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Ivan Lendl would help Andy Murray, says Boris Becker
Ivan Lendl would help Andy Murray, says Boris Becker
Boris Becker has urged Andy Murray to consider employing Ivan Lendl as his coach, though he admitted it would be “a big wake-up call” for a player he says is in crisis.
Struggling: Andy Murray has not won a set since the Australian Open in January Photo: REUTERS
By Mark Hodgkinson 9:35PM BST 28 Mar 2011
Becker told Telegraph Sport that Lendl, the Czech-born American citizen who was known as a player for his mental fortitude and self-discipline, would not tolerate the Scot losing his concentration in matches or screaming at his entourage.
It is understood that Lendl, who won eight grand-slam titles and held the world No1 ranking for 270 weeks, is interested in coaching Murray.
“In his time, no one worked as hard as Ivan did. It is no secret that he was not as talented as, say, John McEnroe, but he made up for that with his incredible discipline, hard work and determination, and he would expect the same from Andy.
“Ivan was a true modern professional, one of the first players to work so hard on his diet and fitness, and he was so dedicated to his tennis and to winning, so I don’t think he would allow any childish behaviour from Andy.
“I really wouldn’t recommend, if they do end up working together, that Andy screams at Ivan, in the way he has maybe screamed at other coaches, as Ivan would not put up with that,” said Becker. “Working with Ivan would be a big wake-up call for Andy.”
For some time now, the German has argued that Murray requires the assistance of an established figure in tennis. He was pleased to hear about the possible connection with Lendl. “Ivan is one of the most successful players in the history of the game, and Murray would have to be quiet and listen to him.
“I really hope that Andy has accepted that he needs an experienced coach, and that he needs help with his game.
“Andy is in crisis now and he requires some crisis management. From what I saw of Ivan as a player, I believe that he would be good for Andy. Andy has lost his first three grand-slam finals. Ivan lost his first four and went on to win eight grand slams,” said Becker.
“Ivan was so professional at all times, he always gave his all. Ivan would never give anything away on a tennis court, never give away any free points, yet Andy has a tendency to let his mind wander during matches and to lose his focus and concentration.
Ivan would not stand for that, and would say to Andy: ‘You’ve worked so hard, you’ve put all that effort in, so why are you now throwing it all away?’”
Murray’s straight-sets defeat in south Florida to Alex Bogomolov Jr, an American qualifier ranked 128 in the world, meant that he has not won even a set since he lost the final of January’s Australian Open to Novak Djokovic.
Despite his troubles in America, Murray is expected to move up one place in the rankings next week.
The current world No4, Sweden’s Robin Soderling, lost to Argentina’s Juan Martín del Potro in the third round of Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open and so failed to defend the points he won by reaching last season’s semi-finals.
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UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2011: Sir Chris Hoy's dilemma as Jason Kenny wins battle of Brits
UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2011: Sir Chris Hoy's dilemma as Jason Kenny wins battle of Brits
The mountain Sir Chris Hoy must climb if he is to defend his Olympic sprint title next year became clear for all to see on Friday night but he still battled his way to a world championship bronze after losing to GB colleague Jason Kenny in the semi-finals
Dilemma: Sir Chris Hoy (left) lost out to Jason Kenny in the battle of the Brits on Friday night Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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Kenny went on to win the silver medal behind France’s outstanding Grégory Baugé, who won his third consecutive title having been untroubled from start to finish in the competition. Kenny got closer than most, at least he was in same frame at the finish.
Hoy seemed to lack a little sharpness for much of the day but he kept plugging away and in the bronze medal ride-off came back from losing the first race against Mickael Bourgain to win the next two and celebrated his bronze with almost as much joy as he usually does a gold. The fighting spirit remains but there is work to do in this, the discipline he is least comfortable with.
Afterwards Hoy acknowledged he might have to consider whether it is possible to mount a defence of all three of his Olympic titles.
“It might come to a point where we have to prioritise, there is no way I would risk a gold medal for three silvers at London. My aim is to be an Olympic champion in London. I won’t enter any event in London if I don’t think I can do that but we are nowhere near that yet. Jason is the benchmark, he has given me something to aim at.
“Physically I am good, mentally I just didn’t commit properly, firstly when Jason went past me in the first race in our semi-final and then again in the first race against Bourgain. I was really pleased to finish a long day off with that medal, though.”
Kenny, meanwhile, can be pleased with his championship and particularly his semi-final win over Hoy.
In the first race he turned on the afterburners down the back straight to win in superb style and then, in a much closer second race, caught the Olympic champion right on the line to claim his third 2-0 victory over Hoy this season after victories in the National Championships and Manchester World Cup.
