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The Westboro Baptist Church vowed to protest today's funeral of Boston Marathon Bombing victim Krystle Campbell, so hundreds of members of the Teamsters Union showed up to protect mourners and block the Westboro

MEDFORD — Hundreds of people flocked to a church here today for the funeral of Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell. Some had to be turned away from the door of the packed building, while others came expressly to line the street to guard

Boston bombing victim Krystle Campbell, one of the three people who died in the blast, will have her funeral protected by a "human shield" today if necessary. The Teamsters union said it will step in if protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church show

Why do they need to protest and what kind of church does that? I've never understood them. Boston will not put up with their crap. I bet it will be like the funeral at A&M last year. There will be a wall of supporters so the family will not have to see

Why do they need to protest and what kind of church does that? I've never understood them. Boston will not put up with their crap. I bet it will be like the funeral at A&M last year. There will be a wall of supporters so the family will not have to see

Rookie News Anchor -- Fired Instantly for Dropping 'F***ing S***' On the Air

That was fast … a rookie news anchor in North Dakota has been fired before he even started … less than a day after dropping an embarrassing f-bomb on live TV.

The anchor’s name is A.J. Clemente — and you have to see the footage, which aired yesterday … his first day on the job. It’s incredible. Not only does he cuss on the air, he also plain sucks.

And A.J.’s superiors didn’t waste any time cutting him loose — he tweeted this morning, saying he’d been canned over the flub. He wrote, “Rookie mistake. I’m a free agent. Can’t help but laugh at myself and stay positive. Wish i didnt trip over my ‘Freaking Shoes’ out of the gate.”

Welcome to the viral video hall of fame, pal.

Obama: Science education must be 'priority' - USA Today

President Obama hosts the annual White House Science Fair, and promotes science and math education

President Obama holds a model rocket during the White House Science Fair(Photo: JEWEL SAMAD, AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama said Monday that Americans love technology, but may not have enough respect for the education necessary to create all those new products.

Obama promoted science, technology, engineering and math teaching while praising the winning student entries at the annual White House Science Fair.

“We need to make this a priority,” Obama said a ceremony honoring the winners.

The president also threw in more criticism of ongoing budget cuts known as the sequester, saying now is not the time to “gut” necessary investments in research and development. “The science fair projects of today could become the products or businesses of tomorrow,” he said.

There are also new volunteer programs designed to bring technology teachers and business leaders into contact with more students, Obama said.

Obama spoke after reviewing the winning entries in the White House Science Fair, which included riding a bike-powered water filtration system, a rocket launching project, and something called a “space elevator.”

Saying “this stuff’s really cool,” Obama thanked the students for “explaining to me what the heck is going on.”

Knicks' JR Smith Wins NBA Sixth Man Award

J.R. Smith won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award Monday after helping the New York Knicks to the Atlantic Division title.

Smith received 484 points, including 72 first-place votes, from a panel of 121 writers and broadcasters. The Clippers’ Jamal Crawford finished second with 352 points, getting 31 first-place votes.

Smith averaged 18.1 points in 80 games, all off the bench. He had 29 games in which he scored 20 points as a reserve, tying Crawford for the NBA lead.

Smith helped the Knicks win their division for the first time since 1994. New York is the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and leads the Boston Celtics 1-0 in their first-round playoff series.

It’s the second individual award in two years for the Knicks, following Tyson Chandler’s Defensive Player of the Year honor last season. Smith joins former Knicks sixth-man winners Anthony Mason in 1995 and John Starks in 1997.

Despite not making a start, Smith was one of the Knicks’ most important players. He played more than 40 minutes seven times and was often their only scoring threat behind Carmelo Anthony.

“Couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” coach Mike Woodson said. “I’m so proud of him, in terms of buying into what we wanted him to do earlier in the season. And it started this summer. I wasn’t going to start him, coming into this year, and I knew that. And he bought in. He didn’t like it, but he bought in. And it couldn’t have happened to a better person, because he put in the time and he worked his butt off to get to this point, and he got rewarded for it. I’m happy for him.”

Crawford seemed to be the favorite for most of the season before Smith overtook him with his strong play down the stretch. He had three straight 30-point games from March 26-29, the first time that was done by a reserve since Milwaukee’s Ricky Pierce in 1990.

Golden State’s Jarrett Jack finished third, followed by Kevin Martin of Oklahoma City and Ryan Anderson of New Orleans.

Smith joined the Knicks in the middle of last season after returning from China, where he had signed during the lockout. But it wasn’t until the middle of this season when he finally learned to stop settling for erratic jumpers, instead taking smart shots.

“The opportunity was there,” said Anthony, a former teammate in Denver.

“They asked me what I thought about him, I told them we’ll be fools not to go get him. At that point in time he was the only thing that was out there, he was trying to get out of China, and we had to go get him. I’d played with him for mostly all my career so I know what type of person he is, I know what type of player he is. And this right here was almost like a second chance for him.”

H7N9 Bird Flu Cases In China Rise To 104; Deaths At 21

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The number of confirmed H7N9 bird flu cases in China increased by two to 104 during the 24-hour period through 4 p.m. on Monday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.  Twenty-one of the sick have died.

The two new cases were in Zhejiang Province, which has in recent days surpassed Shanghai with the most cases with 40 versus 33.

More than 40% of the H7N9 cases involve victims that have not handled poultry, state media said. However, authorities at the same time have said there has been no confirmed person-to-person transmission of the flu. "Our knowledge of H7N9 bird flu is very limited," the Shanghai Daily newspaper quoted Yang Weizhong, deputy director the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as saying today.

