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The TSA has launched an Instagram account, showing all the "dangerous items" theyThis is undeniable. If attempting to carry a weapon onboard is evidence of a true threat, we'd expect to see more would-be fliers headed off to prison, or at least arraigned on terrorism charges. But that's simply not happening. Instead, the weapons are confiscated and they face, at most, a felony charge for attempting to board a plane with a weapon.
stealconfiscate from air travellers. The message is clear: we are keeping you safe from in-flight danger.
But what they don't show is all the grand-jury indictments for conspiracy to commit air terrorism that they secured after catching people with these items -- even the people who were packing guns.
That's because no one -- not the TSA, not the DAs, not the DHS -- believe that anyone who tries to board a plane with a dangerous item is actually planning on doing anything bad with them. After all, as New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler said (quoting Tom Wolfe), "a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted." So if there was any question about someone thinking of hurting a plane, you'd expect to see indictments.
This sort of thinking falls right in line with the TSA's liquids policy. Prohibited liquids are tossed into nearby trash receptacles, giving lie to the reasoning that the questionable liquid could be some sort of explosive. Throwing away potential bomb components a few feet from a frequently-crowded TSA checkpoint right on the concourse seems incredibly irresponsible if you truly believe the fluid is dangerous. The fact that this happens several times a day in hundreds of airports across the US proves that not even the TSA agents believe the confiscated liquids pose a threat.
The TSA agent Doctorow spoke with about these seizures said he didn't believe the people who'd had their weapons confiscated posed a threat. But he did come up with a rather novel theory as to why these confiscations took place.
"But," he said, "maybe someone who did want to crash the plane might take the bad thing away from them and attack it."Doctorow responded that this scenario seemed way too far-fetched to mesh with reality.
"That doesn't sound like a very reliable plan," I said. "If you were a terrorist and that was your plan, you'd have to spend a lot of time in the air waiting for someone to open his laptop bag and show you that he forgot to take his handgun out of it before he boarded."Based on recent history with would be terrorists, it's more likely the smuggled weapon would be used by passengers against the terrorists, rather than the other way around. This new Instagram account is just the TSA soft-selling its brand of "safety," but the implied narrative doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

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The Minnesota Wild on Monday dealt forwards Darroll Powe and Nick Palmieri to the New York Rangers in exchange for forward Mike Rupp.
Rupp is a veteran with Stanley Cup experience, having helped the New Jersey Devils to the title in 2003.
In eight games this season with the Rangers, Rupp, who doesn't shy away from physical play, had 12 penalty minutes and a minus-3 rating.
The 33-year-old Rupp has 53 goals, 41 assists and 765 penalty minutes in 565 career games with New Jersey, Phoenix, Columbus, Pittsburgh and the Rangers.
Like the 6-foot-5, Rupp, Powe has been held without a point in eight games this season.
Powe, a gritty forward with penalty-killing experience, has 28 goals and 56 points in 294 career games with Philadelphia and Minnesota.
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CD are sheer comedy gold in the field. 4 dropped chances in 9 overs.
looked dead to me. kain isn't a conventional slow left armer.
Don't squander the gold of your days making a shrine of cricket videos, trying to improve the hopeless failure, giving your life away to the Blockys, the Devciches and the Weerasundaras! Surrender your devout little cricketing heart to the inured agribusinessman.
Macca desperate to have a **** over some 145k filth. Cumming tells him point blank that Milne has been utter ****e throughout the comp and in response the Mac Attack can only offer a feeble "but he's a New Zealand representative, why isn't he bowling?!"
Tbf to him though, Milne couldn't do much worse than the rest of the cd medium quicks today.
hmmmmm, I can see why this Lamb guy is getting a gig over Mathieson.
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Oh, that's terrible. Terrible!
Cricket: In-form Jesse Ryder 'right' to stay on... | Stuff.co.nz
Ugh, I can't think of anything more likely to drive Ryder away than senior officials at NZC talking about how he "doesn't have the fire" to play for NZ. STFU.
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B Cachopa c L Ronchi b MJ Tugaga 5
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lol. "This guys a tailender mate, it's Adam Milne" Classic.
Bloody hell. That Central line up has pretty much no batting.
Good to see Houghton being economical again and Tugaga looks to be having a good day at the office. Will there be 'highlights' of this on on-line later?
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I think this is more a relationship issue than an etiquette one, but if the family complaining are his children, I agree with them. There's no way I would agree to marry someone without consulting my kids first. That doesn't mean I would need their permission, but I think a heads up is good.
But Steven Tyler's kids are full grown, self supporting adults, so I really don't think that has any bearing on the situation. I also don't think any actually ever were raised by or lived with their dad as kids.
For some reason, I didn't consider the fact that the family members could be his children, which does change things a little for me. But also, if my family hated my girlfriend, I don't think I would have a lot of incentive to tell them that she is now going to become my wife.
I think it is polite to let your children know that you're relationship is serious enough that you're going to add the SO to their family.
Quote from: AlwaysQuizzical on December 28, 2011, 11:54:29 PMI think it is polite to let your children know that you're relationship is serious enough that you're going to add the SO to their family.They had been together for over 5 years, and as mentioned before, his children are grown. If my mother were to date somebody and remarry, I wouldn't feel like she would need to tell me before they got engaged.
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Butterflies and Tulips
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One of my friends got married today! When we got their save the date card back in January, I naturally started thinking about making something to wear. I'd had the Decades of Style 1930s Butterfly Blouse pattern for awhile, waiting for a reason to be made, and this turned out to be the reason!
I found this beautiful but very pricey red silk at the Tessuti post-Christmas sale. It then sat in the fabric dresser for months until it became obvious I'd have to get over my terror of cutting such expensive fabric if I wanted an outfit in time for the wedding. It was terrifying to cut and sew, but I LOVE the end result. Those sleeves are gorgeous! They flutter around and they're just so PRETTY! I changed the construction slightly to make the sewing easier, since it was such a slidey fabric, and I did a rolled hem around all raw edges instead of the French binding the instructions said to use.
