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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Majority of Americans face poverty at some point
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
The findings come as President Barack Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders of opportunity" and reverse income inequality.
As nonwhites approach a numerical majority in the U.S., one question is how public programs to lift the disadvantaged should be best focused ? on the affirmative action that historically has tried to eliminate the racial barriers seen as the major impediment to economic equality, or simply on improving socioeconomic status for all, regardless of race.
Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor."
"I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit and vegetable stand with her boyfriend but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks.
"If you do try to go apply for a job, they're not hiring people, and they're not paying that much to even go to work," she said. Children, she said, have "nothing better to do than to get on drugs."
While racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to live in poverty, race disparities in the poverty rate have narrowed substantially since the 1970s, census data show. Economic insecurity among whites also is more pervasive than is shown in the government's poverty data, engulfing more than 76 percent of white adults by the time they turn 60, according to a new economic gauge being published next year by the Oxford University Press.
The gauge defines "economic insecurity" as experiencing unemployment at some point in their working lives, or a year or more of reliance on government aid such as food stamps or income below 150 percent of the poverty line. Measured across all races, the risk of economic insecurity rises to 79 percent.
Marriage rates are in decline across all races, and the number of white mother-headed households living in poverty has risen to the level of black ones.
"It's time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to economic class position," said William Julius Wilson, a Harvard professor who specializes in race and poverty. He noted that despite continuing economic difficulties, minorities have more optimism about the future after Obama's election, while struggling whites do not.
"There is the real possibility that white alienation will increase if steps are not taken to highlight and address inequality on a broad front," Wilson said.
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Nationwide, the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment following the recession. While poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics are nearly three times higher, by absolute numbers the predominant face of the poor is white.
More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation's destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks.
Sometimes termed "the invisible poor" by demographers, lower-income whites generally are dispersed in suburbs as well as small rural towns, where more than 60 percent of the poor are white. Concentrated in Appalachia in the East, they are numerous in the industrial Midwest and spread across America's heartland, from Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma up through the Great Plains.
Buchanan County, in southwest Virginia, is among the nation's most destitute based on median income, with poverty hovering at 24 percent. The county is mostly white, as are 99 percent of its poor.
More than 90 percent of Buchanan County's inhabitants are working-class whites who lack a college degree. Higher education long has been seen there as nonessential to land a job because well-paying mining and related jobs were once in plentiful supply. These days many residents get by on odd jobs and government checks.
Salyers' daughter, Renee Adams, 28, who grew up in the region, has two children. A jobless single mother, she relies on her live-in boyfriend's disability checks to get by. Salyers says it was tough raising her own children as it is for her daughter now, and doesn't even try to speculate what awaits her grandchildren, ages 4 and 5.
Smoking a cigarette in front of the produce stand, Adams later expresses a wish that employers will look past her conviction a few years ago for distributing prescription painkillers, so she can get a job and have money to "buy the kids everything they need."
"It's pretty hard," she said. "Once the bills are paid, we might have $10 to our name."
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Census figures provide an official measure of poverty, but they're only a temporary snapshot that doesn't capture the makeup of those who cycle in and out of poverty at different points in their lives. They may be suburbanites, for example, or the working poor or the laid off.
In 2011 that snapshot showed 12.6 percent of adults in their prime working-age years of 25-60 lived in poverty. But measured in terms of a person's lifetime risk, a much higher number ? 4 in 10 adults ? falls into poverty for at least a year of their lives.
The risks of poverty also have been increasing in recent decades, particularly among people ages 35-55, coinciding with widening income inequality. For instance, people ages 35-45 had a 17 percent risk of encountering poverty during the 1969-1989 time period; that risk increased to 23 percent during the 1989-2009 period. For those ages 45-55, the risk of poverty jumped from 11.8 percent to 17.7 percent.
Higher recent rates of unemployment mean the lifetime risk of experiencing economic insecurity now runs even higher: 79 percent, or 4 in 5 adults, by the time they turn 60.
By race, nonwhites still have a higher risk of being economically insecure, at 90 percent. But compared with the official poverty rate, some of the biggest jumps under the newer measure are among whites, with more than 76 percent enduring periods of joblessness, life on welfare or near-poverty.
