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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wall Street ends 7-day slide (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks rebounded from seven days of losses on Monday as investors used the latest effort from European leaders to resolve the region's debt crisis as an opportunity to cover short positions.
Trading was light, a sign skepticism remains high. Just 6.8 billion shares changed hands during the day on U.S. exchanges, below the daily average of 8 billion shares.
After the market's close, Fitch Ratings revised to negative the outlook on the United States' AAA credit rating after a special congressional committee failed to agree on at least $1.2 trillion in budget cuts.
Retailers were among the strong sectors following an robust start to the U.S. holiday shopping season. Record sales over the Thanksgiving weekend buoyed gains in large retailers, including Macy's, which rose 4.7 percent to $30.84.
The gains follow a seven-day string of losses on the benchmark S&P 500. The latest attempt to get the euro zone problems on the path to improvement involve a Franco-German push for tighter budgetary control over euro zone members.
Analysts say the move may not be followed by more buying without an actual plan for euro zone help.
"Unfortunately, these rallies are short-lived until real dollars or real euros are injected into the financial system," said Chad Morganlander, portfolio manager at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Germany and France pushed to acquire powers to reject national budgets in the euro zone that breach European Union rules ahead of an EU summit on December 9.
An Italian newspaper report suggested the International Monetary Fund was preparing a rescue plan for Italy, but the IMF denied the report.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 291.23 points, or 2.59 percent, at 11,523.01. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 33.88 points, or 2.92 percent, at 1,192.55. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 85.83 points, or 3.52 percent, at 2,527.34.
Stock futures showed little movement after the announcement from Fitch, and analysts said it was probably expected by the market.
"I don't think we're going to see much of a market reaction. It's generally confirmation of what's been built into the market," said Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at The Davidson Cos in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
During the regular session, all 10 S&P sectors were up sharply, but energy and consumer discretionary stocks were among sectors with the biggest gains. The S&P energy index was up 3.6 percent, while the S&P consumer discretionary index was up 3 percent and S&P financials rose 3 percent.
Weak consumer spending has been a worry for investors, and the holiday period would likely confirm whether there's been any improvement in that area.
A report on consumer confidence in November, which is expected to have risen, is due Tuesday.
The S&P retail index advanced 3.1 percent, including Best Buy Co Inc, which added 3.4 percent to $26.49.
(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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Strong global sales boost Tiffany's 3Q results (AP)
NEW YORK ? Foreign tourists in the U.S. and luxury shoppers globally continued to snap up jewelry seller Tiffany & Co.'s baubles in the third-quarter, sending the jewelry seller's profit up 63 percent.
The luxury retailer known for its iconic turquoise box raised its full-year forecast as a result performance. But selling more high-priced jewelry like engagement rings and high-end statement jewelry cost the company more to make, and gross margin ? the percentage of each dollar in revenue the company actually keeps ? declined slightly.
In addition, Tiffany forecast fourth-quarter earnings below expectations. The fourth quarter includes the key holiday selling season.
Its shares fell $6.40, or 8.7 percent, to close at $67.22 Tuesday.
Still, Tiffany's results to date show the luxury shopper is spending freely. That segment has rebounded more quickly from the recession than others. High-end jewelry sold better than other categories.
"Increased sales in all regions contributed to the continuation of strong worldwide sales growth in the third quarter," said CEO Michael J. Kowalski.
Tiffany has raised prices twice this year to offset higher prices for precious metal and other commodities. The company said precious metal prices have stabilized and slightly declined, but the company is unlikely to lower prices.
The New York company said that its net income rose to $89.7 million or 70 cents per share in the three months ended Oct. 31, from $55.1 million, or 43 cents per share, a year ago. Analysts expected earnings of 60 cents per share, according to FactSet.
Revenue rose 21 percent to $821.8 million from $681.7 million a year ago. Analysts expected $801.8 million.
In the Americas, sales grew 17 percent to $387.7 million. Revenue in stores open at least one year rose 16 percent. That measure is considered a key gauge of a retailer's financial health because it excludes stores that open or close during the year.
In the U.S. there was growth in all price ranges above $250, particularly higher price points. Engagement rings, high-end statement jewelry ? a category that includes expensive jewels such as an $110,000 platinum and diamond necklace ? and gold jewelry were big sellers. Less expensive silver jewelry ? a category that performed well during the recession ? had a more modest sales increase.
Foreign tourists helped push revenue up 24 percent at Tiffany's New York flagship store.
In Asia-Pacific, revenue rose 44 percent to $183.2 million, helped by strength in the greater China region. Revenue rose 12 percent in Japan and 19 percent in Europe.
But the company said that in the fourth quarter, the company expects net income of $1.48 to $1.58 per share. Analysts expect $1.63 per share.
