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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Family: American killed in Egypt was a teacher
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The family of an American college student killed in Egypt during violent protests says their son cared passionately about the Middle East and was in the country to teach English to children and to improve his own Arabic.
Andrew Pochter, of Chevy Chase, Md., was killed Friday in Alexandria during clashes between government supporters and opponents. His family said in a statement Saturday that he was stabbed by a protester while observing the demonstrations.
"He went to Egypt because he cared profoundly about the Middle East. He had studied in the region, loved the culture, and planned to live and work there in the pursuit of peace and understanding," the statement said.
The country has been roiled by ongoing demonstrations between protesters trying to oust President Mohammed Morsi and Islamists seeking to keep him in power. The U.S. State Department has warned Americans against all but essential travel, and households have been stocking up on goods in case the protests drag on.
The 21-year-old spent his spring semester studying in Amman, Jordan, as part of the AMIDEAST Education Abroad Program and was teaching in Egypt before returning in the fall to Kenyon College in Ohio. He majored in religious studies, was active in Hillel House ? the campus center for Jewish life ? and was a member of the rugby club and an organizer for the Middle Eastern Students Association, the college said.
Meryn Chimes, a New York University student who said she was a friend of Pochter, recalled how he traveled to Morocco between high school and college and sent her excited letters about how much he loved it there.
"When he came back, he just had this passion for the Middle East," she said.
During his travels, she said, he would marvel at everything from the food to the people he encountered at marketplaces to the Colonial architecture of Alexandria. She said he told her how much he loved teaching Egyptian children and how they worked so hard to master English.
"He said he hoped they liked him as a teacher, which I'm sure they did," she said.
She said they last spoke a few days ago.
"He really wanted to broaden people's perspective, especially in America. He wanted people to see places the way he saw them," said Chimes, noting how Pochter had spoken of potentially becoming a reporter.
"He saw the world in a way that I don't think anyone else did, and it was a really beautiful way," she added.
Lucas Pastorfield-Li, a friend from college, said he bonded with Pochter over a shared interest in education and international affairs. He said Pochter was soft-spoken and humble but also a talented musician who would weave international topics ? he did a college research project on the Muslim Brotherhood ? into freestyle raps.
"He had a way of just being way too wise beyond his years. I feel like most of the people in my generation are constantly trying to be heard," said Pastorfield-Li, 20, adding, "He had an amazing way of just conveying wisdom in such a humble and kind of subtle way."
He said Pochter would have been the "perfect poster boy" for any ad campaign for the college.
"It's not just me right now that this is really affecting," he said. "He was such an important person to so many people at the school, and Kenyon's such a small school, someone like Andrew is going to be a celebrity."
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Friday, June 28, 2013
HTC unveils 'glamor red' HTC One
Third color option launches in the UK from mid-July
HTC has announced the launch of the HTC One in a new color option — 'glamor red.' It's the same phone we know and love in a fancy new color, and in the UK it'll be available from mid-July exclusively at Phones 4u. Currently there's no word as to whether any U.S. carriers will pick up the red version.
The red variant, which leaked out briefly a few months back, will join the existing silver and (somewhat more elusive) black versions of HTC's flagship. We've got more pictures, along with today's presser, after the break.
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Student debt stalemate will hammer millions of undergrads
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Time is running out for Congress to act. And low-income college students will pay a high price if a deal can't be reached by Monday's deadline.
Interest rates on many new subsidized Stafford loans will skyrocket?from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent?on Monday, unless the Senate reaches a compromise.
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More than 7 million undergraduates receive these loans, for which the federal government pays the interest while the students are enrolled in school.
But the nation's student debt crisis affects so many more.
More than 38 million Americans have student loan debt, totaling nearly $1 trillion, a staggering number that has quadrupled in 10 years and keeps rising. Student loan debt now surpasses credit card and auto loan debt in this country?and it's only expected to get worse before it gets better.
Most in Congress agree the loan rates should to stay lower than 6.8 percent, at least for the subsidized Stafford loans used by the country's lowest-income students. But they're stuck on how to get there.
Republicans want to let the rates fluctuate with the markets every year and use the proceeds for deficit reduction. Democrats say that's unreasonable and want to cap how fast rates can rise.
"I see the debate about interest rates as a distraction from the real problem, which is the amount of debt," said Mark Kantrowitz, founder of FinAid.org and senior vice president and publisher of Edvisors.com.
"Each year the average cost of graduation goes up by about $1,000 or more. And having less expensive debt is going not going to make much of a difference if the total amount owed keeps on going up."
A study done this spring by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that the share of 25-year-olds with student debt has increased from just 25 percent in 2003 to 43 percent in 2012. The average student loan balance among those 25-year-olds with student debt grew by 91 percent over that time, from $10,649 in 2003 to $20,326 in 2012.
The amount of debt has risen as tuition, room, board, fees and other college expenses have soared. The cost of attending college has risen about 4 percent in the past year alone?and has far outpaced the rate of inflation in recent years.
Total charges for a full-time undergraduate at an in-state public college rose from $17,136 in 2011-2012 to $17,860 in 2012-2013, according to the College Board. Private college costs for one year totaled $39,518 in the past year, up from $37,971 the previous academic year.
"Grants are not keeping pace with the increases in college costs," Kantrowitz said. "When grants are relatively stagnant or even going down that causes students to borrow more."
But many families don't plan or try to calculate the total cost of attendance for a student's college and graduate studies?and that may be at the crux of the student debt crisis.
Sallie Mae CEO Jack Remondi said poor planning exacerbates a borrower's burden, regardless of the rate on the loan. Sallie Mae is the largest provider of private student loans.
"If you overborrow, whether the rate is 4 percent or 7 percent, you're still going to encounter difficulties," Remondi said. "A plan that takes into consideration what your income potential is going to be when you graduate and what that debt burden is going to be is critical."
