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Arctic Monkeys boost upbeat crowd as Glastonbury mud dries

By Isla Binnie

PILTON, England (Reuters) - British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys cranked up the volume to end the first day of the Glastonbury festival on Friday when the sun emerged after 18 hours of rain to brighten up the mood.

The band from Sheffield in northern England began by blasting their new single "Do I Wanna Know?" to about 100,000 high-spirited revelers from the main Pyramid stage at the world's largest greenfield music festival in southwest England.

"We're going to play all night long Glastonbury. Does that sound good?" yelled frontman Alex Turner to the screaming crowd which has been arriving at the sprawling 900 acre (365-hectare) farm site since Wednesday.

The band was the headline act of the day which started at 6 a.m. ET when Liam Gallagher, who led the 1990s supergroup Oasis with his brother Noel, kicked off three days of music with his band Beady Eye at one of the event's 58 stages.

Beady Eye's appearance was meant to be a surprise but ended up being one of the worst kept secrets of the 2013 festival after Gallagher was spotted arriving earlier in the week.

Despite vowing never to play at Glastonbury again after criticizing the event in 2004, Gallagher began an hour-long set with the hit "Flick of the Finger" and pulled out crowd pleasers like "Morning Glory".

"It's never too early for a bit of rock 'n roll aggro, is it?" said a black-clad Gallagher wearing a pair of sunglasses despite the overcast skies.

Other acts on Friday included Sinead O'Connor, Dizzee Rascal, a red-clad Rita Ora, and up-and-coming Bastille.

The year's main act, the Rolling Stones, will play on Saturday, with frontman Mick Jagger and his designer girlfriend L'Wren Scott tweeting their arrival on Friday, including Jagger posing outside his yurt, a Mongolian-style tent favored by well-heeled campers known as glampers.

British folk rockers Mumford & Sons will play the main stage on Sunday.

About 135,000 music fans have paid 205 pounds ($315) a ticket to attend the festival about 130 miles southwest of London. It began as a retreat for 1,500 hippies in 1970 who paid one pound and got free milk.

True to Glastonbury's alternative roots, the festival includes music of all genres. This year there are 2,000 acts, with surprising choices including U.S. country star Kenny Rogers, octogenarian British TV presenter Bruce Forsyth, and chanting monks.

Solange Knowles, younger sister to 2011 headliner Beyonce, played one of the smaller stages on Friday. Glastonbury was not held in 2012 due to the London Olympics.

But not all the performers were so keen on the rural setting - or the 18 hours of rain that temporarily turned the site into a massive mudpit as is tradition at Glastonbury which frequently falls foul of Britain's fickle summer weather.

British rapper Wiley arrived but quickly turned around and left, apparently abandoning his one-hour DJ-slot on Saturday, tweeting complaints about the weather and his payment.

"Ya know what .. en route to heathrow realtalk .. Lol," he tweeted. "I don't have to play there."

(Additional reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Mike Collett-White and Paul Simao)

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Gandolfini: A big man and everyman is eulogized

NEW YORK (AP) ? The funeral of James Gandolfini took place in one of the largest churches in the world and didn't stint on ceremony.

Still, the estimated 1,500 mourners who gathered Thursday in New York's Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine seemed part of an intimate affair. They came to pay their respects to a plain but complex man whose sudden death eight days before had left all of them feeling a loss.

During the service, Gandolfini was remembered by the creator of "The Sopranos" as an actor who had brought a key element to mob boss Tony Soprano: Tony's inner child-like quality.

For a man who, in so many ways, was an unrepentant brute, that underlying purity was what gave viewers permission to love him.

"You brought ALL of that to it," said David Chase in remarks he delivered as if an open letter to his fallen friend and "Sopranos" star.

Even though Gandolfini was indisputably a formidable man both on and off the screen, Chase also saw him as a boy ? "sad, amazed, confused and loving," he summed up, addressing his subject: "You could see it in your eyes. And that's why you are a great actor."

Susan Aston, who for decades was Gandolfini's dialogue coach and collaborator, spoke of how he wrestled to find truth in his performances.

"He worked hard," she said. "He was disciplined. He studied his roles and did his homework." But then, when the cameras rolled, his performance took over and, "through an act of faith, he allowed himself to go to an uncharted place. ... He remained vulnerable, and kept his heart open in his life and in his work."

The 51-year-old actor died of a heart attack last week while vacationing with his 13-year-old son in Italy. It was cruel end to a holiday meant to be part of a summer that Gandolfini was devoting to his family ? including his son and his 9-month-old daughter ? by even turning down a movie role, according to Aston, citing what she said was her final conversation with him.

Aston said he told her "I don't want to lose any of the time I have with Michael and Lily this summer."

The actor's widow, Deborah Lin Gandolfini, also spoke at the ceremony, as did longtime friend Thomas Richardson, who affectionately described Gandolfini as a man "who hugged too tight and held too long." But now facing a world without hugs from Gandolfini, Richardson invited the congregation to stand and share hugs with their neighbors.

