Research reactor fuel removal does not start until 2021

Research reactor fuel removal does not start until fuels in 2021 at the substance, which Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant reactor melted from the fires and 2021 agrs will not be completed until decades to get to the site and, according to the clean-up of the long-term timetable, the Government proposal. Due to the unprecedented crisis is estimated to be the resolution of the timeline is associated with the challenge of anticipating what problems may occur. It was only six years after that, the molten fuel collection really began with the Three Mile Island crisis from the start. Cause damage to the reactor and radiation from the nuclear power plant are much worse than that of the Three Mile Island, Fukushima.
on 13 July, to try to revive the local beach the famous surfers paradise estate are banding together in the wreckage that washed during training 11. in March, after the tsunami, and clear the debris. Namiita beach is a lot of opportunities for young people attracted the Otsuchicho contributed to the recent issue of new ryhtiä in the city, which was struggling to population ageing and inadequate to undertakings in the fisheries sector. Local surfers at the beach you want to restore the former glory the pulsating city of aid, the impact of their efforts in the reconstruction in the hope of a whole. Strewn along the 800-meter-long beach had been destroyed, small boats, furniture, clothes, and the occasional pillars of household goods. (Yomiuri)
to July 12, the pinku eiga ", i.e., the pink films in the soft core porn genre has dabbled more in mid-1990s, there only about every theme imaginable, including incest, adultery and Erotic torture-to raise the screen. Yet this year's fantasia "underwater love", "the veteran Director, Shinji Imaoka, pink, probably after the Fading genre interweave singing and dancing in the Numerosarjat political musical, a resource manager, becomes the first film. Screening for foreign correspondents last week in the Japanese Press Club, after the Director of the Commerce that this unique approach, as well as other films, what features of the mythical kappa creature, such as the tortoise shell and the cam, the man is likely to lead to slightly easier the challenging development projects and the specific features of filmgoers (Tokyo Reporter)
on 11 July, the rain season seems to be through the quake hit areas of the northeastern region of Tohoku in Japan, with a full summer season than in the earlier entry of normal, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday the Japanese archipelago. At the end of the season in the rain is due 14 days earlier than usual and the fourth record as quickly as possible, and the southern Tohoku, and 17 days earlier than usual, and the third store soon, for the purpose of the Tohoku Northern continues to the Agency to the weather, which started to produce information in 1951. (Kyodo)
on 11 July, the 27-year-old man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday in the robbery and rape cases, where eight junior and Kagawa Prefecture senior high school students for the string. Demonstration of the judge-owned trail District Court case, has been found guilty of assaulting Onishi Makoto schoolgirls Marugame, Kagawa October 2009 and August 2010, between their bicycles and stealing them raping. The presiding judge, Katsuyuki Habata said, "the victim suffered a rampage that suddenly their lives" to reject the defence plea, Assistant. (Kyodo)
11 popular in Japan, in July, the son of the Japanese destroyer Arashi, the band attract more visitors to the pitch Monday in the middle of the tourist numbers to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeastern Japan, exactly four months ago, continuously in the nuclear crisis, the decline in the country., deriving from the Entitled "message to the originating from Japan," featuring five members of the pop idol group, began broadcasting at the same time, the film throughout the world for more than 133 countries and regions, including the use of the Outdoor display is New York's Times Square. The Video material was also broadcast in places such as Seoul and London, and also appears in Japanese airports and embassies worldwide in the coming weeks. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima was found in the feeding of the straw of radioactive caesium

Radioactive caesium was found in the straw-fed cattle, the of radioactive, Fukushima or cesium was detected in high levels of cattle holdings of excessive quantities of radioactive caesium shipped there, detection of meat cows, Fukushima Prefecture, Minamisoma fed on straw on Monday said the local officials. The straw can is set to a single sector of the unroofed when the earthquake and the tsunami damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on March 11, they said. Prefectural Government took food and water samples from the farm on Sunday after 11 of the radioactive caesium found in cow's meat is processed and shipped to Tokyo.
on 13 July, to try to revive the local beach the famous surfers paradise estate are banding together in the wreckage that washed during training 11. in March, after the tsunami, and clear the debris. Namiita beach is a lot of opportunities for young people attracted the Otsuchicho contributed to the recent issue of new ryhtiä in the city, which was struggling to population ageing and inadequate to undertakings in the fisheries sector. Local surfers at the beach you want to restore the former glory the pulsating city of aid, the impact of their efforts in the reconstruction in the hope of a whole. Strewn along the 800-meter-long beach had been destroyed, small boats, furniture, clothes, and the occasional pillars of household goods. (Yomiuri)
to July 12, the pinku eiga ", i.e., the pink films in the soft core porn genre has dabbled more in mid-1990s, there only about every theme imaginable, including incest, adultery and Erotic torture-to raise the screen. Yet this year's fantasia "underwater love", "the veteran Director, Shinji Imaoka, pink, probably after the Fading genre interweave singing and dancing in the Numerosarjat political musical, a resource manager, becomes the first film. Screening for foreign correspondents last week in the Japanese Press Club, after the Director of the Commerce that this unique approach, as well as other films, what features of the mythical kappa creature, such as the tortoise shell and the cam, the man is likely to lead to slightly easier the challenging development projects and the specific features of filmgoers (Tokyo Reporter)
on 11 July, the rain season seems to be through the quake hit areas of the northeastern region of Tohoku in Japan, with a full summer season than in the earlier entry of normal, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday the Japanese archipelago. At the end of the season in the rain is due 14 days earlier than usual and the fourth record as quickly as possible, and the southern Tohoku, and 17 days earlier than usual, and the third store soon, for the purpose of the Tohoku Northern continues to the Agency to the weather, which started to produce information in 1951. (Kyodo)
on 11 July, the 27-year-old man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday in the robbery and rape cases, where eight junior and Kagawa Prefecture senior high school students for the string. Demonstration of the judge-owned trail District Court case, has been found guilty of assaulting Onishi Makoto schoolgirls Marugame, Kagawa October 2009 and August 2010, between their bicycles and stealing them raping. The presiding judge, Katsuyuki Habata said, "the victim suffered a rampage that suddenly their lives" to reject the defence plea, Assistant. (Kyodo)
11 popular in Japan, in July, the son of the Japanese destroyer Arashi, the band attract more visitors to the pitch Monday in the middle of the tourist numbers to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeastern Japan, exactly four months ago, continuously in the nuclear crisis, the decline in the country., deriving from the Entitled "message to the originating from Japan," featuring five members of the pop idol group, began broadcasting at the same time, the film throughout the world for more than 133 countries and regions, including the use of the Outdoor display is New York's Times Square. The Video material was also broadcast in places such as Seoul and London, and also appears in Japanese airports and embassies worldwide in the coming weeks. (Kyodo)

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The Japanese import of the mountains of garbage in the cities, in the order

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Detected in the premises of the waste in Chiba, a high level of caesium

Detected in the premises of the waste in Chiba high-level + caesiumGet the news service Email Allu.s.worldpoliticsbusinesssportsentertainmentsci/techhealthoddvideoimagesfunction fbs_click (u) {window.open (' u, ' sharer ', ' toolbar = 0, status = 0, width = 626, height = 436 '); return false;}var LINGO_EQ_URL = "http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ODD8DG0&show_article=1";AP:   Breaking |  Alerts |  The World |  ABOUT US |  Policies Of |  Business Activities |  Entertainment |  Life |  Science |  Odd |  Sports |  Tech detected in the premises of the waste in Chiba, in July + high-level caesium 11 06: 45 AM US/Helsinki
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One of the waste in the Middle, Kashiwa 70,800, of radioactive caesium found in becquerels per kilogram for June 24 and ashes collected more than 60000 becquerels was found ashes collected between July 1 and 2 of the City Office said.

Radioactive caesium was found also in the establishment at becquerels burying the ashes is the largest city of the cells in the production of the waste has been detected in a second waste becquerels in the Middle, while at the same time, the Agency up to 48,900 9,780 said.

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Back on campus: Foreign students take a lunch break at Temple University Japan in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo, last week. JULIAN PETERS PHOTOS

They're back. Worries that foreign students would abandon Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and accompanying fiasco at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have proven to be largely unfounded.

Fingers crossed: TUJ is hoping that foreign student numbers will return to pre-March 11 levels in 12 to 16 months.

According to Ministry of Justice figures, 70,170 foreign students left Japan between March 12 and April 8. No one knows how many more living in the Tohoku and Kanto regions suddenly decided to spend their spring breaks in Kansai or Kyushu.

