VIC:Truck kills pedestrian in Vic

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2011
VIC:Truck kills pedestrian in Vic

MELBOURNE, Aug 6 AAP - A young male pedestrian has been killed by a truck in Victoria's west.

Police said he appeared to have been walking along Drapers Road, Colac East, when struck
by the truck about 6.20am on Saturday.

The victim, believed to be 17 or 18 years old, died at the scene.

The truck driver, a 43-year-old man from Ballarat, is assisting police with their inquiries.

The Victorian road toll stands at 182, one more than at the same time last year.

Meanwhile, two women have been injured by a hit and run driver in Melbourne's western
suburbs early on Saturday.

The 18-year-old and the 29-year-old were walking on a dirt path next to Tarneit Road,
Hoppers Crossing, about 4.40am when they were hit by the car. One was thrown into the
bushes and the other was knocked over.

Police said the car failed to stop and are appealing for the driver to come forward.

The women, from Tarneit, were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with non-life threatening
injuries.

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FED:Treasurer outlines Budget "challenges"

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04-11-2011
FED:Treasurer outlines Budget "challenges"

Federal Treasurer WAYNE SWAN says natural disasters at home and abroad will present
challenges for the government's 2011 Budget.

Mr SWAN has told reporters in Melbourne this morning the floods in Queensland and Victoria
and the Japanese tsunami will hit the Budget bottom line.

He says the disasters have had a significant effect on domestic production which in
turn reflects in lower company tax and lower personal income tax.

The treasurer is in Melbourne to launch the Salvation Army's 2011 Red Shield Appeal.

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FED:Up emissions target, say Greens

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12-21-2010
FED:Up emissions target, say Greens

The Australian Greens are hoping climate change talks in Cancun have convinced the
federal government to up its five per cent carbon emissions reduction target.

Deputy leader CHRISTINE MILNE says the global talks have put the climate negotiations
back on track ... now Labor needs to increase its level of ambition and its target.

The call comes ahead of today's meeting of the government's multi-party climate change
committee .. of which Senator MILNE is the deputy co-chair.

The committee's to determine how best to put a price on carbon .. Senator MILNE saying
the funds should go towards research and development into renewables and energy efficiency
rather than clean coal.

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POLL10 MURRAY VIC

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POLL10 MURRAY VIC

CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES % SWING
------------------------------------------------------
+STONE, Sharman LP 0 00.00 00.00
CLARKE-HANNAFORD, W SPA 0 00.00 00.00
DAVY, Jeff CEC 0 00.00 00.00
MORTENSEN, Hugh ALP 0 00.00 00.00
MOORE, Serena FFP 0 00.00 00.00
McDONALD, Ewan CDP 0 00.00 00.00
CHRISTOE, Ian GRN 0 00.00 00.00

FORMAL 0 00.00 00.00

INFORMAL 0 00.00 00.00

TOTAL 0

Two Candidate Preferred:

Candidate1 XXX 0 00.00 00.00

Candidate2 XXX 0 00.00 00.00

2007 result: ALP 19,429; IND 4,373; IND 615; FFP 2,674; LP 50,021; GRN 2,377; DEM
416; CEC 203; IND 484; Formal 80,592; Informal 4,461; Total 85,053.

Swing needed 18.26 per cent.

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Fed: Don't sensationalise asylum seeker debate: ACOSS

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2010
Fed: Don't sensationalise asylum seeker debate: ACOSS

The head of the nation's peak welfare group has urged politicians not to sensationalise
the debate on asylum seekers.

A boat carrying 79 passengers and four crew was intercepted two days ago .. the 34th
asylum seeker boat to arrive this year.

With Australia's offshore processing facility on Christmas Island at breaking point
.. the federal government is under pressure to solve the asylum seeker crisis.

ACOSS chief executive CLARE MARTIN has warned the debate is becoming potentially alarming
and divisive.

She's told Network Ten everyone has to recognise the reality .. we do have asylum seekers.

Ms MARTIN says it's very important for our political leaders to keep the debate at
a reasonable level .. not to be emotive.

She's called on Labor to manage the asylum seeker flow in an effective and humane way.

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QLD: PM's wife lauds charity tax benefits

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2009
QLD: PM's wife lauds charity tax benefits

By Darren Cartwright

BRISBANE, Aug 21 AAP - Therese Rein has praised the benefits of greater tax breaks
for charity donations as she unveiled a new program for the homeless.

The wife of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is patron of the Australian Common Ground Alliance,
which on Friday unveiled a $40 million program to tackle homelessness in Queensland.

Speaking at the launch function in Brisbane, Ms Rein said philanthropy was alive and
well in the United States, where Common Ground originated.

"I've got to say that we hear a lot about philanthropy in the United States," Ms Rein said.

"You need to know that for every 70 cents donated by a corporation, or an individual,
they get $1 off their tax.

"I hadn't understood that until last year."

She said the New York Common Ground project had raised $US35 million ($A42 million)
using the tax break.

The proposed Brisbane Common Ground project will create 146 housing units and will
be the state's first permanent supportive housing project for people who are homeless
or on low incomes.

"They are not offered a temporary bed. They are not offered a tenancy that only lasts
a certain time and then have to leave," Ms Rein said.

"They are offered a tenancy as long as they want to be there.

"The commitment is they will pay 30 per cent of their income."

She said in the New York project about a third of tenants had not been homeless but
were low-paid workers.

Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and Queensland Community Services Minister
Karen Struthers announced a joint federal-state commitment of $4.38 million to the project.

Construction company Grocon is building the complex on a no-profit basis, with any
savings to be given back to the project.

A facility is already operating in Adelaide, and a Melbourne project is under construction.

A property has been earmarked in South Brisbane for the complex, but it remains subject
to negotiations.

Common Ground chairwoman Penny Tarrant said plans for the building were at the design
stage, with construction expected in 2010.

"It's a very tight timeline," Ms Tarrant said.

The tenant mix would be 50-50 homeless and low-income workers and all would be single people.

It is estimated on any given night in Brisbane, 2,070 people are homeless, including
288 sleeping rough and 1,325 in boarding houses.

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Fed: Former royal commissioner Frank Costigan dies = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2009
Fed: Former royal commissioner Frank Costigan dies = 2

Transparency International Australia's executive director Michael Ahrens said Mr Costigan
was totally dedicated to tackling international corruption.

"He devoted his energies to the effort and was highly regarded by everyone he met,
both in the sphere of government and especially in anti-corruption agencies," Mr Ahrens
told AAP.

He said Mr Costigan was delighted by the recent promotion of crime fighter Simon Overland
to the role of Victoria Police chief commissioner.

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AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Midday, Dec 8

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STIMULUS WRAP (CANBERRA)

Pensioners and families have been told not to retreat into their shells and save their
bonus cash payments .. despite the slowing economy and rising unemployment.

Finance Minister LINDSAY TANNER's doing the media rounds this morning .. encouraging
them to spend their share of the government's 10 billion dollar economic stimulus package.

Mr TANNER's told the ABC while some people will use the money to pay off debt .. Labor
expects the bulk of the cash to be spent.

Earlier this morning the prime minister also urged families and pensioners to go out
and spend the Christmas bonus payments .. but he says to do it wisely and be prepared
for tough times ahead.

Meantime .. the federal opposition has expressed concern some families will blow the
bonus on booze and gambling.

Frontbencher TONY ABBOT says he doesn't begrudge struggling families getting a one-off
payment but there's very credible fears some will blow it on the wrong things.



MCCANN (SYDNEY)

Dual Commonwealth Games marathon gold medallist and mother of three KERRYN MCCANN has
died from breast cancer at the age of 41.

