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Sunday, 30 December 2012
Spain does not need European help for now, says PM
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday that Spain did not need to tap for now the European Central Bank's bond-buying program for troubled euro zone governments but did not rule out asking for aid in the future.
Rajoy has faced pressure from Spain's international partners -- including the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- to seek a European Union bailout. He has resisted so far, helped by an easing of the euro zone debt crisis.
"We are not thinking of asking the European Central Bank to intervene and buy bonds in the secondary market," he said at a news conference in Madrid. "But we can't rule it out in the future."
Rajoy has been able to delay a rescue because the ECB's pledge to intervene in the market and support Spanish bond prices has brought down Spain's borrowing costs since the summer.
He praised the ECB's move on Friday.
"I think it has been a very significant decision. It has had a calming effect on the markets," he said.
But Rajoy's delaying tactics are risky at a time when the Spanish economy is contracting sharply, with 25 percent unemployment. Some market commentators believe Spain's finances could spiral into chaos if it is forced to seek a bailout due to a sudden deterioration in bond markets.
Spain's country risk, the premium bondholders demand to buy Spanish 10-year benchmark bonds over German benchmarks, was around 400 basis points on Friday, well off highs of above 600 in July.
Rajoy warned Spaniards of a tough year ahead, especially the first half, but said he hoped to see some improvement in the second half of 2013.
(Reporting by Sonya Dowsett and Clare Kane; Editing by Roger Atwood)
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Lawyer for Newtown survivor seeks to file $100 million lawsuit
By Mary Ellen Godin, Reuters
MERIDEN, Connecticut -- A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 children and eight adults dead two weeks ago.?
The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.
"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said.
Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.
"We all know its going to happen again," Pinsky said on Friday. "Society has to take action."
Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on Dec. 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.
Pinsky's claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from "foreseeable harm."
It said they had failed to provide a "safe school setting" or design "an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol."
Pinsky said he was approached by the child's parents within a week of the shooting.
The shooting, which also left the gunman dead, has prompted extensive debate about gun control and the suggestion by the National Rifle Association that schools be patrolled by armed guards. Police have said the gunman killed his mother at their home in Newtown before going to the school.?
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Saturday, 29 December 2012
Honda CR-V 2.0 iVTEC EX review - Pocket-lint
Everyone loves to hate an SUV, don?t they? Yet, as our recent review of the VW Touareg attests, even those of us who hate the breed can?t help but be won over and see why they?re so popular with modern families, after a week behind the wheel.
And on the week of the supposed Mayan apocalypse, and as pre-Christmas Britain attempted to bail itself out of the latest bout of flooding, what could make you feel more warm, secure and invincible than a four-wheel drive SUV from a brand that?s got a reputation for making cars that just never, ever, go wrong?
So although a Honda CR-V might not top your list of sexy automotive forms of transport, the popularity of the previous model is testimony to the inherent usefulness of this car and its popularity with families. Given that it had just undergone a major redesign, we thought we?d put it through a review to find out if Honda had dared meddle with the previous model?s surefire success recipe.
Design
First impressions aren?t exactly promising. Sure, gone is the previous model?s ?had all its teeth knocked out? front grille graphic for a much more modern integrated lamp/grille design, but otherwise the CR-V seems to have taken a little bit of a step backward, becoming more boxy and like an estate car on stilts, while most of its rivals have moved towards a ?tall hatchback? crossover format, in an effort to eschew some of that hated SUV image.
It?s not bad per-se, and admittedly our press car?s white paintwork did it no favours, but compared to slinky SUVs such as Range Rover?s Evoque, Audi?s Q5 and even Nissan?s Qashqai, the CR-V?s appearance does little for us.
Open the door though, and things improve. Granted, if you?re used to Audi?s slush-moulded plastic-fest interiors, there are going to be a few too many hard (read cheap-feeling) surfaces for comfort. But the design layout is inherently logical and not without appeal.
What?s more, get behind the wheel, in the back or open the boot and you start to see Honda?s engineering heritage shining through, and understand how it makes for a simply better car.
From the driver?s seat, the scuttle - the point at which the bottom of the windscreen meets the top of the bonnet - is appreciably lower than any competitor, which is a benefit of super-compact powertrain beneath the bonnet. This means you can simply see more, including the end of the bonnet - a real rarity in cars these days - and one that makes the CR-V easier to park.
