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No Memorial Day Parade, Ceremony Planned

For several years, a Memorial Day Parade marched down Main Street in Stroudsburg.

However, this year there will be no parade because the organizer got sick.

Now, a veterans group is organizing a memorial service to make sure none of our military heroes is forgotten.

?We need to represent our veterans. We can?t let them go without being remembered. We couldn?t do a parade this year because our new organization formed last fall and we don?t have the means or the backing yet to put on a parade,? said Lehy Kirchner, the vice chairman of the Monroe County Veterans Association.

The Monroe County Veterans Association is planning a ceremony for 1:00 Sunday in front of the Monroe County Courthouse.

The ceremony is near and dear to their hearts, as each of them has served our country.

They proudly showed Newswatch 16 pictures of when they were serving overseas, some in Vietnam.

?We honor those who have fallen and that?s what it?s about, to honor our war dead and their service to our county,? said Glen Lippincott, the chairman of the Monroe County Veterans Association.

?We?re going to have guest speakers, patriotic music, we?re going to have a glee club,? said Kirchner.

?Everybody thinks it a good time for a barbecue or picnic. That?s a good thing. But you need to stop and remember the entitlements we?re so used to taking for granted, somebody had to pay for that. A lot of them paid for that with their lives,? said Lippincott.

The Monroe County Veterans Association is hosting a ceremony on Sunday at 1 p.m. in front of the Monroe County Courthouse, at Courthouse Square.

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'G.I. Joe' gets new marching orders, moves to 2013

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Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking at the Latino Coalition annual economic summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a speech at the Latino Coalition annual economic summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Washington, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama.

At the same time, Romney said that if he wins the White House, he wants Congress to delay addressing looming tax increases and spending cuts until after he takes office.

"Right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer," Romney told Time magazine.

The comments ? the first since Obama personally questioned Romney's experience at Bain Capital ? largely overshadowed a Washington speech that offered the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's first extensive plans for the nation's education system. Romney, who has been reluctant to stray far from the economic issues at the core of the presidential campaign, charged that Millions of American children are getting a "third-world education" under Obama.

"And America's minority children suffer the most," Romney declared. "This is the civil-rights issue of our era. And it's the great challenge of our time."

He continued: "President Obama has made his choice, and I have made mine. As president, I will be a champion of real education reform in America."

Five months before Election Day, Romney is working to add meat to his prescriptions for some of the nation's most pressing problems. He has offered few details so far on foreign policy, health care and education, following a playbook that heaps criticism on the Democratic president's policies but offers only a vague road map for what he would do differently.

Romney told Time magazine that if he wins the presidency, he wants Congress to wait until he takes office to deal with the so-called fiscal "cliff" on Jan. 1, 2013, when two rounds of tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts to defense and domestic programs kick in. In the interview, Romney suggested that he was open to a temporary measure to keep the economy going until he had a chance to shape a "permanent" solution.

Romney also said that heading off the looming tax hikes and spending cuts could be done in a piecemeal way. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has suggested he wants a fiscal "grand bargain" to address the country's ills.

Government analysts say that current fiscal policies, if unchanged, would likely cause a recession.

The former Massachusetts governor defended his work in the private sector in the interview, but he initially struggled to identify specific skills or policies he learned at Bain that would help him create an environment in which jobs would be created. He later identified trade, labor and energy policies.

"I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for 25 years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created ? that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand," he said.

Asked whether he'd welcome a focus and debate on his career at Bain, Romney said: "Well, of course. I'd like to also focus on his record."

Romney's intended focus on Wednesday, however, was education. He outlined a voucher-like plan to let low-income and disabled students use federal money to attend public schools, public charter schools and, in some cases, private schools. Federal funds could also be used for tutoring or digital courses.

The proposal is line with GOP reforms aimed at giving students more educational choices. But it's unclear how schools in areas that depend on the federal funding would fare.

The proposal is not expected to include any new federal money for education, but it represented his most detailed plans to date on what he called a "failing" education system.

The issue is a key concern for most Americans. Education has ranked in the top three of importance in the AP-GfK poll for the last two years; 84 percent of Americans said education was an extremely or very important issue to them personally in the most recent survey in February.

Romney aggressively criticized the president's connection to teachers' unions, suggesting that his dependence on organized labor's campaign donations have prevented him from improving the system.

"The teachers' unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way," Romney said. "The teachers' unions don't fight for our children."

His argument carries some risk. His regular criticism of labor unions, in particular, threatens to alienate voters in Rust Belt states like Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where a close election may be decided.

Obama's campaign said the budget Romney signed into law as Massachusetts governor cost 14,500 teachers, librarians and school police officers their jobs.

"Not exactly the record of a job creator," campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said. "Mitt Romney gave a vague, detail-free speech this morning on education and confirmed, as if there were any doubt, just how far back he would take us."