Beijing and major eastern Chinese cities have closed live poultry markets and are taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus. Fujian Sunner, a large chicken process that supplies Yum!'s KFC chain and McDonald's, said today it lost 78 million yuan, or about $13 million, in the first quarter, harmed in part by fallout from the spread of H7N9 bird flu.  Consumers have been wary of chicken, even though the government says cooked meat is safe.

Chinese-language media last week estimated that the country's poultry industry has lost 17 billion yuan, or $2.7 billion.  

– Follow me on Twitter @rflannerychina

 

Does McDowell now become a favorite for US Open?

Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won the RBC Heritage on Sunday, his first PGA Tour win since the 2010 U.S. Open.(Photo: Streeter Lecka, Getty Images)

Graeme McDowell missed the cut at the Masters just more than a week ago. On Sunday, he displayed the kind of game that can win U.S. Opens, such as the one he won in 2010 at wind-swept Pebble Beach.

McDowell, who honed his game on the windy seaside course of Northern Ireland, handled the windy conditions and the tight confines of Harbour Town better than anyone else at the top of the leaderboard on his way to a playoff victory against Webb Simpson.

RBC HERITAGE: McDowell earns second Tour win

The RBC Heritage was his second PGA Tour victory.

“I guess the weather was kind of what the doctor ordered for me today,” McDowell said of the steady driving winds — there were gusts of up to 45 mph in the area. “I needed an opportunity to get close to these leaders.

“I needed the course to play tough today, and I got that.”

Exactly the kind of thing a U.S. Open course delivers — even without adverse weather conditions.

Tiger Woods is listed as the favorite for the June 13-16 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club outside Philadelphia, a minute track set to feature thin fairways, high rough and slick greens. McDowell is down the list … for now. (Odds are from Ladbrokes.com, and McDowell moved up from 33-1 a week earlier.)

Tiger Woods 6/1

Rory McIlroy 10/1

Lee Westwood 16/1

Luke Donald 20/1

Adam Scott 20/1

Justin Rose 25/1

Graeme McDowell 25/1

Phil Mickelson 33/1

Sergio Garcia 33/1

Brandt Snedeker 33/1

Charl Schwartzel 40/1

Jason Day 40/1

Rickie Fowler 40/1

Thorbjorn Olesen 40/1

Dustin Johnson 40/1

Louis Oosthuizen 40/1

Martin Kaymer 40/1

Ian Poulter 40/1

Ernie Els 40/1

"Futurama" will end seven-season run on Sept. 4

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According to Kendrick Lamar, people come to Los Angeles for the city's "women, weed and weather."

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Ultimately, the Congress must reform or repeal the marijuana laws, but elected representatives still feel no pressure to do so. There are 36 U.S. Senators that represent medical marijuana states, but none of them have ever

We know, we know. Our friends in Washington and Colorado can legally enjoy bong rips while the fate of San Francisco's medical marijuana community still remains in the hands of the justice department.

At a marijuana celebration for the 4/20 counterculture holiday in Denver Saturday, police say shots were fired, resulting in at least two injuries. One victim is said to have been shot in the leg, and another down with unknown

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Monday Deadline: Glenn Beck Says Boston Bombing Conspiracy is 'One of the ...

Glenn Beck says there's something unusual about the plunge in gold prices, according to Buzzfeed. Beck first expresses skepticism toward the recent plunge in prices. "The only thing I have to fear is the government, quite frankly," he said. "The

Hours after it was debunked, Glenn Beck continued to beat the drum of a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration is deporting a Saudi national who was behind the tragic bombings at the Boston marathon.

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Glenn Beck says there's something unusual about the plunge in gold prices, according to Buzzfeed. Beck first expresses skepticism toward the recent plunge in prices. "The only thing I have to fear is the government, quite frankly," he said. "The

Beck gives the government until tomorrow to come clean, or supposedly he will.

Food poisonings up from raw milk, poultry bacteria - USA Today

NEW YORK — Health officials are seeing more food poisonings caused by a bacteria commonly linked to raw milk and poultry.

A study released Thursday said campylobacter (camp-eh-lo-BACK’-ter) cases grew by 14% over the last five years.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report was based on foodborne infections in only 10 states — about 15% of the American population. But it is seen as a good indicator of food poisoning trends.

Overall, food poisonings held fairly steady in recent years. There were no significant jumps in cases from most other food bugs, including salmonella and E. coli. But campylobacter rose, and last year accounted for more than a third of food poisoning illnesses in those states and about a 10th of the deaths.

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Denver Museum paleontologist discovers new dinosaur

While a whole new generation is discovering dinosaurs in the re-release of “Jurassic Park,” a Denver scientist has uncovered a whole new dinosaur species.

Joseph Sertich, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature Science, discovered the Dahalokely tokana (“dah-HAH-loo-KAY-lee too-KAH-nah”) on a Madagascar cliff.

The vertebrae and ribs were excavated in 2007 and 2010, near the city of Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) in northernmost Madagascar, Sertich said.

It may have taken years to confirm, but those parts in some dinosaurs are distinct, so the research team was able to confirm the new species, he said.

“This dinosaur was closely related to other famous dinosaurs from the southern continents, like the horned Carnotaurus from Argentina and Majungasaurus, also from Madagascar,” Sertich said. “This just reinforces the importance of exploring new areas around the world where undiscovered dinosaur species are still waiting.”

A self-described “dinosaur-loving kid who never grew up,” Sertich has discovered about a dozen dino species and named a couple, he said.

