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Putin urges acceleration of South Stream (AP)
MOSCOW ? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday instructed gas giant Gazprom to speed up the construction of a gas pipeline under the Black Sea in an apparent attempt to put pressure on Ukraine, the current chief export route for Russia.
The South Stream project, co-owned by Gazprom, France's EdF, Italy's Eni and Germany's Wintershall, is meant to ship Russian natural gas to southern and eastern Europe.
The pipeline, which is expected to start operating in 2015, would ship up to 63 billion cubic meters (2 trillion cubic feet) of gas annually to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Italy in one leg and Croatia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey in a second. This week, Moscow secured a key approval from Turkey to go ahead with the construction.
The 15 billion-euro South Stream is rivaling the European Union-backed Nabucco pipeline that's slated to ship gas from the Caspian region to Austria.
Putin told Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in televised comments that "it would be advisable" to start building the pipeline at the end of next year, not in 2013.
The move is likely to put pressure on Ukraine, currently Russia's chief gas export route.
Miller also said that the $20 billion Ukraine is seeking for the pipeline is too high because it will require 2 to 8 billion euros ($2.5-10 billion).
Continuous disagreement between Moscow and Kiev, which has led to two gas wars, largely stems from Moscow striving to control, or at least manage, the export pipeline crossing Ukraine. Kiev in return is seeking lower gas prices.
Ukraine is currently paying about $400 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, but wants to pay $250. The talks have so far failed to produce a deal and a new round is set for mid-January.
A price discount for Ukraine could amount to $9 billion for an annual shipment, Miller said Friday.
Although his order regarding South Stream seems to be aimed to push pressure on Ukraine at the upcoming gas talks, Putin still added that it expects Ukraine to remain an important gas route for Russia.
Ukraine's prime minister Mykola Azarov on Thursday threatened that his government may take Gazprom to court if Moscow doesn't agree to a lower price at the talks. It was not immediately clear, however, what could make the legal grounds of that lawsuit.
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Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.
Thursday's unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision regarding the 2008 law.
The appeal concerned a case that consolidated 33 different lawsuits filed against various telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. on behalf of these companies' customers.
The court noted comments made by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the legal immunity's role in helping the government gather intelligence.
"It emphasized that electronic intelligence gathering depends in great part on cooperation from private companies ... and that if litigation were allowed to proceed against persons allegedly assisting in such activities, 'the private sector might be unwilling to cooperate with lawful government requests in the future,'" Judge M. Margaret McKeown said.
The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers including the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, accuse the companies of violating the law and the privacy of its customers through collaboration with National Security Agency on intelligence gathering.
The case stemmed from new surveillance rules passed by Congress in 2008 that included protection from legal liability for telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the U.S. spy on Americans without warrants.
"I'm very disappointed. I think the court reaches to try to put lipstick on a pig here," said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who argued the case before the panel. "I think what Congress did was an abdication of its duty to protect people from illegal surveillance."
Thursday did not bring all bad news for plaintiffs challenging the government's surveillance efforts.
In a separate opinion on Thursday, a three-judge panel of the court revived two other lawsuits that seek redress for telecom customers whose information may have been compromised by the warrantless surveillance program.
Two groups of telecom customers sued the NSA for violating their privacy by collecting Internet data from AT&T and other major telecom companies in the surveillance program authorized by President George W. Bush.
Government lawyers have moved to stop such cases, arguing that defending the program in court would jeopardize national security and expose state secrets.
The suits will be sent back to U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Emails seeking comment from AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice weren't immediately returned.
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Russian officials rattled by breach at rocket plant (Reuters)
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? Russia's deputy prime minister vowed Thursday to punish "sleepy" security officials after bloggers posted dozens of photos of an apparently unguarded strategic military rocket motor factory near Moscow.
Blogger Lana Sator said she and friends met not a soul, much less any security guards, as they roamed around state rocket-maker Energomash's plant, snapping pictures, on five separate night-time excursions in recent months.
She posted almost 100 pictures of decrepit-looking hardware from inside a rusted engine-fuel testing tower, the plant's control room and even its roof at lana-sator.livejournal.com
Russian media cited a senior space agency official, speaking anonymously, who described the breach as a shock of the same scale as German pilot Mathias Rust's brazen Cessna flight under Soviet radar to land on Red Square in 1987.
"It showed a complete inability to protect anything whatsoever," the official told Izvestia. Space agency Roskosmos declined comment on the incident when reached by Reuters.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the security failure was "unacceptable," warning in a televised meeting with Roskosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin that "sleepy cats" who failed to maintain security at strategic defense sites face punishment.
