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Manage Stress & Better Y??r Health
Depression, negative emotions ?n? stress take a toll ?n ???r mental wellbeing b?t ???? h??? a significant detrimental effect ?n ???r overall physical health. Here ?r? four ways ??? ??n better manage ???r emotions ?n? improve ???r health.

Emotions play a role ?n health

According t? Dr Lauri Grossman DC CCH, RSHom(NA), a N?w York based physician, although heart disease ?? quite common ?n today?s world, ?t w?? a medical rarity before th? 1900?s. S?n?? th?t early period ?f ??r country?s history, ?t h?? become increasingly apparent th?t emotional well-being plays a major role ?n th? health ?f th? heart.

?If women w?r? empowered t? better deal w?th stress, th? incidence ?f heart disease w???? drop significantly,? ???? Dr Grossman, wh? specializes ?n integrative medicine.
Emotional duress h?rt? th? heart

Wh?n a person ?? struggling w?th depression, grief, ?n? loss, heart disease increases f?r two primary reasons, according Dr Grossman.

First, depressed people ?ft?n ?t?? caring f?r themselves ?n? exhibit unhealthy behaviors, such ?? poor eating, lack ?f exercise, ?n? n?t getting adequate sleep. Over time, th?? lack ?f self-care b???n? t? take a physical toll.

Second, wh?n a woman ?? dealing w?th various negative emotions, arteriosclerosis, ?r thickening ?f th? inside walls ?f th? coronary arteries, ??n occur. It ?? th? thickening ?f th??? walls th?t eventually ??n ???w down ?r block th? flow ?f blood t? th? heart ?n? brain th?t ??n th?n lead t? a heart attack ?r stroke.

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Managing stress ?n? emotions ?? key t? health

More ?n? more research indicates th?t managing stress ??n improve health ?n? reduce a person?s risk ?f chronic illnesses, such ?? heart disease.

Dr Grossman ????, ?Women wh? h??? th? tools t? deal w?th sadness ?n? depression h??? better heart health.? Sh? suggests four ?h??? yourself? tips: yoga, venting, helping others ?n? homeopathic support.

4 Ways t? manage stress
1. Yoga ?n? meditation

Even th? m??t skeptical individual w??? feel more ?t ease ?ft?r trying a program ?f yoga ?n? daily meditation. According t? Dr Grossman, th? simple exercise ?f purposefully slowing down ?n? disciplining one?s mind ?n? body ???? wonders. Meditating itself brings a calming sense ?f clarity ?n? focus th?t spills over ?nt? th? rest ?f th? day?s activities.

2. Talk ?b??t ?t

Wh?n a woman joins a support group ?n? ??n express h?r h?n??t cares ?n? concerns ?n a safe environment, h?r stress levels drop. Th?? factor alone ??n reduce th? risk ?f heart attack ?r prevent a second one fr?m happening. Emotional camaraderie counts ?? one ?f th? strongest ?medicines? around ?n? ?t?s ???? cost effective!

3. Lend a helping hand

Many women find th?t b? helping others less fortunate th?n themselves, th?? ?r? better ?b?? t? ??t ?? ?f th??r loss ?n? lessen those ??? t?? intense emotions. Keep ?t simple. H??? prepare meals ?n a soup kitchen, volunteer ?n a hospital ?r school. Offer ???r talents (?r ???t a listening ear) t? th? seniors ?t a community center. If ??? ??n cook, act, sing ?r garden, th?n someone out th?r? ??n benefit. Search f?r th? ????? wh?r? ???r skills ?n? another?s need connect.

4. Homeopathic remedies f?r grief

Homeopathic medicines ?r? ???-natural remedies th?t ??n provide tremendous emotional relief ?n? support f?r th? grief ?n? sorrow stricken individual. Dr Grossman ????, ?M??t women wh? suffer fr?m intense feelings ?f sadness w??? discover th??r symptoms ?ft?n lessening significantly within days, ?n? sometimes even hours, ?ft?r treatment.?

See a professional homeopath f?r directions ?n incorporating th??? medicines ?? ??rt ?f ???r self-care:

Ignatia eases th? sadness th?t comes ?n immediately ?ft?r a loss, especially wh?n ?t ?? accompanied b? uncontrollable ?r??n? ?r mood swings.
Aurum metallicum ?? helpful f?r th? woman wh? feels ??k? things ?r? hopeless. Sh? frequently pushes herself beyond wh?t ?? reasonable ?n? becomes overly serious ?n h?r thinking.
Natrum muriaticum ?? recommended wh?n a person w?nt? t? withdraw ?ft?r a loss ?n? holds h?r emotions ?n instead ?f letting th?m out.

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A Porn Star Isn't Your Friend If You Are Paying Her to Be Your Friend

Having accomplished its goal of turning every teenager on Earth into a sext-crazed fiend, social media is now having its way with the adult film industry. According to a piece that Aurora Snow wrote for the Daily Beast, social media has revolutionized the porn industry by facilitating new relationships between porn "superfans" and the porn stars they idolize. At an increasing rate, adult film performers are turning to private webcam shows, either to supplement their income or as a replacement job. And, according to Snow, their devoted fans are following them:

Superfans are willing to go the extra mile, shelling out hard-earned cash for a girl they have never met and most likely never will, but they hand over their earnings regardless. It's a new kind of relationship.

