FED:Triumphant Cadel back home in Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
08-11-2011
FED:Triumphant Cadel back home in Australia

By Megan Neil and Roger Vaughan

MELBOURNE, Aug 11 AAP - Tour de France champion Cadel Evans arrived home wanting one
thing: a hug from his mum.

On Friday, thousands of fans will give him a much bigger embrace when Melbourne holds
a parade in his honour.

Landing in Melbourne on Thursday for a three-day visit, Evans was keen to thank Australians
for their support and even keener to see his mum, Helen Cocks, for the first time since
he won cycling's greatest race last month.

"It's always nice to come home and get a hug from your mum," the 34-year-old told a
media pack at Melbourne Airport.

Evans, the first Australian to win the tour, usually spends 10 months of the year away
competing and bases himself in the small Victorian seaside town of Barwon Heads during
the off-season.

He has been quietly savouring his historic win at his home in Switzerland with wife
Chiara and their dog Molly.

There'll be no chance for quiet reflection on Friday when thousands line St Kilda Road
and Federation Square to congratulate him.

"When I started cycling in 1991, I don't think you could ever imagine such a thing
would happen for a cyclist," he said.

"I'm really just flattered, honoured - privileged."

Before his "small ride" through the city, Evans will catch up with close friends and
family - mum and grandmother included - and graciously thank those who have supported
him over the years.

A humble Evans was happy to be home after "a good July and a great Tour de France".

"I've been working at the Tour de France for the best part of my whole life," he said.

"Then when it all comes together, to have been supported all this way through and be
able to bring the yellow jersey back to Australia, of course I'm proud to do it.

"But I'm also happy to be able to give something back to everyone who's supported me
and also honoured for everyone who's been so appreciative of it."

Evans was too humble to agree with those who've dubbed his win the greatest sporting
achievement in Australian history.

"I don't know if it's the greatest but it's been something that I've worked hard on
for so long," he said.

"I'm just happy that everyone enjoyed it, everyone enjoyed following it and seeing
it, and to come out on top finally on the Champs-Elysees it's the culmination of many,
many years of work for a lot of people."

Evans has been blown away by the response from Australians and inundated with messages
of support.

"When you ride in the Tour de France you're concentrated on each day and each race
and so on, sometimes you forget that there's 20 million people at home cheering you on,"

he said.

Tens of thousands are expected to watch Evans cycle the 250m down St Kilda Road from
the National Gallery of Victoria to Federation Square, where he'll take to the stage to
thank his fans.

It'll be their only chance for a while as he says he's unlikely to accept an invitation
from the AFL to appear at the grand final on October 1 or ride the Herald-Sun Tour two
weeks later because he still has commitments in Europe.

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NSW: Wendell Sailor caught up in nightclub incident

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2006
NSW: Wendell Sailor caught up in nightclub incident

Australian rugby union player WENDELL SAILOR has reportedly been involved an incident
at a South African nightclub while touring with the NSW Waratahs.

The incident is alleged to have occurred at a cocktail bar in Cape Town at the weekend.

While few details are reported in The Australian newspaper .. Australian Rugby Union
high performance manager PETER DAVIS …

FED:I can't remember Nazi incident: Wilkie

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2011
FED:I can't remember Nazi incident: Wilkie

CANBERRA, April 15 AAP - Federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie says he cannot remember
ordering military cadets to commemorate Adolf Hitler's rise to power so he won't be apologising
for that specific incident.

But he says he is regretful of other inappropriate behaviour when he was at Duntroon
Military College almost 30 years ago.

As a senior cadet in 1983 Mr Wilkie allegedly forced his juniors to salute the 50th
anniversary of Hitler's rise to power, News Ltd has reported.

"I honestly cannot remember anything about that specific allegation," Mr Wilkie told
reporters in Hobart on Friday.

"But I have never made a secret of the fact that I was one of many cadets involved
in the bastardisation scandal at the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1983.

"In fact I was disciplined for misconduct at the time."

Mr Wilkie said he was "obviously regretful" of that.

