Beijing reports its 1st case of the new bird flu virus

BEIJING (AP) ? A 7-year-old girl has become Beijing's first confirmed case of a new strain of the bird flu virus that has killed 11 people and sickened 37 others in eastern China, officials said Saturday.

The girl, whose parents are in the live poultry trade, was admitted to a hospital Thursday with symptoms of fever, sore throat, coughing and headache, the Beijing Health Bureau said. She was confirmed to be infected with the H7N9 virus on Saturday after tests by disease control and prevention centers, the bureau said.

The case in China's capital is the first one reported outside eastern China, where the virus was first spotted in late March, prompting massive slaughtering of live fowl and bans on the poultry trade in several cities, including the financial hub of Shanghai. Shanghai, the center of the outbreak, has reported 21 cases, including seven fatalities. One person was discharged after recovering, the local government has said.

The Beijing Health Bureau said the girl was recovering in a hospital and was in stable condition.

Shanghai authorities said Saturday that a 56-year-old man, the husband of a woman hospitalized with the virus earlier this month, became the city's latest case after testing positive for H7N9, but that it was inconclusive as to whether he had been infected by his wife.

Health officials believe people are contracting the H7N9 virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there is no evidence the virus is spreading easily among people.

Neighboring Jiangsu province on Saturday confirmed two more cases ? a 77-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man, both in critical condition. The province has reported 14 cases, including one fatality.

Zhejiang province has reported 11 cases, including two reported Saturday by state media, and Anhui province has had two.

China has been more open in its response to the new virus than it was a decade ago with an outbreak of SARS, when authorities were highly criticized for not releasing information.

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Romantic comedies affect beliefs about relationships less strongly than expected

Apr. 12, 2013 ? Romantic-comedy films are not a major source for developing unrealistic expectations about relationships among young adults, finds a new study to be published online this week in the National Communication Association's journal Communication Monographs.

A survey of 335 undergraduate students in the Midwest found no significant relationship between reporting watching romantic comedies often and belief in the ideals "love conquers all," "one and only" love (soul mate) and "love at first sight."

"These findings discredit the popular assumption that exposure to romantic comedies is a major source leading to unrealistic relational expectations among young people," said the study's principal investigator, Veronica Hefner, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies at Chapman University, Orange, Calif.

Hefner conducted the online questionnaire survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Barbara J. Wilson, Ph.D., the university's executive vice provost for faculty and academic affairs. The authors did find, however, that those viewers of romantic comedies who reported watching with the motivation to learn about relationships were slightly more likely to endorse romantic ideals overall and, in particular, the belief in "idealization of partner." Idealizing one's partner includes believing that the partner should be flawless or will be completely accepting, loving, and understanding, according to Hefner.

Compared with exposure to romantic comedies, a stronger influence on viewers' beliefs about relationships was the reason that young people watch these popular movies, Hefner said.

"College students who reported watching romantic comedies to learn about love and relationships were more likely to endorse idealistic romantic beliefs than those who watch for other reasons," she said. "What really matters is not what you watch, but why you watch."

Again, these students were more likely to believe in idealizing their partners than in romantic beliefs such as love at first sight, but Hefner pointed out that this idealization could have a positive social influence. Some studies have shown that viewing one's partner as wonderful and perfect was beneficial for a romantic relationship and was linked to higher levels of satisfaction in the relationship.

Nearly half of the survey respondents reported they were currently in a relationship. Students ranged in age from 18 to 26 years. Of the 335 respondents, 71 percent were female and 29 percent were male.

The researchers found no differences in responses about romantic beliefs between men and women who responded to the survey. The lack of a sex difference in the findings disputes another popular belief, Hefner said -- "that women are the ones who are most idealistic and most influenced by romantic comedies."

In fact, the researchers found that male characters in popular romantic comedies express romantic ideals more often than women do. In this separate study, published in the same article, they performed a content analysis of the 52 top-grossing romantic comedy films between 1998 and 2008, including 2008's "27 Dresses" and the top-grossing "rom-com" of that period, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Of the 52 movies analyzed, 98 percent reportedly featured a romantic ideal expression, whereas 75 percent of the films featured a romantic ideal takeaway message. Ideal expressions were any statements related to one of the four ideals. Takeaway messages were the overall impressions of the films.

"Of the ideal statements expressed in these films, the most common were related to soul mates," Hefner said, "whereas the most common takeaway ideal theme was the notion that love conquers all."