Unfortunately, many students and parents have failed College Planning 101.
Less than a third of low-income parents said they knew how they would pay for their child's college education before they enrolled, according to a Sallie Mae study. Only 37 percent of middle-income families had a plan. Among high-income families, only slightly more than half said they had a plan to pay for college before their children enrolled.
Yet this critical lesson can significantly cut borrowing costs: As long as your total student debt at graduation is less than your annual income, you should be able to pay back your student loans in 10 years or less, Kantrowitz said.
Keeping that formula in mind when choosing a college, graduate school and course of study can help students significantly cut borrowing costs.
?By CNBC's Sharon Epperson. Follow her on Twitter @sharon_epperson.
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The Oscar race so far: let's hope the best is yet to come
By Steve Pond
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - With the first six months of 2013 behind us, it's safe to say that almost none of the movies that have been released so far this year are likely to be in the running for Academy Awards in the top categories at the next Oscars.
In fact, despite the presence of a few indie gems like "Before Midnight," a handful of strong documentaries and some big-budget extravaganzas likely to end up in the sound and visual effects categories, it has been a pretty terrible year for awards movies so far.
Of course, you can say that almost every year. Since the Academy expanded the Best Picture category from five nominees to 10 in 2009 (and then to a variable number two years later), only seven of the 38 nominations have come from films released before the end of June.
Last year, only one film from the first half of the year, "Beasts of the Southern Wild," made the cut. The previous three years, only two films did so each year, with the first-half nominees including Pixar's "Up" and "Toy Story 3" and one Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker."
By contrast, fully 21 of the 38 nominations went to films released in November and December, and more than two-third of the field came from the last three months of the year.
So the odds are never good that the movies released by June 30 will be major players come Oscar time, and this hardly looks like a year to beat the odds.
Note: We're talking about theatrical releases, not film-festival screenings. The Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," J.C. Chandor's "All Is Lost," Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" and Destin Daniel Cretton's "Short Term 12," among others that may well figure in the race, miss the June 30 cut even though they have screened at fests.
Of the films that have been released so far in 2013, Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" probably has the best shot at a Best Picture nomination. Its three writers - Linklater and his stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy - should definitely be in the running to score their second screenplay nomination, after getting Oscar recognition for "Before Sunset" seven years ago.
Jeff Nichols' "Mud," which became the top-grossing film ever released by Roadside Attractions (a company that took "Winter's Bone" to the Oscars in the past), was enough of a critical and commercial success that it could conceivably be in the mix - and if Matthew McConaughey didn't have an upcoming role in "The Dallas Buyers Club" that sounds ready-made for Oscar, he might have a good supporting-actor shot for the film,
Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" is a possibility for its screenplay by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, a longshot for actress recognition for Gerwig and a deliciously tantalizing longshot for cinematographer Sam Levy.
Darek Cianfrance's "The Place Beyond the Pines" played to mixed reviews, but the Writers Branch, at least, likes to take chances and embrace indies, and Focus Features (which scored with the best-pic nominee "The Kids Are All Right" three years ago) plans to campaign for the film in a number of categories, including picture, director, writing and acting.
And while Pixar's "Monsters University" didn't draw the unanimous raves of the company's string of Oscar-winning classics that included "Ratatouille," "WALL-E," "Up" and "Toy Story 3," it is entertaining enough to be a strong contender in the Best Animated Feature category.
But what else? The year's top-grossing films to date are "Iron Man 3," "Oz the Great and Powerful," "Fast & Furious 6," "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Man of Steel," none likely to register strongly outside the effects and sound categories.
Could the year's seventh-highest grosser, Baz Luhrman's "The Great Gatsby," sneak in? I hear it drew the biggest audience anybody can remember to its New York AMPAS members screening, but its mixed reviews probably push it out of the running unless a lot of the prime year-end contenders crash and burn.
(That group includes "Inside Llewyn Davis," "Nebraska," David O. Russell's "American Hustle," Martin Scorsese's "Wolf of Wall Street," George Clooney's "Monuments Men, Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher," John Wells' "August: Osage County," Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" and Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips.")
If you look at the year's most critically-acclaimed films, documentaries occupy most of the Top 10 at Rottentomatoes.com, with two music docs Dave Grohl's "Sound City" and Morgan Neville's "20 Feet From Stardom," leading a list that also includes "Call Me Kuchu," "Stories We Tell," "One Life" and "Room 237." Of those, "20 Feet," "Kuchu" and "Stories" probably have the best shot at Oscar nominations (or at least spots on the 15-film shortlist), along with "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" and a few others that have shown at festivals but have yet to be released.
For the most part, though, the outlook in the documentary category is the same as it is in Best Picture. Which is to say, if you're looking in theaters for this year's nominees, it's best to go away and come back later.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Riley reflects on latest title, looks ahead
MIAMI (AP) ? When the Miami Heat won their first championship in 2006, then-coach Pat Riley decided to enter the following season without major roster changes.
The plan failed.
Many players showed up for training camp out of shape, and the Heat eventually got swept in the first playoff round.
This time, Riley believes, things will be much different. He doesn't see any way that a core of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh would go into any season ? much less one where they could win a third straight title ? not prepared to chase another championship. So this summer, the Heat aren't planning any major roster changes, the clear belief being that the team in Miami now should be good enough to contend again in 2014.
"We're the fugitive and they're still coming after us," said Riley, the Heat president. "And that motivates the hell out of me. It really does, because I don't want to get caught, not with what we have. And I don't the players feeling like they can get caught, either. That's why the improvement needs to come from within and we need to be smart about what we're doing."
Riley wrapped up the season with a 40-minute interview session Wednesday, opining on everything from his ninth championship season ("I've been lucky," he said in a clear understatement) to coach Erik Spoelstra's story that his boss came knocking on the door of his hotel suite after the 113-77 loss in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against San Antonio with three bottles of wine ("The wine was already there ? and it was opened," was Riley's recollection).