Breast Cancer Network Australia says MCCANN's husband GREG and their children .. 11-year-old
BENTON .. five-year-old JOSIE and one-year-old COOPER were at her bedside overnight when
she passed away at their home near Wollongong in NSW.



NUTTALL (BRISBANE)

Former Queensland government minister GORDON NUTTALL has been committed to stand trial
on a corruption charge.

The 55 year old didn't enter a plea when he faced a Brisbane court hearing this morning
into whether he took a corrupt payment from businessman HAROLD SHAND.

SHAND .. a former WorkCover Queensland director and lawyer .. has already been committed
to stand trial over allegations he corruptly paid 60 thousand dollars to the former industrial
relations minister in April 2002.



INFRASTRUCTURE (CANBERRA)

Treasurer WAYNE SWAN's on his way home after a rushed trip to China at the weekend
.. leading to speculation the government's exploring ways to fund its infrastructure plans.

The official line is that Mr SWAN and Trade Minister SIMON CREAN .. flew to China to
discuss economic issues .. and Australia's growing investment and trade relationship ..

including efforts to advance free-trade agreement negotiations.

Mr SWAN's office denies they went in search of potential sources of funding for infrastructure
projects.

The government has just 26 billion in its Building Australia Fund .. but a 700 billion
dollar wish list of projects.



CLIMATE ACF (MELBOURNE)

More of us want the federal government to commit to a higher carbon emissions reduction target.

A new study by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows we want Australia to be
a leader .. not a follower .. in tackling climate change.

As Climate Change Minister PENNY WONG prepares to fly to Poland .. for the UN climate
change conference .. the poll shows 63 per cent of us want Australia to set a strong example.



MASTERCHEF (SYDNEY)

Network Ten's unveiled their master plan to replace Big Brother .. a cooking show featuring
wannabe chefs.

Based on a British format .. Masterchef Australia will put amateur cooks through their
paces six nights a week for 12 weeks from May.

Ten says it'll turn the reality genre on its head .. and make cooking the hot sexy topic of 2009.

Applications close on January 9 .. no host's been announced yet.



BRIEFLY IN OTHER NEWS ..



NSW Transport Minister DAVID CAMPBELL has again ruled out building the North West Metro
rail line in Sydney .. for now.




A pilot's been injured in a light plane crash at Sydney's Bankstown airport.




Residents in central and southern Queensland are being warned to expect more severe
storms and flash flooding this afternoon.




European supermarkets have been ordered to clear their shelves of Irish bacon .. ham
and sausages .. amid fears Irish pork products have been tainted with a potentially cancer-causing
chemical.



IN FINANCE ..



At 1108 AEDT .. the benchmark S and P/ASX200 index was UP 98.7 points to 3588.6 ..

while the All Ordinaries Index was UP 90.3 points at 3517.5.

The Australian dollar was at 64.77 US cents .. up from Friday's local close at 64.44 US cents.

It was at 50.84 euro cents .. up from 50.52 euro cents on Friday.

The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US758.40 per fine ounce .. down $US8.80 from
$US767.20 on Thursday.



IN SPORT ..



SOCCER JOEYS (LOS ANGELES)

Two days after the shock death of their coach MARTYN CROOK .. the Australian Under-17
soccer team has managed a 3-3 draw with USA 2 in their opening match of the International
Friendlies tournament in Los Angeles.

The Joeys' wore black armbands in a mark of respect for their mentor who died of a
heart attack on Friday and there was a minute's silence before Sunday's kick-off.

Football Federation Australia's head of national teams .. JOHN BOULTBEE .. who flew
to Los Angeles to be with the team on the weekend .. says that the young players are bearing
up well in the circumstances were very keen to get out on the park and do their best as
a tribute to CROOK.

The team's scheduled first match on Saturday was cancelled.



CRAIG PARRY will spend the next few days sharpening up his short game for his defence
of the Australian Open at Royal Sydney starting on Thursday.

PARRY found some touch in his final round of 68 in yesterday's Australian PGA Championship
at Coolum but says Royal Sydney requires a sharp short game because it's greens are easier
to miss.

Newly crowned PGA Champion GEOFF OGILVY has his eyes set on the Australian Open after
finally breaking his tournament drought on home soil yesterday with a two shot win over
MATHEW GOGGIN.

OGILVY -- Australia's highest ranked player -- was run down over the closing holes
of the 2006 Australian Open by Queenslander JOHN SENDEN who also found some confidence
and touch with a closing 68 yesterday.



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QLD: Yacht search cancelled too early, families claim

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2008
QLD: Yacht search cancelled too early, families claim

By Evan Schwarten

TOWNSVILLE, Qld, Aug 4 AAP - Relatives of three men who disappeared from a yacht off
the coast of north Queensland have told an inquest they believe authorities called off
the search too early.

Derek "Des" Batten, 56, Peter Tunstead, 69, and Jim Tunstead, 63, were embarking on
a journey from Airlie Beach to their home in Perth when they disappeared from their yacht,
Kaz II, in April last year off the coast of Townsville.

A massive search operation involving up to 10 aircraft was launched but was called
off within 10 days on the advice of a "survival" expert who told authorities the men could
not have survived that long in open water.

However, Jim Tunstead's daughter Keryn Mackenzie-Grae today told the inquest into the
men's disappearance she believed authorities should have persisted with the search.

"I felt they stopped too soon," she said.

The trio's family launched their own search soon after the cancellation but were also
unsuccessful.

Queensland state coroner Michael Barnes is conducting a week-long inquest into the
disappearance in Townsville.

A large contingent of relatives have travelled from Western Australia for the hearing.

The inquest heard Mr Batten had purchased the vessel with his wife Jenny in 2006 and
he had enlisted his neighbour Peter Tunstead and his brother Jim to sail it back to Perth.

They began planning the trip about 10 weeks in advance and underwent training in the
lead-up to the voyage.

Des Batten had more than 25 years experience with boats and had volunteered with Fremantle
Sea Rescue for a year and a half and was well-versed in safety procedures.

He had also promised his neighbour's wife, Frances, he would not take any risks and
the trio did not plan to sail at night for most of the voyage, which was expected to take
up to eight weeks.

Counsel assisting the inquiry Julie Wilson told the court it might not be possible
to determine the men's fate.

"It may be that exactly what happened to these men will remain unknown," she said.

The inquest continues.

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Qld: Man charged with murder

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2008
Qld: Man charged with murder

Police have charged a 68-year-old man with murder .. after the body of a 92-year-old
woman was found in bushland in north Queensland.

The woman and her son were reported missing from Mareeba on Thursday .. after the man
failed to return her to her nursing home after an afternoon drive.

The woman's body was found on Saturday afternoon . .close to her son's four wheel drive
.. about 20 kilometres east of the town.

The man wandered into a search party at Davies Creek yesterday morning.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out today.

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Vic: Tough new laws for Vic solariums

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
Vic: Tough new laws for Vic solariums

The Victorian government is planning new laws to tighten control of the state's solarium
industry.

Health Minister DANIEL ANDREWS has announced the industry's voluntary code of practice
will be written into Victorian law .. with penalties applying for businesses who breach
the regulations.

Under the laws solariums must give health warnings to customers about the risks of
using tanning beds and must obtain informed consent.

Mr ANDREWS says they haven't decided what the penalties will be yet.

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Fed: Privatised detention makes settlement difficult: Newhouse

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2007
Fed: Privatised detention makes settlement difficult: Newhouse

CORNELIA RAU'S fight for compensation for being wrongfully detained as an illegal immigrant
.. is moving to the NSW Supreme Court.