There were a couple of caveats in the minds of GB coaches about those first two defeats — Hoy had a touch of flu in the first and was possibly jet lagged in the second — but last night’s result was definitive. None of which should concern Kenny who showed three years ago in Beijing, when he won a silver behind Hoy, that he was the heir apparent.
Meanwhile, in the women’s sprint Victoria Pendleton, winner of the last four world individual sprint titles, qualified for today’s semi-final where she will meet old rival Anna Meares, who has won just about every honour except an individual sprint title.
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PSAL Bronx A East baseball preview: Morris looks to take next step
If the last four years are any indication, Morris will be playing deep into June, possibly getting all the way to the PSAL Class A semifinals. At least, that’s how coach Rich Corbo sees it.
“We’re looking to make a dent in the playoffs,” he said.
Morris has dramatically improved each of the last four years, from reaching the ‘B’ quarters to winning the ‘B’ crown to making the playoffs its first year in the ‘A’ and going 14-2 and falling to eventual champion Tottenville in the ‘A’ quarterfinals last spring.
The Warriors did graduate key players – such as ace Arismendy Nunez, right fielder Argelis Merejo and Joe Ortiz – but Corbo feels he has adequate replacements for them. Closer Jose Quelix will move the mound, Luis Sterling will take over in right and Darlyn Veloz and Bryan Moran will battle it out at second and see time on the mound as well. Quelix, a hard-throwing right-hander with swing-and-miss off-speed stuff, had five saves and 33 strikeouts in 29 innings pitched a year ago.
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Morris and Raiky Ortiz are looking to challenge for a Bronx A East title this spring.
Third baseman Raiky Ortiz leads what should be a potent lineup which also features catcher Smailit Feliz (19 RBIs), Yoan Delarosa (16 SB, 15 runs scored) and speedy leadoff man Jose Luis Batista.
“The attitude for the most part on the team is good,” Corbo said. “I have five captains who are seniors and they are looking forward to play college baseball. They all want to do something special and leave with good memories. They are putting in the work. That’s the most encouraging part.”
It’s rare to see a sophomore names a captain. Then again, catcher Larry Campusano is no ordinary sophomore.
“It’s very unusual,” Walton coach Jason Norman said. “But he’s a great leader, great hitter and his catching is improving.”
Campuzano, who batted .340 with 11 RBIs as a freshman, is one of many position players Norman is excited about. Ace and starting shortstop Joshua Ciprian is back and will be counted on to take on a leading role. Newcomer Edinson Batista, a power-hitting sophomore first baseman/third baseman, will add pop and junior varsity call-up Bruce Valentin and Jesus Gill bring pitching depth. The loss of last year’s ace and top hitter Jose Cruz (transfer) and possible loss of Rileymar Klaber (personal reasons) weakens the rotation.
“I still have a great team, a lot of experience, a lot of new guys and a lot of depth,” Norman said. “It really depends on how fast our [new pitchers] develop. They throw hard and they throw strikes, which is encouraging. If they can improve, I think we’re right up there with everybody.”
Taft coach Charis Britt said he didn’t have a say in the Golden Eagles moving up to Bronx A East, but the third-year coach is excited about the opportunity to see the likes of James Monroe, DeWitt Clinton and Walton twice a year.
“It will be better competition and you get to see where your players stand,” he said. “If we play fundamentally sound, we should be able to compete, win some baseball games and make the postseason.”
Britt is optimistic, in part, because he returns most of last year’s Bronx B South championship team, which lost in the second round of the city playoffs. Starters Manny DeLeon, Pedro Pereyra, Anthony Ferrer and Johnny Garcia are all back, in addition to pitchers Hermany Pereyra and Brian Vidal.
There may not have been a more deceptive 8-8 record than the one South Bronx compiled last spring. In arguably the best division in the city, the Phoenix dropped four one-run contests and showed their mettle by upsetting McKee/Staten Island Tech in the opening round of the playoffs and pushing runner-up Lehman. Senior ace Genesis Milian (2.39 ERA) and junior outfielder Kevin Victoriano look to build on that success.
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domingo, 27 de março de 2011
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Hungary 0 Holland 4: match report
Hungary 0 Holland 4: match report
Read a full match report of the European Championship qualifying match between Hungary and Holland at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium on Friday March 25, 2011.
Goal: Rafael Van der Vaart celebrates after scoring for Holland against Hungary Photo: REUTERS
By Telegraph staff andn agencies 10:25PM GMT 25 Mar 2011
Netherlands thrashed Hungary 4-0 to maintain their 100 percent record in Euro 2012 qualifying group E on Friday with Rafael Van der Vaart opening the scoring after just eight minutes.
Wesley Sneijder set up Van der Vaart for a shot from 13 metres out that goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly could only tip into the left corner.
