Malaysia careens toward turbulence as protests intensify

RANJAN ROY Associated Press Writer
AP Online
09-27-1998
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) _ Police batons, tear gas, water cannons and more than 150 arrests have not stopped protesters from swarming into the streets to call for the resignation of Malaysia's prime minister.

If anything, the movement opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim began appears to be gaining momentum a week after his arrest.

Anwar, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, is accused of crimes that include unlawful sex acts and leaking state secrets. He has denied the charges, however, saying they were politically motivated.

On Sunday, hours after authorities blocked an opposition group that had planned to meet in the heart of Malaysia's capital, more than 10,000 Anwar supporters gathered at another rally held on the outskirts of the city.

Police prevented cars from entering the area, about 12 miles northeast of Kuala Lumpur, so people walked along a poorly-lit village road to attend the rally organized by Malaysia's opposition Islamic party.

Anwar's wife, nominated by him to lead the reform campaign, has been silenced by police threats. His main political supporters, like him, have been jailed under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial.

But thousands have answered each informal call for protest, shouting ``Reforms! Reforms!'' and demanding Mahathir's resignation.

Many expected a leaderless movement to sag. However, opposition parties and volunteer groups are risking Mahathir's wrath by openly joining Anwar's campaign.

``We don't know where the leadership is coming from. People themselves are taking the lead,'' said Anil Netto of the Aliran, a group for social reform.

Denied access to the local press and television, Anwar's supporters have used the Internet and word of mouth to spread information about their rallies.

The last time Malaysians dared to protest on the streets was 11 years ago, when opponents within the governing United Malays National Organization made an abortive attempt at a leadership change. The party split, but Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad survived.

Between Sept. 2, when Mahathir, 72, fired Anwar, and last Sunday's rally of 35,000 in Kuala Lumpur hours before his arrest, the 51-year-old Anwar toured Malaysia, drawing huge crowds, even in areas believed to be bastions of Mahathir's supporters.

His speeches focused on reforms to make Malaysia more liberal and demands for greater political freedom.

By the time he arrived at the capital's Independence Square, he was demanding the resignation of the man he was designated to automatically succeed.

Analysts say that Anwar is getting most of his support from a Malay Muslim Youth group, the ABIM, which claims a membership of 50,000. As a young activist, he led the group before joining the government.

But protests in the wake of his arrest appear to be drawing people beyond Muslim student groups and known antiestablishment organizations.

Of the 29 people arrested during Saturday's scattered demonstrations in downtown Kuala Lumpur, only four were Muslim students. Of the remaining, three were government employees, 13 were from private companies and nine ran their own businesses.

``We've got no savior, but it doesn't matter,'' said a 37-year-old nuclear scientist who wanted to be identified only as Ahmad.

``Look what happened in Tiananmen and in Indonesia. There were no leaders, but it did not stop the flames from igniting.''

Despite repeated assurances from Mahathir and the head of Malaysia's federal court that Anwar would be given a fair trail, he has not been brought to a court. His lawyers and his family have seen him.

``I think there is a lot of resentment because Anwar is not being fairly treated,'' said Netto.


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VIC:Vic councils to choose own Melb Cup hols

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2011
VIC:Vic councils to choose own Melb Cup hols

In lieu of Melbourne Cup Day .. Victorian country councils will be able to choose their
own public holiday .. under new laws to be introduced into state parliament.

A law introduced by the former state government in 2008 banned half-day or part-shire
arrangements to substitute the public holiday.

But Services Minister LOUISE ASHER says agricultural and pastoral shows .. and regional
race days have suffered under those arrangements.

All Victorians in regional Victoria or metropolitan Melbourne will continue to receive
the same number of public holidays each year.

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QLD:Wild Rivers push leaves miners up creek

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2010
QLD:Wild Rivers push leaves miners up creek

BRISBANE, Dec 15 AAP - Miners say they face great uncertainty over a proposal to declare
Queensland's Cooper Creek Basin a wild river area.

The state government on Tuesday proposed protecting the basin, in the state's west,
under its controversial Wild Rivers laws.

The basin covers 244,000 square kilometres and includes communities at Longreach, Barcaldine,
Blackall and Windorah.

Cooper Creek is formed by the junction of the Thomson and the Barcoo rivers before
it spreads into an enormous area of braided, shifting streams known as the Channel Country,
where Boulia Shire occupies more than 60,000 square kilometres.

Given enough rain these waters gradually flow to Lake Eyre.

Almost the entire basin is covered by oil, gas and geothermal exploration permits and
production leases.

Queensland Resources Council chief executive Michael Roche on Wednesday called on the
government to quickly clarify how proposed high preservation areas in the basin would
affect mining activity.

He said a Wild Rivers declaration would potentially lock the sector out of large swathes
of the Cooper Basin, including 16 major tributaries and swamplands stretching to the Galilee
Basin in central Queensland.

"Alarmingly, the eastern portion of the Cooper Creek nomination overlaps a huge section
of the Galilee Basin, where a number of companies are planning multi-billion dollar investments
in mega-coal mines, including many that have secured significant project status from the
Coordinator-General," Mr Roche said.

He said the QRC would be closely examining detailed maps to understand which existing
projects are at risk, and the longer term risk of sterilising resources in lightly explored
parts of the Cooper Creek area.

There are 10 declared Wild Rivers in Queensland, and those on Cape York have provoked
bitter debate among landholders, miners and indigenous communities.

The laws were introduced in 2005 to protect the health of Queensland's wild rivers
by placing limits on development but opponents claim they unfairly restrict indigenous
people's economic opportunities.

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FED:Gillard meets protesters, makes promises

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2010
FED:Gillard meets protesters, makes promises

After a torrid day dealing with former Labor leaders in Brisbane .. Prime Minister
JULIA GILLARD has been confronted with anti-nuclear dump protesters in Darwin.

She was quickly led away from JUSTIN TUTTY .. who told Ms GILLARD he represented the
traditional owners from Muckaty Station .. the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump.

Next stop was a local hockey field to meet up with children before the prime minister
outlined a no-school .. no-play initiative .. to lift school attendance rates.

Under a partnership between her government and eight national sporting organisations
.. children who don't go to school won't be able to play sport.

