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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After taking less than a week to call 18 witnesses, George Zimmerman's defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the neighborhood watch volunteer's second-degree murder trial.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys planned to work out the jury instructions before they present closing arguments Thursday. Judge Debra Nelson said the case could be sent to the six jurors as early as Friday.
Zimmerman never testified. But jurors saw repeated video recordings of Zimmerman telling his side of the story to investigators. He claims that he shot Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed, in self-defense while the teen straddled and punched him.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara told reporters that Zimmerman wanted to testify but his attorneys felt he had already told his version of events in multiple police interviews played for jurors.
''I think he really wanted to be able to interact with this jury and say to them 'This is what I did and this is why I did it. And as importantly, this is what was happening to me at the time that I decided to do what I had to do,''' O'Mara said. ''So in that sense, yes, I think he wanted to tell his story.''
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Asserting that Zimmerman ''believed he did what he had to do to protect himself from great bodily injury that was already been visited on him,'' O'Mara added, ''If we presented evidence that helped the jury understand that, then we've done our job.''
The defense started its case last Friday and presented half as many witnesses in half of the time that prosecutors did. Friends, parents and an uncle of the defendant testified that it was Zimmerman screaming for help on a 911 call that captured sounds of the fatal fight. Martin's mother and brother had testified for the prosecution that it was Martin yelling for help.
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FILE - In this May 20, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, during their meeting at the NATO Summit in Chicago. The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces. Karzai is scheduled to meet with Obama at the White House on Friday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) |
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces.
"The U.S. does not have an inherent objective of 'X' number of troops in Afghanistan," said Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser. "We have an objective of making sure there is no safe haven for al-Qaida in Afghanistan and making sure that the Afghan government has a security force that is sufficient to ensure the stability of the Afghan government."
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Worcestershire have announced a profit after interest of £225,000 for the year ending September 30, 2012, a figure heavily swollen by proceeds from Premier Inn for a long-term lease for a hotel development at New Road designed to secure the county's financial future.
Without the exceptional payment of £350,000, Worcestershire would have shown a pre-tax loss of £125,000 after one of the wettest summers on record. New Road is particularly susceptible because of recurring flooding of the ground from the River Severn.
In a season where Worcestershire were relegated from Division One of the championship, income fell by 12 per cent to £2.62m.
Worcestershire's annual report states: "At the club's 2011 AGM it was noted that we had done a great deal to reduce risk, but clearly have not yet done enough to offset the extreme adverse weather in 2012. Met Office figures showed 2012 to be the second wettest summer since records began and resulted in the loss of over 15 days home and away cricket, making 2012 a real challenge.
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WE need a photo of what's behind the plate, since that handle is too generic to help us. It looks like a Delta, but they usually have their name on the plate, but could be one of the innumerable "knockoffs", which use the same parts. That type of valve, when it goes bad, usually gives ONLY hot or cold, not both but no mixing, (which given how the operate seems almost impossible to occur).


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Just when you thought that the United States Patent and Trademark Office might be done with rulemaking for at least a bit, taking a collective sigh of relief after the final implementation of first-to-file rules on March 16, 2013, and new fees on March 19, 2013, the USPTO is back at it again. This time the USPTO is proposing rules necessary to implement he Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 (PLTIA). See Changes to Implement Patent Law Treaty – Proposed Rules.
First, what is the Patent Law Treaty? The official party line is that the PLT harmonizes and streamlines formal procedures pertaining to the filing and processing of patent applications. Still, I am just worn out from all the changes!
Historically the PLT was concluded on June 1, 2000, and entered into force on April 28, 2005. The United States Senate ratified the PLT on December 7, 2007, but it did not become effective in the United States upon ratification in 2007 because it is not a self-executing treaty. Legislation (i.e., title II of the PLTIA) to amend the provisions of title 35 to become compliant with our new treaty obligations was enacted on December 18, 2012.
The PLTIA amended U.S. patent laws to implement the provisions of the Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague Agreement) in title I, and the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) in title II. However, we have to look forward to additional proposed rules because the USPTO is implementing the Hague Agreement and title I of the PLTIA in a separate rulemaking. This proposed rules package pertains only to the changes required to implement the PLT.


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Map Difficulty Rating: This build has the potential for Silver gameplay. Gold will require practice beforehand.
