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NEW YORK -- Fidelity Investments' flagship Magellan Fund may be on track in August to do something it hasn't been able to do in 16 consecutive months -- take in more money from investors than it has to give back.
The $62.9 billion fund had $9.9 million in net inflows through …
WHEATON, Ill.-The American Assn. of Insurance Services is preparing a nationwide filing of new terrorism endorsements insurers can use in anticipation of the scheduled sunset of the federal terrorism reinsurance program.
In anticipation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program's scheduled Dec. 31, 2005 sunset, AAIS has prepared a series of commercial lines endorsements with exclusions that would take effect if the program terminates or is substantially changed. The Wheaton, Ill.-based insurance advisory organization has prepared equivalent endorsements for commercial coverages provided under farm policies.
If the federal program is terminated, the definition …
A celebrity pathologist went on trial Monday on charges accusing him of using public resources to further his multimillion-dollar private practice.
Cyril Wecht, who earned fame for his investigations in the cases of Elvis Presley and murdered child beauty queen Jon Benet Ramsey, has denied wrongdoing, and his attorneys have maintained that the charges are politically motivated.
His trial opened with U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab reading detailed instructions to the jury.
Wecht, 76, is charged with 41 counts, including wire fraud, mail fraud and theft. The trial is expected to last about two months.
Wecht remains a consultant, …
It created a nationwide stir in 1965 when several hundred formerprisoners of war from Stalag Luft III paid the expenses for four oftheir German ex-captors to attend a reunion in Dayton, Ohio.
Nazi Germany, after all, had murdered millions of POWs andcivilians in its 12 years of wholesale barbarism. Fifty Alliedinmates of Stalag Luft III, the great majority of them American andBritish officers, had been shot to death in 1944 on Adolf Hitler'sdirect order after the mass getaway dramatized in the 1963 movie "TheGreat Escape."
"We cannot help but give the German …
SCHENECTADY -- Citing a lack of evidence, a City Court judge acquitted a jailed city cop of drunken-driving charges on Wednesday, marking the second time in the past two years that John Lewis has been cleared of misdemeanor offenses.
"There was no indication that the vehicle was swerving, weaving or being operated in any way by a person that was impaired," said Judge Guido Loyola on Wednesday, recounting the evidence the prosecution presented during the two-day nonjury trial last week.
He also noted that the surveillance footage from a street camera failed to show clearly who was behind the wheel of a black sport utility vehicle that prosecutors had accused …
Byline: DAVID HEUSCHKEL Hartford Courant
Rockies6 Red Sox3 DENVER -- There was plenty of time to overcome the one-run deficit. It didn't seem like a daunting task, given the opponent and park.
Few believed the Boston Red Sox wouldn't be able to overcome the slim margin at Coors Field, especially to a team that had lost eight in a row and 20 of its previous 24.
Except for one inning, the Red Sox offense was completely shut down in a 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies Tuesday.
It was 4-3 until the eighth when Todd Helton hit a two-run homer off Alan Embree.
``I thought we were going to win,'' Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. …
Opened in 1978, Northridge Hills Liquors was a step away from the wholesale game for Paul Smith, a former Young's Market Co. salesman. But that shop suited Smith's idea that he would be the key wine and spirits retailer in an emerging area at the north end of the San Fernando Valley.
The Valley was booming about then, and a major freeway was scheduled to open. Smith figured he'd be the fastest-growing beverage retailer in the area. And for a time he was. But almost from the day he moved into the store, he could sense that things wouldn't be smooth.
"The freeway didn't go in on schedule," he says today with a wrinkled brow, "and the area didn't grow in housing the way we thought it would. Also, we had only 180 degrees of consumers. Our backs were against a wall--the hills."
When Smith first opened his 2,800-square-foot Northridge Hills location, nearly half his sales were in distilled spirits; however, patrons were increasingly asking for more and more wine, of all types and prices. In fact, the top wine shop in the Valley at the time, David Breitstein's Duke of Bourbon in Canoga Park--closer to the major north-south freeway--was doing a land-office business in fine wine.
In the 12 years he'd been working for Young's wholesale operation, Smith had become very much aware of the burgeoning market in "boutique" and prestige California wines. So, he knew early on in his retail career that this profitable segment would be a way to capture the more enthusiastic wine customer.