With 40 percent of the 175,000 foreign students studying in Japan leaving the country within four weeks, the Japanese government and school officials quickly introduced a number of countermeasures to encourage their return.

The Ministry of Justice simplified application procedures for international students who left without obtaining the required re-entry permit. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology offered to pay return-fare costs for government scholarship students living in disaster areas who had evacuated to their home country after the earthquake. It also provided emergency funds to 1,000 foreigners studying at universities in disaster areas.

University administrators throughout Japan did their best to dispel fears about radiation levels by posting information on their Web pages and giving explanatory lectures. Several universities, including Chuo University in Tokyo and Joshibi University of Art and Design in Kanagawa, sent representatives to China and South Korea to give lectures on the situation in Japan.

At International University of Japan in Niigata Prefecture, where 300 students from about 50 countries take graduate classes in English, the school used technology to reach out to students. According to an IUJ public relations officer, the school set up an English Web page to provide daily updates on the earthquake, tsunami and radiation levels. Students who remained on campus posted messages on the university homepage explaining how the situation in Niigata was safe. IUJ's president also personally sent email messages to students each morning providing them with the latest information and words of encouragement.

Efforts by government and university officials paid off. A ministry of education survey of 135 schools with 33,867 foreign students found that 96 percent, including 86.5 percent in the Tohoku region, had returned to Japan by May 20, a notable improvement from a month earlier, when only 35 percent of foreign students in Tohoku had returned before the delayed start to the school year.

Anecdotal evidence supports the education ministry's data. At IUJ, only two students failed to return. Student numbers for the start of the new school year in September also remain strong and IUJ expects 190 to 196 new students, an increase over last year's 188 freshmen.

At Tohoku University, where 1,504 international students are enrolled, an exchange student division spokesperson reports that only about 10 students withdrew or took a leave of absence.

"I wasn't afraid the students wouldn't come back", says Bruce Stronach, the dean of Temple University, Japan Campus, in Tokyo. "I was only concerned about when that would occur."

Immediately after the earthquake, the university began benchmarking similar disasters. "Generally it takes about a year or a little over a year for business to return to normal," says Stronach. TUJ predicts that foreign student numbers will return to pre-March 11 levels in 12 to 16 months.

While the overall picture remains positive, worrisome trends in the numbers of two categories of foreign students continue to threaten the Ministry of Education's stated goal of increasing their number to 300,000 by 2020.

While the four-year degree students have returned, numbers of short-term study-abroad students coming to Japan have dropped. According to the Japan Student Services Organization's figures, in 2010 there were 11,824 short-term international students studying in Japan. It remains to be seen how many will come in 2011 but the number of programs canceled this spring isn't encouraging.

Hirosaki Gakuin University in Aomori Prefecture had to cancel a four-week summer program usually held in May and June for students from sister schools in the United States. "The reason that we canceled our program is that the U.S. State Department had issued a warning suggesting American citizens stay away from northern Japan," explains Edo Forsythe, an English lecturer at Hirosaki Gakuin.

By the April deadline only one student had expressed an interest in attending. Two other students who backed out weren't afraid of radiation or aftershocks. "Their hesitation was, they didn't want to come here and enjoy themselves studying while a couple hundred kilometers away there were people whose lives had been devastated," says Forsythe. "They just didn't feel comfortable doing that."

U.S. State Department warnings also forced the cancelation of Temple University Japan's spring-term study-abroad program, affecting 69 students. A TUJ spokesperson says the university expects approximately one-third of the study-abroad students for this year's autumn semester compared to the same time last year.

At International University of Japan, half of the exchange students who submitted applications for the autumn semester starting in September canceled. Instead of the usual 15 to 18 exchange students, the school expects only three.

Further north at Tohoku University, 26 out of 44 study-abroad students expected for the spring semester withdrew and another nine students postponed their arrival. Encouragingly though, numbers for study-abroad students are only down about 8 percent for October's autumn semester.

A dramatic decline in the number of foreign students applying to study at Japanese language schools poses a potentially greater problem. At a May 9 press conference, Michio Hori, a representative of the Japanese School Earthquake Reconstruction Council, described the crisis facing Japanese language schools.

Hori explained that 43,000 foreigners study at Japanese language schools but that in April, 10 to 30 percent of continuing students (depending on the school and the region) and 30 to 50 percent of new students were absent.

Apart from the obvious financial headache, these absences also gave schools an administrative migraine. Since the Ministry of Justice requires attendance in at least 90 percent of classes for visa renewals, many schools had to delay the start of the semester to avoid threatening their students' future visa status.

A May 24 survey of 446 Japanese language schools by the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education showed the situation was improving but still serious. At the end of May, eight percent of continuing students had quit and 16 percent of incoming students had withdrawn. A further 11 percent said they would arrive after June or hadn't decided whether to come at all.

More alarming for Japanese language schools are the reduced application numbers for October's autumn semester. With visa applications due at the Ministry of Justice in early May, Hori reported that applications were down 70 percent compared to October last year.

In response, the Ministry of Justice extended the deadline to June 20. However, even that may not have been long enough to reassure prospective students. June interviews with spokespeople from four Tokyo-area Japanese language schools revealed that October applications were down between 40 and 70 percent compared to last year.

"Those who have never been to Japan won't come," explains Hori. Most foreign students who have experience living in Japan and know friends in the country understand how safe it is, he says. The problem is convincing new students.

"The most important point for the management of most Japanese language schools is next April's recruitment," says Youngjin Arai, managing director at Akamonkai Japanese Language School. "I think the operation of schools that can't do it well will be in danger."

Most Japanese schools are using similar strategies to dispel rumors and encourage students to come to Japan. Spokespeople at Tokyo Central Japanese Language School and Akamonkai Japanese Language School, also in Tokyo, both describe how they are using Facebook, blogs and school homepages to give accurate information about how Tokyo is functioning normally. Both schools also sent staff to China and South Korea, where 75 percent of Japan's international students come from, to hold explanatory sessions and meet directly with students and parents and help allay their fears.

Nine Tokyo-area schools formed the Japanese School Earthquake Reconstruction Council on April 15. The council is lobbying the government and working with the media to convey accurate information about the situation in Japan, and plans to operate until December.

"When the recovery will take place is difficult to say," said a spokesperson for the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education, but right now Japan needs to launch a campaign informing foreigners that the nuclear plant hasn't had an effect on people's daily lives in Tokyo. The need for the campaign is all the more urgent considering how difficult it is to change peoples' minds after they have heard so much bad news, he added.

Recent changes to work visa rules should help student numbers at Japanese language schools recover. Foreigners were, in principle, required to have a bachelor's degree to get a work visa. The Justice Ministry relaxed those requirements at the end of June to allow foreign graduates of Japanese vocational schools to work in Japan after completing their studies.

Because of the decline in students at Japanese language schools, the full impact of the March 11 disaster on Japanese higher education may not be felt for another year or two. Since 70 percent of Japanese language school students continue studying at postsecondary institutions here, a drop in the number coming to study Japanese will mean fewer students are eligible to enter Japanese universities and colleges in the near future.

The decline in Japanese language students is just the latest tremor to hit the government's plan to attract 300,000 foreign students. The plan had already been shaken last year by cuts to scholarships and the budget for the Global 30, a program to fund international recruitment efforts at up to 30 elite universities.

According to Temple University Japan dean Stronach, "Foreign students are essential for Japanese universities these days: educationally, financially and particularly for graduate education and research in Japan."

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Over a period of Rain disaster in the regions, in the summer of oblique arrives in Japan throughout the

Over a period of Rain disaster in the regions, in the summer of oblique arrives in Japan throughout the +Get the news service Email Allu.s.worldpoliticsbusinesssportsentertainmentsci/techhealthoddvideoimagesfunction fbs_click (u) {window.open (' u, ' sharer ', ' toolbar = 0, status = 0, width = 626, height = 436 '); return false;}var LINGO_EQ_URL = "http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OD7TCG0&show_article=1";AP:   Breaking |  Alerts |  The World |  ABOUT US |  Policies Of |  Business Activities |  Entertainment |  Life |  Science |  Odd |  Sports |  Tech to the top of the heel of the disaster areas in the rainy season, summer arrives in Japan on 11 July, + is everywhere 12: 40 AM US/Helsinki
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At the end of the season in the rain is due 14 days earlier than usual and the fourth record as quickly as possible, and the southern Tohoku, and 17 days earlier than usual, and the third store soon, for the purpose of the Tohoku Northern continues to the Agency to the weather, which started to produce information in 1951.

