Jeb Bush Adds 'Immigrants Are More Fertile' to Reform Debate

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ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a gathering of Christian conservatives this morning that he was "sick to my stomach" about the slow pace of the U.S. economic recovery and outlined a four-point plan for speeding it up.

Among the points was immigration overhaul. And one of Bush's arguments in discussing his support for the Senate's version: "Immigrants are more fertile."

"Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans," Bush declared at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington. "Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity."

Indeed, the argument about the fertility rate of immigrants has gained traction among some conservatives. And President Obama's outgoing chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Alan Krueger, said at a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event earlier this year: "Given current trends, nearly all of the growth of the nation's working-age population in the next 40 years will be accounted for by immigrants and their children."

Bush, a potential 2016 Republican presidential contender, also touted his support for immigration overhaul Thursday at a Bipartisan Policy Center panel. But he found himself at odds at today's event with fellow Republican Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman and 2012 presidential hopeful who urged other members of her party to take a go-slow approach.

Bachmann, who recently announced she would forgo a re-election campaign next year, cautioned that immigration overhaul was making its way through Congress with "breathtaking speed." And although she insisted that she was not delivering an "anti-immigrant speech," she warned that amnesty "will cost a fortune."

Speakers at the three-day Faith and Freedom gathering addressed a wide range of issues, including Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul's Thursday lament about the persecution of Christians around the world, former Sen. Pennsylvania Rick Santorum's assessment of what went wrong for Republicans during the 2012 election cycle, and Rep. Paul Ryan's values-based appeal today.

"Faith isn't a Christmas ornament," the 2012 vice presidential nominee told the audience. "It's not something that you take out on a seasonal basis."

As Republicans grapple with an internal tug-of-war on the direction of the party, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed pushed back on what he called the "emerging consensus that we're the problem."

When it comes to opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage, Reed argued, "We cannot and we will not be silent - not now, not ever - because our faith requires us to speak to it."

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Man dies during protest in Turkey

A protester holds a Turkish flag decorated with the image of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during clashes near Taksim Square in Istanbul, late Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

A protester holds a Turkish flag decorated with the image of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during clashes near Taksim Square in Istanbul, late Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Protesters sit on top of a damaged mini bus during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

A protester holds a placard that reads " Police, How we will forgive you? " during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, early Tuesday , June 4, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Protesters carry a piece of wood to form a barricade near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Monday, June 3, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

A protester with a plastic wrap on her head stands next to a barricade during clashes in Istanbul early Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Turkish riot police launched round after round of tear gas against protesters on Monday, the fourth day of violent demonstrations, as the president and the prime minister staked competing positions on the unrest. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the protesters' demands that he resign and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition. President Abdullah Gul, for his part, praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? A 22-year-old man died during an anti-government protest in a city near the border with Syria and officials gave conflicting reports on what caused his death, as hundreds of riot police backed by water cannons deployed around the prime minister's office in the capital Tuesday.

Thousands have joined anti-government rallies across Turkey since Friday, when police launched a pre-dawn raid against a peaceful sit-in protesting plans to uproot trees in Istanbul's main Taksim Square. Since then, the demonstrations by mostly secular-minded Turks have spiraled into Turkey's biggest anti-government disturbances in years, and have spread to many of the biggest cities.

The Hatay province governor's office said the man, Abdullah Comert, died in a hospital after he was shot Monday during a demonstration in the city of Antakya. It suggested, however, that he may have been shot by demonstrators trying to inflame tensions, saying police had been fired on during the protest.

But the province's chief prosecutor said that an autopsy showed Comert received a blow to the head and there was no trace of a gunshot wound. It said authorities had launched an investigation into the death.

Clashes continued late into the night Monday in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities, as people voice their discontent with the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish Human Rights Association said some 3,300 people nationwide were detained during four days of protests, although most had since been released. At least 1,300 people were injured, the group said, although it said the true figures were difficult to come by.

On Tuesday, hundreds of riot police backed by water cannons were stationed around Ankara's main square near the prime minister's office.

In an attempt to defuse the tensions, President Abdullah Gul held a meeting in Ankara with the deputy prime minister, Bulen Arinc.

Gul has praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. Erdogan, meanwhile, has rejected the protesters' demands for his resignation and dismissed the demonstrations as the work of Turkey's opposition.

