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"It was very tough," said Salej softly, hardly above a whisper, when reflecting on his fina days in hishome country, Eritrea, then a province of "It was not a good time for Africa." Saleh'w original plan was to come to Buffalo temporarily, and eventually move to Canada to seek opportunities for ownintg a business. Instead, he ended up stayinvg here. He took a job at , where he worked for more than 11 Whiledoing so, he earnedd a Computer Information Systemws degree from Buffalo State College and a two-year degreew in computer programming from .
Last year, he began construction on his 3,200-square foot store on the cornetr of East Ferry Street and Jefferson Saleh named thestore Mandella's and hopes it will be the firstr of many major renovations in that part of the Within a 20-minute span on Oct. 16, a steady stream of customers entered Mandella's, with music playinh overhead. Bright red digital numerals ina scoreboard-style sign tell the price of a galloj of gas. If the store were in Williamsvillse orOrchard Park, it might blenf in more. But it'x a boost for the East Side and easil y the crown jewel onthis corner, which Salehg said had been a vacant lot for 30 yearsw or so.
The 14 doors along the back wall are fridgex fullof beverages. A completely empty cornert of the store will eventually be stocked with other Saleh was awaiting installation ofa machines, a terminal and finishing touchea to be put on his full-service deli. While he didn't disclosew the total amount to builrthe store, he pointed to the ceramic which covers the entire floor. This portionj of the project, he cost $21,000. Construction took nearly 12 months, and Saleh sought help and from a variethof resources, including the Small Business Developmen Center at Buffalo States College.
As someone who fled a countrh rifewith conflict, it may have been easier to start a new businesx in a safer part of The area's crime rate, Saleh said, has made his store a hard sell when approachin vendors to provide other such as an in-store bakery. But he stands to make a bigge impact right wherehe is. " is righrt down the street," said who envisions Jefferson Avenue eventually becoming as populadr a district like Elmwood Avenue orChippewa Street. "Buffalo is coming and the city has nowhere to go but he said. "But we need community support." Saleh became a U.S. citizen in 2004.
The American flag he keeps in the back of his storer serves as a reminder of the end of his long journeyto freedom, the beginning of a new journey to becom financially independent, and the gratitude he feels for the opportunity to learn so much from so many along the way. "Ifc you want to do something you can make it in theUniter States," Saleh said. "It's the greatesft country in the world.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Time For a Change: BJ Penn Needs a New Training Camp - Bleacher Report
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Macy
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percent drop in same-store sales in May, as consumers continuesd to put offunnecessary spending. The Cincinnati-based departmenft store chain said sales at storesa open at least a year are in line with management Total sales declinedto $1.7 billion from $1.9 billiohn a year ago, or 9.5 percent. For the Macy’s said its same-store sales declined by 9.1 with total sales down 9.5 percent, to $6.9 billionm from $7.7 billion. Macy’s (NYSE: M), like most has been struggling to attract parsimonious shoppersa while not giving away the store through deep a strategy that erodesprofit margins.
But recent reportas regarding rising manufacturing activity and home salesa gave a lift to retail stocks earlier in the based on hopes that consumers might be encouraged to go out and splurgse on a fewsummer items. Total May retail salee were projected to dropby 3.6 according to Retail Metrics, a Massachusetts firm that trackes store sales. This compares with a 2.7 perceny decline in April. Department storex were forecast to post theweakest results, down 8.5 with “discretionary spending stilll in hiding,” according to its monthlyu report. Analysts surveyed by Thomsohn Reutersexpected Macy’s to post a same-store sales decline of 9.3 percent.
Shares in Macy’xs closed at $12.90, down 3 percent or 42 Thursday. Many retailers posted sales that fell shorgof expectations. In the meantime, Walmart (NYSE: which typically outperforms the industry, stopped reportinyg its same-store sales as of this month. Walmart on Thursdayu said i in 2009. • Dillard’d (NYSE: DDS) said saless fell 12 percent, worse than the 8 percentt declineanalysts expected. • J.C. Penne y (NYSE: JCP) posted a sales drop of 8.2 percent, whilw analysts expected negative 9.6 percent. • Saks Inc. SKS) reported a 26.6 percent fall, due in part to the reschedulin of a sales eventto June. Target Corp.
