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In tribute to Edwards' memory, a memorial decal has been created for all cars competing in the ALMS season finale.
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New Form Promotes Sharing Across DHS to Help Schoolchildren
Data can produce "ah-ha" moments. The Clairton City School District is a case in point.
Until the DHS Office of Data Analysis, Research and Education (DARE) pulled together data about the district's children, some details about their potential needs got lost in the mix.
For example, once DHS began to sift through data Clairton shared with the department, such as test scores, attendance and human service involvement of Clairton students, 26 children with IEPs for a diagnosis of mental retardation were found not to have been registered with the Office of Intellectual Disability. That meant that they might not be tracked to receive services outside of school or after graduation. Mary Figlar of OID provided outreach to school staff on how County services could assist them.
"All schools know their children, but by vetting the numbers, it paints a picture," said Kathryn Collins, DARE analyst. She, fellow DARE analyst Emily Kulick and DARE Deputy Director Erin Dalton in May published a report on the Clairton district that examines statistics about children receiving human services.
To allow any data to be examined by DHS in Clairton or any other public school district has taken work by a wide variety of professionals - including educators, foundation representatives, education law experts, and DHS staffers – over at least five years.
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The group knew that thousands of Pittsburgh students received DHS services and that the achievement gap between those students and those who did not receive services was evident. The mission became how to share student information between the district and DHS – grades, attendance, standardized test scores – in a legal, confidential manner to assist children.
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Traditionally, workers in each office have to send consents to the district, where staff have to get them signed and compile the necessary info and mail it back to the requester – again and again. (Without a data-sharing agreement, consents still work in this manner.)
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John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners' and scholars' appreciation for this landmark work. This music-analytical guide presents a detailed, in-depth analysis of the music tied to historical and political contexts. The opera captures an important moment in history and in international relations, and a close study of it from an interdisciplinary perspective provides fresh, compelling insights about the opera. The music analysis takes a neo-Riemannian approach to harmony and to large-scale harmonic connections. Musical metaphors drawn between harmonies and their dramatic contexts enrich this approach. Motivic analysis reveals interweaving associations between the characters, based on melodic content. Analysis of rhythm and meter focuses on Adams's frequent use of grouping and displacement dissonances to propel the music forward or to illustrate the libretto. The book shows how the historical depiction in the opera is accurate, yet enriched by this operatic adaptation. The language of the opera is true to its source, but more evocative than the words spoken in 1972-due to Alice Goodman's marvelous, poetic libretto. And the music transcends its repetitive shell to become a hierarchically-rich and musically-compelling achievement.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I Setting the Scenes: Portraits of the Chinese landscape; State ceremonial functions; Chairman Mao's study; Grand tour of China. Part II Characters and Musical Characterization: Richard Nixon; Pat Nixon; Henry Kissinger; Mao Tse-tung; Chiang Ch'ing; Chou En-lai. Part III Nationalism and Cultural Distinction: American idealism and Chinese isolationism; Democracy and dynasty; Wall Street and the Great Wall; Human rights; Détente; Bibliography; Index.
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Australian shares have posted their strongest month for the calendar year-to-date, getting the new financial year off to a strong start.
The bull run continues despite growing concerns that global equities are vulnerable to a correction. Low volatility, stretched price-to-earnings ratios and record highs on Wall Street have all been cited as cause for caution.
Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index climbed 4.4 per cent over July to close the month at 5632.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries Index added 4.5 per cent to 5623.1 points, as the biggest banks and miners rose in tandem.
On Thursday, the local market shrugged off global concerns about an Argentinian bond default, adding 0.2 per cent, despite some mixed domestic data.
In the month ahead the focus for investors will be on the raft of financial results and outlook statements from August company reporting season.
Goldman Sachs co-head of equities David Acton expects results to disappoint the market, while forward guidance remains soft.
"Over 2014 the domestic economy has seen slowing housing momentum, weaker consumer spending post the budget and a stronger dollar, yet most analysts are still tipping companies to post strong second half results," Mr Acton said.
Adult education and training provider Navitas was the worst-performing stock in the ASX200 plummeting 30.43 per cent over the month to $4.96 as it downgraded profit guidance after losing a key contract.
Mining was the best-performing sector over July, up 7.7 per cent as the biggest producers delivered guidance beating quarterly production updates that put them on track to beat earnings forecasts in August. Resources giant BHP Billiton lifted 7.7 per cent to $38.68, while main rival Rio Tinto gained 11.9 per cent to $66.38.
UK house prices grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in July, adding to evidence of a property slowdown as measures to cool the market took effect.
Property values rose 0.1 percent from June to an average 188,949 pounds ($342,947), Nationwide Building Society said today in a statement on its website. That's the smallest increase since April 2013. From a year earlier, prices climbed 10.6 percent, following June's annual gain of 11.8 percent, which was the fastest year-on-year gain since 2005.
The data underscores signs of a loss of momentum in Britain's property market after record-low interest rates and improving confidence propelled prices to all-time highs. Bank of England Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent told Bloomberg News in an interview yesterday that the "edge is coming off" the market and housing has turned out weaker than the central bank forecast.
BOE financial-stability officials introduced measures in June to limit riskier mortgages and new rules came into force in April as part of the Mortgage Market Review, requiring tougher affordability tests. Other indicators have signalled these may be contributing to a deceleration, with lenders approving almost 10 per cent fewer mortgages in the second quarter than the first.
"The slowdown was not entirely unexpected, given mounting evidence of a moderation in activity in recent months," said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist. "With the labour market strengthening, mortgage rates expected to remain low and consumer confidence rising, activity is likely to recover in the months ahead."
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Best and worst performers in the ASX 200 today.
Shares managed to build on their multi-year highs as gains in banks offset falls among the miners.
The ASX 200 added 10 points, or 0.2 per cent, to close at 5632.9, while the All Ords gained 8 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 5623.1.
CBA (up 0.8 per cent) and Westpac (up 0.7 per cent) were the best of the big banks, while NAB and ANZ gained 0.3 and 0.4 per cent, respectively.