“It’s not uncommon to find new things when looking in new areas,” Sertich said of the success throughout his career.

From these new bones discovered in the riverbed of a cliff, Sertich and his team have determined the Dahalokely tokana would have been between 9 and 14 feet long and lived about 90 million years ago, Sertich said.

That period of time is significant because it helps to fill a gap in the fossil record, Sertich said.

Until now, no dinosaur remains from between 165 and 70 million years ago could be identified to the species level in Madagascar, but Dahalokely shortens that gap by 20 million years, Sertich said.

The bones are currently in Denver, but Sertich said it is unclear whether they will be displayed.

The name Dahalokely tokana is from the Malagasy language, meaning “lonely small bandit.”

Ryan Parker: 303-954-2409, rparker@denverpost.com or twitter.com/ryanparkerdp

Antares Rocket Launch Scheduled for Sunday

The Antares rocket has ben rescheduled to blast into orbit Sunday after a second launch attempt expected Saturday was scrubbed because of upper-level winds.

If the third time’s the charm and all goes according to plan, the commercial rocket, being launched as part of a mission to resupply the International Space Station, should be visible to million of people from the Eastern Seaboard as far west as central Pennsylvania.

Orbital Sciences has released expected views of Antares from various vantage points.  

In Maryland, DC, and most other places on the east coast, the rocket is expected to rise no more than 10 degrees above the horizon. That’s roughly the height of an adult’s fist held at arm’s length. If you want to attempt to view the launch, seek an area with a clear view of the southeastern horizon. 

To watch the launch live online ? or to confirm that it’s going forward while you stand outside and look for it ? visit Space.com’s live stream from NASA TV, which is set to go live at 4:30 EDT. 

The Antares rocket was originally supposed to blast off on Wedesday from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on coastal Virginia, but that was scrubbed because of technical problems. All systems were go on Saturday, but concerns about winds scrubbed that launch, too.

"This is the biggest, loudest and brightest rocket ever to launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility," Orbital Sciences manager Frank Culbertson told a media briefing last week, according to Universe Today.

Orbital, whose earlier Pegasus rocket was the first privately developed space launch vehicle, has a $1.9 billion deal with NASA to conduct eight unmanned Cygnus resupply trips to the space station. The Cygnus capsule itself is under construction and is scheduled for its first trip to the space station in November, according to Space.com.

With suspect at large, MBTA comes to screeching halt

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The Governor lifted the "Shelter at Home" order at a 6 p.m. press conference.

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MBTA re-opened, shelter-in-place order lifted. By adamg – 4/19/13 – 6:12 pm. Gov. Patrick just gave the go-ahead for both, although the T says commuter rail remains shut. Also, remain alert – suspect is still at large. Reply · E-mail this page

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Will Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Be Released Without Permission?

Farrah Abraham seems to be in some trouble since she cannot get the $2 million that she wants for her sex tape and Vivid, an adult film company, wants the rights to it, bad!

Vivid’s founder, Steve Hirsch, has seen the sex tape and wants the rights to it, but has not agreed to Farrah’s asking price, TMZ reported.

Farrah’s lawyer sent out a cease and desist letter to Steve acknowledging for the first time, in writing, that the tape is Farrah’s only and that she has full rights to it. “Ms. Abraham retains ownership rights in this video and any unlawful conduct could infringe on those rights,” the letter said.

This basically means that Steve cannot, by any means, release the tape without consent from Farrah or pretty much until he pays up.

Farrah has many believing, including her father, that this tape is for personal use only, but current statements from Farrah say otherwise. She is not going to stop shopping her tape around until she receives the amount that she believes she deserves.

So, one question remains – will Farrah have to meet in the middle with a company, specifically Vivid, before her sex tape is sold? Either way, it is probably going to go public very soon.

Photo Credit: TMZ

Psy Is No 'Gentleman' In New Music Video

Evidenced by Psy’s music video for “Gentleman,” the follow-up to his zeitgeist-busting hit “Gangnam Style,” the Korean pop star has pretty clearly let mega-success go to his head.

In the four-minute clip for his new single, which debuted Saturday (April 13), Psy parades through a series of chic restaurants and shops, playing pranks on female companions eager to join his entourage.

The song’s throbbing electro beat immediately recalls the irresistible catchiness of “Gangnam Style,” but Psy’s performance only showcases how much sillier he’s become in the wake of his emergence as a worldwide phenomenon. Evidently he’s so rich now he can afford to get his tongue surgically embedded in his cheek. Although he expands upon the garish lifestyle he chronicled in the YouTube-record-breaking clip for its predecessor, “Gentleman” effectively parodies a rich heel, subjecting ladies within his celebrity orbit to “Billy Madison”-style gags like pulling chairs out from beneath them and speeding up treadmills until they fall off.

Although stink-palming a girl in a library ranks among the video’s best moments, his “performance” of an (admittedly unclear) English language lyric is the one we love best: As he says either “Wet Psy!” or “West Side” (and we hope it’s the former), Psy and two bikini-clad women are catapulted into a swimming pool. Meanwhile, he gleefully terrorizes a kids’ soccer game and holds up an unfortunate elevator passenger who desperately needs to pee before meeting his match â€" a buxom gym rat who gives him a taste of his own medicine.

One-hit wonder or not, Psy is clearly savvy enough to take advantage of his 15 minutes of fame, even if he doesn’t seem to take it too seriously. Even before the video cuts to behind-the-scenes footage of Psy laughing his way through its goofiest moments, he simultaneously satirizes superstardom and attempts to enhance his own, aiming to re-create “Gangnam Style” magic with a new dance routine. Will it work? I guess we’ll know when Matt Lauer starts doing it on the “Today” show.