Lawyers for the German-born Australian say negotiations with the federal government
have broken down .. over who was technically responsible for the 10 months she was held
in a Brisbane prison and the Baxter detention centre in South Australia in 2004 and 2005.

Solicitor GEORGE NEWHOUSE says the matter's complicated .. because the government contracted
out the running of the now defunct Baxter facility to a private company.

If successful .. legal sources estimate Ms RAU's compensation claim against the government
could be worth up to a million dollars.

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Vic: Main stories in today's 1200 3AW news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2006
Vic: Main stories in today's 1200 3AW news

MELBOURNE, Dec 7 AAP - The main stories in today's 1200 3AW news:

- Firefighters are in a race against time to make the most of calm conditions ahead
of a horror bushfire weekend.

- A County Court judge has slammed Crown Casino's gambling culture in jailing a former
bank employee who gambled millions of the bank's money.

- Doctors say we shouldn't expect medical miracles after the lifting of a ban on embryonic
cloning.

- The latest unemployment figures show more than 36,000 people found full-time work in November.

- New federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd imposes his will on the party room, securing
four frontbench promotions, including former rock star Peter Garrett.

- Newcastle's James Nitties is leading on the first day of the Australian PGA Championship.

- Fijian military continues a clean out of the deposed government following the coup.

- Customs seizes a haul of dangerous weapons at Melbourne Airport, including nunchukus
and knuckledusters.

- A major clinical study of more than 100 infants shows deaf babies and hearing impaired
toddlers can develop normal language skills if the problem is detected early.

- England will continue to consider its selection options ahead of next week's third
Test in Perth.

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Fed: OECD gives wake-up call to Aust on eco reform

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2006
Fed: OECD gives wake-up call to Aust on eco reform

The OECD has given the federal government a huge wake-up call .. arguing Australia
needs to embrace a range of major economic changes if it's to continue being the lucky
country.

In its annual survey .. the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says
the surge in commodity prices has delivered a major income boost to the nation.

But it warns this could be squandered if federal and state governments do not make more changes.

It's called for ..

- an extension of the GST to fresh food ..

- indexing personal income tax rates ..

- phasing out industrial awards ..

- extending welfare to work changes to all people on government handouts ..

- and even giving states their own income taxes.



The OECD says Australia has also made its own luck through structural reforms across
a wide range of sectors that have boosted national income.

However .. it believes that luck could come to an abrupt halt with an end in the surge
in commodity prices and a drop in productivity growth.

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Fed: A-League in "quiet" opening season

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2006
Fed: A-League in "quiet" opening season

Eds; Please note time element in second par.



By Danny Rose

MELBOURNE, AAP - Australia's new national soccer code appears to have dodged one of
the world game's least endearing features - the soccer hooligan.

The A-League will enter its inaugural finals series this weekend, on track to record
game crowds totalling a million people during its first season.

Football Federation of Australia (FFA) Head of Operations Matt Carroll has said A-League
crowd-related violence is a non-issue.

A senior police officer who has monitored the sport at a grassroots level in Victoria
also described A-League games as "quiet" from a policing perspective.

It is in stark contrast to events in the build-up to the A-League's slick launch in
August, when there were violent clashes at state level soccer matches in both Sydney and
Melbourne.

About 50 supporters of rival Croatian and Serbian-backed clubs clashed violently after
a NSW state league fixture in March.

In April, hundreds of fans from rival Macedonian and expatriate Greek-backed state
clubs also clashed in Melbourne, prompting a statement from national soccer chief John
O'Neill that the A-League would be different.

He said the A-League would feature one team per city or region and - critically - these
teams would not be aligned to any single ethnic group.

Mr Carroll said the policy was primarily to allow the A-League's eight fledgling teams
(seven in Australia and one in New Zealand) room to "breathe" and to establish support
bases and commercial networks.

"Certainly we've achieved that," Mr Carroll said this week.

"And yes, it has united football fans and they are going along as football fans that
are proud of their teams.

"Whether that be Melbourne Victory or Sydney FC, or Queensland Roar, wherever."

The first round of the A-League finals gets underway this weekend, and the total crowd
figure across the ordinary season was 920,219.

An A-League match in Sydney drew the new code's biggest crowd of 25,557 while the largest
crowd in Melbourne was a sell-out at 18,206.

The average attendance at an A-League match across the whole season was 10,955, and
these crowds are typically dominated by supporters of the home team.

It raises the prospect of soccer fans once pitched at each other at state-level games
now cheering side by side against the opposition from interstate.

"It's not been an issue at all for us, I can't think anywhere where it has been an
issue across Australia," Mr Carroll said of crowd-related violence at A-League matches.

He also said the riots at state-league matches were "very effectively" dealt with by
the state federations, with measures including lock-outs for fans who were not paid-up
club supporters.

Victoria Police Inspector Chris Duthie, who for five years has kept a watch on soccer
related violence in Victoria's state league, says the A-League is quiet in comparison.

He also said it was wrong to characterise the violence solely as an offshoot of historic
conflict.

"The rivalries are put down to ethnic grounds ... but a lot of these ethnic issues
are just a camouflage for bad behaviour," Insp Duthie said.

"Many of the young people involved were born in Australia, and have little idea about
what has gone on in the old country.

" ... I really don't think we have these issues with A-League soccer."

He said the A-League's deliberate move to create teams that were not aligned to any
single ethnic group had worked.

"There is no excuse anymore, and so far it has been running very quietly, like the AFL," he said.

Insp Duthie said improvements in the design of sporting facilities - in particular
the removal of standing-only areas - also had contributed to a general reduction in crowd
violence over the years.

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NSW: Family critical in hospital after car smash

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2005
NSW: Family critical in hospital after car smash

SYDNEY, April 24 AAP - Three members of a family are today in a critical condition
in hospital after a car crash in Sydney's west.

Police are seeking witnesses to the accident, which also left a 39-year-old man with
critical head injuries.

The accident happened about 3pm (AEST) yesterday at Wentworthville, police said today.

Three members of a St Johns Park family were travelling in a Toyota Hi-Ace on the Cumberland
Highway, driven by a 28-year-old female learner driver.

Their vehicle attempted to turn right into Darcy Road and collided with a southbound
Mercedes sedan.

The driver suffered internal injuries while a six-year-old boy sustained multiple fractures
to his head and body.

Both remain in a critical condition in Westmead Hospital, along with the 26-year-old
male passenger.

The 39-year-old man driving the Mercedes suffered critical head injuries and was also
rushed to Westmead Hospital.

Police urge anyone who witnessed the accident to contact the Metropolitan Crash Investigation
Unit on 9689 7370 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Vic: World Vision Aust chief fears for Sri Lankan workers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2004
Vic: World Vision Aust chief fears for Sri Lankan workers

MELBOURNE, Dec 28 AAP - World Vision aid workers in Sri Lanka remain missing following
the tsunami disaster that swept southern Asia, World Vision Australia chief executive
Tim Costello said today.

Mr Costello, who will today fly to Sri Lanka to offer aid workers comfort and support,
said some of the 300 aid workers in Sri Lanka, mostly locals, were still missing following
the tsunami on Sunday.

"In Sri Lanka there are still staff unaccounted for," Mr Costello told ABC Radio today.

"We know there are family members who have died and, in the confusion, we're still
trying to account for all the staff."

Almost 24,000 people, including 11,000 in Sri Lanka, have died from the tsunami, which
was generated by a massive earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra
on Sunday and swept the Indian Ocean.

