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NEWS BRIEFS
FERNDALE, Mich.
* Homeless shelter
backs out of move
to nearby church.
A homeless shelter is backing
out of an agreement to relocate to
a Ferndale church and is seeking a
move to a different part of the Oak-
land County city.
The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak
reports Monday that the South
Oakland Shelter wants to move into
a commercial building.
The shelter defeated a lawsuit by
a group of residents who wanted to
keep it out of Ferndale First Baptist
Church, just north of Detroit.
Shelter administrative offices
were planned for a church wing,
but only 30 homeless persons could
have been served there and only
during the day.
Officials said the shelter would
not have those constraints in a
commercial building.
Executive director Ryan Hertz
told the newspaper the shelter
needs "the ability to serve up to
100 to 200 people on some days."
WASHINGTON
U.S. urges Israelis
and Palestinians to
continue peace talks
One of President Barack
Obama's chief advisers says the
White House is urging the Pales-
tinians and Israelis to keep talk-
ing despite the impending end of
freeze on Israeli settlement con-
*
David Axelrod tells ABC's "This
Week" that there's a "rare" and
"unparalleled opportunity" for the
two sides to reach an agreement.
Axelrod says the parties must
remain at the negotiating table.
He says "they're having serious
discussions, they ought to keep on
having those discussions, and we
are very eager to see that happen."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu says a curb on new set-
tlement construction in the West
Bank won't be extended.
The Palestinians have threat-
ened to walk out of the talks if
Netanyahu doesn't extend the mor-
atorium that expires at midnight.
LOS ANGELES
Heat wave breaks
record, L.A. temp.
* reaches 113 degrees
California's blistering fall heat
wave sent temperatures to an all-
time record high of 113 degrees in
downtown Los Angeles yesterday,
and many sought refuge at the
* beach.
Downtown hit 113 degrees for
a few minutes at about 12:15 p.m.,
breaking the old all-time record of
112 degrees set on June 26, 1990,
said Stuart Seto, a weather spe-
cialist at the National Weather
Service office in Oxnard. Temper-
ature records for downtown date
to 1877.
Electrical demand was much
higher than normal for this time of
year but no problems or shortages
were expected on the state grid,
said Gregg Fishman, spokesman for
the California Independent System
Operator, which controls about 80
percent of the grid.
KINGSTON, Jamaica
Hundreds of health
workers strike in
call for higher pay
O Hundreds of medical techni-
cians, nurse's aides and other sup-
port staff at Jamaica's major public
hospitals went on strike yesterday
to demand pay raises and allow-
ances they say haven't been paid
by the government.
The walkout left public hospi-
tals and clinics across the Carib-
bean island short-handed for such
duties as taking X-rays and admin-
istering blood tests. Some union-
ized ambulance drivers also took
part.
Clifton Brown, president of the
Jamaica Workers' Union, said the
strike was for one-day and came
after "months of frustration,
anger, and promises not kept" by
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's
* administration.
"The government is dragging its
feet. This 24-hour strike is send-
ing a signal that we need attention
now," Brown said.
Some strikers contradicted
Brown's 24-hour timetable, telling
* reporters they would not return
to work until the government pro-
vided a precise date for payment.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports.
Obama: Money won't fix public schools
Obama appears on
NBC to call for more
school reforms
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Barack Obama started the
school week with a call for a longer
school year, and said the worst-
performing teachers have "got to
go" if they don't improve quickly.
Bemoaning America's decreas-
ingglobaleducationalcompetitive-
ness, Obama sought in a nationally
broadcast interview to reinvigo-
rate his education agenda. At the
same time, the president acknowl-
edgedthatmanypoorschools don't
have the money they need and he
defended federal aid for them. But
Obama also said that money alone
won't fix the problems in public
schools, saying higher standards
must be set and achieved by stu-
dents and teachers alike.
Asked in an interview if he sup-
ported a year-round school year,
Obama said: "The idea of a longer
school year, I think, makes sense."
