Events Diary for Sunday, February 22, 2009

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02-20-2009
Events Diary for Sunday, February 22, 2009
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BRISBANE


0930 - National Day of Mourning Ceremony. Queensland will support the National Day of
Mourning for those affected by the tragic events in Victoria. Suncorp Piazza. Contact:
Premier's office 3224 4500.

1500 - Rally to support St Mary's. St Mary's deeply disappointed with treatment from Archbishop.

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, cnr Merivale & Peel Sts, South Brisbane. Contact: John
Fitz-Walter 3379 …

NSW:Cars hit by rocks from Sydney overpass

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2011
NSW:Cars hit by rocks from Sydney overpass

SYDNEY, July 31 AAP - Sydney police are searching for four children after two motorists
had rocks thrown on their cars from a highway overpass.

A woman's windscreen was smashed by a rock as she drove north on the Hume Highway,
near the Badgally Road overpass in Sydney's southwest, about 3.45pm (AEST) on Sunday,
police said.

A short time later, a man's car travelling north on the highway, under the same overpass,
was also hit by a rock.

Both drivers escaped injury.

Police called to the overpass were told a number of children had been seen in the area
but a search failed to find the suspects.

The children have been described as being aged 12 to 13 years and wearing dark clothing.

Anyone who witnessed the incidents or have any information should call Crime Stoppers
on 1800 333 000.

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NSW:Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

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04-05-2011
NSW:Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, April 5 AAP - Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news:

- Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has said he was wrong to shelve the government's Emissions
Trading Scheme. He told Q and A some cabinet members wanted to kill off the scheme for
good, he tried to find a middle ground by delaying it.

- The federal opposition says the government's proposed carbon tax is the reason it
took a hit in the latest Newspoll, which has the opposition ahead by 13 per cent on the
primary vote.

- The Commonwealth says a decision on the site of Sydney's second airport needs to
be made, with five-hour delays predicted for Sydney Airport within a decade.

- NSW's new finance minister Greg Pearce has defended the decision to strip some ministries
of their powers.

-In New Zealand, the Pike River Coal commission will hold its first hearing in Greymouth
today to investigate the Pike River Mine explosion.

- The alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four
alleged co-conspirators will be tried by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.

- A US District Attorney has rejected claims that the woman accused of killing Australian
Zahra Baker can't get a fair trial in North Carolina. The case returns to court in June.

- French and UN helicopters have opened fire on military bases on the Ivory Coast.

France has flown in hundreds of additional troops in last few days by request of Ban Ki
Moon.

- The White House has lost all patience with Yemen's president and is urging him to
relinquish power sooner rather than later.

- Japan has started dumping thousands of tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific.

- Increasing ocean acidification in the Great Barrier Reef is damaging coral.

- Sydney Light Rail says the Labor government never spoke to it about becoming part
of the Myzone ticketing system.

- Melbourne Storm beat the league leading Bulldogs in last night's NRL match - winning 30-16.

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NSW:I'm not retiring: NSW MP Frank Terenzini

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12-14-2010
NSW:I'm not retiring: NSW MP Frank Terenzini

SYDNEY, Dec 14 AAP - NSW Housing Minister Frank Terenzini has dismissed reports he'll
retire at the March state election, saying he will recontest his Hunter Valley seat "with
great enthusiasm and energy".

News Ltd on Tuesday reported the Maitland MP was going to stand down at the 2011 poll,
making him the 21st MP to announce they were retiring.

But Mr Terenzini, who also holds the Small Business portfolio, said he had no intention to quit.

"Let me be very clear - I will be contesting the seat of Maitland in March and I will
be doing so with great enthusiasm and energy," he said in a statement on Tuesday.

"I am thoroughly enjoying the responsibilities of the front bench and I can think of
no better role in life right now than representing the good people of Maitland in the
Lower House."

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FED:Latham appears in sunglasses with TV crew

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08-06-2010
FED:Latham appears in sunglasses with TV crew

Former Labor leader MARK LATHAM has appeared at an Australian Greens media conference
at parliament house in Canberra with a TV crew in tow.

In his incendiary diaries .. Mr LATHAM has routinely attacked journalists.

Wearing sunglasses .. a dark suit and security clearance card .. Mr LATHAM seemingly
went unnoticed by Greens leader BOB BROWN.

It is understood Mr LATHAM is working on a piece for the Nine Network's 60 Minutes
to be aired before the coming federal poll.

Comment has been sought from the Nine Network.

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AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, Dec 26

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12-26-2009
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Tsunami Anniversary (BANDA ACEH)

People across Asia will pause today to remember the day five years ago when an undersea
earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220 thousand people.

A solemn day of prayers and remembrance to mark one of the world's worst natural disasters
is to be held in Indonesia's Aceh province .. which lost almost 170 thousand people in
the Asian Tsunami of December 26 2004.

Similar scenes will play out in countries such as India .. Sri Lanka and Thailand ..

where more than 50 thousand people were killed as the wall of water smashed into coastal
communities from KALUTARA to PHUKET.

But as the survivors remember the dead .. experts warn that many countries in the region
remain ill-prepared to face another killer wave.



US Plane (WASHINGTON)

A man who tried to light an explosive aboard a passenger plane as it landed in Detroit
on a flight from Amsterdam .. has told investigators he's affiliated with al-Qaeda.

CNN says the man told investigators he acquired the explosive in Yemen .. along with
instructions on its use.

President BARACK OBAMA has immediately ordered increased security for air travel.

Delta said earlier the man had tried to light what appeared to be firecrackers .. but
was quickly subdued.



Weather NSW (SYDNEY)

Forecasters have cancelled a severe weather warning for flooding in New South Wales
.. despite heavy rainfalls across much of the state .. however hundreds of volunteers
remain on standby.

Official figures are yet to be updated .. but there are initial reports that some areas
in central areas may already have received up to 200 millimetres of rain in the past
24 to 36 hours.

The rain's a result of Tropical Cyclone Laurence .. which affected northern West Australia
in recent weeks .. and the system's moving across inland Queensland and central New South
Wales over the next few days.



US Storms (CHICAGO)

At least 24 deaths have been blamed on a massive storm system blanketing the central
United States .. stranding thousands of motorists in whiteout conditions .. and coating
roads with ice during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled over Christmas at airports from Minneapolis to Dallas.

It's the second major storm system to sweep the country this week .. after a record-breaking
snowstorm slammed the eastern seaboard on the final busy shopping weekend before Christmas.



Sales (MELBOURNE)

The kids might get excited waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve .. but it's the
parents' turn today with the post-Christmas sales.

Eager shoppers waited outside major retailers from as early as midnight .. before the
doors started opening at dawn on Boxing Day.

Cricketing WAGs LARA BINGLE and RIANNA PONTING rang the bell to mark the opening of
the David Jones Melbourne store at 6am.

And former and current swimming stars IAN THORPE and STEPHANIE RICE did the honours in Sydney.

Access Economics predicts Australians will part with 14.7 billion dollars during the
post Christmas sales.



Rookie (MELBOURNE)

Rookie Carlton footballer LEVI CASBOULT has been involved in a fatal car crash .. just
days after the club's boozy boat cruise sparked fines and an arrest.

19-year-old CASBOULT wasn't hurt .. but a 21-year-old man died in the head-on collision
at Dandenong .. in Melbourne's southeast on Christmas Eve.

The crash occurred on the same day as a report appeared that CASBOULT was bound to
a team-mate as part of a drinking game during last Saturday's notorious river cruise.

