Sunday, April 1, 2012

Kentucky fans riot

  • LEXINGTON, Ky. - Post-game revelry in Lexington turned to violence and fire-setting as University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets surrounding campus, prompting police in riot gear to move in.
  • (USA Today)
  • LOUISVILLE, Ky.
  • (Associated Press)
  • Post-game revelry in Lexington turned to destruction and fire-setting as University of Kentucky fans swarmed the streets surrounding the campus, prompting police in riot gear to move in.
  • (Courier-Journal)
  • It should go without saying to celebrate or mourn responsibly after a big sports event in your home town. Apparently, the good folks of Lexington, Ky. need a little bit of a reminder.
  • (NESN.com)
  • NEW ORLEANS _ Kansas and Kentucky have never met in a Final Four its own scary moments before beating in-state rival Louisville, setting off riots amongst crazed Wildcats fans in Lexington.
  • (nola.com)
  • Police closed the intersection of Euclid and Woodland for a few hours as fans poured into the streets celebrating UKs win.
  • (WKYT 27)
  • KENTUCKY FAN. Need I say more? Karen Sypher Do these people not even wait until the game is over to riot? Things sound like theyre getting really bad outside. A fire truck just repeatedly slapped its siren.
  • (SBNation.com)

Kansas

  • NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of padded, orange seat cushions — a Final Four gift to the 73,361 fans who crammed inside the Superdome — cascaded toward the court in a mini-hurricane from just about every nook and cranny of the world's largest indoor stadium.
  • (New York Post)
  • NEW ORLEANS — Even though the national semifinal between storied programs Kansas and Ohio State had the prime-time slot on CBS, it was relegated to the undercard in this Final Four.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • Kansas, the underrated, undervalued team thats been teetering on the edge of the tournament since before it even began, is now one of the last two left.
  • (FOXSports.com)
  • NEW ORLEANS - Each time he takes the court, Jeff Withey knows hes got a job to do. If he does it well, he can give his team something better than a dunk, or even a three-pointer. Withey can give Kansas a four-point swing.
  • (USA Today)
  • Bruce Weber knows that Kansas State fans may not accept him right away. That much became clear when a small rally for another coaching candidate turned into a protest of his hiring. The former Illinois coach doesnt have a problem with that, though.
  • (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
  • NEW ORLEANS — Well, this matchup is going to look familiar. John Calipari and his Kentucky juggernaut will face Kansas for the national championship on Monday night.
  • (Nashville Tennessean)
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  • (Salon)
  • NEW ORLEANS - There will be another game Saturday night. It will have nothing to do with Kentucky, other than the winner will be playing some school from Kentucky on Monday night for the national championship.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Welcome to "The Other Game" at the Final Four. OK, so, the Ohio State-Kansas matchup may not have the fantastic freshmen, the outspoken coaches or blood-feud story line of the opening semifinal between Kentucky and Louisville.
  • (Collegebaseball.rivals.com)

Bird flu 2012

  • In a secure laboratory built to contain harmful pathogens, Fouchier took the H5N1 bird flu virus and mutated it, through some worryingly simple steps, into an airborne strain that spread swiftly among ferrets in neighbouring cages.
  • (The Guardian)
  • A confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt has taken the life of a woman from Dakahlia Governorate according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
  • (Examiner)
  • NEW YORK -- The U.S. governments biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, dont reveal details bioterrorists could use.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old has died of bird flu in Indonesia. He is the countrys sixth fatality from the virus so far this year.
  • (Houston Chronicle)
  • A government advisory committee has reconsidered its advice to keep certain details of bird flu experiments secret. Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly published, the committee now says.
  • (NPR News)
  • Scientists, security experts, flu virologists and others are arguing over whether the details of experiments with lab-altered forms of bird flu can be made public, or whether that would amount to publishing the recipe for a superflu that could be used as a bioweapon.
  • (NPR News)
  • The pro-Hanoi Vietcong began a guerrilla campaign in the late 1950s to overthrow Diems government, which an official Vietcong statement described as a disguised colonial regime.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • While several countries around the world perform details genetic analyses of both the H5N1 strain and other influenza viruses that could contribute to a new pandemic, on a global scale the flu surveillance is in dire shape, reported Nature.
  • (Scientist)
  • KATHMANDU, March 19 (Xinhua) -- After the confirmation of bird flu avian influenza in a farm in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, the alert level among the residents of Kathmandu has been elevated.
  • (Xinhua News Agency)
  • One thing that's fascinated me about the ongoing debate about the manipulated bird flu (check out my pieces for Slate, the Loom, and the Times for background) is that it comes down, in large part, to information.
  • (DISCOVER)

