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WIRRAL women's and children's hospital has reassured expectant mothers that it does not use a brand of liquid food supplement linked to the death of a newborn baby in London.
The reassurance came after Public Health England ordered an urgent recall of ITH Parma Feed after a contaminated batch was suspected of causing septicaemia that killed a baby at London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital.
It has been revealed that the batch had been sent to 22 hospital maternity units – but Wirral is not among them.
A spokesman for the Arrowe Park Hospital unit said: "The Trust can confirm that our neonatal unit does not use ITH Pharma feed."
Another 14 premature babies in six separate hospitals in London and the south-east all suffered food poisoning after receiving drips containing the liquid.
The emergency developed rapidly over the weekend with one baby after another falling ill, triggering a frantic search to identify the source of the bacteria causing the life-threatening septicaemia.
But the contaminated batch of liquid feed wasn't identified as the problem until Wednesday morning.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, public health chief Paul Cosford said the feed was the "most likely cause" of the infection, adding that an urgent investigation was under way into what went wrong.
"The feed was infected with a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus.
Mr Cosford said: "We know there are 22 hospitals across the country which received this product.
"We also know that this product is no longer being used.
"It is a very short-life product and the regulator has put out an urgent recall to make sure that there isn't any that is being used."
"This is an extremely unusual instance. A detailed investigation is being carried out by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority.
In a statement the feed's manufacturer said: "ITH Pharma is very saddened to hear about the death of a baby in hospital, and that 14 others are ill with septicaemia.
"ITH Pharma is a specialist manufacturer of parenteral nutrition, which is given to babies in neonatal intensive care units.
"The products in question, which are no longer in circulation, are made to order for individual patients on a daily basis, in response to bespoke orders from hospitals."

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Australian shares rose today but trimmed early gains as investors took profit amid lingering concerns over Europe's debt problems.
5.11pm: Time to sign off for today. Thanks for reading this blog - we'll be back tomorrow morning.
Here's our evening wrap of today's session.
4.53pm: Talks on passing a Dutch budget before an early general election in September have been constructive so far, Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager says, adding discussions will continue with at least three opposition parties.
The outgoing government is striving to find a deal on budget cuts to meet European Union deficit targets and prevent a period of uncertainty that would unsettle financial markets and drive up the triple-A rated country's borrowing costs.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government fell apart at the weekend when its main ally, Geert Wilders' Freedom Party, refused to agree to a deal that would cut more than 14 billion euros off the annual budget and bring the deficit down to the EU limit of 3 per cent of domestic output.
4.44pm: Two shares that stood out today: Seven West plunged 22 per cent after a profit warning, while Telstra gained 2 per cent to $3.54, topping $3.50 for the first time since August 2009 as investors seek high yielders.
4.33pm: The Australian dollar is nudging the $US1.04 barrier, last trading at $US1.0387.
"Global sentiment has been strong for the past two days, and that's helped high-beta currencies like the Aussie," says Westpac strategist Imre Speizer.
4.21pm: And European shares are set for a slightly higher start, with mixed company earnings and key macroeconomic numbers this week likely prompting investors to avoid strong trading bets.
Futures for Euro STOXX 50 are up 0.2 percent, France's CAC futures up 0.2 per cent, but Germany's DAX futures are down 0.1 per cent.
Meanwhile, S&P500 futures are trading marginally higher, indicating a flat open on Wall Street.
4.17pm: In the region, Japan's Nikkei closed flat, while South Korea's Kospi inched up 0.1 per cent and Taiwan's Taiex fell 0.55 per cent.
4.16pm: Among the major sectors, financials rose 0.5 per cent, industrials gained 0.6 per cent, while materials ended flat.
Telcos jumped 1.1 per cent but the gold sub-index lost 1.8 per cent.
4.12pm: The market has closed marginally higher. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 rose 14.8 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4375.2, while the broader All Ords gained 11.1 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4445.0.
4.06pm: House prices in Western Australia's booming Pilbara region are continuing to outpace major capital cities, with recent sales fetching $300,000 more than the Sydney median.
Sixty properties in the iron ore hubs of Port Hedland and Newman sold for an average of $800,000 per property in the March quarter, Crawford Realty agents said.
The company said the average time for selling a property in the two mining towns was 14 days compared to almost 80 days in Perth.
3.59pm: A plug for our colleagues from the technology department who took it upon themselves to review the customer service of the local telcos:
You hear horror stories about telco customer service all the time. They're brought up around the water cooler, posted as irate status updates, and grumbled about on online discussion forums on a regular basis.
But just how bad is the problem? Are all of the telcos really that terrible, or is it just one or two of them that are giving the rest a bad name?
We've tested their customer service.
3.53pm: And finally, here's a report on HuffPost saying that Wall Street is shrinking, with the US financial sector shedding nearly 500,000 jobs since the global financial crisis started in 2008.
Wonder if anyone's done the maths for the local industry.
3.48pm: More from overseas: the OECD has cut its forecast for South Korean growth this year to 3.5 per cent from 3.8 per cent, but maintains its forecast for 2013 at 4.3 per cent, saying monetary policy should be tightened once economic uncertainties cleared.
"Given that Korea is entering the fourth year of an expansion... monetary policy tightening should resume once the economy overcomes the current period of uncertainty," the Paris-based OECD said.
3.39pm: Argentina's Senate has approved the forced takeover of the YPF oil company from Spain's Repsol.
Taking back Argentina's largest company from Spain's biggest company has proven hugely popular in the South American country, despite threats of retaliation from the Europe Union and fears of unintended consequences in the years ahead.
3.29pm: Meanwhile, the dollar is undeterred by the sharemarket's sluggishness and continues to rise. It's currently trading at $US1.0373 - regaining the level it was at at the start of the week and before Tuesday's slump in the wake of a surprisingly weak CPI reading which has prompted investors to factor in more rate cuts.
Here's a chart showing the remarkable recovery of the Aussie:
3.18pm: The local market has reacted sluggishly to the European and US leads today as much of the early market gains have deteriorated, CMC Markets trader Ben Taylor says:
- Early selling entered the Aussie markets as traders took profits as we started hitting technical resistance above 4370.
- We are however continuing to see investors chasing yields, which is having the effect of pushing up the banks and high yielding stocks like Telstra.
- Plaguing today's market is the consumer discretionary sector. The sector is seeing solid losses off the back of Seven West Media's announced earnings downgrade.
- A level of anxiety has entered the market as the great unknown "Europe" continues to dampen investors' confidence to re-enter the markets.
- Volumes are woeful at the moment which is a direct result of the European imposed austerity measures failing to create an environment where business feels confident.
3.05pm: Here's how major commodities are doing:
- Brent crude is down 11 cents to $US119.01 a barrel, while US crude has edged down 4 cents to $US104.08.
- Spot gold is trading 0.2 per cent higher at $US1647 an ounce.
- Benchmark 62-per cent grade iron ore has steadied at $US146.70 a tonne, a one-month low it touched yesterday.
- Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange has edged down 0.1 per cent to $US8195 a tonne, while on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, the most-traded July copper contract gained 0.6 per cent to 57,930 yuan ($US9200)a tonne.
2.53pm: The market is now well off its session highs, with the ASX200 up just 9 points, or 0.2 per cent at 4369.4. Earlier in the session, the index rose to as high as 4393.8.
2.46pm: The Victorian government is making every effort to deliver a promised budget surplus, treasurer Gordon Rich-Phillips says, but the latest numbers point to it falling into the red.
Revised budget estimates since last December showed stamp duty revenue diving by $366 million this financial year, a slump of about eight per cent.
Stamp duty revenue to 2014-15 is also tipped to be $1.13 billion less than Treasury estimates of last December.
Earlier this week, treasurer Kim Wells said Australia's slowing economy had led to Victoria's GST revenue being written down by a further $428 million.
2.34pm: Ford will close down its Australian car-making operations until Wednesday, a company spokeswoman says.
The move comes in response to the failure of parts manufacturer CMI Industrial.
Ford spokeswoman Sinead Phipps says production will cease from the close of business this afternoon.
2.24pm: Australia's Alexium International has risen almost 15 per cent on the ASX today after receiving a letter of intent from US textiles distributor Duro to use its flame retardant treatment on a nylon range for military and industrial work wear, Rania Spooner reports.
Alexium chief technology officer Bob Brookins said the company had developed an eco-friendly flame retardant treatment for synthetic fabrics, which extinguishes a flame without the fabric melting.
The companies have agreed to key terms of a commercial agreement, which they hope to formalise in the coming weeks, Alexium told the market this morning.