For the year, Tiffany expects earnings of $3.70 to $3.80 per share, for prior guidance of $3.65 to $3.75 per share. Analysts expect $3.72 per share.
Tiffany, which operates 243 stores globally, expects revenue to rise in the high-teens percentage for the year.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Palestinian PM: Israeli sanctions starting to bite (AP)
RAMALLAH, West Bank ? Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says he will be unable to pay the the salaries of tens of thousands of civil servants, as Israeli economic sanctions start to bite.
Israel decided last month to suspend the monthly transfer of about $100 million in tax revenues it collects on behalf of Fayyad's Palestinian Authority. The transfers, along with foreign aid, are crucial for keeping Fayyad's government afloat. Nearly one-third of the close to 4 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza depend on public sector salaries.
Fayyad told reporters Sunday that the sanctions have a "devastating impact" on the Palestinian economy.
Israel suspended the transfers in retaliation for Palestinian attempts to win international recognition for a state of Palestine.
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Marine biodiversity loss due to warming and predation: UBC researcher
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The biodiversity loss caused by climate change will result from a combination of rising temperatures and predation and may be more severe than currently predicted, according to a study by University of British Columbia zoologist Christopher Harley.
The study, published in the current issue of the journal Science, examined the response of rocky shore barnacles and mussels to the combined effects of warming and predation by sea stars.
Harley surveyed the upper and lower temperature limits of barnacles and mussels from the cool west coast of Vancouver Island to the warm shores of the San Juan Islands, where water temperature rose from the relatively cool of the1950s to the much warmer years of 2009 and 2010.
"Rocky intertidal communities are ideal test-beds for studying the effects of climatic warming," says Christopher Harley, an associate professor of zoology at UBC and author of the study. "Many intertidal organisms, like mussels, already live very close to their thermal tolerance limits, so the impacts can be easily studied."
At cooler sites, mussels and rocky shore barnacles were able to live high on the shore, well beyond the range of their predators. However, as temperatures rose, barnacles and mussels were forced to live at lower shore levels, placing them at the same level as predatory sea stars.
Daily high temperatures during the summer months have increased by almost 3.5 degrees Celsius in the last 60 years, causing the upper limits of barnacle and mussels habitats to retreat by 50 centimeters down the shore. However, the effects of predators, and therefore the position of the lower limit, have remained constant.
"That loss represents 51 per cent of the mussel bed. Some mussels have even gone extinct locally at three of the sites I surveyed," says Harley.
Meanwhile, when pressure from sea star predation was reduced using exclusion cages, the prey species were able to occupy hotter sites where they don't normally occur, and species richness at the sites more than doubled.
"A mussel bed is kind of like an apartment complex it provides critical habitat for a lot of little plants and animals," says Harley. "The mussels make the habitat cooler and wetter, providing an environment for crabs and other small crustaceans, snails, worms and seaweed."
These findings provide a comprehensive look at the effects of warming and predation, while many previous studies on how species ranges will change due to warming assume that species will simply shift to stay in their current temperature range.
Harley says the findings show that the combined effects of warming and predation could lead to more widespread extinction than are currently predicted, as animals or plants are unable to shift their habitat ranges.
"Warming is not just having direct effects on individual species," says Harley. "This study shows that climate change can also alter interactions between species, and produce unexpected changes in where species can live, their community structure, and their diversity."
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The biodiversity loss caused by climate change will result from a combination of rising temperatures and predation and may be more severe than currently predicted, according to a study by University of British Columbia zoologist Christopher Harley.
The study, published in the current issue of the journal Science, examined the response of rocky shore barnacles and mussels to the combined effects of warming and predation by sea stars.
Harley surveyed the upper and lower temperature limits of barnacles and mussels from the cool west coast of Vancouver Island to the warm shores of the San Juan Islands, where water temperature rose from the relatively cool of the1950s to the much warmer years of 2009 and 2010.
"Rocky intertidal communities are ideal test-beds for studying the effects of climatic warming," says Christopher Harley, an associate professor of zoology at UBC and author of the study. "Many intertidal organisms, like mussels, already live very close to their thermal tolerance limits, so the impacts can be easily studied."
At cooler sites, mussels and rocky shore barnacles were able to live high on the shore, well beyond the range of their predators. However, as temperatures rose, barnacles and mussels were forced to live at lower shore levels, placing them at the same level as predatory sea stars.
Daily high temperatures during the summer months have increased by almost 3.5 degrees Celsius in the last 60 years, causing the upper limits of barnacle and mussels habitats to retreat by 50 centimeters down the shore. However, the effects of predators, and therefore the position of the lower limit, have remained constant.
