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Bonds: These Waters Only Look Calm

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No doubt about it--U.S. government bonds are looking good these days. With inflation quiescent, the 30-year Treasury bond is at just 5.7%, near its historic low. Many market mavens expect long bond rates to fall to 5% or below, producing tidy capital gains.

But if you think bonds are a safe haven against economic troubles in Asia or a downturn in the stock market in the U.S., you may be in for a surprise, according to a recent report by Leah Modigliani, an investment strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the past 20-year period, volatility in long-term U.S. government debt has steadily increased because of high inflation (chart). Bond volatility even surpassed that of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index for the 20-year periods ended in 1996 and '97.

This is of particular concern if you're thinking of buying a long-term bond fund to diversify your portfolio and gain maximum yield. Many investors regard long-term bond funds as parking places for cash--even if the investment horizon is just one year. Morningstar estimates that long-term funds returned 7.5% over the five years ended on June 30, compared with 6.2% for intermediate funds. But the long-term funds were 38% more volatile. "If you're an investor with a one-year outlook, some long-term bond funds are much more volatile and risky than you might think," says Modigliani.SHARPE SHOOTING. Volatility isn't necessarily bad, as long as you're compensated for the risk you take. But how do you assess the risks in bonds? One way to get risk-adjusted returns is to look at a fund's Sharpe Ratio, a commonly used measure of risk-adjusted returns. You want a high Sharpe Ratio because it denotes a higher risk-adjusted return. Unfortunately, the Sharpe Ratio is difficult to interpret. So, Modigliani and her grandfather, Franco Modigliani, finance professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nobel laureate, developed another measure of risk-adjusted performance. Called Modigliani-Modigliani, or M2, it is a return adjusted for volatility that is measured in basis points and allows for a comparison of returns between portfolios.

M2's aim is to be more precise than the risk-adjusted performance ratings used by Morningstar or BUSINESS WEEK but easier to understand than a Sharpe Ratio. Nonetheless, funds with the highest Sharpe Ratios have the highest M2 and vice versa.

We asked Modigliani to put M2 to work on long bond funds with the highest total returns over the past five years, as measured by Morningstar's Principia database (table). The one with the best total return, before adjusting for risk, was American Century-Benham Target Maturities Trust 2020. It became the second-best performer on a risk-adjusted basis. But look at the risks the fund takes. American Century-Benham achieved its results with four times more volatility than the Lehman Brothers Government Bond Index and three times more than the best risk-adjusted performer, Wasatch-Hoisington U.S. Treasury.

A brief look at the funds' portfolios explains why American Century-Benham is one of the riskiest long-term bond funds. The fund invests in zero-coupon U.S. Treasury securities and U.S. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds that will mature in 2020. This gives it an extremely long duration, a measure of how sensitive a bond's price is to a move in interest rates. The longer the duration, the more the price will be affected by a change in interest rates and, thus, the more volatile the fund. For example, when interest rates went up in the first quarter of 1996, the average long-term government bond fund lost 5.6%. But American Century-Benham fell a steep 16.6%, according to Morningstar.

Right now, however, American Century-Benham's long duration is a plus because long-term rates have been falling. In the past year, the fund is up 61%, putting it in the top third of the entire mutual-fund universe--debt and equity.RIDING THE CURVE. Another fund benefiting from a long duration is Wasatch-Hoisington U.S. Treasury, which produced its returns with a lot less risk. It was up 21.4% in the past 12 months with a volatility measure of 5.8, vs. 20.3 for American Century-Benham. Unlike the American Century-Benham management team, Wasatch- Hoisington co-manager V.R. Hoisington can invest in any maturity of U.S. Treasury, from six months to 30-year zeros. Since June, 1996, Hoisington has been 100% in long bonds with maturities of 26 to 30 years. "As long as inflation continues to head down and monetary policy remains as it is, we see little risk in the long bond," says Hoisington. How does he manage risk? He doesn't. Hoisington says he doesn't try to damp the volatility of his fund by hedging. "Any low risk we've had has been circumstantial," he says.

Another top risk-adjusted performer, Pacific Advisors Government Securities A (up 19.7% in the past 12 months), actively manages risk, however. Its risk-adjusted 7.1% return came with four times less volatility than American Century-Benham's. Pacific Advisors is a total-return bond fund that uses a proprietary interest-rate timing model to bet on the direction of rates. "We try to navigate the yield curve to figure out where we can get the most money for the least risk at any point in time," says Marc Kelly, co-manager of the $4.5 million fund. Kelly shortens the fund's duration when he thinks rates will rise and lengthens when he thinks they will fall. Now, he's buying bonds with an average maturity of 26 years because he sees rates heading lower.

