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BOSTON – Typically, the only teams that can roll out a Steven Stamkos or Vinny Lecavalier on a fourth line are international tournament entries or All-Star squads.
That doesn't stop Tampa Bay head coach Guy Boucher from getting his star players on the ice with his pluggers whenever he can.
By dressing 11 forwards, Boucher forces his team to be alert to sudden line changes and extra shifts.
"You've just got to focus. Even just line changes, we have to make sure we've got the right guys, who's playing what position," said Tampa Bay forward Ryan Malone. "Guys are jumping all over, playing center and wing. All year we've kind of dealt with it, so especially in the playoffs, you've got to make sure you take care of those little details.
"I think coach definitely keeps us on our toes. But we're used to it now, so it's no big deal."
The Lightning, who head into tonight's Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final up 1-0 in the series, might be used to it. That doesn't mean that teams like the Bruins, who only faced the Lightning four times in the regular season, and not at any point between March 3 and the start of this series, are necessarily ready for it.
While it didn't affect the scoreboard Saturday in Game 1, the Bruins – even with the second change on home ice – weren't able to avoid having their fourth line of Gregory Campbell, Shawn Thornton and Daniel Paille sometimes on the ice against Stamkos or even Martin St. Louis. Campbell said today that while his line's alertness has to be even higher than usual, he and his mates relish the challenge.
"The match-up's tough because they have 11 forwards dressed. They're going to mix in one of the top guys usually with that fourth line," said the center at the TD Garden, where Game 2 will be played. "I mean that's fine for us. We're ready to do the job and you just have to be a little more aware when you're on the ice. Those guys are great players for a reason. So you have to be aware of that. But that's not to say we should change our game in any way. We have to play hard and compete as we have been, but just be a little more mindful when they're on the ice."
Boucher's lineup allows for him to put a star on his fourth line and also put together a "super line" now and then of St. Louis, Stamkos and Lecavalier. That means that if Zdeno Chara isn't on the ice, the Bruins' other defensemen have to up their game. Other than Campbell, most of the other Bruins are downplaying the effects of the line changes.
"You don't pay too much attention to it during the game," said defenseman Andrew Ference. "You just kind of take a check to see who's on the ice. Lines get mixed up all the time. Especially with power plays and penalty kills the way they were spaced out last night. So the lines were getting a bit mixed up for both teams just due to those situations."
"I think the alertness always has to be there no matter if teams have set lines or not," Julien said. "And that's something that shouldn't really change our focus on our game.
"And I think right now it's so important we really focus on our game, and for some reason everybody seems to think that we have to adjust to them. We don't believe that. We have our game. We have on your team. We've gotten this far. We believe in what we do."
The Bruins have gotten this far on their own merits, but they've obviously had to adjust some to their opponent – whether it was limiting James van Riemsdyk's chances after his wild Game 1 for Philadelphia or attacking Montreal's bottom four defenseman with a better forecheck. Matching up against "super lines" and star-studded fourth lines might become a necessity for the Bruins to get back in and eventually win this series.


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Durians are so cheap now in here, I am not talking about those with "class" ya. Durians in this area are usually sold by owners of the durian farms. Beware of the roadside durian stalls between Kampar and Ipoh, they are charging triple or even higher if your car registeration plate is not local. We bought twice from the roadside stalls, very expensive! Why did we buy then? It was simply that we did not know the so called market price of durian in here. The price we set in our mind was for the "classy" durian in KL. After first time, second time and n time buying from the seller at local market, we confirmed that we were "cheated" by the roadside sellers.
Been buying durian almost every weekend for the last few weeks. T loves durian too but he is a small eater, unlike me... a hungry ghost for durian. Could not get enough but I do feel guilty of eating too much durian though. Sugar! Sugar! Sugar! High! High! High!
Ingredients (5-6 pcs):
- 80g All-purpose Flour
- ¾ tsp Baking Powder
- 60g Castor Sugar
- 1 no. Egg (L), lightly beaten
- 60g Butter, melted
- 60ml Milk
- ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
- ½ cup Durian Puree
- Additional durian flesh for topping (optional)
- Preheat oven to 175degC.