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Combat Drone: (4) Shields & Damage, (5) Shields & Damage, (6) Rockets
Incinerate: (4) Radius, (5) Burning Damage, (6) Armor Damage
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Alliance Training: (4) Damage & Capacity, (5) Power Damage
Fitness: (4) Durability
I prefer the N7 Eagle but anything that keeps your recharge over 120% will work. On silver, having one gun will be fine, but on gold you might want to have a secondary SMG (Tempest or Hurricane) with "ultralight materials". This build is better with a mod that allows you to shoot through cover (piercing mod is ideal).
On silver, you will only need a Gear bonus, like Omni-capacitors, Expert package, or Engineering kit. But on gold bring pistol or smg weapon amp, with incendiary (best) or drills rounds. Cyclonic modulators will help on gold.
On bronze and silver this build willl be able to run around the map taking out foes left and right. First use incinerate on a target, and it will also effect nearby enemies. Next afire off an overload on the same target, which will then set off a fire explosion. Fire explosions do major damage to both shields and armor. This combo takes out low level troops in one blast, the blast is also an AoE and can stagger. Shoot the remaining troops or keep firing off explosions. On gold you may need to use your gun alot more though, because some low level troops tend to survive the blasts with a bar or so of health. Use fire explosions and your gun to take out boss-types (atlases, dragoons, scions, etc.) Be sure to keep a combat drone out, it can deaal out a good amount of damge, and it can distract the enemies. Be careful with this guy, even though he can dish out the damage, he can't take it, so USE cover!
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"I'm bold, I'm bodacious, I'm vivacious."
Sharon says her experience with weight loss surgery has been nothing short of a total transformation. "Going into the surgery I was joyful, I couldn't wait until I could start my new life. I was really so obnoxious in my enthusiasm. It was like I was getting a second chance."
But this mother, grandmother, artist, community actress, and -- most recently -- returning college student also points out the surgery is not the cure -- it's the start. "I believe that attitude is 85 percent of health. You've got to want it," she says. "The psychologists at Duke always told us that if you were unhappy and depressed before the surgery, you're going to be unhappy and depressed after the surgery. If you loved life and were happy before the surgery, that's how you'll feel after the surgery, too.
"Choosing gastric bypass surgery is like buying a purse," she says. "It's a very personal choice, and you don't want anybody else picking out your purse. But after hearing some of the stories of people who've had bad experiences with gastric bypass surgery, I want to share what I know." Fifteen months and 94 pounds after her weight loss surgery at Duke, Sharon visited with us at the Cracker Barrel, where she sampled a kids-sized chicken-and-dumplings plate and talked about getting to rediscover her life.
Once [in junior high] my sister and her friend and I all drove to see a doctor in South Carolina and had pregnant women's urine injected into us. I actually lost 50 pounds.
But I would always take weight off and gain it back. I yo-yoed with every diet I went on, and I tried them all. When I quit smoking I gained 40 pounds. You know they say you are what you eat? Well, my husband was so proud of me [for quitting smoking] that every day he would bring me a Chunky Bar.
My back hurt every day of my life -- I was popping five Motrin at a time and it wouldn't even touch the pain. My knees hurt, my ankles hurt -- I would have to sit at the edge of my bed for about a minute or so every morning rotating my ankles so I could get them to move, just so I could get up and go to the bathroom. That was every single morning of my life.
But more than anything, I got tired of watching my family enjoy life. I felt like I was 80 years old. I felt like everybody else was enjoying my children, everybody else was enjoying the company of my husband -- except me. And I hated it. I wanted to live again, and I knew I couldn't continue to live in this body. So I had to make a choice.
In the fall of 2005 a friend had gastric bypass surgery at Duke. I've known her since 1980 and I value her opinion. She answered a lot of my questions about it. When I found out that she'd had it done, a light went on inside me. I thought if she could do it, I could do it.
Yes, I was scared. Surgery is scary. But I didn't want to go on living the way I was living. I had prayed about it, and I had such confidence in Duke. They've always treated me like I was the only patient they had. They made me feel comfortable, like I was part of their family. I was scared but I also felt so peaceful, so secure. I knew that I had to do this.
I didn't look at it as a magic wand or a magic pill. I looked at it as, this is my moment, this is when I take care of me. I think I have a new form of respect for me. Gastric bypass forces you to look differently at your relationship with food. I didn't look at food as my [coping] mechanism.
