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Ньюйоркцы были ограблены электрической компанией Constellation Energy на миллионы, но компенсация каждому из пострадавших жителей штата составит примерно четыре доллара. Представители Федерального агентства по регулированию энергетики (FERC) заявили, что Constellation Energy не признает своей вины в мошенничестве, но выплатит 78 миллионов долларов в фонд компенсации клиентам, с которых взыскали за электричество сверх нормы в 2007 […]
It's Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy
Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. These more "intelligent assets" read performance data, giving Cisco a detailed view of energy consumption — one that had not been available before. Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company's VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. (Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.) When Cisco rolls out the sensors globally, these savings will add up. But to me, the most fascinating thing about the whole initiative is the organizational mindset shift it's creating: a realization about the value of getting smarter about how — and where — operations use energy. As Kern put it, "We always manage costs so closely, but we weren't really measuring energy — we didn't know how much we spent! Through digitization initiatives such as this, we now have a way to measure, monitor, and manage energy…this is huge since energy is typically a factory's largest variable cost." In many of the most sophisticated companies with top tier operational practices, energy has mostly been treated as a cost line item, watched only by mid-level managers or execs, if at all. This black box approach can't last. It's time to move energy into the C-suite so executives can manage this critical component of operational performance in a more strategic way. In addition, with the global climate accords signed now by 175 countries, the world is clearly turning attention to carbon emissions. How a company manages its carbon footprint and approach to energy in general is becoming a top-tier operational issue — and a big deal to regulators, customers, employees, and investors. Insight Center Operations in a Connected World Sponsored by Accenture The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Some sectors have woken up already. In the tech world, for example, energy is now the largest component of variable costs for running a datacenter. Logically then, many of the companies investing most heavily in renewables are tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook. Heavy industry is also diving in, and companies like 3M and Dow have bought many megawatts of renewable energy and found billions of dollars in energy savings. In agriculture, carbon emissions and energy use throughout the value chain are increasingly a core operational issue as well. Every sector should be taking energy this seriously. Even if it's not a large cost or risk issue in direct operations, it certainly is somewhere else in the value chain. The importance of energy to the global economy, to geopolitics, and to corporate bottom lines — plus the pressing need to tackle carbon emissions to ensure a stable planet and global wellbeing — all combine to make a powerful case for managing energy much more strategically at all levels, from facilities to total operations to strategy. This basic argument, and its repercussions, are laid out in a new strategy guide that I co-authored with PwC's George Favaloro and Tim Healy, the CEO of EnerNOC, a leader in energy intelligence software. For our paper, Energy Strategy for the C-Suite, we analyzed research and data on energy use at hundreds of companies, and included perspectives from an advisory council that included corporate energy executives and government and academic thought leaders (I also sit on that advisory group). Aside from describing the mega-trends coming to bear on companies — such as climate change; new expectations of increased transparency about business operations; tech breakthroughs like big data and the internet of things; and dramatic shifts in how energy markets work and how to source energy — we identified 15 emerging best practices that can help companies create more value. Here are a few examples of what we recommend in this new framework: Develop a global energy strategy with C-suite and cross-functional accountability. We believe energy could be viewed in many organizations as a "keystone metric" — i.e., a primary indicator that aligns the whole organization around the pursuit of operational excellence. Optimizing energy and slashing carbon can drive overall operational improvements. Set ambitious, science-based goals for energy and carbon. Dozens of leaders, from many sectors have set goals to cut carbon 40 to 100% in line with climate science (Cisco, Disney, Alcoa, Sony, J&J, EMC, and many more). Track energy data at all levels, from the enterprise down to the product, using new tools to understand better how energy connects to overall business performance and metrics (like cost of goods sold). For example, Saint Gobain's Ohio factory produces 30,000 different products, each with its own energy demands. Much finer energy intelligence data has helped the company understand its true cost per product line. It has adjusted its product prices accordingly, improving margins or just finding a more competitive price point in the marketplace Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options. In addition to power purchasing agreements (PPAs) for corporate renewables, companies are increasingly able to buy energy as a service, not a product. Consider McCormick & Co, a Fortune 1000 spice manufacturer. When the company needed to replace old air conditioning units, it contracted with Constellation Energy Group to build a brand new chiller plant. Constellation owns the chiller and charges McCormick for cold air, freeing up McCormick's capital to invest in other operational improvements and the business itself, not in energy infrastructure. In total, energy is one of the largest components of company cost structure, and it's a complicated operational issue. But it's rarely seen as something that can provide deeper strategic insight. With new tools in a much more connected world, executive can better manage this most basic of inputs into the economy. Energy is just too important to be managed as a line item.
Congestion reverses power price trends in New York ISO
New York ISO Zone A West day-ahead wholesale power prices have bounced around this March as maintenance and generation outages have increased congestion in the region. This price volatility appears to have spilled onto the prompt-month forward power contract as the spread between West and other New York zones has widened. NYISO Zone A day-ahead prices […] The post Congestion reverses power price trends in New York ISO appeared first on The Barrel Blog.
US nuclear power trade group head to retire in 2016
A new leader will head the US nuclear power industry's powerful trade group when Marvin Fertel, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute since 2008, retires at the end of 2016. The nuclear industry, facing escalating economic challenges and rising operating costs, could tap an executive with Exelon, the largest merchant nuclear plant operator, […]
Trailblazing Women: Lisa Lambert VP, Managing Director, Diversity Fund at Intel Capital
This interview is part of a series on Trailblazing Women role models (Entrepreneurs and Leaders) from around the world and first appeared on Global Invest Her. You have to see what you can be. "Find your passion. School and education is about discovering who you are and what your strengths are. It takes a lifetime of learning to know who you really are and what motivates and inspires you. You have to be able to overcome opposition, both inside and outside your company. Keep learning, find the thing you were made to do and pursue it with all your ability". Lisa Lambert is a vice president of Intel Capital and the managing director of the Software and Services Sector. She also runs Intel Capital's Diversity Fund, with a focus on investing in companies with diverse leadership such as women and underrepresented minorities. This supports Intel's initiative to fund $300 million in programs supporting diversity announced by Intel's CEO at CES in January 2015. Lisa is a voting member of Intel Capital's investment committee. Lisa joined Intel Capital in 1999. Prior to that, she held a Product Marketing Management position with Intel's Desktop Products Group with responsibility for the Pentium II, III processor family. Prior to joining Intel, Lisa worked as a software developer (1989-1992) and in strategic planning, product marketing, and sales (1992-1995) at Owens-Corning. Lisa is on the board of directors (observer) Zend Technologies, Urban Airship, Kaltura, and Fonality and is a director at Brit+Co, Silkroad, and is Founder and Chairman of UPWARD. Lisa has invested in and managed exits from VMware (IPO), Financial Engines (IPO), Kingsoft (IPO), Enjoyor (IPO), Tobesoft (IPO), MySQL (acquired by Sun), DATAllegro (acquired by Microsoft), JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), Accertify (acquired by AMEX), OpenFeint (acquired by Gree), Jajah (acquired by Telefonica), and CPower (acquired by Constellation Energy), among others. Lisa has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS/MIS from Pennsylvania State University. Learn more about the Intel Capital Diversity Fund http://www.intelcapital.com and the UPWARD network at http://www.upwardwomen.org and follow Lisa on Twitter @intelcapital and @UPWARDwoman Who is your role model as a leader? I don't have a single role model as a leader. Carol Bartz is a great leader. I admire how she leads, her genuineness about saying what she believes, and her ability to get things done. Sheryl Sandberg is another great role model. She is helping to advance women with her Lean-In Foundation and is leading Facebook's operations as its COO. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are great examples of professionals that strive for excellence and execute with good character. They are all examples of successful leaders who are living proof that results really matter. What is your greatest achievement to date? "From a professional point of view, I am very proud of the larger exit deals I was involved in, particularly investing in VMware prior to its IPO. It was a very comprehensive, visible and important deal." I am also proud of my work on diversity at Intel Capital and in the non-profit I founded, UPWARD. At UPWARD we grew from 30-40 initial members to nearly 2000 senior women leaders through word of mouth. We attracted 18 inbound sponsors and have great members on an international level. "My vision is to grow UPWARD into a global network where senior professional women can get resources and advice to help them get to the next level in their careers." We have launched chapters in San Franciso, Israel, and London and are launching new chapters in Austin, Seattle, and Portland this year and by 2016 we want to double the number of chapters each year moving forward by automating the process (i.e., chapter in a box) and building our team to support our expansion. UPWARD specifically targets women at Director level and above, as it can get harder to advance if you don't network with people at senior levels who can sponsor you, give you advice and leads to help you get to the next level. What has been your biggest challenge as a woman leader? Unconscious bias. For example, the idea that as a woman you are wired a certain way that suggests you can't be a leader or you are put in a certain functional area because people don't think you can handle greater responsibilities. "As a woman leader, you often get 'discounted' before you even start, and the perception is that you don't qualify, that you are sub-par. The way to overcome that is to do an excellent job and be visible at the same time. Men, on the other hand, automatically come in as equals or with a positive impression before they even start." I find the idea that women are not 'good enough' to be senior leaders has been something that has persisted throughout my career and something I have constantly had to overcome. It is a constant battle, and it takes courage. You have to fight your own inclination to give up and not push forward, overcome your own fears and doubts! You also have to do a great job and outperform your peers. You need to believe in yourself and persevere to get what you want. How do you grow people in your organization? I like to give people challenging assignments to stretch them and always set a goal beyond where they are to see what they can do. Do they have the will and energy to put in the effort to excel? Will they raise the bar of their performance or revert to their comfort zone? Everybody has something they can do. You have to find your fit/passion and where you can advance. You can only succeed in a place where you really enjoy what you do, where you have the will to keep pursuing your goals. I also give my team regular feedback, usually immediately, so that they can improve. If you could do 1 thing differently, what would it be? I would have started UPWARD sooner, in my 30's. "As a young woman, I came into my career heads down and was so focused on doing my job. Today, I would advise college graduates to start building their community of colleagues inside and outside their industry from day 1. The latter can help remove barriers for you in the future." There is no longer such a thing as a lifelong employment so you have to build relationships inside and outside of your company, industry and geography from the beginning of your career. There will come a time when you want to move on to a better place. You will hit a ceiling either having to go around certain individuals in your company or go outside your company. Over your career you are developing knowledge on what are your passions and skills and when you have the insight to build your networks early on, it opens up so many chances to do new things or make things easier in your current job. What differences do you notice between men and women's leadership styles? "I don't like to make generalizations, but I notice that women tend to be more participative, engaging, and prudent decision-makers who make resources last longer." They may not be as optimistic or aggressive as men at the beginning, but they do express those traits at the appropriate time. Women also tend to have a more balanced approach, it's in our nature. It's not better, it's just how we are wired. We tend to lead by engaging our teams and with a clear goal in mind. Men tend to be more aggressive leaders and can reap rewards for it. However, that approach can be risky and that's why you need diversity, to help bring different perspectives to the table, and make key decisions to get the best outcome. How would you describe your leadership style? I am a strong, collaborative leader who sets a course, vision and plan to execute it. I like to consider myself a player/coach. I set expectations for my team on how we can achieve that goal and hold everyone (including myself) accountable. I am very structured person. I give specific performance criteria and reward people when they produce great results. I am willing to listen, respond and adapt the plan through inputs from my team. I find you get the best outcomes when the team feels part of the mission and has a voice on how they will execute it. What advice would you give to your younger self? I would tell my younger self freshly graduated from college " expand your network, don't just do your job". I was always a great student, and I would have told myself to have more fun! "I was very work/results oriented even then, so I would tell myself 'relax, enjoy yourself - it's a journey. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Make time for the things you enjoy and the people you love'." What would you like to achieve in the next 5 years? "I would like to have success with the Diversity Fund and have a number of great investments and exits. I would like to see the companies themselves invest in diverse teams and see more inclusion so that we no longer need a diversity fund. Now that many people are investing in diversity, everybody has an opportunity to be successful." On a personal level, I want to see my children grow up, have a great education, play, relax and build great relationships. I would like to see my marriage grow, thrive and mature. I want to continue to contribute to society and see more women in leadership in all fields. It's not 'us' against 'them'. Approximately 30% of the United States is hispanic and black . When they feel embraced and have the opportunities to succeed and achieve their best, the pie gets bigger and we can all have more success. 3 key words to describe yourself? determined focused disciplined For other interviews with Trailblazing Women leaders on Huffington Post Read More Here Follow Anne Ravanona at @anneravanona, and check out other interviews in the Trailblazing women series on Global Invest Her blog Learn more about Global Invest Her www.globalinvesther.com -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Exelon's 1000-MW Natural Gas Plant in Texas Gets Underway - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation (EXC) continues to invest in renewables and natural gas infrastructure
Exelon's Maryland Natural Gas Plant Becomes Operational - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation (EXC) continues to invest in renewables and natural gas infrastructure.
Exelon Unit Constellation to Supply Electricity to Cleveland - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation (EXC) invests substantially in infrastructure projects, besides expanding its renewable and fossil fuel generating capacity
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT'D): Ex-Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck pleads guilty to rape. "Sh…
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT'D): Ex-Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck pleads guilty to rape. "Shattuck, 48, the former wife of former Constellation Energy CEO Mayo A. Shattuck, was accused in November of sexually abusing one of her son's classmates, including performing oral sex on him in a rented vacation house in Bethany Beach."
Exelon/PsomasFMG Solar Project for California School District - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation's (EXC) unit, Constellation together with PsomasFMG, completed a 6.76 megawatt DC solar generation project for Chaffey Joint Union High School District.
Exelon Unit Inks Energy Efficiency Deal with Port Authority - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation (EXC) inked the phase 2 of an energy efficiency agreement with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Exelon Unit to Acquire 7 Fuelling Stations from CNG Fuel - Analyst Blog
Exelon Corporation's (EXC) subsidiary Constellation Energy Resources, LLC. signed an agreement to acquire seven fueling stations from CNG Fuel, Inc.
Exelon Unit & OneEnergy to Build Solar Farm in Maryland - Analyst Blog
Constellation Energy Resources, LLC., a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (EXC), inked a 25-year competitive electricity supply agreement with the National Aquarium.
АЭС R.E.Ginna может быть закрыта по финансовым причинам
Компания "Constellation Energy Nuclear Group" (CENG) предупредила власти штата Нью-Йорк (США) о возможном останове АЭС "R.E.Ginna" в случае срыва переговоров по отпускной цене электроэнергии с её крупнейшим потребителем. АЭС "Р.И.Гинна" (Robert E. Ginna) состоит из одного блока с реактором PWR, введённого в эксплуатацию в 1970 году. Проектная мощность блока 470 МВт(эл.), фактическая 580 МВт(эл.), реакторная установка двухпетлевая по проекту от "Westinghouse". Станция названа в честь ныне покойного исполнительного директора компании "Rochester Gas and Electric Company" Роберта Гинны, выступившего в своё время спонсором строительства АЭС в округе Уэйн штата Нью-Йорк. Здания станции выкрашены в зелёный цвет, что подчёркивает ирландское происхождение Гинны. Компания "Rochester Gas & Electric" (RG&E) остаётся крупнейшим потребителем электроэнергии от АЭС "R.E.Ginna". По иронии судьбы, именно с ней нынешние владельцы станции не могут найти общего языка. читать далее
Constellation Energy reports Q2 loss
Constellation Energy (NYSEMKT:CEP): Q2 EPS of -$0.21.Revenue of $12.1M (-21.4% Y/Y).Press Release Post your comment!