The fund's success in managing duration helps explain why this fund has the lowest standard deviation--a measure of how much its returns vary from its long-term average--among the group of top performers. But there's another reason Pacific Advisors has done well. Kelly is permitted to invest up to 35% of the fund in the stocks of domestic and foreign utilities that have good fundamentals--and above-average dividends that have been growing. About 16.5% of Kelly's fund is in such utilities as CMS Energy, Ipalco Enterprises, and Nipsco Industries. The average yield of his domestic stock holdings is 3.3%, vs. 1.5% for the S&P 500.EXTRA POINTS. The T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Long-Term and Vanguard Fixed Income Long-Term U.S. Treasury funds are other solid performers on a risk-adjusted basis--up 19.2% and 18.4%, respectively, in the past 12 months. Both are managed similarly, giving them comparable volatility and risk-adjusted returns. Neither manages duration, and their volatility is nearly twice that of the Lehman Brothers Index. But they do try to add value through yield enhancement. T. Rowe Price Manager Peter Van Dyke has invested 15% of the fund in Ginnie Mae-backed long collateralized mortgage obligations. These give him 60 to 80 extra basis points of yield over the long bonds. Van Dyke and Robert Auwaerter, manager of the Vanguard Fund, avoid buying the newest 30-year Treasuries; their yields tend to run about six to eight basis points less than more seasoned bonds because new paper is in strong demand. Like many of his bullish peers, Auwaerter is buying Treasuries with maturities of 26 to 28 years.

When you're looking at bond funds, it's critical to look beyond their total returns. M2 isn't in wide use yet, but you can get hold of Sharpe ratios and volatility measurements for funds from Morningstar, Value Line, and many fund groups themselves. Use the tools to make sure you're paid for the risks you're about to take.EDITED BY AMY DUNKINReturn to top

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Top Oregon Pinot Noir Picks

Just in time for the holidays, eight Oregon pinot noirs from the excellent 2006 vintage that are both affordable and delicious

The year 2006 was an excellent vintage for pinot noir in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The warm summer and almost ideal harvest season (a rarity in this part of the world) produced supple, fruit-driven pinot noirs that still remain under the radar for many Americans. Here my colleague, Dr. Jay Miller, recommends some of the best 2006s.

90 points

2006 Brick House Wines Pinot Noir Select

The 2006 Pinot Noir Select is the entry-level wine from this estate. Medium ruby-colored with a fragrant perfume of red cherry and raspberry, this layered, easygoing wine has excellent concentration and a silky finish. This crowd-pleasing effort will drink well for another five to seven years. $29

90 points

2006 Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir

The 2006 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley from Ponzi is medium ruby-colored with an expressive perfume of spice box, earth notes, cherry, and raspberry. Friendly and easygoing, it also has good concentration and depth leading to a lengthy, fruit-filled close. Drink it over the next eight years. $35

91 points

2006 Adelsheim Vineyard Pinot Noir Elizabeth's Reserve

The 2006 Pinot Noir Elizabeth's Reserve offers up a lovely perfume of cedar, red fruits, and earth notes. Delicate yet concentrated, this velvety wine is reminiscent in style of a Dujac Premier Cru (at a fraction of the price). Common sense says to drink this feminine effort over the next several years, but its impeccable balance may carry it for a longer ride. $50

91 points

2006 Antica Terra Pinot Noir

The winemaker/partner at Antica Terra is Maggie Harrison, who worked at Sine Qua Non from 1998 to 2006. The winery purchased a 40-acre property in 2005, and 2006 is the first vintage. The 2006 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley includes some contracted fruit. Medium ruby-colored, it has an attractive bouquet of spice box, wood smoke, and red fruit compote. This leads to a mouth-filling wine with layers of sweet fruit. It has excellent concentration, depth, and a lengthy finish. Drink this tasty effort over the next eight years. $46

91 points

2006 Domaine Serene Pinot Noir Evenstad Reserve

Domaine Serene's 2006 Evenstad Reserve is a blend of over 70 lots. Medium ruby-colored, it offers notes of cedar, cinnamon, clove, cassis, and raspberry. This is followed by a medium- to full-bodied wine with layers of complex red fruits, enough structure to evolve for three to four years, excellent integration of oak, tannin, and acidity, and a lengthy finish. Drink it from 2010 to 2018. $58

91 points

2006 Panther Creek Cellars Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard

The 2006 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard was aged for 16 months in 30% new French oak. Dark ruby-colored, it has an enticing bouquet of spice notes, pomegranate, and assorted black fruits. On the palate, earth notes and cola make an appearance. Nicely structured with good depth, concentration, and balance, the wine should evolve for two to three years and drink well through 2020. $40

92 points

2006 Argyle Winery Pinot Noir Reserve

Argyle's 2006 Pinot Noir Reserve is medium ruby-colored. Its superb bouquet is already complex with notes of spice box, earth, cherry, and raspberry. This leads to a smooth-textured, elegant, ripe wine with vibrant acidity for the vintage and excellent overall balance. Drink this outstanding effort over the next eight years. $35

92 points

2006 Cristom Vineyards Pinot Noir Louise Vineyard

The 2006 Pinot Noir Louise Vineyard is medium ruby-colored with a superb bouquet of pain grillé, mineral, cranberry, cherry, and rose petals. Layered and plush on the palate, it has loads of savory fruit, complex flavors, and a silky-smooth finish that lasts for 45 seconds. Give it three to four years in the cellar and drink it from 2012 to 2020. $50

Robert Parker is the world's most influential wine critic. Visit to see tens of thousands of tasting notes, buy his books, or subscribe to his newsletter, The Wine Advocate.

