Kate Middleton Having Baby Shower

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Friday April 5, 2013

KATE Middleton is set to break with tradition and have a baby shower!

The British royal will celebrate the fact she?s expecting her first child with husband Prince William at a party thrown by her sister Pippa Middleton.

?It was her sister Pippa?s idea,? a source tells OK! magazine.

?While it?s all going to be very relaxed and fun, Kate is hoping the queen will drop by because the two are remarkably close. They bonded big time and really enjoy each other?s company. Since this is going to be a first for royals, Kate would love the queen to be part of it.

?Pippa is in charge of decorations.

?Wine and beer will be available ? not that Kate will be drinking alcohol, of course. There will certainly be none of the hard stuff.?

Meanwhile, sources say Middleton is worried the Royal Family is putting her unborn child at risk with a hectic schedule of appearances.

Sources say Kate?s close friends are begging her to get some rest before her pregnancy ends in tragedy.

?All Kate really wants to do is lay low at home, put her feet up and watch movies like the rest of her pregnant friends,? a source said.

Kate, 31, who is five months along, however, feels obligated to pick up the slack for Queen Elizabeth, 86, who is recovering from a mystery illness that required an overnight stay in the hospital

?Kate suffered a horrendous early pregnancy with agonizing morning sickness and might have lost her baby,? said the source.

?Now she?s become the royal workhorse and it?s obvious to anyone that she?s burdened with more engagements than is safe for a heavily pregnant woman expecting her first child.

?Her schedule is ridiculous. It?s bound to create stress, and it?s high time the palace recognized the danger. There?s a real chance Kate could collapse.?

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Source: http://www.showbizspy.com/article/258566/kate-middleton-having-baby-shower.html

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Obama apologizes for commenting on AG's looks

President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris to apologize after calling her "by far, the best-looking attorney general" during remarks at a fundraiser in Atherton, Calif., on Thursday, the White House confirmed on Friday.

"The president did speak with Attorney General Harris last night after he came back from his trip," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Friday's press briefing, "and he called her to apologize for the distraction created by his comments." Carney said Obama and Harris are "old friends" and "he did not want in any way to diminish the attorney general's profession, accomplishments and her capabilities." Carney lauded her experience and record, repeating the professional compliments the president had also issued on Thursday night.

"He fully recognizes the challenges women continue to face in the workplace and that they should not be judged based on appearance," Carney said.

At the start of his current term, the president faced criticism for nominating only white men to top administration positions, including in a New York Times story discussing the president's all-male inner circle.

Since then, the president's nominations have included REI CEO Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department, Secret Service Chief of Staff Julia Pierson to head that agency and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez to head Labor.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-apologizes-kamala-harris-comments-her-appearance-184835621--politics.html

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Teen hiker found alive after three days, friend still missing

By Melissa Pamer, Samantha Tata, Beverly White and Robert Kovacik, NBC LosAngeles.com

A 19-year-old who had been missing in California's Cleveland National Forest for three days was found alive late Wednesday, police said, but the search continued for his hiking companion.

Rescue crews ratcheted up their search of the rugged terrain about 7:50 p.m. PT (10:50 p.m. ET) ?after receiving a tip from a hiker who said he had spotted Nicholas Cendoya. The whereabouts of Cendoya's friend Kyndall Jack, 18, were not immediately known,?Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Jason Park said.

As the search continued for Jack, Cendoya was airlifted from the canyon and taken to a hospital where he was listed in serious condition. Hospital officials said Cendoya was "foraging for food off the land" to survive.

"He is weak, severely dehydrated and slightly confused," OC Fire Authority?s Kris Concepcion said.

Waiting at the Trabuco Canyon Fire Station, a command post during the search, Cendoya's friends and family erupted in cheers when they were told the teen had been found alive.

The young hikers, both from Costa Mesa, Calif., had called 911 at 8:30 p.m. PT (11:30pm ET) on Easter Sunday to say they were lost, but their cellphone batteries died and authorities could not locate them.

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Since Monday, searchers on foot, dogs and helicopters have been combing over a network of trails in the Holy Jim Canyon area, trying to find the two teens.

Orange County Sheriff via AP

Hiker Nicholas Cendoya was found alive late Wednesday. His companion, Kyndall Jack, right, remains missing.

On Wednesday, dozens of volunteers joined official search crews that began work at 6 a.m. PT (9 a.m. ET) -- so many extra searchers that some were turned away.

A couple of volunteer searchers had gotten lost in afternoon and were in cell phone communication with authorities, who had not been able to track them down as of 6 p.m. PT (9 p.m. ET), according to authorities on scene.