- In a large mixing bowl, sift and mix together flour, baking powder and sugar. Make a well in the middle and add in egg, butter, milk and vanilla.
- Stir to combine, then add in durian puree. Stir till just combined.
- Fill each muffin cup up to 80% full, top with durian flesh then bake for 20-25 minutes.
Something else...
Finally I found this muffin cup that I long for. I like it very much but the price is a bit expensive for me, it is about RM0.25 each. Does anyone have cheaper supply of this cup?


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GPSolo Magazine - September 2006
Business And Commercial Law
Insider Trading . . . or Not? Lessons Learned from an Acquittal
Insider-trading cases can be difficult to defend. They are largely built on circumstantial evidence and inferences, derived from a relatively simple scenario. Your client—who knows a corporate insider—has purchased stock just days before the announcement of favorable news about the insider's company or has sold stock in the insider's company before the announcement of bad news. The client has made a substantial amount of money or avoided a substantial loss. The prosecutors will argue that these facts do not demonstrate luck but are compelling evidence of guilt. If other friends and relatives of the same insider also traded, the circumstantial evidence becomes overwhelming.
The government may also immunize one of those other friends or relatives. Thus, the government will add to its circumstantial case direct testimony by someone claiming to have received the tip in a furtive conversation with the insider. From this, the prosecutor will ask the jury to conclude that all the other people who traded and knew the insider received the tip in the same way. The evidence demonstrates that the tipper and tippee knew each other, that they communicated, and that the client traded just before the announcement, thereby making a large sum of money. To compound matters, other co-conspirators traded in the same pattern as the client.
Experience from acquittals in insider-trading cases can serve as a model for constructing a winning defense. Defense counsel must do more than simply rebut the government's evidence and impeach its witnesses. It must tell its own story in order to create reasonable doubt in the mind of the jury.
Counsel must first convince the jury that the government's circumstantial evidence is not evidence at all, but mere ambiguous circumstances from which the government asks the jury to hypothesize as to what might have occurred. The jury must be continually reminded that it cannot convict based on speculation or guilt by association. Just because an insider and a friend spoke and the friend traded, it does not mean a violation of the law has occurred.
Second, defense counsel must present an alternative theory explaining all of the government's facts. Every successful case must have an overarching theme. In an insider-trading case, the overarching theme is that there is a rational alternative explanation for the government's circumstantial evidence. In other words, confront the weaknesses in your case and turn them to the client's advantage.
The first weakness to be confronted is the question of why the client traded this particular stock out of tens of thousands of stocks traded on the markets. Normally, the best course is to concede that your client heard of the company from a friend or became interested in the company because of that friend's connection with it. It is often this question that trips up clients in initial interviews with SEC staff. They believe that conceding familiarity or contact with the insider will make the SEC assume they received a tip, so clients often will deny that they ever spoke to the insider about the stock. But juries simply will not believe such blanket denials. An open admission of knowledge or contact is not a concession of guilt if coupled with the argument that hearing about a company and trading on inside information are two different things.
Once you have established how your client became interested in the corporation, the next hurdle will be to explain to the jury why your client traded the stock just before the newsworthy public announcement. Here, it is essential to have a rational explanation showing that the publicly available information made this stock pick a "buy" or "sell."
What do the annual reports reveal? What do news stories and analyst reports show? Such evidence is crucial to a client's defense. The Internet should be reviewed for chat room stories discussing the stock and predicting that it would go up or down.
You will then have to justify the size of the investment by showing that your client could afford the risk he or she undertook, and that your client had traded in a like manner in the past. If your client purchased on margin, you will have to explain this to the jury. One way to do this is to argue that it is actually cost effective to buy on margin, rather than sell stocks with a potential for appreciation held in your client's portfolio.
The defense outlined above can be bolstered by an expert's testimony. In the 1980s, the SEC conducted a study of insider trading and concluded that it is normal for friends and relatives of an insider to trade the stock of corporations with which such insiders were associated. The study found that such trading occurs for reasons other than trading on inside information, that is, friends and relatives of insiders have a natural tendency to trade in the stock of corporations where they know someone associated with management or the board of directors. It also found it was not unusual that such trading occurs immediately before a material corporate event.