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Private Equity's Fashion Hits and Misses

A rich deal may whet buyout firms' appetite for luxury

"There's a creative and soft aspect...that's not really controllable"

Private equity and fashion are a bad combo, kind of like pairing a Dior dress with Ugg boots. That at least was the established wisdom until March, when Apax Partners sold Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion, quintupling its investment in the American clothier in just four years. The rich payoff may inspire other investment firms to sharpen their fashion sense.

There's no shortage of potential acquisition targets. A $22.8 billion drop in worldwide luxury spending since 2007 has left players such as fashion house Gianfranco Ferré and suitmaker Brioni Roman Style cash-starved. Buyout firms have more than $500 billion to spend. "There are many companies that have ownership problems, execution problems, family-driven issues, succession issues, all triggers for transactions," says Christian Stahl, a partner at Apax.

Still, it may take more than the Apax deal to erase the memory of some big disappointments. Among the most high-profile stumbles is Permira Advisers' acquisition of the Valentino Fashion Group, which encompasses the haute couture house whose gowns are perennial red-carpet staples as well as German label Hugo Boss. In 2007, at the peak of the buyout boom, London-based Permira paid $7.2 billion for Valentino, money it may have trouble recouping. The departure of founder Valentino Garavani, the recession, and the nearly $3 billion in debt Permira piled on have hurt profitability. The buyout fund's largest backer, SVG Capital, has written down its initial investment by 53%. Valentino's owners have also had to inject an additional $336 million into the company.

Permira's struggles are instructive. Private equity's heavy use of debt to finance deals is especially ill-suited to a business where revenue streams are unpredictable and subject to what's known as fashion risk. Sharp managers can work to improve cash flow, trim production costs, and overhaul distribution, but that may not be enough. "There's a creative and soft aspect to the industry that's not really controllable," says Stahl. "It's not a manufacturing business, and some people have paid a high price for not being mindful of that."

Then there's the time factor. Private equity's preferred three- to five-year investment period usually isn't long enough "to reposition or develop a brand," says Mario Boselli, president of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. Texas Pacific Group, for instance, spent nine years buffing Swiss shoemaker Bally International before selling it in 2008.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to successful deals is the fact that many family-run businesses are unwilling to cede control to financial investors. Private equity accounted for less than 20% of all mergers and acquisitions in fashion in 2009, down from 27% in 2007. In Italy, the luxury houses Prada, Giorgio Armani, and Roberto Cavalli have all spurned overtures from buyout firms in recent years. "Apax hit the jackpot," says Alessio Candi of the Milan-based luxury consulting firm Pambianco. "But attractive targets, which would consider opening their capital to fund growth, are hard to find."

The bottom line: Finding the next Hilfiger won't be easy in a business that is subject to consumer trends and not always welcoming to financial buyers.

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Voluntary Greek Debt Cut Is ‘Central Scenario,’ BNP Chief Says

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A voluntary Greek debt cut remains the “central scenario” as the country’s government and its creditors resume talks this week, BNP Paribas SA Chief Executive Officer Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said.

“Obviously some additional time is needed to come to a conclusion,” Bonnafe, head of France’s largest bank, said today in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse” with Maryam Nemazee. “For the time being, we are on a voluntary basis resolution plan so this is the central scenario.”

Greek officials and creditors agreed in October to a 50 percent cut in the face value of Greek debt by voluntarily exchanging outstanding bonds for new securities, with a goal of reducing the nation’s borrowings to 120 percent of gross domestic product by 2020. The two sides, which interrupted talks on Jan. 13, have struggled to find an agreement on the coupon and maturity of the new bonds, raising the risk of a sovereign default.

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said two days ago that talks with the Institute of International Finance will resume on Jan. 18. The Washington-based IIF represents financial firms holding the bonds, including BNP Paribas and Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG.

BNP Paribas, based in Paris, set aside total provisions of 2.68 billion euros in the second and third quarters of last year as it wrote down its Greek sovereign-debt holdings by 60 percent following the October agreement by European leaders. BNP Paribas had 1.6 billion euros of net residual exposure to Greek bonds at the end of October, according to its website. The bank will publish 2011 results on Feb. 15.

Rating Cut

Separately, Bonnafe said he sees “no impact” for BNP Paribas’s rating from Standard & Poor’s decision last week to strip France of its AAA credit rating for the first time, by cutting the sovereign’s grade by one level to AA+.

“French banks are extremely solid both in terms of capital and liquidity,” Bonnafe said. “Their financing capacity will not be affected by this decision.”