2.15pm: An "indignant" Mexico says it has launched an investigation into allegations that the Mexican unit of Wal-Mart bribed officials to expand its business there, opening a new front to a widening probe of the world's largest retailer.
The Mexican federal comptroller's office says it has started checking the federal paperwork and permits that Wal-Mart de Mexico, known as Walmex, obtained to open and operate its stores in Mexico.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon rounded on Wal-Mart during a speech in Houston, Texas.
"This makes me very indignant," he told a gathering of members of the Mexican community. "The company has certainly generated many jobs in Mexico and done good things, but what's not right is doing business on the basis of bribes."
2.08pm: The Melbourne car parts supplier that provides parts for Ford is now in the hands of administrators.
CMI Industrial has been handed over to voluntary administrators Grant Thornton, and receivers McGrathNicol.
The administrators will now decide the fate of the company's plant in Campbellfield, which has been locked by landlords for almost a week due to unpaid rent.
McGrathNicol receiver Keith Crawford said the task was now to stabilise all the company's operations as soon as possible, before assessing all its finances, in a bid to find new buyers, but could not reveal when the plant was likely to re-open.
2pm: Fat Prophets senior analyst Greg Fraser says Seven's downgrade is bad news for the media sector, particularly television-related stocks.
"If Channel Seven is not attracting the revenue to catch its audience then the chances that others are faring worse are quite likely," Mr Fraser says.
"Even though Seven has had a higher audience share rating, the advertising expenditure that normally coincides with that hasn't happened.
"Advertising expenditure is quite weak at the moment, reflecting weak customer spending.
"It's quite worrying for the sector generally."
Mr Fraser adds that radio and newspapers continue to perform worse than television stations.
1.52pm: More on Telstra... Motley Fool's Scott Philips writes that while the telco's shareholders have seen quite a few false dawns before, there's mounting evidence to suggest that this time the sun may really be coming up.
1.42pm: Mixed quarterly production data from gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated has seen its shares sold off, as the company discloses problems at its Challenger mine in South Australia, Brian Robins reports.
A slump in production at this project undermined a boost to output at its Chatree mine in Thailand, following a recent capacity upgrade.
Kingsgate shares are down 19c at $6.06 in afternoon trading, holding near the day's low of $6.05. Earlier today the share's were at $6.42.
1.34pm: Telstra shares are over $3.50 for the first time since August 2009. They hit a low of $2.61 in December 2010 and have added 5.4 per cent this year. They are currently trading at $3.51, up 1.2 per cent for the day.
1.22pm: New Zealand's central bank held its official cash rate steady today and tried to talk down a strong local dollar with a hint of a possible rate cut, but markets took the warning in stride.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) left the benchmark rate at 2.5 percent, where it has been since March last year, pointing to benign inflation and a high local dollar.
"For now, it's appropriate for the OCR to remain at 2.5 percent," RBNZ Governor Alan Bollard said in a brief statement.
But he said the New Zealand dollar was still high despite recent falls in commodity prices, and warned that would influence future policy without explicitly threatening the central bank would cut rates.
1.15pm: Shares in OZ Minerals are 1.3 per cent higher to $9.54 after Australia's third-biggest copper producer by market value said output of the metal rose in the first quarter, beating analysts' estimates.
The company also said today that the abolition of the diesel fuel rebate in next month's federal budget could cost it up to $20 million a year.
1.11pm: Seven West shares remain 16.2 per cent lower at $3.16. The shares declined as much as 17 per cent, the biggest decline on an intraday basis in almost 18 years for the company. Goldman Sachs, UBS and Citigroup all lowered their recommendations on the stock.
The Perth-based media company, which is controlled by billionaire Kerry Stokes, may also face rising programming costs, according to one analyst Justin Diddams.
''We clearly under-estimated the level of cost growth in the TV network,'' Diddams, an analyst at Citigroup who cut the stock to neutral, wrote in an April 24 report. Investors face ''more risk than reward over the next 12 months,'' he wrote.
1.04pm: The Australian dollar is stronger, following the local share market higher in the absence of any other leads for the currency. It is currenly buying $US1.0365, more or less unchanged from early today.
Easy Forex currency trader Tony Darvall said the local unit is caught in a range as traders wait for next week's interest rate decision by the RBA.
''I think we were talking earlier in the week about being caught in that range, we've had expectations increase that we're going to cut rates, that's been priced in already,'' Mr Darvall said.
''The Aussie (dollar) has gone back to tracking stock markets, that's why we're a little higher today than we were yesterday.''
12.57am: The big retailers, however, are showing a mixed performance amid all the good vibes on markets today:
- Woolworths - down 0.04% to $25.83
- Wesfarmers - up 0.7% to $20.09
- Harvey Norman - up 0.99% to $2.05
- David Jones - down 0.2% to $2.45
- Myer - down 0.21% to $2.36
12.54pm: Now for the big banks, all of which are ahead of the general market:
- CBA is 0.94% higher to $51.63
- ANZ is 0.67% higher to $23.88
- NAB is 0.68% higher to $25.34
- Westpac is 0.65% higher to $22.61
- Macquarie Bank is 0.99% higher to $28.68
12.48pm: Looking now at how some of the blue chips are going today, starting with mining:
- BHP is 0.2% higher to $35.15
- Rio is 0.81% higher to $66.13
- Fortescue is 0.86% higher to $5.76
12.41pm: Looking again at the monster profit reported by Apple yesterday, which has boosted markets globally, here's a view on the tech company's fortunes in the country which manufactures its products - China.
- Demand was "mind-boggling" in China, where revenue for the quarter was a record-high $7.9 billion, according to Apple chief executive Tim Cook.
- Sales in China during the first three months of this year were triple what they were during the same period in 2011.
"The China market should really scare Apple competitors," said Creative Strategies lead analyst Tim Bajarin. "They have only been there a very short time and it is already 12 percent of their total business."
The number of retail outlets selling Apple gadgets is about 11,000, a number expected to double within two years.
"Apple will clearly invest a lot of money in the China market," said NPD analyst Stephen Baker. "They will do what they have to do to localize and invest in China."
12.27pm: Turning back to the local market, RBS Morgan's Ipswich manager Tony Russell says the ASX200 is playing catch-up after the Anzac Day public holiday:
- We've had two strong nights on Wall Street and we're seeing the fruits of that today.
- The earnings result from last night, in particular the Apple result, was above expectations and Wall Street followed on.
- (US Federal Reserve chairman) Ben Bernanke's comments that interest rates will remain low there until 2014 also had a positive effect.
Blockbuster profits from Apple and a solid showing by Boeing pumped up US markets, with a late boost coming from a slightly improved growth outlook from the US Federal Reserve.
12.19pm: Here's an overview of how regional markets are performing:
- Japan (Nikkei): +0.2%
- Hong Kong: +0.6%
- Shanghai: flat
- Taiwan: +0.1%
- South Korea: +0.3%
- Singapore: -0.1%
- New Zealand: -0.2%
12.17pm: Most regional markets are trading higher, after the Federal Reserve pledged to do more to stimulate US economic growth.
''Further monetary stimulus such as a third round of quantitative easing is still likely and the Fed is waiting for a good time to do that,'' says Wang Weijun, a strategist at Zheshang Securities in Shanghai. ''Easy money is good for asset markets globally.''
12.04pm: OZ Minerals could suffer a $20 million hit if the federal government abolishes the diesel fuel rebate in next month's budget.
A change to the rule, which gives mining companies and farmers a subsidy for the diesel they use, has been rumoured in recent weeks as the Gillard government desperately seeks to keep the budget in surplus.
Speaking this morning, Oz Minerals boss Terry Burgess said the subsidy was warranted because mining companies were often forced to use private roads rather than publicly funded roads, and he said the impact of a change would be in the range of $16 million to $20 million per year.
11.58am: Australia's commercial property sector continued to move downwards in the first three months of the year, a survey shows.
NAB's quarterly Australian commercial property index fell to -8 points in the March quarter, compared to -6 points in the December quarter, with forward expectations also dropping slightly.
NAB says the fall reflected weakness in a number of sectors, with retail and industrial markets particularly soft.
"Conditions are still by far the weakest for retail, with the index sinking to an all-time low of -45 points (from -36 points in the December quarter)."
"This sector is being hammered by ongoing caution among households, poor retail business conditions and depressed confidence among retailers."
11.48am: Lend Lease's shares are marginally higher after the group admitted it had been involved in over-charging clients in the US, Carolyn Cummins reports.
In a short statement to the ASX today, in response to the news which broke in the US on Tuesday, its directors said that under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement no charges will be prosecuted against Lend Lease's Bovis arm if it complies with the agreement.
''Payments to be made under the agreement are consistent with the provisions previously made including the provision in the accounts for the half year ended December 31, 2011.
