'Peace is possible,' Obama insists in Middle East

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Insisting "peace is possible," President Barack Obama on Thursday prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory.

The president made his appeal just hours after rockets fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza landed in a southern Israeli border town, a fresh reminder of the severe security risks and tensions that have stymied peace efforts for decades.

Obama, on his second day in the Middle East, shuttled between Jerusalem and Ramallah, reaching out to the public as well as political leaders. He offered no new policies or plans for reopening peace talks but urged both sides to "think anew" about the intractable conflict and break out of the "formulas and habits that have blocked progress for so long."

"Peace is possible," Obama declared during an impassioned speech to young people in Jerusalem. "I'm not saying it's guaranteed. I can't even say that it is more likely than not. But it is possible."

The deep disputes dividing the Israelis and Palestinians have remained much the same over the years, and include deciding the status of Jerusalem, defining borders and resolving refugee issues. Palestinians have been particularly incensed over Israeli settlements in disputed territories, and the Israelis' continued construction has also drawn the condemnation of the United States and other nations.

Further settlement activity is "counterproductive to the cause of peace," Obama said. But in a notable shift, he did not repeat his administration's previous demands that Israel halt construction. Instead he urged the Palestinians to stop using the disagreement as an "excuse" to avoid talks.

"If the expectation is that we can only have direct negotiations when everything is settled ahead of time, then there is no point for negotiations," Obama said during a joint news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. "I think it is important to work through this process even if there are irritants on both sides."

Abbas said Palestinians remain committed to seeking peace with Israelis, but he made clear that settlement construction had made his people distrustful of Israel's intentions.

"This is very dangerous that people and the new generation reaches the conviction that it's no more possible to believe in the two-state solution," he said.

Obama has sided with the Palestinians on the settlement issue during his first four years in office. However, when Israel reluctantly declared a 10-month moratorium on construction, the Palestinians balked at returning to negotiations until shortly before the suspension expired and talks foundered shortly thereafter.

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem ? territories Israel captured in the 1967 war ? but indicate they are ready for minor adjustments to accommodate some settlements closest to Israel. Since 1967, Israel has built dozens of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that are now home to 560,000 Israelis ? an increase of 60,000 since Obama became president four years ago.

Upon his return to Israel, the president told Israelis that in the search for peace they have "true partners" in Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister.

Obama is spending the majority of his four-day Mideast trip in Israel, where the politicians and public have been skeptical of his commitment to their security. The president has sought to calm their concerns throughout his visit, reminding an audience of Israeli university students Thursday that the U.S. is their country's best friend and most important ally.

"You are not alone," Obama declared as the crowd erupted in thunderous applause.

Still, he nudged Israel to take steps to reverse an "undertow" of international isolation that is worsened by its failure to make peace with the Palestinians. In a region roiled by political unrest, Obama said the days when the Israelis can seek protection from a handful of autocratic leaders in other nations are over, and he urged them to seek common ground with the Arab people, not just their governments.

Hours before Obama arrived in the West Bank, militants in the Gaza Strip launched at least two rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderot, causing damage but no injuries, according to Israeli officials. As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama visited the border town, which is frequently targeted in rocket attacks.

A small, murky, al-Qaida-inspired group calling itself the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, it said it was sending a message to "Osama's soldiers" to protest the visit by "the Roman dog Obama" and to continue its campaign of holy war.

Over the past decade, Gaza militants have fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells at Israel, prompting Israel, with considerable U.S. assistance, to develop its Iron Dome missile defense system, which it credits with intercepting many rockets.

The president closed his five-hour trip to the West Bank with a visit to a U.S. government-funded youth center, where he cheered a performance by a dance troupe and held a private roundtable discussion with a small group of young Palestinian men. He recalled the conversation later in his Jerusalem speech, saying that if "any Israeli parent sat down with those kids, they'd say, 'I want these kids to succeed; I want them to prosper.' I believe that's what Israeli parents would want for these kids if they had a chance to listen to them and talk to them."

While Obama was welcomed warmly in Israel, where U.S. and Israeli flags dotted the roadsides, Palestinians showed little excitement over Obama's shorter stop in the West Bank. Protesters defaced and burned posters of Obama in an expression of dissatisfaction with U.S. policy in the region. Several dozen demonstrators also gathered in downtown Ramallah during Obama's meetings, protesting what is perceived in the Palestinian territories to be a strong U.S. bias in favor of Israel.

The president opened the second day of his trip at Jerusalem's Israel Museum, a stop aimed at highlighting both the Jewish people's ancient connection to the land that is now Israel and the small nation's thriving modern economy.

The president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient Hebrew texts. It was a symbolic visit for Obama, who has battled against a perception in Israel that he sees the Holocaust, not historical ties to the region, as the rationale for the existence of the Jewish state. The president has repeatedly sought to correct that impression.

As he viewed the ancient scrolls displayed in a dimly lit room, Obama marveled at how the Hebrew language had changed so little that Netanyahu could read some of the writings. The two then toured a technology exhibit at the museum featuring several modern Israeli inventions, including an electric vehicle battery, a technology Obama has promoted in the U.S.

Obama was awarded Israel's Medal of Distinction Thursday night during a lavish dinner. He is the first sitting U.S. president to receive Israel's highest civilian honor.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee, Ian Deitch and Josef Federman in Jerusalem, and Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/peace-possible-obama-insists-middle-east-205418941--politics.html

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How fine arts collections were exhibited in the pre-museum times -- a Minnesotan tale

Public release date: 21-Mar-2013
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'Before the museums came' is an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of the Minnesotan twin cities spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915

Arts appreciation and display, as we know it today, began to flourish in many US cities only after the Civil War. The Industrial Revolution, urban development and increasing affluence of the city communities laid open the door for communicating and educating about arts, and for the emergence of efficient artistic patronage, leading to the subsequent creation of museums and arts institutions across the U.S. All American cities have their own stories to tell and in his book, newly released by Versita, Leo J. Harris gives a superb account of such an artistic footprint in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities is an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of the Minnesotan twin cities spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915.

