FED:Economic turmoil won't stop carbon tax

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2011
FED:Economic turmoil won't stop carbon tax

The federal government has ruled out delaying the carbon tax to give Australian business
some breathing room as the global economy falters.

Climate Change Minister GREG COMBET'S comment came as the coalition continued its call
for the tax to be scrapped, and business groups suggested the government hold off on the
policy until economic conditions improve.

Mr COMBET says an emissions trading scheme was delayed for years, and now is the time
to act, telling Sky News it will drive investment in new technologies, innovation, and
improve productivity over time.

Mr COMBET confirmed the ETS laws will be brought to parliament in September and the
government wants them to pass both houses by year's end, to allow a fixed 23 dollar a
tonne price to start on July 1, next year.

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Vic: Man jailed for over fatal smash

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2007
Vic: Man jailed for over fatal smash

A young Melbourne man who killed a groom-to-be in a stolen car .. has been jailed for
two years and three months.

The victim .. KEFEI WANG .. had been in a collision with another car on the city's
Eastern Freeway on October 8 2005.

Both drivers got out of their cars .. and Mr Wang was hit and killed by a stolen Commodore.

The driver of the Commodore .. 20-year-old NEIL ROBINSON .. of Epping .. pleaded guilty
in the Victorian County Court today to dangerous driving causing death .. driving while
his licence was suspended .. failing to exchange details …

FED:'Go back to the drawing board' on carbon=2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2011
FED:'Go back to the drawing board' on carbon=2

The coalition believes it could achieve Australia's emissions reduction target "two
or three times over" by ramping up uranium and LNG exports.

Opposition resources spokesman Ian Macfarlane says an increase would add to Australia's
emissions reduction scorecard even if it happened offshore.

"If we increased our LNG exports by 50 million tonnes and replaced coal with that,
say in China or Korea or Japan, we would reduce the world's emissions by 150 million tonnes
a year," Mr Macfarlane told ABC Radio on Wednesday.

"That's a plus that Australia should be given credit for."

Similarly, the coalition believes increasing Australia's uranium exports from 10,000
to 37,000 tonnes by 2030 could cut down 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon pollution a year.

Mr Macfarlane said boosting uranium and LNG exports, combined with the coalition's
direct action policy, would see Australia achieve its aim of a five per cent cut to emissions
by 2020.

"We'll actually do it two or three times over.

"The reality is we don't have to do it through a carbon tax - by taxing our own industries
out of existence."

Mr Macfarlane backed comments from the Australian Workers Union's South Australian
branch suggesting industrial towns will go belly-up as a result of the tax.

"(The carbon tax) is to make the high emitting industries basically shut down.

"And in the lack of an international trading scheme of course the industries will just
move overseas."

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Marcel Media CEO Cutler to Present Entrepreneurs Organization Inside Track Webinar

Wireless News
01-26-2011
Marcel Media CEO Cutler to Present Entrepreneurs Organization Inside Track Webinar
Type: News

Kelly Cutler, CEO of Marcel Media, an online interactive marketing firm which specializes in social media marketing, search engine marketing/optimization and strategic Internet advertising will present a webinar for Entrepreneurs Organization.

According to a release, Entrepreneurs Organization members and prospective members are invited to join this Inside Track Webinar.
Cutler will present a 30 minute webinar that offers insights and guidance on how to incorporate social media into event marketing and communications strategy.

The webinar is Thursday, Jan. 27 at 11 a.m. (EST), 10 a.m. (Central) and 8a.m. (PST).

The Entrepreneurs' Organization is a network of business owners in 38 countries.

Marcel Media is marketing agency specializing in Search Engine Marketing.

Event information:

eonetwork.org

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FED:Labor govt would be 'dysfunctional'

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2010
FED:Labor govt would be 'dysfunctional'

Mr ABBOTT says he's spoken briefly to each of the three incumbent independents.

He says he's had a brief conversation with Senator BOB BROWN of the Greens .. and he's
left messages for others.

Mr ABBOTT says he's looking forward to those discussions .. but adds they're really
just discussions to begin discussions.

It's expected the election will leave Australia with its first hung parliament since 1940.

Re-elected rural independents TONY WINDSOR .. ROB OAKESHOTT and BOB KATTER could be
the kingmakers in the lower house .. along with independent ANDREW WILKIE if he clinches
Denison in Tasmania.

AAP RTV jcd/sb/ajw/

KEYWORD: POLL10 ABBOTT 2 CANBERRA (REOPENS)

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NSW: More arrests expected over dismembered body murder

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2010
NSW: More arrests expected over dismembered body murder

SYDNEY, April 15 AAP - More arrests are expected after police charged a sixth man over
the kidnapping of drug dealer Terry Falconer, whose body was found hacked into pieces
and dumped in seven garbage bags.

Police arrested a 43-year-old man just before 6am (AEST) on Thursday at Mortdale, in
Sydney's south, without incident.

He has been charged with kidnapping Falconer, and with three other offences that also
allegedly took place in 2001.

The additional charges include shooting with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm,
discharge of a firearm in a public place, armed robbery and a fraud offence that allegedly
happened at a later time.

Falconer, 52, was abducted by men posing as detectives while he was on work release
from a Sydney prison on November 16, 2001.

His dismembered body was found by fishermen 10 days later in garbage bags dumped in
the Hastings River in northern NSW.

Police launched Strike Force Tuno II in 2008 to investigate a series of murders, attempted
murders and other serious offences that took place between 1993 and 2008.

Falconer's murder is one of nine that police are still investigating in relation to
organised crime activities.

The 43-year-old man arrested on Thursday is ue to appear in Kogarah Local Court later in the day.

Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin told reporters that police expect further progress
with their investigations.

"I'm happy to say that we're confident that further arrests will be made at some stage
in the future," he told reporters.

AAP vpm/bm/wjf/cdh

KEYWORD: TUNO UPDATE

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SA: Man involved in hospital siege

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2009
SA: Man involved in hospital siege

ADELAIDE, Dec 1 AAP - A man has barricaded himself in a room at Adelaide's Lyell McEwin
Hospital after being admitted in relation to mental health issues.

Police said on Tuesday negotiators were talking with the man and there was no threat
to staff or patients at the northern suburbs facility.

AAP tjd/srp

KEYWORD: HOSPITAL

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NSW: Heritage council seeks Kuttabul torpedo accounts

AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2009
NSW: Heritage council seeks Kuttabul torpedo accounts

By Ehssan Veiszadeh

SYDNEY, April 23 AAP - Sydneysiders who recall the Japanese submarine attacks on Sydney
Harbour during World War II are being asked to share their accounts as part of a new online
exhibition.

Gabrielle Kibble, chair of the Heritage Council of NSW, seeks personal recollections
of the Japanese attack that culminated in the sinking of HMAS Kuttabul.

"There are so many stories of the raid waiting to be shared - we are particularly interested
in personal accounts of the action, where people were at the time, how they reacted, and
how these attacks affected their perceptions of the enemy and the war," Mrs Kibble said
in a statement.

The stories will be included as part of a future online presentation titled Unblocking
the Secrets of the M24 Japanese Midget Submarine.

Before the start of the war, Kuttabul spent most of its life as a ferry, carrying passengers
across Sydney Harbour.

During World War II, the ship was acquired by the Royal Australian Navy and was anchored
at the Garden Island naval base to provide accommodation for Allied naval personnel as
they waited to be transferred to their ships.

In 1942, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the M24 Japanese midget submarine in Sydney
Harbour, killing 21 sailors.