Nuclear Giant Exelon Blasts Wind
Nuclear giant Exelon's CEO, Christopher Crane, wants Congress to kill a wind energy tax break, despite the fact the nuclear industry wouldn't be economically viable today without five decades of massive federal subsidies. Corporate executives often tout the benefits of competition in a free-market economic system, but it's striking just how much large corporations don't like it. In fact, some companies will do all they can to squash it, lobbying for favors and subsidies while working to deny them to their competitors. The squabble over a key federal tax break for the wind industry is a case in point. Called the production tax credit (PTC), it has helped quadruple the wind industry's generation capacity over the last five years, and six states now have enough wind turbines to meet more than 15 percent of their annual demand. Unlike most coal, nuclear, and oil and gas subsidies, the PTC -- which has been around only since the mid-1990s -- is not permanent. Congress has to renew it periodically. Last December, Congress let it expire yet again, and lawmakers likely will not restore it until after the November mid-term elections, if at all. The PTC represents roughly $1.2 billion in annual tax savings to the wind industry. Wind's more-established competitors want the PTC dead. ExxonMobil, the Koch brothers and their front groups, for example, want Congress to let it die. Never mind that the oil and gas industry has been receiving an average of $4.86 billion annually in today's dollars in subsidies and tax breaks since 1918. Or the fact that Congress exempted natural gas developers from key provisions of seven major environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. The nuclear power industry doesn't like the wind tax break, either. Its most outspoken critic is Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear plant owner with 23 reactors at 14 plant sites. The Chicago-based utility contends Midwest wind installations are cutting into its profit margins by driving down electricity prices, and it blames the PTC. The company has been lobbying Congress to terminate it, and as I reported earlier this week, it recently launched a front group, Nuclear Matters, to generate public support for keeping all U.S. reactors running. "If the government believes that they're improving the environment by subsidizing wind, they are wrong," Exelon CEO Christopher Crane told the Chicago Tribune in late April. "It is going to shut nuclear plants down." Around the same time, Exelon Senior Executive Vice President William Von Hoene Jr. clarified the company's position. Exelon is not "anti-wind," he told trade reporters, "but anti-subsidy." Anti-subsidy?! The nuclear industry is awash in subsidies. In fact, the industry wouldn't be economically viable without subsidies underwriting every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, according to a 2011 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Altogether, those subsidies have often exceeded the average market price of the power produced. What makes Exelon's opposition to the PTC complicated is it is much more than a nuclear power company. The largest supplier of wholesale power in the country, it gets 55 percent of its electric generation capacity from nuclear, 28 percent from natural gas, 6 percent from hydro, 4 percent from coal, and 3 percent from oil. The remaining 4 percent comes from landfill gas, solar and ... wind. Although wind represents a tiny percentage of Exelon's capacity, it's the 12th largest wind farm owner in the country. It was even on the board of the American Wind Energy Association -- until it got kicked off two years ago for slamming the PTC. No matter. Given that nuclear power and natural gas represent more than 80 percent of its generating capacity, Exelon is against subsidies -- but only for wind and other renewables. Exelon officials don't mention the fact that natural gas is heavily subsidized, and they actually claim with a straight face that nuclear power is not subsidized at all. Scapegoating Wind There's no question that nuclear power's future isn't looking as rosy as it did 10 years ago. Back then, U.S. utilities were banking on a nuclear renaissance. Some proponents were calling for as many as 100 new reactors. Now the industry likely will get at most five built in the next 10 years, and the economic viability of some operating reactors is now in question. "Merchant" plants in deregulated markets, which are not guaranteed an annual profit, are particularly at risk. In any case, four reactors closed last year, and Vermont Yankee's lone reactor will shut down this fall. Investment research firm Morningstar has identified six reactors that may be next in line. And Exelon, which plans to shut down New Jersey's Oyster Creek plant in 2019, is threatening to close some of its Illinois reactors if market conditions don't improve. But how much of the industry's plight is due to the growth of wind power? The website of Exelon's new front group, Nuclear Matters, identifies some of the factors undermining the industry's prospects, including depressed electricity demand, cheap natural gas, an outdated transmission system, and the fact that electricity markets don't provide preferential treatment for low- and carbon-free sources -- which is equally true for wind and other renewables. Exelon executives, however, are most exercised about what the website identifies as "federal and state policies [that] subsidize less reliable electricity sources, distorting competitive markets and causing otherwise economical, clean electric generators to operate at a loss." Joseph Dominguez, an Exelon senior vice president, translated that last bullet point into plain English for the Chicago Tribune in March. "Natural gas prices are impacting nuclear assets, there's no doubt about that," he said. "We would be able to survive that problem -- and survive low demand for electricity -- absent this phenomenon of subsidized wind." Dominguez cited a 2012 Exelon-sponsored study by the Northbridge Group that concluded the PTC encourages wind developers to keep their turbines spinning when electricity demand is low, particularly at night, allowing them to sell power at a loss and drive down the price other generators in the area can charge. In Illinois and other wind-rich regions of the country, there are times when demand is so low, wind, coal and nuclear plant owners have to pay grid operators to take their power. Utilities call it "negative pricing." Exelon claims its entire nuclear fleet experiences negative pricing 14 percent of the time. A March analysis by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), however, documents that negative pricing at Exelon nuclear plants occurs much less frequently and is largely unrelated to wind. Most of the negative pricing, the report found, happened when wind output was extremely low. The more credible culprits, according to AWEA, were local transmission outages and bottlenecks -- which caused more than half of the incidents -- low electricity demand, and Exelon reactors' inability to ramp down when demand drops -- which natural gas and even renewables can do. Steve Clemmer, UCS's director of energy research and analysis, concurs. The Northbridge study "wildly exaggerates wind's contribution to negative pricing," he said, "and completely ignores the fact that Exelon's nuclear plants themselves may be responsible." Even executives at Xcel Energy and NextEra Energy -- which both own nuclear plants -- aren't buying Exelon's argument. "Negative pricing is not driven primarily by wind," Xcel's vice president of policy and strategy, Frank Prager, told Greentech Media in early April. Prager should know. Xcel owns wind farms and two nuclear plants in Minnesota. NextEra Energy CEO James L. Robo, meanwhile, took a swipe at Exelon in a column in the April 7 issue of Roll Call, a political trade publication. "Blaming the wind industry for the challenges in the merchant nuclear business may be politically expedient," he said, "but it will not help any company or technology operate more successfully in a low natural gas price environment." NextEra is the largest U.S. wind and solar developer, but it also owns eight nuclear reactors and a slew of hydro-, gas- and oil-powered generating facilities. The Real Culprits So what's really responsible for nuclear power's economic woes? Besides cheap natural gas, transmission is a key factor, said Mike Jacobs, a UCS energy analyst. "It's a classic supply and demand equation," he explained. "If there were more transmission lines, utilities could dispatch power from places with a glut to where there's higher demand. "It's a problem for both nuclear and wind," he added. "Both contribute to an oversupply at night when demand drops, winds blow stronger, and nuclear plants can't cut their power. Exelon is essentially saying that it's OK for our nuclear plants to generate more power at night, but it's not OK for wind farms." Exelon CEO Chris Crane knows transmission is a big problem. In late April, he told the Chicago Tribune that his company is considering building a $1.6 billion high-voltage transmission line linking its reactors to customers from northern Illinois through Indiana to Ohio. True to form, however, he also made it clear that Exelon doesn't support a proposed 500-mile transmission line, now pending state approval, that would deliver wind-generated electricity from Iowa to Illinois and compete with Exelon's nuclear plants. Jacobs, who used to work at AWEA and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, pointed out that the industry is also hampered by high operating costs and a legacy of neglected safety improvements. "Wind and solar," he said, "are not what's cramping Exelon's style." To be sure, renewables were not a factor in shuttering four reactors last year. The Kewaunee nuclear plant, near Green Bay, had been relicensed in 2011 to run