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Teen mom banned? Kaitlin Tiller's photo not allowed in yearbook (+video)
Kaitlin Tiller, the teen mom whose photo was banned from her school's yearbook, just wanted to have a photo of her in the yearbook with what she cherished most ? her son. The teen mom banned from the yearbook told her local news station, "I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for him."
Teen mom banned: Kaitlin Tiller knew what meant most to her, her son, and wanted him to appear in her senior photo. But the school said no.A Randolph County teen says school officials pulled a picture of her and her son from the high school yearbook after telling her it promoted teen pregnancy.
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Seventeen-year-old Kaitlin?Tiller?posed with her son, Leelin, for the Wheatmore High School yearbook photo last summer after the school told seniors to pose with something that represents them or an achievement.
"I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for him," she told WGHP-TV's Chad Tucker.?
Randolph County Schools Superintendent Donald Andrews said Friday the yearbook's practice has been to include photos only of graduating students, though family and friends could appear with seniors in advertisements.
The school did accept photos of students with their family pets,?Kaitlin told WGHP-TV.?
Tiller?says the picture promotes responsibility and love. She didn't submit an alternate photo.
Tiller?says since her son's birth last year, she graduated early, started college, and is working more than 30 hours a week while being a teen mom.
In a document released March of this year, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy said about 68 per 1,000 teenage women ages 15-19 in the US became pregnant in 2008 ? a decline of 42 percent since 1990.
In North Carolina, there were more than 23,000 teenage pregnancies in 2008.?
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Knicks need to win on road to avoid Game 7
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
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Newest 'Most Wanted Terrorist': Should Assata Shakur make the list?
Fugitive Assata Shakur is the first woman named to FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list. A member of a black militant group, she was convicted of the 1973 murder of a New Jersey trooper. But some say the 'terrorist' label doesn't stick.
Assata Shakur ? formerly known as Joanne Chesimard ? was convicted in 1973 of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba.
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EnlargeThe FBI has added the first woman to its ?Most Wanted Terrorists? list, Joanne Chesimard, who is currently living in Cuba under the name Assata Shakur.
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Ms. Chesimard/Shakur is a fugitive member of a black militant group convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper by the side of a roadway on May 2, 1973. Sentenced to prison in 1977, she escaped in November 1979. Eventually she made her way to Cuba, where the Castro regime has sheltered her ever since, claiming she is a victim of racial persecution.
Cuba has declined repeated US requests to extradite her. On Thursday, the FBI and New Jersey law enforcement officials announced that they have doubled the reward for her capture and return to $2 million.
?She continues to flaunt her freedom in the face of this horrific crime," said New Jersey State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes at a news conference.
The FBI ?Most Wanted Terrorist? list is an offshoot of the venerable ?Most Wanted? list, and something of a younger brother. It was first drawn up and published in late 2001 after the 9/11 attacks. At that time it contained the names of 22 men, mostly Middle Eastern, who had been indicted by federal grand juries on charges connected to terrorist attacks ranging from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the 1996 attack on a US military residential tower in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden was No. 1. He was the only person on the 2001 terrorist list who was already a ?Most Wanted? ? in his case, due to his involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa.
Alleged terrorists remain on the list ?until such time as the charges are dropped or when credible physical evidence is obtained, which proves with 100 percent accuracy, that they are deceased,? says the FBI.
Needless to say, Mr. bin Laden is no longer listed.
Today the list has 32 names. The majority are Middle Easterners, such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the former bin Laden associate and current listed head of Al Qaeda.
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Hamas vs. hummus: How much do college kids know about the Middle East?
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
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May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-arrests-4-leaders-teachers-164143886.html
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NRA to meet in Texas after blocking gun control in Congress
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of National Rifle Association members gather in Houston this weekend for the first time since the Senate rejected a plan last month to expand background checks for gun buyers, but officials say attendees will not sit back to celebrate victory.
"We view it as an opening battle in what will be a multi-year war," said Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the NRA, which lobbied against the proposal. "We're definitely not resting on our laurels."
Polls show more than 80 percent of Americans support expanded background checks, but the proposal to extend background checks for sales made online and at gun shows fell six votes shy on April 17 of the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate.
