Young Kids The long-term psychological effects may be most profound for young children, since they are growing up without any real memory of better times. They can pick up on parents’ anxiety about money and may see the world as an uncertain place where they have to struggle to succeed. Later this may make them cautious about career choices and financial decisions.

Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region will begin exporting crude oil for the first time on June 1, piping up to 90,000 bpd to its neighbours in a landmark step for the area, officials said on Sunday.

However, none of the oil we fought and died for will be shipped here, so basically were still going to take the royal saudi screwing we always have.

The world’s number one retailer Wal-Mart opened its first sales venture in India on Saturday as part of an ambitious plan to establish a foothold in the country’s vast consumer market.

The Federal Housing Administration will allow the new $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit to be applied directly toward home purchase costs when using an FHA-insured mortgage, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said on Friday.

Prominent late-term abortion provider George Tiller was shot and killed Sunday in a Wichita church where he was serving as an usher, his attorney said. The gunman fled but a city official said a suspect is in custody.

Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England, the BBC reported, citing a friend. She was 97.

Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known to friends as Millvina, was only nine weeks old when the liner hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, and sank killing 1,500 people.

She survived after being bundled up in a sack and carried to safety. Her mother Georgette Eva and brother Bertram also made it, but her father, Bertram Frank, was among those who died.

Dean died in a private nursing home near Ashurst in the southern English county of Hampshire, according to the BBC and Britain’s domestic Press Association news agency. Staff there refused to comment late Sunday.

Seven bulls exploded and caught fire after power lines fell on a dairy farm in New Zealand.

The incident happened north of Auckland at Wilks Road farm.

Dave Taylor, who leases the farm, said he got a phone call from his father who was driving along the motorway, telling him his cows were exploding.

‘I found seven dead and on fire in the paddock,’ he said.

Three bulls were electrocuted after the power lines fell and four were killed when they walked into the live area.

A hedgehog was also killed.

The day that U.S. border crossers anxiously have been preparing for is finally here.At 12:01 a.m. Monday, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative takes effect.

The days of going back and forth to Canada over the Peace Bridge with just a verbal declaration of U. S. citizenship officially ends.

Instead, travelers returning home from Canada will be required to present a U.S. passport, passport card, enhanced driver’s license or Trusted Traveler Program card such as NEXUS.

Frequent border crossers seem to have accepted the changes, albeit begrudgingly, and have been crowding local Department of Motor Vehicles offices for enhanced driver’s licenses and post offices for passports over the past few weeks, especially during the last couple of days.

Federal border officials predict a “seamless transition” Monday, when specific citizenship and identity documents will be required to re-enter the United States from Canada.

They base the optimistic assessment on a 95 percent compliance rate over the last 18 months, during which an extended dress rehearsal has been in place at the region’s four international bridges.

Since January 2008, when the government did away with oral declarations, travelers have had to present Customs & Border Protection officers with a passport or driver’s license and a birth certificate.

Children under 16 will not need the new documents, but must have a birth certificate.

Despite warnings and advertisements in newspapers, on TV and on billboards throughout the area, some people still aren’t aware of the new requirements. Count two former presidents among them.

George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were unaware of the impending changes when they were questioned at a forum Friday in Toronto.

“I thought we were making good progress on using a driver’s licence to cross the border. What happened to the easy-pass card?” Bush asked, according to a report from CBC news.

Clinton said the revelation about the issue “got my attention with this, so I’m going back home I’ll see if there is anything else I can do.”

What will happen to U. S. citizens who have neglected to get their documents?

Corsaro said that unsuspecting violators of the new rules won’t get tossed in jail or fined. At least not for now.

“We’re going to apply an informed compliance approach,” Corsaro said. “If a traveler as of Monday is in violation and we establish U. S. or Canadian citizenship and identity, they’ll be released at the primary inspection line.”

They also will be sent on their way with a warning in the form of a tearsheet listing the acceptable documents.