It is understood the M24 had targeted the USS Chicago but the submarine's two torpedoes
travelled past the American heavy cruiser and struck the harbour wall near HMAS Kuttabul,
causing the ship to sink.

The remains of M24 were found in 2006 near Newport, in Sydney's north.

"The website will be a valuable way of ensuring that the social significance of the
midget submarine attack is preserved, together with the physical remains of the M24 wreck
site," Mrs Kibble said.

The Heritage Council is asking for typed personal accounts or scanned photographs relating
to the Kuttabul to be sent to the Department of Planning's Heritage Branch.

More information can be found on the Heritage Branch Website at www.heritage.nsw.gov.au

AAP stu/hn/ht

KEYWORD: KUTTABUL

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Fed: Summer holiday most hazardous time of the year: Experts

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2008
Fed: Summer holiday most hazardous time of the year: Experts

By Danny Rose, Medical Writer

SYDNEY, Dec 18 AAP - Summer is the most hazardous time of the year, say researchers,
with Australians up to three times more likely to be injured or killed.

Water-related risks escalate as hot weather drives many families to the beach or public
pools, often via busy roads or highways .... at a time when alcohol and drug use are up.

"Together they make up a formidable amount of injury in Australia during summer," Professor
Paul Barach, director of the University of NSW's Injury Risk Management Research Centre,
says.

"And they are directly related to having more time, perhaps more discretional income,
and not having enough oversight."

The number of people killed or seriously injured in vehicle crashes on Australia's
roads was 4,000 - 5,000 a year, Prof Barach said, with holiday periods the worst.

The warmer weather also posed other menaces from bushfires to poisonous snakes and spiders.

And closer to home there were other dangers from ladder falls, burns and bicycle crashes
right through to "couch potato" injuries, Prof Barach said.

"(These are) repetitive injuries caused by watching too much TV and having a neck strain
... or playing Nintendo and video games, which can cause carpel tunnel syndrome," he said.

"The number of injuries that we have in Australia in the summer tends to be two to
three times more than we have at equivalent times outside of summer - so it is a high-risk
time."

Beach expert Dr Rob Brander said a drowning occurred, on average, every two to three
days of summer - and up to 70 per cent of drowning deaths and 90 per cent of beach rescues
involved a rip.

Despite this, a study involving almost 400 Australian beachgoers showed 60 per cent
could not spot a rip when shown a photograph that included one.

Dr Brander - senior lecturer at the University of NSW's School of Biological, Earth
and Environmental Sciences - said rips were commonplace at Australia's beaches yet the
risks were largely ignored by the public.

"If it was shark attack there would be mass hysteria but that doesn't happen with rips," he said.

"Its a fundamental problem that most Australians don't know how to spot a rip."

Dr Anthony Shakeshaft, of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), said
alcohol also played an exacerbating role in all of the other known summer-related risk
factors.

Alcohol-related crime also increased during the summer months - particularly assaults
and malicious damage - and this was because "more people are drinking, and drinking in
public places".

"People going fishing, swimming, boating, whatever it is, because they are not at work
they might be drinking during the day, so any potential for them to get into strife gets
exacerbated," Dr Shakeshaft said.

AAP dr/it/bwl

KEYWORD: SUMMER (WITH FACTBOXES, GRAPHIC)

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Swm: Fraser has no regrets

AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2008
Swm: Fraser has no regrets

By Nicky Park

SYDNEY, Aug 13 AAP - Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser doesn't regret calling
Leisel Jones a "spoilt brat" and thinks the harsh words spurred the 22-year-old on to
win gold in Beijing.

Jones sulked and stumbled through her previous Games in Athens after failing to win
gold, fuelling Fraser's comments.

But today, four years later, Fraser said she stands by what she said about the recent
gold medallist.

"I don't (regret saying it) because I think it made Leisel sit down and have a look
at herself," Fraser told the Nine Network.

"She was a spoilt brat then and I don't make any excuses for calling her that, mainly
because of what she did on the blocks when she turned around and she spat water at Brooke
Hanson's feet.

"That's unacceptable to anyone to do that."

But Fraser said that she no longer sees signs of the teen with the "swollen head".

"I would retract that now after her swim the other day because I think Leisel has shown
herself to be a gracious, mature champion," she said.

"I'll be the first one to say that but I had to say that because that's what I felt
(at the time).

"She had a journey to do and she's done her journey."

"At 14 years of age when I saw her in Sydney walking on the deck with her then coach
... and she said `I'm going to win a gold medal here' and I remember (her coach) putting
his arm around her and saying `I don't think you're mature enough yet but if you get it
that's fine but let's swim to enjoy it'.

"The thing is don't go and try to chase records.

"If you're good enough to win that's when you're going to really enjoy it.

"But don't think in the back of your mind that you are an outstanding swimmer and you
are the best swimmer in the world."

Fraser said she thinks Jones was "a little bit disappointed" with her winning swim
in the 100 metre breaststroke final because she fell just short of the world record.

"I would congratulate her on the way that she's looked at herself over the last eight
years and say you really have matured into a fantastic swimmer," Fraser said.

She also said she thinks that US swimming superstar Michael Phelps is best swimmer
she has ever seen.

"I don't think I've ever seen a greater swimmer. He's so strong in the water."

But, in typical Dawn style, she snuck in a frank comment about the champion, on track
to snatch a record eight gold medals in the pool.

"Unfortunately he's showing it too much on the deck, I wish he'd just come back a little
bit," she said.

AAP nap/mo

KEYWORD: OLY08 SWM JONES FRASER

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NSW: Firefighters issued with speeding fines

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2008
NSW: Firefighters issued with speeding fines

NSW firefighters have been issued with speeding tickets after rushing to life threatening
emergencies.

The State Government's State Debt Recovery Office is sending infringement notices to
the homes of individual fire truck drivers .. and then leaving it up to the drivers to
sign statutory declarations or take the matter to court to avoid paying the fines.

News Limited reports the State Debt Recovery Office issued one fine .. even though
the infringements notice clearly identified the vehicle as being a fire truck.

Previously .. all infringements by fire brigade vehicles on call were struck off by
the Fire Brigades NSW chief legal officer .. and police withdrew the penalty.

News Ltd says now .. the infringements are passed on to drivers who have to prove they
were responding to emergencies.

The Fire Brigades Employee Union says it's issued a directive to its members not to
pay the fines.

AAP RTV krc/psm/

KEYWORD: FIREFIGHTERS (SYDNEY)

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Vic: Police want to speak to third man over stabbing

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2007
Vic: Police want to speak to third man over stabbing

Homicide detectives are appealing for a 21-year-old man to come forward over the fatal
stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in Melbourne's east.

YAN YU .. also known as Ricky .. died on Thursday night after being stabbed outside
a 7-Eleven store at Box Hill .. as paramedics struggled to save him.

Police yesterday arrested a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy .. both from Box
Hill South .. over the stabbing murder .. but released them without charge later.

Police want to talk to 21-year-old JIE ZHU .. from Doncaster .. and are asking him
to contact his nearest police station immediately.

Police say a knife was found in shrubbery close to where Mr YU was stabbed and they
are investigating whether it was the murder weapon.

AAP RTV jat/wz

KEYWORD: STABBING (MELBOURNE)

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ACT: Graffiti row headed for the courts

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2007
ACT: Graffiti row headed for the courts

CANBERRA, April 19 AAP - ACT opposition politician Steve Pratt has told staff in a
government department to "get their stat decs ready" in a row over Mr Pratt scrubbing
off a commissioned mural in his war on graffiti.