The proposal, which supporters have vowed to revive, is a key part of President Barack Obama's gun-control effort sparked by the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The vote was a sign of the influence of the gun lobby, particularly the NRA, which spent $18.6 million in the 2012 campaign cycle, according to the Sunlight Foundation. The NRA has more than 4 million members.
The NRA gathering in the nation's fourth-largest city, which starts Friday and continues through Sunday, is billed as a celebration of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution setting out the right to bear arms.
The event is expected to draw some 70,000 attendees who can stroll 400,000 square feet of displays to see the latest products from firearm manufacturers and hunting outfitters, check out wildlife art and shooting accessories, or sign up for hunting trips around the world. It will also draw protesters who plan to demonstrate for more gun-control measures such as background checks.
There will also be a Stand and Fight Rally with political commentator Glenn Beck, a country music jam featuring the Eli Young Band, and remarks from leading gun rights advocates including former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.
Since last year's NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in St. Louis, Missouri, a national debate about gun laws sprang up after the December shooting at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed. In the months that followed, states including Connecticut, Colorado, Maryland and New York have passed gun-control laws, while states such as Arkansas, Wyoming and South Dakota have loosened gun restrictions.
"Almost from the moment of the tragedy in Newtown, it became apparent that the ensuing push for a wide variety of new anti-gun laws had a lot less to do with school safety than it did with a decades-long crusade to destroy the Second Amendment," NRA chief executive officer Wayne LaPierre wrote in an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle published in advance of the national gathering.
NRA members proposed solutions such as fixing the mental health system, putting armed guards into schools and enforcing existing federal laws against drug dealers and gang members with guns, LaPierre wrote.
"NRA members exemplify everything that's good and right about America," he wrote.
Those members will be warmly welcomed by leaders in Texas, including Perry and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, both Republicans.
On Wednesday, Perry celebrated the recent move from California to Texas of a company called Shield Tactical, which sells firearm-related gear and training services. Perry's office said the governor has reached out to more than 30 firearms manufacturers in states that are considering curbing guns sales or manufacturing, urging them to move to Texas.
The NRA's opponents are also gearing up for the Houston event. The local chapter of a group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America plans to demonstrate in support of background-check legislation. Military veterans who disagree with NRA positions on guns plan an "Occupy the NRA" event.
"The NRA leadership actively worked to block background checks for gun sales, spreading lies about the Senate bill," Lauren Weiner, a spokeswoman for the advocacy group Americans United for Change, told reporters on Thursday. "The reality is that the majority of gun owners do, in fact, support these common-sense reforms."
An online Reuters/Ipsos poll released in January showed that 86 percent of Americans surveyed favored expanded background checks of all gun buyers. A CBS News/New York Times poll released on Wednesday showed that 88 percent of Americans support background checks for all gun buyers and that 59 percent are disappointed or angry about the recent Senate vote on gun legislation.
State Representative Garnet Coleman, a Houston Democrat whose district includes the convention center hosting the NRA meeting, will not be among the Texas politicians at the event.
"Clearly, the sales and promotion of firearms is big business," Coleman said. "This is business with politics as the cloak."
(Reporting By Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by David Gregorio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nra-meet-texas-blocking-gun-control-congress-181434598.html
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Tesla ups longest financing term from 63 to 72 months, guarantees highest resale value of any premium sedan
Last week, Tesla gave some good news to owners of its electric autos -- an unconditional warranty on Model S power packs and the availability of Roadsters and Model S's as loaner models should your EV be laid up for repairs. Today on a media call, Elon Musk announced a new financing option for would-be buyers and informed us that Teslas have a higher resale value than any other car. Because of this, Musk is personally guaranteeing that his cars will have a higher resale value than those from major luxury brands like BMW, Audi and Jaguar (which broadens the guarantee beyond the old one that had the value pegged to the residual value of a Benz S-class). Additionally, the company is now upping its longest financing option from 63 to 72 months to make it easier for folks to get in the driver seat.
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Kindle Book Store easiest to use e-bookshop
japan.internet.com reported on a survey by goo Research into electronic book purchasing sites, although the column chose to highlight free e-book sites.