The death took Victoria's holiday road toll to 10 .. and the annual toll to 288 ..

10 fewer than at the same time last year.



Pope Facebook (ROME)

A Facebook fan page created for the woman accused of attacking Pope BENEDICT has outrage
MPs in Italy.

The page has been set up in honour of SUSANNA MAIOLO .. the 25-year-old Italian-Swiss
woman accused has of leaping over security barriers at a Christmas Eve service at the
Vatican and knocking over the Pope.

Most of the comments on the page are sarcastic .. one saying she should get the Olympic
hurdles gold medal.

The woman has reportedly told doctors she didn't want to harm the pontiff .. just to
greet him personally.

Meanwhile .. the 87-year-old French cardinal who broke his leg in the melee will need
an operation.



US Sheen (ASPEN)

CHARLIE SHEEN has been arrested in the Colorado resort town of Aspen .. on charges
related to an alleged case of domestic violence.

Police say the 44-year-old actor's being held on charges of second-degree assault ..

menacing and criminal mischief.

They haven't released the name of CHARLIE SHEEN's alleged victim.

The court's closed for Christmas.



Briefly in other news ..



Iraq (BAGHDAD)

Eighteen people .. including six Shi'ite worshippers .. have been killed in a spate
of attacks across Iraq .. despite increased security for Christmas Day and Shi'ite Ashura
rituals.



Lake (SYDNEY)

A search is underway for a man who disappeared after a boat capsized on Lake Hume in
southern New South Wales last night.



Balloon (BRISBANE)

A hot air balloon with 17 people on board has crashed to the ground after clipping
powerlines near Beaudesert in southeast Queensland .. leaving four passengers slightly
injured.



in Sport ..



Sail SydHob (SYDNEY)

The Sydney to Hobart is set to become a great tactical battle following the final pre-race
forecast ... the skippers have been told to expect some patches of light air during the
628 nautical mile race.

The fleet can expect a rainy start with winds of 10 to 15 knots from a southerly direction.

WILD OATS ELEVEN is favourite to take line honours, with New Zealand's ALFA ROMEO and
Britain's ICAP LEOPARD the main challengers in the fleet of 100.

But OATS' 2005 race record isn't expected to come under threat.

Victorian maxi ETIHAD STADIUM will take her place after racing the clock to install
her replacement mast.



Motor Sprintcar (SYDNEY)

Sydney's inclement weather has forced the postponement of tonight's Australian Sprintcar
grand prix at Parramatta City Raceway.

The event, featuring NASCAR great TONY STEWART, four-time World of Outlaws Champion
DONNY SCHATZ and All Stars Champion TIM SHAFFER, has now been scheduled for tomorrow night.



Boxing Pacquiao (LAS VEGAS)

MANNY PACQUIAO is ready to fight FLOYD MAYWEATHER after all, but the venue looks to
be a courtroom rather than a boxing ring.

In a statement from the Philippines PACQUIAO issued his first comments on the subject
of his proposed March 13 fight with MAYWEATHER being wiped out over blood test issues.

The Filipino superstar dared MAYWEATHER to climb in the ring and face him at Las Vegas
as planned and revealed plans to file a defamation lawsuit against the US fighter in a
few days over insinuations he is a dope cheat.



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Vic: Man injured in house fire

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2009
Vic: Man injured in house fire

MELBOURNE, Aug 16 AAP - A man is recovering in hospital after a fire destroyed his
home southwest of Melbourne.

The man, in his early 30s, was forced to run out the front door of his Clifton Springs
home as the blaze erupted around him at 2.30am on Sunday.

He suffered burns and smoke inhalation but is listed in stable condition in Geelong Hospital.

The fire gutted the home on Jetty Road and severely damaged a neighbouring property.

Police say the cause of the fire is not known yet.

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Fed: Opposition says govt in harm minimisation on jobs

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2009
Fed: Opposition says govt in harm minimisation on jobs

Federal Opposition leader MALCOLM TURNBULL says the government seems more concerned
about dealing with the consequences of unemployment than in actually saving jobs.

He says some of the measures in the government's new jobs and training package to address
rising unemployment could be useful.

But he's told ABC radio the real focus should be on supporting small business .. the
engine of job creation .. by relieving the cost of employment .. providing tax relief
.. and removing red tape.

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Fed: Actress Daryl Hannah to join Sea Shepherd campaign

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2008
Fed: Actress Daryl Hannah to join Sea Shepherd campaign

Anti-whaling crusader CHRIS WATSON .. and US actress DARYL HANNAH .. will lead a new
assault on the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

HANNAH will join Mr WATSON .. captain of the Steve Irwin and founder of the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society .. and his crew on Operation Musashi.

It's the society's fifth campaign to derail the annual Japanese whale hunt in Antarctic waters.

Pay-TV channel Animal Planet has sent a crew to film the campaign for the second season
of its Whale Wars program .. which airs in North America.

The Steve Irwin will sail from Brisbane's Rivergate Marina at 1pm (AEST) tomorrow.

Mr WATSON says the Japanese plan to slaughter 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.

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NSW: Charges upgraded for teen driver over fatal crash

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2008
NSW: Charges upgraded for teen driver over fatal crash

The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has upgraded charges against a teenage driver
who crashed his car in northern NSW .. killing four of his mates.

The 19-year-old .. who can't be identified for legal reasons .. had been facing four
charges of dangerous driving.

However the four charges have now been upgraded to aggravated dangerous driving occasioning
death .. carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years jail for each count.

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NSW: Coonamble to withstand rising flood waters

AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-2007
NSW: Coonamble to withstand rising flood waters

SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - Rising floodwaters are expected to pass the central NSW town of
Coonamble without incident, the State Emergency Service (SES) says.

A levee on one side of Coonamble is effectively protecting the town from rising waters
in the Castlereagh River, swollen by heavy rainfall on Friday night.

Some 171mm of rain fell at Coonamble during the 24 hours up to 9am (AEDT) Saturday,
which the Bureau of Meteorology said was more than the town's three-month average.

"The river is getting reasonably close to its peak at the moment at about 4.5m, but
is still rising very slowly," SES spokesman Phil Campbell told AAP a short time ago.

"The river was still rising well past the predicted peak time of 9pm or 9.30pm (AEDT)
and the peak has now been pushed back by the bureau (of Meteorology) a couple of times."

Initial predictions were that the river would peak at 5.2m, but that has been revised
downward, Mr Campbell said.

"This morning (the bureau) said slightly below 5m, and at this stage it's reasonably
close to that," he said.

Fears that some 25 homes in low-lying parts of Coonamble would suffer over-floor flooding
have been dismissed, although waters have isolated several properties and the township
itself.

The NSW government today declared the town and a number of other areas, including Lachlan,
Bland, Parkes, Warren and Broken Hill natural disaster zones, opening the way for residents
to make assistance claims.

A number of these towns were lashed by wild weather last weekend, leading local people
to place nearly 600 calls for help to the State Emergency Service (SES).

Farmers who lost livestock and suffered flood damage will now be able to apply for
natural disaster relief.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said farmers would have access to loans
of up to $132,000 with interest-free periods, low interest rates and 10-year repayment
periods.

"It is regrettable that a number of farmers have lost fencing and livestock," Mr Macdonald
told reporters in Sydney.

"We will attend to that with natural disaster-relief arrangements."

But Mr Macdonald said it wasn't all doom and gloom for the state's north-west.

"Overall, to be getting such significant rainfall at this time of year is very good
news for the farming sector," he said.