The fact is that friends and relatives often observe an insider's behavior and can sometimes conclude that a material event is about to occur at the insider's corporation without the insider tipping them. This phenomenon is known as "leakage." It is not illegal to trade based on such observations.
Thus, the key to a successful defense is an alternative theory as to why and when the client traded. Defense counsel must explain how the client learned about the information and why the client traded that stock when he or she did. Counsel must show the jury that the client did precisely what you would expect any investor to do in a capitalist society. The client analyzed the market and placed a bet. There is nothing illegal about that!
Perhaps the hardest piece of evidence will be the fact that in the same period of time, other individuals who were close to the insider also traded. The government will argue that it was no coincidence that several friends and relatives traded at precisely the same moment. If it finds that others were tipped by the insider, the jury can infer that the client was tipped, too. In order to blunt this argument, defense counsel must constantly remind the jury that each of the defendants has to be judged based on the evidence offered against him or her and that a jury cannot convict based on mere guilt by association.
In conclusion, ambiguous circumstances and trading may often be transformed by the prosecution into circumstantial evidence of insider trading. The job of defense counsel is to take those same circumstances and present the jury with an equally plausible and believable story consistent with innocence.
Frank C. Razzano is a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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As mainstream doctors increasingly take note of the growing demand for natural labor and delivery practices within hospital settings (home birth, an alternative ever growing numbers families are turning to, certainly has its perks, but isn't for everyone), it's exciting to see the ways in which they—and the hospitals in which their patients give birth – make natural birth options available to the families they serve.
Dr. Delisa Skeete Henry, for example, helped to create a water birth program at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – where her practice is based – last August. Her first water delivery was also the first ever at the hospital. Jennifer Goldman, the mom (now of three) giving birth, who is also a physician, had delivered via C-section with her first child; by the time she was ready for her third, she was also ready for her ideal birth experience; luckily, Skeete – with whom Goldman had become close over the duration of her pregnancy – was able to facilitate this right at her home-base hospital.
Water births are not new, but they usually take place either at home, or in alternative birthing centers, and with the assistance of midwives, rather than hospital OBs. And although the AAP has expressed concern over their safety due to an insufficient numbers of studies on the subject, some data supporting water birth as beneficial in relieving labor pain, as well as lessening labor time, does exist. It's persuasive enough for some doctors – as was the case with Skeete Henry – and increasing numbers of hospitals, to incorporate water birth into their practices.
Skeete Henry's experience now supports the data she found compelling enough to implement a water birth program in the first place: not only does water birth facilitate a faster, and less painful, labor, but moms come out of it with a "sense of accomplishment" and empowerment that, Skeete contends, gives them a positive start on the path of motherhood. Sheila Love, who works with Skeete, has observed (as paraphrased here) that "water delivery gives women the sense of control and higher level of intimacy during their childbirth experience that has been lost with modern medicine."
As medical professionals within our modern hospital system acknowledge its shortcomings, and as home and natural birth advocates reintroduce what's been 'lost' in the childbirth experience to a more options-savvy public, parents are being offered more choices that may better meet their specific needs within mainstream hospital settings. It's unlikely everyone will ever be willing—and some people just aren't medically able – to buck the system entirely and give birth at home; for those in this camp who also want a drug-free birth, or who want more control over their birth experience, water birth (and natural pain relief options) within a hospital marks a welcome shift from either/or choices to hybridized, have-your-cake-and-eat-it hospital birthing. Ultimately, this gives rise to more data, and influences changes in industry, and cultural, expectations and standards; I think it is likely that all hospitals will one day offer water births. Broward Health Coral Springs, in the same county as Broward Health Medical Center, has offered this option to laboring moms since 1998 (wow!), and hospitals across the country are beginning to jump on the waterbirth bandwagon. (I was hoping to share a national directory with you, but the one I was able to locate appears to be currently out of order. If you're interested in having an in-hospital water birth, however, you could either inquire at your areas hospitals, or ask a local doula for recommendations. Here's a doula-finding directory; there may also be a doula collective in your area worth Googling for.)