He acknowledged the behaviour was wrong and inappropriate but insisted it wasn't physical
or sexual.

"I've obviously grown up a lot in the last 30 years."

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NSW:Bus driver drunk at the wheel

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2010
NSW:Bus driver drunk at the wheel

A man at the wheel of a bus has been charged with high-range drink-driving in Sydney's west.

Police saw the bus being driven erratically at 2.15am (AEDT) on Olympic Drive at Lidcombe.

The driver .. who said he was a bus mechanic .. was tested at Auburn police station
and found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.158.

The 38-year-old Riverwood man has been charged with negligent driving as well as drink-driving
.. and bailed to appear on January 18 in Burwood Local Court.

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FED:Gillard honours war veterans

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2010
FED:Gillard honours war veterans

PERTH, Aug 18 AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has laid a wreath at a war memorial
in Perth in honour of Vietnam Veterans Day.

On the 44th anniversary of Long Tan - the best known action of Australia's decade in
Vietnam - Ms Gillard inspected the war memorial alongside Defence Minister John Faulkner
and former Labor MP and Vietnam veteran Graham Edwards.

Ms Gillard then went on a walk through the war memorial gardens inspecting other memorials.

The battle of Long Tan was fought on August 18, 1966 when 108 members of Delta company,
six Battalion (6 RAR) encountered a vastly superior North Vietnamese force, repelling
a series of attacks until the enemy finally withdrew.

Eighteen Australians died in the bitter fighting.

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QLD: RSPCA hunts video owner

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2010
QLD: RSPCA hunts video owner

By Darren Cartwright

BRISBANE, April 9 AAP - The RSPCA wants the Federal Government and Aboriginal elders
to review hunting methods after a graphic video of a turtle having its flippers hacked
off while still alive was posted on the web.

The footage was uploaded to YouTube last October and activist Colin Riddell has been
trying to locate the owner of the video on behalf of the RSPCA.

RSPCA Queensland chief inspector Michael Pecic said Aboriginal hunting practices need
to be reviewed and they also needed to know the origins and details of the footage to
take the matter further.

"If anyone can provide information as to where and when the footage was taken, we would
be most grateful," Mr Pecic said.

"Obviously we'd also like to talk to the person who filmed the incident."

Mr Riddell told AAP he has emailed the YouTube account of the person who posted the
graphic footage but it has been to no avail.

"I'm just hoping he will respond," Mr Riddell said.

"This is inhumane."

The video shows four people, out of a group of 10, dragging the turtle ashore.

Moments later, while it is on its back, the men start cutting the flippers off.

RSPCA Queensland chief executive Mark Townend said the government needed to take look
closely into how animals are killed under traditional hunting methods.

"Up until now, cruelty to animals using traditional hunting methods has been put in
the too hard basket by state and federal governments," Mr Townend.

Pastor John Andy, indigenous elder of Djiru tribe at Mission Beach, said hacking the
flippers off a living turtle was not a traditional hunting method.

He said he had not seen the footage but said the dismantling of an animal after it
had been killed was normal in all walks of life.

"As for cutting off fins, it's not something you do when a turtle is alive" Mr Andy told AAP.

"Cutting off fins is not a traditional hunting method.

"You might do that after it's dead, like you do with other animals."

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FED: Barrow Island no "untouched place": Emerson

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2009
FED: Barrow Island no "untouched place": Emerson

CANBERRA, Aug 27 AAP - Western Australia's Barrow Island, home to endangered species
and a massive new liquified natural gas project, isn't an "untouched place", a federal
minister says.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett on Wednesday approved the $50 billion liquefied
natural gas development on Barrow Island, off WA's Pilbara coast.

Fellow frontbencher Small Business Minister Craig Emerson shrugged off suggestions
the Gorgon project should have been moved from the A-class nature reserve, where endangered
animals like the flatback turtle live, to a more environmentally suitable location on
the WA coast.

"It would have substantially affected the viability of it," he told ABC TV on Thursday.

"This is a proposal that has been developed and works in all engineering terms where
it is on Barrow Island now."

