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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Judiciary Committee takes up immigration bill

Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., at podium, about immigration reform legislation outlined by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" Thursday, April 18, 2013, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Menendez, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., stands with members of law enforcement as he speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, April 18, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A far-reaching new immigration bill is getting its first test at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where opponents of the legislation will be able to face off with its authors.

The committee includes Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and three other of the eight lawmakers who authored the bill to boost border security, fix legal immigration programs and eventually grant citizenship to some 11 million people here illegally. The panel also includes leading skeptics of the legislation, including Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

The 844-page legislation was introduced around 2 a.m. Wednesday, so critics say there's been insufficient time to digest it and they've pushed for more hearings and a long process. Friday's hearing will be the first of two the Judiciary Committee is expected to hold on the bill before it begins amending and voting on it next month.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been invited to testify, and she's sure to face tough questions from Sessions and other Republicans on conditions along the border, which the Obama administration says is more secure than ever.

Some Republicans disagree and also contend that the immigration bill doesn't do enough to improve border security, even though it requires certain enforcement steps to be taken before any path to citizenship can begin.

Napolitano in the past has criticized the idea of border enforcement "triggers" as a condition of a path to citizenship, putting the Obama administration at odds with the bipartisan Senate plan. But President Barack Obama praised the legislation when it was released this week.

A second panel of witnesses was to include Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative-leaning economist who's argued that immigration brings economic benefits to the U.S.; and Peter Kirsanow, a Republican member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission who's said that illegal immigration reduces wages and eliminates jobs for low-skilled American workers.

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Senate Judiciary Committee: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Justin Bieber's Naked Belieber Cartoon Is Just Wrong

Justin Bieber's fans really, really love him. And, to his credit, the pop star has always made a point of expressing that appreciation right back. But the 19-year-old singer took that love a little too far when he reposted a fan-drawn picture of him with a "Belieber" -- both apparently naked and in bed -- to Instagram.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Ubisoft Montreal CEO: Gamers Ready for Always-Online Consoles ...

Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat claims that gamers are ready to embrace a world where your game and console are always online - particularly with the upcoming next-gen consoles from Sony and Nintendo.

Speaking to The Guardian, Mallat said that most gamers are already prepared for always online gameplay. Even if that were the truth (which it isn't if you live in a rural area that doesn't provide broadband), it is pretty clear the most game companies are not prepared for facilitating games that are always online. If you need examples, simply ask Ubisoft's about their DRM servers for PC games that would go offline, or ask EA about the launch of SimCity.

"Well, that's a question you should put to Microsoft and Sony! I would say that a lot of people are already always online through other devices," Mallat said. "I would suspect that the audience is ready."

He went on to say that if an always-online console wants to be widely adopted by gamers, it has to "provide clear benefits" for such a requirement, like extra content or featured services.

Microsoft's Xbox 720 is rumored to have such a requirement, though Microsoft has not confirmed that. The PS4 does not require a constant Internet connection.

Source: GameSpot

Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/04/15/ubisoft-montreal-ceo-gamers-ready-always-online-consoles

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Infosys slumps to lowest since Oct after earnings

Today?s teenagers are in desperate need of a wake-up call, a new survey found.In its latest report, Junior Achievement ? an organization that has tracked teens? attitudes for the last 14 years ? found that kids are woefully uninformed about aspects of their financial futures, including the cost of college. And despite less-than-stellar post-college employment odds, their self-confidence remains sky-high.Jack Kosakowski, CEO of Junior Achievement?America, highlighted teenagers? inattention to financial reality as the survey?s major finding. ...

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New bird flu strain seen adapting to mammals, humans

Monday, April 15, 2013

A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells, raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic.

The collaborative study, conducted by a group led by Masato Tashiro of the Influenza Virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, appears in the current edition (April 11, 2013) of the journal Eurosurveillance. The group examined the genetic sequences of H7N9 isolates from four of the pathogen's human victims as well as samples derived from birds and the environs of a Shanghai market.

"The human isolates, but not the avian and environmental ones, have a protein mutation that allows for efficient growth in human cells and that also allows them to grow at a temperature that corresponds to the upper respiratory tract of humans, which is lower than you find in birds," says Kawaoka, a leading expert on avian influenza.

The findings, drawn from genetic sequences deposited by Chinese researchers into an international database, provide some of the first molecular clues about a worrisome new strain of bird flu, the first human cases of which were reported on March 31 by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, the new virus has sickened at least 33 people, killing nine. Although it is too early to predict its potential to cause a pandemic, signs that the virus is adapting to mammalian and, in particular, human hosts are unmistakable, says Kawaoka.

Access to the genetic information in the viruses, he adds, is necessary for understanding how the virus is evolving and for developing a candidate vaccine to prevent infection.

Influenza virus depends on its ability to attach to and commandeer the living cells of its host to replicate and spread efficiently. Avian influenza rarely infects humans, but can sometimes adapt to people, posing a significant risk to human health.

"These viruses possess several characteristic features of mammalian influenza viruses, which likely contribute to their ability to infect humans and raise concerns regarding their pandemic potential," Kawaoka and his colleagues conclude in the Eurosurveillance report.

Kawaoka, a faculty member in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine who also holds a faculty appointment at the University of Tokyo, explains that the majority of the viruses in the study ? from both humans and birds ? display mutations in the surface protein hemagglutinin, which the pathogen uses to bind to host cells. Those mutations, according to Kawaoka, allowed them to easily infect human cells.

In addition, the isolates from patients contained another mutation that allows the virus to efficiently replicate inside human cells. The same mutation, Kawaoka notes, lets the avian virus thrive in the cooler temperatures of the human upper respiratory system. It is in the cells of the nose and throat that flu typically gains a hold in a mammalian or human host.

Kawaoka and his colleagues also assessed the response of the new strain to drugs used to treat influenza, discovering that one class of commonly used antiviral drugs, ion channel inhibitors which effectively bottle up the virus in the cell, would not be effective; the new strain could be treated with another clinically relevant antiviral drug, oseltamivir.

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