Ibrahim Afellay should have doubled the lead in the 32nd minute but the Barcelona striker made no mistake with his second chance on the stroke of half time.
Robin van Persie assisted Dirk Kuyt in the 54th to make it 3-0 and then grabbed his 20th goal in 53 games for the 2010 World Cup runners-up eight minutes later.
The Dutch, who beat the Hungarians 6-1 in a friendly before last year's World Cup in South Africa, now have 15 points from their five matches while Hungary stay second on nine.
The two sides will meet again in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Third placed Sweden have six points from three games, level with Moldova who have played one more.
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sexta-feira, 25 de março de 2011
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Curling Shocker: U.S. Expected to Lose
Vancouver, British Columbia -- Canada beat the U.S. in curling Monday, officially killing the American team's hopes of making the medal podium in a second straight Games.
The news came as little surprise to many people—least of all the U.S. Curling team.
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Chris Plys of the U.S. throws a stone during their men's curling round robin match against France.
"We never really got on one path," says Rick Patzke, the chief operating officer for USA Curling, who said there was never any cohesive plan in place to win and that the training ahead of these Games was essentially a write-off. "There wasn't total buy-in," he says. By the time the Olympics came around, Mr. Patzke adds, USA Curling was resigned to the fact that it was really preparing for 2014. "We started with Sochi and we worked backward," he says.
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The U.S. curling teams are struggling, causing some to question the team-selection process and whether they're looking ahead to the next Olympics. Curler Dean Gemmell joins Kelsey Hubbard to talk about the top curling contenders.
Instead of assembling an all-star team of the best curlers in the country—the way some nations do—curling clubs around the U.S. compete in Olympic trials to determine who will make it to the Olympics. In the past, that system has worked—it produced a bronze medal in the 2006 Olympics.
But in the past four years, curling's popularity has grown world-wide, and international competition has picked up. Before these Games, China sent a team to Canada to learn the sport, and Scandinavian countries had begun to improve. At the same time, participation in the U.S. has stayed somewhat stagnant.
Mr. Patzke said that about 18 months ago, USA Curling reached out to the United States Olympic Committee looking for support. "We said we know that we're falling behind here, we better get on the stick."
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A look at some of the men's and women's curlers in action at the Vancouver Games.
When the U.S. team, led by captain John Shuster, won the Olympic trials, the USOC provided more support than ever to get them ready for the Olympics. They paid for training, sports psychologists and helped the players get by without working full-time jobs so they could practice for the Olympics.
But in giving them the money, they insisted that USA Curling embark on an ambitious plan to change the culture and structure of the national team. USA Curling enthusiastically embraced the idea, although there was one little problem—there's no way the plan could bear fruit in time to put a decent team on the ice in Vancouver.
After losing to Germany, Switzerland and Denmark in these Games, the U.S. team benched its captain, Mr. Shuster, in favor of a 22-year-old alternate named Chris Plys. It was a move by coaches who wanted to prepare for the future.
"That experience was invaluable in helping me prepare for 2014," said Mr. Plys.
The positives made by USA Curling have done nothing to slow the angry fan mail Mr. Patzke has been receiving. But he says he has found a way to spin that into a positive.
"It shows people actually care," he said.
Write to Reed Albergotti at reed.albergotti@wsj.com
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How Fabio Capello lost friends and alienated Rio Ferdinand by recalling John Terry as England captain
How Fabio Capello lost friends and alienated Rio Ferdinand by recalling John Terry as England captain
Without provocation Fabio Capello has alienated one of the most respected members of the England squad and staked his credibility on the integrity of a player who has let him down.
Fuming: Rio Ferdinand is understood to be angry by the way Fabio Capello has recalled John Terry as England captain Photo: REUTERS
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Rio Ferdinand stepped in when John Terry’s behaviour off the field had made his position as captain untenable. Now he has been demoted without the basic courtesy of a phone call.
The decision is Capello’s to make, and it carries significant risk. The way he has gone about it has left Ferdinand questioning whether he will play for the Italian again.
So why has Capello changed his mind about Terry, having said repeatedly before that he would not captain the side under him?
“It is important to understand the value of the players at every moment,” he said. “You can change what you decided. I think people who respect others can change.
“When you see the player changing, you can change your decision. I think it is normal in life.” So Terry has, at 30, grown up? “He made mistakes but it is normal for the people to make mistakes. He understood the mistake and he learned from it. All the people learn from mistakes.”
And what about Terry’s mutinous South Africa press conference? “Yes, he is a leader but sometimes the leader can make mistakes,” Capello said, laughing.
“Not only him but you, me, all the people. He made mistakes when I decided he was no longer captain but after one year...it is good.”