for 20 more years, but the Wisconsin utilities that had been buying its electricity declined to continue, citing the low price of natural gas. The other three reactors -- one at the Crystal River plant in Florida and two at San Onofre in California -- were done in by botched steam generator replacements. Crystal River was facing a $2-billion repair job, while San Onofre's $700-million steam generator replacement system failed in less than two years. It was more than enough to force both utilities to pull the plug. A fifth reactor, Vermont Yankee -- one of the nation's oldest and smallest-- is slated to close later this year. The reason? According to the owner, the plant fell victim to low natural gas prices and the structure of New England's wholesale power market. Note that nobody blamed wind. What Does Exelon Want? To shore up its profits, Exelon has been buying up regulated utilities, which are guaranteed a rate of return by state regulators, unlike the company's deregulated merchant nuclear plants in the Midwest that sell their power on the open market. Its the merchant plants that are in trouble. In 2012, Exelon bought Constellation Energy, which added three dozen power plants in 11 states, including the state-regulated Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, to its portfolio. And just last month, Exelon announced an agreement to buy Potomac Electric Company (Pepco), a regulated utility based in Washington, D.C., that owns electric and gas utilities in New Jersey, Delaware and the nation's capital. If the deal goes through, approximately 65 percent of the Exelon's revenues would come from regulated utilities, and at least one energy business analyst predicts Exelon CEO Crane will eventually try to sell or spin off the company's reactors. Exelon is also pushing its home state of Illinois to provide relief, and asking all states to consider nuclear power's low-carbon benefits when developing policies to comply with the new draft EPA carbon emission rule for existing power plants that was announced on Monday. In response, leading legislators in Illinois, including the speaker of the house, just adopted a resolution calling on federal and state agencies to craft new policies to ensure Exelon's reactors keep running. The resolution asks the Illinois Commerce Commission to produce a report on building more transmission lines to export nuclear-generated electricity to other states and calculate the impact of nuclear plant closures on the state's carbon emissions. That resolution raised some eyebrows among Illinois renewable energy proponents. "Nuclear power is less and less competitive with renewable energy and energy efficiency," the Illinois Environmental Council (IEC) said in a May 27 blog. "When the carbon pollution standards for existing coal plants are introduced..., Illinois' state implementation plan should absolutely prioritize renewable energy and energy efficiency." Given that Exelon has operations in eight states, the company wants a lot more than a resolution in Illinois. Currently 29 states and the District of Columbia have standards that require utilities to increase the share of electricity they generate from renewable sources over time. Illinois, for instance, has a renewable standard of 25 percent by 2025. Crane has proposed that states implement the new EPA carbon emissions rule by adopting a broader "clean energy" standard that would include nuclear power. Crane was likely buoyed by comments the EPA made when it announced its draft rule. "Policies that encourage development of renewable energy capacity and discourage the premature retirement of nuclear capacity," the agency said, "could be useful elements of [carbon dioxide] reduction strategies...." But the EPA rule won't go into effect until sometime next year after a public comment period, and already it has raised hackles among coal state Republicans and Democrats in Congress. In the meantime, expect Exelon to continue its specious campaign against wind energy and remain mum about what's really threatening nuclear power: natural gas. Exelon won't criticize the industry's massive federal subsidies, which have been in place for nearly 100 years, or its environmental law exemptions, even though they both keep gas prices low. After all, why would Exelon call attention to that when the company is in that game, too? Also expect Exelon--and its new front group, Nuclear Matters--to continue go cup in hand to state and federal authorities, all the while insisting that the nuclear industry isn't subsidized at all. As one would expect, Exelon's brazenly dishonest campaign against wind and other renewables has outraged environmentalists and nuclear watchdog groups. But it also has aroused the ire of some of its own industry fraternity members. David Crane, the chief executive of NRG Energy, a conglomerate with coal, gas, nuclear, oil, solar and wind facilities (and no relation to Exelon's Chris Crane), didn't mince words when asked about Exelon's actions by a Chicago Tribune reporter. "The public policy position of Exelon is to oppose subsidies for wind and solar while the company itself purports to be this super-green company and also wants more subsidies for nuclear," he said. "That's just hypocritical." Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
50 лучших работодателей Америки
Когда человек выбирает между работой, которая ему нравится, и работой, за которую хорошо платят, он должен помнить, что всегда есть возможность и рыбку съесть, и в воду не лезть. Во втором годовом списке лучших работодателей Америки, составленном PayScale и Business Insider, компании были оценены с точки зрения предлагаемых ими зарплат и условий для личного благополучия. Вот уже второй год подряд биотехнологическая компания из Нью Джерси Celgene Corporation возглавила список лучших работодателей Америки. В действительности, многие компании-лидеры списка связаны с индустрией заботы о здоровье. В прошлом году наблюдался подъем технологической индустрии с типичными для нее топовыми компаниями, такими как Google (второе место) и Yahoo (восьмое место). В этом году технологический сегмент значительно упал в рейтинге: теперь Google — компания № 8 среди других работодателей, а Yahoo находится всего лишь на 17 месте. Компания Microsoft, которая в прошлом году была 14-ой, вообще вышла из списка. При составлении рейтинга компании из Fortune 500 были проранжированы с использованием исследовательской и рыночной баз данных PayScale. Окончательные позиции компаний определялись, исходя из шести критериев: удовлетворенности работой, низкого уровня стресса, высокой гибкости рабочего графика, высокой осмысленности работы, средней заработной платой и дельты по рынку, которая определяется через разницу между финансовым вознаграждением по одной и той же позиции у разных компаний. Поскольку авторы исследования полагают, что зарплата является одним из наиболее важных факторов, они удвоили ее удельный вес в своих расчетах. Компания Ожидаемая зарплата($) Довольны работой Гибкость графика 1 Celgene Corp. 116,000 90.90% 96.80% 2 Biogen Idee 596,100 73.90% 87.00% 3 Celanese Corp. 5103,000 79.30% 85.70% 4 Colgate-Palmolive Co. 5101,000 87.50% 78.60% 5 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 588,800 82.60% 81.80% 6 PPL Corp. 584,800 80.00% 85.70% 7 Huntsman Corp. 599,400 73.90% 87.00% 8 Google Inc. 5127,000 81.30% 82.80% 9 PG&E Corp. 5108,000 86.80% 68.40% 10 Gilead Sciences Inc. 5105,000 78.00% 68.40% 11 Marathon Petroleum Company, LLC 594,100 92.60% 70.40% 12 Williams Companies Inc. 579,400 81.60% 80.60% 13 Qualcomm Inc. 5113,000 79.60% 92.80% 14 MasterCard Worldwide 5109,000 81.80% 83.90% 15 Bristol-Mysers Squibb Co. 5106,000 77.80% 83.50% 16 NetApp 5118,000 78.80% 94.10% 17 Yahoo Inc. 5125,000 71.50% 90.10% 18 Hershey Foods Corp. 574,500 86.40% 85.70% 19 Blackrock Inc. 5115,000 80.50% 82.10% 20 Amgen Corp. 5107,000 73.50% 77.00% 21 Broadcom Corp. 5125,000 68.30% 85.70% 22 FMC Technologies Inc. 590,400 76.90% 80.60% 23 Dominion Resources Inc. 581,400 79.50% 88.40% 24 Occidental Petroleum Corp. 5106,000 83.30% 68.80% 25 Baxter International Inc. 586,200 78.60% 75.00% 26 Constellation Energy Group Inc. 588,800 68.60% 91.40% 27 NRG Energy Inc. 591,700 76.10% 77.80% 28 Texas Instruments Inc. 5105,000 75.10% 85.40% 29 Chevron Corp. 5113,000 81.00% 75.00% 30 Xcel Energy Inc. 580,600 78.80% 84.80% 31 St. Jude Medical Inc. 584,300 75.30% 74.10% 32 Symantec Corp. 5102,000 71.00% 91.50% 33 FirstEnergy 582,500 83.30% 69.20% 34 AGCO Corp. 580,700 82.40% 75.00% 35 NiSource 580,700 72.00% 79.20% 36 Abbot Laboratories 590,400 75.30% 81.80% 37 Johnson & Johnson 5102,000 73.70% 83.40% 38 Campbell Soup Co. 577,400 75.80% 78.80% 39 NextEra Energy Inc. 590,800 71.40% 70.00% 40 Allergan Inc. 593,400 64.10% 82.50% 41 Mosaic 572,100 82.40% 76.50% 42 Dow Chemical Co. 596,400 78.90% 80.90% 43 Pfizer Inc. 599,100 71.20% 85.30% 44 Fannie Mae Corp. 5106,000 65.20% 83.00% 45 Autoliv Inc. 579,500 75.80% 74.20% 46 eBay Inc. 5114,000 69.40% 85.90% 47 ConocoPhillips Co. 5103,000 73.60% 66.70% 48 Medtronic Inc. 588,500 74.90% 80.60% 49 ExxonMobil Corp. 5104,000 77.00% 73.00% 50 Pacific Life 591,100 60.00% 86.70%
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Stockley Park was Britain's first architecturally driven business park. Masterplanned in the 1980s on a site strategically located close to Heathrow Airport and the M4 and M25 motorways, and within forty minutes' drive of central London, it includes buildings by a number of leading British architects. When the practice first began working for industrial clients in the 1960s, most industrial estates in Britain represented the lowest common denominator in terms of design. The idea of improving the workplace, either by providing better amenities or by eliminating barriers between management and the workforce, was seen as unnecessary, if not subversive. Stockley Park demonstrated just how radically ideas had changed over the intervening twenty years.