BHP was the single biggest drag, falling 0.8 per cent, despite another rise in the iron ore price overnight capping a strong month for the commodity. Woodside fell by a similar proportion on speculation that the company would fail to get shareholder approval for its selective buyback of Shell shares at its extraordinary general meeting tomorrow.
At the current pace, central banks will buy 226 tonnes of gold this year – more than in 2013, but below the level of net purchases in 2012, according to analysis from Macquarie.
In the 1990s and early 2000s banks were "continual net sellers", but they gradually began to add to their reserves and by 2010 bought more than they sold.
While central banks remained net buyers of the precious metal in 2013, the amount they purchased dropped to 198 tonnes, "raising the possibility that the swing to net buying had already run out of steam, perhaps because of the price crash," write the analysts.
In 2013 the spot price of gold plummeted 28 per cent to $US1201.64/ounce, and is up 7.6 per cent this year to $US1292.88/oz.
But the continued strength of buying so far this year has quashed worries that central banks would begin to lighten their loads of the yellow metal.
While it's difficult to predict whether the second half of this year could see an increase or drop-off in gold buying, "it should be noted that it remains a positive for gold that we are discussing how large net purchases will be, not whether there will be net sales," note the Macquarie analysts.
Central banks' appetite for gold is showing no signs of waning this year - at least thus far. Source: Macquarie
China should set an economic growth target of 6.5 to 7 per cent for 2015 and refrain from stimulus measures unless the economy threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International Monetary Fund says.
"Regarding the growth target for 2015, while most directors concurred that a range of 6.5 to 7 percent would be consistent with the goal of transitioning to a safer and more sustainable growth path, a few other directors considered a lower target more appropriate," the IMF said.
The IMF repeated its projection that the economic growth would dip to 7.4 per cent this year, and decelerate further to 7.1 per cent next year.
The IMF cut its 2014 and 2015 economic growth forecasts for China last week.
Most Chinese government economists, however, doubt Beijing would slash its growth target to below 7 percent next year for fear of undermining financial stability and market confidence.
Zhu Baoliang, chief economist at State Information Centre, a top government think-tank in Beijing, said he expected the 2015 growth target to be around 7 per cent.
"We should set a target of around 7 per cent for next year and maintain the target for a number of years," he told Reuters.
"But we cannot cut the target by one percentage point next year, that may have a big impact," he said, warning that a sharp slowdown could hit fiscal revenues and the financial sector.
Beijing is not expected to announce its 2015 target until early next year, though some government economists have suggested a lower level to help create more room to pursue structural changes.
The know-it-alls at the IMF reckon Chinese policy makers should target slower economic growth.
New York is a city of immigrants and their unofficial embassies offering a taste of home: the French bistro, the English pub, the California juice bar.
Add to that list the Australian cafe. What started as an expedition a few years ago has become an invasion, with four cafes opening in New York since the fall: Little Collins (named for a street in Melbourne), Brunswick (also named for a street in Melbourne), Bluestone Lane (named for the paving stones on a street in Melbourne) and Two Hands (named for a Heath Ledger film). Another Brunswick location is to open next month. They join Toby's Estate, an Australian company that opened a cafe in Brooklyn in 2012.
That Australians have anything to teach Americans about coffee culture may come as a surprise to casual drinkers. But those who nerd out on coffee know that Australia — Melbourne in particular — has a dynamic and professional coffee scene.
At first glance, an Australian cafe may seem like an American coffee shop with colorful idioms: brekkie (breakfast), a piccolo (a cortado), a flat white (a small latte) and "no worries" (you're welcome). But it functions differently, and differs from the dozen or so Australian coffee bars in New York, which offer the coffee but not the full experience. For one, the cafes offer table service, with a waiter bringing your drink. Then there is food, usually simple, fresh, satisfying egg dishes and salads with close attention paid to the details, just as it's done in Australia.
Aussie cafes are taking New York by storm.
Super funds and other big shareholders all knew that there was a trade-off involved in Woodside's plan to assist Shell's exit from its register with a $2.7 billion selective share buyback.
A governance and value issue was obvious. Ordinary shareholders are meant to be treated equally. The selective buyback would use up almost $1 billion of dividend franking credits and give Shell a deal - and a deal value that others shareholders were not being offered.
The selective buyback would, however, all but eliminate a share overhang that has existed since November 2010, when Shell offloaded a 10 per cent stake.
Shell signalled at that time that it was a seller, and it placed another 9.5 per cent of Woodside's shares to the market in June this year when the selective buyback was announced. The buyback would eliminate another 9.5 per cent, knocking the multinational's stake in Woodside down below 5 per cent.
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors told its industry fund members that the governance issue was real, but that each industry fund needed to assess the trade-off, including the value they placed on the dividend franking credits that Woodside was streaming Shell's way.
Non-industry funds considered the same issues, and different funds took different views. As Woodside revealed this morning, however, enough funds believe that equal treatment is the key issue to make it unlikely that Woodside's selective buyback of shares from Shell will be voted down when shareholders meet in Perth on Friday.
Woodside needs a 75 per cent yes vote to get the deal up, and its audit of proxy votes that account for about 59 per cent of its shares show a yes vote of only 71.3 per cent. Australian institutions, which unlike foreign investors can use franking credits, are believed to be voting heavily against the buyback.
Shell would reap plenty of franking credits under Woodside's planned buyback.
After looking at how 25 years of earnings forecasts have evolved over time, Deutsche Bank strategists Tim Baker and Joseph Kim draw out five key lessons:
1. Downgrades to earnings forecasts are the norm
In 16 of the past 25 years (64% of the time) earnings growth has ended up lower than had been forecast at the start of the year.
2. Upgrades generally occur only during a boom, or coming out of a downturn
At other times, earnings forecasts generally hold steady or decline somewhat.
3. Downgrades don't mean no earnings growth
It's important to remember that earnings, and share prices, do tend to rise even with the backdrop of earnings downgrades. Mild downgrades are consistent with earnings growing moderately (in the 0-10% range).
4. Downgrades occur as the year progresses, particularly in the first half
Earnings forecasts are usually quite stable in the year before the relevant financial year begins. In more recent history (ie FY00-FY13) it appears that the downgrades are largely done by mid-way through the year – after the half-year results, with stability in the send half of the year.