He did not specify how long that
school year should be but said U.S.
students attend classes, on average,
about amonthless than children in
most other advanced countries.
On other topics in a live half-
hour television interview, Obama
said that White House chief of
staff Rabn Emanuel has not told
him whether he will resign to run
for mayor of Chicago, as is widely
expected. Obama said he knows
Emanuel must decide quickly to
mount a serious campaign.
The president also sought anew
to show that he understands the
frustration of millions of people
coping with a slow economy -
and high joblessness - some 20
months into his term. He said that
even if people know he is working
hard to fix their problems, what
they expect from him is "some-
thing concrete" to help them get a
job and paytheir bills.
Obama appeared on NBC's
"Today" show in a live interview
that focused on education.
Education is primarily the
domain of state and local govern-
ments. But the federal government
has leverage and uses it, for exam-
ple, through the strings it attaches
to poverty aid that thousands of
schools depend upon to support
their programming.
The president admitted that his
own daughters, Malia and Sasha,
couldn't get the same quality edu-
cation at a Washington, D.C. public
school that they currently get at
their private school. The Obama
girls attend Sidwell Friends School,
an elite private school inthe Wash-
ington area.
"The DC public schools sys-
President Barack Obama was interviewed yesterday on NBC's "Today" about the state of education in the United States.
tems are struggling," Obama said,
though he added that the school
district has, "made some impor-
tant strides over the last several
years to move in the direction of
reform." Public schools in Wash-
ington have long faced criticism
for their low test scores and high
dropout rates.
Separately yesterday, Obama
announced a goal of recruit-
ing 10,000 teachers who work in
the fields of science, technology,
engineering and math - over the
next two years. In a statement,
Obama said such education is vital
to allowing students to compete
against their peers in today's econ-
omy.
In the interview, the president
said he wants to work with teach-
ers unions, and he embraced the
role they play in defending their
members. But he said that unions
cannot and should not defend a
status quo in which one-third of
children are dropping out.
Pipeline in western Michigan Cancer survivor
opened after summer oil spill starts business
Federal regulations
keeping tabs on the
newly repaired pipe
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - After
a two-month shutdown, oil flowed
Monday through a pipeline that
leaked more than 800,000 gallons
of oil in southern Michigan this
summer, with some of it polluting
a major river.
Enbridge Inc. confirmed the
gradual restart of the pipeline
running between Griffith, Ind.,
and Sarnia, Ontario, was under
way in a short statement released
Monday evening. The pipeline had
been shut down since the compa-
ny reported a massive oil leak July
26. An estimated 820,000 to 1 mil-
lion gallons spilled near Marshall
and some reached the Kalamazoo
River.
Enbridge said the restart is a
"staged process" run in accor-
dance with a restart plan approved
by the federal Pipeline and Haz-
ardous Materials Safety Adminis-
tration. Monday was the earliest a
gradual return to service was per-
mitted by federal regulators.
The pipeline will restart at
lower pressure. An independent
third party that reports to federal
regulators will help monitor the
restart.
The Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
issued a statement saying it also
was keeping tabs on Enbridge dur-
ing the restart and had staff locat-
ed throughout the pipeline system
to oversee it.
Enbridge will have to make
multiple repairs on the pipeline
within 180 days, and it will have
one year to replace a section of
dented pipe running under the St.
Clair River in southeast Michigan.
In August, Enbridge estimated
cleanup and other costs from the
spill could be $300 million to
$400 million. The charges include
the emergency response, cleanup,
repairs, claims by third parties,
lost revenue and other items. It
excludes possible fines and penal-
ties.
Insurance is expected to cover
most of the cost.
About 2,000 workers were
involved in the cleanup and
related activities at their peak.
The company expects more than
500 workers to remain on the job
through October.
Enbridge had bought eight
homes near the spill site as of last
week. The company is in the final
stages of buying another 14 homes,
chief executive officer Patrick
Daniel said last week.
