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Dec 17, 2011

ARGENTINA Summer News, Dec 17, 2011


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Summertime, and the living ain't easy
Buenos Aires Herald
Perhaps an early test of that credibility will be the reform of INDEC statistics agency to giveArgentina some serious macro-economic data for the first time in nearly five years — whether Lorenzino even has that aim on his wish list and if he does, ...
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Juventus prepare £21m bid for Manchester City's Carlos Tevez
The Guardian
Nedved, the former Czech Republic international, has spoken to Mancini several timesto instigate discussions about the Argentina international. The Serie A club have proposed a £21m package but City are hopeful they can get more than that in the face...
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The Guardian
Trezeguet set to join Argentina's River Plate
Fox News
Trezeguet spent his childhood in Argentina and came through the ranks at Platense. After leaving Spanish club Hercules in the summer, Trezeguet has been playing in the United Arab Emirates with Baniyas.
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Gloucester Rugby: It is make or break time - Matias Cortese
Thisisgloucestershire
Cortese only signed a one-year contract when he made the Kingsholm switch in the summer – and he knows he must use the next few months to state his case for a new deal. Cortese revealedArgentina's coaches warned him only to sign for the Cherry and ...
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp praises Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The Italian champions made an offer to acquire Tevez on loan in January with an option to make the Argentina international's stay permanent next summer. Tevez is also a reported target of Paris Saint-Germain but Galliani said: "Our offer is final. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Greater world production dominates outlook, crop prices soften as 2011 draws ...
Agri-View
Combined wheat production in Australia and Argentina is expected to be only about 2.5 percent smaller than last year's large output. Combined corn production in South Africa, Argentina, and Brazil is expected to be 11 percent larger than that of 2011, ...
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Arsenal go courting Argentine playmaker Lucas Biglia
First Post
The nutty professor was said to be after the 26-year-old Nigerian last summer but Taiwo opted instead for a move from Marseille to AC Milan. But things haven't worked out for the full-back and he's making no secret of the fact he wants more game time. ...
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On Quathafi Killing, Who Is ICC's Luis Moreno Ocampo Fooling?
Black Star News
Was he ever a crusader for justice at all in Argentina or was that reputation myth? Ocampo thissummer will pass the baton to his deputy Fatou Bensouda from the Gambia. We hope she did not learn much from him. In time, a clearer and more informed ...
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Corn, Soybeans Rise on Dry Weather Outlook: Commodities at Close
BusinessWeek
UK summer natural gas slipped to its lowest in 10 months amid record storage for the time of year and forecasts for milder weather that may cut demand even as four liquefied gas tankers sail to Britain. The summer contract, for the six months from ...
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Livestock and grain marketing for 2012
Agri-View
With the extreme high costs to plant new crop and with old crop corn stored and more than $2 per bushel lower off the summer highs, January 2012 soybeans down more than $3.70 per bushel andFebruary 2012 Live Cattle $10 per hundredweight lower from the ...
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EU wheat little changed, more competition seen
Reuters Africa
Egypt this week bought French wheat for the first time since the summer, helped by a weak euro and a discount by the seller. * "The question is: will there be any more?," one trader asked. *Argentina should harvest 13.6 million tonnes of wheat in the ...
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NH hikes help prepare for Patagonia
Foster's Daily Democrat
Now I can truly say thank you, Mom and Dad, for taking me on all those hikes. I owe this amazing memory to you. Be warned, though, if you try to make me come on another hike with you thissummer, I may just stay in Argentina.
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O'Malley making all the right moves on the number 13 route
Irish Times
O'Malley had played 10 league games the following season – Schmidt had taken over that summer – when O'Driscoll suffered a cracked jaw while leading Ireland againstArgentina in a November Test. He was ruled out of the province's December trip to take ...
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Irish Times
Seed company sold
AG Week
Schuler, who grew up in an entrepreneurial farm and grain supply business, was a summertimeworker for Fick. Schuler, now 59, and Fick, 69, were invested in a number of start-up companies together through the years. Schuler has been involved in a dozen ...
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A rich tradition
ESPN
Martinez, who returned from Argentina, found out how that works when he started to drill for public records. The Summer Splash disclosure came from a request he sent to ACC schools asking for records of their bowl-related travel. ...
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Isn't it time the National Theatre went international?
The Guardian (blog)
Nunn's very first year (1989) included four such imported productions from Argentina'sTeatro del Sur, Moscow Art Theatre, Steppenwolf and Ninagawa Company, and imports continued throughout his tenure – but then they abruptly stop. One reason for this, ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Avi Creditor: Whitbread back for Norwich, eyes chance with U.S.