That season usually begins and ends on the southwest, and the cover, with the exception of Japan Hokkaido Tohoku to the North of the whole.

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Sumo: Hakuho will begin with a bang (a) of the Nagoya basho

NAGOYA — Grand champion Hakuho is sold in the world, with an eye blink, Tochinoshin years performance in the Nagoya Grand Sumo tournament on the first Sunday.Yokozuna Hakuho can easily work on the first day of the Nagoya Grand Tochinoshin Sumo tournament. PHOTOAs sumo will continue on a regular basis, KYODO will meet for the first time within six months after the match fixing scandal, which brought the national sport in the knees, Hakuho was the finale day Aichi Prefectural School pacing Calmly. through his bout in the pre-ritual gestures is a complete image of the form, with sweat glistening was Hakuho, when it came to Georgia against komusubi face-off time.Tochinoshin, who dropped to 0-9 career against yokozuna in the corridors of the hotel matsit, never knew him as he was sent to one of the retreating fell to hit Lone yokozuna searches, navigate to the ... for the 8th consecutive title here the unprecedented and his career in the 20th century, the Emperor's Cup, the actions of the other In Kaio should wait at least another day to respond to the former yokozuna Chiyonofuji. The Tomozuna ozeki, below is in the possession of the all-time career wins record with the veteran, who turns 39 on the last 15 days of the meet at the opponent and swung wildly lost his balance before No. 1 maegashira, sent him packing from behind.Estonian Baruto goliath arms huge got around the mawashi Goeido, and the League continued to Center on the activity of the uneven Jarry mallissaan WIN over the edge.Mongolian Harumafuji escaped sudden death while Tosayutaka heaved ozeki through his Back, but the highest position on the edge of the maegashira heel was a barrier first.Bulgarian Kotooshu, who need to post here for eight to win to keep his ozeki rank after the may meeting of test out will withdraw from a knee injury, appeared in top form, he sends a shove in the event of the textbook Kyokutenho.Mongolian, Kakuryu Aminishiki to the opponent off of his after bulldozing the inside of the right hand is sought for a firm grip on the belt with a short job. sekiwakeHomologous sekiwake knocked around, such as pinball Wakakoyu before sending the No. 3 maegashira over the edge to hard with Kisenosato shove to start the wins column in the midsection.Ominous start to his campaign of ozeki promotion when he showed the abrupt close little man Kotoshogiku Toyonoshima. In an earlier bout, Brazilian born, at the hands of both received the Kaisei Wakanosato's mawashi before heaving across the former sekiwake in bales of straw within a few seconds to wrap.

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A prostitute in Japan sparks fears of antibiotic-resistant Gonorrhea

A prostitute in Japan sparks fears Prostituoidun-resistant Gonorrhea in Japan, which developed into a drug-resistant Gonorrhea in her throat strain has launched a global alert about the spread of the disease untreatable genital. The woman was found to be infected with new strain, HO41, which is almost all antibiotics. The research team that made the discovery, said the stock was "likely to transform the once common and easily treatable infection on account of the global threat to public health". Sex disease research, Quebec, Canada, the International Society is presented in the conclusions.
on 13 July, to try to revive the local beach the famous surfers paradise estate are banding together in the wreckage that washed during training 11. in March, after the tsunami, and clear the debris. Namiita beach is a lot of opportunities for young people attracted the Otsuchicho contributed to the recent issue of new ryhtiä in the city, which was struggling to population ageing and inadequate to undertakings in the fisheries sector. Local surfers at the beach you want to restore the former glory the pulsating city of aid, the impact of their efforts in the reconstruction in the hope of a whole. Strewn along the 800-meter-long beach had been destroyed, small boats, furniture, clothes, and the occasional pillars of household goods. (Yomiuri)
to July 12, the pinku eiga ", i.e., the pink films in the soft core porn genre has dabbled more in mid-1990s, there only about every theme imaginable, including incest, adultery and Erotic torture-to raise the screen. Yet this year's fantasia "underwater love", "the veteran Director, Shinji Imaoka, pink, probably after the Fading genre interweave singing and dancing in the Numerosarjat political musical, a resource manager, becomes the first film. Screening for foreign correspondents last week in the Japanese Press Club, after the Director of the Commerce that this unique approach, as well as other films, what features of the mythical kappa creature, such as the tortoise shell and the cam, the man is likely to lead to slightly easier the challenging development projects and the specific features of filmgoers (Tokyo Reporter)
on 11 July, the rain season seems to be through the quake hit areas of the northeastern region of Tohoku in Japan, with a full summer season than in the earlier entry of normal, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday the Japanese archipelago. At the end of the season in the rain is due 14 days earlier than usual and the fourth record as quickly as possible, and the southern Tohoku, and 17 days earlier than usual, and the third store soon, for the purpose of the Tohoku Northern continues to the Agency to the weather, which started to produce information in 1951. (Kyodo)
on 11 July, the 27-year-old man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday in the robbery and rape cases, where eight junior and Kagawa Prefecture senior high school students for the string. Demonstration of the judge-owned trail District Court case, has been found guilty of assaulting Onishi Makoto schoolgirls Marugame, Kagawa October 2009 and August 2010, between their bicycles and stealing them raping. The presiding judge, Katsuyuki Habata said, "the victim suffered a rampage that suddenly their lives" to reject the defence plea, Assistant. (Kyodo)
11 popular in Japan, in July, the son of the Japanese destroyer Arashi, the band attract more visitors to the pitch Monday in the middle of the tourist numbers to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeastern Japan, exactly four months ago, continuously in the nuclear crisis, the decline in the country., deriving from the Entitled "message to the originating from Japan," featuring five members of the pop idol group, began broadcasting at the same time, the film throughout the world for more than 133 countries and regions, including the use of the Outdoor display is New York's Times Square. The Video material was also broadcast in places such as Seoul and London, and also appears in Japanese airports and embassies worldwide in the coming weeks. (Kyodo)

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Bernanke hits chance QE3, risk renewed trade triggers

Jul 13 2011-1: 13 pm | 84 Views | 0 Recommendations |  Image by Getty Images via @ Daylife

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers, that further impetus may be required, if the US economy to win not dynamic in Washington, Wednesday, triggering a morning rally, the most important indexes to better than 1% was.

The Chairman comments showed no deviation of the Federal open market Committee June minutes Tuesday, which showed that members discussed further stimulus, but also an exit strategy from extremely accommodative fed policy published mulled wine. This two-pronged approach - understandable given the recent slowdown of the economy - was glossed over Wednesday as the market at the chance, QE3 seized and facilitates the sting of the recent weakness.

An hour after noon was the Dow Jones industrial average up 133 points to 12,580 that 14 points to 1,328 and the NASDAQ 39 points S & P 500 on 2,821. Financials were able, participants in the March with JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup to better than 2% higher per piece. The pair currency option transactions result Thursday and Friday, respectively.

John Richards, head of Americas strategy at RBS, QE3 is also after a dreary June jobs report still unlikely, but that can change. The economy needs to move further boost by the fed off the table, "an immediate reversal in momentum," says Richards, which still a robust second half expected is an eye on data as instruments of production and automatic production for signals on the direction tilt the scale.

All Bernanke has on Wednesday, the door was left open the possibility the QE3 and the market is reacting with "So you say, there is a chance." Where have we heard that before?

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Bernanke Ron Paul fights in Congress: Gold is not money

Jul 13 2011-11: 26 pm | 149,605 Views | 1 Recommendation |  Bernanke faced Ron Paul in Congress - H4cblog

Chief Ben Bernanke faced - off with fed hating Representative Ron Paul during his monetary policy report to Congress on Wednesday.  The head of the Fed was forced, to respond to the allegations while failed to help main while he was pushed on his views on Gold Street, enrich already rich corporations.  The question of whether Gold is money, responded bluntly "no," Bernanke. (See video below).

Serve as the most Bernanke's call for of non sustainability Medicaid and Republic Frank (D mass.) reports to the Congress politician, to pursue their own agenda, is the Chairman of their issues with Republican Republic Bacchus talk focusing on the need to raise debt without issues, it was a stand-off between Bernanke and Ron Paul, who took all the attention. (Read apocalyptic Bernanke: the debt increase ceiling or otherwise).

Republic of Ron Paul, Republican for Texas, asked why a capital injection of more than $5 trillion "did not much" to help the consumer, in which about two-thirds of GDP in the United States, and which support economy, while it helped boost profits Bernanke.  "You $17,000 every citizen may have been," said Ron Paul.

