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BofA Eyes TALF, Mezz Financing for Fortress
Bank of America is seeking to arrange $650 million of financing on a portfolio controlled by Fortress Investment, part of which could be raised via a securitization eligible for the Federal Reserve's TALF program.
The fixed-rate debt package tentatively would consist of a $414 million senior loan and $236 million of mezzanine debt. BofA plans to securitize the senior loan, either inside or outside of the TALF program, by yearend. It is currently shopping the mezzanine portion at yields of 12-14%. The debt package, which would have a term of 5-7 years, is contingent on BofA's ability to both securitize the senior loan and place the mezzanine debt.
Fortress would use the proceeds to partially refinance $1.6 billion of mortgage debt provided in 2007 by BofA, Citigroup and Bear Stearns. The loan helped finance Fortress' $3.5 billion takeover of Florida East Coast Industries, which operated a railway and a property firm called Flagler Development. The loan is backed by Flagler's portfolio of office buildings, industrial properties and land.
It's unclear how Fortress, a New York fund operator, would pay back the remaining portion of the $1.6 billion loan. It's also unknown which lenders are currently on the hook for that loan. Citi reportedly sold much of its position to Apollo Management, Blackstone Group's GSO Capital Partners and TPG. Bear was taken over by J.P. Morgan last year, but many of Bear's real estate assets were assumed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The loan matures this year. News reports in July said that Fortress was trying to negotiate an extension. BofA, Citi, J.P. Morgan and the New York Fed declined to comment.
Buysiders said the new mezzanine loan has been structured into senior and junior pieces, each of which could be divided among multiple investors. The asking yields of 12-14% are lower than on seasoned debt available in the secondary market. Investors said BofA was evidently betting that investors would pay up for newly underwritten debt, with current data on rent rolls, vacancies and other measures of performance.
If BofA can lock down acceptable prices on the mezzanine debt, it would then move to securitize the senior portion, which would likely be rated from triple-A to single-A. Rating agencies are now analyzing the collateral, and the tentative $414 million size of the senior portion could still change.
The Fed is looking at the Flagler collateral to determine its eligibility for TALF loans, according to market players. Under TALF, formally known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, the Fed provides low-cost financing to buyers of high-grade structured securities, including CMBS, as part of federal efforts to resuscitate the securitization market.
Even though the Fed expanded the TALF program to new-issue CMBS deals in June, no such deals have materialized so far. But Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have long been working on separate transactions for Developers Diversified Realty. Multiple market players said that Fed reservations about transactions backed by loans to one borrower are contributing to the slow pace of the program.
The office and industrial properties in Flagler's portfolio appear to qualify for the TALF program. "The issue is probably not the collateral," said one industry veteran who has been taking the pulse of the Fed. "The issue is probably the fact that this is a single-borrower deal. Ask yourself why Goldman's deal for DDR keeps getting delayed, even though the loan has already closed. It's not the collateral. The Fed doesn't like the lack of diversity in a single-borrower transaction."
It now looks like either Fortress or Developers Diversified will be the first player out of the gate with a new-issue TALF deal. But if Fortress doesn't get the green light, BofA is evidently prepared to proceed with a traditional securitization.
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02 Thursday Sep 2010
Oh Jen, I'm so sorry to hear about your recent bout of depression/the blues? what have you. I know it, because I'm feeling it as of late too. Our household has been mired in it for the past two weeks. Please know that you're never alone and that no matter how long you leave LND, we're always going to come back.
Much love to you Dietsch and the kitties.
Slow and steady my friend
Welcome back! If it's only intermittently. Your absence is deeply felt!
Long long long time lurker here, with some advice, which you are probably sick of by now but I will offer anyway: maybe you should take Method Man's words to heart: "fuck the world don't ask me for shit," and just do what you love to do, for yourself and yourself only, if just for a little while. Because what you do is really pretty awesome, and it's clear that you get a lot of pleasure from it when there's no other strings attached. Bon appetit!
I've been gone a long time from your blog — I had to lose the 20 pounds that I gained during cancer treatment (oatmeal, salads, egg whites for 4 months, but it's done) — and something prompted me to check in today.
I'm sorry to hear you are struggling, but I completely understand and know that place as well. I know you know this, but just a reminder: your work here on LND was a lifelife to normalcy and beauty and inspiration during my 9 months in bed. Thank you for sharing your gift with me at such a difficult time in my life.
"Chi va piano, va sano e lontano" – just like Kathryn said. Sometimes it's minute by minute. Thank you.


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I have an application which uses CSendUi::CreateAndSendMessageL to send sms, the application works fine and it sends the without any problem. but when I test with Symbian AppTest Lite tool to test my application, but my test fails in CON-03
I read the documentation and I found that CreateAndSendMessageL requires DRM capability. But I don't have this capability.Code:FAILED CON-03 No billable events occur. FAIL Monitor for billable events while app is running. OK Close app before test, in case running already. FAIL Running of app recording. Should not terminate unexpectedly. OK App can be closed gracefully within 15 s timeout.
The question is:
1- Is that why the test case fails, because of missing DRM capability?
2- Since I don't have DRM capability and it's required by CreateAndSendMessageL, how could my application send SMS with out problems?


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This very designer-led satchel style from Marc B has really cheered us up today in our end-of-the-month financial funk. It's stylish, cute and eminently affordable, making autumn/winter trends look a lot more accessible.
'The Candy Bag' has an array of fun embellishments, including reptile-style embossed straps, a shiny gold heart-shaped fob and a chain-link strap that hits all the right notes. Its fabric is marbled in a very realistic-looking way, and it's the satchel you need to get through the season in style. That's why we're making it our high street pick of the week!
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NASCAR President Mike Helton addressed the media on Saturday morning at Texas Motor Speedway an informed reporters of Kyle Busch's suspension for the remainder of the weekend.
Here are some of Helton's selected comments as to why NASCAR elected to suspend Busch:
Why did this incident cross the line in the "Boys, Have At It" Era?
"The responsibility that, over the past two or three seasons, we've given back to the drivers, came with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed.
As annoying as the comments I've made personally in the past – about 'We'll know it when we see it' – might have been, we saw it last night. Obviously, after the event, a lot of folks put their heads together to decide what, if anything, we would do. What I'm telling you today is our reaction."
Did NASCAR consider all the fallout and the big picture that would result from this move?
"The volume of reactions like I'm talking about this morning, the rarity of times we make a step like this speak to the uniqueness and the severity of the topic. We understand the ramifications or the ripple effect in making this type of move. But we also take our responsibility very serious as to maintaining control of the event in all of the garages. And at the end of the day, we're the ones who have to make that decision and go on."
Does this send a message about where the line is for "Boys, Have At It?"
"I think the garage areas – the drivers, the team owners, the crew members – understand the difference between being responsible and crossing the line. I honestly believe they understand the difference, but we'll have to wait and see how the opinions react to this."
On whether Hornaday's position in the championship battle was a factor in the penalty:
"The implication of the 33 truck being in the points battle in the Camping World Truck Series probably had a small impact on the reaction, but I think the bulk of the action in its entirety and all the circumstances attached to it just accumulated in the action we made."
How is this different than Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski at Atlanta last year? And did Kyle's history factor into this?