Occasional laughs aside, Riley also pointed out repeatedly that the work awaiting the Heat in the coming months is serious.
"We're just going to keep everything very fluid," Riley said. "I think that's the key. What we just experienced, three straight years, (297) games, two consecutive world championships, we are so giddy about that and proud of our team and also excited that what we did three years ago has led us to this. The challenge is not 'Can we win another championship?' The challenge is how to manage it within the confines of a very punitive collective bargaining agreement."
None of Riley's proclamations about his hopes for next season's roster were exactly surprising. First, as expected, he announced that the team is exercising its $4 million option on point guard Mario Chalmers, who has started every game in which he's appeared in the past two seasons, with a knack for coming up big in the biggest moments.
He also wants Chris Andersen and Ray Allen back, as do their teammates from this season. Andersen has given indications that he wants to return, including announcing at the team's championship rally on Monday that he wants to chase a "threepeat" ? a word Riley actually trademarked several years ago. And as Riley was speaking Wednesday, Andersen was in the nearby weight room, getting in a workout.
"We love Chris Andersen and we want him back," Riley said. "He will obviously be informed by his agents as to all of the ramifications of what's out there, as to what we can do. So until July 1, we won't know. But we would love to have Chris back."
Allen could opt to leave, though said several times that he enjoyed the makeup of this Heat roster.
Allen wound up hitting perhaps the biggest shot in Heat history, the 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in regulation of Game 6 of the finals that forced overtime and saved the Heat season. That shot by Allen was part of a wild sequence where the Heat rallied from a five-point deficit with 28 seconds left to play, and where security workers had already dragged out a yellow rope to seal the court in anticipation of a Spurs' celebration.
"He's a very, very smart man and that playing with LeBron James and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade and all of the other players that he has become very close to, I think he'll make the wise decision," Riley said.
There are some difficult luxury-tax-related decisions for the Heat to make in the not-so-distant future, and one of the ways Miami could create some flexibility for itself would be to use its one-time amnesty provision. Mike Miller, who's due to make about $13 million over the next two seasons, has been often mentioned as someone who could be jettisoned by the Heat.
For now, Riley doesn't sound like an advocate of that plan, saying he'll leave the money decisions up to managing general partner Micky Arison and the rest of the Heat executive branch.
"He's a great player," Riley said. "So unless I get a mandate about (amnesty), we haven't talked about it. We just want to keep this team together."
Still, some changes will almost certainly happen.
The Heat had a two-day visit this past season with Greg Oden, the No. 1 overall pick in 2007 who has played exactly 82 games in his NBA career because of relentless knee issues. And with the Heat almost certainly not having the financial flexibility to get into the mix for big-money free agents, taking a flyer on someone like Oden might be the sort of move Miami makes this summer.
"We will explore that and see where it goes," Riley said.
One guy who isn't going anywhere, for now, is Riley himself.
With nine championships now and a Hall of Fame legacy as a coach, there is obviously nothing left for the son of Schenectady, N.Y. to prove in the NBA. But he remains driven by more, perked up Wednesday when talking about how he may have "I ain't got no worries" ? a line James used after winning this title ? inscribed on the 2013 championship rings, and how the challenge of the next 12 months should energize the franchise.
If the Heat had lost Game 6 of the finals, he said major changes might have been forthcoming. But now, there's no need for wholesale departures, and that applies to him as well.
"Why would I want to get off this train?" Riley said. "As long as Micky will have me, I will be here."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/riley-reflects-latest-title-looks-ahead-203514572.html
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Williams runs winning streak to 32 at Wimbledon
Serena Williams of the United States returns the ball to Mandy Minella of Luxembourg during their Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Serena Williams of the United States returns the ball to Mandy Minella of Luxembourg during their Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Serena Williams of the United States reacts as she plays Mandy Minella of Luxembourg in a Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Serena Williams of the United States serves to Mandy Minella of Luxembourg during their Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Mandy Minella of Luxembourg returns the ball to Serena Williams of the United States during their Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Laura Robson of Britain reacts after defeating Maria Kirilenko of Russia in their Women's first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
LONDON (AP) ? A reporter wanted to know whether Serena Williams contemplates adding more variety to her power-based game.
She did not take kindly to the question's premise.
"I don't only play hard tennis. Maybe if you want to get out there, I can show you, like, how I mix things up. I hit a lob today. I'm hitting slices and drop shots, especially more recently," Williams replied.
"Power's often extremely good to have in your game," she continued. "But if I were to sit here and hit every ball hard, my arm would fall off."
It's true that Williams does pound serves, up to 121 mph in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. And her groundstrokes are big, too, enough for a 25-5 edge in winners against Mandy Minella of Luxembourg.
It's also true that Williams has been showing off a soft touch when needed during a winning streak that reached 32 matches ? the longest single-season run on the women's tour in 13 years ? with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Minella.
That marked the top-seeded and top-ranked Williams' return to competition following a little break after winning the French Open on June 8 for her 16th Grand Slam trophy.
It was also her first match on a grass court since winning her fifth Wimbledon title and two Olympic gold medals back-to-back at the All England Club a year ago. That was the beginning of a stretch in which Williams has gone 75-3 and claimed three of the past four major championships.
"You can call her pretty much unbeatable," the 92nd-ranked Minella said. "She's playing better than ever. ... Every time she steps on court, you can see why."
Off the court, things have been a little more hectic for the 31-year-old American lately.
Tuesday's victory capped a week filled by a headline-grabbing, off-court tiff with Maria Sharapova and a series of apologies stemming from a magazine profile.