Set at the southern end of the site, overlooking a lake, the building provides 12,000 square metres of office space, and was designed to house a single tenant but can be easily subdivided to suit multiple occupancy. Its formal design had to fit within certain aesthetic parameters set by Stockley Park's management, which specified pitched roofs, white cladding and sunscreening. As a result, each of the building's three stepped bays are fronted by V-shaped steel 'butterfly' frames, pinned at the ridges and supported on tapering columns. These frames support the roof over each three-storey bay and extend 3 metres over the long elevations to support louvred sunscreens. Between the bays two triple-height atria run the length of the building and carry the primary circulation.
Oriented to maximise views across the lake to the east, the main entrance to the building is located in the middle of the three halls on the northern facade, shaded by an overhanging canopy. Plant and services are stacked at the southern side of the building, where they block the heat of the sun. The long east and west elevations are made up of double-glazed units. To reduce solar gain the internal face of the units is stove-enamelled with white 'frits' – using technology transferred from the automotive industry - which vary in concentration from almost opaque at floor level to clear at seated eye level, thus maintaining visual contact with the gardens.
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"At Stockley Park, what could have been a highly restrictive developer's brief, in Foster's hands becomes a starting point for elegant, innovative architecture."
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One of the things that we frequently observe in discussions about stocks is a focus on the qualitative story - "I like my iPhone, buy Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)".
Now the story behind a stock is important. That Apple (or any other company) makes great products that people want to buy is very relevant to the value of the company.
BUT - to make good investment decisions you need to understand how the financial markets value this story. Markets can have an overly optimistic or pessimistic view of a company. To understand value - you need to look at the numbers.
Let's look at an example - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
We have previously looked at $MSFT and the comments on those posts have reflected the challenges that $MSFT faces as a company moving forward. These comments have mostly reflected the story of these challenges - the view that $MSFT will not be as successful in the future as it has been in the past. Because of these challenges - $MSFT must be a bad investment.
Let's have a look at that assumption - from a valuation perspective.
Remember - the market should value companies on future expected prospects (measured in future expected cash flows). Where opportunities exist, either buying or selling, is where companies expected future cash flows are viewed either excessively optimistically or pessimistically. Over the long-run it should correct.
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." (Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor)
Now looking at $MSFT. It has been an amazing business - it has the second largest market capitalization in the world after Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) [$XOM US$336.41 Bn, $MSFT US$218.31 Bn, PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) US$208.37 Bn]. Since 2005 (to 2008) the company has grown revenues at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15% with EBITDA margins of 40%.
Now $MSFT has a raft of potential challenges to their business - only one recent example: Google Chrome OS.
But how is the $MSFT story being valued? We will look at this from two angles - $MSFT vs a set of peer companies and $MSFT as a standalone entity using a discounted cash flow valuation model.
Comparator Analysis
At Valuecruncher we provide a range of different valuation metrics for each company and a starting set of peer companies (that can be changed). Here is the $MSFT comparator tool - and some explanation on how to use the tools. Our tools are interactive - you can adjust the valuation outputs to see the impact on the share price.
I am going to look at two of the metrics - Enterprise Value (NYSE:EV)/Revenue and EV/EBITDA. Enterprise Value (EV) is simply market capitalization plus net debt [long-term borrowings less cash]. We use EV to capture the impact of debt and cash on a company's balance sheet - market capitalization doesn't capture different capital structures when comparing companies.
For $MSFT we will look at four comparators - IBM (NYSE:IBM), Apple (AAPL), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ).
EV/Revenue shows how a dollar or revenues is being valued by the market against the comparator set. On an EV/Revenue basis $MSFT is trading at 3.2x. This compares to $IBM at 1.7x, $AAPL at 3.5x, $GOOG at 5.5x and $HPQ at 0.9x. $MSFT's profit margins (at the EBITDA line) are 43.3% of revenues compared to 20.6% and 12.0% for $IBM and $HPQ respectively - so those feel right. $GOOG has similar margins to $MSFT and significant growth options - but a dollar of $GOOG revenues being worth 70% more than a dollar of $MSFT revenues feels rich.
But the standout - to us - is that $AAPL with profit margins half that of $MSFT is valued similarly on an EV/Revenue basis. A dollar of $AAPL revenues is being valued slightly more than a dollar of $MSFT revenues - despite that dollar of revenues producing less than half the profit of the $MSFT revenues. That is some big growth expectations for $AAPL.
EV/EBITDA shows how a dollar of profit (measured in as Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization) is being valued by the market against the comparator set. On an EV/EBITDA basis $MSFT is trading at 7.4x. This compares to $IBM at 8.2x, $AAPL at 16.5x, $GOOG at 14.8x and $HPQ at 7.4x. Talk about no respect - a dollar of $MSFT EBITDA is worth only slightly more than a dollar of $HPQ EBITDA and less than the other comparators.
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis
We have completed a discounted cash flow valuation using our interactive tools (there is a "discounted cash flow analysis" link just under the company name on the company page). We have populated our model with a mixture of consensus analyst estimates and Valuecruncher estimates.
Our analysis produces a valuation of US$29.43 for $MSFT - 18.5% above the current share price. A key input to that calculation is an estimate of long-term growth of 4.0% - which we don't feel is too aggressive. Remember revenues have grown at a CAGR of 15% since 2005. The US economy grew at a 3.6% CAGR between 2003 and 2007.
Our DCF analysis produces a valuation of US$29.43 for $MSFT - 18.5% above the current share price. This equates to an EV/EBITDA multiple of 9.1x. This appears reasonable in comparison to the peer group of companies that we have examined.
Based on our analysis it appears that $MSFT is undervalued. There are certainly challenges facing the business - but the market currently has an overly pessimistic view on the company. $MSFT currently represents a good buy. All our tools are interactive - you can complete your own analysis.