Almost 30 extra environmental conditions imposed on the project by Mr Garrett aim to
protect the island's ecosystem.

But Dr Emerson stressed Barrow Island wasn't an "untouched place".

"There's oil wells on Barrow Island now," he said.

The fact that the gas would be exported to Asia and used instead of emissions-intensive,
coal-fired energy meant it was actually an environmentally friendly enterprise.

"If we truly do take a global view of this ... you get a very clear net positive for
the environment and a clear net positive for the Australian economy," Dr Emerson said.

"If we reduce global emissions, that's got to be a tick for the Gorgon project and
everyone who supported it."

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Qld: No babies have left hospital with wrong mother: Qld Health

AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2009
Qld: No babies have left hospital with wrong mother: Qld Health

By Jessica Marszalek

BRISBANE, April 18 AAP - No baby has gone home with the wrong family, Queensland Health
has assured mothers alarmed that 57 babies were wrongly tagged in the state's hospitals
last year.

Babies are given three identification tags in Queensland hospitals - two on their limbs
and one taped to their back.

But documents reveal at least one tag was missing, or tags held the wrong name in 57
cases in 2008.

There were 27 cases in 2006 and 55 in 2007.

Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young said the rise was due to more reporting
by nurses, which is required even if no harm has been caused.

She said tags could fall off babies' small wrists and ankles, and sometimes babies'
names were spelt wrongly.

"It doesn't mean that we don't know who that baby is," Dr Young told reporters in Brisbane
on Saturday.

Nevertheless, the mistakes were concerning.

"But I can assure everyone that there is no chance that any baby has gone home with
the wrong mother," she said.

"That absolutely has not happened and every mother in Queensland needs to be reassured
about that."

Dr Young said Queensland Health was looking at different ways of labelling patients
to avoid these types of mistakes.

"We're looking at barcoding systems and other systems using the technology that's available,"

she said.

Queensland Nurses' Union spokeswoman Gay Hawksworth said the errors were due to overworked staff.

"I have absolutely no doubt about that," she told ABC Radio.

"Everybody is absolutely stretched to the limit and no midwife or nurse or other health
professional wants to make an error."

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KEYWORD: BABIES

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SA: Rainfall offers mixed blessings across SA

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2008
SA: Rainfall offers mixed blessings across SA

ADELAIDE, Dec 12 AAP - Soaking rain across South Australia has closed roads, sparked
local flooding and offered mixed blessings for farmers.

The weather bureau said on Friday falls of up to 80 millimetres were recorded in some
parts of the north and mid-north, the best for months.

Flooding was reported in numerous regional towns and cities including Ceduna and Whyalla,
with the State Emergency Service taking calls for assistance.

Transport officials said about 30 roads across the state's north were closed and others
restricted to four-wheel drives.

Farmers said the rain was good for some but not for others, with cherry growers in
the Adelaide Hills expected to be the hardest hit.

Farmers still harvesting grain crops were also concerned the rain would cause damage.

Further south, rainfalls were lighter but still the best for most parts in recent months
after an exceptionally dry spring.

The weather bureau said a low pressure system and associated trough moved across the
state on Friday bringing areas of rain and isolated thunderstorms.

However, it said the rain would contract to the east on Saturday, bringing cooler conditions
with showers clearing by the afternoon.

As the rain fell across Adelaide, the South Australian opposition lamented the continued
loss of the city's stormwater to the sea.

Opposition water security spokesman Mitch Williams said so far this year 114 gigalitres
of stormwater had flowed into Gulf St Vincent, instead of being harvested for future use.

"A year's water supply has literally gone down the drain because the government has
no plan to capture stormwater," Mr Williams said.

"Adelaide has lost 114 gigalitres that could have been used to take pressure off the
River Murray."

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KEYWORD: RAIN SA

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NSW: Prisoners locked down for days due to staff concerns-union

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2008
NSW: Prisoners locked down for days due to staff concerns-union

A union says prisoners at Sydney's Long Bay jail have been locked in their cells since
Tuesday .. and will remain there all weekend due to concerns about staffing levels.