Williams and the French coach who's been helping her for about a year, Patrick Mouratoglou, agreed that she did not have too hard a time setting aside the events of the previous seven days, which included a lot of saying "I'm sorry" ? face-to-face with Sharapova, at a news conference, in two statements posted on the web ? over things Williams was quoted as saying in a Rolling Stone story.
Williams made a negative reference in a phone conversation to a top-five player's love life (the piece's author surmised that it was about Sharapova) and an off-the-cuff remark about a widely publicized rape case in the U.S. that was perceived by some as criticizing the victim.
"It hasn't been a distraction," Williams insisted. "I'm just here to focus on the tennis."
Asked whether she and Sharapova had spoken in the preceding 48 hours, Williams said: "Oh, we're playing on opposite days, so we don't really see each other."
Indeed, the third-seeded Sharapova and Williams are on different halves of the draw and would meet only in the final. Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion, was scheduled to play her second-round match Wednesday on Court 2 against 131st-ranked qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.
Other women slated to play on Day 3: second-seeded Victoria Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion who twisted her right knee in a first-round victory; 2011 Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova; 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States.
Seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer was to face Sergiy Stakhovsky on Centre Court, while 2012 U.S. Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up Andy Murray was placed on Court 1.
Murray, of course, is hoping to be the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years, but he's not the only local product still around of the 10 who were in the field at the outset.
Laura Robson, a teenager who beat Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open last year in the final match of the four-time major champion's career, became the first British woman in 15 years to eliminate a top-10 opponent at Wimbledon by defeating No. 10 Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-4.
"It's hard for all the British players to come in here and, you know, lose first round," Robson said, "because you just feel extra disappointed."
Otherwise, order mostly was restored after Monday's stunning development: the only first-round Grand Slam loss of 12-time major champion Rafael Nadal's career.
Novak Djokovic dispatched 34th-ranked Florian Mayer of Germany 6-3, 7-5, 6-4, and the only real hitch was when the top-seeded Serb slipped to the Centre Court grass. No. 4 David Ferrer, who reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open but lost to Nadal, took two falls and said he felt a "little bit of pain" in his left ankle during a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over 101st-ranked Martin Alund of Argentina.
Sam Querrey, an American seeded 21st, lost 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3), 3-6, 2-6, 6-3 to 59th-ranked Australian Bernard Tomic in a match most noteworthy for what was said afterward.
Tomic ripped the ATP for barring his father, who is also his coach, from attending tournaments for 12 months because of pending assault charges and said he'll ask Wimbledon to let Dad attend his next match. Querrey, meanwhile, was miffed that Tomic got a chance to collect himself while being checked by trainers after saying he felt lightheaded in the fourth set.
"I knew he was kind of dizzy, but let's go; it's a physical game," Querrey said. "That's part of it. If you're dizzy or hurt, you've got to play through it. You can't just take breaks. That's not why I lost. But I felt I had some momentum there and that leveled the playing field for the fifth set."
It's been difficult for any opponent to keep things close against Williams lately, even if she claimed Tuesday, "I never feel invincible."
Despite her recent success, and a strong showing against Minella, she and Mouratoglou gave this assessment: There are areas of her game that could use some fine-tuning.
"After today, there's so many ways that I can improve," Williams said, "and that I'm going to need to improve if I want to be in the second week of this tournament."
Really? How about some examples?
"Come on," Williams replied, tilting her head and smiling.
Here was Mouratoglou's take after watching Williams win her first 17 service points and compile a 25-5 edge in total winners: "I mean, of course, not everything is perfect yet. It's interesting to see what we need to work on for the (coming) days."
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
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White House urges Russia to expel Snowden without delay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday urged Russia to expel former government contractor Edward Snowden without delay, saying Moscow has a "clear legal basis" for his expulsion.
White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the legal basis for expelling Snowden are the status of his travel documents and the pending espionage charges against him.
"Accordingly, we are asking the Russian government to take action to expel Mr. Snowden without delay and to build upon the strong law enforcement cooperation we have had, particularly since the Boston Marathon bombing," she said.
The White House statement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out handing over Snowden, who leaked details of U.S. surveillance programs.
Snowden had been in Hong Kong after making his revelations and flew to Moscow on Sunday. The United States revoked Snowden's passport.
Hayden said the United States had seen comments from Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and "we understand that Russia must consider the issues raised by Mr. Snowden's decision to travel there."
"We agree with President Putin that we do not want this issue to negatively impact our bilateral relations. While we do not have an extradition treaty with Russia, there is nonetheless a clear legal basis to expel Mr. Snowden, based on the status of his travel documents and the pending charges against him," she said.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Jackie Frank and Bill Trott)
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Consumer confidence highest in over five years in June
By Regan Doherty DOHA (Reuters) - Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani handed power on Tuesday to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, in a rare abdication by a hereditary Gulf Arab ruler to try to ensure a smooth succession. The U.S.-allied state is small, with 2 million people, but is the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, a global investment powerhouse and heavy hitter in Middle East diplomacy and international media. ...
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The Ancient Christian Wisdom on Marriage
Have you ever heard comments like these? ?People oppose gay marriage only for religious reasons, because there really aren?t any rational non-religious reasons to oppose gay marriage.? ?You are fighting for a lost cause. Marriage was lost a long time ago.? And finally, how about this one, ?It is time to throw in the towel, and accept the inevitable.?
As a veteran of many marriage battles, I hear comments like these all the time. I honestly believe the answer to this nay-saying is simply ?no!? It is the advocates of redefining marriage who hold to an irrational belief system. The ancient Christian teachings on marriage are quite sensible by comparison. The institution of marriage was indeed wounded long ago, but not lost. As a matter of fact, the damage caused by previous attacks on marriage can be part of the solution to bolster our courage to fight the next battle. And there is no ?inevitable march of history.? This is absolutely no time to raise the white flag and retreat.
There aren?t really any non-religious reasons to oppose gay marriage, are there?
