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“We think this resolution is timely. We don’t see a great deal of reason for an extended negotiation,” Rice told reporters in New York today. “There are no sanctions, no use of force or threat of the use of force as some have alleged.”

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Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — The Securities Investor Protection Corp. said it opposes the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the liquidator of Bernhard Madoff’s investment firm against Bank Medici AG founder Sonja Kohn and UniCredit SpA.

Lawyers for SIPC said in a filing yesterday in federal court in Manhattan that, as the agency charged with the administration of the Securities Investor Protection Act and as an adviser to the court, it opposes UniCredit’s and the related defendants’ request to dismiss trustee Irving Picard’s common law claims Cartier replica watches, including those for unjust enrichment.

“There is no legal barrier to the trustee’s pursuit of his common law claims to recover customer property,” according to the SIPC filing. “The fact that customers have assigned their claims for such recoveries to the trustee merely bolsters his standing.”

UniCredit last month asked a district judge to dismiss Picard’s “hollow” racketeering claims seeking $59 billion from the bank, or three times what investors lost in the Ponzi scheme.

Picard named Milan-based UniCredit and its Bank Austria unit in a December complaint against Bank Medici, Kohn and dozens of other Austrian and Italian parties. He demanded $19.6 billion — his estimate at the time of all principal lost by Madoff investors — using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to triple the amount.

The claim is the largest of more than 1,000 filed by Picard.

In yesterday’s filing Breitling replica watches, SIPC said that while Picard in his opposition to the motion to dismiss focuses on the RICO claims, it seeks to support his common law claims. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff last month ruled that Picard didn’t have standing to pursue common law claims against London-based HSBC Holdings Plc.

The SPIC lawyers said they respectfully disagree with that ruling, which they said is inconsistent with the provisions and purposes of the Securities Investors Protection Act and will undermine future applications of the law in lawsuits.

The case is Picard v. Kohn, 11-cv-01181, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

–With assistance from Linda Sandler in New York. Editors: Michael Hytha, Peter Blumberg

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July 5 (Bloomberg) — National Football League retirees filed an amended lawsuit in federal court in Minnesota to protect their pension rights as the league continued to negotiate with team owners on a lockout that threatens the upcoming season.

In a revised complaint asking for class-action, or group, status, the retirees seek an order to stop discussions between the NFL and its Players Association “aimed at injuring retired NFL players” and to award unspecified triple damages.

“They have a right to allocation of revenue” and officials “are ignoring the voice of the retirees,” Michael Hausfeld, a Washington-based lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a telephone interview today.

The NFL is the richest in U.S. pro sports. The players and owners are quarreling about how to split about $9 billion in revenue. Other issues include extending the season from 16 to 18 games and providing a salary cap for rookies.

The second amended complaint, filed yesterday, includes as plaintiffs Carl Eller, Marcus Allen, Franco Harris and Obafemi Ayanbadejo.

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WASHINGTON – Just weeks after splitting his lip in a pick-up basketball game, President Barack Obama Monday resisted the temptation to shoot hoops with the stars of the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers.

But Obama congratulated Kobe Bryant and his Lakers teammates on their National Basketball Association championship season last year, as he gathered the stars at a Washington Boys and Girls club.

He also spent time assembling care packages for wounded US troops with key Lakers players, including Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher and Ron Artest, before addressing the complete team, along with coach Phil Jackson in a gym.

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Obama, a basketball devotee, often blows off steam playing hoops, but came a cropper last month when he was elbowed in the face during a game by Reynaldo Decerega, the director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

He had stitches in his lip, but was left with no visible scar.

In an inconspicuous house in San Juan, Dr. Christine Gonzales maintains a small clinic where she receives two cancer patients a day. The house has a calming air to it, hushing the usual sounds of the city.
 
Gonzales herself has a composed aura, emanating beyond her denim mini-skirt and white tank top. Yes, she does not look like the usual doctor and Gonzales prides herself in being different.
 
She has been going back and forth from California to Manila for more than seven years, treating cancer patients. Gonzales has been a doctor for more than two decades and had been practicing natural remedies for the last 15 years.
 
Both "natural medicine" (mostly herbal remedies) and conventional practice have limitations, Gonzales shared, and she has spent 15 years seeking a convergence in both disciplines. She initially stopped treating cancer patients to teach, believing that this would enable her to reach more people.
 