By 2030, based on the current trend of widening income inequality, close to 85 percent of all working-age adults in the U.S. will experience bouts of economic insecurity.
"Poverty is no longer an issue of 'them', it's an issue of 'us'," says Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who calculated the numbers. "Only when poverty is thought of as a mainstream event, rather than a fringe experience that just affects blacks and Hispanics, can we really begin to build broader support for programs that lift people in need."
The numbers come from Rank's analysis being published by the Oxford University Press. They are supplemented with interviews and figures provided to the AP by Tom Hirschl, a professor at Cornell University; John Iceland, a sociology professor at Penn State University; the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute; the Census Bureau; and the Population Reference Bureau.
Among the findings:
?For the first time since 1975, the number of white single-mother households living in poverty with children surpassed or equaled black ones in the past decade, spurred by job losses and faster rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites. White single-mother families in poverty stood at nearly 1.5 million in 2011, comparable to the number for blacks. Hispanic single-mother families in poverty trailed at 1.2 million.
?Since 2000, the poverty rate among working-class whites has grown faster than among working-class nonwhites, rising 3 percentage points to 11 percent as the recession took a bigger toll among lower-wage workers. Still, poverty among working-class nonwhites remains higher, at 23 percent.
?The share of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods ? those with poverty rates of 30 percent or more ? has increased to 1 in 10, putting them at higher risk of teenage pregnancy or dropping out of school. Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 17 percent of the child population in such neighborhoods, compared with 13 percent in 2000, even though the overall proportion of white children in the U.S. has been declining.
The share of black children in high-poverty neighborhoods dropped from 43 percent to 37 percent, while the share of Latino children went from 38 percent to 39 percent.
?Race disparities in health and education have narrowed generally since the 1960s. While residential segregation remains high, a typical black person now lives in a nonmajority black neighborhood for the first time. Previous studies have shown that wealth is a greater predictor of standardized test scores than race; the test-score gap between rich and low-income students is now nearly double the gap between blacks and whites.
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Going back to the 1980s, never have whites been so pessimistic about their futures, according to the General Social Survey, a biannual survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. Just 45 percent say their family will have a good chance of improving their economic position based on the way things are in America.
The divide is especially evident among those whites who self-identify as working class. Forty-nine percent say they think their children will do better than them, compared with 67 percent of nonwhites who consider themselves working class, even though the economic plight of minorities tends to be worse.
Although they are a shrinking group, working-class whites ? defined as those lacking a college degree ? remain the biggest demographic bloc of the working-age population. In 2012, Election Day exit polls conducted for the AP and the television networks showed working-class whites made up 36 percent of the electorate, even with a notable drop in white voter turnout.
Last November, Obama won the votes of just 36 percent of those noncollege whites, the worst performance of any Democratic nominee among that group since Republican Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide victory over Walter Mondale.
Some Democratic analysts have urged renewed efforts to bring working-class whites into the political fold, calling them a potential "decisive swing voter group" if minority and youth turnout level off in future elections. "In 2016 GOP messaging will be far more focused on expressing concern for 'the middle class' and 'average Americans,'" Andrew Levison and Ruy Teixeira wrote recently in The New Republic.
"They don't trust big government, but it doesn't mean they want no government," says Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who agrees that working-class whites will remain an important electoral group. His research found that many of them would support anti-poverty programs if focused broadly on job training and infrastructure investment. This past week, Obama pledged anew to help manufacturers bring jobs back to America and to create jobs in the energy sectors of wind, solar and natural gas.
"They feel that politicians are giving attention to other people and not them," Goeas said.
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AP Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta, News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius and AP writer Debra McCown in Buchanan County, Va., contributed to this report.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Lobsterman falls overboard, is rescued 40 miles away
By Checkey Beckford, NBCNewYork.com
A New York lobsterman who fell off his boat and was missing for nearly 12 hours was rescued by the Coast Guard about 40 miles from the vessel, floating in the ocean using his rubber boots as a raft.?
Jonathan Aldridge was last seen Tuesday night on the 44-foot lobster vessel Anna Mary. Rescuers began searching for him when a colleague sounded the alarm Wednesday morning, officials said.
Aldridge said he was moving a cooler when the handle broke off and he "fell off the back of the boat, just like that."?
Coast Guard crews from across New England coordinated to search more than 780 square miles of ocean.