A top is not an entire outfit, so I also needed a skirt to wear with it. I thought of a tulip-style skirt, and downloaded the Marie skirt pattern from Burda. I made that using a purple polyester shantung, and unfortunately the pleats were VERY stiff in it and I was very unhappy with the way it sat. I don't need help making my butt look big! I took apart the back of the skirt, and sewed a new seam so it would be more of a pencil skirt at the back. I then realised I couldn't walk or sit down in how narrow that made the hem, so I improvised a split in the back seam. I also tacked down the front pleats so they wouldn't stick out so much either, and I'm much happier with it now.
It was a lovely day and a lovely wedding! Photos are taken in the chapel garden, by pambox as always.
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BOSTON — Tuukka Rask played in just 29 regular-season games and then never got off the bench in the postseason this year.
For a 24-year-old potential All-Star goaltender, those aren't the type of games-played totals that usually advance a player's development. It had to be particularly difficult considering Rask was the league leader in goals-against average and save percentage in 45 appearances of his rookie season in 2009-10.
But Rask doesn't look back at the Bruins' Stanley Cup championship season of 2010-11 as a lost year.
"Yeah, it's definitely a new experience for you when you're not playing and you're kind of watching the games," he said on break-up day at TD Garden Sunday. "It's a mental growing point in your career for sure. You learn from these kinds of things and I think it helps you in the future."
In addition to working hard in practices and gaining tutelage from Bruins goaltending coach Bob Essensa, Rask was able to have a close-up look at one of the best goaltending seasons in NHL history from Tim Thomas. The veteran set the NHL single-season record for save percentage and then set records for saves in one playoff season and in one Stanley Cup Final.
"Yeah, it's still tough to believe what happened. He had such a great year and day in and day out he was that great goalie there and he didn't let any, too many weak goals even throughout the year," said Rask. "It's just great to see, happy for the guy. I'm so happy for the guy."
Rask appreciates the season Thomas had, but that doesn't mean the younger goalie is going go easy on the old man when they both report to training camp in the fall.
"Of course I want to be the guy, he wants to be the guy, everybody wants to be the guy," Rask said. "But it's a fair competition between us every day and we like it the way it is. Hopefully we can both get playing time and help the team to get the wins."


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June 18, 2013 > Men - Celebrate Men's Health Month. Learn About Prostate Health
New guidelines for prostate cancer screening are announced
June is the month we celebrate fatherhood. It's also Men's Health Month - an event encouraging men and boys to learn more about their health, get regular medical information and advice, and seek early treatment when they are sick or injured. One important issue for men is prostate health, especially as they grow older. More than 30 million American men suffer from prostate conditions that negatively affect their quality of life, according to the Men's Health Network, a national non-profit organization that supports prevention and health education for men. Most common cancer Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. The CDC reports, in 2009, more than 206,000 men were diagnosed and more than 28,000 died from prostate cancer. "With prostate cancer, most men don't experience symptoms in the early stages, when it is most treatable," said Mark Saleh, M.D., a board certified urologist with Washington Township Medical Foundation, who is also on the medical staff at Washington Hospital. "That's why screening is so important," he added.Screening is a way of looking for disease before symptoms appear. Prostate cancer screening is done by two common tests: a digital rectal exam by a physician and the prostate specific antigen, or PSA, test. This test measures a man's blood for the level of PSA, a substance made by the prostate. In general, the higher the PSA level, the more likely the man has some problem with his prostate. Change in guidelines "The big news for men's health is that the American Urological Association has just changed its recommended guidelines on when and how often men should have their PSA tested," stated Dr. Saleh.Until recently, it was generally accepted that men between age 50 and 75 should have their PSA screened annually. Last month, the Association changed the recommendation, limiting testing to between ages 55 and 70. In addition, men of average risk should be tested every other year, rather than annually."The Association has also created stricter guidelines for when a biopsy of the prostate should be done," said Dr. Saleh. "It now states that before the decision to do a biopsy is made, the PSA level should be higher than previously recommended."In addition to cancer, there are a number of other factors, such as a man's age or race, that may contribute to an elevated PSA level. These include certain medical procedures, some medications, or an enlarged or infected prostate.In announcing the new guidelines, the Association stressed that the recommendations apply to men of average risk for prostate cancer. Men of any age who are at high risk, such as those with a family history of the disease or who are of African-American decent, should talk with their doctor about when to be screened.The Association asserted that decision-making about prostate screening should be shared between a man and his doctor, and it should take into account the man's values and preferences.More frequent problemDr. Saleh emphasized that men should be vigilant about prostate cancer screening at the appropriate age and the recommended frequency. However, they should also be aware that urinary symptoms that occur as they get older are more often due to an enlarged prostate, a condition that is also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).More than half of men in their 60s and as many as 90 percent who are 70 or older have symptoms of BPH, according to the Men's Health Network.The prostate, a walnut-sized gland that is part of a man's reproductive system, continues to grow throughout most of a man's life. The enlargement usually does not cause problems in men younger than 40.As the prostate enlarges, it begins to press against the urethra, the tube carrying urine out of the bladder. This can cause the tube to narrow, leading to more frequent urination, a weak urinary stream, and an inability to empty the bladder, symptoms most often associated with BPH."Prostate enlargement is as common a part of aging as gray hair," states the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "As life expectancy rises, so does the occurrence of BPH."The NIH reports that, in one recent year, men visited their physician 4.5 million times for BPH.Learn moreTo learn more about Men's Health Month, go to www.menshealthmoth.org. For more information about Washington Township Medical Foundation, go to www.mywtmf.com, and for more about Washington Hospital, visit www.whhs.com. To find out more about prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate screening, visit the Web site of the American Urological Association at www.auanet.org or go to www.cdc.gov (U.S. Centers for Disease Control) or www.nih.gov (National Institutes of Health).


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There's no telling what will happen when it comes time for the numerous voting members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association to vote at the conclusion of the regular season, but in reading different writers' opinions from across the league it's obvious Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara is a heavy favorite to win the Norris Trophy.
Mike Zeisberger, an outstanding columnist from The Sun, today lauds Chara's efforts this season to wrest the award away from Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom.
"The numbers speak for themselves," Zeisberger writes. "His 16 goals rank him among the league leaders for defensemen. His plus-24 is one of the best totals in the NHL.