Has age brought out the liberal softie in a man whose personal politics hug the right touchline? Hardly.
As much as he finds some of the more decadent habits of the modern footballer distasteful he doesn’t really care what they get up to away from England duty. It was the publicity that Terry’s indiscretions attracted which prompted Capello to sack him a year ago.
The problem was he paid lip service to the whole footballer-as-role-model shtick at the time and that will come back to haunt him if Terry returns to the front pages. Terry’s behaviour off the pitch will be scrutinised as much as on it.
So why has Capello done it? Having downplayed the importance of captaincy in the past and having regained a bit of credibility with the friendly win in Denmark was it necessary to create this kind of distraction? Capello’s argument is that the Wales game presents a unique, charged occasion that requires strong leadership. But why could Terry not deputise for Ferdinand?
Now he has risked division between himself and his players, many of whom are close to Ferdinand. Having read the Capello camp equivocating from day to day over the last week has made him appear at best aloof, at worst uninterested.
So, how did the story spiral out of control?
Capello bumps into a journalist in the business lounge while watching Arsenal play in Barcelona. He reveals he is thinking about re-instating Terry. Perhaps not realising the resonance of what he is saying he is unprepared when the story breaks. There are echoes of his retiring David Beckham from international football last August before he had even spoken to the player.
A source in the England management team briefs journalists that no final decision has been made and Ferdinand is assured on Sunday morning that he retains Capello’s support. Terry is back, it seems, but only as a deputy.
Monday lunchtime it is all change again. At a media lunch Capello sends out mixed messages as he gives off the record briefings.
At the press conference afterwards he fails to clarify the picture, but says: “I think I need to make a decision about a permanent captain. It will not be for just one game.” PR disaster? Malcolm Tucker would have sworn himself into apoplexy.
He made it clear he wanted to speak to Ferdinand at Old Trafford when he came to watch the Marseille game. How formally this meeting was arranged is not clear.
Ferdinand’s camp implied the England manager was just hoping to bump into their player. Regardless, Ferdinand avoided it by watching from a box.
Ferdinand is understood to be angry by the way this has been handled. There is an obvious contradiction in Capello harping on the value of the captaincy while at the same time treating an England captain so shabbily.
The problem is exacerbated by his dislike of talking on the phone (especially in English) and his almost blank refusal to talk to players directly. Everything goes through Franco Baldini, the general manager, and that has been the source of some of the confusion.
Capello’s only concession is that he made a mistake by saying he wanted to change his captain permanently at the Monday press conference. “After I used the word ’permanent’ [it changed],” he said. “I was focused on the Welsh game and I thought a lot about this game and the captaincy.
"I decided John Terry would be the captain for this game because after the game in Copenhagen, the way the armband was moved around was upsetting for him.
"He was my first choice when I decided on the permanent captain. I had spoken with the doctors of Manchester United and Liverpool and I knew that Rio and Steven pGerrard] were injured. I wanted to announce my decision the day before the game because I wanted to speak with the players, I wanted to speak with John Terry.
“But the word ’permanent’ decided everything. After what happened, I decided that John Terry, after one year of punishment, will be the permanent captain.”
This is a wild hand in a game that Capello is desperate not to lose. His stack of chips is dwindling and with it a reputation that was largely unblemished in two decades of club management.
Vindication, as always, can only come with results. If those turn against him he is running out of allies. This is not a time to be losing friends.
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Cardiff City manager Dave Jones feared for fan who fell 20ft in thrilling 3-3 draw at Millwall
Cardiff City manager Dave Jones feared for fan who fell 20ft in thrilling 3-3 draw at Millwall
Cardiff City manager Dave Jones has admitted that Saturday’s thrilling 3-3 draw at Millwall was overshadowed by the plight of the fan who fell 20ft from an upper-tier stand as he celebrated Cardiff’s opening goal.
Concern: Medical staff treat a Cardiff fan after he fell from the top tier at the Den Photo: REUTERS
By Declan Warrington 9:57PM GMT 20 Mar 2011
Despite gaining a well-earned point and remaining in contention for automatic promotion from the Championship, Jones was more concerned about the travelling fan, Ryan Oliver, who required urgent medical attention and was taken away on a stretcher after falling onto the concrete below.
‘‘We haven’t really spoken about the football. We’re more concerned about the guy who got injured. Lots of the players saw it and felt ill – Craig Bellamy said he felt physically sick,” Jones said.
Oliver had been celebrating Chris Burke’s goal in the 49th minute. He spent the night in hospital before being discharged on Sunday, having suffered only three broken fingers. A police spokesman said: “He was a very lucky man.”