Huge waves swept about 7,000 km as far as Africa, crashing on to the shores of Kenya
and Somalia, affecting the islands of Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles on the way.

Mr Costello said his role in Sri Lanka would be to support staff working to save lives
and restore order in Sri Lanka.

"I guess (my role is) to try and really keep up morale, to try and say to our staff
that (they) haven't been forgotten, that this ... tsunami that destroys lives in seven
different nations isn't just your problem, it's our problem."

The first priority for aid workers was to provide basics such as food and fresh water,
Mr Costello said.

"The irony of a tsunami and a flood is that you'd think that people had seen enough
water but in fact now a shortage of water is the problem," he said.

"They simply can't get enough clean water and water-borne diseases really do have the
potential to almost kill as many again.

"Many areas are still inaccessible so, in the first instance, it's just stabilising
human life, getting food, getting water and getting blankets is just going to be the next
week's target.

"After a week we'll reassess and say, `well, how do we try and rebuild infrastructure
and homes and water systems?', but right at the moment it's the rawest, direct relief
to just preserve life.

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amines

amines Organic compounds derived by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms in ammonia by organic groups (see illustration). Primary amines have one hydrogen replaced, e.g. methylamine, CH₃NH₂. They contain the functional group –NH₂ (the amino group). Secondary amines have two hydrogens replaced, e.g. methylethylamine, CH₃(C₂H₅)NH. Tertiary amines have all three hydrogens replaced, e.g. trimethylamine, (CH₃)₃N. Amines are produced by the decomposition of organic matter. They can be made by reducing nitro compounds or amides. See also imine.

Mary Hart exits ‘Entertainment Tonight’ on a high note

The list of exiting TV personalities seems to lengthen every day: Oprah Winfrey; Regis Philbin; Larry King; Katie Couric; Jim Lehrer; Meredith Vieira.

Don't overlook Mary Hart, whose last "Entertainment Tonight" broadcast airs at 6:30 May 20 on WBBM-Channel 2. Celebrity and entertainment coverage has changed markedly since she began anchoring the show in its first year in 1982.

It was the first weekday syndicated show devoted solely to entertainment news when it began, and has remained at the top of the ratings as similar shows came along. And "ET," as it is fondly known, remains one of the top sources for celeb news among the many other shows, websites, magazines and news outlets now covering the subject.

"She will be missed," said Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndicated television market for Katz Media. "She has become iconic."

Hart earned a hug from David Letterman and her own "Late Show" Top Ten list last week: "Things Mary Hart Has Learned in 29 Years of Hosting 'Entertainment Tonight.'" (No. 4: "Tom Hanks is a total loser," as the camera cut to tape of a befuddled Hanks. No. 1 was: "Nothing.")

Hart, a former Miss South Dakota and now 60, has worked with five male co-hosts, most notably John Tesh and currently Mark Steines. Nancy O'Dell will replace her.

"I'd been thinking about this for a very long time knowing it would be difficult, and it is difficult," Hart said. "It's a very strange feeling knowing that I'm doing a final show and actually saying goodbye on the air. It makes me very emotional at times."

Hart said she never intended to be on the show that long but liked the people with whom she worked and it was a good job to have for her and her marriage to producer Burt Sugarman, and their son.

Now, she said, "If I want to do something else, I have to do it now. I can't wait." She's not sure what she'll be doing — it might include television, it might not.

"When I look back and see the preponderance of reality TV and all these types of shows, it makes me think I don't want to be in television anymore," she said.

Hart is proud of her show's pioneer status and its ability to stay on top, and suggests it's not as fluffy as some critics assume it to be.

She also knows what shows such as hers have wrought.

"I find that celebrities are not as forthcoming as they used to be, because they are pulled in every direction," she said. The Internet has loosened standards about reporting and verification, she said, and added a nastiness in tone. "Entertainment Tonight" had its own problems three years ago after falsely reporting that Angelina Jolie had given birth to twins despite being told the report was a hoax.

Then there was the sad feeding frenzy around Charlie Sheen.

"We didn't even go after an interview with Charlie Sheen," she said. "We didn't have to. He was everywhere."

Two of the stories that stick to Hart personally through the years would have been perfect fodder for "Entertainment Tonight": her million-dollar legs, and the odd 1991 incident where a medical journal reported that the sound of Hart's voice triggered seizures in an epileptic woman, which inspired a "Seinfeld" episode.

Take those legs — so impressive that "Entertainment Tonight" put her behind a glass desk with special lighting so viewers wouldn't miss them.

"When I'm wearing pants and walking across a hotel lobby, people would say, 'Why aren't you showing off those legs?'" she said. "It is a little jarring. Still, I get a kick out of it. I can't take offense. I have nothing to complain about."

The time in her job has given Hart a perspective that few in her field can claim.

"I've seen people's attitudes be humble and swell and shrink again because everybody's career has an ebb and flow to it," she said. "Thirty years makes you really see that."

AP

Mary Hart is closing out her anchor role on "Entertainment Tonight," which she has hosted since 1982. | getty imagesKevin Winter

Fact Box:

An search of the youth market Terra signs deal with Virgula.

Brazil, Feb 25, 2002

The Terra Lycos internet portal has signed a deal with Virgula, the tenth most popular Brazilian entertainment website. The Virgula site can now be accessed directly from the Terra homepage. The goal of Terra is to take advantage of the partnership which Virgula has with the Joven Pan group, which includes 41 radio stations, a magazine and a website, to explore the cross-media concept. The Joven Pan group has a strong presence in the youth market and plans to sell CDs andto offer pay-per-view events, coproduced with Terra. The youth segment makes up 30% to 40% of Terra's audience and this has been boosted by 10% with the Virgula deal.

Copyright (c) 2002, South American Business Information, All rights reserved.

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Hyperion Ships CRM Analysis Application; Hyperion Customer Interaction Center Increases Return on Investment in Customer Relationship Management Initiatives.

Business Editors

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000

Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL), the global leader in analytic application software, today began shipping Hyperion Customer Interaction Center, a robust solution for measuring and analyzing worldwide call center/customer service operations, optimizing customer service levels, and improving overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. The first application within Hyperion CRM Analysis, Hyperion Customer Interaction Center delivers a robust solution that complements operational CRM, automated call distribution and computer telephony integration systems, helping organizations transform detailed CRM data into strategic, actionable information.

According to industry analysts, spending on CRM initiatives is estimated to exceed $17 billion by 2003. As a result of this spending, massive volumes of customer data are now being generated by organizations that are upgrading or Web-enabling their call center operations. Hyperion Customer Interaction Center transforms this raw data into actionable information, enabling organizations to optimize customer-related decision-making and improve customer relationships.

"Hyperion Customer Interaction Center solidly enhances Hyperion's ability to capitalize on continued growth in the market for customer relationship management analysis solutions," said Jeff Rodek, chairman and CEO of Hyperion. "By executing on our comprehensive vision for CRM analysis, Hyperion is offering customers and partners a compelling solution for understanding their customers, optimizing their interactions and maximizing profitability."

"When Internet Security Systems, a world-leading provider of security management solutions for the Internet, wanted to get a better understanding of how well we were serving our customers, we turned to Hyperion," said Michael Starr, CIO of Internet Security Systems (ISS). "With Hyperion Customer Interaction Center, we are confident that our CRM implementation will lead to our anticipated ROI."

Improving Call Center Management through CRM Business Analysis

Hyperion Customer Interaction Center uses sophisticated, best practice metrics to provide companies with a clear understanding of the real-time state of their call center performance. Businesses are able to analyze the data from their call center and front-office automation systems to identify trends, improve customer satisfaction, plan resource utilization, personalize customer service offerings, and benchmark their performance to peer groups and competitors.