Meanwhile, Aldridge stayed afloat by tucking his arms over his upside-down rubber boots. He saw dolphins starting to swim past, a sign of hope.?
"I was like, 'There is no way I'm dying this way. This is how I gotta go? No way,'" said Aldridge.?
A helicopter crew spotted Aldridge in the choppy ocean waves about 43 miles south of Montauk -- at first just a flash of white floating in the water, briefly disappearing before his motionless body returned to view, video shows.
Aldridge was plucked from the ocean around 3 p.m. in a rescue caught on video by the Coast Guard. He was released from the hospital Thursday with a sunburn, a sore throat and pain under his arms from clutching his boots for so long.
After a reunion with his family at home, Aldridge described his emotions upon realizing he had been found.
"When I knew that they saw me it was like, it was the best feeling in the world," he said. "I was craving a cheeseburger for some reason, I don't know why."
His father, John Aldridge Sr., said when the family got the call that he was alive, "we just fell apart, the whole house. There was 40 or 50 people here, it was just amazing."
His dad isn't surprised his son held on that long.
"He is that type of person," he said.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Iphone or Blackberry for police?
My agency currently provides Blackberries, mainly because of the push to talk function. Most of the officers in the unit (it's a surveillance unit, so no routine patrol stuff) dislike the Blackberry and were looking into upgrading to Iphones. Mainly because of the ease of use and the updated technology. I'd be curious to hear if other officers can see any benefits in using Iphones. And if so, what might they be? Here's a few benefits I thought of...
- Iphone is easier to use, allows you to look up info quicker.
- With google maps you can view satellite images, views of fronts of residences and backyards and even rotate around. All of this can be viewed while in the field. This is especially handy when planning out search warrant operations.
- If you do not have your normal camera on you (for evidence, etc), Iphones take better pictures than Blackberries. You can take photos of victims, suspects, etc.
- It is easier to share information, apps, data, locations, etc with Iphones.
- Blackberries are extremely cumbersome to navigate. Iphones are the opposite.
- Limitless apps, some that can assist with suspect identification.
- easier to take notes (or dicatate) with Iphone.
- I believe there are GPS apps that you can turn on and everyone can see where the other team members are at. This would be helpful in large surveillance ops where team members are spread out. I believe this improves officer safety.
I don't know if the approving board would be willing to shell out money for new phones when we already have working phones with the Blackberries. That's why I thought I would throw this out there. Anything else you can think of? Or if you think Blackberries are better, please let me know why. I'm just trying to figure out what is the best option for my unit. Thanks.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Autopsy reveals 4-year-old Washington boy shot himself to death by accident
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
Police in Washington state cleared a convicted felon as a suspect Monday in the shooting death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son after a coroner's report found that the boy accidentally shot himself.
The boy, identified Monday as Dwayne Kerrigan, was shot Sunday morning at the woman's home in Sedro-Woolley, in northern Washington.?He died at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon.
Police initially declared Trevor Braymiller, 25, the boyfriend of Dwayne's mother, a suspect in a homicide investigation and launched a search for him across Skagit County. Braymiller turned himself in to police Monday, NBC station KING of Seattle reported.
Later Monday, authorities said an autopsy made it clear that Dwayne shot himself by accident.?
Police found a gun, believed to be the weapon that killed the boy, a few doors down from the scene. Because the gun belonged to Braymiller, he still likely faces charges because, as a convicted felon, he isn't allowed to possess a weapon.
Police didn't say why Braymiller initially fled the area.
A former co-worker, Rueben Dreyer, told KING that Braymiller asked for a ride out of town shortly after the incident Sunday.
"He said he went outside in the garage to smoke a cigarette, and he heard a boom and went back into the house, and (Dwayne) wasn't moving," said Dreyer, who said Braymiller seemed scared and shaken but insisted he didn't shoot the boy.
"He must have gotten up and got (the gun). That's all he told me," Dreyer said.
In a statement, Dwayne's family said his mother and his father had been involved in a custody dispute.
"Dwayne's father, Chaz, has been trying to be a part of his son's life?for quite a while now. He and the mother have been involved in an ongoing custody dispute and were about to enter into mediation for visitation rights," the statement said.
"Now he will never get the opportunity to see his SON again. We love and miss Dwayne very much."
