Champions League round phase Announces (International Herald Tribune)

NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) - European champions Inter Milan play Bayern Munich in a repeat of last season's final after Friday for the first knockout round of the champions League draw produces an unmistakable sense of "already" saw

Barcelona rival also familiar face in the arsenal, which they were destroyed in the quarter final season with a master of Lionel Messi, workshop that, nine - time champions while Real Madrid on Olympique Lyon, their conquerors in the last term last last 16.

Jose Mourinho real hopes to become the first coach to win the League champions with three different clubs, after having already won with Porto and inter and then last season.

Its immediate aim will be to get real about what becomes a psychological barrier serious, with the club fell in the last 16 stage in each of the past six seasons.

Including beaten Bayern 2-0 in Madrid in May with two goals from Diego Milito for sealing their first European Crown since 45 years but maintain in the group stage this season under Rafa Benitez as a finalist in their qualifying Group.

Raffle Friday, also put in place three - times European at Manchester United Olympique Marseille while FC Copenhagen, Danish team to reach this stage champions, will meet another side English in Chelsea.

AS Roma play Shakhtar Donetsk, in the hope that the worst of the Ukrainian bitter winter will be spent, while Valencia play Schalke 04 and Tottenham Hotspur will face AC Milan after finishing ahead of inter in the group phase.

First leg play plus four dates in February with returns in the first half of the month of March.

CRUISE CONTROL

Bayern were inconsistent in football, but have crossed in Europe, the head of their group with five victories from six to leave the President Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confident mood.

"There will be an interesting duel", he told journalists. "Perhaps we take revenge for the defeat in May."

A similar thought has been on the minds of the President of the inter Massimo Moratti.

"This is an interesting game to them, it will be a kind of revenge," he told journalists in Abu Dhabi, where his faltering side Club World Cup final this weekend.

Barcelona are looking forward to another device charm against arsenal, the team they closely beat final 2006 and topped skilful 6-3/all of last season, Messi scoring four goals in a 4-1 in the Camp Nou Barca win.

"This is an attractive draw nice but not a easy," said representative Amador Bernabeu Barcelona. "I think it is more difficult than last season."

Real are accuracy of last season's tie against Lyon after lost 1-0 away and held 1-1 at the Bernabeu.

Real Madrid sporting Director Miguel Pardeza said Gol TV: "last year is still fresh in the memory. It is strange to have two years in succession. It should help us learn and make sure that we make the same mistakes at this time. »

Tottenham Hotspur, most common scorers in the phase of groups with arsenal with 18 goals, return to Milan, where they lost 4-3 with inter to win Group has.

Spurs Manager Harry Redknapp, whose team has almost lost Young Boys Bern in the round of qualifying, said: "this is a great draw, it is an exciting game to play and hastily.".

The teams who have won their groups - Tottenham, Schalke, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Shakhtar, Bayern, Manchester United and Barcelona - play later in the second instalment.

The final will be at Wembley, may 28.

(Editing by Mike Collett Kevin Fylan)

Eagle concerns threats of turbines, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Updated 4 hours ago Updated Dec 14, 2010 12: 12 AM Apple Valley, Calif.. • Fears that whirling wind turbines could slaughter protected golden eagles have halted progress is a key piece of the federal government's push to increase renewable energy on public lands, plans stalling for trillion of dollars in wind farm developments.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspended issuing wind permits on public land indefinitely this summer after wildlife officials invoked a decades-old law for protecting eagles, according to The Associated Press.The restriction has stymied efforts to "fast-track" approvals for four of the seven most promising wind energy proposals in the nation, including three in California.Now, these and other projects appear unlikely to make the end-year deadline to qualify for hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds. "If extensions aren't can't granted in the blade duck session of Congress, the future of many of these plans could be in doubt.""[Companies] are waiting to know the criteria to get a permit," said Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for BLM's California desert district. He expects it to be "at least a year or longer" before permitting resumes.Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms are federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay.The projects also have been derailed by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defence and aviation authorities that turbines interfere with radar systems.The delays are occurring despite a target set by Congress in 2005 that directed the Interior Department to approve about 5 million homes worth of renewable energy on public lands by 2015. Since then, only two of the more than 250 currently proposed wind projects have been approved and neither has been built.The four fast-track projects in jeopardy of losing stimulus funds due to eagle issues would alone generate about 416 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power Pompeu a half million U.S. homes.There are 28 wind farms operating on public lands, although records show more than 800 have been proposed.The vast majority of public lands by the BLM are regulated in Western states, where all current onshore wind farms approved or in planning stages seront located.A group of Democratic lawmakers on Friday urged colleagues in both the House and Senate to support the inclusion of a one-year extension of the stimulus deadline in any tax package that makes it through this blade-duck session.Still, it was uncertain whether the extension agreement for renewable energy project cash grants would make it into any final bill.

Refuse the Hispania F1 Team Put Up For Sale (International Herald Tribune)

London (Reuters) - the team of Hispania (HTS) formula 1 struggling refused Friday that Spanish owners had their for sale.

"The team is not for sale, we are working to 2011," a spokesman said after Spanish Sport Journal as reported this businessman Jose Ramon Carabante and his associates had decided to sell as the sole means of problems of the team.

"Carabante working on obtaining sponsors and investors." "A Spanish group is interested in joining the team, but things are not so easy today in the world", she added.

HRT were one of the three new teams on the grid this year after winning a race against the clock to compete in the season - opening when many people had written off the coast of their participation.

They do not have to mark a point, using four pilots on 19 races after starting with the Brazilian Bruno Senna and Indian Karun Chandhok, but just finished the season with scarce resources has been a success.

The team recorded Spanish but operate largely outside of Germany, where Colin Kolles core team is based, have yet to announce drivers for 2011 but took part in two pilot and young post-season in Abu Dhabi pneumatic tests last month.

Former President of Telefónica Juan Villalonga was announced in November as a new partner Carabante and is also available to seek investors advance team.

2011 Car team is however wrapped in doubt after a partnership with Designer Dallara chassis ended in May and Toyota said last month that they put an end to a planned technical cooperation agreement and were still seeking payment for work done.

Williams have agreed to provide their boxes, while HTS also have an agreement with Cosworth engines.

(Reported by Alan Baldwin.) (Editing by Neil Maidment)