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Vale wins in natural-gas discovery
The company needs a lot of natural gas to mine potash in Mendoza, and now it should have the supply.
The biggest winner from Argentina's huge natural gas from shale discovery in Patagonia?
Well, YPF Sociedad Anonima (YPF) is certainly a winner. The find of 4.5 trillion cubic feet of gas is roughly double the Argentine company's previous proved natural gas reserves of 2.7 trillion cubic feet. YPF already produces some natural gas from four wells at the Loma La Lata field with a daily output of 100,000 cubic meters.
Repsol YPF (REP), the Spanish oil and gas company that controls YPF, is certainly a winner, too. Media reports, unconfirmed by either company, say the find could hold as much as 250 trillion cubic feet of gas. By contrast, Argentina's proved natural gas reserves before the find totaled 12 to 13 trillion cubic feet. ("Proved" is a much more meaningful measure than "reported in the newspaper," I'd note.) Repsol is planning to sell 15% of YPF in a public offering.
But the biggest winner might actually be Vale (VALE). The Brazilian iron ore giant is moving to become the biggest fertilizer producer in Brazil, and its new $4.3 billion Rio Colorado project sits in the neighboring Argentine province of Mendoza.
To mine potash there Vale needs natural gas, lots of it, and until this find it looked like it was going to have to battle a tight Argentine natural gas market to get the supplies it needed or import it from somewhere.
The alternative sources were all either politically iffy or likely to be very expensive. The Rio Colorado project is scheduled to begin production in the second half of 2013 with initial production capacity of 2.4 million tons and the potential for 4.4 million tons.
And now?
It's clear now how Vale will find the gas it needs. (And in retrospect I doubt this find comes as a surprise to Vale. We are talking about a mining company that's pretty good at assessing future resource potential.) Vale will invest $150 million along with YPF to begin developing the find with half of natural gas production going to Vale.
This is the second big deal that Vale has signed to secure infrastructure for the Rio Colorado mine. In August Vale took over the railroad concession operated by Ferrosur Roca that connects Neuquen province, near the mine, with the province of Buenos Aires.
Vale has targeted the fertilizer sector as one of its big growth opportunities. In January the company bought Bunge's (BG) fertilizer assets in Brazil, including a 42% stake in Fertilizantes Fosfatados, the largest supplier of fertilizer in Brazil. At the end of September Vale bought Mosaic's (MOS) remaining stake in the business, now renamed Vale Fertilizantes. Vale now owns almost 80% of the fertilizer unit.
Vale isn't expensive right now, trading at just 11 times projected 2010 earnings and 7.9 times projected 2011 earnings per share. The Wall Street consensus projects 39% earnings growth in 2011.
As always, the dangers with Vale are the commodity cycle and debt. On the former, I think Vale doesn't face substantial new capacity coming into production -- which would force prices for iron ore and fertilizer lower -- until 2012 or 2013. On the latter, the company has vigorously worked to expand its investor base.
The most recent move was a listing in Hong Kong. That doesn't lessen the company's leverage, and Vale does have a very aggressive program of capital spending for 2010 and 2011. But short of another global financial crisis, I think the debt load is manageable.
You may be able to get Vale at a discount to current prices if we get another big growth scare out of China. The stock did trade at $25 or so back in July. But I think that's what it would take to give you a significant buying dip. The stock is a member of my Jubak Picks 50 long-term portfolio.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French advertising group Publicis
A contraction in September had depressed Publicis' monthly revenue by 1.6 percent compared with a year earlier and led it to post weaker than expected third-quarter sales.
Similar slowdowns hit market leader WPP
The chief executive of Publicis, Maurice Levy, said in an emailed statement on Sunday that it was too early to say whether October's improvement would continue through the fourth quarter because companies often adjust their marketing budgets in December.
"At this point in time, we cannot yet confirm that growth and confidence are back," said Levy. "Europe and analog media are still at worrying levels."
Market research group ZenithOptimedia, a subsidiary of Publicis, scaled back its target for growth in global advertising spending this year to 3.8 percent from the 4.3 percent it predicted in June, blaming Europe's debt crisis.
