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This Week's Schedule
Wednesday, October 29th
1st place No. 9 UC Santa Barbara 11-2-1/4-1-0 Big West
vs. 3rd place UC Irvine 5-8-1/2-1-1 Big West
7:00 p.m. at UCSB's Harder Stadium
Friday, October 31st
No. 9 UC Santa Barbara 11-2-1/4-1-0 Big West (1st)
vs. San Francisco 7-9-0/2-2-0 WCC (4th)
*5:00 p.m. at UCSB's Harder Stadium
-Doubleheader with the UCSB women's team-
National Rankings
Soccer Times - 9th
College Soccer News - 12th
Soccer America - 17th
NSCAA/adidas Coaches Poll - 20th
Hanging On
Now at the midpoint of the 2003 Big West Conference season, the ninth-ranked (Soccer Times) UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team is holding onto a narrow two-point advantage over No. 16 Cal State Northridge in the league standings. Having dropped their first conference game in two years last weekend to Cal State Fullerton, the Gauchos gave up three points to CSN with five Big West games remaining, including one head-to-head match with the Matadors in Northridge next Wednesday, November 5th. This week's opponent, UC Irvine, is currently tied for third with UC Riverside, five points behind UCSB.
The Slash
The nickname was originally coined for NFL quarterback Kordell Stewart, but UCSB junior Matt Bly has made it his own this season. Although listed as a forward during the first two seasons of his career, Bly has started at least one match this season as a defender, in the midfield, and as a forward. To aid a young defensive unit at the start of the season, the junior from Santa Rosa spent most of his time in the back, helping the Gauchos post five shutouts in their first eight matches. When senior David McGill went down with a injury, Bly stepped into the midfield role, tallying four assists in three games. And now once again a forward, Bly blasted home two goals in UCSB's 3-1 win at Cal Poly this past week for the first multi-goal game of his career. The junior's four assists tie him for sixth in the Big West.
Officer Arzate
Senior playmaker Memo Arzate has made a habit of forcing UCSB opponents to pay for their penalties. This past week Arzate slipped home a penalty kick in each of Santa Barbara's two games. Of the five times the Gauchos have been fouled inside the penalty box this season, Arzate has served justice four times in four tries, while Drew McAthy pounded home the other. On the flip-side, junior goalkeeper Dan Kennedy blocked his second career PK in four tries on Wednesday at Cal Poly. Adding to the feat, Kennedy blocked the second shot coming off the ensuing rebound.
Titan Bookends
It wasn't pretty, in fact it was downright ugly, the way UCSB played in its 4-1 loss at Cal State Fullerton under the smoky skies of Southern California. The loss snapped the Gauchos' 14-game conference unbeaten streak, which started after a 3-2 loss to CSF at the end of the 2001 season, leaving them two games short of the NCAA's top fifteen all-time. The four goals allowed were the most since a 4-1 loss to Oregon State in 2000.
Another one in the Win Column
It is never automatic when Santa Barbara plays Cal Poly, but when the Gauchos downed the Mustangs 3-1 last week it was their sixth straight victory over the Central Coast rival. The afformentioned Matt Bly posted the game-winning goal when he netted a loose ball after a Tony Lochhead corner kick. UCSB is yet to lose a game to Cal Poly since the Big West reistated men's soccer in 2001.
The Return of the Dynamic Duo
It was a welcome sight to see number four take the field at Cal Poly. Having missed three games due to injury, senior midfielder David McGill joined Memo Arzate in the Santa Barbara midfield two weeks ahead of schedule. Arzate and McGill in the starting lineup once again gives the Gauchos two of the top assist men in the nation. Arzate is currently leading the NCAA averaging 0.93 assists per game, while McGill remains 30th, putting up a 0.50 mark, despite playing a limited role in both games this past week.
Ante Up!
With the loss last week to CSF the Gauchos hope to return to form when they host UC Irvine this Wednesday. Entering the week with a very deceiving 5-8-1 overall record, UCI is currently 2-2-1 and tied for third in conference. The Anteaters are unbeaten in their last three matches and have recorded wins this season over Cal and Fresno State. UCI is led by Sebastian Galmarini with four goals, three of which have come in conference play, tying him with Memo Arzate and UCR's Luc Harrington for the Big West lead. Ryan Mathy and Cameron Rossi have split time between the pipes, with Rossi getting the nod in the last two matches. However, neither have proven to very effective, putting up a team goals against average of 1.73. UCSB leads the all-time series at 23-8-2 and has posted a 3-1-1 record against the Anteaters over the last three seasons. The Gauchos scored a combined nine goals last year in their two games with UCI.
Halloween Doubleheader
Santa Barabara closes out its non-conference schedule this Friday when it hosts the University of San Francisco in the first game of a doubleheader with the UCSB women's team. The Dons are currenlty 7-9-0 and sitting in fourth place in the powerful WCC. USF has eight players with two or more goals on the season, led by Aaron Chandler's four. The Dons have utilized three different goalies, posting a team GAA of 1.62.


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Hi mike, I have mentioned the "there is more" in a thread: http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=11719mikenz66 wrote:Hi Ignobleone,
Several times in these conversations you have stated that "there is more" or "I have not explained it yet". It would be helpful if you would explain your interpretation in a little more detail.
Since I have very little idea what your interpretation is, I am unable to understand or comment on your criticisms of other interpretations.
And also someone in a thread somewhere mentioned about thorns in jhanas. This clue really helped me in the interpretation.

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RIDGELAND - The sign in front of the Ridgeland office says it all - "We Moved!"
That's not quite the case, though. Kinghorn Insurance agencies in Ridgeland, Bluffton and Hilton Head were sold to Hub International Limited of Chicago in late May, the second sale of the agencies since breaking away from the original Kinghorn Insurance of Beaufort in 2001 in a sale to First Financial Holdings, Inc.
Hub, one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in North America, kept five of the seven employees from the Ridgeland office (two account service jobs were eliminated) and appointed Jimmy Rowe Executive Vice President for the Southeastern regional portion of Hub. The office in Ridgeland has closed, and all current clients will be handled out of the Kinghorn Insurance offices in Bluffton, at 1160 Fording Island Road on U.S. 278.
Sarah Clemens, who was the general manager of the Ridgeland office, will work in Bluffton.
Local spokesman for Hub, Tom Gardo, said that he's looking forward to the experience of merging Kinghorn into the Hub family.
"Hub brings a level of expertise to the local area that we haven't had before," he said.
"This is a very large brokerage company that will bring advantages of experience and insurance opportunities that our clientele will certainly want to take advantage of."


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Null unit is a derogatory slur used by programs in the computer world. While its exact meaning in TRON is unclear, it seems to be used in a similar context as the word "idiot". Null is an English word meaning "nothing" or "valueless", and in general computing terms, "null" usually refers to something indicating "no value" or an "unknown value".