The Public Service Association says correctional officers are concerned by staff levels
across the facility .. and particularly at the prison's hospital where a new roster came
into effect in April.

It says that's led to inmates with mental illness being kept for 18 hour stretches
in their cells in virtual solitary confinement.

The Department of Corrective Services says the prison's continuing to operate as close
to normal as possible .. with management-level prison officers stepping in to fill most
of the roles vacated by striking workers.

It says visits from inmates' families will proceed over the weekend.

The dispute's been referred to the industrial commission and a hearing could take place
as early as Monday.

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Vic: $1m plan to ease bikes on trains row=2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2008
Vic: $1m plan to ease bikes on trains row=2

Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu dismissed Ms Kosky's claims that she was unaware her
department had not consulted with bike users.

"What a glorious backflip, it's not as if the minister wasn't aware of this, I thought
this was nonsense at the time," he said.

"What we need in Victoria is more trains, more trams and more tracks and not these
sort of banana manoeuvres of a minister who's clearly passing the buck."

AAP cmb/ce/cjh/jlw

KEYWORD: TRANSPORT VIC 2 MELBOURNE (REOPENS)

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Vic: Skill shortage crisis could worsen under Labor - Robb

AAP General News (Australia)
08-28-2007
Vic: Skill shortage crisis could worsen under Labor - Robb

The federal government says Australia's skill shortage crisis could worsen if Labor
wins the federal election .. and threatens to strip technical colleges of their resources.

Minister for Vocational and Further Education ANDREW ROBB says he fears Labor will
destroy the new 21 technical colleges established this year.

Mr ROBB says Australia's education union movement has an agenda to undermine the new
colleges .. which he says are being embraced by the community.

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Fed: Risk of rate rise deepens after week of buoyant data

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2007
Fed: Risk of rate rise deepens after week of buoyant data

By Colin Brinsden, Economics Correspondent

CANBERRA, April 13 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard says the coalition is still the
government that will deliver a low interest rate environment, even though there have been
four increases since the last election.

And economic data released in the past week suggests there is a growing risk there
will be a fifth interest rate hike before long, a worry for the government ahead of this
year's election in either October or November.

Mr Howard said yesterday's drop in the unemployment rate to a 32-year low of 4.5 per
cent does not automatically mean interest rates will have to go up again.

"I think some of the market reactions are simplistic," Mr Howard told Southern Cross radio.

He said that increase in interest rates will only happen if low unemployment leads
to high wages throughout the whole economy, leading to an increase in inflation.

However, a drop in the unemployment rate is only part of the rate story which has sent
the Australian dollar rocketing to a 17-year high above 83 US cents today, and seen interest
rate markets price in a 64 per cent chance of a rate rise next month, up from 60 per cent
yesterday.

Not only did housing finance, job ads and business survey data - along with the labour
force report - this week demonstrate buoyant conditions in the business and household
sectors in February and March, they also point to further strength in domestic demand
in the months ahead.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics also released lending finance data for February
today, which shows total new commitments - housing, personal, commercial and lease finance
- rising by 10.0 per cent in February, the highest growth rate in nine months.

This follows a 7.5 per cent rise in January.

"Against a backdrop of capacity constraints and labour supply shortages, and with core
inflation at the top of the RBA's comfort zone, the risks to the inflation outlook have
deepened," ANZ economist Ricki Polygenis said.

ANZ expects an interest rate rise next month.

Key to a rate rise at the Reserve Bank of Australia's board meeting on May 1 will be
the outcome of the first quarter consumer price index on April 24.

Mr Howard said it was for the RBA to make the final assessment on rates and make that
largely based on views on the level of inflation.

"I don't like interest rates going up because of the impact they have on borrowers,"

Mr Howard said.

"I stand by what I said before, that a coalition government will always deliver lower
interest rates than a Labor government, I certainly do stand by that."

Mr Howard, well behind Labor leader Kevin Rudd in opinion polls, declined to comment
on what election sweeteners would feature in this year's budget, to be delivered on May
8.