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Stocks kicked off the week with a broad charge higher led by a rally in technology shares, as the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index climbed to an all-time closing high.
The S&P 500 added 11.37 points, or 0.7%, to 1593.61, with all 10 sectors advancing. The index closed a hair above its record of 1593.37, reached April 11. The tech-oriented Nasdaq Composite Index rose 27.76 points, or 0.8%, to 3307.02, its highest level since 2000. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 106.20 points, or 0.7%, to 14818.75.
Stocks kicked off the week with a broad charge higher led by a rally in technology shares, as the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index notched an all-time closing high. Jonathan Cheng reports. Photo: Associated Press.
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Paul Vigna has details on key stocks to watch, including J.P. Morgan, where CEO Jamie Dimon has lost one of his key lieutenants.
Even as stocks rallied, demand rose for the 10-year Treasury TWE.AU -1.66% Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. Australia: Sydney $4.74 -0.08 -1.66% Sept. 19, 2014 4:10 pm Volume (Delayed 20m) : 3.54M P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $3.09 Billion Dividend Yield 2.95% Rev. per Employee N/A 08/22/14 Corporate Watch 08/22/14 Overheard 08/21/14 China Data Weighs on Shares More quote details and news » note, pushing the yield down to 1.667%, settling at its lowest level this year.
The tech sector had the biggest gains in the S&P 500, adding 1.6%, followed by materials, which gained 1.5%.
Tech companies were also the biggest blue-chip gainers. Hewlett-Packard HPQ -0.59% Hewlett-Packard Co. U.S.: NYSE $36.79 -0.22 -0.59% Sept. 19, 2014 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10.84M AFTER HOURS $36.80 +0.01 +0.03% Sept. 19, 2014 7:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 906,528 P/E Ratio 13.68 Market Cap $68.66 Billion Dividend Yield 1.74% Rev. per Employee $354,132 09/18/14 Larry Ellison to Step Aside as... 09/17/14 Agilent CEO Bill Sullivan to R... 09/17/14 No Parting of the Cloud for Ra... More quote details and news » advanced 53 cents, or 2.6%, to $20.50, Microsoft MSFT +1.80% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $47.52 +0.84 +1.80% Sept. 19, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 136.55M AFTER HOURS $47.33 -0.19 -0.40% Sept. 19, 2014 7:46 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 65.98M P/E Ratio 17.86 Market Cap $391.56 Billion Dividend Yield 2.61% Rev. per Employee $677,570 09/21/14 Oracle's Big Challenge Is More... 09/20/14 Microsoft Delays Xbox One's Ch... 09/19/14 Once Again, Oracle Must Reinve... More quote details and news » added 82 cents, or 2.6%, to 32.61, and International Business Machines IBM +0.13% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE $194.00 +0.25 +0.13% Sept. 19, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.97M AFTER HOURS $194.00 0.00 % Sept. 19, 2014 7:56 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 886,649 P/E Ratio 12.19 Market Cap $197.87 Billion Dividend Yield 2.27% Rev. per Employee $229,711 09/21/14 Chinese Overseas Buying Increa... 09/17/14 No Parting of the Cloud for Ra... 09/16/14 Huawei Looks to Boost Investme... More quote details and news » rose 4.84, or 2.5%, to 199.15.
"Tech has been a huge laggard. I think that's unjustified," said Bernie Williams, vice president of discretionary money management with USAA, which oversees $54 billion. "I think tech has pretty good earnings prospects relative to the rest of the market, they pay good dividends, and they don't have a lot of debt on the books."
With the day's gains, the tech sector is down 0.3% for the month and energy has declined 0.8%. Materials are up 0.4% on the month, but the sector is still underperforming the S&P 500, which is up 1.6%.