In the early days of CGI however, the unit of measurement used to indicate a relative fraction of the available width & height (of the column & row) it occupied in a grid layout, was also called a 'null unit'. Therefore it is possible the term was given to any program assigned to locate and pinpoint the position of another program on the Game Grid, as was the function of 'null units' used in grid graphics.
In the film TRON, Sark called his Lieutenant a "null unit" after Tron, Flynn, and Ram escaped from the Game Grid.
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Editor's Note: Facebook unveiled a new social search feature called Graph Search Tuesday that will allow users to search their friends' content on the Facebook platform.
The new feature is not a global web search engine like Google, that will allow users to search Facebook's social graph. However, users can only search content that has already been shared with them.
Check out Facebook.com/graphsearch
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Screaming Flea Productions, a television production company behind shows like "Hoarders, "Women of Homicide and "Sell This House," is preparing to release a new reality show centered on the issue of divorce among young couples.
Screaming Flea Productions, a television production company behind shows like "Hoarders, "Women of Homicide and "Sell This House," is preparing to release a new reality show centered on the issue of divorce among young couples.
The statistics, as casting associate/associate story producer Bif Brigman tells the Leavenworth Times in this Q5, are alarming.
Below, he discusses the challenges young married couples face.
1. Bif, can you tell us about the new reality series, "20 and Divorced," that the producers of "Hoarders" are launching?
"Screaming Flea Productions, the award-winning producers of 'Hoarders,' is working on an exciting new documentary series for a major cable network focusing on transformational personal growth as a byproduct of Y Generation — 20- to 30-year-olds — divorce. The show will not only document the challenges facing young couples as they navigate the complexities of modern relationships, but will also detail the inspiring stories of how these young people bounce back and begin new lives after marriage."
2. Will the show try to bring awareness to the problems Millennials are beginning to face as they wrestle with marriages ending at such a young age? Will it also focus on people in the LGBT community who live in states that grant the right to marry?
"This show will raise awareness to the unique challenges and opportunities faced by young people by following and documenting this new Millennial generation as it comes forward to join the ranks of the married and divorcing couples in America. And, this demographic is certainly evolving and changing in distinct and new ways.
"The institution and ideas of marriage are expanding and evolving like never before. With the right to marry for so many now a reality, divorce in the LGBTQQIA — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Ally — community is inevitable. Long excluded as traditionally recognized couples, LGBTQQIA voices are now part of the national narrative on marriage. Likewise, LGBTQQIA people will also have a newly visible presence in divorce.
"This new series will profile both gay and straight individuals as they end their relationships and embark on new lives."
3. What are the statistics on divorce for people who marry in their 20s, 30s, and 40s? How will the new show provide a much-needed resource for those facing the challenges of uncoupling?
"The National Center for Health Statistics reports 60 percent of marriages for couples between the ages of 20 and 25 ends in divorce.
"In America, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That's nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week, and 876,000 divorces a year.
"The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce is eight years. People wait an average of three years after a divorce to remarry, if they remarry at all.
"The average age for couples going through their first divorce is 30 years old.
"About 1 percent of the total number of currently married same-sex couples gets divorced each year, in comparison to about 2 percent of married straight couples. Note that the percent of couples that get divorced eventually is 50 percent, but only 1 or 2 percent get divorced in a particular year.
"Forty-one percent of first marriages end in divorce. Sixty percent of second marriages end in divorce, and 73 percent of third marriages end in divorce."
4. Why do you think it's so much harder for 20-somethings to make marriages work out?
"People marry for all sorts of reasons and they get divorced for just as many. And while divorce continues to carry many social stigmas in modern culture, divorce is inevitable based on modern history. The Millennial generation is no different — they are divorcing, too. However, compounding their situation is experiencing a hostile world with a struggling economy, troubling unemployment numbers and simultaneously experiencing a rapidly-changing structure of technology, communication and globalization. They are facing unique challenges to their generation as more and more young people uncouple and decide to leave broken marriages in this changing and challenging landscape.
"And while many in the Y Generation come from divorced parents and have personally seen the common effects of divorce, tense custody disputes and crumbling family infrastructure firsthand, their interpersonal relationships are impacted in ways never seen before. The introduction and dominance of social media, mass communication, ease of online dating and abundance of hook-up apps have altered the landscape of relationships in profound ways.
"Cheating, lying and leading secret lives are easier than ever before. Disposable relationships in a disposable world.
"Lack of maturity is the main cause of increasing divorce rates among the Net-Generation marriages. The number of young marriages is on the rise currently. Most young people get married without any knowledge about how to maintain a functional family. Divorce is not one of the challenges that strike Generation Y couples' minds before they get married.
"Tara S. Pellegrino, a student lawyer, said, 'The large majority of young couples enter this (marriage) with a sense of perceived invincibility, an 'it can't happen to us' mentality that blinds them to the reality that divorce, not death, is the more probable end to the fairy tale.'
"Many Generation Y teenagers are used to having their parents give them all they need, so they do not think that getting married comes with some responsibilities. At adolescence, many teenagers are usually rebellious and unwilling to listen to their parents' advice, so when they decide to get married no one has control over their decisions. In their marriages, young couples often face challenges like child rearing, financial insufficiencies, and inability to tolerate their partners' behaviors. These challenges are the realities about marriage, which most Generation Y couples only realize after getting married.
"Mary Myrick, a National Health Marriage Resource Center project director, says, 'There is often a disconnect between attitudes about marriage and the reality of getting or being married.' Young couples accept the truth about marriage when they are finally married and experience the challenges in marriage. When many young married couples finally find out that marriage involves more than just happiness, they start thinking over the decisions they made, and decide to get divorced because they are too young to think of other problem-solving techniques.
"We have previously commented on the statistics which confirm that the divorce rate amongst the under 30s is rising.
"With the advent of 'Generation Y,' also known as the 'Net Generation,' it's likely that such unrealistic expectations will continue. The culture of thinking differently about relationships, being motivated by different goals, does not always lead to a happy marriage.
"Furthermore, advances in technology and methods of communication that do not rely upon face-to-face or even voice-to-voice contact can, in our experience, on occasions hinder, rather than improve, relations in a marriage."
5. How can our local residents who are interested in being on the show find out more and submit their information for casting consideration?
"Interested people can respond with their name, age, recent photo, and a brief summary of their situation by going to the casting page at www.sfpseattle.com/casting/divorced."


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i would be interested depending on what area of queens that you are playing in.. sunday morning would work great for me! i still need to buy a new tennis racquet though.. i haven't played in four years but i used to be pretty good player. keep me posted! thank you!!
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Southern Research Hires Two New Directors in Drug Development Division
Oct 26, 2011, 03:15 ET
Damon Papac to Lead Bioanalytical Sciences; Joseph Murphy to lead Cancer Therapeutics and Immunology
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Southern Research Institute today announced that Damon Papac, Ph.D., and Joseph Murphy, Ph.D. have joined the Birmingham, Ala.-based not-for-profit research organization to lead two key departments within its Drug Development Division, a technology group that primarily provides contract preclinical drug development services for the pharmaceutical industry and government clients.