I never thought I was an emotional eater until after the surgery, and then I realized that I was. I had to learn to deal with my feelings instead of feeding them. Now I can't hide behind an Oreo cookie or a piece of pound cake. I had to rediscover about myself. I found out that there were things about myself that I didn't like -- and things that I loved. I got to get to know Sharon.
Now I eat to live instead of live to eat. I've learned to listen to my body. I've learned to listen when my body says, "I don't want anymore," or when it's saying, "bring it on!"
Since the surgery I've bought the first cocktail dress I've ever bought in my life….The first day I went shopping after I could no longer wear size-X clothing, I thought I needed a passport! It felt like a new country to me…it was almost like I was in the Twilight Zone.
It's okay to be afraid, but don't let that fear control you, and don't let that fear drive you to your grave.
I started my own support group to help other people in my area who are going through this process, and I encourage anyone who has gone through it or is considering the surgery to join one. Everyone in the group learns so much from it, even people who've had the surgery. If you don't have a support group in your area, start one.
I'm very active now. We own a lake house, and we bought some bikes to ride [there]. I have a four-year-old granddaughter that I can get down on the floor and play with -- and actually get back up. The best thing is when she says, "Mamaw, you look pretty." I'm also really looking forward to getting back on roller skates. I haven't been on them in years, and so my granddaughter and I are going to go roller skating.
My husband bought a 1969 Pontiac Firebird -- just like we dated in back in high-school -- and restored it. On our 31st anniversary he drove into the driveway with it. We went riding like we did back in 1973. He said, "Honey, I don't know if they're staring at the car, or they're staring at you!" I said, "Honey, you know they're staring at me."


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- 0Feb 20, '13 by pcc-snHowdy!
I am a 1st year student in the PCC Nursing Program.
This site was very helpful to me when I was planning on going to nursing school. I remember how many questions I had before starting the program. I thought I would come back and do my best to answer any questions you may have.
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- 0Feb 24, '13 by pcc-snI thought I would go ahead and add some info to get the ball rolling.
1) For the most part, the academic curricula between all the OCNE schools is pretty much identical. There is a master OCNE curriculum that each program is given and the schools can tailor it to some degree, but the goals and learning objectives are pretty much identical.
2) The first term was just 9 quarter hours. Many students that hadn't already taken microbiology took this to fill out their fulltime status. This term wasn't so bad.
3) The second term is 12 hours. You have 6 hours of Fundamentals of Nursing, 3 hours of Pathophysiology, and 3 hours of Pharmacology. In addition to these lecture classes, you have 4 hours of skills lab every week, and around 10 hours of clinicals every week. Clinical hours vary from site to site but you are supposed to complete 66 hours this term. Oh yeah... there is also sim lab which is totally separate from skills lab.
My school schedule is pretty much 8-5 M-F. Then add hours and hours at home writing papers and doing paperwork for every clinical experience. I knew nursing school would be tough, but I am continually surprised at how much tougher and more time is involved.
4) I have had two clinical placements so far. The first was in a long-term care facility where the focus was pretty introductory. This term is at a med-surg unit in a hospital and is much much more involved. I am amazed at how much we are already doing and experiencing by the second term. I never would have guessed we would be entrusted to do as much as we do already, but the program has done a fantastic job preparing us so far.
I hear stories of other nursing programs spending a majority of their clinical time in long-term care facilities and in labs. Honestly, that sounds horrible to me. The clinical experiences I am getting through PCC are stellar and I am very fortunate that they have such good relationships with their clinical site partners. Nothing has pushed me to grow and learn more and faster than being on a med-surg floor and actually being tasked to provide the nursing care for patients.
5) The tests are wicked tough. Putting in around 20 hours a weekend studying is pretty much the standard.
6) I think the faculty are fantastic. No complaints here. I have heard rumors about the program going through a rough patch when they transitioned into the OCNE program, but all of that seems to be sorted out.Last edit by pcc-sn on Feb 24, '13 - 0Feb 28, '13 by j.c.Thanks for starting this thread! I do have a few questions that maybe you can give some input on. I applied for Clark College and was accepted into fall term 2013. I've read a few books on how to prepare for school but what are some things you did to prepare for your first term of nursing school? Anything that was helpful or even not helpful? I also applied for PCC but we don't hear if we got into phase 2 until the end of march. How did you prepare for the essay? I am not really sure what the essay is going to be like. Can you give any tips? Maybe like how long can the essay be, how long do you have to write the essay? Thanks again!