11.42am: Challenger Financial plans to expand its property debt portfolio by investing $300-$400 million annually in the capital-hungry sector as major banks reduce their exposure, a company executive says.
The debt deals will be with unlisted wholesale funds that have struggled to raise money, unlike their listed Australian real estate investment trust (A-REIT) peers, says Bob Sahota, head of fixed interest for Challenger, Australia's leading annuity provider.
"If you look at just the real estate (sector), there is in the order of $7 billion to $8 billion over the next two years that we would see as being areas we would be competitive in," Sahota has told Reuters.
11.35am: In breaking news, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten, intends to place the scandal-plagued Health Service Union into administration, the Federal Court has been told this morning.
Richard Niall, SC, for Mr Shorten, told the court the minister intends to issue an application under the Fair Work Registered Organisations Act.
Outside the court, the national secretary of the HSU, Kathy Jackson, said Mr Shorten's move was "a cheap political stunt".
11.29am: The dollar, meanwhile, is also higher. It's now at $US1.0362. Click here for more currencies and cross rates.
11.20am: Markets are holding this morning's gains. The All Ords is 0.5 per cent higher and the ASX200 is 0.6 per cent higher. Meanwhile, Japanese stocks have opened 0.55 per cent higher after gains on Wall Street amid strong corporate results and hopes for monetary easing.
11.11am: Property group GPT will double its share buyback, taking the total potential cost to more than $575 million.GPT, which began buying back some of its issued shares in May 2011, had planned to buy up to five per cent of its shares within 12 months.
It said it would increase the buyback to up to 10 per cent of its total shares and extended the buyback period by another 12 months.
11.01am: 4400 here we come? CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said investors were inspired by very good leads from overseas.
''Clearly the US markets were influenced by the Apple result, the subsequent jump in the share price, which was a major contributor to the performance of US markets overnight but overall we're getting some technical strength coming through in the overall market,'' he said.
McCarthy said investors had been waiting for the sideways trading to come to an end, with trade pushing towards 4400 points on the ASX200. ''There's some cautious optimism that might be happening this week.''
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10.49am: Telco reporter Lucy Battersby writes that the telecommunications industry has been put on notice for repeatedly putting ''fine-print qualifications'' into customers' contracts as TPG is fined $13,200 fine for misleading advertising.
TPG had been advertising a product with ''500 free VoIP minutes'' on its website. However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) found customers could only receive the free minutes of voice-over-internet-protocol calls ''if they made one continuous call to a major capital city''.
''The advertising practice of fine-print qualification is one the ACCC is tired of correcting,'' chairman Rod Sims said this morning.
10.43am: Shares in Western Areas NL are 1 per cent to $5.30 after Australia's second-biggest nickel producer was raised to "buy" from "neutral" at Citigroup.
And shares in Newcrest Mining have lost 2.7 per cent to $25.88 after Australia's largest gold mining company was cut to "underperform" versus the sector "perform" at Royal Bank of Canada.
10.39am: Seven West is dragging other media stocks down with them. Or at least, the weak outlook for the ad market is. It issued a statement after trading closed on Tuesday to inform the market an expected improvement in the advertisement market had not eventuated. As a result, its earnings forecast for the year to June 30 has been lowered to between $460 million and $470 million.
- Fairfax (publisher of this website) - down 2.08%
- Southern Cross Media - down 1.82%
- Ten Network - down 0.61%
10.35am: Leighton shares are 2.8 per cent higher on news that the company's middle east operation is part of a joint venture awarded a $US169 million ($A163.57 million) contract for work on a mine in Saudi Arabia.
Dragados Gulf Construction Company and Habtoor Leighton Group, in which Leighton has a 45 per cent stake, will construct mine-related infrastructure at a bauxite mine in central Saudi Arabia for the Ma'aden Alcoa Aluminium joint venture, Habtoor Leighton said on Thursday.
The project is located in a desert about 200 kilometres northeast of the city of Burayda.Habtoor Leighton's share of the contract is worth $US85 million ($A82.27 million).
10.29am: Seven West Media has pared its early loss, but not by much. They're now down by 15.1 per cent. Here are some of the companies leading markets higher:
- Beadell Resources - up 3.7%
- Paladin Energy - up 3.17%
- OneSteel - up 2.94%
- Atlas Iron - up 2.81%
- Incitec Pivot - up 2.47%
- Leighton - up 2.38%
10.22am: Looking at how the sub incdices on the ASX200 are performing:
- Info tech - up 1.07%
- Industrials - 0.91%
- Energy - up 0.89%
- Materials - up 0.6%
- Financials - 0.58%
- Consumer discretionary - down 0.63%
10.15am: Shares in Seven West have plunged 16 per cent, or 59 cents, to $3.16 in early trade following Tuesday's profit downgrade.
10.12am: Markets are strongly higher. In early trade, the All Ordinaries index is 30.4 points higher, or 0.7 per cent, to 4464.3, while the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is 31.5 points higher, or 0.7 per cent, to 4391.9.
10.08am: Up to 200 Westpac employees face losing their jobs as the company considers outsourcing work in St George's Information Technology department.
The number of jobs on the block comes in addition to the 560 positions that have already been cut from Westpac's ranks so far this year. Westpac bought St George in 2008. The work would be outsourced to IBM.
10.05am: Early take - shares moving higher as the market opens. Up about 0.3 per cent without all companies trading.
9.54am: The Australian bond futures prices are slightly down after the US Federal Reserve indicated it was prepared to take steps to stimulate the American economy.
At 8.30am the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.340 (implying a yield of 3.660 per cent), down from 96.380 (3.620 per cent) on Tuesday, the last day of domestic trading because of Wednesday's Anzac Day public holiday. The June three-year bond futures contract was at 96.960 (3.040 per cent), down from 96.970 (3.030 per cent).
ANZ senior interest rate strategist Shane Lee said lower-than-expected sales of durable good in the US in March also put downward pressure on bond prices.
''The market perception was the Fed was a touch on the dovish side, from the FOMC statement. Also, (US) durable goods orders were a little bit weaker than expectations,'' Mr Lee said.
''I guess our market will be a little bit weaker. The market interpretation of the FOMC was that it was a touch weaker than expectations.''
9.49am: A number of analysts have taken the axe to Seven West since Tuesday:
- Seven West cut to 'neutral' from 'buy' at UBS
- Seven West cut to 'sell' from 'neutral' at Goldman
- Seven West downgraded to 'neutral' from 'buy' at Citi
Here are some other recent changes to analyst ratings:
- Newcrest removed from the 'buy' list Goldman
- Newcrest cut to 'underperform' vs 'sector perform' at RBC
- Western Areas raised to 'buy' from 'neutral' at Citi
- Oil Search cut to 'neutral' from buy at Citi
- Oil Search raised to 'overweight' at JPMorgan
- Carsales.com.au raised to 'accumulate' at Ord Minnett
- AWE downgraded to 'neutral' at Citigroup
9.45am: Seven West shares are also expected to come under pressure after a profit downgrade late on Tuesday. The company announced that full-year earnings before interest and tax were likely to be almost $50 million less than analysts' expectations of $515 million.
9.40am: Turning to local matters, shares in Lend Lease could be in the spotlight today after a US subsidiary was fined $US56 million after admitting to fraud over a 10-year period, including over-billing and ignoring minority hiring mandates at New York landmarks.
9.41am: Stocks in the UK underperformed many other European markets after GDP data showed the UK economy shrank in the first quarter as Britain slid into its first double-dip recession since the 1970s.
Gross domestic product fell 0.2 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2011, when it declined 0.3 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said in London. The median of 40 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey was for an increase of 0.1 per cent. A technical recession is defined as two straight quarters of contraction.
9.37am: Apple's blockbuster profit result gave equity markets a boost overnight, with markets in Europe posting gains of 1.7 per cent and US markets adding more than 1 per cent. Wall Street got an added boost from Ben Bernanke, who said:
- We remain entirely prepared to take additional balance sheet actions as necessary to achieve our objectives. Those tools remained very much on the table and we would not hesitate to use them should the economy require that additional support.
9.33am: Local stocks are looking toward a positive early start after offshore markets gained on Apple's huge profit result and reassurances from the US Federal Reserve about its readiness to support the US recovery. For a full wrap of this morning's news, check today's need2know and the business press digest. Here are this morning's key markets links:
- SPI futures are 17 points higher at 4405
- The $A is higher at $US1.036
- In the US, the S&P500 rose 1.36% to 1390.69
- In Europe, the FTSE100 gained 0.16% to 5718.89
- Gold gained $1.90 to $US1645.70 an ounce
- WTI crude oil rose 57 cents to $US104.12 a barrel
- The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index rose 0.26% to 302.08
9.30am: Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Thursday. Hope you all had a relaxing day off.