"Southern Research continues to position itself strategically to meet the demands of our clients, and contribute meaningfully to the development and commercialization of drugs and therapies for patients around the globe," said Andrew D. Penman, Ph.D., vice president of the Drug Development Division. "Adding experience and knowledge with scientists like Damon and Joe is critical to the future success of our preclinical development team."
Damon Papac, Ph.D., named director of Bioanalytical Sciences, came to Southern Research from Myrexis/Myriad Pharmaceuticals in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he had been director of Discovery ADME. He holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Chemistry from San Diego State University, and earned his Doctorate in Pharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina.
He served his post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He has held bioanalytical ADME, mass spectroscopy, pharmacokinetic and pharmaceutic positions for more than 17 years. Papac has written and/or contributed to more than 40 scientific abstracts, journal articles and book chapters. He served on the editorial board for Analytical Biochemistry, and was an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of American Society of Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry, and the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is a member of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., named director of Cancer Therapeutics and Immunology, joins Southern Research from Trinity College, University of Dublin in Ireland, where he was a Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist. Murphy has more than 20 years' experience in biological research in both academia and the biotechnology industry.
Previously, he served as Founder/Managing Director of Emmerex Limited, a company focused on developing an immune-based therapy for cancer. He holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Mathematics, Experimental Physics, and Biology from the National University of Ireland-Maynooth. He earned his Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Salford, United Kingdom. Murphy conducted post-doctoral work at INSERM U331, the Institute Pasteur de Lyon in France and Stanford University. He has written and/or contributed to more than 100 scientific abstracts and articles. He has served as a reviewer for Clinical Medicine/Oncology, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, Clinical Medicine/Cardiology, International Journal of Cancer, and the Journal of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Southern Research Institute, founded in 1941, is an independent non-profit organization conducting basic and applied research and development. More than 530 employees support commercial and government clients and partners in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, defense, aerospace, environmental and energy sectors through technology out-licensing, sponsored research, and strategic collaborations. Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., Southern Research has facilities in Wilsonville, Ala., Frederick, Md., and Durham, NC, and offices in Huntsville, Ala., New Orleans, La., and Washington, DC.
CONTACT: Rhonda Jung
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Truthfulness - an Agile Value?
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Declan Whelan wrote a thought-provoking blog citing an idea he learned from Mishkin Berteig about an (unspoken) principle behind successful Agile teams: truthfulness. The basic idea is this:
... agile methods rely on people speaking the truth and acting with integrity. I thought this was very insightful since most agilists focus on either technical aspects of agility such as TDD, refactoring or they focus on team and leadership issues.
Truthfulness? Really? It's not immediately clear to most people, so Declan gives a personal example where he was less than truthful:
For example, once when I was developing a financial application I made what I thought was a good design decision but really struggled to get it to work. I did not want to appear as if I had made a mistake. I basically lead everyone to believe all was well and meanwhile I worked insane hours to get it all working. I was letting pride get in my way and was lying to cover up a bad technical decision.
That example, unfortunately, is not uncommon for many of us and let pride get in our way. An agile team, according to Berteig, is not fertile ground for such actions:
Now, I think it should be obvious that on an agile team you simply could not get away with such behavior for any length of time. There is collective code ownership, daily stand-ups, task and story tracking, sustainable pace; all of which make the whole process much more transparent. So, on the one hand I agree with Mishkin that agile methods rely on people speaking and acting truthfully.
But is an agile team really immune to this type of problem? Not, necessarily says Declan:
But we are devious creatures and so I would like to leave you with some questions to ponder:
- Are you honestly expressing your doubts and concerns in retrospectives?
- If something is bothering you with another member of the team do you act in a direct but respectful way to resolve it?
- Are you able to freely admit when someone has a better idea or design than yours?
- Are you willing to admit when you make a mistake?
- Do you say the same things about someone when you are face-to-face with them to do you say something different behind their back?
"Truthfulness an Agile value" has a nice ring to it. Values are increasingly taking front-stage as the core - without them the individual practices like TDD, Iterations, Done State and others are meaningless.
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Truthfulness is crucial to success
Jason Little
Applies to anything
Jim Leonardo
A few things lurking around in my complete list of things
1) "No Surprises"... the mantra of one of our Directors. He won't get pissed off if you bring an issue early. You're in serious trouble if you let it slide and then it becomes an issue later. Amazing how well that policy works.
2) Deferring conflict can only make things worse.
and most important...
3) Someone working significantly more hours than the rest of the team is a HUGE warning sign of something wrong. This something can vary, but you had better figure it out what it is fast.
More than meets the eye
Robert Dempsey
Re: Applies to anything
Amr Elssamadisy
This really should apply to anyone on any project regardless.
Agreed. I think the point of Mishkin's article is that Agile is based on truthfulness. The whole 'visibility' and 'feedback' loops discourage any dishonesty.
Re: Applies to anything
Irakli Nadareishvili
Re: Applies to anything
Amr Elssamadisy
Alas, this just makes them more vulnerable, since full disclosure and complete honesty are hard to get, much harder than most people realize.
Tell me more please. More vulnerable to not being adopted because they are so painful? Agreed - as Jack Nicholson would say "YOU WANT THE TRUTH?!!!! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
Re: Applies to anything
Irakli Nadareishvili
Strong sense of self-discipline, along with the aforementioned honesty/full disclosure are usually in short supply. And getting those is usually the major challenge in assembling a successful agile team. That's why a lot of people agree that a successful agile team needs more professional, more experienced and higher-level members than your average software shop has got.
Agile ain't for everybody, just like Jack Nicholson said :)
Re: Applies to anything
Robert Gimbel
Nothing special for agile teams here. In contrast, agile environments will disclose mistakes sooner than other environments.
That's my opinion
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Amr Elssamadisy
Nothing special for agile teams here. In contrast, agile environments will disclose mistakes sooner than other environments.
Actually, I think what we are trying to say is that there is something special. Agile does this more regularly. Not everyone is comfortable with facing my,... ahem, I mean their mistakes :)
People do not want to admit their estimates were wrong
Delmar Hager
In scrum we have the burn down with tasks that the team has agreed to. The major problem I have found in scrum is that many times the teams do not do enough up front planning at the beginning of the sprint. This causes long hours at the end of the month but because the team's integrity is on the line the goals are usually accomplished. In the retrospect we look back and try to prevent the same problems from happening again.
I am working in a non-agile shop right now and I understand why I am such an Agile advocate. I have one developer who I am sure has mis-lead me but I have no proof because there is no daily accountability. As I have learned continual accountability is key to Agile success.