Indeed, by 1981, only three years after he moved into retail, Smith was traveling to the Napa Valley and Sonoma County five times a year to track down the new, exciting wineries, and buying their wares.
"Establishing Relationships"
"I also knew that we had to establish great relationships with them, so if it meant skipping a paycheck to make sure the wineries got paid, that's what we would do," said Smith. In fact, that did occur.
For the first 11 years of the Napa Valley Wine Auction, Smith attended the event, and in his second year got into a controversial bidding confrontation with his rival, Breitstein, that earned Smith headlines as well as a reputation as a maverick. (See sidebar)
Almost coincident with that episode, Smith also began to discover the greatness and potential for imported wines of ultra-high quality, and began laying the groundwork for what later became his stock in trade: having wines many other wine shops sell out of quickly.
Moreover, he also discovered another fact of life: you don't have to like a wine to sell it. "There were many wines that [Robert] Parker liked that I didn't like that we carried and sold. If it was blessed by Parker, we would carry it."
Another key strategy he employed: By the …
Karzai confirms US, Afghan talks with Taliban even as Kabul attacked by suicide bombers
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Saturday that the U.S. and Afghan governments have held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war, even as suicide attackers launched a bold assault in the heart of the county's capital, killing nine people.
The attack, which occurred just blocks from Karzai's office, shows the parties have a long way to go to reach a political settlement as the Obama administration weighs a major withdrawal of its forces. The White House neither directly confirmed or denied Karzai's statement.
Three men …
WHO? Randi S. Sumner, CAE
WHAT? Executive Director
WHERE? New Jersey Society of Association Executives, Highland Park
WHEN? 2000
Q: How did you learn about live action role playing (LARP)?
A: It wasn't until 10 years ago that my brother introduced me to LARPing while he was working with a production team writing an elaborate science fiction work that required 45 players. He cajoled me into participating by indicating that he'd written a character just for me. When I opened the character-information packet and delved into a lengthy synopsis of the socioeconomic and political climate of that first game, I was hooked--and my interest …
Byline: Tim Wilkin
Jun. 10--ELMONT -- It's been a tough spring for trainer Todd Pletcher. He entered five horses in the Kentucky Derby. None of them hit the board.
He started two more in the Preakness. His Triple Crown record for futility was growing to embarrassing proportions for the three-time defending Eclipse Award winning trainer.
Going into Saturday's 139th Belmont Stakes, Pletcher's resume in America's biggest races was horrible. Twenty-eight starters. Zero wins.
It's OK today. The filly bailed him out.
Rags to Riches made history on an overcast spring afternoon on Long Island when she became the first filly in 102 years to win the Belmont.
Ridden by John Velazquez, Rags …
Byline: Kristen Garrett
Jul. 22--PATTERSON TWP. -- Ed and Lorraine Cossin were lounging on the 17th deck of the Crown Princess cruise ship around 3 p.m. Tuesday, looking out at the Atlantic Ocean, when they noticed the ship start to tilt.
Lorraine Cossin said she and her husband didn't think much of it because they've been on 10 other cruises and had experienced ships rocking back and forth.
But soon the Patterson Township couple realized the tilting was more severe. Cossin said she wanted to go inside, but her husband said they shouldn't move because there would be nothing to hold on to.
Cossin said her husband gripped the railing and held …
Kevin J Worthen*
Few people think about gun control and term limits in the same way. They generally favor one or the other, but not both or neither. The thesis of this Article, however, is that the two concepts are connected-or at least that the Framers of the United States Constitution would have found a connection between the two-and that the connection between the two affects the way we should think about the subjects.
This Article asserts that the two concepts are related because both gun control and term limits can infringe on the right of the people as ultimate sovereign to control the government entities created to carry out the sovereign will-term limits, by …
Byline: KENNETH C. CRWOE II Staff Writer
SARATOGA SPRINGS - At the Lake Avenue Elementary School, the students are practicing their reading with a very low-tech piece of equipment, a "phonics phone."
At a time when many are focused on using the Internet and computers in education, teachers around the country are using white PVC pipe cut and assembled into the shape of a telephone receiver to help teach reading.
"We're using them as a technique allowing the children to hear themselves read," said Diane Benton, a first-grade teacher.