"Yes, the Washington Capitals' Mike Green is having an outstanding offensive season with 28 goals. And yes, the likes of Lidstrom, Andrei Markov, Dan Boyle, Brian Rafalski and Shea Weber, just to mention a few, certainly deserve consideration.
"Where Chara separates himself from the others is the ability to use his towering frame to completely smother opposing snipers …"
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My family attended Disney on Ice last night at the Baltimore Arena.
As a side note, if you have young children and can make it down there by Sunday, there are worse ways to spend two hours. It was fun, full of energy and even old folks like us will recognize a lot of their skating characters.
I had a good time last night despite the fact that I was completely aggravated about twenty seconds into my entry into the building.
As Robert Palmer would sing once upon a time — "I'm…..looking for clues."
Without fail, anytime I go to an event in the Baltimore Arena, I always take a glance up to the rafters to see the Blast championship banners that hang from Lombard Street aside of the building. I worked for the team in '82-83, '83-84 and '84'-85, which were also years the Blast captured the Eastern Division championship in the MISL. We also won the league title in 1983-84. Those are the four banners that represent "the old days" of the Blast and they're still up…a faded yellow, perhaps, but still hanging in the ceiling of the Arena. There are other Blast banners hanging, as well, symbolic of the excellence established by in "the current era" which started in 1998.
They were all hanging up on Thursday night, right where they should be.
Two other banners, though, were missing.
In 1992-93 and 1993-94 the Baltimore Spirit – an entry in the National Professional Soccer League – won the Eastern Division Championship. For the uninitiated, the Spirit came about after the MISL (which contained the Blast) folded following the 1991-92 campaign. Faced with the prospect of having no indoor soccer in Baltimore for the first time since 1980, a local businessman – Bill Stealey – put an expansion team in the league and was essentially forced to "re-name" the franchise due to a legal situation involving the old league (a "union league") and the new league ("non union") and the fact that the "new owner" and "old owner" couldn't agree on a price tag for the Blast name and logo.
Make no mistake about it, though, the Spirit was the Blast. Kenny Cooper was the man in charge, the fan base was identical, a large number of players carried over from the MISL to the NPSL and other than the name – Spirit – nothing changed from the final days of the Blast in June of 1992.
The tradition of great Blast soccer carried over to '92-93 and '93-94 when the Spirit won those two Eastern Division titles.
Naturally, having worked in the Arena as part of the Blast and Spirit from 1981 until 1998, anytime I go to the Arena I glance up at the Blast banners at the Lombard Street end and then to the Spirit banners at the Baltimore Street end.
Except last night, the two Spirit banners weren't there.
Blast banners: there
Spirit banners: not there
I immediately went to Facebook and asked, "Who is responsible for the Spirit banners not being there?" I also called it "bush-league" that they weren't up there.
A few Facebook friends quickly chimed in to tell me they haven't been up for a couple of years.
Evidently, they're being cleaned.
For a couple of years.
Who's cleaning them, the Orioles?
A Blast representative reached out to me quickly and assured me the current team has nothing to do with the removal of the Spirit banners from the rafters.
I hope that's true.
I'd be very disappointed to find out the Blast called for those banners to be removed.
The person who told me the current organization had nothing to do with the Spirit banners not being up there is a trustworthy man, so I believe him. Especially since I signed him to play for the team in '92-93 and hired him to work in the front office (where he still remains) when his playing days were over.
So…where are the banners?
Being cleaned?
Or did someone in Arena management just assume they were no longer important enough to hang from the rafters?
If those banners were removed intentionally, it's a bush-league move and it needs to be corrected.
If, in fact, they're being cleaned (for two years), pay the bill, get them back, and hang 'em up.
I'm looking for clues.
They belong up there.
And, on behalf of people like Kenny Cooper, Jason Dieter, Barry Stitz, Steve Nichols, Mike Conway and everyone else who played for those two teams, I'm going to do my best to get those banners back up in the rafters of the Baltimore Arena.


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Xavier Talton spent a lot of hours in the gym this summer, launching shot after shot.
"You can never be too good at something," he said. "You always have to practice and get better."
The Colorado men's basketball team is hoping the hard work pays dividends this year, because it needs a few scorers to emerge this season.
Last year, CU ranked 164th in the country in scoring (67.6 points per game) and 174th in shooting percentage (43.3 percent). At the end of the season, Boyle said one of the priorities for his program was to find some shooters.
Junior guard Askia Booker will play a major role in that regard. A second-year starter, Booker was second on the team with 12.4 points per game last year, but his accuracy wasn't consistent. Lately, he's been shooting the ball as well as ever.
Aside from Booker, though, the Buffs need players who can come off the bench and hit big shots at key moments. That's where Talton comes in.
"It's really important," the sophomore said. "It can be a little energy spark if the team is down."
In the early going of preseason practices, assistant coach Jean Prioleau said Talton and sophomore Eli Stalzer have been shooting well. But, the Buffs could have several players they can count on as the season goes along.
"I think it's just important to have guys that can just shoot and make shots, at the end of the day," Prioleau said. "To emerge as (the one key shooter), yeah, someone coming off the bench, that would be great, but we expect all of our guys to be able to make shots."
Shooting well in practice is a little easier, of course, because everybody on the team is in constant motion throughout the practice session and they stay warm. What the Buffs need is for their players to learn how to come in during a game and provide that instant spark that Talton talked about.
"It's different when you're sitting on the side and you're subbing into the game cold and then being able to make shots," Prioleau said. "That's not easy to do. I don't care who you are. The guys are getting better at that."
Talton, in particular, has gotten better. He shot the ball well last year, hitting 48.7 percent from the floor, but averaged just 7.3 minutes per game. He scored 1.5 points per game. He would love to see those numbers increase.
"I feel like my game has made tremendous strides this offseason and I'm looking forward to getting on the court more," he said. "This offseason, I just put in time. I was here all summer spending time in the gym getting shots up."
Talton should be ready to contribute more because he's been here a year. As this year's freshmen are learning, it can be overwhelming at times trying to understand everything the coaches want done. Talton went through that last year, but the game is starting to slow down for him now.