This blog is not intended as investment advice
Contributors: Thomas Hunter, Peter Litras, Jens Meyer
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The conservative economic counter-revolution associated with the names of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher began some three decades ago. The Great Recession almost certainly marks its end. What follows will be something different, though how different it will is still unclear. This is a good opportunity to assess the broad economic consequences of that revolution.
For the sake of simplicity, I focus on gross domestic product per head in the six biggest high-income economies: the US; Japan; Germany; the UK; France; and Italy. (I also use the Conference Board database. These data are in purchasing power parity (Elteto-Koves-Szulc (EKS) method).)
There is much more to performance than GDP per head. These data ignore the distribution of income, which is of crucial importance, especially for the US, where a very large proportion of additional income seems to have accrued to the wealthiest. The data also ignore the underlying causes of changes in GDP per head: changes in output per hour, in hours per worker and in employment. Even so, they are revealing.
The single most important point from the chart on relative GDP per head is that the US remains where it has been for over a century: the most productive large economy in the world. At its peak, in 1991, Japan's GDP per head reached 89 per cent of US levels. It then fell substantially in the 1990s. United Germany, France and Italy also experienced substantial relative declines in GDP per head over this period. The UK was the only one of these five countries to have achieved rising GDP per head, relative to the US, since 1990. This surely suggests that reforms led by American and British policymakers did bear some fruit.
The chart on growth of GDP per head elaborates this picture somewhat. The UK and US had the highest trend growth of GDP per head between 1980 and 2009. (All-German data are unavailable for the entire period.) But there are other interesting events: first, there is a progressive deceleration in trend growth: only Japan achieved faster trend growth in GDP per head between 2000-07 (that is, before the recent deep recession) than it did in the 1990s; second, the US growth deceleration in the most recent periods is marked, with growth in GDP per head only at the same rate as Japan between 2000 and 2007 – so much for the magic of the Bush-era tax cuts – and also between 2000 and 2009; third, GDP per head grew at less than 1 per cent a year in Germany, France and Italy in the most recent decade.
At first glance, then, the conservative revolution seems to have achieved some improvements in the previously lagging US and UK economies. But the magic potion started to lose effectiveness in the 2000s, particularly in the US.
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MAX2010 Day 1 is behind us. If you didn't catch this morning's keynote, it looks like there's a replay available. Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated Flash and AIR running on a fantastic array of devices, from phones to tablets to TV's, from several manufactures. All the different devices and screen sizes now available are terrific for consumer choice, but also present some new challenges for developers. Monday's keynote was dedicated to showing developers how Adobe is leading the charge through this new landscape.
For game developers (since that is the focus of this blog), there's a number exciting developments, not the least of which was the announcement of the 3D APIs for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR now available on Adobe Labs!
Also in the keynote, Kevin was joined by RIM's President and Co-CEO Mike Lazarides for one of the first public demos of the PlayBook, RIM's new tablet based on AIR (SDK for the PlayBook now available). Samsung announced support for AIR 2.5 integrated in future Samsung SmartTV's. The Flash Platform blog has a great summary of all the announcements.
With all the announcements, sessions, labs, free DROID2's and more, MAX has certainly had an exciting first day. There's lots more in store for game developers on Day 2, here's some of the highlights:
Developer Tips for Building Great Games using AIR for Android
Tuesday, October, 26th, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Room: 515B
Join Adobe Platform Evangelist Renaun Erickson to learn how to develop, optimize, and deploy an Adobe AIR game on the Android mobile platform. Get the lowdown on using features like gestures, touch, bitmap transformations, and peer-to-peer networking to take your game to the next level on mobile devices. Sample code will be available to participants after the session.
Tracks: Develop
Audience: Architect, Application Developer, Business Decision Maker
Skill Level: Advanced
Products: ActionScript, AIR
Speaker: Renaun Erickson
Building P2P Multiplayer Games
Tuesday, October, 26th, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room: 515B
Learn how you can leverage peer-to-peer communication in Adobe Flash Player to enable multiplayer games on Facebook. This session will include an in-depth tutorial on peer-to-peer technology, a demo of how to use peer to peer in your games with Adobe Flash Builder and Flash Professional CS5, and deployment on the Facebook platform.
Tracks: Develop
Audience: Creative Designer, Web Designer, Web Developer, Application Developer
Skill Level: Advanced
Products: ActionScript, Flash Builder, Flash Player, Flash Professional
Speaker: Tomas Krcha
Animation with Chris Georgenes
Tuesday, October, 26th, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room: 518
Learn from animation expert Chris Georgenes of Mudbubble as he walks through various games, character animation and interactive content he's created for clients using Flash Professional. Always an educational and informative speaker, Chris will share his approach to various animation projects, sharing his artful way of using Flash animation tools.
Tracks: Design, Develop
Audience: Creative Designer, Web Designer, Web Developer, Application Developer, Educator
Skill Level: Beginner
Product: Flash Professional
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Regional Theater of the Week: Boise Little Theater in Boise, ID
BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week! Each week, BWW will introduce its readers to a regional theater located in one of our (over 130!) coverage cities. By exploring these different venues, their history and showcasing the production seasons, BWW continues its commitment to expand our presence in communities and cities across the United States.
This Week's Featured Regional Theater: Boise Little Theater in Boise, ID
BLT is an all volunteer, non-profit organization with an unwavering dedication to amateur theatrical quality. For over 60 years we have produced plays in all genres: contemporary and classical, comedy, drama and musicals. BLT is one of the longest running community theaters in America.
Volunteer meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of every month (except June, July, August, and December) at 7:00 p.m. at the theater. Whether you are interested in acting, directing, working back stage, or ushering, they always welcome new volunteers. You can also visit BLT on Facebook.
Boise Little Theater began its distinguished history of continuous productions in 1948, making it one of the oldest all volunteer community theaters in the nation. It has demonstrated an extraordinary stability, many of its members having been with the organization for over forty years, and some from the very beginning.
After a devastating fire in 1957 that destroyed the theater building at Gowen Field and caused the death of two BLT members, a new theater was built in the Fort Boise area of Boise City. This unique round theater has become a city landmark.
The theater was originally designed by Aurthur L Troutner of Trus-dek Corp. The plans included the curved laminated beams in the ceiling, one of the first examples of this type of construction. Mr. Troutner went on to form Truss Joist Corporation and he would often visit to show clients an example of the beams that his company was constructing. Except for the front portion of the lobby, all the flat roof is added on. The expansions were part of the original plan designed by Mr. Troutner. Mr. Paul Moehlmann, Sr., Master BRick Mason, and several volunteers donated the brickwork for the original structure.
The current season includes:
WRONG WINDOW (Comedy/Thriller, Adult audiences) by Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore (now playing), 4th Annual Will Act 4 Food, A special event to benefit the Idaho Foodbank, Presented by Daisys Madhouse with support from Boise Little Theater, INHERIT THE WIND (Historical drama, 12+ audiences), by Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee (Presented with permission from Dramatists Play Service), THE RED VELVET CAKE WAR (Comedy, 12+ audiences) by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten (Presented with permission from Dramatists Play Service), and COMPANY (Musical comedy, Adult audiences) by George Furth & Stephen Sondheim (Presented with permission from Music Theater International).
For tickets and more information, visit: http://www.boiselittletheater.org/index.html
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Shawn Thompson's home in Sanford looks a bit like a warehouse.
He's not a hoarder. He's the "Coupon Hubby."
Thompson launched "The Coupon Hubby" web site when he saw the recession take a serious bite out of his household budget. With a wife and two kids to feed, he was determined not to make them sacrifice at the kitchen table.
Instead, Thompson, a software developer by trade, developed a program that combines the stacking principle, using store coupons and manufacturer coupons together and, whenever possible, combining them with in-store promotions like Buy One Get One Free deals.
"I believe the first venture I had, I brought home 15 bags of frozen vegetables and paid nothing for them. I was hooked," he said.
Fifteen bags of frozen vegetables? It's called stockpiling: buying non-perishables you will use over a period of time, at the best time and price available, by knowing the cycles of the best promotions. Thompson studies those promotional cycles every week. Combining the stacking principle and stockpiling creates what he calls "vertical shopping."
"I have enough razors that should last several more years," he said.
If this all seems like too much trouble and too much math for the average consumer, Thompson understands. That's why, he explained, he created the web site where he does all the work for shoppers. On his site, the "Coupon Hubby" tells consumers where to find coupons that are prime for vertical shopping so they don't end up clipping coupons they won't use. He also does the math, explaining exactly how to combine those coupons with current in-store deals to get the best price, often a price that represents a negative for the store and a bonus for the consumer.