Trust each other
we should trust each guy in the team, so if you want to others trust you, you must be honest


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Women invite harassment: MP Cong leader
"No man will harass a woman till she looks at him in a suggestive manner," Satyadev Katare, a former minister, said at a Congress rally in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district.india Updated: Apr 24, 2013 19:51 IST
A Congress leader in Madhya Pradesh has landed himself in a controversy by making sexist remarks that women invite trouble by looking at men in a suggestive manner, drawing flak from BJP.
"Jab tak mahila tirchi najar se nahi dekhegi, tab tak purush use nahi chedega" (No man will harass a woman till she looks at him in a suggestive manner)," Satyadev Katare, a former minister, said at a Congress rally in Bhind district.
The rally was organised earlier this week by the Congress in Bhind as part of the party's campaign to regain power in the year-end assembly polls.
Efforts to contact Katare on the issue proved futile.
BJP spokesman and MLA Vishwas Sarang said the statement is highly derogatory towards women despite the fact that the president of the Congress party is a woman.
"It reflects the mentality of Congress leaders and specially in the aftermath of incidents of rape in Delhi," Sarang said.
Rape is an issue which needs to be dealt with tact and sensitivity - but our leaders may need a crash course in diplomacy. Similar derogatory remarks made by the prominent ministers dominated the media space and initiated major discussions over the social media.
President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee stoked a major controversy by describing women participating in Delhi protests against gangrape of a student as 'highly dented and painted', triggering angry backlash.
"Those who are coming in the name of students in the rallies, sundori, sundori mahila (beautiful women), highly dented and painted," Abhijit Mukherjee, an MP from Jangipur seat which the President had vacated before his election, told a news channel.
"Giving interviews in TV and showing off their children. I wonder whether they are students at all," he said, adding, "what's basically happening in Delhi is something like pink revolution, which has very little connection with ground realities." "We were also students. This section doesn't appear and behave like students," Mukherjee said.
Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee had apologised for his remark that women protesting against rape were "dented-painted" and there was no scope for action against him, the party said on Friday.
Two days later as the comment drew sharp reactions from different sections of the country, Mukherjee promptly retracted his statement. Read more...
Hindustantimes.com conducted an online poll asking its viewers "do our politicians get away with insensitive statements?"
A majority of 85.09% of the respondents agreed saying that the politicians do get away with insensitive statements.
Nearly, 13.2% of the voters disagreed with the question, whereas, a small percentage of voters remained undecided.
Here is a list of leaders who have been in the news for unleashing waves of scorn by their comments.
Anisur Rahman
Former CPI(M) minister and a front-ranking party leader Anisur Rehman said at a rally in North Anisur Rehman Dinajpur that victims of atrocities against women in the state are unlikely to get justice as chief minister Mamata Banerjee had already put a price on rape.
"She has said that rape victims will be compensated. She is indirectly encouraging rapists. I ask, 'What is the price of rape. How much is the CM worth'."
Parliamentary affairs and industry minister Partha Chatterjee even filed a complaint with the Speaker of the Assembly - Rehman is a member of the House - seeking breach of privilege.
On Thursday evening, Anisur Rehman was called to the CPI(M) state headquarters in Alimuddin Street, where senior leaders censured him for his remarks. He was asked to tender an unconditional apology. Read more...
Narendra Modi
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's potshots at Union minister Shashi Tharoor's personal life has drawn sharp reaction on social networking platform Twitter. "There was a Congress leader who was a minister in Parliament. He was accused of amassing wealth from cricket. He had said in Parliament that he is not connected to the Rs. 50 crore that in the lady's name," Modi said, asking "Have you ever heard of Rs. 50 crore girlfriend?"
Gujarat chief minister apparently referred the IPL controversy linked with Sunanda Pushkar, which resulted in Tharoor's resignation from the council of ministry as junior external affairs minister.
A day after Gujarat CM Narendra Modi referred to Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar as a "Rs. 50-crore girlfriend", Tharoor chose his favourite medium - Twitter - to hit back. Tharoor's tweet, "@narendramodi My wife is worth a lot more than your imaginary 50 crores. She is priceless. But you need2be able2love some1 2understand that," which was retweeted over 1300 times and favorited by nearly 300, led to a Twitter fight between supporters of both the politicians. Read more..
Mamata Banerjee vs Ghosh Dastidar
In February, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had termed the incident as concocted and alleged it was cooked up to malign her government. Later transport minister Madan Mitra also questioned the morals of the woman, who would befriend strangers at 2 am at a discotheque. But before Ghosh Dastidar none suggest the victim was a sex worker.
Incidentally, Kolkata Police has already filed a chargesheet confirming gangrape on the woman.
Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar came the nearest to calling the Park Street rape victim a sex worker when she described the February 5 incident not as a rape but as a 'misunderstanding between a lady and her client.' Ghosh Dastidar switched off her phone after the comment was televised. Till late evening, none of her party leaders condemned the comment. Read more...
Sanjay Nirupam
Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam made controversial remarks against TV actor and BJP member Smriti Irani during a debate on a news channel on the Gujarat assembly election results. The Congress MP questioned the credentials of Irani to analyse poll results given her background as a TV actress.
He said "till some time ago you were dancing on the TV screens and now you have become a psephologist."
Congress disapproved of its minister's reportedly using defamatory and indecent language against Irani during a TV debate, saying it was "very regrettable".
Announcing boycott from attending news channel debates in which Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam participates, BJP called for a public apology from the leader and the party.
BJP workers staged a protest against the minister for his reported derogatory remarks against TV actor and BJP member Smriti Irani. Activists of BJP's youth and women's wings took out a morcha and demanded an apology from Nirupam for his remarks against Irani, who is also a member of Parliament. Read More...
Sriprakash Jaiswal
At a kavi-sammelan in Kanpur, Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, while discussing corruption including coal block allocations, said, "Issues are like old wives that lose charm as they grow old".
In face of vehement protests for his "sexist and derogatory remarks against women", Jaiswal apologised. But he said his comments were "taken out of context".
A case had been filed against Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal in local court in Varanasi by a BJP woman worker, seeking action against him for his alleged sexiest remarks during a poetry meet. BJP worker, Meena Choubey, on Friday moved the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Amarnath Kushwaha and sought action against Jaiswal for "insulting" women by his remarks during a poetry meet in a women's college in Kanpur recently.
In Kanpur, the BJP women's wing held a march and burnt Jaiswal's effigy. The CPM followed suit. Mahila Manch president Neelam Chaturvedi said the minister's comment was derogatory to women. Read More...
Mulayam Singh Yadav
SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav kicked up a row with his remark that rural women will not benefit from the women reservation bill because they are not as attractive as those from the affluent class.
"Only girls and women from affluent class can go forward...remember this..you (rural women) will not get a chance...Our rural women did not have that much attraction," he said at a rally in Barabanki.
Mulayam made the remark while claiming that if the bill is passed, women belonging to the affluent class will march ahead while those from poor background will be further pushed back.