5. On average, earnings come in 9% lower than forecast at the start of the year. Excluding recessions, 4% lower.
Earnings have been forecast to grow by an average of 15% as the year begins, but end up growing by 6%. Excluding recessions, the initial 15% forecast drops to 11%. But in the past decade or so the downgrades have been smaller.
The current picture:
- In recent months accelerating downgrades suggest limited EPS growth ahead, although improving global growth in 2H could improve this a little. As it stands, analysts forecast 7% for FY15 – a low number to start the year, and history suggests upgrades are uncommon.
- This leaves Australia not looking particularly attractive on a global basis. Australia's PE ratio is around average vs offshore markets, but EPS growth is forecast to be a lot lower.
- What would be needed drive upgrades? A 10%+ fall in AUD; a reasonable acceleration in Chinese growth; or a wave of accretive acquisitions.
A history of analysts downgrading earnings forecasts suggests the low 7% EPS growth in FY15 will be whittled away. Source: Deutsche Bank
The outgoing chief executive of National Australia Bank, Cameron Clyne, has criticised the government's paid parental leave scheme as too costly and said the money would be better spent on child care.
In his last day in the job, Mr Clyne this morning hit out at the policy, which will pay mothers their full salary for six months, with payments capped at $50,000. It will be funded by a 1.5 per cent tax levy on big companies such as NAB.
Mr Clyne also said interest rates would stay at record lows for "some time," adding that confidence had been wounded by the failure to pass the budget.
Asked if the government can afford to honour its paid parental leave promise, Mr Clyne said "Well, no."
He said NAB would have to pay an extra $100 million in tax under the plan, but this was not the reason he was opposed to the policy.
"The reason that I don't like it is not that I'd have to pay $100 million, it won't actually increase participation in the workforce," he said.
"The overwhelming feedback I get from our [staff] and we've got a big workforce here in Australia, 28,000, is the biggest barrier to women re-entering the workforce is child care," he said on 3AW radio in Melbourne this morning.
"So if I could spend that $100 million on child care, as opposed to a parental leave scheme, that would be far more productive. That's what the Productivity Commission says, and quite frankly that's what just about everyone's saying, but you know I think it's here to stay."
Iron ore is heading for the biggest monthly increase this year on speculation that demand for imports in China may be improving, helping to absorb a global surplus as local supplies in the largest buyer are displaced.
Ore with 62 percent content delivered to Tianjin rose 0.6 percent to $US95.90 a dry tonne yesterday, according to data from The Steel Index. The raw material climbed 2.2 percent this month, poised for the largest advance since November. Prices gained a similar amount in June, snapping six monthly losses.
Iron ore rebounded last month from the lowest level since 2012 amid signs that rising seaborne supplies from Australia and Brazil are starting to spur the closure of some higher-cost production in China. The price of iron ore will have a dramatic recovery this half, Sanford C. Bernstein forecast in a July 9 report, saying that it's now cheaper for steel mills in China to buy seaborne supply rather than domestic material. The commodity entered a bear market in March.
"Iron ore prices are lifting in part due to a pickup in demand from China," Paul Bloxham, chief Australia economist at HSBC Holdings in Sydney, said. "We expect this to continue and for iron ore prices to head above $US100 a tonne in the near future."
Fixed-asset investment in China accelerated in June for the first time since August. Asia's largest economy accounts for about 67 per cent of global seaborne iron ore demand.
Between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the country's iron ore mines have closed, according to the China Metallurgical Mining Enterprise Association. A large proportion of China's output is loss-making, the Canberra-based Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics said last month.
Global seaborne output will exceed demand by 72 million tonnes this year and 175 million tonnes in 2015, Goldman Sachs Group wrote in a report dated July 23. The raw material will average $US80 in 2015 from $US107 this year, according to Goldman.
Investment property loan growth accelerated sharply last month, matching the biggest increase in seven years and adding to evidence property market gains might soon become economically un-sustainable without official interest rate hikes.
The AFR is reporting that loans to investors in June jumped 0.9 per cent, equalling the biggest gain since June 2007, when they rose 1.6 per cent, according to Reserve Bank of Australia data published on Thursday.
Annual investment loan growth has now hit 8.7 per cent, the fastest year-on-year growth since the first quarter of 2008.
The surge in investment loan lending to pre-GFC levels is likely to re-inflame fears the property market is heading into bubble territory, fuelled by a RBA cash rate at 2.5 per cent and fierce competition among lenders that has driven fixed rate loans to record-lows.
It also deepens a policy bind for the Reserve Bank, which is reluctant to hike official interest rates for fear of driving up the dollar. At the same time, governor Glenn Stevens has indicated that the market might be unsustainably strong if surging credit growth becomes entrenched alongside property price gains of 10 per cent a year or more.
The credit growth data sent the dollar up to around US93.27¢ after it fell following the release of unexpectedly weak building approvals data, which saw a volatile measure of unit approvals drop 10.5 per cent in the June.
Overall loans to households – including owner-occupiers – rose by a more modest 0.6 per cent, taking the annual gain to 6.4 per cent.
Qantas Airways will add extra economy-class seats to its fleet of Boeing 737s in a move that will boost the capacity of the primary workhorse of its domestic fleet by 3 per cent.
The addition of six extra economy-class seats at the rear of its fleet of 71 of the aircraft will be made possible by changes to the galley and lavatory space.
"Importantly, there will be no change to the amount of seating space each customer has," Qantas Domestic chief executive Lyell Strambi said.
The airline won't reduce the number of lavatories in economy class as part of the changes but will install a new slimline facility.
Qantas, which is expected to report a pre-tax annual underlying loss of more than $700 million, has been working to improve the economics of its 737 fleet. It has changed some of its engineering procedures and increased the number of quick turnarounds to boost the utilisation of the fleet.
Qantas has frozen its capacity in the domestic market during the quarter as a result of tough market conditions and has not ruled out maintaining the freeze for longer if there is no improvement in the external environment.
However, the upgrade in the interiors won't begin until mid-2015 and will take up to a year to complete.
Boosting capacity: The extra seats will be made possible through "slimline facilities". Photo: Craig Abraham,
So is consumer spending emerging from the Federal Budget-inspired downturn?