Cardiff top-scorer Jay Bothroyd left the pitch in the 17th minute after pulling his hamstring. With fellow striker Michael Chopra ruled out for the season, Jones may have to enter the emergency loan market to sustain their promotion push.
Having fallen behind to Burke’s strike, Millwall hit back with Liam Trotter’s converted penalty and a headed goal by Kevin Lisbie. Peter Whittingham and Burke scored to put Cardiff back in front before Steve Morison grabbed a late equaliser.
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Nike just doesn't do it
Surging cotton costs have claimed yet another fashion victim.
Sneaker giant Nike missed Wall Street's quarterly profit forecast for the first time in nearly five years, blaming lofty prices for cotton, oil and transportation -- a shocker that sent investors sprinting yesterday.
Nike shares plunged more than 9 percent, and the news stoked concerns that rising costs for raw materials -- especially cotton, which has seen prices soar 50 percent in 2001 -- will continue to unravel results at apparel companies across the board.
In response to the crisis, Nike will "take more significant price increases" across a broader range of shoe and clothing styles, Chief Financial Officer Don Blair said on a conference call. The exec added, however, that the price hikes won't happen until spring 2012. In the meantime, rising costs will continue to pummel the company's profit margins.
Nike's fiscal third-quarter profit rose 5.3 percent, to $523 million, but failed to keep up with the 7.3 percent rise in revenue. The results fell short of analysts' estimates, and the company's shares fell 9.2 percent to $77.59.
"I keep hoping cotton prices will go down, but I think they're going to keep going up for the rest of the year," said Ronnie Wrye, of Wrye's Apparel, a T-shirt manufacturer based in Hahira, Ga.
The price of an unfinished T-shirt has risen by about 50 cents since last fall, and "we've had to eat about half of that," Wrye told The Post. Wrye said his firm has seen competitors raise prices in recent months while laying off workers in a bid to stay afloat.
Indeed, looming price hikes likewise have cast "a pall of uncertainty" over the nation's biggest specialty-apparel retailers, as many stores prepare to raise prices for the first time in 20 years, says John Morris, a retail analyst at BMO Capital Markets.
"Neither retail management nor investors know how this is going to play out, and are concerned that price hikes won't stick," Morris said.
Gap, Aeropostale and American Eagle Outfitters will likely be hit hard, as lackluster fashions and stiff competition sap their pricing power, according to the analyst. Meanwhile, Abercrombie & Fitch and Children's Place have a better chance of successfully raising prices, he says.
This week, the government said clothing prices in February dropped 0.9 percent despite rising costs, reversing gains made in January.
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The Chicago Snow Globe
The Chicago Snow Globe
So.....friends have been wondering when I'd post a picture of the Chicago Bean. Well, Cloud Gate to be precise. But who calls it that?
The weekend after the big blizzard, a friend from the Bay area was in town to visit her mom. We met at the Chicago Cultural Center and had a nice time photographing various things. I took these shots before we met - the clouds were great. I was hoping for maybe some color at sunset, but by the time we were finished in the Cultural Center, the clouds had disappeared. Glad I took these when I did!
This isn't your classic bean shot. Heck, you can't even tell it looks like a bean. But I thought it looked like a snow globe.
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sábado, 19 de março de 2011
Venise : Cannaregio
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sexta-feira, 18 de março de 2011
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quinta-feira, 17 de março de 2011
mom's spirit still lives on
Back in 1981 when my mom moved to Hawaii, she gave me this plant. She passed away in 1984 after complications during her open heart surgery.
Her life lives on...
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quarta-feira, 16 de março de 2011
Fed Keeps Eye on Inflation
The Federal Reserve kept its easy-money policies intact as markets reeled from a series of global shocks, but it also offered reassuring words about the economic outlook and signaled vigilance on inflation.
The economy is on a "firmer footing," while the labor market is "improving gradually" and household spending and business investment are expanding, the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement following its one-day meeting. Cautionary words about the economy from previous statements were pared back. Meanwhile, energy-price increases have put upward pressure on inflation, the FOMC said. It expects this to be transitory but "will pay close attention," it said.
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are moving toward important decisions in the months ahead. The central bank's $600 billion Treasury bond purchase program is scheduled to be completed in June. The program will be an important subject of discussion at the next FOMC meeting in April. Officials will decide whether to let the program run out as planned, as many seem inclined to do. A debate about when and how to exit from their easy-money policies by raising interest rates seems to be taking shape for the second half of the year.
Global turbulence in recent weeks shows how the economic outlook, and thus the outlook for Fed policy, can change quickly. "Concerns about global supplies of crude oil have contributed to a sharp run-up in oil prices in recent weeks," the Fed said in its statement.
Higher oil prices are creating competing problems for the central bank—less purchasing power for consumers and thus the risk of slower growth on the one hand, and more inflation pressure on the other. One problem calls for lowering interest rates and the other calls for raising them.
