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Dr. Jonette Keri, a Miami dermatologist, examines Amy Rey for symptoms of skin cancer due to sun exposure in this file photo from June 15, 2011. The state Department of Health reports that skin cancer rates are rising among Minnesotans. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio

January 30, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. ? The Minnesota Department of Health says that skin cancer rates have been growing quickly among Minnesotans, and officials are urging people to avoid the sun ? even in winter.

The department says melanoma cancer rates rose 35 percent for men and 38 percent for women between 2005 and 2009, the most recent data available.

Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger said warm-weather winter vacations present perfect opportunities for exposure to ultraviolet light. "Folks ... need to be worried about sun exposure at all times of the year, and at all ages," Ehlinger said.

The health department says that's particularly true for women. The rate of melanoma for white Minnesota women between 18 and 49 has doubled since 1995.

"Although the mortality has remained stable, the incidence of the disease is increasing," Ehlinger said. "And this mirrors a national trend that has been going on since the mid 70s. A lot of this is due to increased sun exposure and increased exposure to tanning beds."

Ehlinger said use of tanning beds to get a "base tan" doesn't help, and simply increases exposure to ultraviolet light that can cause skin cancers.

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Tim Nelson is a general assignment reporter for Minnesota Public Radio.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Vermont Shooting Range Bans Burlington Police In Protest Of City's Proposed Assault Weapon Law

The national debate over gun control got very local for police in Burlington, Vt., earlier this month, after an area shooting range barred officers from practicing on its premises. The move came in protest of the city's proposed ban on certain assault weapons.

The resolution, which the Burlington City Council recently voted 10-3 in favor of, would ban assault-style firearms and large-capacity magazines within city limits. Similar initiatives have gone before city governments across the United States even as President Barack Obama met with law enforcement officials to discuss gun control measures Monday.

Although it requires approval from the Vermont state legislature and won't be put before voters until 2014, the measure angered the Lamoille Valley Fish and Game Club. In protest of the ban, the 400-member club voted 6-1 to bar the Burlington Police Department from using its shooting ranges, according to NBC local affiliate WPTZ.

Robert Boivin, chairman of the club's executive board, sent a letter to the Burlington City Council and other state and local officials stating that the proposed ban superseded state law and violated Second Amendment rights, according to Fox News.

"We felt that the Burlington City Council's actions really alienated a lot of our people -- members in particular -- and if they weren't going to be supportive of us, then we'd have a hard time being supportive of their group," Boivin told WPTZ.

The Burlington Police Department released a statement expressing regret that the "important and much-needed community dialogue regarding gun control" resulted in officers being barred from the range. Officers now conduct target practice at a different location. The city council stands by the proposal.

"In the absence of federal legislation or state law... it is incumbent upon us as a city to take the measures that we feel are necessary to protect our citizens," Burlington City Councilman Norman Blias told Fox News.

The Burlington Free Press reported recently that President Obama's gun control recommendations "gained traction" with Vermont congressional delegates after they were announced on Jan. 16, but that many gun advocates remained unpersuaded.

On Tuesday, the National Rifle Association urged its members to attend a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control Wednesday. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is expected to appear before the committee to deliver prepared remarks arguing that "law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals," and the government should not "dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families."

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Snowmobiler in critical condition after Winter X

In this photo taken Jan. 24, 2013, Caleb Moore lies in the snow after he crashed during the snowmoblie freestyle event at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Moore remains in critical condition in a Colorado hospital after this dramatic crash. A family spokeswoman reissued a statement Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, thanking fans, friends and family for their support and asked for continued prayers. They declined further comment. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock) MAGS OUT

In this photo taken Jan. 24, 2013, Caleb Moore lies in the snow after he crashed during the snowmoblie freestyle event at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Moore remains in critical condition in a Colorado hospital after this dramatic crash. A family spokeswoman reissued a statement Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, thanking fans, friends and family for their support and asked for continued prayers. They declined further comment. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock) MAGS OUT

In this photo taken Jan. 24, 2013, Caleb Moore crashes during the snowmoblie freestyle finals at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Moore remains in critical condition in a Colorado hospital after this dramatic crash. A family spokeswoman reissued a statement Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, thanking fans, friends and family for their support and asked for continued prayers. They declined further comment. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock)

Caleb Moore crashes during the snowmoblie freestyle finals Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, during the first day of the X Games Aspen 2013. The Competition runs through Sunday at Aspen's Buttermilk. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Christian Murdock)

In this photo taken Jan. 24, 2013, emergency personnel tend to Caleb Moore after he crashed during the snowmoblie freestyle event at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo. Moore remains in critical condition in a Colorado hospital after this dramatic crash. A family spokeswoman reissued a statement Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, thanking fans, friends and family for their support and asked for continued prayers. They declined further comment. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock) MAGS OUT

(AP) ? Snowmobiler Caleb Moore was in critical condition Tuesday in a Colorado hospital after a dramatic crash at the Winter X Games in Aspen, and a relative said the family wasn't hopeful about the 25-year-old's chances for survival.