Everyone from doulas and midwives to the American Pregnancy Association and the U.S. Department of Health and Human services agrees that water birth rates are rising (and have been for about three decades), but percentages taking place at home, versus in hospitals, are unclear (if you can point me to this data, please do). I'd be willing to bet, however, that some credit for the rising rates is due to hospitals incorporating water birth programs into their delivery options. By doing so, they're making water birth available to a much broader population of laboring moms.
So I'm curious: would you choose to have a water birth in a hospital setting? Have you done this? Should all hospitals offer this option to laboring moms?
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Wow you're right, episode 4 basically explains that horrible illogical plot twist in Cosprayers episode 6 (that got me watching that show when people were talking about it here)...
Again, it makes me actually glad to have seen the horror that was Cosprayers...
Now, I can't wait to see how it all comes crashing down and they had to quickly improvise an ending when it gets cancelled...
|2004-04-09, 11:40
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Do you think the hot springs episode they were mentioning is on the DVDs?
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Well, I found plenty of fanservice in episode 5 and the group is finally working well together. Even dracula is starting to show some appreciation for Mitsuki's work. So all is well in the studio right now. I wonder what'll trigger the cancellation of the show.
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Episode 5 spoilers if this show can have spoilers.....
Heh, each episode provides more and more illumination as to why Cosprayers sucks so bad. Not only is it motivated by fanservice, but the evil guy villains are there solely to pull in female viewers and promote a boyband, while the mechs are blatant pandering to toy companies. That poor scriptwriter who actually thinks he's writing a story is really creating one big mess of a commercial.
I'm wondering if M.O.E. are poking fun at themselves and the worst of the anime/TV industry? I mean the whole mech thing is a big jab at Gundam while the boyband is just like Wiess Kreuz, a series with freakishly big plot holes (heck what plot?) aimed at fangirls of the seiyuu's band. And there are all those real celebrity appearances by Japanese boybands (like SMAP) in J-dorama series. And M.O.E.'s claim to fame is in their name - fanservice-y moe girls. (They don't hide who they are hehe.) All series are commercial in that sense, but hell we love 'em and they're some of the most popular anime ever.
Smash Hit! is just brilliant! Mwahahaha!!!
|2004-05-11, 21:34
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Earlier in the fansub groups section of AnimeSuki, I posted this:
Triad has full intention of finishing Cosprayers and Smash Hit, aired episodes and unaired DVD episodes. Just wait a little longer. We have looked over the first episode of LOVE <3 LOVE and have decided NOT to do it, because it is already, as bad as Cosprayers was. We're sorry for this inconvenience, but with the smooth ending of Smash Hit, there really is no need to bother with LOVE <3 LOVE. It's just an extra tagged on for more fanservice and lame plot involving Koto (Natsumi Yagami) x Ooizumi Naoto (The screenwriter for Cosprayers)
|2004-05-11, 21:40
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I think Smash Hit is a joke on the audience. It could have told a story about TV production but instead it's just, "O ho ho, look how terrible it all is." Mitsuki is likable even though the show dumped on her every chance it got. Oh well.
Episode 5 scared me off for good. Mitsuki finally sucked it up and decided to play along. That kind of killed the only thing about the story that made any sense.
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I think Mitsuki's the only character in both series that I like, yet I think she's a total idiot and all the suckiness of Cosprayers is HER fault. She lost the original writer, she couldn't hire certain actors, she couldn't control her perverted staff, she's a pushover who let everyone's bad ideas go into the show. She's incompetent, but the show is starting to pretend that she's not. (Or is it?) Its pathetic, but I strangely like her.
What's this about Love Love returning to total crap? I know the pantyshots are excessive, but its that bad? Damn, I was hoping the series would get progressively better...
I frickin hate the lead actress of Cosprayers, in both Cosprayers and Smash Hit. She's an annoying whiney little prissy wannabe cheerleader. In both series. And she's not cute, yet she's the main character. Riiiight.