Tune in to the 2013 MTV Movie Awards Sunday at 9 p.m. when host Rebel Wilson takes the stage at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. But first, don’t miss our live red-carpet pre-show at 8:30 p.m., and be sure to watch our All Access Live streaming cameras all night long.

Penske teams may face penalties after parts taken

Penske teams may face penalties after parts taken

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Last-minute scramble sends Logano to back as he fails to get to grid on time

FORT WORTH, Texas — As driver introductions wound down at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday evening, two cars remained in the garage area because NASCAR had confiscated some of their parts.

The Penske Racing teams of Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano face potential penalties in the coming week after parts of the vehicles’ rear-end housings were taken in pre-race inspection. The late inspection hang-up prompted a rush to get the cars through inspection before the race started, and Logano had to move to the rear of the field because NASCAR ruled his vehicle didn’t get to the starting grid on time.

Keselowski was able to keep his 16th-place starting spot. But both teams might be in for penalties due to parts that Robin Pemberton, NASCAR’s vice president for competition, told reporters were “not in the spirit of the rule.”

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“In pre-race inspection they felt like there was something that was a questionable item that they wanted replaced,” said Travis Geisler, Penske’s director of competition. “We replaced all the parts in question. They have them all. We’re working through the process here as it goes to get through inspection. Unfortunately a little tighter timeline here than we’d like to be on, but I certainly understand their position and don’t disagree with where they are.”

A rear-end housing is a casing that contains the gears and axels in the back of the vehicle. Teams began to get creative in that area last season, with the yawed setups sometimes employed on the previous generation of Sprint Cup car. Saturday, Geisler said the Penske teams weren’t trying anything particularly unorthodox in that area of the vehicles.

“There isn’t anything in there that’s groundbreaking as far as new pieces and parts,” he said. “But it’s a sport that moves all the time. (NASCAR is) doing what they need to do to ensure an even playing field, which I certainly agree with and expect them to do week in and week out. If there’s a question in their mind, we’d much rather put it out of their mind by changing the parts and making sure that they’re comfortable that we’re all on an even playing field. And I feel confident that we are all here tonight.”

Getting there, though, was a scramble. The Penske vehicles were the last two vehicles in the garage area, and Keselowski’s car successfully cleared the laser inspection platform as driver introductions wound down. Crewmen continued to scramble under the rear of the No. 22 car, which needed three passes to get though the laser platform, and passed the final stages of inspection just as the command to start engines was given.

“That’s what these guys do for a living, so it’s not really a crisis,” Geisler said of the 11th-hour changeover. “We do those kinds of things during practice at times. Everybody’s set up for it. It’s obviously not expected at this point in the day, but that’s racing. You have to expect the unexpected, and that’s the way it goes.”

Having gotten the cars on track in time for the start of the race, the Penske team now faces the prospect of penalties from NASCAR. “We always have a good, open dialogue with them. They’ll keep us in the loop about how they feel about what’s going on there,” Geisler said. “I’m sure well all discuss that in the upcoming days.”

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Maria Tallchief, Who Dazzled at the Ballet, Dies at 88

Her daughter, the poet Elise Paschen, confirmed the death. Ms. Tallchief lived in Chicago.

A former wife and muse of the choreographer George Balanchine, Ms. Tallchief achieved renown with Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, dazzling audiences with her speed, energy and fire. Indeed, the part that catapulted her to acclaim, in 1949, was the title role in the company’s version of Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” one of many that Balanchine created for her.

The choreographer Jacques d’Amboise, who was a 15-year-old corps dancer in Balanchine’s “Firebird” before becoming one of City Ballet’s stars, compared Ms. Tallchief to two of the century’s greatest ballerinas: Galina Ulanova of the Soviet Union and Margot Fonteyn of Britain.

“When you thought of Russian ballet, it was Ulanova,” he said an interview on Friday. “With English ballet, it was Fonteyn. For American ballet, it was Tallchief. She was grand in the grandest way.”

A daughter of an Osage Indian father and a Scottish-Irish mother, Ms. Tallchief left Oklahoma at an early age, but she was long associated with the state nevertheless. She was one of five dancers of Indian heritage, all born at roughly the same time, who came to be called the Oklahoma Indian ballerinas: the others included her younger sister, Marjorie Tallchief, as well as Rosella Hightower, Moscelyne Larkin and Yvonne Chouteau.

Growing up at a time when many American dancers adopted Russian stage names, Ms. Tallchief, proud of her Indian heritage, refused to do so, even though friends told her that it would be easy to transform Tallchief into Tallchieva.

She was born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief on Jan. 24, 1925 in a small hospital in Fairfax, Okla. Her father, Alexander Joseph Tall Chief, was a 6-foot-2 full-blooded Osage Indian whom his daughters idolized and women found strikingly handsome, Ms. Tallchief later wrote. (She and her sister joined their surnames when they began dancing professionally.)

Her mother, the former Ruth Porter, met Mr. Tall Chief, a widower, while visiting her sister, who was a cook and housekeeper for Mr. Tall Chief’s mother.

“When Daddy was a boy, oil was discovered on Osage land, and overnight the tribe became rich,” Ms. Tallchief recounted in “Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina,” her 1997 autobiography written with Larry Kaplan. “As a young girl growing up on the Osage reservation in Fairfax, Okla., I felt my father owned the town. He had property everywhere. The local movie theater on Main Street, and the pool hall opposite, belonged to him. Our 10-room, terracotta-brick house stood high on a hill overlooking the reservation.”