"That loss represents 51 per cent of the mussel bed. Some mussels have even gone extinct locally at three of the sites I surveyed," says Harley.
Meanwhile, when pressure from sea star predation was reduced using exclusion cages, the prey species were able to occupy hotter sites where they don't normally occur, and species richness at the sites more than doubled.
"A mussel bed is kind of like an apartment complex it provides critical habitat for a lot of little plants and animals," says Harley. "The mussels make the habitat cooler and wetter, providing an environment for crabs and other small crustaceans, snails, worms and seaweed."
These findings provide a comprehensive look at the effects of warming and predation, while many previous studies on how species ranges will change due to warming assume that species will simply shift to stay in their current temperature range.
Harley says the findings show that the combined effects of warming and predation could lead to more widespread extinction than are currently predicted, as animals or plants are unable to shift their habitat ranges.
"Warming is not just having direct effects on individual species," says Harley. "This study shows that climate change can also alter interactions between species, and produce unexpected changes in where species can live, their community structure, and their diversity."
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PM defies calls for rollback of FDI in retail sector (Reuters)
NEW DELHI (Reuters) ? Fighting-off demands for a U-turn on allowing foreign investment in supermarkets, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the policy would bring jobs and technology to farmers.
"I am confident that foreign direct investment in retail will help to bring modern technology in the farm sector, less wastage and more jobs," he said at a rally.
Opposition parties and Singh's own political allies are demanding a rollback of the reform allowing foreign supermarket giants to enter the country's $450 billion retail market.
Parliament is in deadlock over the issue, clouding the outlook for an ambitious agenda of legislation, including an anti-corruption bill and another on food subsidies for the poor.
(Reporting By Manoj Kumar; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel)
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Report claims cover up in Russian lawyer's death (AP)
MOSCOW ? A private investigation into the death of a Russian lawyer who had reported official corruption in his country concluded Monday that he was severely beaten and denied medical treatment in prison, and accused the government of failing to prosecute those responsible.
The lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested after accusing Interior Ministry officials of corruption. He died in custody in November 2009 and while also suffering from untreated pancreatitis, government officials have said. Two prison doctors have been charged with negligence.
Magnitsky, 37, had accused the Interior Ministry officials of using false tax documents to steal $230 million from the state, and it was those same officials who had the lawyer arrested.
"The Russian government knows exactly who tortured and killed Sergei Magnitsky, as well as who stole $230 million, but has refused to investigate and prosecute them," the report concluded.
It was compiled by William Browder, a U.S.-born investor who owned and ran Hermitage Capital Management, the investment fund Magnitsky had worked for before his arrest.
The report chronicled the developments in Magnitsky's case, starting from the alleged tax fraud he had exposed to his prison torment and death following a brutal beating by prison guards.
It also contained evidence of what it describes as an official cover up of Magnitsky's death, complete with pictures of dozens of Russian officials it claims were responsible. The report showed photos of luxury houses, expensive cars and other assets allegedly obtained by officials Magnitsky had accused of wrongdoing.
"All government bodies systematically denied Sergei Magnitsky any form of medical attention," the investigation said.
Browder, who has been barred from Russia by the government as a security risk, released his report on a website and by e-mailing it to journalists.
His report follows an investigation by members of the human rights council under Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It concluded in July that Magnitsky's arrest and detention were unlawful, that he was beaten before his death, and that his prosecution by officers earlier implicated by him in corruption violated Russian law.
But Russia's Interior Ministry later denied any official wrongdoing, and the official probe into Magnitsky's death only led to the negligence charges against the two doctors.
At a news conference on Monday, prominent rights activist Valery Borshchev said he believes the beating of the inmate, not the untreated pancreatitis, led to his death.
Borshchev said a video recorded a few hours before Magnitsky died suggests that he wasn't then on the verge of death.
"He was in pain, but nevertheless he was moving on his own and he was carrying two heavy bags," Borshchev said. "Why he was dead after two hours is very hard to explain."
He accused officials of failing to fully investigate what happened.
"For two years, this has been kept silent," Borshchev he said.
The U.S. State Department reacted by deciding in July to ban entry to some 60 Russian officials, reportedly including senior figures in the Russian Interior Ministry, as well as judges, prosecutors and prison officials whom Magnitsky's colleagues had held responsible for his death.
Angered by the U.S. move, Russia last month banned entry to unidentified U.S. officials it claimed had been involved in killings and abductions.
On Monday, Russia's top investigative agency, the Investigative Committee, refused to comment on Browder's report.
The Prosecutor General's office, which in August reopened a criminal investigation against Magnitsky 20 months after his death, also denied comment.