Later, he softened his stand on the women's reservation bill saying that if the bill served the "interests and welfare of the dalits, Muslims and other backward classes", he would have no problems with it. Read more...
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Carl Froch retained his Super-Middleweight titles with a stunning eighth round knockout win over George Groves on a barnstorming night for British Boxing at Wembley Stadium.
The much anticipated rematch had been branded Unfinished Business after Froch's controversial stoppage win in nine rounds last November.
But there was no doubting the result this time with Froch landing a straight right hand in the eighth that sent Groves crumbling to the canvas with 26 seconds left in the round.
Team Groves had predicted a fast start in the build-up with the Hammersmith fighter having sent Froch to the canvas inside the opening three minutes of their first fight.
But Groves was more cautious than predicted, working off his jab to keep the Cobra at bay.
Froch started to find his way back into the fight from the fifth, muscling Groves onto the ropes with body shots.
And there was no coming back for Groves when Froch finally found his target with American referee Charlie Fitch waving off the contest.
The action packed undercard saw knockout victories for all Britain's fighters.
London 2012 gold medallist Anthony Joshua won inside a round in his Heavyweight contest while James DeGale scored a fourth round stoppage in his Super-Middleweight contest against Brandon Gonzales.
Jamie McDonnell picked his second world title at Super-Bantamweight with a tenth round knock out of Thailand's TabtimDaeng Na Rachawat.
Essex lightweight Kevin Mitchell stopped Ghislain Maduma in eleven rounds to set up a world title shot later this year.
DeGale's win means that he is now mandatory challenger for Froch's IBF title.
Rd 1 - Cautious affair, both toying with their jabs without causing any damage, Froch landed a couple of straight rights on the bell.
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Rd 7 - big left hook from Groves rocked Froch early.
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The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has declared a state of 'acute emergency' for women and children in Afghanistan due to unacceptably high maternal and child mortality rates. UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Cecilia Lotse said that among children, girls in particular are "very vulnerable," with one in five children dieing before the age of five from illness and malnutrition.
UNICEF reports that 1,600 out of every 100,000 women die giving birth or as a result of related complications, as compared to 7 deaths per 100,000 in industrialized countries. In some parts of Afghanistan, maternal mortality rates are as high as 6,000 per 100,000, Lotse reported. "Afghan women don't live long lives," said Lotse. "Afghanistan may be the one country in the world where women die before men."
In addition to its high child and maternal mortality rates, illiteracy among women and girls in Afghanistan is as high as 85 percent, according to UNICEF. Courageous Afghan women continue to build and sustain girls' schools despite violent attacks. Girls' enrollment in secondary schools is still under 10 percent. Girls were prohibited from attending school under the Taliban and were permitted to return to school when the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Since then, over 40 girls' schools have been bombed, set on fire, or violently attacked. Expansion of peacekeeping and security forces in Afghanistan is urgently needed to ensure girls' continued return to school.
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As the October 1 retirement party for quintessential rabid right-wing New York Post hack Steve Dunleavy approaches, everyone who knew him is scrambling to write their remembrances of his alcohol-inspired behavior. It's funny how the passage of time can turn a man's reputation from "inappropriate, mean, and downright dangerous alcoholic" to "beloved irascible colleague," but there you go. How about some more Dunleavy stories? Yes, he had a "reputation as a pants man extraordinaire"!
- "The Star's rival, the National Enquirer, had "paid a ransom for the exclusive serial rights to the hottest book of the decade — Judith Exner's revelations about her affair with President Kennedy". Kerrison says: "The book was under lock and key, guarded tighter than Fort Knox. One day, I told Steve, 'We've got to get a copy of the book and beat the Enquirer to the punch'. Steve said, 'Boss, gimme some time and I'll get it'. "He disappeared. A few days later he turned up in my office, clutching a copy of the Exner book. I couldn't believe my eyes. 'My God,' I said to him, 'Where the hell did you get that?' Steve looked a bit sheepish and said, 'Boss, don't ask. You wouldn't want to know.'
- "It is said Dunleavy would f..k anyone or anything for a story, and that is true. He got a scoop for the News of the World when he wined, dined, seduced and ignobly reported the pillow-talk and tears of one of Teddy Kennedy's "boiler room" girls after the Chappaquiddick scandal. I visited him one evening in his New York apartment. He opened the door and greeted me, naked, before introducing me to a star witness in a police corruption investigation, also naked. They were engaged in an in-depth, probing interview of sorts — another scoop."
- And one from Gawker commenter Baroness: "My favorite Dunleavy moment was on TV. He was covering the Palm Beach Kennedy-Smith rape trial for A Current Affair I think. Some bigmouth girl who went to school with the victim was looking for her 15 min., blabbing personal details with any tabloid who'd listen, and presumably pay. Dunleavy took this chick for a long, very liquid lunch at a posh place, plied her with drinks and she sang like a canary. When she was well and truly sloshed and giddy, Dunleavy pulled out some dirty Polaroids of Blabbermouth with a big dick in her mouth, close-ups he had bought off one of her treacherous friends. The hilarity of her drunkenly trying to grab those pictures out of his hand, as he held them high in the air making her jump for them, was unforgettable, wicked, and very funny. He was gleeful as a kid on Christmas morning, loving life and his job at that moment."
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Commuters faced slick, slush-covered roads on Friday after yet another winter storm brought snow and ice to the East Coast, leaving at least 21 people dead, including a pregnant woman struck by a mini-plow in New York City whose baby was then born by cesarean section.
The latest go-round of bad weather began overnight in some places — just in time to delay tens of thousands of deliveries of Valentine's Day flowers — as snow, sleet and rain fell on roads already covered in many parts of the Northeast with deep puddles and icy patches.
Alexander Baez, 24, spent two hours digging out his car before navigating snow-covered roads to his job as a judicial marshal. "It will be a long, slow commute," Baez said as he filled his tank at a gas station in East Hartford, Conn. "I can't wait until the summer comes."
Numerous traffic accidents involving multiple tractor-trailers and dozens of cars completely blocked one side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Philadelphia on Friday morning and caused some minor injuries. The area got about a foot of snow Thursday.
By the time it stopped falling, 22.5 inches of snow was reported in Somerset County, Pa. Parts of upstate New York got between 12 and 27 inches of snow.
The sloppy mix of snow and face-stinging sleet grounded more than 6,500 flights nationwide on Thursday and closed schools, businesses and government centers. About 1.2 million utility customers lost power as the storm moved from the South through the Northeast, dropping to about 440,000 outages by Friday morning, mostly in South Carolina and Georgia.
"Every time it snows, it's like, "Oh, not again,'" said Randal DeIvernois of New Cumberland, Pa., which had about 10 inches of snow by midafternoon Thursday. "I didn't get this much snow when I lived in Colorado."
By Friday morning, the number of flight cancellations dropped to about 1,110 nationwide. Many schools remained closed in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York state, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia, while some in Rhode Island were opening late.
