American Idol: With time running out, did the judges use their save?

After picking off the male contestants, America was left with only girls to eliminate this week. Who did viewers opt to say goodbye to?

By Jodi Bradbury,?Contributor / April 19, 2013

Janelle Arthur performs on American Idol in March, in Los Angeles. Was Janelle's performance of Dolly Parton's 'Dumb Blonde,' enough to keep her safe this week?

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On Wednesday, Nicki Minaj told the remaining five girls that they all have super powers. But when they started the show off on Thursday with a medley of Donna Summer hits, it was as if the producers were intent on proving the opposite. Not to mention the dated music, American Idol sabotaged the contestants by making them prance around on stage to a weakly choreographed routine and to make matters worse, every girl was assigned a male dancer whose dance prowess only further highlighted the fact that dancing is not one of the superpowers Nicki was referring to.?On their Ford Fiesta Mission they went on a scavenger hunt, demonstrating that acting is also missing from their arsenal of superpowers.

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For the last few weeks, Idol has had their past winners and runner-ups making the rounds during the results shows. On Thursday, both Clay Aiken and Fantasia Barrino?returned to the stage. Unlike some of the past homecomings, Mr. Aiken didn't talk so much about his personal successes post-Idol, instead, he focused on the good he's been able to do from the platform that Idol provided him with. In addition to starting the National Inclusion Project, Clay also became an ambassador for Unicef, traveling to Somalia, Afghanistan, and Uganda to witness the educational programs in place. While his performance of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," was pleasant it was not quite as moving as his charitable efforts. Maybe Idol could hire Clay to help infuse some of that philanthropy back into the show??

Then for some reason, Latoya London, one of the so called "Three Divas" from Season Three, returned to discuss how the other two divas of her season, Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson, went on to enjoy great success while she went back to Oakland to start all over again. Obviously, Latoya really needed some exposure; otherwise why would anyone subject themselves to that kind of embarrassment? She then had the distinct honor of helping Ryan Seacrest to introduce Fantasia who came on to sing her new song, "Lose To Win." It seems like Latoya may still be waiting for the "winning" part.

Of course, of all the homecomings we've seen this season, the best took place tonight when Paula Abdul made a surprise cameo to tell Candice Glover how much she enjoyed her performance of, "Straight Up." Ryan then convinced Paula to reclaim her seat on the panel and to see her seated on her past throne was nostalgic. Even with her zaniness, Paula comprised 33% of a panel what once made Idol truly special, along with Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell. Despite the musical chairs since then, Idol has been unable to recapture the magic of the original panel.

After our walk down memory lane, it was time for the results. On Wednesday, this article insinuated that predicting the bottom two was as easy as pie; clearly it would be Janelle Arthur and Amber Holcomb. Unfortunately, after the results, I now have some egg on my face. Clearly, the judges' 'Amber Propaganda' (which has a great ring to it if you happen to be from the Boston area) infected the fertile minds of the viewers and convinced them that she deserved safety more than Kree Harrison. Unbelievable.

Thankfully, despite their momentary befuddlement, the viewers had enough clarity to put Janelle in the bottom. After performing her aptly selected song, "Keep Me Hanging On," for the judges' save, the panel could not come to consensus and bid Janelle goodbye.?

This is the point where things start to get more complicated; three out of the four remaining girls have exceptional talent and while Kree should not be in the bottom next week, since she'll likely pick up all of Janelle's voters, there's still a chance that America could be persuaded to believe the judges' hype about Amber and send Candice or Angie Miller to the bottom. But, let's not think like that. Let us all think happy thoughts and imagine the remaining four weeks going in this order: Goodbye Amber, Goodbye Angie and ultimately Goodbye Kree, making Candice Glover the winner of Season 13.?

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By Larry Fine AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8 (Reuters) - Guan Tianlang answered questions about his readiness to play the Masters at the record-setting age of 14 when he gave two-times champion Ben Crenshaw a putting lesson at the 18th hole at Augusta National on Monday. The 61-year-old Crenshaw, whose career was built on his ability as a putter, mentored the precocious Chinese during their practice round, advising the Asia-Pacific Amateur champion about the notoriously fast, sloping greens of Augusta. ...

