The rehearsal occurred six days before Jackson died in June 2009, Kenny Ortega testified during a negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against AEG Live LLC, the promoter of the concerts.

"I saw a Michael that frightened me," Ortega said, calling Jackson's appearance "very, very troubling."

Jackson wasn't coherent when he arrived that day but improved somewhat as the night went on, Ortega said. The singer didn't rehearse that night the first time the director recalled seeing him after numerous missed rehearsals.

Court proceedings were briefly recessed when Ortega broke down while reading an email he sent to the CEO of AEG Live LLC hours after the rehearsal in which he described Jackson as a "lost boy." The singer's mother Katherine Jackson also appeared to cry during the proceedings.

Ortega said he was trying to alert AEG Live officials about Jackson's condition and trusted them to get the singer appropriate care.

Instead, Ortega said he was confronted by Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, during a tense meeting the following day. Ortega said Murray assured him and AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips that Jackson was capable of rehearsing.

Ortega also recalled that Phillips didn't speak up during the meeting, which he left after about 15 minutes.

The director said on cross-examination that he believed Phillips and another top executive, Paul Gongaware, cared for Jackson. "I felt they loved him," Ortega said, adding that he doesn't think that sentiment has changed since they were sued by Katherine Jackson.

Jackson's mother is suing AEG Live, claiming the company missed warning signs about her son's health and failed to properly investigate the doctor later convicted of involuntary manslaughter after giving the singer an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.

AEG denies it hired Murray. The company also says there was no way it could have known the doctor was giving Jackson propofol as a sleep aid.

Ortega also said Jackson appeared to be under the influence of a substance on at least four occasions when he did attend rehearsals. Jackson's state was "fairly obvious" to others involved in the production, he said.

He told jurors that he sent the email describing Jackson's poor condition during the rehearsal to Phillips to suggest the singer needed professional help. He also said that based on Jackson's condition, he didn't believe the "This Is It" shows could go forward, but he hoped there would be a turnaround.

The director said he repeatedly called Murray that night, and his only concern was for Jackson's health. Ortega and Jackson worked on two previous concert tours and had been friends for years.

"I tried the doctor who I thought would be the most natural person" to help, Ortega said. "Then I reached out to AEG, Michael's partners, to make sure they were aware of how I felt and what I saw."

Jurors hearing the case have heard about Jackson's inability to rehearse from other witnesses, but Ortega was the highest-ranking tour worker to testify at the civil trial and had the most direct contact with AEG executives and Jackson.

Ortega said it was the only concert he had ever worked on where he had to coordinate a rehearsal schedule with a performer's doctor and concert promoter.

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His round featuring eight birdies put him ahead of compatriot Simon Khan with American Phil Mickelson and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee among a group of seven tied for third on six under.

Parry, a former Tour champion at the 2010 Vivendi Cup in Paris who had to secure his return to the European Tour last November at its qualifying school, had missed the cut in seven of his first 10 events this season before finishing tied 28th at last month's U.S. Open.

"I think from when I lost my (European Tour) card, I maybe panicked a bit coming into the last few events because you know you're struggling," the 26-year-old Parry was quoted as saying on the Tour website (www.europeantour.com).

"Just make sure you do the right things constantly and you'll get the results.

"I've been playing better. I think the U.S. Open was the catalyst for me to start playing better, making cuts. It's renowned for being the toughest event of the year... if you can compete on that, you know you can compete on any course."

Last year's winner, India's Jeev Milkha Singh, is on five under while South African Ernie Els, who will defend his British Open crown next week, is at level par.

(Writing by Sonia Oxley; Editing by Ken Ferris)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children of depressed mothers are less likely to have emotional problems if they attend daycare, a new Canadian study suggests.

Researchers have known that depressed women are more likely to have kids who also develop depression and anxiety disorders, and that those problems can extend through the teenage years.

"It's interesting to think of this as a possible type of intervention and a way of supporting mothers in general, but especially mothers who are at risk," said Catherine Herba, from the University of Quebec at Montreal.

