Falling food, gas costs lower US wholesale prices

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. wholesale prices fell for the third month in a row last month, pushed down by falling food and gas costs. The drop is the latest evidence inflation is tame.

The producer price index dropped 0.2 percent in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That follows a decline of 0.8 percent in November.

The index measures price changes before they reach the consumer. Wholesale prices rose 1.3 percent in 2012, much lower than the 4.7 percent increase in 2011.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core wholesale prices ticked up 0.1 percent in December. They rose 2 percent in 2012, below a 3 percent increase in 2011.

Low inflation means consumers have more money to spend, which helps the economy. It also gives the Federal Reserve more room to keep interest rates low in an effort to spur economic growth. If prices were to begin rising rapidly, the central bank might be forced to raise rates in response.

As long as inflation stays mild, the Fed said it plans to keep the short-term interest rate it controls near zero until the unemployment rate falls to at least 6.5 percent.

Food prices fell 0.9 percent in December, the biggest drop in 19 months. More than one-third of the decline resulted from a 4.8 percent fall in beef and veal prices. The cost of vegetables and cheese also declined.

The drop in food costs was the first since May and comes after a 1.3 percent increase in November. That was the biggest rise in nearly two years.

Not everything was cheaper last month. The cost of women's and girls' clothes jumped 1.4 percent, the most in nine years. Fresh fruit prices rose 2.7 percent, while car prices increased 0.5 percent.

Those price increases could get passed on to the consumer in the coming months, but probably not by as much. High unemployment and weak wage increases will make it hard for retailers to pass on all of the higher costs.

Gas prices have fallen sharply this past fall, dragging the overall index lower. Nationwide, the average cost of gas was $3.30 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. That's about the same as it was a month ago and well below summer prices that nearly touched $4 a gallon.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/falling-food-gas-costs-lower-us-wholesale-prices-133459029--finance.html

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Morgan Stanley cuts Asia commodity jobs including two VPs

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley has laid off two vice-presidents and one or two other employees in its commodities division as part of a global plan to shed staff and cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The move comes after the bank has said it would not give up on the fixed income, currency and commodities trading business, known as "FICC" in Wall Street circles, and wanted to boost market share in FICC by two percentage points.

Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

The sixth-largest U.S. bank by assets plans to slash 1,600 jobs, a move that may be the first of a new round of layoffs at large investment banks as they reassess businesses in the face of new regulations and capital standards, sources familiar with the matter said earlier this month.

In Asia, fewer than five people will be axed from the bank's commodity staff of less than 60, the sources familiar with the matter said.

At least two of those retrenched are from its oil trading unit, industry sources said, though this could not be confirmed.

The restructuring resulted from a review of the bank's commodities business needs in the region and reflected changing market conditions, the sources familiar with the matter said.

"Banks need to stay nimble, especially with regard to their commodities operations given reduced market liquidity and heightened cost structures," one of the sources said.

Global investment banks have been shedding staff to reduce costs since the 2008 financial crisis, but the latest round of cuts has been prompted by stringent U.S. regulations designed to limit excessive risk-taking after the crisis.

(This story corrects paragraph 4 to sources said from the bank said)

(Additional reporting by Seng Li Peng and Melanie Burton; editing by Jane Baird)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/morgan-stanley-cuts-asia-commodity-jobs-including-two-112341495--finance.html

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'Aura Migraines' May Increase Women's Heart Attack Risk

Women whose migraine headaches are accompanied by flashes of light or other changes in vision, called aura, may be at increased risk for a heart attack, a new study suggests.

Among women in the study who said they experienced migraines with aura, the rate of cardiovascular events ? including heart attack and stroke ? was 7.9 events per 1,000 women per year. That's higher than the rate of these events in the overall study population, which was 2.4 per 1,000 women per year.

In fact, after high blood pressure, migraine with aura was the second strongest contributor to the risk of heart attack and stroke ? ahead of Type 2 diabetes, smoking and obesity, said study researcher Dr. Tobias Kurth, of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux.