"It is in hugging that we are hugged," he declared.

A private family wake was held for the actor Wednesday in New Jersey.

Broadway theaters paid tribute by dimming their lights briefly Wednesday night. Gandolfini was nominated for a Tony Award in 2009 as an actor in "God of Carnage."

For Thursday's service, celebrities and fellow actors helped make up the capacity audience.

Those from "The Sopranos" included Edie Falco, Joe Pantoliano, Dominic Chianese, Steve Schirripa, Aida Turturro, Vincent Curatola, Tony Sirico, Lorraine Bracco, Steve Buscemi and Michael Imperioli.

Others from the entertainment community included Julianna Margulies, Alec Baldwin, Chris Noth, Marcia Gay Harden, Dick Cavett and Steve Carell.

NBC News' Brian Williams was in attendance. So was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

So was Saul Stein, 60, a resident of Harlem.

"I came to pay my respects today because he's a character I identify with, a family man," Stein said as he waited in line outside the church.

New Jersey accents were easy to hear among those hoping for a chance to get in. A few people spoke in Italian.

Of course, both New Jersey and Italian-Americans played a big part of "The Sopranos," which originally ran on HBO from 1999 to 2007.

Chase recalled a hot Jersey day early in the show's production that bonded him with Gandolfini ? with whom he shared Italian-American working-class roots ? for all times.

Waiting to shoot the next scene, Gandolfini was seated in an aluminum lawn chair with his slacks rolled up, black socks and black shoes exposed, and a damp cloth on his head in an effort to find some relief from the heat.

"I hadn't seen that done since my father used to do it, and my Italian uncle, and my grandfather," said Chase. "They were laborers in the hot sun of New Jersey."

"I was filled with love," Chase said, struggling to keep his composure, as he described the sight of Gandolfini in the broiling sun.

"I always felt we are brothers," he said, "based on that day."

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Associated Press correspondent Bethan McKernan and Television Writer David Bauder contributed to this report.

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Supreme Court paves way for gay marriage in California

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for gay marriage in California but sidestepped a broad ruling that would affect the whole country by saying it could not decide a closely watched case on the constitutionality of a California law that restricts marriage to opposite-sex couples.

By finding on a 5-4 vote that supporters of the ban on gay marriage did not have standing to defend the law, the court effectively gave the green light for at least some gay weddings to proceed in California because a federal judge's original ruling that struck down the law, known as Proposition 8, will remain intact.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller and Will Dunham)

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Google Reveals Data on Sites That Are Phishing and Installing Malware

Google's latest Transparency Report is out, and in its latest incarnation, the document reveals data on its "Safe Browsing" initiative, which attempts to protect users from sites that are either phishing for data or installing malicious software. According to Google, it keeps 1 billion users safe and flags some 10,000 sites per day.

Additionally, Google's latest report?and presumably all those that follow?contains some revealing insights into the nature of those bright red "safe browsing" warnings you get from Google every so often. It turns out that more often than not, the warnings stem from malware rather than phishing. What's more, when you're landing on a page that Google is blocking, it's more likely that it's a compromised legitimate site than a site that's been intentionally set up by hackers to trick you.

Until now, Google's periodic report has revealed government and third-party URL takedown requests, and some--but not all?requests for user data by the government. [Google]

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Chicago has deadliest weekend of 2013

Gun violence in Chicago this weekend left at least six people dead and more than 40 injured in the deadliest weekend of what had been a record-setting year for a decrease in homicides citywide.

Authorities say the first homicide of the weekend happened late Friday on the city's West Side. The tally, which included at least 41 injuries, spanned Friday night through Sunday night.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that it was the most violent weekend of the year in the city.

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The youngest victim was 15-year-old Michael Westley, who died Sunday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner?s office. Michael was shot by a Chicago police officer in the South Side?s Englewood neighborhood at about 10:50 p.m. Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune

Pat Camden, a union spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, said in the Michael Westley case that officers assigned to a gang crimes unit responded after hearing gunfire in the area. Police pursued three people they saw running away and during the chase, one runner pointed a gun at the officers, according to a preliminary statement from the Chicago Police Department?s Office of News Affairs. One of the pursuing officers then fired on the alleged gunman, the statement said. Michael was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Chicago was beset last year by a headline-grabbing spike in homicides and gun violence, which local officials blame on lax gun laws in jurisdictions outside of city borders. Crime experts, for their part, credited an explosive mix of feuding street gangs, drug-related violence, concentrated poverty, and inadequate opportunity for youths in poor neighborhoods, as well as cuts in the size of the police force. The 2012 jump to more than 500 homicides citywide prompted, in January, a reallocation of foot-patrol officers to 10 areas where crime is most rampant and other intervention tactics intended to drive down the high rate of street violence.

According to the Chicago Tribune, one of the other fatalities over the weekend was a result of a police-involved shooting. Other fatalities occurred after unidentified individuals opened fire in neighborhoods in the South and Northwest sides of the city. No arrests have been reported.