Despite this prevalence of idealism, however, the most commonly expressed statements in these movies overall were actually realistic in nature. These practical expressions or challenges to the ideals, such as "relationships take hard work," were twice as common in these films as were the idealistic comments.

Still, Hefner said, "the bottom line is that the interactions and statements found in these films are not idealistic at all. However, the larger themes of the movies are idealistic. It seems that the couples go through realistic challenges and difficult obstacles, but resolve their differences with ideal conclusions."

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Virginia becomes latest state to tighten abortion rules

By Gary Robertson

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia on Friday required abortion clinics to meet stricter hospital-style standards that could force some go out of business, making it the latest state to tighten rules on the procedure.

The rules, passed overwhelmingly by the Virginia Board of Health, could force abortion providers to undertake costly renovations, widening hallways and installing new ventilation system and awnings. Opponents of the move said it could force some to close, while supporters contended it would improve safety.

Supporters of the new rules burst into applause after the panel's 11-2 vote, while opponents erupted in shouts of "shame." Board Chairman Bruce Edwards ordered police to clear the hearing room to end the tumult.

Board member Dr. Catherine Slusher defended passage of the rules, saying, "We're not closing (the clinics). We're improving them."

Republican Governor Robert McDonnell approved health regulations in December imposing hospital-style building codes on abortion clinics. The Board of Health on Friday had the final word on the changes.

Anti-abortion activists have increasingly turned their focus on enacting new restrictions at the state level to the procedure, which was made legal nationally by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.

States including Indiana, New Jersey and Texas have passed similar measures to those adopted by Virginia.

Last month North Dakota adopted the nation's most restrictive abortion law, effectively banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. The state's Republican governor, who signed the bill, acknowledged at the time it will likely face legal challenges.

ISSUE IN GOVERNOR'S RACE

Abortion is shaping up as a major issue ahead of Virginia's November gubernatorial election.

The board voted last year to exempt existing clinics from the changes, a decision it reversed after State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said he would not defend the board against lawsuits arising from such a decision.

Cuccinelli is a Tea Party Republican locked in a tight race against Democrat Terry McAuliffe

The Susan B. Anthony List contributed $1.5 million to Cuccinelli's campaign in February and called the contest "a top priority" for the group.

McAuliffe, a former Democratic Party chairman supported by Planned Parenthood, said on his campaign website that he backs letting women make their own healthcare decisions without government interference.

Alena Yarmosky, a spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said the new rules could force 15 of Virginia's 20 abortion clinics to close. Poor women would be the worst affected by the changes, she said.

"It's a pattern that we've seen happening across the country and in Virginia, and it's absolutely shameful," she said.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, said the new rules would protect women's health.

"We are inundated daily with examples of the horrors that result from the lack of oversight," she said in a statement.

The board's vote imposing hospital standards on clinics is the latest blow to abortion providers around the country. This week the Republican-led Arkansas Senate voted to bar state funds from going to any entity that provides abortions.

Seven states, including Mississippi and Alabama, require hospital admitting privileges for abortion providers. Critics contend those laws restrict a woman's right to an abortion.

Virginia's General Assembly last week approved McDonnell's plan that blocks private insurance plans being sold through the new health benefits exchange from including abortion coverage. The exchanges are set up under the federal Affordable Care Act.

Virginia's legislature drew national attention last year with a bill signed by McDonnell that required an ultrasound procedure before an abortion.

A requirement for an invasive vaginal probe in some cases was removed from the measure after it drew national debate and was lampooned by late-night television comics.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson and Gary Robertson; editing by Scott Malone, Andrew Hay, Cynthia Johnston and John Wallace)

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Financial workers sail through "fit and proper" tests

By Laura Noonan and Sinead Cruise

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator has blocked just 30 out of a possible 227,000 applications to the sector's most risk-sensitive jobs in the six years since the banking crisis erupted.

New figures seen by Reuters show the renamed Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rejected an average of one appointment for every 7,566 proposed by banking, insurance and other finance firms under the terms of its 'approved persons' regime between April 2007 and the end of 2012.

Regulators overseeing London's financial industry have been at the forefront of a Europe-wide drive to increase professional standards by scrutinising candidates slated for key roles, in a bid to ensure they have the requisite skills to do their jobs.

Members of the financial community said the rules, tightened in late 2008, would impede company hiring plans and 1,850 of the 40,997 candidates put forward in the year to April 2009 voluntarily withdrew applications for approved status.