Commodity-price pressures, Fed officials have found, are becoming uncomfortable to look past, in part because they resonate deeply with the public. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley drew skepticism Friday during an appearance in Queens, N.Y., by saying he believed underlying inflation was low despite rising food and energy prices. One member of the audience responded, "When was the last time, sir, you went grocery shopping?"
Despite the rise in oil and food prices—and a recent increase in an indicator of where consumers see prices in the years ahead—the Fed said Tuesday that underlying inflation was "subdued" and repeated that "longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable."
Japan's earthquake and tsunami complicate matters. Financial markets have been severely affected, which could dent consumer and business confidence in Japan and abroad, holding back global economic growth. While the Fed didn't mention Japan's situation directly, the natural disaster has added to the list of potential risks to U.S. growth prospects. Meantime, Europe's sovereign-debt concerns persist.
U.S. stocks recouped some of the day's losses after the Fed upgraded its assessment of the U.S. economy and oil prices retreated from recent highs. Earlier in the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 300 points, the biggest intraday loss this year, as global stock markets reacted to fears of a nuclear-power crisis in Japan.
Analysts came away with different interpretations of how far the Fed is from raising interest rates in the U.S.
"When the Fed says the economy is on firmer footing, you can start counting the months if not the weeks until they take their foot off the gas and start to normalize interest rates," said Christopher Rupkey, economist at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
Ethan Harris, head of developed-markets economics research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research, drew the opposite conclusion. "There is no signal that they are anywhere close to an exit," he said. "I think they're right that serious inflation is a distant concern."
Fed officials voted unanimously to continue with their government bond purchases. They also maintained an important line in their post-meeting statement, saying they expect to keep short-term interest rates close to zero for an "extended period," which means at least several more months.
Since Friday's quake in Japan, financial markets have reset their expectations for when the Fed could increase interest rates. On Thursday, trading in futures markets implied investors saw a 50-50 chance that the Fed would raise its benchmark interest rate—an overnight bank-lending rate called the fed funds rate—to 0.5% by February. Futures prices now imply investors see just a 30% chance that the rate will rise to that level by then.
Write to Jon Hilsenrath at jon.hilsenrath@wsj.com and Luca Di Leo at luca.dileo@dowjones.com
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Nemanja Vidic set to miss Manchester United's Premier League clash with Bolton through injury
Nemanja Vidic set to miss Manchester United's Premier League clash with Bolton through injury
Nemanja Vidic is a doubt for Manchester United’s Premier League clash with Bolton on Saturday after missing Tuesday night’s Champions League last-16 tie against Marseille.
Injury blow: Nemanja Vidic's calf injury could keep him sidelined for some time Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Mark Ogden 11:00PM GMT 15 Mar 2011
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The United captain was ruled out of the Champions League second leg against the French champions after suffering a calf injury during the 2-0 FA Cup victory against Arsenal at the weekend.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that Vidic, who missed training on Monday, could have risked a potential month-long injury lay-off had he faced Didier Deschamps’s team.
“We tried to get Nemanja Vidic fit, but calf injuries are always a problem,” said Ferguson. “If we played him from the start he could have been out for a few weeks and we couldn’t take the risk.”
United winger Nani made a surprisingly quick return to action just nine days after suffering a deep gash to his shin following a Jamie Carragher challenge in the 3-1 Premier League defeat at Liverpool.
The Portuguese international started ahead of Antonio Valencia, with Ferguson wary of starting the Ecuadorean, who returned to action against Arsenal after almost six months out with a broken ankle.
“If we started with Antonio Valencia it might have been a risk with just half a game under his belt and the potential of having to play two hours of football with extra time,” said Ferguson
Goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will undergo knee surgery on Thursday which will keep him out for five weeks. With the Dane sidelined, Ben Amos has been recalled from his loan at Oldham Athletic.
Lindegaard joined United during the January transfer window and impressed in appearances in FA Cup wins over Southampton and Crawley Town, when he also showed he was not afraid to make his opinions known with some straightforward post-match comments.
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I came too far to end up this way...
I came too far to end up this way...
In the second part in the "Issues" project, I decided to go for a more light-hearted approach, contrasted with the first part.
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Derby County 2 Swansea City 1: match report
Derby County 2 Swansea City 1: match report
Read a full match report of the Championship game between Derby County and Swansea City at Pride Park on Saturday March 12 2011.
Making his point: Steven Davies celebrates after scoring the decisive goal in Derby's win Photo: REUTERS
By David McVay 6:08PM GMT 13 Mar 2011
The statue of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor close to Pride Park’s main entrance has frustrating symbolism for Derby County.
