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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sales of new single-family homes in the U.S. rose in September to the highest rate in more than two years, according to government data released Wednesday that confirms the improving picture in the housing market.
Tampa, Charlotte among gainers.
• U.S. homeownership at 18-year low
Sales of new single-family homes in the U.S. rose 5.7% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 389,000, the highest pace since April 2010, when the first-time homebuyer tax credit was initially due to expire, the Commerce Department said.
"Though the level of new-home sales remains very low, this report adds to the evidence of housing market recovery," said analysts at RDQ Economics.
The government revised down the sales pace in August to 368,000 from a prior estimate of 373,000.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected new-home sales in September to rise to an annual rate of 387,000, given recent gains in other housing-market data, such as confidence among home builders, as well as housing starts and permits. See economic calendar.
Despite the gain in September, the pace of new-home sales remains relatively low compared with a peak of almost 1.4 million in 2005. But it's improved 42% from a low of 273,000 in early 2011 as mortgage rates have hit record lows, foreclosures have dropped, and the jobs picture has slowly improved.
U.S. stocks SPX, -1.05% were mildly higher on the session. An exchange-traded fund of home builders ITB, -0.52% has more than doubled in the last year.
The median sales price in September shot up 11.7% year-on-year to $242,400.
The supply of new homes declined to 4.5 months at September's sales rate from 4.7 months in August.
By region, sales in September fell only in the Midwest.


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Michiel Coxcie (Flemish, Mechelen [Malines] 1499 - 1592 Antwerp)
Portrait of Christina of Denmark, 1545
Signed and dated lower right (later addition?): michel cocxyie / pingebat / annorum / 1545
Oil on panel (oak)
27 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. (71 x 55.6 cm)
Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1953
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Early in his career, Coxcie painted this portrait of a young duchess, in mourning after the death of her second husband. The artist had recently returned from two years in Rome, and the painting's softly modeled forms reveal an Italian influence. The sitter is depicted very similarly in a portrait by Hans Holbein done in 1538, after the death of her first husband.
Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine (1522-1590), was the daughter of King Christian II of Denmark and Isabella of Aragon. In 1533 she was married by proxy to Francesco Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, who died in 1535. She married Francis, Duke of Lorraine, in 1541, but was widowed again upon his death in 1545. Christina died in Alexandria in 1590.
The sitter in this portrait has previously been identified as Mary of Hungary (1503-1558), who was the aunt of Christina and regent of the Netherlands under Charles V,2 as well as Coxcie's chief patron. However, her facial features, apparent age, and the mourning dress all support the identification as Christina of Denmark. Allowing for differences inherent in frontal vs. three-quarter view, as well as seven years' difference in age, Hans Holbein's full-length portrait of Christina, dated 1538,3 shows the same dark eyes under delicate brows, fleshy cheeks, square jaw, and full lower lip. The sitter's "Italian" mourning dress is virtually identical in the two portraits: the close-fitting black widow's cap, the high-necked black gown relieved only by narrow white frills at the neck and wrists, and the loose black coat or overdress, which in the Holbein portrait is lined with fur, and in the Coxcie, with velvet. Christina wears four rings in the Oberlin portrait, including a death's head memento mori ring on her left hand.
Patricia Rose has proposed a reconstruction of the circumstances that produced the portrait now in Oberlin.4 She suggests that Mary of Hungary commissioned Coxcie to paint a commemorative portrait of her niece, who in 1545 was just widowed for the second time. As Christina remained in seclusion in Lorraine for several months following her husband's death, an oil study was made there from life and sent on to Brussels for Coxcie to work from. This freely handled bust-length sketch is now in the museum at Budapest, as by Coxcie.
There are no other portraits extant from this comparatively early period in Coxcie's career; most of his portraits date somewhat later and confirm the artist's adoption of a harder, more linear style by the 1560s.6 Oberlin's Portrait of Christina of Denmark shows the softer modeling of forms characteristic of works produced by the artist immediately following his return from Rome in 1539.
M. E. Wieseman
Michiel Coxcie (Coxie) was born in 1499, probably in Mechelen (Malines). After training (probably with Bernard [Barent] van Orley [ca. 1490-1541] in Brussels), he traveled to Haarlem and to Rome, where he lived from about 1530 to 1539. Coxcie became a master in the Mechelen Guild of St. Luke on 11 November 1539. Shortly thereafter he moved to Brussels, where in 1542 he became a member of that city's guild of painters. He is first mentioned as court painter to Mary of Hungary in 1546, although he was probably active in that capacity by at least a year earlier (see date on the Oberlin portrait). Coxcie returned to Mechelen, at that time the judicial and religious center of the Netherlands, in about 1563. He was in Antwerp from 1585 until his death in Mechelen on 10 March 1592. Coxcie was extremely prolific; in addition to history paintings, altarpieces, frescos, and portraits, he also made designs for engravings, tapestries, and stained glass windows. His son Rafaël (1540-1616) was also a painter.
General References
Michiel Coxcie, pictor regis (1499-1592). Edited by Raphaël de Smedt. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 96, no. 2 (1992). Mechelen, 1993.
