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Dec 10, 2011

ARGENTINA Summer News, Dec 10, 2011


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Frommer's Buenos Aires 4th Edition Arrives With Gusto
Forbes
It's summer in Argentina, the perfect time to head down for some tango dancing, Casa Rosada gazing, outdoor market shopping and alfajore gobbling—not to mention hobnobbing in see-and-be-seen Palermo dining spots, or heading out to the beaches of...
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Nadal ends his trying year a winner again with Spain
The Independent
The last time FC Bayern came to Manchester, they left having eliminated the best team in England fro... Craven Cottage used to be a fortress for Fulham and although they are still hard to defeat there, th... Greece will open next summer's Euro 2012 ...
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Mancini eager to sell Tevez
Irish Times
He had already expressed a desire to leave England during the summer and is currently Awol inArgentina after refusing to return to training following an internal club suspension. Mancini, who believes Tevez has been badly advised, ...
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Cut-price Argentine wheat wins Egyptian order
Agrimoney.com
Officials in Egypt, the top wheat importer, bought Argentine supplies at tender for the first timesince February, buying all but 60000 tonnes of a 240000-tonne order from the South American country. The purchases were Egypt's first outside the Black ...
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David Lawrason's take on Vintages December 10th Release
National Post (blog)
By David Lawrason I experienced a secret pleasure while spending twelve days in Argentinarecently. It was not the perfect mid-summer temperatures, nor the surprisingly good food (beef and otherwise), nor those rich creamy malbecs. ...
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Revised WTCC calendar released, adds Argentina, drops UK
TouringCarTimes
Overall, the 2012 WTCC season will add four new circuits to the Championship at Salzburg, Argentina, Sonoma and the Shanghai International Circuit; whilst Britain and Germany will be absent for the first time in the Championship's history. ...
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TouringCarTimes
Middlesbrough's Julio Arca: "Tony Mowbary Is A Great Manager"
Sabotage Times
Over the summer everyone thought I was 34 or 35, which put clubs off I think. I am a way off that yet! Seen as you seem set on a move back to Argentina, have you any plans for what you would like to do once you retire? At the moment, I can't see myself...
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Sabotage Times
Nadal Survives Weak Opening to Lead Spain to Davis Cup Win: Fan Reaction
Yahoo! Sports
Nadal has indicated he won't play in the Davis Cup next year, and will instead focus on defending his Olympic title at the Summer Games in London. After coming on strong in the doubles match the day before, Argentina positioned themselves for a ...
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Inter Milan rule out swoop for Carlos Tevez
The Sun
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani admits the Rossoneri have already made an offer to sign the 27-year-old on loan in January with an option to buy next summer. But Inter insist the Argie hitman is not on their January sales shopping list after ...
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Boca good winner of poor tournament
Buenos Aires Herald
Boca Juniors'' Juan Román Riquelme, bottom, celebrates with teammates winning Argentina''s soccer league championship title after defeating Banfield 3-0 at an Argentine league soccer match on Sunday. On August 14, after finishing seventh in last ...
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Duellists with a score to settle
Irish Times
Messi, who had summered in Argentina, was asked repeatedly what he wanted to do; he decided to return to Barça of his own volition. He also, famously, overcame a growth hormone problem at this time. He admits he was so miserable at times that he used...
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Irish Times
Uruguay with “two economic teams, let us not play with fire” warns top economist
MercoPress
Following Talvi the Argentine economist and taxing expert Miguel Kiguel talked about recent events in Argentina and what these could mean for Uruguay. Kiguel said Argentines will continue to find difficulties in having access to dollars and this ...
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MercoPress
Asterisk is galling for Atalanta
The National
On their return to Serie A last summer, they picked up an unwanted addition to their reputation. In the league table they effectively have a new name: Atalanta*. The asterisk is there to explain why, despite being second only to unbeaten Juventus in ...
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The National
Can Anyone but Barcelona Win the FIFA Club World Cup?
Fox News
That is why he does so well for Barcelona, but struggles playing for Argentina. Neymar plays well for Santos and for Brazil.” While Neymar is a promising talent and can fill the net, the 24-year-old Messi has been around the block and then some, ...
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Ternium Shareholders Seen Losing Two Decades in Brazilian Steel: Real M&A
Bloomberg
Construction projects for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics may also drive demand for locally produced steel. “Ternium had been looking to enter the Brazilian market for a long time, and this was its opportunity,” Reos said in a telephone ...
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Let the El Clásico build-up commence!
ESPN (blog)
It's time. It's the fixture we've been waiting for since...well, since the 2011-12 La Liga fixtures were announced back in the summer. The Spanish Super Cup may have provided a fiery and freescoring match in typical Clasico fashion between Los Blancos ...
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Preparing for a trip to 'the other Pole'
Chattanooga Times Free Press
In total, we'll end up roughly 7000 miles south of the Tennessee Valley by the time we reach the Antarctic Peninsula. Right now "Frosty the Snowman" is playing in the background, but in the Southern Hemisphere summer is about to begin. ...
