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Europe's central bank looks in vain for growth

FILE - The March 7, 2012 file photo shows a shovel and a jackhammer stand near the Euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Europe is searching for a growth motor. Unemployment and manufacturing figures on Monday, April 2, 2012 underlined an increasingly shaky growth story, as a key index of industrial activity strongly suggested Europe is already in an official recession after shrinking 0.2 percent in the last three months of 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

FILE - The March 7, 2012 file photo shows a shovel and a jackhammer stand near the Euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Europe is searching for a growth motor. Unemployment and manufacturing figures on Monday, April 2, 2012 underlined an increasingly shaky growth story, as a key index of industrial activity strongly suggested Europe is already in an official recession after shrinking 0.2 percent in the last three months of 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

FRANKFURT, Germany ? Europe is searching for something to get growth going again and pull the eurozone's heavily indebted countries out of their troubles ? but with little luck.

Unemployment and manufacturing indicators suggest the 17 countries that use the euro are headed for a recession. Adding to these worrying signs is the realization that many of the traditional tools to give growth a shove ? government spending, tax cuts and lower central bank interest rates ? are off the table.

The absence of growth will be a big concern for European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and the bank's governing council when they meet Wednesday to decide the eurozone's benchmark interest rate. No change in the rate ? which is at a record low of 1 percent ? is expected this time around.

A recent round of economic indicators will be prominent in the governing council's minds when it meets. On Monday, the Markit index of industrial activity for the eurozone strongly suggested that the region's economy is still contracting after shrinking 0.3 percent in the last three months of 2011. Two straight quarters of falling output are a common definition of recession. Meanwhile, unemployment across the 17-country group crept up to a record 10.8 percent, official figures also released on Monday showed. And national jobless rates paint an even more disturbing picture ? especially among the countries hit worst by the debt crisis: Spain at 23.6 percent unemployed, Greece 21.0 percent, Ireland 14.7 percent.

The European Union's executive commission estimates that the eurozone economy will shrink by 0.3 percent this year, while Greece faces shrinkage of 4.4 percent in the fifth year of a deep recession. Italy faces a 1.3 percent drop in output according to commission forecasts while Spain will fall 1.0 percent.

Short-term answers are scarce. The debt crisis hitting the eurozone means governments can no longer spend their way out of a downturn? in fact, they are doing the opposite and embarking on rounds of austerity cuts.

On top of this, the ECB is restrained from cutting interest rates by the eurozone's stubbornly high inflation rate, which has been pushed up by oil prices and some taxes to an annualized 2.6 percent. The ECB is concentrating on getting price increases down to under 2 percent. Lowering interest rates tends to push inflation up.

The region could even face the prospect of so-called "stagflation" ? a period of no or very little economic growth accompanied by inflation ? according to Carsten Brzeski, an economist at ING.

"The fact that the recovery of the eurozone economy would be slow and bumpy was already clear," Brzeski wrote in a note to investors.

"Now, high energy prices have even increased the risk of stagflation in the eurozone, a worst-case scenario which should cause concern at the Eurotower in coming months" ? a reference to the ECB's Frankfurt skyscraper headquarters.

Brzeski adds that the stubborn inflation rate meant that "further rate cuts should be off the table".

Another weapon in the ECB's arsenal has also been put beyond use. The ?1 trillion program of "all-you-can-eat" loans to banks in December and February did manage to take some heat off the debt crisis that was crippling governments including Spain and Italy. Some banks used the cheap money to snap up government debt that paid a higher interest rate. The program has helped lower costs at which governments borrow on the financial markets and stopped the economic malaise from becoming much deeper.

But the ECB loans are seen as a stopgap at best. The bank is currently in a holding pattern before it can start further, similar, measures as it waits to see whether that money finds its way through to loans to businesses and the wider economy.

The problem remains: Countries that don't slash spending risk being unable to borrow money from bond investors because the borrowing costs set by those investors ? the so-called yields ? are too high. Once they are of cut off from the bond market by prohibitively high yields, a bailout is the only alternative to default. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have already been forced to seek help from the other eurozone member countries and the International Monetary Fund.

Spanish and Italian yields were hitting dangerously high levels around 7 percent late last year before the ECB stepped in with its cheap loans. The countries' yields dropped to more manageable levels, but are beginning to creep up again. Spanish 10-year bond yields edged up to 5.42 percent on Tuesday, from under 5 percent a month ago. Italy's 10-year bonds yielded 5.15 percent, also up from under 5 percent last month.

The solution to the debt crisis, eurozone officials, the ECB and economists all say, is structural reforms to make indebted countries more business-friendly by slashing regulation and eliminating costly restrictive labor practices.