"It's natural in our industry and our sport to watch the evolution of a policy or a procedure and learn from it and possibly react differently. I would remind you in the incident with Carl Edwards and Keselowski in Atlanta, there was a reaction from us. There was points and there was money involved in that reaction, so there was some reaction. There are lines that have been crossed – the 18 and the 29 (Kevin Harvick) at Darlington got a reaction from us.
"Today is the most severe reaction, but we felt like the circumstances came together to warrant the reaction we're talking about this morning. The question about the accumulation of incidents around the driver leading to the decision making process – I won't sit here and tell you it's not an influence, but it's not an overriding influence."
More on the decision:
"It's not an easy step to take. It's not something we enjoy doing. It's not an action we would want to do. But we do take our responsibility to maintain the garage areas and the unfolding of the events very serious, which led us to this action."


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That's right, word is we might be heading back to lovely southern Cal! Grizz gave me the inside scoop on all the ways to get autographs and good seats at last year's Training Camp, and now the Cowboys are considering using the River Ridge facility once again - For Free! (My favorite four letter F-word!) Apparently some real estate developers bought the land last year from the city, and are offering it to the Cowboys to use next year.
According to the Ventura County - Star:
Rich Dalrymple,director of public relations for the Cowboys, said Tuesday no decision has been made on whether the team will return to Oxnard for one year because of potential problems with its current training facilities in Texas.
Did anyone know about these problems? San Antonio's loss would be Ventura County's gain. That's a nice place to visit, especially when you frequent on Navy business trips!! Seriously, Santa Barbara, the beach and LA are great locations nearby that make for a nice trip with your family.
Oxnard Mayor Tom Holden confirmed Friday that officials with the Cowboys called about a month ago to see if holding camp at River Ridge would be possible if things couldn't be worked out in San Antonio, where the Cowboys moved their training camp in 2007.
I wonder if we make reservations at the Residence Inn at River Ridge now, will the management honor them during training camp?
Anyway, got me thinking...Take my poll to vote on where you would like the Cowboys to have training camp in 08!


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With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an important question: Why are some countries able to assimilate immigrants and their children more peacefully than others? It took a stab at comparing "integrationist" vs. "assimilationist" public policies in France, England, Germany, Holland, and the United States.
Naturally, the article did not mention Japan, as Japan does not have much of a record regarding immigration. Registered foreigners (i.e. those with legal visas staying for more than three months), assuming previous growth rates continued through 2005, probably topped two million for the first time in postwar Japan. However, in a country of 127.7 million, this amounts to 1.6% of the total population–slender compared to 4.6% (2003) in Britain, 5.5% (1999) in France, 9.7% (2002) in Germany, 12.1% (2005, legal and illegal) in the US, and 21.8% (2001) in Australia. [1]
However, these figures will change, as Japan's population of foreigners will continue to grow. I believe Japan's future as a multiethnic society is inevitable. As I argued in a Japan Times column ("Japan and the Immigration Issue"), not only is cheap foreign labor an intrinsic part of the Japanese economy, but also, as the regional economic superpower, Japan is still by itself about the same size as all the other Asian economies combined. The economic pull for immigrants is irresistible.
Immigration to Japan is already happening and it will not stop
Things are changing, most noticeably in the makeup of the non-Anglophone population. Now comprising more than 75% of total registered foreign residents, this steady growth is no accident.
But first, a bit of background. For much of Japan's postwar history, the majority of "foreigners" here were, surprisingly, born or raised in Japan–the product of immigration, both forced and unforced, by former citizens of the prewar Japanese Empire and their progeny. Called "Special Permanent Residents" (tokubetsu eijuusha), or "Zainichi" in the vernacular, they are mostly Koreans and Chinese, who (because Japan only confers citizenship through blood or naturalization) have remained in Japan for generations as "foreigners". This is despite the fact they are fully fluent in Japanese and quite indistinguishable from the general population–except for ethnic expression, personal identity (of the non-naturalized Zainichis I have interviewed, none have ever said they consider themselves "Japanese"), access to jobs and marriage partners, and legal treatment (about the same as any foreigner fresh off the boat, unfortunately).
That was then. From 1990 a new wave of immigration began. The Japanese government tried to stem the "hollowing out" of domestic industry by providing a special "trainee worker" visa for the Nikkei diaspora. Consequently, the number of registered "returnee" Brazilians alone has leapt from negligible to around 280,000 in 2005, lodging them in third place behind the Zainichi. These South American laborers are more visible than the Zainichi, clustering to the point where, in some small towns in Shizuoka, Aichi, and Gifu prefectures, they comprise a startlingly high percentage of the local population–sometimes even double digits. Given the high standard of living here and the lack of job opportunities back home, many are settling down and changing the face of their communities. They are also changing the commonly-held image of "gaijin" (foreigner), which was (roughly) "someone from a developed country who larks about teaching English, then goes home". Foreigners are graduating from "temporary guest" to immigrant.
"Resistance is futile": the trends favoring immigration are irreversible
To better grasp the pressures on Japanese society towards immigration, let's first consider what would happen if the government took steps to reverse the trend: removing foreigners from Japan by cracking down on illegals, curbing visa programs, targeting them through anti-terrorist measures (in fact already in the pipeline, see Japan Times, "Here Comes the Fear"), or even increased racial profiling (entirely feasible, given the recent shocking murder of a schoolgirl allegedly by a Peruvian here on forged papers). Foreigners will come to Japan regardless. Why? They will continue to be attracted by Japan's economic opportunities (as the decades-unbroken rise in the foreign population demonstrates). More importantly, Japanese companies (especially those in the "3K" industrial sectors which Japanese laborers avoid) will still want them. According to prominent economic magazine Shuukan Diamondo (June 5, 2004), Japan's 760,000 foreign workers are now powering companies like Toyota, Suzuki, Sanyo, Honda, and Yamaha. During a 2004 crackdown on Chinese due to fears of SARS, factories in rural regions like Shikoku simply closed down. Thus any drastic action against foreigners will have severe economic effects.
Moreover, these "newcomer" foreigners are making themselves unremovable, by taking out Permanent Residency (eijuuken). According to the Ministry of Justice, the number of "General Permanent Residents" (ippan eijuusha) swelled from 145,336 in 2000 to 312,964 in 2004. Meanwhile, the number of "oldcomer" Permanent-Resident Zainichi actually shrank (due to death or naturalization) from 512,269 to 465,619. If this trend continues, the permanent Newcomers will outnumber Oldcomers in just a few years, a sea change in terms of visible immigration and acculturation.
On top of that, it is simply impossible for "foreigners" and their influence in Japan to disappear–for so many of the people who once might have been considered "foreign" are now even citizens. There are large and growing numbers of multiethnic Japanese, thanks to the record numbers of international marriages and international children, the number of naturalized citizens, and even (to give an extreme example) Japan's role as safe haven for abducted Japanese children following international divorces. Moreover, people do naturalize–to the tune of 12,000 to 14,000 people per year in recent years (the author of this article included); according to the Ministry of Justice, there were more than 300,000 newly-minted citizens between 1968 and 2001. Of course, all of these trends, which amount to no less than Japan's true internationalization, are invisible because these people are not included in numbers for registered foreigners, and Japan's Census Bureau does not measure the population for ethnicity.