"People are bottom-fishing here," said Sean Kelly, managing director with Knight Capital Group. KCG -1.04% KCG Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE $10.48 -0.11 -1.04% Sept. 19, 2014 4:05 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 823,943 AFTER HOURS $10.48 0.00 % Sept. 19, 2014 5:04 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 52,444 P/E Ratio 4.71 Market Cap $1.24 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $1,148,730 09/15/14 Credits & Debits: News Digest 09/12/14 KCG Holdings CFO Steve Bisgay ... 09/12/14 CFO Moves: Summit Hotel Proper... More quote details and news »
Dow components Pfizer PFE -0.59% Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE $30.40 -0.18 -0.59% Sept. 19, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32.15M AFTER HOURS $30.40 0.00 % Sept. 19, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.87M P/E Ratio 18.84 Market Cap $192.76 Billion Dividend Yield 3.42% Rev. per Employee $647,709 09/18/14 Bayer to Pursue IPO for Plasti... 09/17/14 Roche CEO Rules Out Big Deals 09/17/14 Bayer Plans to Separate Materi... More quote details and news » and Merck MRK +0.30% Merck & Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE $60.49 +0.18 +0.30% Sept. 19, 2014 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13.54M AFTER HOURS $60.52 +0.03 +0.05% Sept. 19, 2014 6:32 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 948,587 P/E Ratio 31.51 Market Cap $174.49 Billion Dividend Yield 2.91% Rev. per Employee $573,263 09/18/14 Germany's Bayer Moves Out of M... 09/18/14 Bayer to Pursue IPO for Plasti... 09/17/14 Bayer Plans to Separate Materi... More quote details and news » are slated to report earnings on Tuesday and Wednesday. More than half of companies in the S&P 500 have reported results, and 73% of companies have beat Wall Street profit forecasts, according to FactSet. But fewer than half of companies are beating analysts' estimates for sales, known as the top line.
"Earnings are largely meeting expectations, but there have clearly been some top-line disappointments," said Christie Zarkovich, chief investment officer for EverBank Wealth Management.
Investors are also waiting for the Federal Reserve, which will begin a two-day policy setting meeting on Tuesday, with a statement to be released on Wednesday.
European markets gained, highlighted by a 2.2% surge in Italy's FTSE MIB index as the swearing in of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta over the weekend helped settle the nation's political situation. In addition, an auction of Italian five-year and 10-year government bonds saw strong demand and produced the lowest yields seen since October 2010. Many investors expect the European Central Bank to ease monetary policy this week. The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.5%.
Most Asian markets traded higher. Australia's S&P ASX 200 tacked on 0.6% amid strength in financial shares. Japanese and mainland Chinese markets were closed for holidays.
Gold prices rose 0.9%, to settle at $1,467.40 a troy ounce, as a decline in the dollar helped support commodity prices. Last week, gold rose 4.2% to snap a four-week losing streak. Crude-oil prices added 1.6%, to settle at $94.50 a barrel. The dollar lost ground against the euro and yen.
In corporate news, J.C. Penney JCP -5.01% J.C. Penney Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE $10.23 -0.54 -5.01% Sept. 19, 2014 4:05 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28.95M AFTER HOURS $10.22 -0.01 -0.10% Sept. 19, 2014 7:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 439,103 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $3.12 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $103,940 09/16/14 Zara Builds Its Business Aroun... 09/09/14 Stocks to Watch: Apple, McDona... 08/25/14 Metro Money: A Country Music S... More quote details and news » rose 19 cents, or 1%, to 17.19, as the department-store chain confirmed a commitment for a $1.75 billion loan, which would provide a big injection of funds as it works to rejuvenate its business after a tumultuous year under former Chief Executive Ron Johnson.
Walt Disney DIS +0.17% Walt Disney Co. U.S.: NYSE $90.49 +0.15 +0.17% Sept. 19, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12.25M AFTER HOURS $90.49 0.00 % Sept. 19, 2014 6:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.13M P/E Ratio 21.44 Market Cap $155.33 Billion Dividend Yield 0.95% Rev. per Employee $273,869 09/21/14 Will 'Gotham' Signal Change at... 09/21/14 Network Fees Create Drama for ... 09/17/14 Discovery to Take Control of H... More quote details and news » was among the top gainers in the Dow industrials, gaining 1.13, or 1.8%, to 63. Analysts from UBS UBSN.VX +0.30% UBS AG Switzerland: SWX Europe CHF16.62 +0.05 +0.30% Sept. 19, 2014 5:30 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15.09M P/E Ratio 18.89 Market Cap CHF63.89 Billion Dividend Yield 1.50% Rev. per Employee CHF582,244 09/20/14 Scottish Independence Issue Ma... 09/19/14 U.S. Stocks Finish in Mixed Te... 09/19/14 Pound Briefly Buoyed by Scotti... More quote details and news » upgraded the company to "buy" ahead of its earnings report next Tuesday, saying the company's potential for earnings growth is "underappreciated by the market."