"I think he's just more confident," Prioleau said. "In our system, every player is going to get better over time. (Junior guards) Spencer (Dinwiddie) and Ski, when they were freshmen, they made a lot of mistakes, too. It was covered up by the veterans that we had, but our program is based on getting better and our guys do get better.
"It takes time to understand how we play in our system, our terminology, what we want defensively and offensively. It takes time to get accustomed to that. I think X-Talton and Eli have benefited from being here a year because they're better players now."
For Talton, part of getting better meant putting up thousands of shots in the offseason. He said he and Booker would often come to the gym together and try to launch 1,000 shots in one session. The goal was to make 75-80 percent of them.
"You just have to focus when you're in there and spend quality time," Talton said.
That quality time should benefit Talton, which, in turn, should benefit the Buffs. CU is coming off a 21-12 season that included a second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. The emergence of players like Talton could help the Buffs get to the Tournament again.
"The team we have this year is so talented, we can go so far I believe," Talton said.
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A playable demo for the Xbox 360 version of Chris Taylor's real-time strategy game Supreme Commander 2 should be available today for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Xbox Live Silver members will have to wait until April 14.
The demo features two tutorial levels and two campaign missions for the UEF faction:
- Strike White Cold - The Cybran invasion force is on the run. Sensors have picked up a number of operational Cybran Mass Extractors off the coast of the Weddell Strait. Players will need to explore the islands in the strait and successfully destroy the extractors - Features: Naval Battle
- Titans of Industry - After refusing orders and refusing to surrender their Armored Command Unit, players are now public enemy #1 in the UEF. Colonel Rodgers has targeted New Cathedral, a colony where the players' wife and child reside – they will need to take the most direct route to defend the colony. Unfortunately, that means traveling through the ruins of the Boolon Industrial Complex - Features: Air and Land Battle
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Monday, December 14, 2009
On a Kick
This is Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift that I acquired from Kenny. It's my first time working with shetland, and I can see why it's so often used for colorwork -- this stuff is sticky! I somehow dropped a stitch at some point and it literally went nowhere. I'm significantly past where this picture shows at this point (the thumb gore is almost done). I'll have to take another picture when I can get some good light to do it justice, because the pattern is really pretty.
Meanwhile, I've also been keeping myself somewhat busy with my Lady Eleanor Stole, which now has about five skeins of Noro Kureyon worked into it. Unfortunately, it's turning out a tad shorter than I expected considering I've used half of my yarn at this point. Here it is thus far, with a book for scale.
As luck would have it, the colorway I picked is now discontinued. Luckily, a bit of Googling turned up an online yarn store that still had some in stock, so three more skeins are on their way to me. I'm hoping that the extra yardage and a good blocking will result in a stole I can really wrap around myself.
Baby Watch 2009 continues. Tomorrow is my official due date, but I think it may be a while yet before Rainbow makes her grand debut.
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- Jenn said...
Hee, I can see those little bits of that odd yellow color at the bottom.
Yeah, I don't have anything thoughtful to say, but my verification word is "undys" so I felt like I had to because it is so close to "undies."
- DPUTiger said...
I really like your mittens. They seem fairly close in color to my Lychee mittens!
Someday I will knit a Lady E. Someday ....
My verification "word" is chhss, which makes me think of chess. Yeah, that's not relevant to anything. Oh well.
- marirob said...
ooohh...those are very pretty mittens! i have a pair of endpaper mitts that i've been working on forever... maybe it's time to get them out again.
i'm going to play! my verification word is "agors", which doesn't remind me of anything but sounds like it could be some awful disease: "she was hit with a powerful case of the agors from which she would never recover..."
- Jess said...
I think a good project on the needles is a must right now. Otherwise... you're just jinxing yourself. I did this... and was quite overdue both times. Cast on a big project... it just might put you into labor. ;)
- pat said...
Little did you know when you wrote this post that she would be in your arms tomorrow!
- weezalana said...
Love the color combo of your mittens!
And by pat's comment above, does this mean Rainbow has arrived? Update woman, update! :)


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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- which has yet to complete a program designed to properly store electronic records even in the shadow of millions of missing White House emails sent during the presidency of George W. Bush -- apparently feels a World War II probe is more important.
So does Congress, if their most recent budget is any guide. Congress has just budgeted $650,000 for the declassification of any documents relating to US intelligence agencies and their relationships with Nazi or Japanese war criminals.
TVNL Comment:The recent relentless campaign to garner sympathy for Israel by reminding everyone about the Holocaust continues. Hollywood, law enforcement agencies, and the US government seem to all suddenly feel that it is suddenly urgently important to find more evidence of Nazi crimes. Of course if you question the events in Germany...you go to jail.


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Beneath the glazed roof, wrought-iron arches and Big Ben-style station clock of London Paddington, I find myself caught between admiring this magisterial relic of Victorian England - designed in 1854 by the esteemed engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel - and swept up by a swarm of people trying to escape it.
A gateway to not just south-west England and Wales but the rest of the world - the Heathrow Express whistles to the airport in 15 minutes - the station is a frenzy of cosmopolitan voices and luggage-addled bodies that convey everything from dazed confusion to bloody-minded tunnel vision.
Platform 16, out on a limb on Paddington's north-eastern edges, oozes none of the grandeur of the main terminus. But this rather drab, functional spot, which services the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground, offers a unique and beguiling opportunity. Board a white, red and blue Tube carriage here and you'll be retracing the route of the world's first underground rail journey. Today I'm boarding alongside a pair of old cockney geezers in West Ham United football scarves, an enormous Indian family, a couple of Japanese backpackers and a fashionista with turned-up skinny jeans and a perfectly groomed hi-top fade.
It may sound like an odd thing to want to do, veering into nerdish trainspotter territory, perhaps, but 2013 is the year for this kind of nostalgia-driven stuff. It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of the London Underground.
All aboard
On January 9, 1863, after eight years of planning, parliamentary lobbying, financial and engineering headaches and the toil of more than 2000 navvies, the Metropolitan Railway, the maiden cog in what is now known as the Tube, was unveiled.