Bonnafe also repeated that BNP Paribas will comply with Basel III capital rules as of Jan. 1, 2013. “We will be at the right level,” he said.

BNP Paribas is “well ahead” in its self-imposed plan to cut its dollar liquidity needs by $60 billion between last June and the end of this year.

“We don’t need to increase this target,” said Bonnafe. “We will do it and most probably we will close the plan quite in advance.”

BNP Paribas cut its liquidity needs by $20 billion in the third quarter, mostly in capital-markets activities, it said in November. The bank planned a further $20 billion reduction in the fourth quarter from corporate-financing and capital-markets and is targeting another $20 billion cut in 2012.

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Mavericks’ Mark Cuban Fined $75,000 for Criticizing NBA Referees

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was fined $75,000 for criticizing the referees in a loss two days ago to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was given a $35,000 fine for kicking the ball into the stands early in the fourth quarter of the same game at American Airlines Center in Dallas, the National Basketball Association said in separate statements.

Cuban, who has been fined more than $1.3 million for past criticism, told after the loss that “I haven’t said a whole lot about the officiating in a long, long time, but I haven’t seen it this bad in a long, long time.”

“Guys miss calls; that’s part of the game,” Cuban said. “You’re not always going to have a great crew. Officials have got to learn that’s part of the game. But these were officials that have been part of the league for years, and it was just off-the-charts bad. And, if no one ever says anything, nothing ever happens.”

Carlisle, who received a technical foul early in the fourth quarter for stepping into the path of an official in protest of a non-call, was ejected after kicking the ball into the stands with 9:34 left to play in the 95-86 loss.

He approached the spot under the basket to apologize to the fans who were hit with the ball, and later apologized at a news conference, saying that he intended to kick the ball back to the referee and that “I’m not a very good kick.”

The Mavericks, who won the NBA championship in June, are 14-9, a half-game behind the San Antonio Spurs in the Southwest Division.

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U.S. Local Governments Show First Payroll Boost Since August

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. local-government payrolls increased last month for the first time since August, easing the drag on the economy brought on by budget-cutting cities, counties and school districts.

The U.S. Labor Department reported today that local-government employment, adjusted for seasonal swings in hiring, expanded by 2,000 in February as school districts boosted hiring. State payrolls slipped by 1,000 after rising by 11,000 in January.

Jim Diffley, an economist with IHS Inc. who tracks regional growth, said it’s too soon to say whether the employment outlook for state and local governments has shifted because more cuts could emerge from budget negotiations for the next fiscal year.

“There’s plenty of talk of continued retrenchment,” he said. “The worst part of the crisis is over. There have been a lot of cuts. But it’s not clear they’re out of the woods at all.”

U.S. state tax revenue has been growing at the fastest pace since 2006, according to Census Bureau data, helping to narrow the budget deficits that governors have dealt with for the past four years. Economic growth has been restrained as state and local governments reduced payrolls to make up for declines in tax collections. Together, some 647,000 state and local government jobs have been cut since public sector employment peaked in 2008.

Education Gains

The payroll increase in February was driven entirely by education, according to the Labor Department, with employment in other areas of government continuing to slip. Excluding school-related jobs, state government payrolls slid by 2,700, once adjusted for seasonal swings, while the number of workers at localities dropped by 3,900.

While local economies are beginning to mend, officials are still hesitant to boost hiring, according to a survey of 226 cities released by the National League of Cities today. Only 8 percent said they increased personnel over the last six months, according to the survey, which was conducted in February. Thirty-nine percent reported cuts.

“Our latest numbers point to improving local economic conditions,” Christopher Hoene, director of the league’s Center for Research & Innovation, said in a statement.  “But we’re a long way from recovery. It’s clear that cities and city residents will still be confronting the impacts of this past recession for a while longer.”

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Barclays Sells First Uridashi Notes Tied to Nvidia as S&P Gains

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc sold notes tied to Nvidia Corp. in its first offering of uridashi bonds linked to a U.S. stock amid gains in the North American equity market.

The bank, the sixth-largest issuer last year of the securities denominated in currencies other than the yen and sold to Japanese individual investors, issued $12.2 million of reverse-convertible notes tied to shares of the U.S. chipmaker on Jan. 21, according to Bloomberg data going back to 1997.

Barclays joins Deutsche Bank AG in selling uridashi notes tracking single U.S. stocks after $75 million of such securities were issued last year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index advanced 58 percent in four years since the end of 2008, the year when the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. roiled financial markets.

“Naturally, they’re bullish products,” Naohide Une, head of equity-derivatives trading at Goldman Sachs Japan Co., said by phone. “If the market doesn’t go down and gradually goes higher, then they are good yield-enhancement products for retail investors. The U.S. situation fits into the theme well.”

In return for paying high coupons, reverse convertibles convert into their underlying stocks at maturity if the shares plummet, potentially eroding the buyers’ principal.