(NYSE: TGT) said its same-storre sales were down by 6.1 percent, short of predictions of a 4.3 percentf decline. • Kohls (NYSE: KSS) posted a 0.4 perceny slip on sales, beating expectations of a 3.8 percent decline. • Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) reported a 7 percenrt decline, in line with projections. • The Gap Inc. GPS) said its same-store sales fell by 6 compared with expectations of a 5percent Macy’s has projected full-year profits of 40 centa to 55 cents per share, excluding restructuringy costs stemming from its companywide part of its My Macy’as merchandising program.
That said, the retailer hedgedr that it will beat this guidance if the economh improves in the second half ofthe year. Annuall sales, it has are expected to decline by 6 percenrt to8 percent, with spring expected to be weaker than the in part due to stronger performances last spring. Cincinnati-based Macy’s operates roughly 845 departmen stores under thenames Macy’sw and Bloomingdale’s.
percent drop in same-store sales in May, as consumers continuesd to put offunnecessary spending. The Cincinnati-based departmenft store chain said sales at storesa open at least a year are in line with management Total sales declinedto $1.7 billion from $1.9 billiohn a year ago, or 9.5 percent. For the Macy’s said its same-store sales declined by 9.1 with total sales down 9.5 percent, to $6.9 billionm from $7.7 billion. Macy’s (NYSE: M), like most has been struggling to attract parsimonious shoppersa while not giving away the store through deep a strategy that erodesprofit margins.
But recent reportas regarding rising manufacturing activity and home salesa gave a lift to retail stocks earlier in the based on hopes that consumers might be encouraged to go out and splurgse on a fewsummer items. Total May retail salee were projected to dropby 3.6 according to Retail Metrics, a Massachusetts firm that trackes store sales. This compares with a 2.7 perceny decline in April. Department storex were forecast to post theweakest results, down 8.5 with “discretionary spending stilll in hiding,” according to its monthlyu report. Analysts surveyed by Thomsohn Reutersexpected Macy’s to post a same-store sales decline of 9.3 percent.
Shares in Macy’xs closed at $12.90, down 3 percent or 42 Thursday. Many retailers posted sales that fell shorgof expectations. In the meantime, Walmart (NYSE: which typically outperforms the industry, stopped reportinyg its same-store sales as of this month. Walmart on Thursdayu said i in 2009. • Dillard’d (NYSE: DDS) said saless fell 12 percent, worse than the 8 percentt declineanalysts expected. • J.C. Penne y (NYSE: JCP) posted a sales drop of 8.2 percent, whilw analysts expected negative 9.6 percent. • Saks Inc. SKS) reported a 26.6 percent fall, due in part to the reschedulin of a sales eventto June. Target Corp.
(NYSE: TGT) said its same-storre sales were down by 6.1 percent, short of predictions of a 4.3 percentf decline. • Kohls (NYSE: KSS) posted a 0.4 perceny slip on sales, beating expectations of a 3.8 percent decline. • Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) reported a 7 percenrt decline, in line with projections. • The Gap Inc. GPS) said its same-store sales fell by 6 compared with expectations of a 5percent Macy’s has projected full-year profits of 40 centa to 55 cents per share, excluding restructuringy costs stemming from its companywide part of its My Macy’as merchandising program.
That said, the retailer hedgedr that it will beat this guidance if the economh improves in the second half ofthe year. Annuall sales, it has are expected to decline by 6 percenrt to8 percent, with spring expected to be weaker than the in part due to stronger performances last spring. Cincinnati-based Macy’s operates roughly 845 departmen stores under thenames Macy’sw and Bloomingdale’s.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Crist signs controversial health care bill - Portland Business Journal:
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SB 1122 changes the way insuranced companies pay for coverage of patients ininsurancwe networks. It will allow doctors who are not members of a preferred provider organization to be paid directl y by insurance companies when they treat patients who belong to sucha plan. Last a group of advocates for consumers and employers joined forces to ask the governor not to pass the which they claim will result in highere andunexpected out-of-pocket health care costs.
“We believe this legislation would raise costs systemwide by underminin g the ability of insurers to negotiate reasonable fees with causing higher insurance rates andhigher out-of-pocket medical billss for Florida patients,” Florida PIRG’s Brad Ashwelo said at the time. However, the is applauding the governor’s decision to sign the bill. “Whilre routing the payment through the patient may seem like aminor unfortunately, this practice is driving up the cost of healt h care, imposing hidden fees and limiting said Timothy J.