Anyone who has researched the art history of these cities will have probably come across the names of Thomas Barlow Walker of Minneapolis and James J. Hill of St. Paul. Those two business titans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used their great wealth to acquire many fine paintings and other pieces of art for their private collections, which were housed in their residences and were only open to members of the public on rare occasions. These collections are generally acknowledged as the only notable expression of interest in the fine arts in the two cities at that time.

The book provides a systematic picture of other institutions and organizations that were created in support of the fine arts, as well as the early art exhibitions and events, and the collectors, dealers and artists whose efforts made all that come to fruition. The text enriched and supplemented by reproductions of artworks, photographs of various personages, exhibition venues, studios, art galleries, catalogues, and ephemera presents a clear understanding of the period and breaks new ground for future scholars to research.

The book has already earned acclaim from prominent historians, anthropologists and arts custodians. As John M. Lindley, the director of the Ramsey County, Minnesota Historical Society points out:

"Harris adroitly explains how art dealers, critics, architects, academics, public libraries, and artists all contributed to a vibrant community interest in the fine arts. As a social history of the fine arts, this book succeeds in documenting the Twin Cities arts community in the years prior to 1915 with depth and detail that is unavailable elsewhere. In addition, the numerous illustrations that are included in this book aid the reader in better understanding how this foundation of activity in the arts prepared the way for the organizing of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and other art museums, such as the Walker Art Museum, in these communities in the twentieth century".

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About the Author:

An accomplished lawyer, Leo John Harris served in the U.S. Department of State and Foreign Service before embarking on a writing career. Harris is a founder of a publishing house dedicated to arts, history, and popular culture. Now retired, he shares his time between the passions for philately and for the arts and regional history. The latter has now resulted in a well-researched and richly illustrated publication.

The book is available to read and download: http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/207418

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Contact: Maria Hrynkiewicz
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Versita

'Before the museums came' is an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of the Minnesotan twin cities spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915

Arts appreciation and display, as we know it today, began to flourish in many US cities only after the Civil War. The Industrial Revolution, urban development and increasing affluence of the city communities laid open the door for communicating and educating about arts, and for the emergence of efficient artistic patronage, leading to the subsequent creation of museums and arts institutions across the U.S. All American cities have their own stories to tell and in his book, newly released by Versita, Leo J. Harris gives a superb account of such an artistic footprint in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities is an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of the Minnesotan twin cities spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915.

Anyone who has researched the art history of these cities will have probably come across the names of Thomas Barlow Walker of Minneapolis and James J. Hill of St. Paul. Those two business titans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used their great wealth to acquire many fine paintings and other pieces of art for their private collections, which were housed in their residences and were only open to members of the public on rare occasions. These collections are generally acknowledged as the only notable expression of interest in the fine arts in the two cities at that time.

The book provides a systematic picture of other institutions and organizations that were created in support of the fine arts, as well as the early art exhibitions and events, and the collectors, dealers and artists whose efforts made all that come to fruition. The text enriched and supplemented by reproductions of artworks, photographs of various personages, exhibition venues, studios, art galleries, catalogues, and ephemera presents a clear understanding of the period and breaks new ground for future scholars to research.

The book has already earned acclaim from prominent historians, anthropologists and arts custodians. As John M. Lindley, the director of the Ramsey County, Minnesota Historical Society points out:

"Harris adroitly explains how art dealers, critics, architects, academics, public libraries, and artists all contributed to a vibrant community interest in the fine arts. As a social history of the fine arts, this book succeeds in documenting the Twin Cities arts community in the years prior to 1915 with depth and detail that is unavailable elsewhere. In addition, the numerous illustrations that are included in this book aid the reader in better understanding how this foundation of activity in the arts prepared the way for the organizing of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and other art museums, such as the Walker Art Museum, in these communities in the twentieth century".

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About the Author:

An accomplished lawyer, Leo John Harris served in the U.S. Department of State and Foreign Service before embarking on a writing career. Harris is a founder of a publishing house dedicated to arts, history, and popular culture. Now retired, he shares his time between the passions for philately and for the arts and regional history. The latter has now resulted in a well-researched and richly illustrated publication.

The book is available to read and download: http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/207418

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Egypt's women's council criticizes Islamists

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's official women's rights council says Islamists who reject a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women and girls are promoting the idea that Islam favors violence against women.

Last week, 131 countries at the United Nations approved the non-binding document to combat violence against women and girls. Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood strongly objected to the document, saying it clashed with Islamic principles and sought to destroy the family.

At a news conference in Cairo on Thursday, the head of the women's council, Mervat Tellawy, called on the Brotherhood to stop using religion as a basis for promoting its agenda.

The U.S. document has raised controversy in the Arab world because among other things, it recommits governments to comprehensive sex education and calls for safe abortion for victims of violence.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-womens-council-criticizes-islamists-181438427.html

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'Status quo' pope? Gay marriage, abortion unlikely

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Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to lead the Catholic Church following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.?

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News

Known as a compassionate Argentine archbishop who eschewed the trappings of his role to live amid his flock and who focused on the poor, Pope Francis will likely keep to Catholic teachings that reject abortion and same-sex marriage, experts said Wednesday.

Francis washed the feet of 12 AIDS victims living at a hospice in 2001, an action filled with symbolism in the Roman Catholic Church since it was reminiscent of Holy Thursday and the washing of the apostles? feet by Jesus.