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This story was originally published on Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:17 PM EDT
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Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain
At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture to mobile devices via its Project Logan next-gen mobile processor. Nvidia compares this development to the rollout of the first GPU, the GeForce 256, 14 years ago. Logan as a platform, with its Kepler GPU, jumps mobile computing ahead by the equivalent of seven years' worth of advancement, says Nvidia.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JcjP8PDmCtM/
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Tropical Storm Dorian gathers strength in Atlantic
By Gillian Spear, NBC News
Tropical Storm Dorian formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, marking the fourth named storm in a hurricane season that began June 1.
The storm, which has yet to hit land, is currently moving towards the Leeward Islands at 21 mph, the National Hurricane Center reports. It is centered about 410 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of South Africa.
Conditions in the Atlantic, such as cooler water and dry wind shear, are not conducive to the cyclone intensifying.
If the storm survives, forecasters say it will reach the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, late Sunday night or early Monday.
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was forecast to be active, but so far, only Dorian and three other tropical storms have formed. Last season, 10 hurricanes developed between June and October, culminating with Sandy, one of the most destructive cyclones in U.S. history.
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Animal Attraction
Animal Attraction
(The animal shelter I work at accepts volunteers for work. I am on shift with a volunteer, an attractive lady who is in her 20s. I am male. She is laying on the floor in the office, playing with a puppy while I do some paperwork nearby. The puppy rests his head on her bottom and falls asleep. An elderly patron who often visits the shelter to play with cats walks in.)
Elderly Patron: ?What a cute pup! Look where his head is!?
(The patron turns to me and grins.)
Elderly Patron: ?Don?t you wish your head was where his is, young man??
(I almost choke.)
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Egypt army call signals possible crackdown
In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. El-Sissi has called on Egyptians to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the military to put an end to "violence" and "terrorism."( AP Photo/Egypt State TV)
In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. El-Sissi has called on Egyptians to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the military to put an end to "violence" and "terrorism."( AP Photo/Egypt State TV)
In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. El-Sissi has called on Egyptians to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the military to put an end to "violence" and "terrorism." (AP Photo/Egypt State TV)
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013 file photo, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi reviews honor guards during an arrival ceremony for his U.S. counterpart at the Ministry of Defense in Cairo. El-Sissi has asked Egyptians to hold mass rallies to show they are behind him when he undertakes measures to fight violence and ?terrorism.? (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool, File)
A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi reads Quran, where protesters have set up a camp near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of the country?s ousted president near the main campus of Cairo University left many dead, according to a senior medical official. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stands behind sand barriers set up by protesters near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of the country?s ousted president near the main campus of Cairo University left many dead, according to a senior medical official. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's military chief on Wednesday called on his countrymen to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the army and police to deal with potential "violence and terrorism," a move that signals a stepped up campaign against supporters of the ousted Islamist president.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addressing a graduation ceremony for a class of military cadets, urged Egyptians to take to the streets Friday, saying a massive turnout would give him a "mandate" and an "order" to do what is "necessary" to stop bloodshed.
A Muslim Brotherhood-led alliance of factions opposed to the military's July 3 coup that toppled Mohammed Morsi said el-Sissi's call was an "open invitation" to civil war. It called on Egyptians to boycott the pro-military rally. The alliance is planning marches of its own on Friday, raising the specter of violence.
El-Sissi's address in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria was a strong sign that the top general is the source of real power in Egypt, despite his assertions that authority has been handed completely to the civilian government set up after Morsi's fall.
On Wednesday, Washington announced it is delaying delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt as it reviews whether the military's ousting of Morsi constitutes a coup in U.S. eyes. It was the first direct U.S. action over the military's move ? though officials cautioned they had not yet decided whether to suspend military aid more broadly. Under U.S law, military aid to a country that undergoes a coup must be suspended.
The military removal of Morsi followed four days of massive protests by millions of Egyptians calling for his removal. Since then, Morsi's Islamist supporters have taken to the streets vowing to continue protests until he is restored. Clashes have erupted multiple times between the Islamists and Morsi opponents or security forces.
Each side accuses the other of starting the violence. Dozens have been killed, mostly from the pro-Morsi side, including more than 50 who were killed by troops during clashes at their Cairo sit-in.