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Cain says he's strong contender for GOP nomination (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says he has "nothing but optimism" about his prospects for the party's nomination despite Newt Gingrich's recent rise in the polls and Mitt Romney's continued strength.
The business executive tells Fox News Channel he'll continue to push his tax simplification plan as well as his ideas on national security and energy, as the presidential caucuses and primaries draw near.
Without specifically referring to sexual harassment allegations he's denied, Cain says: "Here's the good news. We didn't drop all the way down to sixth or seventh. We dropped to third" in most polls. He says supporters "didn't defect because of all the noise that was going on.".
Cain says his ideas have "resonated with the people" and he feels comfortable engaging his campaign rivals in debate.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
10 Most Expensive Cars Ever Sold At Auction
Most car lovers go to car auctions looking for a diamond in the rough. But then there are the collectors who can afford to drop seven or eight figures on a priceless auto. These 10 cars are the most expensive ever sold at auction. By Phil Berg
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Seven-figure deals are common at the top auto collector auctions these days, and the trend is there's no limit in sight. It started in 1987, when a Bugatti Royale sold at a Christie's auction in London for $7 million, and in 1988 a barn-find Ferrari sold for $2.8 million in Monterey, kicking off two decades of multi-million-dollar prices for special cars at auction. In 2005, the total take at the four car collector auctions during the week-long Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson extravaganza was $79 million.To understand this trend, first you need to understand a bit about car auctions: They're way different than a transaction between two people. The auction company charges a fee, called a buyer's premium, from 5% to 17.5% in addition to the selling price of the car, and the buyer has to pay it. Then, the seller may add a seller's premium. That's part of the reason most car collectors tell us an auction is the most expensive way to buy a car. Another reason is that bidding tends to raise competition beyond any other type of negotiation.
Often buyers play with the auction process, looking for cars that do not meet a minimum purchase price, known as a seller's reserve, and then the buyers contact the sellers privately after the auction to purchase the car without public scrutiny. (IRS agents patrol high-dollar auto auctions.) However, an auction is a way to make a transaction happen that otherwise might take too long, or might not attract a buyer at all. It is likely private transactions have resulted in higher prices than the following auction results, but we'll never know.
NOTE: The dollars figures given are what the cars sold for at the time of auction. If the sale prices listed here were corrected for the change in the dollar over time, this list would change. For example, in June 1986, a 1931 Bugatti Royale known as the Berline de Voyager auctioned for $6.5 million. Many auction followers believe that if adjusted to today's dollars, the car actually sold for the equivalent of between $11 and $20 million.
That said, here are the top auction prices to date.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Packers feast on Lions
Green Bay (11-0) pours it on in second half to defeat undisciplined Detroit 27-8
APGreen Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers celebrates after throwing a 65-yard touchdown pass to James Jones during the Packers' 27-15 victory over NFC North rival Detroit on Thursday. The defending?Super Bowl champions are 11-0 for the first time in franchise history.
By LARRY LAGE
updated 6:08 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2011
DETROIT - Aaron Rodgers took every hit the Detroit Lions could dish out.
He just kept throwing ? and winning.
Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and the Green Bay Packers built a big lead in the third quarter thanks in part to Ndamukong Suh's ejection during a 27-15 victory in Detroit on Thursday.
Detroit's best chance to beat the Packers was to knock Rodgers out of the game, just as it did last year in a victory that started a nine-game winning streak.
The Lions gave that tactic a shot, hitting him even if he had already gotten rid of the ball. Kyle Vanden Bosch was flagged for one of those late hits and could've drawn another penalty for trying to rough up the star quarterback even more on the same drive.
Rodgers refused to be rattled, kept his cool and won ? again."We try to rise above things like that," Rodgers said. "We knew in a rivalry game, there are going to be a hard of hard hits, but we kept things between the whistles."
The defending champion Packers are 11-0 for the first time in franchise history and have won a team-record 17 straight, including the playoffs.
"I don't feel any pressure, this is a good place to be," coach Mike McCarthy said. "Who doesn't want to be 11-0?"
Green Bay easily passed what was expected to be one of its toughest tests toward joining the 2007 New England Patriots as the NFL's only teams to have 16-0 regular seasons.
"We're a long way from there," Rodgers said. "This is a big step toward our first goal, which is winning the division. If we are undefeated after 14 or 15 games, we'll talk about 16."
While the Packers are working on a perfect season, Detroit (7-4) has to figure out a way to avoid the physical and mental mistakes that have put the team on the playoff bubble after a 5-0 start.
The Lions have lost a franchise-record eight consecutive Thanksgiving games and added to their misery in ugly fashion.
"It really does ruin the holiday," center Dominic Raiola said. "You put so much into this and to go out there and lay an egg like that, it's disappointing. My day's ruined."