In fact, it seems the tide is turning–back towards a grudging acceptance of the inevitability of immigration. And none too soon. As far back as 2000, under the Obuchi Administration, "The Prime Minister's Commission on Japan's Goals in the 21st Century" (as well as the UN) famously advised Japan to import around 600,000 people per annum. This would maintain Japan's tax base, and ameliorate the effects of record-high longevities and record-low birthrates contributing to an aging population. Even though this trial balloon was soon deflated, through government-sponsored public scares about hooliganism (during the 2002 World Cup) and terrorism, and assiduous reportage on purported rises in foreign crime, cooler heads have since prevailed, running some fanciful proposals up the flagpole, such as bringing in Filipina nurses or robotizing elderly health care (see pie-in-the-sky Economist article "Japan's Humanoid Robots–Better Than People"). However, a watershed was inevitable, and it came in December 2005–due to demographics.
In the realm of a shrinking population
It's official: As of 2006, Japan's population is in decline. Japan's Ministry of Health announced that, thanks to the declining birthrate, deaths in 2005 outnumbered births by 10,000. [2] From 2006 the population is projected to dwindle, falling from 127.4 million to 100.7 million by 2050. This means that the foreign resident influx, about 50,000 people per year, is keeping the numbers in the black, at least for now.
The subsequent intake of wind from policy circles and pundits was audible. Even frequent foreigner basher Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro, in a December 22, 2005 press conference (minute 11), stated that Japan needs a firm immigration policy, and offered suggestions (such as granting Permanent Residency to foreign graduates of Japanese colleges) to make it easier for educated people to stay.
So now that people know that Japan needs foreigners, warts and all, how equipped is Japan to deal with a future of immigration?
Getting foreigners to stay and find "the good life" here
Can Japan allow foreigners to reach their potential, become productive and contributing members of Japanese society, without the prospect (as Governor Ishihara warned in his infamous 2000 "Sankokujin Speech") of unrest and rioting?
The Economist article, which opened this essay, concluded that peaceful immigrant assimilation requires five basic things: a) lingua franca skills, b) income, c) mobility, d) home ownership, e) political representation, and e) intermarriage. How does Japan rate?
Factors conducive to assimilation
1) Japanese law allows foreigners to own property, which means they can buy homes and establish businesses in Japan. However, without Permanent Residency, they face great difficulty getting loans at competitive interest rates. Permanent Residency, it should be noted, is actually quite difficult to get, as it requires at least five years' investment (if married to a Japanese, ten years' if not) and paperwork showing commitment and financial stability. That said, with the striking rise in people taking out PR, unprecedented numbers are qualifying for credit.
2) Foreigners can and do found and run their own businesses (as the ethnic restaurants, kitchen-sink importers, used-goods exporters, and nightlife around Japan attest). Naturally, there are some barriers to entry. Based upon your visa, you may face a local-hire requirement or a local-guarantor requirement, with heavy deposits for business loans. Moreover, even credit card companies and cellphone operators like NTT Docomo, consider foreigners too risky or fly-by-night, denying them credit avenues or requiring deposits without looking at credit records or income.
However, things have been loosening up, for example, "1-yen companies", and open-secret loopholes (such as getting a visa separate from your business, and treating your business as a side-job). [3] More concretely, setting up a company in Japan is no longer all that difficult. According to the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, start-up costs for a company in Japan (around US$4,000), number of days you have to wait for paperwork to clear (31), and number of procedures you have to go through (11), are expensive but not unreasonable for the region (average: 52.6 days' wait, 8.2 procedures). Indeed, Japan is even less cumbersome albeit more expensive than China (US$175 start-up, 48 days' wait, 13 procedures). However, Japan is uncompetitive compared to the high-income OECD countries (average: 19.5 days' wait, 7.9 procedures), particularly France (US$350 start-up, 8 days' wait, 7 procedures), Germany (US$1400 start-up, 24 days' wait, 9 procedures), the USA (US$210 start-up, 5 days' wait, 5 procedures), and Canada (US$250 start-up, 3 days' wait, 2 procedures). Based on raw numbers alone, Japan is actually on par with countries like Russia, Egypt, Malawi, and Jordan. And these numbers do not reflect things like Japan's informal barriers to capital access for newcomers, and minimum capital investment in banks to qualify for loans. Nevertheless, this represents considerable easing of restrictions on foreign enterprise startups in Japan.
3) Unemployment rates are nominally low in Japan and there is a labor shortage, meaning chances are there will be little indigency: You come here, you will probably find a job. That's not to say, however, that employment is secure or lucrative. According to Louis Carlet of the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo Nambu office, 90% or all foreigners in Japan are on fixed-term contract labor. Low incomes for the most recent newcomers (such as the above-mentioned "trainees") are not necessarily helping them invest in their future.
4) There are few, if any, clearly-delineated "foreigner enclaves" in Japan (as opposed to France's state-supported banlieue, the scene of much unrest). However, there is little or no protection against housing discrimination, which results in the creation of "gaijin apartments" and de facto "foreigner zones" in towns near factories.
5) There is a promising degree of cultural acceptance and social mobility for multiethnic residents and cultural expression. There have been recent booms in Korean pop culture, African-American rap culture, even international marriage in Japan's huge manga market. A cursory view of Japanese media will demonstrate that Japanese are culinary culture vultures for foreign foods. Foreign entertainers and sportspeople are highly visible (even if many of the long-term TV personalities choose to hide their ethnic roots). There are even politicians and prominent businesspeople with international backgrounds (even if the foreign community has yet to become a recognizable voting or consumer bloc). Nevertheless, there are jobs from which foreigners are excluded (see below), "foreigner quotas" in many areas, such as sports, even "no foreigners" rules in some sports leagues.
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6) Tens of thousands of foreigners marry Japanese every year, including high rates of Zainichi intermarriage and recent migrant intermarriage. That's the strongest possible root for any non-Japanese resident, and it opens doors in terms of working visas and community standing.
Factors unconducive to assimilation
1) Unlike Japanese children, foreign children are not required to attend school. This means that the government has turned a blind eye to a growing underclass of uneducated children just because they are foreign. Moreover, until recently, the Ministry of Education refused to recognize most international schools as accredited educational institutions. Result: Many foreign children who couldn't handle a Japanese grade or junior-high school dropped out. With few other educational choices, some grew up illiterate and found their way into youth gangs (cf. the Herculano Murder Case). Foreign children who do graduate from an unaccredited ethnic school in Japan, like one set up by Koreans and Brazilians, are generally unable to enter a Japanese university and thus are shut out from most upwardly-mobile jobs. Though there have been some steps to accredit ethnic schools at long last, and universities, desperate for students, are increasingly accepting ethnic school diplomas, it is too late for some teens; we don't know–we have no official recognition of the problem or data on its depth. Japan may soon be in for a surprise, with future incidents redolent of the youth riots in France.
2) Foreigners are still barred from some job sectors, most famously government-sponsored food preparation (for "security reasons") and firefighting ("because foreigners damaging Japanese property could create an international incident", runs the argument). Glass ceilings in Japan's entry-level corporate culture are rife. Foreigners are still not permitted to sit civil-service examinations for promotion in certain regions, such as Tokyo, because "foreigners cannot be permitted to have administrative duties over Japanese" (cf. the law suit by health worker Zainichi Korean Chong Hyang Gyun).
