QLD:Possum, joey survive round with chainsaw

AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2011
QLD:Possum, joey survive round with chainsaw

BRISBANE, Aug 5 AAP - A possum and her joey who survived a round with a chainsaw are
expected to make a full recovery to the astonishment of vets.

It was a terrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the hapless
pair, dubbed Chainsaw and Two-Stroke by carers at the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.

The possum was asleep with her joey in her pouch, when workers began chopping down
a tree at Thornlands, southeast of Brisbane, on Tuesday.

But she was so well camouflaged they didn't see her and the chainsaw slashed her across
the chest, leaving a horrible wound.

Panicked workers rushed the critter to the wildlife hospital on the Gold Coast, where
staff soon discovered the joey tucked safety away in the pouch.

Senior vet Dr Michael Pyne said mum and bub were doing well, and Chainsaw had been
extremely lucky.

"She basically had a 20cm wound that extended from up near her spine to down the front
of her chest and that wound was about 8cm wide as well," Dr Pyne told AAP on Friday.

"She's just very fortunate it didn't actually get into her chest cavity at all. So
really it's just nasty external wounds and a heap of stitches."

As staff carefully stitched up Chainsaw, they found the joey.

"He's very lucky. If the wound was another 10cm further south towards (the mother's)
back, little joey would have been really chewed up," Dr Pyne said.

The possums will stay under observation for two weeks before they are released back
into the wild.

"Mum's eating well and producing plenty of milk, still a little stressed but that's
not surprising," Dr Pyne said.

"But the main thing is they're not stressed so much that they're not eating."

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Linnaean classification

Linnaean classification Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), the most famous of all naturalists, was born Carl von Linné, but subsequently adopted the Latin form of his Swedish name. The son of a clergyman, Linnaeus became an avid botanist at a very early age; his nickname was “the little botanist.” He studied at Lund and Uppsala, eventually becoming a professor of botany at Uppsala in 1741. He took time out to become a physician and a professor of medicine. But he returned to his first love and wrote many books on the subject: Systema nature (1735), Fundaments botanica (1736), Genera plantarum (1737), Flora lapponica (1737), Philosophia botanica (1751), Species plantarum (1753), and others. His books marked the beginning of taxonomy, a system of scientific nomenclature of plants and animals. His Species plantarum set the stage for a system he devised, the Linnaean system, which divided the kingdom of animals, vegetables, and minerals into classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties. He was the first to label man homo sapiens, “wise or sapient.”

WA:Midnight shots to be banned across Perth

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2011
WA:Midnight shots to be banned across Perth

Energy drinks mixed with alcohol will be banned after midnight across all inner-city
Perth nightclubs, bars and pubs .. in what the state's peak hospitality body says is an
Australian first.

The Australian Hotels Association has agreed to impose a blanket ban on the serving
of energy drinks mixed with alcohol as well as shots after midnight.

AHA WA chief executive BRADLEY WOODS says the bans will apply across all liquor venues
in the Perth CBD along with Subiaco and Northbridge .. which has long been plagued by
alcohol fuelled violence.

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QLD:Ex-teacher aide seeks asbestos compo

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2010
QLD:Ex-teacher aide seeks asbestos compo

A former pre-school teacher's aide from Queensland who's suffering terminal mesothelioma
is seeking compensation .. after working in a Brisbane classroom containing asbestos that
underwent renovations in the 1980s.

The lawyer for the unnamed woman in her early 60s says Queensland government documents
have confirmed the presence of asbestos within the original pre-school building and extensions.

TRENT JOHNSON says normal classes were conducted while the preschool extensions were
under construction .. and everyone on site would have been exposed to the asbestos dust.

Asbestos fibres cause respiratory disease and cancer .. including asbestosis and mesothelioma
.. and can take decades to develop.

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QLD:Seven survive Qld plane crash

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2010
QLD:Seven survive Qld plane crash

BRISBANE, Aug 12 AAP - Seven people have walked away from an airplane crash in central
Queensland.

A Department of Community Safety (DCS) spokeswoman said emergency services were called
to Aerodome Rd, at Gladstone Airport, after reports of an airplane crash at 11am (AEST).

The plane was a Cessna 206 aircraft being used by Adrenaline Skydivers.

The company told AAP seven people were on board, believed to be a father and two sons,
three tandem jump masters and the pilot.

ABC radio reported that five people received minor injuries in the crash and have been
transported to Gladstone Hospital.

The plane experienced engine troubles upon take-off at 10.30am (AEST), before crashing
4.5km away on Wiggins Island.

The injured passengers were then transferred back to Gladstone airport by helicopter.

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FED: Vic motorcyclist's death takes national road toll to seven

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2010
FED: Vic motorcyclist's death takes national road toll to seven

By Jeff Turnbull

MELBOURNE, April 3 AAP - The death of another motorcyclist has pushed Victoria's Easter
holiday road toll to three - and the national toll to seven - despite the biggest police
road blitz in the state's history.

More than 4000 police throughout Victoria are patrolling the roads and over 5000 motorists
have been fined.

But it hasn't stopped Victoria from leading the nation's road toll.

The latest death came just after 11am (AEDT) on Saturday when a 22-year-old man died
200 metres from his home after his motorcycle hit a tree and a parked car at Wantirna
in Melbourne's east.

That followed a double fatality where two riders collided in a head-on crash near Shepparton
on Friday.

Eighteen motorcyclists have been killed in Victoria in 2010 compared to eight for the
same time last year.

A frustrated Inspector Greg Parr says it has been a disappointing start to the Easter break.

"We've got three dead in the space of a couple of days - three motorcyclists, which
is even more distressing - I'm not sure what the way forward is for the the rest of Easter,"

Insp Parr said.

"They are killing themselves way out of their proportion.

"There is no justification or excuse for it."

On Friday in the ACT, a 46-year-old motorcyclist died after his bike left Uriarra Road,
north of Cotter Dam, and went down an embankment.

The rest of the country had not recorded any Easter Saturday fatalities and the nation's
toll stands at seven, with one death in NSW, one in South Australia and one in Western
Australia adding to the total.



(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 1 to 2359 April
5. Some states and territories may have different periods.)



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Qld: Hospitals suspend abortions on legal advice

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2009
Qld: Hospitals suspend abortions on legal advice

Doctors at Queensland public hospitals have stopped performing medical abortions and
are directing women interstate for the service because of legal concerns.

Health Minister PAUL LUCAS says they're now speaking with a number of obstetricians
and gynaecologists to clarify their concerns after public hospitals suspended medical
abortions on Wednesday.

However Mr LUCAS says he isn't aware of any investigation or prosecution against Queensland
Health doctors in relation to a case against a 19 year-old woman charged with procuring
her own miscarriage after using a smuggled pill to abort her foetus.

The woman and her 21 year-old boyfriend .. who is also charged with attempting to procure
and supply drugs to procure an abortion .. will face a Cairns court in September.

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Qld:Brisbane's rebel proest holds his last Easter service

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2009
Qld:Brisbane's rebel proest holds his last Easter service

Brisbane's rebel Catholic priest has held his final Easter service at St Mary's Parish
.. marked by standing ovations from the congregation.

Father PETER KENNEDY .. who has been sacked for disobedience .. will conduct his last
services next weekend before handing over the keys of the building to the Archbishop.

During his Easter message Fr.KENNEDY has drawn parallels between the trials of the
disciples after the crucifixion and the turmoil St Mary's Parish has been facing.

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KEYWORD: CHURCH (BRISBANE)

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Vic: Crowds cheer for homeless world cup

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2008
Vic: Crowds cheer for homeless world cup

By Jamie Duncan

MELBOURNE, Dec 7 AAP - Three winters ago, thousands of hardy souls braved the cold
in the glow of the big screen at Melbourne's Federation Square to watch the 2006 World
Cup of soccer unfold.

