House committee takes up tough immigration bill

House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A key committee in the Republican-led House moved Tuesday toward approving a tough enforcement-focused immigration bill, over objections from Democrats and disruptions from protesters shouting "Shame, shame, shame!"

Meanwhile in the Senate, a Republican lawmaker floated a compromise border security proposal he hopes can win over support for sweeping immigration legislation under consideration there that opens the door to citizenship for 11 million immigrants now here illegally.

And on a day of fast-paced developments on an issue that is a top priority for President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, moved to quiet speculation that he might bring the Senate immigration legislation up for a vote despite opposition from many conservatives in his chamber.

"Any immigration reform bill that is going to go into law ought to have a majority of both parties' support if we're really serious about making that happen. And so I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have a majority support of Republicans," Boehner said. He added that border enforcement would be key for any immigration bill, "And I frankly think the Senate bill is weak on border security."

As Boehner addressed reporters, the House Judiciary Committee was meeting to consider a bill, called the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. It would empower state and local officials to enforce federal immigration laws, make passport and visa fraud into aggravated felonies subject to deportation, funnel money into building more detention centers, and crack down on immigrants suspected of posing dangers.

As soon as Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gaveled the proceedings open, more than a dozen protesters who had been seated in the hearing room stood up and began clapping and chanting, "Shame, shame, shame! More of the same!" They were ushered out but their cries could still be heard in the hallway and Goodlatte stopped the proceedings until the protesters had been dispersed.

Goodlatte said that the bill under consideration ? the first immigration bill to come to a vote in a House committee this year ? "provides a robust interior enforcement strategy that will maintain the integrity of our immigration system for the long term."

But Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said that "this bill must be opposed, it would turn millions of undocumented immigrants into criminals overnight." She predicted mass protests were the bill to become law, along the lines of what happened in 2006 after the House passed a similarly tough enforcement bill.

The move by the House Judiciary Committee comes less than two weeks after the full House voted to overturn Obama's 2012 election-year order to stop deportations of many immigrants brought here illegally as youths.

Together the two moves highlight the challenges ahead in getting a comprehensive immigration bill through Congress this year, as Obama wants. For many House conservatives, the priorities when it comes to immigration remain enforcing the laws and securing the border, not allowing the millions here illegally to gain legal status or citizenship.

Still, No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland predicted Tuesday that if the Senate passes an immigration bill with bipartisan support, "I think the Republican leadership will be under great pressure to let the House work its will" ? Capitol Hill jargon for letting the House take up legislation even without majority support from the majority GOP.

"I think the presidential wing of the Republican Party is absolutely convinced they need to be for an immigration bill," Hoyer said, saying they believe they have to "forge some bridge" to the Hispanic community. He added, "That same motivation does not apply to the congressional wing" of the GOP.

As in the House, border security is at issue in the Democratic-led Senate, where senators have been jousting over how to strengthen the provisions in a far-reaching bill being considered on the floor this week to remake the nation's immigration laws. The bill would allow tens of thousands of high- and low-skilled workers into the country, and require all employers to check their workers' legal status. At its heart is a 13-year path to citizenship for people now here illegally, but that is contingent on certain border security goals being met.

Republican critics say those "triggers" are too weak and have been demanding amendments to strengthen them. The Senate planned to vote Tuesday on an amendment by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., requiring 700 miles of double-layered border fencing before anyone here illegally could get a permanent resident green card.

A more far-reaching proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has been getting attention, but Democrats and some Republicans have dismissed it as a "poison pill" because it would require 90 percent of people attempting to cross the border to be stopped before anyone here illegally could get a permanent resident green card.

The underlying bill also has the 90 percent figure as a goal, but doesn't make the path to citizenship directly contingent on achieving it.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told The Associated Press Monday night that he has been working on an alternative with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and others. Hoeven said his proposal also would require the 90 percent apprehension rate to be met before immigrants could get green cards. But he said his plan, unlike Cornyn's amendment, would make the 90 percent rate objective and achievable by specifying all the equipment and technology the border patrol says it needs to achieve the rate in each of the nine southwest border sectors, and carefully tracking attempted crossings.

Hoeven said he hoped to unveil his amendment in the next day or two and said it could garner the support needed to get bipartisan support for the immigration bill.

"Our effort is to get good legislation that truly secures the border," Hoeven said. "That people feel it's fair and it's not amnesty ... so we can get really a bipartisan consensus."

However, Hoeven's amendment could encounter skepticism from immigrant groups and Democrats who want to be sure that the bill doesn't change in a way that makes the path to citizenship harder to achieve.

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Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed to this report.

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Petronas to spend $20 billion on Canadian LNG project: executive

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil and gas firm Petronas expects to spend $20 billion on a project in west Canada to export liquefied natural gas (LNG), a senior company official said on Tuesday.

The project, known as Pacific NorthWest LNG, will build two LNG trains of 6 million tons per year (tpy) each by the end of 2018 or 2019, Arif Mahmood, vice president of corporate planning at Petronas told an industry conference.

The investment cost includes about $5 billion to be spent on a pipeline project to supply the two LNG trains, he said.