Gul and Erdogan could face off next year in Turkey's presidential election.

Associated Press

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Teeth unveil our ancestors' diet

4 June 2013 Last updated at 03:03 ET By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News

A new analysis of early human teeth from extinct fossils has found that they expanded their diets about 3.5 million years ago to include grasses and possibly animals.

Before this, humanlike creatures - or hominins - ate a forest-based diet similar to modern gorillas and chimps.

Researchers analysed fossilised tooth enamel of 11 species of hominins and other primates found in East Africa.

The findings appear in four papers published in PNAS journal.

Like chimpanzees today, many of our early human ancestors lived in forests and ate a diet of leaves and fruits from trees, shrubs and herbs.

But scientists have now found that this changed 3.5 million years ago in the species Australopithecus afarensis and Kenyanthropus platyops.

Their diet included grasses, sedges, and possibly animals that ate such plants. They also tended to live in the open savannahs of Africa.

The new studies show that they not only lived there, but began to consume progressively more foods from the savannahs.

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Australopithecus

• Australopithecus was the ape-man ancestor of humans and walked upright
• As many as nine different species may have existed two-four million years ago in Africa
• The males were up to twice the size of the females. However, even the largest male was quite short compared to modern humans, at only 150cm tall
• The species with hefty jaws and massive faces - known as robust australopithecines - are believed by many scientists to belong in a separate genus, Paranthropus

Source: BBC Nature

Researchers looked at samples from 175 hominins of 11 species, ranging from 1.4 to 4.1 million years old.

Their diet was analysed from the chemical make up of their teeth, identifying the carbon isotopes within them.

The ratios of different types of carbon atoms, or isotopes, in fossils can give clues to what a fossil creature ate because different foods have different carbon isotope signatures.

"What we have is chemical information on what our ancestors ate, which in simpler terms is like a piece of food item stuck between their teeth and preserved for millions of years," said Dr Zeresenay Alemseged, from the California Academy of Sciences, co-author on two of the papers.

"Because feeding is the most important factor determining an organism's physiology, behaviour and its interaction with the environment, these finds will give us new insight into the evolutionary mechanisms that shaped our evolution."

It is not yet clear whether the change in diet included animals, but "the possible diets of some of our hominin kin" has been considerably narrowed down, Dr Matt Sponheimer, lead author of another of the papers, told BBC News.

A new habitat

"We now have good evidence that some early hominins began using plant foods that are not used in abundance by living African apes today, and this probably led to a major change in the way they used the landscape.

"One consequence could be that the dietary expansion led to a habitat expansion, as they could travel to more open habitats more efficiently.

"We know that many early hominins lived in areas that would not have readily supported chimpanzees with their strong preference for forest fruits. It could also be argued that this dietary expansion was a key element in hominin diversification."

The study has also answered, at least in part, what researchers have long been speculating - how so many large species of primate managed to co-exist.

"They were not competing for the same foods," said Prof Thure Cerling from the University of Utah, who led one of the research papers.

'The modern human'

"All these species who were once in the human lineage, ventured out into this new world of foods 3.5 million years ago, but we don't yet understand why that is."

As well as looking at non-human primates, the researchers analysed fossils from other animals from the same era and did not find any evidence of a change in diet.

This combined research highlights a "step towards becoming the modern human", said Dr Jonathan Wynn from the University of South Florida, who led the analysis of Australopithecus afarensis.

"Exploring new environments and testing new foods, ultimately might be correlated with further changes in human history."

These four complementary studies give a persuasive account of shifts in dietary niche in East African hominins, Dr Louise Humphrey from the Natural History Museum in London, told BBC news.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22752937#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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What the New WWDC App Tells Us About iOS 7

Apple's new WWDC app, meant to guide developers through next week's mega-conference, is up in the App Store today. If you look closely, you can see bits of iOS 7 in it. While it's exceedingly easy to overvalue just how much this app means?Apple surely doesn't want to tip its hand before the event?there are still some obvious visual clues as to what awaits us in iOS as a whole. Let's take a look.