Rogozin, Moscow's former NATO envoy appointed to oversee the defense and space sectors this month, also criticised Roskosmos for a string of recent botched launches.
"We must take urgent steps to restore order in this sphere," he said, ordering Roskosmos to present a report explaining the underlining causes of the failures by the end of January.
Last week, a Russian communications satellite crashed, adding to a string of humiliating launch failures that marred this year's celebrations of 50 years since Yuri Gagarin's first human space flight.
What was to be post-Soviet Russia's debut interplanetary mission to Mars's moon last month was stuck in orbit.
In August, the crash of an unmanned cargo craft cast doubt over Moscow's ability to guarantee International Space Station operations, while the loss of a $265-million communication satellite hurt its commercial launch record.
Monday, Russia also delayed by 25 days a launch for European satellite giant SES, citing technical glitches.
(Reporting By Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Bargain hunters divided shopping season into two
NEW YORK?? The holiday shopping season turned out to be two seasons: the Black Friday binge and a last-minute surge.
Together, they added up to decent sales gains for retailers. And the doldrums in between showed how shoppers have learned to wait for the discounts they know will come.
"The days that the American consumer gets excited about 25 percent off are over," said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group. "Shoppers are keeping their eye on the ball for the big sales events."
In November, spending rose 4.1 percent. And from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24, it rose 4.7 percent compared with the same period last year, according to research firm ShopperTrak. A 4 percent increase is considered a healthy season.
The higher sales are good news for the economy, because they show shoppers were willing to fund a holiday splurge despite high unemployment and other lingering economic woes. Consumer spending, including major items such as health care, accounts for 70 percent of the economy.
Still, plenty of people are pinched for cash in the slow economic recovery, and they were seeking the best deals, which could squeeze stores' profits for the fourth quarter, says Hana Ben-Shabat, a partner in the retail practice of A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm.
Stores have trained even shoppers who are primed to spend to look for a discount.
Heading into the season, stores were nervous that shoppers would be tight-fisted. Many officially opened the season with discounts on TVs and toys that started as early as Thanksgiving Day. Consumers came out in droves, resulting in record spending.
Then the frenzy tapered off. A mild winter and the fact that Christmas fell on a Sunday encouraged people to wait until the last minute and accentuated the peaks and valleys of spending.
Stores started to push more discounts to get shoppers to spend in the finale. In fact, retailers' promotional e-mails from Sunday, Dec. 18, to Thursday, Dec. 22, spiked 34 percent, compared with the same period a year ago, according to Responsys, which tracks e-mail activity from more than 100 merchants.
According to Beemer's consumer surveys, 60 percent of shoppers polled were looking for discounts of more than 50 percent to get them to buy. That's up from last year's 51 percent of shoppers polled.
Tracey Spears of Locust Grove, Ga., who was shopping Wednesday at Atlanta's Lenox Square Mall, said she got 75 percent of her holiday shopping done on Black Friday or the day after Thanksgiving. She took advantage of deals, including a Keurig coffee pot from Target and clothes from Hollister on sale.
"I had more money because I got a better bonus this year, but sales are important. You always want to buy stuff cheaper," she said.
Spears and others helped to create pronounced waves in spending.
"The downs and ups were much more accentuated," said Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers. "It just shows how cautious the consumer is. Consumers are bargain hunters more today than ever before."
In the week before Christmas, last-minute shoppers gave retailers a 4.5 percent increase in revenue over the same week last year at stores open at least a year, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Index. The index estimates sales at 24 major stores including Macy's Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp.
Revenue at stores open at least a year is an important measurement of a retailer's performance because it excludes the effects of stores that open or close during the year.
Total retail revenue for the week ended Saturday rose 14.8 percent compared with the year ago, ShopperTrak estimates.
For the week that ended Nov. 26, which included the traditional start of holiday shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, stores had the biggest sales surge from the week before since 1993, according to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs index.
The post-Black Friday lull was deeper than usual. The two weeks after Thanksgiving weekend showed the biggest percentage sales decline since 2000.
Then, during the final two weeks before Christmas, sales surged again, by the highest rate since 2005, Niemira said.
The season "was good but uneven," he said.
Stores are expected to benefit when shoppers come back to spend gift cards, because people often spend more than the cards' value. In addition, gift card sales are recorded only when shoppers redeem them.
People have more money on their cards to spend. According to an ICSC-Goldman Sachs survey of shoppers conducted Sunday, 18 percent of holiday spending went toward gift cards, up from 14.6 percent last year.
A total sales figure for the whole season won't be available until after Dec. 31. And a fuller holiday spending picture will come Jan. 5, when stores including Target Corp. and Macy's release December sales figures. Government retail sales data will be released in mid-January.
