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Both sides scored two tries, but accurate kicking from Matt Giteau and James O'Connor saw the Wallabies home. The deficit could have been far greater had Australia not wasted a succession of chances with some poor finishing.

Scrum-half Genia, skipper Rocky Elsom and David Pocock shone for the Wallabies while the Springboks were handicapped by sin-binnings for Jaque Fourie and BJ Botha. Wallabies fly-half Quade Cooper also saw yellow for a spear tackle on Morne Steyn.

Drew Mitchell had scored Australia's first try, while Fourie and Gurthro Steenkamp crossed for the Springboks.

HANGZHOU, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Customs officials in east China's Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province have destroyed 4 million counterfeit brand items, a Customs spokesman said Friday.

The knock-offs, which were destroyed Thursday, were fakes of more than 80 leading international brands such as Rolex, Chanel and Armani.

Yiwu Customs had seized a total of 21.76 million knock-offs destined for export, with a total value of 28.55 million yuan since the Yiwu Customs office was established in July 2009.

Yiwu is the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities as well as China's largest small commodities export base.

The Middleham handler really can do no wrong at present and as well as his steady stream of winners at the lesser tracks last week, he had a handicap double at Newmarket with St Moritz and Sea Lord while landing the Bahrain Trophy with Corsica.

Lady Eclair has a pretty similar profile to Corsica in that she has been on the go a very long time but there seems to be no sign of her progression stopping.

Unraced at two and three, she did not make her debut until March but has notched up nine appearances, winning five of them.

Her handicap debut did not go to plan at Yarmouth but she bounced straight back on her next run, conveniently at Ffos Las.

Arguably her best run of the season came in defeat in a valuable race at Hamilton when second to Just Lille and her mark has gone up from 68 to 89.

However, Johnston had her in a Listed race at Leopardstown later in the week and if he was seriously considering her for that she must be good enough to win another handicap.

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The Cape Cross gelding started and ended last season with wins in valuable handicaps but showed little in between.

There has not been much encouragement to date this year, but the yard has been bang out of form and he has dropped down to a mark of 96 having won off 97 in September.

Enthusing looked a sure-fire scorer after running on well in the closing stages to claim second on his Windsor bow and is taken to go one better in the sportingbet.com Maiden Stakes.

NAIROBI, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Libya and Botswana clinched their first medals of the Senior Africa Athletics Championship here as Mohammed Khawaja and Amantle Montsho won the men's and women's 400m respectively.

In the men 400m hurdles South Africa clinched both gold and silver while Senegal added a bronze in its collection.

Botswana's Amantle Montsho successfully retained her 400m women title in the third day of the championship here in Nairobi.

There was no threat to her dominance of the one lap race as she controlled it from the blocks all the way to the finish line. The victory earned Botswana its first medal in the championship.

Senegal's Amy Mbacke Thiam was reduced to battle for the silver with Nigeria's Shade Abugan in the final straight.

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Another Senegalese Seck Fatou Soumah was fourth in 51.93 ahead of Estie Wittstock of South Africa 52.60 and Racheal Nachula of Zambia 53.26. Nawal Eljack of Sudan was seventh in 53.80 while Rebecca Nachula was last in 54.12.

In the men 400m race, Khawaja stun his rivals and bookies as he emerged from the final bet stronger to pull away from his rivals to clinch the gold in 44.98 ahead of Rabah Yousif of Sudan who took silver in 45.18 while third place was hard to determine between Africa record holder Gary Kikaya of Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya's Mark Mutai.

However, after deliberation and review of the photo finish, it was Kikaya that was crowned with a bronze Gucci Replica medal with a time of 45.28 the same as Mutai.

"I am really happy to win here. It really means a lot for me. I thank my coach and family for helping me get this achievement," said Khawaja.

Kikaya, who was gunning to reclaim the title he lost in Addis Ababa, was happy with the bronze medal and said his vast age has forced him to slow down.

"I really wanted to win here, but the younger athletes are really strong. I spent more energy in the first 300m and was tired on coming to the final straight. But am ok with bronze medal," said Kikaya.

Botswana's Obakeng Ngwigwa was fifth in 45.50 edging out a late charge from favourite and American based Anderson Mureta of Kenya 45.62 while Nigeria's grip in the sprint was not witnessed, as Saul Weigopwa was seventh in 45.93 with Ethiopia's Bereke Gebretsadik Desta 47.14.