Chugging out of Paddington, a steam train plunged under the congested streets of central London, chuffed via the key mainline hubs of Gower Street (now Euston Square) and King's Cross, and rolled in at Farringdon, not far from the big banks and merchants' headquarters of the City of London, the financial heartbeat of the British Empire.
Drawing 40,000 passengers on its first full day, it was hailed as "the most stupendous engineering undertaking yet achieved in the railway world" and provided the blueprint for other companies to dig through the bowels of London.
With half a dozen underground lines operating by the end of the 19th century, the British capital was the inspiration for other subterranean transport networks: Athens (1869), Budapest and Glasgow (both established in 1896) and, later, the famous metros of Boston (1897), Paris (1900), New York (1904), Buenos Aires (1913), Madrid (1919), Tokyo (1927) and Moscow (1935).
My ride from Paddington to Farringdon doesn't feel all that momentous, initially anyway. As the Tube rattles along, silent passengers twiddle with their smartphones, leaf through newspapers and books, and survey the Tube map (a fusion of crayon-coloured lines first drawn up by draughtsman Harry Beck in 1933 and tinkered with ever since).
However, two stations east of Paddington, the carriage doors bolt open and a porthole into Victorian London appears. One of the original stops of the Metropolitan Railway, Baker Street station, is now a mind-boggling labyrinth at the confluence of five Tube lines (there are 11 in total, centrally managed by Transport for London).
Yet the Hammersmith & City line platform is bathed in antiquity: nestled in a gloomily lit, brick-arched tunnel lined by wooden benches stamped with black and white "Baker Street" signs and brick walls studded with old photographs and iron plaques embossed with "Metropolitan Railway 1863".
On a cool winter's night, you could imagine Sherlock Holmes, in his deerstalker cap, ambling down the platform, puffing away on his pipe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character lived at 221b Baker Street and Holmes's pipe-smoking silhouette decorates some of the station's tiled walls.
Gathering steam
Baker Street's bygone atmosphere will heighten on January 20, when a restored, coal-fired, steam-billowing locomotive - built in 1898 - pulls in to complete one of a clutch of heritage journeys marking the 150th anniversary. Kicking off on Sunday January 13, with runs between Moorgate and Kensington (Olympia), they'll be the first underground steam passenger rides in central London since the network was completely electrified in 1905.
Fares as steep as £180 ($280) haven't deterred passengers, with seats on the gas-lit wooden carriages sold out within hours of the tickets being released. Spectators will be able to glimpse these surreal journeys from station platforms, and the restored old trains will be in action at other times of the year, notably May 25-27 (in a weekend dubbed "Steam back on the Met").
Events celebrating the landmark are planned throughout 2013, including a series of theatrical, Underground-themed shows at the disused Aldwych Tube station. Founded in 1907 as Strand station, Aldwych was used as a bunker during the two world wars. Its supposedly haunted tunnels and shafts have starred in hit British movies such as V for Vendetta, Atonement and 28 Weeks Later.
Action stations
Close by, at the heart of Covent Garden, the London Transport Museum is the co-ordinator of the 150th anniversary events, lectures and exhibitions.
Housed in a striking iron-and-glass Victorian building, the museum boasts a sparkling array of classic modes of transport: horse-drawn omnibuses, electric street trams, red double-decker buses, shiny black cabs, steam locomotives and a Tube carriage circa 1938. You can clamber around and inside some of these beautifully preserved relics and also tackle a Tube driving simulator.
Other displays detail the technical and engineering aspects of the Tube's development, accounts of what it was like to travel underground before electrification (an 1884 Times newspaper editorial decries a smoke-filled trip from King's Cross to Baker Street as "a form of mild torture, which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it"), and the challenges of upgrading a creaking network that carries 1.1 billion passengers annually. Of the eye-catching multimedia attractions, I'm drawn to a digital screen showing the evolution of the Tube map - year by year - revealing how lines and stations have appeared and disappeared.
The best of the museum's 3300 archive posters will be showcased in an exhibition, Poster Art 150, between February 15 and October 27. Replica posters can be bought in a museum gift shop jam-packed with souvenirs, along with a raft of engaging books, including Underground: How the Tube Shaped London. This superbly illustrated coffee-table tome was published to mark the 150th anniversary and investigates how the venerable network not only tunnelled through London's soft bed of clay, but also became a global cultural icon.
You could liken the Tube to Vegemite - you either love it or hate it. But, for me - and arguably most travellers - it's something in between. While braving the Underground at peak times can be a hellish, claustrophobic experience that turns even the cheeriest soul into a tense, grim-faced drone, it also provides uplifting moments, such as off-peak periods, when you scale the escalators, passing a flicker of advertisements for new shows, books, holidays and exhibitions, while the buoyant sounds of busker music reverberate around the station.
Or when the masses of commuters and shoppers have dispersed and you can find a seat on the train, people-watch to your heart's content, and dreamily cast your eye over a Tube map whose colourful tangle of lines and peculiar station names (Shepherd's Bush, Swiss Cottage, Elephant & Castle) hide a feast of possibilities. Or simply when a fellow passenger makes eye contact and smiles. It happens, you know. Every now and then, anyway.
Trip notes
Getting there: Qantas flies Sydney to London. qantas.com.au.
Staying there: Formerly the Great Western Royal Hotel, the Hilton London Paddington effectively forms the facade of Paddington station. 146 Praed Street; doubles from £129 ($200). +44 207 850 0500, hilton.com
See+do: London Transport Museum. Covent Garden Piazza; adults £15 (tickets provide unlimited museum entry for 12 months), under-16s are free. +44 20 7379 6344, ltmuseum.co.uk.
Transport for London (including Tube fares, maps, timetables and service updates). tfl.gov.uk.
More information:visitbritain.com
Five Tube-riding tips
- Mind the gap. It's not just a slogan. Last year, 164 people suffered injuries getting on and off trains, so do follow the advice from that automated voice over the public address system.
- Stay right. If you're not in a rush, don't dawdle on the left side of the escalators. This will block — and enrage — those who are.
- Etiquette. Another custom that Londoners doggedly try to stick to is to let passengers off the train before boarding. Tourists ignoring this should expect tut-tuts and dirty looks.