Demographics
Between the 5th and 10th of April 2013 1,076 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionniare. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
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Research results
Read more on: ebook,goo researchQ1: Have you ever purchased an electronic book? (Sample size=1,076)
Yes (to SQ) 16.1% No 83.9% When asked for what purposes they had bought the books, 88.4% said for pleasure (hobby-related or just for the pleasure of reading), 22.5% said for study purposed, and 13.9% for work.
When asked on what devices they had purchased, 44.5% has used a PC-type computer, 27.2% an Android smartphone, 23.7% an iPhone, 17.5% an iPad, 10.4% a dedicated electronic book reader, and 9.2% an Android tablet.
When asked where they had purchased from, 32.9% said the Amazon Kindle Store, 23.7% iBook Store, 13.9% Rakuten Kobo, Electronic Book Store Papyless 13.3%, and so on.
Q1SQ: Which sites are easy to use? (Sample size=173, multiple answer)
Amazon Kindle Store 28.9% iBook Store 20.8% Electronic Book Store Papyless 11.0% Rakuten Kobo 9.2% honto Electronic Book Store 6.9% Yahoo! Book Store 5.2% Book Live 4.6% Book Web 2.9% Fujisan 1.2% OCNeBooks 0.6% Other 19.7% Q2: Do you know there are sites where you can download copyright-free electronic books for free? (Sample size=1,076)
Yes, and have used them (to SQ) 10.0% Yes, but haven?t used them 16.4% No 73.5% Q2SQ: Which of the following free book sites have you used? (Sample size=108, multiple answer)
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Jurors hear voicemail saying Jackson was sick
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Five days before Michael Jackson died, his manager called the singer's doctor, told him Jackson was sick, and implored him to have blood tests done, according to a voicemail played Thursday in court.
The message left by Frank DeLeo was retrieved by police from the cellphone of Dr. Conrad Murray and played during the trial of a negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against concert promoter AEG Live.
"I'm sure you're aware he had an episode last night," the message said. "He's sick ... We gotta see what he's doing."
Plaintiff's lawyer Brian Panish acknowledged outside court that the episode occurred on the day Jackson was told by Kenny Ortega, the director of his "This is It" concert, to go home from a rehearsal because he was pale and shivering.
Panish suggested that if DeLeo was aware of the incident, so were AEG executives.
The lawsuit claims AEG didn't properly investigate Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors said he gave Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol.
Jurors were not given any further details on the episode.
Katherine Jackson and her daughter Rebbie sat in a front row of the courtroom during testimony.
AEG denies it hired Murray, and it is likely to blame Jackson for insisting on having Murray as his doctor because of his dependence on propofol, which Jackson used to sleep.
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Paula Broadwell looks to faith to rebuild after Petraeus affair
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell said she is focusing on her faith and family as she rebuilds her life after revelations of her extramarital affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus forced his resignation and thrust her into the center of a media firestorm.
"I grew up in a strong faith-based family," she told News 14 Carolina after attending a YMCA prayer breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives.
"I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward," she said.
Broadwell's relationship with the retired U.S. Army general, who was once considered to be a potential contender for the White House, came to light last year after anonymous emails she sent to a Tampa socialite who knew Petraeus prompted an FBI investigation.
The sex scandal involving the married four-star general and his biographer, an U.S. Army Reserve intelligence officer who was also married, was a shocking downfall for a lauded military man credited with helping to pull Iraq from the brink of all-out civil war while commander there.
Broadwell said she was seeking meaningful work, not publicity, in the aftermath of the scandal, which she did not discuss in the television interview.
"I've been involved in a number of wounded warrior organizations and veteran support initiatives in our community," she said.
"The mission today ... was to speak about redemption and slowing down in life and finding purpose," she said. "It really touched my heart, I've made some mistakes in the past, but I'm trying to look forward with my family."
The City University of New York announced last month that Petraeus will join the school as a visiting professor starting in August.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Scott Malone and Maureen Bavdek)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paula-broadwell-looks-faith-rebuild-petraeus-affair-134925168.html
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Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions
DUBLIN (AP) ? Ireland's government has published a long-awaited bill explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice.
The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is dividing the government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Some Catholic conservatives within Kenny's party have vowed to reject the bill because it authorizes hospitals to perform abortions on suicidal women, so long as three doctors certify the suicide threat as credible.