If border officials have difficulty verifying the individual’s citizenship, the penalty for noncompliance could come in the form of a long wait, Corsaro added.

So when will the soft-handed approach for those who do not obey the law end?

“That’s for the Department of Homeland Security to determine. We’re waiting for further guidance,” Corsaro said.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will get to make up for last night’s embarrassing loss of 3-1 to the Detroit Red Wings in Game One of the Stanley Cup Finals.  Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury allowed a soft goal when a slap shot from the blue line by Defenseman Brad Stuart bounced off the boards and slid underneath the pads of Fleury, who knocked it in. It was Stuart’s second goal and eighth point of the playoffs.  Game Two is tonight, and you can hear that game on AM 680 WISR.  Face-off is at 8pm.

The Pittsburgh Pirates last night finally snapped their three-game losing skid with a 7-4 win over the Houston Astros.  Pitcher Jeff Karstens won for the first time since April 21, with seven innings, his longest outing of the season. He allowed two runs and six hits and matched his season high with four strikeouts.  The Bucs wrap the three-game series this afternoon, and you can hear that game beginning with the pre-game show at 12:45 on AM 680 WISR.

In high school softball, the Leechburg Blue Devils have returned to the state playoffs.  They’re 16-4, and they’ll take on District 9 Champion Curwensville in the first round of the PIAA Class A playoffs tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 at Brockway.  Leechburg’s losses were to Class AAAA Kiski Area, Class AA Valley and Freeport.

In high school volleyball, Deer Lakes ended their run in the PIAA semifinals yesterday in a 3-0 loss to Ambridge at Penn State’s Multi-Sport Facility in University Park.  It was the fifth trip to a state tournament since 1971 for longtime Coach Rick Tatrn, who had also reached the semifinals on three other occasions.

In auto racing from yesterday, it was the Heluva Good! 200 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Dover International Speedway, broadcast on AM 1050 WBUT.  Brad Keselowski raced to his first NASCAR Nationwide Series win of the season, taking the lead during a restart with two laps left.  Kyle Busch led most of the second half of the race and appeared on the way to his third win of the season. But he seemed to have tire trouble off the restart that came after the caution with seven laps left. Busch also was nudged from behind by Joey Logano and both cars went up the track, giving Keselowski space to pass.  Logano was second on the first anniversary of his Nationwide debut. Clint Bowyer, Brian Vickers and Carl Edwards filled out the top five.  Fourth-generation Earnhardt driver Jeffrey Earnhardt failed to qualify for what he was hoping would be his debut race in the Nationwide Series. He was the lone driver who did not crack the 43-car field.

Today is the Autism Speaks 400 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Dover.  Fresh off his first Sprint Cup Series win, David Reutimann starts Sunday’s race from the pole.  Dale Earnhardt Jr. starts his first race since joining Hendrick Motorsports without crew chief Tony Eury Jr. at his side.  Jeff Gordon, who leads the series standings, has four wins at Dover and typically runs well there.  He had a strong car in practice Friday but slammed the wall during his qualifying run and will have to start from the rear of the field in a backup car. 

After Friday, the GM Lordstown plant is going to be down for a while. 

When workers left the Lordstown facility on Friday, they were done working until the middle of July.

General Motors is shutting down production for six weeks, more than double the normal two-week idle time the plant takes around July 4.  A total of 13 assembly plants around the country will go on extended summer breaks to cut costs and re-align production levels. 

“Thirteenth of July, everybody’s going to come back.  We’re down six weeks, some other plants are down 11 weeks, but again, because of the gas prices spiking I think you’re going to see business pick up drastically at Lordstown real quick,” said Jim Graham, President of UAW Local 1112.

Graham says the effects of a six-week shut down will go beyond GM employees and their families.  Supplier companies who make parts for the cars made at Lordstown will see their business slow down to start the summer, along with other shops and restaurants in the Village.