On Saturday Mr Pratt scrubbed off the mural near a cemetery in the southern suburb
of Woden, thinking it was graffiti.

But the stunt backfired disastrously when Chief Minister Jon Stanhope called for a
police investigation into the destruction of the artwork.

Worsening the problem for Mr Pratt, a community arts spokesman said yesterday Mr Pratt
had been warned the mural was not to be removed.

But Mr Pratt denied ever speaking to anyone from the ACT Community Art program.

Last night he told AAP he would be taking the matter further and called on the community
art workers to sign statutory declarations, outlining the exact conversations they claim
to have had with him.

"They'd better get their stat decs ready," he said.

"It's absolute bullshit, you can quote me on that."

AAP pv/jl/mn

KEYWORD: GRAFFITI DAYLEAD

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Qld: Power restored to most Sunshine Coast homes after storms

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2006
Qld: Power restored to most Sunshine Coast homes after storms

BRISBANE, Dec 18 AAP - Emergency crews have restored power to most homes on the Sunshine
Coast after a storm with winds up to 196 km/h lashed the region on Saturday night.

Electricity provider Energex said today power had been returned to another 1,800 homes
and businesses, and more than 200 staff were working to restore power to less than 1,000
customers still without electricity.

A spokesman said the work involved rebuilding around 1km of power network around Lake
McDonald and Cooroy, as well as identifying and repairing other underlying network problems.

Heavy rain and wind gusts on Saturday brought down trees and power lines, damaged buildings
and ripped roofs from homes on the Sunshine Coast, at Toogoolawah and Esk, west of Brisbane,
and at Tiaro, north of Brisbane.

"Information from the Bureau of Meteorology shows that Saturday night's storms included
one cell that packed winds of up to 196km/h as it crossed Double Island Point," the spokesman
said.

Access to damaged power infrastructure had been hampered by fallen trees and other
debris, he said.

The power outage meant pumps at the Cooroy water treatment facility shut down, sparking
fears that the Noosa region would run out of water.

But generators were used to power the plant and other critical infrastructure in the region.

The Energex spokesman said the power supply to the water treatment and pumping station
had been restored, but the generators would remain on site as backup.

AAP rm/wjf/jlw

KEYWORD: STORM QLD 2ND DAYLEAD

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Fed: Singer Ricki-Lee Coulter craving niche in kids market

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2006
Fed: Singer Ricki-Lee Coulter craving niche in kids market

Reissuing, fixing literal in first par



SYDNEY, Aug 10 AAP - Australian Idol export Ricki-Lee Coulter is carving her niche
in the childrens' market.

It was announced today the singer, who made the top 12 on the reality television show
in 2004 and recently joined band The Young Divas, has been nominated in four categories
at this year's Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

The Young Divas, comprising Coulter, Paulini Curuenavuli, Emily Williams and Kate DeAarugo,
received three nominations.

"I'm excited to be nominated as Fave Aussie Artist, up against some of my own idols,"

the 20-year-old said.

"I presented this award to Guy (Sebastian) last year, so it's extremely flattering
to be nominated in this category."

The nominations were unveiled in Sydney today, with Hollywood star and Fave International
Artist nominee Nick Lachey on hand for the announcements.

Former Neighbours star and Rogue Traders lead singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte and "Where
the bloody hell are you?" Tourism Australia covergirl Lara Bingle were also in attendance
with both nominated in the Fave Hottie category.

Soul singer Sebastian will battle it out with swimmer Ian Thorpe, actor Nicole Kidman
and singer Anthony Callea in the Fave Aussie category.

Sebastian is also nominated as Fave Australian Artist.

"I am so excited to be nominated again," the 24-year-old said.

"The Kids Choice Awards is one of my favourite nights of the year, I'm already practicing
for the BURP category this year by eating my mum's curries."

The awards, now in their third year in Australia, were based on the original awards
founded by the United States pay TV channel of the same name.

They will be held on October 11 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

AAP em/ks/jlw

KEYWORD: NICKELODEON (REISSIUING)

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Fed: Govt may go to constitution for uranium powers - Costello

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2006
Fed: Govt may go to constitution for uranium powers - Costello

CANBERRA, April 4 AAP - The federal government may resort to different constitutional
powers to override state objections to uranium mining, Treasurer Peter Costello says.

Both the WA and Queensland Labor governments oppose uranium mining in their states.

But, with agreements signed with China this week opening the way to Australia supplying
uranium, Mr Costello believes there is a way to override the state objections.

"It may be argued that, under our trade and commerce power, and it may be argued under
our external affairs power, that the commonwealth has the ability to facilitate the trade
and commerce of uranium and the export of uranium," he told reporters.

"I can't go any further in relation to that."

Mr Costello described Labor's no new mines policy as illogical.

"Here we are in modern-day Australia, in 2006, where we have the emerging Chinese economy,
which needs power, is interested in nuclear power, which is a signatory to the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty, which will observe all of our conditions, to which we will sell
some uranium, but people say it can only be sold if it comes from that mine, and not that
mine," he said.

"Where's the logic?

"Uranium is either all bad, in which case there should be no mines, or it's acceptable,
in which there should be such number of mines as are commercial.

"But there's no logic in saying it's good at three mines but bad everywhere else.

"I think the Labor Party will change its position but it's just a question, really,
now as to whether or not Mr Beazley can show enough leadership."

The new arrangements between Australia and China open the way for uranium sales to
the Asian superpower and allow the countries to cooperate on nuclear technology.

Uranium sales to the rapidly growing Chinese economy could be worth billions of dollars
for Australia, which has 40 per cent of the world's known uranium deposits.

AAP dep/so/drp/nf

KEYWORD: URANIUM COSTELLO

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Industry Events: Vivato and IBAX Provide Wi-Fi Coverage at International Boat Show

Wireless News
10-17-2004
Industry Events: Vivato and IBAX Provide Wi-Fi Coverage at International Boat Show

WIRELESS NEWS-17 October 2004-Industry Events: Vivato and IBAX Provide Wi-Fi Coverage at International Boat Show (C)2004 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com

IBAX s.c.r.l. and Vivato, a Wi-Fi systems infrastructure company, announced the first European installation of Vivato's Wi-Fi system in Genoa at the 44th International Boat Show.
"While Vivato has installed systems in other parts of the world, the system in Genoa is the first European installation of a seaport," said Piergiovanni Matrona, vice president and general manager of the international market for Vivato. "The use of Vivato's technology drastically reduces the cost and time required to provide Wi-Fi coverage in large areas, making broadband Internet access a reality for visitors, ships and boats, as well as all the applications related to the management, surveillance and logistics of the port area."

The system installed at the 44th International Boat Show in Genoa required only one Vivato base station which covers both port and exhibition areas.

"Vivato's Wi-Fi base stations, incorporating patented phased array smart antennae technology, permit far larger and extended coverage compared with traditional Wi-Fi equipment," said Angelo Labeni Grossi, general manager for IBAX. "Thanks to the unique features of Vivato's product, it's possible to deploy a system like the one in Genoa in just a few hours, avoiding the complex radio- electric net introduced by traditional wired solutions, with considerable cost savings and more flexible network management."

The consortium IBAX designs, installs and maintains private wireless networks in both unlicensed and licensed bands.

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Love Test; Will your relationship last or is it a lost cause? Try our..(Features)

Byline: DAVID EDWARDS

IF you and your partner spent last night fighting over the TV remote control, your relationship could be doomed.

And if there's a fight over the CD player for who gets Beethoven or Bob Marley on first, maybe it's time to call it a day.

