Erickson: 'No Objection' to Releasing Penn State Employees' Salary Information State College News by Adam Smeltz on January 13, 2012 6:46 PM In an apparent break with his predecessor, Penn State President Rodney Erickson said Thursday he would have "no objection" to releasing university employees' salary information to the public. ... |
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Erickson: 'No Objection' to Releasing Penn State Employees' Salary Information - State College News
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Investors must embrace volatility of a brutal market - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Surely, the fallout from the increasingly opaque and crookedly engineere dealings out of the financial sector over the past decader have made talking about capital marketsa struggle. (I’m sure that reading about it has been even Getting an answer to questionslike “What’sz going on the markets?” must be somethinh akin to hearing an astrophysicist explain how the universe began. In both cases, you regret askinb the question in thefirst place. That Adam Smith’sd invisible hand has given way to the visible fist of government makes things even morecomplicated — and riskier.
And yet, amidst this unprecedentesd change inthe size, scope and direction of Americajn fiscal and monetary investors must truly pay attention to and take advantagse of what could be a long time markedd by volatility and overall blandness (and that’s if we’res lucky). The “V-shaped” bottom and economic “green everyone is hoping for, and most are investing in, is at best optimistixc speculation. First, the fiscal mess that’s getting irrevocably The current annual deficitof $1.5 trillion is 10 perceny of GDP alone, and it’s growing.
America’xs total debt-to-GDP ratio currently stands near 50 percent and that figur is scheduled to grow to 100 percent in fiveyearas — a level many countries have experience as the point of no return. These deficitw don’t include the huge costs of a cominbg universalhealth care, and they certainly don’t includs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — three programds representing a $40-$50 trillion liability in present value Economic growth will not likely help especially the lukewarm 2 percent GDP variety (not the 4 percenf kind we’ve been accustomed to) that will accommodate a new era of biggefr government, higher taxes and and an emphasis on “private/public” partnerships and incomer redistribution instead of free market, libertariahn capitalism and growth.
Monetarg policy is only increasing longer-terjm risks to the economy. The Federa l Reserve is not only printing moneh and lending it for freeto banks, it’se also buying debts of all shapes and sizes with those newly printed including Treasury bonds at a near $400 billion annual clip and another $1 trillion of mortgage-relatede debt. The U.S. is now “monetizing” thereby adding dollars to a system that is already flushwith cash. The success (or of individual investors lies in getting right afew questions, such as: At what point do investords — not just in the U.S. but globallyu — begin to believe that lending to anyone in includingthe U.S.
government, at low fixedx rates and long maturities, is madness? In othef words, when does the dollar collapses as China and the other Asian saverwsdecide they’re better off diversifying theie savings into other assets? This and other questions are perhaps all that matted going forward. Without that, looking at whether this 4 percent bond is worty buying or that stock at 15 times earningsd orthat bank’s CD — is likelty a futile if not dangerous If America’s great experiment with borrowing and printinh money doesn’t work, we may be lookingf at a world of overall loweer disposable income, permanently lowetr economic growth and much highed inflation and interest rates with fewee financiers.
If that time those who bought and sat on equit y mutual funds oreven longer-term bonds will find out that what they thoughtt was “cheap” was just a figmenr of a bygone time when the dollar was king, ratesz and inflation were low, and capitalism was relativel unbridled. By the looks of it, that era is Perhaps the only ones who will really make money are those who canpay attention, pouncw on fleeting opportunities and embrace the volatilitgy of a market that will be brutal to most.
Surely, the fallout from the increasingly opaque and crookedly engineere dealings out of the financial sector over the past decader have made talking about capital marketsa struggle. (I’m sure that reading about it has been even Getting an answer to questionslike “What’sz going on the markets?” must be somethinh akin to hearing an astrophysicist explain how the universe began. In both cases, you regret askinb the question in thefirst place. That Adam Smith’sd invisible hand has given way to the visible fist of government makes things even morecomplicated — and riskier.
And yet, amidst this unprecedentesd change inthe size, scope and direction of Americajn fiscal and monetary investors must truly pay attention to and take advantagse of what could be a long time markedd by volatility and overall blandness (and that’s if we’res lucky). The “V-shaped” bottom and economic “green everyone is hoping for, and most are investing in, is at best optimistixc speculation. First, the fiscal mess that’s getting irrevocably The current annual deficitof $1.5 trillion is 10 perceny of GDP alone, and it’s growing.
