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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir promised on Thursday that Sudan would respond robustly to what he believes was an Israeli bombing of a Khartoum arms factory.
Bashir, in a speech from the Sudanese embassy in Saudi Arabia broadcast on Sudan's Blue Nile TV, also said he was in "perfect health" after undergoing surgery in the Gulf kingdom.
Sudan last month accused Israel of carrying out an air strike on the Yarmouk weapons plant in the south of Khartoum, causing a blast that killed four people.
Israel has not commented. It has long accused Sudan of channeling weapons from Iran to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a small Palestinian territory it has under blockade.
"Israel will remain the number one enemy, and we will not call them anything except the Zionist enemy," Bashir said in his speech, shown in footage dated Thursday and his first appearance since undergoing surgery.
Bashir also lamented what he described as Israel's superior, radar-evading aircraft technology, but ruled out normalizing relations with the Jewish state.
In a brief text message sent to mobile phones, state radio earlier quoted Bashir as saying he was in "perfect health" and that the response to Israel would be "painful".
Bashir, who came to power in a bloodless 1989 coup, left hospital in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after undergoing a "small, successful" operation, state media said.
Sudanese blogs and newspapers had begun to speculate about Bashir's health because he has held fewer public rallies in the past few months. He underwent surgery on his vocal cords in Qatar in August, an official said last month.
In the televised speech, Bashir said his surgery and the related medical examinations had taken only 24 hours.
Over 23 years in power, Bashir has weathered multiple armed rebellions, years of U.S. trade sanctions, an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, waves of student protests and the secession of oil-producing South Sudan last year.
He is known for his fiery speeches and for dancing and waving his walking stick at public events.
(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz; Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Marion Local reloaded for run to Canton
MARIA STEIN — Maybe nothing illustrates the next-man-in-line mentality of the Marion Local football program better than Justin Rutschilling, the Flyers' own proverbial rags to riches story.
Just a junior varsity player from a season ago as a junior, Rutschilling worked his way into becoming a first team All-Midwest Athletic Conference player on both offense and defense this fall.
"I think it was bad coaching," Marion Local head coach Tim Goodwin deadpanned in a teleconference on Monday. "We talked as a coaching staff and we wondered, 'why in the heck weren't we play him last year?'"
No one other than an incessantly self-deprecating Goodwin accuses him of being a bad coach, though. This is Marion Local's sixth stab at a state title. They've only come up empty once in the past five tries.
Marion Local simply finds new ways to use the incoming talent to its best abilities.
The Flyers are no stranger to the state championship game. But Marion Local does it with a whole new crop of players this season.
Marion Local searches for its fifth state championship on Saturday morning when it plays Buckeye Central (12-2) at 11 a.m. at Canton's Fawcett Stadium.
Rutschilling is a shining example. He plays right guard and inside linebacker for the Flyers.
"Justin is the first kid who ever had who in his first year starting went from JV to first team all-league as a senior," Goodwin said. "He's had an incredible senior year."
"We've lost senior classes," Goodwin said. "But we have kids stepping in who put the time in and stuck with program and didn't get discouraged. They didn't let themselves quit and senior year they had great years. We've had it in the past, Justin is just an extreme example of that, even for us. He's our emotional leader."
Flyers Reloaded: The Flyers weren't necessarily picked to get back to the title game after a large exodus of players to graduation from last season's team that lost to Minster in the regional semifinals.
Even in the early weeks of the season, Marion Local looked far from a team headed to Canton in Week 16.
"(At the start of the year) we were very young and inexperienced," Marion Local head coach Tim Goodwin said. "We had some kids back on defense but our offense was brand new. We've enjoyed watching this offense grow. It's been a lot of fun."
The emergence of sophomore quarterback Adam Bertke has been a large part of an offense that went from scoring just seven points against Shawnee in a 13-7 overtime loss to a squad that won the MAC and is averaging more than 36 points per game during the playoffs. Goodwin pinpointed the Week 4 and Week 5 wins over Minster and Anna as the turning points of the season.
Now Marion Local runs it and throws it equally well, with a Bertke gaining confidence throwing to a pair of skilled wideouts in Lee Pierron and Dylan Thobe along with Heitkamp gaining chunks of yardage in the running game.
"I like our balance on offense," Goodwin said. " Jake Heitkamp and Adam Bertke have really come on throughout the season."
"We've always told our kids that if a team is going to be playing a seven-man front on defense, we have to be able to run," he added. "If they run an eight-man front we have to be able to throw it to make them pay."


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Silence speaks louder than words
Hundreds of e-mails come through my two accounts on a daily basis. If I had to guess, 90% of them are junk.
Most I don't click to open. They go straight to the trash.
Today's sampling:
Pay your traffic ticket in Seattle.
We'd like to print your business cards.
The Better Business Bureau is processing a complaint against you.
There was an exciting new fossil formation found in Denmark.
But the last one in my junk folder caught my attention:
Five things you can never get back.
The $14 that I spent on a nasty chicken-fried steak in some restaurant in downtown Sidney the night before immediately came to mind but somehow I knew that wasn't what this message was talking about.
The five things it listed were: A stone once thrown, a word once spoken, the occasion after it's missed, time once it's gone and a person after they die.
That's pretty deep stuff for junk mail.
But in that moment on that day, I realized it wasn't junk mail at all. Somebody somewhere knew I needed to read that message.
It all hit deeply close to home but one particular section screamed volumes at me.
It had been a long trip across the state with little sleep and lots of stress. As it ended up, we had to haul a giant load of disappointment home with us.
Everyone knows that feeling of having worked extremely hard for something, only to learn it wasn't yours to have.
When it's your kid who gets the wind knocked out of his sails, you want to say something to make him feel better.
I had no words.
Well, maybe I had words but I was pretty sure I couldn't put them together as a healing force.
Once uttered, you can't "unsay" words. That's what makes them so powerful.
So rather than take the risk of saying the wrong thing, I said nothing. I didn't try to fix it, change it or cover it up. I simply sat quietly, waiting for the pain to lift.
In the stillness came an amazing healing for all.
I'm a word person and sometimes they spill out of me.
I learned that day, though, that there isn't always something worth saying.
Sometimes it's simply better to let silence be golden.
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Season 3 of D&DH-TV is now airing on The Outdoor Channel!
This year's episodes will cover everything from cutting-edge food-plot techniques to inside information on how to hunt the rut.
New features include an innovative shot-placement segment, "Score This Deer" contest and "Flashback," which will look back at some of the most comprehensive topics covered in the 30-year history of Deer & Deer Hunting.
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Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby will be inducted into the Oklahoma Historical Society's Historians Hall of Fame April 19, in the Frisco Conference Center at Clinton.
Anoatubby, along with Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, Professor William Corbet, Tahlequah, and Max Nichols, New York City, are this year's honorees. Ceremonies will be conducted during the OHS' annual Awards Luncheon.
A Tishomingo native, Anoatubby has served as Governor of the Chickasaw Nation since 1987. During his tenure in office he has been the driving force behind a concerted and successful effort to collect, preserve, and share Chickasaw history and culture. Among many projects has been the restoration of landmarks such as the Chickasaw Capitol Building at Tishomingo and the White House of the Chickasaws at Emet. He also led in the creation of The Chickasaw Press and the Chickasaw Cultural Center at Sulphur, and the creation of feature films on Chickasaw historical subjects.
"We truly appreciate the Oklahoma Historical Society's recognition. It is a real tribute to all who have worked so hard to preserve the history and heritage of the great, unconquered and unconquerable Chickasaw Nation," Anoatubby said.
The Awards Luncheon is the culminating event of the three-day annual meeting.
The theme for the meeting is "Movin' On: Mobility as a Dynamic force in Oklahoma History." Other events include a special reception, concert and 24 speakers.
The public is invited to attend the luncheon. Cost of the event is $17 per person.
To ask questions or obtain a reservation call (800) 750-4090, (405) 522-0317 or by emailing Paul Lambert at email@example.com or ShellyCrynes at email@example.com.