But in 2010, while Argentina was debating same-sex marriage legislation, he was quoted as calling the bill that ultimately passed ?a plan to destroy God?s plan,? and said it was a ?move by the father of lies to confuse and deceive the children of God.?

He has also said gays and lesbians should not be allowed to adopt, according to Bernard Schlaeger of the Pacific School of Religion.

?The pope will be Catholic,? Professor Christopher J. Ruddy, an expert in church theology at the Catholic University of America, said of how he expected Francis to respond to some of the controversial social issues. ?He speaks and he teaches what the Catholic church teaches on these issues.?

Nonetheless, gay and lesbian advocacy groups called on Francis to embrace LGBT people and their families.

"For decades the Catholic hierarchy has been in need of desperate reform. In his life, Jesus condemned gays zero times. In Pope Benedict's short time in the papacy, he made a priority of condemning gay people routinely,? the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said in a statement.

?This, in spite of the fact, that the Catholic hierarchy had been in collusion to cover up the widespread abuse of children within its care. We hope this pope will trade in his red shoes for a pair of sandals and spend a lot less time condemning and a lot more time foot-washing," the GLAAD statement continued.

NBC News Vatican analyst and papal biographer George Weigel says Cardinal Bergoglio was the right choice, a man whose simplicity, austerity and gentleness can put the church on the road to a new future. Not a "maintenance guy" that merely oversees the status quo, Cardinal Bergoglio is expected to teach the Church how to be missionary again.

Michael D?Antonio, author of the upcoming book ?Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal,? thought there may be some opening for Francis to revisit the issues of contraception and mandatory celibacy for ordained priests, but he too felt that the new Catholic leader was not going to ?change course in a substantial way? on the social issues that have at times put the religion in an uncomfortable spotlight.

?The name that he chose signals to people the most earthy, the most populist kind of Catholicism, but whether that?s going to translate into greater respect for the voice of the average Catholic has yet to be seen and I think that the symbolism may be good but I really don?t expect real change,? he said.

?We?ve been through decades and decades of scandal and crisis, and this is a man who has been at the highest level of the church through much of it, and he has never said or done anything that indicates that he?ll take a different approach,? said D'Antonio.

Decline in morale
Meanwhile, the church's teachings on contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage, and its refusal to allow women to be ordained as priests, are blamed by some for the decline in morale among Catholics.

Forty-six percent of U.S. Catholics surveyed think the new pope should ?move in new directions,? while 51 percent say he should ?maintain traditional positions,? according to a Pew Research Center Poll conducted last month.

Media reports after Francis was named pope talked about him riding the bus?with his compatriots, rather than using the chauffeured ride he had as part of his post. He also gave up his?stately residence for a simple apartment, where he cooked his own meals.

Francis was known to be a pastor close to the people, who is traditional on matters of faith and morality, ?keeping the status quo on moral issues,? said Schlaeger, associate professor of cultural and historical studies, at the Pacific School. He said he didn?t expect any major moves from Francis on the social issues, though his being from Latin America and the first Jesuit priest was a ?seachange? that could lead him to surprise people.

?They think they know who they have in that he?s not going to make radical change ? he could ? but I think he (would) have to show probably a very new side of himself to his brother cardinals,? Schlaeger said.

NBC News? Becky Bratu contributed to this report.

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Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/14/17302936-status-quo-leader-same-sex-marriage-abortion-unlikely-under-pope-francis?lite

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Latin America - a litany of challenges for Pope Francis

By Hilary Burke and Paulo Prada

BUENOS AIRES/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio reached deep into communities to put his Church on the front lines of their social, economic and spiritual struggles.

In the vast slums that circle the Argentine capital, part of a massive urban sprawl of 13 million people, the man who this week became the first Latin American pope would occasionally celebrate Mass. More importantly, though, he deployed priests, nuns and others to minister to the poor, the sick and the uneducated.

It was a drive that aimed to bring the Catholic Church closer to its followers, and also protect its influence by slowing the advance of evangelical churches and other Protestant denominations that have spread rapidly across Latin America.

The efforts, subordinates say, reflect Bergoglio's belief that charity and compassion are at the core of the teachings of a church that more recently has spent as much time stemming scandal and losing parishioners as it has evangelizing and focusing on faith.

"He wants us out of the convents and churches and on the street," says Rosita Blanco, a 90-year-old nun at the convent where Bergoglio himself took first communion and went to kindergarten. "He wants us to listen to people."

It is there, though, on the street, where Pope Francis, as he is now called, saw firsthand the growing challenges undermining Catholicism's once firm grip on spiritual life in Latin America - from the growing secularism of an increasingly urban population, to inroads by rival faiths among worshippers who now feel out of step with the Church's ancient rituals and doctrine.

"This is a leader, like many from the Church in Latin America, who himself has witnessed poverty, rapid urbanization, and traumatic shifts in political and economic fortunes," said Kenneth Serbin, a historian who specializes in Latin American religion at the University of San Diego. "He knows that an appeal to the basics may be the best way to help the Church in the region and also around the world."

The challenges in Latin America are both immense and consequential for a church that hopes to renew its vitality through growth in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the developing world.

Though Latin America is still home to more Catholics than any other region worldwide, the percentage of people in the region who call themselves Catholic fell from about 90 percent in 1910 to 72 percent in 2010, according to The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

And the trend appears to be accelerating.

In Brazil, the world's biggest Catholic country, the number of people who called themselves Catholic tumbled from 74 percent in 2000 to 65 percent in 2010, according to government data. In Mexico, the world's second-biggest concentration of faithful, census figures show the number there fell from 88 percent to below 83 percent during the same decade.

Pope Benedict himself recognized the size of the problem.

