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The Age

Xmas Island ship smash probed
Sydney Morning Herald
The decision to keep a cargo ship moored at Christmas Island in bad weather before the vessel foundered against rocks is being probed by Australia's transport safety watchdog. Heavy swells in Flying Fish Cove on January 8 caused mooring lines on the ...
Oil continues to leak from Christmas Island wreckThe Australian

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DIARY - Asian Market Holidays to December 2012
Reuters
... DECEMBER 25 Australia - Christmas Day Hong Kong - Christmas Day Indonesia - Christmas Day India - Christmas Malaysia - Christmas Day New Zealand - Christmas Day Pakistan - Quaid-e-Azam Day / Christmas Philippines - Christmas Day Singapore ...

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Bloomberg

Pressure rises in Gillard's war room
Herald Sun
They spent the Christmas break devising a political strategy aimed at taking the Government along that path. Wednesday's speech by the Prime Minister - titled "Building a new Australian economy together" - was, in effect, a map of the route she plans ...
It's still long odds that there will be a federal Labor leadership bid, change ...The Australian
Divided team yet more bad news for PMThe Canberra Times
Every which way it's RuddSydney Morning Herald

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$1bn native title deal to settle Perth claims
Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian government hopes to settle a long-running native title claim over Perth and the state's southwest this year with an estimated $1 billion package of cash injections and land transfers to the Noongar people.

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Santa Anita: Bourbon Bay, Sanagas to meet again in San Marcos
Daily Racing Form
They will both have their first starts of the year in Saturday's $150000 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita. While Sanagas has since changed ownership, and has the Melbourne Cup in Australia in November as a long-term goal, Bourbon Bay is expected to ...



Original Wine of the Month Club to Add Flavor and Flair at "Santa Anita ...
MarketWatch (press release)
2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Original Wine of the Month Club is pleased to announce that it will participate as an event sponsor at the fifth annual "Santa Anita Uncorked" wine and culinary festival which will take place from 12:00 pm to 4:00 ...

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Berkshire Hathaway: Buffett's baby is a core stock for your portfolio
The Motley Fool
Instead, it buys many businesses whole ? businesses like Burlington Northern Santa Fe, International Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, and Benjamin Moore ? and allows them to largely run themselves. Many people may think that the primary reason to own ...

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Brisbane Times

Amid pride and prejudice, it's time for a new flag
Brisbane Times
Six years on, flags are still being worn - mostly peacefully on Australia Day: flags on girls in short shorts, draped like pashminas, flags on baseball-capped boys, knotted around necks. This starkly intimate relationship to a national symbol gives ...

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Switch-on boosts 'feelgood factor'
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
By Jo Winrow » New figures have revealed more than £500000 was spent by Bradford Council on Christmas lights and switch-on events in the city centre over the last three years. Each year, the cost of refurbishing and maintaining the festival lights, ...

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Salisbury Post

China Grove considers new LED Christmas lights
Salisbury Post
The town of China Grove is looking to replace the current snowflake lights. Submitted photo By Shavonne Potts CHINA GROVE ? Although Christmas was over a month ago, the town of China Grove still has the holiday on its mind. At least, the town wants ...

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Light On One's Feet?
What They Think (blog)
By Richard Romano on February 3rd, 2012 Via SciTechDaily, a story in The Atlantic about a unique recycling project: turning discarded Christmas lights into slippers. Yong Chang Processing, in Shijiao, China, recycles around 2.2 million pounds of ...



Costs is sticking point on Christmas lights
Eastern Wake News
By Brian Slattery, Correspondent WENDELL - The sticking points on whether the Lake Myra Christmas Lights Show lights up Wendell come down to costs and an unsecured location. Interim Town Manager Teresa Piner described the effort needed to locate the ...

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Local kids donate Christmas gifts to organizations in need
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
A local brother and sister just turned their Christmas presents into a gift for two local charities. Ella, 3 and 5-year-old Kaleb Simonin both received $100 under the tree from their aunt, but the gift was also wrapped up with a lesson in sharing.



Yahoo! Sports (blog)

Best barometer of the St. Louis Blues' success? Gifts from political lobbyists
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
While many states prohibit politicians accepting gifts from lobbyists -- in December 2010, New York governor David Paterson was fined $62125 for accepting free World Series tickets, for instance -- it's an accepted and flourishing practice in Missouri.

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$6700 donated to Good Samaritan
Waynesville Daily Guide
Examples given by O'Neal of relational gifts during the holidays were the giving of a can of coffee with the promise of sitting down together to drink it over the next year or writing journals to one another and exchanging them as Christmas gifts.

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Gifts for hospital ward
Pocklington Post
CHRISTMAS may be well and truly over, but that hasn't stopped staff at Langlands Nurseries Ltd from spreading the cheer. The Shiptonthorpe nusery has donated £520 worth of Christmas decorations and toys to the children's ward at York Hospital.



IMPD charity to benefit from some Super Bowl 2012 busts
Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Clothe-A-Child Fund lets kids in need shop with an officer for underwear, coats, shoes and other items at Christmas. The program raises about $25000 to $30000 each year and helps about 70 children around ...

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Sisley seems to have trousered my goods
The Guardian
I got some vouchers for my favourite clothes shop, Sisley, at Christmas and spent them in the sales. I was very pleased with my purchases, though two pairs of trousers needed to be taken up so I took them back into the store and was told they would ...

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Christmas crime figures released
Watford Observer
By Chris Hewett » Criminals stole from Watford shops on average more than two times a day in the months leading up to Christmas, police figures reveal. A total of 271 incidents of theft from shops were recorded in the town by Hertfordshire Constabulary ...



Cleveland News - Fox 8

Man Accused in Bakery Shooting Arrested
Cleveland News - Fox 8
Cleveland second district vice unit officers arrested a man accused of shooting a local clerk days before Christmas. Javier Sanchez, 26, was arrested at his home on West 52 nd Street in Cleveland early Friday morning. Investigators say he is the gunman ...

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Halton Haven Hospice sees upsurge of donations to its charity shops
Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News
A CHARITY said it has seen a surge in high quality goods being donated to its shops. Halton Haven said the post-Christms period resulted in an influx of donations from residents but is calling on people to keep the trend going and continue to bring ...