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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois lawmakers broke a historic year-long budget impasse on Thursday, approving legislation to complete the current fiscal year, fund fiscal 2017 through December, and ensure schools will open in the fall.
A political stalemate between Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the legislature had left Illinois as the only U.S. state without a full budget for fiscal 2016, which ends at midnight.
The nation’s fifth-largest state has limped through the year, relying on court-ordered spending and ongoing and stopgap appropriations to operate in the wake of the impasse. Illinois is the only state in the past 80 years to go an entire year without a full operating budget.
Rauner signed into law the bills, which will fund state government through the politically crucial election on Nov. 8.
“This purely gives us the opportunity to come together in the next months and come to a solution that really restores the growth, protects our taxpayers and properly funds our schools and human services,” the governor told reporters.
Rauner and legislative leaders held marathon meetings earlier this week which led to a package of bills that were passed in bipartisan votes.
“This hasn’t been easy, folks,” House Republican Leader Jim Durkin said. “It’s been a year and a half since we actually agreed on something that was good for the state.”
The House and Senate approved $25 billion to plug fiscal 2016 spending holes and about $50 billion to fund colleges, universities, social services, capital projects and other state functions for six months starting Friday.
The budget bill includes $11.1 billion to fund K-12 schools for all of fiscal 2017. Lawmakers were fearful that some districts could not open in the fall without state money.
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Some legislators expressed unease with the stopgap budget plan, noting that Illinois’ $7.8 billion unpaid bill backlog needed to be dealt with through a balanced spending plan.
“Nothing with what we’re doing here will fix the financial problems of this state. In fact, just the opposite will occur. Our financial situation will deteriorate further as a result of our actions today,” said Democratic State Representative Jack Franks, who predicted Illinois’ already-low credit ratings will fall further.
Also winning final approval was a budget implementation bill that forgives $454 million in interfund borrowing and allows the state to refund up to $2 billion of bonds to save about $20 million that would be used for higher education spending.
The flow of state money came too late for six Illinois universities that were hit with credit rating downgrades by Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday, largely due to the damage caused by the state’s budget stalemate.
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which is deep in debt and facing a $1 billion shortfall, could gain as much as $590 million in state and local money, mainly for its teachers pension system, according to the district’s estimates. Bills that passed both chambers would pave the way for a possible $250 million Chicago property tax increase and a one-time $205 million state contribution for CPS pensions.
Rauner said enactment of the latter bill was contingent on the passage of “major” statewide pension reform.
Illinois has been struggling to find a way to ease its $111 billion unfunded pension liability in the wake of a 2015 state supreme court ruling that public sector worker retirement benefits are constitutionally protected and cannot be reduced.
The stopgap spending plan for the fiscal year beginning on Friday would keep the state going only until January, leaving open the possibility the impasse could reignite over pro-business and union-weakening changes sought by Rauner.
House Speaker Michael Madigan leveled repeated jabs at Rauner, who failed to attach any pieces of his agenda to the budget bill.
“We can pass a budget when the governor’s demands relative to his personal agenda that hurts families are dropped,” Madigan said. “That happened here today.”
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Agent of Change: Kyle Cease On Being In The Moment And Boldly Evolving Out Loud
Posted in: Today's ChiliPicking spiritual lint out of your navel is so 2012. Welcome to the latter half of the decade, a time rife with political curiosities and, to be sure, provocative personal transformations. Or, perhaps just realizing how damn brilliant you already are.
Cue: Kyle Cease. (And just in the knick of time.)
The energetic, transformative speaker, whose become a hit with his personal shares on YouTube and packed theaters with his fiery “Evolving Out Loud” events, is one of the more innovative trailblazers to emerge from a bloated “Self-Help” era filled with too many of the same servings. Why? Plenty of reasons–watch him and you’ll see–but here’s the big one: The guy marries comedy with personal transformation. The result tends to leave his audiences able to tap into something powerful within themselves, and perhaps recall their own genius.