- 0Mar 5, '13 by pcc-snj.c.,
I didn't do anything specific to prepare for nursing school other than do my best in all the pre-reqs. Try and brush up on your A&P some because you really do use the info all the time.
As far as the essay goes, I prepared by reading the mission statement of the program to get an idea of what their philosophy is. Also, think about why you want to be a nurse and what you bring to the program that will help you succeed. I bet every school has an essay question along those lines.
Here is some positive news if you get called into the essay... almost everybody that wrote an essay got into the program. There were 180 or so people that did the essays. Something like 80 got accepted right away. The rest were wait listed. But so many of the people that got accepted the first round applied to so many other schools and went elsewhere that it seems like almost everybody on the wait list got in. I hope that helps you keep a positive outlook. - 0Mar 5, '13 by pcc-snChristy24,
I don't want to go into my previous experience too much because I would prefer to stay anonymous. I will say that most of the people in the program have a CNA background and that helps tremendously with the first term's clinicals and basic nursing skills. Many have EMT backgrounds and they seem to be doing well. Just about everybody has something.
I think those with a lot of time and experience in hospitals and clinics do have an edge because they are used to the environment and have seen much of what is discussed in lecture. They just seem more comfortable from the start. - 1Apr 22, '13 by pcc-snOne thing I didn't mention earlier that I wanted to follow up on is the academic difficulty of the program. Most of the people in the program were A students. Many had 4.0s for their prereqs. The class as a whole is filled with intelligent hard working disciplined people.
All that being said, there is a surprisingly high attrition rate in the program. We lost 5 or 6 students at the end of the first term. I think all of them left for personal reasons. This last term, we had 14 that "failed" out. I put "failed" in quotes on purpose. In order to be satisfactorily completing the program, you have to have an average of at least 75 on you exams in each class. Those that failed out often got Bs in the classes they failed, but their tests were too low. I know of a couple that were kicked out for either missing a lab or clinical day. That is around 20 people out of 77 starting. That is a 26% attrition rate in two terms.
Now you may think to yourself, "won't happen to me." You may be right. But all of the people that are gone were good students before entering the program. All were hard working. The problem is that the program is far tougher than anything you may have experienced leading up to it. A&P and the other pre-reqs were a breeze compared to the actual program. Seriously. I look back on A&P and laugh at how hard I thought it was.
Here is a quantitative example... we had a test where the class average was 78 and 18 people failed by scoring below 75. The tests are pretty tough.
The previous poster asked how much time do I spend a day in class, studying, etc. I tend to be on campus from 8-5 Mon - Wed. Their are 4 half day units in that time. The remaining time I am on campus is spent either reading, studying, or printing out hundreds of pages of power point slides. Clinicals are usually on Thurs or Fri. In general, they run 10 hours or so. Then at home, I probably average a normal hour a night reading or studying - unless there is an upcoming test (which is very often) - and then I am studying non-stop. If I test on Monday, I'll spend at least 8 hours a day on Friday, Sat, and Sun leading up to the test. Most weekends are consumed by studying. And by consumed, I mean ALL day.
Add in the numerous group projects and papers on top of lecture, lab, and clinicals and you will be swamped.Han Moe likes this. - 0Jun 17, '13 by ready4nursingCould you give an estimate of the tuition cost breakdown each term? I am sure it will be discussed at orientation as well. I figure I will need to work part time during the program because the financial aid I was awarded is not going to cover living expenses.


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Our furniture manufacturing facilities have always been a key to the success of the Company R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr., Chairman and CEO
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Aaron Rents (RNT) today announced that Michael W. Jarnagin has been promoted to the new position of Vice President, Manufacturing.
"Our furniture manufacturing facilities have always been a key to the success of the Company and have been running at record production levels the last several years," said R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Rents. "This promotion is in recognition of Mike's outstanding performance and the critical role MacTavish Furniture Industries plays in supporting the Company's growth."