Throughout, the military and its allied media have depicted the protesters as a dangerous armed movement. The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies say their protests are peaceful. The group accuses troops or thugs hired by the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police, of attacking pro-Morsi rallies.
At the same time, Islamic militants have stepped up attacks on security forces in Sinai Peninsula since Morsi's fall, killing nearly 20 soldiers and policemen and raising fears of a wave of militant violence.
On Wednesday, suspected militants killed two soldiers and wounded three others in four separate attacks in Sinai. In a separate incident, three suspected militants were killed when their explosives-laden car blew up apparently prematurely just outside el-Arish, a coastal city in northern Sinai that is a stronghold of radical Islamists, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
In the early hours Wednesday, a bomb went off outside the main police headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, wounding 19 people. Presidential spokesman Ahmed el-Muslemani called the attack an act of terrorism.
The Mansoura bombing is a possible sign that a militant campaign could be spreading to Egypt's heartland, where so far the violence has been restricted to street clashes between the two sides.
A political adviser to interim President Adly Mansour said the state already has a mandate to keep security, but that the army chief was seeking additional assurance that the state and citizens were on the same side. "We are talking about a people who are subjected to aggression on the streets," Mustafa Hegazi said, alluding to allegations of violence by Morsi supporters against opponents.
The youth movement Tamarod, or "Rebel," which spearheaded the campaign to topple Morsi, said it will participate in the demonstrations called by el-Sissi to denounce what it called terrorism and bring Morsi to account for "the crimes he committed against the people."
El-Sissi called for rallies Friday to be as large as those on June 30, when millions took to the streets to demand Morsi's ouster, and July 3, when millions again celebrated his ouster. He promised police and troops would guard the rallies.
"On Friday, every honorable and honest Egyptian must come out. Come out and remind the whole world that you have a will and resolve of your own," el-Sissi said. "Please, shoulder your responsibility with me, your army and the police and show your size and steadfastness in the face of what is going on," said the U.S.-trained general.
El-Sissi cautioned that his call for mass demonstrations should not be taken as an invitation to violence.
Commenting on el-Sissi's address, Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood leader, made it clear that the Morsi camp intends to stick to its guns. "There is no solution except rescinding the coup and the return of legitimacy," he told Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday boycotted the inaugural session of a reconciliation conference sponsored by President Mansour. The session was attended by Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's top reform campaigner who was named vice president after Morsi's ouster, and several dozen senior politicians and public figures.
Hegazi, Mansour's adviser, later told a news conference that reconciliation could only come after individuals who broke the law are brought to justice, saying this was applicable to Sinai, the two Cairo sites where Morsi supporters have been holding protest sit-ins for about four weeks and Cairo's central Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak and a favorite spot for liberals, women and members of the Christian minority.
The July 3 coup that ousted Morsi followed four days of mass protests by millions of Egyptians demanding that he step down.
Morsi's supporters insist he must be reinstated, branding his ouster as a coup against democracy. The former president was Egypt's first freely elected leader, but his opponents say he concentrated too much power in his own hands and his Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sissi said on Wednesday that he had no intention, "not a for a second," to go back on a political road map he announced the day he ousted Morsi, which entailed parliamentary and presidential elections by early 2014 and a referendum before that on a new constitution or amendments to the one drafted by Morsi's Islamist backers.
He promised foreign observers from the U.N. and the European Union would be invited to monitor the elections. "We are ready for an election to be supervised by the whole world," he said.
El-Sissi was a member of the military council that ruled Egypt for nearly 17 months after the ouster in 2011 of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. He was the chief of military intelligence at the time. Morsi named him defense minister and military chief in August 2012.
On Wednesday, el-Sissi sharply criticized Morsi and the Brotherhood, repeating assertions he has frequently made in the last three weeks that they were driving the country toward civil strife and imposing their own brand of Islam to a mostly resistant population.
He said he had never shied away from speaking his mind to Morsi.
"Don't ever think that I deceived the former president. I repeatedly told him that the army is the army of all Egyptians and stands at an equal distance from all parties. I told him that the army is under his command because he had an electoral mandate," he said.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Asia: Japan: Passenger Rescued at Train Station After a Fall
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World & UK News: Union members 'divided' on Labour
Jul 23 2013
Just 12% of Unite members would sign up as full Labour Party members, new polling from Lord Ashcroft claims.