For example, Thompson combined a Buy One Get One Free special on light bulbs at Publix with a competing store's coupon and a manufacturer's coupon, and the math put money in his pocket: Publix paid him 51 cents for every package of bulbs he bought. Technically, that's called an overage, and some stores won't honor overages, but his Publix does.
On the same trip to Publix, Local 6 watched as Thompson filled his cart by stacking and stockpiling everything from spaghetti sauce to soup to vitamins. He ended up with $33 in overages, plus $40 he saved on gas cards. He used that money to buy higher-priced perishables like fresh meats and vegetables for which coupons are rarely offered.
"And this is the best part," Thompson said. "Because at this part you're getting items for free that will honestly be the main course of the meals you're eating."
During Local 6's visit, Thompson's check-out at the Publix register was fairly typical, he said. He handed over heaps of coupons as he loaded his stacking and stockpiling items on the conveyor belt. The savings kept adding up.
The "Coupon Hubby" walked out of Publix with $353 worth of groceries, and he didn't pay a dime. Not a dime.
"A good day," Thompson said with a smile while he loaded his bounty into his truck.
There's more to the "Coupon Hubby" than stocking up on great savings. He's a consumer with a conscience. Thompson will never unload an entire shelf for himself, making sure to leave inventory for other customers who want to take advantage of a sale. He'll even call the store ahead of time if he intends to buy in bulk. Thompson also stacks and stockpiles items he and his family specifically won't use; he donates those items to charities and area shelters. The "Coupon Hubby" has set up a sort of exchange on his site, where people can do the same kind of charity shopping using his system.
"As one person it might not make a difference," he says. "But if I can get 500 people to send [items] to somebody that they'll never meet, suddenly you're changing someone's life."
Follow Thompson on Facebook for more information.
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I've just registered on here so I thought I'd intro myself.
I'm a Manchester lass with a long standing interest in a great many occult / esoteric type subjects, and for the last few years I've been intrigued by the way many cultures have overlaid symbolism on the letters of their alphabets. I'm not sure how far this is general knowledge, but plenty of alphabets attach so much mystical stuff to their letters it beggars belief and the Roman alphabet looks like quite a party pooper in comparison.
It started in early 2006. Runes and Ogham are two systems of divination using alphabets where the letters have symbolism, and also Tarot is bound up with the Hebrew alphabet. Now I was aggravated that the same letter had different symbolism in each alphabet: U in Runes is an auroch (like an ox), in Ogham heather, in Hebrew a nail. How to retain all this without getting mixed up? Try to find a common denominator, and remember that. I started researching all the alphabet symbolism I could find, and what started as an idle project for a wet Sunday became a sprawling 24-alphabet beast / labour of love.
It's been anything but dull and I've rubbed shoulders with ancient Greeks who invoked an angel with an unpronounceable name over every letter of the alphabet (eh? To do what exactly?), and members of an obscurereligious sect in southern Iraq - the Mandaeans - for whom both the alphabet and the number 24 are so sacred that they resorted to repeating the letter A at the end just to make up the amount.
I'm guessing not many people came here for the same reason but Omniglot's been a real help for me when it comes to finding out the nuts and bolts of an alphabet, and I've haunted this place for some years! Looking forward to chatting to everyone.
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HOUSTON - Macy's announced Thursday that it is closing its downtown Houston location.
The retail giant announced plans to make a "series of normal-course adjustments to its portfolio."
The company will close five of its Macy's stores in the early spring. The only Texas location that will close is the 791,000-square-foot store at 1110 Main Street.
The store will begin a final clearance sale on Monday. It will run seven to 11 weeks.
Macy's officials said the store's 138 associates may be offered positions at other stores in the city.
The store opened in 1947 as Foley's.
"It's emotionally sort of a hard day because of the role that Foley's, Macy's has played in the history of downtown of our city," said Bob Eury of the Downtown Management District. "I think we all share the vision of the fourth largest city in America. We need shopping downtown. It's not something that's a choice -- we just got to pull it off.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker said she wants to keep retail shopping strong in downtown Houston.
"We want to find a new spot for Macy's downtown, and if not that, we look for strategic opportunities to implant retail and we rebuild downtown," she said.
Macy's will open several new stores in 2013 and 2014, but none of them are in Texas. When all the changes are made, Macy's will operate 798 stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.
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I'm a stay at home mum with my 18 month old son. My husband and I have been discussing having another baby. I know there's really no perfect timing, but should we wait to our son become more independent or at least potty trained?
I'm a stay at home mum with my 18 month old son. My husband and I have been discussing having another baby. I know there's really no perfect timing, but should we wait to our son become more independent or at least potty trained?
You're actually at a great place to try for another baby. I actually find it a lot easier to have 2 children in diapers at the same time than to have one that's potty trained and an infant. The reason for this is because when I'm out and about, if a child has to go to the lu, it's not easy for me to find a clean bathroom, take my infant into the area with the lu, put the paper down on the seat, lift the child onto the seat, wipe them, button them back up, wash hands, etc. It's hard to do when you have a little one in tow. Instead... if they're still in diapers, I just change a dirty diaper if needed (after the age of 2, they don't have a dirty diaper very often - maybe only once or twice a day), and if they need to wet, they can wet in their diaper and I just change them when we get home. MUCH easier than trying to get them to a potty, with baby in tow.
And - as for being home, it's just not that hard to change a wet diaper periodically, throughout the day. As for the dirty ones, they don't happen all the time. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that waiting until a child is potty trained really is not a good deciding factor. As long as you have a good relationship with your husband and you're happy, I'd encourage you to start trying for your next baby now.
My first two children are 19 months apart, and they are best friends - always have been (and they're in college now). Growing up with a sibiling that is close in age has a lot of benefits - and for Mum and Dad, having two that are close in age means that you'll be doing a lot of the same things, rather than having to do some things with the older child, and some things with the younger child.
If you have some other concerns I'd love to hear them. But if it's truly just trying to figure out the best time to have a 2nd child, your son will be plenty independent at almost 2 1/2 years of age. He will be able to climb into his car seat, bring you diapers, give the baby his pacifier (if he uses and loses it), throw dirty diapers away - he will be a big help to you and you will give him the blessing have having a sibling about his own age, to play with. It's a good thing :-)
Here's a good article called "Babies Second Time Around". You might find it interesting as well.
Warm regards,
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Thanks for sharing that article about having a second baby Kate - I certainly found it reassuring! For example, it says labour is likely to be twice as fast with a second baby and women also generally find breastfeeding easier to establish with their baby.
wc_084 : I have a 17 month old son and am 16 weeks pregnant with our second baby. We would like to have a fairly big family so that's one reason why we went for this age gap. Also, I treasure the close relationship I have with my siblings (I am 21 months older than my brother, and him the same with my sister) and this is something I think is important for my son and our future children.
Whenever you have a baby, it will never be the 'ideal time' in the sense that there will be struggles and particular difficulties with any age gap. But I feel that the benefits to the siblings of having each other close in age far outweigh this!
Also, I think myself and my husband are in 'baby mode' at the moment - I am still breastfeeding and co-sleeping and, for us, we want to have our next baby when we are still in this way of living.
Good luck with whatever you choose,


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HOUSTON - Houston's mayor called for calm at a protest at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse Thursday afternoon.
Community leaders gathered on the steps of the local NAACP office near downtown Houston Wednesday to say they had lost confidence in the criminal justice system. Quanell X of the New Black Panther Party and the NAACP publically released the videotape of the beating that city leaders and the district attorney wanted kept out of view.
"They've got a right to do whatever God puts in their heart for them to do," said Quanell X. "We look like fools telling our people to put faith in that system."
The protest is planned for Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse at 1201 Franklin Street in downtown Houston. The Harris County Sheriff's office said it planned to have more deputies in place at the courthouse. The Houston Police Department had not announced its plans.
"I trust that they will voice their disappointment in a civil and sensible manner and that we will go on from this," Mayor Annise Parker said.
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There has been some movement toward harvesting drier corn silage, due to the high cost of corn grain, says Randy Shaver, University of Wisconsin-Madison extension dairy nutritionist.
Shaver shared data about this harvesting strategy during a presentation at the 2012 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, held last month in Fort Wayne, Ind.
The data show milk and fat-corrected milk production were not significantly affected when whole-plant dry matter content stays within the range of 30 percent up to 40 percent, he said, "but if you go to much drier material, black layer and beyond, we do see a significant drop in both milk and fat-corrected milk production."