As the European economy gets bigger, the relative size of its debt pile shrinks, and higher tax revenues and stronger finances reassure bond investors ? so they will loan money at affordable rates.

But those changes to labor markets take time to win approval in parliaments ? often against resistance from labor and business special interests. Then they may take years to show results in terms of higher growth.

"The kind of structural reforms that we are talking about will take five, six, seven years to really have a full impact," said Guntram Wolff, deputy director of the Bruegel research institute in Brussels.

For short-term growth, aside from the ECB loans, "we really don't have a story there," Wolff warns.

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10,000 simulations show warming range of 1.4 to 3 degrees by 2050

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) ? A project running almost 10,000 climate simulations on volunteers' home computers has found that a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is 'equally plausible' as a rise of 1.4 degrees.

The study, the first to run so many simulations using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate model, addresses some of the uncertainties that previous forecasts, using simpler models or only a few dozen simulations, may have over-looked.

Importantly, the forecast range is derived from models that accurately reproduce observed temperature changes over the last 50 years.

The results suggest that the world is very likely to cross the '2 degrees barrier' at some point this century if emissions continue unabated, and that those planning for the impacts of climate change need to consider the possibility of warming of up to 3 degrees (above the 1961-1990 average) by 2050 even on a mid-range emission scenario. This is a faster rate of warming than most other models predict.

A report of the research is published in Nature Geoscience.

'It's only by running such a large number of simulations -- with model versions deliberately chosen to display a range of behaviour -- that you can get a handle on the uncertainty present in a complex system such as our climate,' said Dr Dan Rowlands of Oxford University's Department of Physics, lead author of the paper. 'Our work was only possible because thousands of people donated their home computer time to run these simulations.'

'Most forecasts of global warming are based on the range of results that different groups around the world happen to contribute to a model comparison. These groups don't set out to explore the full range of uncertainty, which is why studies like ours are needed,' said Professor Myles Allen of the School of Geography and Environment and Department of Physics, Oxford University, an author of the paper.

Dr Ben Booth, Senior Climate Scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, an author of the paper, said: 'There have been substantial efforts within the international community to quantify and understand the consequence of climate uncertainties for future projections. Perhaps the most ambitious effort to date, this work illustrates how the citizen science movement is making an important contribution to this field.

'Co-author Professor Dave Frame of Victoria University of Wellington, Visiting Fellow of Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, said: 'Ensembles like this are an innovative way of exploring a range of possible futures, and provide an exciting new resource for the climate adaptation and impact communities.'

The model used in the project was supplied by the UK Met Office and the work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the European Union FP6 WATCH and ENSEMBLES projects, the Oxford Martin School, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and Microsoft Research.

The research was made possible because volunteers donated time to run the simulations on their home computers through climateprediction.net as part of the BBC Climate Change Experiment.

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  1. Daniel J. Rowlands, David J. Frame, Duncan Ackerley, Tolu Aina, Ben B. B. Booth, Carl Christensen, Matthew Collins, Nicholas Faull, Chris E. Forest, Benjamin S. Grandey, Edward Gryspeerdt, Eleanor J. Highwood, William J. Ingram, Sylvia Knight, Ana Lopez, Neil Massey, Frances McNamara, Nicolai Meinshausen, Claudio Piani, Suzanne M. Rosier, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Leonard A. Smith, D?ith? A. Stone, Milo Thurston, Kuniko Yamazaki, Y. Hiro Yamazaki, Myles R. Allen. Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble. Nature Geoscience, 2012; 5 (4): 256 DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1430

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Microsoft 'Shopping assistant' patent could help you find Elmo, more time for the kids

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Microsoft's just been granted a patent entitled "Shopping assistant." The claims indicate a system that generates a route to a product based on user-defined criteria (i.e. quickest, cheapest, shortest distance,) it also indicates that certain real-time conditions from participating merchants, such as stock levels, could also help determine the route. Now we're no CSI, but sounds to us like someone got fed up pounding the Mall looking for the last Buzz Lightyear, and cooked up a system to help save folk from the same pain. The problem is, we're not sure we like the idea of Windows Shopping all that much either...

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Arteries under pressure early on: Mice fed a high-fat diet show signs of artery damage after only six weeks

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) ? High fat diets cause damage to blood vessels earlier than previously thought, and these structural and mechanical changes may be the first step in the development of high blood pressure. These findings in mice, by Marie Billaud and colleagues from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the US, are published online in Springer's Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research.

With age, increasing weight and metabolic disease, the internal walls of our large arteries progressively thicken and become less elastic, which can lead to furring up of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and increased resistance and high blood pressure in severe cases. At present, researchers and physicians tend to measure arterial compliance (a measure of arterial stiffness) in large arteries in relatively advanced stages of metabolic diseases.