On Sunday, bathed in brilliant sunshine, they returned for the finals of a soccer tournament
with a lower profile but that, in its own way, is probably more important - the Homeless
World Cup.

Almost 500 homeless men and women from 56 nations came to Melbourne with hope of victory
and a good chance of changing their lives for the better.

Organisers of the tournament - the sixth for homeless men and the first for women -
say 77 per cent of homeless people who take part experience a "significant life change".

It may be they give up drugs or alcohol, find a home, get a job, go on to further training
and education, repair fractured relationships or take up positions as coaches or players
in semi-professional soccer teams.

The matches are fast-paced, high-scoring and short, played on a smaller pitch and with
only seven-minute halves.

More than 5,000 people packed the square, filling two banks of temporary stands and
climbing for vantage points on steps, tables and retaining walls for a glimpse of the
action.

It was a curious and cosmopolitan mix of sports fanatics and the socially conscious.

Karen Cohen brought her daughters Vanessa Mae and Dara to watch.

"I love the whole idea of giving people some sense of pride and it makes me happy that
it wasn't about money. It was about the experience. I wanted to teach my two daughters
those values," she said.

The sports nuts came well prepared with a range of national strips and flags and soccer
chants that were just as varied and colourful.

During the women's final, between Zambia and Liberia, a group of African men - one
with a set of bongo drums - sang and chanted.

Zambia won the inaugural women's final 7-1, with Liberia hit hard by injury.

Robert Tracey, now living in Melbourne, belied his Scottish origins with a thick accent,
the Scottish national strip and his face painted in blue and white.

"I support Scotland all the way. The Scots didn't make the final but there's always
next year," he said.

Isheq Adadh, who emigrated from Afghanistan 10 years ago, cheered with his two sons
and their three friends as the Afghani team played.

"It's the first time we have seen Afghan sportsmen," he said.

"They are playing very well."

Afghanistan's team, the clear crowd favourite, overcame decades of war and poverty
to win their close and hard-fought final against Russia, 5-4.

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KEYWORD: HOMELESS (PIX AVAILABLE)

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FED: Teachers should be paid more than $100,000 per year: report

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2008
FED: Teachers should be paid more than $100,000 per year: report

By Julian Drape

CANBERRA, Aug 4 AAP - Teachers should be paid according to their performance and the
best should receive more than $100,000 a year, a new report suggests.

The Australian Education Union (AEU) commissioned study adds weight to the push for
higher salaries, started earlier this year by the Business Council of Australia (BCA).

It also follows comments last month by federal Education Minister Julia Gillard that
top teachers should be better "rewarded".

The latest study, conducted by the University of NSW, suggests a set of national standards
to assess teachers who want to be classified.

Those that met the mark would become "accomplished teachers" and paid at least $100,000 a year.

"To tackle the teacher shortage and attract and retain quality teachers we need to
offer rewarding salary and career structures," AEU federal president Angelo Gavrielatos
said in a statement.

"Establishing a national assessment and classification structure for accomplished teachers
is possible based on standards and criteria already being used in various ways across
the states."

Mr Gavrielatos called on the Rudd government to respond "with a clear funding commitment".

"Currently, there are few options for such teachers other than to move into leadership
and administrative roles which take them and their teaching abilities out of the classroom
where they are most needed," he said.

The government has welcomed the AEU research report, saying it recognised the need
for change and is working with states and territories to facilitate better rewards for
teachers.

"This proposal from the profession is timely as COAG (the Council of Australian Governments)
is developing its National Partnership on teacher quality," Ms Gillard said in a statement.

Governments needed to find ways of valuing excellent teachers "to keep the best teachers
in front of classrooms".

In May, the BCA said top teachers should earn up to $130,000 per year.

Currently, the highest rate for public classroom teachers is around $70,000.

The council said it would cost $4 billion to introduce a national certification performance
pay system.

Last month, Ms Gillard suggested Australia should follow the lead of the United Kingdom
and the United States, where governments have joined forces with business and charities
to attract the best and brightest graduates into teaching.

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KEYWORD: TEACHERS

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Fed: Tax cuts to remain as promised: Rudd

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2008
Fed: Tax cuts to remain as promised: Rudd

CANBERRA, Feb 10 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says tax cuts due to be delivered
the upcoming budget will be delivered in the form promised.

During the 2007 federal election campaign, Labor vowed to match the coalition's promised
$31 billion tax cuts.

But there has been concern the tax cuts will exacerbate the rising inflation problems.

Mr Rudd said the new Labor government would proceed with the tax cuts despite the concerns.

"I take seriously what you say to people - it's not all that magical - you say you're
going to do something you should do it," Mr Rudd told the Nine Network today.

One suggested option is to pay tax cuts into superannuation instead of direct savings.

But Mr Rudd is not willing to change Labor's plans.

"We will work through a whole range of options and possibilities but there will be
absolutely no change to people having tax cuts to take as additional income at the point
of which they are implemented," he said.

AAP kc/cat/de

KEYWORD: ECONOMY RUDD

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WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers

PERTH, Aug 23 AAP - The main stories in today's Perth West Australian:

Page 1: WA Labor's key election promise to fix the health system has been shattered
by revelations that the Health Department has failed to meet a raft of crucial performance
targets, many relating to basic services. Murdered Perth woman Corryn Rayney had told
her friends of a heated confrontation with a man hours before she was killed, and had
forwarded a series of threatening emails she had received over recent months.

Page 3: Independent fuel retailers competing with the big chains have appealed to the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to come to their rescue.

Page 4: US President George W Bush was set to deliver a defence of his Iraq strategy
that compared the war on terrorism to ideological struggles in Vietnam.

World: Rio Tinto and other Australian companies operating in Zimbabwe are under threat
of virtual nationalisation under a bill being considered by the government of President
Robert Mugabe. A former executive of Garuda airlines has implicated Indonesia's intelligence
agency in the murder of the country's most prominent rights activist, Munir Said Thalib,
in 2004.

Finance: BHP Billiton revealed plans to spend $87.5 billion on new projects and expansions
over the next decade, while handing down another Australian record annual profit.

Sport: Kangaroos champion Wayne Carey has declared Daniel Kerr's potentially season-ending
finger surgery as the terminal blow to West Coast Eagles premiership hopes.

AAP ec

KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS WA

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HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 8

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2007
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, April 8

MELBOURNE - A courageous cabbie who risked his life to save a Victorian man from a
burning car wreck seconds before it exploded has been heralded a hero. (EXPLODED Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - A Victorian taxi driver was fleeced of his night's takings while he was
pulling an injured motorist from a wrecked car moments before it exploded. (EXPLODED)

ANZAC

CANBERRA - The Seven Network says it did not ask for an Anzac Day dawn service in Vietnam
to be held early to take advantage of peak television ratings in Australia. (ANZAC)

CANBERRA, April 8 AAP - Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says reports he wanted an Anzac
Day dawn service held early so he could commemorate the occasion on live TV are "absolutely
false". (ANZAC RUDD)

ANZAC Nightlead to come

WORKPLACE

CANBERRA - Attorney General Philip Ruddock says he has never heard of a so-called secret
government plan to soften controversial industrial relations reforms. (WORKPLACE SCHEME)

CANBERRA, April 8 AAP - The federal government has denied the existence of a secret
plan to soften its controversial Work Choices laws in the lead-up to the election. (WORKPLACE
Nightlead)

TOLL

PERTH - Western Australia recorded its first Easter road deaths, with two men killed
in separate accidents on the state's roads overnight. (TOLL WA)

SYDNEY - The Easter road toll has risen to 16, with Western Australia recording its
first deaths this long weekend. (TOLL NATIONAL)

TOLL NATIONAL Nightlead to come

EASTER

BRISBANE - Churches have been inundated and tens of thousands have packed into a gospel
music festival as Christians celebrate their faith in Queensland today. (EASTER QLD)

PERTH - West Australians have been urged to look at the real political drama behind
the Easter story and launch an offensive for love. (EASTER WA)

EASTER NSW, EASTER VIC, EASTER Nightlead to come

CANBERRA - David Hicks will be monitored by Australian authorities after he is released
from prison, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says. (HICKS RUDDOCK)

CANBERRA - Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says the federal government has not decided
who will replace Pru Goward as sex discrimination commissioner. (ARNDT RUDDOCK)

SYDNEY, April 7 AAP - Sex therapist Bettina Arndt has been tipped as the favourite
to replace newly-elected NSW MP Pru Goward as federal sex-discrimination commissioner.