Fans pay for one-on-one time with their performers of choice, and the truly devoted tend to get even more involved. It's not uncommon for "superfans" to ply their favorite cam girls with gifts and "financial contributions."

On one hand, this "new kind of relationship" is sort of progressive, as it allows women in the adult industry to have greater agency and to make their own decisions regarding how they're presented. Ruby Knox, an adult film star who made the switch to webcam shows, decided to do so because she felt that "the industry was incorrectly dictating what type of persona I was exemplifying." As a "cam girl," she's capable of controlling every aspect of how she presents herself, which a significant and empowering change.

However, the relationship between a paying superfan and the cam girl of his choice is immensely complicated and pretty problematic. Although, on the surface level, it may seem like straightforward transaction, it's rife with unspoken expectations. Snow addresses this problem, and then quickly backtracks:

Superfans who are buying relationships with gifts, financial contributions, or their regular cam sessions stand out and the objects of their affection begin to take notice. Suddenly, there is more of an obligation to answer the superfan?s emails, to want to please back by filming the kinds of scenes he wants to see. While the generosity is appreciated (who doesn't love gifts?), fans don't have to buy our attention just to be heard.

The superfan is not simply paying a cam girl to talk to him, and he's not just paying her to perform sexual activities on camera: he's paying her to act out his fantasies in a way that masquerades as a normal relationship or friendship. If a fan is paying a performer's bills and buying her expensive gifts regularly, there's a great amount of financial pressure on her to behave in ways that please him specifically. Although it's true that fans don't have to buy attention, those fans who do buy attention end up with an uncomfortable amount of control over their favorite performer. Take the case of Nick, for example:

Nick, a superfan visionary, invested time, money, and patience into one of his favorite porn star's careers. "I spent a certain amount of money every month for two years on a certain porn star to invest in her career, so she could pay her bills and had regular money,? he said. ?I presume it was like an investment: she had regular money coming in every month so she could plan for that." Tired of the monotonous content, Nick's goal was to help create better porn from afar, and he was willing to pay for it in an unconventional way. "I became a solid partner in her career; we discussed concepts and companies for her to work for."

It's not difficult to argue that paying all of someone's bills and then telling her what career decisions to make is an act of financial coercion. It's misleading of Nick to claim that he's a "solid partner" in her career if she depends on him to support herself. If her livelihood depends on keeping him happy ? as an individual, not as someone who belongs to the generalized category of "fan" ? then there's no way that the two can be on equal footing, even if Nick does believe that he has her best interests at heart.

Furthermore, by weakening the boundary between fantasy and reality, the superfan-cam girl relationship causes men to conflate the two and promotes an unhealthy view of gender relations. For instance, one man, Brent, sees himself as being in a relationship with three webcam girls at the same time. ?I do everything I can to make them happy," he claims. "I spend just as much time and money on them as I would a girlfriend, and we never fight." Wow, Brent, your three girlfriends sound so cool! I'm sure it's just a coincidence that you're paying them to behave however you desire! While Brent has tried actual dating, according to the article, "he prefers his hassle-free relationships with his favorite cam girls." It's fine to see paying for webcam sex as a hobby, but when it becomes a viable model ? or a seemingly acceptable replacement ? for a real relationship, then it becomes troubling.

While it's admirable (and deeply necessary) for women in porn to assert their individual interest and make their own decisions, this is not a real solution to the systematic problems that plague the industry. Because this type of relationship serves as a continuation of the belief that women exist to act out men's fantasies, it's not liberatory. Furthermore, it doesn't really provide women with financial freedom: it merely provides them with another source of income that's centered around male desire. It's completely fine for women in porn to engage in relationships like this if they so choose, but to depict the extreme variations of this strange power dynamic as 'fun, normal friendships plus presents plus a little bit of superfan input!' is misleading and wrong.

"Porn Superfans: Aurora Snow on the Relationship Between Cam Girls and Their Fans" [Daily Beast]

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Belkin's Thunderbolt Express dock is finally shipping, offers its ports for $299

Remember the Belkin Thunderbolt Express dock that we first laid our peepers on back at CES 2012? Well, the device that looks to lend a hand to your desktop setup is now available. After upgrading the unit back in the summer of 2012, pre-orders went live in February with a ship date expected shortly thereafter. No word on the cause of the delay, but the $299 dock still offers dual Thunderbolt ports for daisy-chaining up to five gadgets, FireWire 800, Ethernet, and both 3.5mm audio input and output. If the wait hasn't swayed your interest, grab one immediately via the source link below, and in stores before the end of May.

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Rugged Johnson gives Hawks hope against Pacers

ATLANTA (AP) ? When Ivan Johnson is banging around in the lane and staring down opponents, the Atlanta Hawks are a different team.

They hope the bearded, bruising forward can keep it up in Game 4 of the playoffs against the Indiana Pacers.

While Al Horford was the star of Atlanta's Game 3 rout, it was Johnson who set the physical tone the Hawks so desperately needed after losing the first two games in Indianapolis. He played more than 26 minutes off the bench, scoring seven points, grabbing seven rebounds and picking up five fouls in 90-69 blowout.

"The thing that frustrates the opposition more than anything is the fact that this kid plays hard," coach Larry Drew said Sunday, when both teams practiced at Philips Arena to prepare for Game 4. "He doesn't take possessions off. He will stand up to any challenge, whoever he has to defend. He's a physical, rugged player. A lot of guys don't like playing against guys like that."