ICSC said it expects holiday sales for November and December to rise in line with its forecast of 3.5 percent. The National Retail Federation expects total retail sales for November and December combined to increase by 3.8 percent, up from its earlier forecast of 2.8 percent issued back in October. That's still below the 5.2 percent holiday sales increase in 2010 from the previous year.
As proof that consumers are timing their spending to seek the best bargains, Black Friday was the biggest sales day, as expected, generating sales of $11.4 billion, up 6.6 percent from a year ago, according to ShopperTrak.
But based on preliminary data, Christmas Eve and Dec. 26 were the second- and third-heaviest spending days of the season, according to ShopperTrak founder Bill Martin.
He had originally expected Saturday, Dec. 17, to be the second-largest spending day. And Christmas Eve wasn't even forecast to be among the top 10 holiday shopping days.
ShopperTrak measures foot traffic in 25,000 stores in the U.S. and blends those figures with economic data along with proprietary sales figures from merchants. The data excludes sales from auto dealers, gas stations, restaurants and grocery stores.
"Shoppers are willing to spend when they know the biggest discounts are available," Martin said.
Brooks Brothers, the upscale men's and women's clothier that doesn't discount before Christmas, learned that this year. The Monday after Christmas, when the company offered discounts up to 40 percent, was a record spending day at its stores and its website.
"The first three weeks leading up to holiday were soft," Lou Amendola, chief merchandising officer, wrote in an email. "But customers really partook in the after-Christmas sales."
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AP Retail Writer Mae Anderson in Atlanta contributed to the report.
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Established just a week ago, the 1,000-ping (approx. 3,300m2) Museum of Chinese Characters in downtown Greater Tainan is currently showing the exhibition The Creation and Memory of Chinese Characters. Though Chinese characters might seem natural enough to Chinese-speaking people, the exhibition is aimed at revitalizing their passion for Chinese characters so that they will not only have a communicative function. Using modern ideas, multimedia technology and installation art, the exhibition gives people a chance to rediscover the art of Chinese characters, which with their history spanning thousands of years remain inspiring today.
Aesthetician Chiang Hsun once said, ?Writing Chinese characters is the truest ritual when I want to spend time with myself.? Chinese characters have been passed down through the generations for thousands of years. Created based on the six principles of character formation ? pictographic representation, ideographic representation, ideographic compounding, phono-semantic compounding, metaphorical extension and phonetic loan ? they are filled with aesthetic beauty and continue to amaze people by their versatility. Visitors go beyond their normal role and are made a part of this exhibition through an interactive multimedia experience. After all, characters are a form of communication between people; therefore, interaction is one of the museum?s key missions.
Founded by Nan-Ying Culture and Education Foundation President Lee Chuan-chiao, the museum has a dozen exhibition areas. One of the areas is the high-ceilinged ?Time Theater,? which uses a traditional Chinese architectural concept called ?round heaven, square earth? to manifest the roundness of flowing Chinese characters and the stability and balance of their squareness. Exhibits on different themes ranging from history to the future are spread out over the museum?s different exhibition areas. Exhibitors include Ultra Combos, Wang Hsin-yi, Huang Ya-ling + Titow, Saito + Ishizawa, Code Garden, Tsai Yu, Wang Yen-chung, OVO and Pong Lam.
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Lin Ping-hung, the foundation?s executive director, said in a telephone interview with the Taipei Times last Tuesday that incorporating art, creative groups and technology has given the museum a multifunctionality that allows it to be used by art and literary circles in the hope of consolidating emerging creative forces in southern Taiwan. In line with the headline on the museum?s Web site, ?A character is cherished even deeper once you understand it,? the museum will be holding hands-on workshops and lectures to give visitors an in-depth understanding of Chinese characters. The exhibition will run through the end of February next year.
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Home prices drop for 2nd straight month
WASHINGTON?? U.S. home prices fell in most major cities for the second straight month, further evidence that the housing recovery will be bumpy.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday showed prices dropped in October from September in 19 of the 20 cities tracked.
Prices in a majority of cities declined for the second straight month, reflecting the typically fall slowdown after the peak buying season. Prior to that, prices had risen for five consecutive months in at least half of the cities tracked.
The Case-Shiller index covers half of all U.S. homes. It measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The monthly data are not seasonally adjusted.
Story: America becoming a nation of rentersAtlanta, Detroit and Minneapolis posted the biggest monthly declines. Prices in Atlanta and Las Vegas fell to their lowest points since the housing crisis began. Prices rose in Phoenix after three straight monthly declines.
David M. Blitzer, chairman of S&P's index committee, said steep price drops in cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis were particularly worrisome because their gains earlier this season were so strong.