To start, it's flat. You've probably heard that Jony Ive is going to make iOS "flatter", and we've explained what that means a bit, but this is a very nice expression of what flattening means in the real world, with before-and-after examples. Here's an image of the last three WWDC apps, from 2011 through 2013, in order from left to right (hat tip to Twitter user Yuize):

See the differences? You probably notice the drop shadows are more restrained, with a tighter gradient. That's true across all of the UI elements, but in flat design, it becomes especially important when dealing with more than one layer, like when the schedule grid disappears under Date layer. This is more or less expected, since we knew "flat" was coming, but it's our first glimpse of what Apple's flat actually looks like. Which, it should be said, looks a lot like Google's.

A more subtle change, though, is the loss of the shadow around the selected icon along the bottom row. Now, instead of squaring off the whole button, the app just highlights the icon itself. iOS has always been a rather boxy, regimented UI, but this design is way more open, even within the confines of the app as it looked last year. Assumptions are obviously dangerous, but this could carry over to a more open-feeling iOS in general.

Other observations are tougher to put a finger on, because again, Apple isn't going to show the whole of its new design tenets in an app the week before its keynote. So things like the slightly clunkish filtering tool remaining intact, or ugly, ugly badges staying as they are, should be taken with a grain of salt. This is an appetizer; the main course comes June 10th.

Still, this peek at the broader picture of iOS 7 is encouraging. It only shows a small bit of what we expect to be an overhauled final product, but it looks as clean, crisp, and functional as we could have hoped for.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/what-the-new-wwdc-app-tell-us-about-ios-7-511115621

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UFC changes how it will test for marijuana

The UFC has decided to follow the lead of the World Anti-Doping Agency and change the way it tests fighters for marijuana. In international fights where the UFC acts as a commission, the detection levels will be at a higher threshold. The commission in Brazil has also decided to change its threshold, meaning that a fighter will have had to use more marijuana to come up positive.

Marc Ratner, the UFC vice president of regulatory affairs, spoke about the change at a meeting of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. According to MMA Junkie, he also encouraged the NSAC to change its levels. Currently, state commissions decide their own levels for fights. Nevada, however, is one of the leading states in regulating MMA. If it changes its threshold, other states would likely follow.

Recently, the UFC has had to deal with several fighters who tested positive for marijuana. Pat Healy lost $130,000 in bonuses to a positive test after UFC 159. Matt Riddle had two positives and was cut from the UFC after the second one. Alex Caceres also tested positive in March. With attitudes and laws changing in the United States about marijuana, fighters being punished for marijuana use made little sense.

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Obama?s Fight Song (Finally)

President Obama speaks during the nomination of Cornelia Pillard (right), Patricia Millett (second left), and Robert Wilkins (left) to fill the remaining vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit at the White House in Washington on June 4, 2013.

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Do you know the team chant ?Be Aggressive! B-E Aggressive! B-E-A-G-G ? ?? I hummed it as I watched President Obama announce that he is simultaneously lining up three nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This is an in-your-face response to Republican obstructionism. In other words, it?s totally unlike Obama, who has been especially slow to put up nominees for the appeals courts and the district courts. But at this moment in time, it is very much in his self-interest. The president needs these judges to cement his own legacy, since the D.C. Circuit is second in importance only to the Supreme Court.

Obama is also safeguarding the power the Constitution gives every president to select federal judges. It?s the Senate?s job to advise and consent, but that is not supposed to mean automatic stonewalling by the minority, which Republicans have done much of since Obama took office. It?s time to take the fight to them rather than sit back. Nominating three candidates at once makes the problem of judicial vacancies far more visible than it has been since Obama was elected. That should up the political price for GOP obstructionism. And it should also force Obama to put real political capital into shaping the courts. Plus this will be a great fight to watch?involving all the branches of government.

The D.C. Circuit had four open slots from 2006 (out of 11) until last month, when the Senate finally confirmed an Obama?s nominee, Sri Srinivasan, by a vote of 97?0. That came after the long and bitter filibuster of Obama?s first pick, Caitlin Halligan. With Srinivasan on the bench, there are four judges chosen by Democratic presidents, four chosen by Republicans, and six more senior judges who also hear cases. Five of those senior judges were chosen by Republicans (in fact, 15 of the past 19 vacancies have been filled by GOP presidents, according to Nan Aron of the liberal court-watching group the Alliance for Justice). The D.C. Circuit hears cases in panels of three. Because the senior judges pick up a sizable share of the workload, ?almost 80 percent of the panels in 2013 were composed of exclusively or a majority of Republicans,? Moshe Marvit writes in Dissent. ?The results of this partisan court are not surprising. Many of the D.C. Circuit?s recent decisions have skewed heavily to the right.?