Johnson isn't exactly a kid, even though this is just his second year in the league. The 29-year-old has a notorious temper, which resulted in a lifetime ban from the South Korean league for flashing an obscene gesture during a playoff game, and it took a long time before any NBA team was willing to take a chance on him.

The Hawks are glad they did, though Johnson has struggled at times to keep his emotions in check. He was sent home last season for conduct detrimental to the team and, judging by the ominous stare he flashes anytime things don't go his way, he always seems on the verge of crossing the line again.

"The unfortunate thing about Ivan is he has a little bit of a reputation," Drew said. "If he can work at it hard enough, he can shake that. He's just too skilled. A big guy, with his size, with his ability and his mobility, he frustrates a lot of people. He knows how to play. He's got a good knack for the game."

Johnson's defensive presence helped free up Horford to focus more on the offensive end. He responded with 26 points, along with 16 rebounds, as the Hawks built a commanding 24-point lead by halftime and were never seriously threatened.

Atlanta will try to even the best-of-seven series at two wins apiece on Monday night.

The Hawks hope to stick with the lineup that worked so well in their victory ? 7-footer Johan Petro starting at center, with Horford moving to power forward and Josh Smith shifting down to small forward.

Petro missed practice Sunday, returning home to Miami to be with his wife during the birth of their child. She was scheduled to deliver in time for her husband to get back to Atlanta for Game 4.

The bigger lineup ? 3-point specialist Kyle Korver came off the bench ? allowed the Hawks to match up much better with the Pacers at both ends of the court. Guarded by Smith, Paul George was held to 16 points after averaging 25 in the first two games. Indiana's 7-2 center, Roy Hibbert, managed just 8 points after scoring 15.5 per contest in Indiana.

"The whole thing helped us size-wise," Horford said. "We were able to get Petro in there, which made an impact on Hibbert. Then Ivan came in and did the same. They freed me up to get more offensive minded. It just goes hand in hand."

The Pacers turned in a stunningly poor performance after playing so well on their home court, where they averaged 110 points and a 16-point margin of victory. They shot just 27 percent (22 of 81) and turned the ball over 22 times, leading to 24 Atlanta points.

"We really just beat ourselves," George said. "We've got to play tougher and with more of an edge."

Indiana made four of its first six shots, building an 8-1 lead that prompted Drew to call a timeout less than 3 minutes into the game. After that, it was all Hawks. The Pacers missed 30 of their next 36 attempts, trailed 54-30 at halftime, and matched the lowest-scoring first half in the franchise's playoff history.

"Shots weren't falling, but we allowed those shots not to fall," George said. "We weren't aggressive. We weren't taking up our own air space. They were making us catch the ball where they wanted. We really weren't fighting for spots."

If Petro isn't available for Game 4, the Hawks will be in a bit of predicament. The 6-foot-8 Johnson could get the start at center, allowing Horford and Smith to stay in the roles that worked so well Saturday.

Then again, Drew prefers to use Johnson as a backup.

"I don't want to disrupt that," the coach said. "He's done such a good job bringing us energy off the bench. I would hate to lose that if I put him in the starting lineup."

Johnson will accept whatever role he's given.

"I'm just trying to make my presence felt," he told reporters after the game. "That's a matter of being a big man. We've got to throw our bodies around to get what we want."

The Pacers know they'll have to contend with Johnson if they want to regain control of the series.

"He's a great energy guy, a guy that just constantly battles," George said. "He's an emotional player. The whole team feeds off his energy and his motor."

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Obama's Amazing Speech (and Why You Probably Missed It)

After quoting Marx ("Groucho, not Karl?) to squeeze one last laugh out of the White House Correspondents? Association Dinner, President Obama abruptly stopped joking. Hundreds of politicians, celebrities, journalists, and corporate sponsors fell silent as he dropped a 607-word morality bomb: ?We can do better,? Obama told the elites.

?If we?re only focused on profits or ratings or polls,? he admonished an audience focused on profits, ratings, and polls, ?then we?re contributing to the cynicism that so many people feel right now.?

The last quarter of Obama?s remarks Saturday night received little coverage from media organizations because reporters tend to be biased toward conflict and the familiar--in this case the president?s traditionally humorous and self-conscious monologue (?I?m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be?).?

But it may stand as one of the best rhetorical moments of Obama?s presidency, a clearheaded indictment of four national institutions (the media, the entertainment industry, big business, and the political system), coupled by a prescription for revival.

He started by reminding the well-fed and wine-soaked audience that it?s been a bad couple of weeks for their countrymen.

Obviously, there has been no shortage of news to cover over these past few weeks. And these have been some very hard days for too many of our citizens. Even as we gather here tonight, our thoughts are not far from the people of Boston and the people of West, Texas. There are families in the Midwest who are coping with some terrible floods. So we?ve had some difficult days.

Like any presidential address of note, Obama didn?t let spirits sag.

But even when the days seemed darkest, we have seen humanity shine at its brightest. We?ve seen first responders and National Guardsmen who have dashed into danger, law-enforcement officers who lived their oath to serve and to protect, and everyday Americans who are opening their homes and their hearts to perfect strangers.

And, like any decent presidential address, Obama pandered a bit. Remember, this was a dinner celebrating White House reporters.

And we also saw journalists at their best?especially those who took the time to wade upstream through the torrent of digital rumors to chase down leads and verify facts and painstakingly put the pieces together to inform, and to educate, and to tell stories that demanded to be told.