SI.com
The summer passed without Whitbread returning to the national team radar, and as the fall friendlies approached, the injury bug hit the Texas-born, former Liverpool youth player yet again. This time it was a hamstring injury that kept him out for more ...
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Transfer Window: Tevez, Drogba and Ranking the Most Wanted Players in January
Bleacher Report
With Drogba's contract expiring over the summer, next year numerous clubs will be looking to get the deadly striker's signature. With Italian giants AC Milan along with premier league rivals Tottenham expressing interest in the Ivorian, ...
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Amanda Byram: It's hard not to be sucked in by Hollywood
Mirror.co.uk
Now that she's splitting her time between the UK and filming Total Wipeout inArgentina, with the odd trip to work in LA or catch up with family in Dublin, she says she couldn't be happier with the life balance she's found – or the work that's come her...
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Mirror.co.uk
Ancelotti the key to Tevez and Beckham joining PSG
The Roar
That is a long time for a fully-fit footballer to be kicking his heels. Tévez has returned to Argentinaand is not expected back in Manchester until his future is resolved. Nothing formal has been agreed, it seems, but City are aware of that ...
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Mario Balotelli was involved in a furious bust-up with Manchester City team ...
Express.co.uk
It was not the only headache for manager Roberto Mancini amid reports that rebel striker Carlos Tevez allegedly laughed at City's Champions League exit while in his native Argentina. Balotelli and Richards had to be restrained by their team-mates as ...
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Edmundo: Party animal
ESPN
After all I've been through in recent times, I think I deserve it." That summer, he was included in the Brazil squad for the 1998 World Cup in France, even though it was clear that Zagallo had serious reservations over his character. ...
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ISAF Sailing World Championships - 45 nations qualify for London 2012
Sail World
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Spain, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden and the USA all came through to take the qualification places. Slovenia's Tina Mrak and Teja Cerne had their best days sailing at ...
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Reflections on the past 15 months (2)
The Nation Newspaper
They also got to the quarter finals, before losing gallantly to four-time world champions Brazil. The Super Falcons also camped for FOUR WEEKS in Austria before the FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany in the summer. The team was not disgraced, ...
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Women in Cuba: Education & Employment Before the Revolution
Havana Times
The proportion of males who were illiterate (26 percent) exceeded that of females (21 percent), and only Argentina had a higher female literacy rate in Latin America (85 percent). 19 According to the 1953 census, women constituted 37 percent of ...
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CHILE Summer News, Dec 17, 2011


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Chile's bid to save energy: men, leave your ties at home
Christian Science Monitor
By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer / December 15, 2011 It's the Chilean government's latest slogan: Welcome to Chile, take off your tie. But it's not an invitation to sit down and relax – it's a call to save energy. As the summer kicks off in the ...
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Chile offers a wealth of natural wonders
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
At the beginning of December, when the Chilean summer is just beginning, the smooth flanks of this 2900-metre-high volcano of black sand and scree are still carpeted almost entirely with snow. As the visitor moves closer to the sleeping giant, ...
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Sleepless in Santiago: Excursion to Pucón, Chile's adventure capital
Santiago Times
signal that summer has hit in full force. So when a Thursday holiday snuck up in mid-December, allowing for a long weekend, I knew I had to go south to escape the dry heat. After a little research on the internet my friend and I decided on our ...
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American Bedoya is no lone Ranger
ESPN
Victor Decolongon/Getty Images Bedoya was part of the US midfield for an international friendly with Chile in January. Irrespective of his recent health woes, Bedoya's ascent from modest Orebro in Sweden to Scotland's most successful team,...
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Around the World 12/15 - Morn Ed
Arirang News
She said she was interested in acting and her dad will always make time to work with her on little scenarios and improvs. Santiago, Chile is notoriously stifling during the summer, with temperatures routinely reaching over 30 degrees Celsius. ...
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Torres will not be sold – until the summer...
The Independent
Chelsea have not yet made any formal contact with Universidad de Chile over their much-coveted forward Eduardo Vargas, rated at around £10m. The Portuguese is, it is thought, more concerned with reviving his interest in the Uruguayan winger Alvaro ...
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Guatemalan soldiers keeping the peace in Haiti
Tico Times
MINUSTAH's current chief is Mariano Fernández, a former Chilean foreign minister who served as Chile's ambassador to the United States from 2006 to 2009. His predecessor was Edmond Mulet, a Guatemalan lawyer who now directs UN peacekeeping missions ...