Actually, the belief that same sex ?marriage? is a good idea or even possible, requires a person to hold at least three patently false beliefs.
First, one has to believe that men and women are interchangeable. Second, a person has to believe that marriage is about adults and their wants, and not about children and their needs. Finally, one has to believe that sex is normally a sterile activity, with reproduction being rare and optional. Everyone is essentially entitled to unlimited sexual activity without a live baby ever showing up.
Do you recognize these three beliefs as common beliefs in our culture?
Once a person has accepted these three things, redefining marriage to call same sex relationships ?marriage? seems like a no-brainer. After all, the person has already decided that gender doesn?t matter, and marriage doesn?t matter, and sex itself doesn?t matter. Letting two guys call themselves ?married? can?t possibly matter. So the advocates of same sex ?marriage? wonder why law doesn?t catch up with their understanding of marriage. They have already redefined marriage in their minds. They can?t see what all the fuss is about.
There is a problem with this ?new improved? understanding of marriage: each one of these three statements is false. To believe that men and women are interchangeable is to fly in the face of reality, to falsify one?s daily experience. Treating marriage as if it were about adults and their feelings, over and above the needs of children is a form of narcissism. And just because we have the technology to reduce the probability of any given sexual act resulting in a pregnancy does not mean we can act as if sex were a sterile act.
Accepting any one of these three statements will make it almost impossible to have a happy married life. If you enter into married life, expecting your spouse to behave, think and feel as you do, you are setting yourself up for heartache and disappointment. If you believe marriage is about you and your feelings, well, let us just say you are not really very good marriage material. And as for the last belief, you might actually get away with believing that sex is a sterile activity, for yourself, and for a while. But society as a whole cannot conduct itself as if sex is always and everywhere a sterile activity.
All the reversible methods of contraception fail some of the time. If we act as if we have perfectly functioning contraception, we will have sex in situations that cannot sustain a pregnancy. It makes no sense to be surprised at every contraceptive failure. It is perfectly predictable that some failures will occur.
That is why we have so many out of wedlock pregnancies and abortions: those are our back-up plans for contraceptive failure in unsustainable relationships. Forty percent of births now take place out of wedlock. The US has nearly a million abortions a year.
Evidently, we have lots and lots of unsustainable sexual relationships. That is a lot of wishful thinking. You might even call is magical thinking.
Acting on false beliefs makes us unhappy. Any of our natural law predecessors, Catholic or pagan, Aquinas or Aristotle, would have predicted as much.
But this widespread unhappiness is not the only problem with these false beliefs. The state has committed itself to enforcing them in throughout society. For instance, a school district in Rhode Island recently shut down its father daughter dance for fear that it was illegal sexual stereotyping and therefore sexual discrimination. No-fault divorce is a policy that presumes that marriage is about the feelings of adults, and not about the interests of children. And Catholics are well aware that the state is forcing its beliefs about contraception on every employer in America, through the new health care legislation. It takes a lot of time, money, effort and intrusion, to force every person and institution in society to embrace a belief system that is demonstrably false.
Yet somehow, people believe that the sexual revolution has made us ?free.? Another magical belief.
Enacting same sex ?marriage? will commit the state to ?doubling down? on all three of these false beliefs. Redefining marriage to remove the gender requirement removes gendered language from the law: no mothers and fathers, husbands or wives. Only generic parents or generic spouses.
Same sex ?marriage? benefits a handful of adults, at the expense of children. Society will no longer recognize the obvious facts that children need their own biological mothers and fathers. Nor will the authority structures of society be able to say that children have a legitimate interest in having a relationship with both of their parents.
The whole idea of ?marriage equality? is based on the premise that intrinsically sterile relationships are equivalent to potentially fruitful relationships. Society need not take any special notice of the fact that sexual relationships between men and women are potentially fruitful, and therefore, command special attention and concern from society.
Aren?t the advocates of ?traditional? marriage fighting for a cause that was lost a long time ago?
Seeing all this lost ground can create an overwhelming feeling that traditional beliefs regarding marriage are being crushed in the battle to redefine it. However, I don?t think all this lost ground is cause for despair. The bitter fruits of the Sexual Revolution have been predictable from the very beginning, and are increasingly there for everyone to see.
No fault divorce removed the presumption of permanence from marriage. All the cheerful predictions about how children won?t be harmed by divorce, how children will be happy as long as their parents are happy, all those predictions turned out to be false.
Paul VI predicted in 1968 in?Humanae Vitae?that contraception would not live up to its promises. He predicted marital infidelity, pre-marital sex and the objectification of women. The advocates of contraception promised that every child would be a wanted child. Is there any doubt about who made the more accurate prediction?
Removing the gender requirement from marriage is not going to work any better. The ancient Christian teaching regarding marriage ? as taught by the Catholic Church and many others ? has proven itself time and again, in defying all the wishful thinking and rose-colored-glasses predictions.
Now is the time to renew our faith in that wisdom.
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This article is from the Ruth Institute Blog.
By Dr. Jennifer Morse
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the Founding President of the Ruth Institute, an educational organization promoting lifelong married love to college students and young adults. She thanks Mr. Austin Muck, her 2011 Blackstone Legal Fellowship intern, for his assistance with the legal research on "In re M.C."