However, this may not provide the full picture of when a disease starts and how it develops. In addition, previous work has suggested that structural alterations in the walls of small arteries are the most potent predictor of cardiovascular diseases, suggesting that early identification of these changes is important.

Billaud and team compared the arterial compliance of two different sized arteries: carotid (large) and thoracodorsal (smaller) in two groups of mice: one fed a high-fat diet for six weeks; the other a control group on a traditional diet.

They found that the structural and mechanical properties of small arteries were rapidly altered, even after only six weeks of high fat feeding. Specifically, the compliance of the smaller arteries was dramatically reduced in the mice on the high-fat diet, whereas there was no change in stiffness in the larger arteries. The researchers also found a build-up of collagen in the walls of the smaller arteries.

The authors conclude: "These results suggest that, at an early stage of obesity, the structural properties of small and large arteries are altered whereas arterial stiffness is only observed in small vessels. This implies that small vessels are targeted earlier compared to large arteries, and this could therefore play a role in the development of hypertension associated with a long-term caloric-enriched diet.

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Groundhog Day in court? California ban on affirmative action is upheld. Again.

A three-judge panel from the Ninth US Circuit cited a 1997 appeals court decision upholding the affirmative action ban, which led to a sharp decline in minority enrollment at California state universities.

A federal appeals court on Monday left intact California?s ban on race-based affirmative action as a means to boost the ranks of minority students in the state university system, throwing out a lawsuit that sought to overturn the policy.

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In turning the lawsuit aside, a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals cited a 1997 appeals court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the prohibition.

California voters approved the ban, Proposition 209, in 1996. The state-wide ballot initiative amended the state?s constitution to read in part: ?The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.?

The amendment forced the University of California to end its long-standing affirmative action programs, and, instead, rely on race-neutral admissions mechanisms.

The action was challenged by several individuals and groups alleging the measure violated equal protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment. The court disagreed, and dismissed the suit 15 years ago.

In an effort to boost minority enrollment, the university system adopted a procedure of admitting the top four percent of graduates from any California high school. It also decreased the weight applied to standardized tests. But those policies did not compensate for the end of affirmative action, which led to a 50 percent reduction in minority enrollment. The new policies have increased minority enrollment, but not enough, opponents of Prop. 209 say.

Like the earlier suit, the new lawsuit raised equal protection claims. The plaintiffs said the university system was acting unfairly by allowing admissions officials to depart from baseline admissions standards to accommodate military veteran status, income, geographical background, athleticism, and legacy, but not to promote racial diversity or to address de facto racial segregation and inequality.

The plaintiffs said these policies treated African American, Latino, and Native American students unequally from Asian American and white students.

The appeals court cited the 1997 decision that held: ?As a matter of ?conventional? equal protection analysis there is simply no doubt that Proposition 209 is constitutional.?

Writing for the court, Judge Barry Silverman also rejected the argument that the Supreme Court?s decision upholding the use of race to foster racial diversity at the University of Michigan Law School required California to adopt similar race-based diversity plans.

?[The Michigan decision] upheld as permissible certain race-based affirmative action programs. It did not hold that such programs are constitutionally required,? Judge Silverman said.

The bottom line, the judge said, is that the 1997 appeals court decision remains the law of the circuit ? including California.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the affirmative action plan at the University of Texas. The case is not yet scheduled for argument. It will test the constitutionality of Texas officials? justification of their use of race-based admissions criteria to attempt to achieve an acceptable level of racial diversity in every classroom and in every subject taught at the university.

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If you want to grow your Internet business, social media offers you a very powerful way in which to make that happen. It doesn?t matter what market you?re targeting or what niche you?re going after. As long as you understand how to correctly use social media to your advantage, you?re going to be fine. So many successful web businesses used social media in their customer service to help them get to where they are now, why shouldn?t you be doing the same? It?s not hard to help your customers feel special just by taking the most direct and personal approach toward social media that you can. Your customers are going to feel far more wanted and appreciated and this can absolutely help your business enjoy a much more positive trajectory. Here are just a few of the things that will help you use social media to improve your customer service practices.

It is important, when you use social media for customer service, to remember that you?re always in the public eye. In other words, keep your temper. This is more than just Facebook or Twitter?even when you?re sending private messages to a customer you need to be careful. It?s just a simple copy and paste job to expose you to everyone. You have to treat your customers very well when you talk to them. Social media makes them more approachable, but it also makes you more vulnerable.