Gallery: The five stages of the Greek financial guarantee

Bernanke, no single dollar spent on the defensive, told Republic of Ron Paul, that his institution had the Fed was the Chairman, again gains to the Government rather "Profit centre" according to.  When Bernanke Republic Paul about the history of the Fed began preaching ("We are here to liquidity [in abnormal situations]," said the Chairman), it was interrupted.

Republic Paul asked "When you wake in the morning up, do you think about the price of gold".  After stopping the for a second, Bernanke responded, clearly uncomfortable. that much on the price of gold attention, only to be interrupted again.

"Gold's at about $1,580 [an ounce] this morning, what you think of the price of gold?" asked Paul Republic.  A stern-faced Bernanke replied people bought it for protection and was once again cut off with Ron Paul again on the offensive.

"Gold is money?" he asked.  Clearly disturbed, Bernanke said representatives of the "No." "It is a precious metal."

After Paul, interrupted to note the long history of gold as money, Bernanke drove him continued: "It is an asset."  Would you say bills are money? I don't think that they are either money, but they are a financial asset. "

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'qe3' would be "Most optimistic factor" for Rohstoffe--Panel

Jul 13 2011-1: 19 pm | 97 Views | 0 Recommendations |

Chicago (Kitco News) - if the Federal Reserve can provide additional incentive for the US economy, it would be for one of the largest price support raw materials for the rest of the year as investors will try again, snap to hard assets.

"If we had as I 'qe3d' - call it that, because each film now in 3D-ist, prices for raw materials will rise then again." "It would be the most bullish factor," said Phil Flynn, energy analyst for PFG best research.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said at the Congress examined on Wednesday that the Fed will crumble several untested ways to promote the growth of economic conditions.

This comes on the heels of the minutes of the June Federal open market Committee late Tuesday released, which showed that some members for the benefit of the additional stimulus would be if the economy ground to a halt.

The combination of these two comments sent gold prices to record levels and raised a significant rally in the stock market on Wednesday.

Flynn said within a range at Dow Jones index commodity mid-year review and Outlook here.

If the Fed of second quantitative easing program ended in June, it coincided with the decline in commodity prices across the Board, and Flynn said no added attraction prices would withdraw. He said that without a third stimulus program and with the Outlook for the global demand slowed in the fourth quarter, crude oil prices could be around $85 per barrel. "If they do a QE3, then the game is bullish." We could see $110-120 oil instead of $85. He said "That also have a significant impact on the heating and gasoline would have".

August Treaty of crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange about $98,62 a barrel on Wednesday were trading.

On a side note, he said that the unrest in some countries of the Middle East, known as the Arab spring, have had impact on gasoline prices. The price between Brent crude oil, crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, spreading European benchmark and West Texas intermediate, widened sharply because of the loss of Libyan crude oil production. Because of the that sharp difference the release of oil reserves by the international energy administration was the right move, he said.

"It was real tightness of light, sweet crude delivery in Europe." "There are reserves for a time of war and it is war," said Flynn.

Commodity index easily by year

The Dow Jones-UBS commodity said index 2.62% for the first half of the year, John Prestbo, editor and Managing Director of the Dow Jones indexes. Precious metals were the best performing sector in the index, win 6.82%, while grains were worst sector, sliding 9.72%, he said. For comparison, a stock market index is Dow Jones industrial average 6.37% for the first six months of the year 2011.

Prestbo found that investors money in the commodities market with 76.9 billion continue to $ tracking the DJ-UBS commodity index put up 31 of $62 billion December.

John Kowalik, Managing Director with UBS' commodities investor group, said that asset managers for its investor clients, rather than simply offer a stand-alone part of their portfolio commodities as an inflation hedge.

"Commodity investing (has) become... an important part of the new investment strategies such as inflation protection and absolute return products." "Invest in addition to pure organic, still improved are investors and investment managers strategies through enhanced index, change their portfolio risk exposure, such as forward indexes and commodity sub index with search", he said.

He said institutional investors take to invest one "slow and steady" view of the product and do not respond to fluctuating daily market action.
It has lot of discussion about "excessive speculation" but Kowalik nor Flynn said that they have seen it.

Comments on excessive speculation come to, if "markets do not, what (people) they want to do", Flynn said.

He said that the increase in commodity prices is a side effect of the loose monetary policy. "The Government and the fed to not admit that it has an effect on prices." "They say, they kept the markets crash, but don't want to say it, what it did to the dollar and how it raised commodity prices", he said.

OUTLOOK FOR OTHER MARKETS

The Outlook for metals continue based on the global economic uncertainty, said Patricia Cauley, Director, metals at CME Group products.

"The flight for security on as investors claim interest in gold and multi purpose metals Platinum and silver in response to Europe's debt crisis and a slowdown in the global economy." On the industrial side continued uncertainty in global growth could result in additional volatility in copper and steel, "she said."

She added that the CME Group are not from price forecasts for metals "and don't mind if prices go up or down" as this larger volume means.

Jack Scoville, Vice President of futures price group, said that the grain markets will remain very volatile for the next few months, such as extreme weather conditions hot could distort the yields for corn and soybeans.

The cool wet spring in the mid-West delayed cultivation of corn and soy crops and this means that these two crops pollination happens in summer. Hot weather can interfere with pollination, which yield can reduce the plant.

If she sees corn normal weather, income can be good. Prices could fall, with a harvest low of $5.50 based on the nearby future, although $4.50 is not excluded. However, if the weather is dry or drought in the South of United States further north move prices to "the upper $7 s or even as high as $8.50 $ 8.75 are not in question."

Chicago Board of trade December corn futures have been around $6,76 per bushel on Wednesday trade.

Scoville Planzahl model soybeans about $13.50 per bushel price, supply from Brazil plenty remains. A solid crop could prices lower, the $10-hit region. CBOT November soybeans were approximately $13.76 a bushel Wednesday trade.

Wheat prices are under pressure as Russia is continued, the grain to export a recovery in production after last year's disastrous harvest.

But overall the prices should be supported. "" Prices for cereals will remain extremely volatile, but keeping high overall should, while demand remains strong from developing countries and as production potential in the United States and abroad remains uncertain because of extreme weather events, "said Scoville."

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Check out-of-Starwood loophole closed before off-balance sheet

Accounting rules provide for asset-Inten­sive-Busi­nesses large Loop­holes, and the off-balance sheet oper­at­ing leasing Loop­hole is one of the largest.

By the off-balance sheet leasing Loop­hole oper­at­ing exploit­ing, was Star­wood around the world almost missed hotels & resorts $1 Bil­lion in debt from its balance sheet in 2010, that the $200 million (20% of the total) of which in the year 2010 has been added.

As shown in the Fig­ure below reported star page result rather strongly of a bankruptcy of Earn­ings of business in the last financial year differs.

In Additionally to over­stat­ing accounting Earn­ings cre­ates the large amount of hidden debt two red flags for investors:

Free cash flow are about 200 million $ AppearReported are worse than they debt and leverage under­stated of almost a billion US$

I connect a business always my analysis of the true cash flow with Val­u­a­tion of stocks. It is possible for a company, ter­ri­bly unprof­itable, but a good share if reflects the future cash flow Expec­ta­tion are low enough in his Val­u­a­tion.

Jus­tify at its current price ~$ 57, Star­wood would have to their after-tax cash flow (NOPAT) by more than 20% compounded annu­ally for 11 years grow. These are some high Expectations…not, high growth, but also the long Dura­tion of expected growth.

The highest sales growth by Star­wood in the last 10 years is reached 17% in 2002. Only in the last 10 years, two-digit Rev­enue gen­er­ated company has con­sec­u­tive years growth (16% and 11% between 2005 and 2006, respectively).

A share price Val­u­a­tion, which implies 11 con­sec­u­tive years 20% growth in NOPAT is for the most Com­pa­nies, espe­cially a hotel in a Global Econ­omy, expected to be too high for the fore­see­able future are rather weak.

With no future profit growth, the value of the star page is camp closer to $2 per share. While I don't nec­es­sar­ily expect that Star­wood will get any future earnings growth, I believe that no growth important perspective on how much growth in the share price is set at pro­vides and how much risk investors to take, by it hold­ing.

The below Fig­ure sug­gests that investors in the HOT stock in could be for some Trou­ble, if the story, which is repeated. The last time Starwood reported Earn­ings his Earn­ings defeat by more than 15%, the share over­stated $1960s fell over 70% of the Center up to the under $20 per share.