Bell Potter thinks that if it is, then tourism-linked stocks could be worth another look since it argues in a note to clients the slowdown in travel volumes will prove to be transitory.
In a review of the sector, it highlights both Flight Centre and Cover-More, the travel insurer as worth a look.
It is neutral towards Corporate Travel Management, which has little or no exposure to the household sector, although it remains one of the brokers "preferred sector picks".
It is positive towards Cover-More, which it reckons is "the purest way to play the outbound travel thematic".
Similarly with Flight Centre "given the sale of outbound travel to domestic households remains the single largest driver of group earnings," it told clients.
But it is negative towards Webjet, arguing that "the shift away from domestic to outbound travel is a negative" for the stock.
It is also negative towards Virgin on the view that the decline in domestic travel as a percentage of household gross disposable income, which is also bad news for Wotif, which "has been a major loser in the shift to outbound travel at the expense of domestic over the last 8 years''.
In part, acceptance of the takeover proposal by management represents an admission of this fact.
CBA is positive that the dwelling construction cycle has much further to run, despite moderating home prices, lending, and approvals.
As the previous post mentioned, residential building approvals continued to slow from their breakneck speed, but economists at the country's biggest mortgage lender say the "peak in dwelling construction is still some time away".
In a note, CBA's Dina Mousina writes that the peak in this dwelling construction cycle won't peak until mid-2015.
What's more, "in this housing upturn, the peak will be quite drawn out, which is positive for momentum in the non-mining industry".
Mousina is positive for the prospects for residential construction, despite moderating home prices, slowing housing lending growth, and building approvals. She points to a survey of construction firms – the Performance of Construction Index (PCI) – as a leading indicator of approvals (which are, in turn, a leading indicator for construction activity).
The PCI, and particularly its sub-indices around housing and apartments sales, fell to a low in March and have since picked up strongly.
Mousina dismisses concerns about a looming oversupply in apartments, as her analysis points towards a "significant level of pent-up demand for dwellings", although she admits that what is true on a national level may not be on a regional level. Oversupply of units does exist in Melbourne, while there has been an underbuild in Sydney and Perth.
Construction is also a very important sector for job creation, with the ABS estimating for every $1m spent, 17 full-time jobs are created, both directly and indirectly.
CBA forecasts residential construction will increase by 12 per cent over the next two years, which would result in the equivalent of 225,000 new jobs. The bank's economists estimate the resource sector will shed 140,000 jobs over that period.
That would mean the unemployment rate is trending sideways at 6 per cent and that we are "sitting at the peak" of joblessness.
Couple of economic data points out late this morning.
There were 5 per cent fewer approvals to build new homes in June than in the previous month – on a seasonally adjusted basis, reports the ABS. Economists had been expecting a fall of around 0.1 per cent.
But building approvals are still riding high. On an annual basis they remain up 16 per cent.
Meanwhile, private sector credit increased 0.7 per cent in June from a month prior, on a seasonally adjusted basis. The RBA data shows that housing credit grew 0.6 per cent and business credit was up 1 per cent – it only grew 0.2 per cent over the month of May.
On an annual basis total credit is up 5.1 per cent, housing credit 6.4 per cent, and business credit 3.5 per cent.
Argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt for the second time in 13 years on Wednesday, after frantic last-minute talks between the country's government and holdout creditors failed to strike a deal.
Economy minister Axel Kicillof said "vulture funds" had rejected a renewed offer from the government that had also been made to bondholders who accepted debt restructurings after the 2001 default, but that it was "impossible" to pay them any more.
Shortly before Mr Kicillof's declarations, Standard & Poor's placed Argentina's credit rating on "selective default", after it failed to make a $539m interest payment on its debt by a Wednesday deadline.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said equity markets will see a decline at some point after surging for the past several years.
"The stock market has recovered so sharply for so long, you have to assume somewhere along the line we will get a significant correction," Greenspan, 88, told Bloomberg. "Where that is, I do not know."
While Greenspan said he didn't think equities were "grossly overpriced," his comments come amid growing concern that interest rates near record lows are creating asset-price bubbles.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in July 16 congressional testimony that while she saw signs of high valuations in some markets, prices overall - including for U.S. stocks - weren't out of line with historical norms.
Forty-seven percent of financial professionals said the equity market is close to unsustainable levels while 14 percent already saw an asset-price bubble, according to the quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll conducted July 15-16.
"I would say that's closer to normal after being exceptionally high, and that means we are not yet in a stressful position," Greenspan said. He served as chairman of the Fed for more than 18 years, stepping down in 2006.
Greenspan said US economic growth, along with a tightening labour market, "are indicating that at this stage we will run into upside pressures in the money markets and inflation sooner than most of us had expected."
Greenspan is worried that long-term capital investments had slumped, potentially undermining the recovery.
"The capital stock is growing far less than we would have thought it should at this stage," Greenspan said. "That, in turn, tells us that productivity is going to have difficulty accelerating."
Greenspan said he believed oil prices would drop $US15 to $US20 per barrel if not for unrest in the Middle East.
"We have a very significant amount of excess capacity and slack," he said. "There is an essential premium in the market" caused by questions over whether long-term supplies are secure.
Recently appointed Coca-Cola Amatil chief Alison Watkins will attend her first board meeting today of the bottler's brewing joint venture with Casella Wines, with analysts and investors keen to see if she will stick with her predecessors' grand strategy to re-enter the $11 billion beer market.
Ms Watkins, who took over from long-serving CC Amatil boss Terry Davis in March, is also set to visit the brewery in Yenda, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, which has had millions of dollars poured into it by the partners to ramp up its capacity and buttress CC Amatil's ambitious plans for the Australian beer category.
CC Amatil's re-entry into beer was led and heavily backed by Mr Davis who was always bullish about the lucrative opportunities up for grabs for the soft drink maker. However, investors remain unconvinced if the beer play will pay off for CC Amatil with its Australian Beer Company joint venture with Casella, makers of the hugely popular Yellow Tail wines, not expected to make profits for years.
After a two-year exclusion from the Australian beer market following the sale of a brewing joint venture to SABMiller, CC Amatil joined forces with Griffith-based Casella which was fleshing out its own expansion plans outside of its traditional wine business.