More than 1,500 oil-damaged
birds and animals have been res-
cued from the spill site. More
than 1,300 turtles, more than 100
Canada geese and several musk-
rats, swans, herons, snakes and
frogs have been rehabilitated and
released into new homes.
The restart of the pipeline
might not have much influence on
oil or gas prices. The line approved
for a restart Monday has a capac-
ity of roughly 283,000 barrels
per day and had moved closer to
190,000 barrels per day - much
less than the 670,000 barrel per
day Enbridge pipeline between
Superior, Wis., and Griffith, Ind.,
that was shut down from Sept. 9 to
17 because of a spill in Romeoville,
Ill.
The Illinois spill caused a brief
spike in Midwest gas prices.
"That was a major feeder to
some of the larger refineries in
the Midwest," said Phil Flynn, an
analyst at PFGBest in Chicago. By
comparison, Flynn said, the pipe-
line that leaked in Michigan didn't
have as big an impact on the mar-
ket.
Most analysts expect retail
gasoline prices to stay steady in
October and November, as sup-
plies remain plentiful and demand
is listless compared with a peak
summer driving season.
Mich. woman gains
entrepreuneurial
spirit after cancer
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) - It might
sound odd, but Judy Hayward
believes cancer made her stronger
and more willing to take risks.
Prior to learning she had breast
cancer last year, the 51-year-old
Green Oak Township woman felt
secure with her life. She was mar-
ried and healthy, and had a good
job as a chiropractic assistant at
Livingston Chiropractic Clinic in
Brighton Township. Often, she
dreamed about opening her own
consignment shop. She'd think
about it for a minute and then shelve
it.
Everything changed in January
2009 after she received the results
from what was supposed to be a
routine mammogram.
Doctors found numerous small
dots in her left breast, and more
tests revealed it was breast cancer.
Within a year, Hayward went
through two more mammograms,
had her left breast removed and
underwent several surgeries to
reconstruct her breast. In addition,
her hair fell out when she started
chemotherapy, which made her
vomit and drained all her energy.
"Life is too short to sit back," she
said.
A year later, Hayward begin
thinking about what she wanted to
do next as she regained her health.
She could go back to her old job or
do something new.
She said surviving cancer turned
her into a different person. Her
long, straight blond hair has been
replaced by curly, brown hair that
grew in.
In an ironic way, she said, can-
eer brought her to where she finds
herself today: proud owner of her
own business, Treasure Corner
Consignment Boutique. The shop is
at 5841 Whitmore Lake Road, Suite
A, just south of the intersection of
Grand River Avenue and Whitmore
Lake Road.
"It just makes you realize life is
too short not to do the things you
want to do," she said.
With the help of her husband,
Christopher, and her former boss,
chiropractor Guilio Cogo, she
opened her consignment shop two
months ago. She said the shop is
doing well, and she loves being her
own boss. It's alot ofwork but she's
enjoying it.
"When you have a near-death
experience, you think, 'What could
I have done (in my life)?"' she said.
Hayward said she's always taken
care ofherself She always exercised
and hasn't had any serious illnesses.
Although both her parents died of
cancer, she said no one in her family
has had breast cancer.
The results from her annual
mammogram revealed tiny dots,
and doctors told her those were
probably calcium deposits. A few
days later, they called her and told
her they wanted to do another,
mammogram. After the second
mammogram, they told her she
needed to go to Saint Joseph Mercy
Hospital just outside Ann Arbor for
a third mammogram.
Hayward was upset. She felt it
was "ridiculous" and didn't under-
stand why she had to keep going
back for more mammograms. She
said it's not a pleasant test, explain-
ing "they press (the breast) down
like a pancake."
Iraq-Iran border fortified as United
States troops prepare exit country
Iraqi guards set up
along border to fend
off possible invasion
QUTAIBA BORDER FORT,
Iraq (AP) - On any map, this cas-
tle-like fort is located in Iran. But
war, time and drifting desert sands
have blurred the border, and for
now, Iraqi guards stoutly defend
Qutaiba as theirs.