"There are always some surprises. You can expect a budget that is responsible, clearly
a budget that looks to help people.

"But you don't help people by going back into the red and there will be a strong surplus."

His Treasurer, Peter Costello, said yesterday tax cuts are preferable to extra government
spending for delivering economic growth.

However he refused to be drawn on whether there would be another round of tax reductions
in the May budget.

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SA: The main stories in the 1600 ABC SA news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2006
SA: The main stories in the 1600 ABC SA news

ADELAIDE, Dec 12 AAP - The main stories in the 1600 ABC SA news:

- A suicide bomber has reportedly killed 40 people and wounded 30 in central Baghdad.

- Labor leader Kevin Rudd supports the concept of mateship in the Federal Government's
citizenship test as long as it is properly defined.

- Prime Minister John Howard is not surprised by the boost in support for the Labor
party in today's Newspoll.

- A bush fire has destroyed a ski chalet at Mt Buffalo in Victoria.

- South Australian police have created a specialist gay and lesbian liaison positions
to combat hate crimes.

- SA Independent MP Nick Xenophon castes doubt on the strength of the deal between
ExxomMobil and State Government over the Port Stanvac refinery.

- Adelaide Crows would still like Ben Hart to join the squad next year, after he wasn't
picked up in the pre-season draft.

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Qld: Flegg about to face election music

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2006
Qld: Flegg about to face election music

The Liberals' new Queensland leader BRUCE FLEGG will face a baptism of fire when state
parliament resumes today .. amid mounting speculation about an early election.

MP for the western Brisbane seat of Moggill and Opposition health spokesman .. Dr FLEGG
rolled BOB QUINN for the top job in a half hour party room meeting yesterday.

It's widely believed Premier PETER BEATTIE could call an election next week for September
9 .. although an election's not due until next year.

Mr BEATTIE has dismissed the impact of the leadership change .. saying the opposition
may change the deckchairs .. but it's the same whingy lot.

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Fed: AWB says giving up veto on wheat contract last resort

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2006
Fed: AWB says giving up veto on wheat contract last resort

CANBERRA, Feb 15 AAP - Wheat exporter AWB says it will only give up its power of veto
to allow other Australian companies to compete for a major contract in Iraq as a last
resort.

Australia is sending a delegation to Iraq as soon as possible to talk to the new Iraqi
government about the decision of the Iraq Grains Board to suspend relations with AWB pending
the outcomes of the Cole inquiry.

Prime Minister John Howard told parliament that AWB, which has a monopoly on wheat
exports, would give up its power of veto to allow other Australian companies to compete
for the contract.

But AWB chairman Brendan Stewart, who will take part in a delegation to Iraq, told
reporters he believed there were other options to be explored before going down that path.

Asked if the company was temporarily forgoing its monopoly on wheat exports, Mr Stewart
said: "Absolutely not."

"We've got to get this into perspective, that is a last resort.

"We have said to the prime minister if we have to use that, then we absolutely will,
but we think there are other solutions that can be found."

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NSW: Inquest to be held after post-mortem report bungle

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2005
NSW: Inquest to be held after post-mortem report bungle

By Peter Jean, State Political Reporter

SYDNEY, Dec 1 AAP - After a two-year struggle and the trauma of receiving the wrong
autopsy results, Kim McCall has won the battle for an inquest into the death of her brother
Wayne Brown.

Ms McCall initially received the wrong autopsy report after Mr Brown died in the back
of an ambulance at Sydney's Concord Hospital on December 16, 2003.

When she later obtained the real report, she found it incorrectly stated personal details,
including information that he had not been circumcised.

She said she was determined to ensure an inquest be held into how her brother died
- and ensure a similar bungle did not happen again.

Ms McCall now plans a campaign in the lead-up to the March 2007 state election highlighting
what she says are the failures in the state Labor government's handling of the health
system.

"I'll tell people to tell their loved ones they love them every night," she said.

"Because if their loved ones go into this hospital system, there's a good chance they'll die."