Conceptus jumped 5.06, or 19%, to 30.96, after Germany's Bayer BAYN.XE -0.40% Bayer AG Germany: Xetra €112.25 -0.45 -0.40% Sept. 19, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8.26M P/E Ratio 26.04 Market Cap €92.82 Billion Dividend Yield 1.87% Rev. per Employee €358,163 09/18/14 Corrections & Amplifications 09/18/14 Germany's Bayer Moves Out of M... 09/18/14 Deals of the Day: Bayer's Plas... More quote details and news » agreed to buy the medical company for about $1.1 billion.
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Eric Kraft
Critics have compared him to Proust, Pynchon, and Fred Astaire—an artful, slyly intelligent, wildly inventive observer of Americana. Now Eric Kraft has landed an ambitious comedy set both in our present and in an alternative 1950s universe—Flying.
It is the tail end of the 1950s, and in the town of Babbington, New York, a young dreamer named Peter Leroy has set out to build a flying motorcycle, using a design ripped from the pages of Impractical Craftsman magazine. This two-wheeled wonder will carry him not only to such faraway places as New Mexico and the Summer Institute in Mathematics, Physics, and Weaponry, but deep into the heart of commercialized American culture, and return him to Babbington a hero. More than forty years later, as Babbington is about to rebuild itself as a theme park commemorating his historic flight, Peter must return home to set the record straight, and confess that his flight did not match the legend that it inspired.
Drawing together Eric Kraft's previously published Taking Off and On the Wing with the brand-new final part of the story, Flying Home, Flying is a buoyant comedy of remarkable wingspan, a hilarious story of hoaxes, digressions, do-it-yourself engineering, and the wilds of memory—and a great satire of magical thinking in America.
"Kraft's characters don't talk like people actually talk. They're more witty, more astute, and they express themselves with infinitely more pizazz. This is true even of Peter's winged steed, the charmingly anthropomorphized Spirit of Babbington, which may not be an ace at lifting off but proves a surprisingly excellent road buddy. The effect is like a happy-go-lucky Nabokov, with all the road-tripping wordplay and none of the incest. . . . On paper, a novel about hope, nostalgia, love, disillusionment, pataphysics and the science of lift might seem like a hopelessly overdetermined bucket of bolts, an aerodynamic impossibility. But Kraft's affectionately satirical, buoyant language makes Flying soar."--Radhika Jones, Time magazine
"Eric Kraft is an oddball, an eccentric, a bit of a genius--the writerly equivalent of a dreamer who puts together weird and wonderful contraptions in his garage. . . . Kraft plays the clown, but something essential and transformative is also at stake. . . . Flying abounds in . . . dizzying moments, writing that looks easy enough but in most writers' hands falls to Earth with a clunk and a thud. Kraft has made his career out of high-wire performance, seizing on the merest hint or detail and spinning it into magic. . . . For this writer there is no junk. Everything is grist in the mill of a transformative prose that sometimes can recall Proust or Nabokov, and at others the British humorists P. G. Wodehouse and J. B. Morton. . . . Flying, though episodic, has a pleasing coherence and sweep, and feels like Kraft's grandest achievement since Herb 'n' Lorna."--Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times
"Once again, wizardly Kraft mixes boy-wonder high jinks with metaphysical musings, tall tales, and true love in a zany, heart-lifting escape from the everyday."--Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Hilarious. . . . Kraft's protagonist through twelve novels, the memoirist Peter Leroy, is both an egoist and an egotist who by all rights should be a crashing bore, but his curious idiosyncrasies, strange perspectives, and satirical wit render him fascinating. His ego is held somewhat in check by his wryly brilliant wife, Albertine, and their pithy, erudite conversations resemble those of a markedly hornier William Powell and Myrna Loy."--Library Journal
"This delightful omnibus volume includes three novels: the previously published Taking Off and On the Wing and the never before published Flying Home, which completes the adolescent adventure of Kraft's serial alter ego character Peter Leroy. . . . The finished trilogy is a trip not to be missed."