"They can all be reading a different story without disturbing anyone else. No one could hear what they were …
CHICAGO, July 18 -- The University of Illinois at Chicago issued the following news release:
The University of Illinois at Chicago Library is leading a project to plan a portal to the historical collections of 14 museums, universities and libraries that make up the Chicago Collections Consortium.
The portal will offer a one-click search of the special collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Public Library, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University Chicago, the Newberry Library, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the University of Chicago and UIC. Users will find detailed lists of each archive's contents and digitized materials that may be viewed online.
The planning is funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on behalf of the library.
"We recognize that our individual efforts to preserve special materials can complicate researchers' access to them. This grant will help us coordinate efforts and leverage resources-the keys to making Chicago history easily available to college students, seasoned researchers, school children, amateur historians, and the general public," said Mary M. Case, UIC university librarian and an organizer of the consortium.
"All the institutions have primary resource materials in multiple formats that tell the political, cultural, and economic history of the Chicago area -- personal papers of politicians, artists, activists, folk heroes, and prominent citizens; records of churches, community organizations, social clubs; corporate and institutional archives; in formats including photographs, audio-visual materials, maps and digital files," she said.
Case said with thousands of shelves and boxes of materials of value to researchers scattered across the city, researchers may examine materials at one library or museum without realizing that nearby repositories hold materials from the same individual or organization.
Dick Simpson, professor and head of the political science department at UIC, has written in support of the portal and said it will help researchers "make unexpected connections.
"When I wrote my book 'Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Story of the Chicago City Council from 1863-present,' I had to search four different library collections in person," Simpson said. "This will accelerate our knowledge of our history for everyone. I expect to see many more books, magazine articles, and video documentaries using these resources."
The portal project will include the formation of a governance structure to ensure that the Chicago Collections Consortium can sustain and expand its activities in the future.
UIC ranks among the nation's leading research universities and is Chicago's largest university with 27,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world. For more information about UIC, please visit www.uic.edu. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com
Anne Brooks Ranallo, 312/355-2523, aranallo@uic.edu.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 25 -- The trademark CHALKTALK TELESTRATOR (Reg. No. 3922580) was issued on Feb. 22 by the USPTO.
Owner: Newtonian CORPORATION NORTH CAROLINA 107 Bordeaux Lane Cary NORTH CAROLINA 27511.
The trademark application serial number 85059418 was filed on June 10, 2010 and was registered on Feb. 22.
Goods and Services: Providing a web based software that generates motion analysis of video recording of sports activities directly to your computer or mobile phone via the internet. FIRST USE: 20081214. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20081214
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Ralf Wilde and Kurt Heinz, both of Tokyo, and Sebastian Doose of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a product protection gateway with a product protection system. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,580,895 on Aug. 25.
The patent has been assigned to TUEV Rheinland Holding AG, Cologne, Germany.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a product protection system whereby a product piece is provided with a product-specific identification sequence which is converted into a coded check sequence, by means of an encoding method using a secret encoding sequence. A product control sequence is applied to or on the product piece which comprises the coded check sequence, or a sequence derived therefrom. In order to check the authenticity of the product piece, the product control sequence is recorded by a control requester and transmitted by internet to a product protection server structure. A decoded check sequence is derived therein from the product control sequence by means of a decoding method using a decoding sequence. The authenticity of the decoded check sequence, or a sequence derived therefrom is checked and the result of the authenticity check transmitted by internet to the control requester."
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Today: Online radio upstart Pandora raises its expected IPOprice. Plus: More Silicon Valley headlines. And: The tech-heavyNasdaq and other major indexes slump.
Pandora's IPO
Capitalizing on a wave of frenzied investor interest in socialmedia upstarts, Internet radio service Pandora Media has increasedthe value of its expected initial public offering.
In a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission,the Oakland company disclosed that it now expects to sell its stockto the public at a range of $10 to $12 a share. According to ourfriends at The Associated Press, Pandora's previous expected rangewas $7 to $9 a share.
At $12 a share, Pandora would raise about $72 million.
Pandora -- which wants to sell its stock under a coveted single-letter ticker symbol, "P," on the New York Stock Exchange -- will beselling 6 million shares. Pandora investors, meanwhile, plan to sell8.7 million shares, bringing the total number of IPO shares to 14.7million. Earlier, Pandora and existing investors had planned to sell13.7 million shares, according to AP.