The study only found an association, and the findings do not mean that all women who have migraines with auras will have a heart attack or stroke, Kurth said.

But the results suggest that women with migraines with aura should attempt to reduce their cardiovascular risk factors ? for instance, by keeping their blood pressure under control, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight.

The findings agree with a growing body of evidence linking migraines to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

The new study involved 27,860 U.S. women ages 45 and older who did not have cardiovascular disease at the study's start. Of these, about 1,400 suffered from migraine with aura. During the 15-year study period, there were 1,030 cases of heart attack, stroke or death from a cardiovascular event.

The rate of cardiovascular events among women with high blood pressure was 9.8 events per 1,000 women per year; the rate among those who had migraine with aura was 7.9 per 1,000 women per year; the rate among those with diabetes was 7.1 per 1,000 women per year; the rate among smokers was 5.4 per 1,000 women per year; and the rate among obese individuals was 5.3 per 1,000 women per year.

It's not clear why having migraines with aura would increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. But it's possible that common factors may be involved in both migraines and cardiovascular events, Kurth said.

Migraines with aura occur when a blood vessels in the brain constrict, reducing blow flood to a certain area, said Dr. Ezriel R. Kornel, a neurologist at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY. When the blood vessels subsequently dilate, or enlarge to increase blood flow, this leads to pain, Kornel said.

"It's certainly possible that the same factor that's causing the initial constriction in migraines with aura is causing the constriction of blood vessels in the heart," which leads to a heart attack, said Kornel, who was not involved in the study.

Kornel said there's still a lot to explore with this topic, including future studies that take into account whether women are taking migraine medication ? a factor that could influence the link.

The study will be presented in March at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in San Diego. The study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Pass it on: Migraine with aura may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke in women.

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Are e-visits as good as office appointments?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that "e-visits" for sinus infections and urinary tract infections (UTIs) may be cheaper than in-person office visits and similarly effective.

For e-visits, patients fill out online forms about their symptoms and a doctor or nurse gets back to them within a few hours with treatment advice.

In the new study, the main difference between e-visits and office visits was that patients who received their care online were prescribed more antibiotics - a finding that could be concerning but is hard to interpret on its own, researchers said.

"All over the country, more and more of these e-visits are taking place," said Dr. James Rohrer, a family medicine doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has studied online care.

Insurance companies believe e-visits will save money, he said. For patients, the biggest benefit is convenience - including that they don't have to schedule the appointment beforehand.

"If you're not feeling well, getting cleaned up and going into a clinic may not be too attractive," added Rohrer, who wasn't involved in the new research. And with e-visits, "there are no parking problems."

For the new study, researchers compared all e-visits and office visits for sinus infections and UTIs at four primary care practices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, between January 2010 and May 2011. Over 90 percent of appointments for both conditions were in-person office visits, out of a total of more than 8,000.

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra from the RAND Corporation and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and his colleagues found a similar proportion of patients - seven percent or less in each case - had a follow-up visit for the same condition within the next three weeks. That suggests misdiagnosis and treatment failure weren't any higher with e-visits.

However, people with both conditions who had e-visits were more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who had in-person appointments. The effect was especially strong for UTIs: 99 percent of those people who had an e-visit received an antibiotic, compared to 49 percent with an office visit.

That could be because doctors are more conservative with treatment when they can't directly examine their patients, the researchers wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine. But it could also be worrisome, given that over-prescription of antibiotics is tied to drug resistance.

"That is something we really need to be careful about and watch for," Mehrotra told Reuters Health.

Even with that difference in prescribing, treating each patient with a UTI cost an average of $74 per e-visit versus $93 for an office visit, based on the researchers' rough estimate.

Rohrer told Reuters Health some researchers still worry that doctors or nurses may miss some relevant information during an e-visit that would be clearer in a face-to-face appointment.

According to Mehrotra, the current findings are "reassuring" in that sense, but don't definitively answer the question of whether diagnoses are just as likely to be correct in an e-visit setting.

Rohrer said future studies should continue to look into the effectiveness of online care.