For while the bronze tribute to the managerial team who guided Derby to their most famous triumphs in the 1970s keeps those glory days fresh in the memory, it also underlines how far the club has fallen. Once home to the leading club in the country, this football city will surely never enjoy such success again.
Clough’s son Nigel is shackled with the task of restoring some stability to the club and, while he has chosen lately to avoid the limelight his father so embraced, his sombre presence seems to be working.
He shunned photographers in the dugout and sent his coach Johnny Metgod, a former Nottingham Forest team-mate, to host the post-match media conference after this victory.
The win was Derby’s first at home since Nov 20 when they beat Scunthorpe to retain fourth place in the table. More than three months on, these three points have most likely secured their Championship status while the Welsh side departed still as leading promotion contenders despite a week in which they gleaned only one point from three matches.
According to the Derby board, Clough’s tenure has always been secure but his despondency has been self-inflicted during a sequence of two wins in 18 games before the weekend.
His players have responded positively, however, none more so than Steven Davies whose headed goal, his third in four games, doubled Derby’s advantage after Ashley Williams’ howler of an own goal. Darren Pratley reduced the arrears to no avail.
“The manager said if I could get myself fit and scoring goals then I’d be here for a long time,” said Davies, who has been offered a one-year contract extension sicne recovering from cruciate ligament damage. He ran towards his private box to celebrate his goal.
“My wife and two kids and mum and dad were there so it was a thank-you to them for putting up with me. I’ve been a nightmare for the past two years. I took everything out on them yet they are the ones you go home to and the ones who keep you sane.”
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Clegg tells Cameron he's 'talking complete bilge' over AV
Clegg tells Cameron he's 'talking complete bilge' over AV
Nick Clegg told David Cameron that he was "talking complete bilge" over the proposal to introduce the Alternative Vote system in a comment that indicates the tension over the issue at the top of the Coalition.
Mr Clegg's comments came as some of Britain's leading historians warned a move to AV could destroy the principle of 'one man or woman, one vote' Photo: GETTY
By Andy Bloxham 7:30AM GMT 11 Mar 2011
On the eve of the Liberal Democrat's spring conference in Sheffield, the Deputy Prime Minister disclosed that he had whispered the remark after Mr Cameron defended the current first-past-the-post system during Prime MInister's Questions on Wednesday.
He said: "We were very good humoured about it. We mutter to each other. We were just joking. We disagree on this one."
Mr Clegg's comments came as a phalanx of some of Britain's leading historians warned a move to AV, in which voters' second preference can count, could destroy the principle of “one man or woman, one vote”.
The historians included Professor Niall Ferguson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Dr David Starkey, Professor Antony Beevor and Dr Andrew Roberts.
In a joint letter to a newspaper, they wrote: “Men and women have fought for the right to vote. That long fight for suffrage established the principle of one man or woman, one vote. The principle that each person’s vote is equal, regardless of wealth, gender, race or creed.”
They cite the example of Winston Churchill pushing against AV's introduction in 1931 because it could lead to elections which are decided by “the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates”.
The academics warned that the AV system would skew the value of votes because the second preference could increase the influence of "extremist" groups.
They added: “It will be a tragic consequence if those votes belong to the supporters of extremist and non-serious parties.”
The Lib Dems are expected to launch a campaign for AV at the conference today, led by the party's president, Tim Farron.
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Muse Lumire #08
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The Muse Lumire is located in the Chteau Lumire.
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Fountain Flows Again
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The Victoria Square fountain is flowing again, after being turned off yesterday. Must have been for maintenance, as we are not suffering from a drought like 3-4 years ago when severe water restrictions caused many public fountains to be turned off. The pigeons were much relieved to be surrounded by the familiar wet mist around the structure.
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quarta-feira, 9 de março de 2011
Birmingham City v Everton: Premier League monitor financial position of Carson Yeung's club
Birmingham City v Everton: Premier League monitor financial position of Carson Yeung's club
The Premier League is closely monitoring Birmingham City after concluding that the club’s financial position gives cause for concern.
Happy days: Birmingham City captain Stephen Carr parades the Carling Cup, which opened the door to Europe Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Sandy Macaskill 7:00AM GMT 09 Mar 2011
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It has also privately expressed unease at attempts by the Birmingham board to distance themselves from their parent company, Birmingham International Holdings.
The move comes despite a vigorous defence of the club’s finances mounted by Peter Pannu, Birmingham’s acting chairman, who maintains that BIH, the investment vehicle through which Carson Yeung bought the club in 2009, is a “distant subsidiary” whose finances are irrelevant to Birmingham’s health. The League, however, takes the view they are “intrinsically linked”.