I also expect that Starwood Earn­ings over statement is again on more Nor­malem Lev­els da Com­pa­nies rules only so much can bow before them break­ing. In about the Starwood Understate­ment will no longer lever, if FASB is expected, change the applicable accounting rules and force companies operating lease liabilities on balance sheet report. This change is expected in the next year or so occur, and it will close the off-balance sheet liabilities of Loop­hole.

Star­Wood is a July stocks the most dangerous and calls my "very dangerous" risk/return Rat­ing. There are many Down­side risk mis­lead­ing Earn­ings given, while it embed­ded reward is less on the head in view of the already-rich Expec­ta­tions in the share price. More information on my Rat­ing and a free report on HOT are here.

HOT fits in a deal in which investors make money by buy­ing shares with low Expec­ta­tions rel­a­tive to their future Poten­tial, the Pro­file large stock short or sell.

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Troubled bank of America is the world's largest asset managers

Jul 13 2011-1: 59 pm | 562 Views | 0 Recommendations |  Image by AFP/Getty Images via @ Daylife

Despite the bad news that Bank of America, with is facing since 2008 is the U.S. Bank still across the world on the front of the private banking.

Is the a report today ranking world's 20 largest wealth manager according to. Bank of America took spot with $1.944 trillion in assets in private banking up, followed by Morgan Stanley with 1.628 trillion and UBS AG, 1.559 trillion.

The number one and two spots are held by two banks, the rival wealth snatched management company in the heat of the financial crisis. Bank of America Merrill Lynch bought in September 2008 which gave the North Carolina Bank a prominent influence on the wealth management almost overnight. The transition to save was buy Merrill immediately after it was at critics predict a mass exodus of Merrill employees being provided. But when compared to the Bank of America acquisition of countrywide that was infinite, expensive headache, the Merrill deal is a great victory.

The largest retail wealth management firm make it with more than 18,000 financial adviser Morgan Stanley joint venture with Citigroup Smith Barney in January 2009.

UBS's position at number three is a relief for management as the company the hardest affected was one of the in the wake of the financial crisis.

The increase in the AUM for the private banking industry was primarily by market gains the assets increase by 11% in the previous year helped, as the top 20 wealth-monitored 11 trillion dollars, according to Scorpio partnership helped consultants of London's wealth management industry, which incorporated the report.

But it's not all good news for the industry. Private banks see a slowing in the rate of net new money inflows coming their way. The rate of the net new asset flows were 18.8% in 2009. Not only that but the industry cost income ratio also dropped to an average 79.76% 1% over the previous year during pressure on margins of various performance measurements increased.

"The detailed analysis of the nearly 200 institutions around the world shows that for many the Pistons continue to growth in its business model misfire." If it were a different market crisis which would be even a minor scale, we are very worried for many institutions and their future. There is little planning for it. "It is clear to us from this benchmarking, many companies to update and modernize, otherwise call time must on their exposure to this client segment, and this is not only among the smaller operators", says Sebastian dovey partner in Scorpio.

Here is a list of the top 20 private banks by assets under management:

Rank company AuM AuM Rank2010 ($ bln) % am. Chg. 1 Bank of America Corp. 1,945 4.2-2 Morgan Stanley 1,628 8--3 UBS 1.560 6, 6--4 Wells Fargo & co. 1,398 14, 8--5 Credit Suisse Group 865 11, Royal Bank of Canada 435 6--6 14, 8--7 HSBC Holdings plc 390 6.3--8 Deutsche Bank 369 35.3-9 BNP Paribas 340 45.7 + 210 JPMorgan Chase & co. 284 5.2 -111 Pictet & Cie. 268 10.1 112 Goldman Sachs Group 229 0, 9-13 ABN AMRO Bank 220 23.8 114 Barclays Bank plc 186 1.9 Julius Baer Group 182 22.5 + 216 between Crédit Agricole 172 4.2 -117 Bank of New York Mellon 166 7.8 -118 Northern Trust Corp. 154 6.3--19 Lombard Odier 153 7, 8-20 Citigroup Inc. 141 15.4 + 1source: Scorpio partnership

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Italy is too big to bail, also for France and Germany

Jul 12 2011-12: 10 pm | 6.696 Views | 1 Recommendation |  Image by AFP/Getty Images via @ Daylife

Italy in the eye of the storm from the EU debt crisis are in the midst of rumors that the European Central Bank intervened by purchasing of Italian Government bonds on the secondary market, analysts at the end come with that Italy is too large to save due to the massive financing requirements and the total debt outstanding of € 1.6 trillion ($2.2 trillion).

Italian stocks managed some gains while the Tuesday meeting record, by 1.3% after a terrible two-day beat, which led to some off the largest spread in government bonds in the European Monetary Union move history.  Returns of benchmark ten-year Italian bonds fell slightly on Tuesday and was 5.66% just below Spain 5.96%.

With a variety of negative news from Europe on a daily basis it is difficult, Italian crisis attribute to an event of this, but what is undeniable, that markets come to the realization that Italy is a completely different animal from Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and bailing out a death blow for the beleaguered European Union could deliver d.. (Read euro contagion: Italian shares tank, income, and CDS jump).

Differences are staggering.  During Italy is minimum funding requirements for 2012 for the three PIIGs, which have already been saved from a total of 91 billion € ($ 127 billion) financing requirements range one massive 250 billion € ($ 350 billion).  Approximately 1.6 trillion € ($2.2 trillion) compared with EUR 345 million for Greece and about 150 billion euro is each for Portugal and Ireland a total outstanding debt for the country, run by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, according to analysts at Nomura.

If Italy fail, the problem would be that it is too big to bail.  Nomura pointed out that the current European financial stabilisation facility (EFSF) mechanisms have been developed, to deal saved by a relatively large group of the countries participating in the euro area is with the failure of the relatively small States.  The equation changes to Italy.

Currently, the EFSF has an effective lending capacity of 320 billion euros ($448 billion) of total 440 billion € ($616 billion); Italy's financing must exceed € 500 billion ($ 770 billion) over the next two years.  Not only would the EFSF (and its successor, the European stability mechanism-ESM-with a total approved capital around 700 billion €) lacks the capacity to save Italy, reduced the number of countries that are ready and willing would lend a hand to Rome to only two: France and Germany. (Banks hold read French $93b in Greek debt, as Sarkozy rollover deal Announces).

If Europe's two big dogs to cough up $ 500 billion for their Italian friends were forced to around would represent 10% of all their combined GDP (around 5 billion euros, according to Nomura).  According to the note:

At some point, the burden on France and Germany will be too large. For example, would France can Italy to receive AAA rating with contingent liabilities over 10% of GDP?

There is not enough capacity to the rescue of Italy within the current Bail-Out infrastructure. And even an extended EFSF may not be in the location, a credible backstop of medium-term to make

A possible alternative is Central Bank intervention to lower prices. Traders Tuesday were pretty sure that they saw the hand of the ECB by the Bank of Italy, sovereign bond markets for Italian debt on a day when she auctioned off 6.75 € the Italian debt to a much higher than usual. And on Monday, a meeting of European Finance Ministers the opportunity that could be allowed the EFSF to buy ruler in the secondary market. (Read grind Europe debt, worry about Italy keep traders nervous).

But this may be not enough, as FT Alphaville notes.  While the ECB already, this intervention has tried with Greece, Portugal and Ireland, not succeeded in providing "Depth and liquidity in these market segments are the dysfunktionalen", as volumes in that trade.  And given the size of Italian bond, with "Daily turnover in may from 12 billion euros" and gross output in the third quarter of EUR 31 billion in two, five and ten years bonds, it would be a disaster for the ECB to Italy "a regular patients."

In fact, the situation is dire.  The political battle in Germany about bailing out smaller Nations was massive, much of Chancellor Angela Merkel political capital to erosion.  Rescue operations for Italy, it seems then, as the impossibility of economic, political and social.

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Commerce index 1% in June, more slow growth to come

A measurement of trade Street in the United States on the consumption of diesel fuel by 1% in June after two consecutive months of losses, which indicates that industrial production and second quarter GDP growth in most are showing no real drivers of growth set to show although modest real time index 'pick the line up".

Much more accurately than a survey of the pulse of Commerce index (PCI) rose a meager 1% in June, the index leading Chief, the Economist, Ed Leamer, call it a "food".  While the PCI after two consecutive months of decline restored Leamer said that it shows are "more the same slow growth" as markets completely in the dark, what will happen next.

PCI of the Ceridian and UCLA Anderson School of management, provides a real-time view of the State of trade through the persecution, the volume and the location of diesel fuel purchased by truck.