Information on registration for the entire meeting may be obtained by using the same telephone numbers or email addresses.


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Havenstein, GOP governor candidate, asks NH Ballot Law Commission to rule on his residencyBY GARY RAYNO New Hampshire Union Leader
June 11. 2014 2:21PM
CONCORD — Republican gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein jumped ahead of his opponents Wednesday and filed a petition to have the Ballot Law Commission determine his residence.
Democratic Party officials have claimed he does not meet state residency requirements because he lived in Maryland as recently as 2012.
They say Havenstein took advantage of a homestead property tax credit available only to Maryland residents, registered a vehicle in that state and held a Maryland driver's license.
Havenstein, who officially filed to run in the Repbublican gubernatorial primary Wednesday, released his petition to the Ballot Law Commission in which he claims he maintained his New Hampshire residency since he moved to Bedford in 1999, although he lived temporarily in Maryland through 2012.
Havenstein said he wants to end any uncertainty or confusion over his official domicile and his eligibility to run for governor.
"Rather than wait for frivolous complaints, I want to get this clarified as quickly as we can," Havenstein said. "I'm 100 percent confident there will be no issue with my eligibility."
For the last 15 years he has lived in New Hampshire, he said, and voted only in New Hampshire.
"I am a proud, proud resident of this State of New Hampshire," he said.


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seen at freshmeat and from the site: "pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It currently supports BibTeX files for reading and writing, and can also read Ovid files... It can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. In fact, it's a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and functions, and therefore can be extended to any usage (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc)."
pybliographer 0.7
Pybliographer 0.9.4
many bug fixes listed at the Pybliographer site covering the last time it was posted here (v0.7, I think) and this one. Please note also that on the page the author states "I really look for people interested in contributing on this. I will have much less time to devote to this project, so if you think it's worth, please consider helping me."
Pybliographer 0.9.6
new features listed at Pybliographer site include speedups, French language support, Medline, and LyX support as well, along with documentation. any end note users should try this out and let him know if it works...
as seen on gnome-list, what's new includes "multiple documents interface, with copy/paste and drag'n'drop; multiple selections (useful with LyX citation for example); all the supported formats (bibtex, medline, ovid, refer) can now be read and written; better date handling; bug fixes." for more see the pybliographer download page at gnome.org. if you haven't tried this yet give it a shot; i might finally get rid of endnote + msword (and there was much rejoicing). :)
As seen at freshmeat, gnome-list, and noted by Matt W.: "Many annoying bugfixes, a graphical configuration mechanism, and an XML-based style format for bibliographic outputs." Go to www.gnome.org/pybliographer (note new url) for more.
as seen at gnome.org: "This version is only a minor bug-fixes release." Btw I've been using this a bit and I'm getting ready to let go of Endnote for good. Wooh-hooh... :)
from gnome-list: "endnote generated bibtex files should now be readable; additional configuration topics for bibtex; minor bug fixes" ...and from the pybliographer site: "Consider this version as a 1.0pre1, so please report any problem you encounter with it." Frederic is really doing great work on this... it's got every feature I need now. Wooh-hooh!
news from Frederic, via www.gnome.org/pybliographer: "we are now at 0.9.11, aka 1.0pre2. Improved bibtex author formatting and fixed compilation problems with i18n support. I'll be on vacation two weeks, and plan to release 1.0 when I come back, depending on the number of bug reports I'll find in my mailbox ;-)"
has anybody looked into plugging these classes into Zope yet?
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Art Guild Issues Thanks
Dear Editor,
The Owen County Art Guild has to move. We need a DRY building to display over 1,200 pieces of art. If we had a larger space we could easily have over 4,000. We could be a huge tourist attraction and benefit to Spencer.
We wish to thank the following for their generous donations to our building fund: Owen County State Bank Quality Surfaces Owen Community Bank Spencer Evening World West & Parish & Pedigo Funeral Home, Inc. Dr. William D. Kenfield, DDS Duling Insurance Dr. Charles Cochran Delta Theta Tau Sorority
We still have a long way to go before we can buy a new building. Tax deductible donations can be sent to: Owen County Art Guild, 199 West Cooper Street, Spencer, IN 47460.
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As Ilene Glickman approached her 40th birthday, she decided it was time to have the third child she'd always wanted. Already the parents of Cheryl, 12, and Andrew, 9, she and her husband, Steven, a dentist, didn't feel that their family was complete. Ilene, an owner of a children's clothing company in Boca Raton, FL, got pregnant three times—and miscarried three times because the lining of her uterus did not grow thick enough to sustain a pregnancy. Finally, she underwent several in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts that failed but yielded seven embryos that she was then able to have frozen.
"Steve and I looked at each other and said, 'This is craziness,'" she remembers. "I had my embryos, but I couldn't carry them. I was devastated. But I wasn't about to give up."
Ilene figured her only chance to have a third biological child was to hire another woman, a surrogate, to carry it for her. She looked up surrogacy on the Internet and started to call agencies and lawyers all over the country, taking copious notes. She spent months investigating websites on the topic. Finally, over the Internet, she connected with a 23-year-old woman in California willing to carry a child for her. After six months of procedural screenings—psychological, legal and medical—it turned out that the woman had the same uterine-lining problem Ilene had.
Exhausted and depressed but still determined to expand her family, Ilene, now 45, put another ad on a surrogacy website. Among the five replies she received, one stood out: a young woman who sounded kind and compassionate, almost too good to be true.
Ilene e-mailed her immediately and throughout the next 24 hours got to know her online. She learned that the potential surrogate's name was Carrie Russell, she was 24, and she was a deeply spiritual person who believed that when one door closes, another opens: Although she'd lost an ovary at 17, Russell was able to conceive her daughter, now 6, but then developed endometriosis. After seven surgeries to correct it, she had her son, now 4. "It was a miracle," says Russell, who lives in Toledo. "I wanted to give something back." What could be more important, she thought, than giving life? Ilene knew she'd found the person who would bear her third child.
A Controversial Choice
Even though it's been 22 years since the first documented surrogate birth took place, the practice continues to raise eyebrows. There are still difficult issues to consider, but a lot has changed between those days—when the heart-wrenching story of Mary Beth Whitehead's 1985 surrogacy case covered the front pages of every newspaper—and two summers ago, when a radiant 52-year-old Cheryl Tiegs announced the birth of her twin boys by a surrogate. During that time, there have been an estimated 14,000 to 16,000 surrogate births (the number isn't exact because many take place between friends and family without agencies or lawyers to document them).
The largest increase has occurred in the past five years, as technology and success rates have improved and the practice of "gestational" surrogacy has emerged. The prospective parents' sperm and egg are used to create embryos outside the womb that can then be transferred to the surrogate's uterus, or, as in Ilene Glickman's case, leftover frozen embryos can be used. If a woman can't supply her own eggs, couples often opt for anonymous donor eggs or embryos rather than have the surrogate maintain a genetic link to the baby. (This was the case in traditional arrangements, in which the surrogate's eggs were fertilized with the intended father's sperm.) Today more than 95 percent of surrogate arrangements are gestational, says Karen Synesiou, director of the Center for Surrogate Parenting, in Beverly Hills, CA, which facilitates 85 to 100 such births a year.
Another reason for the rise in surrogate births is that they can be faster than adoption, says Joan Barnes, who runs The American Surrogacy Center (TASC) website (www.surrogacy.com); her two boys were carried by the same woman. And during a surrogate pregnancy, there's intense scrutiny and monitoring of prenatal care, so prospective parents feel that they have more reliable information about the health of their child.
Typically, the parents and the surrogate enter into a carefully worded contract that outlines the health responsibilities and expectations of each party. But even this doesn't erase what most people would consider the biggest drawback: the fear that the surrogate mother won't want to relinquish the baby after it's born. This has happened only 23 times since 1979. In those cases, some surrogates genuinely wanted to keep the baby because of an emotional bond, but for others it was an attempt to negotiate better terms. Almost every time, the issue was eventually resolved in favor of the intended parents, even when the child was genetically linked to the surrogate, says Andrew Vorzimer, a lawyer in Beverly Hills who specializes in third-party reproductive law.