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Mr. Jarnagin joined Aaron Rents in 1984 as the first employee of the Company's MacTavish Furniture Industries Division's Coolidge, Georgia operations, with the initial responsibility of product and plant design and the start-up of an upholstery furniture manufacturing plant. Since that time, he has been responsible for seven expansions of the Coolidge facility as well as adding new upholstery manufacturing facilities in Cairo, Georgia. In 2001, he assumed additional responsibilities for office furniture manufacturing and consolidated all office manufacturing production into the Cairo facility.
MacTavish Furniture Industries has approximately 400 employees utilizing over 500,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing facilities, and delivered in 2004 more than $67 million of product at cost to Aaron Rents stores nationwide.
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The picture tells the story. These little goblins are the stars of Lake Thunderbird as Super Dog Ted pulls his Princess Chubbles in her carriage all around the Lake. They will be out with treats for the children Saturday, October 22nd at the Clubhouse. Submitted by owner, Janette Dunn
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Our daughter, Emily, takes these two cuties to the Heartland Healthcare in Henry. There is always a waiting lap for one of these cuties to curl up in. Voulenteer...if just an hour. Satisfaction for everyone involved!


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text: ON THE COVER: This month, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG), which was published in September 1949. The American Society of Human Genetics held its first meeting in September 1948, and one of the major goals of The Society was to establish a journal in which to publish "sound research" in human genetics (Am. J. Hum. Genet. 1, 1–18). A year later, with C. W. Cotterman at the editorial helm and a team of "many persons of genetic competence" serving on the board of directors and editorial staff, the first issue of AJHG, containing nine articles, was published. In the beginning, AJHG was published quarterly and the table of contents was printed on its cover. See this month's cover image to get a glimpse of how the cover has changed through the decades, and read the commentary "The Editors' Recollections on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of The American Journal of Human Genetics" by past and present editors, on pages 321–327, to learn more about how The Journal has grown and evolved. Cover image by Robin Williamson.


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The Cherner Chair Company was founded in 1999 by Thomas and Benjamin Cherner, sons of the American furniture designer Norman Cherner. Since its inception, the Cherner Chair Company has brought back into production many of Norman Cherner's most popular designs. Utilizing his original drawings and specifications, the reissued designs are manufactured with the same attention to detail found in the original handmade classics. Cherner Chair products are now available worldwide.
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Markets were a lot calmer Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 24 points, or 0.2 percent, at 14,732 as of 11:24 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The Dow and other indexes were moving between small gains and losses in early trading.
The Dow plunged 560 points Wednesday through Thursday, wiping out its gains from May and June. The Fed's easy money policies have been a big driver behind the stock market's bull run the last four years. The plunge came just three weeks after the Dow hit a record high of 15,409.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell six points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,582 points. The S&P hit its own record high a month ago.
Kim Forrest, senior analyst with Fort Pitt Capital Group, a portfolio management firm in Pittsburgh, said the market had the "right reaction" to the news that the Fed would wind down its stimulus if the economy continues to improve, but the move may have been overblown.
"We're getting news that made the market uncomfortable," she said. "We shouldn't be sitting at these highs given the fact that the Fed signaled that someday it's going to take some liquidity off the table. So the reaction is right, the magnitude is probably a little off."
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.49 percent from 2.42 percent late Thursday. The yield has risen sharply since Wednesday as investors sold bonds in anticipation that the Fed would slow, and eventually end, its bond purchases.
The yield, which is a benchmark for interest rates on many kinds of loans including home mortgages, is at its highest level since August 2011. On Tuesday, the day before the Fed's announcement, it was 2.19 percent. It hit a low for the year of 1.63 percent on May 3.
Technology shares fell more than the rest of the market after business software maker Oracle reported disappointing earnings late Thursday. Oracle plunged $3.04, or 9 percent, to $30.17, the biggest drop in the S&P 500 index. Oracle is struggling to adapt as customers shift away from software installed on their own computers toward software that runs remotely.
Oracle's results are a poor omen for business spending on technology. Technology stocks in the S&P index fell 1 percent, the most of the 10 industry groups in the index.
The Nasdaq composite index, which is heavily weighted with technology stocks, fell 30 points, or 0.9 percent, to 3,333. Apple, the biggest stock in the index, fell $8.15, or 1.9 percent, to $408.75. Microsoft fell 26 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $33.23.
The price of gold recovered after plunging the day before. Gold was up $6.40, or 0.5 percent, to $1,292.40 an ounce. Crude oil fell $1.15, or 1.2 percent, to $94 a barrel in New York.