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Gutierrez seeks a reason to dance
The Northern Echo
It makes me feel much closer to my country because it is music from Argentina that I listen to. "I play it in the dressing room and at the training ground as well. We also have the iPod of Steven Taylor. He puts his music on, which is a selection of ...
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South America 2012
Agriculture.com
Strong domestic prices in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay are encouraging farmers to expand both first-crop corn and soybean acreage. With some early planting in September in parts of the three Latin American countries, fieldwork rolls on through the...
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Worldwide acclaim for ground breaking local heroines
Times Higher Education
Tahtamouni, for example, has spent three months every summer since 2006 in US or Australian labs and hopes to spend the academic year 2012-13 on sabbatical either in one of those countries or in Germany or the UK. Yet, although "the award has opened ...
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Socrates – The day a football dream died
CNN International (blog)
Out-played by the Dutch 'Total Football' in 1974, and the goal difference victims of Argentina'shighly-dubious 6-0 success over Peru in 1978. But this was the team that would change all that, a team playing football from another planet. ...
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Son inspires his father to join choir
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
He went on tour with the group to Argentina, China and, just this past summer, to the western United States, where he got the chance to visit the Grand Canyon, an absolute favorite of his. Both boys love singing in front of crowds, but it can be a bit ...
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Griffin and McSharry commit to Connacht
Irish Examiner
He has 9 caps for Ireland U20, scoring a try against Argentina and Samoa in the IRB Junior World Championships last year as well as tries against Wales and England in the 2010 U20 6 Nations. Dave McSharry joined Connacht this season having left ...
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Said & Done
The Guardian
Julio Grondona – Sepp's deputy, in his ninth straight term as Argentina's FA head – acquitted of his latest fraud charges. "In my 32 years in office I've been charged more than Al Capone – and never once been punished. I just ignore these chancers, ...
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The Guardian
Paris Saint-Germain boss Antoine Kombouare annoyed but not distracted by sack ...
Goal.com
PSG's highest-profile summer signing was Argentina international Javier Pastore, who, after an impressive start to his time in France, has found life a bit tougher of late. Despite the playmaker recently criticising team-mates for not being on the same ...
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CHILE Summer News, Dec 10, 2011


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Chile goods rolling on
Khaleej Times
Why did you decide to introduce these products from Chile? Nuts and dried fruits consumption per person is very high in the Middle East compared to most other regions. Chile has ideal temperate climate with moderate temperatures and dry and warm summer ...
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Anaconda sells Chilean iron assets for $11 million
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
With the other US$2 million payment in approximately six months and cash flow from Pine Cove, Anaconda could potentially pay down a significant amount of its debt by thesummer 2012," Angelo concluded. Hierro Tal Tal's general manager, Antonio Barros ...
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Chilean blueberry group maps peak harvest campaign
The Packer
“We're committed to providing support to our retail and foodservice base not only by ensuring a continuous winter-time supply of high-quality, summer-fresh fruit, but with creative promotional programs that resonate with consumers and trade alike,” ...
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Chelsea FC: Blues Target Chilean Eduardo Vargas as the Next Alexis Sanchez
Bleacher Report
Chelsea hope to beat a host of European clubs who hope to jump on the renaissance that is Chilean football. This summer two of the bigger transfers in Europe involved Chileans, as Barcelona paid €27m for Udinese's 22-year-old Alexis Sanchez and ...
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Bleacher Report
Looking ahead on avocado market
The Packer
The super-strong summer avocado markets came to a screeching halt this fall when Mexico, Chileand — new this year — Peru came calling with product. Prices fell so far, so fast, many Chileanshippers got scared off and steered more of their product ...
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Chilean Blueberry Committee Launches Major "Media Blitz"
PerishableNews (press release)
... Tom Tjerandsen, Managing Director of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, said, “We're committed to providing support to our retail and foodservice base not only by ensuring a continuous winter-time supply of high-quality, summer-fresh fruit, ...
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Sleepless in Santiago: Weekend in Mendoza
Santiago Times
One great option for a quick get-a-way to sooth the summer travel itch is Mendoza. I'd never been, and after nine months of being in Chile, it was time to see it for myself. There are many buses that run to Mendoza at all hours, so booking a bus is ...
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Hicks: Terrence Howard's wife gets restraining order.
San Jose Mercury News
Nyro, who wrote such hits the 5th Dimension's "Wedding Bell Blues" and Blood Sweat & Tears' "And When I Die," is the only female act to make it this time around. The hall passed on Donna Summer, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Heart and Rufus with Chaka ...
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Why Senior Voters Will Turn Against Newt Gingrich
The Fiscal Times
“Other countries, such as Chile, have found that this model creates vast savings while giving beneficiaries more control over when and how they plan to retire.” “If you are for destroying Social Security – if you like that idea – then you should ...