Ms GILLARD's also announced 30 new sub-acute beds at the Royal Darwin Hospital in the
marginal seat of Solomon .. and funding for a thousand more schools to join the chaplains'
program.

AAP RTV ah/sw

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FED: National holiday road toll rises to 52

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2009
FED: National holiday road toll rises to 52

FOLLOWING IS A BREAKDOWN OF ROAD FATALITIES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON 2009-2010:



New South Wales 17

Victoria 13

Western Australia 8

Queensland 7

Tasmania 4

South Australia 2

Northern Territory 1

Australian Capital Territory 0

_______________________________________

NATIONAL TOTAL: 52





(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 18 to 2359 January
3. Some states and territories have different periods.)





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NT: Hendo signed a deal for the car, office and no power: oppn

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2009
NT: Hendo signed a deal for the car, office and no power: oppn

By Tara Ravens

DARWIN, Aug 17 AAP - Paul Henderson stands accused of signing a deal that makes him
the Northern Territory's chief minister in name only, in a desperate bid to hold on to
power.

In an 11th hour deal, Mr Henderson convinced independent MP Gerry Wood to back Labor
in a no-confidence vote on Friday.

In exchange, Mr Wood bagged almost 50 concessions from the government, including a
new body that will operate much like a Senate.

The Council of Territory Cooperation will be empowered to conduct inquiries and make
recommendations on matters of public importance and major developments.

Mr Wood said he was putting Labor on notice and giving the government a second chance,
and threatened to rip up the deal if its conditions were not met.

As parliament resumed under the new arrangements on Monday, Deputy Opposition Leader
Kezia Purick said Mr Henderson had made a "desperate deal".

"The chief minister has sold the authority of the office to hang on to the trappings
of the job," she said in a statement.

"The chief minister will still have the same office overlooking the harbour, he'll
still draw the same wage, and he'll still have a limousine at his beck and call, but he
no longer has the right to determine government policy."

Ms Purick said the real authority of the office of chief minister now rested with Mr
Wood, a former chicken farmer from Darwin's rural area.

"That is a recipe for ongoing instability in this faction-riven government," she said.

"The deal Paul Henderson signed doesn't make Gerry Wood the king-maker, it makes him the king."

Ms Purick said Mr Henderson would need to go to Mr Wood "cap in hand" on every single
piece of legislation presented to parliament.

"If Gerry doesn't like the look of it, then it will be scrapped or altered until Gerry
gives it his tick of approval."

But Mr Henderson cited the current ACT Labor government and previous Bracks, Rann and
Greiner governments in Victoria, SA and NSW respectively as places where similar deals
had been struck with independents.

"This is nothing unusual," he told ABC Radio in Darwin.

"Minority governments have agreements with independents to produce stable government."

Mr Henderson said both sides of parliament were consulted on most legislation.

"This is not a remarkable situation here in the Northern Territory," he said.

"About 90 per cent of all legislation goes through the parliament in a unanimous manner anyway."

AAP tr/sn/apm

KEYWORD: LABOR NT

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NSW: Stewart faces court on sex charges

AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2009
NSW: Stewart faces court on sex charges

Manly rugby league star BRETT STEWART has pleaded not guilty to sex charges relating
to a 17-year-old girl.

The 24-year-old fullback is charged with sexual intercourse without consent and assault
with an act of indecency on a 17-year-old girl on March 6 in North Manly.

The alleged incident followed a team function at the Manly Wharf Hotel.

STEWART entered his plea in the Manly Local Court today and the matter's been adjourned
to the Downing Centre Local Court on May 26.

His bail has been continued .. alongside an interim apprehended violence order relating
to the alleged victim.

AAP RTV mss/pbc/hn/ka

KEYWORD: STEWART (SYDNEY)

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FED: New laws to target identity fraud

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2008
FED: New laws to target identity fraud

The federal government says it's planning to crackdown on fraudsters who use sites
like Facebook to try to steal people's identity.

New laws will be introduced into parliament this week .. including offences for misusing
identification to commit an offence and having equipment capable of creating a false impression.

Victims will also benefit from measures aimed at helping them restore their credit histories.

Identity fraud is a growing problem that's estimated to cost the nation at least a
billion dollars every year.

AAP RTV so/kms/crh/ka/tm

KEYWORD: IDENTITY (CANBERRA)

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Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2008
Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

SYDNEY, April 29 AAP - Highlights of tonight's Seven News at 1800.

- Doctors are warning of a bed shortage in NSW public hospitals because of a lack of
facilities for mental health patients.

- The husband of former Liberal minister Jackie Kelly has pleaded not guilty over his
alleged role in distributing bogus leaflets.

- Home owners will receive cash to help install rainwater tanks as part of the federal
government's $13 billion water plan.

- A Sydney jury has heard claims that Schapelle Corby's sister was defamed by a former
friend and the Seven Network.

- Vandalism has become the latest headache for Sydney car owners and car theft has
risen in inner western Sydney.

- An Australian businessman accused of the $100 million money laundering scheme has
been extradited to Sydney.

- West Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has broken down at a press conference
and admitted he sniffed the chair of a female Liberal Party staffer.

- Last night was the coldest April night in Sydney for nearly 25 years and another
cold one is expected tonight.

- Celebrity models are jostling for attention at Australian Fashion Week as Lisa Ho
and the Zimmermann sisters paraded vastly different collections.

- Punters are queuing for for the $40 million Oz Lotto draw.

AAP jcc/

KEYWORD: MONITOR SEVEN 1800

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Briefs Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2007
Briefs Australia
Briefly in other news this hour:



Police have used tyre spikes to foil a drunk driver in a stolen car on the Gold Coast.



++



Two men have been rescued after their fishing trawler sank off Lakes Entrance in Victoria's
south-east early this morning.



++

And police divers are searching for a tourist who vanished while swimming in a man-made
lake in WA yesterday.





AAP RTV tm/sw/

KEYWORD: BRIEFS AUSTRALIA (SYDNEY)

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NSW: Top cop writes open letter to car hoons

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2007
NSW: Top cop writes open letter to car hoons

The New South Wales police chief has written an open letter to car hoons who drive
like there's no tomorrow.

In his letter .. Commissioner KEN MORONEY invites speeding drivers and illegal street
racers to stand and watch emergency service workers as they battle to rescue people injured
in collisions.