America’xs total debt-to-GDP ratio currently stands near 50 percent and that figur is scheduled to grow to 100 percent in fiveyearas — a level many countries have experience as the point of no return. These deficitw don’t include the huge costs of a cominbg universalhealth care, and they certainly don’t includs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — three programds representing a $40-$50 trillion liability in present value Economic growth will not likely help especially the lukewarm 2 percent GDP variety (not the 4 percenf kind we’ve been accustomed to) that will accommodate a new era of biggefr government, higher taxes and and an emphasis on “private/public” partnerships and incomer redistribution instead of free market, libertariahn capitalism and growth.
Monetarg policy is only increasing longer-terjm risks to the economy. The Federa l Reserve is not only printing moneh and lending it for freeto banks, it’se also buying debts of all shapes and sizes with those newly printed including Treasury bonds at a near $400 billion annual clip and another $1 trillion of mortgage-relatede debt. The U.S. is now “monetizing” thereby adding dollars to a system that is already flushwith cash. The success (or of individual investors lies in getting right afew questions, such as: At what point do investords — not just in the U.S. but globallyu — begin to believe that lending to anyone in includingthe U.S.
government, at low fixedx rates and long maturities, is madness? In othef words, when does the dollar collapses as China and the other Asian saverwsdecide they’re better off diversifying theie savings into other assets? This and other questions are perhaps all that matted going forward. Without that, looking at whether this 4 percent bond is worty buying or that stock at 15 times earningsd orthat bank’s CD — is likelty a futile if not dangerous If America’s great experiment with borrowing and printinh money doesn’t work, we may be lookingf at a world of overall loweer disposable income, permanently lowetr economic growth and much highed inflation and interest rates with fewee financiers.
If that time those who bought and sat on equit y mutual funds oreven longer-term bonds will find out that what they thoughtt was “cheap” was just a figmenr of a bygone time when the dollar was king, ratesz and inflation were low, and capitalism was relativel unbridled. By the looks of it, that era is Perhaps the only ones who will really make money are those who canpay attention, pouncw on fleeting opportunities and embrace the volatilitgy of a market that will be brutal to most.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tartan Fields in receivership - San Antonio Business Journal:
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Columbus lawyer A.C. Strip, who’s representing Columbus-basesd receiver Martin Management Services, said GE Capital filed to put the golf club into receivership on Friday in Delaware County CommonPleas Court. Detailds on the nature of Tartan’s default weren’y immediately available, but Strip said the club is less than 60 days behinsd onits loan. Strip said that despitd the filing, the receiver has “no intention now or in the futurs tocease operations” and that it “wants to give everyy opportunity for the golf coursre to survive with its present management.
” “We’re at a crossroads and a number of possibilities could develop from this,” he Among those: A sale of the a chance for the course’s owners to reorganize in conjunctiobn with GE Capital, or a refinancing deal with another A message seeking comment was left with Tartann management Monday afternoon.
Columbus lawyer A.C. Strip, who’s representing Columbus-basesd receiver Martin Management Services, said GE Capital filed to put the golf club into receivership on Friday in Delaware County CommonPleas Court. Detailds on the nature of Tartan’s default weren’y immediately available, but Strip said the club is less than 60 days behinsd onits loan. Strip said that despitd the filing, the receiver has “no intention now or in the futurs tocease operations” and that it “wants to give everyy opportunity for the golf coursre to survive with its present management.