"Atlanta and the Midwest are regions that really stand out in terms of recent relative weakness," Blitzer said. "These markets were some of the strongest during the spring/summer buying season."
Americans are reluctant to purchase a home more than two years after the recession officially ended. High unemployment and weak job growth have deterred many would-be buyers. Even the lowest mortgage rates in history haven't been enough to lift sales.
Some people can't qualify for loans or meet higher down payment requirements. Many with good credit and stable jobs are holding off because they fear that prices will keep falling.
Sales of previously occupied homes are barely ahead of 2008's dismal figures ? the worst in 13 years. And sales of new homes this year will likely be the worst since the government began keeping records a half century ago.
Prices are also certain to fall further once banks resume millions of foreclosures. They have been delayed because of a yearlong government investigation into mortgage lending practices.
Home prices had stabilized in coastal cities over the past six months, helped by a rush of spring buyers and investors. But this year, prices in many cities, including Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tampa, have reached their lowest points since the housing bust more than four years ago.
Foreclosures and short sales ? when a lender accepts less for a home than what is owed on a mortgage ? are selling at an average discount of 20 percent.
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Rival clergy in mass brawl at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity
The Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem, and Israel, which controls Jerusalem's Old City, adopted the delicate status quo in operation since the British mandate, under which no changes, however minor, can be made without the approval of all three denominations.
The result has been that the Church of the Nativity has fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair.
Last month, after years of arguments, the sects finally reached agreement to replace the church's leaking roof. The renovations, planned for next year, will mark the first major repairs in 150 years.
In a separate development, the Jerusalem municipality has approved the construction of another 130 homes in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Gilo, built over the Green line, on land captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli war. The move is likely to anger the Palestinians, who insist that Israel must halt all settlement construction before direct peace talks can resume.
An announcement by Israel earlier this month that it intended to build more than a thousand new homes in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem was condemned by Britain, , which along with the other EU members of the United Nations Security Council -France, Germany and Portugal ? issued a statement saying they were "dismayed by these wholly negative developments."
They said Israel's move to accelerate the construction of settlements in the West Bank "sends a devastating message" and they called on the Israeli government to cancel the construction.
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Texas men trade same Christmas card for decades
WHITEHOUSE, Texas (AP) -- A Christmas card that crisscrossed the country as part of an old joke between two Texas men will rest this holiday for the first time in 61 years.
Acker Hanks mailed the card to his former neighbor Lee Kelley in 1950. Kelley, a prankster, mailed it back a year later.
The two continued sending the card back and forth, and when Kelley died, his widow mailed the tattered message for over a decade. Last year, it returned to Hanks unread. He believes Kelley's widow moved to a nursing home.
A list of dates and places in the worn card documents its journey. Hanks plans to frame it.
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3 NATO troops killed in eastern Afghanistan
(AP)? KABUL, Afghanistan ? Three NATO service members have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said Wednesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the target was a U.S. military convoy.
NATO's statement said that the deaths occurred Tuesday, but provided no further details about the incident or the nationalities of the troops.
The Taliban said the attack took place in Paktiya province, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Kabul.
The latest deaths bring December's toll of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan to 23, for a total of 539 deaths so far this year. The yearly tally is considerably lower than for 2010, when more than 700 troops died. The number of wounded has remained high, dipping only slightly from last year's total of more than 5,000 service members.
Also Tuesday, a community council leader in the Musa Qala district of restive Helmand province was shot and killed by insurgents along with his 20-year-old son and two-year-old grandson, the governor's office said.
A statement from the office said the attack occurred late in the evening, as council leader Adbdul Baqi was heading home from his office. There were no further details.
The U.S.-led coalition has started transitioning parts of Helmand to the government as part of a plan to cede full control of the country's security to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
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6 books you should resolve to read in 2012
It?s common practice, as the year draws to a close, to reflect on the past twelve months ? to think back on what you did, how you spent your time, and who you spent it with. My years, more than anything, are shaped by books so when I look back I?m thinking about what I read. The same goes for thinking about the year to come: When I make my New Year?s resolutions, it?s pretty much just a long list of books that I want to get my hands on. And so, in looking forward to 2012, here are some things that I?ve already gotten my hands on; it would be wise of you to do the same. If what I?m reading (and loving) is any indication, 2012 is going to be a strange and wonderful year.
An enchanting (couldn?t resist) retelling of a classic Russian fairy tale, except this time it?s set in Alaska, circa 1920. Mabel and Jack are newcomers to Alaska and are being pulled apart by desolation and loneliness. Unable to conceive, the couple remains childless and the strain of maintaining their farm has pushed them to the edge of their capacity. In a rare moment of playfulness, the couple builds a child out of snow. Shortly thereafter, a child called Faina appears ? ethereal, bewitching, and mysterious. Ivey creates a world out of emptiness and populates it in completely unexpected ways.