There are bound to be some kinks in the system or variation in e-visit quality while the concept is still being developed, he added. "This is clearly a moving target."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/VYqS1Q JAMA Internal Medicine, online January 14, 2013.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/e-visits-good-office-appointments-194542127.html

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Why Doesn't Google Get The Amazon Treatment? - Seeking Alpha

It should seem readily apparent that for the next several years, Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) will be fighting for control, if not outright dominance, of the worldwide Internet user. From their rather tightly defined beginnings in online search (for Google) and online retailing (for Amazon), both companies have expanded their reach into a variety of segments, from video streaming to mobile hardware and cloud services. As Reuters noted in December, the two companies appear set on a "collision course" this year, as Amazon and Google compete on new frontiers well beyond their original target markets.

Despite the companies' convergence into similar markets, and the lack of any other substantial competition -- trailing twelve-month revenue at Yahoo (YHOO) and Facebook (FB) is roughly one-tenth that of Google, and one-twelfth that of Amazon -- the companies' valuation profiles couldn't be more different:

AMZN v GOOG

CompanyAmazonGoogle
Market Cap$120.2B$243.6B
TTM Revenue$57.3B$47.5B
Operating Margin0.93%27.00%
Forward P/E152.516.0

data courtesy finviz.com

Of course, this isn't necessarily news -- Amazon's ability to maintain its high P/E ratio has been widely known and hotly debated. Nor do the numbers require some sort of regression toward the center, where the multiples are more similar. (Though GOOG longs certainly wouldn't mind; given Amazon's current multiple, Google's market cap would be $2.32 trillion.)

But what has been somewhat overlooked is the dissonance in the logic that the market uses to justify the vastly different multiples. In Amazon's case, the bull thesis has been that Amazon's margins essentially don't matter, at least not yet. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made the point in a widely publicized interview last weekend with the Harvard Business Review:

ADI IGNATIUS: At what point will the goal change from lowering margins, building market share, to making a bigger profit?

JEFF BEZOS: Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It's the absolute dollar-free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that's something that investors can spend. Investors can't spend percentage margins.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek noted that Bezos' comments were nothing new:

Bezos has been reliably saying this sort of thing for years...[He] is more concerned with driving cash flow than making money because he believes the opportunity offered by the Internet, and by e-commerce, is massive and still largely untapped. To him, it's still a land grab. So he's prepared to cut prices to the bone and add all those freebies to cultivate customer loyalty and drive sales growth. Then he reinvests it all in more low prices and further expansion, driving additional customer loyalty.

Whether this strategy is correct for the company is unclear (and whether it is best for the stock is perhaps an entirely different argument) but, what is clear is that the market, for the most part, has bought into Bezos' strategy;

AMZN Chart

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In short, Amazon's continued investment in new fulfillment centers, the sold-at-cost Kindle line of devices, a streaming video service to rival that of industry leader Netflix (NFLX), and other ventures are designed to increase market share. That increased market share will increase future profits at a rate greater than the loss of current profits. Thus, Amazon stock should be measured on its earnings power, rather than its actual earnings -- or so the theory goes.

Again, I'm not interested in speculating whether that theory is correct or not. I can certainly understand Bezos' motivation -- and I do respect his determined lack of interest in Wall Street's opinion, though its long-term acquiescence to his vision has no doubt made his road far less bumpy. I'm also sympathetic to investors who have little interest in owning a stock that trades at a triple-digit multiple and offers a free cash flow yield below one percent.

What I do find interesting, however, is that Google is treated so differently from Amazon, despite sharing many aspects of its rival's strategy. Like Amazon, Google has made myriad attempts to expand its reach. It is investing in projects such as self-driving cars, renewable energy and "augmented reality head-mounted displays." It is also tackling more conventional ways to expand its market share, through its purchase of Motorola Mobility, by competing with Amazon's touted Amazon Web Services in cloud computing, and by expanding its retail reach and potentially offering same-day delivery.