She had her first ballet lessons in Colorado Springs, where the family had a summer home. She also studied piano and, blessed with perfect pitch, contemplated becoming a concert pianist.

But dance occupied her attention after the family, feeling confined in Oklahoma, moved to Los Angeles when she was 8. The day they arrived, her mother took her daughters into a drugstore for a snack at the soda fountain. While waiting for their order, Mrs. Tall Chief chatted with a druggist and asked him if he knew of a good dancing teacher. He recommended Ernest Belcher.

As Ms. Tallchief recalled in her memoir, “An anonymous man in an unfamiliar town decided our fate with those few words.”

Mr. Belcher, the father of the television and film star Marge Champion, was an excellent teacher, and Ms. Tallchief soon realized that her training in Oklahoma had been potentially ruinous to her limbs. At 12 she started studies with Bronislava Nijinska, a former choreographer for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, who had opened a studio in Los Angeles.

Nijinska, a formidable pedagogue, gave Ms. Tallchief special encouragement. But she also had classes with other distinguished teachers who passed through Los Angeles. One, Tatiana Riabouchinska, became her chaperon on a trip to New York City, which, since the outbreak of World War II, had become the base of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a leading touring company. She joined the troupe in 1942.

Anna Kisselgoff contributed reporting.

Immersing Himself to Play a Pioneer

"Jackie Robinson, Mack Robinson, those two brothers started right here in Pasadena and both of them right here at Pasadena City College, and they went forward and changed the world. What today is about is PCC being so joyous," said Dr. Mark Rocha, the

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Jackie Robinson was one of the best players in baseball during his era and in his best years, there wasn't a more complete ballplayer to ever wear Dodger blue.

Gottfried: Jonathan Winters was mad brilliant

Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent.

Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, has died at age 87. Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says the Ohio native died Thursday evening at his

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FDA advisory panel to reconsider Avandia safety

By Ransdell Pierson

Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:19pm EDT

(Reuters) – A federal health advisory panel in June will reconsider safety data on GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Avandia diabetes drug, although the British drugmaker on Friday said it has not sought permission to make the nearly discontinued drug widely available again in the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September 2010 placed severe restrictions on use of the pill, due to heart attacks and deaths linked to the product, saying it should be available only to patients who cannot control their diabetes with any other drug. Glaxo estimates that only about 3,300 people in the United States still take the former blockbuster product.

Glaxo spokeswoman Mary Anne Rhyne said an item in the upcoming edition of the Federal Register said the FDA advisory panel will meet on June 5-6 to discuss the drug. She speculated the advisory panel will ask for an update from Glaxo on safety information it sought from the drugmaker in 2010.

The panel at the time had asked Glaxo to commission a re-examination of a large study of Avandia, called RECORD, to better assess the drug’s safety. It also asked Glaxo to devise a means of better controlling availability and use of the drug, called a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy plan.

“We haven’t asked for any changes in the drug label or in distribution for Avandia,” Rhyne said. Moreover, she said Glaxo had not requested the planned June meeting of the FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic advisory panel, which will be held jointly with the FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory committee.

Rhyne said a group of medical experts from Duke University has re-examined the RECORD study and recently submitted its findings to the FDA. She said it found there was no significant difference in cardiovascular safety between Avandia and two other types of widely used oral drugs – metformin and sulfonylureas.

(Additional reporting by Michele Gershberg in New York; editing by Gary Hill and Matthew Lewis)

China says new bird flu cases found in central China

BEIJING |
Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:17pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) – Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region and bringing the total number nationwide to 51, Xinhua state news agency said on Sunday.

One of the victims, a 34-year old man in the city of Kaifeng, is now critically ill in hospital, while the other, a 65-year old farmer from Zhoukou, is stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected.

A total of 19 people in close contact with the two victims were under observation but had shown no signs of infection, Xinhua said.

On Saturday, the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a seven year-old child in the capital of Beijing had been infected by the H7N9 bird flu virus, the first case to be reported outside of eastern China, where the new strain emerged last month.

The child’s parents work in the poultry trade.

Investigators are trying to ascertain the source amid fears that it could cause a deadly pandemic similar to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, which killed about one in 10 of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide.

But authorities say there is still no indication of human-to-human transmission of the virus, which has already killed 11 people in Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui.

(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Think the Planet Isn't Warming? Check the Ocean

A recent article in The Economist stated that “over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar.” The Economist went to great lengths to point out that “the mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures … does not mean global warming is a delusion.” But the piece was predictably lauded by climate skeptics as “further evidence” of the case against climate change.

Except that … it wasn’t.

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As The Economist piece itself pointed out, this wasn’t an argument that “global warming has ‘stopped.‘” The past two decades have been the hottest in recorded history; of the nine hottest years on record, eight have come since 2000. The question, though, is why the year-on-year/decade-on-decade increase appears to have been somewhat less in the past 10 to 15 years, given the ongoing increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

To which, there are several answers.

First, the smaller the temporal time scale, the more the short-term fluctuations, forcings and feedbacks â€" from aerosol emissions to La Niña events â€" can distort the bigger picture. Over a longer scale, the evidence is increasing that the rate of warming is probably unprecedented in over 11,000 years.

Second, The Economist article, and the skeptic narrative that has absorbed it, focuses on what is known as “climate sensitivity,” which is how much surface warming the planet will experience in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations relative to pre-Industrial Revolution levels. (Those pre-industrial levels were approximately 280 ppm; a doubling therefore would be roughly 560 ppm. Present levels are closing in on 397 ppm.)