In fact, it's more likely that the parents-to-be will have second thoughts. There have been 65 such situations in the past 20 years. Many of those couples changed their minds because they divorced prior to the birth, with one partner wanting the baby but the other unwilling to be responsible for child support, says Mark Johnson, an Atlanta lawyer who's written extensively on surrogacy law. Or there were premature births, without insurance coverage, and the intended parents were reluctant to pay for extended hospital care. Just last August, a couple in California attempted to back out of an arrangement with a surrogate who refused to abort one of the twins she was carrying for them.
The courts have usually responded by recognizing the responsibility of the intended parents. But "without question," says Vorzimer, "it's the surrogate who has to worry, 'How do I know you'll take this child?'"
Steven Glickman was skeptical at first that a surrogate would relinquish their child. "You hear about people who change their minds midstream. It's a tremendous leap of faith," he says. But then he and Ilene flew to Ohio to meet Russell, who insisted that she wouldn't want to keep their baby. "I knew I could do it because there were no genetic ties to me," Russell says. "Friends would ask, 'How could you give the baby away?' and I said, 'It's not mine to give away. It's like I'm being a babysitter.'"
Says Steven, "Once I met her, I knew it would be all right. This is something she was meant to do."
Maternal Motivations
Some women see surrogacy as a way to do something important in life, says Shirley Zager, director of the Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy (OPTS). Zager used a surrogate 14 years ago to have her daughter, Amy, and when she asked the woman why she was doing it, she replied, "I can't cure cancer or end world hunger. But I can make a very dramatic difference in the world."
Susan Jones, owner of Surrogate Parenting Consultants, the California agency that Russell and Ilene Glickman used, has had women call her agency to be surrogates without even knowing they'll get paid. Others have asked for less than the usual fee ($15,000 to $25,000) because they think it's too high.
In fact, the compensation is low considering what it takes to carry someone else's child. If you calculate the trips to doctors and clinics, the daily shots, the time away from your family, the screenings, the medical procedures, and the labor and delivery, she says, "the salary's probably about two dollars an hour."
Surrogates often view their earnings as a nest egg for their kids' college education or as a way to make money while caring for their own families. A combination of altruism and financial pull is what psychologists want to see when they screen potential surrogates because a woman whose motives are balanced and healthy will be better able to deal with the emotional aspects of carrying, delivering, and then parting with someone else's child.
Regardless, it appears that most surrogate moms wind up having mixed emotions about their experience, even years afterward, says Nancy Reame, Ph.D., a researcher in the University of Michigan's department of reproductive sciences who has studied traditional surrogates. Many report feelings of sadness, disappointment, and abandonment by the couples they'd helped and "are surprised at the depth of loss and grief they feel for the baby they'd carried," says Reame. Because gestational surrogacy is relatively new, there's been little study of its effect on women; it's hard to say how its emotional repercussions will compare with those of traditional surrogacy.
Couples who turn to surrogacy face their own set of fears, frustrations, and challenges. The cost alone can be a major obstacle, as agency fees range from $6,000 to $18,000. Then there are psychological screenings, medical screenings and procedures, legal fees, insurance fees, maternity clothes, obstetrical costs, and lost wages for the surrogate if she must leave work. The total can add up to as much as $75,000.
And, says David Smotrich, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist in La Jolla, CA, there's the physical stress a woman undergoing the first phase of IVF endures: weeks on medications to stimulate her ovaries to produce large quantities of eggs; the retrieval of those eggs, which usually involves general anesthesia; and the constant monitoring.
Turmoil, Triumph—and Twins!
Carrie Russell proved to be more than just a willing womb. She quickly became Ilene Glickman's friend, confidant, and voice of reason. When the embryos were thought to be missing for three days, Russell kept reassuring Ilene that everything would work out—and it did. The embryos hadn't been sent, which turned out to be a blessing—their destination was hit by a tornado during those three days.
After the transfer of five embryos into Russell's uterus, three implanted, but one of the resulting fetuses had a weak heartbeat and was half the size of the others; it miscarried at eight weeks. From then on, the pregnancy proceeded normally. Alexa and Ryan arrived the day after Christmas in 1999, with the Glickmans cheering Russell on throughout her six-hour labor. The new parents cried as their babies came into the world. "It was a very emotional, very spiritual experience," says Ilene.
The next day brought more tears when the Glickmans surprised Russell at the hospital with a bouquet of roses and announced that they had set up mutual fund accounts for the college education of Russell's two children. And Russell later had a surprise for the Glickmans: a day-by-day diary she'd kept of the pregnancy, which included her own hopes and dreams for the babies, bound into a book to be given to them.
Now Ilene and Russell correspond every couple of weeks via e-mail, and Ilene frequently sends Russell pictures of the twins. The first Mother's Day after they were born, she included a card, thanking Russell for her babies. "You have made my dreams come true, and I consider myself a very lucky lady," she wrote. "Revel in the fact that you have made one mother in south Florida deliriously happy."
How Surrogacy Works
There are three facets to most arrangements with surrogate mothers. It's vital that each is carried out:
Once tests determine that the surrogate is capable of carrying a pregnancy to term and that the intended mother's eggs are of good quality (the father's sperm is also analyzed), the women are put on medication to get their cycles in sync. Typically, this means six weeks' worth of daily hormone injections for the surrogate and three weeks of daily hormone injections to stimulate egg production for the mother.
If a pregnancy is achieved after the eggs are retrieved and fertilized (over three to five days) and embryos are transferred to the surrogate, she must continue to take daily hormone injections for another 12 weeks.
Potential surrogates working through an agency are required to complete a lengthy personality-profile questionnaire and to meet with a staff psychologist. Most psychologists screen for someone who's motivated by both altruism and financial gain, who enjoyed being pregnant (if she has been before) and had a healthy pregnancy, who has support from family and friends, and whose religious beliefs accept surrogacy. Surrogates must also be able to deal with the stress brought on by the medical aspect of surrogacy and to separate emotionally from the baby. Karen Synesiou of the Center for Surrogate Parenting, in Beverly Hills, CA, says that of the 400 calls she gets each month from women interested in becoming surrogates, only about 10 are accepted after the psychological screening.
Beyond that, the surrogate must be matched to a couple with whom she shares the same beliefs regarding termination of a pregnancy if medically indicated, selective reduction if there are more fetuses than expected, and the amount of contact between the intended parents and the surrogate during the pregnancy and after.
Each state differs in its recognition of surrogacy arrangements. In New York, surrogacy contracts are illegal. In New Jersey, it's legal to have someone carry a child for you, but it's against the law to pay her. Some states don't recognize the intended parents' right to have their name on the birth certificate and require that they legally adopt the child, even though biologically it's theirs. Other states, such as California, are highly favorable to surrogacy. These differences make it important for couples and surrogates to work with a reputable agency or, if putting together a private arrangement, a strong team of experts (doctors, psychologists, and lawyers familiar with state laws), says Mark Johnson, an Atlanta attorney who's written extensively about surrogacy law.
Debra Morgenstern Katz has written for The New York Times as well as national magazines.


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TORONTO (AP) — Canada's foreign affairs minister said Friday he is reviewing the country's relationship with the Palestinian Authority and temporarily recalling senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the United Nations missions in New York and Geneva to assess the implications of Thursday's U.N. General Assembly vote to recognize the Palestinians as a non-member observer state.
John Baird said in a statement he is deeply disappointed by the U.N. vote, in which Canada joined Israel, the United States and a few other countries in voting "no." He said the only way to peace in the Middle East is through negotiations, not what he called unilateral actions.
Recalling the diplomats will "inform Canada's response" to the vote, he said.
Baird, whose Conservative government is a staunch ally of Israel, travelled to New York to personally vote against it and gave a speech where he suggested Canada will take retaliatory measures against the Palestinians.