It’s an art to be able to hold a space for people to realize such things and Cease has become a remarkable ringmaster. Humor, of course, plays a big part. His road to becoming a transformative speaker was paved with a lot of laughs actually. Cease headlined as a top comedian for 25 years and sired a couple of No. 1 Comedy Central specials. By 2009, he nabbed a No. 1 ranking on the cable net’s fiery “Standup Showdown.” Television and movie appearances happened–more than 100 in fact, including “10 Things I Hate About You,” “Not Another Teen Movie,” and memorable turns on “The Jimmy Kimmel Show,” “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “Chelsea Lately,” and other portals. A book chronicling various parts of his journey is on the horizon.
Think of him as an embraceable if not hip equal alongside the likes of Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, Michael Beckwith and Tony Robbins, all of whom he’s shared personal connections. Here, in my ongoing series spotlighting Agents of Change, Cease speaks from the heart about, well, matters of the heart … and the rich, juicy possibilities that arrive “in the moment.”
Greg Archer: I had this list of questions for you, however I thought I would take a cue from you and just “be in the moment” with you.
Kyle Cease: It’s so funny. That’s how we do everything else–in the moment.
Right. So here we are. So let me ask you this: What are you loving most about what you are doing with your work and your life?
One thing that has been amazing is knowing that–I don’t know if you want to call it “you’re never there” or “you’re always there”–but being in a constant state of discovery; that we are on this scavenger hunt of what possibilities really could be happening here, and what’s trying to unfold. And as time goes on, seeing that everything really is perfect. It sounds weird to say but you really can see the purpose behind almost everything, and see the world as a whole. It’s been really really fun to be in constant state of discovery, and the revelation of “I don’t know” and I love that …
That feels true to me. So … “being in the moment,” which you speak about in front of people quite a bit. Can you talk about that? That can be tricky for some people, no?
We never really could be in the moment as much as we can understanding that we “are the moment.” The moment isn’t a place you get into. There are people who say, “You know, I got to get into the moment, more.” Or say, “I gotta love myself more.” Well, you just made the moment the future and just made love something that you need to achieve versus understanding you are love, and you are the moment. Everything that feels like past or future, is just a movie in our heads. We just forget that we watching the movie in our heads.
An analogy I used the other day was that if an actor was playing a character, sometimes they can get lost in the character. And if that actor was playing that character since they were 3 years old, then that actor would think that they are that character. Gene Wilder would play Willie Wonka but could you imagine, if Gene Wilder at some point believed that Willy Wonka’s problems were the same as his to take care of; that he had to worry about the Oompa Loompas? And we’re like, “What are you talking about? You’re Gene Wilder.” And then when he hears that, Gene Wilder goes, “You know, I have to start practicing becoming Gene Wilder.” And it’s like, “Wait. You are Gene Wilder. So there is nowhere to get to.” And he’s like, “No. For 200 days, everyday, I am going to find Gene Wilder.” And it’s like, “You are that.”
Exactly.
We are often caught in a simulator that is run in our heads. One thing I will say, is that people can forget this stuff a lot. But the things I am saying to you makes sense, right?
They do.
There’s a part of you that intellectually understands some of the things. That would be the same as a 500-pound person, knowing that one part of themselves could be 200 pounds if they wanted to. And the reason I give that example, is that once you understand that intellectually, you still have to go to the “gym” and do the inner work to make yourself experientially know what you know intellectually.
That’s right.
You know, every day, I sit and I close my eyes for two hours a day. And it’s like going to the gym for my soul. You still have to work out. You still have to eat right. You still have to do the things that match what you know. I think one of the reasons why we feel a lot of pain is because we know something on some intuitive level and don’t do the work to match what we are aware of; and that gap between what we are aware we could be, and what we are, is really where our pain is.
I love the way that sounds.