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Warm spinach salad with bacon, mushrooms, and a poached egg
A tasty salad is even more delicious when using farm-fresh ingredients.
We are completely devoted to Tannadice bacon and these farm eggs we get from the bakery on the corner of our street. I wish every farm could be like Tannadice. Check out their website to learn about their ethical practices. Let me say, a healthy pig makes for ridiculously tasty bacon. It really does make a difference. I?ve actually woken up in the middle of the night thinking about their bacon.?
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That led me here. To making this salad.
We?ve made versions of this salad several times in the last few weeks. I?m sure if you?re vegetarian you could do something similar by using oil and just mushrooms and it would be delicious, so don?t let the whole bacon thing throw you off. But I will digress here to tell you that one of Joshua?s vegetarian friends orders a veggie burger with bacon, so it?s true, bacon is the Achilles heal for many a vegetarian. Ye have been warned!
I don?t need to tell you the difference between healthy eggs and unhealthy ones because the proof is not in the pudding, it?s in the yolk. It?s all about the color.
I first laid eyes on one of these bright yolks when my sister was making me breakfast. It?s been probably a decade since that introduction, but I remember thinking something was wrong. ?No egg should look like that!? or so I thought. My sister proceeded to tell me the truth. That bright yellowy orange yolk came from a healthy birds and that they tasted amazing. She was right. The buttery rich flavor that comes from happy eggs is unlike what you?ll get at your typical supermarket. Head to your local farmer's market to take the taste challenge yourself.?
Portion Note: This warm spinach salad recipe is written in for one person, but multiply the ingredients by the number of people you?re feeding.
Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and a Poached Egg
2 strips bacon (Vegetarian option, use 2 Tbsp Olive oil instead)
2 cups spinach
1 egg (optional)
6 cups water
2 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Asiago as a garnish (optional)
If you?re making eggs, feel free to make?boiled or poached eggs. For those new to making poached eggs, this video will be helpful.? Put the water and vinegar in a pot and bring it to a boil. Skip this step if you?re not making eggs.
Meanwhile slice the bacon into 1 inch strips. Peel or clean the mushrooms. Slice or quarter the mushrooms, depending on size. Heat a frying pan over medium high heat. Once the frying pan is hot, add the bacon and fry until the fat starts to render. This takes about 3 to 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms to the bacon.
Once the water starts to boil, reduce the temperature just slightly so the water is just below boiling point. I add the eggs to the hot water after the mushrooms have been cooking for about 5 minutes. I like my mushrooms really well done so I?ll cook them for 10 minutes or until they are golden. Stir often to prevent burning.
Depending on the size of the eggs, they?ll take about 2 minutes for a soft poached egg. Cook a minute or 2 longer for medium poached eggs. Eggs are a very individual thing, so the more often you make them, the more you?ll know the exact time to cook them to suit your tastes. Using a slotted spoon, remove the eggs and lay on a tea towel or paper towel to remove any excess water. Place 2 cups of spinach on a plate.
When the mushrooms are cooked, add 1 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar to the mushroom/bacon mixture. Stir the vinegar and the mushrooms together. Top the salad with the bacon mushroom mixture and then top with the egg. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with shaved Asiago. I use a carrot peeler to make the cheese garnish.
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Leafs coach Ron Wilson gets contract extension (AP)
TORONTO ? Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson has gotten his Christmas wish.
Two days after hinting on Twitter of his desire for a new contract, Wilson says the team has given him an extension.
"'He came! He came!' Remember saying that as a little kid? Well he did: I got a new Red Ryder BB gun and a contract extension!" Wilson tweeted Sunday morning.
The team did not immediately respond to an email seeking confirmation. Wilson tweeted Friday that what he wanted for Christmas was a new contract from general manager Brian Burke.
"This Xmas could be better if Santa stuffs a certain piece of paper in my stocking. whatcouldthatbe," Wilson posted on his Twitter account.
The 56-year-old Wilson is in the final season of a four-year contract. The Leafs are sixth in the Eastern Conference with 40 points. Toronto has not made the playoffs in three previously seasons under Wilson, who is 119-120-42 with the Leafs.
Wilson, a defenseman as a player, was selected by the Leafs in the 1975 draft. He has a 637-546-101-88 coaching record with Anaheim, Washington, San Jose and Toronto. He is 47-48 in the playoffs.
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Education department awards grants to 7 states (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Seven states will share $200 million in grant money they can use to improve student achievement, the Department of Education announced on Friday.
Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will share the money they were awarded in the third round of the funding competition.
"These seven states are now among 22 Race to the Top winners spread out across the country that are investing in key education reforms to prepare more students for college and careers," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia were awarded grants in the first two rounds of the Race to the Top competition.
Previous winners included California, Delaware, Washington D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington.
Congress has passed a fiscal 2012 spending bill that includes $550 million in Race to the Top funding. (Reporting by Chip Barnett; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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ECB's Visco hints at lower rates if economy worsens (Reuters)
MILAN (Reuters) ? European Central Bank Governing Council Member Ignazio Visco said in a newspaper interview on Saturday that the bank will be attentive to the economic cycle when setting monetary policy, suggesting rates could fall more if the euro zone economy worsens.
The ECB has cut interest rates for two months in a row and this month unveiled a raft of measures to support Europe's cash-starved banks to counter a forecast recession brought on by widespread austerity measures.
"Monetary policy will be attentive to the (economic) cycle. It is thus that we defend monetary stability in the medium-term," the governor of the Bank of Italy, said in the interview in Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
Visco also said the upward trend in Italian bond yields has been stopped and turned around, even if financial markets remain very volatile.
On Friday, the yield on the 10-year Italian government bond rose above 7 percent, the highest since December 16, and the spread over the equivalent German Bund was more than 500 basis points on worries about the euro zone in 2012.
"All the same the trend for higher yields is stopped and turned around, and today we are well below the highs registered in the last few months," Visco said in the interview in Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
"Certainly there is a lot of volatility, but we know that confidence on the markets is lost quickly and regained only slowly and with a constant and continuous commitment," said Visco, who is also governor of the Bank of Italy.
Visco said that the Italian government's 33 billion euro ($43 billion) austerity package, approved definitively by the Senate on Thursday, was "indispensable," but he added that structural measures to boost growth and create jobs and wealth should be accelerated.
"It is with policies that sustain growth in a credible way that it will be possible to convince the rest of the world that - as our analyses clearly confirm - our public debt is sustainable," he said.
In an interview on Friday, Standard & Poor's top executives said the first quarter of 2012 will be a test for Italy because of the huge amount of sovereign debt it has to refinance.
The record-high yields Italy has paid at recent sales have led to concerns the euro zone's third-largest economy may have trouble refinancing the more than 150 billion euros of debt coming due between February and April next year.
The spread between the 10-year Italian bond and the equivalent Bund can fall if the growth capacity of national economies is judged favourably, on prospects for political integration in the euro zone, and international cooperation, he said.
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Asked about growth and the problem of the economic cycle, Visco said: "This is the reason for which, with the last decisions of the governing board, we have made monetary policy still more accommodating than it was already before."
He added that the ECB does not only respond to short-term inflation trends when setting policy.
A year of complete stagnation awaits the euro zone economy in 2012, according to a recent Reuters poll of economists, who said a recession has already started that will last until the second quarter of next year.
European banks gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros in three-year cut-price loans from the ECB on Wednesday, easing immediate fears of a credit crunch but leaving unresolved how much will flow to needy euro zone economies.
More than a dozen Italian banks, including top lenders UniCredit (CRDI.MI) and Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI), tapped 116 billion euros ($143.5 billion) of the three-year loans - about a quarter of the total.
"Bank liquidity is suffering strong pressure because of the difficulty in renewing wholesale funding, which is determined by the strong increase in sovereign risks in the euro zone," Visco said in the paper.
Visco said the European Banking Authority's demand for higher capital buffers, which has come under fire in Italy, is a one-off exercise and is not aimed at deleveraging or reducing lending to the economy.
"I understand that (raising capital on the market) is not easy, but we are not talking about extraordinary figures," he said, adding that other options include cutting dividends and bonuses, and selling non-strategic assets.
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Israel rejects criticism of settlements (AP)
JERUSALEM ? Israel is lashing out at diplomats at the U.N. who condemned Israeli settlement construction in territory claimed by the Palestinians and attacks apparently carried out by Jewish settlers.
Fourteen diplomats voiced their concerns Tuesday. South Africa's U.N. ambassador, Baso Sangqu, called Israeli settlement construction the "main impediment for the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
A statement from Israel's Foreign Ministry Wednesday said the diplomats should focus on peacemaking in "bloody hotspots" like Syria instead of "interfering with Israel's domestic affairs," apparently referring to attacks by Israeli extremists on military bases, mosques and Palestinian property.
Israel has apprehended only a few settlers suspected in the attacks.
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Egypt rejects "interference" after Clinton remarks (Reuters)
CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egypt said Wednesday it would not accept any interference in its internal affairs, following criticism by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the way security forces dealt with women protesters.