But the new figures show the numbers of people withdrawing from assessment have fallen sharply, while rejections from the FCA have remained negligible.

Will Pomroy, corporate governance policy adviser at the National Association of Pension Funds, said he hoped the small number of failed applications reflected more robust assessments of staff competence, capability, honesty and integrity at company level.

"Investors expect the board to take responsibility - and be accountable - for setting the culture from the top and ensuring it filters down throughout the workforce," Pomroy said.

"They would not want to be relying solely on the assessments of the regulator for each individual employed in a controlled function - of which there a large number."

OBSERVER EFFECT

But others said they drew less comfort from the figures, suggesting that rejections might have fallen because staff were being coached to pass the tests or giving up promotion prospects because they did not want to risk humiliation, or other consequences, if they failed.

"Think of it in terms of Heizenberg's Uncertainty Principle or The Observer Effect: 'Directors are like sub-atomic particles, they behave differently under observation'," one industry sceptic said, on condition of anonymity.

The FCA does not break out rejections by year, but annual figures do show the number of applications and withdrawals.

The latest full-year figures show withdrawals came in at just 597 in the year to April 2012, against a peak of 1,850 in the year to April 2009.

"In addition to 30 applications for approval being formally refused since 2007, during the same period, over 7,000 applications were withdrawn after submission - many of which were after close scrutiny by the FSA," a spokeswoman for the regulator said.

The UK's 'fitness and probity' process is one of the broadest in Europe, encompassing senior management and directors, and staff working in compliance, risk and internal audit across all firms authorised by the regulator.

Most assessments are done in writing but the regulator routinely interviews candidates for the most senior roles in "high impact firms", and carries out other interviews on a "risk-based approach if there are concerns about a candidate or firm", the spokeswoman added.

(Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)

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New technology speeding progress on bird flu vaccine

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO | Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:15pm EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed researchers had already begun testing a "seed" strain of the virus made from the genetic code posted on the Internet.

This new, faster approach is the result of a collaboration among the government, vaccine maker Novartis and a unit of the J. Craig Venter Institute, which is using synthetic biology - in which scientists take the genetic code of the virus and use it as a recipe to build the virus from scratch.

It was an idea born in the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, in which production delays and poor-quality seed strain slowed delivery of the vaccine until October, late enough that people were already sick with swine flu.

The new method has shaved two weeks off the vaccine-making process. It will take five to six months to ramp up production, but even weeks could make a difference in the case of a potentially deadly flu pandemic, said Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority or BARDA.

"We'll take it," said Robinson, whose agency handles pandemic preparedness as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "If the virus turns out to be a tough one, that could be very important."

At least 33 people have been infected and 10 have died from the strain of bird flu known as avian influenza A (H7N9) first found in humans last month. So far, the strain does not appear capable of being passed from person to person.

But Chinese researchers, in a report published online on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, warned that the sudden emergence of this strain of flu "may pose a serious human health risk" and said "appropriate counter measures were urgently required."

SOUL SEARCHING

An especially deadly strain of bird flu in 2003 known as H5N1 had already raised the threat of a global pandemic, spurring more than $2 billion in government contracts to shore up U.S. flu vaccine manufacturing capabilities.

After the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, U.S. health agencies gathered to do some soul searching. Representatives from BARDA, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health looked for ways to expedite the process of making flu vaccines, Robinson said.

These advances would need to apply to all vaccine makers, whether they used the traditional method of growing the virus in live chicken eggs, or the newer methods of growing it in cells or vaccines made from genetically engineered proteins.

Robinson, who formerly headed the vaccines division at Novavax Inc, had seen firsthand the speed at which a vaccine could be made using synthetic biology during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS, when companies and governments rushed to make a vaccine.

So, in 2010, BARDA tapped Novartis, one of its vaccine partners, along with a company owned by Dr. J. Craig Venter, the flamboyant scientist who took part in the race to map the human genome and caused a stir in 2010 when he used synthetic genes to create a custom microbe and bring it life.

TEST DRIVE

As a test drive for the new flu technology, in 2011 the government gave its partners the genetic sequence for a North American strain of H7N9, a similar virus to the one making people sick in China. "It was just a coincidence," Robinson recalls.

In less than two weeks, Novartis and Venter's group were ready to make virus seed. The next year, they sequenced an H5N1 virus and produced a synthetic virus in six days.