The researchers followed close to 1,800 children born in Quebec in 1997-1998 and their mothers through the child's fifth birthday.

Women were regularly surveyed about their depression symptoms and reported on their child's emotional problems and separation anxiety, as well as the type of childcare they used.

About 19 percent of mothers had depression symptoms during the study period. And as previous research has suggested, their children were almost twice as likely to develop emotional problems and separation anxiety before age five, Herba's team wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.

However, being in childcare seemed to mitigate that effect. The association was particularly strong for group-based childcare, as opposed to care provided by a relative or babysitter.

Among children with depressed mothers, attending daycare was tied to a 79 percent reduced risk of developing emotional problems, compared to kids who stayed home with their moms.

Across the study, between nine and 31 percent of preschoolers had emotional problems depending on whether their mothers were depressed and where they received care.

How many hours a week kids spent in childcare did not seem as important as the type of care itself, the researchers found. They said the structured setting of group-based care, having care provided by a trained professional and spending time with children of a similar age may all be benefits to that type of childcare.

"Center-based care can really serve as a buffer for children of depressed mothers," said Catherine Ayoub, who has studied Early Head Start programs at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

"As those mothers are paying some attention to their own depressive symptoms, as they're struggling with depression, the children can be buffered from the effects of depression on their development," Ayoub, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.

Her research has suggested programs that reach out to both children and mothers themselves can be especially beneficial for families over the long run.

Ayoub, also from the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, said women should know that they can still be good mothers if they are depressed, and also that there are many ways to treat depression - so they can get better.

"Yes, you may be depressed, but you also can really move toward resilience," she said. "It's okay to find the best possible care for your child that's also a way to take care of yourself."

Herba said that doctors should be looking for new mothers who are depressed and speak to them about the potential benefits of using childcare and getting help for themselves.

"It's quite important that we give good support to these mothers and try to facilitate this as much as possible," she said.

SOURCE: JAMA Psychiatry, online June 19, 2013.

ROLLERCOASTER REACTION: Diagnostic test maker Myriad Genetics saw its shares jump 10 percent, then plunge. The volatility was triggered by the Supreme Court's mixed ruling on the validity of patents for lucrative test for genes linked to high risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.

SPLIT DECISION: The court said Myriad can't patent the genes involved the decision company rivals and university scientists wanted. But the ruling upholds two dozen patents covering synthetically created genetic material and the specific process Myriad uses in testing genes for susceptibility to cancer.

WIDER IMPACT: Rivals will eventually be able to create their own tests, benefiting patients.

"I would have to say, they have a valid point," said Bowe, after his debut in Thai kickboxing ended with a thud in the second round. "It's much harder than boxing."

The former world heavyweight boxing champion had hoped to prove his critics wrong and show that he could comeback from retirement into an entirely new sport and revive some of his past glory.

But Bowe is now 45 and weighs 300 pounds, and he looked it Friday in his first fight since 2008.

Slow and out of shape, the fighter known as "Big Daddy" took a big beating from his 30-year-old unheralded Russian opponent Levgen Golovin, who attacked with repeated kicks to the shins that knocked Bowe off his feet five times. The bout ended with a technical knockout after his last fall when Bowe sat on the ground clutching his legs, wincing in pain.

"You can recover from a head shot or a body shot, but when you get kicked in the leg it lasts a long time," Bowe said, as his trainer iced his left shin. "My leg is still hurting. I don't know how long it's been 15 minutes?"

Not once during the brief fight, which ended 2 minutes into the second round, did Bowe land a punch or a kick. But he was happy to trade barbs with reporters afterward showing the wit that made him one of boxing's charismatic personalities during his brief reign as champion two decades ago.

"This ain't a setback it's a getback," Bowe said, referring to his comeback. "I had a lot of fun. I'm going to do it again. Next time it's going to be different."

Like so many boxers, Bowe lost the struggle to stay out of the ring. He had his reasons: He's bored with retirement; his millions are gone and he needs the money; he misses the adoration of fans; he loves to fight and knows little else.