High Coupons

Barclays’s five-month notes yield 9.02 percent monthly as long as Nvidia shares are at or above 90 percent of the stock’s Jan. 31 closing, while the coupon drops to 0.5 percent if the price falls by more than the 10 percent buffer, according to the prospectus for the product. If the shares gain more than 10 percent, the notes are redeemed at their full value.

Should the stock close below 90 percent of its initial value on any day between Feb. 1 and 10 trading days before expiration on June 21, the notes convert into the Nvidia stock at maturity, according to the marketing materials.

Nvidia shares closed at $12.26 on Jan. 31, after losing 34 percent of their value through last year since the end of 2009. In the latest earnings release in November, the company reported quarterly profit surpassing analysts’ estimates, helped by sales of chips used in tablet devices.

Marina Totsuka, a Tokyo-based spokeswoman for Barclays, declined to comment on the reasons it picked the stock for the notes.

Deutsche Bank was the sole issuer of reverse convertibles tied to individual U.S. stocks in the uridashi market last year, selling a total of $75.47 million of securities linked to Morgan Stanley, Hewlett-Packard Co., and VMware Inc., according to Bloomberg data. The rest of the $2 billion of single-stock reverse convertibles issued last year were tied to Japanese companies, the data show.

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Radiation in Pennsylvania Creek Seen as Legacy of Frackin

A natural gas drill is viewed at a hydraulic fracturing site in South Montrose, Pennsylvania. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Naturally occurring radiation brought to the surface by gas drillers has been detected in a Pennsylvania creek that flows into the Allegheny River, illustrating the risks of wastewater disposal from the boom in hydraulic fracturing.

Sediment in Blacklick Creek contained radium in concentrations 200 times above normal, or background levels, according to the study, published today in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The radium, along with salts such as bromide, came from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh, a plant that treats wastewater from oil and gas drilling.

“The absolute levels that we found are much higher than what you allow in the U.S. for any place to dump radioactive material,” Avner Vengosh, a professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and co-author of the study, said in an interview. “The radium will be bio-accumulating. You eventually could get it in the fish.”

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking has been blamed for contaminating streams and private water wells after spills from wastewater holding ponds or leaks from faulty gas wells. Today’s report exposes the risks of disposing of the surging volumes of waste from gas fracking. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing new standards for disposing of gas drilling waste.

Commercial Treatment

For decades Pennsylvania disposed of wastewater from oil and gas drilling at commercial treatment plants that discharged into rivers and streams. A natural-gas boom brought on by fracking in a geologic formation called the Marcellus Shale led to a 570 percent increase in the volume of drilling wastewater since 2004, according to Brian Lutz, assistant professor of biogeochemistry at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

In fracking, millions of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are forced underground to shatter rock and free trapped gas. As much as 80 percent of the fluid returns to the surface along with radium, and salts such as sodium, calcium, magnesium, chlorine, bromide.

Water treatment “has been Pennsylvania’s go-to method for decades,” Lutz said in an interview. With fracking “we were seeing these systems being overwhelmed. They were just taking too much waste leading to water quality problems.”

Monitoring Needed

While earlier studies have identified radiation in drilling wastewater, today’s report is the first to examine the long-term environmental impacts of dumping it in rivers. Proper treatment can remove a substantial portion of the radioactivity in wastewater, though it does not remove many of the other salts, including bromide, Vengosh said.

“Our findings indicate that disposal of wastewater from both conventional and unconventional oil and gas operations has degraded the surface water and sediments,” Nathaniel Warner, a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College and co-author of the study, said in a statement. “This could be a long-term legacy of radioactivity.”

Blacklick Creek is a tributary of the Conemaugh River, which flows into the Allegheny. In 2011, regulators found high levels of bromides in western Pennsylvania rivers, prompting some plants that supply Pittsburgh and other cities to change the way they treat drinking water.

Bromide, which is not toxic, can combine with disinfectants used at drinking water treatment plants to produce cancer-causing compounds. Radium is a naturally occurring metal that can accumulate in plants and animals and be transferred through the food chain to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Voluntary Request

“We’re getting better at reducing the amount of wastewater produced by shale gas wells, but the total wastewater volume continues to grow rapidly,” Lutz said. “There simply isn’t disposal infrastructure in place.”

In 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection asked Marcellus Shale drillers to voluntarily stop taking wastewater to the Josephine plant and 14 others that had yet to meet new discharge standards.

Aquatech International Corp., which acquired the Josephine plant in May, agreed in a settlement with the state that month not to treat Marcellus Shale waste at Josephine and two of its other plants until they are upgraded to new standards. The company also agreed to spend as much as $30 million to upgrade the three plants and to pay an $83,000 penalty.

Stopped Treating

The plant stopped treating Marcellus Shale waste after the 2011 state advisory was issued, according to Devesh Mittal, vice president and general manager of the shale gas division at the closely held company.

“We are not processing any unconventional wastewater,” Mittal said in an interview. “We manifest every gallon of water that comes in. As part of the manifest, they make a declaration that the water is coming from the well where it is listed.”