It?s important to remember that when you offer customer service through social media, you have to be responsive and be so quickly. The biggest reason why a customer will decide to approach you through a social site is because they are hoping to get some prompt attention. You also need to try to be as friendly as possible. It?s important for your customers to truly believe that you are there?right there?for them. Whether they contact you through Twitter or Facebook, understand that they aren?t going to want to wait. The best approach for social media and customer service is to offer your customers exactly what they want and offer it on time. Consider facebook timeline covers for up to date ideas.

Even though you have the option to talk to your customers through private messages, avoid doing this. Keeping your conversations out in the open when you have them online is better. When you put everything out in the open, you offer others the chance to see how you work with customers. In a way, social media gives you the keys to make your customer service more public. This will help you build some automatic trust with the other subscribers you have. You?ll have to prove to your market and audience (with every single thing you do) that you are good to your customers. This is more than possible when you use social media.

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Japan to support US nominee to head World Bank

US World Bank president nominee, Jim Yong Kim. ? Reuters pic

TOKYO, April 1 ? Japan will support Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee for the next World Bank head, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Sunday after meeting the candidate who is in Tokyo on his world tour to seek support for the candidacy.

Kim, a Korean-American, will be contesting against two nominees from emerging market countries - Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo - for the Washington-based institution's top job.

"We decided he is an extremely suitable candidate for the World Bank presidency and we will support him," Azumi said, stressing his track record working on HIV/AIDs issues with the World Health Organisation.

Azumi said that the right candidate for the job would understand Japan's stance as a major contributor country and would be able reflect that in the World Bank's policies.

Kim, a physician and anthropologist, was named by the Obama administration in March as the US pick to succeed Robert Zoellick when he steps down in June.

By tradition, an American has headed the World Bank since its founding after World War Two, but the emerging economies are increasingly open about challenging that convention.

"Mr Kim's mother and father are from the Korean Peninsula. He is of course the US nominee, but he also fully understands the position of developing countries heaving spearheaded the efforts to eradicate AIDS at the WHO," said Azumi in a bid to reassure emerging economies.

Next on the agenda of Kim's "listening tour" as the US Treasury Department calls the trip, is Seoul, New Delhi, Brasilia and Mexico City. He is touring the world between March 27 and April 9 to meet heads of state, finance ministers and others to talk about priorities for the World Bank.

The candidate is the president of Ivy League university Dartmouth College, was born in South Korea, but moved to the United States as a boy. ? Reuters

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Solar Car | Solar Energy Concept

With nought emissions, solar cars there a sunny answer to eco-friendly car buyers. It and makes nice brains to develop a naive auto equipment with the purpose of doesn?t call on behalf of a complex infrastructure or 1 kind of fueling station. What may possibly be simpler than utilizing an already existing energy source like the Sun, well? Right after all it was around because the opening of the solar method, well rather than fossil fuel. If it had been no a lot more than with the purpose of down-to-earth, we?d almost certainly already suffer total it. Here malice of universities and corporations constructing solar cars all day on behalf of the what went just before 20 years on behalf of the yearly Australian World Solar Challenge solar vehicle run, we?re not very in attendance yet.

How get some thing done they effect?

A solar auto is truly an stimulating vehicle powered by solar energy. Photovoltaic (PV) cells convert sunlight into electrical energy. The method generates intensity
, converted electrical energy stored in an on-board battery. The battery serves the same fundamental aim as a swap gossip tank on an inner ignition automobile.

Here malice of the pronounced bounty of sunshine in attendance on behalf of the taking, solar vehicle equipment is elusive. The solar stimulating power source wants a allocation of PV cells, which are expensive, and the efficiency level of PVs is estimated to be no a lot more than 10% to 15%.It is far more likely a hybrid solar with a new fuel source is the no a lot more than viable option in the by coming, but the conception is stimulating sufficient on behalf of engineers inside and outside universities to take a 1 hundred per cent solar automobile prototype into a far more far along development stage.

Are present whichever solar cars outmoded present?

French manufacturer Venturi says their solar emotional
AstroLab hybrid hypothesis auto yields an improved PV cell efficiency level of 21%. It?s not specifically a family unit automobile with its two-seat tandem cockpit configuration, but it is individual opportunity. Tesla Motors has an emotional vehicle to can be revived with solar power with 2009 models presented in the U.S. And Europe. These are lone the former advances in solar car tools. In the identical way as occasion goes on a lot more and a lot more manufacturers will be emergent and incorporating almost kind of solar tools into preexisting propulsion systems. This will create a contemporary sort of hybrid, disconnected from fossil fuels, but still not fully contingent on the Sun?s energy

Maybe with the fresh penetrating intensity photvoltaic cells developed by a company in Israel, several of the energy efficiency difficulties will be taken carefulness of. It is not plain though if they can be created instead of cars.

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