"We must be better believers, more pious, affable and welcoming in our parishes and communities, so that no one feels distant or excluded," he said in remarks to Colombian bishops last June.

GROWING DISSATISFACTION

A growing dissatisfaction with Catholicism in Latin America in part is a result of some of the same problems that have plagued the Church elsewhere - sex abuse scandals, accusations of corruption and unbending Catholic teaching on birth control, sexuality and abortion.

But much of it has to do with the changing demographics of a region undergoing a fast and profound transformation.

While still trailing developed nations in most economic indicators, countries such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia over the past decade boasted some of the world's fastest-growing economies.

As Latin America grows more prosperous and more urban, many worshippers feel out of touch with a faith whose roots lay in a poor and rural past, when the Church was one of the few functioning institutions.

Indeed, much as the Church spread in Europe through the fiefdoms of the Middle Ages, Catholicism grew in Latin America because of its close ties to wealthy landowners and its support of an entrenched power structure.

"There's been a break from a not-so-distant past when the Church had spread because of its links to the rural elite," says Fernando Altemeyer, a theology professor at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. "As societies here move away from that structure, the Church hasn't known how to reorganize itself in response."

Even the Church admits that priests have been slow to follow as millions of rural faithful in recent decades migrated to cities such as Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City and Bogota in search of better lives.

"The Catholic Church simply didn't follow these migrations or keep up with the changes they led to," says Thierry Lienard de Guertechin, a Catholic priest and demographer in Brasilia, Brazil's capital.

Consider Claudia Valenzuela, a 26-year-old Argentine who calls herself Catholic, but who three months ago began attending a Bible study group at the Iglesia del Centro, an evangelical church in Buenos Aires. She grew up in Tucuman, a poor province in northern Argentina and moved to the capital after an economic crisis a decade ago.

Now pregnant with her first child, she turned to religion after losing her job at a housekeeping agency. Seeking solace at local Catholic parishes, she found the churches dark and empty.

"At this church," by contrast, "any time of day you find the pastors there and you can approach them," she said. "At the exact moment that you need it, the support is there."

Part of the lure of some evangelical churches is that many of them preach the powers of an active and interventionist God, able not only to provide salvation in the hereafter, but to improve the lot of believers in this life. The so-called "prosperity theology" has proven attractive for many on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.

Even those who are better off, though, are finding reasons to leave Catholicism.

A MORE FRAGMENTED SOCIETY

Because of urbanization, Latin American culture has become more like those of advanced Western economies - more diverse, more educated, more consumer-oriented and more willing to break with tradition. As a result, the number of rival denominations is multiplying, drawing worshippers of all ages and from across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Sociologists say that has to do with a general trend, especially among young people, toward fragmentation in everything from politics, to social structures, to religious beliefs.

Latin Americans, like people elsewhere, are now tuned into a rapidly evolving global culture that is as shaped by technology and the Internet as it is by geography.

"It's much harder to pass along a set of beliefs now than it was a generation ago," says Silvia Fernandes, a sociologist who has studied the growth of evangelical churches at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. "It's true for politics and social groupings, and it's increasingly true for religion."

Some churches are actively taking advantage of the fragmentation.

Fabrini Viguier, a 40-year-old pastor of a Protestant church near Rio, said his parish follows the Calvinist teachings of several U.S-based churches that target young and urban professionals because of their influence in shaping society.

In addition to its current parish in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio's dramatic seaside, the church is planning to open a new site in the fast-growing suburb of Campo Grande, where a boom in the offshore oil industry is rapidly luring investments and well-educated, high-earning professionals.

"We speak to those who are already on a path to financial and social success, but who long for more in terms of their spiritual lives," says Viguier. "The Catholic Church hasn't been able to keep up with their changing tastes, attitudes, or outlook."

Economics aside, many Latin Americans are attracted to what they consider the more upbeat, engaging liturgy and even the spectacle of some evangelical churches, be they ramshackle rooms in the bare-brick slums that speckle the region or a growing number of glitzy megachurches resembling those of American-style televangelism.

Compared with the doctrine, hierarchies and formal ceremony they associate with Catholicism, many converts say they feel an immediacy and fervor in their new congregations that they had not experienced before.

"There's a passion, there's a true love that moves you," says Pastor Mario Daza, a 48-year-old Bolivian who now runs the social programs at the Iglesia del Centro in Buenos Aires.

(Additional reporting by Guido Nejamkis; Editing by Todd Benson, Kieran Murray and Claudia Parsons)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/latin-america-litany-challenges-pope-francis-175310645.html

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Journalist charged in LA Times hacking conspiracy suspended

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? News agency Reuters has suspended with pay a deputy social media editor after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

Reuters spokesman David Girardin told The Associated Press Friday in an email that Matthew Keys was suspended on Thursday with pay. He did not elaborate.

Federal authorities allege that in December 2010, Keys, 26, provided hackers with login information to access the computer system of the Tribune Co., the parent company of the Times that also owns a Sacramento television station Keys was fired from months before.

Investigators allege that he gave a hacker named "Sharpie" the information in an Internet chat room frequented by hackers and urged the hacker to do some damage to the Tribune Co.

According to the indictment, Sharpie altered a Times news story posted Dec. 14 and 15, 2010, to read "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," a reference to another hacking group. "Chippy 1337" claimed responsibility for defacing the website of video game publisher Eidos in 2011.

Keys' Facebook page says he worked as an online news producer for the Sacramento FOX affiliate KTXL from June 2008 to April 2010.

Reuters hired Keys in 2012 as a deputy editor for social media and he was at work Thursday. He didn't return a phone call or respond to email messages seeking comment.

"I am fine," Keys tweeted Thursday, hours after his federal indictment was announced. "I found out the same way most of you did: From Twitter. Tonight I'm going to take a break. Tomorrow, business as usual."