(ARNDT)

CANBERRA - The states are likely to allow the use of surrogate mothers as a result
of moves to adopt uniform national legislation, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says.

(SURROGACY)

SHEIK

SYDNEY - An Islamic group does not have the authority to sack controversial muslim
leader Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali from the position of mufti, his friend Keysar Trad says.

(SHEIK TRAD)

SYDNEY - Controversial Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali is still the mufti, the
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) says. (SHEIK AFIC)

SHEIK Nightlead to come

SYDNEY, April 8 AAP - About 50 protesters have rallied outside the Prime Minister's
Sydney residence to speak against the Howard government's policies on war, climate change,
immigration and industrial relations. (VILLAWOOD)

VILLAWOOD Nightlead

SYDNEY - Environmental activists have chained themselves to machinery and invaded the
office of a central-western NSW mining site, halting its operations. (COWAL)

SYDNEY - Car-jackers threatened a young driver with a gun before stealing his vehicle
in an underground car park in inner Sydney early today. (CARJACK)

SYDNEY - A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with murdering a 72-year-old
man in inner Sydney. (LEUNG, Eds note: KE changed from BODY)

HOBART, April 8 AAP - Unfavourable weather has stopped British yachtsman Tony Bullimore
from leaving Tasmania to start his solo round-the-world record attempt. (BULLIMORE)

BRISBANE - A 57-year-old man has been charged with the indecent assault of a 16-year-old
boy at a McDonald's restaurant in Brisbane. (GRAB)

MELBOURNE - Another shot is believed to have been fired in Melbourne's simmering bikie
war with a molotov cocktail thrown at a property owned by the Rebels Motorcycle Club (REBELS)

BRISBANE - A 22-year-old man has been charged over a stabbing at a party in central
Queensland. (STAB)

BRISBANE - Police have charged a 45-year-old Inala man with murder after a man died
in hospital yesterday from injuries received in an alleged attack in January. (INJURIES
)

SYDNEY - A man was arrested trying to escape in a taxi after an alleged armed robbery
attempt in Sydney's west early today, police said. (TAXI)

SYDNEY - A man was forced to withdraw money from an ATM at knife point during an alleged
hold-up in Sydney's east. (KNIVES)

SYDNEY - A teenager has been arrested after a rock was thrown through the windscreen
of a bus in southern Sydney, injuring the driver and a passenger. (BUS)

CANBERRA - An Australian university is offering a PhD research scholarship in fast
bowling to help identify the next Glenn McGrath. (CRICKET UNI)

FINANCE

MELBOURNE - Wesfarmers Ltd is not planning to sell off any of its businesses, should
its efforts to buy Australia's second biggest retailer Coles Group Ltd come to fruition.

(WESFARMERS)

MELBOURNE - Advertisers are concerned about how the new Australian media ownership
laws and any subsequent consolidation will affect pricing and access, according to one
of the country's key media buyers. (MEDIA)

SYDNEY - The success of Earth Hour in Sydney last month has inspired communities across
the nation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but the jury is still out on the economic
benefits. (CLIMATE ECONOMY)

SYDNEY - Real estate expert John Kenny is sitting inside one of the Colliers International
meeting rooms in a Sydney sky-rise office tower thinking back to his sister's wedding.

(COLLIERS KENNY)

MELBOURNE - Ford Australia plans to bring in more new models from Europe, as larger
and more powerful fuel-guzzling cars fall out of favour with local motorists. (FORD AUSTRALIA)

MELBOURNE - Markets Preview (MARKETS PREVIEW)

SPORT

GOLF MASTERS

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Australian Stuart Appleby butchered the 17th hole but will still
take a one-shot lead into the final round at the 71st Masters. (GOLF MASTERS Daylead)

AUGUSTA, Georgia - If Stuart Appleby does not win the Masters tomorrow, he will look
back at one disastrous hole as the place where it all started to go wrong. (GOLD MASTERS
Nightlead)

ADELAIDE - Australia's foray into the knock-out rounds of the Adelaide Sevens was abruptly
ended by Samoa today, in a repeat of their result in Hong Kong last week. (RUGBY SEVENS
Lead)

SYDNEY - His brother won a Melbourne Cup but Old Mystique's trainer Bede Murray will
be more than happy if the gelding can win the Country Cup at Randwick tomorrow. (RANDWICK
COUNTRY)

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NSW:Tell all Corby source can't be trusted, Mercedes Corby says

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2006
NSW:Tell all Corby source can't be trusted, Mercedes Corby says

SYDNEY, Dec 7 AAP - A former member of Schapelle Corby's legal team who is threatening
to tell "the truth" about her drug smuggling conviction can't be trusted, Corby's sister
Mercedes says.

Vasu Rasiah is angry about an attack on his reputation in Corby's book, My Story, in
which he is described as a money-hungry bully.

Mr Rasiah says he is willing to reveal damaging details about Corby's defence, and
her plea of innocence, unless she backs off.

"If they push us to a corner then we have no option but to reveal all the truth, and
everything that took place, we will. And that will be very detrimental to her," Mr Rasiah
told ABC television last night.

Mercedes Corby, speaking from her Gold Coast home early today, said Mr Rasiah is not
a lawyer and he has threatened the family before.

She said his claims are untrue.

"He can't be trusted ... he is obviously lashing out because he does not like what
is in the book," Mercedes told AAP.

"He can't handle the truth. Schapelle is innocent."

Mr Rasiah was a member of Corby's Indonesian legal team after her arrest in Bali in
2004 with 4.1 kg of cannabis inside a bodyboard bag.

Corby, 29, is serving a 20 year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan Prison.

Mr Rasiah said Mercedes was instrumental in the family refusing an offer from the Australian
Federal Police to DNA test the cannabis, to track its origin, when they learned the results
would be passed on to Indonesian police.

Mr Rasiah told the ABC: "We even got a couple of samples from Bali police for this testing".

But Mercedes rejected that, saying Schapelle signed her consent for the tests but the
Indonesian police refused to release samples.

And she said claims in the ABC report that Schapelle stopped to meet an Adelaide man
on her way to Brisbane airport were "just crap".

"There was mum driving, Schapelle, James, Ally and Katrina in the car, they did not
stop," Mercedes said.

Quoting sources close to the family, the ABC reported it had new information about
Corby's movements before she entered Brisbane airport on October 8, 2004, the day she
left Australia for Bali.

She met an Adelaide man, in the pre-dawn darkness, on her way to Brisbane's international
airport that day, causing her to almost miss her 6am flight, the report said.

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KEYWORD: CORBY DAYLEAD

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FIFA Weighs Closing Roofs for Some Matches

JOHN PYE, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
06-11-2006
Dateline: BERLIN, Germany

Workers move a goal at the World Cup stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Monday, June 11, 2006. The Stadium will host a first round World Cup 2006 Group E soccer match between The United States and the Czech Republic on Tuesday, June 12. The other teams in the Group E are Ghana and Italy. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

World Cup organizers want to play some matches under roofs to reduce the amount of shadow in TV broadcasts _ as long as it does not get too steamy for players.