For lasting love is not a case of opposites attract but more about sharing views on pasta, pornography and politics.

After spending more than 20 years studying warring couples, leading psychologist Dr Glenn Wilson believes having 25 key things in common is a surefire way of telling whether a relationship is likely to succeed.

Dr Wilson, who lectures at the University of London, says: "We tend to dismiss people who don't fit our blueprint of perfection but our research proves that true love is doomed unless we have a number of what might at first appear to be mundane and obscure things in common.

"There is obviously an area of love that involves chemistry and animal attraction but our research found areas where, unless the couples felt almost identically, their relationship would be in trouble before long." Kylie Minogue and James Gooding, for example, seemed perfectly happy together - except that he loved partying but she preferred to stay in. Dr Wilson, co-author of Better Sex, is so sure of his test that he has teamed-up with advertising expert Jon Cousins to launch Cybersuitors.com, an internet dating agency that uses his theory to match clients.

Applicants are asked 25 multiple-choice questions and the results are compared with those of every other person on a database.

Dr Wilson says: "Women were eight times more likely to admit their relationship was unhappy if their view about pornography differed from their partner's.

"The big issue with men was whether their woman was more - or less - experienced in bed."

ANSWER THE 25 QUESTIONS WITH YOUR PARTNER

YOU and your partner should answer the following questions and then calculate your individual scores. For every question, the first answer is worth one point, the second two points and so on up to five. Work out the separate totals for you and your partner, then subtract the smaller score from the larger. If that figure - the difference between your scores - is below 10, you are ideally suited, if it is below 20 you are still highly compatible. But if it's over 40, it could be time to end the relationship. Are you ready?...

How would you describe your height?

1 Quite tall

2 Above average

3 Average

4 Less than average height

5 Fairly short

Which of these best describes you?

1 Quite a bit overweight

2 A little overweight

3 I suppose my weight is about average

4 I'd describe myself as slim

5 I'm pretty skinny really

How would you say your IQ compares to other people's?

1 I think I'm extremely clever

2 More intelligent than average

3 As intelligent as the next person

4 I'd say I am a bit below average

5 I suppose I think of myself as being a little dull really

How would you rate your appearance?

1 I think people would say I'm very attractive

2 I'd call myself rather attractive

3 I would say my looks are average

4 I'd describe myself as rather plain

5 I'd have to say I'm very plain really

What sort of sex drive do you have?

1 Pretty non-existent

2 I'd say my sex drive is low

3 I'd describe it as about average

4 I think my sex drive is above average

5 To be honest, I'm absolutely insatiable

If you had to choose just one, which of these is your favourite type of music?

1 I prefer music such as rap or reggae

2 My favourite is pop

music, Top 40 stuff

3 I particularly enjoy easy-listening music

4 Jazz would be my number one choice

5 My preference would be for classical music or opera

Which of these types of TV shows do you like the most?

1 Game shows are my favourite

2 I couldn't do without soap operas

3 I especially enjoy cop shows or comedies

4 My preference is for serious dramas

5 I'm always keen to watch news programmes and documentaries

What is your view of chivalry?

1 I think it's old-fashioned nonsense

2 It's pretty unnecessary

3 It's OK sometimes

4 It's a desirable quality

5 I'd say it's an essential part of life

Which of the following best describes your view of drinking?

1 Completely unacceptable

2 All right for other people but not for me

3 I drink occasionally

4 I drink quite often

5 To be honest I think I drink a bit too much

How would you describe your political views?

1 I'd describe myself as being far left

2 I'm left of centre

3 I'm pretty neutral, not really interested in politics

4 I would say I am right of centre

5 The best description of me would be far right

What do you think of pornography?

1 It's disgusting

2 I prefer to avoid it

3 It's OK sometimes

4 It's harmless fun really

5 I actually think it's a great turn-on

How essential is that you both remain faithful in a relationship?

1 To me it's essential

2 I'd say it is important

3 I suppose the odd lapse is all right

4 I think you have to expect affairs

5 I would want to have an open and swinging relationship

What do you think of foreign food?

1 I really can't stand it

2 On the whole I prefer plain food

3 It's OK for a change

4 I enjoy most foods really

5 I prefer foreign food

Which of the following best describes your view of parties?

1 I actually prefer being alone

2 Small groups are OK

3 I think a few parties are OK

4 I'm quite fond of parties actually

5 I love wild parties

What is your view of smoking?

1 I think it's totally intolerable

2 I feel it's fairly undesirable actually

3 It's OK for other people to smoke

4 I'm a light smoker

5 I'd describe myself as a heavy smoker

How religious would you say you are?

1 Committed to my religion

2 I go to church (or another place of worship) sometimes

3 I worship in private

4 I'm not really religious and never worship

5 I'd say I was actively anti-religious

What do you think about children?

1 I dislike them

2 Other people's children are OK

3 I've no strong feelings one way or the other

4 I may want my own children one day

5 I definitely want my own (or already have them)

In your view, is money important to you?

1 No, you can't buy happiness

2 I just need enough money to live

3 I want to be comfortable

4 I'd like to be rich

5 Yes, I want to be very rich

How experienced are you in bed?

1 I'm a virgin

2 I'm rather inexperienced

3 I've had no complaints so far

4 I would class myself as an experienced lover

5 I'm really hot stuff

Which of the following best describes the type of relationship you'd prefer?

1 A casual friendship is fine

2 I'd prefer a lasting friendship

3 I would favour a short-term affair

4 My preference would be for an intimate long-term relationship

5 I would choose marriage

What level of education have you reached (or do you expect to reach)?

1 My education ended when I was 16

2 No further education after leaving school at 18

3 Some further education

4 Graduate degree

5 Postgraduate degree

Which of these activities appeals most?

1 I'd choose relaxing, sitting in a chair for example

2 My preference would be for some mild exercise such as gardening

3 Moderate exercise like walking would be my choice

4 I would prefer more serious exercise such as backpacking

5 Something strenuous like football or running would be my choice

What is or was your occupation (or which do you plan to take up)?

1 I'm a professional, a doctor or teacher for example

2 Managerial - a business manager or police inspector etc

3 My job is clerical, admin or customer service

4 Skilled manual - motor mechanic, chef for instance

5 Non-skilled manual job - labourer, cleaner etc

How do you feel about pets?

1 I hate them (or I'm allergic to them)

2 I don't really like them

3 Some I like, others I don't

4 I enjoy them if it's practical and acceptable where I live

5 I can't imagine life without a pet

What do you think about astrology?

1 It's a total waste of time

2 I'm rather sceptical about it

3 It's harmless fun

4 There's probably something in it

5 I often read horoscopes for guidance

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REDS SPIN STORY ON WEB INTERNET SITE TAKING SHAPE.(SPORTS)

Byline: Mike Bass Post staff reporter

As cyberspace continues shrinking the world, the Reds and Bengals know they have to keep broadening their thinking.

Neither of Cincinnati's major-league pro sports teams was exactly on the cutting edge of riding the information superhighway to a closer relationship with their fans. But that's changing, especially for the Reds.

The Reds are in the process of completing their Web site on the Internet. They had advertised it would be ready exactly one month ago, but is up and running on only a limited basis.

But baseball's first pro team did come out on Opening Day with its media guide on CD-ROM, believed to be the first of its kind in the sport.

''It's just something we felt would be valuable not only for the media,'' said Mike Ringering, Reds director of publications, ''but interesting and interactive for kids and people wanting to know more about the Cincinnati Reds.''

The Bengals, meanwhile, have no plans to build an independent Web site, but they are working with the NFL on developing their portion of its Web site, nfl.com, with the league's help.