” “We’re at a crossroads and a number of possibilities could develop from this,” he Among those: A sale of the a chance for the course’s owners to reorganize in conjunctiobn with GE Capital, or a refinancing deal with another A message seeking comment was left with Tartann management Monday afternoon.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Tree chipping marks end of holidays - Savannah Morning News
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CBS New York | Tree chipping marks end of holidays Savannah Morning News By Constance Cooper Like a holiday record played backward, families showed up to the Victory Drive Home Depot on Saturday morning with Christmas trees tied to the roofs of their station wagons. They were taking part in a Georgia holiday tradition 20 ... Used trees become new again Tree Recycling About to Pick Up Still time left to drop off trees at Home Depot for annual 'tree-cycling' event |
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Nats prospect Zinicola gets 50-game ban - MLB.com
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MLB.com | Nats prospect Zinicola gets 50-game ban MLB.com By Bill Ladson / MLB.com | 01/05/12 5:00 PM EST Zechry Zinicola struck out 44 batters over 40 1/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A in 2011. (Kevin Pataky/MiLB.com) WASHINGTON -- The Office of the Commissioner of Baseb » |
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Summit Development Group seeks new plan as MacKenzie moves on - Houston Business Journal:
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LLC had planned to team with local firm to developpa high-end senior residential community on 12 acres at 3200 Lacledr Station Road, the site of the . The known as MacKenzie Place atDeer Creek, was slatef to include a 77-bed assisted-living facility and more than 200 independent living unitse as well as retail space. financing issues have caused MacKenzis Houseto re-evaluate the project, accordingh to a filing with the Missouri Certificat of Need program. MacKenzie now has set its sights on a much smallereproject — a $17 million communituy to be built on the campus of the existing Stonebridge Communities at Brookview in Marylaned Heights.
campus includes the Brookview Nursinyg Home, a 223-bed skilled nursinf facility at 2963Doddridge Ave. The facilitgy is operated by St. Charles-based , which operateds nine senior-care facilities across Missouri. The Stonebridgwe campus in Maryland Heights includes a largr piece of land that is not yet fully according toRick Watters, an attorney with who is workinyg with MacKenzie on the project. ElderCare already was workingb on plans to add independent livingand assisted-livingv facilities to the campus, Wattere said.
“Then when the MacKenziwe Place at Deer Creekkproject wasn’t able to go they saw it as an opportunityg to bring those beds to the site,” he “Now this project is going to be much smallere and easier to finance.” The proposee facility will include 77 assisted-living beds and 29 independent livingy units. Future plans include an additional10 stand-alone dupledx independent living units. Upon completion, ElderCare woulde manage the proposed facility. Summit Development stilo owns the Deer Creek Shopping Centere and is working through variouse redevelopment options since the MacKenzie House project failed tomove forward.
Thesew options include redeveloping the western portiojn of the shopping center into a senior livingv facility asoriginally proposed, according to John Ross Jr., president of Summit. The company is currentlyy in discussions with a few operators and andexpects “to finalizr a direction” in the next two to three Ross said. MacKenzie Placs at Deer Creek is not the onlylocap senior-living project to be stalled by the credit crunch.
In additionh to the MacKenzie Place project, the Missourui CON agenda for its June 1 meetinf also includes the forfeiture of a CON toestablisy Grant’s Farm Manor, a 12-berd assisted- living facility and 24-bed skillefd nursing facility planned for Last month, Baltimore-based , the developer for the closed the marketing and sales center for Grant’w Farm Manor, citing an inability to secure financiny for the project.
CEO Rick Grindrocd said in a statement at the time that the compan was returning deposits made by prospective residents upon request but was not rulingy out building the project when theeconomy
LLC had planned to team with local firm to developpa high-end senior residential community on 12 acres at 3200 Lacledr Station Road, the site of the . The known as MacKenzie Place atDeer Creek, was slatef to include a 77-bed assisted-living facility and more than 200 independent living unitse as well as retail space. financing issues have caused MacKenzis Houseto re-evaluate the project, accordingh to a filing with the Missouri Certificat of Need program. MacKenzie now has set its sights on a much smallereproject — a $17 million communituy to be built on the campus of the existing Stonebridge Communities at Brookview in Marylaned Heights.
campus includes the Brookview Nursinyg Home, a 223-bed skilled nursinf facility at 2963Doddridge Ave. The facilitgy is operated by St. Charles-based , which operateds nine senior-care facilities across Missouri. The Stonebridgwe campus in Maryland Heights includes a largr piece of land that is not yet fully according toRick Watters, an attorney with who is workinyg with MacKenzie on the project. ElderCare already was workingb on plans to add independent livingand assisted-livingv facilities to the campus, Wattere said.