Lisa Kasianowitz, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, said the Josephine plant voluntarily stopped accepting Marcellus Shale wastewater in 2011.

That assessment is contradicted by today’s study, which shows that the Josephine plant continued to treat Marcellus Shale wastewater through the beginning of this year, Vengosh said.

Marcellus Fingerprint

“Based on the isotopes that we measured we can see that the effluent that’s coming from Josephine in the last three years, including two months ago, still has the fingerprint of the Marcellus,” Vengosh said.

Patrick Creighton, a spokesman for the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry group, said the report relies on outdated information.

“It is unfortunate that the researchers and funders of this study either did not know or would not acknowledge that the shale industry has not taken flow-back water to this treatment facility, or any similar facility in Pennsylvania, since May 2011, which underscores the outdated nature of the data used for the report,” Creighton said in an e-mail.

The reported was funded by the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Park Foundation, an Ithaca, New York-based group that provides grants in support of education, public broadcasting and the environment.

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July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. property-casualty insurer, said second-quarter profit advanced 41 percent and beat estimates as revenue climbed.

Net income rose to $614 million, or $1.39 a share, from $434 million, or 92 cents, a year earlier, the Northbrook, Illinois-based company said today in a statement. Operating income, which excludes some investment results, was $1.01 a share, beating the 65-cent average estimate of 22 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

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Allstate-brand homeowners policies in force reversed a decline that started in June 2006, after Hurricane Katrina slammed the southern U.S. The insurer had 6.07 million home policies in force at the end of the quarter, compared with 6.06 million on March 31.

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Policies in force at Allstate’s namesake brand increased 1.5 percent in the second quarter, led by a 450,000-policy jump in the auto unit. The insurer made 2.6 cents for every premium dollar in its property and liability coverage unit, compared with 3.9 cents a year earlier.

Book value, a measure of assets minus liabilities, rose to $47.97 a share from $46.70 as of March 31. Investment income narrowed to $898 million from $984 million a year earlier.

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H.E. Sheikh Jassim Bin Mohammed Bin Hamad Jassim Al-Thani serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Islamic Bank S.A.Q. since April 2005. H.E. Bin Mohammed Bin Hamad Jassim Al-Thani serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Al Mirqab Capital LLC, Qatar, a family enterprise. He has Exceptional Knowledge and Expertise of the GCC and International Investment Markets. He has been Chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank S.A.Q. since April 2005. He serves as the Chairman of Damaan ...

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Cardiovascular Care Affiliates, Inc. acquires, develops, and operates outpatient cath labs and CT angiography suites in partnership with cardiology groups. It focuses on outpatient cath labs, CT angiography, and other outpatient cardiovascular services. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee with a facility in Atlanta, Georgia.

330 Franklin Road

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Brentwood, TN 37027

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Founded in 2000

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Flint Energy Services, Inc. provides integrated midstream production services to the energy and resource industries. The company's operations are organized into three primary business segments; facility infrastructure, production services, and transportation systems. The company offers the fabrication and installation of oil sands and heavy oil processing plants. Flint Energy Services, Inc. also engages in pipeline construction. The company was formerly known as Flint Energy Construction Co. and changed its name to Flint Energy Services, Inc. in April 2002. Flint Energy Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Flint Energy Services, Inc. operates as a subsidia...

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Changlin Company Limited manufactures and distributes construction machinery and equipment in China and internationally. It offers wheel loaders, motor graders, road rollers, backhoe loaders, bulldozers, truck mounted cranes, truck cranes, excavators, skid steer loaders, forklift trucks, pavers, and concrete truck mixers, as well as other construction machinery and equipment, and engineering vehicles. The company exports its products to the United States, Europe, Oceania, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Its products are used in construction of railroads, highways, water conservancy facilities, ports, energy and urban projects, and others. Changlin Company Limited was founded in 1958 and is based in Changzhou, China.

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What Indian economic phenomenon is at once marginal, even illegal, and enormously independent and entrepreneurial? That would be the street vendor, the small capitalist of the poor, and reservoir of off-the-books penalties that grease the machine of every municipal authority and police station in urban India.

There are an estimated 10 million street vendors (another term is the more pejorative "hawkers") in the cities of India, functioning mostly in breach of a host of urban laws governing licensing, selling and zoning -- and challenging bourgeois ideas of what a metropolis should look like. Street vendors have long battled to be recognized as a professional guild, not a shadowy underclass. Earlier this month, after more than a decade of agitation, the National Association of Street Vendors won a significant victory when the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, recognized the rights of street vendors by passing the Street Vendors Bill, 2012.

The measure acknowledges that street vending is an economic reality that works to the advantage of both sellers and consumers, providing productive employment for many and cheap goods and services for the urban poor. The law contains several significant provisions designed to bring street vendors into far less ambiguous legal and economic terrain, and attempts to break down the high wall that currently divides them from city municipal corporations and resident associations.