"If you have watched the matches (Saturday) on television, you saw that for the matches in the afternoon _ when the sun is shining _ it's not the best TV picture," FIFA spokesman Markus Siegler said Sunday.

Web-like steel rods over Frankfurt's stadium cast shadows over the field during England's 1-0 win over Paraguay on Saturday.

Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen are two of the 12 venues with retractable roofs, and FIFA is considering playing the afternoon matches at those venues with the tops closed.

"We're currently assessing the situation," he said. "We must understand, millions and millions of people are watching the match and there's not a nice picture with all those shadows."

But with temperatures rising across Germany _ and the England players already complaining about the heat _ player comfort is a big issue.

"The priority, of course, are the players. We have to check the situation, what it means with regards to the heat," said Siegler, adding that the first World Cup matches played under a roof were "like a sauna."

"It should not be as it was in 1994 at the Silverdome, when you played around noon and it was like 50 degrees (122 degrees Fahrenheit) or more in Detroit.

"At the same time, we have a responsibility to the billions of fans around the world watching on television, and they are not seeing good pictures with the shadow markings on the pitch."

Despite limits on tickets issued to each national association, England fans dominated the crowd at the 43,324-seat stadium in Frankfurt, raising local concerns about the number of tickets being sold on the black market.

Despite strict rules that require personal information in exchange for tickets in a bid to weed out potential hooligans, Germany 2006 spokesman Gerd Graus said the ticket system "ultimately it's ... like roulette."

He said the England fans either got in early when the tickets went on sale on the Internet or were lucky.

"According to our information, all tickets were sold in a proper manner," he said.

Graus said random checks for identification at stadium gates had not uncovered any illegal tickets.

The only security breach so far, he said, was when two fans got into the players' area at the England-Paraguay match.

"They did get in, but were immediately taken to the side," he said. "No problem at all. We had it under control."

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Vic: Man charged over stabbing

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2006
Vic: Man charged over stabbing

A Melbourne man has been charged over an alleged stabbing that punctured another man's lung.

Police are alleging a 27-year-old man went to a house in Braybrook .. in Melbourne's
west .. about 1.15pm (AEDT) and confronted a 45-year-old man in the driveway.

It's alleged he repeatedly stabbed the older man then fled .. but was arrested in Carlton
Street a short time later.

The injured man was taken to hospital to undergo surgery.

Police have charged a Braybrook man with attempted murder .. aggravated burglary ..

intentionally causing serious injury and making threats to kill.

He's been remanded in custody and will appear in Melbourne Magistrates' Court later today.

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NSW: Sydney thief flees in taxi

AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2005
NSW: Sydney thief flees in taxi

SYDNEY, April 23 AAP - A Sydney thief robbed a backpacker hostel before fleeing in
a taxi to one of the city's most exclusive suburbs, police said today.

The man had threatened the night manager with a knife and stolen a cash box before
fleeing the Potts Point hostel.

Police believe he took a taxi to Dover Road in Rose Bay, in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Fed: Quake donations factbox

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12-27-2004
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Donations to the various earthquake and tsunami appeals can be made to the following agencies:

CARE Australia:

Through the agency's website: www.careaustralia.org.au

or, phone 1800 020 046.

Red Cross:

Asia Quake and Tsunamis Appeal:

For secure online donations, visit www.redcross.org.au

or, send a cheque to GPO Box 9949 in your capital city

or call 1800 811 700

Oxfam:

Call 1800 034 034

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Batting average (20 P.A.)M. Alvarado, Calumet .627

K. Blood, ...

Batting average (20 P.A.)

M. Alvarado, Calumet .627

K. Blood, Kouts .625

K. Magiera, Calumet .618

S. Cunningham, Westville .571

J. Myers, Calumet .557

A. Botsford, LaPorte .556

K. Pritchard, South Central .536

A. Rosenbaum, Kouts .533

R. Morgan, Westville .533

S. Cooley, Chesterton .531

S. Terry, Lake Central .519

H. Hoffman, KV .514

K. Crandol, Andrean .500

J. Collins, Michigan City .500

N. Steinbach, Andrean .476

S. Galambos, Griffith .471

E. Rosenbaum, Kouts .469

K. Bishton, Lake Central .468

E. Bisch, Wheeler .467

A. Zadrozny, Munster .457

J. Haskins, Lake Central .455

K. Ryan, Andrean .450

B. Wright, South Central .450

R. Mullaney, Bishop Noll .447

C. Charbonneau, Morton .435

A. Blackwell, Whiting .433

H. Overla, Chesterton .432

S. Jones, Kouts .429

A. Anderson, Wheeler .428

M. Matheny Chesterton .422

J. Druzbicki, Lake Central .421

A. Pokraka, Whiting .417

Runs batted in

S. Cooley, Chesterton 29

M. Alvarado, Calumet 21

K. Magiera, Calumet 20

J. Haskins, Lake Central 19

K. Pritchard, South Central 17

N. Adams, Lake Central 17

A. Zadrozny, Munster 17

T. Michalski, Munster 16

S. Terry, Lake Central 15

S. Kreamer, LaPorte 14

M. Cavinder, KV 13

H. Hoffman, KV 13

T. Harlow, Chesterton 12

H. Buresh, LaPorte 12

S. West, Michigan City 12

C. Charbonneau, Morton 12

S. Simchak, Munster 12

E.R.A. (15 inn.)

K. Magiera, Calumet 0.12

A. Dobson, KV 0.36

N. Steinbach, Andrean 0.51

A. Latronica, Griffith 0.70

A. Heinrich, Westville 0.78

L. Del Toro, Lake Central 0.83

P. Webb, Michigan City 0.87

V. Hartzell, Bishop Noll 1.35

S. Cooley, Chesterton 1.38

M. Franovich, Lake Central 1.39

N. Finch, Wheeler 1.96

Strikeouts

A. Pokraka, Whiting 115

V. Hartzell, Bishop Noll 100

K. Magiera, Calumet 86

N. Steinbach, Andrean 71

C. Murphy, Munster 69

A. Latronica, Griffith 58

A. Heinrich, Westville 57

A. Dobson, KV 55

E. McNeill, Kouts 53

J. Sandilla, Hobart 50

Pitching record (minimum 4 dec.)

M. Franovich, Lake Central 4-0

K. Magiera, Calumet 12-2

A. Dobson, KV 7-1

N. Steinbach, Andrean 5-1

M. Tymorek, Chesterton 5-1

T. Harlow, Chesterton 4-1

M. Bunch, LaPorte 4-1

H. Fuller, LaPorte 3-1

P. Webb, Michigan City 3-1

A. Heinrich, Westville 6-2

Stolen bases

A. Redd, Calumet 13

S. Ramer, Westville 12

K. Pritchard, South Central 10

J. Sturdy, South Central 10

B. Pitroski, Westville 8

J. Jessen, Kouts 6

A. Bryant, River Forest 5

T. Dye, South Central 5

H. Overla, Chesterton 4

A. Amodeo, Crown Point 4

V. Connelly, Crown Point 4

M. Cavinder, KV 4

A. Matson, KV 4

B. Wright, South Central 4

M. Shrader, Westville 4

Runs scored

S. Terry, Lake Central 24

A. Redd, Calumet 20

A. Stenger, Calumet 19

S. Cooley, Chesterton 17

A. Matson, KV 16

T. Michalski, Munster 16

K. Bishton, Lake Central 15

J. Haskins, Lake Central 15

K. Ranieri, Lake Central 15

R. Mullaney, Bishop Noll 14

N. Adams, Lake Central 14

B. Wright, South Central 13

Six tied with 12

Home runs

S. Cooley, Chesterton 5

K. Hirchak, Highland 3

A. Zadrozny, Munster 3

N. Steinbach, Andrean 2

M. Matheny, Chesterton 2

M. Cavinder, KV 2

N. Adams, Lake Central 2

S. Terry, Lake Central 2

H. Fuller, LaPorte 2

J. Collins, Michigan City 2

S. West, Michigan City 2

C. Charbonneau, Morton 2

T. Michalski, Munster 2

B. Zunica, Munster 2

S. Friedlander, Valparaiso 2

A. Blackwell, Whiting 2

— Based on stats sent directly to the Post-Tribune or posted on Internet stat sites (Varvee, MaxPreps, etc.). To get your players listed, send your stats to Steve T. Gorches at 648-3141, sgorches@post-trib.com or fax them to 648-3236.

