Couple Wins House Energy Retrofit And C-Max Energi PHEV ...

A lucky couple will soon be at the wheel of a C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid.

The winners of the Ford-led MyEnergi Lifestyle Retrofit contest ? designed to showcase how a typical American family can affordably move to an energy-efficient lifestyle ? are Lindsay and Ben Sattler of Parker, Colo.

Ben Sattler teaches alternative fuels and home energy efficiency courses to inner-city school children, while Lindsay ensures the Sattlers keep a sustainable home life.

As the second winners of a MyEnergi Lifestyle retrofit, the Sattlers will receive a grand prize package enabling them to integrate today?s plug-in vehicle technology, smart appliances and solar energy into their home to reduce their electricity bills and carbon emissions.

In May, Susan Berry of Ventura, Calif., won a MyEnergi Lifestyle giveaway on the ?Katie? show.

?Ford is making yet another American home more energy efficient as part of its global commitment to a better world,? says Mike Tinskey, global director of vehicle electrification and infrastructure for Ford. ?By combining the latest technologies such as the Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, energy-efficient appliances and renewable energy generation, the Sattler family should see up to a 60 percent reduction in energy costs and a 55 percent reduction in CO2.?

Ford said leaders in the home appliance, renewable energy and power management industries ? including Eaton, SunPower, Whirlpool, Infineon and Nest Labs ? are collaborating with Ford on the initiative.

?Winning the MyEnergi Lifestyle Retrofit contest is truly life-changing for us,? says Lindsay Sattler. ?Now, we have the freedom to bless others with the money we?re saving, and more opportunities to live out what my husband teaches to his students.?

Thousands of families entered the nationwide contest, according to Ford. The Sattlers won on the strength of an essay Lindsay wrote detailing the family?s passion for sustainability and what they do to live an energy-efficient lifestyle.

?We are always trying to find new ways we can use less energy and save more money to make life a little more enjoyable,? Lindsay wrote.

Energy-saving technologies have advanced as Americans? energy use has increased.

In 1930, the average American home used 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity; today, the figure is 11,000 ? an increase of 2,100 percent. The MyEnergi Lifestyle initiative demonstrates how a typical American family can optimize its energy output.

MyEnergi Lifestyle works by leveraging technology so key energy-consuming devices in a home use less energy, while also shifting energy usage to less expensive periods.

The Sattlers have won a 2013 Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle; Eaton solar inverter, solar-ready load center with surge protection, electric vehicle supply equipment and generator; five-kilowatt SunPower system; Nest learning thermostat; Powerhouse dynamic eMonitor; Whirlpool brand smart dishwasher, smart washer and dryer, smart refrigerator and hybrid heat pump water heater.

Ford said that if every home in the country were to adopt a MyEnergi Lifestyle like the Sattlers are doing, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid? That?s 32 million homes.

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Nelson Mandela's legacy -- and its limits

When talk turns to the legacy of Nelson Mandela, who turns 95 on Thursday, I remember one of my most memorable moments in journalism.

It was 1985, and I was in South Africa as part of ?Nightline?s? coverage of that nation, still under the apartheid rule of the white minority government. Through a chain of contacts, we?d arranged an interview with African National Congress official named Patrick Lekota, who was being hunted by authorities for treason. His nickname, ?Terror,? might have given credibility to the accusation, except that it came from his aggressive play on the soccer field.

Lekota talked of the life he had led before he?d gone underground; a life that included time on Robben Island, the prison where Mandela had been held for 18of his 27 years in custody. Lekota also spoke of harassment by the government and the deaths by official hand of many of his colleagues.

He also said that before going underground, he'd spent many nights driving a sound track around Soweto, South Africa?s largest black township. He played speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy--speeches that urged anon-violent struggle.

Why,I asked Lekota, after all you and your colleagues have gone through, after all that has been inflicted on the black majority, do you embrace non-violence?

Because,he said, ?if we win with bloodshed...we will have lost.?

There is no way to minimize, or trivialize, the meaning of what Nelson Mandela did in waging the non-violent fight against apartheid as he did.

Five years after that trip to South Africa, I went back and heard the just-freed Mandela give a speech to a rapturous crowd in a massive Soweto soccer stadium. His approach was a key to convincing the country's president, F.W. deKlerk, that apartheid had to end and that black majority rule was inevitable. That, in turn, spared South Africa a racial war and the twisted mutation of "majority rule" in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

There is also no way to avoid the limits of Mandela?s legacy.