"What we eat defines us, food affects a person’s well-being and eating unhealthy food has its consequences," Gonzales told abs-cbnNEWS.com.

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In a city invaded by fast food, like Manila, Gonzales noticed that many young people are “floating” because of the trans-fats and monosodium glutamates (MSGs) in the food they take. “That’s why their brains are all messed-up. They don’t eat right. We should not just eat to be full or to have fun. We should eat to be healthy,” she said.
 
Food has the power to heal, according to Gonzales, and it likewise has the power to prevent the proliferation of cancer in the system. This is the concept she discussed in her new book, "Yes you can Prevent & Control Cancer: A Personal Journal for Daily Living and Total Wellbeing."
 
Gonzales said 80% of patients in the Philippines cannot afford the medication needed in treating the illness. A surgery ranges from P80,000 to P150,000. Even after undergoing one, there is no assurance of completely strangling the disease.
 
There are 21 known types of cancer and 19 of these cases can be found in the Philippines. The most prominent are breast, lung, and colon cancer. Apart from the journal, Gonzales will also come out with a series of small booklets that will discuss the different types of cancer and how to prevent them.
 
Gonzales believes that 85% of healing comes from the individual, while 15% comes from the environment, the family, and medicines. “I always tell my patients, no matter what I do, no matter what I say, if you set your mind that you won’t heal, you won’t.”
 
Although she can see more patients, Gonzalez preferred seeing only two patients a day. The logic was simple: “We don’t look at numbers, one life is big enough.” She said she learned this while working with Mother Teresa for 15 years.
 
Work woes
 
Gonzales came from Silicon Valley but moved to France in 2007, after 20 years in the practice of medicine. In 2001, she started a clinic in the Philippines, attending to cancer patients, both local and foreign. She said that half of their patients come from abroad.
 
In her eight years here, she had experienced several betrayals by her workers, threatening the clinic’s practice.

The defining one was when her accountant took all the clinic’s money in 2007.  “I brought all my money to the Philippines and I [had] nothing then, I can’t even pay my assistants. I told them to stay for awhile and see what will happen," she recounted.

She was then forced to receive more patients to augment the clinic’s expenses and the salary of her co-workers.
 
Apart from that Rolex replica watches, she was also betrayed by a doctor who worked for her and stole some of her medicine formulas. Both cases were painful for her. She came back in 2008 to close down the clinic, but found it hard to do so.
 
“I came back to close the Philippines [clinic] but [didn't] have the heart,” she said.
 
Shaving pain
 
Brought on by the depression and pain of being betrayed, Gonzales decided to shave her head. “I felt instinctively Cartier replica watches, somehow, that if I let go of my hair, the pain would go away,” she wrote in the conclusion of her book.
 
Sure enough after doing the deed, Gonzales felt “light and free.” Becoming bald was also her way of sympathizing with cancer patients.
 
“What makes patients depressed was eventually losing their hair when they undergo chemotherapy. Women considered it their crowning glory. And they get depressed when it starts to fall,” she explained.
 
“I want to make a statement. I wanted to reach out and let my patients know that they are still beautiful inspite of being bald," she wrote.
 
If the mini-skirt and ear piercings are not enough, the shaved head also became Gonzales’ “symbol of freedom”.
 
Months after, Gonzales received emails and text messages from friends from around the world asking about her condition. Apparently, most people thought she had cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy all because of her shaved head.
 
“My friend emailed me and he offered me help in my condition and I was surprised to know such rumors were going around.”
 
Gonzales has been maintaining her hair at less than half an inch for two years, likewise living a free and passionate life.
 
“Its important to realize that life should be lived with passion,” Gonzales, a woman who on her first time seeing a tobacco plantation in the Northern Philippines ran into the pouring rain while screaming.

“I turned to my husband and said, ‘You married a crazy woman’ and he answered, ‘Yes’,” she said, laughing.
 
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The U.P. Institute of Creative Writing has announced the winners of the Gawad Likhaan: U.P. Centennial Literary Awards.

In the English division Cartier replica watches, the winners are: Jose Marte A. Abueg (poetry, for his collection, “ Bird Lands , River Nights and Other Melancholies”); Criselda D. Yabes (fiction and creative nonfiction, for her novel, “Below the Crying Mountain,” and her nonfiction narrative, “Sarena’s Story: The Loss of a Kingdom”).