Suh's day might lead to another fine ? and possibly a suspension.
He was tossed for stomping on Evan Dietrich-Smith's right arm in the third quarter.
Suh insisted he didn't intentionally step on the opposing lineman with his right foot, saying he was just trying to separate himself from the situation.
"I apologize to my teammates and my fans and my coaches for putting myself in a position to be misinterpreted and taken out of the game," Suh said.
Dietrich-Smith wouldn't say it was a dirty play.
"Stuff happens," he said.
Green Bay defensive end Ryan Pickett was more outspoken.
"There's no place for that," Pickett said.
The Packers took advantage of Suh's misstep just as they did on Matthew Stafford's three interceptions.John Kuhn followed nose tackle B.J. Raji for a 1-yard TD plunge after Suh was flagged on third down, and Green Bay turned Stafford's interceptions into two TDs and a field goal.
Detroit became the NFL's first team to win three games in a season after trailing by 17 points with Sunday's comeback win over Carolina, but the Packers proved they weren't as vulnerable as the Panthers.
The Lions finally scored when Keiland Williams ran for a 16-yard TD with 13:11 left and added the 2-point conversion on a pass from Stafford to Titus Young that trimmed Green Bay's lead to 16. They scored a meaningless TD on Stafford's 3-yard pass to Calvin Johnson with 11 seconds left.
Detroit had raised expectations for a competitive and entertaining game during its annual showcase after losing the last seven games by three-plus TDs on average.
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Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and Green Bay (11-0) built a big lead in the third quarter, taking advantage of Ndamukong Suh's ejection and beating Detroit 27-15 Thursday.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
2 dead in Congo pre-election violence
KINSHASA?? Police in Congo blocked President Joseph Kabila's main rival at an airport in Kinshasa on Saturday to stop him staging an election rally after at least two died in violence across the central African state's capital city.
Two days before presidential and parliamentary elections, rival factions hurled rocks at each other and gunfire was heard across town.
A Reuters reporter saw one lifeless body on the road to the airport while a U.N. source reported another death elsewhere in town.
The violence was the latest sign of tension in the run-up to Congo's second election since a 1998-2003 war, a poll which has been marked by opposition allegations of irregularities and concerns about inadequate preparations.
Police stopped opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi and his entourage from leaving Kinshasa's N'djili airport after his party said it would defy a ban on political rallies imposed earlier on Saturday.
"I'll call the population of Kinshasa to come here," Tshisekedi, 78, sitting in a red Hummer surrounded by police at the exit gate of the airport, told reporters.
"We are already dying in our thousands, we are not going to let a few injuries stop us fighting now," he said, a reference to his accusations that Kabila's government has saddled Congo's population with insecurity and poverty.
After hours of failed negotiations by the United Nations peacekeeping mission, police moved in on Tshisekedi's entourage, dragging several people from their cars, according to a Reuters witness. Tshisekedi was later escorted to his home by the police, according to a U.N. source.
Earlier, tens of thousands of Congolese turned out on the airport road, most of them identifiable as Tshisekedi supporters. Some chanted his name while many billboards for Kabila and his allies had been torn down.
Kabila, Tshisekedi and the other main challenger, Vital Kamerhe, had been due to hold rallies within several hundred meters of each other in central Kinshasa on Saturday.
Kamerhe told Reuters that four people had been killed, including one of his supporters, but it was not immediately possible to confirm that toll.
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Rules favor Kabila
Under constitutional amendments signed off by Kabila this year, the presidential vote will be decided in a single round, meaning the winner can claim victory with a simple majority. Analysts say that favors Kabila against the split opposition.
Despite a logistics operation supported by helicopters from South Africa and Angola, some observers doubt whether all the ballot slips will reach the 60,000 voting stations by Monday in a country two-thirds the size of the European Union.
However national election commission president Daniel Ngoy Mulunda said he did not expect any delay to the polls, saying that materials were 90 percent deployed in the provinces.
"No, I am not expecting any change. We have today, the whole night, tomorrow day and night to finalize (preparations)," Mulunda told a news conference in Kinshasa.
"We had some delays with weather but we know it will work - on Monday it won't rain."
Earlier, Tshisekedi said he could accept a delay but only if Mulunda, whom he accused of having political ties to Kabila and turning a blind eye to alleged irregularities, was sacked.
"I would agree (to a delay) if that meant a more credible, democratic and transparent process," he told French RFI radio.
"But one thing is clear: if we say there will be a delay, it is clear that the election commission cannot be led by Daniel Ngoy Mulunda," he said, accusing him of having been a founding member of Kabila's PPRD political party.
Mulunda, who will have the deciding vote if his commission is split on any election dispute, said this week he did not deny having been a member of the delegation that accompanies Kabila on foreign trips, but said he was not a founding PPRD member.