What our actions are–do they match what our awareness is, or are we aware of something and all day, still doing the actions that support the fear-based child “you” and don’t support what your soul is saying. And so, part of the reason that is now a more embodied reality for me is because choosing to wake up and sit in silence, and sit there for a couple of hours every morning … and eventually, you being to see that this is some sort of matrix, or lie, because the thoughts keep changing, and the beliefs keep changing. And I am still there through all of it.
We’re still there.
When I feel a belief change, and I still exist on both sides — having the belief; and having the old belief– I start to prove to myself experientially that I am not my beliefs. I am the space that is watching this giant movie.
That takes practice–doing that, though.
Yes. But I also think there’s a belief that we have inside of us that when something happens, I will be happy. And everyone reading this … we all have inside of us this thing that goes: “When something happens …” I mean, right now you are thinking, “If I can just get into or out of that relationship; if I could just get that promotion, if I just stop having that addiction; if I just lose weight–whatever–I will be happy.” And, even if I get in the moment more, “I will be happy.”
Yeah. I’ve been doing that all day.
After being able to achieve many of the things I thought I wanted … if that is my source of happiness, I can’t lose it, because that is my happiness. I would become more addicted. You keep thinking, “What’s next, what’s next?” You book a movie role, “and then I will be happy.” And then you think, “if it does well, I will be happy.” And your always thinking: “When that will happen, I will be happy.” And it’s always later. I think through a lot of different things, that this thing I was chasing, was a lie. It’s allusive. The real thing is: When I am happy, things will happen. Connecting to all of my emotions, accepting all of my frustrations, and loving all of that. When I accept all of me, things will happen.
Makes sense to me, and then I think, well … I love where my mind goes, which is, “Well, Greg, you should go work on that now. It’s so funny.
You know, Byron Katie would say, “Is that true?”
Love Byron Katie.
She asks that question: Is that true? Are you sure you have something to fix? It’s a crazy irony that the part you that you want to fix is going to be “fixed” by the same part of you. The ego can’t get rid of itself. The only way to truly transition, is by accepting all the parts–and our power. Our power is not based on how much we can avoid our darkness and just be this ball of light/Stepford wife/husband type of person. The more of our darkness that we accept, truly accept, and allow to be there, the more light we are going to be allowed to shine.
So, basically, accept the messy parts.
Yeah. That to me is really the key. If you are dealing with an anxiety attack and your solution is to go achieve more, you still have this anxiety and the root cause is not looked at; and the root cause is you’re not loved or you’re trying to get love from an outside source. A lot of times, anxiety comes from doing what you think you should do, because you were programmed that way during your childhood, versus what your soul wants to do. Our mind is like the child “us,” doing everything it can to not be abandoned … You know, I like that part of you that just said, “Oh I got fix that. What would your heart say?
Probably, oh Greg, no. There’s nothing to fix.
Right. That is because your heart is run by something that isn’t you. You don’t have control over your heart like you do your mind. Something is beating your heart. I don’t know what it is … but I love not knowing. But there is something that you release control over on your heart. Like, you don’t release control over your mind. The child in you is trying to control your mind, but the thing that is beating your heart, that is you in this moment. That’s the truth of what you are. The longer you do this work, the more you start to identify as the heart.
What do you think is one of the bigger misconceptions people have about creating change in their lives?
Well, I think that what you are already is naturally more positive. Like when people say, I gotta do that and be more positive. That implies that I have to only sit under a tree and can’t watch anything with darkness in it. I can just only be this person–in the positive. What you are underneath all of this stuff is so infinite and so powerful. Instead of trying to be the most positive caterpillar in the world, you can embrace your butterfly-ness… And what does a caterpillar need to do to become a butterfly?
Nothing. Right?
