3. Golf: Park grabs US Women's Open lead

SOUTHAMPTON, New York: World number one Park In-Bee, chasing her third major title of the year, fired a four-under par 72 on Friday to take the US Women's Open lead just as fog halted the second round.

The South Korean superstar had a nine-under par total of 135 and a two-stroke lead over compatriot I.K. Kim.

Kim was in the clubhouse on seven-under 137 after a three-under 69 that included five birdies and two bogeys.

American Lizette Salas carded a 72 at Sebonack Golf Club for a four-under total of 140. England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff was four-under for the tournament through 15 holes when play was halted for the day, with the second round to resume Saturday morning.

"I think we got very lucky that we finished today," said Park, who capped her round with the last of her six birdies at the par-five 18th.

"I played very good golf today. I gave myself a lot of good opportunities, a very good ball-striking day. The long putts seemed to be going well today. I left a couple out there, but very satisfied with today's score."

Park, whose five titles in 2013 include major triumphs at the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the LPGA Championship, opened her round with a birdie at the first.

She had two bogeys and two more birdies in her outward run, then gathered steam on the back nine.

At the 13th, she hit a wedge over the green but made a 20-footer for birdie.

At 15 she landed a sand wedge within a foot before draining a 12-footer at the last.

"I'd say it was a little tougher to play in the fog, but I made a birdie so I don't think it really came into effect for me," she said.

"I was able to see the pin on the third shot, so I think that was good enough."

Overnight rain softened the course, but players found it windier on Friday, with the conditions changing frequently from sunny to overcast to foggy and back.

That made a good round all the more satisfying, Park said.

"It really made me think today that with the wind and fog, it just really made me think. I think that is what the US Open is all about."

Kim had five birdies and two bogeys in her three-under 69. She missed a 12-foot birdie putt at her final hole of the day, the ninth, but was pleased to emerge with the clubhouse lead on seven-under 137.

"Anything under par I thought was going to be a great score," Kim said.

"Definitely more wind out there. The wind was a little different direction and it was changing a little bit. Definitely tricky to adjust to the wind on some holes.

"But the greens were a little softer with the rain, so I was able to give myself some chances."

Salas had two birdies and two bogeys in her even par effort.

"I'm not as pleased with it just because I was striking the ball very well," Salas said.

"At the same time, you have to look at the bright side, and you have to take into effect the wind and the weather, how it's a completely different golf course.

"I was still hitting my targets and even though the putts didn't fall, I still was confident over every shot.

"You just can't be too greedy out here," Salas said.

"Just hitting fairways, hitting greens, that was my goal.

"Eventually the putts will drop."

Park is trying to become the first woman to win the first three major championships in a year in which more than three tournaments were designated as majors.

Babe Zaharias won all three majors in 1950, comprising the Titleholders Championship, Women's Western Open and the US Women's Open.

"It's tough not to think about it, but I just try to think that's not a big deal," Park said.

"If I want to do it so much, it's just so tough and it puts too much pressure on you."

In 1961 Mickey Wright won the LPGA Championship US Women's Open and Titleholders but was third in the Western Open designated a major that year.

In 1986, Pat Bradley won the Kraft Nabisco, LPGA Championship and du Maurier Classic but missed out at the US Women's Open.

This year, the LPGA has designated five tournaments as majors: the Kraft Nabisco, LPGA Championship, US Women's Open, Women's British Open and the Evian Championship in France. - AFP

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Controls Sales Engineer ? Ingersoll Rand ? Dubai Jobs

At Ingersoll Rand we?re passionate about inspiring progress around the world. We know that hour by hour and day by day, we advance the quality of life by making environments safe, comfortable and efficient. Our people and our market leading brands, including Club Car?, Ingersoll Rand?, Schlage?, Thermo King?, and Trane?, contribute to a world defined by sustainable progress and enduring results.

1)Creation of Demand for Trane Controls Systems.
Promoting Trane capabilities in Controls and BMS. Developing Trane image in the market: Trusted advisor, and expert in HVAC systems, and BMS technologies.
2)Supporting the Sales Teams in winning the orders for the Controls part of their projects. Designing the Controls system for the projects, and Advocating Trane Controls and BMS solutions to win the customer orders.