Baird didn't say what Canada would do, but a senior Canadian official said Canada has no intention at this point of cutting off relations or sending Palestinian diplomats home. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the government "will be thoughtful and deliberate in taking steps to express our displeasure at this unilateral action."
U.S. lawmakers have threatened to cut off aid if the Palestinians use their newfound status against Israel. That could be an option for Canada, which has provided about $300 million of aid to the Palestinians over the last five years.


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Campbell's tax hike: Mishandling the road toll
February 20. 2013 8:08PM
Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, has proposed a bill that would raise $1 billion over 10 years for the state Department of Transportation by increasing the gas tax and auto registration fees over the next three years. By way of comparison, the entire DOT budget in fiscal year 2012 was $531 million.
Raising the state's gas tax is never popular, which is why New Hampshire's tax is the lowest in New England. It was last increased in June of 1991 - three months before Seattle grunge band Nirvana released its breakthrough album, "Nevermind." Next year Nirvana will be eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A year ago, state transportation officials told legislators that the 10-year Highway Fund was $1.3 billion short of the money needed to complete every project. Campbell's bill would raise about $1 billion. But is everything in the 10-year plan essential? (It includes a commuter park-and-ride lot, for instance.) And does the bill raise this money in a responsible way?
Such a big economic jolt as Campbell proposes is never good; it is less desirable in a sputtering economy like this one. Campbell might have made more headway had he proposed a very small increase over four years, targeted to essential ?projects. Instead, he went for the whole $1 billion in three years, raising concerns that the money will not be well spent.
A small gas-tax hike might have sailed through the Legislature. Now Campbell faces a fight that might have been avoided with better planning.


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Ind. wraps up deal for Ohio River toll bridge
Ind. wraps up deal for Ohio River toll bridge
Indiana transportation officials have finalized contracts to build a new bridge over the Ohio River to Kentucky.
The Courier-Journal reported Friday that final contracts have been completed with WVB East End Partners, a consortium Indiana picked to design, finance, build, operate and maintain the bridge.
Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield said the deal is the last step in the bridge's financing. The toll bridge linking Utica, Ind., and Prospect, Ky., is one of two new bridges that will be built between the two states.
WVB will use toll revenue appropriated by the Indiana General Assembly to pay off bonds with a total debt of $1.48 billion through 2051.
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Track meets to be held at HRVHS
Two track and field clinics/meets are scheduled to be held May 28 and June 4 at Hood RIver Valley High School. All ages and ability levels are welcome (even 2 year-olds) and cost for the meets is $1. The free clinics, which will cover the basics of long jump, high jump and more, will start at 5:30 p.m. and meets begin at 6 p.m. Call 386-2055 with questions.
HOPE relay race deadline approaches
Registrations for the June 8 HOPE Bike, Paddle and Run for Cover are due Friday, May 31. Individuals or teams of two or three in this three-part race, which includes a 10K bike portion, a 5K run, and a 3K kayak course. Registration forms can be picked up at Outdoor Play at 6 Oak Street, Hood River. Call 386-9144 or email email@example.com with questions. Cost is $25 per individual ($15 for 18 and younger) and includes a T-shirt and raffle tickets. All proceeds benefit HOPE's emergency shelter program.
Skatepark committee meeting
Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation will hold a Skatepark Committee meeting Tuesday, May 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the Aquatic Center. Topics to be discussed include fundraising, Family Day on June 22, and general skatepark maintenance. Call Lori Stirn at 386-5720 with questions.
Community Education youth soccer
Hood River Community Education is still accepting registrations for boys and girls soccer players entering grades K-2 (not age) to play in its summer league. Teams will be set according to areas and will be co-ed. Practices will begin June 18, and games will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays in July from 6-7 p.m. Each team plays six games. Parents please note that it is your responsibility to make sure your child is at the appropriate school on June 18. Parkdale kids should meet at Parkdale Elementary; Odell kids at Wy'east Middle School; Cascade Locks kids at Cascade Locks School and Hood River kids at Westside. All areas meet at 6 p.m. The $30 league fee includes a T-shirt. Call 386-2055 with questions.
Tennis leagues set to begin in June
A men's Tuesday night doubles league is set to begin play June 11 at the City Tennis Courts. League is limited to eight teams and play will continue for eight weeks. Cost is $15. The Thursday night women's doubles league will begin play June 13, while the Wednesday night Mixed Doubles league will begin June 12. Leagues are limited to eight teams and play will continue for eight weeks. Cost is $15.
Venturing crew sought for summer
Boys and girls ages 14-19 interested in water sports are
encouraged to sign up for a new "venturing crew" to participate in twice-monthly outdoor adventures, including kayaking, windsurfing and kiteboarding. Co-sponsored by Hood River WaterPlay and the Boy Scouts of America, all activities are free and equipment is provided. The first outing took place May 15, but participants are still needed. Call Jak or Carla at 386-9463 with questions or to sign up. Parents who would like to volunteer a minimum two hours a month are also asked to call.
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Tax dollars draining: What's a floodway for?
March 03. 2013 4:19PM
(Editor's note: As Washington argues about the "draconian" sequester and its decimating effects, we bring our readers yet another tale of wasteful politicians. This editorial was published in last Wednesday's Washington Post.)
To Missouri lawmakers, it's a common-sense community development project. To what seems like almost everyone else, it's a bizarre waste of taxpayer money and an ecological disaster that a few members of Congress refuse to drop.
The New Madrid Floodway is a strip of land along the Mississippi River in Missouri's "bootheel." The Army Corps of Engineers dumps water into it when the river threatens to flood the city of Cairo, Ill., as it did in 2011. People nevertheless farm the land in the floodway, and they want the Corps to help them do it. Backed by their representatives in Congress, they demand a $165 million project to, yes, prevent too much flooding in the floodway.
There is a 1,500-foot gap in the local levee at the bottom of the floodway. That gap allows water to exit when the Corps purposely inundates the area. But the gap also allows water into the floodway at other times, resulting in unintentional flooding. Residents want the Corps to close the gap and blow a hole at the bottom of the levee when it needs to use the floodway. In years in which the floodway isn't needed - most, so far - that would increase agricultural yields and, no doubt, local land values.
In other words, they want the federal government to spend taxpayer money encouraging economic activity in a zone it is obligated to flood during high-water events. It should be no surprise that the locals are putting up none of their own cash to pay for the project. Also unsurprising is the alarm of Cairo's mayor, who worries that building up the floodway meant to protect his city would make it harder to strategically inundate that area and so spare his residents.
Taxpayer advocates and environmentalists are raising the alarm. The project would drain a whopping 41,000 acres of wetlands in one of the last places along the lower Mississippi that still has them. When the water flows through that gap in the levee, fish and waterfowl follow along, using the habitat to spawn and feed. The Corps has claimed that it can offset the damage, but environmentalists - and regulators at other government agencies - have strongly disagreed with its assessments.
The New Madrid Floodway project has been on the table since at least 1954, and it nearly got built decades later - until a federal judge tossed it in 2007. The Corps is completing a new analysis - its seventh - claiming the plan would result in modest economic gains for those in the area, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., is threatening to hold up the confirmation of President Obama's next Environmental Protection Agency chief if the administration doesn't proceed quickly.
Instead, Mr. Obama should finally kill the project.


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"I didn't know the play well," said Tuerck, who is chair of the Economics Department and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute. "But when I read it, I found the parallels between Richard II and Obama I, quite striking."
The reading, part of the 12th annual Shakespeare and...the Law Series, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, in the Modern Theatre at Suffolk University and is co-sponsored by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the law firm McCarter & English LLP, the Boston Lawyer's Chapter of the Federalist Society and Suffolk University.
The performers include some of Boston's most prominent lawyers–including former federal judge Nancy Gertner as Richard II–and will be hosted by C. Boydon Gray, former White House Counsel to President George H.W. Bush.
Shakespeare's history play, written around 1595, traces the downfall of Richard II, whose abuse of executive power is his undoing.