The day before the speech, Romney announced a team of education policy advisers that includes former Education Secretary Rod Paige and other officials from President George W. Bush's administration. Paige is among several prominent opponents of teachers' unions on the panel. As education secretary in 2004, he labeled the National Education Association a "terrorist organization."

Romney's positions on education have evolved over time. He once supported the Bush-era education overhaul known as "No Child Left Behind," but he has since generally come out against the policy many conservatives see as an expansion of the federal government.

The plans he unveiled Wednesday would strip the teeth from the law that punishes poorly performing schools. But he said he supports "straightforward public report cards" to evaluate schools.

Despite his criticism of Obama, the president has embraced some reforms that started as Republican ideas, according to Michael Petrilli, executive vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

Through their "Race to the Top" competition, for example, they have encouraged states to lift caps on the number of charter schools, a policy that Romney supports as well.

"It doesn't leave a lot of room for Mitt Romney to draw contrast with President Obama," Petrilli said.

The Obama campaign responded by releasing comments from a series of Republicans ? high-profile Romney supporters Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, among them ? praising Obama's education policies.

___

Associated Press writer Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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South Sudan's church leaders want peace accord implemented quickly

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South Sudan's church leaders want peace accord implemented quickly

By Bronwen Dachs
Catholic News Service

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Catholic and Anglican bishops in South Sudan have urged all parties to immediately implement the resolutions of a peace accord signed in early May.

"The people and government of South Sudan desperately want peace," said 14 bishops representing the Catholic and Episcopal churches of South Sudan following a May 9-11 meeting in Yei, South Sudan. They said the resolutions in the accord, signed by leaders of the six communities of Jonglei state, deal "comprehensively with many of the key issues," set deadlines and promise sanctions if they are not met.

"We welcome the prohibition of inflammatory and hostile propaganda and insistence on the governments' obligation to protect their citizens," they said.

Late-April aerial bombardments, ground-force skirmishes and especially the increasingly hostile rhetoric of the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan had religious leaders worried about the possibility of all-out war.

The key problems are conflicting claims over oil revenues and the lack of a firm, internationally recognized border between Sudan and South Sudan, which became independent last July.

The bishops said they do not believe that "lasting peace will come unless all parties act in good faith. Trust must be built, and this involves honesty, however painful that may be."

In January, after a disagreement over the cost of transporting oil from landlocked South Sudan through Sudan, South Sudan shut down its oil production. Both nations have suffered economically from that decision.

The bishops acknowledged that the shutdown was popular with the people of South Sudan, but expressed concern "that stakeholders, both domestic and international, were not adequately consulted, and that the economic impact of the shutdown was not fully appreciated."

"We advise the government of South Sudan to continue to exercise restraint and to avoid doing anything that might be construed as military aggression," the bishops said, noting their concern at "the build-up of arms in both nations."

They called on the government of South Sudan "to ensure that basic services and good governance are delivered" despite economic problems.

There has been much building of roads and other infrastructure in Juba, South Sudan's capital, since independence, said John Ashworth, an adviser to the Sudan Ecumenical Forum, which includes the Catholic Church.

"Although development is slower in rural areas, there has been slow but steady progress," he said in a May 11 email to Catholic News Service.

But current problems due to the oil shutdown and the Sudanese government's "military adventurism are slowing things down now," Ashworth said.

Noting that the South Sudanese people and their government "are working hard to build a new nation," the bishops said they were ready to cooperate with them "to improve international awareness about key issues."

The bishops invited the international community "to walk with us on the painful journey of exploring the truth in competing claims and counterclaims, allegations and counter-allegations."

They committed themselves to "a renewed ecumenical effort to build peace," noting that they have much to offer Sudan's Council of Churches "as it restructures to meet the new reality of two nations and as it faces new challenges due to the current military and political tensions."

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Facebook for Android updated, Messenger and Camera apps removed

The official Facebook application for Android has received an update today, eliminating the much-maligned "Camera" and "Messenger" shortcuts within the app drawer. The apps were first bundled with Facebook in version 1.9, and have been criticized for potentially misleading users. An attempt was made in version 1.9.1 to remedy this with a small Facebook icons in the lower left corner, however now it seems the decision has been made to pull them entirely. No other changes seem to have been made in this latest version, and the Facebook Messenger app remains available as a separate download on the Google Play Store.

In addition, the changelog for the latest version 1.9.2 includes lists "bug fixes" as being included in the new build.

Hit the update button to grab the new version. Alternatively, we've got the usual Google Play links and QR codes after the break.

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Logitech's definition of 'strong?' A range of mice that taste forgot (video)

Logitech has unveiled the global graffiti collection, a range of peripherals that are inspired by the "global community". We're not sure if this is the start of the "strong" lineup of products new president Bracken P. Darrell promised or he's trying to get rid of the, erm, more colorful devices from his predecessor's tenure. Either way, if you're interested in picking up the gear, it'll set you back between $30 and $40 when they arrive in the US in May and from June in Europe.

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