Underwriters have the option of selling an 2.2 million additionalshares from Pandora. Including those shares, the total proceeds forPandora, selling stockholders and the IPO underwriters could be asmuch as $202.6 million.
Pandora's IPO -- expected next week, according to AP -- wouldfollow a successful trading debut by LinkedIn, the Mountain Viewcompany that operates a professional networking website. LinkedIn'sshares more than doubled in their trading debut from the IPO price,which itself was raised from an earlier expected price. (LinkedInstock, by the way, finished regular trading today at $72.83, up 82cents, or 1.1 percent, from Thursday's closing price.)
Last month, Chicago daily deals upstart Groupon revealed that itwill be seeking $750 million in its IPO.
We keep reading reports that San Francisco social games pioneerZynga is in talks with investment bankers and could file for an IPOsometime this month. Palo Alto social networking powerhouse Facebookand San Francisco microblogging service Twitter also are expected tohave their own IPOs, perhaps in the next year or so.
More Silicon Valley headlines
eBay: What happens in Delaware can stay in Delaware. According toan AP report, a federal judge has ruled that businesses that areincorporated in Delaware can be sued in that state.
In a ruling involving two separate lawsuits, Judge Sue Robinsonturned down requests from eBay (EBAY) and several video gamecompanies to move the legal disputes to California, where thebusinesses have their headquarters. (While online auction powerhouseeBay is based in San Jose, like numerous corporate giants, it'slegally incorporated in Delaware.)
Santa Clara: The city's Silicon Valley Power utility is No. 1 inits use of solar power, according to a ranking by the Solar ElectricPower Association.
According to a survey cited in a Merc report today, SiliconValley Power's energy mix includes 39.9 watts of solar power percustomer, more than any other utility. Sunny (well, not as much asusual so far this month) Santa Clara is home to chip behemoth Intel(INTC) and other Silicon Valley tech names.
Giant Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electric,meanwhile, is No. 1 in total solar power generated, at 157.3megawatts. Per customer, PG&E is No. 5 on the solar industry group'slist.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Down: Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL), Intel, CiscoSystems (CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), VMware, eBay, Gilead Sciences(GILD), Yahoo (YHOO) and most Silicon Valley tech stocks were lowertoday.
For that matter, the major indexes also slumped as investorscontinued to worry about the strength of the economic recovery.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 41.14, or 1.5percent, to 2,643.73.
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 172.45, or 1.4percent, to 11,951.91. (The Dow fell below 12,000 for the first timesince March, according to AP.)
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 18.02,or 1.4 percent, to 1,270.98.
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, asummary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The AssociatedPress, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Frank Russellat 408-920-5876. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercspike.
The briefing, given before new members of Congress, coveredforeign policy, national security, and related domestic issues
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Earlier this month, Brian Michael Jenkins, Director of the MinetaTransportation Institute's (MTI) National Transportation SecurityCenter of Excellence, and the Hon. Juan C Zarate, former AssistantSecretary of the Treasury and Deputy Security Advisor for CombatingTerrorism, briefed the newly elected members of Congress on severalforeign policy, national security, and domestic issues.
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Mr. Jenkins said that America has not suffered further attackssimilar to 9/11. On the other hand, few imagined that, ten yearslater, the United States would still be threatened by the jihadistterrorist enterprise it invaded Afghanistan to destroy. He pointedto several key issues regarding the current terrorist situation:
First, terrorists are operationally weaker, but theirdetermination is undiminished. "An unrelenting campaign has reducedthe likelihood of al Qaeda mounting attacks on the scale of 9/11,while international cooperation has created a more hostileenvironment for terrorists," Mr. Jenkins stated. "However, inresponse, al Qaeda has become decentralized, so smaller deadlyattacks are seen, such as the killing or wounding of 44 U.S.soldiers by Army Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas."
Second, jihadist terrorist strategy puts increased emphasis onhomegrown terrorism. Despite its training camps in Pakistan andAfghanistan, al Qaeda now emphasizes do-it-yourself terrorism,urging local would-be jihadists to do whatever they can whereverthey are. Mr. Jenkins said that, without experience or practicalinstruction, homegrown terrorists have not achieved thesophistication of centrally supported efforts, but they have learnedthat attacks at home, even when unsuccessful, still cause greatalarm.