Collection Count Arco, Munich
With A. S. Drey, Munich (February 1925)
With M. Knoedler and Company, Inc., New York (1925-1928, as "Mary of Hungary")
With Paul Drey Gallery, New York (from 1928)
Collection Viscount Rothermere (by 1938)
Sale Viscount Rothermere, London (Christie's), 12 December 1947, lot 18 (as "Maria of Hongaria"; £525, to W. Sabin)
With Sabin Galleries, London
With F. Kleinberger and Co., Inc., New York, from whom purchased in 1953
Budapest, Szépmüvézeti Múzeum, 1938. Selected Pictures from Lord Rothermere's Collection. Cat. no. 4 (as Portrait of Christiana of Denmark).
Bruges, Musée Communal, 1953. Le Portrait dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Cat. no. 85.
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1954. Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum. 3 - 21 February. Cat. no. 31.
Kenwood, London County Council, 1962. An American University Collection: Works of Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio. 3 May - 30 October. Cat. no. 19.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1963. Le Siècle de Brueghel. 27 September - 24 November. Cat. no. 84.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College Art Gallery, 1964. Sixteenth Century Paintings from American Collections. Cat. no. 5.
Gläck, Gustav. "Bildnisse aus dem Haus Habsburg, II." Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s. 8 (1934), pp. 173ff. (as "Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Lorraine").
Selected Pictures from Lord Rothermere's Collection. Exh. cat., Szépmüvézeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1938, cat. no. 4 (as "Christiana of Denmark").
Csánky, Dénes. "Ausstellung der Leihgaben aus der Sammlung Lord Rothermere." Pantheon 22 (1938), pp. 395, 393 ill. (as Christine von Lothringen).
Marlier, Georges. "Altniederländische Bildnisse in Brüssel." Weltkunst 23 (15 August 1953), p. 9 (as "Portrait of a young woman [Christina of Denmark?]," collection Harry Sperling, New York).
van Puyvelde, Leo. La Peinture flamande au siècle de Bosch et Brueghel. Paris, 1962, p. 412 (with erroneous reading of inscription and incorrectly identified as with Harry Sperling [Kleinberger & Co.], New York).
Rose, Patricia. "Christina of Denmark by Michael Coxie." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), pp. 29-51.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, pp. 39-40, fig. 32.
Pigler, Anton. Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister. Vol. 1. Szépmüvézeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1968, p. 147.
Liedtke, Walter et al. Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 324.
van den Boogert, Bob C. "Michiel Coxcie, hofschilder in dienst van het Hapsburgse huis." In Michiel Coxcie, pictor regis (1499-1592). Edited by Raphaël de Smedt. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 96, no. 2 (1992). Mechelen, 1993, pp. 125-26.
Technical Data
The original panel, formed of two vertically grained oak boards, has been thinned to about 1 mm and mounted on composition board, probably in a restoration done in the 1920s. The board is faced on the reverse with an oak veneer, and cradled. The white gesso ground is applied in two or three thin layers. Losses along the join (just right of center, through sitter's face and proper left wrist) have been retouched; there is also scattered, and in some places extensive, retouching in the black drapery. The surface is covered with a thick varnish layer. The surface of the painting--particularly the background--is abraded, and the background itself, presently a flat brownish tone, has been altered/overpainted, probably during a restoration that took place around or just prior to 1925.7 The inscription in gold pigment is likely not original; a "5" is just visible between the "15" and "45" of the date now present.8 Increased paint transparency reveals that the sitter's fingers have been lengthened and their position slightly altered, especially on the proper right hand, possibly by the artist himself. Infra-red examination also shows slight changes in the prayerbook held by the sitter.
1. See Julia A. Cartwright, Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine (New York, 1913).
2. In 1925-28 and again in sale 1947 (see Provenance).
3. Oil on panel, 179 x 82.5 cm, London, The National Gallery, inv. 2475.
4. Patricia Rose, "Christina of Denmark by Michael Coxie," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), esp. pp. 43-45.
5. Oil on panel, 35.3 x 27.5 cm, Budapest, Szépmüvézeti Múzeum, inv. 6709. The painting was in the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm before 1659. Patricia Rose ("Christina of Denmark by Michael Coxie," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21, no. 1 [Fall 1963], p. 43) cites this Hapsburg provenance in support of her thesis, noting that Mary of Hungary's collection passed to Leopold Wilhelm during his tenure as regent of the Netherlands, and reasonably suggesting that this study formed part of that collection. The painting is given to Coxcie in the catalogue of the Szépmüvézeti Múzeum; see A. Pigler, Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, vol. 1 (Budapest, 1968), p. 147.
6. Compare Coxcie's Portrait of a Woman, aged 28, dated 1562 (Béziers, Musée des Beaux Arts, inv. 290) or Portrait of Gilles Gottignies, dated 1560 (formerly collection Comte de Bergeyck, Antwerp, destroyed 1949), as well as several donor portraits on altarpieces of the 1560s through 1580s.