Accusing them of an act of sheer bastardry .. he says negligent drivers should be forced
to hear the screams of the dying .. to witness the carnage they cause .. and to stand
by police as they deliver messages to the victims' loved ones.





Police arrested another young driver flouting the law yesterday.

The 21-year-old learner driver was clocked by police as he hurtled down the Hume Highway
yesterday at almost 200 kilometres an hour.

AAP RTV sk/jmt

KEYWORD: MORONEY LETTER (SYDNEY)

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Fed: Business confidence growing despite rates risk=2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2007
Fed: Business confidence growing despite rates risk=2

Mr Hendy said in the May budget, the government needed to address the problem of finding
suitably qualified staff.

"It's more evidence to back up the business community's call ... that we think there
should be increased expenditure on education and training, particularly on the vocational
education area," he told reporters.

Mr Hendy said the government also needed to look at taxation issues like bracket creep
and the capital gains tax burden.

He also sent a message to the Reserve Bank board to think seriously about the impact
of an interest rate rise on business.

"The economy is on the improve and that weighs up on one side ... on the other side
though there is evidence that inflation is under control," Mr Hendy said.

"The survey we are releasing today showed us that expectations are for inflation to
ease over the year.

"The other thing is that the Australian dollar is at a very significant high, that
is hurting exporters. If interest rates were to increase this week we would see a further
potential increase in the dollar value and that would further impact exporters."

AAP so/sb/cp/de

KEYWORD: CONFIDENCE 2 CANBERRA

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Vic: Stranded whales taken to quieter waters

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2006
Vic: Stranded whales taken to quieter waters

The last five long-finned pilot whales from a pod of 27 stranded on a Tasmanian beach
.. have been moved to calmer waters .. where it's hoped they can be saved.

Officials say the five whales .. which can weigh up to 3.5 tonnes .. have been moved
to try to stabilise them.

It's hoped the whales' health will improve in the knee-high waters of Macquarie Harbour
.. and it's possible they could be pushed back out to sea as soon as today.

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KEYWORD: WHALES (HOBART)

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Fed: AWB inquiry resumes after two-week break

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2006
Fed: AWB inquiry resumes after two-week break

The AWB kickbacks inquiry resumes today .. amid speculation JOHN HOWARD could be in
hot water for attacking the company's executives.

The prime minister's stepped up his criticism of AWB executives this week .. despite
claims such comments could prejudice the inquiry into the kickbacks paid to SADDAM HUSSEIN's
regime.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal .. Mr HOWARD's accused the executives of deceiving
the government and the UN.

It's believed lawyers representing some AWB executives are also preparing to complain
to commissioner TERENCE COLE .. about comments Mr HOWARD's previously made about their
clients.

AAP RTV bt/hn/ibw/wf/wz/tm

KEYWORD: AWB (SYDNEY)

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Vic: People urged to watch out for bogus police officer

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2004
Vic: People urged to watch out for bogus police officer

By Bianca Wordley and Kate Williams

MELBOURNE, Dec 22 AAP - Victorians have been urged to ask police officers for identification
if they have any doubts, as a man posing as a cop evades capture.

The suspect, a former policeman, is wanted in relation to a number of thefts in the
Melbourne metropolitan area, acting Senior Sergeant John Pattison said today.

He said it was disturbing the man had duped so many victims while wearing a police uniform.

"Victims are going with him willingly initially until they... realise he is not a real
policeman," he said.

"It's obviously disturbing that people are going around portraying themselves to the
public as police officers.

"The public should have confidence in the police, and the way he is conducting his
behaviour is not what we'd expect of police officers."

He warned people to be cautious.

"If they're unsure of who the officer is, ask them to produce some identification.

The police officer should be carrying that, so that's the best way to do it," he said.

He said police were investigating a number leads.

"We believe he may have been sighted yesterday morning in the west Melbourne area," he said.

The man who robbed four people last week, left the police force in the mid-1990s, after
six years.

Last Wednesday he dressed in a police uniform and approached two men in Victoria Street,
Richmond, about 8pm (AEDT).

He searched the men, taking both their wallets, wrote down their details and advised
them to go to the Richmond police station where he would join them later and return their
property.

At 9am the next day, the man approached another man in Victoria Street and advised
the man to get into his car, but the victim fled on foot.

The impersonator chased the victim, took his wallet, mobile phone, jacket and cigarettes,
and ordered him into the car.

He then dropped the man at Richmond police station and advised him to wait inside,
where his property would be returned.

He struck again last Friday at the corner of Clarendon and Albert streets in East Melbourne,
snatching a woman's handbag.

Police believe the man, who continued his crime spree last weekend, drives an older-model
brown Toyota Tarago.

Anyone with information has been urged to contact police.

AAP bw/gfr/maur

KEYWORD: IMPERSONATOR NIGHTLEAD (PIX AVAILABLE)

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Japanese Mythology

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HENRYGILL FINDS CONTINENTAL FLAIR FOR AD CAMPAIGN IN STREETS OF LODO.(Business)

Byline: Dina Berta News Staff Writer

Denver is more international than you might think.

Italy, France, China, Japan and Spain - it's all right here, if you look.

With less than two months to create an ad campaign with an international feel for WholeTree.com Inc., HenryGill Advertising filmed around the globe without leaving Denver.

WholeTree.com is a young Colorado Springs dot-com that helps companies do their business over the Internet in multiple languages.

WholeTree.com, a subsidiary of LanguageWare.net Ltd., officially started in January with the $3.5 million ad campaign. Print ads are running in business publications such as The Wall Street Journal. The TV spot recently began airing on cable.

``Two years ago, we could not have launched Wholetree.com as a business,'' said Todd Oseth, president and chief executive officer of LanguageWare.net. ``Now, people are getting e-mails in another language.''

The campaign attempts to brand WholeTree.com as well as educate its target audience about the need to be multilingual on the Internet.

The print ads depict people in their native dress or country, such as Zhang-San - sitting in a candlelit room - using a laptop computer.

``Zhang-San is a techno geek. But he still can't figure out your Web site,'' the copy states.

The print ads were easier to do on a tight deadline than the TV spots, said David Henry, president of Henry Gill.