"Fortunately," he added, "the number of homegrown terrorists issmall. In more than eight years, 125 have been arrested or indicted--a very small fraction of the estimated three million AmericanMuslims."
Third, terrorist campaigns challenge all democracies, which havefelt obliged to facilitate intelligence collection, increase policepowers, create new anti-terrorist laws, toughen penalties forterrorist-related crimes and, in some cases, alter trial procedures.Some countries, he said, have even imposed censorship on the newsmedia and suspended other civil liberties. In comparison, the U.S.has taken a middle ground, creating new organizations and policies,while rejecting others.
Fourth, conflicting American attitudes complicatecounterterrorism. "While demanding absolute security, Americansremain suspicious of their government," he said. "Willing to shareremarkable amounts of personal information on vast social networks,they reject government infringements on their privacy. They areangry over irksome security measures. But if we accept that thecountry is at war with tenacious terrorist foes determined to attackAmerican targets, we cannot feign shock and outrage when those foescarry out an attack."
Fifth, domestic intelligence is always a delicate issue in ademocracy. He says that, while some may worry that collectingdomestic intelligence is not done well enough, civil libertariansare alarmed by the growth of a vast domestic spying enterprise thatincludes federal agencies, DHS, fusion centers, and localauthorities, with significant involvement by private contractors.While suspicious of any domestic clone of the CIA, they also worrythat without central management, the proliferation of participants,many poorly trained, and the growth of databases recording ill-defined suspicious activity and the names of people who havecommitted no crimes will be uncontrolled and abusive.
Mr. Jenkins listed a number of questions, as well. Should thegovernment assert more control over the internet? According to aSaudi security official, al Qaeda now does 99 percent of itsrecruiting online. The Internet also enables extremists to findreinforcement for personal discontents, obtain direction, andjustify their aggression. "Why should government not assert moredirect control over the Internet, outlawing incitement to terrorismas it now outlaws child pornography and other forms of onlinecrime?" he asked.
Is it time to rethink aviation security strategy? He said thatsubjecting all airline passengers to the same security regime doesnot constitute intelligent security. The approach must be morediscerning. "Admittedly, many do not share this opinion," he said."But either way, it is time to fundamentally review how airlinesecurity is provided."
Should more resources be devoted to securing public surfacetransportation? The threat is not hypothetical--it is wellestablished in terrorist playbooks, he said. Terrorists see trainsand buses as easily accessible killing fields that offeropportunities to achieve high body counts, cause great alarm, andcreate costly disruptions. Three terrorist attacks on commutertrains and subways in Madrid, London, and Mumbai caused more than450 fatalities and thousands of injuries.
Are security expenditures untouchable? Our aim must besustainability if we accept the premises that this is the threatenvironment America will live in for the foreseeable future, thatsecurity measures imposed now are likely to become permanentfeatures of the landscape, and that a free society and economicstrength are vital components of America's national security, hesaid.
He closed by noting that Congress cannot allow unreasonable fearand unrealistic demands for security to keep the wagon train circledforever. He said that Congress can conduct a thorough review ofintelligence and homeland security. "The President has demonstratedhis determination to take on the terrorists," he said. "There is anopportunity for a bipartisan approach."
ABOUT BRIAN MICHAEL JENKINS
Mr. Jenkins is an international authority on terrorism andsophisticated crime. He directs MTI's research on protecting surfacetransportation against terrorist attacks. He is also a senioradvisor to the president of RAND. From 1989-98, Mr. Jenkins wasdeputy chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigativeand consulting firm. Before that, he was chairman of RAND'sPolitical Science Department, where he also directed research onpolitical violence.
He holds a B.A. in fine arts and a Masters Degree in history,both from UCLA. He studied in Mexico and Guatemala, where he was aFulbright Fellow and received a fellowship from the Organization ofAmerican States. Mr. Jenkins was a paratrooper and a captain in theGreen Berets, serving in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. Hereturned to Vietnam as a member of the Long Range Planning TaskGroup, receiving the Department of the Army's highest award for hisservice. He authored several articles, reports and books, includingInternational Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict and Will TerroristsGo Nuclear?