Moore was performing a flip Thursday when he clipped the top of a jump and went over the handlebars and landed face first into the snow. The snowmobile rolled over him, but he walked off with help and went to a hospital with a concussion.

Moore later developed bleeding around his heart and was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction for surgery. The family later said that Moore, of Krum, Texas, also had a complication involving his brain.

"Caleb is not doing good at all," his grandfather Charles Moore told The Denver Post. "The prognosis is not good at all. It's almost certain he's not going to make it."

A family spokeswoman reissued a statement Tuesday thanking fans, friends and family for their support and asked for continued prayers. The family declined further comment.

A separate accident Thursday left Moore's younger brother, Colten, with a separated pelvis at Winter X, an increasingly popular event that showcases the world's best action sports athletes in a festival atmosphere.

The safety of the snowmobile events has fallen under scrutiny with several recent accidents and mishaps. In addition to the crashes by the Moore brothers, there also was a scary scene when a runaway sled veered into the crowd Sunday night after the rider fell off during a jump gone wrong.

In that incident, snowmobiling newcomer Jackson Strong tumbled off his machine during the best trick competition. The throttle stuck on the 450-pound sled and it swerved straight toward the crowd as fans scurried out of the way.

In a statement, X Games officials said their thoughts and prayers were with Caleb and his family. They also said that they've paid close attention to safety issues during the event's 18-year history.

"Still, when the world's best compete at the highest level in any sport, risks remain. Caleb is a four-time X Games medalist who fell short on his rotation on a move he has landed several times previously," the statement said.

To help defray the medical costs, a website has been set up for the family. There's a picture of Moore on the site and a message that reads: "Caleb Moore is an inspiration to us all and we want to support him and his family so they may stay strong during this difficult time. If you are not familiar with Caleb, he lives life to the fullest.

"The world knows Caleb as a brilliant freestyle rider, but his family and friends know him as a fun-loving and deeply loyal person."

In addition, Strong pledged to auction off his outfit from Winter X and donate the proceeds to the Moore family.

Moore grew up racing all-terrain vehicles in Texas and later crossed over into snowmobiling, his agent, B.C. Vaught, said. Two weeks after Vaught said he taught the 17-year-old Caleb to do a backflip, he said he was ready for prime time and joined Vaught's road show, including a trip to Europe.

"Whatever he wanted to do, he did it," Vaught said.

He said Moore set up a practice ramp 70 feet long and 10 feet deep in Krum, a town of about 5,000 people 50 miles northwest of Dallas that rarely sees snow and where snowmobiles are as rare as toboggans.

Caleb began launching his snowmobile into pools of foam a month before the 2010 X Games. After a brief training run on snow ramps in Michigan, Vaught said he joined the big leagues and never looked back. In the off-months, he still uses the foam pit in Texas for practice.

Tucker Hibbert, who won his sixth straight SnoCross title at Winter X, hopes all these unfortunate incidents aren't what people think of when they think about snowmobiling.

"Obviously, at the X Games, you're seeing the most extreme side of our sport," said Hibbert, who's from Pelican Rapids, Minn. "It's definitely dangerous and exciting all at the same time. But it's also a lot different than what snowmobiling is in general.

"Friends and family riding around, going down the trails, having fun riding snowmobiles, is quite a bit different than hitting a 100-foot ramp and doing double backflips. Naturally, you'll see some injuries and some pretty big crashes when you're pushing the limits."

Vaught said Moore's only previous injury was a bruised hip that sent him to the hospital last year, where he was treated and released.

"In sports, everybody makes mistakes, even if it's rare. Caleb made a mistake. That's it," said Vaught, who witnessed Moore's crash.

The spills at Winter X weren't just limited to snowmobiles. Rose Battersby suffered a lumbar spine fracture in a wipeout on a practice run before the skiing slopestyle competition. She was transported to Denver on Sunday and had feeling in all extremities, according to X Games officials.