7. In 1934 Gustav Glück ("Bildnisse aus dem Haus Habsburg, II," Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s. 8 [1934], pp. 173ff) recalls the figure as being set against a light green background when he had the opportunity to view the painting in Munich, probably when it was with A. S. Drey in 1925.
8. Patricia Rose ("Christina of Denmark by Michael Coxie," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21, no. 1 [Fall 1963], p. 32) notes the inconsistencies in handwriting and text of the Latin inscription, in comparison with other signatures by the artist. She suggests that the present signature is a freehand transcription, done during the restoration of the 1920s, of an earlier signature which may or may not have been original.


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Before we can fully consider the requirements and trades that go into GMAT's API decision, we need to consider what we want the API to be able to do from an end-user perspective. My best guess of how to proceed with this is to brainstorm a set of use cases, then consider and prioritize them.
This is my brainstormed list of use cases we might want to support (without any consideration of practicality or implementation for now!).
Case 1
Bob is a navigation engineer and wants to use GMAT as the dynamics engine behind his ODTBX studies so he can minimize the amount of modeling he needs to implement himself. He collaborates with Windows, Mac, and Linux users alike, and doesn't want his approach to be limited to a single platform. [this is the IRAD use case]
Case 2
Julie is a mission design engineer doing rapid design studies. She uses an Excel spreadsheet for her design trades and wants to call GMAT behind the scenes to calculate orbit lifetimes.
Case 3
John is an astrodynamics researcher who works in MATLAB and would like to use GMAT's built-in coordinate system conversion tools.
Case 4
Mary is a professor who is developing a custom application in Java that allows a student to visualize simple orbit parameters. She wants to build her simplified GUI on GMAT's base so she can focus on her application instead of validating numerics.
Case 5
Tom is writing a slick new website that allows the public to visualize orbital debris. He wants to embed GMAT's base code in his widget so he doesn't have to reimplement the numerics.
Case 6
Catherine is a mission operations specialist and would like to use GMAT for operational OD inside a facility similar to the FDF. She currently uses GTDS to do...[Russell, a little help expanding this one?]
Case 7
[Nav people, give a use case or two that involves GMAT in a Navigation Integrated Tool Suite?]
Case 8
Hank is a mission design engineer and wants to optimize maneuvers within GMAT while considering navigation results supplied by ODTBX. This will help him quantify navigation uncertainty on the mission's Delta-V budget.
Post more below and I'll combine them all into a master list that we can dig through next week.


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Between 2008 and 2009 I have created a body of work that solely uses Instant film, primarily Polaroid in response to Polaroid announcing the closure of its factories.
These three series of work titled "Mortuary", "Polaroid Portraits", colorations and monochromes examine photography's ability as a medium to offer up new ways of seeing, representing and objectifying the world in which we live.
Digitalisation has offered photography an extended life, yet through its accessibility it has become problematic and dysfunctional. Every new image can be deleted, retouched, manipulated. Moments that once captured a loss of control; accidental happenings are now lost and removed. Perfect pictures that everyday people hold dear, now dominate our modern digitalised view. These images tell us little of the truth, the moment experienced by the sitter and photographer, instead those same shots are captured and recaptured again.
Through manipulation by hand, the works I have completed challenge the notion of reproduction. Each image is shot traditionally then the Polaroid is interrupted mid process and manipulation begins. Once set the image cannot be recaptured, altered or reproduced, it is an original.
The works challenge our ideas surrounding photographic representation; through the layering of unset chemical a portrait of a loved one or waiting room are mysteriously hidden beneath the manipulations. You as viewers are invited to unravel the information and use it to question your own preconceived ideas and images in relation to the subject.
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London is inexhaustible. You could tour it for months and barely get to know it. Few cities support such a variety of people living in remarkable harmony. That diversity makes London like a cut diamond; approach it from a different angle each day, and it presents an entirely fresh shape and color. From famous stories to high style, London is many things in every moment.
The old always sits alongside the new here nowhere more so than at Wren's great baroque dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, framed by 21st-century skyscrapers and London is rightly famed for its museums and galleries. Prized collections, ancient and contemporary from Bloomsbury's British Museum to the South Bank's Tate Modern share top billing with small spaces such as the Sir John Soane's Museum that could only exist in this city. Ride the London Eye observation wheel to get to grips with the city's layout.
The variety of shopping districts can be bewildering, even for a regular visitor. Knightsbridge and Chelsea have the chi-chi boutiques, Mayfair the finest men's tailors, and the latest in street-style springs up from Shoreditch and the East End. This is a city with something for every taste or budget, and best buys remain collectibles, vintage fashions and accessories. Street markets as diverse as Columbia Road (flowers and niche design) and Portobello (antiques, secondhand goods, and fashions) are experiencing a mini-renaissance.
Whatever your favorite flavor, you'll find it somewhere in this global culinary city. As London's center of gravity moves east, so does the dining scene. British classics Rules and J. Sheekey are as good as ever, while celebrity chefs reinvigorate forgotten neighborhoods. Areas with lower rents continue to attract skillful chefs to gastropubs, cool cafes, and a new breed of tapas bar.