It could not prevent the installation of successor presidents who inflicted real damage on their country. Tabo Mbeki?s refusal to understand the link between the HIV virus and AIDS is one reason why South Africa has the world?s largest HIV/AIDS population. The current president, Jacob Zuma, has remained in office despite highly credible charges of rape and corruption.

It wouldn?t be fair to expect one larger-than-life leader to prevent the kind of failures that afflict governments all around the world. Nor should we expect South Africa to be free from the kind of political infighting common to free governments. (Patrick Lekota, Minister of Defense under President Mbkei, now leads an opposition party).

But far more serious afflictions bedevil South Africa. Decades of white supremacist rule have left the black majority in an economic state that political emancipation cannot uproot. Today, the country's official jobless rate is 25 percent ? a level seen in the U.S. at the depths of the Great Depression. Crime is a serious enough issue there that the State Department issued a travel warning last month labeling Johannesburg, Cape Town, Diplomatic and Pretoria ?critical crime threat spots.?

Our own nation serves as a lesson here. In the early 20th century, blacks in the South, a region with state-sanctioned peonage and terror, began fleeing in massive numbers -- a migration described brilliantly by Isabel Wilkerson in her book ?The Warmth of Other Suns.? In 1910, 90 percent of all blacks lived in theSouth; by 1960, barely half did. The impact of that migration still is felt today, a hundred years after it began. It would be naive to think that the effects of the system imposed by white South Africans on the black majority decades ago would not endure long after apartheid came to an end.

Nelson Mandela?s commitment to a peaceful path to justice did not, and could not,deliver his nation from the consequences of its past. But what he did, and what his nation was spared, is more than enough to celebrate.

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Newest Art Buy Recalls City's Agrarian Past - Arts & Entertainment ...

One of the few remaining families who farm Middletown land is now a permanently visual part of local history with the city's acquisition of painter Paul Baldassini's work.

A framed oil painting, "Taking a Break," was purchase by the arts commission for its large Public Art Collection for $600, a discount graciously offered by the artist, who is a professional painter and photo restorer.

The subject of this large piece is the Hubbard-Wyskiel Farm on Long Hill Road in Middletown. It features Stanley Wyskiel and his son Walt as they load bales behind their tractor.

Stanley is still a full time farmer in his mid-seventies.

The painting is oil on panel. The artist used all the old master technique of applying a layer of varnish between layers of oil paint and of slowly working up the surface of the painting.

The painting will soon be visible for public viewing at city hall on deKoven Drive, where the art commission's full collection is open weekdays.

Another recent acquisition, a lithograph by Art Blanchard of a rooster, donated to the Public Art Collection by Biff and Jean Shaw, is also on view. The drawing was done in South Yarmouth, Mass., in 1951.

The Blanchard lithograph, a printing process, traditionally uses a stone instead of a metal plate. According to Arts Commissioner Joyce Kirkpatrick, the artist drew the design on the stone when he made it,?treated it chemically, and then the stone was inked and the paper was pressed onto the stone to make the print.

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Fire Takes 88 College Student Apartments in Washington

Just Completed Construction

A SUSPICIOUS FIRE SWEPT through four apartment buildings in Pullman, Washington, Sunday morning.? The buildings were part of a complex of Washington State University student housing apartments and were still under construction.? They would have been ready for occupancy next month when the fall semester begins.

KXLY-TV

There were 88 units destroyed and several other buildings, including several already occupied, were endangered exposures, but the lack of wind probably helped contain the fire to the original complex.? The loss is estimated to be $13 million.

KXLY-TV provided this video report:

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The Pullman Fire Department issued a press release that says in part,

Firefighters managed to protect another four units under construction from any major fire damage. Two nearby apartment complexes, that were occupied ? Boulder Creek and Steptoe ? sustained heat damage to the vinyl siding but all the units could be used.

The first call to Whitcom, the 9-1-1 center, came in by phone at 3:16 a.m. As fire units left the north area station, they could see the flames and immediately called for a second alarm and third alarms for additional help. Pullman firefighters were aided by Whitman Rural District 12, Moscow Rural and City fire departments and the Colfax fire department.

KXLY-TV

As firefighters first approached the fire scene, just off Terre View Drive, set up equipment in defensive mode to protect occupied apartment buildings to the east and south of the structure. They also managed to save four additional apartment buildings under construction in The Grove from any major fire damage.

Firefighters had the fire under control about two hours later (5:20 am) but will have firefighters on the scene for several hours mopping up and aiding with the fire investigation.