ABOUT THE MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) was established byCongress in 1991 as part of the Intermodal Surface TransportationEfficiency Act (ISTEA) and was reauthorized under TEA-21 and againunder SAFETEA-LU. The institute is funded by Congress through theU.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research and InnovativeTechnology Administration, by the California Legislature through theDepartment of Transportation (Caltrans), and by other public andprivate grants and donations, including grants from the U.S.Department of Homeland Security. DOT selected MTI as a NationalCenter of Excellence following competitions in 2002 and 2006. Theinternationally respected members of the MTI Board of Trusteesrepresent all major surface transportation modes. MTI's focus onpolicy and management resulted from the Board's assessment of thetransportation industry's unmet needs. That led directly to choosingthe San Jose State University College of Business as the Institute'shome. MTI conducts research, education, and information andtechnology transfer, focusing on multimodal surface transportationpolicy and management issues. Visit www.transweb.sjsu.edu
Contact: Donna Maurillo
831-234-4009
donna.maurillo@sjsu.edu
SOURCE Mineta Transportation Institute
LEARNING CENTER
PLANS OPEN HOUSE
KETTERING
- The Learning Center at Miami Valley Research Park will host anopen house to introduce its new SkillsMAX Center, a career resourcecenter to better match the needs of Dayton-area businesses with thearea's work force.
The center is designed to connect people with skills, training andjobs. It is one of 10 career service centers at two-year campusesacross Ohio as part of the EnterpriseOhio Network.
The SkillsMAX Center open house will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdayat 1900 Founders Drive, Suite 100, Kettering. It is free and open tothe public.
"SkillsMAX will provide job assessment and training to Dayton-area workers and also help employers better identify the mostqualified applicants," said Timothy Thomas, the newly appointedcorporate assessment and training center manager.
A consortium of national vendors has joined to support SkillsMAXin providing the assessment and job-matching tools to serve employersand employees.
These include Brainbench, The Chauncey Group International Ltd.,Educational Testing Service, iLearning Inc., Prometric Inc., SabaSoftware Inc. and SHL.
For information, call Thomas at 252-9787, Ext. 408, or e-mailtimothy.thomas@sinclair.edu.
SPEECH ON GENETICS
SET VIA SATELLITE
DAYTON
- Sinclair Community College will host a live, interactivesatellite presentation featuring Dr. Paul A. Lombardo, a nationallyknown speaker on genetics, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 12364 of theDavid H. Ponitz Sinclair Center, Building 12.
It is free and open to the public. Light fare will be available.
The program, produced by Sinclair's Nu Pi chapter of Phi ThetaKappa and the National Collegiate Honor Society, is the first of afive-part satellite series designed to accompany the society's 2002honors study topic: Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices inthe Maze.
Lombardo is the director of the program in law and medicine at theCenter for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. Heteaches in the schools of medicine, law and the graduate school ofarts and sciences.
His work focuses on questions about the relationship of law to thetechnology in genetics.
For information, call Dr. Katherine Rowell, Sinclair's PTKadviser, at 512-4598 or e-mail katherine.rowell@sinclair.edu.
JOB-SEEKERS CAN BE
PART OF PROGRAM
DAYTON
- The Career Planning and Placement Center at Sinclair CommunityCollege is recruiting members for its seven-session Job SeekersTraining Program beginning Oct. 2.
Participants in the free program will meet from 9 to 11:30 a.m.Wednesdays, Oct. 2 through Nov. 13, on the Sinclair campus.
Ron Hittle, recruitment and development specialist, will be thepresenter.
The program has been conducted for about 11 years. Registration isrequired and members are asked to attend all sessions.
"Adults of all ages are facing the challenge today of finding the`right job' for them," Hittle said. "This is true of first-timecareer seekers to adults seeking a new challenge from stressed outjobs and to those facing downsizing.
`Today's job search requires new techniques, including using theInternet, networking with people in various careers and preparingbehavioral interviewing questions. We'll explore these and othertechniques in an interactive format."
The training program is for anyone unemployed, underemployed orwho wants to change career fields.
Participants will help each other develop action plans andmaintain a positive attitude during job seeking.