In the 400m hurdles, Zyl Van (south Africa) clinched gold in 48.51 while Cornel Fredericks took the silver in 48.79 while Kasse Mamadou Hanne claimed the bronze in 49.10.

Host Kenya were unlucky yet again in their quest to venture into the sprints as Vincent Kiplagat finished fourth in 49.70 while Leonel Kurt Couto of Mozambique was fifth in 49.79 while Tunisia's Mohammed Seghair was sixth in 50.05. Antonio Viellesse (Mauritius) 51.08 and Hafz Hussein (Sudan) was last in 52.02.

In other races, South Africa's Lehann Fourie won in heat one of the men 110m hurdles race clocking 13.73 to edge out Samuel Okon of Nigeria 13.95 and Lyes Mokddel of Algeria 14.19 to qualify to the finals.

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ACTUALLY that should read "a confusion of new engines", because there are some with twin turbos, others with twin vanes but a single turbo, and a breed with a turbo for each of their V8s' cylinder banks.

Unlike many German carmakers, BMW decided to simplify the terminology for the new units, by figuratively collecting them under the term: TwinPower. Thank heaven for that: one competitor labelled its new gearbox with a word that was 29 letters long.

The 3 Series Coupe, its cabriolet variant and the X5 sports activity vehicle have also each had a styling going over.

The 3 Series cars have a wider Detroit Red Wings twin-nostrilled grille than before with a subtly chromed inner rim, a 29 millimetre longer front overhang and a single full-width air intake, divided horizontally by a slim silver trim bar. They also feature "brows" over their front light clusters, with "light ring" LED daytime driving lights.

At the rear, the L-shaped lamp clusters have a double-level lens feature, and a subtle horizontal contour line gives a visual link to the car's new front treatment.

The visual changes to the X5 include wider side intakes in its front apron, more painted surfaces below the bumper line, replacing previous dark-grey finish, a silver trim bar similar to the 3 Series' and a matt-silver-finished underride panel underneath the middle air intake. L-shaped rear tail lights complete the picture.

Under the bonnet, the 3 Series coupe and cabriolet now offer a choice of two power units each, but only one is common to both models. That's the 335i M variant, specified with motorsport trim featuring a 22kW/400Nm 2979cc six-cylinder TwinPower petrol unit. The 3 Series coupe's other choice is the 330d SE, a 180kW/ 520Nm 2993cc six-cylinder TwinPower diesel, while the cabriolet offers a 160kW/250Nm 325i SE six- cylinder engine alternative.

The 335i M is available with a choice of six-speed manual or seven-speed double-clutch two- pedal transmission. The 330d coupe only offers a six-speed Steptronic automatic, while the 325i cabriolet gives you a choice of six- speed manual or Steptronic automatic. The 335i M sport coupe asks $125,900, with another $4000 required for the jewelry-h double-clutch transmission, while the cabriolet adds another $11,000 in each case.

The automatic Steptronic-only 330d SE Coupe is stickered at $115,900 with the 325i SE manual Cabriolet costing $111,900, adding another $4000 for Steptronic.

Noticing a drop-off in six- cylinder petrol X5 sales, BMW NZ has taken that version off the model's manifest. It now offers a single V8 petrol TwinPower unit in the form of the 300kW/500Nm 4395cc xDrive50iSport and three versions using its 2993cc six- cylinder diesel TwinPower engine: the 180kW/540Nm xDrive30d SE and ES and the 220kW/600Nm xDrive40d Sport.

The choice of transmission for the X5 is more cut and dried, with eight-speed Steptronic automatic the standard across the board.

The X5 xDrive30d ES - complicated badge, eh? - is the effective entry-point model at $112,000, which is less than the previous version's non-TwinPower six- cylinder diesel. It doesn't quite have the level of specification of the other models, but does have front and rear parking distance control and power front seats, though the lack of cruise con
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Couldn't he throw down his BlackBerry tablet and smash it in anger over the feckless financiers, the gods of gold and their idols - in this case not a gilt calf but an $87,000 area rug, a cache of diamond Tiffany and Cartier watches and a French-made luxury corporate jet?

Now that we're nationalizing, couldn't we fire any obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain down his antique commode?

How could Citigroup be so dumb as to go ahead with plans to get a new $50 million corporate jet, the exclusive Dassault Falcon 7X seating 12, after losing $28.5 billion in the past 15 months and receiving $345 billion in government investments and guarantees?

