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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 19, 2011 (2)


How Will Economic Stress Affect the Market?
Seeking Alpha
... simple analogies and rely upon anecdotal evidence. ...the time is ripe [for another AIG or Lehman-level collapse] based upon the growing lack of confidence in the growing debt of Spain, Italy,Greece, Portugal, Ireland and ultimately of France. ...
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Vodafone introduces over-the-air payment for apps
Know Your Mobile
The new service, which is now live in the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain and will launch in Greece, Portugal and Ireland 'before long', allows users to buy an app and add the cost to their phone bill. This marks a major departure from ...
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Barclays shares and swaps battered in US market
Reuters
European banks have been plagued by concerns over their exposure to the debt of financially troubled neighbors such as Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain -- the so-called PIIGS. Barclays isn't immune but a recent six-month earnings report ...
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The Bad News Just Keeps On Coming For Europe
Business Insider
... Merkel simply cannot sell the idea of a “transfer union” in which Germans become responsible for the debts of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) unless Germans genuinely believe that the only alternative is a huge economic crash....
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Business Insider
Greek FinMin: July 21 eurozone deal not in doubt
The Associated Press
The demands have laid bare the divisions within Europe over how to deal with its debt crisis, which has already seen Greece, Ireland and Portugal bailed out, and has threatened the far larger economies of Spain and Italy. Although the amount of cash ...
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Europa League playoff results
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
... Ried (Austria) 0 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 0 Athletic Bilbao (Spain) 0 Trabzonspor (Turkey) 0 Lazio (Italy) 6 Rabotnicki Skopje (Macedonia) 0 AEK Athens (Greece) 1 Dynamo Tbilisi (Georgia) 0 Nacional Madeira (Portugal) 0 Birmingham City (England) ...
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The great depression goes on, but it's really all in the mindset
Sydney Morning Herald
In Bloxham's view, the key to resolving the uncertainty resides with Europe's politicians, and just how much policy flexibility the European Central Bank has to address the poor health of its PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) economies ...
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Global Stocks Fall
Daily Beast
The economic downturn is raising concerns that the heavily indebted governments ofItaly and Spain may soon seek bailouts, as did Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. The fear is that banks will become less willing to loan money to businesses and consumers, ...
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Daily Beast
Brian Monteith: History tells us to keep fighting
Scotsman
How good the Euro was for Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece et al. It would be inevitable that we would join them. Well, I don't see or hear anyone saying Britain's membership of the Euro is inevitable now. Indeed, the discussion is about how ...
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THE greatest lesson from the turmoil on global stockmarkets is don't believe ...
The Australian
Right now there are a lot of punters thinking that the sovereign debt problems of the likes ofPortugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, or the PIIGS, will end up infecting the banks of Europe. One contagion could lead to another -- this is starting ...
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From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next?
Huffington Post
Meanwhile, "across the pond," we have the Eurozone "Too Big to Defaults" -- like the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). These sovereigns are "Too Big to Default" as any default may put both Eurozone and US banks at risk in our ...
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Bargain hunters wary of cheap bank stocks
Reuters
"The market is starting to price in writedowns of sovereign debt not only in Portugal,Greece and Ireland but also Italy and Spain and the associated recapitalizations ... It is getting pretty extreme," the fund manager said. Barclays (BARC. ...
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Reuters
There's nothing like a market crash to ruin a perfect day
The National
Investors are responding to the failure of the European Central Bank to take charge of the debt crisis and to stop the recent crisis over Greece, Portugal and Ireland extending to the much larger economies of Spain and Italy. ...
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Glass half-full or empty, we'll all need a drink
Sydney Morning Herald
... comments came from the ANZ chief, Mike Smith: ''Europe is frankly a mess, with quite genuine concerns about the solvency of countries such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal [and] the contagion effect that has on countries such as Italy and Spain. ...
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Mine and bank shares lead the retreat as downturn fears wipe off $44bn
The Australian
There were "quite genuine concerns", he said, about the solvency of countries such as Greece,Ireland and Portugal, and a contagion effect was presenting a challenge for Italy and Spain. Investors worldwide sought out traditional havens in uncertain ...
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ANZ Bank boss warns of global turmoil ahead
The Australian
"Europe is a mess, with quite genuine concerns about the solvency of countries like Greece,Ireland and Portugal, and now there is the contagion effect, which is a challenge for Italy and forSpain. partisan nature of its current politics and that's ...
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Ten questions about the Financial Transaction Tax that need answering
Financial News
He added: “In terms of a short term solution to the problems in Greece, Italy,Portugal and Spain, I can't see any revenue coming from this. This is a medium to long-term revenue raiser, it's not going to help in the next six months. ...
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Financial News
Major Investor CalPERS Rides out Big Waves in Markets With Calm Approach
PBS NewsHour
And here we're talking about banks. People are familiar with Greece and Portugal and Ireland. The bond market in Italy is the third largest in the world. If there's real trouble in Italy and in Spain, there isn't the capacity today in the European ...
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Castle hosts Civil War anniversary display
NorthJersey.com
Imagine if you hold a chunk of the sovereign debts of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugalor Ireland. Late night comedians and uninformed pundits in print and broadcast keep harping on the theme that we might all have to learn mandarin, since China owns us. ...
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NorthJersey.com
Field: We need to stimulate growth
Westminster Chronicle
The coalition may have made progress in starting to reactivate our economy after the disaster of three Labour terms, but with Greece facing default, Ireland, Portugal Spain and Italy being supported by the European Central Bank Dr Morgan's report is a ...
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Securing euro's stability and credibility
Times of Malta
While the agreement among euro area leaders on July 21 provided strong support for Greece, as well as additional stability for Portugal and Ireland, it was clear that markets saw little in the package to help strengthen the situation in Italy and Spain ...
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Fears Of Eurozone Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - Citigroup
Wealth Briefing (subscription)
“The EU and the euro area have the means to prevent disorderly sovereign defaults even when the sovereigns are most likely insolvent (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and, in the case of Greece, already engaged in a process that will lead to a selective ...
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NYT: Merkel arrives in Paris to Beg
Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Washington, ... engulfed Ireland, Greeceand Portugal and threatens to pull in Spain and Italy as well. ...
mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=829286&f=20
Business - WSJ.com: Greece, Ireland, Portugal Should Default on…
Greece, Ireland, Portugal Should Default on Debt, Pimco Says. (Posted on BusinessWeek.com -- Top News at Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:53PM) ... let Greece, Ireland and Portugal default while taking steps to ensure Italy and Spain won't, ...
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Pimco: Greece has to dafault to save Spain and Italy
Pimco: Greece has to dafault to save Spain and Italy ... allow Greece, Ireland and Portugaldefault making sure that Italy and Spain will ... Read all news ...
www.fbs.com/analytics/news_markets/view/8399

SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 19, 2011


Astronomers Detect Presence of Fullerene Molecules in Space
AZoNano.com
By Cameron Chai An astronomy team at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory has detected the presence of the C60 and C70 fullerene molecules in space utilizing the Spitzer SpaceTelescope. The team is also working on the first extragalactic ...
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Nightly news: astronomy A Fabulous Space Telescope -- If It Flies
Deseret News (blog)
The James Webb Space Telescope. [NASA illustration of the James Webb SpaceTelescope in position about 1 million miles from Earth. The sunshield, shown in blue, is nearly the size of a tennis court. The observatory stands to vastly enlarge our ...
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Deseret News (blog)
Exoplanets team wins Hubble 'coup'
The Press Association
An international team of scientists led by the UK is aiming to answer some of the biggest questions facing astronomy after securing a "major coup" on Nasa's Hubble space telescope. The team is planning to explore the atmospheric conditions of planets ...
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Star gazing event draws local astronomers
The Downey Patriot
by Rebekah Jin, Contributor DOWNEY – Both local and out-of-town astronomy enthusiasts gathered at the Columbia Memorial Space Center last Friday for its second star gazing party of the summer. Thanks to the effort of volunteers, a variety of telescopes ...
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World's largest radio telescope project will not include US
Richmond County Daily Journal
Gibson has used his own 'Ham' radio to contact and speak to astronauts on the Space Station. “Radio astronomy has an interesting subject,” said Gibson. “It all started when Karl Jensky was tasked by Bell Labs to figure out why they were getting noise ...
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Summer send-off programs for kids
Canada.com
Blast off on a journey of discovery in Kids in Space. Learn about the solar system, astronomy, rockets and the Space Station. Hands on experiments, crafts, stories, and astronaut missions will complete this program for 3 to 5 year olds. ...
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Sun heats up for a new cycle
Albany Times Union
Bob Berman of Woodstock is the astronomy editor of the Old Farmers Almanac and a contributing editor of Astronomy magazine. He is the author of "The Sun's Heartbeat -- And Other Stories from the Life of the Star that Powers Our Planet," published this ...
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RPI's Xi-Cheng Zhang to take helm at UR Institute of Optics
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Zhang, who is currently acting head of the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomyat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, is author or co-author of 19 books and has 26 US patents. He succeeds Wayne Knox, who will become associate ...
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Taking the Pulse of Molecular Rotational Spectroscopy
Science Careers Blog (subscription)
High-resolution molecular rotational spectra at terahertz frequencies are now being acquired by the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Early results from Herschel have ...
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Making Interdisciplinarity Possible
Inside Higher Ed
Elizabeth H. Simmons is dean of the Lyman Briggs College and a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University. Michael P. Nelson holds a joint appointment as an associate professor of environmental ethics and ...
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Ground-Breaking Electromagnetic Wave Technology to Turn Science-Fiction to ...
Send2Press Newswire (press release)
For those familiar with the spectrograph commonly used in astronomy – which determines the elemental make-up of celestial objects based on how those objects affect light passing through them – this is not an entirely unfamiliar concept. ...
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Send2Press Newswire (press release)
UVU in continuous state of building
Daily Herald
It has a greenhouse on top, and an astronomy viewing area." The science building will also have state-of-the-art labs for biology, physics and chemistry. This allows more students the ability to be on schedule with their individual programs. ...
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Comet Elenin poses no threat to Earth
Astronomy Magazine
You are correct that the way astronomers measure the mass of one object is by its gravitational effect on another, but comets are far too small to have a measurable influence on anything.” If we had a black or brown dwarf in our outer solar system, ...
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Carnival of Space #211 | Vintage Space
By asteitel
Back by popular demand is the video blog series Meet An Astronomer, this week featuring Harvard associate professor in the astronomy department Julia Lee. Discovery News looks at a monster of a quasar – a reminder that we don't know the ...
Vintage Space
Which Astronomical Object Do YOU Want to See? : Discovery News
On Friday, BBC astronomer Mark Thompson will use a multi-million dollar telescope to zoom in on an object chosen by Discovery News readers.
news.discovery.com/.../social-astronomy-faulkes-telescope-11...
Russia loses newly launched telecom satellite (AP) | Space ...
Science, Space, Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! Home. « Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball (SPACE.com) ...
kepea.com/.../russia-loses-newly-launched-telecom-satellite-ap/
Scientists solve mystery of space blob's glow - Topix
Scientists solve mystery of space blob's glow. Full story: MSNBC. This image shows one of the largest ... Email me Astronomy news. Learn more. Comments ...
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