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Property tax talk slows session conclusion

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:57:26 GMT

ST. PAUL -- With the 2008 session fading fast, Minnesota lawmakers waited on number crunchers Tuesday to show them how a property tax cap, extra local government aid and more direct-to-homeowner assistance fit together. "It was a frustrating day," House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher said...

Investors bidding millions for wind turbines

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:01:28 GMT

Tens of wind-power plants already in the country ... Brno - Investors wishing to build wind-power plants in the Czech Republic have markedly raised their financial offers to municipalities on whose territories they would like to erect the wind turbines. Although three...

Kazakhstan earthquake loss model: Benfield

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:26:00 GMT

LONDON—Benfield Group Ltd., a London-based independent reinsurance broker, announced Tuesday the launch of a fully probabilistic earthquake loss model for Kazakhstan. GAPQuake Kazakhstan, developed by the Benfield ReMetrics Natural Hazards team in Prague, Czech Republic, and London, is the...

Expensive oil may hit Czechs soon

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:13 GMT

This is not the only occasion when people feel the impact of higher oil pricesvětší obrázekAutor: CCS 13:00 | Dnes | Pavla Hejlová Prague - Oil prices have been soaring. Last Friday, US light crude prices exceeded USD 125 per barrel. What does the price growth mean for the Czech market? In the...

Monday's prep scoreboard

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:05:28 GMT

CI DIVISION North Suburban 14, St. Cloud 11 CLASSIC LAKE Hopkins 11, Armstrong 6 Wayzata 7, Minnetonka 5, 9 inn. Forest Lake 9, White Bear Lake 6 Stillwater 3, Park of Cottage Grove 2 Woodbury 6, Hastings 2 TRI-METRO Blake 11, St. Agnes 1 DeLaSalle 5, St. Croix Lutheran 1...

Contraception: Findings in contraception reported from A. Deredec and co-researchers

Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

According to recent research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, "In response to the need to efficiently control mammal pest populations while avoiding unnecessary suffering, applied and theoretical ecologists have recently focused on virus-vectored immunocontraception (VVIC). So...

3i invests in german DruckChemie

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:07:29 GMT

3i has agreed to back the €133m secondary buy-out of Ammerbuch, Germany-headquartered DruckChemie, a speciality service provider to the printing industry, from SG Capital Europe and Quartus. DruckChemie provides speciality chemicals, consumables and services such as regular deliveries, on-site...

Prague encouraged by Serbia vote, rethinks Kosovo

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:23:00 GMT

The Czech government will try to recognize Kosovo’s unilaterally proclaimed independence next week, which it failed to do on April 2. “At one of the coming government meetings we will return to the question of Kosovo,” Czech Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vondra told daily Hospodarske Noviny.

Twenty-first issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:36:02 GMT

The journal’s aim is to strengthen Chechen civil society, promote independent media in Chechnya, and provide objective information to Chechens living in Russia and Europe. ... PRAGUE, May 12 - The twenty-first issue of the monthly Chechenskoye obshchestvo segodnya...

EARNINGS POLL-Czech CEZ Q1 net seen rising 18 pct

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:35 GMT

Jan Korselt, Reuters 13.5.2008 * CEZ Q4 2007 earnings * Q1 net profit average estimate 14.92 bln crowns ($924 mln) By Jan Korselt Czech power group CEZ is expected to post 18 percent growth in first-quarter net profit on rising electricity prices and higher power...