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|2004-05-13, 11:49
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But if I happen to come across a famous celebrity like her which shouldn't be hard to find, I'll prolly still adore her like an idiot, just like the film crew and the fans of the show (not real life) are worshipping her.
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|2004-05-18, 10:16
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Originally Posted by Mr_Paper
M.O.E. likes to use large amounts of pedophile attention grabbing,
underaged character designs in fanservice scenes then justify it by
saying the characters are overage...
I think I just summed up my primary reason for not watching M.O.E.
series. Honestly, you don't design a character to look thirteen or
fourteen than pass if off by stating that they're actually twenty-five.
I hate this crap too. Japanese do that way too much.
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For Fla. citrus crop, it's been a tough year
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- It's been a difficult year for Florida's citrus crop, with a warm, dry winter; citrus greening; and a heavy crop load.
Lots of fruit dropped from the trees this year, which means a chunk of the state's crop is unsellable.
The total impact of citrus in Florida's economy is about $9 billion a year, and bumpy years like this one can set farmers on edge.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting declines for this year's crop. At the beginning of the season, officials predicted a total citrus yield of 154 million boxes of fruit, but that forecast was downgraded in February to 141 million boxes.
Most of Florida's biggest crop, Valencia oranges, is used for juice. Because of a surplus last year, consumers shouldn't see a price increase.


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They will say you need more education shortly after you receive your high school diploma. They won't wait – it might come at graduation, or the party, or brunch the next day.
Family, friends and many others you never deemed experts in anything become experts on your life, and say you need more schooling.
Otherwise, you might not be marketable. Employable. Hirable. Desirable in the real world. They'll use these and other fancy, meaningless words to diffuse the day and direct you to the days – and daze – ahead.
But don't listen. Not this weekend.
They won't stop there. They will tell you four years of college won't be enough, that you also need a master's degree to achieve anything. They will muddy the party waters with their ramblings, soften the celebratory scene and say that you haven't done anything yet.
Don't listen. Not now.
It won't be easy, because family you haven't seen since before braces will pepper you with questions, suggestions, a repertoire of random and repetitious queries that will make you seek the solace of your cell phone.
What are your summer plans? How much money do you have? What about your girlfriend? Did you get my card? Have you gained weight? Have you lost some hair? Where are you going in the fall? Why didn't you decorate your hat? When did you get your braces off?
But mostly:
How do you feel now that it's over?
You will say you feel great, wonderful, that this was one of the best days of your life – or at least as good as the day the braces came off.
As you respond in proper Pavlovian fashion, you might think – at that moment – that you don't mean it, and you're just trying to quell the question.
But you do. You'll see.
That is why, on this day, or the days or weeks after, you must forget the family, find focus, disconnect the iPhone – and remember what just happened.
You graduated from high school!
It's that big, that significant – and stored properly, will stay fresh and sustain you for decades.
Many will say it can't – that it's just high school graduation. It's easy to be distracted by them, and even easier to be lured into complacency by technology, which you think can help you remember.
In the end, all that will matter, all that will register and resonate are the memories you stored away. They matter most, for they are the only files you truly control and can't delete.
So stow the high-tech device. Find a hole in your schedule, a gap in the Google planner, a place to sit – and stop, drop and think about what just happened.
Remember it.
Remember the ceremony – who spoke, who you sat behind, the smell of overheated hair spray mixing with coconut body wash, the rows of robes and landscape of colors, the spectacle and speeches and sun block. You might never see the likes of it again.
Remember the celebration afterward – the parents who looked at you as if you just conquered a continent, the absent-minded aunt who thought you still had a year to go, the uncle who said your braces were worth it.
Mostly, remember the faces.
Remember your teachers – some random day you will think of them, and mutter a "thank you" under your breath.
Remember the cafeteria worker who slipped you a little extra when the supervisor wasn't looking, the coach who finally gave you a chance to play, even though the team was down by 20, or the music teacher who, while wincing, said how wonderful you sounded.
Remember the first friend, the final week, the post-prom party, band, brothers, sisters, art, clay, theater, makeup, crowded hallways, empty cafeteria tables, stale hot dog rolls, freshman year, white boards, back boards, smart boards, dumb rules, secret texting, public displays of affection, new boyfriends, making weight, breaking up, making up, sneaking, tweaking, texting, tweeting and chilling.
