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Matter Design (which was co-founded by Brandon Clifford, who’s also an assistant professor at MIT) worked with CEMEX, a company that specializes in building materials, to design a series of over-sized concrete monoliths that could be assembled like giant building blocks into a larger, functional structure. But despite weighing many tons a piece and being durable enough to survive hundreds of years, the concrete blocks feature unique makeups and shapes that make them relatively easy to move, even by just a single person. There’s a couple of different design approaches at work here. The blocks, which are also known as...

Shortened title. Full title: Update: ‘Child Trafficking Camp’ Discovered in Arizona is Located on Clinton Foundation Donor CEMEX Property Dozens of American citizens have joined forces with veterans to expose what they believe is a child-trafficking camp hidden inside the Arizona woods. Veterans on Patrol, a homeless Veterans advocacy group, stumbled upon the encampment in Tucson, last Tuesday, but it wasn’t a typical homeless camp. As Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday , the team of veterans found trees with restraints on them at the site, children’s clothing, a baby crib, a stroller, an outdoor bathroom, toys, pornographic material, hair dye,...

TUCSON, Ariz. - A disturbing discovery near an abandoned plant off I-19. A documentary crew is shown an underground bunker believed to be used for human trafficking of children. Tucson Police tells us that they are not ruling out the possibility that it was used for human trafficking, but they say they believe the bunker is most likely being used as a homeless camp. Former Navy Seal Craig Sawyer is currently filming "Contraland" to expose the dark side of child sex slavery. Sawyer tells KGUN 9 a homeless advocacy group called his crew after they discovered the underground bunker --...

Has anyone seen this? Is there a threat. Basically some veterans went on a CEMEX plant in disuse and found a child rape farm. Cemex' board member? Linda Rothschild. $41 millions of investments? George Soros. Clinton Foundation member? Check. Wild things are on the horizon.

Bill Clinton’s advisers hatched a cold-blooded plan to line his pockets from the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake! That’s the implication of a three-page memo obtained by a Washington anti-corruption group, Judicial Watch. Headlined “Private Sector Opportunities for WJC” – referring to Bill’s initials – the document analyzes three companies expected to benefit from the disaster, in which 316,000 died and 1.3 million lost their homes. “WJC [aka Bill] should reach out to Cemex and bring them into his private sector fold,” the memo urges. “Cemex, a Mexican-owned multinational cement company, has three cement import terminals (in Haiti).” PHOTOS: Bill’s Shame–...

VICTORVILLE • A controversial proposal to give federal land north of Victorville to Cemex in hopes of ending a 12-year dispute over mining in Santa Clarita is back before the City Council Tuesday night.Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, first introduced the Soledad Canyon Mine Act in 2008 and then again in 2009. The bills aimed to give 10,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management property north of Victorville to cement producer Cemex USA. In exchange, the company would agree to a band on its rights to mine gravel in Soledad Canyon, where residents have been protesting the impact on...

Among other newly disclosed positions, the Gates foundation also showed shares of Cemex, the Mexican cement and building-materials company, ....

<p>Cemex (stock symbol CX on NYSE) agreed to pay $1.5 million in overtime back wages to 1,705 current and former ready-mix drivers in eight states, including Texas, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.</p> <p>The department began an investigation in Tampa, Fla., where it found drivers paid by the truck load were not compensated for overtime between Sept. 11, 2006, and Sept. 11, 2008.</p>

On July 28, debt-laden Mexican cement maker CEMEX, S.A. de C.V. (NYSE: CX - News) posted weak results for the second quarter of 2009. Net debt at the end of the second quarter was US$18,272 million, representing an increase of US$238 million during the quarter. Consolidated net sales decreased to US$4,188 million, representing a decrease of 34%, compared to the second quarter of 2008 due to lower volumes from U.S. and Spanish operations, which was partially mitigated by price inelasticity. EBITDA decreased 41% year over year to US$812 million and EBITDA margin decreased by 220 basis points from 21.6% in...

Socialism: Venezuela's seizure of Cemex assets Monday is more than a typical nationalization of resources. Its vindictive manner has much to do with the firm's Mexican headquarters. It's a message to others in the region.Like a quasi-military conquest, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez marched in troops to "take back" four Cemex cement plants in the dead of night as part of his nationalization of cement announced in April. "It was time," he said Tuesday, calling it one of his "steps toward socialism." Chavez then popped out fireworks as red T-shirted mobs, judges and politicians headed to the plants and cheered their...

Cemex, a major producer of cement, is scheduled to have a stock split (2:1) on July 21. Owners of record BEFORE July 14, 2006 will receive a 2 for 1 split of their shares. Cemex is a major worldwide supplier of cement. Here's the link to the split info (scroll down to "DR Event" link): Click here for BNY info.

The red-hot real estate market shows no sign of cooling, but there could be a cloud on the horizon. The shortage of a humble but irreplaceable material could slow the growth of new housing. In parts of the Pacific Northwest, for instance, there's not nearly enough cement, 15% less than last year even as demand has climbed by 30%. "It's definitely affected our bottom line," says Dave Bertsch, president of Champion Concrete Pumping. "If it continues, we're going to have some layoffs. We are going to have to liquidate some equipment. It's a domino effect."

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Mexican cement company Cemex SA said Monday it has signed a letter of intent to sell two cement plants in the U.S. to Brazil's Grupo Votorantim for US$400 million (euro308 million.) In a news release, Cemex said it began evaluating options for the Charlevoix and Dixon-Marquette cement plants at the beginning of the year, after reviewing its strategic position in the United States. Votorantim presented a non-binding offer for the cement plants as well as related operating assets in the Great Lakes area. The deal was expected to close in the...