"It will have a very positive benefit in terms of pasture growth and cropping down
the track because of the high level of moisture in those areas."

The most pressing issue facing the SES is the deliver of supplies to isolated properties,
the SES said.

"There are a few isolated properties at the moment some of which are quite large cattle
stations with up to about a dozen people and we have already done a couple of resupplies
today," Mr Campbell said.

"There are also animals requiring fodder drops and there will be more of these drops
as people begin to run out os essentials."

The SES is using two helicopters and high-clearance vehicles to reach the properties.

From tomorrow residents in the region should start to see flood waters subside, Mr Campbell said.

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Qld: Man indecently photographed girls at shopping centre

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2007
Qld: Man indecently photographed girls at shopping centre

A 39 year-old man's been charged for allegedly taking indecent photographs of young
girls at a shopping centre in North Queensland.

Police allege he took photos of a four-year-old girl on May 30 and a 12-year-old girl
on August 12 at the Atherton shopping centre .. south-west of Cairns.

He'll appear in the Atherton Magistrates Court on September 4.

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NSW: Debnam pulls out of NSW leadership contest

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2007
NSW: Debnam pulls out of NSW leadership contest

By Simon Kirby and Peter Jean

SYDNEY, April 2 AAP - Peter Debnam has withdrawn from the contest for the NSW Liberal
Party leadership, clearing the way for Barry O'Farrell to step into the role unopposed.

Mr Debnam, whose opposition achieved only a small swing against the unpopular Labor
government at the March 24 state election, made the announcement at a brief press conference
at state parliament today.

"At this time it is important for the party to avoid what could be a divisive leadership
contest," he told reporters.

"We have worked too hard since 2005 to ensure unity and build political momentum.

"As a result I will not force a vote for the leadership."

The move means Mr O'Farrell is the sole candidate for the leadership, which will officially
be determined in a party room vote on Wednesday.

Mr Debnam said his replacement would have his full support.

"With the election of another leader on Wednesday, the Liberal Party must commit to
support and encouraging the new leader through the full term of this Parliament," Mr Debnam
said.

"I look forward to working with the new leader to ensure success at the 2011 state election."

After reading a prepared statement, Mr Debnam refused to answer questions.

Mr O'Farrell declined to comment on Mr Debnam's decision to pull out of the ballot.

He was likely to win 18 votes in the party room on Wednesday whereas Mr Debnam had
only 12, NSW coalition powerbrokers told Fairfax.

The leadership change follows a weak showing in the state election, in which the opposition
parties secured less than a four per cent swing against the incumbent Labor government,
which has been in power for 12 years.

Mr O'Farrell and Mr Debnam both nominated for the Liberal leadership in August 2005
after former leader John Brogden resigned.

After Mr Brogden made an apparent suicide bid, Mr O'Farrell pulled out of the leadership
race, allowing Mr Debnam to be elected unopposed.

A spokesman for Mr O'Farrell said he had no comment on Mr Debnam's decision and would
respect the right of Liberal MPs to decide on the leadership when they meet on Wednesday.

"He's not going to pre-empt what the party room might decide," the spokesman said.

"But he's very much going to respect the wishes and the rights of the party room to
vote on Wednesday morning."

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NSW: Rescue team sent to save koalas from bushfires

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12-01-2006
NSW: Rescue team sent to save koalas from bushfires

SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - The NSW government has rushed a rescue team to the state's north
to save injured koalas threatened by massive bushfires.

NSW's largest koala population is in the Pilliga region, near Coonabarabran, where
an enormous fire has devoured more than 100,000ha of bushland in the Pilliga Nature Reserve.

Wildlife authorities say the area holds the most genetically diverse population of
koalas in Australia because of the size and and quality of its bush.

NSW Environment Minister Bob Debus last night ordered Sydney's Taronga Zoo and National
Parks and Wildlife Rescue Service to urgently head to the Pilliga and get koalas to safety.

A Wildlife Rescue Service Van was to pick up a veterinary team from Dubbo's Western
Plains Zoo en route.

Injured koalas were to be assessed at the scene and taken to Western Plains Zoo.

Taronga Zoo will also be on standby if koala casualties are high.

"One of the great challenges for wildlife in bushfires is the staggering speed with
which the fires move and the searing heat they generate," Mr Debus said.

"Koalas are particularly vulnerable as they are tree dwellers and cannot move fast
enough on the ground to escape the flames."

It was worthwhile rescuing the marsupials as research showed they were quite capable
of surviving once reintroduced to the bush, he said.

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Fed: Aust tourists tell of Egypt terror

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2006
Fed: Aust tourists tell of Egypt terror

An Australian tourist has told the Seven Network how he saw people on the ground ..

and others with bloodied faces .. after bombs exploded in an Egyptian tourist town.

Sydney man OWEN NORRIS says he was sitting in a restaurant when he heard the first
of three bombs exploding .. in the resort town of Dahab.

He says he ran away from the blast .. and then heard two other explosions.

At least 23 people have been killed in Sunday's attack blamed on suicide bombers.

Many others .. including two Australians .. have been injured.

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NSW: Boy, aged 11, among three charged over rape of teenage girl

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2005
NSW: Boy, aged 11, among three charged over rape of teenage girl

By David Dixon

ORANGE, NSW, Aug 23 AAP - Three young boys, including an 11-year-old, charged with
raping a 13-year-old girl laughed at the allegations during police interviews, a court
has been told.

A 15-year-old boy and his 11-year-old brother faced Orange Children's Court in central
western NSW today charged with aggravated sexual assault.

A third boy, aged 14, faces the same charge but did not appear in court today.

The 11-year-old is believed to be the youngest person ever charged with such a crime in NSW.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail.

The trio allegedly raped the girl on July 20 after chasing her into the grounds of
an historic Orange home after meeting her at a skate park.

Police documents tendered to the court allege the boys pushed her to the ground before
two of them made her perform oral sex on them while the third indecently assaulted her.

The girl also received cuts and bruises from being pushed to the ground, the documents said.

The documents said the three were arrested after being spotted at a supermarket by
a witness to the alleged attack.

When interviewed by police on July 27, they allegedly refused to answer questions and
laughed at the officers present, the documents said.

Defence counsel Andrew Rolfe, for the 15-year-old, told the court there were issues
with the identity of the girl's alleged attackers.

"There are issues about (which) young children were actually involved in the offence," he said.

Magistrate Jan Stevenson remanded the 15-year-old in custody and continued strict bail
conditions for his brother.

She also extended a police apprehended violence order (AVO) against the third boy,
which was initially granted on July 27.

The two brothers waved and laughed at each other during today's court proceedings.

Magistrate Stevenson ordered the three return to Orange Children's Court on September 6.

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WWII's aviation past takes flight at Porter County airport show

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Joe Camm of Valparaiso is dwarfed by a World War II-era Mitchell B-25 bomber at the Indiana Aviation Museum Vintage Warbird Fly-in airshow Saturday at the Porter County Municipal Airport.(PHOTO) (PHOTOS BY DAVE BARTMAN/POST-TRIBUNE)Dale Katz of Lansing, Ill., and Rich Perrot of Munster look over the undercarriage of a T-6 airplane at the Vintage Warbird Fly-in airshow at the Porter County Municipal Airport.(PHOTO)

You wouldn't think an empty shell casing could upstage the only still-flying B-25D in the world, the same type of plane used to bomb Tokyo.But everybody who came to the Indiana Aviation Museum's Vintage Warbird Fly-in at the Porter County Municipal Airport Saturday wanted to get a look at the former 500-pound bomb similar to the one they'd read about in the news from Iraq this week.