He didn?t need to tell the crowd that many news organizations reported inaccuracies about the Boston bombings. Nor did he mention the relatively little coverage given to regulatory failures in West Texas. With a nod to one newspaper and to NBC reporter Pete Williams?s impressively accurate coverage in Boston, Obama subtly reminded journalists that their industry is nothing without the public?s trust.

If anyone wonders, for example, whether newspapers are a thing of the past, all you needed to do was to pick up or log on to papers like the Boston Globe. When their communities and the wider world needed them most, they were there making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our comprehension. And that?s what great journalism is, and that's what great journalists do. And that?s why, for example, Pete Williams?s new nickname around the NBC newsroom is "Big Papi."

Obama happens to be president at a time when virtually all of the nation?s social institutions are losing the public?s trust and facing irrelevancy in the digital age. There are exceptions--the military, for example--and Americans are generous in their praise of those who serve causes greater than themselves.

And in these past few weeks, as I?ve gotten a chance to meet many of the first responders and the police officers and volunteers who raced to help when hardship hits, I was reminded, as I?m always reminded when I meet our men and women in uniform, whether they?re in war theater, or here back home, or at Walter Reed in Bethesda?I?m reminded that all these folks, they don?t do it to be honored, they don?t do it to be celebrated. They do it because they love their families and they love their neighborhoods and they love their country.

And so, these men and women should inspire all of us in this room to live up to those same standards; to be worthy of their trust; to do our jobs with the same fidelity, and the same integrity, and the same sense of purpose, and the same love of country. Because if we?re only focused on profits or ratings or polls, then we?re contributing to the cynicism that so many people feel right now. ?

Heads nodded in the audience. A woman sitting at a table next to me murmured, ?He went there. Good for him.? To some in his audience, anyway, Obama had struck a wellspring of guilt.

And so, those of us in this room tonight, we are incredibly lucky. And the fact is, we can do better?all of us. Those of us in public office, those of us in the press, those who produce entertainment for our kids, those with power, those with influence?all of us, including myself, we can strive to value those things that I suspect led most of us to do the work that we do in the first place?because we believed in something that was true, and we believed in service, and the idea that we can have a lasting, positive impact on the lives of the people around us.

"Including myself" implies that Obama realizes that his presidency falls short at times of its promise. Elected by voters who had the audacity to hope for change and unity, Obama is instead the third-straight president known more for polarization than unification.

And that?s our obligation. That?s a task we should gladly embrace on behalf of all of those folks who are counting on us; on behalf of this country that?s given us so much.

The audience rose, and a man near me shouted, ?Amen!?? It was time to hit the after-parties.

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Hillary Clinton's every public move generates buzz

NEW YORK (AP) ? Young supporters hold signs outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's speeches urging her to run for president. Audiences listen with rapt attention as she discusses the plight of women and girls in developing countries.

Even a long-expected book deal announcement generates lots of chatter.

Not long after Clinton stepped down as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, the "will she or won't she" question is already following her around like the activists who held dark blue "Ready for Hillary" signs outside speeches at the Kennedy Center in Washington and New York's Lincoln Center.

This past week, Clinton came off a two-month break with a soft roll-out of sorts. She gave her first two public speeches since leaving the State Department, released details of a book scheduled for June 2014 and plans to join an advisory board of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

The mere makings of a pubic schedule for the runner-up of the 2008 Democratic presidential race is enough to get political tongues wagging over what it all means for the 2016 campaign. The speeches and news coverage offered an early indication of some of what awaits her as she considers whether to seek the White House again in three years: adoring supporters young and old, former political advisers to her husband, Bill, begging her to run, and potential rivals sizing her up.

Tina Brown, editor in chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, which sponsored the meeting where Clinton spoke Friday, captured the buzz when introducing her.

"Of course," Brown said, "the big question now about Hillary is, what's next?" That elicited loud cheers ? but no answer from the woman beside her on the stage.

Clinton avoided presidential politics, devoting a half-hour speech at the annual Women in the World conference in New York to the status of women across the globe.

Pointing to the U.S., she said America's position as a world leader demands that it devote full attention to empowering women to participate in the economy and society fully. She called for equal pay for women, allowing women to take advantage of family and medical leave from their jobs and encouraging women and girls to pursue careers in math and science.

"This truly is the unfinished business of the 21st century, and it is the work we are called to do," Clinton said. "I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead. Let's keep fighting for opportunity and dignity."

The 65-year-old former first lady has said she has no plans to pursue the White House again but has refrained from ruling anything out. That's the standard disclaimer of people who very often decide to make such plans later, or sometimes don't.

Many Democrats view her as a worthy successor to Obama, with whom she waged a fierce struggle for the party's nomination in 2008. Her popularity soared as secretary of state, although that may have been in part because she cast aside the sharp brand of politics that made her a polarizing figure at times in the past, in favor of diligent diplomacy.

Some Clinton loyalists have tried to tamp down the speculation, noting that the last presidential election was only six months ago. But James Carville, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, signed on with the Ready for Hillary political action committee on Thursday, urging supporters to help lay the groundwork for a Clinton campaign. Carville said the "enthusiasm and hunger" for a Clinton presidency was "unlike anything I've ever seen."