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Chicago Police officials told the Chicago Sun-Times that more shootings took place during the same weekend last year than this year, and that there have been fewer murders in the city so far in 2013 than any year since the mid-1960s.

Last year at about the same time, 53 people were shot, nine fatally in one weekend, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago residents told local papers of continued fear in their communities: ?I had a family from my parish tell me recently that their 10-year-old son didn?t want to come back to Chicago from vacation because of the violence,? the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Englewood neighborhood, which is about a mile from the site of one of the shootings, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Chicago police spokesman Adam Collins told the Chicago Tribune that the city?s crime-fighting strategies are working, despite the bloody weekend.

?There?s going to be good days, and there?s going to be bad days, which is why we?ve been calling this progress, not victory,? said Mr. Collins, who pointed out drops in overall crime.

? Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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Scientists Use Faux Fossils To Learn How Insect Colors Evolved

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On its way from flight to fossil, an ancient beetle's wings lost their color and then their form. Slow-baked and squished by sand, the glittering green wings darkened and turned blue, then indigo, then black.

That tale of an insect's life, death and fossilization sounds simple enough, but it took paleobiologist Maria McNamara years of painstaking work to piece together. The University of Bristol researcher wanted to know how ancient insects' warning signals, camouflage and mating displays evolved. Studying ordinary fossils tells only part of the story, since most fossilized insects are black today, probably because they lost their colors while buried underground.

McNamara and her team decided to work backward. They artificially aged modern beetle (shown above) and weevil wings to figure out how fossilization might affect color. They reported their results in Geology in April.

Fossilization is not a gentle process. To simulate it, McNamara left the insect wings in pond water for 18 months, then baked them at temperatures as high as 518 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than most home ovens, and pressures almost 500 times the atmosphere's to simulate the crushing and heat that converts mud-trapped debris into subterranean stone fossils. The team found that the process broke up and thinned out the beetles' reflective shells, changing the wavelength of light that they reflect, from green to blue to black.

More important, they found that the weevils maintained color-producing structures known as photonic crystals, which could mean any fossil without these structures probably never had them. McNamara concludes that photonic crystals must have evolved recently, at least in weevils, because she examined three-million-year-old weevils that lacked them.

Some scientists disagree. Andrew Parker, an entomologist at the Natural History Museum in London, notes that ?every fossil goes through a completely different process,? so it will be difficult to generalize lessons from one species or fossil to others. But he finds the idea tantalizing: ?We can start to add up a picture and put together scenes of what life would have been like in color.?

This article was originally published with the title Faux Fossils.

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IMF: US economy improving but spending cuts a drag

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. economy is on sounder footing than it was a year ago but is still being restrained by government spending cuts and tax increases, the International Monetary Fund said Friday.

The IMF's annual report on the U.S. economy noted that the underlying fundamentals are gradually improving: Home prices and construction are rising, household finances have strengthened and employers are steadily adding jobs. The outlook was much more optimistic than IMF's 2012 report.

"There are signs that the U.S. recovery is gaining ground and becoming more durable," Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, said in a written statement.

Still, the IMF forecasts economic growth of just 1.9 percent this year, the same as its April forecast. That would be down from 2.2 percent in 2012. And it's below many private economists' expectations that the U.S. economy will grow more than 2 percent this year.

The IMF says the tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in this year will shave about 1.5 percentage points from growth. The international lending organization had opposed the steep federal spending cuts that began on March 1.

The reduction in the U.S. budget deficit "has been excessively rapid and ill-designed," the IMF's report says.

Congress should cancel the $85 billion in spending cuts, the report urged, and replace them with longer-term reductions in entitlement programs, such as Social Security, that would weigh less on the economy.

The IMF also expects the Federal Reserve will maintain its bond purchases through the end of the year and will "very gradually" reduce them next year. The bond purchases are intended to lower long-term interest rates and encourage more borrowing, investing and spending.

Some economists expect the Fed may begin to reduce its purchases as early as its September meeting.

But Lagarde argued that "there is no need to rush," given that unemployment is still high and inflation low.

Fed policymakers will meet June 18-19 and may provide some hint of their intentions. Chairman Ben Bernanke will also hold a press conference after the meeting concludes.

Despite the drag from higher taxes and spending cuts, the IMF paints a much brighter picture of the U.S. economy.

A year ago the IMF warned that the recovery was "tepid," job growth was slow and U.S. households were still cutting debts.

Now, it sees consumers in better shape and the job market slowly strengthening. After the impact of the tax increases and spending cuts fade, growth should accelerate next year to 2.7 percent. That forecast also assumes that Congress and the White House agree to lift the government's borrowing limit later this year.

Still, the IMF expects unemployment will fall only gradually over the next two years. It forecasts unemployment will average 7.5 percent this year and fall to an average of 7.2 percent in 2014.

The unemployment rate is currently 7.6 percent ? 0.6 percentage points lower than a year ago.

The economy is also being held back by weakness overseas, the report said, which are slowing U.S. exports, particularly to Europe.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/imf-us-economy-improving-spending-cuts-drag-162108890.html

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