Some stock photography and a little imagery manipulation, et voila, a couple kissing turns into a couple kissing in France with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

But live action on a train in Japan? A Parisian cafe? Italian shoppers hopping on a Vespa? HenryGill didn't have three months to travel the world and do a lot of shooting.

Creative director Alan Koenke is also president of Urban Pictures, a television and film production company. Koenke scouted several locations, mostly lower downtown, and filmed the spot in two days.

The Japanese train is really good old RTD light rail. RTD approved the shoot but wouldn't stop the train for the crew, so they had to hop on at a stop and film around passengers.

That's the only hint I'll give. Downtowners might be able to figure out the other locations.

``It's amazing what the camera can make you see and not see,'' said Oseth, who admitted he was a little unsure in the beginning about HenryGill, having come from Sony Corp. where he worked with much larger, international ad agencies.

``I was very worried,'' he said. ``You wouldn't expect a bunch of cowboys to put together an ad campaign, but they were pure professional. These guys did nothing but impress.''

Accounts

TDA Advertising & Design for Bikestore.com, a division of Catalyst Communications in Boulder. Bikestore.com launches today as a free portal site for information about cycling, bike repair, trails and links to bike stores.

Connell Storer & Associates for Contra Vision North America Inc., a licensee of the United Kingdom Contra Vision Ltd. which holds worldwide patents and trademarks for see-through signage.

Pollack-Norman for the Overlook Retreat at Breckenridge, a luxury resort.

Forum21.com for Medical Simulation Corp. MSC developed a heart surgery simulator that replicates heart surgery for clinicians and surgeons.

Strategic Advantage Inc. for Recruiting Solutions LLC, a software development company.

Sukle Advertising for Denver Water's marketing and ad campaign to encourage businesses to support water conservation efforts.

Schenkein for United Airlines Worldwide Cargo. United Cargo serves 28 countries in U.S. territories on five continents.

Mango for Core Systems Inc., a wireless communications systems developer.

CAPTION(S):

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A singing American pops up in various locations around the globe, stressing the need for businesses to have multilingual capabilities on the Internet. This scene is part of 30-second TV spot for Colorado Springs-based Wholetree.com Inc. By HenryGill Advertising.

MERIDIAN AGREEST TO $85,000 IN FINES SEC ALLEGED MONEY MANAGER USED FALSE DATA IN ADVERTISING.(Business)

Byline: John Accola News Staff Writer

One of Colorado's largest money management firms - Englewood-based Meridian Investment Management Corp. - has agreed to pay $85,000 in fines to settle charges of false and misleading advertising.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement on the settlement Tuesday, citing the case as the latest in the federal government's crackdown on false advertising and inflated returns in the money management industry.

The SEC claims that for years Meridian, a $500 million investment adviser firm that recently established its own family of mutual funds, distributed advertising and other promotional materials that overstated investment returns by more than 5 percent.

Meridian attorney Robin Shipman said the SEC allegations, listed in an administrative complaint, involved promotional materials distributed by the company prior to late 1996, when Meridian managed a record $700 million in assets.

``These were past infractions that we certainly regret'' but are unrelated to the marketing of Meridian's flagship no-load Icon mutual funds, Shipman said.

Katherine Addleman, an enforcement director at the SEC in Denver, said that from 1993 to 1996 Meridian failed to deduct some commissions and mutual fund sales loads when advertising customers' investment returns.

That enabled Meridian to exaggerate investment returns in client newsletters, Internet postings, performance sheets and even figures submitted to rating services, she said.

The SEC ``cease and desist'' order against Meridian and its principal shareholders - former President Michael J. Hart and current President Craig T. Callahan - doesn't say why they inflated performance figures.

But Addleman said the company and its top officers ``intentionally and willfully'' failed to disclose commissions and mutual fund sales loads - costs that sometimes amounted to 5.5 percent of a customer's original investment.

``Individual investors were deceived about their true returns,'' Addleman said, noting that securities laws require investor-paid fees, such as finder's fees and commissions, to be deducted from advertised performance data.

Without admitting wrongdoing, Meridian agreed to pay a $70,000 fine. Hart, who resigned in April 1998, was fined $15,000.

Callahan, who served as Meridian's chief financial officer before becoming president, didn't pay a fine but is subject to stiffer sanctions if he commits similar violations in the future.

Although larger penalties have been imposed on advisers in recent years, the Meridian case should warn other investment companies that parade themselves as a step above their rivals, Addleman said.

``In this very competitive market, investment advisers are . . . tempted to make themselves seem better in an effort to get more clients,'' she said. ``This is an action against a firm for doing exactly that.''

In May, the SEC sanctioned a Boston-based investment adviser for allegedly inflating the size of the firm's investment portfolio 25-fold in advertising aimed at mutual and pension funds. Reservoir Capital Management and owner RoAnn Costine paid $75,000 in fines without admitting or denying the SEC charges.

Four years ago, a $1.5 billion Norfolk, Va., investment firm operating as Seaboard Investment Advisers agreed to pay $1 million in fines to settle false advertising claims about the performance of client assets.

Meridian, which manages $370 million in 11 sector funds, markets primarily to financial planners and regional brokers. The company's strategy is to operate as a so-called sector rotator, switching investments among portfolios that try to capitalize on the most profitable industries or areas of the world.

In November 1996, prior to introducing the Icon funds, Meridian stopped charging clients an origination commission. Last year, it also ceased investing mutual funds that charged a sales load.

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Craig T. Callahan.

Ripple Technologies, Inc. Forms Strategic Partnership with Box Hill Systems Corp.

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 1999--

Ripple Technologies, a leading developer of enterprise-wide management system solutions, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Box Hill Systems Corp. (NYSE: BXH), a leading independent provider of storage and SAN solutions. Through this new partnership, Box Hill is now OEMing Ripple Technologies' LogCaster real-time network monitoring package. LogCaster will be integrated with Box Hill's Fibre Box Array Explorer v2.3+ monitoring software for Windows NT(TM). The software is included as a standard feature with Box Hill's Fibre Box(R) and Fibre Box(R) 8004 Fibre Channel storage systems.

RippleTech LogCaster is a software product that allows network administrators to monitor NT environments, which will lead to higher systems availability, tighter security, and lower administration costs. It will also assist in monitoring the results of Y2K planning and help plan for future systems needs.