The treacherous weather was blamed for nearly two dozen deaths, many of them in motor vehicle accidents.
In New York, 36-year-old Min Lin died after she was struck by a utility vehicle with a snowplow attached to it as it backed up outside a shopping center in Brooklyn. She was rushed by paramedics to a medical center, where her nearly full term, 6-pound, 6-ounce baby was delivered via cesarean section, hospital spokeswoman Eileen Tynion said.
The baby was in critical condition in the neonatal intensive care unit, she said.
No immediate charges were brought against the snowplow operator.
The snow, sleet and ice that bombarded the Southeast on Wednesday brought its ferocity into the Northeast a day later.
Washington, D.C., received 9 inches of snow Thursday, Westminster, Md., reported 19 inches, and Newark, Del., had 14 inches. New York City received nearly 10 inches, and parts of New Jersey had more than 11.
In New York, the teachers union and TV weatherman Al Roker harshly criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision Thursday to keep schools open. Roker, who was in Russia for the Winter Olympics but has a daughter in New York's public schools, said on Twitter: "It's going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed."
He largely stood by his criticism on Friday but apologized on NBC's "Today" show for a tweet forecasting "one term" for de Blasio, saying that was "below the line."
The mayor said many parents depend on schools to watch over their children while they are at work and keeping the schools open was the right decision.
Across the South, the storm left in its wake a world of ice-encrusted trees and driveways and snapped branches and power lines.
In South Carolina, about 242,000 homes and businesses were without power Friday morning, and officials warned it could be next week before it is restored for everyone.
Gov. Nikki Haley planned to visit Aiken and Walterboro on Friday to look at some of the most heavily damaged areas.
In North Carolina, where the storm caused huge traffic jams in the Raleigh area on Wednesday as people left work and rushed to get home in the middle of the day, National Guardsmen in high-riding Humvees patrolled the snowy roads on Thursday, looking for any stranded motorists.
Around the country, this is shaping up as one of the snowiest winters on record. As of early this month, Washington, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, New York and St. Louis had gotten roughly two or three times as much snow as they normally receive at this point in the season.
The procession of storms and cold blasts — blamed in part on a kink in the jet stream, the high-altitude air currents that dictate weather — has cut into retail sales across the U.S., the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Sales dipped 0.4 percent in January.
This latest round of bad weather threatens to disrupt Friday's deliveries of flowers for Valentine's Day.
"It's a godawful thing," said Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Virginia. "We're going to lose money. There's no doubt about it."
Other businesses expected a bounce from the snow.
At Bob Skinner's Ski and Sport near the Mount Sunapee ski area, owner Frank MacConnell was overjoyed.
"There's never too much snow," he said. Sales and rentals are "off the charts" and MacConnell said the storm is a perfect prelude to the traditionally lucrative President's Week holiday next week.
Scolforo reported from Lemoyne, Pa. Associated Press writers Michael Melia in East Hartford, Conn., Lynne Tuohy in Newbury, N.H.; Kevin Begos in Pittsburgh; Michael Rubinkam in Berks County, Pa.; Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia; Sarah Brumfield and Brett Zongker in Washington; Matthew Barakat in Falls Church, Va.; David Dishneau in Frederick, Md.; and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C., contributed to this report.


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Acclaimed impresario of non-traditional theater Randy Weiner and director Alfred Preisser team up for a hip-hop themed theater remake of the classic story, "King Kong," a totally original music/dance/comedy spectacle that radically subverts everything you thought you knew about one of the most famous love stories of all time. Set in the "Bronx is Burning" era of the late 1970s, SummerStage's "King Kong" celebrates the nascent forms of hip-hop music and graffiti art that grew out of the economically stressed South Bronx and went on to become one of the defining, most powerful and profitable artistic movements in the world.
The Gold brothers, the owners of a failing R&B label (Gold Records) are in search of a musical savior. Having heard of a mystic place, a lost world cut off from the rest of civilization by the East River to the south and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the north and enshrouded in the fog of a thousand apartment building fires set by absentee landlords, the legendary South Bronx of 1978 is also the home of the most talented artist alive. Kong is an M.C. and natural genius of rhyme and rhythm whose awesome powers transcend artificial categories and defy the crass and hackneyed formulas of the commercial music industry. In hot pursuit of Kong, the Gold brothers hire a beautiful secretary, Faye Wellington, and go off to capture this force of nature in order to profit from Kong's gifts and share his music with a world desperately in need of inspiration. They load up the Gold family Volvo and journey to deepest, darkest South Bronx to capture Kong and bring him to civilization.
SummerStage Theatre, in collaboration with Preisser and Weiner, have created a fun, outrageous, and thoroughly entertaining work that will be not only be a unique and exciting experience but also a twisted and insightful treatment of the racial stereotypes inherent in the "King Kong" story.
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Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce Announce Restructuring of IAE Collaboration and New Partnership to Develop Next Generation Engines for Mid-Size Aircraft
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
1. Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney restructure IAE participation
Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company, and Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, are pleased to announce a restructure of their participation in IAE International Aero Engines AG (IAE), which produces the V2500 engine for the A320 family of aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, Rolls-Royce will sell its equity and program shares in IAE to Pratt & Whitney for $1.5 billion. Pratt & Whitney intends to discuss a possible offer of a portion of these shares with its IAE partners MTU Aero Engines AG (MTU) and Japanese Aero Engines Corporation (JAEC). In addition, Rolls-Royce shall receive an agreed payment for each hour flown by the current installed fleet of V2500-powered aircraft for fifteen years from completion of the transaction.
Under the continuing leadership of Pratt & Whitney, JAEC and MTU, IAE will continue to deliver the same high-quality product and customer support without interruption. Rolls-Royce remains committed to IAE and its customers and will continue to be responsible for the manufacture of high-pressure compressors, fan blades and discs as well as the provision of engineering support and final assembly of 50 percent of V2500 engines.
Since its creation almost thirty years ago IAE has become a major force in international aviation with approximately 4,500 V2500 engines in service and approximately 2,000 on order.
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Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce also announced an agreement to form a new partnership to power future mid-size aircraft (120 – 230 passenger aircraft). The two companies will establish a joint venture company, in which each will hold an equal share, to develop new engines for the next generation of aircraft that will replace the existing mid-size fleet. The new venture will draw on the most-advanced technology from two world-class companies to drive enhanced performance for this fast-growing segment in which worldwide demand for around 20,000 new aircraft (or nearly 45,000 engines) is predicted over the next 20 years.
This new joint venture will focus on high-bypass ratio geared turbofan™ technology. In addition, the venture will collaborate on future studies for next generation propulsion systems, including advanced geared engines, open rotor technology and other advanced configurations.
The new collaboration brings together complementary technological resources and is designed to offer the best, most competitive response to customer demand for the next generation powerplant in the mid-size segment. The collaboration could bring about significant value for customers, as both parties are able to benefit from each other's strengths.