2) Foreigners are not entitled to the same job security, social security, or legal protections as Japanese. One consequence is that many work either in the black-market economies or for severely low wages, without social safety nets such as health or unemployment insurance. This does not encourage the establishment of firm or honest roots, or a larger stake in society.
3) Japan keeps its foreigners on separate and tight (moreover, tightening) leash, while the Zainichi are denied the rights of citizens even after four generations here. The Zainichi and others who decide to fully assimilate, that is, naturalize, often do so at great sacrifice of their ethnicity and family ties. There is also a perception problem fostered by the government: Many policy proposals are written so as to apply exclusively to "kokumin" (citizens), as if official definitions of "community members deserving social benefits and protections" are rooted in blood-and-soil arguments. Some of these policies explicitly exclude foreigners from regular taxpayer benefits and treatment, such as Shizuoka Prefecture's erstwhile guidelines for "Kokumin Kenkou Hoken", the national health service.
The clearest case of unnecessary segregation concerns the Residency Certificate (juuminhyou) and Family Registry (koseki) systems, where only citizens (i.e. those with a koseki) may be listed as "residents". What other developed country (including Germany, with a similar family registry system) requires citizenship for formal residency? The systems even split international families apart, so that officially foreigners may not be listed together with their family members as "parent" or "spouse". I can think of few official policies more unwelcoming and alienating to immigrants on a basic level than this.
4) Policywise, Japan is, again, a) not collecting sufficient data on ethnicity (cf. last year's National Census), b) not allowing "Japaneseness" to be seen as a matter of legal status (as opposed to blood and culture), and c) not making much of an attempt to recognize or appraise Japan's current, or future, multiculturality. Japan still officially promotes homogeneity as part of national identity, regardless of social exigency or even research on the nature of immigrant populations to the contrary. [4]
5) Portraying the outsider as social bane instead of boon at the highest levels of government and media is not helpful for Japanese society in general, not to mention for the vast majority of hardworking foreign taxpayers who support this aging society. Instead, Japan's law enforcement is falsifying statistical data and interpretation, encouraging public witch hunts of foreigners, using outright racism in crime research, even stretching or breaking their own laws to justify pursuit of the foreigner in our midst. This must stop.The need for everyone to try harder
Here are a few suggestions that Japan could undertake to smooth the path for immigrants to come, stay, and become assimilated, peacefully contributing members of society:
1) Illiteracy saps the potential of people in every society, so institute free government-sponsored language classes (as seen in places like the US) to get immigrants up to speed on their reading, writing, and spoken Japanese. At the moment, second-language education for immigrants is generally undertaken by local NGOs. Of course, this assumes that immigrants will make the effort to become functional if not fluent in the local language. However, initial signs, such as popular city-sponsored language classes I have attended in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, indicate that they will.
2) Extend compulsory education to all children, including foreign children, in accredited schools, and accredit more ethnic schools to give them a choice.
3) Take concrete measures to protect the human and civil rights of non-Japanese residents. This includes not only passing laws against racial discrimination at all levels of government, but also enacting additional statutes ensuring equal access to living quarters and public goods, empowering governmental or non-governmental agencies with policing and punitive powers (such as the ombudsman proposal currently stalemated in the Diet), and clarifying labor laws protecting workers and their families against discrimination by nationality.
4) As Governor Ishihara suggested, enact a clear immigration policy, with targets to bring in educated people from overseas and ensure them stable jobs and visa status. Many countries, including the US, have benefited from "brain drains", and Japanese society has plenty going for it to attract people of talent. On that note:
5) Eliminate the oft-cited "nationality clause" (kokuseki joukou) for all government employment, and let individual qualifications and civil service examination results overrule citizenship requirements. At the moment, this is left up to local governments to decide, where it often is used to bar Zainichis from leadership posts.
6) Take steps to resolve the grey legal status of the Zainichis and other Permanent Residents. This would include, in addition to the above proposals, legalizing dual nationality, reducing the arbitrariness of naturalization procedures, granting local suffrage to Permanent Residents, and conferring citizenship by birth.
7) Eliminate the separation of "resident" and "citizen" fostered by the vagaries of the "koseki" and "juuminhyou" registry systems.
8) Make public statements (this would not require much budgetary outlay) at the highest levels of government explaining why foreigners are in Japan, the good works they are doing, and their indispensable roles in Japan's past and future. Underline the fact that foreigners are community residents and taxpayers like anyone else. Too much ink has been spilled reporting the crimes a tiny minority commit, and making a hullabaloo about the potential threats to public order they have not caused. Time to balance things out.
For all the talk about Japan's ill-conceived immigration policies, Japan doesn't seem to be doing as badly as some societies. As of this writing, Japan has not had a single foreigner riot. Many non-Japanese are laying down roots as residents: getting by in Japanese, getting a decent (if insecure) wage, buying homes, intermarrying, and, on rare occasions, naturalizing and even entering politics. Japan also, fortunately, has not resorted to old bad habits of forced assimilation (such as the "douka seisaku" policy, "Japanizing" indigenous peoples by eliminating their language and ethnic awareness). It is also, with some glaring exceptions, relatively tolerant of the cultural expression of minorities.
Japan has, however, since 2000 switched its treatment of foreigners from benign neglect to scapegoating for social problems. Even if this is taking place in many other countries too, neither extreme is acceptable.
In short, Japan has trouble knowing what to do with foreigners once they get here, or trusting them to carry on by themselves. Unpredictability and unprecedentedness, which foreigners by their very presence embody, are too readily seen as a threat by many of Japan's conservatives. Moreover, policy prescriptions to deal with them often seem to forget that many foreigners are now immigrants, not to mention human beings with feelings, livelihoods, and rights. This must change.
Fortunately, Japan is a society remarkably open to outside ideas, and, given time and enough debate from fluent immigrants arguing their case, I believe that Japan can, and will, do a lot better. Japan is world-class at welcoming strangers with kindness in the short term. Japan's future now requires that the nation learn how to do this in the long term.
[1] ILO website, Center for Immigration Studies website citing US Census Bureau
[2] AP, "Japan Marks Shift, as Deaths Outpace Births", December 23, 2005.
[3] Simon Jackson, Director of Ridgerunner Architectural Design and Development in Sapporo, developing ski-resort condominiums in Niseko, Hokkaido.
[4] John Lie, Multiethnic Japan, Harvard Belknap, 2001.
Arudou Debito wrote this article for Japan Focus. He is the author of "'JAPANESE ONLY': The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan" (Akashi Shoten Inc., revised 2006)
Arudou Debito will be on a speaking tour in the United States between March 20 and April 4, 2006. Confirmed schedule as of this writing: March 23: University of Michigan, Center of Japanese Studies (see program). March 28: Columbia University, Faculty of Law. To arrange a talk at your institution, contact him directly at [email protected]


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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Even though the Thanksgiving travel rush is over the Tennessee Highway Patrol says from now until New Years the traffic is going to be heavy with more drivers on the roadways shopping and attending holiday parties.