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- Specifying/Prescribing Trane Global offer and Controls solutions with Consulting Engineers, influencing project design, and participating to technical specification writing.
- Management of the pipeline of project opportunities with the existing Commercial & Service Sales forces, in close relationship with their Sales Leaders.
- Supporting the Quotation and proposals of Controls projects in coordination with the inside Quotation Engineer.
- Supporting the Sales forces, on job by job basis, as Controls & BMS expert, to close the orders with contractors, consulting engineers, owners, FM?).
- Developing Sales Forces maturity and skills in Controls Sales
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- Discovering and defining value proposition to a customer, based on the customer core business as well as the job environment.

- Knowledge of the Controls business : how to discover a job environment, identifying the key players in a job and understanding their expectations and mutual influences,

- Experience of Building market in the following segments and applications: Industry (pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemicals, plastics, electronics), Offices, Hospitals, Commercial, Administrations, Army, Schools, Hotels.

- Experienced in Controls technologies (network, protocols, electronics, logic). Including knowledge of competition solutions.

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Kerry says progress made in peace talks

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday wrapped up four days of shuttle diplomacy without agreement on restarting Mideast peace talks but left on a positive note, saying he had considerably narrowed the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians and that the resumption of negotiations could be "within reach."

Kerry delivered the assessment after a final, frantic day of diplomacy that included a late-night meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a last-minute meeting in the West Bank with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

"I ... know progress when I see it, and we are making progress," Kerry told reporters at Israel's international airport before departing to Brunei for an Asian security summit.

He would not elaborate, but said he would leave a team of aides in the region to continue the mediation efforts. He also said that at the request of both sides, he would return in the near future.

"We started out with very wide gaps and we have narrowed those considerably," Kerry said. "We have some specific details and work to pursue but I am absolutely confident that we are on the right track and all of the parties are working in very good faith in order to get to the right place."

Since taking office early this year, Kerry has been shuttling between Israel and the Palestinians in search of a formula to restart negotiations aimed at forging a final peace agreement. The talks seek to establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Kerry's visit was his fifth to the region as secretary of state, and the lack of any apparent progress has begun to generate skepticism on all sides. After their meeting Sunday, the Palestinians were quick to note that there had been no breakthroughs.

But Kerry said he was convinced that both sides are serious about restarting peace efforts. Kerry extended his stay, canceling a visit to Abu Dhabi, in order to continue his peace efforts in Jerusalem, the West Bank and neighboring Jordan.

"I am pleased to tell you that we have made real progress on this trip and I believe with a little more work, the start of final status negotiations could be within reach," he said. "I believe their request to me to return to the area soon is a sign that they share cautious optimism."

The last substantial round of peace talks broke down in late 2008, and with the exception of a brief attempt at restarting negotiations in 2010, efforts have remained at a standstill.

The Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

The Palestinians have said they will not resume talks unless Israel stops building Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, or accepts its pre-1967 frontiers as the basis for a future border. The Palestinians are also pressing Israel to release more than 100 of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners it is holding.

Kerry is believed to be pursuing a package of incentives to both sides that would include economic aid to the Palestinians, some sort of slowdown in Israeli settlement construction, a prisoner release, security guarantees to Israel and assurances to the Palestinians that talks on borders will take place quickly.

Kerry declined to identify the ideas under discussion, saying that secrecy was needed for negotiations to take place in good faith. He also declined to set any deadlines or time limits.

"This has been years and years; if it takes another week or two weeks or some more time that is minimal, minuscule compared to the stakes and what we are trying to do," he said.

Israel's Netanyahu has insisted that talks begin immediately without any preconditions. But Netanyahu rejects a return to the 1967 lines and has allowed thousands of new settler homes to be built on his watch, raising Palestinian suspicions that he is not serious about peace.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the Hamas militant group's takeover of the territory has added to the complicated task facing Kerry.

Addressing his Cabinet on Sunday, Netanyahu showed little signs of bending.

"We are not putting up any impediments on the resumption of the permanent talks and a peace agreement between us and the Palestinians," he said.

At the same time, he said, "We will not compromise on security, and there will be no agreement that will endanger Israelis' security."

He added that any agreement would be presented to the public in a referendum.

Critics have said such a step would merely add an additional obstacle to implementing any deal, which would require a broad pullout from the West Bank.