When darkness falls, the historic monuments and grand museums fade into the inky night, and a whole new London comes to life. The West End's bright lights draw the crowds with long-running mega-musicals and big-name dramas. Less well known is London's growing taste for the offbeat, from cabaret and Charleston revival parties to dubstep, burlesque, and even underground bingo. Soho is still buzzing and the streets of Shoreditch, Hoxton, and Dalston are jumping well into the small hours.


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Summer is here, and as the temperature rises, your energy bills probably will, too. But you don't have to break the bank to beat the heat. Here's a guide to the small and large projects that will help slash your summer utility bills.
Starting small. You don't need a huge undertaking to generate significant savings this summer. Even the simplest changes can save you some cash.
For starters, you can exchange your current energy-eating (and, let's face it, slightly drab) light bulbs for long-lasting, efficient fluorescent bulbs. Fluorescent bulbs last four to 10 times longer than regular light bulbs, and you'll save about $6 per year on energy bills, according to Energy Star, a government program that promotes energy-efficiency. Fluorescent bulbs are also the choice of the Consumer Federation of America, an association of nonprofit consumer organizations that specializes in consumer advocacy. In its guide to buying new light bulbs, the CFA attributes the value of fluorescent bulbs to their durability and low energy consumption, and says each bulb will save you up to $50 over the bulb's lifetime.
Insulation keeps your house warm in the winter, cool in the summer and reduces heating and cooling costs by as much as 20 percent, according to Energy Star. Energy auditor Pascale Maslin, owner of Energy Efficiency Experts in Washington, D.C., recommends insulation because of its high utility and low cost. "Insulation is easy to install and affordable," she says.
[Read: 5 Smart Money Moves to Make This Summer.]
Maslin recommends heavy insulation of your attic and the area under your roof to prevent cool air from escaping your home. A roll of insulation costs about $15 at home improvement stores, but professional installation can run between $400 and $1,800, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Movin' on up. Midsized projects can be your ticket to cost- and energy-efficient ways of cutting your utility bills this summer. These projects take a little more effort to put together than the small purchases, but your wallet will thank you for your effort.
One improvement is installing a programmable thermostat. When used properly, this device can save users up to $150 per year, and it's generally more accurate than a regular thermostat, according to Energy Star.
"[Programmable thermostats] are one of the most important things to install in the home," says Mel Hall-Crawford, the CFA's energy products director. "The system should be programmed to allow the home to use less energy while no one is home. If the home is empty, it can be warmer."
Maslin suggests turning the thermostat down by eight degrees when you're sleeping or out for the day. "That alone will save you about 20 percent on your cooling bill," she says. Programmable thermostats are sold at home improvement stores for as little as $20, but may cost as much as $250.
Weather stripping your house is another midsized project. In homes that haven't been weather stripped, air leaks account for 30 to 40 percent of heating and cooling loss, according to Energy Star. Hall-Crawford says weather stripping, when done correctly, can make your home more comfortable and save you money at the same time. "If you're letting hot air in during the summer, you're working against the cooling system, wasting energy and losing money on your energy bills," she says.
[See: 8 Energy-Efficient Home Improvements That Save Money.]
Weather stripping materials cost as little as $5 at home improvement stores, but professional installation will run you between $300 and $400.
Go big and go home. Don't let the price tag on these projects discourage you. Although they can be expensive, the benefits you'll reap will more than make up for the cost.
Upgrading your high-end appliances (such as your dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer) to be more energy-efficient is a good way to drive down your summer energy costs. Your refrigerator, for example, consumes about 13.7 percent of household energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, you can reduce this amount significantly by correctly maintaining your current refrigerator, or by purchasing a new one. According to Energy Star, a 2009 model fridge will save 40 percent more energy than models produced as early as 2001.
"The refrigerator has come a long way," Hall-Crawford says. "Modern models are much better than they were in the 80s and 90s, and the standards are just getting better." Hall-Crawford also suggests looking for the Energy Star logo, which means the product meets or exceeds federal efficiency standards.
Solar panel installation is another large-scale project that can cut your energy bills. It's one of the costlier projects, but you'll see a dramatic cut to your energy expenditure, says Dean Hapshe, president of Majestic Son and Sons in Patchogue, N.Y., which specializes in solar heating and electric systems.
Hapshe, who has been in the solar energy business since 1980, says solar panels can eliminate most residential electric bills, and, with higher-efficiency panels, you'll recover your initial investment.
[See: 50 Smart Money Moves.]
On the other hand, Maslin believes the cost of solar panels outweigh the potential benefits. "Many houses are not being built with efficiency in mind," she says. "Consumers should look for the 'low-hanging fruit' and fix the small, affordable things in their house first. Then they can look at things like solar panels."
Hapshe says you should expect to spend between $7,000 and $25,000 for a solar system installation, but the price depends on the brand of panel and the amount of available roof space. Homeowners can expect to earn back at least a portion of that investment through savings within five or six years.
With these projects under your belt, you'll be ready to escape indoors from the heat without worrying about your next monthly bill.