Soon after her crash, Ashley Battersby, who's not related to Rose, wiped out on the course and slid into the fencing. Battersby was down for at least 30 minutes before being carted off on a sled and taken to a local hospital with a knee injury.

There also was a bad wipeout in the snowboard big air competition, when Halldor Helgason of Iceland suffered a concussion when he over-rotated on a flip. He raised his hand to salute the crowd as he was being taken off the icy course.

Moore's crash came just over a year after one of the most high-profile deaths in the extreme sports community.

Canadian freestyle icon Sarah Burke died Jan. 19, 2012, after sustaining irreversible brain damage in a training accident in Park City, Utah. The 29-year-old was a pioneer in the sport and a driving force behind the inclusion of slopestyle and halfpipe skiing at next year's Winter Games in Sochi.

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AP Sports Writer Pat Graham contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Killer Kitties? Cats Kill Billions Of Creatures Every Year

Out For Lunch? Researchers estimate that billions of birds and small mammals are killed by cats in the U.S. annually.

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The battle between cat lovers and bird lovers has been going on for a long time. Cats and birds just don't mix. But trying to get a handle on how many birds and other animals are being killed by cats isn't easy. Just figuring out how many cats there are is tough enough.

"Cats are really hard to count," says Pete Marra, an animal ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. He and his colleagues actually got a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to try to estimate the number of animals being killed by people, including through the effects of human activities, buildings and pets. They looked at things like wind turbines, cars, pesticides and ? domestic cats.

Marra says Americans own about 84 million of them. "And of those, about 40 to 70 percent are allowed to go outside," Marra says. "And we estimate that about 50 to 80 percent of those are actually hunters."

That means as many as 47 million pet cats are out there killing prey. Marra says they also looked at cats he calls "un-owned" ? feral cats, barn cats and strays. Based on previous studies, he estimates there could be anywhere from 30 million to 80 million of those in the U.S., most of them out hunting.

The next challenge was to try to figure out how many birds and small animals all these cats were killing. They looked at all the available data, and when they finished crunching the numbers, Marra says, he was shocked by what they found.

Previous studies had suggested that cats kill about 500 million birds a year. Marra's group came up with something very different. "We estimate that cats kill somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds a year," Marra says. "For mammals, it's upward of about 15 billion."

Marra says based on those new figures, cat-caused mortality far exceeds deaths from other sources, like collisions with cars or wind turbines.

And even though the new numbers are much higher than anything calculated before, he thinks they're in the right ballpark. "We're pretty confident," Marra says. "We felt like we only used the best studies out there. We eliminated studies that had small sample sizes or were only conducted for short durations. And we eliminated studies that had really, really high estimates, or really, really low estimates. So we tried to be as conservative as possible."

Marra says most of the deaths are being caused by feral cats, but pet cats do play a role. According to his calculations, pet cats are responsible for about a tenth of the cat-related mammal deaths and close to a third of the bird deaths.

He says overall, the number of birds and small animals being killed are high enough that cats and their hunting could be causing some wildlife populations to decline in some areas. But he says it will take more work to figure out which species are being most affected. His study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170588511/killer-kitties-cats-kill-billions-every-year?ft=1&f=1007

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Video: Hands-On With Canon?s Compact PowerShot N

Video: Hands-On With Canon’s Compact PowerShot N
The new Canon PowerShot N is one of the cooler cameras we saw at CES in Las Vegas this month.

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Obama on immigration overhaul: 'Now is the time'

President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

President Barack Obama turns to leave after shaking hands and speaking about immigration at Del Sol High School, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama points to someone in the crowd as he arrives to speak about immigration at Del Sol High School, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.. center, answers a reporter's question as he and a bipartisan group of leading senators announce that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. From left are Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. The deal covers border security, guest workers and employer verification, as well as a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(AP) ? Declaring "now is the time" to fix the nation's broken immigration system, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined broad proposals for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders. He hailed a bipartisan Senate group on a similar track but left unresolved key details that could derail the complex and emotional effort.

Potential Senate roadblocks center on how to structure the avenue to citizenship and on whether legislation would cover same-sex couples ? and that's all before a Senate measure could be debated, approved and sent to the Republican-controlled House where opposition is sure to be stronger.

Obama, who carried Nevada in the November election with heavy Hispanic support, praised the Senate push, saying Congress is showing "a genuine desire to get this done soon." But mindful of previous immigrations efforts that have failed, he warned that the debate would be difficult and vowed to send his own legislation to Capitol Hill if lawmakers don't act quickly.