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Japan's nuclear plant 'losing faith' in leaking water pits

TOKYO (Reuters) - The company that runs a Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami two years ago said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water - but it doesn't have anywhere else to put it.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it had found a new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Three out of seven storage pits are now leaking, compounding clean-up difficulties after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

"We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost," Tepco general manager Masayuki Ono told a hastily arranged news conference.

"We can't move all the contaminated water to above ground (tanks) if we opt not to use the underground reservoirs," Ono said. "There isn't enough capacity and we need to use what is available."

A tsunami crashed into the power plant north of Tokyo on March 11, 2011, causing fuel-rod meltdowns at three reactors, radioactive contamination of air, sea and food and triggering the evacuation of 160,000 people.

The fresh leak was found in the No. 1 storage pool where contaminated water from the leaking No. 2 pit was being transferred. Tepco has halted the transfer of the contaminated water.

Ono said on Monday Tepco did not have enough tank space should it need to move the water out of the storage pits, which were dug into higher ground away from the damaged reactors and lined with waterproof material. The company has stepped up construction of the sturdier tanks, he said.

Tepco said over the weekend about 120,000 liters (32,000 gallons) of contaminated water leaked from the No. 2 and 3 pits. The plant's cooling system has also broken down twice in recent weeks.

The government instructed Tepco to carry out a "fundamental" review of the problems at the plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Monday.

Tepco's president, Naomi Hirose, was also summoned to the Industry Ministry to explain the leaks and got a public dressing down from the minister, Toshimitsu Motegi.

Immediately after the explosions at the plant, Tepco released some radioactive water into the sea, prompting protests from neighboring countries. Many nations put restrictions on imports of Japanese food after the disaster.

It was the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Last month, a senior Tepco executive said the company was struggling to stop groundwater flooding into the damaged reactor buildings and it may take as long as four years to fix the problem.

(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori, Risa Maeda and Mari Saito; Editing by Aaron Sheldrick and Nick Macfie)

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Nevada jury awards $500M in hepatitis case

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? A Nevada jury has ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.

The decision on Tuesday comes after a jury last week found the companies liable for $24 million in compensatory damages.

Plaintiffs' attorneys had asked Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay almost $2.5 billion in the negligence lawsuit, saying it would warn health corporations against putting profits ahead of patient safety.

They argued the HMO knew a doctor operating an outpatient endoscopy clinic was dangerous but sent patients there anyway.

Attorneys for the two companies argued that a large punitive award would be unreasonable.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

With billions of dollars on the line, a Nevada jury was deliberating Tuesday whether the state's largest health management organization should pay punitive damages in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak called the largest in U.S. history.

The Clark County District Court jury began deliberating the morning after plaintiffs' lawyer Robert Eglet asked them on Monday to order Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay almost $2.5 billion in punitive damages in the civil lawsuit.

Eglet said the large amount was needed to send a message that corporations shouldn't put profits ahead of patient safety.

Attorney D. Lee Roberts Jr., representing the two companies, argued that such a large award would be unreasonable, disproportionate and ruinous.

Roberts said the jury of five women and three men already sent a message last week, when it found the companies liable for $24 million in compensatory damages to plaintiffs Helen Meyer and Bonnie and Carl Brunson.

Health Plan of Nevada and parent company Sierra Health Services ? subsidiaries of publicly traded UnitedHealth Group Inc. ? have already promised to appeal.

Legal experts couldn't predict Tuesday how long the jury would deliberate or whether it would agree to Eglet's stunning request for punitive damages of more than 1,000 times the compensatory amount awarded last week.

But they said any amount greater than $240 million ran the risk of being slashed.

"Even if the jury were to bless this outrageous request, it's likely the trial judge will reduce it significantly," said Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association in Washington, D.C. "And if the trial judge fails to do that, surely the state Supreme Court, in light of previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings, will reduce it."

John Kircher, a Marquette University law professor and author of the 2012 book, "Punitive Damages, Law and Practice," said the high court has essentially capped punitive damages at less than 10 percent of a compensatory damage award.

"It's not automatic," Kircher said. "But the U.S. Supreme Court has said it sees due process problems if the punitive award exceeds compensatory damages by more than a double-digit percentage."

Eglet said he calculated 15 percent of company profits to arrive at punitive damage figures of a little more than $1.9 billion from Health Plan of Nevada and about $590 million from Sierra Health Services.

The plaintiffs' lawyer argued that Health Plan of Nevada treated patients with the legal term "bad faith" when it hired outpatient clinic owner Dr. Dipak Desai to a low-bid contract even though company administrators were warned in advance that Desai was speeding through procedures and pinching pennies so much that patients were at risk of contracting blood-borne diseases.

Roberts argued that Desai was responsible for the hepatitis outbreak, not the companies.

Defense attorneys also argued that they were blocked from showing the jury during the six-week trial that company executives didn't know Desai employed unsafe endoscopy practices while boasting that he performed the fastest colonoscopies in the country.

After the hepatitis outbreak became public in early 2008, the Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas notified more than 50,000 people that they were at risk for blood-borne diseases including AIDS and should be tested.

Investigators traced hepatitis C infections of nine people to procedures conducted in 2007 at Desai endoscopy clinics. Health officials said that although hepatitis C was found in another 105 Desai patients, the cases weren't conclusively linked to procedures at his clinics.

Desai, once a powerful member of the state Board of Medical Examiners, wasn't named in the civil lawsuit involving Meyer and the Brunsons.

He has denied wrongdoing, declared bankruptcy and surrendered his medical license, but faces trial in state court later this month and federal court next month on separate criminal charges stemming from the outbreak.

Desai's lawyers have fought for years to prove that he is so incapacitated by strokes and other physical ailments that he is unfit for trial.

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'Artificial leaf' gains the ability to self-heal damage and produce energy from dirty water

Apr. 8, 2013 ? Another innovative feature has been added to the world's first practical "artificial leaf," making the device even more suitable for providing people in developing countries and remote areas with electricity, scientists reported in New Orleans on April 8. It gives the leaf the ability to self-heal damage that occurs during production of energy.

Daniel G. Nocera, Ph.D., described the advance during the "Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture" at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.

Nocera, leader of the research team, explained that the "leaf" mimics the ability of real leaves to produce energy from sunlight and water. The device, however, actually is a simple catalyst-coated wafer of silicon, rather than a complicated reproduction of the photosynthesis mechanism in real leaves. Dropped into a jar of water and exposed to sunlight, catalysts in the device break water down into its components, hydrogen and oxygen. Those gases bubble up and can be collected and used as fuel to produce electricity in fuel cells.

"Surprisingly, some of the catalysts we've developed for use in the artificial leaf device actually heal themselves," Nocera said. "They are a kind of 'living catalyst.' This is an important innovation that eases one of the concerns about initial use of the leaf in developing countries and other remote areas."

Nocera, who is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, explained that the artificial leaf likely would find its first uses in providing "personalized" electricity to individual homes in areas that lack traditional electric power generating stations and electric transmission lines. Less than one quart of drinking water, for instance, would be enough to provide about 100 watts of electricity 24 hours a day. Earlier versions of the leaf required pure water, because bacteria eventually formed biofilms on the leaf's surface, shutting down production.

"Self-healing enables the artificial leaf to run on the impure, bacteria-contaminated water found in nature," Nocera said. "We figured out a way to tweak the conditions so that part of the catalyst falls apart, denying bacteria the smooth surface needed to form a biofilm. Then the catalyst can heal and re-assemble."

Nocera said that about 3 billion people today live in areas that lack access to traditional electric production and distribution systems. That population will grow by billions in the decades ahead. About 1 billion people in the developing world already lack reliable access to clean water. Thus, a clear need exists for a simple device like the artificial leaf that's compatible with local conditions.

"It's kind of like providing 'fast-food energy,'" he noted. "We're interested in making lots of inexpensive units that may not be the most efficient, but that get the job done. It's kind of like going from huge mainframe computers to a personal laptop. This is personalized energy."

Earlier devices used rare, costly metals and other materials, involved complicated wiring and were expensive to manufacture. But Nocera's artificial leaf uses less-expensive materials and incorporates a design -- a so-called "buried junction" -- that is simple and would be inexpensive to mass produce. And the leaf has advantages over solar panels, which are costly and produce energy only during daylight hours. The leaf's hydrogen and oxygen, in contrast, can be stored and used at night.

"A lot of people are designing complicated, expensive energy-producing devices, and it is difficult to see them being adopted on a large scale," he said. "Ours is simple, less expensive, and it works. And with that, I think we've changed the dialog in the field."

Among the team's priorities for further development of the device: integrating it with technology for converting the hydrogen into a liquid fuel that could run traditional portable electric generators or even cars.

Nocera acknowledged research funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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