The indictment alleges that a second attempt to hack the Times was unsuccessful.

Federal prosecutors allege in court papers that a legendary hacker and Anonymous leader named "Sabu" offered advice on how to infiltrate Tribune's systems. The FBI unmasked Sabu when it arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur on June 7, 2011. Monsegur secretly worked as an FBI informant until federal officials announced that he helped them arrest five other alleged hackers on March 6, 2012.

Federal officials declined to comment on whether Sabu assisted in the investigation of Keys.

The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.

Keys is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information. If convicted, the New Jersey native faces a combined 25 years prison and a $500,000 fine if sentenced to the maximum for each count.

He is scheduled for arraignment April 12 in Sacramento.

The indictment comes after recent hacks into the computer systems of two other U.S. media companies that own The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers reported in February that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.

Anonymous and its offshoot, Lulz Security, have been linked to a number of high-profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants. They have been connected to attacks that took data from FBI partner organization InfraGard, and they've jammed websites of the CIA and the Public Broadcasting Service.

A computer security specialist said the LA Times attack would be an unusual hack if the government's charges are accurate.

"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself," said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security. "He found some way to achieve his ends of defacing the website without having to do it himself."

A spokesman for the Chicago-based Tribune Co. declined to comment.

While Keys did not directly address the federal charges Thursday through his voluminous Twitter feed, commentary from his more than 23,500 followers and even a story about the news indictment were retweeted from his account.

Keys did obliquely address the issue in a status update on his Facebook page he posted late Thursday.

"I'm fine, and everything will be okay," he posted.

According to Keys' Facebook profile, he is single, lives in New York City and works at Thomson Reuters Corp.'s New York office, where "I get paid to use Twitter and Facebook at work."

London-based Reuters has been expanding its business in the United States. This year, six of the Tribune's seven newspapers dropped The Associated Press for Reuters, citing cost savings. The Los Angeles Times stayed with AP.

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Follow Paul Elias and Garance Burke on Twitter at https://twitter.com/paulelias1 and http://twitter.com/garanceburke

AP National Writer Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz contributed to this report

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/journalist-charged-hacking-conspiracy-suspended-155749931--finance.html

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Justin Bieber Should Keep His 'Head High,' Fans Say

'Your Beliebers will always be by your side,' one fan comments after Bieber's Instagram statement.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Mark West, Texas Assistant Principal, Accused Of Having Sex With Student At Prom Event

A former assistant principal is facing criminal charges after allegedly having sex with a student in his office during a prom event last spring, Houston's KTRK-TV reports.

The news outlet previously reported that administrators at Spring High School had suspicions about Mark West prior to the allegations. Months earlier, the former assistant principal was accused of touching a student on her lower back and was ordered to refrain from physical contact with his students.

According to court documents obtained by KTRK-TV, West's secretary had also noticed female students spending an usual amount of time in West's office, often leaving with their hair disheveled.

Visit KTRK to learn what the school district told parents.

It's been a rough month for Houston-area schools, which have had at least three other staff members facing accusations of inappropriate behavior in the past few weeks.

As the Houston Chronicle reported, 38-year-old nurse's aide Maria Calvillo was also accused of having sex with a student earlier this week. The student's mother is said to have found explicit messages from the woman on her son's Facebook account.

Similarly, Timothy Glenn, an ROTC instructor at Livingston High School, was arrested this week after he was seen allegedly sharing an intimate hug with a 14-year-old in a park, KHOU reports.

And as the Houston Press noted last week, a female student recently admitted she had sex with her dance teacher countless times. The girl was reportedly too embarrassed to tell anyone and said she hoped that graduating would get her away from the teacher. Now the Humble High School teacher, Amanda Feenstra, is facing felony charges of improper relationship with a student.

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China names Xi Jinping president, capping his rise

BEIJING (AP) ? China's new leader Xi Jinping capped his rise Thursday by adding the largely ceremonial title of president, though he will need cautious maneuvering to consolidate his power and build support from a public that is increasingly clamoring for change.

The elevation of Xi to the presidency by the rubberstamp national legislature gave him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao. The move was expected after Xi was named head of the Communist Party and chairman of its military, positions of true power, last November in a once-a-decade handover to a new group of leaders that has been years in the making.

Despite being formally in charge, it will be within the party's top ranks ? in which powerful people are often divided by patronage, ideology or financial interests ? that Xi will find the biggest challenges.

This will be doubly so if he follows through on his pledge to tackle the endemic graft he has pinpointed as detrimental to the party's survival, said Willy Lam, a China politics watcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Graft is deeply ingrained in the party's patronage-based culture and those at the top ? many of whose families have benefited from their political connections ? are believed to be most resistant to anti-corruption measures that diminish their prerogatives.

"He has to walk a fine line," Lam said. "If he were really serious about going after senior cadres, he might establish his authority within the rank and file, however, that would also jeopardize his relationship with the power blocs and with the holders of vested interests."

Xi's accession marks only the second orderly transfer of power in more than six decades of communist rule. He was the only candidate for president in Thursday's vote in the country's figurehead parliament, the National People's Congress.

Delegates gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People voted 2,952-to-1 for Xi in balloting that amounts to a political ritual echoing the decisions of the party leadership. Three delegates abstained.

Named vice president in a vote of 2,839-80 was Li Yuanchao, a liberal-minded reformer and a close ally for decades of Hu. The move breaks with the practice of recent years, because Li is not in the party's seven-member ruling inner sanctum, but is seen as a concession to Hu's lingering influence and as a reward to a capable if not wholly popular official.