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Soundcheck: Sample in a Jar, The Old Home Place, Uncle Pen, Funky Bitch
SET 1: Runaway Jim -> Foam, If I Could, Split Open and Melt, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Uncle Pen, I Didn't Know, Possum
SET 2: Guyute, Digital Delay Loop Jam -> David Bowie[1], Halley's Comet > The Lizards, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Good Times Bad Times
ENCORE: My Long Journey Home[2], Sleeping Monkey
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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PIANY calls for scholarship nominations
BROOKLYN, N.Y.–The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. is calling for nominees for the prestigious Arthur I. Moll and Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarships. Deadline for applications is Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Will They Drive to Sea Island Next Year?
Well the big news out of Detroit—and we are Not Making This Up—is that Ford Motor is going to start building "small fuel-efficient cars."
That's right.
Four years after crude oil prices broke the $50 a barrel ceiling on their way to nearly $150 a barrel—and then round-tripped all the way back to $45—Ford Motor is going fuel-efficient.
Here's how the Wall Street Journal broke the story via email:
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Ford Motor plans to tell Congress it is retooling itself to build small fuel-efficient cars and break from the past strategy of focusing mainly on large pick-up trucks and sport-utility vehicles, a person familiar with the matter said.
—Dec. 1, 2008
It wasn't all that long ago that Ford management was complaining about the impact of rising gasoline prices on sales of its bread-and-butter truck business instead of doing something about it, like, say, making smaller, fuel-efficient cars.
In fact, it was just two years ago that CEO William Ford, Jr. described the situation in an email to Ford employees:
"An unprecedented spike in gasoline prices during the second quarter impacted our product lineup more than that of our competitors because of the longstanding success of our trucks and S.U.V.'s…"
That was in August 2006, which was six years after the Toyota Prius first hit the U.S.
Today, the same William Ford, Jr. is telling the Wall Street Journal:
"We want to come blasting out as a global, green, high-tech company that's exactly where the country and the Obama administration want us to head."
The time to "come blasting out" green was back in, say, 1993—when Eiji Toyoda, the William Ford, Jr. of Toyota, decided to develop a car that could get 47.5 miles per gallon, 50% better than Toyota's best small car at the time. After $1 billion and a lot of hard work, that car became the Prius.
Water under the bridge, you may say.
And, politically speaking, you are correct. The Not So Big Three will get a bailout, because it's hard to explain to a powerful union that Wall Street bankers and bond dealers ought to be bailed out but not Flint line workers.
And they will get their bailout despite the public outrage at the fact that the men who helped oversee the industry's decline flew private jets to Washington to ask for the money.
Some, of course, rose to the defense of the Not So Big Three. Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent was moved to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece with the following howler, "Do you think any member of Congress or the Senate has been to Iraq on a commercial jet? Of course not. Never."
Mr. Vincent seems not to understand that commercial jet service between Dulles and Baghdad is rather spotty these days, while that between Detroit and D.C. is quite robust.
But the public was not fooled. The public intuited that the guts of the problem stemmed from the way the companies have been managed—witness Toyota's 15 year head-start on Ford when it comes to getting with the green thing—and there was no better demonstration of that fact than the way it apparently never crossed the minds of these men that it might appear outrageous to be gassing up a fleet of G-IVs to travel to Washington to ask for money to bail out their truck-and-SUV-dependent businesses.
So we here at NotMakingThisUp wonder what that same public might say if it came to light that early this year, the already-ailing General Motors took over an entire resort—Sea Island, Georgia—for its executives.
For a full week.
And we wonder what that public might say if it furthermore came to light that GM, according to the astonished source who told us this story not long after it occurred, required that those same executives be ferried around the resort only in their own brand of cars?
Let's hope they don't take the private jets to Sea Island next year.
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- Tahoe Kid said...
The REAL question is why Nancy Pelosi thinks there isn't commercial jet service between Washington DC and San Francisco and needs to fly on Air Taxpayer for not only herself but for family members as well.
- Unknown said...
On the issue of private jets: how is this not identical to any AIG, Fannie, etc. executive?
Even Goldman has received funding from Treasury. Are you seriously implying that numerous MP at GS are not flying around on Jets?
What would be better for a CEO of a large corporation, a jet or peddling around on a bicycle?
You are falling back on the same idiotic populism that has been running around Congress, where any executive who flies a private jet is elitist and a 'fat cat'. That is childish, and I strongly suspect you know better.
I like this blog, but please, keep to economic issues.
- Anonymous said...
Fay Vincent probably still says there were no steroid users in baseball...
Given Ford (and Bill Ford's) track record, is it possible that when they get all ramped up with their smaller fuel efficient cars, the price of oil will plummet? They've been a great contrary indicator for oil since about 1974...
- Jeff Matthews said...
Here goes...
Q: On the issue of private jets: how is this not identical to any AIG, Fannie, etc. executive?
A: It IS identical.
Q: Even Goldman has received funding from Treasury. Are you seriously implying that numerous MP at GS are not flying around on Jets?
A: Nope. What gave you that impression?