Three statutes from the bill illustrate its spirit. One, it requires, ambitiously, every city municipal corporation to form a "Town Vending Committee" made up of the municipal commissioner and representatives of local planning authorities, resident welfare associations and street vendors themselves. Every person intending to become a vendor would have to apply to the committee for a certificate and a location.

Only time will tell if India's municipal corporations, deeply invested in a predatory culture of bribes, threats and special interests (see Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria's essay on Mumbai), will actually make a transition to the more enabling and democratic regime envisioned by the law. But at the very least the new rules allow street vendors to participate, through their representatives, in municipal decision-making, instead of merely having orders and decisions declaimed to them from on high, not to mention the perpetual threat of eviction and confiscation of goods.

Second, the bill enjoins all city municipal corporations to undertake a survey of street vendors and to make room for them in a town plan, up to a number amounting to a maximum of 2.5 percent of the local population. These generous terms have already spawned some reporting that anticipates something akin to an alien invasion. A typical example would be the lead paragraph of an article in Mumbai's Daily News and Analysis, probably the newspaper most hostile to the bill, about "a red carpet" being rolled out for street vendors:

Imagine walking on a footpath jostling past a slew of hawkers about 1 lakh [100,000] in the city crowding sidewalks, leaving you with little or no space to move. This could soon be the reality of your life once the draft bill of hawkers' policy is cleared.

A dissenting point of view was offered last year by the civic activist Harsh Mander, who cited a recent seven-city study of street vendors in India to suggest that the bill was one of the first pieces of legislation in India to make a place for the claims and needs of the poor in urban plans:

Vendors depend on an estimated two percent of urban land, but these sites are mostly legally barred to them. The seven-city study found that only Bhubaneshwar and Imphal made provisions for street vendors in their city development plans, but these were absent in the plans for Delhi, Patna, Bangalore, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. The plans earmark spaces for hospitals, parks, offices, residential colonies, and bus and rail terminals, but neglect that around all of these, vendors naturally congregate, and these vendors provide essential services to people at low costs. The urban plans provide for malls and covered shopping arcades, but the imagination of town planners and officials excludes all shops which are run by the poor, for the poor.

The third stipulation in the bill worth emphasizing is the one requiring town plans to "ensure that the provision of space or area for street vending is reasonable and consistent with existing natural markets." This means that street vendors can't just be picked up and "relocated" to some distant zone. Rather, space must be made for them in those urban nodes and junctions where they are usually found.

Some Indian federations of traders have opposed the law, arguing that street vendors are able to supply goods and services at a cheaper rate because they don't pay taxes. But street vendors do pay a kind of tax, only these levies don't go into state coffers. As Sharit Bhowmik, the Indian scholar who has overseen empirical work on the lives of street vendors, argued in an essay in 2006:

The non-official/illegal status of street vending along with low levels of unionization has given rise to an alarming rate of rent seeking. [One] study on street vendors...found that they pay between 10 to 20% of their earnings as rent...

Legalizing the profession and encouraging trade unions are the means through which rent seeking can be reduced. The local bodies should levy taxes on street vendors which would increase the revenue of these bodies. But these are also the precise reasons why the authorities may resist such moves - they stand to lose out on their extra income through bribes.

When the big picture on India's economy is taken into account, it is pragmatic, as well as just, to not expose street vendors to the levels of harassment they currently face, and to bring them into the tax system and the ranks of the urban citizenry. After all, they are the stars of India's vast "informal economy" -- those without contracts, social security or employer benefits -- inhabited by more than 80 percent of the country's 450 million workforce.

It is beyond the capacity of any government, or of Indian business, to integrate into the formal sector such a large pool of what classical economics would call "reserve labor" -- a group that is growing at a rate of 1 million people a month. Street vendors, by contrast, can claim to be a class of 10 million workers who generate employment for themselves and value for the poor around them. An essential, if underacknowledged, part of the story of Indian capitalism, street vendors have long deserved a new deal from the Indian state, and at long last they've got one.

(Chandrahas Choudhury, a novelist, is the New Delhi correspondent for World View. Follow him on Twitter.)

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by Terry B on June 10, 2009

It’s funny how you can go your whole life without ever seeing something and then once you see it, it’s everywhere. Take French breakfast radishes [or as the French call them, breakfast radishes—les radis petit déjeuner]. describes French breakfast radishes as having “a crisp texture and a mild to delicately sweet flavor.” It goes on to say that “This radish is considered to be a spring radish, but may be available throughout the year.” That said, French breakfast radishes grown later in the year, when it has been hot their entire growing season of three to four weeks, tend to be strong in flavor and can turn pithy.

I first made the acquaintance of these crunchy, earthy, slightly spicy little delights several weeks ago at mado, one of our favorite Chicago restaurants. There they were served in classic French style—uncooked, trimmed top and bottom and halved lengthwise with a little salt and a generous dollop of butter alongside.