Yet while Bezos is lionized for his hard-charging, revolutionary management style -- indeed, the Harvard Business Review interview was held in conjunction with Bezos being named its "greatest living CEO" -- Google's investments seem ignored, even derided. Its investments -- at least those that are more publicized, such as the automotive and "Project Glass" initiatives -- seem too geeky, the result of engineers getting free lunches and 20 percent of their time to goof off and dream up complicated but impractical schemes.

But the fact remains that Google is competing every bit as hard as Amazon to become the dominant player on the Internet. The company's acquisition strategy recently has been more aggressive relative to that of Amazon, and its own investments have been more significant as well:

R&D Spending, Google and Amazon

YearGoogle R&D% SalesAmazon R&D*% Sales
2011$5.162B13.6%$2.909B6.1%
2012**$5.035B13.6%$3.219B8.1%

* -- Amazon categorizes R&D spending as "technology and content" spending, which consists " principally of technology infrastructure expenses and payroll and related expenses for employees involved in application, product, and platform development, category expansion, editorial content, buying, merchandising selection, and systems support, digital initiatives, as well as costs associated with the compute, storage and telecommunications infrastructure used internally and supporting [Amazon Web Services]," according to the most recent 10-K.

** -- first nine months

Yet it is Amazon that is lauded, and its share price supported, for its aggressive expansion of its business, while Google sits in value stock territory -- the stock trades, ex-cash, at about 13x forward earnings -- and its own margins are constantly scrutinized.

Granted, the increasing move to mobile usage is a key headwind for Google, and in terms of dominating the Internet Amazon has been winning of late; its revenue will rise 153% between 2009 and 2012, based on current analyst estimates. There are certainly myriad reasons for the sharp divergence in earnings multiples between the two companies.

Yet, at the same time, it's not as if Google is simply fading into the background. Its three-year revenue growth should total about 75 percent; not quite at Amazon's levels, but certainly a strong rate for a company with a far lower earnings multiple. And if Amazon is judged off its potential earnings power, why isn't Google? If Google decided to do what so many have urged Amazon to do, and focused simply on near-term results, it could expand its earnings tremendously. Simply lowering its total R&D spending to that of Amazon would juice 2013 earnings by somewhere in the range of 15 percent; matching its R&D spend as a percentage of revenue would provide an even greater boost. Google's dominant market share in search surely gives it pricing power, which it could easily use to boost near-term margins, in the same way many investors wish Amazon would.

Google management is unlikely to take those steps, as it intends to -- indeed, has to -- fight Amazon (and, potentially, Facebook) across the Internet. That strategy -- foregoing near-term profits for long-term market share gains -- has made Amazon a Wall Street darling, but done little for Google's own share price:

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It seems strange. Unless Jeff Bezos is simply that good, or Google simply that bad, both companies seem set to carve out a good-sized portion of worldwide Internet revenue for themselves. Admittedly, it's impossible to predict who will come out on top, and to what extent. What is apparent, though, is that, despite embarking on a very similar path, Google is being treated very differently from its rival. And as the valuation gap between the two companies continues to grow, it makes less and less sense.

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. (More...)

Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1107721-why-doesn-t-google-get-the-amazon-treatment?source=feed

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No 'Death Star' for US Military, White House Says

The planet-killing Death Star may have been the ultimate weapon for the Empire in the "Star Wars" films, but it has no place in the United States military today, a White House official said Friday (Jan. 11).

The statement, an official response a petition to begin building a real-life Death Star by 2016 on the White House's We the People website, said President Barack Obama's Administration cannot support building the science fiction weapon for several down-to-Earth reasons.

"The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon," wrote Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

The Death Star petition, posted in the November, was signed by 34,435 people and the White House has pledged to respond to any petitions that garner 25,000 signatures in 30 days.

Not the least of the hurdles for a real-life Death Star is the space construction costs, which Shawcross said has been estimated at $850 quadrillion (that's $850,000,000,000,000,000). The White House is trying to reduce the deficit, not expand it, he wrote.

Then there's the Death Star's planet-destroying warship nature.