Markets have been news lately, over-responsive after Leamer, the known "get you a week of bad news, everyone runs from stocks bonds, everyone runs then weekly decent news from bonds to cash, and sends a week, then good news everyone back in shares, this makes for a crazy market."

The last significant growth was inventory restocking in late 2009 and early 2010, said Leamer, pointed out that it is very difficult to identify, which component will pick up the baton, and the US economy forward.  Are next consumer deleveraging, big ticket items that fuel faced economic extensions, such as cars and homes, lower demand. (See no recovery possible, during U.S. consumer Deleveraging continues).

High energy prices have eaten in consumer purchasing power, which already suffer from a weak labour market.  "There's no question that energy contributed, and I determined this latest drag on growth,", Leamer said. (See oil prices: Brent WTI spread over $22 and here to stay).

A growing labour market supports positive feedback loops to create fuel and jobs.  But with the construction pipeline and manufacturing jobs devastated globalization and technological progress due to an oversupplied market and the ever-present foreclosure on a downward trend since the early 1990's given, job markets "set a post-war record for inertia." (Read job cuts accelerated in June with Government leads the Donwsizing).
Indicates the PCI, second quarter GDP will grow to 1.8% on an annual basis.  The first estimate of the U.S. Department of Commerce is set to be released on Jul 29.  Industrial production, on 15 July, expected will be expected to be modest, 0.17% According to the index.

A few sectors have been front perform well on jobs, Leamer said.  Durable manufacturing, especially the automobile sector, had a significant rebound since Detroit's big three, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, were on their knees in set.  Above trend growth in mining and utilities, was observed noticed Leamer. (Read jobs report sucked, but S & P 500 end year by 8% to 10%).

However, the index is a further sign, which remains the US economy in a soft patch.  In his address to Congress said Chairman Ben Bernanke politician that the recovery continues to lower continued as expected and that further monetary stimulus or QE3, is not the table.  While Bernanke was accurate to say, inflation and the impact of the chain of supply disruption in Japan proves temporary, he holds still on his prediction that will pick up economic activity in the coming quarters.  In accordance with PCI, it seems not as the next quarters will show much growth at all. (Read Bernanke Ron Paul fights in Congress: "gold not money").

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Amazon partners with AT & T, price drop on ad-supported Kindle

Amazon lowered the price of its Kindle 3 G Wednesday, after an agreement reach Kindle with AT & T sponsors 3 g in exchange for advertising space, dropping the price for the e-reader to $139. The fall in prices comes shortly after Amazon's announcement that the Kindle 3 G with special offer map it for $164 would sell.
No updates for the e-reader physically included Wednesday's announcement, but customers are expected to replace AT & T ads the Kindle of usual screensaver and map at the bottom of pages see presented.
An unsponsored Kindle 3 G is $189.
"This is a Stifel Nicolaus analyst who believes that the new partnership with AT & T will be profitable for Amazon an obvious strategy to provide for the masses at an affordable price Kindle accordingly."
If the Kindle was a pacesetter in the e-reader market, Barnes & noble nook is a growing threat and the Tablet market is a popular alternative for many consumers with options like the Apple iPad and a number of devices running on Google Android operating system.
Shares of Amazon were up 1% to $213.50 Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year which was up 19%.

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Gold hits all-time highs after Bernanke comments on stimulus

Jul 13 2011-2: 21 pm | 0 views | 0 Recommendations |

(Kitco News) - The Federal Reserve has indicated for the second day in a row, that further measures to stimulate the possible to help assist with the US economy are driving gold to an all-time high.

The Fed has announced not actually no new action and is still monitoring the economy, whether they are even necessary. But at the moment, the gold market is factoring in further humiliation of the US dollar, analysts said.

Messages that is thought the fed at least of more stimulus comes at a time when the yellow metal debt and political gridlock in the United States on the increase of the debt is reinforced ceiling already by European before of a beginning August target to avoid a default.

August gold has so far Wednesday at $1,588.70 an ounce on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, a record for the most active contract reached. 1:08 Am EDT it was up to $23.10 or 1.5% to $1,585.40 an ounce. $18.60 Spot gold was higher at $1,585.90 an ounce.

The next obvious target for the market is oz the strong round of $1600.

"How have we been trade in the last few days, we (could be) five minutes," said Mike Daly, gold and silver specialist with PFGBEST.

The Fed said last month that it not on a third round of the purchases of government bonds in a move restrict long-term income, called quantitative easing which has been taken. The second round of QE June 30 ended. Minutes of the meeting of June 21-22 of the FOMC, published in the Tuesday afternoon, showed however that a minority is considering at least further action.

Then testimony confirmed Wednesday morning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke primarily in Congress, that policy makers are considering more relaxation. He said that economic weakness may be more persistent than expected "implies a need for additional policy support.", he also said that the Fed is to look at several "untested" steps to revive the economy.

Markets went from think not not long ago it said further momentum so far very well it can think would Daly.

"It's called many things, but every form of printing money is obviously dilutive of the dollar and this is of course good for gold,", said Jeff Clark, precious metals analyst at Casey Research. "This is the main reason why gold is moved."

Of course the Fed has embarked on yet further impetus. Time will tell whether it is done.

"But an obvious indication that they are to look at it there." Let us say so, "Clark said. Later he added: "the markets are interpret as she probably will." "And that is why gold is up."

Not only gold is up and the dollar down, but the Dow Jones industrial average is around 120 points higher on the prospects for more stimulus measures.

Any further easing also added worry about inflation, said Daly and George Gero, Vice President at RBC capital markets global futures. Already, China tries the inflation fueled in part by high commodity prices added included Daly.

Mark Johnson, portfolio co-manager who dismissed USAA precious metals and minerals Fund, pointed out that the FOMC minutes Tuesday left the door released open for the fed to loosen or to tighten up policy on the road. Policy makers are considerable flexibility gave, he hit.

"I think you have the instructions for the underlying conditions to look,", he said. "And the business environment would claim basically will there be no tightening anytime soon."

This implies negative real interest rates further, which debases the dollar and created a favourable environment for gold, he said.

"If you, with the continued deterioration of the sovereign debt link problems in Europe, you have another driver for gold, since further to ensure the long-term viability of the euro in question people", said Johnson.

European financial officials who offers bailout loans while encouraging troubled Nations to carry out austerity measures. Analysts often describe on the net as "can occur on the road, the" effect, as countries are in the main bond money debt obligations to meet.

"she continue to the can on the street kick, but the can is getting bigger and heavier," said Johnson. "At some point if they it kick, they go to their feet to break."

Meanwhile, Daly said the market is from only a month or two of the time when it tends to draw seasonal gift holiday support. A number of important holidays occur in autumn in India, a major gold consumers followed by the Christmas season in Western countries.

The purchase of technical chart factors is acceleration, Gero said.

"It looks like we are before the race," he said. "The Bernanke comments play a role in getting the technical dealer and basic dealer involved."

The latest FOMC developments in the short and long term are bullish for gold, Clark said. But ", this does not mean that it is a straight line up to be," he added.

He and Johnson the metal said diving when Washington finally becomes an agreement on the debt reached ceiling, probably. "Every time if you take a risk factor of the table to mitigate gold would expect," said Johnson. Still, he and Clark said that this will be only a temporary setback.

"That will solve our structural debt, deficit and money printing problems is not," Clark said. "So in the long run this is nothing but positive for gold."

By Allen Sykora by Kitco news; asykora@Kitco.com

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Japan in the risk of poverty rate hit a record high in 2009

 (Kyodo) — Japan, in 2009 the risk of poverty rate hit a record high, the%, up 0.3 percentage points since 2006, as the population increased to man age the less shares and the income of 65 or older and of the Ministry of welfare of the employees of nonregular said on Tuesday.

The relative risk of poverty rate, which represents the share of the population of the people whose annual income is less than half of the national median real incomes should the highest since the Government began compiling the tax rate in 1985. In 2009, the national median real incomes amounted to 2.24 million yen ($ 28,000).
Interest shall be calculated every three years, has risen to almost 12.0% in the first years of ongoing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
In June and July 2010, the national livelihood survey also said the Ministry of Justice on the basis of the child poverty rate, which indicates the proportion of children aged 17 or younger living in poor households, with an annual income below half the level of the inguinal, also hit a record high to 15.7% in 2009.
The average annual household income rose by 0.4% in 2009, the 5, 000 yen, the Ministry of the 496, said.
Households with elderly people, including 17 or younger, the number of children and elderly people became the big 10, records for the estimated 207, 000 in the year 2010, ACCOUNTING for 21% of the total.
The record of the survey, the percentage of 59.4 value corresponds to the households, said, it is difficult to make ends meet.
Income statistics were based on the data, covering around 26,000 households, even though the data were obtained from the household of about 230,000 specimens.