"CRM technology implementations that lack CRM analysis capabilities result in the inability to effect change in the customer relationship," said Elizabeth Shahnam, vice president in META Group's CRM INfusion program. "There is a massive opportunity for companies investing in CRM to positively impact the customer relationship by deploying CRM analysis applications that bring together ACD, CTI, and individual customer data to create a panoramic view of the customer. The net effect of analyzing data from every point of interaction in the customer lifecycle has ultimately improved ROI."

Key Features in Hyperion Customer Interaction Center

Hyperion Customer Interaction Center is built on an enterprise-scale, cross-platform foundation that leverages the performance, scalability and unparalleled analytical capabilities of the market-leading Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server. Hyperion Customer Interaction Center is deployable over intranets, extranets and the Web. Key features and functionality in Hyperion Customer Interaction Center include:

  -   Customer Interaction Center Dashboard: Provides call center     managers with a graphical interface to quickly assess the     real-time state of call center operations and customer     interactions. Key call center performance metrics, from backlog     volume to time-to-completion, can be flexibly sorted by call     priority, customer, case type and severity - delivering the most     critical information necessary for the real-time management of     enterprise call centers.  -   Response Cycle Analysis: Enables users to break down and analyze     each individual step in the customer interaction process. This     allows businesses to better understand what steps are required for     which types of calls, how long each step takes to complete, where     problem resolution gets bottlenecked, and what resources are     required to resolve issues. Businesses can then fine-tune service     practices to improve quality and customer satisfaction.  -   Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Trending: Tracks call center     performance over multiple time periods to identify trends in key     performance indicators such as overall case volume, average     time-to-completion, and call backlog. Intuitive "stop light"     reporting highlights positive or negative trends and makes it easy     to identify areas that have improved or that need further     attention.  -   Knowledge Base Link Analysis: Enables organizations to measure the     utilization and effectiveness of call center representative     knowledge bases in resolving customer questions. Knowledge base     link analysis shows exactly how many calls accessed the knowledge     base, how quickly they were resolved, and whether or not they were     subsequently reopened. Companies are then able to use clear, hard     facts instead guesswork in managing the call center.  -   Customer Dashboard and Report Card: Provides a graphical overview     of the state of individual customers. Using key performance     indicators as a guide, companies can track service levels, tailor     service level agreements to a specific customer's needs, and     ensure long-term customer satisfaction. 

Availability

Hyperion Customer Interaction Center, the first application within Hyperion CRM Analysis, is available immediately, running on UNIX and Windows NT.

About Hyperion CRM Analysis

Hyperion CRM Analysis will provide a full 360 degree view of customer activities across all customer touch points and help deliver the customer satisfaction and loyalty that leads to sustainable competitive advantage. Hyperion CRM Analysis will leverage the performance, scalability and analytical power of Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server over intranets, extranets and the Web. For more information, visit http://www.hyperion.com.

About Hyperion

The worldwide analytic application software leader, Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq:HYSL) gives today's knowledge workers the "freedom to succeed" with software, services and partner offerings that help them understand and optimize their businesses. More than 6,000 organizations worldwide use Hyperion's analytic application software products, which include market-leading packaged analytic applications, and OLAP server technology and tools. Hyperion's customers include more than 60 of the Fortune 100 and more than 40 of the Financial Times European Top 100 companies. In addition, more than 350 leading e-Business, data warehousing, OLAP tools, services, ERP, CRM, packaged application, and platform alliance partners extend the value of Hyperion's products and services to deliver maximum flexibility and choice to customers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company has offices in 26 countries. Information on Hyperion's products and services is available at http://www.hyperion.com, info@hyperion.com, or 1-800-286-8000.

Safe Harbor Statement

Statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements concerning anticipated product features, the potential success of the anticipated product offerings and the potential market opportunities for CRM analytics. Such statements constitute anticipated outcomes and do not assure results. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to the company's ability to retain and attract key employees, the successful and timely development of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, customer demand, and technological shifts. For a more detailed discussion of factors that could affect the company's performance and cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, interested parties should review the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Report on Form 10-K filed on September 28, 1999. The company does not undertake an obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

Hyperion and Essbase are registered trademarks and Hyperion Solutions and Hyperion CRM are trademarks of Hyperion Solutions Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Web3D Consortium and blaxxun interactive License VRML Browser Source Code.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 1999--

Full VRML browser source openly available from Web3D

Consortium under Community Source license; Source to be used

to promote VRML availability, improve industry-wide

standards compliance and to accelerate X3D next generation

efforts.

The Web3D Consortium today announced that it has entered into a cooperative licensing agreement with blaxxun interactive whereby the source code of blaxxun's VRML browser will be made openly available from the Web3D Consortium under a Community Source license. Licensees will gain full access to the source and retain full rights to their modifications, royalty-free, for non-commercial use. It is expected that source will be available within 45 days and the license is available for review at www.web3d.org. blaxxun is willing to discuss licensing terms for commercial usage of the source with individual companies.

blaxxun and the Web3D Consortium are cooperating to leverage the source to encourage browser availability, conformance testing and further innovation in existing and future 3D web standards. The Web3D Consortium is establishing a "Community Source Program" to create a sample implementation VRML browser for non-commercial development. The program will also encourage and enable licensees to submit their modifications back to the Web3D Consortium for integration into the licensed source code. In this way, the Consortium's program will enable the Web3D community to improve the quality and functionality of the source tree and the reference browser.

The Web3D Consortium's X3D project will also utilize the source as a community design testbed to accelerate the development and availability of this new 3D graphics technology.

"blaxxun is highly motivated to encourage further widespread distribution of stable, conformant VRML browsers with support for advanced functionality including multi-user interfaces," said Franz Buchenberger, president and CEO of blaxxun. "We believe that open availability of source of a commercial grade browser will further this goal - and the Web 3D Consortium is the only industry organization that can drive a successful source licensing program to promote open standards for 3D on the Web."

"The Web3D Consortium applauds blaxxun's licensing of its source to further the cause of 3D Web standards," said Neil Trevett, vice president of 3Dlabs and president of the Web3D Consortium. "Through this cooperation with blaxxun, the Web3D Consortium will be able to launch a widespread source development initiative that will enable the industry and the Web3D community to significantly further the momentum of the VRML standard both now and in the future."

blaxxun interactive

blaxxun interactive, founded in 1995, is the global leader in products and solutions for multimedia communication on the Internet and intranets. Its technology platform ties multimedia with rich communication features allowing the building of visually striking communities and venues where users interact and network with each other in 2D and 3D. Applications are tailored to commerce, to collaboration with online education/training forums and virtual offices, and to communities like the award winning Cybertown (http://www.cybertown.com).

Web3D Consortium

The Web3D Consortium (formerly the VRML Consortium) is a non-profit organization with a mandate to develop and promote open standards to enable 3D Web and broadcast applications. The Consortium successfully gained approval for VRML 97 as International Standard ISO/IEC 14772 in December 1997 and is currently driving the X3D project to create the next evolution of the VRML standard.

The Consortium is comprised of over 50 leading organizations including charter members such as 3Dlabs, blaxxun interactive, Cybelius Software, MathEngine, Panasonic/Matsushita, Microsoft, Sony and Superscape. Web3D Consortium members provide technical and marketing expertise for the continued evolution of open 3D standards while gaining early access to ongoing technology and commercial opportunities. More information on VRML, the Consortium's ongoing X3D and VRML standards activities and Consortium membership is available at http://www.vrml.org or http://www.web3d.org.