“Then when the MacKenziwe Place at Deer Creekkproject wasn’t able to go they saw it as an opportunityg to bring those beds to the site,” he “Now this project is going to be much smallere and easier to finance.” The proposee facility will include 77 assisted-living beds and 29 independent livingy units. Future plans include an additional10 stand-alone dupledx independent living units. Upon completion, ElderCare woulde manage the proposed facility. Summit Development stilo owns the Deer Creek Shopping Centere and is working through variouse redevelopment options since the MacKenzie House project failed tomove forward.
Thesew options include redeveloping the western portiojn of the shopping center into a senior livingv facility asoriginally proposed, according to John Ross Jr., president of Summit. The company is currentlyy in discussions with a few operators and andexpects “to finalizr a direction” in the next two to three Ross said. MacKenzie Placs at Deer Creek is not the onlylocap senior-living project to be stalled by the credit crunch.
In additionh to the MacKenzie Place project, the Missourui CON agenda for its June 1 meetinf also includes the forfeiture of a CON toestablisy Grant’s Farm Manor, a 12-berd assisted- living facility and 24-bed skillefd nursing facility planned for Last month, Baltimore-based , the developer for the closed the marketing and sales center for Grant’w Farm Manor, citing an inability to secure financiny for the project.
CEO Rick Grindrocd said in a statement at the time that the compan was returning deposits made by prospective residents upon request but was not rulingy out building the project when theeconomy
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Extended Stay Hotels files Chapter 11 - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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The Spartanburg, S.C.-based company filed the reorganization petition in New York bankruptcy court, Secretary and General Counsel Joseph Teichmaj writing that Extended Stay had about $7.1 billiobn in assets and $7.6 billion in liabilities at the end of 2008. Extendefd Stay, whose more than 680 propertiese are managed byHVM LLC, has eight Central Ohio sites, includingg those near the Mall at Tuttles Crossing, Polaris Fashion Place and Easton Town The company bills itself as the largest operator of mid-priced extended-stayt hotels in the nation.
Teichmab in a court filing on Monday wrote that the companu sought protection from creditors amid a genera l downturn in the hospitality industry and a hit taken as fewerr potential customers needthe company’w services. “Since the typical Extended Stay customer seeks a lengthy stay basedr oncommercial relocation, the contraction of construction and new business development began to significantly and adversely affectefd Extended Stay’s revenue stream,” Teichman The company said its average revenuse per room dropped about 23 percent in the firstg five months of the year compares with the same period of 2008.
As a it was unable to deal with its debt burdebn with cash flow and is seekinga “comprehensiver restructuring of the entiree capital structure.” Extended Stay said it planzs to run operations following the Chapter 11 petitio under a lender-approved arrangement using cash collateral. Debtor-in-possession financingy won’t be needed, the company said. About 9,900 employeesw work in hotels operated by Extended The company is in 44 states and hasabout 77,00 0 rooms.
The Spartanburg, S.C.-based company filed the reorganization petition in New York bankruptcy court, Secretary and General Counsel Joseph Teichmaj writing that Extended Stay had about $7.1 billiobn in assets and $7.6 billion in liabilities at the end of 2008. Extendefd Stay, whose more than 680 propertiese are managed byHVM LLC, has eight Central Ohio sites, includingg those near the Mall at Tuttles Crossing, Polaris Fashion Place and Easton Town The company bills itself as the largest operator of mid-priced extended-stayt hotels in the nation.
Teichmab in a court filing on Monday wrote that the companu sought protection from creditors amid a genera l downturn in the hospitality industry and a hit taken as fewerr potential customers needthe company’w services. “Since the typical Extended Stay customer seeks a lengthy stay basedr oncommercial relocation, the contraction of construction and new business development began to significantly and adversely affectefd Extended Stay’s revenue stream,” Teichman The company said its average revenuse per room dropped about 23 percent in the firstg five months of the year compares with the same period of 2008.
As a it was unable to deal with its debt burdebn with cash flow and is seekinga “comprehensiver restructuring of the entiree capital structure.” Extended Stay said it planzs to run operations following the Chapter 11 petitio under a lender-approved arrangement using cash collateral. Debtor-in-possession financingy won’t be needed, the company said. About 9,900 employeesw work in hotels operated by Extended The company is in 44 states and hasabout 77,00 0 rooms.
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