"Don't drop it," joked a member of the Yankee Warrior crew as the hollowed-out piece of ordnance was set upright on its tailfins, ready to collect donations for a new hangar at the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Mich.

As for the plane, it's "the most pristine B-25 you will ever see. It flies like a Maserati," according to Doug Duff of Windsor, Ontario, one of the volunteers who flew the former Royal Canadian Air Force bomber in for the exhibition. He said other B-25s still in the air are all later "J" models.

"The museum got this from a collector and restored it. With all the parts and work put in by volunteers, I don't know what it would cost," said Bill Clark of Ann Arbor, Mich., chief pilot for the Yankee Air Force and a 747 pilot for Northwest Airlines.

Duff pointed to eight black silhouettes painted on the nose tallying its bombing missions over the Mediterranean and two building-like outlines below them.

"Those are the outhouses they knocked over. Seriously," Duff said

"This is the first time I've seen a B-25. It looked bigger on TV," said Dale Katz, a Navy Vietnam veteran from Lansing, Ill. Duff said the plane has a wingspan of 66 feet, 7 inches.

Alex Kukurugay, 9, of Valparaiso was silent as he took a closer look at the 50-caliber machine guns in the nose with his grandfather, Steve Sopko, an ex-Air Force intelligence officer.

Other men from the Michigan museum helped children and parents up stepladders for a look inside the aircraft and took sign-ups for 45-minute flights at $400 a seat. Both the Michigan and Indiana museums maintain several vintage airplanes that they use as fundraisers by offering flights to the public.

Boswell said the museum will be offering special Father's Day flights next weekend at 10 percent off the usual sponsorship rates in the F-4U Corsair, P-51 Mustang, and A-37 Dragonfly that are part of the collection of 12 airplanes.

If you go

The Indiana Aviation Museum Vintage Warbird Fly-in continues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Porter County Municipal Airport, one mile east of Indiana 49. Admission is free, and there is a parking fee of $5.

For more information on the museum, visit www.in-am.org on the Internet or call 548-3123.

Solutia, Inc. Selects Trend Micro's NeaTSuite for Comprehensive Virus Protection.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000

More Than 9,000 Users At Solutia to be Protected by Trend Micro's

Suite of Virus Protection Products Designed to Secure Networks From

the Internet Gateway to the Desktop

Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq:TMIC), the leading provider of antivirus protection for the Internet gateway, today announced that Solutia Inc. has chosen Trend Micro's NeaTSuite(TM) package of centrally managed antivirus software products to protect their desktops, servers, and Internet gateways from viruses and other malicious code. Solutia is using Trend Micro's comprehensive suite of virus protection among its various business units around the world, to provide protection for its more than 9,000 users.

Solutia Inc. is a world-class applied chemistry company offering a wide range of products and services that solve challenging technical problems. Since their purchase of NeaTSuite, the Enabling Technology department at Solutia's headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. has been installing Trend Micro's ScanMail(R) for Lotus Notes virus scanner at their corporate office and subsidiary companies. eManager(TM), the optional content filtering plug-in, has also been implemented at several locations. Internet gateway and file server protection, provided by InterScan(R) VirusWall(R) and ServerProtect(R), will also be offered to Solutia's users. Central management and updating of all these Trend Micro products, regardless of platform or location, can be handled through the Trend Virus Control System (Trend VCS(TM)) web-based central management console. Taken as a whole, NeaTSuite provides Solutia with quick and easy deployment of pattern file and scan engine updates across their entire network, from the Internet gateway to the desktop.

"We were really pleased with the flexibility and management options that these products offered us," said Lieven Dhaenens, Global Office Team Lead at Solutia. "Our company has more than 50 different sites worldwide and we're constantly working to become more global. It's reassuring to know that we can provide a consistent and global antivirus solution to all these sites. What especially appealed to us was the fact that almost every product Trend offers is web-enabled, and can therefore be remotely managed, allowing for a true global approach to supporting virus protection."

Viruses are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their design and methods of entering a network. Whether delivered by e-mail, floppy disk, or the web, Trend Micro's award-winning NeaTSuite package provides a multi-layered defense against viruses and other malicious code contained within Java or ActiveX applets. NeaTSuite is comprised of InterScan VirusWall, which scans SMTP, HTTP and FTP traffic at the gateway; ScanMail for detecting viruses hidden in email attachments and shared databases, and during database replication; ServerProtect for safeguarding NetWare and Windows NT servers; and OfficeScan(TM) Corporate Edition which provides centrally managed desktop protection. All NeaTSuite components can be managed from the Trend VCS management console, a web-based tool for providing enterprise-wide virus protection policy.

"In IT terms, Solutia as a whole forms a complex topology of networked environments and user needs," commented Allan Thompson, vice president of North American marketing for Trend Micro. "Our NeaTSuite package was designed for these types of challenging configurations; our customers, no matter how diverse, can be covered at all access points and have a central point from which to manage their protection and enforce security policies. Solutia's selection of Trend Micro proves yet again the compelling value proposition of Trend Micro's comprehensive, centrally managed approach to enterprise virus protection."

About Solutia, Inc.

Solutia (www.solutia.com) uses world-class skills in applied chemistry to create solutions for customers, whose products are used by consumers every day. The company is a world leader in performance films for laminated safety glass and aftermarket applications; resins and additives for high-value coatings; specialties such as aviation hydraulic fluid and environmentally friendly cleaning solvents for aviation; an integrated family of nylon products including high-performance polymers and fibers; and process development and scale-up services for pharmaceutical fine chemicals.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Inc. provides centrally controlled server-based virus protection and content-filtering products and services. By protecting information that flows through Internet gateways, email servers, and file servers, Trend Micro helps companies and service providers worldwide to stop viruses and other malicious code from a central point before they ever reach the desktop.

Trend Micro's corporate headquarters is located in Tokyo, Japan, with business units in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The North American head office is located in Cupertino, Calif. Trend Micro's products are sold directly and through a network of corporate and value-added resellers. Evaluation copies of all of Trend Micro's products may be downloaded from its award-winning site, http://www.antivirus.com.

Note to Editors: InterScan, VirusWall, ScanMail, and ServerProtect are registered trademarks of Trend Micro Inc. OfficeScan, Trend VCS and eManager are trademarks of Trend Micro Inc. Other product and company names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

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Apr. 29 -- Patrick Aebischer, one of the scientific founders of CytoTherapeutics, resigned from the board of directors yesterday following differences with management and other directors "over the management and future direction of the company," CytoTherapeutics said. "There are very strong opinions about technology and he disagrees with the way the board wants to go at this time," said Elizabeth Razee, a spokeswoman for the Lincoln, R.I.-based biotechnology company. Aebischer, a co-inventor of CytoTherapeutics' encapsulated cell technology, is also chairman of Modex Therapeutiques SA, a subsidiary that is partially owned by CytoTherapeutics and based in Switzerland. Aebischer could not be reached for comment.

Providence-based Log On America said that it raised $25.3 million in its initial public offering last week, which is $3.3 million higher than it had anticipated. The lead underwriter in the company's offering, Dirks & Company of New York, exercised its over-allotment option to purchase an additional 330,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share, Log On America said in a statement. A week ago, Log On America, which provides Internet services, completed an offering of 2.2 million shares of common stock.

