Diversity is praised as good for business and for promoting creativity but when organizational theorist Viktorija Kalonaityte studied diversity work at a Swedish adult education school, the school wanted to make everyone as “Swedish” as possible.

That means protecting women from 'honor killings' and teaching in Swedish.

In Sweden, diversity is largely about integration policy and the public sector rather than just being corporate policy in places lke America. Viktorija Kalonaityte recently defended her doctoral dissertation at the School of Economics, Lund University in Sweden and her thesis addressed identity and diversity work at a municipal school for adults. The school she studied views itself as working actively with diversity in line with a municipal diversity plan but Kalonaityte says that the diversity plan often collides with people’s understandings of what things should be like at a Swedish workplace.

WASHINGTON, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

At their September 8-10 meeting in Vienna, OPEC Ministers agreed to abide by their September 2007 production allocations (including new members Angola and Ecuador and excluding Indonesia and Iraq) totaling 28.8 million barrels per day (bpd) cutting production anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 bpd.

The Abraham Energy Report (AbrahamEnergyReport.com) and its' Editor and Publisher, former U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, advises the newsletter's monthly subscribers that the production decline may not be as definitive as the OPEC meeting's communique implies.

BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania and TOKYO, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC and Unisys (NYSE: UIS) today announced that they have completed development of the first generation of a common platform for both companies' enterprise servers. NEC has begun manufacturing systems based on this common platform, and each company will market the systems as part of its own branded server line.

The common platform is the result of an alliance agreement the two companies signed in 2006. The alliance aims to provide industry-leading systems that leverage both companies' expertise in enterprise server products and enable them to reduce research and development costs.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- One of the world's largest architectural LED lighting grids shines on the Berlin Wall East Side Gallery

LightWild today announced the completion of an exterior architectural lighting project for the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany. The project, one of the world's largest architectural LED lighting grids, spans across the entire south glass facade of the new arena that opened Sept. 10, 2008.

To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/lightwild/34977/

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative LED manufacturer unveils five-surface architectural lighting project

LightWild today announced the completion of an interior lighting project for the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany. The significant wall and ceiling installations throughout the main and VIP lobby entrances embrace visitors with light, color, and effects in the arena that opened Sept. 10, 2008.

To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/lightwild/34978/

BEACHWOOD, Ohio, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Aleris Announces Enhanced Liquidity Measures. In response to the current environment of historically high prices and volatility in the forward aluminum price on the London Metal Exchange (LME), Aleris has taken steps to preserve its existing liquidity position and enhance its liquidity position going forward.

LOS ANGELES, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Bad Brains' H.R. internationally releases his new solo album 'Hey Wella' digitally on October 21, 2008.

Scientists have discovered that certain fish are capable of glowing red. Research published today in BMC Ecology includes striking images of fish fluorescing vivid red light.

Due to absorption of ‘red’ wavelengths of sunlight by sea-water, objects which look red under normal conditions appear grey or black at depths below 10m. This has contributed to the belief among marine biologists that red colors are of no importance to fish.

Nico Michiels, from the University of Tübingen, Germany, led a team of researchers who captured the striking images in the article which, as he describes, “Shows that red fluorescence is widespread among marine fish. Our findings challenge the notion that red light is of no importance to marine fish, calling for a reassessment of its role in fish visual ecology.”

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and now new simulations show that, at least in galaxies similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate great distances.

What's more, if our sun has moved far from where it was formed more than 4 billion years ago, that could change the entire notion that there are parts of galaxies – so-called habitable zones – that are more conducive to supporting life than other areas are.

"Our view of the extent of the habitable zone is based in part on the idea that certain chemical elements necessary for life are available in some parts of a galaxy's disk but not others," said Rok Roškar, a doctoral student in astronomy at the University of Washington. "If stars migrate, then that zone can't be a stationary place."