The guards are part of a beefed-
up presence onboth sides of a long,
porous and ill-defined border. Iraq
is building four new border forts in
its eastern Wasit province alone,
which abuts Iran for 116 miles
(186 kilometers). Iran also is add-
ing forts, evidenced by half-built
structures surrounded byscaffold-
ingthat can be seen fromIraq.
The increased tension is a result
of an Iraqi government in limbo as
American troops prepare to leave
the country after more than eight
years of war. Underscoring the
insecure time, Iraqi wariness of
Iranian aggression is on the rise,
especially after two major Iranian
incursions in less than a year.
"The region here is like a jungle:
the strong eat the weak," said Iraqi
Brig. Gen. Sami Wahab, who over-
sees the nearby Zurbatiyah port
of entry, the largest official pedes-
trian land crossing between Iraq
and Iran.
"If the Iraqi government keeps
going backward and reaches the
level where you can say it's a weak
country,thenthere's agood chance
of Iran coming in," Sami said. "But
we don't have cannons to respond;
we don't have jets to bomb. That's
why the Iraqi people are scared."
On Sunday, Iranian Gen. Abdol-
rasoul Mahmoudabadi said the
Revolutionary Guards had pushed
into Iraq over the weekend and
killed at least 30 members of an
armed group involved in an attack
last week that Iran had blamed on
Kurdish rebels.
It was a rare example of Iran
openly admitting toa cross-border
incursion into Iraq.
Iran and Iraq are formerly war-
ring neighbors that have settled
over the last several years into an
uneasy relationship. Few experts
expect a full-scale invasion remi-
niscent of the eight-year Iran-Iraq
war that began in 1980, as both
nations have their hands full with
domestic turmoil.
Shiite-run governments in both
Baghdad and Tehran have paved
the way toward normalized rela-
tions since the 2003 ouster of Sad-
dam Hussein, a Sunni, and Iraq
has since given greater freedom to
Iranian pilgrims to visit holy Shiite
shrines in Karbala and Najaf.
But even if they are not the pre-
cursor to a full-scale invasion, the
incursions are a way for Iran to
show its dominance in the region
and remind Iraq that while the
U.S. military is leaving soon, Iran is
here to stay.
The U.S. for its part calls Iran a
serious threat - one that is boost-
ing efforts to fund, train, supply
and shelter insurgents as the U.S.-
led war that began in 2003 winds
down. A senior intelligence official
in Washington, who spoke anony-
mously because he was not autho-
rized to talk about the sensitive
issue, expressed concern that Iran
will supply anyone, terror group
or common criminal, with bomb-
making parts or other weapons to
create the image of instability in
Iraq.
A political analyst at Tehran's
Azad University said that under
Saddam Hussein, Iraq portrayed
itself as leader of the Arab world,
leading to tension with Iran. But if
Iraq's government remains weak,
Iran will not go on the offensive,
he said.
"Iran already has a big amount
of influence in Iraq," analyst
Ahmad Bakhshayesh said in an
interview. "So it does not need any
offensive measures in theborders."
However, Iraqis fiercely protec-
tive of its sovereignty, and many
officials believe Iran is trying to
take advantage of its weakened
neighbor. Asked why, Maj. Raad
Awad scoffed.
"Iran likes to occupy land. They
want to keep expanding their
country into the Mideast," said
Awad at the Saad border fort in
northern Wasit.
The two Iranian incursions -
especially an oil well takeover in
Iraq's southern Maysan province
- spurred Iraqis to seek U.S. train-
ing on how to fend off an invasion
or prevent one from occurring in
the firstplace.
In that first incursion last
December, Iranian forces held oil
well No. 4 in the al-Fakkah field
for days before pulling back with-
out much opposition by Iraqi offi-
cials. The oil field, located about
200 miles (about 320 kilometers)
southeast of Baghdad, is one of
Iraq's largest but part of it lies on
land claimed by each country.
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