''It's part of our way of living these days,'' said Bengals president Mike Brown. ''The young people are very acquainted with this kind of thing. We just have to learn more how to operate with it. It's to the advantage of the fans, the public, the player and the coaches.''

The idea is to build a better link to the fans, through statistics and information and e-mail and other interactivities.

Bengals marketing director Mike Hoffbauer was in New York on Wednesday for the league's Internet meetings. Hoffbauer said the NFL's site already has quality programming and information.

''I think it would benefit us if, say, every Wednesday or Thursday we have a chat session with one of our players or coaches,'' said Hoffbauer.

Ann Kirschner, vice president of NFL Interactive, said the philosophy is to make sure every team has a quality area for fans.

''Even if you're a fan of Team A, when it's playing Team B, you want to see information of both,'' she said. ''It's the philosophy of the league to make sure fans of each team are served.''

But other NFL teams do have the option of producing their own Web sites. The Jacksonville Jaguars' Web site (jaguars.com), in fact, was named one of the top 100 Web sites of any kind in 1996 by PC magazine. It features striking graphics and everything from a history of the franchise to trading cards.

The NFL site, nfl.com, is trying to expand, to be more comprehensive, to offer more video. Teams supplement the Web site, but their own sites can offer so much more, if they choose. Same for baseball.

When Ringering was looking at Web sites in building the Reds' (cincinnatireds.com), the two that particularly impressed him were the Los Angeles Dodgers' (dodgers.com) and the Atlanta Braves' (atlantabraves.com).

''The Dodgers have a couple of things we'll try, like live updates during our games,'' said Ringering. ''You'll be able to go on the Web site and find out what happened in the first inning and have a television image, a freeze frame, from the action.''

Ringering apologizes for the delays. The time of setting up the site with the help of Cincinnati's Gaeanet Design has taken longer than expected because he wants the site to be of the highest quality.

''They come back with designs and ideas, and if it's not what I want, they go back and do it again,'' Ringering said. ''When it's done, it will be fantastic - well worth the wait. And we're going to keep expanding like you wouldn't believe.''

The roster is available. So is a contest in which fans can choose players from the Reds and that day's opponent to earn points (and eventually prizes) for their performances. Updated and detailed stats should be available soon, as well as merchandise.

''Eventually, we'd like to have a Reds alumni section, where you can go in and look at the entire list of the 1,400 players who have appeared in a Cincinnati Reds uniform, click to that player, find his biography and career record and statistics,'' said Ringering. ''I also want a Big Red Machine page.

''But it takes time.''

Ringering credits Reds managing executive John Allen for approving the Web site and the CD-ROM last year. Abrams & Associates sales director Gary Schatz and president Ron Weigand are in the CD-ROM business, and they presented the idea to the Reds and the Bengals.

The Bengals passed for now, but the Reds said yes.

''We figured if we made it entertaining, added some video highlights, some games for kids, it would be marketable,'' said Schatz. ''That's one of baseball's things now - they want to reach the younger fans.''

Besides the media guide, there are video clips, a Mr. Red race, a trivia quiz and a ''Concentration'' game. Ringering said he and Schatz see this year as a learning experience, that the project will grow.

The CD-ROM has been on the market only a few weeks now. Schatz said 10,000 were produced, retailing at $19.95 each, but only about 80 have been sold.

Schatz said he and Weigand put up the money and that they need to sell about 2,500 to break even. After that they and the Reds will split the profits.

''We still expect to sell 5,000,'' said Schatz.

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Big leagues on the Web

Some of the more notable NFL and Major League Baseball Web sites:

TEAM WEB ADDRESS

Jacksonville Jaguars www.jaguars.com

Dallas Cowboys www.dallascowboys.com

Kansas City Chiefs www.kcchiefs.com

Los Angeles Dodgers www.dodgers.com

Atlanta Braves www.atlantabraves.com

Florida Marlins www.flamarlins.com

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Adobe Systems ePaper Seminar Attendees Get Instant Personalized eMarketing Kits Over eMail and Fax Via The AudienceOne Personalization Server.

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000

AudienceOne Delivers the Impact of 4-Color Printed Collateral

Using eMail, Fax and Print; Puts Personalized Pre- and Post-Event

Collateral Delivery On the Internet

Cardiff Software Monday announced that over 4,000 full color, personalized marketing kits were sent to registrants of the Adobe ePaper Solutions "Bridging the Digital Divide" seminar series -- using the Internet instead of traditional paper and post-office mail.

The one-to-one marketing kits were automatically generated and sent via email or Fax using the Cardiff AudienceOne Personalization Server. Even though the seminar series was held worldwide in over eight cities, participants received requested information within minutes of the event, improving Adobe's sales responsiveness and saving thousands of dollars. Demonstrations of AudienceOne can be found at www.Cardiff.com/A1.

By using AudienceOne for their post-event customer communications, Adobe has automated their sales response process and eliminated manual print, store, pack and shipping processes. In contrast, traditional pre- and post-event customer communications are mailed at great expense and can take up to two weeks to arrive at the destination. Moreover, the AudienceOne emails are delivered directly to the inbox of customers, who are much more likely to read email than to open printed materials that arrive in interoffice mail bins.

"AudienceOne has helped deliver our high-quality marketing materials quickly and affordably to worldwide attendees of our ePaper solutions seminars," said Monika Kessling, marketing manager for Adobe ePaper Solutions. "By leveraging AudienceOne with email, we were able to give our seminar attendees Internet-based collateral with the visual impact of personalized four-color printed materials. This is a revolutionary approach for responding to customers and prospects."

Adobe will also use the AudienceOne system to deliver personalized post-event content for the next phase of "Bridge the Paper to Digital Divide" seminar series. More information on these seminars can be found at www.Adobe.com.

The AudienceOne Personalization Server allows organizations to use existing content to deliver personalized marketing collateral, reports and documents. The system personalizes on two levels: creating documents that contain specific pages of information that are requested by the user; and adding variable text and graphics to existing documents. AudienceOne collects specific content from a users library of existing Adobe PDF documents, creating a new single document, complete with page numbers and a table of contents. For more personalization, AudienceOne can insert custom cover letters and can add variable text and graphics into the new document based upon business rules.

Adobe ePaper Solutions

Adobe PDF is the foundation for Adobe's ePaper solutions initiative. Adobe ePaper solutions enable businesses to become eBusinesses. ePaper solutions address the challenges of integrating paper and electronic workflows to unlock a wealth of information and value locked in paper documents with the flexibility and speed of electronic documents.

Today, Adobe and its partners deliver ePaper solutions through the Adobe Acrobat family of products. With over 165 million users of the Adobe Acrobat Reader worldwide, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is an ideal file format to distribute eBooks that can be viewed, downloaded and shared electronically, around the world.

Pricing & Availability

The Cardiff AudienceOne Personalization Server is available immediately, starting at $25,000 per server. It includes the AudienceOne Publisher, which converts existing documents created in Word, Quark(R), Adobe(R) InDesign(TM) or other publishing products into online personalized content. The system works on standard Web server systems and can be integrated with eCRM and Sales Force Automation products, including those from Siebel, Vignette, Oracle, GoldMine and ACT!. Visit www.Cardiff.com/A1 or call 760/936-4816 for more details.