Box Hill selected LogCaster for its asynchronous event notification features, such as e-mail, paging and SNMP. In particular, Box Hill plans to capitalize on LogCaster's built-in Sky-Tel paging support, e-mail, Web paging, and dial-up paging functionality. Additionally, Box Hill will take advantage of LogCaster's multiple routes for e-mail and paging, its 100% Active Push Technology, and its ability to send and receive SNMP traps.

"This new strategic partnership truly creates a `win-win' opportunity for Box Hill and Ripple Technologies," said Dave Fisher, Vice President of Sales for Ripple Technologies, Inc. "We'll benefit from the incremental sales that result from having access to Box Hill's established customer base, while Box Hill will benefit by being able to provide even greater value to users of its Fibre Channel storage systems."

"LogCaster brings an important feature to Box Hill's Fibre Box Array Explorer 2.3," said Box Hill CEO Philip Black. "By incorporating LogCaster, FBAE 2.3 allows storage and system administrators to monitor their entire network from a single terminal. This is key to the deployment and administration of Storage Area Networks, a technology that Box Hill is committed to supporting."

Ripple Technologies' LogCaster uniquely provides all the standard utilities needed to manage a Windows NT network, such as centralized management console, Windows NT Event Log monitoring and filtering, Windows NT service monitoring, alerts and alarms, and more. In addition, LogCaster is both easy to install and configure, so results can be achieved almost instantaneously. Plus, system and network administrators can even fine tune the program with user-defined events, reports, templates and other advanced filtering rules for customized applications, business group configuration, and custom security and audit policies.

Box Hill's Fibre Box Array Explorer (FBAE) is a suite of software designed to help network administrators manage, configure, and maximize the performance of their Fibre Box in a Windows NT environment. The FBAE package features Controller-less RAID, a user-friendly GUI that can be accessed either locally or remotely and SAN Spanning(TM) functionality that advances storage networking capabilities.

The Box Hill Fibre Box is a high-speed, hot-swappable, Fibre Channel RAID storage system with Controller-less RAID fault-tolerance that offers an unmatched combination of speed, reliability, and flexibility. Speeds of up to 200 MB/s, capacities up to 288 GB per enclosure (4.5 TB per loop), and transmission distances from 30 m - 10 km make the Fibre Box ideal for mission-critical database applications, multimedia imaging, video, Internet and Web server programs.

The latest generation of Box Hill's fast and reliable Fibre Channel disk storage systems, the Fibre Box 8004 features enhanced compatibility, flexibility, and manageability. With transfer rates up to 200 MB/s (ten times faster than SCSI), and the ability to accommodate Controller-less RAID, Fibre Box 8004 is an ideal component for use in Storage Area Networks (SAN).

For more information, contact Ripple Technologies, Inc. by phone at 215/321-9600, via e-mail at info@rippletech.com, or visit the company's Internet Web site at http://www.rippletech.com.

About Ripple Technologies, Inc.

Ripple Technologies, Inc. is a leading developer of enterprise management and monitoring solutions that enhance the performance and availability of all business applications and systems. The company develops and markets products that provide simple, fast, less costly, and secure administration and operation of enterprise environments. Ripple Technologies, Inc. headquarters is located in Washington Crossing, PA. Their home page is www.rippletech.com.

About Box Hill Systems Corp.

Box Hill Systems Corp. is a leading independent provider of storage and SAN solutions. Box Hill, based in New York City, is recognized by a customer base that includes many of the largest financial, telecommunication, digital imaging, multimedia, pharmaceutical, government and university research institutions in the world. Box Hill's home page is www.boxhill.com.

LogCaster is a trademark of Ripple Technologies, Inc. Box Hill, the Box Hill logo, Fibre Box and Fibre Box Array Explorer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Box Hill Systems Corp. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Certain statements contained in this press release, including statements regarding the business, the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers, primarily with respect to the future operating performance of the Company and the products it expects to offer and other statements contained herein regarding matters that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Because such statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Those risks and uncertainties include, among others: rapid technological change, frequent new product introductions, evolving industry standards and changing customer preferences in the Open Systems storage market. In addition, the Company's business and results of operations are subject to numerous additional risks and uncertainties, including: availability and cost of key components; dependence on a limited number of customers; reliance on the financial services and telecommunications industries; ability to attract, train, retain and motivate qualified management, technical, manufacturing, sales and support personnel, demand on administrative, operational, financial, manufacturing, sales and customer service resources caused by the Company's growth and expansion; and, the Company's ability to protect its proprietary software and other intellectual property rights. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. Box Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they are made.

MORE COMPETITION FOR NBN ACCESS DRIVES PRICES LOWER.

CANBERRA, Australia -- The following information was released by the office of Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy of Australia:

Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today welcomed further news that competition by internet retail service providers was bringing good news for National Broadband Network (NBN) customers.

Senator Conroy said Exetel's announcement today of its entry level price of $34.50 was almost half that released by Internode last week and even lower than the sub-$40 package mooted by budget provider Dodo last Friday.

"As each day passes we are seeing competition in the retail NBN access market drive prices lower. This is great news for internet consumers," Senator Conroy said.

"It is now time for Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull to stand up and admit they have been deliberately misleading the Australian public about the NBN."

Senator Conroy said he was looking forward to even more pricing announcements by retail service providers over coming weeks.

He added that consumers needed to be wary of misleading media reports which were not accurately comparing the details of NBN access pricing packages.

"In many cases it is extremely difficult to make a proper comparison of packages because the speeds actually being delivered by internet service providers currently using today's aging copper infrastructure are often well below what they are advertised to be," he said.

"Another thing consumers should be aware of is that some media reports are not including line rental when they quote current internet plan prices, which is approximately $30 on top of the plan cost.

"The NBN is creating a network that will cater to the future needs of Australia, a network that will end the digital divide between metropolitan and regional Australia and one that will make Australia a world-leading digital economy."

KIM JONG IL PRAISED BY S. KOREAN STUDENT.

PYONGYANG, DPRK (North Korea) -- The following information was released by Korean Central News Agency of DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea):

A student of Seoul University posted on an Internet homepage an article praising General Secretary Kim Jong Il on June 19.