If we actually just decided, you know, I am going to take a month, and sit on my couch with my eyes closed, ego kicks in and says, “Oh my, I would never get anything done.” But you would get more done in that month than you would in your entire life. Because you would start shedding all the things that support your unworthy story. When you listen to your heart, and you do the things your heart says, you end up fulfilled, you don’t need 50 cars, or … it’s ok if you do, but you don’t need it as some source of identity. You realize that what you are is infinite growth and possibility. And the byproduct is … I always think of money because that is the thing that holds everyone back. We’ve learned to worship money more than our soul. In a weird way, we don’t understand that our soul brings in more money anyway, and you can circulate it. You can put it back into your creativity. You can give it to charity, you can circulate it. And you realize you are the apple tree and not the apples. It’s weird how much stuff is trying to happen…
You talk a lot about identifying as one’s “past story.”
If you think who you are is your past story, then you will sabotage opportunities that are coming in now that are bigger than the story that you think you are. If you think you are somebody who makes $40,000 a year and somebody gives you a million dollars, that is death to who you think you are. You might sabotage it. When you start to love that story about yourself and you accept it, it leaves. The only thing that keeps that story alive is your resistance to it. So the more you accept that story, the more you become this moment, and if you are just this moment, then you, me, Obama, Oprah, Arianna, and a homeless person are all the same infinite potential. We are all hearts and lungs and just this space. And in this space, you can create and receive on a much higher level. And you won’t sabotage your greatness. That’s what we are doing. We are spending our lives sabotaging our greatness.
How about a little word association?
Okay.
Eckhart Tolle.
The word that came up was “truth.”
Jim Carrey.
Freedom.
Michael Beckwith.
Love.
Tony Robbins.
Power!
Deepak Chopra
It’s silly but the word that came up is … “silly.”
Mom.
Love. Just amazing.
Dad.
Achieve.
Donald Trump. Sorry. Had to ask.
OK. I feel like this needs a bigger explanation, but the word I got for him was “mirror.”
Yeah. I get it. And I agree.
A mirror for our world. At first, I thought, if Bernie gets in office, things are going to move the fastest. And then it really dawned on me, how could we have full progressive country, if half the country is still buried in their old issues? And we don’t want to keep pulling forward and ignore the pain that half the country is dealing with. Donald Trump is this giant megaphone mirror screaming things that half the country–and in all of us in some ways–feels to some degree. All of us are a little narcissistic. All of us could be more giving. Whether we are obsessed with Donald Trump or despise Donald Trump, it’s bringing up a things within us that we don’t like about ourselves. Or, we have been repressing in ourselves. People are either in a repressed state and moving up to anger, Or whatever. We are only ever passionate about–whether it is love or hate–things that remind us of ourselves.
So Trump–the mirror.
So, the universe has moved far faster than I would have thought because Donald Trump has helped people see their ridiculousness while simultaneously calling out the corruption of Hillary, while Bernie Sanders is filling stadiums and giving people permission to see that they can lead themselves. And Obama has set the high bar, and they can see the contrast–to Trump. If trump was following Bush, it might not be so obvious, But Trump following Obama, people are like, “Wow. Look at that! We are clearing out everything!” We are going to clear out our anxieties, our racism, our fear …” That revelation came to be so big.
Wild. OK. One last question for you. What’s the most interesting thing you have learned about yourself lately?
That there is nothing wrong. Everything is OK. Because every “problem” means you are about to meet yourself even deeper, because that problem can only effect a false identity So, every time I have a “problem,” I go: “What part of me is trying to come through?” I actually learned that from Michael Beckwith. So every problem is only triggering a character I am playing and never the real me. So I get to learn what is the real me on the other side of that.
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The voting age was lowered to 18 from 21 across the United States 45 years ago this week with the ratification of the 26th Amendment.
The final push leading to the amendment began during the Vietnam War. Many Americans argued that it wasn’t right to allow men as young as 18 to be drafted, yet deny them the right to vote.
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1970 and President Richard Nixon signed it, but the law was quickly brought before the Supreme Court. The court ruled that the law applied only to federal elections, not state and local ones. A constitutional amendment would be required to guarantee voting rights across the board for people as young as 18.