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Rafael Nadal survived another major scare before edging past Tommy Robredo to reach the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters.
Robredo served for the match at 5-4 in the final set but was unable to close out a famous win against his fellow Spaniard.
Nadal, who saved five match points against Nicolas Almagro in the previous round, made the most of his reprieve to seal a 6-3 3-6 7-5 victory.
The world number two will face France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the last eight after Tsonga's 6-2 6-3 demolition of compatriot Gilles Simon.
Tsonga qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals with victory in this event last year, and remained on course for a repeat as he overpowered Simon.
The other quarter-final in the bottom half of the draw sees Robin Soderling take on in-form world number three Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic beat Roger Federer in the final of the world number one's home-town event in Basle last weekend and today demolished home favourite Arnaud Clement 6-2 6-2.
Soderling beat Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 3-6 6-4 but the Russian still qualified for the World Tour Finals thanks to Fernando Verdasco's loss to Marin Cilic.
In the top half of the draw, Gael Monfils will play Cilic for a place in the semi-finals after ensuring Julien Benneteau could not repeat his heroics of the previous round.
Benneteau knocked out Roger Federer in the second round but Monfils eased to a 6-4 6-3 win over his fellow Frenchman today.
Cilic recovered from losing the first set to beat Verdasco in three sets, while Radek Stepanek also came from behind to beat world number four Andy Murray 1-6 6-3 6-4.
Murray was perhaps feeling the effects of finishing his match with James Blake at around 2am this morning as Stepanek booked a quarter-final clash with either US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro or Fernando Gonzalez.
Del Potro eventually won a hard-fought battle when Gonzalez was forced to retire before the start of a deciding set.
Gonzalez recovered from 5-2 down in the opening set and 5-1 down in the tie-break to take it 8-6.
However, the Chilean needed treatment to his right leg in a second set which featured several lengthy games, Del Potro also calling for the trainer with an apparent stomach problem.
Del Potro still managed to save five match points as he served at 5-4 down and another at 6-5 down to force a tie-break, and the Argentinian took it 8-6 to seemingly force a decider.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
The Irony of Independence Day
I cannot escape the irony in celebrating of "Independence Day" at a time when Americans are more dependent on government than ever before, and our government has more power than ever before.
We escaped the rule of the British empire, only to create a new American empire. Are we truly better off?
Perhaps. Those signers of the Declaration of Independence created an idea of freedom that has since permeated into the minds of people around the world. They set a new standard for human rights and rule of law. No longer could a ruling class pillage the peasants. All men are created equal, and are to be seen as equal in the eyes of the law.
But these lessons have all but disappeared. The wealthy and well-connected are free to break the law and suffer no consequences. The enforcers of the law are able to trample the rights of the common man. The government wages war on foreign soil for unclear reasons. And the laws of the land steadily encroach on our daily lives.
Can we reverse this trend? Is it even possible to break the cycle of revolution, decay, exploitation, oppression, widespread discontent, leading to another revolution?
As you grill your meats and drink your beers today, I invite you all to meditate on the state of our nation. Does it adhere to the principles of freedom and equality? Is there anything you can do to preserve these principles in this uncertain time?
America needs you. Will you heed her call?
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'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11'
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
"The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism," Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
"If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles," he added.
Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world.
The Iranian president made the remarks as the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approaches.
Iranians are expected to pour into the streets on February 11 to celebrate the occasion in public rallies across the country, as they have done annually over the past three decades.
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I want a tattoo. I hear myself utter those words consistently, but I know one thing about my desire to get "ink." I won't ever sign on the dotted line to do so.
Why, you ask?
Here's the thing: I will always want one, but I can't resign myself to take that leap for a variety of reasons. Chances are, you're thinking the same thing I am.
First, I have an auto immune disease, so healing is harder for me than others, but the risk of infection is always on my mind. I have heard of a few people, mostly famous ones, who have had the same ailment as me and they have a slew of tattoos all over their body. Yet, I still ponder it extensively to the point that I haven't done it.
Nor will I ever.
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Domain names
- Check out the name to make sure that it does not conflict with someone else's business – for about £40 a year, BNR will check the name for you in the UK and then insure you against legal costs you incur in defending your name: www.bnr.plc.uk
- Also check that the main part of the name (the name without the ".com" or ".co.uk") is not a registered trade mark (for free UK trademark searches, look at www.patent.gov.uk)
- Make sure that you register all the "suffixes" (e.g. .com, .net, .co.uk, .biz, etc.) that are relevant to you and also register multiple words with and without hyphens and any common misspellings.
- If your domain name is sufficiently distinctive, consider registering it as a trademark if you can (at least in the UK and in any other country that may be important to you
Using Designers
- Make sure you agree in writing exactly what is expected of the web designer and of you.
- Consider what are "extras" and how you will be charged for them.
- Insist on acquiring copyright in the site but expect not to get it until you have paid the designer in full. Get a warranty about copyright ownership and make sure the designer fully indemnifies you against all "costs, claims and liabilities" arising from breach of the warranty.
- Ensure you are free to use anything you supply to a designer - if any content was prepared by a third party other than an employee, you normally don't own the rights to it.
Basic content for your site
- Put your contact information in a prominent position, and include details of your business name, the name of the owner(s) of the business, your normal address and (for companies) any separate "registered office" (or otherwise state it is the same as the trading address), where the company is registered (e.g. England) and the company number.
- Partnerships must state all the partners' names.
Constructing your web site
- Get consent before linking into other web sites – usually people will be delighted to allow you to do so, but sometimes they may not and may be able to sue you for doing so.
- You will need terms of business if you are doing business on the internet and may want them on there anyway. Don't just copy other people's terms - they may be out of date, and internet dealings also raise special issues.
- Your terms should be in plain English – in some cases the law requires it anyway.
- If you sell goods, your terms must allow you to reject an order so that errors can be avoided and the contract avoided if you have run out of stock.
- There are strict laws about giving basic information and cooling-off periods if you sell via your web site or by telephone without meeting the client/customer.
- Make sure your client/customer has to click into your site terms and accept them before proceeding.
- Any site "disclaimers" (notices reducing your liability) must be prominent or else they will be ineffective.
- Other people's postings on your website (e.g. adverts, directory listings, forums, chat rooms, reviews
- If you allow other people to put anything on your site, whether directly or after being monitored, you need to (a) have a prominent complaints policy so that offending material will be removed fast, (b) have site use terms accepted by the user before they can use the site and (c) insure against liability (e.g. defamation or breach of copyright)
- Wherever possible, monitor content before it can be seen on the site - disclaimers will not protect you.
- Make sure that users agree to indemnify you fully against any liability.
Collecting and using personal data
- Most people want to be able to collect and use details of site users – either to process and order or to market to them in future or even to sell the list to third parties. The Data Protection Act is complex and severely restricts what you can do with that information.
- You have to comply with the Act even if you are not required to "notify" the Information Commissioner's office about your use of data – see www.dataprotection.gov.uk for more information.
- You will normally need a privacy policy stating exactly what you may do with data and often you need site users to accept its terms before they register.
- It is usually better to have an "opt-in" policy for data collection (i.e. they are not included unless they click the relevant box).
- Don't allow other people access to or use of the data you collect unless you have the person's consent to doing so.
- Notification only costs £35 a year.
Employee use of e-mail and the internet
- Have an effective e-mail and internet use policy so you reduce the risk of being held responsible for an employee's actions in email or on the internet – this is one of the main new risk areas for businesses using the internet.
- You must regularly and consistently enforce your email and internet policy, or else it will be of no help.
- Don't monitor staff e-mail and internet use without getting advice on what you can and cannot do.