About Cardiff Software

Cardiff's integrated eTransaction solutions are used by over 20,000 organizations to automate a wide range of business transactions and processes. Cardiff's Information Capture, eForm and Personalized Interaction solutions work together to replace manual processing with automated online systems, putting information to work more quickly and affordably than ever before. Cardiff TELEform(R) and MediClaim(TM) Information Capture products automatically convert paper forms and documents into online information for database, XML and eBusiness applications. Cardiff's eForm Warehouse(TM) Suite, HTML+Forms(TM) and PDF+Forms(TM) are used to automate the collection and processing of data from Internet forms, and to replace corporate paper forms with automated online eForms. Cardiff Personalized Interaction products dynamically create one-to-one Web pages and high-quality customer documents, and include the AudienceOne(TM) Personalization Server(TM). More information on Cardiff eTransaction Solutions can be found at www.Cardiff.com.

(c) 1991-2000 Cardiff Software Inc. All rights reserved. Cardiff Software and TELEform are registered trademarks of Cardiff Software Inc. Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Policy Management Systems Corporation Announces Release Of New Internet Solution Software.

COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Policy Management Systems Corporation (NYSE: PMS) (PMSC) announced today that its PMSCiSolutions(TM) suite, a new generation of Internet-based solutions for the insurance and financial services industries, became generally available in December, 1998. PMSCiSolutions uses Microsoft(R) Internet technologies to securely extend the reach of PMSC's enterprise systems to new audiences such as agents, third parties and consumers. The product provides interfaces and workflows appropriate for non-traditional users who wish to leverage information and processes in existing enterprise systems. These capabilities will allow insurance companies to provide better customer service at lower costs.

The initial release of PMSCiSolutions provides extensive inquiry capabilities, making volumes of information available at the user's fingertips. Information regarding policies, billing and claims can be located and viewed via a browser from anywhere in the world at any time, day or night. In addition, this release provides the capabilities for agents to submit a Claims Notice of Loss form via the Internet, intranet, or extranet.

PMSCiSolutions provides security and functionality features that will allow system administrators to personalize their web sites quickly and easily. PMSCiSolutions allows each company to determine the type and amount of information available to each audience. In addition, numerous wizards help the system administrator quickly and easily customize the site's interface. PMSCiSolutions Release 1.0 provides integration with PMSC's Series II(TM) enterprise system. Future releases will integrate with PMSC's other enterprise systems including S3+(TM), Point+(TM), Series III(TM) and POINT(TM).

"PMSCiSolutions is the first step in beginning to change the way insurance companies do business," said Rick Field, general manager of PMSC's Property & Casualty eCommerce Division. "This will redefine the relationship between agents and companies and will provide better service to their customers while reducing expenses." According to Field, several releases of PMSCiSolutions are anticipated for market in 1999.

PMSC, headquartered in Columbia, S.C., is the leader in providing enterprise and electronic commerce application software, professional services, and outsourcing designed to meet the needs of the global insurance and related financial services industries. Information on PMSC and its products and services can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.pmsc.com.

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provided a "safe harbor" for certain forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Among the factors which could affect the company's actual results and could cause results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements contained herein are customer acceptance of the company's new products and services, the success of the company's market penetration efforts and timing of customers' decisions to enter into agreements for the company's products and services.

Pharmasset to Present at Two Upcoming Conferences.(Conference news)

PRINCETON, N.J., June 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announces that management will present at the Goldman Sachs 32nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference to be held June 7 to 9, 2011 at the Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, California and the William Blair 31st Annual Growth Stock Conference to be held June 14 to 16, 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Schaefer Price, Pharmasset's President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an overview of the company at the Goldman Sachs Conference on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 3:20 PM (PT) and at the William Blair Conference on June 14, 2011 at 12:10 PM (CT).

To access a simultaneous webcast of Mr. Price's overview via the internet, log on to the "Events & Presentations" section of the Investor Center on Pharmasset's website at http://investor.pharmasset.com/events.cfm. Please connect to the website at least ten minutes prior to the start of the presentation to ensure adequate time for a reliable connection and any software download that may be necessary for the webcast.

A replay of the webcasts will be available on Pharmasset's website for thirty days following the conference. The investor presentation will be available for download in PDF format immediately following the presentation in the "Events & Presentations" section of the Investor Center on Pharmasset's website at http://investor.pharmasset.com/events.cfm.

About Pharmasset

Pharmasset is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections. Pharmasset's primary focus is the development of oral therapeutics for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Our research and development efforts are focused on nucleoside/tide analogs, a class of compounds which act as alternative substrates for the viral polymerase, thus inhibiting viral replication. We currently have three clinical-stage product candidates advancing in trials in various populations. Our pyrimidine, PSI-7977, an unpartnered uracil nucleotide analog, is currently under study in three Phase 2b trials in patients with HCV genotypes 1 through 6, including abbreviated duration interferon and interferon-free regimens. Our purine, PSI-938, an unpartnered guanosine nucleotide analog, recently reported safety and efficacy data from 14 days of monotherapy as well as 14 days in combination with the pyrimidine, PSI-7977. An SVR-endpoint study of the purine-pyrimidine combination is anticipated to begin in the third quarter of 2011. Mericitabine (RG7128) continues in two Phase 2b trials and one interferon-free trial being conducted through a strategic collaboration with Roche.

Contact Richard E. T. Smith, Ph.D. VP, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Office: +1 (609) 865-0693

Forward-Looking Statements

Pharmasset "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements," that involve risks, uncertainties, and other important factors, including, without limitation, the risk of cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical trials and/or our development of our product candidates, the risk that the results of previously conducted studies involving our product candidates will not be repeated or observed in ongoing or future studies involving our product candidates, the risk that our collaboration with Roche will not continue or will not be successful, and the risk that any one or more of our product candidates will not be successfully developed and commercialized. For a discussion of risks, uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in our subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SOURCE Pharmasset, Inc.

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced.

The Los Angeles Times launched its weekend-long celebration of literature, authors, reading and community at the 31st Annual Book Prizes ceremony tonight, honoring extraordinary literary accomplishments in 12 categories. Held at The Times' Chandler Auditorium and hosted by Book Critic David L. Ulin, the event opens Saturday and Sunday's 16th Annual Festival of Books - the country's largest public literary festival - debuting at its new home on the University of Southern California campus.

In an evening of firsts, Beverly Cleary was the first children's author to win the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and Powell's Books was the first bookstore ever honored, receiving the Innovator's Award, which spotlights cutting-edge business models, technology or applications of narrative art.

Cleary was cited as "a revolutionary figure" for the impact of her first novel, Henry Huggins. Published in 1950, it displayed a "clear-cut, but radical agenda: to write directly and movingly for kids." Her signature characters have become "some of the most recognizable icons not just of children's literature but of American literature."

Powell's Books, founded in 1971, was noted for being "an innovator all along." One of the first to embrace online bookselling, it quickly became an industry leader in creating a "cohesive strategy that makes books available for readers in whatever way they prefer." 2010 Book Prize Winners Biography: Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House) Current Interest: Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf) Graphic Novel: Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books) History: Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf) Mystery-Thriller: Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow) Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company) Science & Technology: Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company) Young Adult Literature: Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins) Robert Kirsch Award: Beverly Cleary Innovator's Award: Powell's Books

A complete list of 2010 finalists and past winners, as well as eligibility and judging information can be found at www.latimesbookprizes.com. About the Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 1.9 million and 2.9 million on Sunday, more than 8 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.5 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times has been covering Southern California for more than 128 years.

The Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) businesses and affiliates also include The Envelope, Times Community Newspapers, Brand X, LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine and Hoy Los Angeles which, combined with the flagship Los Angeles Times, reach approximately 5.2 million or 38% of all adults in the Southern California marketplace. LATMG also owns and operates California Community News as well as Tribune Direct's west coast division and is part of Tribune Company, one of the country's leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internet and broadcasting. Additional information is available at http://latimes.com/aboutus.