Following Sunday morning's meeting in Ramallah, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, reported progress but said that gaps remained.

"I cannot say we have a breakthrough," he said. "All I can say once again is no one benefits more from the success of Secretary Kerry than the Palestinians, and no one stands to lose more from its failure than Palestinians."

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Associated Press writers Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Sears, Penney sever ties with Paula Deen

NEW YORK (AP) ? Paula Deen's media and merchandising empire is collapsing.

Sears, J.C. Penney and Walgreen said Friday that they're cutting ties with Paula Deen, adding to the growing list of companies severing their relationship following revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past.

Meanwhile, Paula Deen's publisher has canceled a deal with her for multiple books, including an upcoming cookbook that was the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

Ballantine Books announced Friday it would not release "Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up," which was scheduled for October and was the first of a five-book deal announced early last year. Interest in it had surged as Deen, who grew up in Albany, Ga., and specializes in Southern comfort food, came under increasing attack for acknowledging she had used the N-word.

Ballantine, an imprint of Random House Inc., said it had decided to cancel the book's publication after "careful consideration." It had no comment beyond what was in its brief statement, spokesman Stuart Applebaum said.

Sears Holdings Corp. said it will phase out all products tied to the brand after "careful consideration of all available information."

"We will continue to evaluate the situation," said the parent company of Sears and Kmart stores.

Both Sears and Kmart sold Paula Deen products.

In an email statement to The Associated Press, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. said it decided to discontinue selling Deen-branded products.

Walgreen Co. said it was phasing out Paula Deen-branded products, which included tortilla chips and a selection of soups.

QVC took a more gentle approach on Friday and said that it has decided to "take a pause" from Deen. The home shopping network said that Deen won't be appearing on any upcoming broadcasts, and it will phase out her product assortment on its online sales channels over the next few months.

"We all think it's important, at this moment, for Paula, to concentrate on responding to the allegations against her and on her path forward," said Mike George, QVC's president and CEO in a letter posted on the company's website.

But QVC left the door open for Deen to return. "Some of you wonder whether this is a 'forever' decision ? whether we are simply ending our association with Paula," continued George. "We don't think that's how relationships work. People deserve second chances."

Deen issued her own statement that was posted on QVC's webpage. "As you know, I have some important things to work on right now, both personally and professionally. And so we've agreed that it's best for me to step back from QVC and focus on setting things right

The developments are the latest blows dealt to Deen since comments she made in a court deposition became public.

Earlier this week, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Home Depot all announced that they plan to stop selling cookware and other items with Deen's brand.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Novo Nordisk said it and Deen have "mutually agreed to suspend our patient education activities for now." Deen, who specializes in Southern comfort food, had been promoting the company's drug Victoza since last year, when she announced she had Type 2 diabetes

On Monday, pork producer Smithfield Foods dropped her as a spokeswoman.

Caesars Entertainment also announced that Paula Deen's name is being stripped from four buffet restaurants owned by the company. Caesars said that its decision to rebrand its restaurants in Joliet, Ill.; Tunica, Miss.; Cherokee, N.C.; and Elizabeth, Ind., was a mutual one with Deen.

Last week, the Food Network said that it would not renew her contract.

The stakes are high for Deen, who Forbes magazine ranked as the fourth highest-earning celebrity chef last year, bringing in $17 million. She's behind Gordon Ramsay, Rachael Ray and Wolfgang Puck, according to Forbes.

Paula Deen Enterprises, which spans from TV shows to cookware and furniture, generates total annual revenue of nearly $100 million, estimates Burt Flickinger III, president of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group.

But Flickinger estimates she could lose up to 80 percent of her business by next year as suppliers extricate themselves from their agreements.

Not every company Deen does business with has severed ties with the celebrity chef. Among other stores that sell her products, Kohl's Corp. declined to comment, while Macy's Inc. said Thursday that it continues to "monitor the situation."

Hoffman Media LLC, the publisher of "Cooking with Paula Deen" magazine, announced Friday that it was continuing to publish her bi-monthly publication.

"Hoffman Media has worked closely with Ms. Deen since 2005," said Eric Hoffman, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Hoffman Media in a statement. "The recent images portrayed by the media do not reflect the person we know on a personal or a professional level."

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AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report

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