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Afraid? Why would Francisco Rodriguez ever be afraid of something as safe and simple as the World Series? When you come from his side of Caracas, going one-on-one with Barry Bonds for the heavyweight championship amounts to a walk in the park, if only his El Valle slum had a park.
"I come from a very dangerous place," he said.
They played baseball with broomsticks and bottle caps in this place, where green grass, paved driveways and white picket fences were the figments of someone else's imagination.
"There was crime, shooting, drugs, all that stuff," Rodriguez said. "It was around me all the time. When things happened, I would hide somewhere, in the trees, under a car, behind a door, whatever I could get close to. It was real scary."
Of course he could do what any kid would and bring those fears to his parents for reassurance, right?
Well, no, that wouldn't have worked either, not when Rodriguez was surrendered by his mother and father as easily as a departing pitcher hands his manager the ball.
He had 13 siblings and incredibly strong grandparents and uncles who raised him, protected him and nourished his all-American baseball dream, but a boy stranded by his parents two months after his birth can't possibly hide the scars under his tattered clothes.
Rodriguez's father has tried calling him recently, but the man can't say anything his son wants to hear.
"My father and mother have never been there for me," Rodriguez said. "They never cared about me, so why should I care about them? When I see my mother on the street back home, it's just like seeing another person on the street. My parents were never there for me when I had a fever, when I graduated from high school or when I signed my contract. My grandmother and grandfather gave me everything they didn't, and I have to thank God for putting me in their hands because I wouldn't be here without them."
Giants could face a rested rookie star
Here is the World Series, where Anaheim didn't even need the 20-year-old Rodriguez and his 5-0 postseason record Tuesday night, didn't need the indelible nine-out performance he delivered in the beer-league brawl that was Game 2.
More frightening to the Giants than their 10-4 defeat and their 2-1 deficit is this reality: Rodriguez will be rested enough to go another three innings in Game 4 tonight, to drive his team's record to 9-0 in playoff games he's pitched.
This kid stepped off a minor league bus and hit the big time with all the fire and flair of a young Fernando Valenzuela and a young Mark Fidrych, giving the Angels a Bonds-sized talent at the most necessary time.
"We're all still amazed by him," Tim Salmon said. "Just like you watch Bonds to see what he'll do next, you're always watching Frankie. When he's pitching, there's not a lot of balls being hit and the defense has almost nothing to do. Nothing but watch him and ask, 'How dominating can he be this time?' "
Dominating enough to inspire Bonds to swing at the first Game 2 pitch Rodriguez threw him. Bonds' groundout didn't surprise Rodriguez; it made him certain there would be more of that to come.
"I know Barry Bonds is one of the best players, but I treat him like just another player, just another guy," Rodriguez said. "I'm going to go right after him and get him out."
Questions still remain
Is this the hubris of a September call-up sure to be dealt a cruel lesson in protocol? Or is this the blind faith of a young man having too much fun to turn back now?
"If you told me last year this would be happening to me, I would've said you were out of your mind," Rodriguez said. "It's something you can't believe, but I've done it. I had the ability to do it, but I'm surprised people gave me the opportunity. Now I'm living the best moment of my life. Hey, if it's a dream, don't wake me up."
Rodriguez holds fast to another dream: Some day he wants to show his two baby daughters and future grandchildren tapes of his time in the October lights. He also wants to show them things he never saw firsthand.
"I'm going to spend as much time with my children as possible," Rodriguez said, "because I want to give them what my parents didn't give me. I want to give them so much love."
Rodriguez wants to give them so many reasons to never feel afraid.
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The Waiting City : Interview
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Language: English
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The Waiting City : Interview
CLAIRE McCARTHY: A couple of things attracted me to this story. I originally went to Calcutta with my youngest sister, Helena. We went to volunteer with Mother Teresa's sisters in the slums of Calcutta. This was all my sister's idea. She was in her final year at high school and was having a bit of a war of attrition with my mother at the time and my mum was saying, "You're such a middle class brat, you'd never be able to survive a day in the slums of Calcutta."
And, anyway, my sister decided that she would rise to the challenge and decided to invite me and I brought along a little camera kit with me and decided to film a little documentary about her experiences of, I guess, cultural meltdown and, yes, just her emotional experience of doing the work that we were doing.
And whilst we were there I met a lot of couples trying to adopt children and began to turn my cameras onto them and became really interested in their love stories; like what had let them to this point where they were wanting to adopt children? What did that mean for them? What was it doing to their relationship? And I continued to research when I came back to Australia and started to put together a story that was really looking at the emotional kind of life of a couple and their journey to parenthood.
The actual process of making the film was certainly challenging and I think for everyone it was quite an amazing experience. At some points there was sometimes 120 odd people in our crew and it sort of ballooned out into quite an amazing number of people and the logistics of shooting on the streets, as opposed to in sets, shooting sort of semi- vérité at times, so almost a documentary approach where we would hide cameras and not kind of create a situation which we could entirely control meant that we would be surrendering to the chaos on a daily basis.
JOEL EDGERTON: It's always an interesting thing when you go and you work with someone in a relationship capacity on screen. It's like: what kind of chemistry are you going to have with that person? You could get on famously with a person and the chemistry could end up looking - feeling terrible or it could be the opposite; you could hate the person and then have dynamic chemistry on screen. So there's always a trepidation when you walk into a relationship on screen of how are we going to appear as a couple? And, as objective as I can be about it, I really like the chemistry between us on screen.
RADHA MITCHELL: I grew to like her. She was an uncomfortable character to play because she's kind of acerbic and resistant to a lot of what she is going through and I think in many ways she sort of functions as a character that enables maybe Claire to comment on western culture. But through the process of the story, she kind of has to sort of surrender to what is, whether she likes it or not, and it was really kind of cathartic playing her.
There's a certain moment in the movie where I see this like street woman who sort of embodies this goddess and it was a really - I didn't expect to be kind of overcome by anything in the scene and I was, so the movie had a kind of psychological effect on me, as well, while we were shooting it.
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Hello Everyone! I told you I had free time this week and boy did I ever. (Last week? Oh well XP) Compared to the actual tale, this doesn't even count as a drop in the bucket, but I feel like you'd like to know what happens yes? I really appreciate your reviews, btw. ;)
The Last Weekend: Epilogue
-((7 Years Later))-
In a small jazz restaurant in Sekai: Indoor Waterpark and Resort at three in the afternoon, a man in a blue t-shirt and shorts sat alone at the bar, nursing a brandy. His unruly silver hair covered his eyes as he twirled a silver ring between his fingers, expression blank.
The bartender stepped over to him, asking him if he wanted another. "Rough day?" he couldn't help but ask.
Riku gave him a rueful smile as he accepted another drink. "You could say that," he replied with a small grin. The bartender didn't realize, busy as he usually was, but every year Riku came to this bar around this time. And every year, the bartender asked him the same question.
Must be something in my expression, Riku thought, his smile slightly bitter as he took a sip of his drink. He turned in his chair, looking at the currently-empty restaurant and dance floor. How many years has it been now? Riku wondered, doing the math. "Seven years…" Riku murmured, eyes lingering on the dance floor. If he stared long enough, he could almost see two shadowy figures swaying in time to slow jazz music. The longer he stared, the clearer the picture became; he could almost make out a handsome young man in a white shirt and blue tie, a blue sparkle in his eyes—
"Seven years?" the bartender prompted, and Riku blinked. The pair of dancers were gone, and he was alone in the restaurant. He hadn't realized he'd spoken aloud.
"You'll have to excuse me," Riku said as he downed his drink, "I'm just feeling a bit nostalgic." He stood, taking one last look around the restaurant before walking back out into the hall. He paused at a huge floor-to-ceiling bay window that let in the dazzling sunlight from outside. He held his left hand out in front of him, and his ring glimmered in the afternoon sunlight.