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University researchers genetically engineer mice which may chirp of birds such as the

Researchers at Osaka University is a group of gene technology to mice, so that they are singing like birds.Study the effects on audio in the chirping mice could be used to encourage research into mammalian evolution of verbal communication, Uchimura Arikuni said in Suita, Osaka Prefecture., The University is located in the center of the team Assistant Professor discovered tweeting like a bird, when they had the gene for breeding techniques to produce the mouse, mice, mutations often.Sirittävät has been extended for more than eight generations of mice.Computed tomography, computer shows, that part of the "song of the mice" is thinner than the mice larynx, which is not genetically modified in Imaging.
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Radioactive waste from the plant near Tokyo, were found in the ash

The safety of radioactive waste, the plant was found in an ash near the of Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo, near the high levels of radiation, the ash and identified, the officials said on Tuesday, it can be garden waste contaminated by the disaster, nuclear, Fukushima. Radioactive caesium was discovered in the Prefecture to the Northeast, the plants, Chiba, Tokyo, and about 200 kilometers (120 miles) from the plant, which has leaked radiation, since the March 11 in the quake and the tsunami in the city of Kashiwa. Officials stressed that the radioactive ash collected from late June to early July and the beginning of the concentrations of up to per becquerels was safely contained 70,800 plant, and pose a danger to health in the community.
on 13 July, to try to revive the local beach the famous surfers paradise estate are banding together in the wreckage that washed during training 11. in March, after the tsunami, and clear the debris. Namiita beach is a lot of opportunities for young people attracted the Otsuchicho contributed to the recent issue of new ryhtiä in the city, which was struggling to population ageing and inadequate to undertakings in the fisheries sector. Local surfers at the beach you want to restore the former glory the pulsating city of aid, the impact of their efforts in the reconstruction in the hope of a whole. Strewn along the 800-meter-long beach had been destroyed, small boats, furniture, clothes, and the occasional pillars of household goods. (Yomiuri)
to July 12, the pinku eiga ", i.e., the pink films in the soft core porn genre has dabbled more in mid-1990s, there only about every theme imaginable, including incest, adultery and Erotic torture-to raise the screen. Yet this year's fantasia "underwater love", "the veteran Director, Shinji Imaoka, pink, probably after the Fading genre interweave singing and dancing in the Numerosarjat political musical, a resource manager, becomes the first film. Screening for foreign correspondents last week in the Japanese Press Club, after the Director of the Commerce that this unique approach, as well as other films, what features of the mythical kappa creature, such as the tortoise shell and the cam, the man is likely to lead to slightly easier the challenging development projects and the specific features of filmgoers (Tokyo Reporter)
on 11 July, the rain season seems to be through the quake hit areas of the northeastern region of Tohoku in Japan, with a full summer season than in the earlier entry of normal, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday the Japanese archipelago. At the end of the season in the rain is due 14 days earlier than usual and the fourth record as quickly as possible, and the southern Tohoku, and 17 days earlier than usual, and the third store soon, for the purpose of the Tohoku Northern continues to the Agency to the weather, which started to produce information in 1951. (Kyodo)
on 11 July, the 27-year-old man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday in the robbery and rape cases, where eight junior and Kagawa Prefecture senior high school students for the string. Demonstration of the judge-owned trail District Court case, has been found guilty of assaulting Onishi Makoto schoolgirls Marugame, Kagawa October 2009 and August 2010, between their bicycles and stealing them raping. The presiding judge, Katsuyuki Habata said, "the victim suffered a rampage that suddenly their lives" to reject the defence plea, Assistant. (Kyodo)
11 popular in Japan, in July, the son of the Japanese destroyer Arashi, the band attract more visitors to the pitch Monday in the middle of the tourist numbers to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeastern Japan, exactly four months ago, continuously in the nuclear crisis, the decline in the country., deriving from the Entitled "message to the originating from Japan," featuring five members of the pop idol group, began broadcasting at the same time, the film throughout the world for more than 133 countries and regions, including the use of the Outdoor display is New York's Times Square. The Video material was also broadcast in places such as Seoul and London, and also appears in Japanese airports and embassies worldwide in the coming weeks. (Kyodo)

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The flooding forced Tepco to temporarily stop the water purification system

Tokyo Electric Power Co., said Sunday the temporarily halted to decontaminate the radioactive water in the Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-a crippled power plant after the hold were around 50 litres of contaminated water and chemicals used in the system when the ban was leaking part broke the system.The utility is used to cool the water, the criteria for the acceptance of IFRS 1-3 reactors in the plant, and even the design right, during the provisional suspension, was to continue on surface water, which had already had their, it said the cooling function. "Leaked contaminated water, the concentration of radioactive substances was not at the levels of which cause problems for workers ' exposure to radiation, "a Tepco official said.The leak occurred in the device, if the chemicals are used to condense and precipitate radioactive substances, contaminated water, test substances are injected from the hose pipe, through which the water is to pass along the polluted Tepco. The part of the plastic, causing chemicals and broke the contaminated water to leak, the company said part of the French Areva SA, developed by the section, add the employees will be replaced by the part of steel together, and continues to the water treatment system in operation.The chemicals, which are not toxic, Tepco said.The smooth operation of the treatment system, whose purpose is to eliminate the highly radioactive compensated power station contaminated water from the huge volumes, it is essential that the nuclear crisis, such as a water cooled turbine Tepco recycles the damaged reactor.A reactor at the premises of the contaminated water quantities, including the liquid-coolant leaking from damaged or corrupted, it is possible to control the activities of the competition for the rest of the blocks full of plant for the production of groups of goods, but the storage location are nearing full capacity.

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Bye-bye Neversoft-card and welcome to the Juki Net ' 12

Reader JG is concerned about the changes made to the law on immigration, which was passed in 2009 and is scheduled for July 2012 According to the Office-immigration ..., the Ministry of Justice and immigration lawyers in the implementation of the new law, private individuals, some of the major changes.Alien registration card (soon to become a "residence card") is no longer in the first place, will be given to the local level. July the following year, the Ministry of Justice assumes responsibility for submitting the residence card.When the Act comes into force, the expenditure of the reception of the force for the medium-or long-term visa to come to the residence card is the point of arrival. In cases where port authorities are not in the way of this — presumably smaller airports and sea ports instead of the main regional hubs — the card will be sent to you.The current medium-term and long-term residents of Japan becomes the new card when they apply for visas from next July 2012 (for permanent residents must apply for a card in July 2015).The new law essentially combines systems of Japan and to non-Japanese system with Net Juki nationwide registry established in 2002, which contains the basic information for all citizens.

Very controversial, it has been submitted by a further, more than in the whole country, a number of privacy lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008, the Juki Net does not infringe any rights of privacy, the entry into force of the new legislation, the Constitution is not guaranteed When the.-Japanese of this national system will be introduced, with the result that the residence card issued directly by the Bureau of immigration, local government instead.The residence card, the details of the update will also change when the new law comes into force. Currently, local government, the Office will deal with most of your personal information changes, but the new law, almost all of the notifications shall be submitted to the nearest Immigration Office.For example, the name or nationality, the employer or school information and family relationships (e.g., separation, divorce, death of spouse) all of the processes of Immigration-Office.

Address of registration and changes still treats the City Hall.In addition, if the residence permit, the card is lost, damaged or stolen, rather than going to City Hall, you will need to visit the rotation of the Office of immigration. A schedule in which shall be so made, however, is still the same: within 14 days.This may sound like they are for those who do not reside near the Immigration Office, even if the migration requires a new system that would facilitate the procedures and require fewer visits to the offices of the State. Immigration will consider allowing the residents to make certain declarations to the online or by post, especially for those who do not reside near the Immigration Office, although this has yet to decide.Failed to notify the immigration of workers to change, the address, and other important information, false information, or if the address or address change to register with the City Hall, the potential penalties are stiff. However, the proposed sanctions are only slightly different than the options (on offense) in the current region, and include a fine of ¥ 200,000, imprisonment or deportation. Before the new system starts, it is not clear how or if these penalties have dished all in a different way than they are now out. When we asked the Immigration Office, they said, sanctions are dealt with as they are at the moment.