The former Tory party deputy chairman said just 30% of Unite members would opt in to funding Labour if reforms to the way the political levy is operated went through.
Less than half (49%) said they would vote Labour if an election were held tomorrow, compared to 23% Conservative, 7% Liberal Democrat and 12% Ukip. At the 2010 election 40% voted Labour, 28% Conservative and 20% Lib Dem.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has proposed ending the automatic opt-in of union members which is currently a major source of funding to his party.
Lord Ashcroft said: "(Unite general secretary) Len McCluskey rightly observes that whether individual trade unionists will rally to Labour will depend on whether Miliband gives them 'reasons to want to be associated' with the party. This is largely about policy. But the policies he himself advocates seem unlikely to have the desired effect. McCluskey is quite right that his members are not queuing up to join Labour. And if Miliband takes his advice, nor will they."
The poll interviewed 712 Unite members from a total membership of 1.42 million. Questions were posed online between July 10 and 17. Other findings of the poll suggested 30% of Unite members already opted out of funding the Labour Party, while a third did not know whether they did or not. Most Unite members, 57%, supported the idea of an opt-in system.
The union's membership was divided over whether Unite had been right to give nearly ?12 million to Labour since the general election, with 46% disagreeing but 43% backing the donations. Almost half, 49%, said future large donations would be wrong.
Unite members were more likely to think the Labour Party did a bad job of representing ordinary working people (47%) than think it did a good job (42%). And a large majority of 86% of members backed the Government's policy of a ?26,000 a year benefit cap.
Mr Miliband said: "I think this poll is proving that we are right to want change, because there are people who want to be part of our party, want to be active members of our party, want to be affiliated to our party. I want to give that that choice and I want to make it a real choice."
If 12% of individuals currently affiliated to Labour through their unions signed up to become full members, that would double the size of the party membership, he pointed out.
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Royal baby born: Meet the boy who would be king (+video)
After months of waiting and speculation, Prince William and Kate have given birth to a baby boy.
Crowds of people try to look at a notice formally announcing the birth of a son to Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, placed in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, in central London, Monday afternoon, July 22.
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The long-awaited royal baby was born this afternoon at a weight of 8 lbs., 6 oz. ? 3.8 kilos ? with Prince William at the side of his wife, Kate Middleton.
No name has yet been released although the baby boy will have the official title of the Prince of Cambridge.
In a statement issued four hours after the birth, Kensington Palace said: ?Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at?4:24pm. The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth.
?The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry and members of both families have been informed and are delighted with the news. Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight.?
The palace said the prince?s name will be announced in "due course."
The birth was also announced on a golden easel placed in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace where crowds had gathered all day.
The world?s media have been camped outside St. Mary?s Hospital in west London for the better part of two weeks waiting for the arrival of the expectant mother and then a glimpse of her offspring, who is now third in line to the British throne behind Prince Charles and Prince William.
In a brief statement Prince Charles said: ?Both my wife and I are overjoyed at the arrival of my first grandchild. It is an incredibly special moment for William and Catherine and we are so thrilled for them on the birth of their baby boy.
?Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.?
Prime Minister David Cameron also offered his congratulations, writing on Twitter: ?I'm delighted for the Duke and Duchess now their son has been born. The whole country will celebrate. They'll make wonderful parents.?
It is unclear how long Kate will stay in the private Lindo Wing at St. Mary?s ? the same place where Princess Diane gave birth to both William and Harry.?
The baby was expected on Saturday, July 13, but like many pregnant mothers know, babies rarely decide to make an appearance on the prescribed date. Instead Prince William played in a charity polo match that day at Cirencester Park Polo Club, almost 100 miles west of the capital.
Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at the hospital around?6 a.m. without a police escort and entered via a side entrance, avoiding the front door and the banks of press and television cameras. Local press reported that Kate went into labor naturally at Kensington Palace, where the couple had spent the weekend.?The delivery came on the hottest day of the year so far in London, with temperatures in the mid 90s Fahrenheit.?
William had taken annual leave to be with his wife last week, and is now on two weeks' paternity leave from his job as an Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot.
The couple's first child will now be known officially as the Prince of Cambridge ? the first royal to use that title in 100 years. The prince will be the 43rd sovereign since William the Conqueror (if he follows reigns by first Charles, then William ? as is expected).?