More traffic means an increased risk of a crash. THP has taken new steps this year to try and reduce the number of fatal crashes, but has it worked?
At the beginning of this year, safety messages reading "Buckle Up" and "Don't Drink and Drive" began popping up on billboards over interstates.
The billboards also display the number of people who've died in crashes on Tennessee roadways.
The THP believes this new method of sharing the message is effective.
Brandon Hall drives from Knoxville to Calhoun. He says lately traffic has been crazy.
"There was some erratic driving due to people changing lanes and there were actually a few occasions were I got cut off," said Hall.
To reduce the reckless driving and reduce the number of fatal crashes, Lt. Don Boshears with THP says troopers target areas that see lots of crashes.
"We'll take a large number of troopers and we'll just saturate that area for a period, looking for impaired driving," said Lt. Boshears.
In the high crash areas, THP will also have sobriety check points.
Besides focusing enforcement on the roadway, THP tries to get the word out about the dangers of reckless driving through messages on TDOT's overhead billboards.
"I hope it drives home a message. I hope it gets your attention and keeps you from speeding or weaving in and out of traffic, following too close, not wearing your seatbelt," said Lt. Boshears.
But is it working? Last year at this time, Tennessee had 859 crash fatalities, the lowest number since the 1960s.
This year the Tennessee roadway fatality number is up to 909, 50 more than last year.
Lt. Boshears says the increase may be because of the weather at the beginning of the year.
"We can look back and say we had a mild winter where we didn't have a lot of ice, didn't have a lot of snow and when you don't have those conditions, more people are out," said Lt. Boshears.
The billboard safety messages started this year.
Halls says seeing the number of fatalities on Tennessee roadways does make an impact.
"It kind of opened my eyes to how many fatalities there actually are in Tennessee. I don't know if it affected my driving very much, but it made me more aware of other drivers on the road," said Hall.
Lt. Boshears also says since traffic is heavy from Thanksgiving until New Years, drivers should give themselves extra travel time to reach their destination.
He also says to buckle up. It only takes a couple of seconds and increases your chance of survival in a crash by 50 percent.
THP also reports that alcohol-related crashes are on the rise in Tennessee. There have been more than 5,000 crashes involving alcohol already this year.
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No matter what else is going on in the world, in our own country, schools, hospitals, disaster areas, civil rights arenas, you can always count on the GOP to shout "BENGHAZI!!!!" from their multi-million dollar vacation home rooftops.
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, has made a career out of witch hunting. He looks for scandals where there are none in the hope that one day... one dreamy, gauze-filtered, sunlit blue-skied day... he'll find something to pin on President Obama and fulfill all his impeachment wishes.
But oops, awhile back, Darrell Issa's Benghazi document dump damaged U.S. efforts, putting Libyans working with U.S. in danger. While
hyperventilating investigating the attacks on the consulate, he disclosed the identities of Libyans who were helping United States officials.
But that didn't stop Darrell the Witch Hunter, nosireeBob! The Los Angeles Times is reporting that he's determined to keep pushing his
luck b.s. hysteria, lies, and redundantly false accusations come hell or hot water. And no, that was no typo, he may be in more hot water.
Two of the Justice Department's key witnesses were subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill for hours of grilling about "BENGHAZI!!!!" They gave separate legal depositions about any security lapses and how the Obama administration responded.
Now comes the part about how Witch Hunter Darrell might have, once again, blown it big time:
Weeks before the interviews, top Justice Department officials repeatedly warned Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) against doing so, saying it would seriously jeopardize any criminal prosecution of the terrorists. They wrote three times to the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, strongly urging him not to insist on interviewing the agents.
The interviews have not been released. But the Justice Department expressed concern that Issa might reveal some details from the interviews, or that defense lawyers could subpoena them if suspects are apprehended, according to the sources, who did not have permission to speak publicly, citing the ongoing investigation. At least one person has been named in a sealed indictment in the Benghazi attacks.
The interviews "would prematurely alert individuals who may be charged about details of the government's case against them," and would give defense lawyers a golden opportunity to review the depositions and impeach the agents if they testified as prosecution witnesses, the Justice Department warned in one of the letters, according to sources.
Oh that wacky, zany Issa. He's such a super-patriot.
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Here is an update on the Boston Marathon bombing case, via NBC:
Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were charged Wednesday with removing a backpack and fireworks from his dorm room or lying about it to the feds.
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice. Robel Philipos was charged with making false statements, federal authorities said. [...]
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, who are from Kazakhstan, had been detained April 20 on immigration charges. Philipos was taken into custody later. [...]
... Kadyrbayev texted him about it, a criminal complaint said.
Tsarnaev's responses included the messages "lol," "you better not text me" and "come to my room and take whatever you want," the court document said. [...]
They... "collectively decided to throw the backpack and fireworks into the trash because they did not want Tsarnaev to get in trouble," Kadyrbaev told agents, according to the complaint.
Lulz. What a riot. Oh em gee.
Apparently, they had no prior knowledge of the bombing. One suspect kept changing his story, and on the fourth interview he finally told the truth, so he could get an 8 year penalty, as opposed to the five years his buddies are facing, per Michael Isikoff just now on MSNBC.
More details at the link. And here's a PDF of the criminal complaint filed against the recent FBI arrestees.
Which party was it again, that withheld all that money for embassy security improvements, the money that would have kept our diplomats abroad safer?
As I posted previously, per a fascinating post at Down With Tyranny, the loudest nonstop accuser, McCain, said that Ambassador Stevens "sent concerns about security, voiced them to me." And then McCain himself chose to do nothing, instead doing his "look over there" routine with the help of his faithful sidekick Lindsey Graham. Why is that? Well, maybe because of his own failure to support an increase in the security budget, or maybe his story isn't true, or maybe to divert attention away from the fact that he chose to do nothing when he got direct information from Ambassador Stevens about his safety concerns.
The Economist explained why a Benghazi cover-up by the administration would make absolutely no sense.
Now, per The Hill, Dems are blasting the GOP over the absurd Benghazi charges against Hillary Clinton. More like this, please:
Republicans should apologize to Hillary Clinton for the "false accusations" that she personally signed off on security cuts at the Benghazi mission prior to last year's attack, the top Democrat on the House oversight panel said Thursday.
The allegations are "false, extremely irresponsible, and lack even a rudimentary understanding of how State Department cables are processed," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) wrote in a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). "I respectfully request that you retract your erroneous staff report and apologize to Secretary Clinton on behalf of your Chairmen and your Republican conference."
Here are a few screen grabs of Rep. Cummings' letter. He put the Republicans in their place with a blistering exposé of their embarrassing and false claims:
In a previous post, "How the gun lobby has already blocked Boston's bombing investigators," I shared a video of Lawrence O'Donnell explaining how the NRA has already obstructed forensic officials from fully investigating the Boston Marathon explosions. MSNBC:
But a crucial piece of evidence called a taggant that could be used to trace the gunpowder used in the bombs to a buyer at a point of sale is not available to investigators.
"If you had a good taggant this would be a good thing for this kind of crime. It could help identify the point of manufacturer, and chain of custody," Bob Morhard, an explosives consultant and chief executive officer of Zukovich, Morhard & Wade, LLC., in Pennsylvania, who has traced explosives and detonators in use in the United States and Saudi Arabia, told MSNBC.com. [...]