The Rhode Island Center for Cellular Medicine has established a website at www.ribiotech.com. The Center for Cellular Medicine is a research center of excellence established by Governor Almond and the General Assembly in 1996. Through grants, it has helped establish seven new biotechnology firms in Rhode Island since its founding. The website offers information on Rhode Island, the state's biotech community and the Center for Cellular Medicine.

Aerovox yesterday reported that revenues were down 4 percent for the first quarter of 1999 but profits came in almost at the same level as the quarter one year ago.

The New Bedford, Mass. manufacturer of electric capacitors reported that profits for the quarter totaled $330,000, or 6 cents per share, compared with $325,000, or 6 cents per share, for the first quarter of 1998. Revenue was $28.4 million down from $29.5 million for the comparable quarter last year.

Aerovox said it hopes to reach a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by the third quarter about cleaning up a hazardous waste spill.

Providence Energy Corp. said yesterday its earnings rose 13.9 percent in the second quarter ending March 31, compared with the second quarter of last year. Earnings were were $10.9 million, or $1.81 a diluted share, compared with $9.5 million, or $1.61 a diluted share for the corresponding quarter of 1998.

The operating margin for the quarter was $42.8 million, a 10.8 percent increase over last year's operating margin of $38.7 million.

Revenues for the quarter increased 7.6 percent to $94.4 million, versus $87.8 million in the second quarter of 1998.

Even though temperatures for the quarter were 6.8 percent warmer than normal, it was not as warm on average as it was during the second quarter of 1998. During that quarter, temperatures were 15.6 percent higher than normal.

The Providence-based company is the parent of Providence Gas.

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Climate spend is big business.

Seventy per cent of firms with revenue of $1 billion or more say they plan to increase spending on climate change initiatives in the next two years, a global survey said.

Nearly half of the 300 corporate executives who responded to a survey conducted for the accounting and consulting giant Ernst and Young said their climate change investments will range from 0.5 per cent to more than five per cent of revenues by 2012.

More than four out of five respondents, or 82 per cent, said they plan to invest in energy efficiency in the next 12 months, with 92 per cent saying energy costs will be an important driver over that period.

Corporate executives were committed to taking action even though they said complying with regulations that vary from state to state or country to country would make that a challenge.

The fact that 70 per cent of executives said they planned to spend more on climate change programmes was "one of the more stunning findings" of the survey, according to Melanie Steiner of Ernst and Young.

Despite regulatory uncertainty on climate change, "companies are really taking action anyway, because they're seeing that this is a business issue and an opportunity to generate new revenue", Steiner said.

While action to deal with the effects of climate change used to be a matter of public relations, it has now become an opportunity to make money through new services and products, save money through enhanced efficiency and limit risk, Steiner added.

One sign of this change is that more than 90 per cent of those surveyed said climate change governance rests with top executives or board members, with 36 per cent saying that the CEO is the most senior person responsible on this issue.

High-level responsibility does not guarantee corporate-wide comprehension of the importance of climate change policies, one survey respondent said.

"I believe the main problem is that organisations do not necessarily recognise or understand the link between climate change-related issues and the future fitness of the organisation," the anonymous respondent said.

"At a very senior level it is given importance.

However, at lower levels there is [a lack of knowledge] of the issue."

The survey, conducted by the independent analyst research firm Verdantix, drew respondents from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

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New Ecology Research Research from S.L. Vanwilgenburg and Colleagues Discussed.

"The recent application of stable-isotope analyses, particularly the use of stable-hydrogen-isotope (delta D) measurements of animal tissues, has greatly improved our ability to infer geographic origins of migratory animals. However, many individual sources of error contribute to the overall error in assignment; thus likelihood-based assignments incorporating estimates of error are now favored," scientists in Saskatoon, Canada report.

"In addition, globally, the nature of the underlying precipitation-based delta D isoscapes is such that longitudinal resolution is often compromised. For example, in North America, amount-weighted expected mean growing-season precipitation delta D is similar between the boreal forest of southwestern Canada and areas of northern Quebec/Labrador and Alaska. Thus, it can often be difficult to distinguish objectively between these areas as potential origins for broadly distributed migrants using a single isotopic measurement. We developed a Bayesian framework for assigning geographic origins to migrant birds based on combined stable-isotope analysis of feathers and models of migratory directions estimated from band recovery data. We outline our method and show an example of its application for assigning origins to a population of migrant White-throated Sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) sampled at a Canadian Migration Monitoring Network station at Delta Marsh, Manitoba, Canada," wrote S.L. Vanwilgenburg and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "We show that likelihood-based assignments of geographic origins can provide improved spatial resolution when models of migration direction are combined with assignments based on delta D analysis of feathers."

Vanwilgenburg and colleagues published their study in Ecological Applications (Combining stable-isotope (Delta D) and band recovery data to improve probabilistic assignment of migratory birds to origin. Ecological Applications, 2011;21(4):1340-1351).

For more information, contact S.L. Vanwilgenburg, Environmental Canada, 11 Innovat Blvd., Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5, CANADA.

Publisher contact information for the journal Ecological Applications is: Ecological Society American, 1990 M Street NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC 20036, USA.

Keywords: City:Saskatoon, State:Saskatchewan, Country:Canada, Region:North and Central America, Ecology Research, Network Monitoring

This article was prepared by Internet Networks & Communications editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Internet Networks & Communications via VerticalNews.com.

Gartner Identifies Five Collaboration Myths.

Analysts Explore How to Build High Performance Teams at Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2011, June 14-15, London

Egham, UK - Collaboration initiatives fail because IT leaders hold mistaken assumptions about basic issues, according to Gartner, Inc. IT leaders should determine which of five factors - technology, roles, process, metrics and workplace climate - to change to achieve successful collaboration projects.

"There are five myths that derail collaboration initiatives," said Carol Rozwell, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "Rather than making technology the starting point, IT leaders should first identify real business problems and key performance indicators (KPIs) that link to business goals."

The five collaboration myths Gartner has identified are:

1. The right tools will make us collaborative

Technology can make it easier to collaborate when applications mirror a more intuitive, fluid work style, but selecting a tool without addressing roles, processes, metrics and the organization's workplace climate is putting the cart before the horse.

2. Collaboration is inherently a good thing

Many organizations can't articulate what benefit they hope to achieve by employing social media to become more collaborative. This decreases the likelihood of achieving a successful implementation. The most successful social media initiatives solve real business problems. The KPI impacted must be real and relevant to the business.

3. Collaborating takes extra time

When IT leaders perform a thorough analysis of the target audience's workflow to make sure key integration points among applications are identified, they will avoid the common mistake of simply layering collaboration tools on top of existing applications that workers are expected to use. If collaboration and social software tools are not integrated with other critical applications, workers must shift context - which slows them down - or duplicate effort (e.g., cut/paste from one application to another).

4. People naturally will/will not collaborate

Depending on their level of cynicism, people believe that humans naturally collaborate, or naturally don't. While there are individuals at each end of the spectrum, most are somewhere in the middle and can be encouraged to collaborate under the right conditions. IT leaders should ignore the reluctant minority and work on motivating the majority of workers who can be persuaded to collaborate when expectations are clear and collaborative behaviors are rewarded.

5. People instinctively know how to collaborate

Without a set of expectations about what it means to work collaboratively with others, individuals will be forced into using their own interpretation of collaboration. Few organizations have a clear set of guidelines that describe how people should interact with each other to produce optimum results. A better approach is to clarify what attitude a collaborative individual needs to bring to their work, what abilities and skills they need to master and what personal style works well in a team setting. It is also critical that managers demonstrate the behaviors they want their employees to mirror.