In an article headlined "Long live the great general, my only father!" he expressed his earnest wish to come over to the embrace of General Kim Jong Il.

The Juche idea is, indeed, the great guiding idea which would save the world, he said.

NWMT, CIBEY, LGORF, Removed From Naked Short Lists Today.

M2 PRESSWIRE-June 8, 2011-BUYINS.NET: NWMT, CIBEY, LGORF, Removed From Naked Short Lists Today(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net , announced today that these select companies have been After the NASDAQ, AMEX, NYSE, OTCBB and Pinksheet naked short threshold lists. NEWMARKET TECHNOLOGY INC (OTC:NWMT), COMMERCIAL INTL BANK-ADR (OTC:CIBEY), LARGO RESOURCES LTD (OTC:LGORF). For a complete list of companies on the naked short lists please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to http://www.buyins.net .

NEWMARKET TECHNOLOGY INC (OTC:NWMT) - NewMarket Technology, Inc. provides Internet Protocol communications, wireless broadband, and systems integration products and services in the United States and internationally. The company offers software and systems development, integration, and maintenance services. It provides IT outsourcing, training contracts, and technical support services; sells hardware and software; and offers IP telephony services. Its systems integration solutions include customer resource management, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and network security, as well as financial management, including accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting. The company offers its products to various national and international corporations, municipalities, governments, and governmental agencies. It operates in the United States, Latin America, and Asia. The company was formerly known as IPVoice Communications, Inc. and changed its name to NewMarket Technology, Inc. in June 2004. NewMarket Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.There is a failure to deliver in shares of NWMT

COMMERCIAL INTL BANK-ADR (OTC:CIBEY) - Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. provides commercial banking services in Egypt. The bank offers various deposit products, including current, savings, and time deposits; certificates of deposit; and minor, youth, senior citizen, and care accounts. It provides a loan portfolio comprising auto loans and personal loans; residential property finance; women banking; CIB wealth; credit cards, debit cards, point of sale machines, and prepaid cards; and e-banking and phone banking services. The bank also offers corporate banking services, such as project finance, debt capital market services, structured products, shipping finance, structured trade finance, working capital finance, syndicated medium and long-term loans, letters of credit, and letters of guarantee. In addition, it offers treasury services; sales, trading, structuring, and advisory services for foreign exchange, fixed income, and money market products; private equity investments; trade finance, cross-border allocation, fundraising, marketing products, clearing services, custody services, and donor programs; and structured finance services. Further, the bank provides small and medium size enterprises banking products that include medium term financing, short term financing, contract financing, guarantees, sight/time letters of credit, and liability deposit products. The bank was formerly known as Chase National Bank of Egypt and changed its name in January 1987. Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Giza, Egypt.There is a failure to deliver in shares of CIBEY

LARGO RESOURCES LTD (OTC:LGORF) - Largo Resources Ltd., a development stage company, engages in the exploration and development of mineral resource properties in Brazil and Canada. The company holds interests in the Maracas Vanadium project, the Campo Alegre de Lourdes Fe-Ti-V project, and the Currais Novos Tungsten Tailings project in Brazil. It also has an interest in the Northern Dancer tungsten/molybdenum project in Yukon Territory, Canada. Largo Resources Ltd. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.There is a failure to deliver in shares of LGORF

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BUYINS.NET has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted, www.buyins.net/squeezetrigger.pdf. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 2,750,000,000 short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005 and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005 because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like Buyins.net to access the data.

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

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CureMyPC Launches New Online Computer Technical Support Business.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2011

"We [CureMyPC] are excited to offer online computer support for consumers in need of technical support," stated Richard Armstrong, National Operations Manager at CureMyPC. "We believe customers are being underserved in this industry, and there's a high demand for help. CureMyPC is positioned to fill that need." In discussing the company's capabilities he says, "We are currently staffed to solve thousands of technical problems monthly, and as our customer base grows, so will our staff."

Customers ranging from the computer savvy to the computer illiterate contact CureMyPC for its technical support services. The company's staff work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to make sure their customers always receive the support they need. Virus and spyware removal are a specialty for CureMyPC, but their service range is extensive. Supported services consist of: virus removal, spyware removal software assistance, Internet connectivity help, speeding up slow computers, and much more.

CureMyPC has made some strategic partnerships to ensure the highest quality in customer service. "We [CureMyPC] have chosen high quality organizations, with proven track records, to help facilitate the growing demand for our services," says Armstrong. The company is focused on brining a higher customer experience to a service-based industry. There is an ever-growing demand for technical support services, and with the successful launch of its new online support product, CureMyPC is here to fill that need.

About CureMyPC:

CureMyPC operates a nationwide 24/7 computer support service to help computer users by solving their technical problems over the phone and Internet. By facilitating phone and online support only, CureMyPC is able to offers its products at a competitive rate within its industry. The company specializes in: computer virus removal, spyware removal, software assistance, Internet connectivity help, speeding up slow computers, and extends many other services.

CureMyPC offers both one-time-repairs and unlimited annual support plans. As a service-focused company they operate by the mantra, "We Cure Your PC or It's FREE!"

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Carrington Property Services, LLC Expands National Property Management Capabilities.

* Company increases national infrastructure to rent Single-Family Residential and REO properties by opening two new offices and expanding two existing branches

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Carrington Property Services, LLC, a national asset and property management company, has added two new property management offices in Ontario and Santa Fe Springs, California and expanded two existing offices in Las Vegas, Nevada and Miami, Florida. These additions increase its local property management capabilities and strengthen its national network, which manages and rents single-family residential homes owned by financial institutions.

"Carrington was one of the first to rent single-family residential and REO properties on a national basis, and currently manages the disposition of more than 8,000 properties," said Steve Ozonian, chief real estate officer of Carrington Holding Company, LLC, Carrington Property Services' ultimate parent company. "These new and expanded offices, combined with our local network of carefully selected property managers, firmly position us as one of the only companies with the infrastructure necessary to manage a national portfolio of single-family residential rental properties."

Consumers are increasingly choosing to rent rather than own. Connecting this growing demand for quality Single-Family Residential Rentals (SFRR) with the tremendous supply of potential rental homes is creating an expanded market for SFRR, which could play a key role in stabilizing the housing market. Recent support reported in the media for the rental strategy includes the following:

* In her Opening Remarks last September, Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke called "rental options among the mix of stabilization strategies [that] makes particular sense in a time of high unemployment."