The dollar rose against other currencies as traders anticipated that U.S. interest rates would rise as the Fed winds down its bond purchases.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Darden Restaurants, which runs Olive Garden and Red Lobster, fell $1.16, or 2.3 percent, to $50.07 after rising expenses hurt its fourth-quarter earnings.
— CarMax, which runs used car dealerships, reported that its first-quarter profit jumped 21 percent as sales rose. Its stock rose 63 cents or 1.4 percent, to $45.20.
A Fed policy statement and comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke started the selling in stocks, bonds and commodities Wednesday. Bernanke said the Fed expects to scale back its bond-buying program later this year and end it by mid-2014 if the economy continues to improve. The bank has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds, which has made borrowing cheap for consumers and businesses. The program has also encouraged investors to buy stocks instead of bonds.
The S&P 500 is still up 11.9 percent, for the year, not far from its full-year increase of 13.4 percent last year.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei index rose 1.7 percent, but other Asian markets fell. European markets slipped. France's CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent and Germany's DAX fell 0.9 percent.
Friday, 21 June 2013 10:55 Published in National NewsObama has said the little-known Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will play a key role in that effort. The federal oversight board reviews anti-terror programs to ensure that privacy concerns are taken into account.
The president is also tasking the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, to consider declassifying more details about the government's collection of U.S. phone and Internet records. Obama is specifically asking Clapper to review possible declassification of opinions from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves the surveillance efforts.
Obama's meeting with the board was taking place Friday afternoon, but the White House wasn't planning to allow press coverage.
The government has already lifted some of the secrecy surrounding the programs following disclosures earlier this month about their existence by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. But the legal opinions from the highly secretive court remain private.
The privacy board was created in 2004 but has operated fitfully ever since, given congressional infighting and at times, censorship by government lawyers. The board was dormant during Obama's first term and only became fully functional in May, before the NSA programs became public.
The board's chairman, David Medine, said the five-member group has a "broad range of questions" to ask about the NSA's widespread collection programs. The board was given a classified briefing on the programs last week and plans to release a report eventually with recommendations for the government.
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Friday, 21 June 2013 10:51 Published in Health & FitnessBut many immigrants will have to wait more than a decade to qualify for health care benefits under the proposed immigration overhaul being debated by Congress, ensuring a huge swath of people will remain uninsured as the centerpiece of Obama's health care law launches next year.
Lawmakers pushing the immigration bill said adding more recipients to an already costly benefit would make it unaffordable.
Health care analysts and immigration proponents argue that denying coverage will saddle local governments with the burden of uninsured immigrants. They also fear a crisis down the road as immigrants become eligible for coverage, but are older, sicker and require more expensive care. Those placed on provisional status would become the nation's second-largest population of uninsured, or about 25 percent, according to a 2012 study by the Urban Institute.
"All health research shows that the older you get, the sicker you become, so these people will be sicker and will be more expensive on the system," said Matthew O'Brien, who runs a health clinic for immigrants in Philadelphia and researches health trends at Temple University.
The Affordable Care Act will make health insurance accessible for millions of uninsured people starting in January through taxpayer-subsidized private policies for middle-class families and expanded access to Medicaid, the program for low-income people funded by federal and state dollars. The proposed immigration overhaul explicitly states immigrants cannot receive Medicaid or buy coverage in new health care exchanges for more than a decade after they qualify for legal status, and only after certain financial and security requirements have been met.
Immigrants with provisional status may obtain insurance through employers once they have legal status to work, but many are unskilled and undereducated, and tend to work low-wage jobs at small businesses that don't have to provide the benefit under the health care law. Immigrants illegally in the country also can access community health centers, but the officials who run those clinics said they are overwhelmed by the demand.
"We can't help everybody," said Bethy Mathis, executive director of Wesley Community Center in Phoenix. The clinic serves 7,000 patients a year who seek everything from vaccinations and relief from minor medical problems to care for long-term health conditions such as diabetes.
Debate over whether immigrants illegally in the country should be eligible for federal benefits nearly sank Obama's health care reform before it was passed by Congress in 2010. For lawmakers pushing immigration reform, there was no question that immigrants would continue to be excluded.