?Republicans have effectively transformed the court, which now provides a second shot for Republicans to overturn and amend legislation and regulations, into an alternate route to defeat government regulations. What we?re witnessing is a spectacular power grab by conservative legislators.?

How has this happened? The D.C. Circuit includes committed conservative old-timers like Judge David Sentelle, and it also has three George W. Bush appointees?Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Judge Thomas Griffith, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh?who are also hard-core conservatives. Rogers Brown has hailed the supposed virtues of the Lochner era?the discredited period in the early 20^th century when the Supreme Court struck down legislation that protected workers, including child labor laws. Here?s a classic line from Brown about her worldview: ?Civil society, once it grows addicted to redistribution, changes its character and comes to require the state to feed its habit.?

Brown?s extreme views were clear when Bush chose her. Senate Democrats agreed to put her on the bench as part of a 2005 deal that staved off Republican threats to kill the filibuster. The basic compromise between the two sides was that senators agreed to only filibuster judicial nominees under ?extraordinary circumstances.? The Democrats did invent the D.C. Circuit filibuster when they blocked the nomination of Miguel Estrada in 2003. And 11 appeals court nominations were left hanging when Bush left office. But Bush also succeeded in confirming 62 judges to the appeals courts and 261 judges to the district courts. Obama, by comparison, has 36 appellate judges and 155 district court judges so far. (The waiting time between Senate Judiciary Committee approval and a floor vote has vastly increased, but Obama also is also to blame for a slew of vacancies waiting for nominees.)

The upshot is this: Republicans both appoint and block more judges because they appreciate the power of the courts. Their base understands how much the third branch matters, from gun laws to abortion to curbing pollution to immigration and financial reform. Obama has been mostly passive and dilatory until now because the politics didn?t dictate otherwise. Now that he?s taken on the D.C. Circuit, he?s come up with three nominees who easily pass the bar as well-qualified jurists. They are not the lefty equivalents of Janice Rogers Brown but to varying degrees have liberal credentials.

The one with the most centrist record is Patricia Millett, a partner at Akin Gump who worked in the solicitor general?s office for both Clinton and Bush and has represented the pro-business?and brief-filing powerhouse?U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Cornelia Pillard?who goes by Nina?is a Georgetown law professor who worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and won a feminist victory in the Supreme Court case that enabled women to enter the Virginia Military Institute. She has support from labor. As an academic, she also has a paper trail the right will surely scrutinize. The third nominee, Robert Wilkins, is a judge on the D.C. District Court, which means he has already been confirmed once, in 2010. In 1993, interestingly, Wilkins was the plaintiff in a suit brought by the ACLU alleging that the Maryland police were pulling people over for driving while black?searching and detaining them on the basis of race. The suit led to a settlement in which the state police agreed to collect data on traffic stops and make changes to address racial profiling. A judge ruled that the state wasn?t keeping its promise, and litigation continued until 2008.

To game out what happens next, here are three possibilities. First, Republicans could hang tough and filibuster all three of these people. I?m not sure how they can argue that they?re all ?extraordinary,? but hey, their base will applaud whatever rationale they come up with. Obstructionism doesn?t have much mainstream appeal, though, so the senators from purple states, at least, should feel some heat. A second possibility: Republicans target one of the three (or maybe two, if the president seems to go soft) and let the others through. And the third option is that GOP stonewalling finally pushes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to smash the filibuster to bits, or at least blunt its power to kill the president?s judicial and Cabinet nominees. I?d say the second outcome is the most likely. But the third would be the best fireworks.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/06/barack_obama_judicial_nominees_the_president_named_three_people_to_the_u.html

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Wikipad's $249 Android Gaming Tablet Will (Finally) Make Its U.S. Debut On June 11

Remember the Wikipad? The Android-powered gaming tablet/hefty controller rig combo that was supposed to launch in 2012 before suffering delay after delay? Well, the wait is just about over -- the company announced earlier today that the $249 gaming tablet will be available on U.S. store shelves starting on June 11, and that a global launch is being prepped for the summer.

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