P-T Top 10

1. Andrean

2. Lake Central

3. Chesterton

4. Kankakee Valley

5. LaPorte

6. Bishop Noll

7. Wheeler

8. Hebron

9. Munster

10. Westville

Player of the week

Sam Terry, Lake Central

The senior catcher went 3-for-3 with a double, triple, five RBI and two runs scored in the Indians' 10-0 victory over Michigan City on Thursday.

Universal Studios Consumer Products Group brings blockbuster movie content to Club Nokia.

M2 PRESSWIRE-19 February 2002-NOKIA: Universal Studios Consumer Products Group brings blockbuster movie content to Club Nokia (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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World-class movie content is now available to Nokia phone owners in Club Nokia, through a long-term, licensing agreement between Universal Studios Consumer Products Group and Starcut, Nokia's content aggregator for mobile movie entertainment services. Currently available to Club Nokia members in 23 European countries and Australia, the service is accessible from www.club.nokia.com. During 2002, Universal's movie titles will also roll out across most Asia-Pacific countries and the US.

Club Nokia members will be able to download display graphics, ringing tones, text messages (SMS), picture messages, multimedia messages (MMS) and mobile games related to more than 100 of Universal's top film and television titles and franchises, including The Mummy Returns, The Mummy, The Jurassic Park Trilogy, Back to the Future and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Upcoming promotional film and television titles and access to Universal's vast library of film and television properties will provide consumers with a wide selection of compelling entertainment content for their Nokia mobile phones.

"Starcut's service offers a unique opportunity for Universal and Nokia in the rapidly emerging premium wireless content marketplace," said Tim Rothwell, senior vice president, merchandising and marketing, Universal Studios Consumer Products Group.

Kevin Campbell, senior vice president, New Media Marketing, Universal Pictures, added, "We will be working very closely with Starcut and Nokia to strategically introduce new mobile content to consumers as a key component of our marketing plans for upcoming films. The mobile marketplace is becoming an increasingly important part of our overall marketing strategy and this multi-year partnership gives us tremendous reach in the wireless world."

"For Starcut the recently brokered deal between Nokia and Universal Studios Consumer Products Group is a major step forward in establishing itself as a high-end content aggregator for terminal-specific mobile entertainment services" said Juha Tiihonen, chairman and CEO of Starcut. "As the contractual party for both partners, Starcut takes care of content design and implementation, facilitating the fusion of the best in mobile media and entertainment, and demonstrating its role as an adept bridge-builder between the worlds of mobile telecommunication and entertainment."

"As the content consumption paradigm changes, with entertainment services going mobile, Nokia's collaboration with Universal Studios represents new opportunities for the film and mobile phone industries alike. This collaboration will also benefit operators who will be able to offer their customers branded content," said Ilkka Raiskinen, vice president of applications and services, Nokia Mobile Phones.

"Through technological innovations such as multimedia messaging (MMS), the project offers users a broad range of copyright-protected content and services. As such, the agreement concords with Nokia's commitment to broaden and enrich the mobile experience through open standards."

Club Nokia is an online community and loyalty program for Nokia phone owners. Today it offers services to owners of Nokia mobile phones in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The Club Nokia web and WAP services can be accessed once the Nokia phone is registered with Club Nokia. In the near future, Club Nokia services will be available to Nokia phone owners globally.

About Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.

About Universal

Universal Studios Consumer Products Group is part of Universal Pictures Franchise Development, which is a division of Universal Pictures. Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com) is part of CANAL +, the TV and Film division of Vivendi Universal, a global leader in media and communications.

About Starcut

Finnish-based Starcut is a premium entertainment content aggregator and mobile media publisher working closely with the globally known Hollywood entertainment brands. Starcut develops attractive movie and TV related mobile services based on Hollywood content. Starcut combines its experience, expertise and relationships in the entertainment and mobile industries to offer terminal-specific services to mobile phone users around the world. Starcut has premises in Helsinki and Los Angeles.

CONTACT: Debra Jackman, Universal Studios Consumer Products Group Tel: +1 818 777 3188 e-mail: debbie.jackman@unistudios.com Jerry Schmitz, Starcut Tel: +1 310 828 2747 e-mail: jerry.schmitz@starcut.com Nokia Mobile Phones Communications Tel: +358 7180 08000 WWW: http://www.nokia.com

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WorldBestBuy.com NASCAR Teams Compete at Rockingham, Homestead.

Bobby Hamilton Jr. Improves After Daytona;

Brett Bodine, Wayne Edwards Both Qualify

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ --

WorldBestBuy.com's NASCAR racing teams continued to improve this past weekend as Bobby Hamilton Jr. moved up in the NASCAR Busch Series rankings after a respectable finish in the Alltel 200 this past Saturday. After missing starts at Daytona last weekend, NASCAR Winston Cup driver Brett Bodine and Craftsman Truck Series driver Wayne Edwards both qualified in their events Saturday and Sunday.

For the second week in a row, Bobby Hamilton Jr. qualified in the top 10 in NASCAR Busch Series action. At this week's race, at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC, Hamilton showed improvement by finishing 21st, up from a 28th place finish at Daytona. Hamilton now is tied for 18th place in the NASCAR Busch Series rankings, and hopes to see further positive results in his next race, the Sam's Town 300 in Las Vegas on March 4.

Also at Rockingham, Brett Bodine got back in the action by qualifying for the DuraLube Kmart 400 NASCAR Winston Cup, where he finished 35th out of a 43-car field Sunday afternoon. Wayne Edwards, driving his #93 Chevrolet, took to the field in the NASCAR Florida Dodge Dealers 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead Florida. Edwards finished 27th out of a 36 qualifying entries in the Florida Dodge Dealers 400, second in the Craftsman Truck racing series for 2000.

WorldBestBuy.com, a major sponsor of NASCAR and Indy car racing, offers a wide selection of unique and high-quality products from around the world at deep discount prices, including a new WBB Auction area where buyers can bid on hundreds of new, close-out, refurbished, and collectable products. In addition, the site offers personal sales areas called Wheelmonger Auto Auction, Garage Sale, and World Bazaar, where site visitors can buy or sell personal items ranging from books, toys, antiques, and jewelry, to automobiles, trucks, collectibles, furniture, electronics, and china. In its first full month of service, WorldBestBuy.com registered over 2 million unique visits. For more about WorldBestBuy.com, visit the site at www.worldbestbuy.com.

About WorldBestBuy.com:

San Diego-based WorldBestBuy.com is a wholly-owned division of International Brands, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INBR), a publicly-traded technology company with majority or partial interests in Internet, media, entertainment, and broadcasting enterprises.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the effect competitive and economic factors and the Company's reaction to them may have on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products and services. This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is subject to the safe harbors created by these sections. These forward-looking statements include statements related to potential prospects of the company. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of risks. This press release provides general information and should not be construed as an offer to sell securities. This report is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as advice or as meeting the investment needs of any particular investor or designed to be the basis of any investment decision.

CONTACT: S&S Public Relations

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847-955-0700, ext. 227

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UC SAN DIEGO'S BILL PING PIU KUO NAMED 2011 YOUNG SCHOLAR BY THE MARCONI SOCIETY.