Kabila's rivals say fake polling stations have been set up to allow vote-rigging, an allegation denied by the authorities. They also accuse Kabila of using state media and transport assets for his campaign.
Kamerhe said the Congolese would not accept a rigged poll.
"They want free and fair elections that allow them to take their destiny in their own hands. People will refuse cheating wherever it takes place," he told Reuters, surrounded by chanting and dancing supporters at his party headquarters.
For many Congolese, there was a last-minute scramble to find out where they should be voting. Gervis Ilunga, a 44-year-old security guard, said he registered in one Kinshasa district but ultimately found his name elsewhere.
"In 2006, things were at least organized," he said of the first post-war poll largely organized under the auspices of the United Nations. "It is not like that this time ... There will be too many challenges this time."
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Happy 24th Birthday, Snooki!
Effing Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi from Jersey Shore, turns 24 today.
Born in Chile and adopted by Italian-American parents, the former high school cheerleader has gone on to achieve reality TV stardom and widespread popularity.
Well, at least the former. Say what you will about her (and we've said plenty), Snooki has become a household name, a brand and a lightning rod for controversy.
She goes hard. She gets it in. Her weight may exceed her IQ points (and she's 4'9" people). She blacks out and looks absolutely absurd. And we can't get enough of it.
Effing Snook. She is who she is. And she's 24 today.
Love or despise her, Snook's tribulations on Jersey Shore have been the target of vitriolic disdain while giving the show an air of authenticity and an odd appeal.
She's the Princess of F*%king Poughkeepsie, b!tch. She may not know what a continent is, but she's richer than all of us, and what else would we talk about?!
Wish her a happy birthday below and reminisce about some of her finest moments from Seasons 1-4 of Jersey Shore that we've posted after the jump:
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Egypt Picks New Prime Minister As Protests Continue (The Atlantic Wire)
Egypt's ruling generals confirmed Friday that 78-year-old Kamal al-Ganzouri, who served as prime minister under former president Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s, has agreed to take over as interim prime minister following the resignation of the country's cabinet earlier this week.
Related: Prosecutors Will Charge Mubarak for the Deaths of Protesters
According to al-Jazeera, the news that al-Ganzouri was in-talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi about taking the job was first reported on the Web site of Egyptian state newspaper Al-Ahram Thursday night, prompting cries of "We don't want him! We don't want him!" from the pro-democracy protestors gathered in Tahrir Square, whose numbers have swelled 100,000.
Related: American Students Arrested in Egypt for Tossing Molotov Cocktails
The White House was similarly skeptical, issuing a statement Friday morning that the transfer of power to a civilian government needs to happen "as soon as possible."
Related: Egyptians Held a Mock Trial for Hosni Mubarak
For his part, al-Ganzouri insisted during a televised interview on state television that he has more power than predecessor Essam Sharaf, and that Monday's elections will not be delayed.
Related: How Ramadan Will Influence the Arab Spring
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Bahrain report: excessive force in crackdowns
A Bahraini woman walks down a narrow street in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, painted and repainted with anti-government graffiti and hung with religious banners for the Islamic month of Muharram, a time of Shiite mourning for Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's founding prophet Mohamed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
A Bahraini woman walks down a narrow street in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, painted and repainted with anti-government graffiti and hung with religious banners for the Islamic month of Muharram, a time of Shiite mourning for Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's founding prophet Mohamed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
A Bahraini boy plays in a narrow street in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, painted with graffiti urging political prisoners to be freed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
A Bahraini child peers from a home in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Graffiti on the side of the building reads: "For sure, victory is coming." (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ? With Bahrain's king watching, the chief investigator asked to probe his government's crackdowns gave a blow-by-blow reckoning Wednesday of torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in attempts to crush the largest Arab spring uprising in the Gulf.
The investigator, Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, also said there was no evidence of Iranian links to Bahrain's Shiite-led protests. That was a clear rebuke Gulf leaders, who accuse Tehran of playing a role in the 10-month-old showdown in the Western-allied kingdom.
The 500-page study ? authorized by Bahrain's Sunni rulers in a bid to ease tensions ? marks the most comprehensive document on security force actions during any of the revolts that have flared across the Arab world this year. It also displayed a stunning image of a powerful Arab monarch facing a harsh public reckoning, as King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa listened somberly to a bullet-point summary of the report's conclusions.
Bassiouni's summary read like a checklist of complaints by rights groups since February: Middle-of-the-night raids to "create fear," purges from workplaces and universities, jail house abuses including electric shocks and beatings and destruction of Shiite mosques that "gave the impression of collective punishment."
At least 35 people have been killed in violence related to the uprising, including several members of the security forces.
