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6B Daily News – Friday, May 31, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING screaming to the whole world: What is this? What's happening?,'' she said. Syria's Assad 'confident in victory' in civil war, warns of retaliation against Israel BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is ''confident in victory'' in his country's civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any future Israeli airstrike on his territory. Assad also told the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar that Russia has fulfilled some of its weapons contracts recently, but he was vague on whether this included advanced S-300 air defense systems. The comments were in line with a forceful and confident message the regime has been sending in recent days, even as the international community attempts to launch a peace conference in Geneva, possibly next month. The strong tone coincided with recent military victories in battles with armed rebels trying to topple him. The interview was broadcast as Syria's main political opposition group appeared to fall into growing disarray. The international community had hoped the two sides would start talks on a political transition. However, the opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said earlier Thursday that it would not attend a conference, linking the decision to a regime offensive on the western Syrian town of Qusair and claiming that hundreds of wounded people were trapped there. Fears grow in Iraq as new bombing wave kills 33 BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread sectarian fighting. Authorities announced plans to impose a sweeping ban on many cars across the Iraqi capital starting early Friday in an apparent effort to thwart car bombings, as the United Nations envoy to Iraq warned that ''systemic violence is ready to explode.'' Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki, meanwhile, was shown on state television visiting security checkpoints around Baghdad the previous night as part of a three-hour inspection tour, underscoring the government's efforts to show it is acting to curtail the bloodshed. Iraqi security forces are struggling to contain the country's most relentless round of violence since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal. The rise in violence follows months of protests against the Shiite-led government by Iraq's Sunni minority, many of whom feel they've been marginalized and unfairly treated since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Tensions escalated sharply last month after a deadly crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest camp. Russian scientists find mammoth carcass with liquid blood Wingfield said there was property damage, including downed power lines, in the area. Perkins Emergency Management Director Travis Majors said there were no injuries or damage there. Ripley, about 10 miles east of Perkins, did not seem to have significant damage. The Payne County emergency management director did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Thursday's tornadoes were much less dangerous than the EF5 storm that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 and killed 24 along its 17-mile path. The U.S. averages storms of that nature — with winds over 200 mph — only about once per year. The Moore storm was the nation's first EF5 tornado since 2011. Letters to Obama, mayor complained about gun control, had threats WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspicious letter mailed to the White House was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most potent gun-control advocates, officials said Thursday. The Secret Service said the letter was addressed to President Barack Obama and was intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. Two similar letters postmarked in Louisiana and sent to Bloomberg in New York and his gun control group in Washington contained traces of the deadly poison ricin. It wasn't immediately clear whether the letter sent to Obama contained ricin. It was turned over to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation. The two Bloomberg letters, opened Friday in New York and Sunday in Washington, contained an oily pinkish-orange substance. New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday that all three letters apparently came from the same machine or computer and may be identical but referred specific questions to the FBI. 11 young people vanish in suspected Tornadoes touch kidnapping from down in Okla., Mexico City bar MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ark.; 1 hurt Eleven young people were kid- OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least one injury was reported when a home was hit in rural western Arkansas. The National Weather Service reported two tornadoes on the ground near Perkins and Ripley in north central Oklahoma and another west of Oden, Ark. Arkansas Emergency Management spokesman Tommy Jackson said first responders were having trouble reaching the destroyed home because a number of trees were blocking the road. Montgomery County Sheriff's spokeswoman Brandy napped in broad daylight from a rough Mexico City bar, just 20 days after the grandson of civil rights leader Malcolm X was beaten to death at a nightclub in the capital, anguished relatives said Thursday. The apparent mass abduction was particularly brazen, even by Mexico City standards, happening in daytime just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city's main boulevard, and about 1 1/2 blocks from the U.S. Embassy. The bar that houses the afterhours club where the youths disappeared Sunday also is only a few blocks from the city's main police headquarters in the Zona Rosa, a generally calm district of offices, restaurants, bars and dance clubs. ''How could so many people have disappeared, just like that, in broad daylight?'' said Josefina Garcia, mother of Said Sanchez Garcia, 19, her only son. ''The police say they don't have them, so what, the earth just opened up and swallowed them?'' She said her son wasn't involved in any criminal activity, and worked at a market stall selling beauty products. Poll: 2 in 5 US women would consider single motherhood As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it all alone. Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 2 1/2 years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child. ''Was it worthwhile? Well, I'm thinking of doing it again, aren't I?'' she says. Everson and women like her are part of a shift in American society. An Associated PressWE tv poll of people under 50 found that more than 2 in 5 unmarried women without children — or 42 percent — would consider having a child on their own without a partner, including more than a third, or 37 percent, who would consider adopting solo. The poll, which addressed a broad range of issues on America's changing family structures, dovetails with a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau that single motherhood is on the rise: It found that of 4.1 million women who'd given birth in 2011, 36 percent were unmarried at the time of the survey, an increase from 31 percent in 2005. And among mothers 20-24, the percentage was 62 percent, or six in 10 mothers. The AP-WE tv poll also found that few Americans think the growing variety of family arrangements is bad for society. However, many have some qualms about single mothers, with some two-thirds — or 64 percent — saying single women having children without a partner is a bad thing for society. More men — 68 percent — felt that way, compared to 59 percent of women. Mother says Boston suspect now walking MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, the father of a Chechen immigrant killed in Florida while being interrogated by the FBI about his ties to the slain brother maintained that the U.S. agents killed his son ''execution-style.'' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, walked without a wheelchair to speak to his mother last week for the first and only phone conversation they have had since he has been in custody, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the AP. In a rare glimpse at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's state of mind, he told her he was getting better and that he had a very good doctor, but was struggling to understand what happened, she said. ''He didn't hold back his emotions either, as if he were MOSCOW (AP) — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday. The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part was stuck in pure ice, said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum, who led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast. ''The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out,'' he said in a statement released by the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, which sent the team. Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on islands off Siberia. Scientists have deciphered much of the woolly mammoth's genetic code from their hair, and some believe it's possible to clone them if living cells are found Ohio State University president jabs Notre Dame, Roman Catholics COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that ''those damn Catholics'' can't be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year. Gordon Gee also took shots at schools in the Southeastern Conference and the University of Louisville, according to the recording of the December meeting of the school's Athletic Council that The Associated Press obtained under a public records request. The university called the statements inappropriate and said Gee is undergoing a ''remediation plan'' because of the remarks. Gee was on a long-planned family vacation and not available for comment, said Ohio State spokeswoman Gayle Saunders. He apologized in a statement released to the AP. ''The comments I made were just plain wrong, and in no way do they reflect what the university stands for,'' he said in the statement. ''They were a poor attempt at humor and entirely inappropriate. There is no excuse for this and I am deeply sorry.'' Cross-section of PSU community joins suit against NCAA BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — From former players to faculty members, a minicross section of the Penn State community has partnered with the late head coach Joe Paterno's family in suing the NCAA to overturn the landmark sanctions against the school for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. While the Paternos are the headliners among the plaintiffs in the civil suit filed Thursday in Centre County court, 19 others with ties to Penn State are also seeking a jury trial to reverse what they call the NCAA's swift and unlawful punishment of the storied football program. Paul Kelly, an attorney representing trustees, faculty, and former players and coaches, said the action related to the impact on ''the entire Penn State community.'' ''I would say the overwhelming majority of the complaints and the facts really relate to ... due process, and the fairness and actions of the NCAA,'' Kelly said in a phone interview. ''It's much broader than (the Paterno family's claims) and I hope people realize that.'' Therefore, Kelly said, his clients had no other choice but to turn to the courts ''since the NCAA acted in an area in which it had no authority, failed to follow its own rules, forcibly imposed an onerous result on innocent parties'' and refused to recognize appeal efforts. LEGAL NOTICE CORRECTION PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the dates, times and locations of the public hearing on the 2013-2014 proposed budget is as follows: DISTRICT : GERBER DATE: June 24, 2013 TIME: 9:00 am PLACE: Gerber Union Elementary Publish: May 31, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE The Job Training Center, a nonprofit corporation providing business, employment, and training services in Tehama and Nevada Counties, is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for computer network system administration and technical support for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014. Interested firms may request an information packet from the Job Training Center, 718 Main Street, Red Buff, CA 96080, and Attention: Kathy Sarmiento, 530-529-7000. Proposals must be received by the Job Training Center no later than 5:00 p.m., June 14, 2013 Publish: May 31 & June 4, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE # 2009000328 FILE#2013000170 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the following fictitious business name: Fountain Of Health, 1415 Solano Corning, CA 96021 The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on: 9/1/2009 in the County of Tehama Original File #2009000328 This business is conducted by: General partnership Lisa Johnson 763 El Verano Corning, CA 96021 Patti Fountain 1208 East St. Corning, CA 96021 S/By: Lisa Johnson Lisa Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 5/6/13 Beverly Ross Tehama County Clerk Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013000169 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GIRLY GUN SAFETY 530 5170989, 19628 Feather Falls Place, Cottonwood, CA 96022 Stephaine Drake 19628 Feather Falls Place Cottonwood, CA 96022 Daniel Drake 19628 Feather Falls Place Cottonwood, CA 96022 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A This business is conducted by: Married Couple S/By: Stephanie J. Drake Stephanie J. Drake This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 5/6/2013 BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF TEHAMA PETITION OF: Laura Ramirez FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 67933 ______________________/ TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner, Laura Ramirez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Itzel Ramirez Mendoza to Itzel Ramirez Avila THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 10, 2013 Time: 1:30 p.m. Dept.: 1 The address of the court is 633 Washington St., Rm 17, Red Bluff, CA 96080. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Red Bluff Daily News a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county. Actual notice to minors father shall not be required. Notice to his legal conservator shall be sufficient enough notice. DATE: 5-1-2013 S/By: C. Todd Bottke JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Publish: May 10, 17, 24 & 31,2013