- Oyster it. Single fares on the Tube are expensive (from £4.30 [$6.70] a pop), so if you're planning to use the Tube regularly, get an Oyster card. Available from all stations (for a £5 refundable deposit), it runs on a pre-paid top-up basis, with Oyster users enjoying discounted fares. If you would prefer to buy in advance of your trip, see visitbritainshop.com/australia/travel-transport.html.
- Watch the time. Don't miss the last Tube — unless you fancy a tedious bus ride (or two) or a potentially eye-watering cab fare. The Underground shuts down from about 12.30am or 1am until 5-5.30am.
Tube trivia
4.5 million: The number of Tube users on August 7 during the 2012 Olympics — a record for a day's travel on the network.
82 million: The number of passengers using Waterloo, the busiest Underground station, annually.
40 kilometres: The distance, as the crow flies, between Charing Cross and Chesham, the furthest Tube station from Central London.
55 metres: The depth, in metres, of Hampstead, the deepest-lying of the 270 Underground stations.
89 minutes: The longest journey without change on the Tube (between West Ruislip and Epping), on its longest line, the Central Line.


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Have you ever been playing World of Warcraft, watching your Paladin down a frosty glass of fresh-squeezed limeade, and felt the pangs of jealousy? We've got you covered, with a new cooking show that walks you through tasty video game recipes, starting with WoW's refreshing summer drink.
4 cups water
2 1/2 cups fresh lime juice (from 25 limes)
1/2 cup superfine sugar
YIELD: Makes 6 1/2 cups


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December 23, 2013 | CUNY Sports
n the CUNYAC/Applebee's Men's Soccer Final, #1 Baruch Bearcats was facing off against the #2 CCNY Beavers. Baruch was looking to repeat after their third title last season while CCNY was making their first appearance since 2005. After a golden goal in the 99th minute, Baruch will earn CUNYAC's coveted Automatic Qualifying bid into the NCAA Tournament. The Bearcats were victorious 1-0 over the Beavers at Brooklyn College in front of the largest crowd in CUNYAC Men's Soccer Championship history.
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9. Irked VARs Upset About Surface Lockout
Old gripes die hard. Despite opening up the Surface reseller market in the U.S. to select partners, the majority of North American VARs are still locked out of the Surface reseller program. Microsoft has dropped big hints its hardline stance is softening. Earlier this month, CRN reported Microsoft will be expanding its reseller program on an invitation-only basis. There were also reports that Microsoft plans to open up its Australian Surface reseller program to include any VAR.
But until Microsoft officially opens up on its Surface reseller program, VARs aren't likely to quit bitterly complaining about Microsoft's big Surface cold shoulder. In the interim, system integrators are pushing alternatives to Surface, such as Android and Apple tablets, to their customers.


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|The echoes, seen here two weeks ago,
where still thought to be sleeping
"As much as it pains me to be the one to tell Irish Nation the bad news, their team as they knew it in the days of Rockne and Ara, and even Lou, isn't coming back. No matter how fooled NBC is nor how long their fans mistakenly believe that they can survive as a relevant independent. Those days are over."
Following the press conference, Notre Dame students could be seen on campus breaking out in tears - even more so than after witnessing the cluster-fuck that was their team's opening 23-20 loss to USF last Saturday.
"I came to Notre Dame because we continue to always have top 20 recruiting classes and we somehow still manage to get a pre-season top 25 ranking based on absolutely nothing," said sophomore Pete O'Gallagher of Chicago. "So I thought there was a chance.
"I didn't," said O'Gallagher's roommate, junior Kelly O'Murray. "I kinda always knew it was over, you know? I mean, it kept going from bad to worse with Davies, then whatshisname, then Weis. Now Brian Kelly. Even still, to hear that it's over and the echoes are never waking up? It hurts."
When asked for comment, current Notre Dame head coach Brian "Tourette's" Kelly told the MZone to fuck off. Then he told us to go fuck ourselves. Then Kelly said "fuck" 30 more times before storming back into his office and slamming the door in our faces, before saying "fuck!" one more time really loud on the other side of the door.
In a related story, the MZone has learned Kelly has re-done the famous "Play Like A Champion Today" sign which hangs outside the Irish locker room leading to the tunnel to the field at Notre Dame Stadium. Here is an exclusive look at the sign which is set to be unveiled before next week's Michigan State game in South Bend.


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Arteta masterclass
With the start of the Premier League less than two weeks away, Arsenal star Mikel Arteta provides an insight into the key skills needed to play the defence-splitting pass
By Peter Fraser - Follow me on Twitter @SkySportsPeteF
Last Updated: 18/09/13 3:36pm
Whether playing against a defensive side who have packed men behind the ball or if in a tight top-of-the-table clash, the ability to break down an opponent is one of the most integral skills in football.
It is a tough technique to execute in terms of space, vision, awareness and, of course, passing accuracy. But, if mastered, it can take defenders out of the game and prove to be the difference between winning and losing.
Every Premier League team will therefore be working on their skills in this department as the new season draws ever closer and their passing midfielders will especially need to perfect their ability to ensure they start the campaign on song.
The training fields will be hugely important over coming days as players repeat drills on their technique in order to improve and ensure that when the pressure is on when the competition begins, they do not struggle.
Pre-season training is traditionally a period of dread for professional footballers but away from the gruelling fitness work which is undertaken under the watchful eye of their coaches, skills such as passing are also key.
Mikel Arteta divides opinion but he is undoubtedly a master of the passing art. Some see Arsenal's midfielder as a key and influential player while others question his effectiveness.
But Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has never had any doubts and the statistics speak for themselves - Spaniard Arteta is one of the best passers in the Premier League and Europe and he is undoubtedly capable of playing that 'killer pass'.
|Premier League 2012/2013 (Minimum 999 passes)
|Passing Accuracy
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|Leon Britton
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However, it has not been without hard work for Arteta and he has had to focus intensely on the training pitch to ensure his passing is amongst the sharpest in the business.
He explains: "As I open my body, I am aware of the position of other players. When I receive the ball, the first touch is forwards and then I recognise the run.