"Not all processes make the same contribution to business performance. IT leaders need to look for situations to apply collaborative approaches that give the organization not just a competitive advantage but competitive differentiation," said Ms. Rozwell. "The most successful collaboration initiatives solve real business problems, aiming to affect a KPI that links to an organization's business goals."

Keywords: Internet Technology, Software, Technology.

This article was prepared by Computer Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Computer Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.

Collaboration & Social Tools Drain Business Productivity, Costing Millions in Work Interruptions.

The proliferation of collaboration and social tools designed to increase productivity is actually costing businesses millions of dollars per year in lost productivity, according to a survey of more than 500 employees in U.S. businesses of all sizes conducted by online market research firm uSamp (United Sample) and commissioned by social email software provider harmon.ie.

Nearly 60% of work interruptions now involve either using tools like email, social networks, text messaging and IM, or switching windows among disparate standalone tools and applications. In fact, 45% of employees work only 15 minutes or less without getting interrupted, and 53% waste at least one hour a day due to all types of distractions.

That hour per day translates into $10,375 of wasted productivity per person annually, assuming an average salary of $30/hour. That is more than the average U.S. driver will spend this year to own and maintain a car. For businesses with 1,000 employees, the cost of employee interruptions exceeds $10 million per year.

"This survey paints a picture of a highly distracted workplace with a particular irony: information technology that was designed at least in part to save time is actually doing precisely the opposite. The very tools we rely on to do our jobs are also interfering with that mission. We're clearly seeing what psychologists call 'online compulsive disorder' spill over from our personal lives to the work environment ," said Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO of harmon.ie. "For all of us, it's time to take back the Internet and find ways to control our digital addiction."

Among the survey findings: MOST WORK DISRUPTIONS ARE ELECTRONIC While traditional activities such as phone calls, talking with coworkers, and ad hoc meetings account for 43% of work interruptions today, the lion's share of distractions are now electronically based.

Users reported getting sidetracked in email processing (23%), switching windows to complete tasks (10%), personal online activities such as Facebook (9%), instant messaging (6%), text messaging (5%) and Web search (3%).

Keywords: Software, Technology, harmon.ie.

This article was prepared by Information Technology Newsweekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Information Technology Newsweekly via VerticalNews.com.

New Stanford Computing Lab Explores Technology, Ethics and More in the Mobile-Social Future.

At MobiSocial, a diverse engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to formulate what the future of open-source social networking will look like

STANFORD, Calif. -- The Stanford University School of Engineering today announced the launch of MobiSocial Computing Laboratory, a collaboration between the researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department along with scientists from leading industry corporations such as Google, Nokia, AVG Technologies and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. MobiSocial will explore fundamental questions at the intersection of mobile communications and social networking.

At a recent kickoff event, MobiSocial's group of eminent computer scientists, graduate students, technology experts and industry representatives gathered to ask the most fundamental questions about social media and mobility: Can social be done better? Can it be even more social and more fun? Can it be more open? Can it be more secure? And, if so, how?

"Facebook, Flickr and Twitter are all fantastic ideas and transformative uses of technology," said Monica Lam, professor of computer science at Stanford's School of Engineering and faculty director of MobiSocial. "But people have rushed into proprietary playgrounds seemingly unconcerned about the consequences ranging from limited innovation to privacy."

Staggering figures

As of January 2011, the Facebook user base reached more than 600 million active users worldwide. One in ten people on the planet is registered and actively using the service. Like the Web before and, later, mobile phones, the shift to social media happened rapidly, before anyone could fully understand what such mass adoption might portend.

In fact, mobile social networking evolved at such a breakneck pace that critical questions surrounding the ethics of sharing information with a mobile/temporal component--location-informed, photos, status updates, and beyond--could only emerge retroactively. Technological advances and public adoption severely outstripped considerations of privacy and etiquette. MobiSocial aims to take an aggressive step ahead of the curve so that consumers are better protected as they venture onto the mobile social networking frontier.

Innovative new apps

Among other initiatives, MobiSocial is working to create a new class of mobile and social computing technology that works in consumers' interests while enabling all the positive aspects of social media - from ecommerce to more closely-knit social circles. In short, MobiSocial is about imagining and creating an open-source mobile-social media future.

That said, the team has already produced a suite of applications that define a new direction for anywhere-anytime communications while promoting innovation, fair competition, personal data security and, of course, privacy. They include:

* Mr. Privacy, an open-source rethinking of social networking that enables the intuitive sharing of links, photos, music, videos and comments via e-mail, rather than on social networks themselves, so that users can avoid unwanted ads and involuntary placement into pre-selected networks.

* SocialFlow, a Facebook app that helps users organize and manage their many social groups by looking at the images a person was tagged in recently and by analyzing their email traffic. The app then suggests sub-groups, which the user can further refine to better manage social interactions.

"MobiSocial is working to ensure that the exponential growth of mobile social networking plays out in an environment that is as intelligent and engaging as it is secure," said Karel Obluk, chief scientist at AVG Technologies. "AVG believes it has a responsibility to help promote the kind of technological leadership that keeps users and their information safe while allowing them a greater degree of joy and excitement over the sharing of information."

About MobiSocial

The work of MobiSocial Computing Laboratory is part of the National Science Foundation's Programmable Open Mobile Internet (POMI) 2020 Expedition, which works to remove barriers to innovation through creation of open standards and systems. The MobiSocial Computing Laboratory is a collaboration between the Stanford Computer Science Department along with scientists from leading industry corporations such as AVG Technologies, Google, Nokia and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. For more information, please visit http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/.

Connecticut Hip-Hop, Out of the Shadows.

DANBURY, Conn., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Fairfield County might not be the fist place that comes to mind when thinking about rap music. The stigma of the Gold Coast - pink polos and trust fund babies - is ever-present. However, since hip-hop came to Connecticut in the late 1970's, the movement has slowly been gaining momentum in the Nutmeg state. Though it has long been dwarfed by its neighbor to the south, the state's underground scene is flourishing. Now more than ever, CT hip-hop appears ready to step out of the shadows.

Getting there hasn't been easy. "Back in the day you didn't hear anything coming out of CT, nobody took it seriously," says Mack1er of the Bethel based group The Path We Chose. "The serious stuff came out of NY, then the West Coast."

With no backing, no distribution, and no image... the prospects for CT rappers were bleak.

However insurmountable these challenges seemed, Connecticut hip-hop artists kept working, and that work has paid off. Through endurance and creativity, and with the power of the Internet, the hip-hop scene from Stamford and Norwalk, to Bethel and Danbury, is thriving.

"Its funny 'cause comin' up, no one was rappin', now there's a surplus of rappers," says Danbury based rapper Al Babblez.

Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube allow artists to upload music, post videos, and keep fans informed of new releases and shows. Artists are also able to attract new fans via the web, which is key to growth. "We distribute our music solely in digital format online," states Mack1er. "It's not like it used to be. Now you put your music on iTunes and it's immediately available worldwide."

As for working on the image, "I'm definitely underground. I try to keep things 'ultra real' and won't hold my tongue for anyone. I let the obvious be known, point blank, no reserves," says Al Babblez.

Such is the attitude many Connecticut hip-hop artists have taken as they strive to distinguish themselves from the Big Apple and shed the image of elitist preppy suburbia. The effort seems to be working.