CC Amatil turned a $46 million loan to the family owned Casella Wines into a 50 per cent equity stake in the Australian Beer Company which has started selling a portfolio of beer and ciders made by Casella, Molson Coors and an American craft beer, Blue Moon.
The company is also believed to be chasing global brewers like Mexico's Grupo Modelo, Anheuser Busch InBev, Heineken and Carlsberg, as it attempts to lure them away from distribution deals with local beverage companies Lion, SABMiller and Coopers.
Coca Cola chief Alison Watkins took took over from long-serving CC Amatil boss Terry Davis in March. Photo: AFR
Proxy votes cast ahead of Woodside Petroleum's shareholder vote on a $US2.68 billion selective buyback of shares from Royal Dutch Shell indicate the proposal is doomed to failure.
In a statement, Woodside said that 28.7 per cent of eligible proxy and direct votes cast so far are against the buyback proposal, which requires a 75 per cent majority to go ahead.
About 59 per cent of those entitled to vote have done so through proxy or direct votes, Woodside said.
The buyback proposal, which would see Shell's holding in Woodside fall to under 5 per cent, is being opposed by several shareholders because it allows only the oil major to benefit from Woodside's franking credits.
The company's shares are 2.1 per cent lower at $41.97.
Rare earths miner Lynas shares have crashed by 20 per cent this morning after releasing a quarterly production report.
In the June quarter, Lynas produced 1882 tonnes of rare earths oxide (REO) - on an "equivalent basis", a 73 per cent increase on the previous quarter.
Total tonnes shipped were 1630 tonnes, up 117 per cent on the prior quarter.
The company said it's "operational improvement plan", announced early this month, would cut corporate overhead costs in half when fully implemented.
Lynas also said that it has "continued to work with Nomura and its existing financiers regarding the potential restructure of its existing financing facilities. Substantial progress has been made".
The rare earths miner said June quarter production represented 47.5 per cent of its fiscal 2014 production, while June quarter shipment volume represented 54.2 per cent of the full-year total.
Production for the 12 months to June 30 was 3965 tonnes, while shipments during the year totalled 3008 tonnes.
Shares have climbed higher at the open, with banks and insurers buoying the market.
The ASX 200 is 13 points, or 0.2 per cent, higher at 5632.4, while the All Ords has added 12 points to 5623.4.
All the major banks are higher, led by CBA which has climbed 0.7 per cent.
QBE has managed a 1.1 per cent gain after yesterday's carnage, while IAG is 0.6 per cent up.
The miners have come under pressure, despite a rise in the iron ore price overnight.
BHP is 0.8 per cent lower, while Woodside has fallen 1.2 per cent as talk swirls of the company's share buyback being opposed by shareholders at the EGM on Friday.
Before taking over the top job at BHP Billiton, Andrew Mackenzie met a world leader with enormous influence over the global resources sector: Vladimir Putin.
The two leaders spoke German to each other one evening in Moscow. The language connection came about from their times working on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s: Mackenzie as a research scientist and Putin as a KGB officer.
Their conversation over dinner about five years ago, as part of a group of about 40 business leaders dining with Putin, is believed to have focused on Russia's underdeveloped oil and gas reserves.
"He [Mackenzie] thought BHP could one day have some serious interests in eastern Siberia," one source said.
That Mackenzie travelled to Moscow to attend a business gathering with the Kremlin boss highlights the importance of Russia to the world's biggest resources companies. It is understood other resources chiefs, including former Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese and the man who preceded Mackenzie in the top job at BHP, Marius Kloppers, have also met with Putin in recent years.
The former Rio and BHP chiefs attended a dinner of about 10 people hosted by then prime minister John Howard, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Sydney in 2007.
However, the relationship between resources companies and Moscow has become much more complicated.
Strong ties: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to business leaders at the World Economic Forum during the global financial crisis
Woodside Petroleum's proposed $US2.68 billion buyback of shares from Royal Dutch Shell is on a knife edge as evidence grows that large super funds are prepared to join fringe investors and vote against the proposal rather than sacrifice good corporate governance principles.
The selective buyback, which gives Shell alone access to Woodside's pile of franking credits, goes before a shareholder vote at an extraordinary general meeting in Perth on Friday.
With Shell unable to vote and a history of low turnout for Woodside shareholder votes, it is expected a no vote of only 10 to 15 per cent would be enough to block the buyback plan, which requires 75 per cent approval with at least 50 per cent of shareholders voting.
Junior shareholder Plato Investment Management has made clear its opposition to the buyback since it was announced last month and it has now emerged that some larger pension funds are intending to vote against the plan that would set a precedent of not treating all shareholders equally.
''There seems to be a governance principle being sacrificed at the altar here,'' said Gordon Hagart, chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, which advises about $400 billion of Australian super funds.
It remains unclear what percentage they hold in Woodside but ACSI members own about 9 per cent of the average ASX-300 stock.
Australia's big banks are fuelling their hot competition in the home loan market by ramping up their use of cheap global financing, raising $125 billion on wholesale funding markets in the last financial year.
With global interest rates at record lows, new figures show banks are borrowing more from markets that were a significant source of instability during the global financial crisis.
The trend is good news for borrowers: it is helping to fund bigger discounts on mortgage interest rates, which are at their widest in several years. For savers, however, it is further depressing returns from deposit accounts so that savings are at risk of going backwards after tax and inflation.
During the crisis, Australia's banks were forced to cut their reliance on wholesale funding markets - where banks borrow from institutional investors.
But with bank borrowing costs at their lowest since 2008, big lenders are tapping these markets more and more, raising $125 billion in wholesale funds last financial year, according to Bloomberg data. This is almost 20 per cent more than in the 2013 calendar year and the highest level of borrowing in several years.
In a sign of this increased competition, banks are offering customers deeper discounts off their advertised rates.
But it also means banks are competing less fiercely for deposits.
Source: NAB, Bloomberg
Rio backed the wrong horse
Rio Tinto has washed its hands of its disastrous $3.9 billion Riversdale Mining acquisition, by announcing a sale of its Mozambique coal assets for just $US50 million ($53 million).