"I play the ball between the defenders and it is a killer pass."
The key is therefore to create time on the ball and have a picture of what is happening on the pitch in terms of a team-mates and opposition defenders.
There is no doubt Arteta is respected for what he does within the game and his former Everton boss, David Moyes, who is now at Manchester United, was always glowing in his praise.
"He is a very gifted footballer. He is a great lad to work with," said Moyes last November.
"I think the manager [Wenger] was probably surprised what he offers. He is a great professional and a really good footballer."
So, Arteta's advice is full of value and the important elements are to create a big picture of what is happening in the game, ensure a positive first touch and be aware of the running of team-mates.
Mikel Arteta wears the super soft PUMA King. It's in his nature to be the Ringleader - he runs the show. Arteta has filmed exclusive Nature of Performance training videos to help you become the master at playing the killer pass. Head to facebook.com/pumafootball to watch and share


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All CTEP Grants have been EXTENDED to August 1, 2011Division: Educational Standards and Programs
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Purpose: The Career and Technical Education Partnership (CTEP) grant is a comprehensive statewide initiative to address implementation of all 16 career clusters and related Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs). This NGO will focus on the systemic statewide planning and implementation of activities related to the career and technical education (CTE) programs in Health Science. The CTEP priorities over the next three years include: identification and/or development of resources and sample curriculum to assist New Jersey secondary school districts and postsecondary CTE program in developing quality CTE programs of study; to create a statewide model for at least one new CTE program of study; delivery of high-quality professional development for secondary school districts and/or postsecondary CTE programs; and administration and leadership of Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) to ensure activities are aligned to NJCCCS and industry standards. The CTEP program is a continuation grant awarded in the first year to Gloucester County College. This NGO covers the second year of a four-year grant cycle. Based on the availability of state and federal resources, this third year of the grant program will begin September 1, 2010 and end on August 31, 2014. The award year will be September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012.
Eligible Agencies: Gloucester County College
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An Antioch Elementary School teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after being accused of grabbing and bruising a student's arm, officials said Wednesday.
Antioch School District 34 administrators and Antioch police are investigating the student's complaint, which stemmed from an incident at the school Tuesday afternoon.
The state Department of Children and Family Services is investigating, too.
No charges have been filed, nor has any disciplinary action been taken against the teacher.
The teacher was placed on leave until the investigation is complete as a matter of procedure, Assistant Superintendent Mark Ostap said.
Ostap was not aware of any prior complaints of physical violence involving the teacher.
Antioch Police Chief Craig Somerville confirmed detectives are investigating, but he declined to comment on the specifics of the case.
"We're talking to everybody involved," Somerville said.


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The number of abortions among teenagers is dropping much faster in states with strong parental consent laws
Enjoined. The word appears often on Americans United for Life's list of abortion-related parental involvement laws in the states. Twenty-five parental notice and consent laws are currently in effect in the United States. Only four states--Hawaii, New Hampshire, New York, and Oregon--plus the District of Columbia have no laws requiring parental consent, or even notification, for a minor to obtain an abortion.
Meanwhile, parental involvement laws in at least 14 states are under permanent injunction, hog-tied in court, or exist in a limbo called "constitutionally problematic." That's because private abortion clinics and the Usual Plaintiff (Planned Parenthood) wage a perpetual legal war against laws designed to involve parents in a major moral and medical decision faced by teen girls every day--the decision to take the life of an unborn child.
Such legal challenges are an important strategy for abortion advocates. About one in five people who walks into an abortion clinic is a teenager. And during the 1990s, pro-aborts watched the number of abortions among all age groups in the United States drop by 20 percent. In anticipation of the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, WORLD examined how parental involvement laws affected abortion declines in the states between 1990 and 1999.
The Centers for Disease Control each year issues its "Abortion Surveillance Report." That document lists abortion statistics for most of the United States, separating the numbers into various categories, such as the age and race of people obtaining abortions; the gestational age of babies at termination; and the number of previous abortions females had when they opted for their most recent one. But the surveillance report does not break out totals for teen girls affected by parental consent laws (usually 17 and under), and those not affected. So WORLD did.
We totaled, then crunched, the number of girls in that age group who obtained abortions in states where parental notice and consent laws took effect between 1990 and 1999, the most recent year for which the CDC tallied abortion numbers. Here were our questions: How much did abortion among teens 17 and under decline in states with consent and notice laws, versus states with no laws? How did declines compare between states with consent laws and states with notice laws? And how did declines in consent-, notice-, and no-law states compare with the 20 percent decline in abortion overall?
A consent law requires that at least one parent give permission when a minor female wants to abort her baby. Here are the states where consent laws took effect during the 1990s, according to Americans United for Life:
A notice law requires that at least one parent be notified of a minor girl's intent to obtain an abortion. Here are the other states where notice laws took effect during the 1990s:
Connecticut also has a parental notice law, but it gives abortionists discretion to ask minors whether involving their parents would be a good idea. The state did not report the number of teen abortions to the CDC between 1988 and 1993. Texas enacted a parental notice law in 1999, but its impact would have occurred too late in the decade for WORLD to include it in this analysis.
In states where at least one parent (or in Maine, one adult family member) must agree to allow a young teenager to abort her baby, the number of abortions obtained by girls 17 and under fell by an average of 55 percent during the 1990s. That's 35 percent more than the decline in abortions overall during the decade. Abortions in the 17-and-under group fell the most in Mississippi, plummeting 69 percent from 921 in 1990 to 289 in 1999. In that state, both of a girl's parents must give written permission for her to obtain an abortion.
Though abortions among young teens in North Carolina fell the least among the consent states WORLD examined, the drop there was still 48 percent. That's more than 25 times the average decline of 18 percent among states WORLD analyzed where no parental involvement is required when a young teen considers abortion.