"It isn't worth squat to have the fastest car at the racetrack if there ain't any gas in the tank ? and that's why the work that Ready for Hillary PAC is doing is absolutely critical," Carville said. "We need to convert the hunger that's out there for Hillary's candidacy into a real grassroots organization."

Clinton is not expected to make a decision anytime soon and has outlined plans to write a memoir about her time at the State Department, advocate on behalf of women and girls and give speeches. With her book due out in the middle of 2014, she'll have an opportunity to travel the country in the months before the midterm elections.

Her biggest splash was her video announcement in support of gay marriage last month, a move that put her in line with most Democrats. Clinton had limited her comments on domestic policy as secretary of state and her departure has freed her to speak more openly about the issues.

Yet for the first time in 20 years, Clinton's schedule is open-ended. Her first paid speech will be April 24 in suburban Dallas, a day before she joins her husband Bill, Obama and political luminaries at the dedication of President George W. Bush's presidential library. Another paid speech in Grand Rapids, Mich., is on the books for June 17.

What remains clear is that until she makes a choice, her every word, appearance and association will be scrutinized. And she'll get plenty of encouragement.

About 50 young supporters, including many George Washington University students, gathered outside Clinton's first post-State Department speech at the annual Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards on Tuesday at the Kennedy Center. About a dozen Hillary backers gathered along Amsterdam Avenue for the New York speech. One of them, Aaron James Darr, a 22-year-old actor, held a homemade sign that showed Clinton's image in front of yellow and orange beams and proclaimed "Hillary 2016."

"I've been waiting for five years ? all of us have been waiting for five years," said Darr. He recently formed a Broadway for Hillary 2016 group and said he wants to plan a "flash mob" in Times Square with supporters holding Hillary signs.

Democrats see Clinton in a uniquely powerful spot and are willing to wait ? for now.

"It's the most enviable position to be in because all you have to do is breathe the air every day," said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist who advised her husband's presidential campaign. "What political figure has that luxury?"

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House group finalizing immigration bill

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A group of Republicans and Democrats in the House is finalizing a sweeping immigration bill that offers work permits and the eventual prospect of citizenship to millions of people living illegally in the United States, aides say. That path to citizenship, however, is likely to take at least 15 years for many, longer than envisioned by Senate immigration negotiators or by President Barack Obama.

The secretive House effort, which also aims to further tighten the border against foreigners crossing illegally into the U.S. and crack down on employers who hire them, has been overshadowed by the bipartisan negotiations in the Senate, which is expected to act first on immigration legislation. But it's an important indication that a number of lawmakers, including Republicans, in the conservative-dominated House want to have a say in crafting a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration law.

"We have legislative language that we'll be ready to go forward on, not concepts but actual language," Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, a leader of the group, said this week on "Capital Tonight," a program on cable news channel YNN in Central Texas.

Without revealing details, Carter said the bill should be ready to be released in the next week or two and would address worker visas and the status of the 11 million immigrants who either arrived in the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas.

"We will have a very, very comprehensive bill that will do a great job in addressing these issues and others," he said.

The Senate bill also is expected to be released as early as next week.

According to two House aides with knowledge of the talks, the House bill will offer a couple of possible solutions for those here illegally. Those brought to the country as young children would be able to seek citizenship relatively quickly. People working in agriculture would also get a particular path toward legalization, a distinction also made in the Senate bill.

The millions of other people here illegally would be able ? after paying fines and back taxes and getting a criminal background check ? to get a basic work permit, which would be renewable. After 10 years, they could get a green card. Under current law, green card holders can petition for citizenship after five years ? three if they're married to a U.S. citizen ? and that would likely apply to green card holders under the House bill, too.

That's a longer path to citizenship for most than the process expected from the Senate bill, which envisions a 10-year path to a green card but then only a three year wait for citizenship. Legislation drafted by the White House, which Obama has said he'll offer if the congressional process stalls, also has a 13-year path to citizenship.

The House bill would offer another option, too, the aides said. Current law requires people here illegally to return to their home countries for as long as 10 years before they can try to enter the U.S. legally. The House bill would likely allow people who came forward and acknowledged being present illegally to return to their home countries and try to come back legally, but without being subject to the lengthy waits. This could be an option for those with prospects of getting visas under existing law, such as family or employment ties.

House members are reviewing an agreement between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO on a new low-skilled worker visa that will be part of the Senate bill, to see if it might fit in their legislation, too.

One House aide said the House bill is similar to the Senate version in requiring that a series of border security requirements be met before allowing immigrants to begin moving toward legal permanent residence. A largely voluntary electronic system that employers can use to verify the legal status of their workers, called E-Verify, would be made mandatory.

The House bill would place a strong emphasis on the importance of upholding the law, an aspect pushed by Republicans in the group, and illegal immigrants could be required to go through a legal proceeding to highlight that they broke the law, aides said.

The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because there had been no public announcement.

Overall, the aim is to satisfy House Republicans who insist that immigrants here illegally not get a special path to citizenship ahead of anyone attempting the process legally ? while also meeting the concerns of Democrats who want to ensure that citizenship ultimately is widely available.

"The good news is that the Democratic bottom line and the Republican bottom line have a lot of overlap," Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., another member of the group, wrote in an opinion piece in the Orange County (Calif.) Register recently. "There is a lot of room between not preventing citizenship and not giving newly legalized immigrants a special path to citizenship. I think we will be able to find the sweet spot where neither side will be overjoyed, but each side will be satisfied."