So Congress passed the 26th Amendment. In accordance with the Constitution, three-fourths of the states, or 38, needed to approve the amendment for it to be ratified. Alabama, Ohio and North Carolina all voted to approve ratification on June 30. When North Carolina’s approval process was completed on July 1, 1971, it became the 38th state to approve the amendment, which then officially went into effect, said Christine Blackerby, co-curator of the “Amending America” exhibit at the National Archives Museum.
Administrator of General Services Robert L. Kunzig certified the official notice of the amendment’s ratification on July 5, Blackerby said. Although the president’s signature is not required for a constitutional amendment, some presidents have chosen to sign a document related to an amendment. During the certification ceremony, Nixon and three 18-year-olds signed the document.
As November’s elections approach, we’d like to hear from you about what it means to be an 18-year-old who’s able to vote for the first time. Record a short video about it, such as those seen below, and share it publicly on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #18AndVoting.
Here are a couple of voters we have heard from so far:
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WASHINGTON — After last month’s massacre in Orlando, Democrats in Congress pushed legislation aimed at stopping suspected terrorists from buying guns.
Mass shootings by terrorists make up a small percentage of gun deaths in the U.S., however. The majority of gun deaths are actually suicide, which probably comes up less often in the gun debate because people don’t fear it.
“The focus largely is on gun murders and mass shootings because those are things you can’t control,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told “So That Happened,” the HuffPost Politics podcast.
“It’s probably a real false sense of security that people have that they wouldn’t be a victim of suicide,” Murphy continued. “Most people are talking about the mass shootings, about the gun violence that happens in our cities, because they think that’s much more of a threat to them than being involved in a suicide.”
According to the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 33,636 Americans died from firearm injuries in 2013, and 63 percent of those were suicides.
Research suggests that gun availability can be a risk factor for suicide, which is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.
Need help? Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Murphy led Senate Democrats in an effort to force votes on gun control in the U.S. Senate last month. The following week, Democrats in the House staged a “sit-in” to protest the lack of action in Congress on guns. Neither chamber seems likely to approve gun restrictions anytime soon.
Murphy said the Senate is at a “stuck moment” on gun control but that June 2016 will be looked back on as a watershed moment.
“So, That Happened” is hosted by Jason Linkins, Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney. Joining them this week: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), historian William Hogeland, and Democratic congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout.
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HTC might really be having its Nexus dream comes true. Twice! If the rumors and leaks are true, the Taiwanese OEM has not one but two Nexus devices coming up. That’s two devices made by the same manufacturer launching in the same generation, definitely a first for the Nexus line. But HTC won’t really be competing with itself, so to … Continue reading
Judge Blocks Mississippi Law That Allowed Religious Discrimination Against LGBT People
Posted in: Today's Chili(Reuters) – A day before it was due to come into effect, a federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law permitting those with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and impose dress and bathroom restrictions on transgender people.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves found on Thursday the wide-ranging law adopted this spring unconstitutionally discriminated against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and others who do not share the view that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Reeves issued an injunction blocking the law that was to take effect on Friday.
He agreed with opponents of the law who argued that it violated the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on making laws that establish religion.
Mississippi’s “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” shields those believing that marriage involves a man and a woman, and sexual relations should occur within such marriages. It protects the belief that gender is defined by sex at birth.
The law allows people to refuse to provide wide-ranging services by citing the religious grounds, from baking a wedding cake for a same-sex couple to counseling and fertility services. It would also permit dress code and bathroom restrictions to be imposed on transgender people.
The law “does not honor that tradition of religion freedom, nor does it respect the equal dignity of all of Mississippi’s citizens,” Reeves wrote in his decision.
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U.S. privacy-policy whistleblower Edward Snowden made headlines recently for blasting an encryption-skirting provision in a new Russian Internet and cellphone regulation law.
The legislation requires Internet and mobile companies to provide authorities with a back door that gives them access to the contents of encrypted content. The government contends the law is aimed at preventing terrorism; opponents counter that it’s also aimed at reining in dissidents.