The gearstick is mounted on the dash, so you get an enormous centre console between driver and passenger that will swallow three 1-litre sized water bottles, and still also leaves space for a bin for keys, phones etc.
In the back, you?ve a flat floor and three proper seats ? including three-across isofix points for child seats, which gives the CR-V a massive advantage over its competitors, to those with larger families.
Tech
This is Honda?s strength, and the reason it's well worth considering. At 30-grand, give-or-take five hundred quid, this top of the line ?EX? model CR-V poses you a tricky question. In effect, your choice at this price, is to squeeze yourself (financially) into a bottom-of-the-range premium-badged car from BMW, Audi or Land/Range Rover or buy a ?bells and whistles? top of the range car for the same price, from a ?non-premium? brand like Honda.
So whereas most of the premium brands would ask you to pay extra for (deep breath) a panoramic roof; cruise control; parking sensors front and rear (including a camera); HD-based navigation; DAB radio; video/DVD/MP3/Bluetooth audio playback; heated, electrically adjustable leather seats; keyless access and an electric opening tailgate, this EX model CR-V nets you all of those as standard. In fact, the only option that came on our test car was the pearlescent white paint, which we?d suggest you forgo.
Perhaps better still, it all worked seamlessly and without any idiosyncrasies ? as you might expect from a Honda. We loved the attention to detail, like the fact the electrically opening tailgate was perfectly happy to be lifted and pulled closed manually as well as electrically. Normally, electric-powered tailgates freak out and freeze if you try to ?help? them. The fact that the rear seats fold via the tug of one lever inside the boot while doing a fun little dance: folding their headrests in, flipping up the squab and dropping the backrest in one single movement. This basically turns the CR-V into a van, one we squeezed an 8 ft Christmas tree into. Oh and there?s stop/start functionality and an economy button too, in an effort to reign-in any consumption excess.
Many of these are the kind of gadgets you might suggest you don?t need and which (pay attention other manufacturers), when done wrong, can irritate you day-to-day when you live with a car. But while on the CR-V they?re not executed with quite the premium, soft-touch, damped quality of an Audi, they do all work as expected, and tend to come in handy when you?ve an armful of shopping or child ? we can?t remember the last time a car soothed us and irritated us less than the CR-V.
On top of this, because it?s a Honda, you just know that none of it is going to break for the next fifteen years. It?s the kind of thing the company has built its reputation on, and which gives you ? the owner ? a reassuring, comforting sense ? especially if it?s going to be your family inside most of the time.
Driving
No one buys an SUV and expects it to drive like a sport cars, but the number of massive-wheel?ed, S-Line suspension?ed Audi SUVs out there suggests that people are more than happy to put up with a hard ride to make their SUV look ? and presumably drive ? more sportily.
The CR-V doesn?t really make any pretense at sporty, but its ride isn?t as cushioned as we?d like. It?s ability to deal with speed humps, pot holes and big road deflections is fine, but the secondary ride never truly settles down, jittering and letting you know everything that?s happening beneath you. Some will like this, as it could be construed as sportiness, but we?d trade it for a bit more comfort.
We highlight this area, as otherwise ? like in the tech area ? the CR-V is a really nice place to spend several hours , and is expertly judged for its market. If you?re not expecting sports car performance, it should suit you fine. The handling is safe and secure ? with the added back up of four-wheel drive when you need it. The gearshift is one of those beautifully precise jobs that Honda?s famous for, and it steers and handles true and straight ? it?s a good companion on a windy, rainy motorway for instance.
Our car came with Honda?s 2.0 VTEC petrol engine. In true Honda petrol-engine fashion, it likes revs to really get moving and given it?s pushing quite a lot of car around without the aid of a turbocharger, you?ll need to work it hard if you want to make decent progress. Most will therefore choose the diesel, which we?d suggest will suit the CR-V?s character better, and feel faster in most given driving situations.
We wanted to try the petrol though, as we continue to note that diesel costs more at the pumps and incurs a company car tax penalty. The diesel models also cost more to buy ? so unless you?re driving a lot of miles each year, the petrol may make more financial sense. If you?re not too fussed about the cost, we?d suggest you try both before buying, but don?t write off the petrol. In a mix of one third town driving and two-thirds high-speed motorway run, in our hands it returned a real-world 30mpg, whereas we?d expect the diesel to return 36-40 in the same conditions. Swings, roundabouts, etc.
Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/6125/honda-cr-v-suv-family-car-review
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REAL ESTATE: Equity home sales on the rise in November ... - blog
Posted on | December 28, 2012 |
California?s pending home sales fell in November, as equity home sales across the state and the Inland region began to come out of the closet.
A report released Friday by the California Association of Realtors said pending home sales, forward-looking indicators of future home sales activity, fell nine-tenths of 1 percent from November 2011.
But the sputter the state?s largest real estate trade association blamed on seasonal factors was mixed with a more telling indicator of what?s to come in 2013: The share of equity sales is on the rise.
The pool of equity sales inched up to 64.9 percent from 63.4 percent in October, and represented a 14.7 percent gain from November 2011.
Equity home sales figures haven?t been this good since May 2008.
What?s more, the combined share of all distressed property sales fell to 35.1 percent in November, according to the C.A.R. report. The pool of distressed property sales stood at 49.8 percent in November 2011.
How did the hard-hit Inland region fare?
The percentage of single-family distressed home sales is still well above the state numbers, but the percentage of distressed home sales noted in November fell by the double-digits.
Realtors say they?re seeing more ?conventional? housing stock come into the marketplace, as homeowners with equity in their property see home prices began a slow recovery, rents began to rise and mortgage lending rates remain at near historic levels.
The pool of distressed homes in Riverside County fell 10 percent from November 2011 to 51 percent, down from 61 percent. In San Bernardino County, distressed property sales plunged 20 percentage points to 44 percent. In November 2011, some 64 percent of all single-family homes sold in San Bernardino County were in distress.
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PFT: Ravens' Reed fine $55K for hit on Cruz
Getty ImagesA funny thing happened in the course of Lomas Brown trying to walk back his claim last week that he once intentionally missed a block in order to get his teammate Scott Mitchell injured: Brown says he has discovered that his memory is wrong, and the play on which he purposely missed a block is different than the play on which Mitchell suffered a season-ending injury.
That?s what Brown told Gregg Doyel of CBS: According to Brown, the former Lions left tackle who is now an ESPN commentator, ESPN went through its archives and found the play that ended Mitchell?s season, and it wasn?t the same play that Brown remembered.
After Brown?s boast about purposely getting Mitchell hurt became a hot topic in the NFL this week, someone posted a video on YouTube that appears to show the play that got Mitchell hurt in a loss to the Packers. That play does show Brown lining up at left tackle and turning to the inside, leaving Packers right defensive end Sean Jones alone to rush to the outside and get a free shot at Mitchell. But as the New York Times noted, there?s really no way to know whether Brown was supposed to block Jones on that play and intentionally let him go, or whether the Lions? pass protection on that play called for Brown to block to the inside.
Brown?s memory of the 1994 game is faulty. He described the Lions as being down 24-3 at the time he missed his block, but the score of that game was never 24-3. Based on the YouTube video, it appears that the score was actually 10-0 when Mitchell was hurt. And Brown?s description of the play suggests that he initially engaged Jones but then let him go, while the video shows Brown turning inside at the snap and never going near Jones.
In any event, whether Mitchell?s injury actually happened on a play on which Brown intentionally missed a block isn?t particularly important. Either (1) Brown tried to injure a teammate and succeeded, or (2) Brown tried to injure a teammate and failed but happened to get his wish because the teammate got injured on another play in the same game. Brown initially claimed option 1 but now claims option 2. Neither of those options reflects well on Brown.
The third option is that Brown fabricated a story about intentionally injuring a teammate because he thought that would be a swell way to get attention. That sounds ridiculous, but considering that Brown makes his living by appearing on ESPN First Take, a show that encourages its panelists to seek attention by making outrageous statements, it?s plausible.
If that?s what happened, and Brown has now discovered that the attention he generated is unwanted, claiming that he wasn?t actually responsible for Mitchell?s injury might be Brown?s way of attempting to minimize the damage to his reputation. But whatever Brown may say now, his reputation has been permanently tarnished.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/27/nfl-fines-ed-reed-55000/related/
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