Then came a live test. The United States asked its partners to make a real vaccine for a variant of swine flu known as H3N2 that had been infecting children in the U.S. Midwest last year.

Once again, they produced virus seed in less than a week.

So, when Chinese health authorities released the genetic sequence for the H7N9 bird flu on March 30, U.S. health officials decided to try the new technique.

Novartis and Venter's company, Synthetic Genomics Vaccines Inc, went to work and by April 4, they had synthetic DNA ready and had started to grow the virus in cells, long before samples of the actual virus arrived from China on April 11.

Normally, getting a sample would be the starting point for making a seed virus, which would then be grown and tested to ensure it would grow well in chicken eggs or cells.

That involves a certain amount of guesswork, however. The new process of building the virus based on its genetic code allows "almost guaranteed success," said Mike Shaw, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"That is because you're creating a virus that is almost tailor-made," he said.

Shaw said the CDC plans to take a vaccine candidate at least to the stage of human safety trials, a process that will take several months.

(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Douglas Royalty and Lisa Shumaker)

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Anti-immigrant groups go on attack to block 'pathway to citizenship'

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Screen shot of Numbers USA ad targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who is among the senators trying to hammer out bipartisan immigration reform legislation.

By Michael Isikoff and Carl SearsNBC News

A closely aligned network of anti-immigrant groups ? founded with help from a controversial Michigan doctor who has argued that the country?s ?European American majority? must be preserved ? has spent over $100 million over the past decade to shape public policies aimed at restricting immigration, according to a NBC News analysis of public records.

The groups ? spearheaded by Numbers USA? and its combative president, Roy Beck -- ?have played a key role in blocking legislation that would open up a ?pathway to citizenship? for? undocumented workers,?according to lobbyists on both sides of the contentious issue.

Now, as a bipartisan group of senators crafts a bill it hopes can pass Congress, the anti-immigrant groups are encouraging their backers?to bombard?Capitol Hill offices with phone calls and faxes opposing such a deal. Numbers USA also has? launched attack ads targeting? Senate? supporters of the measure such as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican.?

?Who elected Graham to demand amnesty and welfare for millions of illegal aliens?? states?the narrator in a Numbers USA ad now running in South Carolina as part of an estimated $200,000 ad buy.? A constituent responds:? ?Amnesty? Not me.?

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?Our goal is to stop this legislation,? said Beck, whose group is planning a series of ads aimed at pressuring senators who might be tempted to back immigration reform.??Every senator that is taking stands that are clearly against the interests of their citizens, their constituents are going to be reminded that there are elections.?

NBC's Michael Isikoff joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to report on lobbying efforts for and against immigration reform.

Graham, a key member of the so-called ?Gang of Eight? working on the immigration overhaul bill who is up for re-election next year, is undeterred, according to a statement released by his office. ??If you want to?run ads against me, spend all the money you want to spend. I'm?not backing off,? Graham said.

Beck insists his group ? with a $7 million budget and 1.3 million members ? is growing ? by the day?? because of fears that the immigration measure will ?flood this labor market with more foreign workers at the expense of our own Americans.? And he?s unabashed about what he wants to happen to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country:? ?What they?ve done is not a victimless crime. They have hurt vulnerable Americans by being here by taking jobs, by taking taxpayer services. And I would say (to them), ?You need to get your affairs in order and go back home.??

The political clout of groups like Numbers USA was most visible during?last year?s GOP presidential primary, when Mitt Romney declared his support for ?self deportation? of undocumented workers. Beck immediately hailed and claimed credit for Romney?s stance, asserting his group had been backing the same idea for years under a concept it?called ?attrition through enforcement.?

Numbers USA and two closely aligned groups -- the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, and the Center for Immigration Studies ? have spent $103 million to promote the cause of reducing immigration, both legal and illegal,? since 2002, according to a NBC News review of public records and tax returns. The? biggest single contributor ? with about $36 million in donations -- ?was the Colcom Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based? ?conservationist? group? that states on its website it was created to explore the ?causes and consequences of overpopulation? and its impact on environmental sustainability.? (The foundation was started by the late Cordelia Scaife May, niece of former Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon and the sister of Richard Mellon Scaife, a major funder of conservative causes.? )

After Romney?s defeat, the activities of Numbers USA and the?allied anti-immigration groups are getting new scrutiny ? and there are signs of a potential backlash.?? ?