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But, as climate blogger Joe Romm points out, climate sensitivity is but one factor in determining how much the planet will warm in the future; another hugely important one is the extent to which CO2 concentrations will actually increase, and present trends suggest they will blow past 560 ppm and wind up closer to 1,000 ppm. Additionally, while climate sensitivity estimates are greatly influenced by short-term feedbacks such as sea ice extent and water vapor, they do not factor in “slow” feedbacks, such as the release of methane as a result of tundra melt. Nor do they consider the non-linearity of such feedbacks â€" i.e. the fact that they may become significant relatively suddenly.

Third, the data referred to by The Economist suggest that climate sensitivity may be at the very low end of projected estimates of between 2 degrees Celsius and 4.5 degrees Celsius. If that indeed does prove to be the case, then that’s obviously good news. But, as Zeke Hausfather pointed out in a post at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media: “A world with a relatively low climate sensitivity â€" say in the range of 2 °C â€" but with high emissions and with atmospheric concentrations three to four times those of pre-industrial levels is still probably a far different planet than the one we humans have become accustomed to. And it’s likely not one we would find nearly so hospitable.”

Finally, and most importantly, there is plenty of reason to suspect that climate sensitivity isn’t lower than expected; because, critically, The Economist article and the skeptic schadenfreude it spawned missed one hugely important point. Such discussions of climate sensitivity focus on surface warming of the planet; several recent studies have shown that in fact an increasing amount of warming is taking place beneath the surface, in the ocean depths.

Ninety percent of warming goes into heating, not the land or the atmosphere, but the ocean; two recent papers, in 2012 and earlier this year, showed that approximately 30 percent of recent ocean warming has been taken up by waters below depths of 700 meters (about 2,300 feet), where few measurements had previously taken place. That was reinforced by a European study, published earlier this week, which, according to Reuters, found “that the oceans took up more warmth from the air around 2000. That would help explain the slowdown in surface warming but would also suggest that the pause may be only temporary and brief … Lead author Virginie Guemas of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Barcelona said the hidden heat may return to the atmosphere in the next decade, stoking warming again.”

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Indeed, add together the net global heat content for the atmosphere, land, ice, surface ocean waters and deep ocean waters, and the total shows a continued, clear â€" and, in fact, rising â€" increase. As climate scientist and blogger Dana Nuccitelli, co-author of the aforementioned 2012 paper on ocean warming, points out, this means that “the slowed warming at the surface is only temporary, and consistent with (research indicating the existence of) ‘hiatus decades’ …  The global warming end result will be the same, but the pattern of surface warming over time may be different than we expect … while many people wrongly believe global warming has stalled over the past 10â€"15 years, in reality that period is “the most sustained warming trend” in the past half century.  Global warming has not paused, it has accelerated.”

IMAGE: Icicles melting in the Arctic midnight sun, Baffin Island, Canada. (Louise Murray/Corbis)

Ready for Love's Tim Lopez Reveals His "Awkward" Past With Leah—Watch Now!

Ready For Love did less than Take It All did when that latter debuted on December 10, 2012 with a 2.2/5, and less than Stars Earn Stripes' 1.7/5 on August 13, 2012. NBC won the night among Adults 18-49 but CBS took the viewership top spot with 12.834

The rocker confesses to getting nervous while filming in front of a live audience, telling THR: “You never know what the girls are gonna throw at you.”

Executive producer Eva Longoria offers an answer to ABC's.

Awkward alert! NBC's new reality hit Ready for Love, hosted by Giuliana and Bill Rancic, premiered just this week and it already has the Twitterverse buzzing. Why? Because one of the series' bachelors, Plain White T's rocker Tim Lopez, knew one of his

Awkward alert! NBC's new reality hit Ready for Love, hosted by Giuliana and Bill Rancic, premiered just this week and it already has the Twitterverse buzzing. Why? Because one of the series' bachelors, Plain White T's rocker Tim Lopez, knew one of his

Luke Bryan ACM Entertainer of the Year Win Evokes Tears of Both Sorrow and Joy

Luke Bryan. Photo Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images. It took a few moments for Luke Bryan to gain his composure after hearing his name called as entertainer of the year at Sunday night's (April 7) Academy of Country Music

Luke Bryan pulled off a shocking win on Sunday night when he beat out heavyweights Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift to win the Academy of Country Music Award's biggest prize of the

Blake and Luke are no Brad and Carrie, but both country stars were happily game to roast each other during the ACM Awards opening tonight. While their cheesy delivery could use some work (Luke Bryan, not wanting to appear too rude, kept laughing hard

Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and Eric Church won big at the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night, while Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood walked away empty-handed. Blake Shelton kicked off the night with a group performance of his

"I can honestly say that when I close my eyes tonight and go to sleep, I will obviously say my prayers for being so blessed by God," said Bryan, who co-hosted the ACM Awards with Blake Shelton at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. "I will be blessed by the

Kate Upton and Sean Combs heat up as she leaves pitcher Justin Verlander ...

Call them Diddyup!

Here’s a duo that’ll make your heads spin â€" Kate Upton and Sean “Diddy” Combs are hot and heavy.

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After the 20-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl said she was single on Valentine’s Day and had broken up with star Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, she was spotted a little over a month later, on March 24, sucking face with Diddy, 43, at club LIV in Miami Beach.

“They were kissing, they weren’t hiding it,” an eyewitness tells Confidenti@l.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is 23 years older than Kate Upton — but age is only a number, right? 

Earlier that night, Diddy, hosting a bash at the club, had tweeted: “Miami … Ain’t no party like a @iamdiddy party … Meet me at Club Liv 2nite #CIROCBOYZ in the building!!!”