Q: What would be better for a CEO of a large corporation, a jet or peddling around on a bicycle?
A: Depends on how long the trip is.
Q: I like this blog, but please, keep to economic issues.
A: We don't do "economic issues." That would be extremely boring!
- Anonymous said...
I KNOW that you are more realistic than that Jeff. You must know that cars take two years to design and come out with a new model. Alan Mullaly came on board in mid 2006 and immediately began shifting from trucks to a small-car focus.
Ford has been way on top of their game in terms of shifting towards smaller cars. In spite of Ford generating the majority of sales from large vehicle (trucks/suv's), they have disproportionately shifted advertising towards its new smaller cars.
Personally, I see more GM/Toyota pickup ads than I have Ford over the past year. I find it humorous that you make no differentiation among the automakers and are not acknowledging the major changes that have been going on at Ford. I'm not arguing they won't go bust or that Alan Mullaly is superman... but he has definitely been trying to turn the titanic away from the 'berg over the past few years
- Jeff Matthews said...
Agree, Mullaly is not the root problem at Ford.
As for GM, see our "McClellan Awaits Battle…in Detroit" from Wednesday, December 07, 2005.
We did not start thinking about these issues only yesterday!
- Mark B. Spiegel said...
Is there any way we could bail out JUST the Mustang GT convertible and ZR1 Corvette, while letting all of Ford and GM's other cars go into the crapper? THAT'S a plan I could get behind!
- Anonymous said...
Totally agree with your take Jeff. Why are we bailing out companies that have been dying for over 10 years? And we are bailing them out and keeping the same management teams? And our Congress somehow expects these people to come up with a "plan" to somehow fix these broken organizations over a few weeks when they've been running the business into the ground for decades? All of this is just unbelievable to me. Of course finance executives found a way to run companies into the ground over a quicker time frame, but that in my opinion is a different subject altogether. The bottom line is we've all lost our minds, unwilling to deal with a year or two of bad economic times that would rid the system of a ton of rot.
- Anonymous said...
The simple matter is that these people who are asking for public money should not, in my opinion, travel in a manner that is so much more wasteful than what we do.
- Anonymous said...
Jeff, you totally failed at trying to write about what "the public" thinks about the auto mess.
The public is asking itself "what's a pension?" and "why does the taxpayer have to support workers that get pensions?".
The public is asking itself "given what we pay these execs, does it make more sense for them to fly their own jets or spend the week driving to DC?"
The public is asking itself "since the auto companies pay for the purchase of Viagra for union retirees, are the auto companies really in dire straights?"
The public is asking itself "why is GM profitable everywhere in the world that it builds cars, except the US?"
The public is asking itself "does anyone really think Nancy Pelosi can do a better job running GM?"
The public is asking itself "why not stick the rotting carcass of Chrysler on its private equity owners instead of the taxpayers?"
Jeff, you really are not worth reading. I'd never buy your book, no matter how much you pump it.
- Jeff Matthews said...
"Anonymous": for a guy who finds this not worth reading, you spend a lot of much time reading and writing about it! Thanks for writing, in any event.
And for our readers who do find NotMakingThisUp worthwhile, I'll add some interesting detail that has just come in:
Both Ford and GM booked Sea Island earlier this year; Ford for 2 weeks (including one week for the Ford family), and GM for 3 weeks (one for each of three divisions).
Ford insisted on Land Rovers and Town Cars, GM on Cadillacs.
And from what we hear, GM wanted one car per executive.
Nobody could make this up.
- Anonymous said...
Since my comment did not make it the first time around (don't think there was any "yahoo language," but what do I know), lets try for it again.
Big Three's ineptitude (and especially that of Ford and GM), is of a different type than presented. Ford doesn't need to "start" making small, efficient cars and neither does GM. They've been making them for years and Europe and the rest of the world enjoyed buying them for years. Automotive magazines begged for some of those cars to come here for years as well. And the best that we got was a one-generation-ago Ford Focus or an Opel/Saturn Astra just when the times went from bad to horrible.
So if the car makers can't figure out how to market cars they've already been making for years, it's no surprise they can't properly market the government bail out they so badly need to stay afloat.
- Anonymous said...
If the devil got sick and if God him or herself asked me to fill in for a few weeks, I'd take the job. As a temp I'd have to keep things simple. I would test folks by simply wandering around and offering to swap a netjets membership for a soul. I have seen the most outrageous machinations employed in order to justify private jet travel.
- Hayseed said...
jethro - the fact that we are even having discussions about bailing out a private company is a joke. does anyone think that they will survive even if we give them money? and for the car company execs to say they were doing fine BEFORE the market fell apart is more madness. these guys were getting their asses kicked by japan and korea for 30 yrs. their arguments that this car was voted best car by motor trend or best hybrid by car & driver is another stupid point. besides the fact that the winners of those are generally the biggest advertisers, the only thing these boneheads should care about is HOW MANY CARS THEY CAN SELL AT A REASONABLE PROFIT. if they make good cars that people want, people will buy them, PERIOD. the fact that there is such a discrepancy between labor cost per car hour vs asian-based manufacturers means that they cannot be competitive long term until those costs are equalized. the only thing worse is having to listen to the grandiose vacuous pontifications by barney frank and chris dodd about how to run a business to the execs. these congressional idiots should subpoena themselves for the wasted money they spent on the new wing for congress - was supposed to be $70mm, but whoops, it turns out to be $620mm.