Next thing I knew, Laura over at What I Like was singing their praises and calling this simple preparation a “wonderful French children’s snack.” And New York magazine’s Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite were sharing how Allen & Delancey chef Kyle Bailey poaches them in butter, just in case you tire of the classic treatment.

So by the time we started seeing them at farmers markets, we were eager to snatch some up and try them at home. The first batch we got came from a farmer at the Green City Market in Lincoln Park. Having had them raw, I asked how he ate them. Sautéed in butter was the answer. His radishes were full grown, three or so inches, and a little bolder and spicier in flavor than the smaller, more delicate ones we’d had at mado—but still milder than the ubiquitous red supermarket radishes.

Next we bought a batch, the ones shown above, at our neighborhood Logan Square Farmers Market. They’re smaller, harvested younger as the mado ones had been. When I asked the farmer there how she liked to eat them, she mimed lifting one to her mouth and biting into it. She said she has to be careful when she’s harvesting them or else she’ll spot minor imperfections in them making them not marketworthy and eat her entire crop on the spot.

I understand. I keep meaning to try sautéing some or at least serving them up with butter and salt. I hear they’re also delicious in salads. But so far, we’ve only managed to barely rinse them off before gobbling them up. However you choose to eat them, get your hands on some now, while they’re at their best.

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Holly June 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm

These are beautiful! I’ve seen them at our markets around Philly and have always shied away from buying them for fear they would just fade away in my fridge and end up in the compost bin. But poached in butter? Sounds rather amazing! Thanks for the tip!

Laura June 10, 2009 at 4:52 pm

I have got to try the poaching method now! Later in the summer we sometimes get japanese turnips at the farmers markets (harukei I think?) that are similar in taste and texture to the radishes and I find them to be totally delicious sauteed in butter with a pinch of salt. Oh, and I added them to your Chinese chicken salad, along with some raw asparagus…delicious! That salad is so genius…

Doc Rock June 10, 2009 at 10:22 pm

First discovered these years ago in a Thompson and Morgan seed catalog. Grew some and grew to love them!

Terry B June 11, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Holly—Even try them raw with a little butter and salt. I think you’ll like them.

Laura—Those sound like some great additions to Marion’s chicken salad!

Doc Rock—And what’s cool about growing your own is that they grow so quickly, just three or four weeks.

Julie June 14, 2009 at 7:05 pm

you’ve just reminded me that i have these farmer’s market procured radishes in my crisper and i was going to cook them with dill! must do that.

Terry B June 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Julie—And you’ve just reminded me that I haven’t visited your blog recently enough. Congratulations on finishing library school!

Crystal June 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm

I know these type of radishes and usually they are very tasty.
I’ve never tried them poached in butter. Sounds very interesting :) Thanks for sharing!

Dani H May 18, 2014 at 4:50 am

I was raised eating young radishes and spring onions with breakfast whenever they were available (in the days before you could get everything year-round.) Always with salt, though these days I get fancy and use coarse sea salt. {smile}

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The two hour forum was arranged by Labor’s Blue Mountains spokeswoman Trish Doyle who is expected to stand for preselection for the party for the next state election in just over a year. The forum was to discuss the changes made to the Mountains train timetable.

Invited speaker, Michael Paag, a Blue Mountains commuter group spokesman, said his own train had gone in the revamped train timetable introduced in October last year. He also had concerns about security, calling cutbacks to police on trains “crazy”.

But Blue Mountains MP Roza Sage said on Monday the government had “actually increased the number of police on the rail network”.

“This is because they have more powers than the old transport officers and can cover more of the network by patrolling in pairs, compared to fours and fives with transport officers. Under Labor, security on trains was controlled by people who didn’t have police powers, had no police training and no police intelligence,” she said.

Mr Paag, the failed 2007 state Liberal candidate, was one of a range of speakers concerned about the lack of consultation with the timetable. He said his concerns were being ignored by Mrs Sage, who had a “closed door policy ... with emails ignored and telephone calls not responded”.

Mrs Sage also disputed this claim on Monday, saying her door has “always been open for commuter feedback”.

Disgruntled commuters from Warrimoo, the Mid-Mountains and from Blackheath and beyond were concerned about gaps in the timetable — express trains that were overlooking “minor stations” and also bypassing Westmead and Blacktown. Others were worried that state-of-the-art new trains were too high for the platform at Springwood and Hazelbrook and services were not being properly integrated with buses or other trains.

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Addressing the crowd, one commuter said 300 services had been lost weekly under the new timetable, while another commuter, a young university student, told the group she didn’t feel safe on the limited late night trains.  But a Wentworth Falls traveller said he was pleased to be saving 15 minutes a day under the revised train timetable.

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Opposition transport minister Penny Sharpe, who had addressed another public transport forum out of the region earlier in the week, said Labor “didn’t always get it right either and there is far more work to do, but the simple fact is public transport drives economic productivity of this city — if we get public transport right that makes us all live a better life”.

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