting a request for high-level face-to-face talks in London on Thursday."
WSJ: "The price of two-year Ukrainian bonds fell slightly in morning trade to around 58 cents on the dollar. Bond prices remain well above their March lows of 38 cents."
The Templeton Global Bond Fund (TEGBX) held Ukraine bonds as of June 30; the list of specific holdings is available in a Franklin Templeton document online. The fund is down nearly 3% year to date, while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is down 6.4% and the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB) is down 0.8%.
The global supply of liquefied natural gas or LNG is set to grow at a 10% annually — three times the rate of recent years.
Citi Analysts expect that U.S. cheap U.S. shale feedstock and greenfield projects in Australia will result in excess supply of LNG that won't be balanced for at least five years. Citi analysts Alastair R. Syme, Ronald Paul Smith, Dale Koenders, Faisel Khan, Michael J Alsford, Fernando Valle, David Townsend and Mubasher Chaudhry write:
"Around 50% of U.S. offtake will be sold to direct end users (mainly Asia); the remaining 50% is essentially merchant. Finding a home for this latter 50% will prove an issue in an environment of global oversupply … under this scenario we would expect demand for European pipe-gas to get backed out. Russia and Norway are the two largest sources of supply into Europe, but with different economic considerations. Norwegian producers have little flexibility on supply given a high proportion of associated gas. In contrast, Russia's Gazprom (OGZPY) has proven to be a highly flexible supplier and has shown a willingness (2009/10) to protect price over volume.
The incumbent LNG businesses of Big Oil should retain decent returns … Our contention is that in an environment of oversupply excess U.S. LNG will get dumped into Europe. … expect Gazprom to accommodate the dumping of LNG into Europe … Our central view is that Gazprom would once-again protect prices, accommodating the LNG oversupply against its own volumes within the bounds of what its take-or-pay commitments allow. The strategic rationale for doing so would be based around a view that the LNG oversupply is temporary …"
The U.S.-traded shares of Gazprom are up 1.4% today and are up 11% this year, but have tumbled 39% over 12 months reflecting sanctions following Russia's annexation of Crimea and war in Ukraine. The Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) is up 25% this year but down 32% over 12 months, while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is down 1.4% this year and 12.5% over 12 months.
Via FactSet, The McClatchy Tribune writes on Gazprom today following an interview with Matthew Bryza. He was director of International Centre for Defense Studies in Tallinn, who worked for the U.s. secretary of state in the South Caucasus, and was U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, writes today that :
"Gazprom has been forced into some projects that are not really economically attractive … a huge amount of their income is being used for non-transparent purposes in Russian government. … Gazprom …is forced to sell gas domestically in Russia at an unattractive economic price as a form of social support and has to make up all of its losses by selling gas in foreign countries, while demand in foreign countries, especially in Europe, has gone down, he said."
Emerging markets have been synonymous with growth, but the outlook for individual nations is constantly changing. Countries from Brazil and Russia to Turkey face challenges including infrastructure bottlenecks, credit issues and political shifts. The Barrons.com Emerging Markets Daily blog analyzes news, data and research out of emerging markets beyond Asia to help readers navigate the investment landscape.
Barron's veteran Dimitra DeFotis has been blogging about emerging market investing since traveling to India and Turkey. Based in New York, she previously wrote for Barron's about U.S. equity investing, including cover stories and roundtables on energy themes. Dimitra was among the first digital journalists at the Chicago Tribune and started her career as a police reporter at the Daily Herald in the Chicago suburbs. Dimitra holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in the business and journalism schools.
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February 2015 News Bloopers Will Melt Your Winter Blues Away
It's that time of the month. You know, the time to look back at the best of the worst in the news.
It's that time of the month. You know, the time to look back at the best of the worst in the news.
Paul McCartney has been popping up all over lately, and many times it has been with pop artists. He's singing on a new song called "FourFiveSeconds" with Rihanna and Kanye West, and it's making the rounds on pop radio.
And did you hear who he collaborated with at the 'Saturday Night Live' after party over the weekend?
The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon might be prone to brief spats of name-dropping – hey, the guy knows a lot of people! – but on last night's show, it was at least somewhat appropriate. Still recovering from Sunday night's SNL 40 super special, Fallon was eager to share his recollections of the evening with his studio audience (and also Questlove, who was actually there, but who charitably recounted the whole evening with the giddy Fallon). There were a lot of people there!
The SNL 40th Anniversary Special had a LOT going on. It was over three hours of comedy and music and stars and tributes all packed into one night. With so much going on, if you missed something, we can't say we blame you. We've covered the big items, like Celebrity Jeopardy, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, the new Digital Short, Wayne's World and the huge monologue, but we're here to celebrate some of the smaller moments.
Live from New York, it's Paul McCartney and Paul Simon!