Xi takes charge at a time when the public is looking for leadership that can address sputtering economic growth and mounting anger over widespread graft, high-handed officialdom and increasing unfairness. A growth-at-all-costs model that defined the outgoing administration's era has befouled the country's air, waterways and soil, adding another serious threat to social stability.

Underlying public unhappiness with the party is a deficit in trust.

"At present, the party and the government have very little public credibility," said Zhang Ming, a China politics expert at the prestigious Renmin University in Beijing. "The way to regain credibility is to at least show some results, but at this point that can't be seen and I predict there won't be any real results later."

Ahead of the votes on the government's top slots, legislators approved a government restructuring plan only four days after it was introduced.

The streamlining, among other things, abolishes the Railways Ministry, combines two agencies that regulate newspapers and broadcasters into a super media regulator and merges the commission that oversees the much-disliked rules that limit many families to one child into the Health Ministry.

It also joins four agencies that police fisheries and other maritime resources into one bureau to better assert China's claims over disputed waters, potentially sharpening conflicts with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

In a reflection of China's growing international engagement, the role of president has evolved from being purely ceremonial to, since the 1990s, a position the party hopes lends legitimacy on the world stage to the government it runs the country with.

"As China opens up and becomes more engaged in the international community, it's just impractical, it's not convenient, for a party head to meet a foreign head of state," said Warren Sun, an expert on Communist Party history at Monash University in Australia. "It's better to be in equal positions, representing the state and not just represent the party."

Xi was already effectively the country's No. 1 leader in mid-November after ascending to the helm of the ruling Communist Party, which holds ultimate power in China. And he has deftly handled his first months in power.

The son of a revolutionary veteran, Xi cuts an authoritative figure with a confidence and congeniality that was lacking in his predecessor, the aloof and stiff Hu. He quickly moved to court the military after taking over from Hu as head of the party's Central Military Commission, making high-profile visits to naval, air force and infantry bases and meeting with nuclear missile commanders.

Xi has also sought to court other constituencies: making a trip to the south to show he's interested in economic reforms, repeatedly stating his staunch belief in party power to appeal to hardliners, visiting the poor to burnish his common-man credentials and espousing the "Chinese Dream" to tap into middle class aspirations.

But for Xi to consolidate his power within the party he will come up against various interest groups such as the sons and daughters of communist China's founding fathers who want to keep benefiting from their connections, or those with links to banks and state industries who don't want their privileged positions threatened.

Ideologically, there are those who believe China needs an even stronger, more authoritarian government that promotes more egalitarian economic and social policies and those who want a transition to more democratic government.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-names-xi-jinping-president-capping-rise-034029948.html

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Anybody Home? Next-Gen Telescopes Could Pick Up Hints of Extraterrestrial Life

New studies assess the possibility of detecting biomarkers with planned ground- and space-based telescopes

By John Matson

PASSING THROUGH: When a planet transits its star, passing in front of the star from an observer's vantage point, filtered starlight can carry spectral information about molecules in the planet's atmosphere. Here, Venus transits the sun. Image: SDO/NASA

Even as astronomers work toward the hotly anticipated milestone discovery of an Earth-like twin orbiting another star, researchers are already asking what it will take to detect the existence of extraterrestrial life on such a planet.

First, the bad news: No telescope in existence seems to have the observing power to pick out the kinds of molecular signals that would indicate an exoplanet is habitable or even inhabited. On the bright side, observatories now being planned or already under construction could have a shot. But it?s hardly a lock.

The next generation of giant, ground-based telescopes, generically known as extremely large telescopes (ELTs), may be able to tease out biomarker signals from the starlight filtering through exoplanetary atmospheres, according to research recently published in The Astrophysical Journal and forthcoming in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The two groups of scientists calculated what possible biomarkers might be detectable with the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), a planned observatory with a 39-meter primary mirror that would dwarf the 10-meter twin Keck telescopes now on the cutting edge of astronomy. (The Kecks can breathe easy for now: E-ELT will not come online until the 2020s at the earliest.) The results are cause for cautious optimism: assuming that Earth-like planets are relatively common, the E-ELT or a comparable observatory might be able to identify several molecules important to, or even indicative of, life.

On Earth living organisms leave numerous chemical imprints on the environment via, for instance, the production of oxygen by plants and bacteria, the release of methane during digestion, and the generation and consumption of carbon dioxide in the global carbon cycle. Measurements of those chemical species in an exoplanet?s atmosphere?particularly measurements that indicate a chemical cycle out of static equilibrium?could provide strong indications of the presence of life on that world. ?By identifying certain molecules in the atmospheres of the planets, you can have some first proof that life is there,? says astronomer Ignas Snellen of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Simply discovering extrasolar planets is difficult enough, however. Teasing out subtle chemical signals from the spectra of their atmospheres at such distances is a tremendous challenge. Nevertheless, astronomers using the world?s best telescopes have already identified specific atoms and molecules in the atmospheres of giant, highly irradiated exoplanets. To do the same for smaller planets in cooler orbits?objects from which photons are relatively scarce?will require much bigger telescopes and many years of observations.

With a high-resolution spectrograph to break down the collected light from an exoplanet into its component wavelengths, the E-ELT would in principle be able to spot oxygen gas in the atmosphere of a temperate, Earth-like exoplanet, according to the Astrophysical Journal study. On Earth oxygen predominantly originates from photosynthesis. ?If there was no life, if there was no biological activity, this oxygen would not be there,? says Snellen, who led the study. Therefore, the presence of oxygen in an exoplanetary atmosphere would suggest a familiar process at work on a foreign world. ?With the next type of telescope that will become available in the next decade, it will be very difficult,? he says. ?It will be possible, but very difficult.?