Russ Jack, Kyndall Jack's father, begged volunteers to stay away from the search area unless they're experience hikers. He called the scene a "modern-day circus," but assured volunteers he was grateful for their efforts.

"We don't need lookey-loos up here just hanging out and not helping. If you're not an experienced hiker or a mountain biker, then please stay home," Russ Jack said. "There's just too many people and it's hurting the efforts that the authroties have put into this right now."

Dawn Jack, Kyndall's mom, teared up in front of news cameras when the pair spoke.

"We just need our children to come home safely," Dawn Jack said. "We need for everybody else to leave here safe, so please help us out now by not coming up just to hang out ? we know you love us and are supporting us."

Officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Department said enough personnel had been scheduled to continue the search through the weekend.

"We're going to increase the number of our ground searches. We're going to commence with air operations in strategic areas with high terrain that's difficult to traverse," said Orange County Fire Authority spokesman Capt. Jon Muir. "It's going to be a combined effort, and we're not going to stop until we have a good resolution."

Authorities have said the fairly mild conditions in the area are survivable, even when temperatures drop overnight. But the terrain off-trail can be difficult, and it's possible one or both of the hikers were injured, search officials said.

Grief counselors were at Costa Mesa High School -- the pair's alma mater -- for the first time on Wednesday. Cendoya played football, while Jack is known as "the jackhammer" on the volleyball team.

NBCLosAngeles.com?s Vikki Vargas contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Thu Apr 4, 2013 6:23 AM EDT

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Bird flu 101: How bad is the new H7N9 strain?

A bird flu virus never before found in humans has grabbed world attention this week after it infected and killed people in China. Scientists have been scrambling to understand how it happened and, more importantly, whether it poses a risk to public health or could potentially spark a global pandemic.

The good news is that so far there's no sign that the H7N9 virus is spreading from person to person, but experts say it has mutated in a way that has left them a bit worried. Here's a crash course in Bird Flu 101 to help explain what's known about the strain and why it matters:

Q: What is the H7N9 virus and what do we know about it?

A: The H7N9 strain ? named for the combination of proteins on its surface ? has infected at least 11 people in China since February, killing four of them. The latest cases were confirmed Thursday, four days after the initial announcement. Symptoms include fever and respiratory problems, including severe pneumonia. Much still remains unknown about the virus, including how people are getting infected, but scientists say it contains genetic markers that could help it infect humans. It is circulating in poultry stocks, but is considered a "low pathogenic" virus that is not sickening birds. This can allow it to spread in flocks unnoticed, making it much harder to track and also possibly creating more contamination since the birds are surviving and spending more time on farms, in markets and elsewhere.

Q: How concerned should the public be about the H7N9 virus?

A: At this point, experts say there is no cause for alarm, but they are watching it closely. No evidence exists that the virus is spreading from person to person, and no cases have been reported outside China. Samples are being collected from patients, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention is sharing genetic sequences with outside scientists. This allows the world's top flu experts to study the virus and look for mutations that could make it more dangerous. Poultry and its products are safe to eat as long as they are properly cooked.

Q: Is there a vaccine?

A: No vaccine exists, but the World Health Organization and its partners are already working to isolate and identify possible candidate viruses that could be used to make a future vaccine if necessary. However, it would likely take months to produce the first doses.

Q: What changes are scientists seeing in the virus and why is this important?

A: Although it is not yet clear, the virus appears to have mutated in a way that would make it easier for it to adapt and grow at normal body temperature in mammals. Scientists are working to figure out which species could now be playing host to the virus, and one possibility is pigs.

Swine are important because they share some basic biological similarities with humans, and they can serve as "mixing vessels" if infected with different flu strains at the same time.

Other possibilities are that the mutations could be occurring in poultry or they are being generated after people are infected by birds.

"To me, the most important question to find out is: What is the actual host of this virus?" said Richard Webby, director of a WHO flu center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. "It really looks like there's been some mammalian host involved."

Q: How is this bird flu different from the H5N1 strain everyone has been so concerned about in the past?