* The Administration's February 2011 report to Congress entitled Reforming America's Housing Finance Market contains numerous references to renting, including this passage on page one: "Our plan champions the belief that Americans should have choices in housing that make sense for them and for their families. This means rental options near good schools and good jobs."

* According to Experian Hitwise, an Internet metrics firm, as reported in recent stories in Inman News and REALTOR[R]Mag traffic to real estate search sites jumped 27 percent last year - driven primarily by searches associated with renting. Seven of the top 10 searches on real estate search sites included the term "rent," five of 10 refer specifically to renting single-family homes.

* In April 2011, the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University released a study regarding America's Rental Housing, noting the "vital role that the rental sector plays in providing affordable homes on flexible terms" and predicting a significant increase in demand for rental housing. The report identifies a "flood of formerly owner-occupied homes into the rental market" with the number of single-family rentals jumping from 720,000 to 2.3 million in the last decade.

"We see tremendous demand for quality rental homes as people nationwide, for lifestyle or financial reasons, are choosing to rent rather than own," said Steve Ozonian. "Transitioning the backlog of housing stock into a rental strategy represents one way to meet this rising rental demand and to ensure there is an adequate supply of quality, affordable rental options for consumers. Carrington Property Services is uniquely positioned to implement this strategy."

Carrington Property Services currently has more than 8,000 properties under management, including a national rental portfolio of more than 4,000 SFRR properties. The company is a national vendor for Fannie Mae's Tenant-in-Place rental program. Carrington's network of over 2,000 real estate professionals and over 170 property managers provides local, property-level management nationwide. The company's proprietary software provides the portfolio and property-level control and reporting necessary to manage rental homes nationwide.

About Carrington Property Services and Carrington Holding Company

Carrington Property Services has become an industry-leading single-family residential and REO asset management company focused on providing property-specific, customized solutions to maximize the underlying value of REO assets. Carrington Property Services manages a nationwide network of regional and local property managers, with a 'boots on the ground' approach that ensures that third-party owned properties are managed effectively, whether they are listed for sale or held for rent. Carrington Property Service is an affiliate of Carrington Holding Company and the Carrington family of companies.

To learn more about Carrington Property Services, visit our website at www.carringtonps.com.

Founded in 2003, Carrington Holding Company, LLC and the Carrington family of companies have evolved from a mortgage credit asset manager into a vertically integrated specialty finance company. Together, the Carrington family of companies directs every aspect of the life cycle of single family residential assets - from investment and origination through asset management and disposition.

To learn more about Carrington Holding Company, visit www.carringtonhc.com.

Wipro and Continuous Computing join hands to develop wireless solutions for LTE network infrastructure.(PARTNERSHIPS)

Wipro Technologies, the global consulting, system integration and outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, and Continuous Computing, a global provider of integrated platform solutions that address the mobile broadband capacity challenge, announced that the two companies are working together to provide carrier-class Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Femtocell products for network equipment providers supplying 3G wireless and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure.

Faced with exponential growth in mobile broadband traffic, wireless operators/service providers are scrambling for solutions that allow them to keep capital and operational expenditures under control while maintaining a high quality of experience for end-users. By using DPI to "offload" traffic from the core mobile network onto the public Internet and deploying Femtocell indoor base stations in residential and high density user areas, mobile service providers can aggressively lower the cost per bit and free up capital and operational expenditure from core networks. End-users benefit from substantially improved coverage and performance, the foundation of a superior quality of experience.

At the Mobile World Congress, the two companies demonstrated a jointly developed Mobile Internet Offload Gateway (IOGW) solution. The IOGW enables mobile operators to provide rich user experiences for Internet-bound traffic without equivalent capacity increases on service providers' core network elements--SGSNs (Serving GPRS Support Node) and GGSNs (Gateway GPRS Support Node). By configuring the IOGW at the Iu-PS interface, the data traffic is offloaded away from the SGSN/ GGSN directly toward the Internet based on specific offload criteria configured by the operators. Such line-rate DPI intelligence enables operators to change policies dynamically based on traffic type and user service level agreements (SLAs).

With the IOGW providing higher throughput while decongesting core network bottlenecks, service providers can achieve incremental CapEx savings of more than 60 percent - realizing benefits right from the first year of deployment. The IOGW is a 3GPP SIPTO (Selected IP Traffic Offload) standards-based IuPS offload solution for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) networks.

"SIPTO (Selected IP Traffic Offload) is one of a number of important advances being made around mobile data offload and traffic management," said Dean Bubley, founder of analyst and consulting firm Disruptive Analysis. "Mobile operators need to develop much more sophisticated mechanisms for dealing with growing volumes of data traffic - and directing certain traffic or application data towards Femtocell or Wi-Fi access makes sense as part of a 'holistic' strategy for policy management and usability."

"Continuous Computing has developed industry-leading LTE and Femtocell technologies that allow mobile operators to make the most of their network resources and maximize the value of their spectrum assets, and we're looking forward to working together to extend the benefits of this expertise," said Devaraj Srinivasan, general manager, Global Media & Telecom, Wipro Technologies. "The combination of both companies' skills creates a compelling value proposition for network equipment providers and communication service providers to accelerate market growth."

"Our success to date with customer wins and recognition from prestigious industry groups is testament to our leadership in wireless and packet processing solutions," said Manish Singh, vice president of product line management, Continuous Computing. "Wipro's end-to-end telecom product engineering and delivery skills coupled with a large stable of telecom and wireless resources are the perfect complement and together we expect to make a significant difference in solving some of the mobile industry's most pressing capacity challenges."

To date, Continuous Computing has 21 DPI customer wins, 26 femtocell customer wins, and 19 LTE customer wins. The company has also won two awards in 2010 for its LTE Femtocell Reference Design built on its Trillium LTE Femtocell software, the industry's most advanced, complete and portable software solution. Underscoring Trillium protocol software product leadership, Continuous Computing was recently selected as a finalist in the prestigious GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2011 in the "Best Technology Breakthrough" category.