Tuerck will join Professor Rachael Cobb, chair of the Government Department, and Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to National Review Online's Bench Memos, for a conversation following the reading that will focus on the political and legal consequences when a president attempts to impose his will by exceeding his constitutional powers and subverting the law.
The issue of the expansion of the executive power has been at the forefront of Constitutional debates since the end of the Cold War, according to Cobb.
"What's fascinating about Shakespeare is that he has the amazing ability to touch all the key human questions as well as the political questions," she said.
Marilyn Plotkins, chair of the Theatre Department, says she's very excited about the interdisciplinary conversation and said the availability of the Modern Theatre "allows us to engage in local partnerships with great local companies like Commonwealth Shakespeare Company."
Plotkins says she worked with Commonwealth Shakespeare artistic director Steve Maler on a theater project last summer.
"That experience was so terrific; we were eager to find other projects to work on together," says Plotkins.
While Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, McCarter & English and the Boston Lawyer's Chapter of the Federalist Society cast the reading with local judges and lawyers, Plotkins says Jim Kaufman and Abbie Katz of the Theatre Department looked across disciplines within the University to see who would be well suited to contribute to the event.
In addition to the College faculty participating in the discussion, a member of the Suffolk University Law School adjunct faculty, Daniel J. Kelly, will play a role in the reading. Kelly is a partner with McCarter & English.
"What's fun about this program is that wonderful people are drawn to it, perhaps because lawyers have to be theatrical in their work," says Plotkins.
The Theatre Department also has a collaboration with the Sawyer Business School in the works: Shakespeare and Leadership.


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By Brendan O'Brien
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Part of a new Wisconsin abortion law will remain on hold for another two weeks after a federal judge on Wednesday extended his stay on a requirement that any doctor performing an abortion have privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital.
Opponents of the measure say it could shut down half the state's abortion clinics.
U.S. District Judge William Conley extended a temporary hold he had imposed on July 8 and said he expects to rule on whether to impose a preliminary injunction during the next two weeks.
A new Wisconsin abortion law requires a doctor to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within 30 miles of his or her practice.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services, the state's two abortion providers, challenged the measure in court, saying it could force abortion clinics in Appleton and Milwaukee to close.
"This law will pose a significant undue burden for the women of Wisconsin," said Carrie Flaxman, an attorney for Planned Parenthood, during the hearing.
Two other clinics, one in Madison and a second Milwaukee clinic, would not be forced to close.
State of Wisconsin lawyers argued during the hearing that the law gives women the assurance of better health care.
Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker signed the measure into law July 5. The law also requires an ultrasound to be performed on a pregnant woman at least 24 hours before an abortion, a requirement that can be waived if the pregnancy is the result of sexual assault or incest.
Under the law, results of the ultrasound, including images, a description of the fetus and a visualization of the fetal heartbeat, must be offered to the patient, but she can decline to see them.
The lawsuit in federal court does not challenge the ultrasound portion of the law.
The Wisconsin law is one of the latest state restrictions on abortion, which was legalized nationally by a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Earlier this month, Texas passed a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and also would require doctors to have hospital admitting privileges. Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to sign the provisions into law soon.
Courts have blocked hospital admitting requirements in Mississippi and Alabama, according to data published July 1 by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports abortion rights. Five other states have similar laws on the books, according to the data.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Greg McCune and Jim Marshall)


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Jennifer Walters, the meek and mousy lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner, was the daughter of Sheriff Morris Walters. Agents of Nicholas Trask, a crime boss who had crossed paths with her father, shot and seriously wounded her on a day when her cousin was in town. Bruce gave her a blood transfusion, as no other donors of her blood type were available; the radioactive blood mutated Jennifer as it had her cousin, transforming her into the She-Hulk.
Although Jennifer was at first savage while in her form as She-Hulk, she eventually gained the same intelligence she had as the normal Jennifer Walters. She quickly came to appreciate the confidence and assertiveness that had come with being She-Hulk. For a long time, she felt more comfortable in her form as She-Hulk than in her "normal" form as Jennifer. But she has gradually grown comfortable in both forms, and realized that she has much to offer the world in both her forms. After a brief solo career, she joined the Avengers and temporarily replaced the Thing in the Fantastic Four.
During her tenure with the Fantastic Four, the She-Hulk had to prevent a radiation leak in a downed S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. This radiation exposure apparently mutated Jennifer to the point that she could not transform back into her original form. But this was an agreeable turn of events for her, since she preferred her She-Hulk form anyway. It was revealed much later that the "genetic block" was in fact purely psychological, shortly before a similar block locked her in non-Hulk form. That block proved to be temporary.
After the Fantastic Four , the She-Hulk rejoined the Avengers and joined the staff of District Attorney Blake Tower, where she met Louise "Weezi" Mason, formerly the Golden Age super heroine called the Blonde Phantom; during this period, she discovered that Mason had manipulated Towers into hiring She-Hulk so that Mason could again star in a comic book and thus avoid dying of old age. Mason's husband, also a former comic book character, had passed away three years ago, but other, more popular characters from the era, such as Captain America and Namor the Sub-Mariner, were still around.
While doing some legal work for Heroes for Hire, she also went on a few adventures with them and spent some time dating Luke Cage. Later She-Hulk was a member of the short lived hero group the Fantastic Force.
Jennifer currently works as a lawyer for the Superhuman Law division of the New York law firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg, & Holliway. Now able to change forms at will again, Jennifer is rediscovering she sometimes has wildly different views and opinions in each form, where as the She-Hulk she has come out publically in favor of the recent Superhuman Registration Act, yet as Jennifer Walters she understands the views of those against the Act.


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Rabobank to pay $475 million to settle Libor and Euribor charges
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order against Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank), bringing and settling charges of false reporting and attempted manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) for U.S. Dollar, yen and sterling, and of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) and charges of successful manipulation of yen Libor. The CFTC also settled charges that Rabobank, at times, aided and abetted the attempts of derivatives traders at other banks to manipulate yen Libor and Euribor. These violations, which spanned nearly six years, involved more than two dozen employees working out of six offices on three continents. Rabobank is obligated to pay a penalty of $475 million, and the company is ordered to take further steps to ensure the integrity of its Libor and other benchmark interest rate submissions in the future.
David Meister, director of enforcement stated, "The CFTC has now charged five global financial institutions for Libor manipulative schemes, with nearly $1.8 billion in penalties imposed by the Commission alone. The sheer number of institutions and individuals involved in these cases reflects a truly shocking and brazen degree of unlawfulness, warranting the historic enforcement response we bring forth today and in our prior cases."
Rabobank was one of the global banks that submitted borrowing rate information on a daily basis for use in the calculation of Libor for various currencies and for Euribor. Rabobank also traded and held cash and derivatives positions whose value depended on these same benchmarks.
From at least mid-2005 through early 2011, Rabobank traders engaged in hundreds of manipulative acts undermining the integrity of U.S. dollar and yen LIBOR, Euribor and, to a lesser extent, Sterling Libor. The violations took various forms:
·Rabobank traders, some of whom doubled as Libor and Euribor submitters, regularly made and accommodated their fellow traders' requests to make favorable rate submissions to benefit their trading positions through attempts to manipulate U.S. dollar and yen Libor and Euribor. On occasion, they did the same with respect to sterling Libor. Making submissions that were, as some Rabobank employees said at the time, "ridiculous," "obscenely high" and "silly low," more than two dozen traders, including several desk managers and at least one senior manager located in Rabobank's New York, London, Utrecht, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore offices engaged in this wrongful conduct or knew it was ongoing at the time but did nothing to stop it.
· At times, Rabobank was successful in its attempts to manipulate yen LIBOR. In fact, the misconduct with respect to yen LIBOR was so entrenched that as traders assumed the role of submitter, their predecessors would train them on the unlawful practices.
· Rabobank also, at times, aided and abetted other banks' attempts to manipulate yen Libor and Euribor, including coordinating with an interdealer broker on yen Libor submissions to aid the manipulations of the senior yen trader at UBS AG. As one senior Rabobank employee put it: "You know, scratch my back, yeah, and all," to which the broker observed, "Yeah oh definitely, yeah, play the rules."