Ms Brown said she wants to recruit people to stand outside polling booths on election
day with photos of people who have died in NSW public hospitals.

"If people thought (former One Nation leader) Pauline Hanson was a pain in the arse,
they'll find out she was a pussycat compared to me," she said.

In 2003, Mr Brown, 40, was discharged from Concord Hospital where he was being treated
for a serious renal condition.

Ms McCall said he was sent home because the hospital did not have enough beds - something
the hospital disputes.

The next day he collapsed and was rushed to Blacktown Hospital, which was not equipped
with functioning dialysis equipment.

He died the next morning of a heart attack as he was being taken out of an ambulance
which had transferred him to Concord.

Ms McCall received an autopsy report which said her brother had died of a drug overdose
- she had been given the results for another Wayne Brown.

The real autopsy report seemed to have her brother's height wrong and said he had not
been circumcised.

In a letter to Ms McCall dated August 25, Department of Forensic Medicine general manager
Mark Patterson apologised for errors in the report.

Last month Deputy state Coroner Jacqueline Milledge decided to hold an inquest into
Mr Brown's death sometime next year.

The Health Care Complaints Commission is also investigating the case.

Opposition health spokeswoman Jillian Skinner said Mr Brown's family had been waiting
too long - two years - for investigations into his death to be finalised.

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Ziegler process

Ziegler process An industrial process for the manufacture of high-density polyethene using catalysts of titanium(IV) chloride (TiCl₄) and aluminium alkyls (e.g. triethylaluminium, Al(C₂H₅)₃). The process was introduced in 1953 by the German chemist Karl Ziegler (1898–1973). It allowed the manufacture of polythene at lower temperatures (about 60°C) and pressures (about 1 atm.) than used in the original process. Moreover, the polyethene produced had more straight-chain molecules, giving the product more rigidity and a higher melting point than the earlier low-density polyethene. The reaction involves the formation of a titanium alkyl in which the titanium can coordinate directly to the pi bond in ethene.

In 1954 the process was developed further by the Italian chemist Giulio Natta (1903–79), who extended the use of Ziegler's catalysts (and similar catalysts) to other alkenes. In particular he showed how to produce stereospecific polymers of propene.

Antarctic Circumpolar Wave

Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) A set of anomalies in atmospheric pressure, sea ice cover, sea-surface temperature, and wind stress that propagate eastwards around the Antarctic continent. The anomalies originate from oceanic Rossby waves within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, approximately between latitudes 40° S and 70° S. These waves are most noticeable as four alternating regions of warm tropical water and cold polar water. They take c.8–10 years to circle the globe, and may be directly linked through a teleconnection with El Niño Southern Oscillation activity. Distinct correlations exist with weather over South America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
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UniSource Energy Modifies Start Time for First Quarter 2002 Earnings Conference Call & Webcast.

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TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002

UniSource Energy Corp. (NYSE: UNS) has modified the start time for the online, real-time webcast of its first quarter 2002 earnings conference call.

James S. Pignatelli, UniSource Energy chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Kevin Larson, vice president and chief financial officer, will host the call starting at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 29, 2002.

UniSource Energy will release its first quarter 2002 earnings after the market closes on April 26, 2002, at www.UniSourceEnergy.com.

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To listen to the live conference call, dial 877/582-0446, five to 10 minutes prior to the event, and reference confirmation code: 3768840. A telephone replay will be available for seven days starting April 29, 2002. To listen to the replay, dial 800/642-1687 and reference confirmation code: 3768840.

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The live audio-only webcast can be accessed from a link at www.UniSourceEnergy.com. Listeners are encouraged to access the Web site at least 30 minutes before the event to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The webcast will be available for replay for 30 days from a link at www.UniSourceEnergy.com.

UniSource Energy's subsidiaries include Tucson Electric Power Co., Arizona's second-largest investor-owned electric utility; Advanced Energy Technologies Inc., a developer of renewable energy and distributed generation technologies; and Southwest Energy Solutions, a regional electric contractor. For more information about UniSource Energy and its subsidiaries visit www.UniSourceEnergy.com.

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