Birmingham’s finances have again come under scrutiny after a statement made to the hong kong stock exchange last week revealed “the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt” on the ability of BIH to continue as a going concern. BIH owns 96 per cent of Birmingham City plc, which in turn owns Birmingham City Football Club.
Although Yeung’s advisers have tried to play down the significance of the statement, latest disclosures to the stock exchange showed that the Hong Kong businessman had applied for a £12 million loan to prevent a “significant curtailment” to the operations of the Birmingham’s parent company.
Recent accounts published by the club, meanwhile, showed that Birmingham has debts of more than £29m, of which £23m is owed to HSBC. The club’s freehold land and buildings, including St Andrew’s stadium, have already been pledged to the bank.
Yeung is trying to raise £25.5m through a share placement, originally due to be completed by the end of last November, but now extended until March 25. In the meantime, the 51 year-old has applied for a credit facility line of £11.8m using one of his own properties in Hong Kong as collateral.
It has triggered concern at the Premier League. Under disclosure rules brought in after the collapse of Portsmouth last year, Birmingham will need to provide written assurance that they can meet their liabilities for the year ahead and that loans will not be called in.
Failure to do so could lead to a transfer embargo, a ban on player contracts being extended or improved, or even the enforced sale of players.
The uncertainty has also prompted suggestions that Birmingham’s place in Uefa’s Europa League next season, secured by defeating Arsenal in the Carling Cup final, could be in jeopardy unless they can prove their future is secure, but Birmingham’s board have insisted that concerns raised about the BIH are irrelevant to the club’s wellbeing.
Ahead of a crucial fixture for Alex McLeish’s side against Everton this evening, Pannu insisted that Birmingham rely solely on owner Carson Yeung for funds.
“Our finances are fine,” Pannu told Telegraph Sport. “We are reliant on Carson’s money, not BIH. We do not borrow money from BIH.
"We borrow money directly from Carson. He is effectively like a bank to us. He has promised us that he will give us money for players and he will not ask for the money back.
“If I need money, I go to Carson. Carson has never said no to me any time I have asked him for money. He has paid £31m for players. When I need to top up, I will go to him.
"It is exactly the same situation at the other clubs in the Premier League. Aston Villa rely on Randy Lerner, Wolves rely on Steve Morgan. But I don’t need money for anything other than players. We are in credit with our bank right now.”
Meanwhile, David Moyes has said that Everton are not giving up on the idea of joining Birmingham in Europe next season. “I said when I joined that I thought the club needed Europe.
"I needed it, the players needed it. We were trying to attract a level of player that would want to play in Europe. I have got to say it looks a long way off because we have not got close.
"But it is there for anyone. We have won three out of four in the league and that is not bad. If it became four out of five, people will say Everton are ticking along. Maybe we are coming up on the rails.”
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Cricket World Cup 2011: England's Stuart Broad has scan on side strain and is a doubt for Bangladesh match
Cricket World Cup 2011: England's Stuart Broad has scan on side strain and is a doubt for Bangladesh match
England paceman Stuart Broad is in doubt for Friday's World Cup Group B match against Bangladesh after picking up a left side strain in his team's six-run win over South Africa.
Bitter blow: Stuart Broiad has undergone a scan on his left side the results of which are expected later on Tuesday Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Telegraph staff 7:45AM GMT 08 Mar 2011
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Broad took a career-best 4-15 in the match at Chennai but had tests Tuesday morning and is now awaiting the results to find out the seriousness of the injury.
"I'm not too down at the minute because I don't know what the injury is," Broad said. "But obviously, I'll be bitterly disappointed if it's the end of my World Cup.
"I've not had a side strain in this manner before and I dont know the symptoms but I do know it's a bit sore at the moment I'm doubtful for Friday's game but I dont know anymore than that.
"It's a common injury among bowlers, if the injury is an actual tear you have to take your time and not rush back."
England has already lost star batsman Kevin Pietersen for the rest of the tournament because he needs hernia surgery, drafting in Eoin Morgan as a replacement.
"Pending further assessments of scans we will also know what the outlook is like for the rest of the tournament," England and Wales Cricket Board spokesman James Avery said.
Broad played in England's opening win over the Netherlands but missed the subsequent high-scoring tie against India because of a stomach complaint. He returned for the shock loss against Ireland.
Broad sustained a side strain on the recently completed tour of Australia but the current injury is a new one and unrelated to past problems.
"It's in a different area," Broad said. "I didn't get the short stabbing pain that I did in the Ashes, so that's a good sign this is not as severe as that."
Broad said he felt the injury when he returned to bowl for his second spell against South Africa and that the injury stiffened up when the adrenaline of the match faded.
Ajmal Shahzad is the most likely replacement for Broad should he fail to recover.
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