The CFTC order further finds that Rabobank ignored the obvious conflict of interest it created by assigning traders with trading positions tied to LIBOR and Euribor to serve as Rabobank's Libor and Euribor submitters. Submitters were improperly left to choose between their responsibility to make an honest assessment of borrowing costs and their desire to maximize the profitability of their trading positions. Here, Rabobank's submitters often resolved the conflict in favor of profit. This conflict was exacerbated by traders and submitters sitting together so that traders could simply shout requests for unlawful submissions across the trading desk. Rabobank thus provided these employees with unfettered opportunities to attempt to manipulate LIBOR and Euribor for profit, and the traders took advantage of those opportunities. The order also finds that Rabobank otherwise lacked sufficient controls around the LIBOR and Euribor submission process and failed to adequately supervise its traders and submitters.
According to the order, this manipulative conduct occurred even after the Commission had commenced its investigation of Rabobank's U.S. dollar LIBOR practices in April 2010, when Rabobank received the Commission's request that the Bank internally investigate its U.S. dollar Libor practices. In late 2010, after Rabobank submitters refused, as instructed by a manager, to consider a trader's requests for particular Yen Libor submissions, the Rabobank trader promptly obtained the assistance of an interdealer broker to continue attempting to manipulate yen LIBOR to benefit his trading positions through early 2011.
The CFTC requires Rabobank to pay a civil monetary penalty of $475 million, cease and desist from its violations of the CEA, and adhere to specific undertakings to ensure the integrity of its Libor and other benchmark interest rate submissions in the future. The Order also recognizes the significant cooperation of Rabobank with the Division of Enforcement in its investigation.


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Among Salt Lake City hotels, Little America stands apart as a superior choice—and not just because it's one of Salt Lake's most luxurious four-diamond hotels. The Little America Hotel offers spacious accommodations at surprisingly affordable rates.
This ideal Salt Lake hotel offers 850 rooms and suites. All lodging offers complimentary wireless Internet. Rooms are individually decorated with handcrafted Richelieu furniture, and the finest fabrics.
This Utah hotel also offers self-parking, valet parking, overnight laundry and dry-cleaning, one-hour pressing services, 24-hour shoe shining, and express checkout.
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m.
Check-out time is 12:00 noon
Visit this Salt Lake City hotel's Coffee Shop for a delicious breakfast offered at any time of the day. The variety of scrumptious foods listed on our menu makes this restaurant one of Salt Lake's most popular dining choices.
Lucky H Bar and Grille is a modern eatery embracing traditional roots. Enjoy casual ambiance and a full menu of Little America favorites. Executive Chef Bernhard Götz prepares a New American Classic menu, including perfectly prepared steaks, seafood, and pasta, as well as small bites and appetizers available at the bar.
The Lobby Lounge is set in a casual elegant atmosphere, perfect ambiance to enjoy continental breakfast, specialty coffees, all-day dining and drinks. Situated just inside the main lobby, the Lobby Lounge is perfect for relaxing and unwinding after a long day. The Lobby Lounge offers complimentary wireless internet twenty-four hours a day.
We offer year-round Poolside Dining at either our Indoor/Outdoor Pool or our Garden Pool (open seasonally). Enjoy a frosty cold tropical drink, salads, sandwiches, and other options for a light lunch or tasty snack.
Just ten minutes from Salt Lake International Airport ,The Little America Hotel is an ideal base from which to explore Utah or Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City hosts a flourishing nightlife, a vibrant artistic and cultural scene, numerous museums, and sidewalks safe enough to stroll long after dark.
This Utah hotel is located in downtown Salt Lake City, the heart of business and culture. Here you'll find the homes of the Utah Jazz, the Utah Symphony and Opera, two nationally acclaimed dance companies, and the city's numerous restaurants, bars, nightclubs, art galleries, boutique shops, and coffee bars.
Plus, The Little America Hotel is located less than an hour away from Utah's ski resorts, including Park City, Deer Valley and The Canyons ski resorts. Alta, Brighton, Snowbird and Solitude ski resorts are just 30 – 45 minutes away. And Snowbasin ski resort, where you can ski the 2002 Olympic Downhill and Super-G courses, is about an hour's drive through scenic countryside.
The Little America Hotel is also the perfect place to hold your Salt Lake City convention or business meeting. This Salt Lake hotel offers elegant, flexible meeting space, suitable for a variety of functions and events. The facilities can accommodate parties of any size and our expert staff will work with you to arrange for everything you need from catering, to private dining, to audio-visual services, and even floral services. Little America's tech and A/V support staff are ready to assist you, while a personal meeting concierge ensures that your Salt Lake City event goes smoothly.
The same attention to detail makes The Little America Hotel a wonderful place for a wedding reception or other special occasion. Our beautiful rooms and suites make hosting a destination event in Salt Lake City simple, while our on-site services make getting ready for the big day restful and luxurious.


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MSU Mobile App
Be in the know...Get the MSU Mobile App!
What is it?
Montana State University has partnered with Ellucian, the maker of the MSU Banner software (you know it as MyInfo), to create an app that gives you mobile access to your personal student information as well as important MSU campus info!
The app is called Ellucian GO and is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
- Class Schedule
- Grades
- Dining Hall Menus
- Campus Map
- Snow Reports
- Weather
- Activities Calendar
- Campus Directory
- Easy access links to:
- Bobcat Athletics
- Streamline Bus Tracking
- Campus News
- Cat Card
- MSU Library
- Desire2Learn (D2L)
- Student IT Resources
How to Install
Step 1: Download
To download go to the Apple App store or Google Play and search for "Ellucian Go".
Step 2: Choose MSU
Open the Ellucian Go app on your mobile device and browse to or search for Montana State University - Bozeman to choose it from the list.
Step 3: Log in
Sign in with your GID with dash (-01234567) and MyInfo PIN to see personal student information such as grades and class schedules. (This step is only necessary if you want to see personal info)
Step 4: Explore
Choose from the drop-down menu (upper left in iPhone, upper right in Android) to explore!