—Kirkus Reviews
"With Flying, Eric lighter-than-air Kraft barnstorms several miles above where most writers' imaginations dare to ascend."--Ed Park, author of Personal Days
"A hilarious and masterfully told tale."--St. Petersburg Times
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14 September 2010 at 10:56pm Last edited: 14 September 2010 10:56pm
first of all i am wondering why there are no topics about the mobile-module in this forum. I think it is really useful. Thanks for it!
I think i have installed it correctly. On SiteContent i have got the mobile tab. blackcandymobile has been copied to themes. Mobile users are redirected to mobile domain works fine. But the mobile theme is not used. I have installed the User-Agent-Switcher add-on for firefox and tested it on different sites. The add-on works fine, too. But silverstripe uses the standard theme instead of the mobile theme? Can anybody give a hint?
Have a look on my playground:
http://www.flavourtripping.de/ and http://mobile.flavourtripping.de/
Greetings from Germany, Carsten.
Re: mobile: using the wrong theme?
17 September 2010 at 1:55am
unfortunately i still havent solved the problem.
I have switched the user agent to iPhone3 and tested it on different websites. my Firefox is detected as an iPhone.
If i put the following to line 40 of MobileSiteControllerExtension.php: echo $config->MobileTheme; die(); I will get "blackcandymobile".
But the site is rendered with the non mobile standard theme.
I am using subsites. Can anybody help?
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Re: mobile: using the wrong theme?
17 September 2010 at 3:10pm
first of all i am wondering why there are no topics about the mobile-module in this forum. I think it is really useful. Thanks for it!
Glad you like it! Not many topics on it because it is no new. Still in beta and not quite feature complete so I guess a few people are waiting till it becomes more robust before trying it out. I just tried with my mobile device and I got the mobile theme on all occasions. Perhaps try including a ?flush=1 when you visit the cache to ensure that the css / Page.ss files are refreshed.
Re: mobile: using the wrong theme?
17 September 2010 at 10:17pm
Hi Willr,
it's working, because i have added a new subsite called http://mobile.flavourtripping.de
But if you choose this solution, you have to build a separate sitetree for this subsite. What do i have to do if i want to show the sitetree from the main site for mobile users?
Greetings from germany, Carsten.
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Re: mobile: using the wrong theme?
21 September 2010 at 4:57am
Just add this is lines to Page_Controller:init()
$config = SiteConfig::current_site_config();
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21 September 2010 at 5:13am
Looking at using this for our agency mobile site. I had to make a few modifications of my own though as we wanted to have the ability to switch between mobile and desktop versions (even if viewing on wrong environment). My code is a bit rough (more of a front-end guy) but I changed MobileSiteControllerExtension.php onBeforeInit function to this:
public function onBeforeInit() {
$config = SiteConfig::current_site_config();
$env = '';
//Get cookie value
$env = $_COOKIE['env'];
// Redirect users to the full site if requested (cookie expires in 30 minutes)
if(isset($_GET['env'])) {
$_COOKIE['env'] = "d";
setcookie('env', "d", time() + self::$cookie_expire_time);
$env = "d";
$_COOKIE['env'] = "m";
setcookie('env', "m", time() + self::$cookie_expire_time);
$env = "m";
// Redirect to the full site if user requested
if($this->onMobileDomain() && $config->MobileSiteType == 'RedirectToDomain' && $env == "d") {
return $this->owner->redirect($config->FullSiteDomain);
} elseif($env == "d") {
return; // nothing more to be done
// If the user requested the mobile domain, set the right theme
if($this->onMobileDomain()) {
// User just wants to see a theme, but no redirect occurs
if((MobileBrowserDetector::is_mobile()||$env=="m") && $config->MobileSiteType == 'MobileThemeOnly') {
// If on a mobile device, but not on the mobile domain and has been setup for redirection
if(!$this->onMobileDomain() && (MobileBrowserDetector::is_mobile()||$env=="m") && $config->MobileSiteType == 'RedirectToDomain') {
return $this->owner->redirect($config->MobileDomain);
In order to switch to mobile, just add ?env=m, and to switch to desktop use ?env=d.