It appeared unlikely that even the strong criticism would satisfy opposition forces, who accused the Sunni monarchy of using all methods at its disposal to avoid sharing power with the nation's Shiite majority. Just hours before the long-awaited report was released, security forces used tear gas and stun grenades in the latest of nearly daily clashes on the strategic island, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
"What is really needed is to hold the perpetrators responsible and bring them to justice," said Khalil al-Marzooq, a senior official with the biggest Shiite opposition party, Al Wefaq, which pulled out of parliament this spring to protest the harsh tactics against protesters.
There were no immediate signs of escalating street protests after the report was issued. In one area, protesters blocked roads and chanted slogans against the ruling family.
In Wahington, the White House commended the king for appointing the commission and said in a statement that it is "incumbent upon the government of Bahrain to hold accountable those responsible for human rights violations and put in place institutional changes to ensure that such abuses do not happen again."
The inquest was seen as a bold step in a region of monarchs and sheiks who rarely acknowledge shortcomings or face uncomfortable criticism in public.
Bahrain's government promised "no immunity" for anyone suspected of abuses and said it would propose creating a permanent human rights commission.
"All those who have broken the law or ignored lawful orders and instructions will be held accountable," said a government statement, adding that the report notes that the "systematic practice of mistreatment" ended shortly after martial law was repealed on June 1.
Bahrain's Shiites comprise about 70 percent of the island nation's 525,000 citizens. They have complained of widespread discrimination such as being blocked from top government or military posts. The monarchy has offered some concessions, but refused to bow to protest demands to surrender control of all top positions and main policies.
"A number of detainees were tortured ... which proved there was a deliberate practice by some," said Bassiouni, whose report covered the period between Feb. 14 and March 30.
The report also was highly critical of a special security court created under martial law that "overtook the national system of justice" and issued harsh sentences ? including life in prison and death row rulings ? that "denied most defendants elementary fair trial guarantees."
The document spotlighted abuses at the island's main hospital, the state-run Salmaniya Medical Center. The authorities saw its mostly Shiite staff as opposition sympathizers. Dozens of doctors and nurses who treated injured protesters were detained during crackdown. Many were sentenced to five to 15 year prison sentences. Their appeal will be heard in a civilian court.
"All reports indicated that there were protests, and indeed chaos, in the SMC," the report says. It adds, "The hospital generally continued to function normally" through the unrest.
Bahrain has abolished the security court. Bassiouni urged Bahrain to review all the security court verdicts and drop charges against all those accused of nonviolent acts such as joining or supporting the protests.
"You found real shortcomings from some government institutions," Bahrain's king told Bassiouni, an Egyptian-born professor of international criminal law and a former member of U.N. human rights panels.
But the king lashed back at finding that Iran did not influence the uprising, saying his government could not provide clear evidence but insisting Tehran's role was clear to "all who have eyes and ears."
Bahrain is a critical U.S. all,y and Washington has taken a cautious line because of what's at stake: urging Bahrain's leaders to open more dialogue with the opposition, but avoiding too much public pressure.
In a statement Wednesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said the report is an important moment for Bahrain that has lived through a year of events that were "highly traumatic."
"Political reform in Bahrain will not come easily, but it is critical for the healing process," Kerry said.
For Gulf leaders, led by powerful Saudi Arabia, Bahrain is seen as a firewall to keep pro-reform protests from spreading further across the region. Sunni Gulf rulers have rallied behind the kingdom's embattled monarchy and sent in military reinforcements during the height of the crackdowns and Saudi-led units still remain.
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Murphy reported from Dubai.
Online: http://files.bici.org.bh/BICIreportEN.pdf
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VTech V.Reader Interactive E-Reading System
Reading comes to life with the VTech V. Reader Interactive E-Reading System ($59.99 list). This storyteller learning system brings books to life and makes reading vivid and fun for your child! Kids can touch and play as they learn core reading skills, touch the screen to read the story, and play interactive reading games.
With the V.Reader Interactive E-Reading System, children will discover the joy of reading while interacting with well-loved characters like Elmo and Disney Princesses. As the stories come alive with animations and sounds on the color touch screen, children take a journey into a world of imagination while developing the necessary building blocks to grow from a pre-reader to a confident and fluent reader. The V.Reader comes pre-loaded with the "What's That Noise" storybook and fun applications such as a Photo Viewer, Video Player, and art activities. Additional storybook cartridges (sold separately) offer new stories and adventures and feature a fully narrated and animated story, reading skill games, and a Story Dictionary. You can even download additional e-books, avatars, and themes while tracking your child's progress on VTech's Learning Lodge Navigator.