Completed in 2011, the Riversdale acquisition famously led to the sacking of former chief executive Tom Albanese within two years, when the assets were impaired by $US3 billion dollars. The coal chief who led the acquisition, Doug Ritchie, was also sacked over the purchase.
A further $US470 million was written off the assets in February, after reviews of the mine plan. With coal prices falling even further since then, the assets have lost almost all their value in just over three years.
The assets, which were acquired by Riversdale in 2003, have been bought by an organisation set up by the Indian government known as International Coal Ventures Pty Ltd.
ICVL was set to acquire coal assets outside India, and today's transaction has given the group control of large amounts of both coking coal and thermal coal. ICVL will take Rio's 65 per cent stake in the Benga mine, a mining agreement for the Zambezi project, and numerous exploration licences.
But getting the coal back to India will be the difficult part, with Rio previously being hampered by the Mozambique government's opposition to barging the coal down the Zambezi River.
Rio will not depart Mozambique entirely, and will continue to hold the Matumba mineral sands assets and a crane depot in the African nation.
US stocks were little changed as data showing better-than-forecast economic growth was offset by weaker earnings and the Federal Reserve's decision to keep trimming asset purchases.
Genworth Financial declined 14 percent, the most since November, after the insurer said it was reviewing whether enough funds had been set aside for claims.
Twitter soared 20 per cent as World Cup-related demand helped the microblogging company double revenue. Amgen and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals led a rally in biotechnology shares.
The S&P 500 Index climbed less than 0.1 percent to 1,970.07. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 32 points, or 0.2 percent, to 16,880.36. The Nasdaq 100 Index increased 0.4 percent.
"The GDP print this morning had given the market some pause as to how hawkish the Fed might be," Stacey Nutt, chief investment officer at ClariVest Asset Management, said. "Now it seems like they were not as hawkish as feared."
Gross domestic product expanded at a 4 per cent annual pace in the second quarter, confirming the Fed's view that a first-quarter contraction was transitory. Consumers, whose spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy, have grown more confident as the labour market improves and rising share prices boost wealth.
Policy makers tapered monthly bond buying to $US25 billion in their sixth consecutive $US10-billion cut, staying on pace to end the purchase program in October. Fed officials led by Chair Janet Yellen are stepping up a debate over when to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006 as unemployment falls faster than expected and inflation picks up toward their 2 percent goal.
Argentina has denied reports it is in default on a $US539 million ($578 million) interest payment to bondholders who took heavy discounts after the country's record $US95 billion default in 2001.
The default was reported by ratings agency Standard & Poor's after a second deadline to meet the payments expired. Argentina has the money, but a New York court has continued to rule that it cannot pay any creditors until it meets its obligations in full to NML Capital, one of a small group of hedge funds that have refused to renegotiate terms of debt picked up after the history-making sovereign default.
Argentina's economy Minister Axel Kicillof this week joined last-minute negotiations with the hedge fund aimed at an agreement that would unblock the payment.
At a hastily convened press conference in New York on Thursday morning (AEST), he rejected suggestions the country had entered default and said Argentina would continue to deny what he calls "vultures" full repayment. Hold-out creditors account for about 8 per cent of the original $US95 billion.
Mr Kicillof said according to the contract with bondholders the country had not reached a default.
However, a mediator in the case confirmed the country had failed to reach agreement with NML. Mr Kicillof said he was surprised by the mediator's comments.
Argentina's economy minister Axel Kicillof dismissed suggestions the country has gone into default.
Local stocks are poised to open little changed after Wall Street traded sideways with no fresh reason from the Fed to push shares higher.
Here's what you need2know:
- SPI futures up 2 pointd to 5580
- AUD at 93.27 US cents, 95.96 Japanese yen, 69.66 Euro cents and 55.17 British pence
- On Wall St, S&P 500 flat, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.5%
- In Europe, Euro Stoxx 50 -0.7%, FTSE -0.5%, CAC -1.2%, DAX -0.6%
- Spot gold fell 0.1% to $US1296.10 an ounce
- Brent oil down 1.6% to $US106.06 per barrel
- Iron ore rose 0.6% to $US95.90 per metric tonne
What's on today:
Australia: June private sector credit, quarterly import price index, June building approvals - all at 11:30am, AEST.
Europe: German and EU employment data, Euro zone consumer price data.
US: Initial jobless claims, Chicago PMI for July.
Stocks to watch:
Rio Tinto has washed its hands of the disastrous $3.9 billion Riversdale Mining acquisition, by announcing a sale of its Mozambique coal assets for just $US50 million.
Woodside Petroleum's proposed $US2.68 billion buyback of shares from Royal Dutch Shell is hanging by a knife edge as evidence grows that some large super funds are prepared to vote against the proposal.
JPMorgan is 'underweight' on National Australia Bank with a $35.51 price target.
The following companies release quarterly updates: Origin Energy; St Barbara; Sundance Energy; Infigen
Good morning and welcome to the Markets Live blog for Thursday.
Your editor today is Patrick Commins.
This blog is not intended as investment advice.
BusinessDay with wires.


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After a mini-blogging Sabbatical that coincided with the news that some swarthy yocal blew his balls off on a flight into Detroit (and who hasn't contemplated that when faced with landing on holiday in America's Beirut?) along with word that the Florida Gators coach was getting the vapors from Timmy Tebow's looming induction onto a CFL roster not near you, I came home to find Christmas cheer isn't doing anything to deter the right from indulging in unhealthy levels of stupidity. (Side note: a few days of not reading blogs is a detox we should all indulge in.) In fact, a dash of failed terrorism—cut with scenes of Obama playing golf instead of minding his place and caddying—mixed with a bit too much quality family time, seems to have turned up the unhinged obnoxiousness dial. We're at Orange on the wingnut threat level. This doesn't bode well for 2010:
You have to wonder if there's a point at which these bloggers and Fox News will feel ashamed of themselves for spreading such deliberate falsehoods. They just fall in line like mindless parrots and repeat this stuff without even bothering to check if it's true.You actually don't have to wonder. Shame is for the weak. But at least this epic take-down of David Brooks' lame attempt to portray Obama as a Christian Soldier lifted my spirits:
Brooks is a perfect example of the kind of spineless Beltway geek we always see beating the war drum at times like these. It's because nebbishly little dorks like Brooks and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum got their books dumped in high school that we end up dropping daisy cutters on Afghan sheep herds and shipping working class American kids halfway around the world to get their nuts blown off. That sounds like a simplistic explanation, but anyone who doesn't have a keen ear for the pencil-pusher's eternal quest for macho cred is going to have a hard time understanding Washington politics. Brooks's columns have always been the easiest way to take the pulse of that particular dynamic, and it sure seems now that bureaucratic momentum for intervention and more intervention is re-inflating the chests of these Beltway generals.There's really only one trick left if Obama wants to placate Republicans: gratuitous dick swinging.