Ireland's constitution bans abortion. But the Supreme Court in 1992 ruled that terminations must be legal in cases required to save the life of the woman. The court specified credible suicide threats as one condition.
Wednesday's bill would back that court judgment. It faces weeks of debate and likely amendment. Kenny wants it passed by July.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ireland-publishes-bill-life-saving-abortions-064112720.html
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Fed likely to stick with low-rate stance this week
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A combination of scant inflation and still-modest U.S. economic growth will likely lead the Federal Reserve this week to maintain its drive to keep borrowing costs at record lows indefinitely.
The Fed has said it plans to keep its key short-term interest rate near zero at least until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from its current 7.6 percent.
It's also been buying $85 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage bonds to try to keep long-term borrowing rates down. The goal has been to energize the economy through more consumer and corporate borrowing.
In recent months, many economists had suggested that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of 2013 if job growth accelerated.
But the jobs report for March was surprisingly weak. And inflation has been running below the Fed's target rate, allowing it to keep stimulating the economy without igniting price increases.
"I am not looking for any major action from this meeting," says David Jones, an economist at DMJ Advisors.
The Fed's interest rate-setting committee will begin a two-day meeting Tuesday and will issue a policy statement once its meeting ends Wednesday afternoon.
The minutes of the Fed's last meeting in March suggested that some policymakers favored slowing and eventually ending its bond buying ? as long as the economy and the job market kept improving. Some feared that keeping rates too low for too long could escalate inflation, fuel speculative asset bubbles or unsettle markets once the Fed has to start raising rates or unloading its record $3 trillion investment portfolio.
Early this month, though, the government said U.S. employers added only 88,000 jobs in March, far below the 220,000 average in the previous four months. Last week, it said the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the January-March quarter ? a decent growth rate but one that's expected to weaken in coming months because of federal spending cuts and higher Social Security taxes.
At the same time, consumer inflation as measured by the gauge the Fed most closely monitors remains well below its 2 percent target. That gauge rose just 1 percent in the 12 months that ended in March.
Analysts now think the Fed will keep the Fed's easy-credit policies unchanged, possibly for the rest of the year.
"The government's fiscal austerity is kicking in and hitting the economy hard," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "I am not looking for any change in Fed policy at this meeting, not with this weak growth and low inflation."
After years of debate, the Fed in January 2012 followed the lead of many other central banks around the world in establishing an inflation target of 2 percent. The Fed's goal is to keep price changes from hurting the economy.
This could occur if inflation raged out of control or if the opposite problem ? deflation ? emerged. Deflation is a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and houses.
The United States last suffered serious deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. But Fed policymakers think the risks of deflation can rise as inflation dips below 2 percent. They want to avoid following the path of Japan, which has struggled with weak growth and deflation for more than two decades.
Economists don't think the latest economic data will lead the Fed to step up the size of its bond purchases. But they say the figures should embolden the majority of officials who back Chairman Ben Bernanke's commitment to keep borrowing rates down until the economy shows sustained improvement ? as long as inflation stays low.
"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now," says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. "That would be totally premature."
Bethune says the Fed needs to be especially cautious in signaling any policy shift because the U.S. economy has been serving as a global engine of growth. Many European countries are still struggling to escape a recession that followed the region's debt crisis.
"Anything the Fed did that could disrupt things or create uncertainty could tip the whole global economy back into recession," Bethune says.
Few expect the central bank to start raising short-term rates before late 2015 or early 2016. And many economists think the Fed will keep buying $85 billion in bonds each month for the rest of this year, before starting to curtail its purchases in early 2014.
Still, some analysts say that if the economy emerges from a slowdown caused in part by the government cuts and starts accelerating, the Fed might taper its bond purchases by fall.
Whenever the Fed does decide to signal a potential pullback of its aggressive credit easing, after a long period of record-low rates, analysts say the shift could jolt investors.
"No one can predict how much financial market instability we are likely to get when the Fed finally begins pulling back," Jones says.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-likely-stick-low-rate-stance-week-120053090.html
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Sen. Kelly Ayotte becomes focus of gun-control groups after voting against background checks (Washington Post)
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