"That's one of the privileges of citizenship," said Republican Sen. John McCain, one of the so-called Gang of Eight pushing the immigration bill, during a conference call with reporters. "That's just what it is. I don't know why we would want to provide Obamacare to someone who is not a citizen of this country."
The issue has received more attention in recent weeks. Some House Republicans have threatened to kill the immigration bill unless immigrants are required to pay for all their health care costs even after they receive green cards or become citizens. Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, meanwhile, said she wants the government to distribute at least $250 million to state and local governments because they are the ones who will feel the financial pain of immigrants being left out of the health care law.
Pregnant women, children, seniors and the disabled are eligible for emergency Medicaid services regardless of their immigration status.
The politics behind the bill offer little solace to immigrant families struggling with growing medical bills.
Isabel Castillo came to the U.S. illegally with her parents when she was a child. She's now 28 and has not gone for an annual physical exam since 2007. Every pain triggers debate over whether it's worth a medical visit or not.
"You are like, `God, should I go, should I wait? The bill is going to be so high,'" Castillo said. "You just wait until you can't tolerate the pain anymore and then you go to the emergency room."
Immigrants who are U.S. citizens are also affected by the limits on health care access if they provide for family members here illegally.
High school student Jacqueline Garcia of Phoenix works two jobs to support her 13-year-old brother and 52-year-old grandmother, who has severe diabetes. The woman's mobility is limited, her vision and memory are fading and she sometimes suffers from seizures. The children were born in the United States and are being raised by the grandmother, who does not have lawful status and as a result does not qualify for Medicaid.
"Every time she gets sick, I have to take her to the doctor. It's really expensive," Garcia said. "What if my grandmother doesn't make it for the 10 years? I mean, I am always going to be struggling. That's too long."
Opponents said they understand the concerns of immigrants not getting health care, but it becomes an issue of the added expense.
"We aren't saying people shouldn't get health care. The question is who is going to pay for it?" said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national group that opposes the immigration overhaul. "They would all be on Medicaid or heavily subsidized in some other way."
Critics of the decision said immigrants are eager to pay for affordable health care insurance and already support federal benefits by paying sales and income taxes. They note that adults unable to overcome health emergencies are less likely to contribute to the workforce and society.
"The risk of them being uninsured if they are in the country illegally is the same risk of anyone else in the country not being insured," said Stephen Zuckerman, a health economist for the Urban Institute. "It's always more expensive to treat people at a more advanced stage of disease."
In North Carolina, Jessica Sanchez-Rodriguez said she has undergone a series of surgeries and medicines to treat her spina bifida, a developmental congenital disorder, and an ailment that leads to brain swelling. Her parents brought her illegally from Mexico when she was 11 months old. As a minor, she received subsidized medical care, but she was cut off when she turned 18 in February.
Her family is trying to raise money for a $55,000 surgery to connect a catheter to her bladder.
"It's terrible," Sanchez-Rodriguez said. "I have to go to school with these pains."
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The captain of FC Rubin Kazan, the club with whom he has spent the bulk of his career, Roman Sharonov received an out-of-the-blue call-up to Russia's UEFA EURO 2012 squad having not represented his country for almost eight years. A composed and experienced defender, he can play at right-back or in the centre.
• A native Muscovite, he started out at FC Lokomotiv Moskva but only represented the club's second team before, at 21, he tried his luck in China with Shanghai Fuabo FC.
• Returned to Russia and helped FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk win promotion to the second tier before joining Rubin; spent four seasons in that division with the Kazan club, eventually achieving promotion to the Premier-Liga in 2002.
• Established himself in the top flight over the next two years and won his first Russia cap in March 2004 – in a 2-2 draw against Bulgaria in Sofia – before travelling to Portugal for UEFA EURO 2004, where he was sent off in the opening game against Spain (0-1).
• Profile faded after a 2005 move to FC Terek Grozny, who finished bottom of the Premier-Liga and were relegated; spent the next two seasons in the second tier, the second of them with champions FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, making 34 appearances in the club's title-winning campaign.
• Back at Rubin for the start of the 2008 season, which would end with the Tatarstantsi's first Russian title, his contribution being 26 starts and one goal; retained the crown in 2009 (25 appearances, two goals) and made five starts in UEFA Champions League but missed most of 2010 through injury before returning in style in 2011/12, his efforts being rewarded with a surprise international recall.
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