The House group, which has a core of four Republicans and four Democrats, has been meeting off and on for years but members have kept the talks quiet, much more so than their Senate counterparts. Even now as they near a public unveiling and have briefed House leaders in both parties, lawmakers involved will say little about their deliberations. Carter said that was because "we didn't want outside influences pulling on the committee group."

Other group members on the Democratic side include Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Xavier Becerra of California and John Yarmuth of Kentucky. On the Republican side, they're Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Sam Johnson of Texas and Raul Labrador of Idaho.

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Mars sand dunes may hint at water beneath

The discovery, based on research in Alaska, opens a window on processes at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / March 30, 2013

Dunes spanning an area about the size of Texas in the Martian equivalent of the Arctic.

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Shifting dunes on Mars, especially those near the planet's north pole, may harbor layers of liquid water not far beneath their ice-encrusted surfaces.

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That is the implication of studies of sand dunes in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park, some 380 miles northwest of Fairbanks. There, above the Arctic Circle, researchers using the dunes as stand-ins for dunes on Mars have found evidence for liquid water trapped between the dunes' icy winter coat and subsurface layers of ice or freeze-dried silt that form a temporary, cement-like barrier that prevents the water from percolating deeper into the dune.

The water remains liquid because it exists in an environment of temperature and pressure that allows liquid water, ice, and water vapor to exist side by side.

The discovery of this seasonal mechanism for storing liquid water on Mars-like features at Mars-like temperatures opens a window on processes that could have been at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.

?And it could help explain debris flows scientists have spotted on sunlit sections of crater and canyon walls in various locations around the planet.

"Mars has likely had active sand dunes during every geologic era, and some of these eras were warmer and wetter than Mars is today," notes Cynthia Dinwiddie, a researcher with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.

"There is some possibility that equivalent processes are currently occurring on Mars," primarily in dune fields in Mars' equivalent of the Arctic, she writes in an email. Still, "the likelihood is even greater that equivalent processes occurred on ancient Mars."

The dune field in Alaska that Dr. Dinwiddie and Southwest Research Institute colleague Don Hooper study sits on the boundary between boreal forests to the south and Arctic tundra to the north. Known as the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field, the sands were first formed during ice ages that occurred between 300,000 and 130,000 years ago.

Glaciers sculpted the Brooks Range to the north and left the sandy debris in the Kobuk River Valley. There, wind, meltwater, and more-recent ice ages would continue to rework the material to leave some 24 square miles of mobile dunes on the surface and another 250 square miles of sandy soils that don't get around much anymore.

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Six more diagnosed with new bird flu in China

By Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News

Six?more people have been diagnosed with a new strain of bird flu in China ,?officials said, and one of them has died, bringing the death toll from the new outbreak to three.

That makes nine human cases of H7N9 bird flu, all in the eastern part of the country around Shanghai. This is a different strain of bird flu from H5N1 avian influenza, which has killed 371 people out of 622 infected in 15 countries since 2003.

The new cases are reported in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, including a woman in Nanjing who works killing poultry. All are in critical condition, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua. It quotes officials as saying more than 300 people who were in close contact with?the six new victims don?t appear to have any flu symptoms.

That suggests -- but doesn?t prove -- that the virus isn?t passing from person to person.

The World Health Organization says genetic studies suggest the virus has mutated slightly, to make it more easily able to infect mammals, including humans.

On Sunday, China reported three H7N9 bird flu infections: two in Shanghai and one in Anhui. The two Shanghai victims died and the third patient is in critical condition, Xinhua says. There?s no suggestion yet that they infected any of their friends or relatives, either, Chinese officials have said.

"These are the first reported cases of A(H7N9) in humans. That makes it a unique event, which the World Health Organization is taking seriously," WHO said in a statement posted on its website. "WHO is working closely with the national authorities to better understand the situation and will communicate important updates as they become available."

Other H7 type viruses have infected people on very rare occasions, WHO says.

"From 1996 to 2012, human infections with H7 influenza viruses (H7N2, H7N3, and H7N7) were reported in Netherlands, Italy, Canada, USA, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Most of these infections occurred in association with poultry outbreaks," WHO said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday.

"The infections mainly resulted in conjunctivitis and mild upper respiratory symptoms, with the exception of one death, which occurred in the Netherlands. Until now, no human infections with H7 influenza viruses have been reported in China."

Doctors keep a very close eye on cases of animal flu that pass into humans. Seasonal flu causes an annual pandemic that kills tens of thousands of people globally every year. But if a new virus starts passing from animals to humans, it can cause far more serious disease.

For instance, H5N1 kills about 60 percent of the people it infects. Luckily, it doesn?t pass easily from person to person, either, and most people who got it appear to have been directly infected by sick chickens.

But flu can mutate very quickly and it?s possible that a bird or animal strain of flu could develop the ability to pass quickly from one person to another. H1N1 swine flu appears to have done this in 2009. It killed a greater than usual number of young adults and children that year, and has now joined the mix of annual human flu strains.

And H1N1 is an indirect descendant of the 1918 ?Spanish flu?, which killed anywhere between 50 million and 100 million people. So public health experts take the risk of another such pandemic seriously.

Chinese officials have not said what they are doing to see if the H7N9 virus is spreading among poultry flocks. H5N1 pops up among chickens regularly, forcing mass culls.