Keywords: Los Angeles Times Media Group, Technology.

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

Arrow Electronics Acquires Cross Telecom.

--Expands presence in unified communications and managed services market--

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) announced that the company has acquired Cross Telecom ("Cross"), a leading North American service provider of converged and internet protocol technologies and unified communications. Cross' portfolio of solutions and services includes voice, data, Internet-protocol telephony, wireless and CrossNet maintenance and support provided to Fortune 1000 customers.

"This acquisition is a continuation of Arrow's strategy to expand into faster growing, high-margin services that complement our global ECS business," said Andy Bryant, president of Arrow Global Enterprise Computing Solutions. "Cross strengthens our customer and supplier relationships as well as our industry and technical expertise in the unified communications, telephony and managed services industry."

Cross is headquartered in Bloomington, MN, and has approximately 315 employees. Total sales were approximately $120 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. The transaction is expected to be $.01-$.05 per share accretive to earnings in the first full year of operations. Cross will be managed through Shared Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arrow Electronics.

Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for over 1,200 suppliers and 115,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 340 locations in 52 countries.

Safe Harbor

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for forward-looking statements. This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements addressing future financial results. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: industry conditions, the company's implementation of its new global financial system and the company's planned implementation of its new enterprise resource planning system, changes in product supply, pricing and customer demand, competition, other vagaries in the global components and global ECS markets, changes in relationships with key suppliers, increased profit margin pressure, the effects of additional actions taken to become more efficient or lower costs, the company's ability to generate additional cash flow and the other risks described from time to time in the company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q). Forward-looking statements are those statements, which are not statements of historical fact. These forward-looking statements can be identified by forward-looking words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," and similar expressions. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. The company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any of the forward-looking statements.

Around the world in One Day.(Features)

DURING those long hot summers of youth when I should have been exploring Kerala in India with a Lonely Planet guide in hand, I was an unsuccessful actor appearing in obscure productions in even more obscure venues. And there were long periods when I didn't work at all, so I had no money couldn't go anywhere. I like travelling - it's just that for various reasons, I haven't travelled as much as you might expect.

As an actor I was always frightened of going away in case I missed an incredibly important audition. Needless to say I never did, so, apart from the occasional trip to Europe and Amer- ica, I haven't been anywhere at all. Now that I'm a successful writer, I'm catching up, trav- elling to those places I should have seen years ago - and, happily, I can enjoy them in a little more comfort than I would have been able to experience as an impoverished student.

In March I was pleased to be invited to a reading weekend at the Turnberry Resort in Ayrshire, where I was given the chance to read from my work, answer questions and talk about books in general. Turnberry is a terrific hotel, a little posher than I'm used to, in a wonderful location on the coast. We had a fantastic week- end there, taking long walks on the beautiful beach, sleeping, eating and reading. I hope I get a chance to go back before too long.

Despite being incurably English, I have a special affection for Scotland. My novel One Day begins and ends in Edinburgh, a city I first visited as a student in 1988 when I had a small role in an obscure Jacobean tragedy being performed at the annual Festival.

I've been to the city many times since then, but it's that first visit that remains the most vivid. I had just graduated, and that summer recalls all the hope, confusion and uncertainty of that period.

The Edinburgh Festival is traditionally a riot of drunken bad behaviour, but I had an extremely chaste, sensible time. We are now told that 1988 was the second Summer of Love, but no one at the time bothered to tell me: I ate a lot of takeaways, saw a lot of ear- nest plays and failed to find myself drunk at dawn on Arthur's Seat - the great out- crop of volcanic rock overlook- ing the city - with a Czech performance artist.

ONE DAY begins in that Edinburgh summer, in the room on Rankeil- lor Street that I shared with 12 other people. There's now a movie adaptation of the novel - starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as the book's main char- acters, Emma and Dexter. It's due to be released in September.

That shabby room was recre- ated on a sound stage just off the M25. But filming has been a terrific experience, especially on location. Edinburgh really is a very beautiful city. I hope that both the novel and the movie cap- ture some of the joy and melan- choly, the hopes and frustrations, of that time and place.

Much of the novel is set in places that I knew at the moments described. So I was there in Edin- burgh in 1988, in Greece in the summer of 1991 and in Paris in summer 2001. Perhaps it's that old habit of 'writing what you know'.

The only real piece of 'fraud' in the book is the chapter set in India. I'm afraid I've never been anywhere near India in my life. I'd have loved to go on a research trip but my partner and I had just had a baby, so I didn't think I could get away with a foreign jaunt on my own. So everything that Dexter does is pure Rough Guide and internet research.

Paris, though, I do know well. Before my partner and I had children - while we were able to do these things - we once spent the whole of August there. Much of my first novel, Starter For Ten, was written there, in our tiny flat in Belleville in the summer of 2002; still one of the happiest periods of my life.

It's an interesting time of year to go because the whole of the French capital packs up and goes to the seaside, so it becomes a different place. Belleville is probably des- cribed in guide books as 'the real Paris'. It has traditionally been very working-class - like London's East End; this is where Edith Piaf was born and brought up.

But in the past few years it has become what the French call 'bobo' - bourgeois boheme - and very trendy.

One of my favourite eating places there is Le Bistro Paul Bert, a classic, romantic bistro not far from the Pere Lachaise cemetery, the city's largest.

Paris is the most consistently beautiful, stylish, fascinating city I've ever visited. It's definitely my favourite. But whether I'm in Paris, Rome, Berlin or Venice, whenever I go to those cities I want to see everything and I restlessly wander the streets, guide book in hand, to make sure that I do.

And a city such as Rome has an awful lot to see, ideally in spring or early autumn. Venice, on the other hand, is a winter city for me. I love that wonderful atmosphere of gloom, melancholy and menace. Whenever we visit we stay in a little pensione on the Dorsoduro: the Antica Locanda Montin. It's the opposite of those big, expensive Venetian hotels - cosy, a little cranky but friendly, and in a beautiful part of that incredible city. It's a great place to indulge my passion for all-day city walks. I love real 20-milers - maybe a complete circuit of Venice, north to south and east to west in Paris, or following the Circle Line by foot in London.

One of the key chapters in One Day is set in a fictionalised version of the Greek island of Symi, in the Dodecanese. Like Emma and Dexter, I went there in the early Nineties, on my first traditional beach holidays.

In the movie, our budget and schedule didn't allow us to travel to Greece, so those scenes instead take place in Brittany, in the coves around Dinard. We don't pretend it's Greece - there are no fake palm trees - and we acknowledge that it's Brittany. But it's still beautiful, and the scenes we shot there look lovely.

I'm definitely not a beach person: what are you actually supposed to do all day on a beach? And I really don't understand the attraction of holidays that promise you 'adrenaline thrills' - bungee-jumping would kill me, with or without the rope. Instead I love cities, and city museums, so it's culture every time.

When I was a child, most summers were spent with my grandparents in Ely in Cardiff. I loved these holidays and looked forward to them all year. They also took me on my very first holiday 'away' - to the Pontin's holiday camp at Camber Sands in Sussex. I have memories of staying up late, a Glamorous Grannies contest, fizzy drinks and not a single green vegetable.

I thought it was heaven. In my teenage years, I used to go on terrible cycling holidays with my friends in the New Forest or on the Isle of Wight, sleeping in flimsy tents and living on flat cider and half-cooked sausages. Despite the grim conditions and sleepless nights, I still have a fondness for that outdoors life. Before having children I used to enjoy walking in the Lake District, West Dorset and North Yorkshire.