Some?Republicans blame the groups for the party?s sinking share of the Latino vote ? 27 percent in 2012, down from 40 percent in 2004.?

'A recipe for disaster'
The disaffected Republicans have found themselves in unusual political company, including civil rights groups like the Southern Poverty Leadership Conference, as they have escalated their attacks on Beck and his allies, primarily over their common ties to a controversial Michigan doctor and environmentalist who they contend has a history of racial and ethnic prejudice.?

?I would say that listening to these groups is a recipe for disaster for the GOP,? said Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship during the administration of President George W. Bush. ?????

Aguilar is among a number of Republican activists who have recently been meeting with congressional staffers emphasizing links between Numbers USA, FAIR and the Center for Immigration Studies and Dr. John Tanton, who has been described as the ?architect? of the anti-immigrant movement. Tanton helped found and support all three groups and, like Cordelia Scaife May, a longtime friend and ally, has often described himself as an environmentalist?worried about the dangers of overpopulation. But he has also faced repeated charges from civil rights groups of being motivated by sympathy for ?white nationalism,? based on his writings in the 1980s and ?90s.

Tanton, in memos and letters he donated to the University of Michigan library, expressed concerns at the time about the threat posed by ?immigration to? the environment and the country?s population, sometimes?casting the issue in racial and ethnic terms. "For European-American society and culture to persist, requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that,? he wrote in one 1993 letter. In a 1986 memo, he questioned whether ?Latin American migrants bring with them the tradition of the mordida (bribe).??

Tanton, now 79 and suffering from health problems, was unavailable for comment, according to a spokesman He has strongly denied any racial prejudice in the past.

'Ethnic component' denied
Beck, who formerly worked for Tanton as an editor of his magazine, ?The Social Contract,? said: ?Numbers USA does not agree there is any kind of racial aspect to immigration. We?ve always been clear: Immigration should not have a racial impact, should not have an ethnic component.?

In his recent meetings on Capitol Hill,?Aguilar says he has emphasized the political impact of the Tanton-backed groups.? Among his key pieces of evidence:? a 2001 letter that Tanton wrote?laying out a political strategy, developed with Beck, aimed at distancing the GOP from all ?immigrants,? with no distinction made between those who are illegal or legal.

?The goal is to change the Republicans? perception of immigration so that when they encounter the word ?immigrant,? their reaction is ?Democrat,?? the Tanton letter states.

?Our plan,? the letter continues, ?is to hire a lobbyist who will carry the following message to Republicans?on Capitol Hill and to business leaders:? ?Continued massive immigration will soon cost you political control of the White House and Congress, given the current even division of the electorate and the massive infusion of voters about to be made to the Democratic side.??

??That letter is a smoking gun,? Aguilar said, adding that some Republican staffers are ?shocked? when he shows it to them. ?We cannot make inroads with Latinos precisely because of that strategy.?

Beck says Tanton?s letter was simply stating political reality ? that ?for 150 years, immigrants always vote, 2-to-1, Democratic, because the Democratic Party? is the bigger supporter of government services.?? He added: ?The message to the Republicans is to go after the immigrant vote, you might want to consider whether it?s really worth driving down American wages, just so you can get cheap labor for your corporate contributors.?

Beck said he was referring to corporate interests like the Chamber of Commerce and Microsoft, that have been lobbying hard for an immigration overhaul bill and which, he maintains, are vastly outspending the efforts on his side. ?We?re up against every power elite in the country,? he said.

But he?s got no shortage of confidence: ?I?d much rather be in my situation than the situation on the other side.?

Michael Isikoff is NBC News' National Investigative Correspondent; Carl Sears is a Washington, D.C.-based Producer for NBC News. NBC News researcher Taylor Sears also contributed to this article

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Rogers leak pins BlackBerry Q10 Canadian launch date as April 30th

BlackBerry fans waiting for an opportunity to blend the BlackBerry 10 OS with a more familiar QWERTY formfactor may know exactly how long they have left, at least north of the border. Mobile Syrup received this pic tonight of what is purported to be an internal Rogers document, which lists the launch date for the BlackBerry Q10 as April 30th. A few other phones appear on the list as well, revealing the Canadian carrier will be offering the Nokia Lumia 520 and a couple of Doro's PhoneEasy models. If this date holds up it's a lot more specific than what we'd heard before -- hopefully we're not left waiting much longer for US release information.

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