"The Administration does not support blowing up planets," Shawcross wrote.

And of course, there's the fact that Luke Skywalker destroyed the first Death Star with a single X-wing fighter.

"Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that could be exploited by a one-man starship?" Shawcross explained.

While there will be no moon-size Death Star in the U.S. military's arsenal by 2016, Saturn's real-life moon Mimas does look eerily similar to the fictional warship. [Saturn's'Death Star' Moon Mimas (Photos)]

Last year, astronomers with the agency's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope also announced that they found a real-life version of Tatooine, Luke's home planet with two suns. NASA also plans to send astronauts where no one has gone before ? an asteroid ? by 2025, and then take aim a manned trip to Mars in the 2030s.

And Shawcross also urged the public to go outside at night and look up.

"However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky ? that's no moon, it's a space station!" Shawcross wrote. "Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations."

The?International Space Station ?is a $100 billion orbiting lab ??a deal compared to the Death Star ??and is currently home to a six-man crew representing the United States, Russia and Canada. Construction of the space station began in 1998 and today it is the largest manmade structure in space. It has the same living space as a five-bedroom house.

The space station can appear so bright to observers on Earth that at times it rivals Venus, the brightest planet in the night sky. Two American astronauts (of NASA), three Russian cosmonauts and a Canadian astronaut currently live on the station.

And Shawcross said there are other Star Wars technologies besides the Death Star that do have a place in today's society.

"We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the space station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's [robotic] arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers," Shawcross wrote.

"We are living in the future!" Shawcross wrote. "Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field."

The Administration and NASA have both been working to spur interest in science, math, engineering and technology among students.

"If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us!" Shawcross concluded. "Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force."

With the Death Star officially the table, there is another science fiction spaceship petition that could draw a White House response.

Last month, an engineer writing as BTE Dan launched a petition to build a real-life Starship Enterprise from the "Star Trek" TV series. So far, 5,973 have signed the petition, so it still has a ways to go to prompt a White House response. The petition's deadline is Jan. 21.

For Shawcross's full response to the Death Star response, visit: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the number of signatures on the petition to build a Starship Enterprise. The correct number of petition signatures to date is?5,973.

This story was provided by SPACE.com, a sister site to LiveScience.? You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik.?Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.

Source: http://www.livescience.com/26227-death-star-white-house-petition-response.html

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Mayor Bloomberg Thinks He Can Break Up the NRA and the GOP

Last month in an appearance on Meet the Press, New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Mayor Bloomberg might be "counterproductive" as a spokesman for gun control because the movement needs to win over "rural and red America." As Frank Rich put it: "Translation: He?s an East Coast Jew." Bloomberg shot back at Brooks in a Sunday interview with the Washington Post, saying, ?Incidentally, just define David Brooks ... As I remember, he?s got to be in the 1?percent ? the amount of money he makes as a columnist. I don?t know where that came from.? He also provided more fodder for Brooks, saying of gun rights advocates who think the government is out to get them, "the general public that thinks this is meshugana.? But supposedly, Bloomberg is fine with others taking the lead on his pet issue. ?And so we?re not going to be the star,? Bloomberg said. ?My interest is in having this done. I don?t need to get credit for it.?

Of course, Bloomberg still wants to play a large role in the push for stricter gun laws, but he's content to let his super-PAC do the talking. In the last election Bloomberg donated $10 million to five candidates who oppose the NRA and four won. ?It seemed effective, and I?m certainly going to take a good, hard look at next time," says Bloomberg. "You can organize people, I can write checks.?

That's not to say that Bloomberg is following anyone else's lead on the issue. While many fellow gun control advocates think they'll need to vote out Republicans to get reforms passed, the mayor believes that if the GOP can have a change of heart on immigration, they can do the same on guns. ?Somebody got them the way they are now,? he says. ?Why can?t you change them?? It did take the loss of a presidential election for some Republicans to change their tune on immigration ? and the shift has yet to result in any new legislation ? but if anyone has the time and money to devote to a longshot effort like breaking up the GOP and the NRA, it's Mayor Bloomberg.