This is particularly true if you don't do a good job of processing and chopping as the maturity of the corn silage increases.
"Keep that in mind if part of your strategy is to go for a drier corn silage to try to increase starch content," Shaver said.
The data showed no significant differences on the fat and protein content of milk. There also was no real evidence to show that a delayed harvest reduces neutral detergent fiber digestibility. If anything, Shaver said, the drier silage increased NDF digestibility. However, as the kernel becomes harder, there is a significant depression in total tract starch digestibility.
Read Shaver and co-author Luiz Ferraretto's paper from the Tri-State Conference proceedings.


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Chevrolet to Enter Myanmar
Partnership with Pacific Alpine will distribute, sell and service vehicles
YANGON, MYANMAR--JULY 8, 2013: General Motors Southeast Asia Operations recently signed a letter of intent with Pacific Alpine Pte. Ltd., for the distribution, sale and service of Chevrolet vehicles in Myanmar.
The country's first Chevrolet showroom is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2013. Chevrolet models will be sourced from GM manufacturing facilities around the world to meet the specific requirements of Myanmar consumers.
Martin Apfel, President of GM Southeast Asia Operations, said: "This is a significant milestone for Chevrolet's expansion across Southeast Asia, and signals our commitment to grow in the region. Myanmar has a population of more than 60 million people. With the market and economy opening up, and with the increasing affluence of Myanmar's people, the potential for growth is very high.
"The timing is perfect. We have a fresh and complete portfolio of award-winning products, ranging from pickup trucks and SUVs to cars and fashionable people carriers. At Chevrolet, we believe in building a strong brand backed by quality products that connect with customers everywhere."
Chevrolet's partners, Pacific Alpine Pte. Ltd., and Pacific-AA Motor Ltd., are a strategic alliance that was established by Alpine Group Singapore and AA Medical (Pacific-AA Group) Myanmar. Alpine Motors (part of Alpine Group) is Chevrolet and Opel's current exclusive dealer in Singapore, while AA Medical (Pacific-AA Group) is one of the largest distributors of pharmaceutical products and petrochemical lubricants in Myanmar.
Pacific Alpine will leverage Alpine Group's experience in the automotive sector and its long-standing relationship with Chevrolet, while taking advantage of AA Medical's (Pacific-AA Group's) comprehensive nationwide distribution network, retail expertise and knowledge of the Myanmar market.
As Chevrolet's authorized distributor, Pacific Alpine and Pacific-AA Motor will engage in sales, marketing, training, aftersales and customer care, and network expansion.
"One of the most-watched sectors in Myanmar is the automotive industry. About 90 percent of the vehicle population in Myanmar is more than five years old. The change in policy to allow the import of new cars will see a swift response from global and regional players. We want to put our foot in the door before the floodgates open," said Albert Pang, Managing Director of Pacific Alpine Pte. Ltd.
"Pacific Alpine has the combined strength of Alpine Group's automotive experience, especially with the Chevrolet brand, and AA Medical's (Pacific-AA Group's) retail experience and coverage. This gives us the best option for a speedy market entry and penetration," added Zaw Moe Khine, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Alpine Pte. Ltd.
Gustavo Colossi, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Care for GM Southeast Asia Operations, said: "Both Pacific Alpine and Chevrolet have a strong operating philosophy of quality and putting the customer at the center of everything we do. With Pacific Alpine, the Chevrolet brand will be well-positioned for profitable and sustainable growth in Myanmar."
Chevrolet and Pacific Alpine announce also plans to launch a three-tier corporate social responsibility (CSR) program in Myanmar starting next month. In cooperation with One World Futbol Project, they will distribute ultra-durable footballs throughout Myanmar. They will make available Find New Roads – Chevy Cares vehicles to eight charitable organizations. They will also donate engines and technical parts to mechanical training colleges in Myanmar.
Chevrolet distributes vehicles across Southeast Asia. In 2012, it sold 88,400 vehicles in Southeast Asia and had regional market share of 2.7 percent. In the first six months of 2013, Chevrolet sold 41,866 vehicles in the region, an increase of 5 percent on an annual basis.


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High above Bayou Fountain on the west side of Highland Road across from its intersection with Sunset Boulevard, a French Creole plantation style mansion sits majestically on two acres of prime south Baton Rouge real estate. The home at 6040 Highland Road has to be considered among the most desirable properties in Baton Rouge.
Designer Remson Haley and Builder Newt Ogden started the project with a beautiful piece of land that included century-old live oaks. The property accommodates the home's big front yard and incredible courtyards in back, then drops almost like a cliff down to the bayou.
Completed in 2004, this residence looks and feels right at home among the oaks.
To be sure, the home and its 4,762 square feet of luxury living space take full advantage of the lofty location. A brick sidewalk leads to a wide front porch below the second-floor veranda, and four French doors provide entry to the home: the main entry into the foyer, two separate entries into the great room, and a final entry into the home's office.
Landscaping is immaculate front and back, and views from the quad-level slate courtyards behind the slate-roofed home are amazing. There's also a 450-square foot guest house on the property with its own gunite pool and spa.
The main courtyards are behind the home on four tiers down to a brick and iron fence overlooking the bayou, and the centerpiece is a center fountain with a large urn and a gas flame feature. An arbor frames the outdoor living room's fireplace, and sitting areas abound in the slate courtyards. There can be little doubt this home was designed with
entertaining e_SEnD inside and out e_SEnD in mind.
Meanwhile, back inside, the predominant flooring upstairs and downstairs is wide
antique pine planks.
Stone tile is used in the kitchen, breakfast room and wet areas. The layout flows gracefully, with large inviting areas. The home was also obviously designed to take advantage of nature, with lots of wood windows allowing in natural light.
The great room is highlighted by exposed cypress beams in the ceiling and painted brick walls at either end. There's a huge imported limestone fireplace as well as an exit to the courtyards in back.
The breakfast/keeping room by the kitchen has a wall of windows to the back, and a butler's pantry with an ice maker and glass-front cabinetry are on the opposite wall.
There's also an arched passageway to the formal dining room, which is one of the nicest rooms in the house. With a large built-in cove and marble serving area at one end, the formal dining room also has a massive wood window viewing the front yard. An 11-light chandelier illuminates everything nicely.
The master suite, which can be segregated from the public areas of the home via double doors, has a quiet and sunny sitting/writing nook that overlooks the back yard. The master bath has a 6-foot Jacuzzi tub below plantation shutters. A pair of vanities with custom mirrors is topped with 3cm granite slabs, and a small gym/music room is located behind the master bath. There's only one master closet, but it is huge and has two dressers and lots of hanging space.
The kitchen has a top drawer appliance package, including a paneled Sub-Zero refrigerator to match the cabinetry, a four-burner Wolf cook top with a griddle on a 3cm granite island, a corner sink under rows of windows and a big walk-in pantry.
Walk up the foyer's magnificent curving staircase to the second floor, and you'll find the exit to the front veranda, which is also accessed from the front porch by an exterior Creole staircase. Bedrooms No. 2 and 3 share a Hollywood bath, and No. 4 has its own full bath.
- Address: 6040 Highland Road
- Lot size: 165 x 504 x 189 x 478 feet (2 acres)
- Living area: 4,762 square feet
- Bedrooms: Four
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May 19 Board of Supervisors Meeting Features 6 Presentations
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
May 16, 2008
May 19 Board of Supervisors
Meeting Features 6 Presentations
Note to editor: A downloadable photo and synopsis of each presentation will be posted on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/presentations.htm on Monday, May 19.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, May 19, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., will make the following presentations to residents and county staff. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711. For more information on the May 19 meeting, including an agenda, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/board/meetings/2008.htm.
Herndon High School Robotics Teams
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics teams from Herndon High School, Herndon, for their noteworthy performances and manifesting the spirit of the FIRST competitions. Robotics Team 116 competed at the 2008 New York regional contest and was awarded the prestigious Chairman's Award. The Robotics Team 116 Animation Subgroup competed in the Richmond NASA/Virginia Commonwealth University contest and captured the Autodesk Visualization Award for the sixth consecutive year. The Vex Team 519 participated in the 2008 Maryland FTC championship. Based on their performance in their respective contests, each team was invited to compete in the championship held in Atlanta, Ga.
Edison High School District Champions
The Board of Supervisors will recognize members of six Edison High School fall athletic teams that won district championships in their respective sports. Varsity teams to be congratulated are football, volleyball, boys cross country, cheerleading, field hockey and golf.
Springfield Days 2008
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 29-June 1 as Springfield Days in Fairfax County. The residents, service groups and businesses of the greater Springfield area will join on those days to foster pride in their community. Activities scheduled for this event include a parade through the heart of Springfield, a family festival, art show, movie under the stars, Taste of Springfield and the Lake Accotink Cardboard Boat Regatta.