In the Filipino division, the winners are: Jerry B. Gracio (poetry, for his collection, “Aves”); Jose Rey Munsayac (fiction, for his novel, “Duguang Kamay sa Nilulumot na Pader”; and Lualhati M. Abreu (creative nonfiction, for “Agaw Dilim, Agaw Liwanag”).

There is only one grand prize of P200,000 for each of the six categories. Award ceremonies were held on Tuesday, July 8, at the Pulungang Claro M. Recto, Faculty Center , UP Diliman. The affair is open to the public.

All entries to the contest were book-length, previously unpublished work.

The double winner, Yabes, is a U.P. Journalism graduate, and a freelance journalist and writer. She has worked for AP, Reuters Omega replica watches, Newsweek, The Washington Post , and The Economist ; and has written three other books including one on the coup d’etats of the 1980s, her personal sojourn in Europe, and the almost extinct Pala’wan syllabary.

Abueg, a graduate of the UP School of Economics , is managing editor of INQUIRER.netas well as overall editor, in charge of INQUIRER.net Money website. He has won other awards, like the Carlos Palanca Awards and the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.

Gracio, a U.P. Malikhaing Pagsulat alumnus, is a writer of screenplays, and won a National Book Award in 2006 for Apokripos. Abreu does research work and writing for non-government organizations in Metro Manila and Mindanao . Munsayac, editor of the weekly Bulacan paper Dyaryong Pilipino Luzon Times, shared the first prize with Jun Cruz Reyes in the 1998 National Centennial Literary Awards for his novel, “Ang Aso, ang Pulgas, ang Bonsai at ang Kolorum.”

The U.P. Centennial Commission set up and funded the Gawad Likhaan as part of the UP Centennial Celebrations, to highlight the University’s contribution to the advancement of Philippine letters, through the prestigious UP National Writers Workshop held by the UP Institute of Creative Writing; its various ground-breaking publications; and the creative writing programs which have produced so many of the country’s writers.

The contest was administered by the UP Institute of Creative Writing. Members of the panel of judges were: J. Neil C. Garcia, Ricardo M. de Ungria, and Gémino H. Abad (poetry in English); Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Charlson Ong, and Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio (fiction in English); Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Rosario Cruz Lucero, and Vicente Garcia Groyon (creative nonfiction in English); National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, Vim Nadera, and Romulo Baquiran, Jr. (tula); Jun Cruz Reyes, Roland Tolentino, and Soledad Reyes (nobela o maikling katha); and National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, Fanny Garcia, and Nicanor Tiongson (sanaysay).

The major sponsor of the Award ceremonies is the Book Development Association of the Philippines through its president, Lirio Sandoval. Other sponsors are the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, San Miguel Corporation, and Tanduay Distillers.

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MANILA, Philippines – Actress-host Iya Villania cleared talks saying that she will soon wed longtime boyfriend Drew Arellano.

Talks that they are finally engaged circulated after Arellano posted a controversial message on his official Twitter page.

The tweet posted last April 29 said: "Someone just said she’s so ready to live the rest of her life with me."

In response, Villania stressed that there is no truth to the said engagement. She was also happy to learn that a lot of people wish she and Arellano would end up together forever.

"No, it is not true that Drew and I are engaged, although it is very sweet and amusing to see how excited everyone is waiting for it to happen. Don’t worry, mangyayari din sa tamang panahon," Villania said via a text message sent to "Showbiz News Ngayon."

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New York’s main contract Cartier replica watches, light sweet crude for delivery in September, fell 45 cents to $96.95 per barrel.

Brent North Sea crude for September delivery shed 15 cents to $117.28.

A drawn-out political impasse in the United States as polarised politicians struggled to find a mutually agreeable middle ground over a debt solution for the world’s largest oil consumer was exacting its toll on traders.

"Prices remain largely range-bound… as a result of the economic uncertainty, particularly with regard to the US budget impasse," said Sanjeev Gupta, who heads the Asia-Pacific oil and gas practice at Ernst & Young.

Congress was due later Thursday to consider Republican Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise Washington’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling although it looked doomed to fail due to a White House veto threat.

US lawmakers were privately hunting for a compromise to avert a debt default due to kick in on August 2.