WORLD looked at three of the five jurisdictions where no parental involvement is required. (The CDC did not publish data for New Hampshire, and data for the District of Columbia was too limited for a thorough analysis.) In Hawaii, where a famously liberal legislature has refused to involve parents in the abortion-related medical and ethical decisions of their teen daughters, the number of abortions among girls 17 and under fell by only 8 percent. In Oregon, abortions fell by only 12 percent, and in New York, the decline was 36 percent.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, Kansas, Montana, and Nebraska, where at least one parent must be notified when a teenager wants an abortion, abortions fell by about one-third. The decline was highest in Nebraska at 46 percent. In Kansas, the number of abortions among teens 17 and under actually increased by a net 9 percent during the 1990s. In 1990, young teens there aborted 992 unborn babies. In 1992, the year the notice law took effect, they aborted 1,289 more. The number of abortions in that age group hovered near that number for the next three years, peaking in 1995 at 1,305. By 1999, abortions had fallen to 1,085, for a post-law decline of 16 percent.
WORLD cannot directly attribute abortion declines in the states to the presence or absence of parental involvement laws, since other factors such as the activity of crisis pregnancy centers, the effectiveness of abstinence programs, state funding of abortions, and changes in attitudes toward abortion also affect those trends. But during the 1990s, states that implemented parental consent laws saw, on average, a decline in abortions among young teens that was triple that in states with no laws, and significantly bigger drops than states with parental notice laws. In addition, abortions in the affected age group fell more steadily through the 1990s in consent-law states, while they tended to hover and spike in notice- and no-law states.
"Parental involvement laws reinforce the rights of parents to be involved in their children's medical decisions," said Denise M. Burke, staff counsel for Americans United for Life. "At minimum, parental notification is required before virtually all non-emergency medical procedures. Abortion should be no different."
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DuPont Pioneer provided a "Crops Insight" about how crops need sulfur. What agronomists and researchers have discovered is easily understood without reading the lengthy article although a link to the entire article is provided at the bottom of the following highlight.
Sulfur is one of the 16 elements essential to crop production. It is typically considered a secondary macronutrient (along with calcium and magnesium), but is essential for maximum crop yield and quality. Sulfur is often ranked immediately behind nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in terms of importance to crop productivity.
Sulfur is a component of the amino acids cysteine and methionine making it essential for protein synthesis in plants. Plants contain a large variety of other organic sulfur compounds, such as glutathione, sulfolipids and secondary sulfur compounds which play an important role in physiology and protection against environmental stress and pests.
Sulfur fertility has historically not been a major concern for growers on most soils, as soil organic matter, atmospheric deposition, manure application and incidental sulfur contained in fertilizers have typically supplied sufficient sulfur for crop production. However, reductions in the amount of sulfur contributed by these factors combined with increased sulfur removal with greater crop yields have made sulfur deficiencies more common.
· Sulfur is an essential nutrient for crop production, often ranked behind only nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in importance.
· Increased removal due to higher crop yields combined with reduced inputs from atmospheric deposition and other sources have increased the prevalence of sulfur deficiencies.
· Sandy and low organic matter soils are at greatest risk for sulfur deficiency.
· Sulfur is taken up by plants as sulfate, an anion that is mobile in the soil and subject to loss through leaching or volatilization, much like nitrate
· Alfalfa and canola have high sulfur requirements and are more likely to respond to sulfur fertilizer, particularly on sandy soils.
· Corn and soybean often do not respond to sulfur fertilizer, but yield responses can be substantial in cases where sulfur is deficient.
To read the full article written by Mark Jeschke and Keith Diedrick about the need for sulfur and application to various crops, click here.
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NEW YORK — The Knicks not only expect a Boston adjustment, they can guess what it is.
NEW YORK — The Knicks not only expect a Boston adjustment, they can guess what it is.
The Celtics never could have accomplished so much over the last six years with as little as they got from Kevin Garnett on Saturday in their playoff opener. So when the teams return to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday for Game 2, Boston plans to feature much more of Garnett, along with the usual dose of Paul Pierce.
The response from the Knicks is basically: Go ahead.
"They're going to come back but we've got to worry about ourselves," Carmelo Anthony said. "As long as we do what we have to do, we have a shot and we have a chance at winning the game. We can't be too concerned about what them guys are going to do."
Garnett was just 4-of-12 from the field in the Knicks' 85-78 victory. Perhaps out of rhythm from his lack of game action down the stretch, he finished with eight points and nine rebounds and couldn't take advantage of Tyson Chandler's struggles.
"We've got to involve him more and there's a better way to do it than the way we did it," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said.
Garnett played in only five of the final 17 games of the regular season, mostly while battling an ankle injury, and was on the floor for nearly 37 minutes Saturday. But on a day the Celtics got only four points from their reserves and needed much more from their starters, Garnett finished with more fouls than baskets and never attempted a free throw.
"We know we've got to play through Kevin a lot more. I mean, he's probably, he is one of our best passers," Pierce said Sunday.
Chandler missed the final six games of the regular season and played in only four of the last 20 because of a bulging disk. He was scoreless and didn't even take a shot Saturday, finishing with only five rebounds in 20 minutes. He and the Knicks said the problem was just rust, not any recurring pain, and expect him to be better as the playoffs go along.
"Obviously, it's going to be a little stiff, a little sore in there. But I felt great," Chandler said. "It's just when you're out for so long, you're not playing against some park and rec dudes, you're playing against the best of the best. I'm trying to condition myself, playing against the best of the best. It's just getting my timing back, getting my legs under me, getting back into the flow of the game."
The Knicks can afford to be patient while Chandler regains his stamina as long as they keep getting efforts like they received Saturday from Kenyon Martin, who finished with 10 points and nine rebounds, and played the entire fourth quarter. Along with J.R. Smith, the Knicks appear to have a huge advantage when the teams have to go to their benches.
But Martin expects the Celtics to figure out some way to address Saturday's errors.
"They're well-coached and they know what they have to do," Martin said. "They're going to come here, they're going to scratch, claw, fight, you know what I'm saying, in order to get a game. So we've got to be prepared for whatever."
The Knicks haven't held a 2-0 lead since 2000, the last year they won a series. They realize how difficult it will be to win Game 3 on Friday in Boston, when the Celtics will be playing in front of their home fans for the first time since the Boston Marathon bombings, so they don't want to miss their chance to take command Tuesday.
"Tomorrow we're approaching this game as a must-win," said Anthony, who scored 36 points in Game 1.