?Since its widespread re-emergence in 2003 and 2004, this avian virus has spread from Asia to Europe and Africa and has become entrenched in poultry in some countries, resulting in millions of poultry infections, several hundred human cases, and many human deaths,? the World Health Organization says.

?Outbreaks in poultry have seriously impacted livelihoods, the economy and international trade in affected countries.?

H5N1 infects ducks without causing any symptoms. As long as an influenza virus exists in an animal, it will be steadily mutating and also swapping genes with other viruses.

That?s what happened with H1N1 swine flu in 2009. It was a never-before-seen mixture of human, pig and bird viruses. It wasn?t nearly as deadly as other new flu viruses that cause pandemics, something that could lead people to believe that flu pandemics aren?t that big a deal. But H5N1 and H7N9 are completely new to the human body and appear to be more deadly than seasonal flu.

While there are vaccines against seasonal flu, there are only experimental human vaccines for H5N1 and none for H7N9. Flu mutates so quickly that it?s impossible to formulate vaccines until a strain is actually circulating. Researchers are working to develop a universal flu vaccine that could protect people against a range of strains, or even all strains of influenza.

But most types of flu, including H7N9,?appear to be helped at least a little by two antiviral drugs -- oseltamivir or Tamiflu, and zanamivir or Relenza. Neither is a cure, but given early enough can relieve the worst symptoms, WHO says.

Influenza A viruses are named based on two of their genes - the hemagglutinin, or H gene, and neuraminaiase, or N. Human seasonal flu has been?caused by H1N1, H3N2 and H2N2 type viruses, as well as influenza B.

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China bird flu mutates, might infect mammals

A woman and her daughter are frightened while ducks approach closely for food at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The bird virus also seems to have adapted to be able to be able to sicken mammals like pigs. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

A woman and her daughter are frightened while ducks approach closely for food at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The bird virus also seems to have adapted to be able to be able to sicken mammals like pigs. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

A woman feeds ducks while her boyfriend takes photos at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The bird virus also seems to have adapted to be able to be able to sicken mammals like pigs. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

A duck stands near a warning sign at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The bird virus also seems to have adapted to be able to be able to sicken mammals like pigs. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Ducks are fed by two tourists at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The virus also appears to have mutated into a form that enables it to more easily infect animals such as pigs, meaning they could serve as hosts that spread the virus more widely among humans. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Ducks swim near a warning sign at an amusement park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The virus also appears to have mutated into a form that enables it to more easily infect animals such as pigs, meaning they could serve as hosts that spread the virus more widely among humans. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

BEIJING (AP) ? In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists said Wednesday.

So far the flu has sickened nine people in China and killed three. It's not clear how they became infected, but there's no evidence that the virus is spreading easily among people.

But the virus can evidently move through poultry without making them sick, experts said, making it difficult to track the germ in flocks.

The findings are preliminary and need further testing.

In the wake of the illnesses, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention shared the genetic sequence of the H7N9 virus with other scientists to help study how the virus might behave in different animals and situations.

One scientist said the sequence raises concern about a potential global epidemic, but that it's impossible to give a precise estimate of how likely that is.

"At this stage it's still unlikely to become a pandemic," said Richard Webby, director of a World Health Organization flu center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

"We should be concerned (but) there's no alarm bells ringing yet," he said.

The virus has genetic markers that would help it infect people, Webby said. That makes him worry about a pandemic a bit more than he does for other bird flu viruses, such as the H5N1 virus that emerged a decade ago, he said.

"The tentative assessment of this virus is that it may cause human infection or epidemic," said Dr. Masato Tashiro, director of the WHO's influenza research center in Tokyo and one of the specialists who studied the genetic data, "It is still not yet adapted to humans completely, but important factors have already changed."

Flu viruses evolve constantly, and scientists say such changes have made H7N9 more capable of infecting pigs.

Pigs are a particular concern because bird and human flu viruses can mingle there, potentially producing a bird virus with heightened ability to spread between humans, said Dr. William Schaffner, a flu expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. That's what happened in 2009 with swine flu.

The scientists who inspected the genetic data also said that based on information from the genes and Chinese lab testing, the H7N9 virus appears able to infect some birds without causing any noticeable symptoms. Without obvious outbreaks of dying chickens or birds, authorities could face a challenge in trying to trace the source of the infection and stop the spread.

If there are no obvious symptoms in birds or pigs "nobody recognizes the infection in animals around them. Then the transmission from animal to human may occur," Tashiro said. "In terms of this phenomenon, it's more problematic."

This behavior is unlike the virulent H5N1 strain, which set off warnings when it began ravaging poultry across Asia in 2003. H5N1 has since killed 360 people worldwide, mostly after close contact with infected birds.

If the latest virus continues to spread in China and beyond, "it would be an even bigger problem than with H5N1, in some sense, because with H5N1 you can see evidence of poultry dying," said University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris, who also examined the genetic information.

He urged China to widely test healthy birds for the virus in live animal markets in the parts of the country where the human infections have been reported.

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Ritter reported from New York. AP Medical Writer Margie Mason in Jakarta and Associated Press researcher Flora Ji contributed to this report.

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Retailers track employee thefts in vast databases

Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg , The New York Times ? ? ? 2 hrs.

Facing a wave of employee theft, retailers across the country have helped amass vast databases of workers accused of stealing and are using that information to keep employees from working again in the industry.

The repositories of information, like First Advantage Corporation?s Esteem database, often contain scant details about suspected thefts and routinely do not involve criminal charges. Still, the information can be enough to scuttle a job candidate?s chances.