Had the baby been a girl, the new princess would have been the first royal heir to benefit from the Succession of the Crown Act of 2013, which states that whatever sex baby the royal couple had, he or she would become next in line to the throne. Previously, male heirs born later would automatically leapfrog their older sister to become king.
The same legislation also lets the monarch to marry non-Protestants, ending centuries of prejudice mainly targeted against Catholics. However, non-Protestants will still not be permitted to be king or queen.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Funniest Twitter reactions to Ryan Braun suspension from Major League Baseball
After a year-and-a-half of absolute, straight-faced, convincing denials, Major League Baseball?s 2011 Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun has accepted a 65-game suspension ??the remainder of the 2013 regular season ??because of his admittance that he took illicit performance enhancing steroids.
He was boxed in like a bleeding zebra at a lion convention and pleaded his way out of a 100-game suspension.
Social Media nearly exploded upon hearing the news, with media pundits and players and fans alike flooding Twitter almost at the same time.
Some of Braun?s contemporary expressed horror and mortification at the player they defended with their own reputations:
?Apologies to anyone I offended while defending Ryan Braun. Especially the gentleman working for fed ex who had his life ruined.?
? Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) July 22, 2013
Logan Morrison: ?You know we?re clean. We haven?t scored a run in 37 innings.? #marlins #braun
? clarkspencer (@clarkspencer) July 22, 2013
?The sample collector that Braun bashed and tore apart should get the rest of Braun?s entire contract.?
? Mark Mulder (@markmulder20) July 22, 2013
Check out the funniest Twitter responses to Ryan Braun suspension from Major League Baseball for the rest of the year for admitting taking illegal drugs to pump up his stats, his fame and his personal fortune:?
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EU weighs sanctions against military wing of Hezbollah
BRUSSELS |
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments could decide to blacklist the military wing of Hezbollah on Monday, in a major policy reversal fuelled by concerns over the Lebanese militant movement's activities in Europe.
Britain has sought to persuade its EU peers since May to put the Shi'ite Muslim group's military wing on the bloc's terrorism list, citing evidence that it was behind a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria last year.
Until now, the EU has resisted pressure from Washington and Israel to blacklist Hezbollah, arguing that it could fuel instability in Lebanon, where the group is part of the government, and add to tensions in the Middle East.
Diplomats say the opposition to such a move is fading.
"There are still reservations, but we are moving towards what could be a decision on the possible listing," a senior EU official said.
"The number of member states which have difficulties with a possible decision has been slowly diminishing."
EU foreign ministers will discuss the issue on Monday in Brussels.
Blacklisting the military wing would mean the freezing of any assets it may hold in the 28-nation bloc, though officials say there is scant information on the extent of Hezbollah's presence in Europe or on its assets.
Britain, backed by France and the Netherlands among others, has argued that Hezbollah's growing involvement in the Syrian war means Lebanon is already in a fragile situation and that the EU must weigh the possibility of future attacks in Europe.
REASSURANCES
To soothe worries that sanctions against Hezbollah could complicate the EU's relations with the Lebanese government, EU governments are also likely to issue a statement pledging to continue dialogue with all political groupings in the country.
"A few member states wanted to be reassured that such a decision will not in any way jeopardize political dialogue," the senior EU official said.
Some EU diplomats, responding to concerns that sanctions could further radicalize the group, have argued that targeting the military wing could, in the long term, persuade some of its members to move away from violence into the political sphere.
Hezbollah denies any involvement in last July's attack in the Bulgarian coastal resort of Bourgas that killed five Israelis and their driver.
But the Bulgarian interior minister said last week that Sofia had no doubt the group was behind it.
In support of its bid to impose sanctions, Britain has also cited a four-year jail sentence handed down by a Cypriot court in March to a Hezbollah member accused of plotting to attack Israeli interests on the island.
Hezbollah was set up in Damascus by Iran in 1982 with the aim of fighting Israel after its invasion of Lebanon.
Its involvement in the Syrian conflict is widely seen as a major factor helping President Bashar al-Assad to withstand a two-year popular uprising led by the Sunni Muslim majority against his rule.
(Editing by Gareth Jones)
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/Hmd6Ug8jPsc/story01.htm
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