Petronas also plans to make a final investment decision on its second floating LNG project in Malaysia later this year, he said. The FLNG project will be at the Rotan Field in Block H and could start production in 2016, he said.

(Reporting by Florence Tan; Editing By Tom Hogue)

(This story was refiled to reflect the following changes: corrects to say Petronas to spend $20 billion, not $5 billion, on LNG project in headline and first paragraph; adds third paragraph to clarify that $5 billion will be spent on a pipeline)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/petronas-spend-5-billion-canadian-lng-project-executive-024746515.html

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Genetic research clarifies link between hypertension and Vitamin D deficiency

June 10, 2013 ? A large-scale genetic study involving over 155,000 individuals has enabled researchers to discover the causal link between hypertension and vitamin D deficiency. The results provide a strong case for food fortification with vitamin D in order to prevent some kinds of cardiovascular disease, they say.

Low levels of vitamin D can trigger hypertension, according to the world's largest study to examine the causal association between the two. Although observational studies have already shown this link, a large-scale genetic study was necessary before the cause and effect could be proven, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) will hear Tuesday.

Dr. Vimal Karani S, from the Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK, will tell the meeting that data from the D-CarDia collaboration, involving 35 studies, over 155,000 individuals, and numerous centres in Europe and North America, showed that those with high concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) had reduced blood pressure and therefore a reduced risk of hypertension. "We knew from earlier observational studies that low 25(OH)D concentrations were likely to be associated with increases in blood pressure and hypertension, but correlation is not causality," he says. "Additionally, randomised controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation in humans have produced inconsistent effects on cardiovascular outcomes. The whole picture was somewhat confused, and we decided to try to figure it out once and for all."

The researchers used genetic variants known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, as proxy markers to reflect individual's vitamin D status in order to test for a causal association with blood pressure and hypertension. When the results were analysed, they found a significant link; for every 10% increase in 25(OH)D concentrations, there was a 8.1% decrease in the risk of developing hypertension.

"Even with the likely presence of unobserved confounding factors," Dr. Karani S will say, "the approach we followed, known as Mendelian randomisation, allows us to draw conclusions about causality because the genetic influence on disease is not affected by confounding. To put it in simple terms, by using this approach we can determine the cause and effect and be pretty sure that we've come to the right conclusion on the subject."

Low vitamin D status is common throughout the western world, the researchers say, and hence these data have important public health implications. The best-known manifestation of vitamin D deficiency is the childhood bone disease rickets, where long bones are weakened by the deficiency and start to bend. Recently, however, Vitamin D has been implicated in a number of other non-skeletal-related conditions, but studies involving supplementation have given conflicting results.

"Our study strongly suggests that some cases of cardiovascular disease could be prevented through vitamin D supplements or food fortification," says Dr. Karani S. "Our new data provide further support for the important non-skeletal effects of vitamin D. We now intend to continue this work by examining the causal relationship between vitamin D status and other cardiovascular disease-related outcomes such as lipid-related phenotypes, for example, cholesterol, inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein, and type 2 diabetes and markers of glucose metabolism. We believe that we still have a lot to find out about the effect of Vitamin D deficiency on health, and we now know that we have the tools to do so."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/J8cTy0UaWlQ/130610192638.htm

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Ted Cruz: ?Proud wacko bird?

The Fine Print

As the immigration debate begins before the full Senate for the first time, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has become one of the most vocal opponents to the current bill. But Cruz says the true obstacle to immigration reform is not him, but President Obama.

?The biggest obstacle to passing common sense immigration reform is President Barack Obama,? Cruz tells The Fine Print, going on to say that the White House?s ?insistence? on including a path to citizenship is standing in the way of the bill?s ultimate passage.

?The path the White House is going down, I believe, is designed for this bill to fail,? Cruz says. ?It is designed for it to sail through the Senate and then crash in the House to let the president go and campaign in 2014 on this issue.?

Over his six-month run in the Senate, Cruz has developed a reputation for not toeing the line with party leadership, and has even been called a ?wacko bird? by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Though Cruz says he?s not sure exactly what a ?wacko bird? is, he?s not rejecting the name outright.

?If standing for liberty, if standing for free market principle and the Constitution makes you a wacko bird, then, then I am a very proud wacko bird,? Cruz says.

Underscoring his hard-line approach, Cruz says he won?t compromise on his stance against a path to citizenship despite calls from many Republicans that passing an immigration reform package is necessary for the party?s success in the 2014 and 2016 elections

?Leadership in both parties is what has gotten us in this mess, and I think we ought to be doing our job and standing for principle regardless of the politics,? he says.

When asked if he has ruled out the possibility of leading a filibuster against the immigration bill this week, Cruz did not directly answer the question, except to say that ?there are going to be lots of efforts to change, to amend, and to improve this bill.?

For more of the interview with Sen. Cruz, and to hear what he says was the most surprising thing when he came to the Senate, check out this episode of The Fine Print.