The Week In Culture

  • This week we face a Full Moon on Friday Actually, your attraction to beauty from foreign places could morph into romance with someone from another culture. (Fun way to learn a new language.
  • (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • Local Restaurant Week celebrates the unique independent restaurants that contribute to our great WNY culture. Profits from each dollar spent at your locally-owned, independent restaurant stay in WNY and help make our community stronger.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • In addition, the Weeks' family papers — letters it takes more than a day or two to get a good taste of Cajun culture. Plan to take it in a little at a time.
  • (Nashville Tennessean)
  • Dan Issel or Wes Unseld. John Calipari or Rick Pitino. If the excitement and frenzy and turbulence thats been stirred up in Kentucky this week could be harnessed, we could solve our energy crisis, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
  • (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
  • I love the beauty and esthetics of this country, but I still feel anxiety as I venture forth to the culture that is so foreign to me. Just getting my hair cut and taking a taxi worried me this week.
  • (American Reporter)
  • This week's pattern is probably the most awesomest that I've but she has definitely done an outstanding job at creating a pop culture item. Click the SUBSCRIBE button if you like the crochet articles to be sent straight to your inbox.
  • (Examiner)
  • a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture is just what we need. With that in mind, here is whats on the radar screen in TV, music and film for the coming week.
  • (Winnipeg Free Press)
  • "Girls" makes its debut in two weeks. Dunham, just 25 reflective in part of post-feminist power dynamics and in part of our digital culture and virtual fixations.
  • (New York Times)

Titanic anniversary

  • A century after the great cruise ship disaster, a slew of themed projects bowing at the Cannes global market show that interest in the tragedy goes on (and on). This story first appeared in the April 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
  • (Hollywood Reporter)
  • To the places doing dinners marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, add Cafe Bacchus in Morgantown, W.Va. The restaurant is in a big brick former home at 76 High St.
  • (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • Ida Straus, the 63-year-old wife of Isidor Straus, 67, millionaire owner of R.H. Macy's department store, made headlines around the world by refusing to take a seat on a Titanic lifeboat without her husband.
  • (New York Post)
  • Reservations recommended as some dates sell out. Online tickets are $20.68 adults, $10.77 ages 5-12.
  • (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
  • Filet mignon, poached salmon, lamb with mint sauce, oysters, Waldorf Pudding and other courses will be recreated to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's fateful maiden voyage and raise scholarship money for needy students.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • For more coverage, visit natgeotv.com/titanic. Watch Titanic 100th anniversary specials on The National Geographic Channel starting April 8 at 8 p.m. ET.
  • (USA Today)
  • MCLEAN, Va., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, USA TODAY and National Geographic Channel kick off an editorial partnership with a series of jointly-produced reports to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
  • (Marketwatch)
  • Titanic museums in the Smoky Mountains and Branson The museums also will have special ceremonies April 14 in Tennessee and Missouri to commemorate the anniversary.
  • (News-Press)
  • Brown died in 1932 in New York City while pursuing another lifelong passion — acting.
  • (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
  • Additional PBS programs scheduled in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster include THE TITANIC WITH Len Goodman (April 10) and NOVA Why Ships Sink (April 18).
  • (Broadway World)

April fools day pranks

  • For Google, April Fools Day is the annual launch day for a slew of gag products and hoax services you'll likely never see in real life.
  • (searchenginewatch.com)
  • Some cultures refused to change. On the modern civil calendar, New Years Day is still January 1. Pulling off the perfect April Fools prank should be a weird sport unto itself. Heres why.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • April First is a day that will live in absurdity. April Fools Day is an opportunity for misfits, pranksters and even the media to pull some legs and cause brows to furrow.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • No joke: Researchers say we are moving away from personal, real-world pranks and into a world of media-driven jokes and Internet tomfoolery.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Watch out sleepyhead! Its April Fools Day and some people are waking up with pranks to play on you -- or theyre about to become your victims themselves! Some of you may have red faces remembering times you were played for the fool on the first day of April.
  • (Winnipeg Free Press)
  • No matter how great the chemistry, every relationship can get dull at times.
  • (FOX News)
  • In the spirit of having a little fun, here are five ways to prank your friends on April Fools Day. A longstanding American tradition, the inability to share the remote, often erupts in tension among siblings, roommates and significant others.
  • (USA Today)
  • April Fools Day is finally here, putting everyone on edge to prank and be the victim of av prank.
  • (International Business Times)
  • Yet April Fools Day is a time to have a little fun. Try some of these pranks to play on your Thunder fan this April Fools Day. Tell your Thunder fan that bad weather is canceling the game because the Bulls cant make it from their hotel to the arena.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • the Web is full of April Fool's pranks played by the big guys. So much so it's hard to tell what's real news and what's a joke. April 1, or April Fool's Day, is not a happy time for bloggers and journalists.
  • (TECH.BLORGE.com)

Supreme court judicial activists

  • Does Congress or the Supreme Court define the limits of economic regulation The Reagan-era lawyers sought to rein in what they saw as liberal judicial activism. For example, Fried and Kmiec thought the Roe vs.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • For anyone who still thought legal conservatives are dedicated to judicial restraint, the oral arguments before the Supreme the Roberts court and the Warren court, which conservatives have long railed against for being an activist court.
  • (New York Times)
  • The line between legislative and judicial has never been more blurred.
  • (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • The courts conservative wing appears ready to engage in some despicable judicial activism on ObamaCare But those Tea Party protesters outside may be matched by a Tea Party Supreme Court inside.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • No one benefits when one side says, Your judges are judicial activists, only to hear rivals say in response, Nuh uh, your judges are.
  • (MaddowBlog)