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/bloomberg-split-nra-gop.html

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Di Mar?a: "La Copa y la Champions son dos objetivos muy importantes"

El centrocampista argentino del Real Madrid, Angel di Mar?a reconoci? este lunes que se siente "muy bien" pese a que no est? jugando, dejando claro que "es una decisi?n" de Jos? Mourinho y recordando que el no jugar con continuidad hace que le cueste m?s "coger el ritmo".

"Me siento muy bien, trabajo para estar siempre al cien por cien. Se ve que no estoy jugando, el entrenador est? formando de otra manera y son decisiones el t?cnico. Yo trabajo d?a a d?a para estar en el once o para cada vez que me necesite el mister", se?al? Di Mar?a en rueda de prensa.

El 'Fideo' resalt? que para ?l est? siendo "dif?cil" este a?o.
"Cuando uno no juega le cuesta m?s. El no tener continuidad de los a?os anteriores hace que sea muy dif?cil tener el mismo ritmo, pero estoy trabajando para eso y cada que el mister me necesite estar?. Tratar? de estar en ese nivel de antes", admiti?.

De todo modos, subray? que no ha "hablado" con Jos? Mourinho. "Ni cuando estaba jugando ni cuando no. Son decisiones, ha decido formar de otra manera y me parece perfecto, cada entrenador pone el once que quiere", reiter?.

El equipo empat? sin goles en Pamplona, pero Di Mar?a no cree que se echase demasiado en falta a Cristiano Ronaldo. "Era muy dif?cil, en una cancha muy 'chica' y ante un equipo que corre y lucha. Cuando no est? se nota, es un jugador importante que ?te puede definir un partido en cualquier momento, pero tenemos otros que est?n pasando por un buen momento", afirm?.

Del de Madeira, no quiso opinar sobre si renovar? con el conjunto blanco. "Eso es personal, cada uno sabe lo que tiene que hacer", indic?. "Tiene contrato, es un jugador muy importante, que lo necesita el Real Madrid y que ha hecho las cosas de la mejor manera para que le renueven, pero es una decisi?n de ?l si quiere seguir y renovar", apunt?.

El argentino, que sabe que la liga est? "completamente dif?cil", quiere centrarse ahora en la Copa del Rey y la Liga de Campeones, "dos objetivos muy importantes". "Trataremos de lograr ese objetivo", advirti?.

"El Valencia va a venir a ganar"
Los cuartos coperos comenzar? con el choque de ma?ana martes en el Santiago Bernab?u con el Valencia. "El chip se cambia porque es una eliminatoria muy complicada donde un mal resultado en casa nos puede dejar fuera. El Valencia es un equipo dif?cil, las cosas en la liga no nos van bien, pero cuando jugamos ante el Celta de local lo dimos todo y con uno menos ganamos", recalc?.

"Es un partido muy dif?cil ante un rival dif?cil que sabemos que va a venir a ganar y no va a salir a esperar. Est? pasando por un buen momento, tiene jugadores muy buenos, saldr? para jugar de igual a igual, as? que sabemos lo que nos espera y tendemos que hacerlo lo mejor posible para sacar un buen resultado", a?adi? al respecto, al tiempo que demand? el "papel muy importante" que jugar? la afici?n.

Adem?s, el Valencia ser? el siguiente rival liguero y el internacional tiene claro que "cada partido es diferente". "Sabemos que en este partido tenemos que hacer las cosas muy bien para sacar un buen resultado de local, mientras que en liga es diferente, se juegan tres puntos y no es una eliminatoria", puntualiz?.

El centrocampista blanco eludi? referirse a las declaraciones de Jos? Mourinho del pasado s?bado en relaci?n a que hab?an pasado cosas en las primeras jornadas ligueras. "No s?, pregunt?rselo a ?l, ?l sabr?", zanj? Di Mar?a que dej? claro que el vestuario "est? de la mejor manera" y que tienen todav?a "la motivaci?n importante" con la Copa y la 'Champions'.