The new joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce also benefits from the success of the V2500 and the PurePower® engine in establishing a broad customer base. It builds on the long-standing and successful partnership between Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce in the mid-size segment. JAEC and MTU, partners of IAE and the PurePower® PW1100G-JM (Geared Turbofan™) engine program for the Airbus A320 New Engine Option (neo), also intend to join the new collaboration.
"Today's announcement charts a clear course for the future of Rolls-Royce in the important mid-size aircraft segment," said Mark King, president, Civil Aerospace, Rolls-Royce. "We are building on many years of successful collaboration with Pratt & Whitney in this segment to develop advanced aero engines, which we are confident will set new standards in aviation technology, performance and fuel efficiency."
"These agreements position Pratt & Whitney, JAEC, MTU and IAE to best serve the needs of their customers for all A320 aircraft family," said Todd Kallman, president, Commercial Engines & Global Services, Pratt & Whitney. "We are delighted to collaborate with Rolls-Royce with its complementary capabilities as we look forward to the next generation of aircraft engines that will offer even greater operational and environmental benefits."
In addition, Rolls-Royce will make a modest financial investment in the PurePower® PW1100G-JM (Geared Turbofan™) engine for the Airbus A320 New Engine Option (neo) program.
The transactions announced in this release are subject to various closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
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IAE is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA, with more than 400 personnel globally and as of 31 December 2010, had gross assets of $1.6 billion.
The current IAE fleet of approximately 4,500 engines represents approximately 112 million lbs of installed thrust, has an average age of 7 years and currently operates around 3,000 hours per year each – delivering more than 12 million flying hours per annum.
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Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a diversified company providing high-technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.
Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in global segments - civil aerospace, defense aerospace, marine and energy.
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Legislative Uncertainties and New Sustainability Opportunities
Owens Corning Canada and Other Panelists Talk About the Potential for Improving the Sustainability of Manufacturing Processes
Energy is a critical element in any attempt to realize a sustainable production environment. The influences on this issue are both the obvious substantial savings that can come from using less energy per unit of production output, as well as the necessities for energy conservation and carbon footprint reductions that might soon be either encouraged by incentives or punished via penalties for insufficient action.
At the Manufacturing Perspectives press event this week at Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair, an experienced panel sought to define the actions that manufacturers need to take to better manage and reduce these costs, and to speculate on what new approaches might be available in the future.
Frank Peel, electrical support specialist at Owens Corning Canada, put the opportunities in perspective, saying of the Owens glass-melting process that the annual energy bill is on the order of $1 billion.
The underlying message of the panel makes it clear that this is a battle on two fronts: Compliance with legislative actions being considered in the U.S. Congress and more self-initiated actions by companies in both the private and public sectors.
Most of the discussion about possible legislative actions revolved around the Waxman-Markey bill, which includes a requirement for 20% of electricity to come from renewable fuels by 2025; carbon capture and storage incentives; smart grid and electrical car provisions; higher energy efficiency standards for buildings, lighting and appliances; a cap and trade program; reduction of global warming gases by 83% of 2005 levels by 2050; programs to compensate energy-intensive industries for costs incurred under the bill, and green job creation.
The panel soberly considered the bill's goal of global warming gases reduction in a growing economy―a reasonable likelihood over the next 40 years. Terry Gebert, Rockwell Automation vice president of systems and solutions business, asked how that goal can be achieved. "I don't know," said a man who, if anyone, should: Isaac Chan, program supervisor-technology development at the Department of Energy. "There are no clear options if that legislation becomes law. The GDP could rise three-fold [by 2050]." Chan said that implementing state-of-the-art technology in every applicable area might save 30% of greenhouse gas emissions—nowhere near the 83% target.
Bigger gains would have to come from incentives or penalties that encouraged or pushed companies to action. Even if we eliminated all fossil-fuel-based electricity generation, and all fossil-fuel-consuming vehicles, that wouldn't address the enormous energy consumption of steel-making, cement manufacturing and other heavy industrial segments, with enormous legacy equipment bases that cannot be turned quickly, Chan said. In addition, these renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar and others will have to be commercially viable technologies that companies will invest in. "So we need to invent something," said Chan. "We'll need to replace steel. We have to drive the next industrial revolution."
Despite the panel's opinion that even a 30% reduction by 2050 is not a realistic goal, they reported increasing levels of company action in reducing both energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Gebert reported a quote from Owens Corning's CEO in its sustainability report, saying "The cheapest and most sustainable energy is the energy saved by never using it." Asking panelist Frank Peel about Owens Corning's approach, Peel reported that upper management has some of its compensation based on meeting greenhouse gas and other emission targets. "That program filters down to us at the plant too," he said. "Our engineering and maintenance heads targeted cutting $100,000 from our energy budget this year." Asked if those goals were met, Peel said the plant actually is on target to save $160,000.
ConAgra Director of Engineering Evan Hand offered that his company recognizes and monetarily rewards the top five facilities that met energy goals. "As part of our engineering goals, and we're on target to meet them, I have a personal goal of tens of millions of dollars in energy savings."
Opportunities are there in oil and gas, as well, stated Will McBride, an oil and gas industry veteran of more than 30 years who works as a consultant for the Alaska oil and gas industry, who also recognizes that the industry is largely very energy inefficient.
"We have equipment in place in Alaska, much installed in the '70s and '80s, sized for oil flow rates that now are twice the needed capacity," he said. "There are 15,000-hp turbines that could be replaced by a 3,500-hp motor and variable-speed drive. But the electrical room wasn't big enough for a new drive and the power infrastructure at the facility wasn't set up to do that." The power generation system will be replaced, he says, "but whether that's in my working lifetime, I don't know."
Frustrating obstacles that have nothing to do with the technology also get in the way, said Hand, referencing alternative sources for electricity production. "We have a number of places in California that would be good places for solar," he says. "In order to be cost-justifiable we need to build capacity that would over-generate. But we'd get no credit for feeding the excess back into the grid for others to use."
Peel later spoke of how Owens has begun using Kaizen improvement in its energy efforts, as it had been doing in other segments of the operation, recognizing that engaging everyone towards the objectives is essential. He got there reluctantly. "To me, being a controls guy, it was more something for the process guys," he admitted. "So we caved in, and established an energy Kaizen." It exposed some low-hanging fruit immediately. "We put dampers on furnaces to close them down a bit. We found moth-balled parts of the facility with steam heaters still turned on during the summer. It was an eye-opener when we questioned why we were doing stuff that we'd been doing all along."
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Timbers rally for draw with Rapids at DSG Park
Commerce City, CO – Will Johnson netted a second-half double on Saturday as the Portland Timbers rallied from two goals down to salvage a 2-2 draw against the Colorado Rapids at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Colorado struck first 18 minutes into the match as Dillon Powers intercepted a poor clearance by Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts and blasted an absolute rocket into the top right corner of the net, leaving Ricketts with no chance for a save.