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The following information was released by the University of California - San Diego:

By Catherine Hockmuth

Bill Ping Piu Kuo, a photonics student who is about to receive his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, is one of three students worldwide to be honored by the prestigious Marconi Society. He was selected a Marconi Young Scholar in part because of key work developing wideband optical parametric mixers and ultrafast transmission schemes to send and receive signals of unprecedented speed and quality - and with record low power consumption.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Stojan Radic likens optic fiber to a large fire hose gushing with the fluids of information - so much that today's electronics simply aren't fast enough to consume it all. "So what Bill has done is take this fire hose and split it into little straws, and these straws can be sipped by conventional electronics," said Radic. Such breakthroughs, by allowing quicker and more efficient transmissions, could prevent systems used to stream high-quality video from collapsing under increasing demand.

As the leading organization devoted to recognizing and encouraging scientific contributions to communication sciences and the Internet, the Marconi Society annually honors young scholars who already are engaged in influential work and are likely to transform their fields in some significant way. This marks the fourth year that Young Scholars Awards have been granted by the Marconi Society, which is best known for its annual $100,000 Marconi Award and Fellowship given to scientists whose scope of work and influence emulate the principle of "creativity in service to humanity."

As Marconi Society Chairman Emeritus Robert Lucky noted, the scholars selection committee "looks for candidates who show the potential to win the Marconi Prize - the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in communications science - at some point in the future. As a point of reference, Marconi Fellows have been at the forefront of every modern advance in telecommunications and the Internet."

Earlier this year, Irwin Mark Jacobs and Jack Keil Wolf - two engineers whose groundbreaking research and designs in digital communications helped propel the information revolution - won the 2011 Marconi Society Fellowship and Prize. Both men were longtime professors at UC San Diego.

All three of this year's Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award recipients are completing their doctorates while making vital contributions to the world's "need for speed" - our increasing imperative to be able to send and receive data as quickly and economically as possible.

Though intricate and often theoretical, their research is aimed at making communications faster and more efficient, giving people everyday benefits -- from better video-on-demand service to improved MRI scans that yield medical images in a quicker and thus more comfortable way.

Kuo's optical signal processing research is prompted by the problem of ever-increasing stress on the capacity of transmission systems. His work on ultrafast signal processing has opened a pathway to realize a photonics-aided, analog-to-digital converter system with unprecedented bandwidth and fidelity. "I would like to try to commercialize the technology," said Kuo, who plans to do so in conjunction with UC San Diego.

Having been first in his class while earning a bachelor's degree in electronic and communications engineering and then a master's in electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong, he became an immediate standout at UC San Diego.

Radic said Kuo has contributed to more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, including prestigious post-deadline and invited papers at events such as the Optical Fiber Communications Conference. Radic is also director of the Photonics System Group at UC San Diego. "It is safe to say that he does not have a peer in this field at his present age," said Radic, who described Kuo as "unconditionally regarded as the best researcher of his group or the department to date." Radic said Kuo's leadership and vision on parametric signal processing "has resulted in completely new signal processing architectures and newfound ability to manipulate fast signals."

The Marconi Young Scholar Awards are named in honor of Paul Baran, a Marconi Fellow famous for helping devise the technical inner-workings of the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to the Internet. Nonetheless, Baran always declined to be called the inventor of the Internet, instead likening it to a vast cathedral built by countless people continually adding their own stones to reshape its image.

The Young Scholar Awards include a financial stipend and an invitation and travel funds to attend the annual Marconi Award Dinner, to be held in September in San Diego.

Calls for sect jihad.

Provided by 7DAYS.ae

Thousands of hardline Muslims shouted for jihad or holy war during a demonstration in the Indonesian capital yesterday unless the government bans a minority sect and releases a detained radical cleric. The protesters cried "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greater) and carried banners calling members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect "infidels" to be "exterminated" because they do not believe Mohammed is the final prophet.

"If the president doesn't dissolve Ahmadiyah then there is no other way but jihad," co-organiser Abdurrahman, from one of the main Islamist groups in the country, told the crowd outside police headquarters. The crowd responded with a chant of "Jihad! Jihad! Jihad!" Around 5,000 protesters wearing white skullcaps and Islamic headscarves earlier blocked the street in front of the presidential palace in a show of force following a police crackdown on an Islamist extremist group last week.

Later they marched and rode motorcycles five kilometresA to the police headquarters to demand the release of eight radicals detained over a violent attack on a rally for religious tolerance earlier this month. "We are giving the government an ultimatum until Thursday. If they haven't issued the decree (banning Ahmadiyah) by then, after Friday prayers millions of Muslims will take to the streets," an unidentified speaker told the rally.

The furore over the sect has tarnished Indonesia's image as a moderate, mainly Islamic country and stoked unrest amid anger over soaring inflation and fuel prices. "The government should quickly ban Ahmadiyah, they are sinners. Should we allow these infidels to continue to insult Islam?" said teenager Subhan as he marched toward the police station.

Many paraded under pictures of Rizieq Shihab, the detained leader of the Defenders FrontA which has declared "war" on Ahmadiyah. and organised the June 1 attack by stick-wielding fanatics on the pro-tolerance rally.

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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

MARYLAND

TEMPLE HILLS

5-year-old shoots, injures 4-year-old

A 5-year-old boy shot and injured a 4-year-old boy on a playground outside a Temple Hills apartment complex Thursday afternoon, Prince George's County police said.

Officers were called to the 4400 block of 23rd Parkway at about 4 p.m. for a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they found a boy who had been shot once, county police spokesman Cpl. Mike Rodriguez said. After firing, the 5-year-old shooter apparently ran away and hid the gun, which police recovered shortly after they arrived on the scene.

The 4-year-old boy was transported to Children's Hospital in the District and his injuries appear not to be life threatening, Cpl. Rodriguez said.

Officers have interviewed the parents of both children and are trying to learn how the child got hold of the gun and who the gun belongs to.

Charges are pending until we find out, Cpl. Rodriguez said.

Officers are also trying to determine who was supposed to be watching the children when the shooting occurred.

- Andrea Noble

DISTRICT

Lottery to seek input on 'hot spots'

The D.C. Lottery has assured a key D.C. Council member that it will not roll out online gambling in public locations until communities have their say on where the contentious program may operate.

Jack Evans, Ward 2 Democrat, said he met with lottery officials and the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to let them know that Advisory Neighborhood Commissions and other members of the public need to know more about the program, known as I-Gaming.

The District would be the first jurisdiction to offer gambling on the Internet, a move sanctioned by federal law as long as it stays within the city's borders. Six demonstration games are scheduled for release this summer before betting can begin in early September.

Players must be 19 years old, register on a single account and play from pre-approved IP addresses on their home computers or on their laptops within public areas with a signal that allows players to log on.

These public areas, known as hot spots, are of concern to Mr. Evans, who held a hearing on I-Gaming on Wednesday as chairman of the Committee on Finance and Revenue.

Based on testimony he heard, Mr. Evans said the rules for choosing hot spots are unclear and should be clarified for the public.

Specifically, the D.C. Lottery will meet with ward council members to organize community meetings to ensure residents have ample time to consider I-Gaming locations prior to any decisions being made, Mr. Evans said.

- Tom Howell Jr.

New fees for DMV customers

New fees are scheduled to take effect at the District's Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday.

The fees, part of a plan to close the District's budget gap, will include increases to the charge to obtain a duplicate identification card, from $7 to $20 and an increase in the charge to get a duplicate commercial driver's license, from $13 to $20.

The DMV also will begin charging a $10 fee for taking both the road test and the knowledge test that are required to get a city driver's license.

- Matthew Cella

Research and Markets Adds Report: A South Africa Brand Report, a Profile of Bank Customers.