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A law providing the award of 2000 Italian betting shop licenses is expected to be approved in the next days and the decree regulating the offering of bets on virtual events in Italy obtained the approval from the European Commission.
Following the decision of the European Court of Justice in Costa Cifone case, in order to cure the issues raised by the ECJ, the Parliament has decided (if the proposal will be eventually approved) to set up a call for tenders in relation to the award of 2,000 new betting shop licenses by the 31st of June 2012. Such licenses will be valid up to 31 June 2016 and the minimum price for their award will be € 11,000.
The purpose of this procedure is to convert the current betting shops operating with a foreign license into legally Italian licensed shops, but obviously also represents an opportunity for new entrants in the market. Likewise, the decree regarding the offering of bets on virtual events that was under the review of the European Commission has been approved and therefore the procedure for its coming into force is now expected to start. Meanwhile, following an opinion from Spain, the approval of the decree on betting exchanges has been postponed to 18 May 2012.
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Trufant Sets Falcons Record on Defense
Expecting your first-round pick to start right away and make an impact is a risk in any season. This year, the Falcons took that risk with first-round cornerback Desmond Trufant and it paid off. More and more each week, Trufant is involved in key plays in games and he's earning his first-round draft status. Trufant leads the team in pass deflections this season and he's got one interception through 13 weeks.
Trufant had one tackle and one pass defense against the Bills last week and according to Stats LLC., Trufant's 14 pass deflections this season are the most by a Falcons rookie in a single season. The previous high for the franchise was owned by Darnell Walker, who recorded 13 pass deflections in 1993.
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Stats shared by NFL.com list Trufant with 15 pass deflections on the season, second among all rookies behind Kansas City's Marcus Cooper. With 15, Trufant is tied with Philadelphia's Brandon Boykin and Arizona's Patrick Peterson for second among all NFC cornerbacks.
Trufant's interception this season came against Carolina and his season-high three pass deflections came against Tampa Bay in Week 7. He's had a pass breakup in every game this season except two.
After a tough training camp facing off against Julio Jones and Roddy White every day, Trufant earned the starting job in Week 1 and has started every game since. This season, he's played 94 percent of the possible 805 defensive snaps. Against Buffalo, he missed just one snap.
As the season winds down and thoughts turn to next season, at cornerback the Falcons appear to be looking good. With more experience under his belt, there's a good chance Trufant will begin to turn those pass deflections into interceptions and really start to change games in coming seasons.


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A MASSEUR stole a neighbour's undergarments and then used a pair of G-strings as a sex prop in his bedroom.
Beh Yong Chun, 22, was placed on 15 months' probation today. He had pleaded guilty in July to committing theft.
Arguing that his client should not be sent to jail, defence counsel Josephus Tan said that Beh is of borderline intelligence and had been diagnosed by the Institute of Mental Health as suffering from a fetish for women's lingerie.
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Leiper, James M. and Nandi, Manasi and Torondel, Belen and Murray-Rust, Judith and Malaki, Mohammed and O'Hara, Bernard and Rossiter, Sharon and Anthony, Shelagh and Madhani, Melanie and Selwood, David L. and Smith, Caroline L. and Wojciak-Stothard, Beata and Rudiger, Alain and Stidwill, Ray and McDonald, Neil Q. and Vallance, Patrick (2007) Disruption of methylarginine metabolism impairs vascular homeostasis. Nature Medicine, 13 (2). pp. 198-203. ISSN 1078-8956
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Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and monomethyl arginine (L-NMMA) are endogenously produced amino acids that inhibit all three isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS)1. ADMA accumulates in various disease states, including renal failure, diabetes and pulmonary hypertension, and its concentration in plasma is strongly predictive of premature cardiovascular disease and death2, 3, 4. Both L-NMMA and ADMA are eliminated largely through active metabolism by dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH)5 and thus DDAH dysfunction may be a crucial unifying feature of increased cardiovascular risk. However, despite considerable interest in this pathway and in the role of ADMA as a cardiovascular risk factor, there is little evidence to support a causal role of ADMA in pathophysiology. Here we reveal the structure of human DDAH-1 and probe the function of DDAH-1 both by deleting the DDAH1 gene in mice and by using DDAH-specific inhibitors which, as we demonstrate by crystallography, bind to the active site of human DDAH-1. We show that loss of DDAH-1 activity leads to accumulation of ADMA and reduction in NO signaling. This in turn causes vascular pathophysiology, including endothelial dysfunction, increased systemic vascular resistance and elevated systemic and pulmonary blood pressure. Our results also suggest that DDAH inhibition could be harnessed therapeutically to reduce the vascular collapse associated with sepsis.
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If you're an artist and want to display or sell your work, if you're a consumer and want to look at terrific art, or maybe you're looking to buy a piece to "make" a room in your home or your office, you can't do any better than Des Moines.
Out and About correspondent Dan Kaercher takes us to a few traditional and not so traditional places where you can find art in the metro.
Kaercher: Located in Valley Junction in West Des Moines, Olson-Larsen Galleries is one of the older, more established galleries in town. Marlene Olson has been selling art here since 1979.
Marlene Olson, Olson-Larsen Galleries: "Iowa artists come from all over the world. We have a lot of small colleges, and then we have the three universities. Each of those places have artists on staff that come from Iowa as well as from around the country and the world."
Kaercher: In fact, Olson says there are more artists than there is a market for them. The Galleries' roster includes 70 artists – most of them regional – who have a connection to the state or live here now.