All trademarks and registered trademarks previously cited are the property of their respective owners.

WORD OF MOUTH: Conversations on brands are vital. Discuss.

When consumers talk to each other about brands - and the average consumer talks about ten different brands a day - they are mostly very positive, making such discussions akey channel for marketers, a new study reveals. By Michael Barnett

Word of mouth could be an even more powerful marketing tool than previously thought, as most conversations consumers have about brands are highly positive. So say the findings of the UK pilot of a study that has been running continuously in the US since 2006, whose findings have been presented exclusively to Marketing Week.

In 62% of conversations brands are discussed in a "mostly positive" context, according to research carried out by Keller Fay. It recorded and analysed 14,000 conversations about brands by 2,500 adults during two weeks in May.

The inaugural TalkTrack Great Britain study, commissioned jointly by media agency Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG), publisher News International and broadcaster ESPN, assesses whether discussions about brands influence consumers. Subjects were asked to record details about the brands they talked about, how the conversations took place, what time of day it was, which media were referenced and what the sentiment of the conversation was.

The study reveals that 36% of those mentioning a brand are very likely to make a purchase. Keller Fay also contacted the individuals with whom the 2,500 adults had had conversations, to assess whether the discussion had influenced their consideration of a brand, or their intention to make a purchase.

On average, consumers speak about ten different brands a day. Among the most frequently mentioned brand categories are food and dining (mentioned by 64% of people each day), media and entertainment (63%), and beverages (57%).

The research indicates that the positivity garnered by brands at any given time is likely to be dependent on current events, with banks the worst performing category, perhaps owing to the recent financial crisis.

Adidas and Nike both scored well in terms of the proportion of positive mentions (with 77.6% and 75.3% respectively), at a time when media attention was focusing on the run-up to football's World Cup in South Africa.

Meanwhile, airlines fared relatively poorly, with the consequences of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption and threatened strike action by air crew possibly having an effect.

Internet "buzz-tracking" surveys have enabled researchers to gauge the tenor of comments on blogs and social media for some time, however online mentions are only a small part of the wider discourse about brands, the data shows.

SMG product development director Paul Selby says: "One of the things that has contributed to the online buzz-tracking revolution is the number of peer-to-peer media sites - Facebook, Twitter, etc - which has really boosted the age-old debate about word of mouth. But it is a myth that all brand conversations happen online. It is actually the case, according to the TalkTrack data, that only 7% of brand conversations happen online, and this is consistent with the US data over the past four or five years.

"We are not just talking about the type of people who post comments on blogs and forums, we are talking about a nationally representative average person. The overwhelming majority of conversations are happening with those people, face to face or indeed over the phone."

According to TalkTrack, 81% of brand discussions happen face to face and 11% take place over the phone.

Power of online

Despite the low proportion of brand-oriented conversations happening online, it is the channel most commonly referred to when media and marketing are discussed in relation to brands. When online content is mentioned, 30% of the recipients of information are also "highly likely" to seek more details, compared with 20% where online media are not discussed.

Online and offline conversations also tend to differ in terms of brands mentioned. Technology gets a higher share of online mentions, while food and dining crop up more frequently offline.

Media channels and references are significant because conversations are more likely to include a recommendation of a brand when some form of media or marketing is also discussed, according to the research. It discovered that advertising is the biggest single driver of word of mouth, being cited in 17% of cases. Editorial content, websites and point-of-sale materials follow.

Simon Stanforth, group research director of SMG, says: "From an above- the-line advertising perspective, I think it demonstrates that offline campaigns need to work hard at driving word of mouth. There should not necessarily be a separate word-of-mouth strategy, because the core advertising campaign should have a key role in driving word of mouth."

As well as approaching word of mouth as a marketing objective rather than a discipline, marketers might be persuaded by the research to tailor campaign messages to particular demographics where the aim is to get people talking. No statistically significant difference was found in the positivity towards brands among men versus women, but consumers earning more than #15,000 a year are likelier to be positive while older subjects make fewer negative comments. Married people and those with children are also slightly more positive.

The 18- to 24-year-old demographic could be a "battleground" for brands, Selby notes. "Here there is a high proportion of negative comments about brands overall, but they are more likely to be influenced by and refer to media and marketing."

More important, however, is the profile of so-called Conversation Catalysts - a term trademarked by Keller Fay, referring to the 8% of the population who have the greatest influence when talking about brands. They discuss more than twice as many brands a day as the average consumer and are more than twice as likely to give advice in all brand categories. They also have nearly twice as many people in their social networks. These individuals are more likely than average to be wealthy, degree-educated and in a professional occupation.

Though it appears from the study that media advertising drives positive conversations, it does not necessarily follow that those brands spending most on advertising are earning the most positive reviews. Marketers would do well to monitor what consumers say about their brands to understand when these conversations are positive and how these conversations translate into sales.

62% of conversations about brands are discussed in a "most positive" context.

8% of the population called Conversation Catalysts have the greatest influence when talking about brands.

7% of brand conversations happen online.

36% of those who have mentioned a brand are "very likely to purchase" that brand.

Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

'Mr. Central' bids adieu after 46 years of teaching.(NEWS)

Byline: JON TEVLIN; STAFF WRITER

The student was a few minutes late for her broadcast journalism class, so she slid into the room and quietly took a seat.

"We're not interfering with your busy social schedule by holding class, are we?" snapped teacher Jack Schlukebier. "Good."

As the newscast began, "Schlick" paced as though it was going out to the world, not just the students of St. Paul Central High School. After it was over, he offered a quick, "Good job, everybody."

The girl who arrived late asked Schlukebier if he would be there next year. "No. Because I don't like you." She smiles broadly.

Up in the control booth one student sighed. "I can't believe he's going. It will be so weird without him."

He is called "Mr. Central," and "the soul of the school" by students and staff. He's also called grumpy, wise, loving, gruff, sarcastic, temperamental and "the best teacher in the world."

Schlukebier will be leaving Central High after 31 years -- and 46 years teaching in the St. Paul school district. He's one of the longest-tenured teachers in the system, and by all accounts, one of the most beloved.

I visited Schlukebier's classes on two of his last days at Central. In one, he introduced me as a reporter doing a story on terrorists inside the schools. At the next, he deadpanned that I was doing a piece on juvenile delinquents.

Tallinn Cavanaugh, a student in Schlukebier's journalism class, said he spent most of the year trying to figure out when Schlukebier was being sarcastic, or just honest. "Then I thought, maybe he was never being sarcastic."

"If you don't know him on a personal level, you might not like him," said student Alexandra Leaskas. "But he's like a grandpa to me."

Central High "is not going to be the same without him,'' said Ashley Neisen.

That's because Schlukebier has so many roles at Central that they have already spread his duties to three teachers. Besides teaching English, journalism and broadcast journalism, Schlukebier is senior adviser, oversees the newspaper and yearbook, shoots photos at all school events, and takes seniors on almost anachronistic outings, such as bowling and snow tubing. He orchestrates the graduation ceremony and insists it has to be "classy," and shows it by wearing a tux.

A proud German, he holds a famous Oktoberfest party at his house and blocks off the street. Jack and his wife, Judy, were high school sweethearts, and have attended more than 20 proms at Central together.

"Nobody spends more time or attends more events than Jack," said Brian Reinhardt, a fellow teacher. "He's built the community of Central."

"He's firm, he's tough, he's exacting," said Principal Mary Mackbee. I asked her how he seems to get so much from his students. "He badgers them," she said with a laugh. "But they never leave his class."