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Appfuel Is A Simple Way For App Developers To Balance Monetization And Growth
Appfuel is aiming to make it easy for mobile app developers to manage the tradeoff between user growth and monetization. Cross-promotion between apps is a big part of the ecosystem, but CEO Andrew Boos said Appfuel is unique because of its simplicity. Developers add a "suggested apps" unit to their own apps, and they can either grow their user base by getting a reciprocal recommendation in another app, or they can earn money by running sponsored suggestions ? or rather, with Appfuel, they do a mix of both. To adjust the program, they just move a slider determining how much of their inventory goes towards recommendation swapping versus sponsored links, and Appfuel handles the rest of the optimization process.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pwAOn40OpEc/
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Berlusconi convicted in sex-for-hire trial
Presiding judge Giulia Turri reads the virdict against Silvio Berlusconi in the courtroom in Milan, Italy, Monday, June 24, 2013. A Milan court has convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of paying for sex with an under-age prostitute during infamous "bunga bunga" parties at his villa and then using his influence to try to cover it up. Berlusconi, 76, was sentenced to seven years in prison and barred from public office for life. The ban on holding office could mean the end of Berlusconi's two-decade political career. However, there are two more levels of appeal before the sentence would become final. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Presiding judge Giulia Turri reads the virdict against Silvio Berlusconi in the courtroom in Milan, Italy, Monday, June 24, 2013. A Milan court has convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of paying for sex with an under-age prostitute during infamous "bunga bunga" parties at his villa and then using his influence to try to cover it up. Berlusconi, 76, was sentenced to seven years in prison and barred from public office for life. The ban on holding office could mean the end of Berlusconi's two-decade political career. However, there are two more levels of appeal before the sentence would become final. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
TV crews and media work outside Milan's court, Italy, Monday, June 24, 2013. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces a verdict in his sensational sex-for-hire trial, charges that could bring an end to his two-decade political career. Berlusconi is charged with paying an under-age Moroccan teen for sex and then trying to cover it up with phone calls to Milan police officials when she was picked up for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman deny having had sex with each other. A court is expected to deliver a verdict Monday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
FILE - In this Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo, Italian former premier Silvio Berlusconi grimaces as he attends the funeral service of Italian entrepreneur Giampiero Cantoni in Milan. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces a verdict in his sensational sex-for-hire trial, charges that could bring an end to his two-decade political career. Berlusconi is charged with paying an under-age Moroccan teen for sex and then trying to cover it up with phone calls to Milan police officials when she was picked up for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman deny having had sex with each other. A court is expected to deliver a verdict Monday, June 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
Carabinieri patrol outside the courtroom in Milan, Italy, Monday, June 24, 2013. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces a verdict in his sensational sex-for-hire trial, charges that could bring an end to his two-decade political career. Berlusconi is charged with paying an under-age Moroccan teen for sex and then trying to cover it up with phone calls to Milan police officials when she was picked up for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman deny having had sex with each other. A court is expected to deliver a verdict Monday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
FILE -- In this Sept. 27 2012 file photo, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi attends the presentation of a book in Rome. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces a verdict in his sensational sex-for-hire trial, charges that could bring an end to his two-decade political career. Berlusconi is charged with paying an under-age Moroccan teen for sex and then trying to cover it up with phone calls to Milan police officials when she was picked up for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman deny having had sex with each other. A court is expected to deliver a verdict Monday, June 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
MILAN (AP) ? A Milan court on Monday convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of paying for sex with an underage prostitute during infamous "bunga bunga" parties at his villa and then using his influence to try to cover it up.
Berlusconi, 76, was sentenced to seven years in prison and barred from public office for life ? a sentence that could mean the end of his two-decade political career. However, there are two more levels of appeal before the sentence would become final, a process that can take months.
Berlusconi holds no official post in the current Italian government, but remains influential in the uneasy cross-party coalition that emerged after inconclusive February elections.
Both he and the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal have denied ever having sex.
His lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, immediately announced an appeal and said the sentence was as expected as it was unjust.
"This is beyond reality," Ghedini told reporters outside the courthouse. The sentence was even stiffer than the six-year prison term and lifetime ban on public office that prosecutors had originally requested.
"I'm calm because I've been saying for three years that this trial should never have taken place here," Ghedini said.
The charges against the billionaire media mogul stem from the "bunga bunga" parties in 2010 at his mansion near Milan, where he wined and dined beautiful young women while he was premier. He says the dinner parties were elegant soirees; prosecutors say they were sex-fueled parties that women were paid to attend.
Neither Berlusconi nor the woman at the center of the case, Karima el-Mahroug, better known by her nickname Ruby, have testified in this trial. El-Mahroug was called by the defense but failed to show on a couple of occasions, delaying the trial. Berlusconi's team eventually dropped her from the witness list.
El-Mahroug did testify in the separate trial of three Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prostitutes for the parties. She told that court that Berlusconi's disco featured aspiring showgirls dressed as sexy nuns and nurses performing striptease acts, and that one woman even dressed up as President Barack Obama.
Berlusconi was not in court on Monday. The three female judges deliberated for more than seven hours before delivering their verdict. Their written explanations for arriving at the verdict will be submitted in the next few weeks.
Berlusconi frequently has railed against Milan prosecutors and judges, accusing them of mounting politically motivated cases against him.
El-Mahroug, now 20, said in the other trial that she attended about a half-dozen parties at Berlusconi's villa, and that after each, Berlusconi handed her an envelope with up to 3,000 euros ($3,900). She said she later received 30,000 euros cash from the then-premier paid through an intermediary ? money that she told Berlusconi she wanted to use to open a beauty salon, despite having no formal training.
She was 17 at the time of the alleged encounters but passed herself off as being 24. She also claimed she was related to then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Berlusconi's lawyers argued that he ? thinking el-Mahroug was indeed Mubarak's niece ? called police after she was detained in a bid to avoid a diplomatic incident.
El-Mahroug denied that Berlusconi had ever given her 5 million euros ($6.43 million). She said she told acquaintances and even her father that she was going to receive such a large sum "as a boast," but that it was a lie to make her seem more important.
The verdict garnered intense international media attention with half a dozen TV satellite trucks taking positions outside the courthouse. The verdict comes on the heels of Berlusconi's tax-fraud conviction, which along with a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban on public office, have been upheld on a first appeal.