Connecticut hip-hop continues to expand as digital outlets allow artists' music to be heard by more people from CT and beyond.

Mack1er remains optimistic, "The road's been a long one, but the best is yet to come."

For More Information:

Mack1er, The Path We Chose: http://www.thepathwechose.com

Al Babblez: http://www.reverbnation.com/Albabblez

Contact: Justin Marsh, pathstudios@gmail.com, 1-877-224-1524

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Tony Tsao maps out ambitious goals for D-Link.(D-Link Corp.)

Tony Tsao, CEO and president of the D-Link Corp., the world's No. 1 brand-name supplier of network connectivity solutions for the end market, promises to almost double the company's revenue to US$2 billion in 2013 (up from US$1.06 billion in 2010) and to make his brand as famous as Apple's.

To achieve those goals, Tsao hopes to harness the emerging trend of Internet, fixed-line network, telecasting network, and mobile network convergence to create applications including online music, game, and e-mail downloads on devices like smartphones and set-top boxes. This trend will make digitized multimedia available everywhere. "In the past," Tsao explains, "technological revolutions in the network-connectivity industry were usually driven each time by one single development, with wireless technology coming first and then broadband. In the coming 10 years there will be multiple driving forces at the same time. The new wave of technological revolution in the industry is just beginning."

HTC, Tsao notes, fueled the demand for mobile broadband last year, after Apple introduced its iPhone, by introducing more powerful smartphones. "This year," the CEO continues, "tablet PCs and other intelligent end products will join smartphones in facilitating the development of the mobile-broadband industry by fostering investments by service providers in broadband infrastructure such as optic-fiber networks."

Telecoms carriers around the world, including Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, plan to boost capital spending this year. Tsao notes, "Chunghwa, for instance, will spend a quarter more capital this year than last on broadband infrastructure, presenting lucrative business opportunities for providers of network-connectivity solutions."

Tsao believes that Internet-based applications will trigger the explosive development of network convergence, with online gaming leading the way followed by online medicine and education. "To keep up with this transition," he comments, "D-Link is building application software into its equipment and diversifying retail channels. This change reminds me of the D-Link2.0 project of Ken Kao, D-Link's late founder, which aimed to combine our hardware with application software to connect with cloud computing and the Internet."

When bundled with multi-application software, Tsao estimates, devices can sell for US$1,000 to US$2,000 each--10 times the prices of pure devices alone. "The migration to application-enabled equipment," he says, "has made D-Link unmatched in the industry, and this inspires us to pursue the goal of making our brand name as well known as Apple within 25 years of operation."

A convenient means to this end is making D-Link products available in Apple's contracted stores. "We're convincing the contracted stores to sell our products along with iPads and iPhones," Tsao reports. Products carrying the D-Link brand can now be purchased in 80 countries.

Citing HTC's success in promoting its own-brand smartphones, Tsao emphasizes that brand names will be crucial to the development of Taiwan's high-tech industries as they build supply chains around brand-name operations. "Taiwan's government may work out a policy to promote this by borrowing from the successful experiences of other countries, and helping Taiwan's high-tech industries with brand-name development," Tsao suggests.

The company is adding optic-fiber infrastructure equipment, DOCSIS3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications 3.0) end-user equipment for cable TV, IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) equipment, business switchers, and home hubs for mobile broadband to its traditional network-application and multimedia equipment this year. "With the business opportunities for these new products becoming mature," Tsao assets, "we're confident that our sales will double to US$2 billion in 2013."

Last year D-Link's after-tax earnings amounted to NT$1.22 billion (US$40.7 million), yielding NT$1.89 per shareiXa year-on-year increase of 138.7%. Revenues in 2010 were up 9.2%, to NT$33.8 billion (US$1.1 billion).

In 2010, 57% of the company's exports went to emerging and Asia-Pacific markets, North America took a quarter (up 7.1 percentage points), and Europe took 18% (down 7.4 points). Shipments of switches rose 22.6% last year, digital home equipment climbed 6.8%, and broadband equipment rose 5.1%.

Tsao thinks that the mainland's 12th Five-year Development Plan and the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) that Taiwan and China signed last year will help boost D-Link's growth in the years to come. "ECFA inspires mainland China's government and enterprises to purchase electronics products from Taiwan," he explains, "and the new Five-Year Plan will inspire more investment in broadband and mobile network infrastructure on the mainland. Both of these developments present huge business opportunities for D-Link."

KT's IPTV user base nearing the 1 million mark.(SERVICES)(Brief article)(Statistical data)

Korean telecom operator KT Corp.'s Internet Protocol television (IPTV) user base is nearing 1 million, according to reliable sources. Regulator Korea Communications Commission said that the country's IPTV user base is around 988,000. This consists of 703,000 real-time IPTV subscriptions and around 285,000 video-on-demand (VoD) users. But, although KT is witnessing a healthy growth rate in its IPTV subscriber numbers, the segment as a whole may not be able to reach the target of 2 million users by this year's end.

Buchanan Adds Two Intellectual Property Attorneys in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert F. Zielinski, former partner and co-chair of Wolf Block's Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Practice Group, and Brian L. Belles, an associate in the same firm, have joined the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Zielinski and Belles joined Buchanan as a shareholder and counsel, respectively.

"The addition of these attorneys supports the firm's strategy of growing the Philadelphia office as well as growing our IP Practice nationwide," said Howard D. Scher, co-managing partner of Buchanan's Philadelphia office.

Zielinski, who concentrates on IP primarily in the areas of patent prosecution, trademark and copyright matters as well as information technology issues, stated, "Buchanan affords me the opportunity for growth in the areas of international markets, emerging companies and the pharmaceutical industry. I am excited to be a part of such a large IP practice."

About Zielinski

Robert F. Zielinski's practice covers all phases of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition law including prosecution, licensing and litigation as well as software licensing, emerging new media issues and electronic commerce. He represents a broad base of clients such as large international and national corporations, small to medium-size closely held companies, innovative start-ups, software developers, Internet-based companies, medical institutions, university and individuals, musicians and inventors.

Zielinski received his B.S. in biology and chemistry from Edgewood College and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia. He was a senior research scientist for Merck & Co., Inc. for eight years prior to his entry into the legal profession. Zielinski served as chair of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association's Committee on Trademark, Copyrights and Unfair Competition, and he remains actively involved in that committee as well as on the Association's Chemical Practice Committee and the Federal Practice and Procedure Committee. He is also a member of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court.

About Belles

Brian L. Belles' practice covers all areas of intellectual property procurement and enforcement, with a focus on the development, management and monetization of domestic and international patent portfolios. His practice includes the representation of clients in a wide variety of mechanical and electromechanical technologies, including nuclear, semiconductor equipment, medical devices, military equipment, nanotechnology and electronics. He also represents clients in patent litigation matters, handles freedom-to-operate studies, and works closely with companies to develop patent portfolios that suit each companies' strategic goals.

Belles' engineering experience includes quality assurance, equipment design and process control in the semiconductor, industrial door and high-tech glass industries. He is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Belles received his J.D., cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

About the Firm

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has more than 550 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with multiple offices in California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, as well as offices in Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Lori K. Lecker, Director of Communications & Public Relations for Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, +1-412-562-3929, lori.lecker@bipc.com

Web site: http://www.buchananingersoll.com/

It's here and it looks goofy.

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, 12-4:

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This is what $100 million buys you these days: A goofy-looking thingamabob big enough for a solo standing rider. Think lawnmower without the blades or pogo stick with giant wheels.