Teri Lentsch, the assistant principal, said simply that Schlukebier "makes high school what it should be."

During a break on Friday, Schlukebier sat in his van in the parking lot, smoking Borkum Riff as he contemplated 46 years as a teacher. Kids are smarter, in many ways, but the number of dysfunctional students is growing, he said.

"That does not bode well for schools or society. It's not about money, it's about willpower."

What will he miss?

"I think the challenge of figuring out how to make all this work," Schlukebier said. "I had to be better than Jay Leno, the Internet and MTV, and I had to do it every day. It was an intellectual challenge, a psychological challenge, even a spiritual challenge.

"But there was not one day in 46 years that I wasn't excited to go to school," he said. As he mused about how he might come back on contract for a few projects next year, you could tell that leaving will be painful.

When Schlukebier took the stage for his annual address to incoming seniors Friday, the students stood and chanted: "Jack! Jack! Jack!"

When he spoke, his "little demons" went silent.

"Forty-five people who sat here last year didn't make the [graduation] walk last night," he boomed. "Will YOU be there?"

Wooooooooo!

"Seniors say, 'We rule the school,' but you don't rule crap," said Schlukebier. "But you can lead. Decide if you want to lead, or follow. If you don't want to do either, get out of the way."

Wooooooo!

In one of his final poetry classes last week, they were studying the song "The Boxer," by Paul Simon, and its use of metaphor. A student peeked at a cellphone. "Put that away," said Schlukebier. "Let's not have this. This is ridiculous."

They talked about the ending of The Boxer. The protagonist is battered and worn, and he's quitting.

"What does it mean?" asked Schlukebier.

"He's leaving, he's going home," said Michael Burton. "But he's still a fighter. He's still going strong."

There is a brief pause.

"Good observation," said Schlukebier.

jtevlin@startribune.com - 612-673-1702

SonicWALL Expands Next-Generation Firewall Lineup with NSA E8510.

INTEROP --SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today launched the SonicWALL NSA E8510, the latest addition to its range of next-generation firewalls. The Network Security Appliance (NSA) E8510 provides 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity in a compact, 1U rack mountable form-factor to accommodate security, performance and power efficiency requirements of modern high-capacity networks. The appliance is powered by SonicWALL's SonicOS 5.8 firmware, which offers latency-free intrusion prevention and anti-malware protection. SonicOS 5.8 features application intelligence and control functionality for granular control over application traffic and bandwidth in real-time. With the ability to block or throttle application usage on a user or group level, and its compact form factor and affordable price, the E8510 is an ideal solution for corporate, healthcare and education deployments.

As organizations expand their existing networking infrastructure, firewalls are often overlooked and can become a critical bottleneck. When network infrastructures are upgraded to 10 GbE to accommodate for growth in bandwidth requirements beyond 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps), these upgrades can be neutralized by firewalls that are unable to handle high bandwidth requirements or connectivitiy. This is especially true as an increasing number of security-conscious organizations replace their traditional firewalls with a new breed of deep packet inspection (DPI) firewalls that provide protection against the evolving threat ecosystem and the network attack vectors prevalent today.

The SonicWALL NSA E8510 addresses these performance concerns with dual 10 GbE SFP+ ports and high performance full DPI which does not introduce latency to the network. Combined with the SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control features, this 10 GbE next-generation firewall provides high-speed network performance and ensures security with integrated intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-malware and SSL traffic protection.

"The NSA E8510 Next-Generation Firewall is designed for enterprises that need multi-gigabit network performance, application control and comprehensive security features," said Dmitriy Ayrapetov, product line manager, SonicWALL. "It builds on what is already the broadest range of next-generation firewalls on the market and offers a robust solution to customers with 10 GbE infrastructure requirements."

"We congratulate SonicWALL on their innovative 1U 10 Gigabit Ethernet Security Appliance which effectively leverages the leading performance, low-latency and low-power of Cavium's OCTEON Multi-core processor," said YJ Kim, general manager, infrastructure processor group, Cavium Networks. "This new SonicWALL appliance will enable customers to garner great benefits in terms of rack space, compelling performance and features".

The new appliance capitalizes on SonicWALL's industry-leading application intelligence and control solution, putting the power back in the hands of IT administrators with new levels of management and ease-of-use. Based on a continuously expanding database containing more than 3,500 application signatures, administrators can easily create bandwidth management or control policies across the network. These can be based on individual applications, collections of applications or entire pre-defined categories (such as social media or gaming) for users or groups of users to optimize network and employee efficiency.

When combining the power and flexibility of the NSA E8510 appliance with the efficiency gains provided by the recently announced SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series and application intelligence and control features, organizations realize significant gains in efficiency, optimization and performance of critical applications both on local and distributed networks.

For more news on Dynamic Security and Next-Generation Networks, follow SonicWALL on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Keywords: Ethernet, Gigabit Network, Industry, Internet Software and Service Companies, Network Security, Networks, SonicWALL, SonicWALL Inc., Technology Companies.

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

TERMINAL STUPIDITY; The passengers who now check in at our swanky new terminal... before taking the long trek back to the OLD boarding gates.(News)

Byline: Philip Ryan

AIRLINE passengers checking in at Dublin Airport's controversial new Terminal 2 are being forced to walk back to the original terminal to board their planes.

The highly criticised terminal, or T2 as it is also known, opened in November at a cost of [euro]600m - almost [euro]400m over its original budget. Now the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal that, in spite of massive State investment in the project, the new terminal cannot accommodate all flights scheduled to leave from it.

Travellers on up to six flights every morning, during the airport's busiest period, regularly check in and proceed through security in the new terminal - before being instructed to walk through a maze of corridors back to the old terminal.

Incredibly, the DAA said this weekend that it had planned such a system all along, insisting: 'It was designed this way.' Flights affected by this scheduling regime generally include Aer Lingus short-haul connections to Britain and central Europe in the early hours of the morning between 6.30am and 7am.

There are around 95 daily flights from the new terminal, which was highly criticised by Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary, who branded the project a 'palace'.

At the opening of T2 last November, DAA chief executive Declan Collier went to great lengths to highlight the emphasis the new terminal put on customer satisfaction and convenience. 'The opening of Terminal 2 will transform the travel experience throughout Dublin Airport and will offer passengers the type of facilities, comfort and space they have been seeking for many years', he said.

Elsewhere, the authority's website states: 'T2 will be a 75,000 square metre building designed specifically with travellers' needs in mind'.

However, comfort is far from passengers' minds as they walk through security in the state-ofthe-art T2 only to be told they must walk back to the old building to board their planes.

The new terminal can facilitate up to 19 short-haul aeroplanes or eight long-haul aircraft and is the Irish hub for Aer Lingus, Etihad and the four US airlines currently serving Dublin: American Airlines, Continental, Delta and US Airways.

However, the scheduling problem affects solely the Irish operator's passengers as they are the only airline operating short-haul flights which can be accommodated more easily than long-haul in the old terminal.

Generally, flyers who arrive in T2 would board their flights at Pier E or the gates numbered in the 400s which were built to provide for planes landing at and leaving the new terminal.

The majority of flights scheduled for T2 but departing from the old terminal now leave from Pier B at gates numbered in the 300s.

It all means that travellers arriving at the airport during rush hour would be well advised to leave additional time for their journey to include the long walk to the old terminal gates.

One disgruntled passenger, who checked in at Terminal 2 but boarded in the old terminal, took to internet travel website Tripadvisor.

com to lambast the airport for its boarding arrangements.