The tax-fraud case is heading to Italy's highest court for a final appeal after Berlusconi's defense failed to derail it last week at the constitutional court.
Berlusconi, who has been tried numerous times relating to his business dealings, has been convicted in other cases at the trial level. But those convictions have always either been overturned on appeal or the statute of limitations has run out before Italy's high court could have its say.
The sex-for-hire case is the first involving his personal conduct.
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Boost for cars or bust? Ethanol debate heats up
WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's a dilemma for drivers: Do they choose a gasoline that's cheaper and cleaner even if, as opponents say, it could damage older cars and motorcycles?
That's the peril and promise of a high-ethanol blend of gasoline known as E15. The fuel contains 15 percent ethanol, well above the current 10 percent norm sold at most U.S. gas stations.
The higher ethanol blend is currently sold in just fewer than two dozen stations in the Midwest, but could spread to other regions as the Obama administration considers whether to require more ethanol in gasoline.
As a result, there's a feverish lobbying campaign by both oil and ethanol interests that has spread from Congress to the White House and the Supreme Court.
On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's chief lobbying group, to block sales of E15. The justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that dismissed challenges by the oil industry group and trade associations representing food producers, restaurants and others.
Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, an ethanol industry group, hailed the decision as victory for U.S. consumer, who will now have greater choice at the pump.
"Now that the final word has been issued, I hope that oil companies will begin to work with biofuel producers to help bring new blends into the marketplace that allow for consumer choice and savings," Buis said.
The API had argued that E15 was dangerous for older cars.
Putting fuel with up to 15 percent ethanol into older cars and trucks "could leave millions of consumers with broken down cars and high repair bills," said Bob Greco, a senior API official who has met with the White House on ethanol issues.
The ethanol industry counters that there have been no documented cases of engine breakdowns caused by the high-ethanol blend since limited sales of E15 began last year.
"This is another example of oil companies unnecessarily scaring people, and it's just flat-out wrong," said Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry group.
The dispute over E15 is the latest flashpoint in a long-standing battle over the Renewable Fuel Standard, approved by Congress in 2005 and amended in 2007. The law requires refiners to blend increasing amounts of ethanol into gasoline each year as a way to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and lower greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a 16.5 billion-gallon production requirement for ethanol and other gasoline alternatives this year, up from 15.2 billion gallons last year. By 2022, the law calls for more than double that amount.
Biofuel advocates and supporters in Congress say the law has helped create more than 400,000 jobs, revitalized rural economies and helped lower foreign oil imports by more than 30 percent while reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
But the oil industry, refiners and some environmental groups say the standard imposes an unnecessary economic burden on consumers. Using automotive fuel that comes from corn also has significant consequences for agriculture, putting upward pressure on food prices, critics say.
"The ever increasing ethanol mandate has become unsustainable, causing a looming crisis for gasoline consumers," said the API's Greco. "We're at the point where refiners are being pressured to put unsafe levels of ethanol in gasoline, which could damage vehicles, harm consumers and wreak havoc on our economy."
Along with the E15 court case, the API and refiners have swarmed Capitol Hill and the White House to try to have the current mandate waived or repealed.
Charles Drevna, president of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represents refineries, accused the EPA of putting politics ahead of science.
An EPA official told Congress earlier this month that the agency does not require use of E15, but believes it is safe for cars built since 2001.
"The government is not saying 'go ahead' " and put E15 in all cars, said Christopher Grundler, of the EPA's director of the office of transportation and air quality. "The government is saying this is legal fuel to sell if the market demands it and there are people who wish to sell it."
Ethanol supporters say E15 is cheaper than conventional gasoline and offers similar mileage to E10, the version that is sold in most U.S. stations.
Scott Zaremba, who owns a chain of gas stations in Kansas, scoffs at claims that E15 would damage older cars. "In the real world I've had zero problems" with engine breakdowns, said Zaremba, whose station in Lawrence, Kan., was the first in the nation to offer E15 last year.
But Zaremba said he had to stop selling the fuel this spring after his gasoline supplier, Phillips 66, told him he could no longer sell the E15 fuel from his regular black fuel hoses. The company said the aim was to distinguish E15 from other gasoline with less ethanol, but Zaremba said the real goal was to discourage use of E15. New pumps cost more than $100,000.
The American Automobile Association, for now, sides with the oil industry. The motoring club says the government should halt sales of E15 until additional testing allows ethanol producers and automakers to agree on which vehicles can safely use E15 while ensuring that consumers are adequately informed of risks.
A spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents 12 major car makers, said E15 gas is more corrosive and the EPA approved it before it could be fully tested.
Older cars were "never designed to use E15," spokeswoman Gloria Bergquist said. Use of the fuel over time could create significant engine problems, she said.
The API cites engine problems discovered during a study it commissioned last year, but the Energy Department called the research flawed and said it included engines with known durability issues.
For now, E15 remains a regional anomaly. About 20 stations currently offer the fuel in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Vertu TI now available in red or blue limited editions, only 1,000 of each made
It's been almost half a year since Vertu launched its first-ever Android phone, the TI, and now the company's decided to throw in a couple of limited editions to lure the big spenders. As pictured above, the new Vertu TI Colours collection is wrapped in either "Sunset Red" or "Midnight Blue" calf leather, and only 1,000 units are made for each color. As per typical Vertu style, there's a unique number etched on the back to indicate which of the 1,000 units yours is.
The rest of this hand-crafted, matt grey titanium phone remains unchanged otherwise, namely its 3.7-inch tough sapphire screen, Android 4.0, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4, 64GB storage plus an 8-megapixel camera. And of course, the phone still comes with the famed Vertu Concierge, a "100 percent independent" service that CEO Perry Oosting is very proud of. To join this exclusive club, you'll have to somehow fork out a whopping HK$90,000 or €8,900 (about US$11,700) -- just a tad more expensive than the TI Titanium Pure Black edition, but also more flamboyant. This author already spotted these new phones at Vertu's Hong Kong Airport store, and he's currently accepting donations.