NRA officials seem more concerned about government use of technology to trace either firearms or the gunpowder used to make ammunition. [...] In the past, the NRA has argued that taggants could affect the trajectory of bullets and would also be a de facto form of weapons registration, reported the Los Angeles Times in 1995.
NRA lobbyists blocked the mandated use of taggants by gunpowder manufacturers. The NRA has therefore made it harder to track (mass) murderers.
The FBI said that gunpowder was an ingredient in the bombs planted along the Boston Marathon finish line. However, per The Hill:
Under current law, people can buy up to 50 pounds of explosive "black powder" with no background check, and can buy unlimited amounts of other explosive powders, such as "black powder substitute" and "smokeless powder."
Senate Democrats are taking action:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require background checks to be run on anyone buying explosive powder, a reaction to last week's Boston Marathon bombing.
Reid introduced the bill on behalf of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who was out sick for some time. His bill would require a background check for the purchase of any of the powders. Plus, the attorney general could block sales of explosives if a background check shows the person applying for one is a known or suspected terrorist, and if there is reason to believe that the explosives would be used for terrorism.
A permit would also be required for making homemade explosives.
Greg Sargent has more, including this:
Aside from the substantive merits of the proposal, one of the political goals here is to challenge Republicans by testing just how far they are willing to go in opposing governmental action of this kind... to see if there is anything that Republicans are willing or ideologically able to support or if there is any common ground to be found anywhere.
Or do they just want innocent people to keep dying so they can eke a few more votes from their rabidly gun-supporting base, and pocket more cash from gun manufacturers and the NRA? Rhetorical.
Today's L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter:
Re "Legal debate swirls around treatment of suspect," April 21
Now that we know there is a "public safety" exception to constitutional rights like the Miranda warning guaranteed by the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments, can we please admit that we need a "public safety" exception to the 2nd Amendment?
The families of future school and theater shootings deserve nothing less.
Kathi Smith
FYI, per an email alert from Politico:
The Department of Justice released a statement Monday saying that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, has been charged "with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property". The Associated Press reported he was charged while in the hospital.
Also Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tsarnaev "will not be treated as an enemy combatant."
Politico's full story is here, where they report that "the charges against 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remain sealed. He is listed in serious but stable condition."
Under U.S. law, this is the way it's done. Imagine that, a French gay Kenyan Marxist president and his Justice Department sticking to the rule of law and seeking justice for the bombing victims in U.S. civilian courts, just the way they should.
The charges are preliminary and are "holding charges to get the process started" per MSNBC's Pete Williams.
UPDATE: I am ashamed of some "liberals" in my Twitter stream who are wishing torture on Tsarnaev. That is not who we are, and that is not acceptable.
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Is Research In Motion a Star While Apple Is a Dog?
Monday, December 10th, 2012
By George Leong, B.Comm. for Profit Confidential
On September 21, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) was on top of the technology world as the toast of Wall Street and could do no wrong, reaching a record high of $705.07. We started to hear whispers of Apple becoming a $1,000 stock with a trillion-dollar market cap. The superlative growth of the "iPad" tablet and the "iPhone" was driving Apple higher, based on my stock analysis.
Meanwhile, my stock analysis said Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ/RIMM; TSX/RIM) was dead in the water with old technology in its once widely sought-after "BlackBerry" and its tablet "Playbook" being horrible failures. The company was being dumped by corporations once loyal to the BlackBerry, and it seemed the company was destined to collapse at the mercy of Apple, based on my stock analysis.
But something strange is now happening in the equities market.
Research In Motion (RIM) has surged 84% since September 21, while Apple has declined 22% in the same period, according to my technical analysis.
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Apple is also on the verge of entering into a death-cross situation on its chart, as its 50-day moving average (MA) of $602.31 is precariously holding above its 200-day MA of $601.26.
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The question is: have the companies' fortunes reversed course?
The smartphone and tablet markets are extremely competitive, and I expect they will heat up further, based on my stock analysis.
Apple dominates the tablet market but is facing rising and tough competition from all fronts, which is pressuring the stock as traders exit with great stock gains, based on my stock analysis.
My stock analysis is that there are new entries from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ/MSFT) and its "Surface" tablet (read "Why Microsoft is Only an Afterthought on Wall Street"), along with the "Nexus" tablet from Google, Inc. (NASDAQ/GOOG) and Samsung's "Galaxy" series.
And then there are also some RIM believers surfacing as the company gets set to launch a new line of devices powered by its new "BlackBerry 10" (BB10) operating system in the first quarter of 2013. We are seeing a wave of optimism, albeit cautious, from Wall Street toward RIM's new BB10, which is helping drive up the share price, based on my stock analysis.
Goldman Sachs is positive on RIM, but then there are the doubters as well, with investment bank Canaccord Genuity downgrading the stock to a "sell" from a "hold."
According to Thomson First Call, only one firm rates RIM a "strong buy," with four rating it a "buy" and the majority (26 firms) as a "hold." Eleven firms rate RIM an "underperform," while six have a "sell" on the stock.
Can RIM ever regain its former luster? My stock analysis is that the company has a long and tough road ahead of it; and while it's unlikely that RIM will catch Apple, the best-case scenario would be to take some market share away from Apple and the other market players.
All hope lies with the acceptance of its BB10, based on my stock analysis.
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(02/18/14) - The warmer weather that's expected this week has many homeowners preparing for the possibility of flooding.
They're trying to get their sump pumps ready just in case.
The operations manager at the Home Depot in Burton says the most common mistake that people make when it comes to their sump pumps is that they wait until the last minute to see if it's actually working.
With a winter warm-up around the corner, Chester Coburn has his sump pump ready to go.
With a thaw in the forecast, some are concerned that too much snow melting too fast could cause flooding, which Coburn says happens often in his Mount Morris Township neighborhood.
"It's a sewer system in the neighborhood all across Jennings Road and that area," he said.
The experts at Home Depot in Burton say homeowners should test out their sump pumps as soon as they can, including checking the float switch.
"There's been probably a lot of stagnant water sitting in there with the cold winter that we've had, so the water that is left in there. Lift up on that float switch and make sure that the pump does kick on. Even to do a quick test, if you want to drop a five gallon bucket of water in your basin to make sure that the water level will rise, that it will draw that water out, is a good test you can do as well," said Mike Thom, with The Home Depot.
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The handy man will be ready to answer their call.
"I get a call and they say I need you now, my basement is flooded. I need a sump pump put in. That's usually when I get the call, not beforehand," Carpenter said.
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It will be the fifth consecutive season in which he was placed on the DL. When Johnson was with the Yankees, he missed a lot of time because of hand, wrist and thumb injuries.
Johnson, 25, has been having back problems for the last couple of weeks, but it grew worse on Tuesday after he made a diving play against the Florida Marlins.
Early Wednesday morning, Johnson was walking normally. By 11:30 a.m., though, he was spotted bending and stretching his back.
"The back is feeling better. I'm on a lot of medication," Johnson said. "I'm not going to make it for Opening Day. [But] I want to get it better for the rest of the [season].