According to the immigration attorney Masahito Nakai, they who suffer the most in the new system is undocumented. "Previously, each region has its own implementation of their services to as many non-Japanese expired visas could get different levels of care, "he says. "Now it is worrisome that the penalties provided for the changes may not be onerous, and to immigration by going to the new card, and other changes instead of the local City Office, it may prove to be a problem."Other changes (and, according to the Ministry of Justice, on the merits), this new system include:, an extension of the maximum stay: theof a new system to extend the stay of not more than three years to five.Revision to allow the re-entry of the system:According to the new law, Medium-, long-term residents with a valid passport or residence card shall no longer apply for a permit, if they leave and return to Japan within a year.In addition, the term of validity of the re-entry permit those who are going to be absent for longer than 12 months will be extended from three to five years.Personal information to a new card, less:Comment on alien registration card, and you see a wide amount of personal information. New items in the residence card is no longer a resident of the include, place of birth, passport number, occupation, and employer's name and location name. (However, many see this as a negative, than this personal information will be added to the national registry instead.)For more information about the upcoming changes in the visit (in English) and www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/newimmiact/newimmiact_english.html www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact/pdf/leaflet_english.pdfPlease note that the above information is subject to change, even if the major changes now, and most likely between July 2012. Mr. Nakai can be contacted www.tokyovisa.co.jp or (03) 6402-7654. Thanks also to the Immigration Office in Tokyo Eiwa attorney legal Hideaki Takahashi for his advice. Please contact Mr. Takahashi (03) eiwalegal.jimdo.com or via 6892 1176.
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Study shows higher, it does not have a sufficiently large part of the tsunami repair systems enhancement of communities

At least 21 communities in northeastern Japan, whose inhabitants was moved to higher ground, on the basis of the swamped after massive tsunamis were the dozens of past the entrance to 11. March-the head of the tsunami, the Agency's officials said Sunday at a meeting of the Panel., Kawata Yoshiaki Kansai University professor who heads of the Government of the Central Council for the prevention of disasters, a panel of experts emphasized the need for a higher lower transfer. According to his analysis of the recent tsunami Iwate and Miyagi Prefecture in 21 communities, most were only about 10 metres above sea level. "Lower elevations if possible, efforts should be made to the maximum extent of (the tsunami). If people and resolve in areas close to what is used in urban areas may be chosen, it could lead to damage on a large scale, "Kawata said. Cabinet Office moved to the residents of the communities in 43 higher ground — together or separately — in 1896, the Meiji Sanriku earthquake, while 98 communities, triggered by a massive tsunami after some 43 moves up to the 1933 Sanriku earthquake. One of the community welcomed the Chilean earthquake of 1960 it was located, as had been the thrust of greater access rights.The Agency has found that the investigation of these communities, at least 21 also suffered 11. March of the disaster, including the District of Iwate, Aomori, a city in Otsuchi Prefecture., Only nine communities that had rolled over the last few spared, one of the tsunami waves, which now belongs to the devastation caused by the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Yamagata Prefecture Kawata. it is stated that the local communities was 11. March of the tsunami may have difficulty building the consensus needed if they are to be jointly transferred to the greater location.Although some of the communities to relocate some of the higher, the residents can move back down again, the priority being placed on the live closer to where they work, he said.

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China's support for the sharp Cut is called the

The Government intends to carry on the effective reduction of ¥ 350 million of official development assistance for the Beijing Government 2012, calling the proposed deeper Cuts, which was based on China's rapid economic growth of The number of planned Saturday for 31. March 13-year practice off represents 7.6% to reduce the deficit to 4.6 billion, to ¥ image in 2011, the much smaller than advocated by Seiji Maehara, the Minister of Foreign Affairs when he was cut by a sharp cut. is to avoid it because it "may be adversely affected, despite signs of increasing bilateral relations," a senior Foreign Ministry official said.In February, are invited to review the official development Maehara of assistance, including assistance to China, a large intersection, after it passes the world's second largest economy, Japan's Ministry of last year. "China has developed significantly, and should take the form of environmental and other measures on their own, "said Maehara. he stepped over the March in the early stages of a political scandal for the money, the Ministry of public development aid, translated into the new guidelines of the Government in 2012 and beyond in late June. The guidelines for internal use, the proposed Cuts will affect such projects the construction of schools and health clinics in rural Chinese villages.But the guidelines call for the continuation of assistance to the most of the other programs, including forestation yellow dust and technical training is designed to work with the new flu viruses.The money is still on the train, the officials of the Chinese market rules, believing in, the program will help Japanese companies, make sure the administrators of the market, in China, Japan, according to the guidelines.All of the projects of development assistance (ODA) continue to include grants-in aid or technical assistance, which require does not return the contributions.

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In Japan, the high schoolers to forget baseball

But the regions out of the wave the more dynamic of the homes to stand in the rice paddies are jaloin, continued productivity and parks are filled with children squealing.

Difficult to reproduce the contrast is in the whole of the northeastern Japan, including the schools here. On a hill, in the destruction of the Ofunato, many high school, as it was before the March 11, save for a few broken Windows. The lobby has several glass-cases, which include the school baseball team won the trophies.

At least two miles away, Ofunato Higashi High School Kayanaka campus also has escaped serious injury. But now the students filled out the helpful of Rikuzentakata, which is 10 miles away from the tsunami was consumed and Ofunato Takata High school. And, because of military jeeps and a truck parked at the Higashi, field-baseball, n. Takata's team is in the city train with the other school.

In Baseball, though, is the way to the players and coaches the damaged and undamaged schools in the continuation of the foreseeable, if, before they are implemented for heavy routine of the waves arrived. The players better, because on Thursday, the regional tournament to determine who will represent the Prefecture of Iwate, the national high school championship-August begins. That will help you forget some, at least for a few hours, that they will be lost, uncle, or that they live in a refugee Center.

"As you can see, once they are in the training field, all have the same before the disaster, and they appear to be excited about in the run-up to the tournament," said Sasaki Akishi Takata, baseball team manager:. "But when they go home, some of the students can pass through the rubble. They feel are likely to be downwards. I worry about those whose emotions soar and sink on a daily basis. "

55 players Takata's baseball team and it is the job for them to talk about the Owada Masato. The team's Captain and the first Karhea baseman, he makes himself as yakyu jin, someone who is not a baseball itself is vital, as opposed to the martial arts devotee. Owada has been in baseball since the school's Soinisen direct.

Straight back to he is unfailingly courteous and the authorisation holder shall consist of a remarkably. About one-third of her team lost their homes, so that he is relatively lucky still to live for his family, which was before Rikuzentakata tsunami 23,300 residents. But to get the town of Ofunato, he rarely visited before he is now on the commute, winding roads are clogged, the construction of the coastal areas, with the crew.

Perhaps because of the disruption to his life has been so acute, in particular, shows the Owada dedicated baseball, if only to escape to his home town of excess changed reality. As the high school each player he dreams of Koshien Stadium near Osaka, where the national competition will be organized to play. But now he is an extra motivation.

"It is to go to the support of the people of the Koshien by us to do good and to encourage the goal of my back, Rikuzentakata," Owada said. "This experience, we became independent, and our meeting came to increasingly better. And when we play like we can, the people who see us is wonderful, that ye. "

His gentle repeated everywhere in Japan, according to the ballplayers, although they are particularly poignant when banknotes from the angle of the country this year. Rikuzentakata: n waterfront took the full force of the tsunami. Around 2 000 people died or are missing. More than 3 300 homes were destroyed and nearly every building in the city centre had been unsuccessful. Mayor's tsunami survived were City Hall on the roof of the waves crashed over him as a clinging to.

Owada and his team escaped by running the ball in the second field of the higher ground. But their three-story school, which faces water was ruined. Four months later, its classrooms, yet Mud Mounds and waterlogged books to students in the floor. Each window was smashed and a wind flap curtains.

The ball in front of the school field that sneakers to sit next to a handful, sweatsuits aluminum baseball and the paper cranes, the colors of the sea water faded strands. Pictures of the students of the albums is a collection of medals won by the various clubs. Computer motherboards the shine of the Sun.

Since the destruction of the completeness of the information, it is difficult to imagine how any another school will be built there. Even if — and that can take years — it is unclear how many of the families with children to return to the city, which has been devastated its economy. Only people who seem to be operating in the city centre of garbage haulers, a few service station attendants, and convenience store clerks that sell their inventory to truck backs.

Makiko Inoue, Harumi Osawa and Kantaro Suzuki contributed reporting.

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FIX: July 12, 2011

On Sunday, the article about baseball: n, the importance of helping students in Japan to continue after the tsunami and the earthquake this year as a routine gathering of baseball team manager Ofunato High School in 1984, first name. He is not Sato Ryuei Shigetomi Harvest.

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