Sure someone else could make it a little more efficient though
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21 September 2010 at 6:44am Last edited: 21 September 2010 6:51am
Why not mobile.sitename.com and sitename.com for full version it works even if u use wrong environment if u turn off redirection?
Also u can add director rules to project/_config.php something like: Director::addRules(50,array('mobile' => 'Page/mobile'));
and define mobile method in Page_Controller where u can add cookies or session variables and of course theme selector.
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21 September 2010 at 8:28pm
You're probably right. I have created a mobile domain, and reverted to the original code and it seems to be a lot better way of doing it. Only thing it lacks is the ability to switch back to mobile site (what if a user clicked it accidentally for example) without waiting 30 mins, but I guess this is where that Director::addRules stuff comes in. Will have to look into. Thanks for the pointers
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Next week, Comedy Central is hosting a comedy show almost entirely on Twitter, with comedians posting video clips and jokes using the hashtag #ComedyFest. It's an experiment to get users to watch video directly on Twitter, rather than use Twitter as a second screen while watching TV.
As early as next month, Comedy Central will introduce a free, ad-supported app, called CC: Stand-Up. Designed to look and feel like a cable channel devoted to stand-up, the app will offer videos of comedians performing routines.
A recommendation algorithm (similar to the one used by Amazon) will allow users to discover new comedians. If you watched Jeff Ross, for example, a web of other comics would pop up based on routines with similar topics (like mass transit), style (like dark humor) or other relationships (both like marshmallows).
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If Alanis Morissette ever does a follow-up to her "Ironic" song, I'm hoping this gets worked in there somewhere (especially since it's actually ironic, unlike most of the examples she chose for her song):
One of the leaders of Hungary's Jobbik Party, which the Anti-Defamation League says is one of the few political parties in Europe to overtly campaign with anti-Semitic materials, has discovered that he is himself a Jew.
As the AP says, Csanad Szegedi had in the past railed about the "Jewishness" of the political class. According to the ADL, his party's presidential candidate referred to Israeli Jews as "lice-infested, dirty murderers."
For Szegedi all of this came to a screeching halt, when in 2010 a prisoner confronted him with evidence that he had Jewish roots. According to the AP, Szegedi tried to bribe the prisoner to keep him quiet, but rumors and innuendo reached a fever pitch by late last year and in June, Szegedi conceded that his mother was a Jew. According to Jewish law, that makes Szegedi Jewish, too.
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The group included lawmakers, church groups and community leaders. They were all calling for justice and dignity for immigrants and all workers. Many in the group have seen the proposal by the so-called gang of eight, but they think it needs work.
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by Kate Fichter, Green Line Extension Project Manager
Helpful materials from the recent Station Design Workshops are now available for your review and download from the Green Line Extension website. We appreciate your participation in the Workshops and hope that these materials are helpful to you.
As always, if you have any questions on the Green Line Extension project, you can email Kate Fichter.
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Public Hearings: Proposed Hazardous Material Route
Public Hearings will be held by MassDOT, as the state routing agency, to discuss the I-93/I-95 Non-Radioactive Hazardous Material through routing designation proposed by the City of Boston. The four hearings are scheduled as follows:
Boston- Tuesday, August 23, 6:30-8:30pm, State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, 2nd Floor
Quincy- Wednesday, August 24, 6:30-8:30pm, Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington Street
Waltham- Tuesday, August 30, 6:30-8:30pm, Clark Government Center, Main Auditorium, 119 School Street
Stoneham- Thursday, September 1, 6:30-8:30pm, Stoneham Town Hall Auditorium, 35 Central Street
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Secretary Mullan: "Reform is in Good Hands"
by Jeff Mullan, MassDOT Secretary & CEO
Governor Patrick announced that he has accepted my resignation as Secretary of Transportation, effective September 2, 2011. He also announced that he has appointed Rich Davey to succeed me as Secretary.