"The question now is simple," Obama said during a campaign-style event in Las Vegas, one week after being sworn in for a second term in the White House. "Do we have the resolve as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do."

Shortly after Obama finished speaking, cracks emerged between the White House and the group of eight senators, which put out their proposals one day ahead of the president. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, one of four Republicans in the group, criticized Obama for not making a citizenship pathway contingent on tighter border security, a central tenant of the lawmakers' proposals.

"This provision is key to ensuring that border security is achieved, and is also necessary to ensure that a reform package can actually move through Congress," Flake said in a statement.

House Speaker John Boehner also responded coolly, with spokesman Brendan Buck saying the Ohio Republican hoped the president would be "careful not to drag the debate to the left and ultimately disrupt the difficult work that is ahead in the House and Senate."

Despite possible obstacles to come, the broad agreement between the White House and bipartisan lawmakers in the Senate represents a drastic shift in Washington's willingness to tackle immigration, an issue that has languished for years. Much of that shift is politically motivated, due to the growing influence of Hispanics in presidential and other elections and their overwhelming support for Obama in November.

The separate White House and Senate proposals focus on the same principles: providing a way for most of the estimated 11 million people already in the U.S. illegally to become citizens, strengthening border security, cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants and streamlining the legal immigration system.

A consensus around the question of citizenship could help lawmakers clear one major hurdle that has blocked previous immigration efforts. Many Republicans have opposed allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens, saying that would be an unfair reward for people who have broken the law.

Details on how to achieve a pathway to citizenship still could prove to be a major sticking point between the White House and the Senate group.

Obama and the Senate lawmakers all want to require people here illegally to register with the government, pass criminal and national security background checks, pay fees and penalties as well as back taxes, and wait until existing immigration backlogs are cleared before getting in line for green cards. Neither proposal backs up those requirements with specifics.

After achieving legal status, U.S. law says people can become citizens after five years.

The Senate proposal says that entire process couldn't start until the borders were fully secure and tracking of people in the U.S. on visas had improved. Those vague requirements would almost certainly make the timeline for achieving citizenship longer than what the White House is proposing.

The president urged lawmakers to avoid making the citizenship pathway so difficult that it would appear out of reach for many illegal immigrants.

"We all agree that these men and women have to earn their way to citizenship," he said. "But for comprehensive immigration reform to work, it must make clear from the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship."

"It won't be a quick process, but it will be a fair process," Obama added.

Another key difference between the White House and Senate proposals is the administration's plan to allow same-sex partners to seek visas under the same rules that govern other family immigration. The Senate principles do not recognize same-sex partners, though Democratic lawmakers have told gay rights groups that they could seek to include that in a final bill.

John McCain of Arizona, who is part of the Senate immigration group, called the issue a "red flag" in an interview Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."

Washington last took up immigration changes in a serious way in 2007, when then-President George W. Bush pressed for an overhaul. The initial efforts had bipartisan support but eventually collapsed in the Senate because of a lack of GOP support.

Cognizant of that failed effort, the White House has readied its own immigration legislation. But officials said Obama will send it to the Hill only if the Senate process stalls.

Most of the recommendations Obama made Tuesday were not new. They were included in the immigration blueprint he released in 2011, but he exerted little political capital to get it passed by Congress, to the disappointment of many Hispanics.

Some of the recommendations in the Senate plan are also pulled from past immigration efforts. The senators involved in formulating the latest proposals, in addition to McCain and Flake, are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Marco Rubio of Florida.

Also Tuesday, in another sign of Congress' increased attention to immigration issues, a group of four senators introduced legislation aimed at allowing more high-tech workers into the country, a longtime priority of technology businesses. The bill by Republicans Rubio and Orrin Hatch and Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Chris Coons would increase the number of visas available for high-tech workers, make it easier for them to change jobs once here and for their spouses to work, and aim to make it easier for foreigners at U.S. universities to remain here upon graduation.

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Julie Pace reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed.

Associated Press

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Monday, January 28, 2013

ExxonMobil Indonesia's Cepu faces setbacks, CEO to be replaced

JAKARTA (Reuters) - ExxonMobil Indonesia's Cepu block will likely not reach full production until August or September 2014, behind the initial schedule for May 2014, an official from the oil and gas regulator told Reuters on Monday.

"Initially we were expecting the project would deliver (full) production in May 2014, but I'm not sure if we can deliver it in May or not ... Probably going up to August or September," said Gde Pradnyana, operations controller at the regulator.