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Moody's: Canada house prices could fall 44% on ... - Financial Post

A severe economic shock, such as the kind that hit Japan in the early 1990s and California and Nevada in 2006, would have to knock Canadian housing prices down by 44% to cause securities linked to Canadian mortgages to lose the highest ratings assigned by Moody?s Investors Service.

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Such a house price decline, were it to happen, would be driven primarily by the phenomenal upswing in Canadian home prices over the past decade, Moody?s said.

Canada joins Spain, as well as the United Kingdom and Australia, in the ratings agency?s assessment of countries where growth in housing prices over the past 10 years has driven their values away from sustainable market fundamentals and into ?overheated? territory.

?As with Australia, Spain and the U.K., we expect house prices in Canada to suffer the most due to the misalignment of current house prices with historic fundamentals,? Moody?s said.

The ratings agency released the report Monday that included its housing market analysis, along with request for comment on its proposed approach to analyzing the credit risk of non-insured mortgage pools.

?Moody?s Investors Service is in no way predicting the extent nor the causes of a large scale house price depreciation in Canada,? spokesperson Thomas Lemmon said in an emailed statement.

?Along with many other factors, the home price component of our analysis provides that in order to achieve our highest rating, a mortgage pool would have to be able to withstand a 44% downturn.?

Moody?s is the second ratings agency in as many weeks to seek input on a proposal to change the methodology used to analyze securities linked to mortgages.

Last week, London and New York-based Fitch Ratings unveiled a proposed a two-step model that reduces home prices to a ?sustainable? value based on a number of factors including data provided by Canadian banks. It then further subjects the homes to a ?stressed market? value decline assumption.

Fitch said Canadian home prices are overvalued by about 20%.

Ratings agencies came under harsh criticism in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 for what was perceived as a failure to predict the U.S. housing market meltdown that precipitated it.

Since then, there has been an attempt to strike a balance of thorough analysis with timely analysis, according to Grant Connor, an associate in equity research at National Bank Financial who previously worked on structured finance at Moody?s.

?At the simplest level, a stress case scenario should represent a realistic worst case scenario,? Mr. Connor said.

As with Australia, Spain and the U.K., we expect house prices in Canada to suffer the most

The model proposed by Moody?s on Monday determines house price ?stress? rates, used to assign ratings, by looking at variable factors such as house price and income growth over 10 years, and fixed factors such as monetary policy.

The analysis of housing prices in the event of economic shocks includes data from Finland in 1989, Japan in 1991, and Hong Kong in 1997, as well as Ireland, Nevada, and California in 2006.

The ?variable? analysis assesses how much current house prices have departed from ?sustainable? market fundamentals. The assumption is that, in the event of a severe economic shock, expected demand that has been baked into current house prices will not materialize. In Canada, the growth in house prices over the past 10 years has ??far outstripped? the growth in incomes, according to Moody?s.

?Think of it like an elastic [being stretched],? explains Mr. Connor of National Bank Financial. ?The snap back is going to be a lot harder.?

Moody?s also assesses the ?fixed? factor, which rates how vulnerable the consumer is to economic shocks, whether there is a large oversupply of houses, how effectively monetary policy can alleviate the shock, and how dependent the economy is on the real estate sector.

Canada scores better in this area, said Mr. Connor, because the stability of the country and its monetary policy is taken into consideration. While Canada?s household debt to income ratio is very high, at 154%, Moody?s notes that savings rates are higher than in some jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom.

In addition, Moody?s does not seem overly concerned about an over-supply of housing with the possible exception of the condominium market.

Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/11/canadian-house-prices-could-fall-44-with-severe-economic-shock-moodys/

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Free People Horoscopes, March 11-17 - Free People Blog

Horoscopes by Tracy Allen

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PISCES

February 19?March 20

A new moon in your sign is like the wish you make when you blow out candles on your birthday cake. But don?t expect the planets to start simply granting wishes?astrology never discounts free will. And since mystical Fish are prone to passivity, your challenge is to firmly resolve to make your own dreams come true. The moon links with the charged-up sun, covetous Venus and just-do-it Mars, supplanting Piscean vagueness with desire-driven vision. Your perspective is growing, and your self-image is changing; it?s time to start taking action based on your inner evolution. As Mars segues into your worth sector, think about what you felt impelled to do this past month and how you can walk the talk more, increasing your confidence. Speaking of talk, you?ll be less tongue-tied at week?s end when clever Mercury goes direct. It will feel good to articulate what?s been going on inside you, so express it!

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ARIES

March 21?April 19

The sensitive new moon in your metaphysical sector this week beckons you to honor unconscious feelings that have been making themselves known to you lately. New moons have an initiatory vibe, so?given where this one falls in your chart?it?s a good time for starting a new spiritual practice or making a resolution to serve a higher good. You?re been uncovering deep emotions connected either to a one-on-one relationship or to your relationship with yourself. Think about how you can introduce something new into your life that makes space for what you?ve uncovered in yourself. Mars enters Aries later in the week, mobilizing you for the first time in weeks. Use your newfound energy to put into play whatever has been waking up in you. Mercury?s direct turn will help to clarify the ideas brewing within.

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TAURUS

April 20?May 20

When a new moon rises in your group zone this week, give some more thought to what you need from others and how you feel about where you?re fitting in. You?ve been thinking so abstractly of late and have probably struggled to sort out where you?re headed next. That fuzziness has likely impacted your relationships, directly or indirectly. But the reverse can also apply?and work in your favor. A partner or friend can help you to identify interests and set new goals now if you let them. You may lack momentum as energetic Mars shifts into your seclusion sector, making you feel like hiding out. But that will give you a chance to figure out what you need to fully wrap up in order to move on.

