Obama to air ads in Mich. touting auto bailout

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KDL Weblog ? Blog Archive ? Resource Highlight for Family History ...

October is Family History Month, a time to spend climbing the family tree. Along with learning about your family is understanding the time period or region where they lived.?Fortunately for Michigan, the University of Michigan hosts 428 digitized titles featuring the county histories of Michigan.

Every county in Michigan?is afforded?a brief (or not so brief) history along with biographies and atlases.?Grand Rapids even has its own history section.?Browse and sort by subject to get an alphabetized listing by county.

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Concrete used to break door at church | WAVY.com | Newport News

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - Police are searching for a person responsible for breaking into a church and Chinese restaurant Thursday morning.

Holly McPherson with the Newport News Police Department said someone used a piece of concrete to shatter a door at Grace and Truth Fellowship Church in the Sherwood Shopping Center at 13771 Warwick Boulevard. The suspect stole a candle, which was then used to break the glass door at the New Chinese Buffet nearby.

Several hundreds of dollars were stolen from the restaurant?s cash register, McPherson said.

Additionally, a burglary attempt was made at the Jing Jing Asian restaurant located at 562 Denbigh Boulevard. A piece of concrete was also used to breaking a window. According to McPherson, the restaurant was burglarized earlier in the month.

Police have not connected that attempt to the two at Sherwood Shopping Center.

Anyone with information should call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

Source: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/crime/concrete-used-to-break-door-at-church

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Panera Bread Company Reports Q3 2012 Diluted ... - Franchising.com

ST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - Oct 23, 2012) - Panera Bread Company (NASDAQ: PNRA)

Highlights

• Q3 2012 Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales up 6.2%
• Q3 2012 Revenue increased 17% to $529 million
• FY 2012 EPS target increased to $5.86 to $5.88 (up 29% versus FY 2011)
• FY 2013 Initial EPS target set at $6.85 to $7.00

Panera Bread Company (NASDAQ: PNRA) today reported net income of $37 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, for the fiscal third quarter ended September 25, 2012. The third quarter fiscal 2012 results compare to net income of $29 million, or $0.97 per diluted share, for the fiscal third quarter ended September 27, 2011, and represent a 28% year-over-year increase in diluted earnings per share.

For the thirty-nine weeks ended September 25, 2012, net income was $122 million, or $4.14 per diluted share. These results compare to net income of $97 million, or $3.24 per diluted share, for the thirty-nine weeks ended September 27, 2011, and represent a 28% year-over-year increase in diluted earnings per share.

The Company's third quarter and year-to-date fiscal 2012 consolidated statements of comprehensive income and margin analyses are attached as Schedule I. The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, certain items included in the Company's consolidated statements of comprehensive income (in thousands, except per share data and percentages):

Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results and Business Review

Comparable Net Bakery-Cafe Sales Growth

In the third quarter fiscal 2012, Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales increased 6.2%, franchise-operated comparable net bakery-cafe sales increased 5.5%, and system-wide comparable net bakery-cafe sales increased 5.8% compared to the comparable period in fiscal 2011.

The Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales increase of 6.2% in the third quarter fiscal 2012 was comprised of year-over-year transaction growth of 0.6% and average check growth of 5.6%. Average check growth was comprised of retail price increases of approximately 3.0% and positive mix impact of approximately 2.6%. A schedule of comparable net bakery-cafe sales information is attached as Schedule III.

Operating Margin

In the third quarter fiscal 2012, the Company generated operating margin improvement of approximately 80 basis points compared to the third quarter fiscal 2011. This increase was driven primarily by higher bakery-cafe margins, partially offset by lower margins from fresh dough and other product sales to franchisees. The increase in bakery-cafe margins was driven primarily by sales leverage, while the decline in margins from fresh dough and other product sales to franchisees resulted primarily from year-over-year wheat price inflation and higher year-over-year zero margin produce sales to franchisees.

New Unit Development and AWS

During the third quarter fiscal 2012, the Company opened 17 new bakery-cafes and its franchisees opened 19 new bakery-cafes. As a result, there were 1,625 bakery-cafes open system-wide as of September 25, 2012.

Average weekly sales ("AWS") for Company-owned new units year-to-date through the third quarter fiscal 2012 were $47,438 compared to $41,470 in the same period of fiscal 2011. AWS for franchise-operated new units year-to-date through the third quarter fiscal 2012 were $47,680 compared to $41,864 in the same period of fiscal 2011. A schedule of the third quarter and year-to-date fiscal 2012 AWS is attached as Schedule II.

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2012 Outlook

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2012 Targets

Diluted EPS Target

The Company is raising its target for fourth quarter fiscal 2012 earnings per diluted share to $1.72 to $1.74 from its prior targeted range of $1.66 to $1.70. If the Company meets this target, diluted earnings per share would grow 31% to 33% in the fourth quarter fiscal 2012 versus $1.31 per diluted share in the fourth quarter fiscal 2011.

The fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings per diluted share included a $5.0 million one-time legal settlement charge. Excluding this one-time charge, targeted fourth quarter fiscal 2012 diluted earnings per share growth would be 21% to 23%.

The fourth quarter fiscal 2012 diluted earnings per share target includes the following key assumptions:

Comparable Net Bakery-Cafe Sales Growth

The range for the Company's fourth quarter fiscal 2012 Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth over the comparable period in fiscal 2011 is now targeted at 5.0% to 6.0%. The fourth quarter fiscal 2012 target assumes 1.0% to 1.5% transaction growth and average check growth of approximately 4.0% to 4.5%, consisting of a year-over-year price increase of approximately 2.5% and positive mix impact on check growth of 1.5% to 2.0%. Company-owned comparable bakery-cafe sales growth for the first twenty-seven days of the fourth quarter fiscal 2012 was 6.1%.

Operating Margin Target

In the fourth quarter fiscal 2012, the Company now anticipates its operating margin will improve by approximately 75 to 100 basis points on a year-over-year basis, reflecting higher than previously targeted comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth in the fourth quarter fiscal 2012.

Updated Full Year Fiscal 2012 Outlook

Diluted EPS Target

The Company is raising its target for fiscal 2012 earnings per diluted share to $5.86 to $5.88 from its prior targeted range of $5.72 to $5.78. If the Company meets this target, diluted earnings per share would grow 29% in fiscal 2012 versus $4.55 per diluted share in fiscal 2011. The increase in the Company's diluted earnings per share target reflects higher comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth and improved operating margins.

Fiscal 2011 earnings per diluted share included a $5.0 million one-time legal settlement charge in the fourth quarter fiscal 2011. Excluding this one-time charge, targeted fiscal 2012 diluted earnings per share growth would be 26%.

This full year fiscal 2012 diluted earnings per share target is based on the following key assumptions:

Comparable Net Bakery-Cafe Sales Growth

The range for the Company's fiscal 2012 Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth over the comparable period in fiscal 2011 is now targeted at 6.0% to 6.5%. The fiscal 2012 target assumes transaction growth of 1.0% to 1.5% and average check growth of approximately 5.0% on average year-over-year price increases of approximately 3.0% and positive mix impact of approximately 2.0%.

Operating Margin Improvement

For fiscal 2012, the Company is increasing its previous target for operating margin to 75 to 100 basis points favorable to fiscal 2011, reflecting higher than previously targeted comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth in fiscal 2012.

New Unit Development and AWS

The Company now expects to be at the high-end or slightly over the previously provided targeted range of 115-120 system-wide new unit openings in fiscal 2012. The average weekly net sales performance for new Company-owned units is now expected to be above the previously provided targeted range of $40,000 to $42,000 for fiscal 2012 primarily due to the favorable impact of a higher number of new units opened in urban areas during fiscal 2012.

Initial Full Year Fiscal 2013 Targets

The Company is initially targeting fiscal 2013 earnings per diluted share of $6.85 to $7.00, up 17% to 19%, versus the midpoint of fiscal 2012 targeted earnings per diluted share. This range includes the favorable impact of the 53rd week in fiscal 2013.

This full year fiscal 2013 diluted earnings per share target is based on the following key assumptions:

Comparable Net Bakery-Cafe Sales Growth

The Company is targeting Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth to be in the range of 4.5% to 5.5% for fiscal 2013 versus the midpoint of fiscal 2012 targeted comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth.

Operating Margin Improvement

The Company's fiscal 2013 EPS target assumes its fiscal 2013 operating margin range will be flat to 50 basis points of improvement as compared to the midpoint of fiscal 2012 targeted operating margin. This target includes a significant step up in investments to provide greater access for customers, increased operational capabilities, and improvement to the Company's core enterprise systems.

New Unit Development and AWS

The Company's fiscal 2013 EPS target assumes approximately 115-120 system-wide new unit openings. The average weekly net sales performance for new Company-owned units is targeted at $40,000 to $42,000.

Concluding Comments

Bill Moreton, President and Co-CEO, commented, "We are pleased to report 28% earnings growth in the third quarter driven by our 6.2% comparable store sales increase. These strong results are reflective of the continued investments we are making in the quality of our food, marketing, and operations, which we believe are resulting in a better and differentiated customer experience."

Ron Shaich, Chairman and Co-CEO added, "Building on our long-term strategy to drive competitive advantage, we are going to step up our level of investment to provide greater access for our customers, increase our operational capabilities, and improve our core enterprise systems in 2013. We believe these initiatives, along with many other initiatives that are underway, will position Panera for even greater success well into the future."

Notes:

The Company will host a conference call that will be broadcast on the Internet at 7:30 A.M. Central Time on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 to discuss the third quarter fiscal 2012 results, preliminary comparable net bakery-cafe sales results for the first 27 days of the fourth quarter fiscal 2012, earnings targets and business outlook for the fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012, and establishing full year targets for fiscal 2013. To access the call or view a copy of this release, go to http://www.panerabread.com/investor. Access to the call will be made available for 14 days, and the release will be archived for one year.

We include in this release information on Company-owned, franchise-operated, and system-wide comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages. Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages are based on net sales from Company-owned bakery-cafes included in our base store bakery-cafes. Franchise-operated comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages are based on net sales from franchised bakery-cafes, as reported by franchisees, that are included in our base store bakery-cafes. Bakery-cafes and other restaurant or bakery-cafe concepts are included in the comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages only if the Company or franchisee previously held or acquired a 100 percent ownership interest prior to the first day of the prior fiscal year. Comparable net bakery-cafe sales exclude closed locations.

Comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages are non-GAAP financial measures, which should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for other measures of performance prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, and may not be equivalent to comparable net bakery-cafe sales as defined or used by other companies. The Company does not record franchise-operated net bakery-cafe sales as revenues. However, royalty revenues are calculated based on a percentage of franchise-operated net bakery-cafe sales, as reported by franchisees. The Company uses franchise-operated and net system-wide sales information internally in connection with store development decisions, planning, and budgeting analyses. Franchise-operated and system-wide net sales information is useful in assessing consumer acceptance of the Company's brand, facilitates an understanding of its financial performance and the overall direction and trends of net sales and operating income, helps it appreciate the effectiveness of its advertising and marketing initiatives, to which its franchisees also contribute based on a percentage of their net sales, and provides information that is relevant for comparison within the industry.

About Panera Bread Company

Panera Bread Company owns and franchises 1,625 bakery-cafes as of September 25, 2012 under the Panera Bread?, Saint Louis Bread Co.?, and Paradise Bakery & Caf?? names. Our bakery-cafes are principally located in suburban, strip mall and regional mall locations. We feature high quality, reasonably priced food in a warm, inviting, and comfortable environment. With our identity rooted in handcrafted, fresh-baked, artisan bread, we are committed to providing great tasting, quality food that people can trust. Nearly all of our bakery-cafes have a menu highlighted by antibiotic-free chicken, whole grain bread, and select organic and all-natural ingredients, with zero grams of artificial trans fat per serving, which provide flavorful, wholesome offerings. Our menu includes a wide variety of year-round favorites complemented by new items introduced seasonally with the goal of creating new standards in everyday food choices. In neighborhoods across the United States and in Ontario, Canada, our customers enjoy our warm and welcoming environment featuring comfortable gathering areas, relaxing decor, and free internet access. Our bakery-cafes routinely donate bread and baked goods to community organizations in need. Additional information is available on our website, http://www.panerabread.com.

Matters discussed in this news release and in our public disclosures, whether written or oral, relating to future events or our future performance, including any discussion, express or implied, on our anticipated growth, operating results, plans, objectives, and future earnings per share, contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are often identified by the words "believe," "positioned," "estimate," "project," "target," "plan," "goal," "assumption," "continue," "intend," "expect," "future," "anticipate," and other similar expressions, whether in the negative or the affirmative, that are not statements of historical fact. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Our actual results and timing of certain events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those discussed from time to time in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2011 and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements and the internal projections and beliefs upon which we base our expectations included in this release are made only as of the date of this release and may change. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we expressly disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth percentages are based on net sales from Company-owned bakery-cafes included in our base store bakery-cafes. Franchise-operated comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages are based on net sales from franchised bakery-cafes, as reported by franchisees, that are included in our base store bakery-cafes. Bakery-cafes and other restaurant or bakery-cafe concepts are included in the comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages only if the Company or franchisee previously held or acquired a 100 percent ownership interest prior to the first day of the prior fiscal year. Comparable net bakery-cafe sales exclude closed locations.

Company-owned comparable net bakery-cafe sales growth percentages are based on net sales from Company-owned bakery-cafes included in our base store bakery-cafes. Franchise-operated comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages are based on net sales from franchised bakery-cafes, as reported by franchisees, that are included in our base store bakery-cafes. Bakery-cafes and other restaurant or bakery-cafe concepts are included in the comparable net bakery-cafe sales percentages only if the Company or franchisee previously held or acquired a 100 percent ownership interest prior to the first day of the prior fiscal year. Comparable net bakery-cafe sales exclude closed locations.

Contact:

Michele Harrison
Vice President
Investor Relations
(314-984-4966)

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Can We Still Be Friends? | The Hairpin

So maybe you?ve read the Scientific American article that came out yesterday that basically told you that although you think we?re just platonic friends I secretly entertain the possibility that someday we?ll be more than that. Yeah, sorry about that. What can I tell you? I think you?re amazing and I like you a lot.

And I hope we can still be friends. Even if Science says we can?t be. When has Science ever been wrong? The Atkins Diet, for one. This is just one study. They can get one study to tell you that you should eat bacon in the shower every day and live until you?re 150. That?s why I do that. And I?m sure that in a few years they will have a study that will prove the absolute opposite of this one. Until then, where does that leave us?

It?s obviously not a huge shock to you that I find you attractive and sometimes wonder about what it would be like to date you. I?m a single guy. Who wouldn?t be attracted to someone like you? You?re smart, you dress cool, you are funny. The skill set for girlfriend isn?t so different than the skill set for being a good platonic friend. Maybe you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a wife or whatever. I?m not necessarily trying to break up your serious relationship. I get to hear about all the great and lousy things this other person does to you in your relationship, and maybe I sometimes wonder if I could do a better job as your sexual and life partner. I wonder this about 99% of the population, too. I?m free to entertain the possibility that anyone could be the next person I will be with. Maybe for women, sending men to the Friend Zone is like Superman sending Zod to the Phantom Dimension. You put us in a box that can never be opened. But then, sometimes, you do open that box.?

I?d much prefer to date someone who had been my friend first. Much like I?d like to drive a car for a few years before I ever have to start to pay for it. I obviously still enjoy thinking that I can do almost anything with my life. I still sometimes believe I could be a knuckleballer for the Mets. I wouldn?t want to pitch for the Red Sox because if I stunk up the joint I?d never be invited home for holidays again. And when you date someone who's been your friend, you?re already well-aware that you like this person, are attracted to them, can deal with it when they cry, are interested in them as people beyond the whole sex thing. I don?t fear falling out of attraction with people, but I do fear that point in any relationship where you literally cannot think of a damned thing to say to someone else. You start mentioning redoing the kitchen because that is literally the only thing you can think to say. ?Should we become vegetarians?? ?Really?? ?No, I just have completely run out of other things to say to you.? I?m pretty sure this is the only reason people have children, because then you ALWAYS have something to talk about because the kid took a poo in the piano or whatever.

I?m not always subtle about being attracted to you. But I?m pretty sure you don?t mind it that much, even if you?re not attracted to me. I always make time for you, I don?t blow you off for hours, I never leave you hanging for very long. And it?s not like I?m ever going to do anything about being attracted to you. Maybe some night you?ll get drunk and call me up because a pigeon flew in a window of your apartment and you can?t get it out and we are chasing it around your bed with a blanket and we both jump on the bed at the same time and the pigeon just kind of flies out the window and we?re laughing and maybe you reach over and kiss me. Or maybe you never do. No big deal. My crushes on women might keep me warm at night, but it?s not exactly like I find it debilitating or anything. I?ll get over it if nothing ever happens between us. And I can be a pretty good friend. I don?t mind helping people move or painting things or lifting up heavy stuff or possibly making your very bad boyfriend disappear into the Pine Barrens to never again emerge. I never had a sister and I always wanted one, and I?m pretty sure I can be a very good platonic friend even if I sometimes want to make out with you. If it doesn?t sketch you out too much.

I do think sometimes my friends use me as a Junior Woodchuck Boyfriend ? I'm good at flirting and sometimes I write funny little poems about adorable things you do. And I am kinda funny. I usually have a Mystery Science Theatre Worthy smartass comment on the tip of my tongue. I'm a particularly delightful travel companion, I like going to the mall. Shopping interests me. I am willing to get matching tattoos with you if you wanna. Maybe bears?

I don?t think ladies should read this Scientific American article and think Everyone Wants to Date ME! Even if they do. It?s just a terrible way to go through life. Yes, men in general want to be more than friends with you. I guess it?s just somehow we?re wired according to ?Science? and ?Scientists? and ?People Who Deal With Inconvenient Facts That Fuck My Shit Up.? But you already know all this. There?s sometimes a weird moment when you?re taking the F train and I?m taking the J train when we try to figure out if we?re going to hug or shake hands or high five or run away to France together. There might be a little bit more than just a friendship between us, even if you are interested in more handsome men who might treat you badly. I am just never gonna do that, no matter what the doctors say. I?m never going to neg you. I?m not gonna pretend I didn?t get your texts. ?Oh, my phone must have been off.? I?m not gonna do that. I don?t want to pretend I?m more self-confident than I am. I?m just never going to play that game.

When I like you I like you. Whether you want to be just friends or you want to fall madly in love with me. If you don?t want to be friends anymore, I?d understand. I don?t want that, but okay. If you were that bugged by me liking you all this time, you could have tried to hook me up with one of your friends or something. Unless you just think I?d make a terrible boyfriend or something? Is that what you?re saying? Oh yeah? Well maybe we shouldn?t be friends then! Okay! Fine!

I?m still here, I?m just kidding. I value our friendship way more than any dumb attraction. Let me know if you still wanna go pick pumpkins this weekend. I promise I won?t try to hold your hand. Unless you wanna.

Jim Behrle is the author of 'SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND' (Pressed Wafer).

Source: http://thehairpin.com/2012/10/can-we-still-be-friends

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California Union Members Demand Transparency from Union Bosses

Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have launched a protest against their own union in California over waste and corruption. They rallied outside SEIU headquarters last week and plan to be in Sacramento on Wednesday.

The protestors are calling for transparency, accountability, and audits of the 2 million member labor union. The group?s website is urging members to hold their representatives accountable: ?It is our members that see the waste every day; it is our members that can call it out to the union representatives in their area.?

At the rally last week, SEIU officials asked the gathering protesters, ?How much are they paying you?? The protestors replied that they were participating on their own time.

SEIU reacted to the protest outside its offices by closing the doors and videotaping the dissenting members, according to the protesters. The group?s website describes the purpose of videotaping dissenting members as an effort to identify members to add to a ?blacklist.?

Members critical of the SEIU may have good reason to suspect a blacklist, as they have allegedly faced exclusion from SEIU activities before. In a lawsuit filed against the SEIU, Mariam Noujaim, a member and DMV worker, claims that after she reported suspicious votes being counted at an SEIU election she had observed, she was subsequently pushed out of the room and the door behind her locked. This was a violation of Noujaim?s right to participate in union activities under the Dills Act in California, the lawsuit claims.

Noujaim writes: ?In 2010 we were furloughed while our SEIU Union Members, who we pay their salaries, were getting raises, splurging with our dues, and misusing our money for their own selfish interest.? For more than two years, the group has been fighting in court for access to SEIU?s books and financial records ? access they argue is protected by the California Corporation Code.

The group is also encouraging members of other labor organizations to demand access to their union?s financial records and determine exactly where their dues are being spent. They will hold another rally in Sacramento on Wednesday. These union members feel their union officers hardly represent them?another reason the law should let workers should choose their representatives.

Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/23/california-union-members-demand-transparency-from-union-bosses/

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>> us, michael smerconish , a syndicated radio hall. welcome to both of you.

>> good morning.

>> the race we know is razor tight. romney advisers say they have momentum and obama advisers say they have the get out the vote and ability in the key states. which would you rather have?

>> the momentum has favored governor romney the last three weeks ever since the first debate. the question is whether or not president obama cauterized the bleeding with his strong debate performance in the third debate. the goal is energize your base and make a play for independents, and that's what you see them doing in the final 13 days .

>> let me pick up on that with crystal. we see the president very fiery out on the campaign trail deploying his new favorite term romnesia. mitt romney says if he's attacking me it just shows he doesn't have a better plan. is there any danger on the part of the president by using the sarcasm he'll turn off independents by firing up the base?

>> he's responding to criticism that he hasn't talked enough about his own term for a second term. as you pointed out earlier, he's released a 20-page booklet outlining what he would do in a second term centered around the idea of economic patriotism . he wants to underscore, no, i don't only have complaints about the other guy, i also have plans of my own that i want to implement in a second term.

>> michael, what do you make of this book, because all those who have looked at it says it contains no new policies, happening less than two weeks before the election? is it too little too late?

>> i don't think that it's too little too late. i look tat in the same way i looked at governor romney 's play in the debate where he tried to portray himself as the moderate who had governed massachusetts, toned down the war talk with regard to iran and some of the middle east positions. i see the same thing going on relative to president obama , and that is he wants to be forward looking and make that pitch to independents. there's been so much attention in this campaign on the fringes, and now in the final two weeks, less than the final two weeks, both campaigns recognize that the power lies in the middle.

>> and there's this "x" factor which, of course, is the economy, and we've all known that will be the key issue. crystal, you're a democrat. when you see a day like yesterday on wall street , the dow dropping more than 200 points, big companies saying their earnings are falling short and they are cutting jobs, that's got to wake you up in the middle of the night .

>> sure, absolutely, and the economic numbers in general are one of the key factors that are going to be going into the decisions of undecided voters , and i would highlight for you there's a jobs number coming out the friday before election day so that could be a pivotal number, but if we look over the course of this campaign, surprisingly the economic numbers haven't really moved the needle. when we had a few tough jobs numbers several months back, the president was holding the lead. now we've had some better numbers coming out in recent weeks and it looks like mitt romney has the momentum so the jobs numbers surprisingly haven't been pivotal thus far.

>> maybe the voters have already factored them in. good to have you both. thank you.

>> thank you.

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Whitney Houston's family share struggles in TV reality show

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a TV reality show may not be the most obvious way to cope with the sudden death of a loved one, but most families don't count an icon like Whitney Houston among their relatives.

Less than a year after the "I Will Always Love You" singer drowned accidentally in a hotel bath tub after taking cocaine, Houston's teen daughter, her mother, brother and sister-in-law share with the world their struggle to cope in "The Houstons: On Our Own".

Difficult as that is, the Houstons say that making the 14- episode show for cable channel Lifetime has helped rather than hindered the process.

"The show has kept the family close together, (instead of) isolated from one another. We talk about things, we are very open, and we pay attention to the ones who need consoling the most. Doing the show certainly has helped in a huge way," Pat Houston, Whitney's manager and sister-in-law, told Reuters.

"There are preconceptions about the family that just aren't true. We are a strong family, a working family, and a typical family. Our family member just happens to be an icon," she added. "You will see a family that is grieving, that loves one another. You will see a family that is trying to move on."

The series, which makes its debut on Wednesday, sets the stage for a slew of November tributes to the troubled singer with the golden voice. Upcoming projects include an official glossy book of photos, a compilation album of Houston's biggest hits that features a new duet version of "I Look To You" with R. Kelly, and the November 16 TV broadcast of a special Grammy tribute starring Jennifer Hudson, Usher and Celine Dion.

Few of the many public salutes to Houston since her February death have touched on her well-publicized addiction to drugs and her tumultuous personal life. Yet the TV series delves into some of family's thorniest issues.

BOBBI KRISTINA IN SPOTLIGHT

Using some of Houston's soaring ballads to set the tone, including her 2003 single "On My Own", the show opens with the family in their Atlanta, Georgia home days before the first Mother's Day without Whitney and their first visit to her grave.

Her daughter and only heir to the estate, Bobbi Kristina, 19, is finding solace in an alcoholic beverage, and the arms of Nick Gordon, 23, - the teen Whitney Houston took into the family home when he was a troubled high school student.

"We were best friends a long time ago, and now I am in love with him," Bobbi Kristina explains on camera, before telling appalled family members at a dinner that she and Gordon are engaged, and that she is looking to launch a recording career of her own.

Pat Houston, who in the show's first episode is firmly against any engagement, declined to address the couple's current relationship status. "It's a journey. You've just got to watch the show," she told Reuters last week.

The notion of putting Bobbi Kristina in the spotlight so soon after her mother's death, and the singer's messy 2007 divorce from singer Bobby Brown, sparked public dismay when the reality show was announced in May.

Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized twice with anxiety in February 2012 after her mother Houston, 48, was found drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel from what officials later said was a combination of cocaine use and heart disease.

But Pat Houston said that reality shows were nothing new for the Houston clan. Whitney Houston's chaotic relationship with Bobby Brown was chronicled in the 2005 TV series "Being Bobby Brown" and Pat Houston's life as the singer's longtime manager was featured on the more recent show "Power BrokHers".

"We have always been involved in negotiations for a reality show even when Whitney was alive. So this is really no different It's nothing new to the family," she said.

Houston said she hoped the new show would help Whitney's fans come to terms with her death, as much as it is helping the family.

"It is almost giving them closure in seeing the types of people she had around her, and then hearing her music...and (it is a chance) for them to remember the good instead of all the negativity that may have surrounded her life in the past decade," she said.

As for the future, "There will be bumps and grinds as there always will be. But we know how to handle that and keep it moving because we love Whitney, and we love what she represents with her music and we hope her fans continue to do the same with her legacy," Houston said.

(Editing by Andrew Hay)

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Study explains connection between Hawaii's dueling volcanoes

Public release date: 23-Oct-2012
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Scientists propose upper-mantle link between Kilauea and Mauna Loa

HOUSTON -- (Oct. 23, 2012) -- A new Rice University-led study finds that a deep connection about 50 miles underground can explain the enigmatic behavior of two of Earth's most notable volcanoes, Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea. The study, the first to model paired volcano interactions, explains how a link in Earth's upper mantle could account for Kilauea and Mauna Loa's competition for the same deep magma supply and their simultaneous "inflation," or bulging upward, during the past decade.

The study appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience.

The research offers the first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kilauea -- when one is active the other is quiet -- as well as the episode in 2003-2007 when GPS records showed that each bulged notably due to the pressure of rising magma. The study was conducted by scientists at Rice University, the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

"We know both volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot, and over the past decade we've observed simultaneous inflation, which we interpret to be the consequence of increased pressure of the magma source that feeds them," said lead author Helge Gonnermann, assistant professor of Earth science at Rice University. "We also know there are subtle chemical differences in the lava that each erupts, which means each has its own plumbing that draws magma from different locations of this deep source.

"In the GPS records, we first see inflation at Kilauea and then about a half a year later at Mauna Loa," he said. "Our hypothesis is that the pressure is transmitted slowly through a partially molten and thereby porous region of the asthenosphere, which would account for the simultaneous inflation and the lag time in inflation. Because changes in pore pressure are transmitted between both volcanoes at a faster rate than the rate of magma flow within the porous region, this can also explain how both volcanoes are dynamically coupled, while being supplied by different parts of the same source region."

Gonnermann said the transmission of pressure through the permeable rock in the asthenosphere is akin to the processes that cause water and oil to flow through permeable layers of rock in shallower regions of Earth's crust.

"When we fitted the deformation, which tells us how much a volcano inflates and deflates, and the lava eruption rate at Kilauea, we found that our model could simultaneously match the deformation signal recorded over on Mauna Loa," said James Foster, co-author and assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "The model also required an increase in the magma supply rate to the deep system that matched very nicely with our interpretations and the increased magma supply suggested by the jump in CO2 emissions that occurred in late 2003."

Mauna Loa and Kilauea, Earth's largest and most active volcanoes, respectively, are located about 22 miles apart in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii. They are among the planet's most-studied and best-instrumented volcanoes and have been actively monitored by scientists at USGS's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) since 1912. Kilauea has erupted 48 times on HVO's watch, with a nearly continuous flank eruption since 1983. Mauna Loa has erupted 12 times in the same period, most recently in 1984.

"To continue this research, we submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this summer to extend our study back in time to cover the last 50 years," Foster said. "We plan to refine the model to include further details of the magma transport within each volcano and also explore how some known prehistoric events and some hypothetical events at one volcano might impact the other. This work should help improve our understanding of volcanic activity of each volcano."

Gonnermann said there has been disagreement among Earth scientists about the potential links between adjacent volcanoes, and he is hopeful the new model could be useful in studying other volcanoes like those in Iceland or the Galapagos Islands.

"At this point it is unclear whether Hawaii is unique or whether similar volcano coupling may exist at other locations," Gonnermann said. "Given time and ongoing advances in volcano monitoring, we can test if similar coupling between adjacent volcanoes exists elsewhere."

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Study co-authors include Michael Poland and Asta Miklius, both of HVO; Benjamin Brooks of the University of Hawaii; and Cecily Wolfe of the University of Hawaii and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The research was supported by the USGS and the NSF. The Kilauea and Mauna Loa GPS networks are supported by grants from the USGS, NSF and NASA and operated in collaboration by the USGS, Stanford University and the Pacific GPS Facility at the University of Hawaii.

The following images are available for download at:

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_plume-med.jpg
CAPTION: A plume of magmatic gases rises from a vent that formed in 2008 within Halema'uma'u Crater, which is located within Kilauea's summit caldera.
CREDIT: M. Poland/USGS HVO

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_dark-med.jpg
CUTLINE: A glowing plume of hot magmatic gases rises from a vent that formed in 2008 within Halema'uma'u Crater, which is located within Kilauea's summit caldera.
CREDIT: M. Poland/USGS HVO

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_ERZ2-lg.jpg
CUTLINE: Lava flows from Pu'u 'O'o Crater on Kilauea.
CREDIT: USGS

A copy of the Nature Geoscience paper is available at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1612.

This release can be found online at news.rice.edu.

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Scientists propose upper-mantle link between Kilauea and Mauna Loa

HOUSTON -- (Oct. 23, 2012) -- A new Rice University-led study finds that a deep connection about 50 miles underground can explain the enigmatic behavior of two of Earth's most notable volcanoes, Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea. The study, the first to model paired volcano interactions, explains how a link in Earth's upper mantle could account for Kilauea and Mauna Loa's competition for the same deep magma supply and their simultaneous "inflation," or bulging upward, during the past decade.

The study appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience.

The research offers the first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kilauea -- when one is active the other is quiet -- as well as the episode in 2003-2007 when GPS records showed that each bulged notably due to the pressure of rising magma. The study was conducted by scientists at Rice University, the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

"We know both volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot, and over the past decade we've observed simultaneous inflation, which we interpret to be the consequence of increased pressure of the magma source that feeds them," said lead author Helge Gonnermann, assistant professor of Earth science at Rice University. "We also know there are subtle chemical differences in the lava that each erupts, which means each has its own plumbing that draws magma from different locations of this deep source.

"In the GPS records, we first see inflation at Kilauea and then about a half a year later at Mauna Loa," he said. "Our hypothesis is that the pressure is transmitted slowly through a partially molten and thereby porous region of the asthenosphere, which would account for the simultaneous inflation and the lag time in inflation. Because changes in pore pressure are transmitted between both volcanoes at a faster rate than the rate of magma flow within the porous region, this can also explain how both volcanoes are dynamically coupled, while being supplied by different parts of the same source region."

Gonnermann said the transmission of pressure through the permeable rock in the asthenosphere is akin to the processes that cause water and oil to flow through permeable layers of rock in shallower regions of Earth's crust.

"When we fitted the deformation, which tells us how much a volcano inflates and deflates, and the lava eruption rate at Kilauea, we found that our model could simultaneously match the deformation signal recorded over on Mauna Loa," said James Foster, co-author and assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "The model also required an increase in the magma supply rate to the deep system that matched very nicely with our interpretations and the increased magma supply suggested by the jump in CO2 emissions that occurred in late 2003."

Mauna Loa and Kilauea, Earth's largest and most active volcanoes, respectively, are located about 22 miles apart in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii. They are among the planet's most-studied and best-instrumented volcanoes and have been actively monitored by scientists at USGS's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) since 1912. Kilauea has erupted 48 times on HVO's watch, with a nearly continuous flank eruption since 1983. Mauna Loa has erupted 12 times in the same period, most recently in 1984.

"To continue this research, we submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this summer to extend our study back in time to cover the last 50 years," Foster said. "We plan to refine the model to include further details of the magma transport within each volcano and also explore how some known prehistoric events and some hypothetical events at one volcano might impact the other. This work should help improve our understanding of volcanic activity of each volcano."

Gonnermann said there has been disagreement among Earth scientists about the potential links between adjacent volcanoes, and he is hopeful the new model could be useful in studying other volcanoes like those in Iceland or the Galapagos Islands.

"At this point it is unclear whether Hawaii is unique or whether similar volcano coupling may exist at other locations," Gonnermann said. "Given time and ongoing advances in volcano monitoring, we can test if similar coupling between adjacent volcanoes exists elsewhere."

###

Study co-authors include Michael Poland and Asta Miklius, both of HVO; Benjamin Brooks of the University of Hawaii; and Cecily Wolfe of the University of Hawaii and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The research was supported by the USGS and the NSF. The Kilauea and Mauna Loa GPS networks are supported by grants from the USGS, NSF and NASA and operated in collaboration by the USGS, Stanford University and the Pacific GPS Facility at the University of Hawaii.

The following images are available for download at:

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_plume-med.jpg
CAPTION: A plume of magmatic gases rises from a vent that formed in 2008 within Halema'uma'u Crater, which is located within Kilauea's summit caldera.
CREDIT: M. Poland/USGS HVO

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_dark-med.jpg
CUTLINE: A glowing plume of hot magmatic gases rises from a vent that formed in 2008 within Halema'uma'u Crater, which is located within Kilauea's summit caldera.
CREDIT: M. Poland/USGS HVO

http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1025_HAWAII_ERZ2-lg.jpg
CUTLINE: Lava flows from Pu'u 'O'o Crater on Kilauea.
CREDIT: USGS

A copy of the Nature Geoscience paper is available at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1612.

This release can be found online at news.rice.edu.

Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews

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Analysis: Some investors open to higher U.S. tax to shave deficit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobody likes taxes, and much of Wall Street has poured money into Mitt Romney campaign coffers to avoid paying higher ones.

Yet a surprising number of top money managers say they are willing to pay modestly higher rates. They reason that revenue-raising measures are an essential complement to the spending cuts they say are needed to curb the massive U.S. budget deficit.

"It's kind of like taking a distasteful medicine. On the way down, it may not be pleasant," said Ron Florance, who helps manage assets worth $169 billion at Wells Fargo Private Bank. "But in the end, it contributes to longer-term health, and that's what we're looking for at this point."

In recent weeks, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon became the latest Wall Street heavyweights to say they would be willing to pay more in exchange for a deal to balance the country's books.

Conventional wisdom in the world of finance and investing says higher taxes, particularly in today's fragile economic climate, would stifle wealth creation, suppress hiring and condemn the economy to an extended stretch of slow growth.

Hedge fund managers like Lee Cooperman and private equity heads such as Stephen Schwarzman have been especially vocal critics of President Barack Obama, accusing him of inciting class warfare. Obama wants to let Bush-era tax cuts on income, capital gains and dividends expire for households earning more than $250,000.

Romney advocates cutting taxes by 20 percent and broadening the tax base by closing loopholes, though he's offered few details. The financial services industry had contributed some $16 million to Romney through October, compared with $4 million for Obama, according to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics.

Yet many who manage money for investors with at least $1 million in assets said in recent conversations they do not believe a modest rise in taxes on high-income earners would upend the economy, markets or individual portfolios.

"It only really impacts the higher income taxpayer," said Joseph Balestrino, who helps oversee $360 billion in assets at Federated Investment Management. "They won't like it, but they're not going to be worried about putting food on the table, and I don't think it will significantly alter their spending patterns."

Some said raising taxes might even be a much-needed first step toward deficit reduction. Congress has been too bitterly divided to compromise on a long-term fiscal repair plan.

"My belief is the positive benefits of dealing with the long-term deficit problem would well outweigh any negative consequences of higher taxes," said Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Northern Trust, which runs assets worth $704 billion.

SIMPLE MATH

The U.S. deficit in 2012 will top $1 trillion for a fourth straight year, pushing the national debt past $16 trillion. While the United States currently borrows at record low interest rates, investors worry this will change.

"We must stabilize, then reduce the national debt, or we could spend $1 trillion a year in interest alone by 2020," warned the authors of a 2010 Congressional committee's deficit-reduction plan known as Simpson-Bowles. Neither Obama nor Romney has embraced the plan in its entirety.

The issue will come to a head even before the winner of the November 6 election is sworn in. In January, $500 billion of Bush-era tax cuts for all earners will expire and about $100 billion of automatic spending cuts will kick in.

Markets expect Congress will avoid letting all of this happen at once for fear it would plunge a fragile economy back into recession. But many say they want lawmakers to draft a long-term plan to reduce the deficit gradually over time.

"It has to be a balancing act," Balestrino said. "You're not going to just cut taxes like Romney wants to do or just increase spending like Obama seems to want to do."

Most investors agree long-term deficit reduction would require painful spending cuts, including for programs such as Social Security and Medicare struggling to keep up with an aging population.

But many also say taxes should be on the table too, especially for top earners whose effective tax rates are at the lowest level in decades.

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, federal tax revenue in 2010 fell to levels not seen since shortly after World War II, the result of slow growth and the sweeping but temporary tax cuts passed when George W. Bush was president.

"Simple math says the U.S. government will have to increase revenues to make a dent in the deficit," strategists at BlackRock, a giant in the U.S. investment world with $3.68 trillion in assets, said in a recent note to clients.

Bill Stone, who helps manage $110 billion as chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management, said the debt crises in Greece and other European countries have opened some of his clients' eyes to the danger of unchecked deficits.

"I get the sense that people think there should be some degree of shared sacrifice to close the fiscal gap," he said

Mark Lamkin, head of Louisville, Kentucky-based Lamkin Wealth Management, said most of his clients -- small business owners and retirees with up to $5 million in investable assets -- would accept higher rates, too, even though he says the majority intend to vote for Romney over Obama on November 6.

"From an investment standpoint, you always hate to see higher taxes. I'm a low-tax guy but I would be happy with a modest tax increase in exchange for cuts in spending and a move toward fiscal sanity," he said.

Obama claims letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire would raise $850 billion over 10 years. Top marginal income tax rates would rise to 39.6 percent and 36 percent, where they stood under Bill Clinton, from 35 and 33 percent. Capital gains taxes would rise to 20 percent from 15 percent for the top two income brackets.

DEALING WITH DIVIDENDS

One ticklish area involves taxes on dividends, which would revert from 15 percent to at least 40 percent if the Bush tax cuts expire.

Andy Busch, global currency and public policy strategist at BMO Capital Markets, said that would be "highly disruptive" for the stock market at a time when record low interest rates have driven investors toward dividend stocks to generate return.

Higher dividend taxes were less disruptive in the 1990s, he said, when higher interest rates and a strong economy made growth stocks more attractive.

Wells Fargo's Florance said such a large jump would "change the way companies reward investors who have put faith in those companies. It's a big deal."

But some investors said record-low bond yields will keep dividends in vogue even at higher tax rates. And many said they expect a compromise that pushes the rate up to 20 to 25 percent rather than 40 percent.

That would keep dividend-paying stocks "attractive to those in the highest income brackets," BlackRock strategists said.

Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer at DoubleLine Capital, which oversees $41 billion, said he expects taxes to rise but adds the focus on what rate the rich pay is too narrow and by itself would do very little to reduce the deficit.

A more credible approach, he said, would also include painful benefit cuts and overhauling a tax code filled with more than 100 credits and deductions. Some, such as those for mortgage interest and charitable donations, are very popular.

"People are attracted to the idea of a more just code without so many tax breaks, but of course, it's only attractive until you learn your breaks are the ones getting discontinued," PNC's Stone said.

Both Obama and Romney say they support an overhaul but have been vague about the crucial details.

Gundlach also said lawmakers should at least consider raising corporate taxes.

Obama and Romney want to cut corporate taxes, which the Tax Policy Center said accounted for 1.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2010, down from 5 percent to 6 percent in 1950.

"I'm not necessarily advocating we do this, but let's at least talk honestly about what the situation is," Gundlach said.

(Editing by David Gaffen and David Gregorio)

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China?s ball mill industry will increasingly high-endimplementation of building energy efficiency has great significance on the construction of ?two-oriented? social requirements to implement the party?s congress.Since 1973 the first time the world?s energy crisis, the energy-saving potential of national experts on each area of ??energy use may produce results show that the building energy use with energy-saving potential of the largest field of energy use.Building energy consumption, including the architectural construction energy consumption and building energy consumption.The energy consumption of building construction is a one-time production of energy, including building materials and equipment for the production of energy, construction and installation of energy consumption; building energy consumption is a long-term energy consumption for many years, with building heating, air conditioning, lighting, hot water supply, etc. energy consumption.Building energy consumption energy consumption is much larger than the building construction.Building energy consumption in China mainly refers to the building energy consumption in accordance with the international approach, but because of the new building is large, so the requirements at the same time saving energy consumption of building construction.According to the Ministry of Construction announced, building energy consumption accounted for 27 of the energy consumption of social goods.5%, plus building construction energy consumption, accounting for more than one-third of the energy consumption of social goods.With the acceleration of urbanization process in China, the urban living space increasing to improve the comfort requirements of the buildings, as well as expanding the area of ??heating and air conditioning,block machine building energy consumption continued to grow in the future will be inevitable.

Therefore, the focus on the construction of ?two-oriented? society to promote the use of energy-efficient brick machine.????Implementation of building energy efficiency, the use of energy-efficient brick-making machine.Must be building energy efficiency as implementing the spirit of the 17th Party Congress to implement the scientific concept of development, the important tasks of the construction of ?two-oriented? society and specific measures and implement them.Present, we must focus on the following aspects: First, the building energy efficiency as a concrete assessment indicators of the construction of ?two-oriented? society to implement the responsibility system for building energy efficiency.Provincial Department of Construction for the first time in 2007 to develop and signed letters of responsibility of building energy efficiency goals, and around the implementation of building energy efficiency assessment indicators to around the administrative department of construction, the year-end examination announcement.Starting next year, to continue to build to improve building energy efficiency target responsibility system, layers of clear responsibility of the main ring clear assessment indicators and actively adopt incentive measures, building energy-saving pressure into motivation.????The second is to further improve the regulatory system,Rotary dryer and the implementation of energy-efficient design and construction standards of new buildings.To further improve the regulatory system of the whole process of building energy efficiency, closed management mechanism for the formation of building energy-saving design, construction drawing review, construction, supervision, completion and acceptance,Cone Crusher and supervision according to law and strictly enforce the law to ensure that the quality of building energy efficiency.Long-term establishment of special inspection of the building energy efficiency system to further strengthen checks the operability and targeted measures to be strict inspection violation penalties, to ensure that new buildings to achieve energy-efficient design and construction standards.????

The third is to take various measures to reduce energy consumption in the building construction process.In accordance with the requirements of the country, limit time city banned the use of solid clay bricks, and vigorously promote the new wall materials, and no real ?goal of the 27 cities of the province in 2008; vigorously promote the use of bulk cement,Fly Ash Dryer is prohibited in the city urban scene mixing of concrete, to encourage the development of ready-mix concrete and dry-mixed mortar, has taken various measures in the whole construction process and the progressive realization of land, energy-saving, materials, water-saving and environmental protection goals.????Implementation of building energy efficiency, the use of energy-efficient brick-making machine.We will be very promising.The general promotion of the implementation of the above measures, and appropriately control the scale of urban construction, and implementation of national policy on the construction of small and medium size residential buildings, we will embark on a new road, under the premise to meet the social development and people?s rising living standards. a significant reduction in the level of building energy consumption,Rotary kiln slow down the growth rate of the building energy consumption to achieve the sustainable development of urban construction.Which will implement the party?s congress on the construction of ?two-oriented? society to promote the province?s long-term economic and social sustainable development play an important role. cassie1758

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