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Tico Times
New cookbooks arrive in time for holiday gift-giving
Napa Valley Register
Dishes such as Farro Salad with Mushrooms and Butternut Squash, Spaghetti with Tuna, Capers and Chile Flakes, Sumac-Roasted Chicken, Moroccan Lamb Meatloaf and Citrus Olive Oil Cake reflect an honest and uncomplicated cooking style that home cooks of ...
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Napa Valley Register
Roberto Bolano lives on
Salon
Even as this substantial change is occurring, another more fundamental one happens: the narrative frame hiccups from post-coup Chile to 1980s Spain, where the book becomes a search for the now long-lost Weider that revolves around a classic “locked ...
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Liverpool FC: 10 January Transfer Targets Fans Are Excited About
Bleacher Report
Martinez insists that he's not interested in leaving Spain any time soon, but such is his promise and composure that it seems only a matter of time before he does. Club sources insist any move won't happen before the summer, however. ...
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The year of the networked revolution
The Guardian
Marches and protest camps in Chile and Israel. The arrival of Occupy Wall Street – which was cleared by police, though it will surely return in some form – and a movement-cum-meme that quickly arrived in London and beyond. And all the time, ...
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The Guardian
World Soccer Daily: 10 stories you need to read, December 15th, 2011
World Soccer
He will be out for a long time.” As for how long, no one yet knows, but suggestions that the injury could keep him out of action for six months, obviously makers the Spain forward a doubt for nextsummer's Euro 2012 finals. “We won't be complaining to ...
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Cosmic Black Hole Collision is Coming
Forbes
According to their calculations, its center of mass will reach Sagittarius A* in thesummer of 2013. Gillessen and his team made their observations at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, targeting the Milky Way's central ...
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Give Your Body a Boost With Blueberries
MarketWatch (press release)
You can enjoy fresh blueberries all year thanks to blueberries from Chile, where it's summer during our winter time. Do your body a favor and treat yourself to something that is as good as it is good for you, like this salad and refreshing smoothie. ...
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Brazil: Splendidly Isolated
Latin Business Chronicle
Open economies across the planet, such as Singapore and Chile , are bracing for 2012. The possible collapse of the euro and the growing probability of a hard landing in China darken the horizon. However, Brazil is an oasis of relative calm, ...
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The Week in Review
theTrumpet.com
Vatican works to improve relations with Chile: During a visit to Chile this week, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Dominique Mamberti met with top officials of the Chileangovernment. They discussed topics of mutual interest, ...
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Barcelona Wins 'Clasico' VS Real Madrid 3-1
Fox News
(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) Real Madrid's Coentrao, left, and Pepe from Portugal, center, vies for the ball with FC Barcelona's Alexis Sanchez from Chile, right, during their Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, ...
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Clouds on the horizon
Environmental Finance
But the European debt crisis, which accelerated over the summer, has seen bank lending seize up once more, as Eurozone banks struggle to refinance themselves. “The European syndicated loan market for project finance has become increasingly challenging ...
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Falkland Islands: Far and wild in the Atlantic
The Independent
I am here in November, at the start of the southern summer. Next April marks 30 years since the start of the conflict. Together with the recent announcement that Prince William is to be stationed in the British colony, the spotlight will soon be back ...
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David Villa suffers a broken shinbone - reports
Sporting Alert (blog)
The Spanish international, who got the start for the clash, after playing as a substitute in recent matches, was taken on stretchers in the 39th minute and was replaced by Chile summer recruit Alexis Sanchez. Villa is certainly out out for the rest of ...
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The world this year
The Economist
After a summer of conflict, Qaddafi was captured by rebels in his home town and swiftly killed. He had ruled Libya since 1969. In Israel 450000 people marched on one day to air a range of grievances about declining living standards. In Chile students ...
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The Medieval Warm Period in Southern South America
CO2 Science Magazine
The international research team -- composed of scientists from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States -- write that their summertemperature reconstruction suggests that "a warm period extended ...
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Karate duo excels on world stage
Regina Leader-Post
"This summer I had shoulder surgery on my right shoulder, and the time I had to take away while I was doing my rehab was some the worst times ever." "I'm not going to compete forever, but I'll probably be doing karate forever," Tchozewski says. ...
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Birmingham v Maribor Europa League preview: Chris Burke optimistic as Blues ...
MirrorFootball.co.uk
Burke reckons Blues were written off as Euro no-hopers after a fire-sale in the summer following their relegation to the Championship. UEFA's much-maligned second-tier competition was branded a distraction they could do without in new manager Chris ...
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One Cheer for Democracy
American Thinker
This was certainly the response to coups against Communist takeovers in Indonesia in October 1965 and in Chile in September 1973. Castro had been lionized by the left in the US for two decades. But the prospect of a one-party state, the elimination of ...
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