(Now I get why a $400 payment I recently sent to pay off my Citibank Visa was mistakenly applied to my sister-in-law's Citibank Mastercard account.)

The "Citiboobs" - as The New York Post, which broke the news, calls them - watched as the car chieftains got in trouble for flying their private jets to Washington to ask for bailouts, and the AIG moguls got dragged Vancouver Canucks before Congress for spending their bailout on California spa treatments. But the boobs still didn't get the message.

The former masters of the universe don't seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. Real people are losing real jobs at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint Nextel; these and other companies announced on Monday that they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as consumer confidence and home prices swan-dived.

Prodded by an appalled Sen. Carl Levin, Tim Geithner - even as he was being confirmed as Treasury secretary - directed Treasury officials to call the Citiboobs and tell them the new jet would not fly.

"They woke up pretty quickly," says a Treasury official, adding that they protested for a bit. "Six months ago, they would have kept the plane and flown it to Washington."

Levin said that the financiers will not be able to change their warped mentality, but will have to be reined in by Geithner's new leashes. "I have no confidence that they intend or desire to change," Levin told me. "These bankers got away with murder, and it's obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that's getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy jewelry-h new airplanes."

New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, always gratifying on the issue of clawing back money from the greedy creeps on Wall Street, on Tuesday subpoenaed Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive, over $4 billion in bonuses he handed out as the failing firm was bought by Bank of America.

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they're keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.

"If you don't pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise," and they'll go elsewhere, he said.

Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Let's call their bluff. Let's see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.

Mr. Brown was the beloved son of Angela MacKenzie and her husband, Rory, of Templeton, Mass., Kurt Brown and his wife, Theresa, of Texas and brother of Philip Brown of Templeton, Mass. Mr. Brown grew up in Bolton and attended Bolton schools. He participated in town sports, played chess competitively and was a Boy Scout. He was a 2003 honors graduate of Middlesex School in Concord, Mass., where he was active in theater, participated in the Model U.N., and played squash. He graduated in 2007 from Stanford University, majoring in computer science and political science.

He was active in the theater and loved playing Dungeon and Dragons, LARPS and RPGs. Upon graduation Mr. Brown worked at Microsoft Corp. as a software development engineer.

In addition to his immediate family, Mr. Brown leaves his grandparents, Joan and Charles Baker of Auburn; his great-grandmother, Florence Malloy and his many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Visiting hours are scheduled for Friday, April 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Britton-Wallace Funeral Home, 91 Central St., Auburn, Mass. A Mass of remembrance will be held on Saturday, April 10, at noon in the Mary Chapel at St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA.

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Recently, he stumbled on a free Microsoft program donated by the company to the state to spur employment. It offers online certification in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access, as well as some specialized IT training programs. Archundia, 42, picked up the voucher at his local unemployment office to familiarize himself with Microsoft and boost his resume.

"When I was applying for jobs, I noticed that many companies wanted you to know these skills and I was missing a piece," said Archundia, who has two kids and has been living on a severance package from his former employer.

The voucher program is part of a nationwide push by Microsoft to improve the computer literacy of the workforce, and each state is allotted watches-p a number of vouchers for the free program based on its unemployment rate, said John Bunn, a Microsoft general manager in the region. New Hampshire received 5,675 vouchers in May.

Michael Powers, a community developer in the Office of Workforce Opportunity in New Hampshire, said the vouchers were originally only made available to the unemployed, but as of yesterday, they are available to the general public on a first -ome, first-served basis. He said of the 5,675 vouchers, about half are left. The vouchers, which are valued at about $300, have to be activated by Aug. 19.

"People can upgrade or freshen up their skills and get back into the workforce," Powers said.

Powers said most of the training programs take about 10 hours to complete and offer help with Microsoft 2003 and 2007. The vouchers are available to anyone over 18 in any of the 13 New Hampshire Works career centers throughout the state.

As the program is still in its infancy, Bunn said Microsoft doesn't yet have statistics on the success rate of the program, but he said anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that people are taking advantage of the free vouchers.

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Archundia has just begun the training program and is focusing on learning Microsoft Access. He is already proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint from his previous job as a hotel front office manager. Through several interviews and conversations during his job search, he realized that not knowing Microsoft Access left a hole in his skill set.

He said the program is self-explanatory and surprisingly easy to use.

"Once I complete this, I think it will give me the extra thing I need to get the jobs I am applying for," Archundia said.