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Garrett Hawkins, Broker, Keller-Williams - July 2018I would like to express my appreciation to Elvis Buys Houses for being the perfect fit as a cash buyer for my clients in Plano Texas. This wonderful retired couple were looking to downsize and relocate to the east coast so they could move and live near their son and his family on the east coast. They were private people and chose to avoid Agent/Buyer showings. They didn't want anything to do with contractors repairs, and they certainly didn't want to chance any inspections that might hold up their relocation. I was happy to recommend you and your services Steve! I explained to them how Elvis Buys Houses pays all cash, all closing costs and will close when it's convenient for them... No rush!Steve you followed through by closing exactly when they preferred to close. Having the extra time for my clients pack, coordinate move and prepare for their new destination across the country really worked out well for all family members involved. At that being said they walked out of the title office with a check in hand "Paid In Full" and happy that all went well!As a broker it's great to have a go to when I have clients that need help with a property needing repairs requiring a CASH BUYER! I would certainly recommend Elvis Buys Houses to any seller that is looking sell off market, avoid repairs and sell As-Is!Thank you for your help, professionalism, patience and follow through!Realtor/BrokerGarrett HawkinsKeller-Williams
Dear Steve, I can't thank you enough for buying my Watauga TX house. You were always available to take my calls and handled all of my questions helping ease my mind. The flexibility you gave for me regarding my move out date was very helpful! You made the entire selling & closing process stress free. You buying my house was a huge factor that began a positive momentum in my life. I can't say thank you enough! It was a pleasure working with you .Suzanne Conway-Fuller, August 2015
Steve I appreciate all the work you put into buying my property located on Wilbarger in Fort Worth! The legal help that your attorneys provided to in regards to the title was great. I apologize about the title issues but when my husband passed things became a little unorganized. Either way you got it done just like you said you would and thanks to you I no longer have to worry about that property and renters. The cash payment made things easy! Thanks again Steve!Joyce Torres 3/11/13
I have been honored to know and work with Steve Labus for almost two years. During that time, I have been given the pleasure of observing Mr. Labus as he interacted with fellow investors, potential sellers and possible buyers. In addition to being professional in his transactions, Steve is detailed oriented, diligent, and attentive to his work. He works hard and stays focused on his goals. Mr. Labus is that rare person who is able to be professional, personal and organized while maintaining a passion for excellence. He takes a great deal of pride in his work and people both respect and trust him. He goes beyond and above the call of duty and adds the personal touch to his business. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to work with Mr. Labus. As a borrower he has followed through on all his commitments, achieved his timelines and funded at the agreed upon dates. I look forward to working with Mr. Labus in the future as his lender. I recommend Mr. Labus and one would be fortunate to work with him. Sincerely,Eileen Trudo
Thank you Elvis Buys Houses for handling everything for me in regards to the sale of my Aunt's house on Steamboat Court in Ft. Worth. You really managed and handled everything in regards to inspections, pictures, closing etc. As a Realtor located in the Houston area I can truly say that you do things right and with honesty and integrity! You very much relieved us of a lot of worry by purchasing the house and closing quickly on schedule as requested! Thank you so much for everything!!!! I believe in my heart God led me to you!!! I so greatly appreciate you!!! I pray God blesses you abundantly!!! Brandi C. RhymesBrandi C. Rhymes, April 2017RealtorKeller Williams
Steve - Thank you for helping me sell my Hurst Texas house, Thank, Thank You! Steve not only are you easy to work with but your attention to detail is outstanding. I was very pleased at how smooth the entire process went. You were honest, kept me informed every step of the way and explained everything in detail. Also, allowing me to stay in the property after closing until my new apartment was ready was a big help to me. I highly recommend Mr. Labus for your real estate needs.Traci Cook August, 2015
Steve, I just wanted to confirm that my IRA received the final loan payment. I wanted to reach out and thank you for making all payments on time and in accordance the terms of the agreed upon promissory note. I'd like to say that the entire loan process went without issue and the final result was a win-win for all involved. It has been a great experience investing in the Grapevine property rehab deal with you. I certainly appreciate the level of communication that you provided throughout the process. You were very informative, accommodating, and helpful to me regarding any/all inquiries that came up along the way. Your professionalism is second to none. Thank you again!Jim Baker
To Elvis Buys Houses, I would like to thank you for providing an acceptable cash offer on our Richland Hills, Texas house. Selling our house that we purchased and lived in and raised our son in since 1965 has not been without emotions. Throughout the entire selling process, you've been very understanding and accommodating from the day we met you, all the way through the time that we closed and began our new journey relocating to Pennsylvania to be near our son. My husband and I appreciate how you kept us informed and reached out prior to closing to offer assistance if needed. You accommodated us with every request that we had. Steve you helped us sell our house easy and stress free! Thank you for following through with all your commitments and we would certainly recommend you to anyone that inquires about you and Elvis Buys Houses! Yours truly, Charles & Nancy HoganNancy & Gene Hogan, Richland Hills, Texas, September 22, 2015
Thank you so much for purchasing my Lynda Lane, N Richland Hills property. I enjoyed the property but the stress, upkeep and repairs were more than I needed. I appreciate the time you spent reviewing the options available to me. Most importantly your repair knowledge was excellent! You very much helped me understand the costs and magnitude of all the repairs. My life has been much simplified now that I've sold the Lynda Lane property to you. I appreciate your kindness, the flexibility and the communication you displayed throughout the process of selling my house! I very much enjoyed working with you!Cheryl Booth 3/11/13
Steve, thanks for everything! Selling my 94 year old mother's house was something I dreaded. Doing business with you certainly made it about as easy as something like that can be. You showed up on time, were very thorough, and basically at every step did what you said you would do, no surprises. Thanks! Larry D. Messer, M.DLarry D Messer, M.D. 12/21/12
Steve, thank you very much for the hard work you put in to get my house sold quickly and easily. You followed through, gave me the time I needed to prepare for the sale. Your cash payment led to a fast closing. I certainly had an attachment to this property as it was in the family for years. Very happy that you'll be making it a beautiful home once again! Thank you for your patience and understanding. I'm certainly impressed with your professionalism and how you handled the transaction. It was a terrific experience working with you.Shelly Mota, January 2016
I was really pleased with how Steve from Elvis Buys Houses worked with me throughout the successful sale of my South Henderson St house in Fort Worth. The house was in the family for many years and it was hard for me to sell it but Steve helped me understand the selling process, the paperwork, and kept me informed at all times. The process was not difficult at all! Thank you Steve for following through just as you said you would. You have become a friend to me and I appreciate all that you have done. I've enjoyed working together with you on the sale of my long time family property.Miguel Guerroro June, 2015
I have to say that selling my Woodbine Drive, Fort Worth rental property to Elvis Buys Houses went better than I could of ever imagined. They responded fast, showed up on time, explained the process and followed through with an all cash closing at Texas Title in Colleyville. The property was sold "As-Is" and we closed in 10 days! They even paid extra for the refrigerator, washer and dryer that I no longer needed. I'd recommend Elvis Buys Houses to anyone that prefers a cash transaction and/or needs to sell their house quickly! Thank you Elvis Buys Houses!April Green 4/10/15
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Roche's experimental skin cancer drug vismodegib has been given "priority review" status by U.S. authorities, the Swiss drugmaker said on Wednesday.
The news comes hot on the heels of approval in August for Roche's targeted drug Zelboraf for the deadliest form of skin cancer, which came two months ahead of schedule.
The Food and Drug Administration will now consider the use of vismodegib, another targeted medicine, to treat adults with advanced basal cell carcinoma—the most common type of skin cancer—for whom surgery is not thought to be an option.
The FDA says that the time it takes it to review a new drug application is reduced for a priority review, with the goal for completion being six months.
Vismodegib, a type of drug called a Hedgehog pathway inhibitor, showed "remarkable" results in a mid-stage trial, substantially shrinking tumors and lesions in patients with this potentially fatal type of skin cancer.
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is important in regulating proper cellular growth and development in the early stages of life and then becomes less active in adults. Mutations in the pathway that reactivate Hedgehog signaling are seen in several different types of cancer, including BCC.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer in Europe, Australia and the United States and there are about 2 million cases worldwide. It is usually treated with surgery and generally thought to be curable when the cancer is restricted to a small area of the skin.
But advanced cases of the disease, or those which have spread and led to secondary tumors, can weaken or disfigure sufferers and can ultimately be life-threatening. These cases are not always treatable with surgery and there is currently no medical treatment available.
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Wally rescue team faces £300 parking fines
The terrible price of compassion
BUNGLING, heartless traffic wardens slapped £300 worth of FINES onto marine RESCUERS while they battled for DAYS to rescue tragic whale WALLY from the icy THAMES, we can almost exclusively reveal.
Sorry - we should explain. That's how UK tabloid The Sun will doubtless report the news that BUNGLING, heartless traffic wardens slapped £300 worth of FINES onto marine RESCUERS while they battled for DAYS to rescue tragic WALLY from the icy THAMES.
Yup, it's true. In their rush to save the bottle-nosed whale over the weekend, members of the British Divers Marine Rescue Group simply parked their cars on meters next to Vauxhall Bridge, the Beeb reports. They didn't get back til Sunday night, by which time the predatory attack wardens had moved in for the kill.
The group's chairman, Alan Knight, lamented: "It upsets me a bit that we are facing over £300 worth of bills. I guess they have got a job to do. However, all of our cars have 'marine ambulance' on the side or 'marine medics'... and I would have hoped they would have given us the benefit of the doubt."
No chance. The rescuers now face a £5k bill for their failed operation, although The Sun has started a £10k online campaign to save the whale's bones for scientific research. Reports that any surplus will be invested in a memorial fountain for Wallys everywhere is unconfirmed.