She said: 'We made our way to our boarding gate, we walked and walked and suddenly found ourselves in Terminal 1' 'We actually departed from right next to the former US immigration area. I think it used to be called Pier B? 'It seems that all the 400 numbered boarding gates are in T2 but anything lower is in T1.

'I thought Aer Lingus had moved to T2.' However, the DAA said the boarding procedure, which forces passengers to trek between terminals, was not an oversight and was actually factored in to the original design of the project.

A DAA spokesman said: 'We always knew this was going to happen, it was designed this way. We knew from the start that at the peak time that a small number of flights would go this way.

'It's roughly about five flights a day. It's one of the reasons why, when we were building T2, that there was actually a connection between the two terminals, they are built to operate that way.

'It's a common airfield, the airfield and boarding gates are shared by the two terminals.' He added: 'Scheduling would be live scheduling to take into account any particular aircraft that might be arriving early or late.

'They know within the peak almost every day there are about five flights, some days there might be four and some days there might be six.' The DAA said the increased demand for gates at the airport's new terminal was because they had to facilitate two Irish Airlines.

The spokesman said: 'We have particular circumstances here, where we have two home-based carriers which would be atypical for most European airports.

'Most European airports wouldn't have two airlines based at the airport with a significant fleet. It's not a problem it just means there is an increased demand, we have a very busy first wave.

'People don't expect it to be that busy early in the morning around 6.30am to 7am but it's actually the busiest time of the day.

'You have Ryanair and Aer Lingus using this as their home base and both have a significant amount of aircraft so they both want to get those aircraft in the air at the earliest time of the day.

'The longer they have the aircraft in the air the more money they are making.' Aer Lingus did not respond to calls for comment last night.

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CSH CASH AMERICA INTL INC 6 Quarter Q1 Before

MAN MANPOWER INC 6 Quarter Q1 Before

HAFC HANMI FINANCIAL CORPORATION 12 Quarter Q1 Before

RMBS RAMBUS INC April Earnings Q1 After

DGII DIGI INTERNATIONAL INC 6 Quarter Q2 After

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GATX CORP (NYSE:GMT) - GATX Corporation leases, operates, and manages assets in the rail, marine, and industrial equipment markets. It operates in three segments: Rail, Specialty, and American Steamship Company (ASC). The Rail segment leases tank cars, freight cars, and locomotives to shippers of chemical, petroleum, and food products, as well as railroads in North America and Europe. As of December 31, 2010, its worldwide fleet comprised approximately 132,000 railcars. The Specialty segment provides financing, asset remarketing, and asset management services to the marine and industrial equipment markets. This segment offers operating leases, direct finance leases, and secured loans. It leases equipment used in gas compression, power generation, construction and mining, as well as leases marine vessels used in inland freight transportation. The ASC segment owns and operates a fleet of U.S. flagged vessels on the Great Lakes, providing waterborne transportation of dry bulk commodities, such as iron ore, coal, limestone aggregates, and metallurgical limestone for a range of industrial customers. As of the above date, ASCs fleet consisted of 18 vessels. GATX Corporation was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

CASH AMERICA INTL INC (NYSE:CSH) - Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. The company operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. This segment also involves in arranging loans for customers with independent third-party lenders through a credit services organization program; providing marketing and loan processing services for a third-party bank issued line of credit on certain stored-value debit cards that the bank issues; and purchasing a participation interest in certain line of credit receivables originated by the bank. The Check Cashing segment provides check cashing and other financial services, such as stored-value cards, money orders, and money transfers. This segment operates its check cashing locations under the Mr.Payroll name. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 676 pawn lending locations, including 667 company-owned units and 9 unconsolidated franchised units; 246 cash advance locations; and 120 unconsolidated franchised and 6 consolidated company-owned check cashing locations. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

MANPOWER INC (NYSE:MAN) - Manpower Inc. provides employment services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company offers permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment services; employee assessment and selection services; and training, recruitment process outsourcing, managed service solutions, consulting, and outsourcing services. It also provides professional services to public accounting firms and other consulting groups in the areas of risk advisory, tax, and accounting; and a range of specialized information technology staffing and project implementation services, including Website development and integration, application programming and development, client/server development, systems software architecture and design, and systems engineering and systems integration. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

HANMI FINANCIAL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:HAFC) - Hanmi Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for Hanmi Bank that provides general business banking products and services in the United States. Its deposit product line comprises business and personal checking accounts, savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The companys loan portfolio includes real estate loans, such as commercial property, construction, and residential property loans; commercial and industrial loans comprising commercial term loans, commercial lines of credit, small business administration loans, and international trade finance; and consumer loans consisting of automobile loans, secured and unsecured personal loans, home improvement loans, home equity lines of credit, overdraft protection loans, and unsecured lines of credit and credit cards. It also offers various insurance products, such as life, commercial, automobile, health, and property and casualty. The company serves the Korean-American community, as well as other communities in the multi-ethnic populations of Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, the San Francisco Bay area, and the Silicon Valley area in Santa Clara County. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a branch network of 27 full-service branch offices in California; and 2 loan production offices in Virginia and Washington. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

RAMBUS INC (NASDAQ:RMBS) - Rambus Inc. designs, develops, and licenses chip interface technologies and architectures that are used in digital electronics products. Its products include Dual Edge Clocking, which is designed to allow data to be sent on the clock pulse; Variable Burst Length that improves data transfer efficiency by allowing varying amounts of data to be sent per a memory read or write request in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and flash memory; and FlexPhase technology, which synchronizes data output and compensates for circuit timing errors. The company also offers Channel Equalization designed to improve signal integrity and system margins by reducing inter-symbol interference in high speed parallel and serial link channels; Module Threading, which improves the power efficiency of a memory module by applying parallelism to module data accesses; and MicroLens optical design technology providing optimum utilization of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LED) in edge-lit lighting applications. In addition, it licenses its architectures and industry-standard solutions for use in semiconductor and system products, including XDR Memory Architecture enabling the production of DRAM; XDR2 Memory Architecture that incorporates DRAM micro-threading for graphics intensive applications, such as gaming and digital video; Mobile XDR Memory Architecture, which enables applications, such as HD video recording and 3D gaming on battery powered mobile devices; RDRAM Memory used in play stations, Intel-based personal computers, televisions, and routers; and FlexIO Processor Bus, a high speed chip-to-chip interface. Further, the company offers industry-standard chip interface solutions, including DDRx, as well as digital logic controllers for peripheral component interconnect express and other industry standard interfaces. Additionally, it provides custom solutions for LED edge-lit displays and general lighting. Rambus Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

DIGI INTERNATIONAL INC (NASDAQ:DGII) - Digi International Inc. operates as a device networking company that develops products and technologies to connect and manage local or remote electronic devices over a network, via the Internet or via satellite. The companys products enable to create, customize, and control retail operations, industrial automation, and other applications. It offers a range of non embedded and embedded products. The companys non embedded products comprise cellular routers, gateways, wireless communication adapters, console and serial servers, USB connected products, remote display products, cameras and sensors, serial cards, and network management software. Its embedded products consist of chips, modules, single-board computers, network interface cards and software and development tools, engineering design services, and satellite communication products. In addition, the company offers Drop-in Networking solutions, which provide end-to-end wireless access to electronic devices in places where wires do not work or cannot be used. Additionally, it provides technical support, training, professional, and engineering services. The company markets its products through distributors, systems integrators, solution providers, and direct marketers, as well as directly to strategic original equipment manufacturers, government, and commercial partners. It operates in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The company has strategic alliances with Microsoft, VMware, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, Atmel, Ember, Freescale, Qualcomm, Wavecom, iTron, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Bell Mobility, and Rogers. Digi International Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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