Olson-Larsen sells all kinds of art, from abstracts to ceramics to photography and kinetic pieces.
Olson: "I'd have to say that we have more clients interested in landscapes than probably any other type of artwork."
It must be that Iowa connection to the land.
On Ingersoll Avenue, where a new streetscape is under construction, Moberg Gallery is a newer addition to the city's art scene. Opened in 2003, Moberg represents over 30 artists from the region, working in different media and in different styles.
You don't have to wait for gallery hours to see some works by Moberg's artists. Just go a block or so east to the Star Bar any day of the week. All of these pieces came from Moberg Gallery, too.
Mike Hutchison, Star Bar, Co-owner: "When we established, we wanted be more upscale as far as the food we served. To go along with that, we talked to local gallery and came up with idea of bringing their paintings in here to give them more gallery space. We can decorate our walls without blowing the budget. It's worked out best for both of us. Since then, we've gotten to know artists, too. There's a great relationship between all three parties."
Kaercher: The menu points out to people that the art comes from Moberg Gallery – and a few pieces have even been sold from the Star Bar itself.
You can find art in lots of different places these days, from restaurants and bars to coffee shops to government buildings. Our last stop is at the Polk County Administration Building in downtown Des Moines. Built in the early 1900s, this was Des Moines's main post office for decades. Polk County took it over in 1975.
The Heritage Gallery has occupied the north side of the building for about 25 years. It's run and managed by volunteers and maintained by artist entry fees and foundation donations. We stopped by to check on a show by Orange City artist Elinor Noteboom. Her work will be up till November 15.
On the National Register of Historic Places, the building itself is a work of art. And a museum, too. Just take a look at this old post office writing desk.
This public gallery is a treasure hidden in plain sight.
Yeager: Dan Kaercher just told us about the art that's in town, but there's another big art festival going on this weekend in town.
Kaercher: Well, a huge event, the Metro Arts Two Rivers Expo, a juried event at Hy-Vee Hall, Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday. You can buy art from over 130 regional and national artists, and a third of them are from Iowa. All kinds of events for adults and children, and on Saturday morning, a topic I'm interested in, a nationally-known landscape designer, John Carloftis, is going to tell you how to put art in your garden.
Yeager: You can put it in your garden. You can also put it in your holiday basket if you need to pick up any gifts for anybody.
Kaercher: There you go.
Yeager: After the holidays is going to be the Iowa caucus. That's not something you do so much with travel, but there's a big exhibit here in town.
Kaercher: 10,000 square feet at the Iowa historical building. It'll be up through January 31, and everything you want to know about the Iowa caucuses plus a few things you probably didn't know that you wanted to know. Plus, you can register to vote too.
Yeager: It's a good primer for the caucus itself. Get a little background history. Now, there's another thing going on, speaking of history, up in Dyersville, another thing with the small miniature tractors.
Kaercher: Well, I know northeast Iowa is your corner of the state, and Dyersville has the national farm toy show Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Four hundred tables of farm toys at three venues. This is the thirtieth year. They get up to 15,000 people at this event.
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Miami Makes List of Top Ten Grinchiest Cities
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To find America's grinchiest cities, we took a broad look at how people choose to spend their money and time. To measure the gift-giving of each resident, we took into account retail spending data from Bundle.com, a database of spending data culled from government and private sources, and divided by each city's annual wage (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics), to see how many dollars were spent at retail stores during November and December 2009 per dollar earned last year. We also found the average contribution per dollar earned to charitable organizations for all households filing itemized tax returns, according to data from National Center for Charitable Statistics.Ugh, that is so much math. Anyway, Miami came in at numero ten on the list of thirty:
But we also wanted to know how generous residents are with their time. We looked at the volunteer rate stated by Volunteering in America. Finally, we looked at the average weekly hours worked in each city, also from the BLS. (After all, being forced to work longer hours is a holiday no-no from the days of Ebenzer Scrooge.)
Percentage of annual wage spent during holidays: 1.8Boston came in as the number one Grinchiest city. While we hate that town with a passion (yeah, yeah, tell your Pats and Celtics to suck it for Christmas), we can agree that they, like us, are probably celebrating the holidays in real ways not taken into account here: eating and drinking until you pass out! 'Tis the true reason for the season.
Percentage of population that volunteers: 14.8
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Average weekly hours worked: 36
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (February 6, 2012) – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents BARNUM BASHSM introduces the Ringling Bros.® Ringlettes, who are the stylish hosts of the swankiest circus party in town. The Ringlettes are ready to invite Children of All Ages in on the hippest circus spectacular that The Greatest Show On Earth® has ever produced and is coming April 19-April 22, 2012 to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 10 at 10 a.m.
The fun begins as soon as the audience enters Ringling Bros. Presents BARNUM BASH with a rockin' Pre-show party happening directly on the arena floor. Party goers can learn fresh dance moves from Ringling Bros. clown DJ Dean, style in glitzy costumes, learn balancing and juggling skills, meet and take photos with circus stars, and even step behind the curtain for an exclusive backstage experience which includes an up-close look at the most exotic animal menagerie only at BARNUM BASH.
Ringling Bros. Presents BARNUM BASH has assembled the most amazing international acts including the Mighty Dmytrio, Motorcycle Mania, Epic Asian Elephants, Wheel of Steel, and Hand Balancers. All are tricked-out for the circus party and ready to perform wild feats of wonders and strength, to contemporary pop music and in 21st century Barnum style. Everyone who is anyone is invited to the party, except Anton, a loveable, goofy hipster clown, who just wants to be part of the fun. Ringling Bros. Presents BARNUM BASH is all the rage with outlandish thrills, hilarious high-jinks and majestic animals, but can Anton, with his non-stop laughable antics, persuade us all that there's not just one right way to party!?!
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text: The fifth season of "Modern Family" has carried with it a certain whiff of writerly desperation -- sending the entire cast to Australia was a sure sign that they might be running out of ideas. ("I know, they can go to Australia and Phil can get punched by a kangaroo!" etc.) That said, when it's firing on all cylinders the show's still capable of expertly executing its patented mix of absurdist humor and genuine emotion -- the season-ending two-parter on Cam and Mitch's wedding being a perfect example.


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