"No nos estamos dejando ir en la liga, son partidos dif?ciles donde no se est?n dando los resultados. Tratamos de ganar cada uno y jugar mejor para cuando lleguen la Copa y la Liga de Campeones estemos de la mejor manera", prosigui? el argentino.

De todos modos, "por lo que es el Real Madrid", fue cr?tico con el hecho de estar a 18 puntos del FC Barcelona. "Trataremos de seguir sumando puntos, el Bar?a est? en un nivel muy bueno, pero tenemos que empezar a ganar y tener continuidad para poder acercarnos", dijo.

Por ello, apel? a "mejorar en juego" para tener opciones ante el Manchester United en la Liga de Campeones. "Tenemos que jugar de la manera en la que se jug? contra el Celta y ojal? estemos en ese nivel cuando toque la 'Champions', que es fundamental para nosotros y es lo que m?s queremos", asever?.

Cr?ticas arbitrales
Finalmente, Angel di Mar?a se quej? de las ?ltimas actuaciones arbitrales. "Ultimamente se est?n equivocando con nosotros", indic?. "Creo que ustedes (los periodistas), m?s que nadie saben que se est?n confundiendo y pitando mal. A nosotros, por cualquier tonter?a nos expulsan, pero son errores que a veces no se cometen por error", avis?.

Sobre la expulsi?n de Kak? en Pamplona, opin? que no fue justa. "En la primera amarilla, cuando salta y fue un codazo, en la tele no se ve perfectamente, en el video se ve que salta de espaldas. La otra jugada fue mala suerte, quiso que no sacaran r?pido y el rival sab?a que ten?a tarjeta", sentenci?.

Source: http://www.antena3.com/noticias/deportes/futbol/maria-copa-champions-son-dos-objetivos-muy-importantes_2013011400118.html

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Boy, 12, guilty of murder in death of neo-Nazi dad

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In this photo taken Oct. 22, 2010, Jeff Hall holds a neo-Nazi flag while standing at Sycamore Highlands Park near his home in Riverside, Calif.

By Olsen Ebright, NBCLosAngeles.com

A 12-year-old was found responsible for the?second-degree?murder of his father, a regional director of a neo-Nazi organization, a judge ruled Monday.

The "responsible" verdict is the juvenile court equivalent of guilty.

Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard acknowledged the boy's "long history of abuse and neglect." The case was heard without a jury.

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Leonard agreed with a psychologist who testified during trial that for the boy, "the potential for violence could have been predicted" based on prenatal substance abuse by the mother, domestic violence between parents and the father's neo-Nazi philosophy.

Leonard said she considered the boy's age, the circumstance of the crime, the boy's experience, including family and mental condition, and his understanding of the crime.

"This was not a naive boy," Leonard said. "(He) knew about hate" and "knew what he was doing was wrong at the time of the crime."

Sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 15.

In May 2011, the then 10-year-old boy shot and killed his father Jeff Hall with a .357 Magnum at pointblank range. The 32-year-old was asleep on the family's couch at the time of his death.

The child pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Prosecutors argued that the boy had a history of violence and told his younger sister two days before the shooting that he planned to kill his father.

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/14/16507993-boy-12-guilty-of-murder-in-death-of-neo-nazi-dad?lite

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NFL Playoff Games Set, Winners Go To Super Bowl

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The league's old labor deal expired in March, and the owners locked out the players.


The Atlanta Falcons joined the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. The Falcons advanced with a 30-28 win over Seattle. Matt Bryant kicked the game winning 49-yard field goal with eight seconds left to give the Falcons the win. They will host the Niners next Sunday for the right to advance to the Super Bowl.

?The Patriots are back in the AFC title game for the second year in a row. Last year they beat the Ravens to advance to the Super Bowl and this year they will face Baltimore once again in the conference's top game. The Pats advanced with a 41-28 win Sunday as Tom Brady passed for three scores.

Source: http://www2.wspa.com/news/2013/jan/14/nfl-playoff-games-set-winners-go-super-bowl-ar-5362924/

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