In a speech Monday, Clinton criticized the actions of Egyptian security forces as showing "systematic degradation" of women that "disgraces the state," some of the strongest U.S. language used against Egypt's new rulers.
Footage showed Egyptian soldiers beating protesters with batons, often after they had fallen to the ground, in what activists described as a forcible attempt to clear a sit-in demanding a swifter transfer to civilian rule. Five days of clashes since Friday left at least 13 dead and hundreds wounded.
"Egypt does not accept any interference in its internal affairs," the state news agency quoted Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr as saying.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Rushdi told Reuters Egypt held frequent talks with other countries about its transition from military to civilian rule, "to clarify the reality on the ground and the obstacles facing the country during this transitional phase."
A video of Egyptian soldiers dragging a woman protester on the ground by her black full-body veil, exposing her bra, then clubbing and kicking her, has sparked outrage. Thousands marched on Tahrir Square Tuesday to condemn the attacks.
Activists have called for a major protest Friday to demand an apology for the attacks on women.
The United States, which saw deposed leader Hosni Mubarak as a staunch ally, gives Cairo $1.3 billion a year in military aid, a commitment that began after Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab state to make peace with Israel.
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The water-energy-climate nexus: Resources and policy outlook for aquifers in Mexico
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WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, VOL. 47, W00L04, 18 PP., 2011
doi:10.1029/2011WR010805
The water-energy-climate nexus: Resources and policy outlook for aquifers in Mexico
The water-energy-climate nexus: Resources and policy outlook for aquifers in Mexico
Key Points- Aquifer depletion is driven by a nexus groundwater use, energy, and climate
- The nexus represents an important policy tool that Mexico has experimented with
- Mexico' aquifer management offer lessons for other water-scarce regions
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, , Tucson, Arizona,, USA
Three interlinked processes drive groundwater balances in diverse regions globally: (1) groundwater-irrigation intensification, (2) electrical energy supply for agriculture, and (3) climatic variability. Mexico's water-energy-climate nexus offers generic lessons because of its water scarcity and institutional reforms followed in other emerging economies. This paper analyzes data for 280 aquifers in Mexico, all registered water users, population projections, 2010?2100 precipitation and temperature projections for A1B and A2 emissions scenarios from 15 general circulation models, and 1999?2009 agricultural electricity use. Under A2 emissions, aquifers with negative balances will increase from 92 to 130 in number between 2010 and 2100, and the national groundwater deficit will increase by 21.3 km3. Under A2 and medium-variant population growth (which peaks midcentury), negative-balance aquifers will increase from 92 to 133, and the national groundwater deficit will increase by 22.4 km3. Agricultural power pricing offers a nexus-based policy tool to address aquifer depletion, an opportunity that was lost with the 2003 reduction in nighttime tariffs. Under A2, medium-variant population, and simulated 2% real annual increases in agricultural power tariffs, negative-balance aquifers will increase from 92 to 111, and the national groundwater deficit will increase by 17.5 km3 between 2010 and 2100. Regulatory and user-based groundwater management initiatives indicate growing awareness of aquifer depletion; however, the long-term outlook points to continued depletion. This raises the need to harness nexus-based policy options, i.e., increasing agricultural power tariffs, eliminating reduced nighttime tariffs, enforcing legislation linking groundwater extraction to power use, and limiting new power connections for groundwater wells.
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Received 15 April 2011; accepted 4 October 2011; published 10 December 2011.
Citation: (2011), The water-energy-climate nexus: Resources and policy outlook for aquifers in Mexico, Water Resour. Res., 47, W00L04, doi:10.1029/2011WR010805.
Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010805
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The last few months (or years) have felt, financially speaking, like one of Christian evangelist, Harold Camping?s claims that ?we are all doomed?.
Whilst we may do our best to ignore the increasingly disturbing financial news coming in from ? well, from everywhere ? for several months now, it's becoming harder to ignore, isn't it? It?s difficult to understand and every other news story seems to open with apocalyptic proclamations about the state of Europe?s finances, the global economy or our ever dwindling expendable cash. The bewilderment of the economics correspondents is frightening to watch.
It has probably never been less clear what normal individuals should do with their money and by the same token, what those in the finance sector should do to allay their fears. What is the best way to manage our search accounts in these difficult times?
Portfolio management
Whilst the recent banking crisis has highlighted some flaws in the practices on which the economy was built, we can still learn a few things from them in regard to the management of our search accounts.
In tough times, it is best practice to minimise your risk. Modern portfolio theory (MPT) is a theory of investment which attempts to maximise portfolio expected return or equivalently minimize risk for a given level of expected return, by carefully choosing the proportions of investment of various assets.
