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Sydney racing selections: Randwick tips for Saturday, December 19 A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size We’re off to Randwick again this week where hopefully Santa has several juicy winners. Big fields are one certainty, and there are plenty of closely matched contests. I’ll do my best to jag a couple. Last week saw another nice profit. I was generally a little bit off the mark but Kirwan’s Lane at doubl...

Sydney racing selections: Randwick tips for Saturday, December 12 A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size We head back to Randwick this Saturday for a big ten-race card, headlined by the Group Two Villiers Stakes. I don’t mind the day after my early look and hopefully I can build on last week’s win and extend my lead over the house. Eleven units this week. Dixie’s 2020 tally Units won: 585.30 Stats are bas...

1-866-55-press. get ready to join the conversation. you can do so on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. president obama has promised to send all possible federal aid out to the residents of moore oklahoma, to help them rebuild from the killer tornado. even though the two senators of oklahoma, of course, voted against providing any fema assistance to the victims of hurricane sandy. were not going to hold that against the residents of oklahoma. the death tol...

The airspace in britain and across large portions of europe remain largely closed this morning because of the massive ice cloud from the volcano in iceland moving across the region. its prompt iing many flight cancellations and causing the stranding of travelers from all around the world. i have the editor from "popular science" to talk about this this morning. good morning, jay. >> good morning. >> how common is it for the large magnitude of ash to travel so wide and far across the airspace? >>...

For a minute you and say, really? is that safe? >> well, theyre not going to go up in a 747, theyre probably not even going to go up in a jet. a prop plane can survive a trip around an ash cloud a lot better than a jet can. with jets, this is the thing to stress, is that, you know, pulling that particle, those particles, through a jet engine, thats the really dangerous thing, so its just a commonsense precaution that you wouldnt put a planeful of passengers in harms way, but a group of trained s...

whats the latest on that front? >> reporter: oh, absolutely. perishable goods like fruit, flowers, stuff like that, and as you mentioned, pharmaceuticals. all that european air cargo is backing up and backing up and people are fearing there will be shortages of certain goods before too long. it seems that the news from iceland is that that volcano has not stopped erupting and theres no way of telling will it stop? it could go on for days, even weeks, and the situations just going to ge...