A: Unlike the H7N9 strain, the H5N1 virus is highly lethal in birds, making it easier to identify and eliminate poultry outbreaks. H5N1 remains an avian influenza and has not taken root in another species, such as pigs. Most human infections have been linked to contact with infected birds. Scientists have been closely watching the virus since it first appeared in Hong Kong in 1997. It resurfaced in 2003 and decimated poultry stocks across Asia and has since killed at least 371 people. About 60 percent of those infected die, and experts have long feared the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily from person to person, possibly igniting a pandemic.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bird-flu-101-bad-h7n9-strain-093212234.html

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Tokyo's Terra Motors Wants To Help Electric Vehicle Transport Go Green From The Ground Up

Japanese startup Terra Motors officially debuted its electric tuk-tuk (a type of three-wheeled passenger vehicle common in Asia), a tricycle that costs just over $6,000 U.S. and gets 31 miles on a 2 hour charge. The electric vehicle stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from something like the Tesla Model S Roadster, and for good reason: it's designed to be affordable for emerging markets in large quantities.

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Scholastic Snake Oil: Why Schools Can't Educate Them

Why Schools Can't Educate Them

From my most recent post, you could probably tell that I don't think poets are made in MFA programs--or, for that matter, in English classes. The classes, and to a lesser degree the programs, have their value and function, but attending and doing well in them will not turn you into the next Wordsworth or, Lord knows, Emily Dickinson.

What I said in the previous paragraph probably seems self-evident, perhaps even trite, to you. ?Almost any sane person--or, at least, almost anyone who isn't an academic "poet"-- would agree with it, whether or not he or she knew that Wallace Stevens went to law school and Shakespeare and Whitman didn't go to any college at all.

More and more people also seem to agree that our scientists aren't trained in science classes, any more than our politicians are the products of our civics classes. ?And the Internet is full of pages and threads in which lawyers, engineers, business people, and artists rant about how little they learned in the classes that were supposed to train them for their professions. ? And it almost goes without saying that "leadership", however one defines it, will never be learned in a class ostensibly devoted to it.

Oh--and most people who are fluent in a language that's not their first didn't become so conversant and literate in their French, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, Mandarin or whatever-language classes.

So why is it that, while most people will frankly admit, or simply agree, with everything I've just said, they still insist on more and more schooling? ?Or, at least, they go along with those who tell us that if some schooling is good, more must be better and will turn us into more productive workers and better citizens?

You may have other answers, and I'd be interested to hear them. But I think one reason is that schools were never intended to educate; they were designed only to manage. ?Now that everyone who makes decisions on educational policy--and the teachers who work under them--have been shaped by this system, it's no wonder that it can't educate even if those who administer and teach wanted it to do so. ?(To be fair, many teachers and professors want that, but have no idea of how to accomplish it.)

If you get young people to sit for a prescribed period of time--until the bell rings, until it's time to go to the next class, or to some other activity--it doesn't really matter whether they're sitting with their hands folded in front of them and their eyes on the teacher, or in the back of the room sending each other pornographic videos with their "smart" phones. ?Whatever their behavior, they are dependent: ?they are infantilized. ?Even fairly dim ones learn how to say just enough of what teachers and adults expect them to say in order not to be punished, in order to pass a test, in order to get a good enough test score and GPA to increase their own ranking in the school and their school's ranking in whatever system is ranking them. ?They know enough to work just hard enough, when it's called for, to get whatever prizes they're trying to get.

A friend of mine who has a natural gift for learning languages tells me of how, after several years of studying Spanish, she was castigated in a beginning French class for working and learning too quickly. ?A classmate, who taught himself calculus when he was eleven years old, was forced to sit through years of math courses in which he learned nothing so he could get the requisite math credits for graduation. ?

And I think of my own creative writing "workshops", in which students were expected to bring a poem to class every week. ?Anyone who didn't wasn't "contributing" to the class; never mind if the budding young poet was working on something that needed time for revision, and if said budding young poet offered useful or at least interesting critiques of other students' work. ?In Ars Poetica, Horace advised poets to put their newly-written poems aside for ten years before showing them to anyone else. ?Can you imagine him in Iowa or Columbia?

In brief, schools as we know them tell teachers and students to fit their ideas, ambitions, styles of learning and anything else related to real education into boxes on a scheduling sheet. ?What can that teach a student but that not only having an idea, but actually carrying it to fruition, is less important than doing whatever he or she needs to do in order to move along? ?What does it tell a teacher who, instead of taking the time to help guide that student, or give a student who is struggling with a problem--whether an academic or life-based one--has to do whatever will raise those same kids' scores on a standardized test?

Schools can school, but they can't educate. ?That is why talk about "reforming" them--which usually involves throwing more money at them for "special" programs or administrative overhead--is naive or dishonest, depending on whose mouth or pen it comes from. ?Schools--at least the ones we have--are never going to educate people for their careers, for their work for their lives. ?

Source: http://scholasticsnakeoil.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-schools-cant-educate-them.html

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