"It's very frustrating [being put on the disabled list]. But you have to move forward and get the back healthy. There's nothing much you can do about it. It happened. My hands felt great. What can you do?"
Johnson is expected to be out of action for two to three weeks.
In the meantime, outfielder Brad Wilkerson will be the everyday first baseman, and Terrmel Sledge and Juan Rivera most likely will platoon in left field.
In fact, Wilkerson has played 50 games during his career at first base without making an error.
Wilkerson was in Wednesday's starting lineup at first base against the Dodgers.
Wilkerson said all spring that he would rather play one position in the outfield, but manager Frank Robinson considers Wilkerson his most versatile player. In fact, Robinson often has referred to Wilkerson as his "ace in the hole."
However, Wilkerson said he really doesn't want to play first, but will do it for the team.
"It calls for me to go to first base. I'm going to focus on working hard getting some groundballs to me as much as I can. It's unfortunate what happened [to Johnson]," Wilkerson said. "It's something I didn't want to do. I know we are a better ballclub with Nick at first base. It's a lot of production we are going to miss from him, and it's unfortunate that it happened so early in the season. Hopefully we can get him back as soon as possible."
If Robinson decides in the future that he wants Wilkerson to be back in the outfield, Sledge can play first base.
On Thursday, Sledge said the Expos told him to continue taking ground balls at first base during practice.
"They can put me anywhere. I just want to be on the team," Sledge said. "They know I can play first, so I'm going to try to work on my game over there so I won't be rusty."
Sledge actually entered Wednesday's game against the Cardinals as a first baseman in the bottom of the fifth inning. He made three putouts and let a bad throw by Andy Fox go by. Fox was charged with an error.
Bill Ladson is
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DraftKings Partners with the American Red Cross to Help those Impacted by Hurricane Sandy Boston-based online fantasy sports company creates 2-day fantasy football fundraiser
BOSTON, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- DraftKings, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will be partnering with the American Red Cross to provide relief to those impacted by the devastating superstorm, Hurricane Sandy. DraftKings will offer a special fantasy football contest specific to raising funds beginning today at 12 noon.
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Contestants can enter the 2-day fantasy football extravaganza for $5 and test their fantasy football skills against players from all across the country. All proceeds from contestant entry fees will go to the American Red Cross to aid in disaster relief, and DraftKings will match 100% of all funds raised. Those looking to enter can visit www.draftkings.com starting at 12pm, November 8. Entries will be accepted until 1pm on Sunday, November 11. The contest includes all Sunday and Monday professional football games.
"The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy was unprecedented," said DraftKings COO & co-founder, Matt Kalish. "We knew that we had to take quick action to get help to those whose lives were so terribly affected. We thank the Red Cross for partnering with us on this effort, and thanks to all of you who will play and help raise money for this incredibly worthy cause."
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In a country with huge potential oil wealth, food rationing and distribution is keeping much of the population alive.
Salina, KS - In February 2011, with grassroots uprisings having toppled the governments of Tunisia and Egypt, unrest was swelling in Iraq as well. In response, the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced that it was postponing a planned purchase of F16 fighter planes from the United States. The money saved by not buying the 18 jets would be used, said al-Maliki, to provide Iraq's poorest citizens with increased monthly rations from the country's public food distribution system (PDS). The cancellation was a stark acknowledgment that when people are hungry, armaments won't keep a country secure.
Iraq's government, like many others, learned long ago about the hazards of exposing citizens' daily food needs to the whims of global markets. Anticipating the political and social tumult that can erupt if people's right to food is not fulfilled, Iraq, like many other countries, routinely buys up and stores staple foods and then sells them through a PDS at subsidised prices. But more than a year after pulling out of the F16 deal, the government was still straining to maintain secure access to food.
For countless families around the world, a ration card or coupon booklet may be all that stands between them and a month or even a life of hunger. Read More
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Stan Cox Stan Cox Stan Cox is a senior scientist at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, US. RSS Iraq's sagging safety net
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November 17th, 2013
Stepanek, Czechs Repeat As Davis Cup Champions
Radek Stepanek won his second straight fifth rubber to keep the Davis Cup trophy in the Czech Republic.
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November 14th, 2013
Djokovic Leads Serbia Against Czechs In Davis Cup Final This Weekend
Novak Djokovic will lead his Serbian team against the defending champions in the Davis Cup finale this weekend.
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September 18th, 2013
2014 Davis Cup Draw: USA Hosts Britain, Spain Travels To Germany; Early Predictions
The U.S. will host Andy Murray and Great Britain in the first round of the 2014 Davis Cup.
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September 14th, 2013
Down 2-1, Serbia Leans On Djokovic To Keep Davis Cup Hopes Alive; Czechs Await Winner
Serbia will lean on Novak Djokovic to keep their Davis Cup hopes alive on Sunday.
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April 4th, 2013
Davis Cup QF Notes: Djokovic Leads Serbia Into Boise, France Travels To Argentina
Preview for this weekend's Davis Cup quarterfinal clashes.
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February 9th, 2013
Fed Cup: Czechs In Charge; US, Japan Surprise
Defending champion Czech Republic is in charge early in Fed Cup play.
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November 18th, 2012
Video Highlights: Radek Stepanek Is The Davis Cup Hero For The Czech Republic
Radek Stepanek led his Czech Republic team to its second ever Davis Cup win.
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November 17th, 2012
Berdych Stays Perfect Leading Czechs To 2-1 Lead, Now Just Needs To Beat Rested Ferrer For Davis Cup Title Sunday
After the Czech doubles win today, Tomas Berdych has the Davis Cup final on his racket Sunday in reverse singles.
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November 15th, 2012
Berdych Calls Almagro The Weakest Link As Czechs Host Spain This Weekend In Davis Cup Finale
Spain travels to Prague this weekend to take on the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final.
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September 13th, 2012
Nadal-Less Spain Host U.S. In Davis Cup SFs; Czechs Travel To Argentina
In the Davis Cup semifinalist this weekend USA visits Spain and the Czechs travel to Argentina.
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If you think Iran had crossed the line with extreme measures of controlling their people, you may want to think again. Perhaps the death of North Korea's Kim Jong Il made you think the Iranian people are much better off in the grand scheme of things. Well, the latest news on the media war between the people and the state will make you think Kim Jong Il died, moved to Iran and is now heading the country. Read More »
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Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Iran's nuclear program
The relationship between the United States and Iran seems to be always simmering in a pool of historical malcontent. However, since the West started suspecting that Iran's nuclear program had more to do with acquiring a bomb than producing energy, the temperature of this "diplomatic kitchen" has reached its boiling point. The recent discovery of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the assassination of several Iranian scientist involved in their country's nuclear program, and the crash of a US drone in Iran tells us that desperation is taking over both sides. This week, the media is buzzing about how the US should deal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime if an escalation of conflict came to happen. Read More »
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You are an outspoken female lawyer who courageously defends human rights and women's rights in Iran. You actively challenge the Iranian political system in a fight for freedom, reform and change. Sadly, you are most likely in prison or on your way to prison. The above account specifically describes the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh: an Iranian mother, wife, lawyer, human rights defender and justice activist who is currently serving a reduced six year sentence in Iran's infamous prison, Evin. In addition to her six year prison term, Sotoudeh has been banned from practicing law for 10 years. Read More »


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Tampa Bay Times Pop Music Critic by day and ABC Action News contributor by night - Sean Daly - went in search of the hottest musical acts coming to the area this month.