It's never a good time to leave any organization, particularly one like ours when so many of you are doing such good work and we have so much more work to do. But, for the reasons I shared with all of you in my message a few weeks ago, I know that this is the right decision for me and my family. In September, I will return to Foley Hoag to resume my law practice.
I am pleased that the Governor has recognized Rich's talents and know that, with his energy, smarts, and curiousity, transportation reform is in good hands. Over the next month, I intend to work closely with Rich in effecting a smooth transition. I ask that you do so as well.
By now, all of you know how much I believe in all that we have done and are doing. You should also know how enormously proud I am of the progress we have made and the work you have all done. For me personally, I am particularly proud to have kept my head about me in times of difficulty, to have served my turn for over four years, and to have earned the friendship and respect of so many of you. For that, I thank you.
I won't say goodbye because I have a few more weeks left. I look forward to them.
Medford "93Fast14" Project: 12 of 14 Bridges Replaced
The Medford I-93 "93Fast14" project has now completed 12 of 14 bridges and continues on the 9th weekend of bridge replacements with the focus on the I-93 South bridge over Riverside Avenue. The work will take place between 7:45 PM Friday, August 5th and 5:00 AM Monday, August 8th.
Throughout the course of the weekend, traffic on I-93 will be limited to two lanes in each direction over a 6-mile segment between Exit 28 (Sullivan Square) in Somerville and Exit 36 (Montvale Avenue) in Stoneham. Traffic on I-93 South will be directed through a median crossover near Spot Pond at the Stoneham/Medford line and then travel in counter-flow operation on the northbound barrel of the highway before traveling through a second median crossover near the Medford/Somerville line. I-93 directional traffic will be separated by a moveable "zipper lane" barrier. Access to and from many of the ramps on I-93 South in this area will be restricted.
The $98.1 million project to replace these fourteen bridge superstructures in Medford is funded through the Patrick-Murray Administration's historic Accelerated Bridge Program, a $3 billion recovery effort to reduce the Commonwealth's backlog of structurally-deficient bridges.
For more information or to sign up to receive future updates and schedule information, visit the 93Fast 14 Project website.
MassBike: Casey Overpass Outreach Praised
by David Watson, MassBike Executive Director
The Casey Overpass is a four-lane, raised section of Route 203, connecting the Arborway to Forest Hills Cemetery and Franklin Park in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It passes over the Southwest Corridor and Forest Hills Station. The structure was built in 1954, but 57 years later it is structurally unsound and splits the community in two between what amounts to the width of eight lanes of roadway. As part of the Accelerated Bridge Program, MassDOT will be replacing the overpass, but "What will it be replaced with?" is the question. The project has regional as well as neighborhood significance, as the current overpass carries a significant amount of traffic to and from Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Mattapan, Milton, Dorchester, West Roxbury, and beyond.
Earlier this year, MassBike, along with community groups and advocates, was invited to join the project's Working Advisory Group (WAG). The group's purpose is to help develop an alternative vision for the area. Because the area is used by commuters of all types (motorists, bicyclists, public transportation riders, and pedestrians), this is an opportunity to create a safe and improved area for all the roadway's constituents and for the neighborhood itself. MassBike is lending its bicycling expertise to the WAG, while local community advocates lead the way to a solution that works for their neighborhood.
So far, the Working Group has been meeting to discuss the current problems of the Casey Overpass, establish priorities for addressing these issues, and begin to look at various design alternatives. Most recently, the design alternatives have been narrowed down to four basic concepts: a split bridge, a single bridge, surface roads with a wide median, and surface roads with a narrow median. The WAG met this week to discuss the pros and cons of each approach. You can see all the information presented at WAG meetings here. As the group continues to meet throughout the summer and into the fall, we'll have more of an idea of what a possible solution may look like. One thing is clear – everyone is committed to finding the best solution for the community and all those who use the area.
MassBike is involved because we see this as a great way for MassDOT, the community, and advocates to work together at the earliest stages of a project. MassDOT and its consultants have created a process that is admirably community-driven and responsive to community input. While no project design process can satisfy everyone, this is a pretty good one so far, and we hope MassDOT will use this approach regularly.