LET FINANCIAL DARWINISM WORK - if the auto dealers blow up, so be it, they're gonna blow up anyway in this environment. if more financials blow up, so be it, we're not gonna be able to stop this train anyway, no matter what we do in stimulus or bailouts.
and for that matter, tell the central planning committee, er the treasury department, to STOP WRITING BLANK CHECKS TO EVERYONE. we can't take any more.
LET THE BAD COMPANIES FAIL AND THE GOOD ONES SURVIVE - LET THE MARKET WORK! that is the ONLY way out of this mess. what we are doing now only prolongs and actually worsens the situation. and from this mess, new and better companies will arise, just as they have in previous downturns.
- Anonymous said...
A bit more background on Sea Island might make this example a bit more vivid... Sea Island is a luxury spa and golf resort located on a private island in Georgia. They describe themselves as "an unrivaled Georgia luxury resort vacation destination since 1928". Room rates generally range from $500 - $1100 / night. The pictures on their site basically say it all
- Anonymous said...
- Anonymous said...
On the subject of private jets. This howler from footnoted.og on SHLM proxy is worth reading.
During fiscal 2008, the Compensation Committee determined that maintaining a lease on a private airplane was no longer a cost-effective method for providing business-related transportation to our Named Executive Officers and Directors. The airplane was used only for business-related travel, and personal use was not permitted. With the termination of the lease on the airplane, it also became increasingly difficult and cost prohibitive to access our Canadian fish camp. Consequently, the fish camp, which was only used for business entertainment purposes, was offered for sale during 2008. The only offer to purchase the fish camp came from Terry L. Haines, our former Chief Executive Officer and President. Ultimately we negotiated with Mr. Haines to sell the fish camp for a purchase price of $55,000 and the transaction closed during fiscal year 2009.
On the car companies, I think the public, most of Congress, and some portion of company and UAW managements has figured out that bankrupcy court is not a problem, but the answer.
- Anonymous said...
Jeff you ROCK! Keep up the great work. I own you book, i read your blog all the time and if i could i would buy into your fund. If value investors where action figures you would be a must have!
- Anonymous said...
The big 3 execs are pathetic communicators, which leads to horrific advertising.
As a marketer, I cringe when I see their inadequate defenses. Even if they're on their planes getting b---j--s and eating lobster, they could at least SAY ...
- we bring a staff with us on our private flights, during which we strategize and prepare in ways we could not do sitting in a coach seat (no privacy, no phone, no web access, no email etc.) - not to mention commercial fight time spent waiting, delays, etc.
(These are arguments I bet politicians on private jets use all the time).
- "It will take several years after we saw $100+ oil to turn things around - we're like a 10-times-normal-size aircraft carrier - starting, stopping, and changing direction all take a long time, and all consist of long-term bets that we will be persecuted for if we make the wrong bet"
etc. etc.
I don't believe the second example myself; they could have been LEADERS instead of followers in going green. But still, these are 3 (the opposite of silver)-tongued dudes.
- Anonymous said...
You know what bothers me about GM? Why has GM's board of directors allowed Waggoner to stay on as CEO when he's literally destroyed whatever shareholder value was left when he took the reins back in May 2003? I sure wish I could understand why the various hedge/mutual/pension funds failed to vote "the bums" (i.e., GM's board of directors) out with their proxies. Guess there are just some things I'll never understand. Happy holidays, Jeff!
- Anonymous said...
A couple of points but first a reality check:
Pickup trucks, like the world standard GMC 2500 4WD full length is the workhorse of the average American [insert tradesman]. Those trucks are required to do one's job. What are they going to do, take the train?
No, the problem is much more fundamental, like solving the vast technical problem of building a replacement vehicle that is energy efficient. There is a lot of feedback on those hybrids that they don't get anywhere near the mileage claimed, so hybrids are like the automatic transmission, an interim fix to a more fundamental problem of how to create a powerful energy efficient vehicle.
I think Detroit engineers are much more focused on solving the problem correctly instead of knee jerking to some assumed solution. It is a difficult technical problem that they must get right. Ethanol is a great example of how stupid politicians can really screw things up. Whoever thought up that scheme, to starve those who need the corn to feed cars. Yeah, brilliant.
On the other hand, Detroit, specifically Ford is known for its ability to sleep at the wheel then suddenly wake up. Some of you may not remember the other time there was a massive retooling in Detroit, when the Japanese quality was killing sales in the eighties. Suddenly Detroit found Total Quality Management religion, Just In Time production, and Quality Function Deployment focused product definition, Taguchi Engineering, and they added the worker to the design process, stuff got done, and Detroit kind of changed.
Ford built the Taurus and the rest was history. . . for ten years anyway, then it was as if they forgot what they looked like in the mirror in 1989. Ford even shut down large R&D divisions because it was so successful.