The curvy Upton soon joined him in the VIP section and she and the hip-hop mogul stayed together, partying late into the night.

Following their hot hookup in South Beach, the duo met up again in New York, sharing an intimate dinner together at Gemma in the Bowery Hotel on Thursday.

“They were having dinner together,” a source tells us.

Upton, silent on Twitter that day, the next morning tweeted: “Cuddling with my favorite tiger ” an obvious diss to Verlander, because she linked to a picture of her holding an actual tiger cub in a Bazaar magazine shoot.

Diddy, who has been linked to Cameron Diaz and most recently singer Cassie, was spotted with the latter house-hunting in Beverly Hills in January. The relationship has appeared to have since cooled off.

Cassie, whose last album was released in 2006, posed last year in a GQ spread labeled “Diddy’s Girl.” Last summer she frolicked topless on a yacht with the rapper while on vacation in St. Tropez. Diddy publicly acknowledged their relationship last September, tweeting a picture of her and writing, “I’m a very lucky man #knowthat.”

Upton, the object of every straight man’s desire, spent New Year’s Eve with Verlander at the Ritz-Carlton on St. Thomas.

In other sports crushes, Michigan’s Spike Albrecht hoped to get Upton into his own personal Final Four. The freshman backup, who electrified the crowd at the Georgia Dome in Monday night’s NCAA title game, tweeted afterwards:

“@KateUpton hey saw you at the game last night, thanks for coming out!” Hope to see you again

In the game, Albrecht clearly had his eyes on Upton, who was clad in a V-neck T-shirt there.

A rep for Upton says, “They met once a year ago and there’s no further relationship at this point.”

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Howard Stern, left, won’t vote on the performance of his gastroenterologist, whose ventriloquist act is on ‘American Idol.’ It’ll be up to remaining judges Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel.

‘TALENT’ ACT’S A GAS FOR STERN

Howard Stern found himself identifying with a puppet a little too much on Monday.

At a taping of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” at Hammerstein Ballroom, the shock-jock judge got a big jolt when his gastroenterologist auditioned for the nationally televised talent show where Stern is a judge.

“Wait, the guy that sticks his finger up you is a ventriloquist?” fellow judge Howie Mandel said to Stern upon hearing the news.

Mandel then turned to show producers to see if it was fair that Stern be asked to judge a man with whom he has a very personal relationship. Stern recused himself from the voting process. That means his doctor, whose name was withheld, would need two thumbs-up votes from the remaining three judges (Heidi Klum, Mel B and Mandel) to advance in the competition and go to Las Vegas. “AGT” lawyers also weighed in to keep things on the level.

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“It kind of disturbed me when I learned he was a ventriloquist,” Stern admitted. “I have been on this table nude, with my knees up in the air … I have shared incredibly intimate moments … and it’s disturbing to see him on stage.”

SETH CHARLIZE GO A LONG WAY BACK

No, we’re not together. Model/actress Charlize Theron and funnyman Seth McFarlane were all smiles walking out of Beverly Hills’ Matsuhisa restaurant Tuesday night. Until they saw the cameras. The pair could’ve taken home Razzies for worst supporting actors as they suddenly started walking far apart and looking like they’d never met. Until recently, MacFarlane had been linked to “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke.

‘GRACE’ IS A CLOSE CALL

It’s fitting that Glenn Close’s next project is called “The Grace That Keeps This World.” At a party following the premiere of “Disconnect,” the Oscar- and Grammy-nominated, Tony- and Emmy-winning actress could’ve pulled the diva card, but instead served herself and didn’t make a fuss. “Glenn was completely low key,” said our spy. “She even waited on the buffet line for food.” After filling her plate with mini-sliders and crudités, Close ducked into a banquette and chowed down.

BEADLE WILL COLLAR HELP FOR ASPCA

Bark, bark for Beadle! The ASPCA has named NBC’s “The Crossover” host Michelle Beadle as celebrity ambassador. The animal lover (and fun WWE superfan) will help the group with their campaigns and fund-raisers. “As a pet parent and life-long animal lover, I’ve experienced firsthand the incredible impact animals can have on our lives,” Beadle says. “I am so proud to be working with the ASPCA to help support their life-saving work for animals across the country and further their mission to prevent animal cruelty.”

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Lindsay Lohan got together with David Letterman on his show Tuesday.

LILO STILL THE LATEST THING

Best known for her late-night antics, Lindsay Lohan stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater for a Tuesday taping of “The Late Show With David Letterman.” When Letterman pressed LiLo on her upcoming trip to rehab, she awkwardly said, “We didn’t discuss this in the pre-interview.”

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KIMSANITY!

Kim Kardashian managed to go from disaster to diva in a matter of hours Tuesday. She was spotted earlier in the day in Los Angeles, makeup-free, looking both bumpy and sloppy. But later she had cleaned up well, heading out in a billowy blouse, black pants and red shoes to visit an office complex in West Hollywood.

KRAVIS WRANGLES A LUNCH DEAL

Billionaire investor and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co. co-founder Henry Kravis took a stroll through the lobby of the SLS hotel on Collins Ave. in South Beach on Sunday, appearing to be hunting for a lunch spot. After a quick cruise through the lobby and pool area, Kravis and his impeccably dressed third wife, philanthropist Marie-Josée Kravis, left the hotel without eating. The duo were spotted again Monday, lunching at an outdoor table at the Setai Miami Beach, where Kravis drank bottled water and dined on a hearty-looking lobster with lots of lemons on the side.