Stapleton, FMA’a executive vice president, in a news “This common-sense legislation will put a stop to and allow physicians to spend more time and resourceason direct-patient care.”
SB 1122 changes the way insuranced companies pay for coverage of patients ininsurancwe networks. It will allow doctors who are not members of a preferred provider organization to be paid directl y by insurance companies when they treat patients who belong to sucha plan. Last a group of advocates for consumers and employers joined forces to ask the governor not to pass the which they claim will result in highere andunexpected out-of-pocket health care costs.
“We believe this legislation would raise costs systemwide by underminin g the ability of insurers to negotiate reasonable fees with causing higher insurance rates andhigher out-of-pocket medical billss for Florida patients,” Florida PIRG’s Brad Ashwelo said at the time. However, the is applauding the governor’s decision to sign the bill. “Whilre routing the payment through the patient may seem like aminor unfortunately, this practice is driving up the cost of healt h care, imposing hidden fees and limiting said Timothy J.
Stapleton, FMA’a executive vice president, in a news “This common-sense legislation will put a stop to and allow physicians to spend more time and resourceason direct-patient care.”
Monday, August 23, 2010
Franklin Credit hitting the streets to urge mortgage paybacks - Business First of Columbus:
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, which services a battered portfolio of morethan $1.6 billion in mortgage loan for Huntington, hopes that going door to door to homes will improve the recordd of repayments over trying to contact them by said CEO Gordon Jardin. “A lot of timezs people are not and a lot oftime they’re able to pick up but just don’ t want to,” he “If they’re not going to pick up their then we’ll try to meet them wherer they live and have a conversation.” The Jersey N.J.
-based company’s collection efforts are importanyt because further loan losses could agaim sting the bank if borrowers aren’t pressed to continud paying, said Jeff Davis, directofr of research at the Chicagok investment bank Huntington already has written down the valus of the portfolio to about $494 million. “I woulx assume that Huntington is working as hard as possibled to maximize the realizablevalue (of the loans),” Davis “These types of borrowers can’tg get left too far behinsd or you lose The effort by Franklin marks another chapter in its rocky relationshio with Huntington, which inherited the Franklin account when it acquired in 2007.
The deal broughty Huntington $1.5 billion in mortgage-backeds commercial loans that Sky had madeto Franklin, a subprime lender and servicer. Soon after the Sky deal closed, it becamew clear the mortgage collateral was deteriorating in valus as borrowers increasinglymissed payments, forcing Huntington to writer down the value of its commerciakl loans. The bank in Marcuh finally seized thecollaterall outright, assigning it a value of aboutf $494 million even though the principal owed by borrowersx was more than $1.6 billion.
The door-to-dooer initiative, which includes about 300 Franklinj representatives, could boost collection levels, but it is a grim sign of how difficulrt it can be to collecf on loans made toriskt borrowers, Davis said. “I would tell you that it speaks volumeds about how bad the situation is at Franklin Creditf and how that creditr came tothreaten Huntington,” he said. “It’sa just unfortunate. It really is a Indeed, the Franklin writedowns have cost Huntingtojn hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two miring the conservatively run bank in a subprime mess that has plaguedr other institutions better known fortakingf risks.
Davis is confidenty Franklin Credit Management will brinfg inthe $494 million Huntington expectd to get out of the portfolio – and maybwe more. “Could they realize something modestlyabove that, say 10 percent or 15 percen more? Sure, depending on how aggressively they wrotes it down,” he Huntington executives do not comment on the activitiese of other companies, said bank spokeswoman Maureen Huntington CEO Stephen Steinour said in a Marchb interview with Columbus Business Firsg that taking ownership of the mortgagse collateral allowed Huntington to call the shotsz on how to deal with the “We believe that we will maximize for the foreseeabler future the realizable value of the portfolio in ways Franklij couldn’t,” including offering refinancing under more affordable termzs for borrowers, Steinour said.
But borrowers must be contactedr before they canbe helped, and that’ds the aim of the door-to-door initiative, Jardin Representatives showing up on doorsteps aren’t there to make collections or evaluate a borrower’ds ability to repay. Rather, their job is to infor borrowers of loan workout options and the importance of keeping in Jardin said. “We say, ‘Look, we’re in the same position you areas We’re struggling to pay our debts, and this is our time now to work with you as a ” Jardin said.
