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Wait A Minute, Didn’t I Take Your Mug Shot Already

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Another day"s wait for the HealthCare.gov update

Spikes in traffic are still expected to overwhelm the portal, officials have warned. | Reuters

The Obama administration is giving HealthCare.gov yet another extension.

On Friday night, the eve of the self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to get the federal Obamacare portal working smoothly, the agency in charge of the effort announced that the application and enrollment systems would be taken offline for 11 hours for extended maintenance. And instead of a reporters’ briefing on Saturday – as was pledged earlier this week, ostensibly to announce whether the performance target was met – the update would come on Sunday.

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The pivot, though slight in terms of time, is noteworthy because of the administration’s many pronouncements leading up to Saturday.

In late October, tech surge czar Jeff Zients promised that the website “will work smoothly for the vast majority of users” by the end of November — a goal that he and other administration officials have repeatedly echoed since.

Last week, after tracking error messages and page-load rates, officials publicly identified a couple new metrics. Zients said that hardware additions and software fixes continuing through this weekend would double the site’s capacity to 50,000 users at a time and 800,000 visitors per day. Those numbers are what the site was intended to accommodate when it launched Oct. 1.

On Wednesday, during the last CMS update, agency spokeswoman Julie Bataille again said that the site would be working smoothly by the end of the month. She blurred the line slightly on traffic volume, however, saying the site would be able to handle the higher numbers by Dec. 1.

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Spikes in traffic are still expected to overwhelm the portal, administration officials have warned. In the first days after launch, as many as 250,000 people tried to access the site at once.

Because of recent fixes, people whom the site cannot accommodate now will be placed in an online queue and can be emailed when HealthCare.gov can handle more visitors.

On Friday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged people to shop during off-peak times, mornings, nights and on the weekends.

“The product is popular, so avoid the lines and shop HealthCare.gov during off-peak hours,” she wrote in a blog post.

She reminded consumers that they now have until Dec. 23 to purchase coverage that will begin Jan. 1 — because of a recent eight-day extension of the original deadline. “There are 23 shopping days in December … No need to rush,” she wrote.

HealthCare.gov is scheduled to be offline Sunday from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., as it has typically been on weekends during the intense repair push.

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Treasury warns Congress not to wait til last minute on debt ceiling

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew speaks about the economy at an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, August 22, 2013.

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Scientists Say Men and Women Process Risk Differently

By Matt Staggs on August 3, 2013 in News

I can’t wait to see how the men and women in our comment section “process” these findings.

Via Scientific American:

Researchers use gambling games to understand what we do when immediate rewards are pitted against long-term gains. Most of these games find no major differences in how men and women play. An experimental setup called the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), however, finds consistent—and large—differences between the behavior of men and women: men are better at figuring out the strategy that reaps the bigger payoff.

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First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on

• Prince William, Catherine and the baby are at their home at Kensington Palace


• The couple has not yet announced a name for their son, now third-in-line to the throne


• The family left the hospital Tuesday, a day after the prince was born


• Catherine: “It’s such a special time.” Says William, “He’s got her looks, thankfully”

London (CNN) — Prince William, his wife Catherine and the royal baby start their first full day at home together Wednesday, after giving the world its first glimpse of the future king as they left the hospital.

The family’s emergence Tuesday evening from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital marked the end of a long wait for the throngs of journalists camped outside.

There’s just one detail left to wait for now — the little prince’s name.

He and his wife are “still working on a name,” William said on the hospital steps, “so we’ll have that as soon as we can — it’s the first time we’ve seen him really, so we’re having a proper chance to catch up.”

He said the baby has a “good pair of lungs,” and added, “He’s got her looks, thankfully.”

Catherine and William took turns holding the child, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket, as they waved to well-wishers. The prince has already changed his first diaper, the couple told reporters.

“It’s very emotional. It’s such a special time,” Catherine said.

The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy was born Monday afternoon. He’s third in line, behind Charles and William, for the British throne now held by his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

On their way out, they walked out down the same hospital steps where Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles gave the world its first look at Prince William 31 years ago.

Confused about the royals? Follow this handy family tree

William installed the new royal heir in a car seat in the back of a black SUV, then got behind the wheel for the trip to their residence at Kensington Palace, in London.

It’s not clear how long the new family will spend at Kensington Palace, which was William’s boyhood home.

They may decide to relocate after a few days to the home of Catherine’s parents in the village of Bucklebury, in Berkshire.

The grand apartment they will eventually move into within the palace, Apartment 1A, is still being refurbished, so William and Catherine have been living in a small cottage in the grounds.

Interactive: World reacts to royal baby news

The late Diana, Princess of Wales, moved into Kensington Palace on her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 and brought up William and his brother Harry there. When she died in 1997, streams of mourners laid flowers and tributes outside its gates.

‘Absolutely beautiful’

Tuesday, London echoed with the sound of cannon fire and peals of bells to mark the birth.

Many bets are being placed as the wait continues for the baby’s name to be announced. British bookmakers Ladbrokes have George and James as favorites Wednesday, followed by Alexander, Arthur, Louis and Henry.

Queen Ella? King Terry? What’s in a royal name?

William’s name was announced a few days after birth; his brother Harry’s on leaving the hospital.

Shortly before the new baby’s departure from St. Mary’s, Prince Charles stopped by for a brief visit with his first grandchild, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. He told reporters it was “marvelous.”

And Catherine’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, visited earlier, with Carole Middleton telling reporters the royal baby is “absolutely beautiful.”

She said both mother and baby are doing “really well” and that she and her husband were “so thrilled” at being grandparents.