In other words, you increase the chance of improved return on investment, while minimising your risks if you advertise your full portfolio of financial products, and optimising dependent on performance.
Green shoots in Search: Mortgage and Saving Accounts
Recent forecasting suggests that rates on savings are to remain depressed and property prices are forecast to fall. But that?s not to say that interest in those areas is dwindling.
Despite all the doom and gloom, there are some surprising areas of growth in Search advertising. The most financially astute action for individuals is to accelerate the repayment of their mortgages or move to a better deal. Economic turmoil has lead customers to think more about their savings options, with searches up 3% year on year.
Therefore, it makes sense to optimise your mortgage and Savings accounts to ensure that your ad copy has the latest and best rates advertised to capitalise on this traffic. Updating your creatives with your brands unique selling points, latest products and prices helps influence a searcher decision but building trust is also paramount. Ill feeling against the finance industry is at its highest since the great depression and using keyword like ?official? helps build an element of trust between you and your potential customer.
It?s not just lending and savings rates that are driving these queries but also additional fees. In the past British consumers were considered more likely to get divorced than to change their banks, but all this is changing too. We are looking for better deal and with many banks charging a fee for their services, they are searching a number of choices before making an informed decision.
?24% YOY increase in loan related traffic with payday loans showing the most significant rise?
Credit cards and loan accounts are seeing increased interests from a number of fronts. That?s not entirely surprising. "Stressed borrowing" is on the increase, "with more people having to borrow to help finance their spending as a consequence of the extended squeeze on their purchasing power from elevated inflation, low wage growth and tighter fiscal policy. In addition, job losses are rising".
33% of all financial searches are made for loans. Loan based products account for five out of ten of the most searched for personal finance products. On adCenter we have seen a 24% Year on year increase in loan related traffic, with payday loans seeing the most significant rise.
Conversely, there has also been an increase in loan related traffic from those looking to pay off their debt. The financial term is deleveradging, which relates to the fact that it makes more financial sense to pay off debt than to save, and loan and credit card providers advertising the best terms and conditions seeing the best conversions as a result.
January is also a peak month for Loan search traffic, after the expense of Christmas and therefore it is important that all Loan accounts are optimised before the traffic starts rolling in, taking into account those who are in financial difficulty, as well as those interested in paying off debts.
Insuring everything will be OK: home insurance searches on the rise
I?ve already spoken about minimising risk and in these tough times many are insuring themselves should the worst happen.
One sad statistic to come out during the recession is the 14% rise in burglary in England and Wales, with direct correlation between recession and spikes in burglary. In conjunction with the riots that took place all over the UK, and this year?s unpredictable weather, home insurance traffic increased 14% Year on year.
Spread your risk, increase your ROI.
Wait! Come back out of the nuclear bunker, take the tin foil hat off your head - all is not lost. Whilst the mainstream media may paint a very bleak picture of the current economic outlook, nearly all finance sub-verticals are seeing increased interest ? and in some cases for not so obvious reasons.
In order to minimise risk with your finance search accounts, you need to ensure that you are optimising all accounts to show the best rates and deals and if necessary move budget from accounts that aren?t performing well to those which are far more buoyant.
Mick Hucknell was right when he said that ?Money?s too tight to mention?, but it doesn?t mean that the public isn?t thinking about it every day and make the necessary changes to balance their budgets. They are searching for new deals and new products ? are your search accounts ready to turn them from a searcher into a converting customer?
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Chili peppers in wet areas are spicier than their dry counterparts, due to higher capsaicin levels needed to fight seed-attacking fungi. Christopher Intagliata reports
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Spiciness is a chili pepper's best defense against seed-attacking microbes. But not all chilies are hot. Because producing that heat comes at a price. So says a study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [David C. Haak et al., "Why are not all chilies hot? A trade-off limits pungency"]
Researchers looked at wild chili populations along a 185-mile stretch of southern Bolivia, as the climate goes from wet to dry. At each site, they taste-tested chilies for heat. Later they analyzed samples for concentrations of capsaicinoids?the spicy stuff. Turns out only a fifth of the chili plants in dry regions packed heat. But in wet areas, all the chilies were picante. Because that's where fungi attack the peppers, and the chilies need chemical weapons to protect their seeds.
But there is a cost for that defense. The spicy chili plants in this study use water far less efficiently?and during periods of drought, they produce only half as many seeds as their mild cousins.
As for home gardeners hoping to grow spicier chilies? Don't figure on simply watering your garden more. The authors say that to select for spicy genes you?ll have to tend the pepper patch for some 20,000 generations.
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