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Southwest planes flying after computer glitch
In this Feb. 9, 2012 file photo, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 waits to take off at Chicago's Midway Airport as another lands. A spokesman for Southwest Airlines says all departing flights have been grounded due to a system-wide computer problem, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
In this Feb. 9, 2012 file photo, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 waits to take off at Chicago's Midway Airport as another lands. A spokesman for Southwest Airlines says all departing flights have been grounded due to a system-wide computer problem, Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
CHICAGO (AP) ? Southwest Airlines was operating normally Saturday afternoon after a system-wide computer failure caused it to ground 250 flights for nearly three hours late Friday night.
Full service was restored just after 2 a.m. EDT Saturday, but the Dallas-based airline experienced lingering delays in the morning as it worked to clear a backlog of flights and reposition planes and crew.
The airline ? the country's largest domestic carrier ? canceled 43 flights Friday night and another 14 Saturday morning.
Southwest is the latest airline to ground flights because of a large computer outage. But its problem was minor compared to those experienced by two competitors ? thanks in part to its late-day timing.
In April, American Airlines grounded all of its flights nationwide for several hours due to computer problems. The airline ultimately canceled 970 flights. And last year, United Airlines had two major outages: one in August delayed 580 flights; another in November delayed 636 flights.
The problem was detected around 11 p.m. EDT Friday, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins said. It impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of each aircraft. Some flights were on the taxiway and diverted back to the terminal, Hawkins said. Flights already in the air were unaffected.
Most of Southwest's cancelations Friday night were in the western half of the country, according to airline spokeswoman Michelle Agnew. Saturday's cancelations were scattered across the U.S. They included planes leavings from Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver and San Diego, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Southwest flies an average of 3,400 flights each day.
Agnew said in an email Saturday morning that the airline's technology team is "still working to confirm the source of the issue."
Shortly after 2 a.m., Southwest posted on its Twitter page that "systems are operating and we will begin work to get customers where they need to be. Thanks for your patience tonight."
Agnew said the computer system was "running at full capacity" by early Saturday. Before that, though, officials used a backup system that was much more sluggish.
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AP Airlines Writer Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Wisconsin lawmakers approve $68 billion state budget
By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin lawmakers approved on Friday a two-year spending package that featured several fiscally conservative provisions, including an income tax cut, a broadening of the state's educational voucher program and a rejection of federal funds for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
The Republican-led state Senate passed the $68 billion budget with a 17-16 vote shortly after midnight on Friday, sending the legislation to Republican Governor Scott Walker, who is expected to sign it.
The proposed budget, which contained a $650 million income tax cut over the next two years, was approved by the Republican-led Assembly with a 55-42 vote on Wednesday.
"We believe it will lead to generating more jobs and creating more revenue," said Republican Senator Alberta Darling on Thursday as the budget was debated.
"This budget positions us to live within our means, grow the economy (and) to hold the line on taxes."
Democrats argued that the spending plan fell short of addressing the state's lagging job growth and helping those living in or near poverty.
"If you are poor, this is a punishing budget," said Democrat Senator Jon Erpenbach.
He said during his floor speech on Thursday that Wisconsin ranked 44th in the United States in job growth in 2012.
"This budget doesn't help the majority of Wisconsinites, it hurts the majority of Wisconsinites."
The budget expands the educational voucher program statewide, which is currently only available in Racine and Milwaukee.
The provision allows 500 students, whose families earn less than 185 percent of the federal poverty line, to use publicly-funded vouchers to attend private schools throughout the state in 2013-14, and 1,000 students in subsequent years.
The legislation also formalizes Walker's refusal to expand BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid program and, as a result, rejects federal money made available by the Affordable Care Act.
The state would have received $4.2 billion during the next five years in federal money if it expanded BadgerCare, according to HealthWatch Wisconsin, an organization that analyzes health care policy.
The budget legislation also moves about 87,000 recipients off the program and into the health insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act and makes about 82,000 childless adults who are under the federal poverty line eligible for BadgerCare.
A tuition freeze throughout the University of Wisconsin system, a provision giving the governor more latitude to sell state property and legalizing bail bondmen are also part of the spending plan.
(Reporting By Brendan O'Brien)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-lawmakers-approve-68-billion-state-budget-061817382.html
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Kardashian, West name baby girl North
This document released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health shows the birth certificate for North West, the daughter of reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West. The birth certificate says North was born at 5:34 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)
This document released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health shows the birth certificate for North West, the daughter of reality TV star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West. The birth certificate says North was born at 5:34 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)
FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows rapper Kanye West and Kim Kardashian attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" in New York. A birth certificate released by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health shows that the couple's daughter North west, was born on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Dec. 6, 2012 file photo shows singer Kanye West, left, talks to his girlfriend Kim Kardashian before an NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks in Miami. A birth certificate released by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health shows that the couple's daughter North west, was born on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, file)
FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2012 file photo Singer Kanye West and girlfriend Kim Kardashian attend Gabrielle's Angel Foundation 2012 Angel Ball cancer research benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Kanye West can pass down that leather skirt to his future child: He and Kim Kardashian are expecting a daughter. The big reveal of the baby's sex came Sunday night, June 2, 2013 on Kardashian's E! reality show, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have taken a new direction in naming their baby girl.
They're calling her North ? as in North West.
The Los Angeles County birth certificate says little North was born to the celebrity and her rapper boyfriend at 5:34 a.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The certificate doesn't mention a middle name. It also doesn't list her hair or eye color or weight.
The child was born several weeks early but Kardashian's sister Khloe has said that mom and baby are healthy.
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