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GEMINI

May 21?June 20

Your ambition gets a jolt this week when the new moon joins with appetent Venus and driven Mars in your goals angle. A fresh start in your professional life requires that you first ask what you need and want from your place in the world. You?re in a position to do quality work and to be of use, and your efficiency will surely improve when adept Mercury goes direct at week?s end. Technology difficulties and misunderstandings with authority figures should subside, and you?ll be able to think through career issues more clearly and verbalize your thoughts. You can derive energy from people with common aims, so get out there and network based on where you see yourself in a year, not on where you are now.

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CANCER

June 21?July 22

The universe is challenging you to commit to hope, as a new moon in starry-eyed Pisces unites with lovely Venus and gutsy Mars in your vision sector, launching a new cycle of beliefs. Mercury?s direct turn will help to clear your head and solidify your ideas about the future, but it?s up to you to adopt a bravely optimistic view of your potential. Opportunities for learning and creative expression abound, and if you shake things up a little, you?ll start to have more faith in how far you can go. Plan a major trip or a weekend getaway, apply to grad school or sign up for a class. Whether you go big or start small, you need to take in the full spectrum of possibilities and develop a taste for adventure.

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LEO

July 23?August 22

When your ruling planet the sun conjoins the moon about once a month, we officially have a new moon. This week?s new moon occurs in your sharing sector and links up with Venus and Mars, congregating the planets? respective energies around issues of intimacy and trust. The sun represents the ego identity, while the moon rules feelings and needs. Venus symbolizes the attraction principle, and Mars the modus operandi. Who are you in your close relationships, and how do they make you feel? Are you getting what you need and want? And how do you go about doing that? You can foster a stronger attachment with a partner?romantic or business?or a friend now if you?re open to it. And ironically, you?ll get a whiff of independence when Mars charges into your journeys house, making you want to go places and meet different people.

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VIRGO

August 23?September 22

The planets are requesting that you think about other people?s feelings and desires this week, when the sun, the moon, Venus and Mars assemble in your partnership angle. The moon is behind the sun, beginning a new monthly cycle and suggesting that you can begin a new chapter in that part of life?one-on-one relationships. The moon?s correlation with its karmic north node in your cognition sector implies that these relationships can help you to learn and may even change your mind. When your ruler Mercury goes direct, it will slowly clear up confusion in your relationships and enable you to express yourself better in emotional dialogues. Mars is moving into your intensity zone, making this the proper time for you to passionately and single-mindedly pursue someone or something.

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LIBRA

September 23?October 22

You?ll be relieved to hear that Mercury turns direct in your job zone this week, improving your effectiveness at work and your communication with colleagues. That same part of your chart concerns self-improvement such as habits, diet and fitness, daily time-management, and skills. A new moon combines with three other planets there earlier in the week, calling for a new approach to those issues. What key change can you make to your schedule or your health regimen that comes from a place of positive self-esteem? Or how can you hone your craft and in turn feel better about yourself? On a different note, feisty Mars marches into your partnership house now, increasing assertiveness in your one-on-one relations. Be mindful of the Libran tendency toward passive-aggressiveness, which causes you to project aggression onto others and provoke it in them. If you?re aware of the possibility, you can check yourself when you notice it.

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SCORPIO

October 23?November 21

You get another much-needed reminder this week that all the heavy changes you?re going through should ultimately pertain to what?s in your heart, when a new moon lands in your joy sector, planting a seed for love and happiness. The moon?s meet-up with the vibrant sun, desirous Venus and go-for-it Mars urges you to honor what makes you feel alive, what you want and what you would do if you could. Let the joyous spirit of this lunation mix with the darker tone of this period in your life. Embrace the truth that authentic self-expression and personal fulfillment are not frivolous, but essential. Your creativity is roused by Mercury?s forward motion, compelling you to write about or talk about a passion that?s been marinating. When Mars forges ahead into your self-improvement sector, get enthused to work harder, conquer bad habits and make healthful changes.

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SAGITTARIUS

November 22?December 21

A new moon in your domestic angle signals a fresh start of some sort in your home or your living situation. The moon?s congruency with the energetic sun, action-oriented Mars and creative Venus promotes vigorous activity centered around beautifying your current abode or using your imagination to somehow change where you live. Whether you work on making your place more of a sanctuary or search for new digs that will increase your comfort, Mercury?s direct turn in that same area of your chart should help you to think things through. And with Mars entering your play sector, you?ll start to feel more like getting out of the house and having fun. You might spark up a romance or breathe new life into a creative project. Either way, the point is to express yourself, now that you?ve shored up your foundation.

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CAPRICORN

December 22?January 19

With a receptive new moon joining forces with the vitalizing sun, amicable Venus and bold Mars in your mindset zone this week, you need to take an attitude of open-ended curiosity toward your feelings and desires. This lunation could generate fresh ideas in your mind about what you need and want and how other people can help you to grow. Your thoughts and communication have been directed inward lately, with cerebral Mercury backtracking in subjective Pisces. Hopefully, you?ve made the most of Mercury?s retrograde period (which ends later in the week) by paying more attention to your intuition. Incorporate that touchy-feely thinking before you act on your ideas and try to express them. You?ll find that different areas of your life can benefit from a more layered, less simplistic perspective.

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AQUARIUS

January 20?February 18

It?s time to take (another!) look at your finances, when the new moon in your worth sector forebodes a new beginning in your approach to money matters. The moon calls your attention to what you need, and its collaboration with the egoistic sun, valuable Venus and assertive Mars further asks how you identify with your resources, how you value them and what you?re doing about them.? The moon?s karmic north node in your goals angle gets in on the action as well, asking how your career path feeds into your financial situation. With mental Mercury going direct in this sector, your thinking should start to become sharper again, and a financial deal could move forward. Your best bet is to try to assess your current state of affairs and your future strategy both realistically and imaginatively, without letting creative thinking veer into fantasyland.

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