Cepu is producing 24,000 barrels per day and its target production of 165,000 is hoped will boost Indonesia's dwindling crude output.

Pradnyana said Cepu was a top priority for the government, and that its management and delays in production were one of the reasons why the regulator had decided not to extend its assignment for ExxonMobils local CEO, Richard Owen.

(Reporting by Fergus Jensen)

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'The year Congress finally gets it done'

A new immigration reform proposal crafted by a bipartisan group of senators would allow for a gradual path to legalization for most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the country.

A bipartisan working group of eight senators on Monday unveiled details of the proposal, calling it a "tough but fair" way to reform the nation's immigration system.

The senators' path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is less direct and could take longer than the one proposed by President Barack Obama in his immigration reform blueprint. The president will announce his push for immigration reform in more detail Tuesday in Las Vegas.

The senators' plan puts forward several hurdles before undocumented immigrants could obtain permanent residence visas, called green cards, which is the first step towards citizenship. First, immigrants would apply for temporary legal status by registering with the government, completing a background check and paying a fine. Before any immigrant could obtain a green card, "a commission comprised of governors, attorneys general, and community leaders living along the Southwest border" must declare that the government has taken enough steps to beef up border security and has also implemented a system that tracks when temporary visitors have left the country. It's unclear how long that would take, especially since border state governors are divided on how secure the border is now and ideally should be in the future.

The plan also says that no undocumented immigrant would receive a green card until every legal immigrant who is currently waiting for a green card has already received it. Wait times for green cards can be as long as 20 years in extreme cases, depending on whether the applicant is being sponsored by an employer or a family member. Family-based immigration, especially when a U.S. citizen is attempting to sponsor his or her sibling, can have especially long wait times.

The blueprint says the senators want to eliminate these wait times and drastically increase legal, high-skilled immigration, so it's possible that the bill could expedite the process. If not, illegal immigrants seeking a green card could be waiting for years.

The plan also excludes the children of illegal immigrants, commonly referred to as "Dreamers," as well as agricultural workers from the long wait for a green card.

Obama's blueprint asks for a wait time of eight years before illegal immigrants could get green cards, during which time they could live and work legally in the country. After five years with a green card, immigrants could apply to become citizens.

Speaking on the Senate floor before the announcement Majority Leader Harry Reid praised members of the committee for proposing an outline for an immigration overhaul and said he would do "everything" in his power to ensure an immigration bill passes through the upper chamber.

"Nothing short of bipartisan success is acceptable to me," Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said."There is no reason why we should not pass comprehensive immigration reform immediately."

Immigration advocates, who generally favor a fast path to citizenship for the country's illegal immigrants, mostly praised the senators for adding to the "momentum" of reform, but did not comment on the specifics of the plan.

"Creating a 21st century immigration process won't be easy, but the framework the senators are proposing is a powerful and practical start to the legislative process, and it will make the peaks and valleys ahead much easier to traverse," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the the National Immigration Forum, in a statement.

But Chris Rickerd, policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said his organization has "concerns" that the lengthy time frame and fine might discourage people from applying to legalize. Rickerd also noted that some people might be excluded from legalization because they were prosecuted for immigration-related crimes in their states. For example in Arizona, illegal immigrants can be charged with "self smuggling," which is a felony that does not exist in other states.

Groups that favor less immigration, meanwhile, have blasted the plan as "amnesty."

"Like previous amnesty proposals, this most recent iteration creates a 'path to citizenship' for nearly all illegal aliens and offers empty promises of enforcement without providing any concrete details," said the Federation of American Immigration Reform in a statement.

The eight senators who hammered out the deal are Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Marco Rubio of Florida, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Democrats Chuck Schumer of New York, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senators-tough-fair-immigration-blueprint-immigrants-wait-citizenship-173450017--politics.html

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Morning Markets January 28 - Business Insider

Markets are pretty tame this morning.

US futures aren't going anywhere.

Europe is mixed with no real sense of direction.

The bigger action was in Asia.

Japan fell 1%.

On the other hand, China surged 2.4%.

The cause of said surge is unclear.

This is going to be a pretty huge week for the economy, with plenty of data coming out each day.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/morning-markets-january-28-2013-1

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Egyptian youths, police clash in fourth day of violence

CAIRO (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at dozens of stone-throwing protesters in Cairo on Sunday in a fourth day of street clashes that have killed at least 41 people and compounded the political challenges facing President Mohamed Mursi.

In the worst violence, security sources said 32 people died in Port Said on Saturday when protests erupted following a court verdict sentencing 21 people, mostly from the city, to death for their role in a deadly stadium disaster last year.