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The Fiscal Times
Monday's gossip column - transfers and rumours
BBC Sport
Chelsea are eyeing a move to sign Universidad de Chile and Chile international forward Eduardo Vargas as Nicolas Anelka's replacement. Chelsea are also in the hunt for 17-year-old Serbian striker Lazar Markovic. The Partizan Belgrade forward is one of ...
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European Banks Shuffle Bonds to Bolster Capital
New York Times
On Wednesday, Grupo Santander of Spain said it would sell its Colombian units to CorpBanca of Chile for $1.23 billion. In total, European financial players are expected to sell or write down more than $1.8 trillion of loan assets over the next decade, ...
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New York Times
City could be first link in international peace corridor
Standard Freeholder
Shaukat Chaney has already begun chipping away at a block of limestone, which will become his contribution to Cornwall's sculpture park, part of a larger peace corridor stretching from Canada toChile. By CHERYL BRINK CBRINK@STANDARD-FREEHOLDER. ...
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Adorn Your Holiday Table with Local Food and Wine from Harford and Baltimore ...
The Dagger
Early American pilgrims, harvested the summer crops to produce an abundant feast to share with friends and family. A local sojurn recently took me on a journey to meet and greet our local winery friends in Harford and Baltimore counties this month to ...
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Dakar 2012: Video inside the official launch of the race in Peru
Peru this Week
The past two years the race started off in Buenos Aires, ran through Chile and ended back at the starting point. There's no comparing the last routes with the upcoming 2012 route. It's an unprecedented Pan-American adventure that will take participants ...
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London 2012 Offers First Local Torchbearer Places
Chesterfield Post
Hundreds of people locally are now one step closer to becoming a London 2012 Olympic Torchbearer and having their moment to shine next summer. Sebastian Coe, Chair of LOCOG, said: "Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate a friend,...
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Chesterfield Post
Cooking Off the Cuff: Meat and potatoes
Washington Post (blog)
(Edward Schneider for The Washington Post) Now that the weather has turned cool (cold, some might say), my thoughts recently turned back to our summer visit to Newcastle, where we had free run of a huge garden. This was soon after I'd read the first ...
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Glaciers in retreat around the world
The Independent
The discovery has implications for the hundreds of millions of people in the world - from the Andes of South America to the Himalayas - who rely on a steady and regular flow of glacier water to prevent rivers running dry during summer months. ...
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Arctic sea freezing fast north of Alaska but may be too little, too late
Alaska Dispatch
After shrinking to one of the smallest summer extents of the past 30 years, the ice cap over the Arctic Ocean has been re-growing quickly as the dark polar winter tightens its grip. During November, plunging temperatures refroze an average of more than ...
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Alaska Dispatch
Teal Bunbury Gets Olympic Team Tryout: Fan Reaction
Yahoo! Sports
The group matches will be played in Nashville, Tenn., for the Americans since the tournament doesn't have much turnaround time. The Summer Olympics begin in late July in London, Great Britain. William Browning played soccer for ten years growing up in ...
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Airlines slash prices to stimulate demand before Christmas in face of ...
NEWS.com.au
LAN Airlines has fares from Sydney to Santiago in Chile from $1127 and Melbourne from $1242 and Sydney to Buenos Aires in Argentina from $1237. Centre for Pacific Aviation analyst Will Horton said there would be an influx of flights to South America ...
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TEN QUESTIONS FOR SLOAN SCHAFFER by Brook S. Mason
Artnet
At the same time, I have international clients from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Switzerland and Germany. Some of them have homes here on the Gold Coast. I believe in a huge internet presence, so I am active on Twitter and I appear on a number of blogs. ...
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Chelsea Transfer News and Rumours, Monday 5 December
Football Gossip
However, with only nine international appearances in two years for Chile there may be a problem with him obtaining a work permit. The Mail also links Chelsea with Lille midfielder Eden Hazard though he is likely to be a target next summer – and an ...
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Football Gossip
Golf: Phillip Price is just on the money to make a 22nd season on the European ...
WalesOnline (blog)
It seemed small beer compared to the £5950000 three-time European Tour winner Price has amassed in his years among the big-hitters of Europe. That payday kept his card by the slenderest of margins – just £1088 to be precise from Chile's Mark Tullo ...
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Two Tar Heels Among Pan Am Elite
TarHeelBlue.com
Other countries represented were Argentina and Chile (three each), Canada (two), and Barbados, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay (one each). The US won the Pam Am Games gold in 2011 for the first time ever, earning a berth in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in ...
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TarHeelBlue.com
1000 Places to See Before You Die, Take 2
Travel Weeekly
Extravagant beauty campaigns funded by boards of tourism convince us that India, Chile and Mexico must be seen before we die (I concur), while box-office films set in Bruges, Bora Bora and Tuscany as interpreted by Merchant Ivory portray a setting and ...
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