Bowe said he was inspired by the comeback of George Foreman, who won a heavyweight title at age 45. But the comebacks of aging champions don't always go so well. Think of Muhammad Ali, at 38 and two years after retirement, taking punishment round after round from Larry Holmes. There was onetime heavyweight champion Greg Page coming back and nearly losing his life for a few thousand dollars. Heavyweight great Joe Louis paid dearly for his attempt to come back at an advanced age.

Bowe escaped without serious injury and made $150,000 for his Muay Thai debut, organized by Thai promoters trying to increase the international appeal of Thailand's national sport. The money is a far cry from the millions he earned by beating Evander Holyfield in 1992 to become the undisputed heavyweight champion.

In his heyday, Bowe fought on boxing's grandest stages in Las Vegas and New York.

His return to fighting took place at an outdoor ring set up beside the beach in Pattaya, a Thai town best known for its sprawling seaside red-light district.

Surveying the scene before the fight started, Bowe shook his head sadly.

"I should be moving up, but I'm moving backwards here," he said.

His fight was one of a dozen at the venue, which had the atmosphere of a village fairground with loud music and amusement park rides nearby. Promoters had said they hoped to draw about 20,000 people, but a crowd closer to 1,000 turned up even though admission was free.

On a sweltering night, Bowe sat and sweated for hours as he waited his turn to fight. The venue had no changing rooms, so Bowe and other fighters stripped down and changed in open air tents beside the stage.

"I've never seen anything like this," Bowe said, his spirits lifted by fans who came up to ask for autographs and wish him luck.

One American fan stared in awe at Bowe.

"He was such an underrated and great champion," said Jerry Mathison, a former fighter turned songwriter who lives in Thailand. "I can't believe he's here, in Pattaya."

In some ways, Friday's fight is the latest bizarre episode for Bowe, whose life in and out of the ring was marked by drama.

One of his three fights against Holyfield was interrupted by a parachutist who landed beside the ring. A fight against Andrew Golota in 1996 set off a riot in the ring at Madison Square Garden. Bowe left boxing later in 1996 at 29 for a career in the U.S. Marines, but that lasted only a few days. He then served 17 months in prison for interstate domestic violence after going to North Carolina to haul his now-former wife and their five children back home to Maryland.

Despite his loss, Bowe was optimistic before limping away into a car.

"Hey, we're going to do this again. I'll be back soon," he said. "I'm not a quitter. I want to do it until I get it right."

Bowe's opponent shook his head in disbelief when told the aging boxer plans to return to Muay Thai.

"It would be a big mistake. It's not for him," said Golovin, a trim and fit 220 pounds. "He's too slow and a bit too old."

Hsieh and China's Peng, the eighth seeds, took the first set in a tiebreak and romped through the second against their 12th-seeded Australian opponents to claim their first grand slam crown.

Peng is the third Chinese to win a grand slam doubles title.

It was the third time Dellacqua finished runner-up in a women's doubles final at a grand slam. However, she did win the 2011 French Open mixed doubles title with American Scott Lipsky.

(Reporting by Ed Osmond, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

Simpson, 32, and her fiance, former football player Eric Johnson, also have a daughter, Maxwell Drew, who was born in May 2012.

"Ace Knute (pronounced Ka-nute) Johnson has arrived! Mom and baby are doing great," her representative told Us Weekly magazine. "Jessica, Eric and Maxwell are thrilled to welcome the new addition to their family."

Simpson, who is also an actress and appeared in the 2005 film, "The Dukes of Hazzard," has been engaged to Johnson since November 2010.

She was a teen pop star and starred in a TV reality show with her then-husband Nick Lachey, a member of the boy band 98 degrees. The couple divorced after three years of marriage.

Simpson, who designs a line of clothing and accessories, also appears on the TV fashion contest show, "Fashion Stars" and is a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

Johnson, 33, played for the San Francisco 49ers and the New Orleans Saints.

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; Editing by Vicki Allen)

Paul, who averaged 16.9 points, 9.7 assists and 3.7 rebounds last season leading the Clippers to a club record 56 wins, cannot officially sign the deal until July 10th because of NBA rules.