This is "IT," codename "Ginger," whose rumored existence created a bonanza of buzz when it leaked out about a year ago.

Now it's official and its New Hampshire inventor insists "IT" will revolutionize short-distance travel by filling the vacuum between walking and driving. Who knew there was a vacuum?

Dean Kamen, Ginger's father as it were, is no mad scientist. He's a serious inventor. Among his 100 or so patents are the portable dialysis machine, the first insulin pump, the heart stent that Vice President Dick Cheney is currently using and a wheelchair that climbs stairs _ initially codenamed Fred. (Get it? Fred and Ginger?)

He has serious backers who helped finance the $100 million development costs of the Segway Human Transporter, the official name of this device.

The Segway has a top speed of about 17 mph. It gets its stability from a gyroscope, making it virtually impossible to knock over, and its power from a battery. Riders control speed and direction by shifting their weight.

The consumer model will sell for $3,000 and a heavy-duty industrial model for $8,000. The U.S. Postal Service and National Park Service are already ordering up some and companies are exploring its use for getting around warehouses, factories and sprawling corporate campuses.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ruled it isn't a vehicle. If that's the case, riders need no insurance and no license and "IT" can travel the sidewalks.

What happens if two Segways collide? Do they just bounce off each other and propel each other backward? What happens when it rains? Or snows? And are we really ready for the kind of revolution that adds more wheels to our sidewalks? Aren't scooters, skateboards and bicycle messengers (you know who you are) enough already? Maybe New Hampshire sidewalks have room for Gingers; Chicago's are already full.

But who knows? Kamen could be on to something. Maybe "IT" will indeed turn out to be as revolutionary "to the car (as) the car was to the horse and buggy," as he predicts in this week's Time.

After all, lots of people scoffed at Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers in their day. Now we couldn't live without their brainy ideas. So maybe "IT" will be like that. Or not.

Maybe "IT" will wheel itself into oblivion, over there with paper clothing, the electric hotdogger and all those other inventions that have one thing in common: It turned out we could, indeed, live without them.

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eBay Files Tender Offer to Acquire Publicly-Held Shares of Internet Auction Co.

Business Editors

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2003

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace (Nasdaq:EBAY; www.ebay.com) today announced that it has filed tender offer documentation in Korea to acquire, through a cash tender offer, the remaining publicly-held common shares of Internet Auction Co., Ltd. (IAC), the Korean online trading company (Kosdaq: 043790; www.auction.co.kr). The offer is only available in Korea.

The acquisition is expected to be completed by mid-December of 2003. eBay expects that the total price to be paid to acquire all of the IAC shares would be approximately $382 million, assuming all of the remaining 6,394,225 publicly-held shares of IAC are tendered, and based on the November 14, 2003 exchange rate of KRW1,171 to US$1.00. Since there is no minimum number of shares required to be tendered for eBay to complete the tender offer, eBay will purchase any shares tendered. eBay acquired majority ownership of IAC in February 2001, and currently owns slightly more than 50 percent of its outstanding shares.

eBay does not believe the acquisition will affect its financial guidance for the fourth quarter of 2003 and the full year 2004 as issued in connection with its third quarter earnings release on October 16, 2003.

More information about the acquisition and its effect on eBay can be found on eBay's investor relations website at http://investor.ebay.com/faq.cfm.

About eBay

eBay is The World's Online Marketplace(R). Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. Through an array of services, such as its payment solution provider PayPal, eBay is enabling global e-commerce for an ever-growing online community.

Disclaimer of Offer

This press release is being made for informational purposes only, and does not constitute, or form part of, any offer or invitation to sell, or any solicitation of any offer to purchase any securities in any jurisdiction, nor shall it (or any part of it) or the fact of its distribution form the basis of or be relied on in connection with, any contract therefore. No indications of interest are sought by, nor will any be accepted in response to, this press release. The release, publication or distribution of this press release in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in such jurisdictions into which this press release is released, published or distributed should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, fluctuation in IAC's stock price, the reaction of the users and suppliers of IAC to the transaction, the future growth of IAC's services, the reaction of competitors and regulatory authorities to the transaction, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, and regulatory, political and economic conditions in Korea. More information about potential factors that could affect eBay's business and financial results is included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to eBay on the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update such statements.

LAN Airlines Gives LANPASS Members a New Way to Share Their Loyalty Rewards with Points.com.

Points International Ltd. (NASDAQ: PCOM) (TSX: PTS), owner and operator of the world's leading loyalty reward program management platform, www.Points.com, has agreed with LAN Airlines S.A. (LAN) (NYSE: LFL) (IPSA: LAN) to provide members of its LANPASS frequent flyer program more options for their reward kilometers.

Now for the first time, LANPASS' 4.5 million members are able to easily transfer kilometers between accounts online and share their kilometers with their family and friends.

"As we continue to build a strong presence internationally, further aligning with a highly-esteemed brand like LAN Airlines is a significant step forward," said Points International CEO Rob MacLean. "LAN introducing transfer options opens up a wider range of flexibility for LANPASS members to take full advantage of their kilometers."

"Our more than 4.5 million members are of utmost importance to us so we're always looking for great, innovative ways we can perfect their experience with LAN and transfer is a natural addition," said Ralph Piket, Managing Director LANPASS. "Because our members value their hard-earned kilometers, we want to give them more freedom to share the wealth with their friends and loved ones."

Points International works in partnership with all loyalty and reward programs active on Points.com. All transactions are fully sanctioned by the program operators. For more information, follow us on Twitter, @pointsadvisor, on Facebook (www.points.com/facebook), or on our blog (www.blog.points.com).

Keywords: Advertising, Airlines, Internet, Marketing, Multimedia, Online, Points International, Transportation.

This article was prepared by Marketing Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Marketing Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.

MADISON LOCKSMITH JOSHUA BURLIN CONVICTED OF IDENTITY THEFT AND FALSE SWEARING.

MADISON, WI -- The following information was released by the office of the Wisconsin Attorney General:

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that on March 21, 2011, former Madison resident Joshua Burlin was found guilty of one count of identity theft and one count of false swearing, both felonies, following his entry of a guilty plea before Dane Circuit Judge Nicholas J. McNamara.

Attorneys for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), acting as special prosecutors for Dane County, filed a criminal complaint in Dane County Circuit Court in July 2010 against Joshua Burlin, charging Burlin with five counts of false swearing and one count of identity theft. The crimes of false swearing and identity theft are both punishable by a fine not to exceed $10,000, imprisonment not to exceed 6years, or both.

The false swearing charges against Burlin are based upon allegedly false testimony Burlin gave in a deposition taken by the Department of Justice in December 2009. According to the complaint, Burlin falsely testified that he had never listed fictitious addresses on the Internet for his various locksmith business names and that he had never posted fictitious consumer reviews regarding his own business or competing businesses. However, according to the complaint, Burlin did in fact use false addresses and posted phony reviews on the Internet.

In addition, the complaint charges Burlin with one count of identity theft for posting a phony ad on Craigslist stating that a competing locksmith business was for sale, in March 2009. As part of the resolution of the case, the remaining four counts of false swearing were disposed of as read-in counts, which will be considered for purposes of sentencing.

Burlin is scheduled to be sentenced in Dane County Circuit Court on April 26, 2011, at 11:00 a.m.

This case was investigated by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Wisconsin Statute Chapter 950 Victim Services are being provided by the Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of Crime Victim Services. Assistant Attorneys General Eric D. Defort and John S. Greene represent the State of Wisconsin as special prosecutors.