Well, we're sure readers will join us in offering our sympathies to the rescue team in its hour of financial need. Indeed, we at Vulture Central would like to help out by offering a fundraising suggestion: sell the whale meat to the Japanese Embassy* and then flog the bones to The Sun. The inhabitants of the former are not as sentimental about whales as we Brits, and the latter is absolutely loaded. Go to it. ®
*If that fails, try the Norwegians. Neither nation gave up much news time to Wally's plight, as the Sunday Times notes.


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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Yahya was trapped in his hometown for two years by Syria's civil war, moving from house to house to avoid shells and bullets. His father was killed by a sniper. His family then fled to another town that came under a fierce government offensive.
When the teenager finally made it out of the country with his mother and two sisters, he became the latest sad statistic of the sectarian conflict: the one-millionth refugee to register in Lebanon.
The United Nations' refugee agency, which invited reporters to witness Yahya's registration and allowed them to interview the 19-year-old, described the 1 million figure as a "devastating milestone" for Lebanon.
There are many more Syrians inside Lebanon than those officially registered, with the Lebanese government itself estimating that at least a half-million are unregistered.
The UNHCR says it is registering an average of more than one refugee a minute in Lebanon, a country of 4.5 million that is seeing its resources strained by the new arrivals.
"I feel sad because this means that 1 million fled here before me to suffer together," Yahya said as he waited to register with the UNHCR in the northern city of Tripoli.
"A million is a big number for Syria and a big number for Lebanon," he added. Yahya asked to be identified only by his first name because he feared that Syrian authorities would retaliate against his relatives who are still there.
Yahya told a harrowing story of how his family became caught up in the violence between troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his ouster. Their house in the central city of Homs was on the front line of the conflict that began in March 2011, forcing them out.
They moved frequently for their safety, Yahya said, but his father was shot to death by a sniper in September of that year.
They were finally evacuated from Homs earlier this year by the U.N., and traveled to Yabroud, a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border that soon came under government attack.
On March 8, the family crossed into Lebanon, first looking for shelter for a few days in the overcrowded border town of Arsal. They moved farther west to an informal settlement outside Tripoli.
"We didn't know where to go. We just wanted to get away from all the shelling and fighting," Yahya said.
The conflict in Syria, which had a population of 23 million before the civil war, has killed more than 150,000 people.
The U.N. estimates there are more than 2.5 million Syrians registered in neighboring countries — nearly 670,000 in Turkey, nearly 590,000 in Jordan and about 220,000 in Iraq. More than 47,700 are awaiting registration.
Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees recorded anywhere in the world in recent history, the UNHCR said.
"For us, the one-millionth refugee is a devastating marker," said Ninette Kelley, UNHCR representative in Lebanon. She said that in publicizing Thursday's milestone, the U.N. agency wants "the world to see what it means to individuals, being torn apart by the Syrian conflict," but also to "show what a tremendous burden the Lebanese people are bearing."
The Lebanese government provides none of the facilities and land that Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees. Many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farms.
On a casual walk in Beirut, Syrians can be seen sheltering in underground parking garages, under bridges and in old construction sites with no running water, sanitation, electricity or protection from the weather. Nearly half of the refugees are children.
The World Bank estimates that the Syria crisis cost Lebanon $2.5 billion in lost economic activity in 2013 and threatens to push 170,000 Lebanese into poverty by the end of this year, the UNHCR said.
Along with the social and economic strain, Syria's sectarian war has also frequently spilled into Lebanon with deadly clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in the fighting.
Militants from Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah are fighting alongside Assad's forces in Syria, while many among Lebanon's Sunni population support the rebels.
The U.N. and its partner agencies have mounted an unprecedented appeal to raise funds for both refugees and Lebanese host communities. The U.N. has asked for $1.89 billion in 2014, but only $242 million has been received so far, Kelley said.
For Yahya and his family, there was no place to go but Lebanon.
"We were looking around to go somewhere else in Syria, but no place is safe," he said.
While he is relieved his family made it out of Syria, the prospect of being dependent on U.N. food aid to survive is daunting for Yahya. After his father's death, he became the sole provider for the family, and jobs are hard to find.
He and his relatives get $30 a month each, which is barely half the $250 rent he has to pay for a shack in an informal settlement in nearby Dinniyeh.
"Every day in Lebanon it's going from bad to worse," Yahya said. "We can't even hope that tomorrow will be better."
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Flacco Fling, Peyton's error advance Ravens
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No matter where his season or his career might end, Joe Flacco will always have The Fling.
And Peyton Manning will always have to live with that throw he made, too.
Flacco's desperation 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones with 31 seconds left in regulation saved the game for Baltimore in regulation and Manning's throw across his body in overtime all but lost it for Denver.
On a frostbitten day on the frozen tundra known as Denver, the Ravens got a 47-yard field goal from Justin Tucker 1:42 into the second overtime Saturday to pull off a 38-35 upset over Manning and the Broncos, extending linebacker Ray Lewis' career by at least one game.
"Our team is so confident and everything went against us," Lewis said, "but we found a way to come here together and we're leaving together. It's just awesome."
Lewis, who led the Ravens with 17 tackles over this nearly 77-minute game, kneeled down to the ground and put his helmet on the rock-solid turf when it was over.
After Lewis thaws out, the Ravens (12-6), 9 1/2-point underdogs for this one, will get ready for a game at either New England or Houston, who meet today for the other spot in the AFC title game.
This game, the longest since the Browns beat the New York Jets 23-20 in 1987, was an all-timer — up there with San Diego's 41-38 double-overtime victory over Miami for drama.
But Flacco's throw might best be bookended next to one made by Roger Staubach, who famously coined the term "Hail Mary" after his game-winning toss to Drew Pearson beat Minnesota in the 1975 playoffs.
How to describe the Flacco Fling?
On third-and-3 from his 30 with 41 seconds and no timeouts left, Flacco bought time in the pocket and saw Jones sprinting down the right sideline into double coverage. Defensive back Tony Carter slowed up and let Jones streak by him. Instead of staying step for step with Jones, safety Rahim Moore tried to leap and knock down the ball. Flacco, who throws the high, deep ball as well as anyone, got it over Moore's head and into Jones' hands.
"At that point, you have to start taking shots," Flacco said. "You have to get a little lucky. Had to take a shot and everyone came through."
Jones caught it and pranced into the end zone, blowing kisses to the crowd.
Moore was on the verge of tears after the game.
"The loss, it was my fault," Moore said. "I got a little too happy. It was pathetic. My fault. Next time I'll make that play."
The teams punted three times to start overtime, setting up Denver on its 7-yard line. Manning was moving the Broncos along slowly and steadily. But on second-and-6 from the 38, he rolled to his right, stopped and threw across the field to Brandon Stokley. Graham stepped in front of the receiver for the interception, bookending the pick he made in the first quarter, which he returned 39 yards for a touchdown and a 14-7 lead.
The temperature at kickoff was 13 degrees, and Manning fell to 0-4 lifetime when the temperature is 40 or less. He finished 28 for 43 for 290 yards and accounted for all three Denver turnovers — the two picks and a lost fumble that set up the touchdown that tied the game at 28 late in the third quarter.
The last throw was the worst one, though.
"Not a good decision," Manning said. "Not a great throw, either."
Those mistakes nullified a record-setting day for returner Trindon Holliday, who returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 104 yards for another score. Both were playoff records for longest returns, as was the 248 total return yards he had.
All for naught.
This was, more or less, the unthinkable for the Broncos (13-4), who came in on an 11-game winning streak and the odds-on favorite, at 3-1, to win the Super Bowl, in Manning's hometown of New Orleans, no less.
Instead, this loss goes down with the most devastating in Denver history. Right there with the 30-27 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Jan. 4, 1997 — another year when Denver looked very much like Super Bowl material.
But it's Baltimore and Lewis who are in the AFC title game for the second straight year.
Last year, Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal against New England that would have tied that game at the end of regulation.
This year, the Ravens had Tucker, and though the temperature was cold and the ball was hard, coach John Harbaugh showed zero desire to get the ball closer after Ray Rice ran for 11 yards to the Denver 34 near the end of the first overtime.
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