After the hiring Doc Rivers as the new head coach getting Paul's name on an extension was the top priority for the Clippers.

Taken with the fourth overall selection in the 2005 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets, Paul was traded to the Clippers in December 2011 for Al-Farouq Aminu, Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman and a 2012 1st round draft pick (Austin Rivers).

A six-time All-Star, Paul is a double Olympic champion helping the United States to gold medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Summer Games.

Over eight NBA seasons Paul has averaged 18.6 points, 9.8 assists and 4.4 rebounds.

(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto, Editing by Simon Evans in Miami)

"An OZ 777 just crashed off the end of runway 28R at SFO. Details to come," he wrote, referring to thefor Asiana Airlines (OZ) and the family of Boeing models, the .

At present count, 471 of the worlds most dedicated online airliner enthusiasts, along with a few bozos and one defensive CNN researcher, have mounted an amateur investigation into the crash thatand injured 182 other passengers. By Monday morning, they had posted a combined 1,483 times.

Twelve minutes after the thread was kicked off by "FlyDeltaJets"who identifies himself in hisas Leroy Johnson, a materials specialist in Brooklynuser "as739x" reported that there was, in fact, an accident:

I just confirmed there is a crash on the approach end of the 28's. The plane is broken in multiple pieces. It appeared to the controller I spoke with that it was a hard landing and the tail is yards away from the body of the aircraft. It was possible a short landing or hard touchdown.

When another user pressed "as739x" on this, he or shethat, "I got the info from Ramp Tower I use to supervise. Crash confirmed. Tragic."

While it's hard to know who is really who in an online forum, those who are highly specialized and low profile like this one tend to weed out obvious frauds. (All but the most veteran members pay a fee for the privilege of posting to the site.) In the hours following the crash, there was perhaps no larger concentration of airline knowledge than that which virtually convened on the site.

Users quickly identified the model of the plane as a , not a 777 200 LR, as CNNs Richard Quest . They also unearthedfor the exact trip.

Within a few hours, users wereof the flight compared with other recent arrivals to SFO. Another user posted anof the altitude of the plane as it landed and compared it with the same flights landing the previous four days, which suggested that it was actually the previous days landing that was abnormally low, based on a data from the site FlightAware.com.

The thread, which has blossomed to five pages, has an obvious analog in theby a gang of Reddit users in April whoas one of the Boston Marathon bombers.

While there appears to be little sense on the airliner forum that the fruits of their discussions will have much immediate bearing on the official inquiry into the crash, community manager Paul McCarthy says investigative bodies do sometimes contact the site requesting the contact information of users who have posted valuable information. He says the site's policy to is to ask the user's permission to do so, and that roughly one in three people agree to be put in touch with the investigators.

Of most value, arguably, is the sense of skepticism that the anonymous experts bring to the table. While the likes of The New York Timesin its graphics, Airliners.net users are cautious not to draw too many conclusions from those figures, which are drawn from sources with a . Many users ridiculed the errors in CNNs live reporting, to the point that a user claiming to be a CNN researcher named Mikethat, I work for CNN and we're watching this thread closely now. Keep the information coming should you have any.

When further abused, Mike , "We're all speculating. We don't confirm it."

Update, July 8, 2013, 4:56 p.m.: This post was updated with Monday afternoon's posts to Airliners.net and comments from community manager Paul McCarthy.

Letang, who led all NHL defensemen in scoring last season with 38 points (five goals, 33 assists) becomes the latest core member of the Penguins to sign a long-term deal joining captain Sidney Crosby (12-years $104 million) and Evgeni Malkin (eight-years $76 million).

Taken in the third round of the 2005 draft, Letang has spent his entire career in Pittsburgh where he has developed into one of the league's top offensive defensemen.

A two-time All-Star, Letang helped the Penguins to a Stanley Cup in 2009 and this season was a finalist for the Norris Trophy that goes to the NHL's top blueliner.

In seven seasons Letang has 44 goals and 209 points and has added 13 goals and 34 assists in 80 career playoff games.

(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto)