The two channels being added are STAR India PLUS and Sony Entertainment Television Asia, popularly known as SET Asia.

STAR India PLUS is India's number one Hindi pay-TV channel for seven consecutive years and features soap operas like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thii, and reality and game shows.

Sony Entertainment Television Asia is one of India's popular Hindi-language based international general entertainment broadcasters. Its programming targets family audiences with drama, reality, comedy, horror, Bollywood and live events.

On Thursday, participants of the "physical challenge" will discuss at a panel discussion their experiences and what they learned.

TAC also planned to put on a theater production today to dramatize challenges faced by the disabled.

"... if International Rectifier can, through good faith negotiations, demonstrate to Vishay that a further price increase is justified, Vishay would be willing to improve its offer. In this regard, Vishay would seek to obtain substantiation of International Rectifier's new business plan, particularly the $60 million reduction in cost of goods sold within two years and the projected substantial increase in revenues and gross margin."

Marvel signs long-term lease with Raleigh

(The Hollywood Reporter) Marvel Studios is keeping its movies in California.

The company has signed a long-term lease with Raleigh Studios to film four bud-budget movies at Raleigh's Manhattan Beach complex. The films are "Iron Man 2," "Thor," "The First Avenger: Captain America" and "The Avengers."

As part of the agreement, Marvel will move its Beverly Hills-based executive and production offices to Raleigh's facility in Manhattan Beach.

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Dunford died after a long battle with cancer, according to Northrop Grumman Corp., which purchased TRW in 2002.

The Rolling Hills resident, "played a significant role in the design and development of U.S. space systems, from early missions to the planets to complex communications, command, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems," Century City-based Northrop said in a statement Monday.

In 1961, Dunford started his aerospace career at Ford Aeronutronics.

In 1964, he joined TRW, spending most of his career at the company's Redondo Beach-based space and defense business.

In his 30 years with TRW, Dunford rose through the ranks, being appointed executive vice president and general manager of the Redondo Beach business in 1987. Four years later, he was elected president and chief operating officer at TRW's corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dunford retired from that position in 1994.

"He was involved in just about every one of the major space programs that TRW was involved with from the '60s forward," said Dan McClain, a Northrop vice president of communications who had served under Dunford. "To me, he personified the sense of the old-school steely-eyed missile men. He was a true Cold War warrior and one of the people who made sure our country remained secure during that scary time."

McClain also remembered Dunford as warm with "a really good sense of humor."

Dunford was honored as a member the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also served as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association.

In addition, the aerospace veteran served on several U.S. government advisory groups, including as chairman of the U.S. Air Force/National Research Council committee to evaluate the National Aerospace Initiative in 2004.

Dunford served in the U.S. Army before earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and a master's degree in engineering from UCLA. He also completed the Executive Program at Stanford University.

UCLA and the University of Washington schools of engineering each honored Dunford as Alumnus of the Year. The USC's Viterbi School of Engineering selected him for the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award in 1993.

After leaving TRW, Dunford co-wrote and co-produced a documentary called "The Cold War and Beyond," which included both U.S. and Russian perspectives on that period. The film aired in 2003, and was a finalist at the Hollywood Film Festival that year.

Dunford is survived by his wife, Lorie, sons, Wyman, Stan and Philip, daughter Marlo Garrett and step-children Matt Henning & Abbey Greene.

A gathering in his honor will be held on Oct. 16, from 5-9 p.m. at Rice Mortuary, 5310 Torrance Blvd. in Torrance.

In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations may be made in Dunford's memory to Torrance Memorial New Hospital Tower Fund c/o Laura Schenasi, 3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance.

The most striking element of his office is a stuffed lion that rears its head at Gerber's desk. He hunted that lion during an expedition in Mozambique.

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At some real estate open houses, the interiors look so fashionable that it seems like an interior designer was behind it.

In some cases, a designer was involved. The practice is known as staging, where the inside of a home for sale is prepared to look stylishly lived in even if no one occupies the residence.

Redondo Beach resident Christine Stahlberg started working as a home stager last October. The 26-year-old runs CMS Interior Design out of her home.

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A few weeks ago at an aerospace conference, Musk suggested that we do away with the conventional school teacher role, which he said was inconsistent and often amateurish.

Instead, we should spend millions of dollars to create lesson videos with engaging speakers and special effects to capture the attention and imagination of students. He likened it to the latest Batman move "Dark Knight," which brought top actors and top special effects to create a topnotch movie.

Teachers in the classroom would then be facilitators in the classroom instead of instructors, in Musk's view.

He acknowledged that his ideas were controversial, but Musk doesn't seem like the type of guy who shrinks from challenges or controversy.

Northrop Grumman Space Technology delivered to the Air Force a high-energy laser that represents a milestone for the weapon's development in the South Bay, the Redondo Beach-based company said Monday.

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The Transformational Satellite Communications System, or TSAT, could be worth billions of dollars to the contract winner. The satellite system is expected to revolutionize military communications.

Earlier this month, Boeing demonstrated the maturity of its packet-switching technology, which works like a switch-board in space, the company said. Boeing used a commercial communications satellite, the Spaceway 3, to conduct the demonstration.
Boeing's TSAT bid in based at its El Segundo satellite factory.

Boeing is competing against a team of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Space Technology, which is based in Redondo Beach.

An Internet entrepreneur's latest effort to make space launch more affordable paid off Sunday when his commercial rocket, carrying a dummy payload, was lofted into orbit from the South Pacific.

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Airbus Makes Up Ground Against Strike-Plagued Boeing

(Aero-News Networks) Airbus and Boeing are facing many of the same concerns, from slumping economies and increasing fuel prices, to outsourcing strategies and labor union woes. Yet Airbus is taking a big step towards maintaining its leadership in airliner production numbers, by keeping its production lines moving ahead while Boeing's now sit idle.

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