The Rapids took their one-goal lead into the intermission and added a second goal just minutes into the second period.
Just three minutes into the second half Hendry Thomas ran onto a ball in the Portland penalty area and was clipped from behind by Diego Chara, leading to a penalty kick, which Thomas calmly buried to put the hosts up by a pair.
But Portland has shown the ability to recover from deficits this season and did it again on Saturday as the visitors got one back in the 55th minute when Ryan Johnson lofted a cross into the area and a completely unmarked Will Johnson to nod past Rapids netminder Clint Irwin.
The Timbers completed the comeback with 19 minutes to play when referee Drew Fischer gave a penalty following some grappling in the Colorado penalty area and Johnson stepped up and converted it nicely into the top right corner to put the sides on level terms.
The result leaves Portland still winless on the campaign with three points, but the Timbers should have some confidence as they head into next week's home tilt against Houston.
Colorado also has yet to win this season with two points from five matches and will take on Rocky Mountain Cup rivals Real Salt Lake next Saturday.


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8 Creative Storage Solutions
With the exception of those blessed with a surplus of closet space, storage is an issue for most people, especially if you live in a small apartment. We love spotting unexpected solutions to the problem...
• 1 dp2r uses bright red lockers for media storage.
• 2 B, Joe & Rachael's bathroom has built-in storage above the shower.
• 3 Jacob and Laurie made their floating media center from IKEA kitchen cabinets.
• 4 Using an antique cabinet, Christy and John transformed an alcove into a bar.
• 5 Dave and Amy built a platform for their bed with built-in bookshelves.
• 6 Luca's small home is full of built-ins that hide and reveal.
• 7 Shauna and Stephen's color-coded craft station is a work of art in itself.
• 8 Jay's built-ins act as a room divider, headboard, bookshelf, and pantry!
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With the onset of nice weather in the Israel area, it's time to start thinking about beach season, and the many fun times that we enjoy in the area during this splendid time of the year. While we normally try to focus on the topical issues of our region, we also feel that it's important to let loose at times, and enjoy this amazing country that God has blesses us with. It truly is beautiful around here, and with everything going on in the region, we can often times lose site of the many amazing factors that make our country special.
With all of that said, this truly is an amazing time of the year to spend outdoors, and especially on the beach! For many of us though, beach season can be quite embarrassing if we haven't been keeping up on our workout routines during the long, extended winter months. If this is the case for you, do not fret! There are some quick and simple solutions that can get you back in the game in no time! And even though we only have a few short months to prepare our bodies for the official "summer unveiling," with a little persistence and by simply following the right plans and routines, you can whip your body back into shape faster than you can say Gaza Strip!
There are a few simple steps you can take to get your body back to looking good! First and foremost, you will want to make sure that your diet is totally in check. If you are downing giant burgers everyday, obviously you will want to change that habit ASAP! Really, it's pretty much commonsense when it comes to this stuff. Just make sure that you aren't literally eating like a horse, and you will most likely be fine! The best thing that we can recommend is following the advice of someone who is an expert in losing weight through quality nutrition, or someone who knows how to provide you the right guidance when it comes to getting fit and healthy.
Once you have your nutrition completely in place, then it's time to start focusing on the amount of excericse that you're actually getting. For many of us an exercise routine may equate to sitting on the couch and reaching for the remote or bag of chips every once in a while. If this is the case, then you need to find a way to fit some additional exercise into your routine. Whether that involves meeting with a personal trainer, or just finding a DVD program that you can use from home, just make sure that you're taking the steps necessary to get off the couch, and to start burning some fat and calories – this is the only that you'll actually drop the extra fat that you want to!
No matter what you decide, and what kind of shape you are in, we hope that you're able to find a way to enjoy the coming summer season. Because no matter what is going on in our world or in our region, you must find times to enjoy yourself, and to enjoy life and the world around you!
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(BPT) – Did you know that when you and your family dine out, you are helping your community's economy and the economy at large? That's because restaurants employ millions of Americans nationwide.
Overall, unemployment remains high as the nation slowly makes its way out of recession. One bright spot in the jobs picture is the restaurant industry, which continues to outpace the national economy when it comes to driving job growth.
Why is that? Because Americans love to dine out. In fact, more than nine out of 10 say they enjoy going to restaurants, and nearly half say it's an essential part of their lifestyle. National Restaurant Association (NRA) research also shows that two out of five consumers say they're not using restaurants as often as they would like. When more people dine out, order delivery and use takeout, restaurants staff up to keep up with demand.
The restaurant industry is currently the second-largest private sector employer, providing career opportunities for more than 13 million people, or one out of every 10 working individuals, according to the NRA's 2013 Restaurant Industry Forecast. Since the employment recovery began in March 2010, restaurants have created more than 701,000 new positions – only the professional services and health care industries have created more jobs during that same time.
The rate of employment growth in the restaurant industry was more than double the overall economy over the last year, and restaurants will continue to be a major driver in job creation into the future. Restaurants are projected to add 1.3 million new positions in the next decade, with the fastest growing job categories being combined food-preparation and serving positions, cooks and supervisors.
From restaurant managers to chefs to servers, restaurants offer a wide range of jobs, often with quick opportunities to rise up the ranks. Restaurants are also a training ground for budding entrepreneurs and even careers in other industries, as half of all Americans have worked in a restaurant at some point in their lives. One-third of adults got their first job in a restaurant, and eight out of 10 restaurant owners started in entry-level positions.
So next time you dine out, you're not only getting a delicious meal and quality time with family and friends – you're doing your part in creating jobs for the U.S. economy.


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So I'm looking for a new place to live. Shatin is beginning to feel a bit isolated as most of my expat friends live on Hong Kong Island. Now is the perfect time, the semester just started, my course workload is light, to search for my next humble abode in Hong Kong.
I am starting to attend Shabbat Services regularly in Hong Kong. Getting to know the Hong Kong Jewish Community on a more intimate level, I guess you can say it that way. Friday nights and Saturday mornings will be devoted to this activity. Learning another culture is not easy and I don't want to be one of those BS types who doesn't know what the he!! they are talking about.
On the Adult Education front, the first group of Introduction to Judaism classes has come to a close. The next set, which focuses on the Jewish life cycle, starts in March. I'm looking forward to it.
Meanwhile, Chinese New Year is just around the corner, 2013 is the Year of the Snake! I love seeing the city come alive with beautiful lights, lanterns, and dragon dances. I'll be spending Chinese New Years with family in Shanghai. But, don't you worry, while I am there, I plan to attend Shabbat services at the Chabad of Shanghai. I have met Rabbi Greenberg there, it'll be like a mini-reunion.
I went to Gagosian Gallery of Hong Kong recently, they had a great exhibit from Takashi Murakami called Flowers & Skulls, the famous Japanese pop artist. I leave you some Instagrams from that trip.
Until next time, see you soon!