Mursi's opponents have also taken to the streets across Egypt since Thursday, accusing him and his Islamist allies of betraying the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

"Till now, none of the revolution's goals have been realized," said Mohamed Sami, a protester in Tahrir Square on Sunday. "Prices are going up. The blood of Egyptians is being spilt in the streets because of neglect and corruption and because the Muslim Brotherhood is ruling Egypt for their own interests."

On a bridge close to Cairo's Tahrir Square, youths hurled stones at police in riot gear who fired tear gas to push them back towards the square which was the cauldron of the uprising that erupted on January 25, 2011 and toppled Mubarak 18 days later.

The latest protests were initially timed to mark Friday's second anniversary of that revolt.

The U.S. and British embassies, which are both close to Tahrir, said they were closed for public business on Sunday.

The spasm of violence adds to the daunting task facing Mursi as he tries to fix a beleaguered economy and cool tempers before a parliamentary election expected in the next few months which is supposed to cement Egypt's transition to democracy.

It has also exposed a deep rift in the nation. Liberals and other opponents accuse Mursi of failing to deliver on economic promises and say he has not lived up to pledges to represent all Egyptians. His backers say the opposition is seeking to topple Egypt's first freely elected leader by undemocratic means.

DIVISIONS

The army, Egypt's interim rulers until Mursi's election in June, were sent back onto the streets to restore order in Port Said and Suez, another port city on the Suez Canal where at least eight people have been killed in clashes with police.

Although scuffles continued in Cairo, there was no immediate sign of the kind of deadly escalation of previous days in the capital or elsewhere.

In Port Said, residents heard gunshots overnight and shops and many workplaces were shut on Sunday. Residents said the city was tense and there was a risk of further unrest later in the day when the dead were due to be buried.

Many Egyptians are frustrated by the regular escalations that have hurt the economy and their livelihoods.

"They are not revolutionaries protesting," said taxi driver Kamal Hassan, 30. "They are thugs destroying the country."

The National Defence Council, headed by Mursi, has called for a national dialogue to discuss political differences.

That offer has been cautiously welcomed by the opposition National Salvation Front. But the coalition has demanded a clear agenda and guarantees that any agreements will be implemented.

The Front, formed late last year when Mursi provoked protests and violence by expanding his powers and driving through an Islamist-tinged constitution, has threatened to boycott the parliamentary poll and to call for more protests if a list of demands is not met, including having an early presidential vote.

Egypt's transition has been blighted from the outset by political rows and turbulence on the streets that have driven investors out and kept many tourists away, starving the economy of vital sources of hard currency.

Egypt's defence minister who also heads the army, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, called for the nation to stand together and said the military would not prevent peaceful protests. But he called on demonstrators to protect public property.

Clashes in Port Said erupted after a judge sentenced 21 men to die for involvement in 74 deaths at a soccer match on February 1, 2012 between Cairo's Al Ahly club and the local al-Masri team. Many of the victims were fans of the visiting team.

There were 73 defendants in the case. Those not sentenced on Saturday will face a verdict on March 9, the judge said.

Al Ahly fans cheered the verdict after threatening action if the death penalty was not meted out. But Port Said residents were furious that people from their city were held responsible, triggering wild rampages through the streets.

(Additional reporting by Shaimaa Fayed in Cairo and Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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    Wizards Top Bulls 86-73: Chicago's 3-Game Win Streak Comes To An End

    WASHINGTON -- For the first 32 games of the season, the Washington Wizards were a sorry bunch ? winning only four times. The comical comparison was the Washington Generals ? the punching bag for the Harlem Globetrotters.

    Not so much anymore.

    Emeka Okafor had 15 points and 16 rebounds, helping the Wizards beat the Chicago Bulls 86-73 on Saturday night for their seventh victory in the last 10 games.

    Nene scored 16 points and John Wall had 15 for Washington, which has won consecutive games for the second time this season. The Wizards have won five straight at home for the first time in five years.

    "We are the team we thought we were supposed to be," Okafor said.

    The run began before Wall returned from a left knee injury, and now the injury-riddled team is healthy again.

    "We have back all the players. There is our team," Nene said. "We gonna shut up people's mouths. That's what we're going to do."

    Chicago (26-17) had won a season-high three in a row for the third time.

    Nate Robinson scored 19 points for the Bulls, and Joakim Noah narrowly missed a triple-double with nine points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists, which equaled his career high.