Public Works Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate May 18-24 as Public Works Week in Fairfax County. Public works services provided by the county are an integral part of residents' everyday lives. The health, safety and welfare of residents depends on facilities and services including storm drainage; streetlights; walkways; public buildings; land development; building construction; and solid waste recycling, collection and disposal.
Fairfax County Federal Credit Union Celebrates Golden
The Board of Supervisors will congratulate the Fairfax County Federal Credit Union (FCFCU) for its 50th anniversary. The credit union, founded on April 10, 1958, is committed to providing high-quality service and competitive products to Fairfax County residents to strengthen the finances of every customer and bolster the local economy. The FCFCU has more than 18,000 members and more than $230 million in assets.
Mosquito Awareness Week
The Board of Supervisors will designate June 22-29 as Mosquito Awareness Week in Fairfax County. During this week the Fairfax County Health Department promotes environmentally sound mosquito control practices and enhances public education on mosquitoes, the diseases they carry and how to eliminate mosquito breeding sites. The Health Department's internationally known and respected Disease Carrying Insects Program supports the agency's vision of Healthy People in Healthy Communities by providing county residents proactive treatment of mosquito breeding sites; surveillance and testing of birds and mosquito pools to track West Nile virus; and public educational materials that are available online in five languages at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/hd/westnile/wnvpamp.htm.


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Will the third try be a charm for HARP? Industry analysts seem to think so. And so does the government.
The first version of the Home Affordable Program failed to help homeowners who were underwater. The revised version, HARP 2.0, helped some borrowers. But there's no way it will help the millions of homeowners eligible for the program. So what do we need? HARP 3.0.
That's in short what housing experts told the Senate Banking Committee Thursday during a hearing on a bill designed to help borrowers refinance their mortgages. The bill, called the Responsible Refinancing Act of 2012, would remove additional barriers that still prevent underwater borrowers from refinancing and reducing the interest rate on their mortgages.
"HARP 2 still is not designed to help enough underwater homeowners," Quicken Loans CEO Bill Emerson said during the hearing, according to a written testimony. "The current proposed legislation would enable every loan originator in the country the opportunity to help the four million HARP eligible borrowers."
Why? Simply put, because this measure would eliminate the risk of lawsuits for lenders that refinance an underwater mortgage. HARP 2.0 eliminated that risk for lenders that refinance mortgages they already service. But not for lenders that refinance a mortgage serviced by another bank.
In other words, if your mortgage is serviced by one of the large banks participating in HARP, you shouldn't have a problem refinancing because that lender has been given the guarantee that it will not be sued for giving you that refinance, even if you end up defaulting later.
But if your bank doesn't want to do HARP, you may have trouble refinancing. There are exceptions.
Some lenders are taking the risk and refinancing mortgages through HARP 2.0. But most won't refinance a loan through HARP if it's serviced by another lender.
A mortgage servicer is not required to verify the borrower's income or assets when refinancing a loan through HARP 2.0 if the servicer already services that loan, Emerson explained to the committee.
"The same servicer only needs to verify that the borrower has a viable source of income," he says.
But the new lender must verify everything. And if it makes even a minor error, that lender could be forced to buy that loan back in the future. That notion deters most lenders.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics told the committee that these HARP changes and other measures in the bill would help millions of borrowers. The bill would eliminate upfront fees and appraisal costs related to refinancing a HARP loan.
If the legislation is implemented by the fourth quarter of this year and mortgage rates remain near 4 percent through the end of 2013, more than 4 million borrowers would be able to refinance their loans, Zandi says.
What do you think? Will HARP 3 be approved? Will it help?
What do I think? I don't understand why it wasn't done right the first time and I'm not so sure this bill will pass. But I'm for anything that helps borrowers.
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|"When you hear that people say that people have appeared from the east, who are highly intelligent and whose dress people look on with amazement, then the shadow of the Day of Reckoning will have fallen upon you."(Nuaim ibn Hammad, Kitab al-Fitan, -121)
This hadith reported from our Prophet (saas) notes how Hazrat Mahdi (as), who will appear in the End Times, in other words the final age in the history of mankind, and his followers, will be highly intelligent and well-dressed.
By referring to them being 'highly intelligent' in the hadith, our Prophet (saas) is noting that Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers will reach the highest possible level of human reason and understanding. Another important feature our Prophet (saas) refers to in the hadith is their elegant dress. The fact that Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers dress in a very different way to other Muslims will be instrumental in Muslims feeling an open or secret admiration for them. The fact that people will form such a good opinion of them shows that Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers will dress in a manner that is different to the traditional style generally employed by Muslims. Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers will gain people's approval by their spotless and immaculate way of dressing, and will thus also stand out in the community. Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers will show that it is genuine Muslims who possess and deserve to use all the blessings bestowed by Allah in the world, and that dressing spotlessly and elegantly is commanded by Allah in the Qur'an and also represents the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas).


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#1 IamInu
Posted 14 September 2010 - 11:59 AM
#2 Iaminu
Posted 14 September 2010 - 12:10 PM
Anyone seen the following Comcast error video message?
I was taken to the following:
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ref S0a00 on my tv. What is this?
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#3 Iaminu
Posted 14 September 2010 - 12:16 PM
I called Comcast and found out S0a00 means that I have not paid the bill.
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#6 kitkat121589
Posted 28 December 2010 - 01:11 PM
It better not be that i am having same issue and our bill isn't due till after the new year!
Is the Answer so simple that Comcast does not want to embarrass me?
I called Comcast and found out S0a00 means that I have not paid the bill.
#7 Odessa
Posted 29 December 2010 - 02:44 PM
Thank you so much. The only thing comcast could tell me was the signal was low in my area, TV been out for 3 days, you fixed in in 10 seconds, many thanks.
What you do is this you have to cycle your turn ons. Basically it's very simple you hit tv button then hit power. Then you hit cable then hit power then I hit all on and the stupid page comes up where you have grid and some random things get up and turn your tv off then on by pressing off and on "On the TV Button"
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#9 Dave
Posted 04 January 2011 - 04:47 PM
Im in chicago and the t.v. just went out it says available shortly. What does ref code s0a00 mean?
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#11 Guest
Posted 29 January 2011 - 06:58 AM
Just wanted to add some information that may be helpful. I have been receiving this error message for the last 3 weekends in a row. The first 2 weekends I was able to get the signal working again after simply unplugging my Comcast HD box for a minute or so. However, last night I received the error again and the unplug/replug to reset the box did not resolve the issue this time. I called Comcast and received automated message that there were outages in my area, so I went to bed. This was strange because my Comcast box (non HD) was working, so how could there be an outage in my area. After 45 minutes of frustration on the phone with a technician, I discovered that the coax cable was broken that was connected to a splitter (split to cable modem) and into my box. I unplugged this earlier and it seemed to be ok, but apparently it was lose and the end piece came off completely. Once I replaced the coax cable with a spare one I had in the house the signal came back immediately.
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Posted 02 May 2011 - 04:35 PM
Phone support took me down the road of "non payment" but confirmed I was up to date.... so they sent out a repairman. He went into the DVR firmware menu and found the 2nd tuner was not working. After replacing the DVR all is well...
#19 Shawn
Posted 21 May 2011 - 07:22 AM
S0a00 known as an OMP error (aka One Moment Please) which means the box cannot get a good signal lock on the specific channel you are trying to watch. Same thing happens to all channels if you simply unplug the cable-in line that runs from the wall to the box. Box isn't receiving an adequate signal from the cable outlet/line so it displays OMP. Only recently they added a confusing code, S0a00, but its all the same.
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THE spectacular wildlife of the Bowland moors is set to be revealed over the next few months with the help of the RSPB.
The national bird charity is offering wildlife-lovers the chance to explore the United Utilities Bowland Estate through a series of Moorland Safaris.
The seven walks, which will be led by Jude Lane from the bird charity, will take place from April to July.
Proceeds from the events will be put directly back into the conservation of hen harriers in Northern England.
The Bowland Estate used to be England's stronghold for hen harriers but the birds are now so rare they have not bred there for the past two seasons.
The first guided walk of the season will be held on Friday, April 4, with further events on April 12, May 5 and 16, June 7 and 27 and July 4.
Jude said: "I love working in Bowland and its great have the chance to show people what makes this area so special.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to see the elusive ring ouzel, which comes from Northern Africa to breed on the moorland plateau and the tiger beetle, an insect famous for its ability to run at high speeds.
"Soaring above the moorland, we may also be able to spot charismatic birds of prey such as peregrines, kestrels and buzzards.