ABC's Eric Wray, Sunlen Miller, Freda Kahen Kashi, Betsy Klein, Melissa Young, and David Girard contributed to this episode.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/ted-cruz-obama-biggest-obstacle-immigration-reform-calls-112202690.html

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If Only We Knew What We Know ? Conrad Johnson and Brian ...

In ?If Only We Knew What We Know,? 88 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 729 (2013) (forthcoming), Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly examine the broader themes surrounding law and technology raised in this symposium by looking at lawyering and knowledge management. Most lawyering duties, if not all, can be understood within the context of gathering, managing and presenting information. This article explains both the theory and practice of an IT-based clinical course in legal knowledge management.

Conrad Johnson has been a professor at Columbia Law School since 1989. Among numerous accomplishments, Johnson co-founded the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic, a path breaking offering that explores the impact of technology on law practice and the profession through client work and collaborative projects with major public interest legal organizations and prominent jurists. Brian Donnelly is a lecturer and Director of Educational Technology at Columbia Law School, and also co-founded the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic. Donnelly is responsible for the design and operation of Columbia Law School?s world-class classroom technology, curriculum-based Internet initiatives and the integration of technology into teaching and learning.

The first part of Johnson and Donnelly?s submission provides a brief summary of the basic lawyering paradigm used in the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic?that all lawyering can be understood within the context of gathering, managing and presenting information. The knowledge management aspect is positioned as the foundation for ?reflection in action,? a concept that has been widely recognized within clinical legal education. By managing legal knowledge through the use of information technology, students must convert tacit and conceptual knowledge into explicit and practical information. Such conversions expand and deepen students? material understandings.

The second part of the article considers the merits of the A2J Author? software as an expert legal knowledge management system. Finally, a brief case study is presented on how the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic used A2J Author in conjunction with partners in the New York Court system to address pressing needs on the parts of pro se litigants.

Abstract
?This article contributes to the broader themes surrounding law and technology raised in this symposium by taking a look at lawyering and knowledge management. This topic is presented both as a theory and with a case study. The first part provides a brief summary of the basic lawyering paradigm used in the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at Columbia Law School?that all lawyering activities can be understood within the context of gathering, managing and presenting information. The second category of the paradigm is expanded upon to review the activity of managing knowledge. Then, knowledge management is positioned as the foundation for ?reflection in action,? a concept that has been widely recognized within clinical legal education.
What follows is to consider the A2J application as an example of an expert system. Then, finally, a brief case study is presented on how the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic used the A2J application in conjunction with partners in the New York Court system to address a pressing need on the part of pro se litigants.?

Johnson and Donnelly will expand on this article while presenting during the live, in-person symposium on June 15, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. For more information.

Throughout the next two weeks, as the live symposium approaches, the CALI Spotlight Blog will preview another symposium presentation each day:

• June 5, 2013: Marc Lauritsen, ?Liberty, Justice, and Legal Automata?
• June 6, 2013: William E. Hornsby, Jr., ?Gaming the System: Approaching 100% Access to Legal Services Through Online Games?
• June 7, 2013: Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, ?If Only We Knew What We Know?
• June 8, 2013: Richard S. Granat and Stephanie Kimbro, ?The Teaching of Law Practice Management and Technology in Law Schools: A New Paradigm?
• June 10, 2013: Oliver R. Goodenough, ?Developing an e-Curriculum: Reflections on the Future of Legal Education and on the Importance of Digital Expertise?
• June 11, 2013: Tanina Rostain, Roger Skalbeck and Kevin Mulcahy, ?Thinking Like a Lawyer, Designing Like an Architect: PReparing Students for the 21st Century Practice?
• June 12, 2013: Ronald W. Staudt and Andrew P. Medeiros, ?Access to Justice and Technology Clinics: A 4% Solution?
• June 13, 2013: Hybrid Courses of the A2J Clinic Project
  • Tanina Rostain & Roger Skalbeck, Technology, Innovation and Law Practice: An Experiential Seminar at Georgetown University Law Center
  • Judith Wegner, Becoming a Professional at UNC School of Law
  • Sunrise Ayers, A2J Clinic at Concordia University School of law

• June 14, 2013: Traditional Clinical Courses of the A2J Clinic Project
  • Conrad Johnson, Mary Zulack & Brian Donnelly, Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at Columbia Law School
  • Joe Rosenberg, Main Street Legal Services, Elder Law Clinic at CUNY School of Law
  • JoNel Newman & Melissa Swain, Medical Legal Clinic at University of Miami School of Law

• June 15, 2013: Kevin D. Ashley, ?Teaching Law and Digital Age Legal Practice with an AI and Law Seminar;? and Vern R. Walker et al, ?Law Schools as Knowledge Centers in the Digital Age?

Professor Ashley and Professor Walker are unable to attend the in-person symposium on June 15, 2013, but their valuable contributions will be published with the printed edition of the Chicago-Kent Law Review that accompanies the live symposium.

Source: http://www.cali.org/blog/2013/06/07/if-only-we-knew-what-we-know-conrad-johnson-brian-donnelly

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Joe Francis Convicted of Assault, False Imprisonment

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