It's the moment we all knew would happen eventually -- and, based on the immediacy of the news cycle and when late night shows are actually filmed, it's the moment most of us also knew was happening yesterday -- but 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart has finally announced his retirement after seventeen years at the news desk. Stewart's show films in the late evenings in New York City, so the news that he had announced his imminent retirement during a taping last night hit the wire many hours before the show actually aired.
The show Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, will put couples in the Shocktagon on Friday's episode, so they can role play, see each other's perspective, and get zapped with lots of little zings of electricity...
Jimmy Kimmel started his month-long 'Mash Up Mondays' series in style last night, inviting Weezer to join ZZ Top for a performance as the mashed-up Wee-Z Top.
We're only one month into 2015 and we've already had a year's worth of classic news bloopers.
Piece by piece, 'Game of Thrones' season 5 has unveiled new looks at its HBO premiere, and with "The Watchers on the Wall" now raging in IMAX, the newest season 5 sneak is bigger than ever. Feast your eyes on the spoilery, statue-toppling full trailer for 'Game of Thrones' season 5, online at long last!
NBC has remained curiously quiet on 'SNL''s three-hour 40th Anniversary special on February 15, and while cameos galore are expected, our first major homecoming may have arrived. Following a 31-year absence, Eddie Murphy will reportedly return to 'SNL' to ring in the NBC sketch comedy legend's 40th anniversary.
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Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI] - General Information About Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer
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The rate of curability of cancers of the lip and oral cavity varies depending on the stage and specific site. Most patients present with early cancers of the lip, which are highly curable by surgery or by radiation therapy with cure rates of 90% to 100%. Small cancers of the retromolar trigone, hard palate, and upper gingiva are highly curable by either radiation therapy or surgery with survival rates of as much as 100%. Local control rates of as much as 90% can be achieved with either radiation therapy or surgery in small cancers of the anterior tongue, the floor of the mouth, and buccal mucosa.[9]
Moderately advanced and advanced cancers of the lip also can be controlled effectively by surgery or radiation therapy or a combination of these. The choice of treatment is generally dictated by the anticipated functional and cosmetic results of the treatment. Moderately advanced lesions of the retromolar trigone without evidence of spread to cervical lymph nodes are usually curable and have shown local control rates of as much as 90%; such lesions of the hard palate, upper gingiva, and buccal mucosa have a local control rate of as much as 80%. In the absence of clinical evidence of spread to cervical lymph nodes, moderately advanced lesions of the floor of the mouth and anterior tongue are generally curable with survival rates of as much as 70% and 65%, respectively.[9,10]
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Gateway to the Great Kalahari Desert, the small market town of Kuruman, lying on the Ghaap Plateau, is also the unlikely location for the world diving record. Yes indeed. No, not some weird record for diving in syrup or animal fat or some other fanciful claim to stardom. The proper record - recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records - for diving in water, set on 23rd August 1996, by South African Nuno Gomes, who dived 282 metres to the floor of the Boesmansgat, a natural dolomite sinkhole on the southern edges of the Kalahari. As if this desert sinkhole wasn't content with having one world diving record, in November 2001 Verna van Schaik set the women's record here as well.
It is likely that neither Robert Moffat, the famous missionary who built his mission in Kuruman, nor legendary explorer David Livingstone (and Moffat?s son-in-law), who passed by, would have guessed that one day, people would travel to little Kuruman to dive.
No-one knows quite when Kuruman was first settled, nor quite what the name means, but it is likely that this oasis was settled originally by the San people and possibly named for a local chief, Kudumane. The town of Kuruman was founded in 1886 ? for a long time it really was just the LMS missionaries. Through much of its life, Kuruman had a reputation for Christian preaching, but more recently Kuruman has become known for a variety of real lesiure pursuits, including the sport of paragliding. It is possible for experienced paragliders to soar for over 100km: although all-year paragliding is possible, the dust devils make summertime paragliding a hazardous activity.
Some may find the Ghaap Plateau monotonous, but it is an area with a rich history and an even richer natural history. The flora is considerably more varied than might first be thought, and the variety of birds is equally impressive. This is the south-eastern quarter of the Great Kalahari Desert ? or the Kgalagadi as it is becoming known now. While the area around Kuruman is not actually desert, there is little growing between the shrubs but the drifts of the Kalahari?s deep red sand. Most noticeable of the trees are the camelthorn and the related grey camelthorn, with their zig-zag branches and bleached white spikes; the seeds are encased in a wide flat, ear-shaped husk. Also common is the blackthorn, often filled with the hanging hand-woven nests of the weaver birds, including the beautiful spectacled weaver.
Even over quite short distances, the landscape can change rapidly, and there are stark bare hills, granite mounds and the occasional red sand dune. After asbestos was discovered nearby in 1912, Kuruman became one of the world?s most significant asbestos mining areas, and the area was lucky to survive the demise of asbestos in use around the world. This area is also known for its manganese mines, and the first manganese was discovered at the appropriately-named Black Rock, some 100km north of Kuruman. Two of the world?s largest manganese mines are in the vicinity of the settlement of the equally appropriately-named Hotazel, to the north. But in the winter months, the night time temperatures plummet, often below zero. Seven years ago, the residents of Kuruman woke to find snow lying on the ground.