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New York Yankees raise price of bleacher seats
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updated 8:38 p.m. ET Nov. 22, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The Yankees are raising the price of bleacher seats for next season in an effort to cut down on resales by ticket brokers.
New York said Tuesday the price of bleacher seats will be $20 and $12 next year, up from $15 and $5.
The team is keeping 70 percent of ticket prices unchanged, including all field-level seats between the bases. The prices of field-level seats in fair territory in the outfield, which sometimes had unsold areas last season, are being reduced, from $100 to as low as $65.
Some Field Level MVP seats, starting with the outside edge of the dugouts, will be reduced by $35-$50.
The Yankees averaged 45,107 fans this season, down from a major league-best 46,491 last year and 45,918 in 2009, when the stadium opened.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Emissions divide 'can be bridged'
23 November 2011
Last updated at 12:03 ET
The gap between where greenhouse gas emissions are headed and where they need to be for climate targets can be bridged cheaply, says a UN report.
It says that if sectors such as energy, farming, forestry and transport all cut emissions by feasible amounts, global warming can be kept below 2C.
But countries' current pledges are not enough to meet the 2C target.
The report, Bridging the Emissions Gap, comes shortly before this year's UN climate summit opens in South Africa.
The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) combined analyses from 28 research centres around the world, looking both at projections of future emissions growth and at what can be achieved in different sectors.
Nothing revolutionary is needed, they conclude, if every sector makes its appropriate cuts. And the cost would be small.
"At the beginning, the reductions are cost-neutral - or you can gain because they include things like energy efficiency that save fuel costs," said Joseph Alcamo, Unep's chief scientist.
"We didn't find that any technological breakthroughs were needed to close the gap."
Divided worldCurrently, global emissions of greenhouse gases each year are equivalent to about 48 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (48GtCO2e).
Continue reading the main story- Unep calculates that changes in each sector can collectively "bridge the gap":
- Power: efficiency, renewables, carbon capture
- Industry: efficiency, lower-carbon fuels, power recovery
- Transport: efficiency, electric vehicles, public transport
- Aviation and shipping: efficiency, lower-carbon fuels, reducing speed
- Buildings: efficiency, insulation
- Waste: waste gas recovery from landfill
- Forestry: curbing deforestation, securing carbon storage
- Agriculture: cutting crop and livestock emissions
If nothing changes, that will probably rise to about 56 gigatonnes (Gt) per year by 2020.
Analysis from climate models, meanwhile, suggests that emissions ought to be down to about 44Gt per year in order to have a reasonable chance of meeting the goal of keeping the global average temperature rise since pre-industrial times below 2C.
That goal has widespread support across the international community, although more than half the world's governments prefer the tougher target of 1.5C.
So if nothing changes, the 2020 target will be missed; in the jargon, there is an "emissions gap" of 12Gt.
After the UN climate summit in Copenhagen two years ago, most of the world's governments put forward pledges on either cutting emissions (for the rich) or constraining their rise (for the poor).
But even if those pledges are enacted in full, that will only halve the gap, not close it completely.
"This study, again, reminds us that efforts to address climate change are currently still insufficient," commented Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN climate convention (UNFCCC).
Unep's analysis concludes that across eight sectors - power, industry, land-based transport, aviation and shipping, buildings, waste, forestry and agriculture - an emissions cut of 17Gt is feasible and cheap.
Projections show it would be possible to meet the 2C target without making such strong cuts now, though the much steeper emission cuts needed after 2020 would increase the cost.
In fact, some cheap options that were on the table four years ago are now off it, said Niklas Hohne, director of energy and climate policy at the Netherlands-based consultancy Ecofys and a lead author on the report.
"All studies agreed that there is huge potential to reduce emissions associated with buildings, for example, mainly through renovating and making them more efficient with energy," he said.
"But that takes time; and now, four years later, we have significantly less time until 2020 to implement these measures."
Delays and illusionsMany developing country governments have expressed alarm that the UN climate convention appears to be morphing from a process in which emission cuts are negotiated on the basis of the science into one where industrialised countries say unilaterally what they are prepared to do.
Continue reading the main storyThe latest steers from observers close to the talks suggest the situation is unlikely to change before 2020.
Achim Steiner, Unep's executive director, said that in the short term the voluntary approach was yielding some emission curbs; but in the long run, a binding climate treaty would be needed.
"There should be no illusion at all that voluntary actions will add up to anything like the transformation needed," he said.
"Those countries talking about deferring to 2020 are saying to the world 'we're taking you from a high-risk strategy to a very high-risk strategy in terms of tackling global warming'."
Waiting still further to begin curbing global emissions would see a situation where "we may already be married to a 3C rise", he said.
The UN climate summit opens in Durban, South Africa, on Monday.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15834103
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