For information, call 512-2772 or e-mail ron.hittle@sinclair.edu.
Traditional medical advice that lesbians are not susceptible to cervical cancer hasbeen challenged by the Cancer Council of Victoria.
Council spokeswoman ADRIENNE BROWN says historically, lesbians have been told theyface little risk of contracting Human Papilloma Virus and therefore cervical cancer.
Research conducted by a team led by Ms BROWN and published today in the Health PromotionJournal of Australia confirms the trend.
Ms BROWN says that among more than 400 lesbians surveyed about their Pap screeningbehaviour, nine per cent were told they didn't need a Pap test.
Yet she says international research suggests that up to one in five lesbians who'venever had sex with men are being detected with HPV.
AAP RTV ag/smb/psm/
KEYWORD: CERVICAL (MELBOURNE)
Australian officials are reportedly unaware how heavily the United States is pressuringNauru to abandon its policy of selling passports as a revenue raising exercise.
The Australian newspaper yesterday reported the Pacific Island had scrapped the schemeafter pressure from Washington, which feared the scheme was being used by al-Qaeda members.
The US had reportedly even promised it would shut down the island's economy if it didnot cooperate.
The paper today says Australian federal government sources are surprised at the American'shardline tactics.
Nauru scrapped the scheme last month as a result of pressure from Washington.
However opposition foreign affairs spokesman KEVIN RUDD accuses the government of goingsoft on Nauru because of its role in the pacific solution.
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer told the paper through a spokesman Australiahad been involved in providing technical advice to Nauru on anti-money-laundering legislationand it had been enacted into law.
AAP RTV ld/wz
KEYWORD: NAURU (SYDNEY)
An Australian delegation will arrive in North Korea today to attempt to talk the Stalinistcountry back from its threats to resume ballistic missile tests.
Australia's three-member delegation arrived in China last night and is due to fly intoPyongyang this morning.
The delegation is the first from a major western country to North Korea since the latestcrisis began and will be …
Victoria's main conservative parties are pitted against one another as they begin theirfight for vital country votes.
Former coalition partners the Liberals and the Nationals have announced they will contesteach rural and regional seat in the pending state election.
Victorian National Party Leader PETER RYAN has fired the first shot, saying his Liberalcounterpart ROBERT DOYLE should concentrate his efforts on metropolitan Melbourne.
Mr RYAN's told ABC radio he regrets the waste of resources in a three-cornered contest,and country Victorians won't think much of parties who turn up at five minutes to midnight.
Mr DOYLE has countered that he doesn't think country Victorians like being told what to think.
The former coalition partners went their separate ways after the Labor win in 1999.
AAP RTV lmw/gfr/wjf/ge/rp
KEYWORD: ELECTION VIC (MELBOURNE)
The Australian Democrats have warned that allowing bananas to be imported from thePhilippines will threaten Australia's native frog species.
The federal government is currently assessing the risks of agreeing to the Philippines'request to sell its bananas in Australia.
But Democrats Agriculture spokesman Senator JOHN CHERRY says it would be an ecologicaldisaster if frogs from the Philippines entered North Queensland through banana imports.
Senator CHERRY says the Worldwide Fund for Nature has identified this as a very realrisk, because it's difficult to prevent frogs from being included in import shipments.
He says frogs have been known to survive being refrigerated, sprayed and even shrink-wrapped.
Senator CHERRY says the risk to native frogs would be in addition to substantial damageto Australia's $400 million banana industry if exotic diseases like black SIGATOKA wereintroduced.
Research suggests these diseases could cost the industry $198 million in lost production,increased spraying and labour costs.
AAP RTV nr/tb/rt
KEYWORD: FROGS (BRISBANE)
By Denise McNamara
SYDNEY, Feb 5 AAP - Two prominent Sydney families are battling it out in court overwho controls a family trust worth up to $5 million.
Judy Joye is the former wife of Ian Joye, who rents out his $6 million Palm Beach propertyKalua to the rich and famous, including Nicole Kidman.
She launched action against her brother, David Bradley, in the NSW Supreme Court today.
His wife, Susan Bradley, was once described as the first lady of the Kimberleys whenshe owned a massive cattle property in Western Australia, later sold to Kerry Packer in1994.
The trust, worth …