Research and Markets announced the addition of the "South Africa Brand Report: Profile of Bank Customers" report to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:

This comprehensive report examines South African customers of financial institutions covering local consumer/market trends, competitor analysis of key brands in the segment, detailed consumer geo-demographic profiling, consumer lifestyle and media consumption.

The consumer analysis is based on the latest annual consumer survey among a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 people. All Media and Products Survey are conducted by the South African Advertising Research Foundation.

Some of the key questions the report will help you to answer are:

-Who are the key players and brands in the market and how are they positioned?

-What are the important consumer and market trends that should be included in your business strategy?

-Who are the users (and non-users) of financial services? (e.g. age, gender, affluence, life-stage, geo-demographics)

-How do you engage with them? (e.g. lifestyle, Internet, sports, music interests)

-What media do you use to communicate to them? (e.g. TV, radio, newspapers, magazines)

It provides a comprehensive profile of bank customers, as well as a detailed segmentation by brand, namely: ABSA; First National Bank; Standard Bank; Nedbank; Postbank; and Capitec Bank.

It examines in detail the demographics, lifestyle, media consumption and cellphone and Internet usage of the entire financial service sector by brand, making it a vital reference report for anyone wanting to understand this market.

Key Topics Covered:

-SA Population Demographic Overview

-Bank Profile

-Profile of Users and Non-Users of Financial Services

-Market and Consumer Trends (2007-2010)

-Demographic Profile (2010)

-Lifestyle

-Media

Companies Mentioned:

-ABSA

-First National Bank

-Standard Bank

-Nedbank

-Postbank

-Capitec Bank

Report information:

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/91a9e8/south_africa_brand

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BCSI, NX, BRLI, BIG Expected To Be Up After Next Earnings Releases.

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BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Thursday, May 26th 2011 and determining how the stocks have performed After their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and 6 Consecutive Days earnings reports. BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:BCSI), QUANEX BUILDING PRODUCTS (NYSE:NX), BIO-REFERENCE LABS INC (NASDAQ:BRLI), BIG LOTS INC (NYSE:BIG) are all expected to be Up After their earnings are released Thursday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go Up After earnings are released Thursday:

Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time

BCSI BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC 6 Quarter Q4 After

NX QUANEX BUILDING PRODUCTS 12 Quarter Q2 After

BRLI BIO-REFERENCE LABS INC 6 Quarter Q2 Before

BIG BIG LOTS INC 12 Quarter Q1 Before

This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists.

BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:BCSI) - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells products and services that secure and optimize the delivery of business applications and other information to distributed users over a wide area network (WAN) or the public Internet/Web. The companys products include ProxySG Appliance that serves as the foundation for secure Web gateway products and WAN Optimization offerings; ProxySG Virtual Appliance, a software that provides WAN optimization functionality; CacheFlow 5000 Appliance for telecommunications service providers; Blue Coat ProxyAV Appliance to use with ProxySG appliances to provide inline threat protection and malware scanning of Web content at the Internet gateway; and Blue Coat WebFilter Software, a content filtering database that operates on ProxySG appliance and includes client-based software for remote workers. Its products also include Blue Coat Reporter Software that collects data and generates pre-defined and custom reports to provide an IT administrator with better visibility into the enterprises Web-related user activity; Blue Coat Director Appliance, which enables an IT administrator to centrally manage an enterprises Blue Coat ProxySG appliances; Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliance that helps IT administrators to monitor applications running on the enterprises network to obtain information on its LAN/WAN/Internet traffic; Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter Software, which provides application performance monitoring for PacketShaper appliances deployed across the distributed enterprise; and Blue Coat PolicyCenter Software that helps IT administrators to centrally manage the configuration, policy management, software distribution, and adaptive response tracking of a distributed PacketShaper environment. The company was formerly known as CacheFlow, Inc. and changed its name to Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in August 2002. Blue Coat Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

QUANEX BUILDING PRODUCTS (NYSE:NX) - Quanex Building Products Corporation provides engineered products and aluminum sheet products. Its Engineered Products segment produces window and door components for original equipment manufacturers that primarily serve the residential construction and remodeling markets. This segments products consist of insulating glass spacer/sealant systems, thin film solar panel sealants, window and patio door screens, aluminum cladding and other roll formed metal window components, thresholds and astragals, moldings, residential exterior products, engineered vinyl and composite patio doors, window profiles and custom window grilles, and trim and architectural moldings in various woods primarily for the home improvement and residential construction markets. The companys Aluminum Sheet Products segment includes reducing reroll coil to specific gauge, annealing, slitting, and custom coating. This segments products are used in customer end-use applications comprising window screen frames and screens, exterior home trim, fascias, roof edgings, soffits, downspouts, and gutters in the building and construction markets, as well as capital goods and transportation markets. The company offers its products to original equipment manufacturers and distributors through direct and indirect sales groups primarily in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Quanex Building Products Corporation is based in Houston, Texas.

BIO-REFERENCE LABS INC (NASDAQ:BRLI) - Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides clinical laboratory testing services primarily in the greater New York metropolitan area. It offers various chemical diagnostic tests, including blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radioimmuno analysis, toxicology, pap smears, tissue pathology, and other tissue analysis. The company also operates a clinical knowledge management service unit, which uses customer data from laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, claims data, and other data sources to provide administrative and clinical decision support systems. In addition, it operates a Web-based connectivity portal solution for laboratories and physicians. Bio-Reference Laboratories provides its services directly to physicians, geneticists, hospitals, clinics, and correctional and other health facilities. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.

BIG LOTS INC (NYSE:BIG) - Big Lots, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a broad line closeout retailer in the United States. The company offers products under various merchandising categories, which include consumables category consisting of food, health and beauty, plastics, paper, chemical, and pet products; home category, such as domestics, stationery, and home decorative products; and furniture category comprising upholstery, mattresses, and ready-to-assemble products, as well as case goods products that include bedroom, dining room, and occasional furniture. It also provides products in the hardlines category, including electronics, appliances, tools, and home maintenance products; seasonal category comprising lawn and garden, Christmas, summer, and other holiday products; and other category, which include toys, jewelry, infant accessories, and apparel products. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 1,361 stores in 47 states. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

SqueezeTrigger.com has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes multiple proprietary trading strategies that predict price moves in stocks, commodities and currencies. The data has then been integrated into an automated trading platform which can be used to connect to a live online broker and automate your trading of each of the strategies highlighted. It is extremely powerful with lightening fast execution at a very low price. Both the trading software and SqueezeTrigger data feed are available at http://www.squeezetrigger.com

www.squeezetrigger.com monitors trading in all US stocks in real time and maintains massive databases of short sale and naked short sale time and sales data, short squeeze SqueezeTrigger prices, market maker price movements, shareholder data, statistical data on earnings, sector correlation, seasonality, hedge fund trading strategies, comparable valuations. Reports include:

REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE NEWS

Friction Factor -- market maker surveillance system tracking Level II market makers in all stocks to determine Price Friction and compliance with new "Fair Market Making Requirements".

RegSHO Naked Shorts -- tracks EVERY failure to deliver in all US stocks and tracks all Threshold Security Lists daily for which stocks have naked shorts that are not in compliance with Regulation SHO.

INVESTMENTS & TRADING

SqueezeTrigger -- 25 billion cell database tracks EVERY short sale (not just total short interest) in all US stocks and calculates volume weighted price that a short squeeze will begin in each stock.

Earnings Edge -- predicts probability, price move and length of move before and after all US stock earnings reports.

Seasonality -- predicts probability, price move and length of move based on exact time of year for all US stocks.

Group Trader -- tracks sector rotation and stock correlation to its sector and predicts future moves in ALL sectors and industry groups.

Pattern Scan -- automates tracking of every technical pattern and predicts time and size of move in all stocks.

GATS (Global Automated Trading System) -- tracks all known trading strategies and qualifies and quantifies which are working best in real time.

About SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM

WWW.SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight short selling. SqueezeTrigger.com has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds and short sale time and sale data from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted. This information is valuable in determining the precise point at which short sellers go out-of-the-money and start losing on their short trades.

SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 2.5 billion short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005 and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005 because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like SqueezeTrigger.com to access the data.

The SqueezeTrigger database collects individual short trade data on over 7,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks and general short trade data on nearly 8,000 OTCBB and PINKSHEET stocks. Each month the database grows by approximately 50,000,000 short sale transactions and provides investors with the knowledge necessary to time when to buy and sell stocks with outstanding short positions. By tracking the size and price of each montha'a"s short transactions, SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM provides institutions, traders, analysts, journalists and individual investors the exact price point where short sellers start losing money and a short squeeze can begin.

All material herein was prepared by SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM, based upon information believed to be reliable. The information contained herein is not guaranteed by SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive. The companies that are discussed in this opinion have not approved the statements made in this opinion.

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"Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected", "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a companies' annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the SEC.

Contact:

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Tom@squeezetrigger.com

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FCF Expected To Be Down After Next Earnings Releases.

M2 PRESSWIRE-April 20, 2011-BUYINS.NET: FCF Expected To Be Down After Next Earnings Releases(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

RDATE:19042011

BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Wednesday, April 20th 2011 and determining how the stocks have performed After their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and 12 Consecutive Days earnings reports. FIRST COMMONWEALTH FINL CORP (NYSE:FCF) are all expected to be Down After their earnings are released Wednesday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go Down After earnings are released Wednesday:

Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time

FCF FIRST COMMONWEALTH FINL CORP 12 Quarter Q1 Before

This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists.

FIRST COMMONWEALTH FINL CORP (NYSE:FCF) - First Commonwealth Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for First Commonwealth Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals and small and mid-sized businesses in central and western Pennsylvania. It offers personal checking accounts, interest-earning checking accounts, savings accounts, health savings accounts, insured money market accounts, debit cards, investment certificates, fixed and variable rate certificates of deposit, and IRA accounts. The company also provides secured and unsecured installment loans, construction and mortgage loans, safe deposit facilities, credit lines with overdraft checking protection, and student loans. In addition, it offers commercial banking services that include commercial lending, small and high-volume business checking accounts, on-line account management services, ACH origination, payroll direct deposit, commercial cash management services and repurchase agreements. Further, the company provides various trust and asset management services, as well as a complement of auto, home, and business insurance and term life insurance. Additionally, it offers annuities, mutual funds, stock, and bond brokerage services through an arrangement with a broker-dealer and insurance brokers, as well as Internet and telephone banking services. As of January 28, 2010, the company operated 115 retail branch offices in 15 counties in western and central Pennsylvania. First Commonwealth Financial Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

SqueezeTrigger.com has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes multiple proprietary trading strategies that predict price moves in stocks, commodities and currencies. The data has then been integrated into an automated trading platform which can be used to connect to a live online broker and automate your trading of each of the strategies highlighted. It is extremely powerful with lightening fast execution at a very low price. Both the trading software and SqueezeTrigger data feed are available at http://www.squeezetrigger.com

www.squeezetrigger.com monitors trading in all US stocks in real time and maintains massive databases of short sale and naked short sale time and sales data, short squeeze SqueezeTrigger prices, market maker price movements, shareholder data, statistical data on earnings, sector correlation, seasonality, hedge fund trading strategies, comparable valuations. Reports include:

REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE NEWS

Friction Factor -- market maker surveillance system tracking Level II market makers in all stocks to determine Price Friction and compliance with new "Fair Market Making Requirements".

RegSHO Naked Shorts -- tracks EVERY failure to deliver in all US stocks and tracks all Threshold Security Lists daily for which stocks have naked shorts that are not in compliance with Regulation SHO.

INVESTMENTS & TRADING

SqueezeTrigger -- 25 billion cell database tracks EVERY short sale (not just total short interest) in all US stocks and calculates volume weighted price that a short squeeze will begin in each stock.

Earnings Edge -- predicts probability, price move and length of move before and after all US stock earnings reports.

Seasonality -- predicts probability, price move and length of move based on exact time of year for all US stocks.

Group Trader -- tracks sector rotation and stock correlation to its sector and predicts future moves in ALL sectors and industry groups.

Pattern Scan -- automates tracking of every technical pattern and predicts time and size of move in all stocks.

GATS (Global Automated Trading System) -- tracks all known trading strategies and qualifies and quantifies which are working best in real time.

About SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM

WWW.SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight short selling. SqueezeTrigger.com has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds and short sale time and sale data from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted. This information is valuable in determining the precise point at which short sellers go out-of-the-money and start losing on their short trades.

SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 2.5 billion short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005 and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005 because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like SqueezeTrigger.com to access the data.

The SqueezeTrigger database collects individual short trade data on over 7,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks and general short trade data on nearly 8,000 OTCBB and PINKSHEET stocks. Each month the database grows by approximately 50,000,000 short sale transactions and provides investors with the knowledge necessary to time when to buy and sell stocks with outstanding short positions. By tracking the size and price of each montha'a"s short transactions, SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM provides institutions, traders, analysts, journalists and individual investors the exact price point where short sellers start losing money and a short squeeze can begin.

All material herein was prepared by SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM, based upon information believed to be reliable. The information contained herein is not guaranteed by SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive. The companies that are discussed in this opinion have not approved the statements made in this opinion.

Occassionally companies pay $995.00 to purchase data for information provided in reports issued by BUYINS.NET, a company affiliated with SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM. The data service can be cancelled at any time. This opinion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. This material is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as an offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell securities. SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM is not a licensed broker, broker dealer, market maker, investment banker, investment advisor, analyst or underwriter. Please consult a broker before purchasing or selling any securities viewed on or mentioned herein. SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM will not advise as to when it decides to sell and does not and will not offer any opinion as to when others should sell; each investor must make that decision based on his or her judgment of the market.

SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM and SQUEEZETRIGGER are intended for use by stock market professionals. As a member, visitor, or user of any kind, you accept full responsibilities for your investment and trading actions. The contents of SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM, including but not limited to all implied or expressed views, opinions, teachings, data, graphs, opinions, or otherwise are not predictions, warranty, or endorsements of any kind. Please seek stock market advice from the proper securities professional, or investment advisor.

By visiting SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM or using any data or services, you agree to assume full responsibility for the decisions or actions that you undertake. Global Automated Trading Systems, LLC, its owner(s), operators, employees, partners, affiliates, advertisers, information providers and any other associated person or entity, shall under no circumstances be held liable to the user and/or any third party for loss or damages of any kind, including but not limited to trading losses, lost trading opportunity, direct, indirect, consequential, special, incidental, or punitive damages. As a user, you agree that any damages collected shall not exceed the amount paid to SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM and/or its owners. As a website user, you agree that any and all legal matters of any kind are to be reviewed and handled in their entirety within the State of California only. By using the services of this website, you are consenting to the terms as outlined, and forfeit all legal jurisdictions in any other State.

Past performance is not a guarantee of future outcomes. Any and all examples are hypothetical and should not be considered a guarantee or endorsement of such trading activity. SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM does not take responsibility for problems of any kind, including but not limited to issues with operations, data accuracy or completeness, contacting issues, technical issues, and timeliness. SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM places great integrity on the data collected and distributed. This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. All information and data is provided "as is" without warranty or guarantee of any kind.

Please seek investment and/or trading advice, council, information or services from a securities professional. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and SQUEEZETRIGGER.COM undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

"Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected", "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a companies' annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the SEC.

Contact:

Thomas Ronk, CEO

www.squeezetrigger.com

+1-800-715-9999

Tom@squeezetrigger.com

SqueezeTrigger is a registered trademark, Reg. No. 3,120,641

((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to info@m2.com)).