Some of the employees, who submit written statements after being questioned by store security officers, have no idea that they admitted committing a theft or that the information will remain in databases, according to interviews with consumer lawyers, regulators and employees.

The databases, which have tens of thousands of subscribers and are used by major retailers like Target, CVS and Family Dollar, are aimed at combating employee theft, which accounts for a large swath of missing merchandise. The latest figures available, from 2011, put the loss at about 44 percent of missing merchandise, valued at about $15 billion, according to a trade group, the National Retail Federation.

Retailers ?don?t want to take a chance on hiring somebody that they might have a problem with,? said Richard Mellor, the federation?s vice president for loss prevention.

But the databases, which are legal, are facing scrutiny from labor lawyers and federal regulators, who worry they are so sweeping that innocent employees can be harmed. The lawyers say workers are often coerced into confessing, sometimes when they have done nothing wrong, without understanding that they will be branded as thieves.

The Federal Trade Commission has fielded complaints about the databases and is examining whether they comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a federal law aimed at curbing inaccurate consumer information and giving consumers more control, said Anthony Rodriguez, a staff lawyer at the agency.

Screening for suspected episodes of shoplifting is one part of a background check, as companies scour for evidence of criminal convictions or sex-offender registration. Almost all retailers perform background checks, according to a 2011 survey from the federation. But some background-check companies are wary of the theft admissions, which retailers submit to the databases.

?That is not a product that we sell, because I think it?s a product fraught with risk and inefficiency,? said William Greenblatt, the chief executive of the background-check company Sterling Infosystems.

Background-check data
Federal authorities have zeroed in on background-check data. Last summer, the F.T.C. settled charges with HireRight, which provides a retail-theft database along with other types of screenings. Among the accusations, the agency said that some records were inaccurate and that the firm made it too difficult for consumers to dispute claims.

LexisNexis agreed last week to pay $13.5 million to settle a class-action suit on behalf of 31,000 people that accused the firm of violating consumer protection laws by selling background checks to debt collectors. The company did not admit wrongdoing.

As the economic recovery limps forward, consumer lawyers say, the consequences of the retail theft databases? can be particularly devastating. With so many job applicants, employers have little incentive to hire someone with a tarnished background.

Since the recession, lawsuits have proliferated against the companies that operate retail theft databases, like LexisNexis, which owned Esteem until this year, HireRight and GIS, according to a review of court records. In the last year, the nature of the lawsuits has changed, too, as lawyers try to build class-action cases. HireRight did not return calls for comment, and the other firms declined to comment.

Stores carefully train loss-prevention officers to ensure the admissions are accurate, Mr. Mellor said, and the databases reverify information. But with an inaccurate statement, he said, ?your options for getting it out of a database are slim.? Some retailers are moving away from the databases. Home Depot, which just stopped using Esteem, said the decision followed a general review of ?systems and services.?

For Keesha Goode, $34.97 in missing merchandise was enough to destroy her future in retailing.

Ms. Goode, 28, was a clerk at the discount store Forman Mills in 2008, when she was accused of not ringing up a former employee?s purchases. During a nearly two-hour examination, Ms. Goode, who maintains her innocence, said she had agreed to write out a statement because she worried she would be sent to jail.

In looping cursive, she said her accusers were trying to make her out as a liar, adding, ?I was just doing my job.? Ms. Goode was immediately fired, and was asked to pay back the $34.97. She had no idea, she said, that the statement would go into a shared database.

She received a letter from Dollar General alerting her that she had been turned down for a job partly because of her listing in Esteem, and a copy of the report showed that she had a ?verified admission? for ?theft of merchandise.? She wrote LexisNexis, ?I was accused of not reporting on a former employee who was stealing merchandise, but I did not steal anything myself.?

The company responded that it had reinvestigated and ?verified? the accuracy of the information. Ms. Goode, who now works at a halfway house, has a lawsuit pending against LexisNexis, accusing the company of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Forman Mills and Dollar General did not respond to requests for comment. LexisNexis has moved to toss out the lawsuit, arguing that the company abided by the law, according to court filings.

Willing to say anything
As in Ms. Goode?s case, the admission statements are typically obtained by a store?s security force. Employees are often willing to say anything to ward off what can feel like an interrogation, the lawyers say. Another problem: the employee is informally accused and ultimately deprived of the protections, like due process, that a suspect would receive in a police precinct, for example. Lawyers also say that admission forms do not typically warn employees that it will go on their record.

?We?re not talking about a criminal record, which either is there or is not there ? it?s an admission statement which is being provided by an employer,? said Irv Ackelsberg, a lawyer at Langer, Grogan & Diver who represents Ms. Goode.

Such statements may contain no outright admission of guilt, like one submitted after Kyra Moore, then a CVS employee, was accused of stealing: ?picked up socks left them at the checkout and never came back to buy them,? it read. When Ms. Moore later applied for a job at Rite Aid, she was deemed ?noncompetitive.? She is suing Esteem.

CVS, noting that it is not a defendant in this lawsuit, said that many retail companies used Esteem ?to report and share information about employees who have admitted to theft from their employers,? and that CVS only sent written theft admissions to Esteem.

Still, lawyers say those admissions can be problematic. The database is ?a secret blacklist,? Mr. Ackelsberg said. ?The employees don?t know about it until they have already been hurt.?

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