"If we are really lucky we may even spot a hen harrier, England's most threatened bird of prey and the emblem of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty."
All of the walks are five miles long and begin at 9.30am.
Tickets cost £5 and need to be booked in advance by contacting Fariha Quraishi on 01524 581001 or at firstname.lastname@example.com For more information on Festival Bowland visit www.forestofbowland.com


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Joe, our favorite server at our golf club's 19th hole, is no spring chicken. If I had to guess, I'd say he is well past age 70. I asked him once when he was planning to retire, and he told me, "Never. ... I had too much invested in one stock, and the company went bankrupt."
In some ways, I'd say he's lucky. He's healthy and seems to like his work. Many of his customers undoubtedly tip him well for his pleasant and attentive service. There are worse ways to spend your days. But his life isn't what most of us think about when we consider retirement.
A common fear
A survey by PNC Financial Services Group suggests that Joe's situation is probably not all that uncommon. The survey showed that many retirees don't manage their nest eggs wisely. For instance, 52 percent of retirees have withdrawn money from their retirement savings without having any withdrawal plan in place. Of those, 59 percent said they withdrew the money because they needed it to pay expenses.
Joe Jennings, investment director at PNC Wealth Management in Baltimore, says that when a retiree takes money from his savings, "He ought to have a strategy. He needs a good plan in place that will help him navigate through today's volatile investment waters, so he doesn't make a course correction at the wrong time."
Some 53 percent of the people surveyed by PNC say they fear running out of money in retirement. Of those who have this concern, 35 percent say they are dependent on their investments for income -- as opposed to primarily relying on money from an old-fashioned defined benefit pension, Social Security or some other regular source of income. As pensions grow less common among retirees, the consternation over coming up short is likely to be even more widespread.
Plan your retirement income
In its recent white paper on investment and portfolio strategy, PNC discussed four basics of retirement planning nest-egg management. None of this is news, but all of us who depend on our nest eggs to help pay the bills can use a reminder.
- Allocate assets strategically and maintain that allocation systematically.
- Create an income floor: Invest so your portfolio yields enough regular income to cover your needs while managing the balance for longevity and growth.
- Maintain a cash cushion to protect you from having to sell at the wrong time.
- Stay invested. Don't sell in a panic when the market takes its inevitable dips.
Below are some suggestions for asset allocation from PNC.
PNC asset allocation profiles
|Type: Preservation
|Stocks: 15%
|Bonds: 30%
|Cash: 55%
|Total: 100%
|Type: Conservative
|Stocks: 35%
|Bonds: 65%
|Cash: 0%
|Total: 100%
|Type: Moderate
|Stocks: 50%
|Bonds: 50%
|Cash: 0%
|Total: 100%
|Type: Balanced
|Stocks: 65%
|Bonds: 35%
|Cash: 0%
|Total: 100%
|Type: Growth
|Stocks: 80%
|Bonds: 20%
|Cash: 0%
|Total: 100%
|Type: Aggressive
|Stocks: 100%
|Bonds: 0%
|Cash: 0%
|Total: 100%
Source: PNC
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DON'T TELL ANNIE can prove the answer to the Hilary Needler Trophy at Beverley this afternoon on behalf of Tim Easterby, who sent out last year's winner of this race in Ventura Mist.
An impressive winner on her debut at Pontefract, Don't Tell Annie contested the Marygate Stakes at York earlier this month and performed creditably in that Listed contest to finish fifth after seeming to be on her back foot in the early stages.
This stiffer course will suit Don't Tell Annie. Furthermore, she takes a drop in class in what looks a less than daunting Hilary Needler, which boasts prize money of £26,000.
The North Yorkshire filly is napped to prevail in the hands of David Allan.
Beverley has attracted smallish fields, which is both surprising and somewhat disappointing, but Easterby won't be complaining and neither will Kevin Ryan.
The two trainers go head-to-head in the six-runner Weatherbys Sports Publishing Conditions Stakes with Easterby saddling Hamish McGonagall and Ryan represented by York Glory in this fascinating five furlong dash.
Marginal preference is for York Glory, winner of the Wokingham Handicap last year before going on to prove himself in stronger company.
A hold-up horse, he will doubtless get a lovely lead from the front-running Hamish McGonagall, who has been a crack sprinter in recent seasons, but who is now nine-years-old and may not be the force he once was. It's a useful race and York Glory may just have the edge in a race Ryan won 12 months ago with Hamza.
Richard Fahey can get on the scoresheet more than once on the card. Emerahldz won on this course a fortnight ago and did well to come from off the pace under George Chaloner, who takes the ride again. This step up in distance should suit her and she can win again in the Beverley Middle Distance Series Handicap.
Chaloner also takes the mount on Spirit Of The Law in the Barry Parker Memorial Handicap. The five-year-old enjoyed a good campaign last year and should be approaching his peak again after two unplaced, but promising efforts.
The Evening Of Horse Maiden Stakes also hosts a Fahey runner in Abbey Village. Closely related to former stable star Wooton Bassett, Abbey Village does not have his level of ability, but this slow-maturing three-year-old ran well enough on this course a couple of weeks to suggest he has a chance in a modest event.
At Hamilton's afternoon meeting, Polar Forest can be another winner for North Yorkshire apprentice Connor Beasley, who is giving strong chase to Oisin Murphy in this season's championship.
Beasley, who is attached to Michael Dods' Darlington yard, teams-up with Polar Forest in the Happy 10th Birthday Racing UK Handicap. Richard Guest's gelding has been in rude health lately and was an easy winner at Newcastle last week. He has a welter burden to overcome here, but is fancied to oblige again.
Kevin Ryan has a progressive juvenile on his hands in Indian Keys, who looks to be going the right way after two respectable efforts. He can make it third-time-lucky in the Mandora Maiden Auction Stakes.
Also worth noting are David O'Meara's Dansili Dutch (3.40), who has run well in defeat lately, and A Southside Boy (4.50), who is a previous winner on this course.
Beverley today
6.30 Emerahldz, 7.00 Spirit Of The Law, 7.30 Don't Tell Annie (NAP), 8.00 York Glory, 8.30
Coin Broker, 9.00 Abbey Village.
Hamilton today
2.10 Indian Keys, 2.40 Polar Forest, 3.10 Rock Canyon, 3.40 Dansili Dutch, 4.15 Bunce, 4.50
A Southside Boy, 5.25 Zanouska.
Today's other meetings
Chepstow and Kempton.
Tomorrow's meetings
Bath, Haydock, Sandown, Wetherby and Worcester.


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Pololu Micro Metal Gearmotor Bracket Extended Pair
This compact bracket enables convenient mounting of popular, Sanyo-style micro metal gearmotors. The white plastic bracket encloses the otherwise exposed gears, and the mounting tabs capture the nuts for easy installation. This version has mounting tabs that allow for use with the Pololu Wheel 42×19 mm and encoder. The brackets are sold in pairs, and each bracket comes with two #2 screws and two nuts.
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These plastic mounting brackets allow you to easily and securely mount the ubiquitous 10 mm × 12 mm × 26 mm metal gearhead motors first popularized by Sanyo's 12GN series (e.g. NA1S…NA3S), such as our micro metal gearmotors. We also offer shorter versions of these brackets in black plastic and white plastic.
Four #2-56×7/16" screws and four nuts are included.
This extended version of the bracket is designed to allow a portion of the motor to fit within the hub of a larger wheel, such as our Pololu Wheel 42×19mm. We also offer a quadrature encoder that works with this bracket and the 42×19mm wheel to provide feedback about wheel rotation direction and speed. The encoder can be purchased as an individual unit or as part of an encoder set that includes two encoders, a pair of extended brackets, and a pair of 42×19mm wheels—just pick the particular micro metal gearmotor that best suits your application and you have a solution for closed-loop motor control.
Note: This bracket also works with the 1000:1 micro metal gearmotors, but because of its longer gearbox, it does not fully enclose the exposed gears the way it does on the other micro metal gearmotors. This bracket with our quadrature encoder when used with the 1000:1 micro metal gearmotor.
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Cook pasta as package directs, rinse quickly, drain and place in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, garlic and pepper. Pour over pasta. Mix in tomatoes, olives, and fresh basil. Place the salad on top of the baby salad greens or mix in. Crumble the tofu feta over the salad. Serve room temperature or chilled.
Note: To make tofu feta, slice 1/2 pound organic extra firm tofu into 1" cubes. Place in a bowl. Toss together with 3 tablespoons Eden Ume Plum Vinegar. Marinate for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, mixing occasionally to evenly marinate. Rinse before crumbling over the salad to remove excess sodium.
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