Visy action the biggest case ever
The News Review:
- Visy action the biggest case ever
- Dragons set to sign ‘Big Red’
- After real rollercoaster year, ‘Pool skipper is flying high
- Bringing comfort and joy every day
- Sharing Holidays, Dividing Property
- Terrorist Bill of Rights?
Visy action the biggest case ever
The Age – Dec 24, 2005
The ACCC alleges that between 2000 and late 2004 Visy engaged inanti-competitive arrangements with its principal competitor, Amcor,in the supply, throughout Australia, of corrugated fibreboardcontainers. Trade practices expert Roger Featherston said the case, whichcould lead to fines amounting to tens of millions of dollars, wasby far the biggest and most important seen in Australia. Mr Featherston, a lawyer with the firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques,said we had previously seen only “the tail end” of internationalprosecutions and some relatively small actions over petrolprice-fixing and other cartels. He said the Visy case was of a much larger scale and doublysignificant because it was the first big test of the ACCC’s newimmunity policy.
Dragons set to sign ‘Big Red’
The Age – Dec 24, 2005
In his junior (third) season, he playedin the NCAA grand final. The night after the Dragons’ launch last week, Schenscherimpressed Dragons scout Adrian Newall, who saw the big red-headscore 12 points and grab 11 rebounds in the Flyers’ one-point winover Austin Toros. Although Schenscher, 23, has a long way to go to be rankedalongside Australia’s big men playing professionally overseas— Andrew Bogut with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and DavidAndersen with CSKA Moscow — Cowan described the SouthAustralian as one of the “home-grown big men … starting tobecome a trademark of Australian basketball”. “You only have to look at what Bogut’s already achieved in theNBA,” Cowan said. “He’s a great ambassador for Australianbasketball. Interestingly enough, (the retired) Luc Longley, who isundoubtedly the best-performed Australian in the NBA, is also ared-head like the Luke where looking to sign. The Dragons already are trying to build a Melbourne rivalry.
After real rollercoaster year, ‘Pool skipper is flying high
Irish Independent – Dec 24, 2005
Remembered In keeping with all that 2005 will be remembered for at Anfield, it was a move with inextricable links to one unforgettable night in Istanbul. The night of May 25 brought Liverpool their finest moment for 21 years and the greatest of their captain’s 25. The European Cup final that Gerrard ranks on a par with the birth of his daughter Lilly-Ella requires no repetition as every goal, miss and penalty kick is already etched into football’s psyche, as is the inspiration provided by Liverpool’s home-grown, talismanic leader. Having seized a game that was heading towards humiliation at half-time, the midfielder eventually sank his teeth into a winners’ medal of such magnitude that he felt compelled to buy a new house. Allow him to explain. “I’ve just moved into a new house, and there was a bit of friction with my girlfriend over what to do with certain rooms. One of the ideas was to have a special room to record everything I have done so far.
Bringing comfort and joy every day
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 24, 2005
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In Ozaukee County, Ferrell said her program has grown from 55 delivered meals every day in 2001 to 125 now. In Milwaukee County, where the county contracts with Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin to deliver meals, the demand for the service has “grown phenomenally,” said Meg Lemmen, director of senior services for Goodwill. The number of meals delivered on weekdays has grown 15% over last year while weekend home delivery has grown 45%. “That tells me we are serving more people who are frail. People who are frail and want to stay in their homes,” Lemmen said. The county pays Goodwill $759,000 a year to operate the delivery program. Goodwill doesn’t struggle finding volunteers to make deliveries, instead paying workers to do so.
Sharing Holidays, Dividing Property
Washington Post – Dec 24, 2005
California resident Olivia Boyce-Abel recalls that up until 1988, she and her three siblings got along well. But relations among them deteriorated that year after their mother died and left to all of them a 3,000-acre tract of land in South Carolina. The grown children were unable to peacefully agree on what to do with the land, which included two summer homes. Boyce-Abel wanted to keep the land, but her siblings wanted to sell. "There was a lot of miscommunication and misunderstandings," she said. The land was eventually divided, but only in the past few years have she and her siblings "begun to reconnect as a family," she said… homeowners ages 65 and older, according to the 2000 Census, and many intend to leave either a primary or vacation home to their grown children. But without careful planning, today’s families may go through the same trauma that hers did, said Boyce-Abel, now a mediator, consultant and founder of Family Lands Consulting, a Santa Cruz firm that helps families successfully transfer land, wealth and businesses. She and other inheritance planning experts say that adult children should know their parents’ plans for passing down a beach house, mountain condo or primary residence. "Parents should incorporate their grown kids into every phase of their estate plan," said lawyer Jeffery L. Condon, co-author of "Beyond the Grave: The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others)" (HarperCollins, 2001).
Terrorist Bill of Rights?
American Daily – Dec 24, 2005
At this point in time, the political lines seemed to have vanished and every brain-dead peacenik and appeaser that is hanging around is jumping on the bandwagon. Our enemy in this ‘formally undeclared war’ have no concept of respect for any rules but those they have made for themselves. But our ‘home grown?’ candy-a** elite wants to prove to the ‘world’ that we can be as stupid as the rest of the world?
There ain’t no rules of war when you are dealing with fanatics and cultists. It’s a given that Governors have a lot of power that the beltway bunch forgets to admit. How about these 36 Governors up for election in 2006 be forced to take up the cause for the people of their state and demand that the ‘Terrorist Bill of Rights’ be cancelled and a ‘formal state of war’ be declared.