"Daddy, Daddy!" Riku suddenly heard, and he turned abruptly to see a little girl no older than four years old run down the hall…
He watched as the little girl squealed in delight as she was hefted into her father's arms. As he scooped her up, rapidly spinning her through the air, Riku turned quickly away from the laughing pair, walking rapidly down the hall, unspoken emotions brimming in his eyes.
Seven years…Riku thought again as he threw open the door to the waterpark area. Seven years since we shared that dream…Since he had that dream… Riku walked through the park, towards a tiny drink bar near the wave pool and the lazy river. He approached a small group of lawn chairs next to the bar. All those dreams, and now—
"Riku!" A scolding voice cried out, and Riku winced as he turned, cautiously making eye contact with an angry and soaked blue-eyed brunette that was emerging from the wave pool, a squirming green-eyed toddler in tow.
"I think my dream's just turned into a nightmare," he muttered to himself as Sora met him by the chair holding their stuff, eyes sparking.
"You said you'd only be gone ten minutes!" Sora accused as he collapsed, exhausted, onto the chair, firmly holding the toddler in his lap. "It's been a half hour! Do you know how hard it is to keep up with this little monster alone in a waterpark for a whole half hour?" Sora continued, and said 'monster' tilted her big green eyes up at her father, a huge smile on her face.
"Daddy!" she squealed, reaching up to try and give him a kiss. Sora reached down and blew a raspberry on her belly, sending her into a fit of giggles before he resumed glaring at his husband.
"I'm sorry," Riku said immediately, removing his t-shirt before reaching out for their daughter. "I just get terribly nostalgic here, and I kinda lost track of time…" he held the squirming girl close to him; she already wanted to go back in the water. Seeing that Sora wasn't placated in the slightest, Riku decided to try a different tactic. "It doesn't help that I'm pretty tired already; I didn't sleep a lot last night for some reason," he said with a wink.
Sora blushed hotly but was unamused. "That's funny, I didn't sleep that much either, but I was still here alone," he replied with a small pout.
"I really am sorry," Riku reiterated, leaning down to kiss Sora tenderly on the lips. "Every year that we come here, this place reminds me even more of how lucky I am to have you," he murmured before kissing him again, "and that I love you so much."
Riku straightened, making faces at their little girl, and the anger in Sora's eyes died immediately. "Riku…"
"I'll take her over to the play area; you stay here and rest," he said as he turned towards the water.
"I'm lucky too!" Sora suddenly blurted out after him. Riku turned around slightly, eyebrow raised.
"Every day I thank my lucky stars that I can be here with you," he explained, standing up and stepping closer to the pair. "That I can hold you, touch you…raise a child with you…kiss you…" Sora fondly rubbed their daughter's shining blonde hair before kissing Riku on the nose. "If anything, this place reminds me that I should continue to live life to the fullest, right by your side." He grabbed Riku's free hand, pulling the two towards the water. "Let's have some fun!"
"But I thought you were tired?" Riku protested.
"Suddenly, I feel more energized than before," he said as they entered the kids watery play area, "I'll probably be like this all day…want to help me work off the excess energy later?" he asked with a wink.
Riku smiled deviously. "I think that can be arranged," he said, "you mmf-!" Sora suddenly sent a jet of water from a toy water rocket straight into Riku's face. Their little girl squealed in laughter.
"Or, you could help me right now by being the target," Sora reasoned, hitting him in the face again.
"Why, you-!" Riku said in mock anger, and the three engaged in watery combat for the rest of the afternoon.
-((The End!))-
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The oldest competitive fishing event in our country begins Thursday. It is in one of the most popular fishing spots for Capital City anglers: Grand Isle.
Yep, the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo has been around longer than any other fishing get-together in all 50 states.
It's a shame the thousands of fishermen who'll flock to the coast for the three-day festival — and the Thursday-through-Saturday Faux Pas Tournament run at Venice — won't be able to make red snapper nor amberjack part of their catch. That's because the recreational seasons is closed on these species.
What a shame: These seasons were closed by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council through the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. These names leave Louisiana fishermen wondering about the degree of counsel this council gives to proper fisheries management and what service this service gives to recreational fishing interests.
From the outset of the recreational red snapper regulations, we knew this much-too-short, 48-day season was coming at 12:01 a.m. July 19. From what all deepwater fishermen learned off the Louisiana coast, the GMFMC's statement closing-day announcement that the closure "was established to limit the harvest of red snapper in the Gulf and help rebuild overfished stocks so that anglers can enjoy better red snapper fishing in the future," rang hollow.
That's because there are far and away more red snapper off our coast that anyone can remember. That the GMFMC continued to use "overfished" in any statement goes against its 2009 proclamation that red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico are not an overfished species.
Louisiana fishermen, seeking some fact-based basis, not biological conjecture, for continued recreational seasons have found a friend in the Recreational Fishing Alliance and its executive director Jim Donofrio.
"NOAA continues spewing claims that cutbacks today will yield to greater benefits tomorrow, but that simply doesn't hold water any longer," Donofrio said.
Like anyone who attends any of the council's Reef Fish Committee hearings, RFA and Donofrio come away scratching their heads about how the council stands behind regulations outlined in the 2006 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act while, at the same time, ignoring the act's mandate to do away with NOAA's Marine Recreational Fishing Statistical Surveys for setting seasons and limits.
NOAA confirmed that MRFSS data was used in 2011, and Donofrio said RFA has learned NOAA will continue to use that data in 2012.
Isn't it time for Congress to take the NOAA to task?
Sure is. If it has done that last year, four years after OKing Magnuson Stevens, we'd likely be able to take red snapper — possibly amberjack — this week and possibly for the rest of the summer.


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Apple tries to make the iPad Pro sound revolutionary, but it's a lot like a tablet that's been around for years -- Microsoft's Surface. Is the iPad Pro a game changer, or just a warmed-over Surface?
First, let's take a look at the iPad Pro's specs. The iPad Pro comes with a 12.9-inch screen, significantly larger than the iPad Air 2's 9.7-inch display. It's tough to get real work done on a 9.7-inch tablet, but a 12.9-inch one will do just fine.
It's not just the size of the screen that's important, but the extras you can buy for it: A detachable keyboard and a stylus called the Apple Pencil.
As for apps, what did Apple choose to highlight at the rollout? Microsoft Office for iOS tablets. And who showed off Office on the iPad Pro? A Microsoft executive -- Kirk Konigsbauer.
This should all sound familiar to you. A tablet with a large-enough screen that real work can be done on it. A detachable keyboard so that you can turn the tablet into a laptop. A stylus for writing on it. Runs Microsoft Office. This all describes a tablet that Microsoft built and released three years ago -- the Microsoft Surface.
Through the years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has denigrated the Surface because it was designed to be both a tablet and a laptop -- exactly what the iPad Pro is. Shortly after the Surface's release he called it "a fairly compromised and confusing product," and likened it to "a car that flies and floats." Before its release, he said to Wall Street analysts about devices that do double duty as tablets and laptops, "Anything can be forced to converge. You begin to make trade-offs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn't please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user."
But that was then. This is now. Tablet sales are slowing, and Apple wants to re-invigorate them. So it's copying Microsoft. Cook made clear at the iPad Pro rollout that the tablet was first and foremost a business device, saying, "We're partnering with the world's leading enterprise companies, IBM and Cisco, to redefine and transform the way people work in the enterprise."
So is the iPad Pro a warmed-over Surface? Yes, it is. But that shouldn't surprise you. Apple is at its best improving on existing products, not building entirely new ones. There were MP3 players before Apple released the iPod. There were smartphones before Apple released the iPhone. And there have been 2-in-1 devices before Apple introduced the iPad Pro, notably the Surface. This time, though, it's not clear whether warmed-over will mean big sales.


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