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Model Miranda Kerr is getting out of the Angel biz with Victoria’s Secret.

KERR CAN’T KEEP THE SECRET

Miranda Kerr has shed her angel wings. The most popular Victoria’s Secret gal is walking away from the lingerie brand after demanding a “massive” contract and having too many international commitments, a source tells us, adding that there had been rumblings she was planning to leave. Us Weekly first reported that Kerr’s $1 million, three-year contract was not renewed. “She will always be an angel to me,” says VS president Ed Razek. Kerr will still walk the runway in this year’s show.

ROCKEFELLERS’ BIG CATCH

Being a Rockefeller has its perks, but at Monday’s Oceana Inaugural Ball at Christie’s, Susan Cohn Rockefeller says the surname she acquired in 2008 comes with responsibilities, too. “My husband is David [Rockefeller], and it’s his family legacy, and we both live with a lot of humility because there’s so much to be done,” she said, citing overfishing of the oceans as one of her concerns. “The name can open doors, but it’s really the work that you do that counts.”

HARRY BACK FOR MANE EVENT

Prince Harry’s returning to America, but will he keep his pants on this time? This visit he’ll officially be horsing around on May 15 at Connecticut’s Greenwich Polo Club. Harry will lead the Sentebale Land Rover team against Nacho Figueras and Peter Brant’s St. Regis team at the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup. At stake will be blue-blood bragging rights. Grace Torquhil Ian Campbell, the 13th duke of Argyll, is expected to attend the prestigious invite-only event.

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Dennis Rodman is back from Pyongyang, where he and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, conducted roundball diplomacy last month.

ENVOY RODMAN THIRSTY FOR A ROLE

A day after being fired from “Celebrity Apprentice,” self-appointed U.S. ambassador to North Korea Dennis Rodman took time away from international diplomacy to party at lower East Side club DL. After taping “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, Rodman rolled into the tri-level hotspot and immediately hit the bar. He “requested a drink right when he walked in called Three Wise Men,” said our insider. The cocktail is a mix of Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Johnnie Walker whiskies. That ought to make him a lot wiser indeed.

DNA pioneer Francis Crick letter sells for $5.3m at New York auction

11 April 2013
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Crick wrote to his son in 1953 including a sketch of the DNA structure

A letter written by scientist Francis Crick describing his discovery of the double helix shape of DNA has been sold for $5.3m (£3.45m).

An anonymous buyer purchased it at a New York auction on Wednesday.

Crick wrote to his 12-year-old son Michael in March 1953 describing the discovery and including a sketch.

The Nobel Prize medal given to Crick for the breakthrough is expected to fetch between $500,000 (£325,000) and “several million” at auction later.

Professor Crick, who died aged 88 in 2004, helped discover the “secret of life” at Cambridge University in 1953.

‘Stained lab coat’

The letter described Crick and Watson’s “beautiful” discovery

In the seven-page letter Crick told how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism “by which life comes from life”.

It was written more than a month before the pair officially published their work.

The letter began: “My dear Michael, Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery.

“We have built a model for des-oxy-ribose-nucleic-acid (read carefully) called DNA for short.”

He described it as a “beautiful” structure and included a sketch of it, underneath which he wrote: “The model looks much nicer than this.”

The letter concluded: “Read this carefully so that you will understand it. When you come home we will show you the model.

“Lots of love, Daddy.”

The letter was expected to fetch about $1m (£652,000), a spokesman for Christie’s said.

It was a record for a letter sold at auction, he added.

Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”.

The medal will be sold later at Heritage Auctions in New York together with the cheque and diploma Crick received as part of the prize and one of his lab coats, which has “various stains on it”.

His family will donate 20% of the profit to researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Crick received the medal in 1962

The scientist’s granddaughter, Kindra Crick, said the medal had been locked away for most of the time since it was awarded.

She said: “This marks the 60th anniversary of the historic discovery of the structure of DNA and 50 years have passed since Francis Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize.

“Our hope is that, by having it available for display, it can be an inspiration to the next generation of scientists.”

Crick was born in 1916 in Weston Favell near Northampton and educated at Northampton Grammar School. The twice-married scientist died in July 2004 in San Diego.

Rosalind Franklin also played a key role in the discovery of DNA but died in 1958, before the prize was awarded.

Devils' Anton Volchenkov faces hearing for elbowing

Boston’s Brad Marchand grabs his head after he’s elbowed by New Jersey’s Anton Volchenkov.(Photo: Bruce Bennett, Getty Images)

New Jersey Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov was the victim in the first suspension of the 2012-13 season.

He could become the latest to be suspended after his Thursday morning phone hearing with NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shananan for throwing an elbow the night before.

He appeared to lead with his elbow when hitting Brad Marchand in the head during the second period. The Boston Bruins winger grabbed his head and slowly dropped to the ice.

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Marchand had to be helped to the dressing room and the Bruins announced during the third period that he was not returning for the night. There was no update on his condition after the game.

Volchenkov received a five-minute major and game misconduct.

Volchenkov, who was charged by Brayden Schenn in a January suspension for the Philadelphia Flyers forward, has a previous suspension on his record: three games in February 2011 for elbowing Zach Boychuk.

Though that happened too long ago to make Volchenkov a repeat offender for the purpose of determining the per-game cost of any suspension, Shanahan can factor it into determining a punishment for the defenseman.

Any loss of Volchenkov would be difficult for the Devils, who are mired in an eight-game losing streak and also lost defenseman Bryce Salvador to a wrist injury on Wednesday night when he blocked a Zdeno Chara shot.

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