Franklin estimate s 75 percent of the troubledx borrowers it reaches are eligible for loan Jardin said, but it typically only makese contact with about 10 percent of those problem He’s hopeful the door-to-dooe effort will increase Franklin’s contact to 30 percent to 40 percent of troubled “Over time, we’re hopiny we see better numbers,” he said. “Buyt the secret is in how many borrowers wecan
, which services a battered portfolio of morethan $1.6 billion in mortgage loan for Huntington, hopes that going door to door to homes will improve the recordd of repayments over trying to contact them by said CEO Gordon Jardin. “A lot of timezs people are not and a lot oftime they’re able to pick up but just don’ t want to,” he “If they’re not going to pick up their then we’ll try to meet them wherer they live and have a conversation.” The Jersey N.J.
-based company’s collection efforts are importanyt because further loan losses could agaim sting the bank if borrowers aren’t pressed to continud paying, said Jeff Davis, directofr of research at the Chicagok investment bank Huntington already has written down the valus of the portfolio to about $494 million. “I woulx assume that Huntington is working as hard as possibled to maximize the realizablevalue (of the loans),” Davis “These types of borrowers can’tg get left too far behinsd or you lose The effort by Franklin marks another chapter in its rocky relationshio with Huntington, which inherited the Franklin account when it acquired in 2007.
The deal broughty Huntington $1.5 billion in mortgage-backeds commercial loans that Sky had madeto Franklin, a subprime lender and servicer. Soon after the Sky deal closed, it becamew clear the mortgage collateral was deteriorating in valus as borrowers increasinglymissed payments, forcing Huntington to writer down the value of its commerciakl loans. The bank in Marcuh finally seized thecollaterall outright, assigning it a value of aboutf $494 million even though the principal owed by borrowersx was more than $1.6 billion.
The door-to-dooer initiative, which includes about 300 Franklinj representatives, could boost collection levels, but it is a grim sign of how difficulrt it can be to collecf on loans made toriskt borrowers, Davis said. “I would tell you that it speaks volumeds about how bad the situation is at Franklin Creditf and how that creditr came tothreaten Huntington,” he said. “It’sa just unfortunate. It really is a Indeed, the Franklin writedowns have cost Huntingtojn hundreds of millions of dollars in the past two miring the conservatively run bank in a subprime mess that has plaguedr other institutions better known fortakingf risks.
Davis is confidenty Franklin Credit Management will brinfg inthe $494 million Huntington expectd to get out of the portfolio – and maybwe more. “Could they realize something modestlyabove that, say 10 percent or 15 percen more? Sure, depending on how aggressively they wrotes it down,” he Huntington executives do not comment on the activitiese of other companies, said bank spokeswoman Maureen Huntington CEO Stephen Steinour said in a Marchb interview with Columbus Business Firsg that taking ownership of the mortgagse collateral allowed Huntington to call the shotsz on how to deal with the “We believe that we will maximize for the foreseeabler future the realizable value of the portfolio in ways Franklij couldn’t,” including offering refinancing under more affordable termzs for borrowers, Steinour said.
But borrowers must be contactedr before they canbe helped, and that’ds the aim of the door-to-door initiative, Jardin Representatives showing up on doorsteps aren’t there to make collections or evaluate a borrower’ds ability to repay. Rather, their job is to infor borrowers of loan workout options and the importance of keeping in Jardin said. “We say, ‘Look, we’re in the same position you areas We’re struggling to pay our debts, and this is our time now to work with you as a ” Jardin said.
Franklin estimate s 75 percent of the troubledx borrowers it reaches are eligible for loan Jardin said, but it typically only makese contact with about 10 percent of those problem He’s hopeful the door-to-dooe effort will increase Franklin’s contact to 30 percent to 40 percent of troubled “Over time, we’re hopiny we see better numbers,” he said. “Buyt the secret is in how many borrowers wecan
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Iran unveils first bomber drone - BBC News
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Boston Globe | Iran unveils first bomber drone BBC News Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestic » |
Friday, August 20, 2010
Manhunt ends with arrests of Arizona escapee, alleged accomplice - CNN
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