Wipro Technologies is renowned globally for its services to telecom equipment and mobile vendors to deliver their best in class products to the markets with significant time to market advantage and reduced cost. Wipro's service portfolio includes system engineering, software and hardware design, development, and verification and validation across the telecom landscape. By combining the strengths of each company, Continuous Computing and Wipro will be able to deliver best-of-breed, carrier-class solutions to network equipment providers worldwide.

Prominent Keynote Speakers, Rajiv Shah, M.D., Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development and G. Steven Burrill, Founder and CEO, Burrill & Company, Anchor the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference 2010.(Conference news)

- Delegation from China gives conference global presence -

- More than 60 life science organizations scheduled to present -

- BioPartnering, a powerful Internet tool created by TVG, now available for 1:1 meeting scheduling -

SEATTLE -- The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) announces the confirmation of renowned keynote speakers, Rajiv Shah, M.D., Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and G. Steven Burrill, founder and CEO of Burrill & Company, a global leader in life sciences private equity, venture capital, merchant banking, and media as keynote speakers at the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference, scheduled for March 16-17 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. Rounding out the program are five panel discussions, ranging from partnering to capital structure, which will feature speakers from local life science companies, investment banking and venture capital firms, and regional media.

"We are thrilled to have such prominent keynote speakers kick off this year's conference," said Chris Rivera, President, WBBA. "Combined with a delegation from China, expert panel discussions, presentations from some of the regions' most innovative companies, as well as leading research and global health institutions like The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pacific Northwest Labs and the University of Washington, Innovation Northwest promises to be the region's premier life science investor and partnering conference, and one that any serious life science investor, partner or executive should not miss."

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Shah was recently sworn in as the Administrator of USAID, which provides worldwide economic and humanitarian assistance. Shah has a long history in agricultural and healthcare service and policy. Previously Shah served as Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and was Chief Scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) where he launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. He also held various positions in global health and development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and provided healthcare policy advice for presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. Shah co-founded Health Systems Analytics and Project IMPACT for South Asian Americans and has served as an aide in the British Parliament and worked at the World Health Organization.

Mr. Burrill, who has devoted more than 40 years to helping life science companies launch operations and sustain growth in the face of an environment that is constantly and rapidly changing, is an internationally recognized spokesman and author for the life science and high technology industries. His keynote on the 'state-of-the-industry' is expected to draw from his strong ties with leading companies, CEOs, and promising technologies as well as Burrill & Company's latest annual report on the biotechnology industry, Biotech 2010, now in its 24th year.

Global Presence

Now in its tenth year, the conference has a new name and has expanded to attract an international audience. Formerly 'Invest Northwest,' the conference has been rebranded as the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference to better identify and highlight the unique and powerful assets that define the Pacific Northwest's life sciences sector. In addition, the conference will provide opportunities to explore financial and strategic partnerships and investments with a delegation from China. Travis Sullivan, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning for the U.S. Department of Commerce, will discuss how the U.S. and the Pacific Northwest view green businesses and jobs, how they partner with China's Innovation industries, and Commerce's Trade and Promotion initiatives.

Connect with local companies

More than 60 Pacific Northwest companies will present the latest in biotechnology, diagnostic, global health, medical device, research, and other life science innovations. Attendees will include leaders from public and private life science companies, research institutions, entrepreneurs, and the global health community as well as media and investors.

Conference attendees have the opportunity to make the most out of their time by using www.biopartnering.com to plan their agenda and schedule one-to-one meetings with other attendees. BioPartnering, a powerful Internet tool created by Technology Vision Group, allows attendees to see who will be at the conference and contact each other via e-mail. When interested parties confirm a meeting, BioPartnering automatically finds a time and place for them to meet.

Life Science Innovation Northwest 2010 is presented by The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) and Burrill & Company. For more information on the conference and to register, please visit www.washbio.org/LifeScienceInnovationNW.

About WBBA

The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA) is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association serving the life sciences industry in the state of Washington. Our members include organizations engaged in, or supportive of, research, development and commercialization of life science technologies. Our mission is to translate innovation to realization: from breakthrough discoveries to better health solutions. Learn more about the WBBA at www.washbio.org.

About Burrill & Company

Founded in 1994, Burrill & Company is a San Francisco-based global leader in life sciences with activities in Venture Capital, Private Equity, Merchant Banking and Media. The Burrill family of venture capital funds has over $950 million under management and its merchant banking business is one of the industry leaders in life sciences transactions. Burrill is also the creator, sponsor and facilitator of leading industry conferences worldwide and publisher of the monthly The Burrill Report (www.burrillreport.com) which tracks the progress of the global biotechnology industry and annual "State of the Industry" report - the 24th edition, Biotech 2010-Life Sciences: Adapting for Success will be available in March. (www.burrillandco.com).

Now In The Market.

CO-OP Adds My Deposit

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.CO-OP Financial Services is offering CUs a way for members to make check deposits from their homes and small businesses.

CO-OP My Deposit, which only requires a desktop scanner and Internet access, is the newest part of a full collection of image-enabled products from CO-OP. Once the check image is properly captured and displayed on the computer monitor, members click the continue tab on the screen. The check image is instantly submitted for processing and clearing, the deposit is processed real time through the CO-OP Next Generation Network (NGN) shared branching switch.

Users can see the deposit instantly added to their current account balance and can void the original check, file it for a short period of time, and then destroy it.

For info: www.coopfs.org.

XPress Accounts Offered

LAKEWOOD, Colo.The Credit Union Service Network (CUSN) and CO-OP Shared Branching announced that they have partnered with EPL Inc. and MeridianLink to offer XPress Accounts to their subscriber CUs.

XPress Accounts offers an instant apply now functionality to your website that enables applicants to apply for membership online, and fund the new accounts in the process. On the back-end, XPress Accounts consolidates applicant data from all your existing channels.

For info: 720-945-7235 or djburkcusn.com

Telly Awards Go To Dwight Johnston

SAN DIMAS, Calif.OnDeck with Dwight Johnston, a weekly podcast produced by Overland Studios and presented by WesCorp FCU, has been selected as a bronze winner in two categoriesnonprofit and educationduring the 29th Annual Telly Awards. The podcast, which features WesCorps economic and market research analyst, Dwight Johnston, offers an eight to 10-minute summary of the past weeks market and financial events.

For info: www.wescorp.org.

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