“It was so exciting. It was fantastic,” said Eliza Wells, one of the well-wishers gathered outside the hospital. “The crowd erupted, because everyone’s been waiting so long for it.”

William and Catherine “both seemed very relaxed, even with the press there and the crowd,” Wells said. “They just seemed like a normal couple.”

A normal life?

Royal commentators say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will try to give their son as regular an upbringing as possible.

But the intense media interest in the birth of the new prince highlights the challenge his parents face in trying to protect his privacy and maintain a degree of normalcy.

“This baby has two things stopping it from being normal,” historian Kate Williams said. “Number one, it lives in a life of incredible wealth and privilege … number two, it is an incredible celebrity, and we’ve seen this with the coverage.”

Opinion: Why I wouldn’t want to be royal baby

But Prince William loved that his mother tried to give him as normal a childhood as possible, including trips to the cinema and an amusement park, and sending him to a local private school as a boy — “and that’s what he wants for little baby Cambridge.”

Although the excitement over his birth is not universal, there’s no doubting the level of global interest in the prince.

On Monday, there were more than 19 million Facebook interactions related to the royal baby, Facebook said. His birth also took Twitter by storm.

As well as ruling the United Kingdom, the boy could one day be king of 15 other Commonwealth countries which have the British monarch as head of state, if none changes their constitution in the meantime.

They include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belize and Jamaica.

CNN’s Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

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First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on

First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on

• Prince William, Catherine and the baby are at their home at Kensington Palace


• The couple has not yet announced a name for their son, now third-in-line to the throne


• The family left the hospital Tuesday, a day after the prince was born


• Catherine: “It’s such a special time.” Says William, “He’s got her looks, thankfully”

London (CNN) — Prince William, his wife Catherine and the royal baby start their first full day at home together Wednesday, after giving the world its first glimpse of the future king as they left the hospital.

The family’s emergence Tuesday evening from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital marked the end of a long wait for the throngs of journalists camped outside.

There’s just one detail left to wait for now — the little prince’s name.

He and his wife are “still working on a name,” William said on the hospital steps, “so we’ll have that as soon as we can — it’s the first time we’ve seen him really, so we’re having a proper chance to catch up.”

He said the baby has a “good pair of lungs,” and added, “He’s got her looks, thankfully.”

Catherine and William took turns holding the child, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket, as they waved to well-wishers. The prince has already changed his first diaper, the couple told reporters.

“It’s very emotional. It’s such a special time,” Catherine said.

The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy was born Monday afternoon. He’s third in line, behind Charles and William, for the British throne now held by his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

On their way out, they walked out down the same hospital steps where Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles gave the world its first look at Prince William 31 years ago.

Confused about the royals? Follow this handy family tree

William installed the new royal heir in a car seat in the back of a black SUV, then got behind the wheel for the trip to their residence at Kensington Palace, in London.

It’s not clear how long the new family will spend at Kensington Palace, which was William’s boyhood home.

They may decide to relocate after a few days to the home of Catherine’s parents in the village of Bucklebury, in Berkshire.

The grand apartment they will eventually move into within the palace, Apartment 1A, is still being refurbished, so William and Catherine have been living in a small cottage in the grounds.

Interactive: World reacts to royal baby news

The late Diana, Princess of Wales, moved into Kensington Palace on her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981 and brought up William and his brother Harry there. When she died in 1997, streams of mourners laid flowers and tributes outside its gates.

‘Absolutely beautiful’

Tuesday, London echoed with the sound of cannon fire and peals of bells to mark the birth.

Many bets are being placed as the wait continues for the baby’s name to be announced. British bookmakers Ladbrokes have George and James as favorites Wednesday, followed by Alexander, Arthur, Louis and Henry.

Queen Ella? King Terry? What’s in a royal name?

William’s name was announced a few days after birth; his brother Harry’s on leaving the hospital.

Shortly before the new baby’s departure from St. Mary’s, Prince Charles stopped by for a brief visit with his first grandchild, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. He told reporters it was “marvelous.”

And Catherine’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, visited earlier, with Carole Middleton telling reporters the royal baby is “absolutely beautiful.”

She said both mother and baby are doing “really well” and that she and her husband were “so thrilled” at being grandparents.

“It was so exciting. It was fantastic,” said Eliza Wells, one of the well-wishers gathered outside the hospital. “The crowd erupted, because everyone’s been waiting so long for it.”

William and Catherine “both seemed very relaxed, even with the press there and the crowd,” Wells said. “They just seemed like a normal couple.”

A normal life?

Royal commentators say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will try to give their son as regular an upbringing as possible.

But the intense media interest in the birth of the new prince highlights the challenge his parents face in trying to protect his privacy and maintain a degree of normalcy.

“This baby has two things stopping it from being normal,” historian Kate Williams said. “Number one, it lives in a life of incredible wealth and privilege … number two, it is an incredible celebrity, and we’ve seen this with the coverage.”

Opinion: Why I wouldn’t want to be royal baby

But Prince William loved that his mother tried to give him as normal a childhood as possible, including trips to the cinema and an amusement park, and sending him to a local private school as a boy — “and that’s what he wants for little baby Cambridge.”

Although the excitement over his birth is not universal, there’s no doubting the level of global interest in the prince.

On Monday, there were more than 19 million Facebook interactions related to the royal baby, Facebook said. His birth also took Twitter by storm.

As well as ruling the United Kingdom, the boy could one day be king of 15 other Commonwealth countries which have the British monarch as head of state, if none changes their constitution in the meantime.

They include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belize and Jamaica.

CNN’s Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

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First day at home for royal baby -- but wait for name goes on