Then it happened again: It was Sept of 1993 when the big three, Clinton and labor initiated an energy efficient car program that generated three prototypes in 2000, but which were abandoned because they thought nobody wanted them. The Japanese panicked in 1993 and instituted a ten year plan to be there first, and they were first, while Detroit snickered at the weird idea of the hybrid that would not sell. So here we are at another 80's impasse of management where the opportunity to wake up is before them. Personally, I sometimes wonder if Detroit does not just repeat their errors, but that they exist in a culture that is in denial. It is a business cultural thing in Detroit upper management that has come down from Henry Ford himself arrogantly not embracing change from his original Model T. Maybe it is time to move that management out of Detroit and with a new set of innovators in charge.
- Anonymous said...
I would encourage you to search for (or run your own) financial analyses on the time value of executives. Many studies have been done by every Fortune 100 company and they all show that it is much more valuable for their executives to fly on private jets than to spend the time and costs of flying teams of people commercially. It is extremely expensive to fly groups of twenty people at a time, most of the time at last minute and often in first class. At an aggregate level, it costs close to the same as managing a Gulfstream. Moreover, when you factor in the time it takes, taxi/limo service, etc, etc, etc, it's definitely more valuable. They're time is much more worthwhile spent on the job than sitting in airports trying to avoid flight delays while their divisions are failing. Trust me, I worked closely with a Fortune 100 company that after a merger cut their corporate fleet and made some of their division heads fly their entire teams a few times a week all over the country commercially. Needless to say, they purchased new jets the next year.
- Jeff Matthews said...
Mike raises excellent points. Regarding Ford, don't forget Wall Street's and management's responsibility for the company's eventual collapse. Ford once had a terrific balance sheet, but Wall Street wanted to see the company "return value to shareholders," so Jacques Nasser spent the company dry.
"Anonymous" defends the value of executive time saved by private jets. I do not doubt the numbers...in fact, I included an analysis of the "Time Value of Warren Buffett" in "Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha" while discussing his acquisition of NetJets.
But it's stupid, politically.
They should have seen the reaction coming--but, then again, they didn't see high gas prices coming, so how could anyone expect otherwise?
- Anonymous said...
Great comment about Jacques Nasser, brings a face to the problem outlined. So Wall Street and Nasser are mutually responsible?
I love this quote from Nasser's Wikipedia page: "Using the business models of non-automotive companies like Dell Computer and some of the "Dot-com" firms as benchmarks, Nasser sought to increase the company stock "price to earnings ratio" (P/E ratio) from the low single-digit levels of most automotive factory-industrial corporations, to the astronomical levels achieved by the benchmark firms, before the "Dot-com bust".
So with that, Nasser succeeded in bringing the P/E down to below zero. Talk about not understanding core business values--wow.
One other interesting tidbit about Nasser is that After Ford ("AF" for all you 'Brave New World' fans) he was non-exec chairman at Polaroid, acquired by Bank One. Polaroid started building other products after the collapse of the Polaroid film business, and one of those products was a high definition TV, of which I purchased one. Returned it the next day for quality issues. So, did Nasser knife the quality at Polaroid like he did at Ford? Ya think?
- Chris Janc said...
I am late to this discussion but assume you will read this response nonetheless and respond if you feel it warrants comment. I have to disagree with much of the rationale behind the line of reasononing that the big 3 are failing. Let's address them one at a time, shall we?
1) The big 3 don't make cars Americans want to buy. This is completely false. The big 3 have been manufacturing cars and trucks that Americans do want. The have shown their ability to sell SUVs and light trucks successfully. The problem has been the mandated CAFE standards that forced them to commit a portion fof their production to cars Americans don't want FROM THEM. Given their costs of operating, the lower price point small cars that Japan has had a great deal of success with could never be profitable. The small car market has always been dominated by Japan. As an editorial recently pointed out, Americans buy small cars for cost reasons, not for gas mileage reasons. The big 3 have not tried to compete in this market excpet where forced to through CAFE.
2) The big 3 have successfully made small cars in Europe and should be able to do so here. The reason this is the case has more to do with the price of gasoline in Europe compared to the US. Of course smaller, higher mileage cars are more successful in Europe...with $9 gas and narrower streets and more crowded cities, small, fuel efficient cars represent a larger portion of overall car purchases in Europe. Forcing the US automakers to manufacture these same cars here, at the expense of capacity to produce the real money makers will only result in someone like Toyota or Honda filling in that demand and lead to the ultimate demise of the big 3, only later and at significant taxpayer cost.


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I'm sorry that I have been away for nearly a month. I need the break due to computer related injuries. Actually I shouldn't even be blogging right now, but I'm slightly retarded.
If you haven't already been inundated by Coachella nonsense, I have a bit more for you. The hommie Atlantic Connection sent these my way recently. Nothing ground breaking, but it's a good introduction to each day of the Coachella festival. If you're going to the second run, these mixes would make great travel music to get you hyped for the madness.
Day 2 and 3 are below the cut.