Los Angeles is about as far from hiking in the Lakes as it's possible to imagine, but I love that place too. Once or twice, work has allowed me to stay at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood, one of my favourite hotels. Like the better-known Chateau Marmont, it has a reputation for out-of-control rock stars, but I have to say that when I was there I was very well-behaved.

Another of my favourite stopping-off places is the Mena House hotel in Cairo - an oldfashioned place that has a fabulous morning view of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Cairo is an incredible city: not always picturesque, it's manic and chaotic, a real working city, full of life.

I'm starting work on my new book at the moment. I have a couple of ideas: one involves a lot of travel research, the other involves none at all. So I'm deciding which way to go.

WORK commitments mean this summer's holiday plans are slightly tentative. But we are definitely going to a friend's house in Merindol, a tiny village in Provence that we visit every year. And I'd love to do some walking in the Lakes, Scotland or Snowdonia - somewhere British, beautiful and remote - in early summer, with blisters, Mars bars and a light drizzle. That might be a little ambitious with two small children.

One day I want to make it to Asia, to countries such as India, Vietnam and Thailand.

My problem is that I have a sort of travel guilt. I feel I should be getting on with things rather than gadding about around the world. In theory, you ought to be able to write anywhere, but it's hard to concentrate when you're travelling with kids. So this summer I suspect I should be spending more time at my desk.

Perhaps a remote Scottish island might be the answer, somewhere like Jura, where George Orwell went to write 1984. I'd love the monkish, solitude, the absence of wi-fi, the enforced concentration - though it's also possible that I'd go a little mad.

The world in David's words...

PERHAPS one of the reasons David Nicholls' novel has become such a favourite with trav- ellers is that it captures the mood of so many favourite holiday places - each one echoing the mood of the story at a particular time in Emma and Dexter's interconnecting lives. Extracts give a flavour of the book and its locations ...

Bombay, India 'This letter comes to you from a downtown Bom- bay hostel with scary mattresses and hot and cold running Australians. My guide book tells me that it has character, ie rodents, but my room also has a little plastic picnic table by the window and it's raining like crazy outside, harder even than in Edinburgh. It's CHUCKING IT DOWN ...' Symi, the Dodecanese Islands, Greece... Emma caught the first sight of their destina- tion: a blue-grey granite mass rising from the clearest sea that she had ever seen. She had always assumed that water like this was a lie told by brochures, a trick with lenses and filters, but there it was, sparkling and emerald green.

Belleville, Paris The only way she could make the idea seem less hokey was to settle as far away as she could from tourist Paris, in the working-class 19th arrondissement on the border of Belleville and Menilmontant. No tourist attractions, few landmarks ... 'But it's really lively, and cheap, and multicultural and ... God, I was about to say it's very "real".' Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh 'Okay. Fine. I'll look at the view.' Turning, he saw the council estates, the spires and crenel- lations of the Old City beneath the great grey hulk of the castle, then beyond that in the haze of the warm day, the Firth of Forth. Dexter had a general policy of not appearing impressed by any- thing, but it really was a mag- nificent view, one he recognised from picture postcards. 'Very nice,' he allowed himself and they kept climbing towards the summit, wondering what would happen when they got there.

GETTING THERE The next Turnberry Reading Weekend is from October 7 to 9 and costs from [pounds sterling]400. Visit www.readingweekend.co.uk or www.turnberryresort.co.uk. Rooms at the Antica Locanda Montin in Venice (www.locandamontin.com) cost from [pounds sterling]87. Discover Egypt (www.discoveregypt.co.uk) offers a four-night bed-and-breakfast break at the Mena House hotel in Cairo from [pounds sterling]699, including return flights from Heathrow. For bookings at Le Bistro Paul Bert in Paris, call 00 33 1 43 72 24 01.

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SMITTEN: The pretty Greek island of Symi, and Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as Emma and Dexter in the film version of One Day

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BESTSELLER: Author David Nicholls with his novel

WELL-TRAVELLED: Hathaway and Sturgess in the movie, to be released this year

HEIGHT OF GRANDEUR: The view over Edinburgh from Arthur's Seat. Left: The market at Belleville in Paris

TAITRA SEES OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA FOR TAIWAN ICT PRODUCTS.

TAIPEI, Nov. 23 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's trade promotion agency said Saturday that a recent symposium it held in Mexico could help Taiwan manufacturers of information and communication technology (ICT) products tap into the Central American country's communication market, creating as much as US$5 million in business opportunities.

The Taiwan External Trade and Development Council (TAITRA) said that its "2009 ICT Trade Promotion Group to Central and South America, " featuring leading Taiwanese ICT companies, was a success.

"Taiwan has great strength in the ICT industry, holding the number one global market share in notebooks, computer motherboards and liquid crystal displays, and manufacturing 83 percent of the world's ICT products," the semi-official trade promotion agency said.

At the symposium, the senior director-general of the communication department of SerComm Corporation, a leading manufacturer of broadband and wireless networking equipment in Taiwan, gave Mexican ICT companies an introduction of Taiwan's ICT industry.

Other Taiwanese ICT companies that participated in the symposium included Yung Hsiang Information Management, Billion Electric Co., Ltd., Dan-Chief Enterprise Co., Ltd., Megatone Electronics, Romancell Technology Co., Ltd., Senao Networks Inc., Soundlink Technology Ltd., and 3JTech, according to TAITRA.

Some 100 buyers from 51 Mexican companies, including Axtel, Salinas, Maxcom and MVS, met one-on-one with Taiwanese manufacturers.

The buyers showed great interest in products such as Internet protocol private branch exchanges (IP PBX) , SIP IP phones, SIP gateways, 3G routers and VDSL modems.

It is estimated that follow-up business opportunities could amount to US$5 million, the TAITRA said.

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GTE standardizes on and distributes ADC Kentrox access router.

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--ADC Kentrox (NASDAQ: ADCT), the leader in network access solutions, announced today that GTE has standardized on the ADC Kentrox PACESETTER(tm) SOHO access router for use in the resale market.

The PACESETTER SOHO will provide GTE's customers economical ISDN/POTS access to the wide-area network (WAN) and the Internet.

"The PACESETTER SOHO access router passed all basic networking interoperability tests and exceeded our performance expectations," said Arnie Eizensmits, ISDN product manager at GTE. "The ADC Kentrox PACESETTER SOHO offers our customers cost-effective remote access that is required for linking to corporate networks and the Internet."

The PACESETTER SOHO is an ideal solution for GTE's customers, connecting to the wide-area data network (or Internet) and the public voice network via ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI). The PACESETTER SOHO supports IPShare(tm), a dynamic IP assignment and translation scheme that makes it possible to share a single IP address across a full LAN. IPShare lets you share an IP address, assigned by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), among any number of LAN workstations. This lowers monthly ISP charges, increases flexibility when dealing with ISPs, and minimizes network maintenance tasks.

"The PACESETTER SOHO access router offers a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for telecommuters and small offices," commented Jeff VanZwol, Sr. Product Manager at ADC Kentrox. "With the combination of two POTS ports and one ISDN port, customers can connect any standard analog equipment over a single digital ISDN line. And the unique, integral four-port 10Base-T hub provides users with the ability to network up to four PCs without the added expense and space of an external hub."

For further information on the PACESETTER family of access routers for ISDN, Frame Relay, T1/E1 or HDSL networks, please contact Customer Service at (503) 643-1681 or visit our Web site at www.kentrox.com -0-

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