    "I think we got beat by a team that just played harder than us tonight," Noah said.

    "We played tired basketball tonight."

    Chicago dominated Golden State at home on Friday night, leading throughout the game while Washington (11-31) easily beat undermanned Minnesota for its 10th victory of the season.

    Two of the season's first five wins came against Miami and Oklahoma City, but in many ways, this was even more impressive.

    "As a coach, I'll take it against a high school team," Washington coach Randy Wittman said.

    Wittman, whose team was decimated by injuries early this season, pointed out that star point guard Derrick Rose has yet to play for the Bulls, and All-Star forward Luol Deng missed his fifth straight game with a strained right hamstring.

    "I've been there, but a win's a win," Wittman said.

    Wall, who started for the second straight night, has been the catalyst for the team's recent success.

    "It's not just me, man. It's never just me. I wanted to come in and be a spark for the team," Wall said.

    "I'm just doing a great job of getting easy shots for my teammates."

    The Wizards outscored Chicago 23-11 in the third quarter to take a 73-55 lead. The 11 points were a season low for the Bulls. Chicago had twice as many turnovers (six) as field goals (three) in the period.

    "I thought we played low energy tonight," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.

    "You gotta get ready for everybody. ... When you start taking shortcuts, the results aren't gonna be good."

    The Wizards put together an 11-0 run late in the second quarter, holding the Bulls scoreless for nearly five minutes while building a 50-44 halftime lead.

    Washington outscored Chicago 10-2 to start the third and led 60-46 with 8:58 to play. Nene hit two more field goals and two free throws as the Wizards extended the lead to 69-51 with 4:28 left in the third.

    NOTES: The 29 points in the second half were a season low for the Bulls. ... Within a minute in the third quarter, Chicago F Carlos Boozer was charged with a flagrant foul for elbowing Okafor and a technical foul. ... The game was a sellout ? the third of the season for Washington. ... The Wizards trailed after the first quarter for the first time in their last eight home games.

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    Engadget Mobile Podcast 167 - 01.23.13

    Engadget Mobile Podcast 166

    Myriam and Brad are back, tentacles and octacores in tow. This week we're covering everything from Firefox phones to leaked HTC 5 Sense screenshots, but there's also an Elephant in the vocal booths: the imminent BlackBerry 10 launch. Best of all, Brad's officially renounced the term "phablet" much to Myriam's delight -- seriously, y'all, it's just a big phone. (Is it really, though?) All that and more awaits you in episode 167 of the Engadget Mobile Podcast below.

    Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen

    Producer: Joe Pollicino

    Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)

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    00:46:39 - Verizon iPhone activation numbers
    00:54:24 - Samsung Galaxy GSIII mini adds NFC for a premium
    00:58:36 - Leaked HTC Sense 5 screenshots suggest a leaner, cleaner skin
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    Saturday, January 26, 2013

    Congress making budget promises it can't keep

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    Next time you hear someone in Washington come up with a long-term plan to balance the federal budget, take it with a Capitol Building-sized grain of salt.

    As the tax and spending battle rages on in the nation?s capital, Democrats and Republicans are vowing to replace temporary, stop-gap budget measures with a long-term plan to narrow the gap between how much the government raises in taxes and how much Congress agrees to spend.

    Though bitterly divided over how to pull it off, both sides agree that a gradual, long-term, budget-balancing plan would do less damage to the economy than the steep, short-term spending cuts set to take effect in a few weeks.?Earlier this week, House Republicans set a 10-year timetable for bringing revenues and spending into line.

    "Balancing the budget over the next 10 years means that we save the future for our kids and our grandkids," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said when the deal was announced.

    Even if every member of Congress agreed with that goal, it?s a promise none of them can keep.

    Any long term budget is subject to a long list of unknowns ? from disasters and wars, to recessions and financial crises - that can quickly knock it off course.?The list includes a future Congress that decides to tear up the plan and replace it with a new one.

    ?You can talk about a budget as a establishing a sense of direction but you can?t talk about a long term budget as a precise point of arrival,? said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a policy advisor in the Clinton administration. ?All sorts of things can alter the assumptions that underlie any long-term planning.?

    Congress hit the pause button in the ongoing budget battle this week) by delaying a looming deadline to prevent the government from borrowing to pay its bills. The deal lets the Treasury Department continue to sell bonds to make up the gap between the taxes it collects and the spending Congress has authorized.

    That measure effectively postponed the debt ceiling crunch until mid-May. The exact date is difficult to predict because the Treasury is able to juggle its bills for a few weeks as it approaches the borrowing cap.