They include The Civil Wars, Richard Thompson, Kelly Clarkson, Diana Ross, and Radiohead.
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The plaster nymphs seem unnaturally downcast behind the fence at the Vagabond Motel, the dimmed leading light of Biscayne Boulevard's fledgling Miami Modern historic district. After years of frustrated stabs at renovation, the droll '50s drive-in hotel sits vacant, a victim of over-large ambition and foreclosure.
Yet just a few blocks south, the husband-wife team of Walter Figueroa and Shirley Diaz put the finishing touches on their tenderly refurbished motel, a far less attention-grabbing but still significant exemplar of the MiMo style by architect Norman Giller.
The New Yorker has its original name back after years as the Davis Motel, and with its restored lobby and terrazzo floors, new mid-century-style furnishings, and resplendent new neon signs, it will be the star attraction of the MiMo district's third annual street fair Saturday.
Nearly four years after the city of Miami bestowed historic designation on 27 long-neglected blocks of upper Biscayne Boulevard, the pace of progress is starkly uneven along the district, best known for its cheery if rundown mid-21st century MiMo motels.
Signs of verve abound: Despite a deep recession, the district has become a thriving restaurant row, with tasty and tasteful food both high and low from the pricey star-chef fare of Michy's to Ver Daddy's taco stand -- and lots in between, catering in large part to the gentrifying single-family neighborhoods that flank the boulevard.
Though retail shops have struggled, new services pop up regularly:, from pet-grooming, and hairstyling, to dry cleaning and, since December, a gleaming new workout gym, Biscayne Boxing, in a smartly restored 1940s MiMo building.
And, of course, the famed, historic Coppertone Girl sign that once hung in downtown Miami was restored and installed in the district at the end of 2008. Like Diaz and Figueroa of the New Yorker Motel, a handful of hopeful property owners have embarked on modest but winning renovations. A Haitian-American couple, Thomas and Jocelyne Hider, converted a small Art Deco gem of a hotel into a loft residence for themselves, with a soon-to-open antique store, Memoires, on the ground floor.
Developer Michael Luis painstakingly renovated a low-scale MiMo apartment building just off the Boulevard at Northeast 74th Street and Sixth Court after the recession killed plans for a new mid-rise.
But for every culinary and preservation success, there is a vacant storefront or seedy liquor store or dilapidated motel, still catering to the diminishing traces of the drug and sex traffic that once plagued the entire district.
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Lakeland Bank honors 26 colleagues for years of service, including Jefferson residents
Lakeland Bank recently hosted a luncheon ceremony at its Operations and Training center to honor employees who have reached 20 or more years of service with the Bank. Additionally, employees celebrating a 10 year service anniversary in the third quarter were recognized and presented with a service award.
"This year we recognized 21 individuals who have been with the Bank 20 or more years, plus another five who marked their 10 year anniversary," said Thomas J. Shara, president and CEO. "Strong relationships with our customers are a part of our success as a community bank, but equally important are the relationships we have with our employees." Nearly 35 percent of Lakeland Bank's staff has 10 or more years of service.
Lakeland Bank thanks the following colleagues for their commitment to the Bank, and congratulates them for reaching their service anniversary milestone:
Among those honored for 20 years of service was Leo Macali of Oak Ridge, vice president, consumer collection manager, and credit administration.
Lakeland Bancorp, the holding company for Lakeland Bank, has an asset base of approximately $2.9 billion and 46 offices spanning six northern New Jersey counties: Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren. Lakeland Bank offers an extensive array of consumer and commercial products and services, including online banking, localized commercial lending teams, and 24-hour or less turnaround time on consumer loan applications. For more information about the bank's full line of products and services, visit their website at lakeland bank.com.


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LONDON (Reuters) – At least 527 people were executed around the world last year, down from 714 in 2009, although China is believed to have put to death thousands more, human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday. It said Beijing was thought to have executed far more people than…
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A woman who was previously a man's housekeeper before becoming his wife was the alleged victim of an assault by a 67-year-old Gunwalloe man, who appeared before Truro magistrates.
William Vernon faced a charge of assaulting Anne Vernon at Wheal Buller Farm, Redruth on October 7.
Prosecutor Jill Wilson, for the CPS, offered no evidence against him and the charge was dismissed on the making of a restraining order.
The magistrates made the order for three years, banning Vernon from contacting Anne Vernon, from whom he was said to now be divorced, except through solicitors for the disposal of assets, and from going to the Redruth farm.
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Tsuki kitten, post-op
they have cut her open and taken something out. hours later she races around the house, wanting food, wanting to play, wanting to go outside. her stitches look raw, frightening. her body is healing, all by itself. they have cut her open and taken something out.
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cats are little miracles. They seem to have such a high threshold for pain. You and I would be recovering for weeks, but not a kitty. I too share your awe.
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Aren't they, Lolly? They've been running around like mad things all afternoon as if nothing happened. Both fast asleep now...
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I am happy that both have responded well. Not good if boycat wants to wrestle and girlcat is still recovering.
We have two girls. ONe was back bouncing about in no time. The other had laryngitis for several days and was less bouncy but still fine.
Give them many head rubs. They don;t know wthat anything is "missing".
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Thanks Vicki. Both doing very well!
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ITSS Positions Open
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Read&Write Gold is now available in the Software Center for faculty and staff with computers on Active Directory.
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Last December, ITSS instituted a new change management process which includes a Change Approval Board, or CAB for short.
Spotlight on ITSS Staff: Greg Gustafson
Greg has been providing service to the campus for over 29 years, through special research projects, teaching, and working as a systems administrator and programmer with ITSS.
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For over 42 years Roger Petry has devotedly served UMD in a variety of capacities.
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Periodically ITSS highlights staff members to let you get to know some of the great people who work to make technology work for our campus. Let's shine the light on Linda Deneen, Director of ITSS.
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ITSS and the School of Medicine are currently working with Facilities Management and our low-voltage contractor to update the telecomm and network infrastructure in the School of Medicine.
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CHADDESLEY Corbett suffered a two-wicket loss to Ross-on-Wye in the Worcestershire County League Division Three.
Muhammad Saddiq (79) and Mohammed Ramzan (72) top-scored as Corbett made 233-8. Harry Porter took five wickets for Ross.
But the away side made 234-8 in reply, despite three wickets for Saddiq, as Jack Donovan (84), James Tiffen (67) and Port (53) got among the runs.
Corbett play Old Vigornians on Saturday (1pm start).
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Joe Nichols
received a letter of much gratitude from the mother of
a United States Marine
stationed in Iraq, after a trip there where Joe performed for the
troops. The letter was signed "A very proud mother of a U.S.
Marine," followed by her initials "J.K.M." In the
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Ramadi, Iraq – showed
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Nichols stayed as long as necessary to sign autographs and take
pictures. In the letter, the proud mom goes on to reference the
lyrics to Joe's song "Believers." She said that she applied them
to what was reality, and thanked Nichols for believing in the
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