MassDOT Supports Boston Bike Share
The next time you need to get around Boston – consider the healthy transportation option of the Hubway bike share system! Bicycling offers 'healthy, green and fun' travel option.
MassDOT Secretary and CEO Jeff Mullan says "Our 'GreenDOT' policy initiative has demonstrated a strong commitment to healthy transportation options as essential to creating livable communities. This bike share system supports that commitment."
MassDOT contributed to Hubway's launch with a $3 million Federal Transit Administration grant awarded to the MBTA for bikeshare in combination our Clean Air and Mobility CMAQ funding. The CMAQ funding will allow the program to expand into Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline.
To help your first ride be an easy ride – check out 'Go By Bike' and 'Same Roads Same Rules' before taking a ride on the Hubway.
MassDOT August Public Meeting
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors will hold its next regular public business meeting on Wednesday, August 10, 1:00pm, MBTA Board Room, Suite 3910, State Transportation Building, Boston.
The MBTA Board will meet first at 1pm, followed by the MassDOT Board. All meetings are open to the public.
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Can we look at the past when looking for future solutions to modern problems?
I read a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb which proposes the idea that the world is incredibly unpredictable. These "Black Swan" events control integral moments in the history of our species; whether that be a stock market crash or 9/11. In hindsight we may see a trend, but at any given moment the future of a new black swan event is impossible to predict. I am wondering that if this is the case, can we still look into the past to find solutions to problems. I did an analysis of Israel while looking for a solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict and found an interesting economic trend when compared to cooperation. (If you would like to read my study visit http://luxperci.com/solution-arab-israeli-conflict/ ) Is this a fair assumption?
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Aug 21 2012: Mitch, Yes, with caution. Often we see only cause and effect. There are so many factors that go into success and failure that are often overlooked. Social, environmental, and economic conditions at the time of the event, global events that impacted the success / failure, models in place, political influence, etc ...
The second major point I would like to present: History is written by the victor and from the political standpoint that was prevelent at the time.
Caution should be taken as much of History is being revisited and some re-written that disregard documents that are available written at the time of the event. History revisionists present a danger to basing any model on revised history.
We often use apples to oranges when a apples to apples requirement exists.
What is in place today that was not available to the historical event. What is the impact. What are the advantages / dis-advantages. Probabilities of success.
Yep, I include the past in planning for the future but I try to be sure I am using apples to apples and the whole picture of the past model and the current projected model when measuring the probalities of success.
P.S. I like LuxPerci and the arguments presented there.
All the best. Bob.
Aug 21 2012: I like your perspective. Don't you think that sometimes people wrongly compare apples to apples as well though. I understand what you are referring to above and I totally agree, but there are some instances where the actual connection is made between two seemingly unrelated things. If your are familiar with freakanomics than I assume you are also familiar with their linking of legalized abortion to crime prevention. They seem unrelated, apples to oranges, but it turns out that perhaps there is a connection between the two. If abortion is legal, parents who wouldnt be able to spend time caring and supporting their children in rough neighborhoods wouldnt create the kids that would grow up with nowhere else to go but the streets.
Also thanks for the compliment on my site! I presented more of my views on this topic in another article if you or anyone else is interested: http://luxperci.com/certainly-uncertain/
Aug 21 2012: Absolutely. You may get a red delicious when a granny smith is desired. Freakanomics tells us to not be hasty in disregarding input. I try to recall there is a sublime and a rediculious in all things.
There is always someone who wants to shove 10 pounds of stuff into the five pound bag.
When I was in charge I had a simple trick that served me well. I compose a letter / answer etc .... and put in in my left hand drawer. I pulled it out again the next day and if it still met the needs, made sense, etc ... I posted it. I did this because many time new info, poor wording, bad composure, or events that overcome the issue became evident and I wished I had waited. This practice resolved that problem. I was no wiser but looked dumb less often. They were still my errors if they happened but I owned them and made every effort to make a informed decision based on information at hand.
All the best. Bob.
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