Russia usually takes the lead in passing anti-human-rights legislation in the former Soviet Union, but in the case of the encryption-skirting provision, it took a cue from Kazakhstan, which enacted such legislation in late 2015.
What Russia does, other countries in the former Soviet Union imitate, of course, so you can be sure that encryption-busting legislation will pop up elsewhere in the region. One of the early adopters could be Armenia, which blocked Internet content during the election of 2008 and has a security treaty with Russia.
Snowden, who grained international notoriety for releasing classified U.S National Security Agency records that he said documented violations of Americans’ privacy, fled the United States in 2013 to avoid espionage charges.
Russia granted him asylum.
He has not spoken a lot publicly since then. When he has, it’s usually been to level additional criticism against U.S. government privacy policy. Sometimes his comments have come in videotaped presentations to international forums, sometimes in interviews with journalists.
Until a few days ago, Snowden was circumspect in his criticism of privacy violations in his host country.
Russia’s new Internet and cellphone communication law set him off, however.
He criticized it on two grounds: First, that it was a gross violation of people’s privacy. And, second, that it was unworkable.
Why unworkable? Because, he contended, Internet and cellphone-service providers would need to spend billions of dollars to create encryption-busting back doors and comply with a provision that requires them to store all emails and mobile records for six months.
“Russia’s new Big Brother law is an unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights that should never be signed,” he tweeted on June 24, before the legislation hit Vladimir Putin’s desk.
Kazakhstan’s encryption-busting law, which went into effect on January 1 of this year, is different from Russia’s in that it puts the burden on the owners of devices that connect with the Internet, rather than Internet and cellphone service providers.
The legislation requires Kazakhs to obtain software for each device they have — computer, tablet or cellphone — so that the government can have round-the-clock access to their encrypted communications.
This means that in Kazakhstan encryption prevents private parties from reading or listening to someone’s communications, but not the government.
Privacy advocates warn that the government’s access to a user’s communications means that authorities can not only read or listen to the communications, but even edit both outgoing and incoming messages without the user knowing about it.
Kazakhstan has passed a series of laws since 2013 slapping restriction after restriction on Internet use.
The first set, in 2013, came in the wake of Islamic terrorist attacks in 2011 — the country’s first.
There have been other terrorist attacks since, including one in early June of this year in the western city of Aktobe that claimed 17 lives.
Kazakhstan has justified its increasingly restrictive Internet laws on the grounds that they are anti-terrorist measures — the same justification that Russia used in enacting its Internet-tightening legislation last month.
But opponents of the Kazakhstan laws say they make it easier for the government to monitor and snuff out dissent.
Kazakhstan began cracking down on dissent the same year that its first terrorist attacks occurred — 2011.
The catalyst was an oil workers’ strike in the western city of Zhanoazen in December of 2011 that police put down with force, killing 14 and wounding at least 80. Workers had been demonstrating for months before the massacre, demanding better pay and working conditions from the government-owned KazMunaiGas corporation.
The combination of the terrorist attacks, and the show of dissent against the government represented by the Zhanoazen massacre, is what triggered the ever-more repressive Internet laws, political observers say.
Russia and Kazakhstan are far from the only countries to consider encryption-busting laws. Western countries have looked at them, too, as a way of fighting terrorism.
The difference is that encryption-busting laws in the former Soviet Union are far more likely to be used to try to snuff out dissent than similar laws in the West, human-rights organizations say.
Armine Sahakyan is a human rights activist based in Armenia. A columnist with the Kyiv Post and a blogger with The Huffington Post, she writes on human rights and democracy in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Follow her on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/ArmineSahakyann
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If there were still any doubt that virtual reality is the next big thing in computing and entertainment, this should probably banish those. For the first time ever, Olympics, which will be held this year in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, will be available via VR, though not in live coverage. And not just any VR, mind you, NBC is … Continue reading