Pullman Fire Chief Mike Heston said firefighters were told at least two fire hydrants on the property supposedly were operational but when firefighters tried to use them, there was no water available. Firefighters laid hose line from hydrants on Terre View and nearby complexes to help extinguish the fire.

The first firefighters on the scene said the fire apparently started in the middle complex and spread to three other units that were in various stages of construction.

All of the destroyed units had already been rented for the fall semester.

A task force of local police and fire marshal investigators is working on the case.

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London Markets: FTSE 100 wobbles as banks drop, miners rise

By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch

LONDON (MarketWatch) ? U.K.?s FTSE 100 index was little changed on Tuesday, as banks declined after recent gains, while mining firms were mostly stronger after an upbeat production update from Rio Tinto PLC.

The benchmark /quotes/zigman/3173262 UK:UKX -0.03% ?was marginally higher at 6,586.01, after closing at the highest level since late May on Monday.

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Shares of Rio Tinto /quotes/zigman/155899 UK:RIO +3.22% ? /quotes/zigman/182541/quotes/nls/rio RIO +0.28% ? /quotes/zigman/176317 AU:RIO +1.37% ?climbed 2.2% after the heavyweight miner posted record output of iron ore in the second quarter and said its recovery from a landslide at a major copper mine in the U.S. is faster than expected.

Other miners tracked Rio Tinto higher, with BHP Billiton PLC /quotes/zigman/184879 UK:BLT +1.91% ? /quotes/zigman/270355/quotes/nls/bhp BHP +0.33% ? /quotes/zigman/180893 AU:BHP +0.54% ?up 0.9%, Antofagasta PLC /quotes/zigman/139152 UK:ANTO +0.55% ?0.6% higher and Anglo American PLC /quotes/zigman/470624 UK:AAL +1.42% ?rising 0.6%.

The gains for the mining sector weren?t, however, enough to push the broader U.K. index firmly into positive territory. Banks declined after recent gains and added pressure on the broader index. Standard Chartered PLC /quotes/zigman/22532 UK:STAN -2.68% ?lost 1.5%, Lloyds Banking Group PLC /quotes/zigman/126322 UK:LLOY -0.27% ? /quotes/zigman/255656/quotes/nls/lyg LYG +2.93% ?fell 0.7% and HSBC Holdings PLC /quotes/zigman/13843 UK:HSBA -0.15% ? /quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc HBC +0.71% ? /quotes/zigman/13834 HK:5 -0.06% ?shed 0.5%.

Banks drop in London on Tuesday.

On the data front in the U.K., the Office for National Statistics said inflation rose to 2.9% in June from 2.7% in May, but below estimates of a 3% reading.

?There are growing signs of the U.K. recovery gaining momentum, with the economy set for strong growth in the second quarter and companies reporting the brightest outlook for the year ahead since the financial crisis struck, but inflation clearly remains the UK?s bugbear and calls into question just how long this strong growth can persist for,? said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, in a note.

?High prices look set to continue to erode spending power, curbing the overall pace of economic growth,? he added.

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UK : FTSE Indices

Volume: 0.00

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UK : U.K.: London

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July 16, 2013 12:23p

Market Cap

?39.53 billion

Rev. per Employee

?451,624

/quotes/zigman/182541/quotes/nls/rio

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Volume: 2.14M

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Rev. per Employee

$716,974

/quotes/zigman/176317

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Volume: 1.78M

July 16, 2013 5:04p

Rev. per Employee

$691,334

/quotes/zigman/184879

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Volume: 3.46M

July 16, 2013 12:23p

Market Cap

?38.02 billion

Rev. per Employee

?911,375

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Volume: 1.02M

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/quotes/zigman/180893

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Volume: 4.17M

July 16, 2013 5:04p

Market Cap

$106.98 billion

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UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 732,553

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?754,574

/quotes/zigman/470624

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 1.79M

July 16, 2013 12:22p

Market Cap

?18.04 billion

Rev. per Employee

?171,231

/quotes/zigman/22532

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 3.09M

July 16, 2013 12:23p

Market Cap

?37.07 billion

Rev. per Employee

?187,578

/quotes/zigman/126322

UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 67.72M

July 16, 2013 12:23p

Market Cap

?48.37 billion

Rev. per Employee

?482,111

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$767,916

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UK : U.K.: London

Volume: 8.88M

July 16, 2013 12:23p

Market Cap

?134.80 billion

Rev. per Employee

?204,167

/quotes/zigman/207333/quotes/nls/hbc

US : U.S.: NYSE

Volume: 516,602

July 15, 2013 4:05p

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$203.78 billion

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$320,506

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Volume: 8.29M

July 16, 2013 4:01p

Market Cap

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Rev. per Employee

HK$2.50M

Sara Sjolin is a MarketWatch reporter based in London. Follow her on Twitter @sarasjolin.

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NY rabbi accused of trying to pull over motorists

The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. The New York rabbi, arrested for flashing a badge and ordering a woman driver to pull over, says he was angered by her slow driving. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

The synagogue of Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, N.Y., is depicted on Friday, July 12, 2013. The congregation's rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, is charged with impersonating a police officer by flashing a badge and ordering a fellow motorist to pull over. The New York rabbi, arrested for flashing a badge and ordering a woman driver to pull over, says he was angered by her slow driving. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) ? Some drivers in the suburbs north of New York City were startled when they saw a man waving his arms, honking his horn and flashing a silver badge in a frantic effort to get them to pull over in traffic.

Even more surprising was who was suspected of doing it: a respected rabbi.

Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski has been arrested in one case and is being investigated in at least two more in which authorities say the apparent reason for trying to pull people over was to rage at them for cutting him off or driving too slowly.

"That girl was driving too slow and I hate when people do this," the 49-year-old Borodowski told investigators after he was charged with impersonating a police officer in June, when he allegedly pulled his Camry alongside a woman's car in Mamaroneck, flashed a badge and shouted: "Police! Police! Pull over!"

The woman, whose name has not been made public, did not pull over. According to her lawyer, Richard Clifford, the rabbi "just laid on the horn and started screaming at her" as she obeyed a 20-mph limit in a school zone. "She was so freaked out with the horn honking and the screaming that she called police immediately. ... I believe my client was in danger with this guy and if she had gotten out of her car it could have escalated."

Borodowski denied to police he was trying to impersonate an officer, saying he was telling the woman only that he would be "calling the police."

Police confiscated the badge, which read: "Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Officer 1338." Judie Glave, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the bridge and tunnel authority, said the badge is "totally fake."

Borodowski's lawyer, Andrew Rubin, acknowledged that the rabbi's behavior has been "manic" and said he's suffering from bipolar disorder. The lawyer said the rabbi will plead not guilty in court this week. A previous hearing was postponed because the rabbi was hospitalized.

The rabbi has been fired from a position at prestigious Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, one of the world's largest Jewish houses of worship. He also leads a congregation in Larchmont.

The odd saga of the rabbi has grabbed headlines in the car-centric suburbs and gained momentum after his arrest, when other drivers came forward saying he had tried to pull them over, too.

When Peter Moses' wife saw the story on the TV news, "She shouted, 'Oh my God, the guy who stopped us did it to someone else ? and he's a rabbi!'" said Moses, a public relations consultant in White Plains.

Moses said that in May, a motorist tailgated him on a drive from Scarsdale to White Plains, "obviously trying to make me go faster" than the 40- mph limit. Instead, Moses slowed, and the driver passed him and then blocked his path.

"He's shouting, 'I'm a police officer, pull over!' and he's got this little badge that he's waving at us. I told my wife, 'That's not a police officer,'" Moses said.

"Then he's out of his car and he's screaming: 'I can arrest you! I can have you arrested!' I said, 'Fine, call the police,' then he storms back to his car and drives off."

Moses said his wife asked him not to report the incident but changed her mind when they learned of the arrest in Mamaroneck. "What we want is for the rabbi to get the emotional help he so obviously needs," he said.

Yet another driver handed State Police a video of a confrontation in late April on Interstate 87 near Yonkers. The man told authorities that he swerved in front of a driver who then flashed a badge and demanded that he pull over.

Police are not releasing the video, but a still image from it obtained by The Journal News shows a man who looks like Borodowski sticking his head out of his car window, his wispy graying hair blowing in the wind, who appears to be shouting and waving a silver badge in a leather case.

"He was holding up this tiny badge, and I knew the guy could no way be a cop in any sense of the word," the driver, whose name has not been made public, told the newspaper. When he challenged the man, he drove off.

The three complaints prompted the trustees of Temple Emanu-El to dismiss Borodowski as executive director of the Skirball Center for Jewish Learning "in the best interests of the congregation," said Mark Weisstuch, administrative vice president.

Borodowski was still listed as rabbi on the website for Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont. A call to the synagogue there was answered by a man who said: "No comment. That's his personal life."

Associated Press

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