    The next hard deadline comes with automatic budget cuts ? the spending side of the so-called ?fiscal cliff? ? that were delayed until March 1 and pared down by $24 billion in the last-minute, year-end deal that raised taxes on the wealthiest households.

    Those cuts, the so-called ?sequester,? were enacted in July 2011 after the last debt-ceiling standoff.

    The hope was that the impact of the cuts would be so dire that the deadline would force a compromise in the long-standing budget deadlock. Republicans and the White House remain on a collision course over a long-term plan to replace the sequester?s meat clever approach to spending cuts.

    Both sides agreed to come up with a long-term budget plan ? or forego their paychecks. (That?s another promise easier made than kept. The 27th Amendment requires that any change in elected representatives? salaries apply only to the next session of Congress. So the move is largely for show.)

    Replacing the short-term budget measures with a 10-year plan begins with a series of guesses about future spending that are all but impossible to make. Will the U.S. fight a war in the next decade? How many natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy will prompt emergency relief spending? Will the cost of health care continue rising faster than the rate of inflation?

    There are even bigger wild guesses embedded in the economic projections used to estimate how much money the government will take in through taxes. Will there be a recession in the next 10 years? If so, will it be mild or severe? Short or long?

    Like any long-term plan, a relatively small miss on that estimate can have a big impact down the road. If the current $16 trillion U.S. economy grows at the 50-year historical average pace of about 3 percent, for example, in 10 years gross domestic product ? a rough measure of the nation?s income - will hit $21.5 trillion. If that growth rate continues at the current, roughly 2 percent pace, GDP will hit only $19.5 trillion ? generating less tax revenue from businesses and households even if tax rates remain steady.

    ?You can solve a lot of problems if you simply build in the kind of economic performance that we saw in the last six years of Reagan or the last five of Bill Clinton,? said Galston. ?It?s possible to do anything on paper if you don?t care what you?re doing.?

    Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/congress-making-budget-promises-it-cant-keep-1C8115972

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    Stare In Awe as This Transforming Table Grows an Extra Three Feet In Mere Seconds

    Team 7's new Flaye dining table isn't just a gorgeous piece of eye candy with its solid wood top and surrounding leather trim. It's functional too, hiding a complex pop-up mechanism that lets just one person extend the table by over three feet in just four seconds. With this in your dining room, you'll be hoping for unexpected dinner guests every night. More »


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    Friday, January 25, 2013

    Video: Dalio on Policy & Productivity: Davos, Part 2

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    Fitness Equipment Recalled - KWQC TV6 Davenport

    • Former Milan Auto Dealers Sentenced In Federal Court

      Former Milan Auto Dealers Sentenced In Federal Court

      Jan 23, 2013 10:47 AM CST2013-01-24 12:57:11 GMT

      The former owners of Blackhawk Autoplex in Milan, Ill., have been sentenced in federal court. Jens and Pamela Hirsch pleaded guilty on May 11, 2012, to federal charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commitMore >>The former owners of Blackhawk Autoplex in Milan, Ill., have been sentenced in federal court. Jens and Pamela Hirsch pleaded guilty on May 11, 2012, to federal charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commitMore >>
    • Huge Fire In Rural Geneseo

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      The Quad City chapter of the American Red Cross is helping a family after an intense house fire in Geneseo, Ill., Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013. Crews were called to the 9000 block of North 2150More >>The Quad City chapter of the American Red Cross is helping a family after an intense house fire in Geneseo, Ill., Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013. Crews were called to the 9000 block of North 2150More >>
    • Police Catch "Ray Bandit" Linked To A String Of Robberies

      Police Catch "Ray Bandit" Linked To A String Of Robberies

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      The man known as the "Ray Bandit" is in jail. FBI officials believe he's behind at least 17 bank robberies in seven different states since last July, several of them right here in the Quad Cities area.More >>The man known as the "Ray Bandit" is in jail. FBI officials believe he's behind at least 17 bank robberies in seven different states since last July, several of them right here in the Quad Cities area.More >>

    About 75,000 Perfect Resistance Bands are being recalled. The manufacturer says the fitness bands can detach from the mesh cloth loops and pose injury to its user or anyone nearby.

    Implus Footcare has received reports of 12 cases, including injuries to the back, hand and eye.

    The bands were sold exclusively at Walmart and online at perfectonline dot com.

    Consumers should stop using the fitness bands and contact Implus Footcare for a refund or replacement product at 800-446-7587.

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