As well as the local mines, agriculture remains important to Kuruman, and I seem to remember that it has one of Africa?s biggest cheese factories. More obvious are the game farms in every direction ? huge farms, each of many thousands of hectares, lie along every road and track in every direction.
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- Cons:Porbably too much of the "open", "great" and "wide" for most people!
- In a nutshell:Wonderful. I love it here. Big time.
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Today's headline: The Israelis and the Palestinians (at least those represented by Abbas and Fatah) have resumed peace talks.
If I was a betting man, I'd guess the headlines later this week will be about bombs going back and forth between Gaza and Israel.
Advice: Don't halt the peace talks when the attacks start. The attacks highlight the very reason for the peace talks.
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Mother's final wish is granted as her teenage son moves his graduation ceremony to her hospital bedside
A mother's dying wish was granted as her teenage son moved his high school graduation ceremony to her hospital bedside.
Jennifer Linnabary, 52, from Colerain, Ohio, who had been battling a rare form of blood cancer for four years, watched from her bed as her youngest child, Ben, shook hands with his principal and threw his hat in the air.
Sadly she died 24 hours after the event took place at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center on Sunday, February 3.
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Final wish: Ben Linnabary moved his high school graduation ceremony to his mother's hospital bedside as her health deteriorated - she died 24 hours after the event took place
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Ongoing battle: Jennifer Linnabary was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer for four years
Mrs Linnabary was diagnosed with mantel cell lymphoma, a rare but aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that strikes approximately 3,000 people per year, on May 14, 2009.
She told the Examiner at the time: 'As we drove to the office to pick up the new patient paperwork, I Googled mantel cell. The first thing that came up was that it hit mainly older men. I laughed; just my luck.
'The next site took the wind out of my sail. I was.. not ready to face a foe that is so rare and has a high mortality rate. I sobbed uncontrollably. Then I got mad.'
Over the years she underwent various treatments including chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant from her brother Gene.
Before her diagnosis Mrs Linnabary devoted her time to her family and her work at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
She also helped launch Project SEARCH, an award-winning program that provides employment and education opportunities to individuals with disabilities.
Her work saw her meet a number of high-profile figures including Prince Edward and the former assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor Neil Romano.
'It was hard being there knowing these might be the last hours I would spend with her'
Described as a 'dynamic' figure in the community Mrs Linnabary wrote about her cancer battle on a blog site titled Ziggy Fights!.
She explained that writing helped her to focus on healing instead of the diagnosis.
In 2010 she went into remission, but the following year the cancer returned.
Happy memories: (From left) Mrs Linnabary with her husband Tim, son Ben and daughter Rebecca
Family figure: Mrs Linnabary pictured with her husband Tim
Her last diary entry was on December 13 2012 titled Christmas Everyday.
Mantle cell lymphoma is one of the rarest of the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and there are only about 15,000 patients currently in the U.S.
Symptoms include either fever, heavy night sweats, unexplained weight loss or some combination. Swelling of lymph nodes and spleen are usually present.
The disease, which mainly affects men who are over 50, is difficult to treat and currently there is no cure.
Median survival times were about 3 years, but are now estimated as approaching 6 years for new patients.
The cause is unknown and no inherited predisposition has been identified.
She wrote: 'It was one year ago today
that my seemingly endless stays at either a hospital, rehab center, or
skilled living facility began.
'I have calculated that I spent 260 days in these facilities and only 106 days at home.'
Family members said that Mrs Linnabary's health took a turn for the worse two weeks ago, so they moved Ben's high school graduation forward and staged it at her intensive care unit.
It was attended by Rick Glatfelter, superintendent of the Northwest Local school district, principal Maureen Heintz and other representatives from Colerain High School.
Describing his mother, Ben said: 'Even in the toughest situations, she was able to hold onto hope - hold onto life.'
His older sister Rebecca added: 'It's changed him, it's changed me. The amazing woman that she is and the legacy she left behind.'
Mrs Linnabary's husband Tim and other family members are now appealing for funds to cover funeral expenses.
Community figure: Before her diagnosis Mrs Linnabary's time was devoted to her work at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and over the years she met a number of high-profile figures including Prince Edward (pictured)
Medical bills cost in excess of $350,000 and on top of that last year the Linnabarys reported that they had lost $70,000 to fraud.
Sandra Sicking, who was trusted to handle money matters and investments for Tri-State families admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from clients instead.
A special service in Mrs Linnaberry's memory will be held this Thursday at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Greenhills, Ohio.
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SEOUL, South Korea (March 29, 2013)—North Korea renewed threats Friday after U.S. stealth bombers took part in joint military drills Thursday with South Korea.
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