Sit and soak in this weekend.
Some day, something will motivate you to think back to your high school, your time – and something you can't touch or tap or click will turn on in your head.
You will see the faces, think of your graduation day.
And you'll smile.
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North Bennet Street School opens new facility
North Bennet Street School's new campus at North and Richmond streets in the North End is a new beginning for the 132-year-old trade school.
Spacious workrooms, broad hallways, and a soaring atrium replaced the school's cramped, labyrinthine old location a quarter-mile away.
Traditional crafts taught at the school have gained new relevance, especially since the global financial crisis left so many people jobless.
The school's president says North Bennet Street is moving back to its founding mission: providing job skills and social services to the working poor.
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez said many of the school's students, who number about 160 and include military veterans, are attracted to its practical curriculums.
Julia Felix, a second-year student in violin making, used a violin knife to put a bevel on a scroll.
Keimody Crockett is one of 15 carpentry students of varied backgrounds who range from 19 into their 40s. Each student treats the others with respect, he said.
Crockett (left) watched a demonstration of work on a wall cabinet by Stewart Pugsley, John D'Anna, and Sam Holcomb.


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A study of galaxies in the deepest far-infrared image of the sky, obtained by the Herschel Space Observatory, highlights the two contrasting ways that stars formed in galaxies up to 12 billion years ago. Dr Georgios Magdis will present the results at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester.
Recent results from Herschel show that gas-rich galaxies in the early universe were able to create stars at an intense rate. In the nearby universe, we only see such high rates of star formation when galaxies collide. However, the Herschel data shows that while star-formation in some galaxies in the early universe were triggered by mergers, the majority of star forming galaxies were not undergoing interactions. The formation was driven by the amount of gas present.
Magdis and his colleagues have now carried out a detailed study of an example of a normal and a merging galaxy observed as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) Herschel programme. GOODS Herschel is led by David Elbaz of CEA/Saclay, France.
"The aim of this study was to estimate the amount of gas that the galaxies contained and understand how that affected the way that they formed stars. In contrast to what we see in the nearby universe, it was only in the minority of the intensively star forming galaxies that star formation activity was triggered by merging of galaxies," said Magdis, of the University of Oxford.
"The dominant population had very large gas reservoirs that could induce and maintain a high birth rate of stars without the need of galaxy 'cannibalism'. Such episodes of star-formation naturally resulted from steady, long lasting accretion of gas, forming these 'cosmic beacons' of our Universe. However, our study shows that the other population – merging galaxies – had ten times less gas, but the interactions made them much more efficient in converting gas into stars. These galaxies experienced an extreme but nevertheless short-lived firework of star formation," said Magdis.
The team selected the galaxy BzK-21000, observed approximately 4 billion years after the Big Bang, as an example of the 'normal' gas-rich galaxy and GN20, a member of a rich proto-cluster of galaxies observed approximately 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, as an example of an interacting galaxy. The mass of the gas in the galaxies cannot be measured directly as it mostly consists of hydrogen, which is difficult to detect. Instead the team measured levels of dust and carbon monoxide and, assuming that there are constant ratios with the mass of hydrogen present, used these to estimate the amount of gas present. The measurements were supplemented by radio detections from the Very Large Array (VLA) to constrain the uncertainties in the estimates for the mass of dust.
"This result comes to highlight the minor contribution of mergers in the history of star formation activity and point towards a more quite, smooth and 'independent' evolution of galaxies throughout the cosmic time," said Magdis.
False colour image of BzK-21000 from the Hubble Space Telescope, of 6 disk galaxies 4 billion years after the Big Bang (or more that 9 billion years back into the history of the Universe), now revealed to have large gas reservoirs, and a secular, quiescent, long lasting star formation mode driven by cold gas accretion.
Credit, E. Daddi
False colour image from the Herschel Space Observatory of starburst galaxy GN20, 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, or more than 12 billion years back into the history of the Universe. This is a ''firework'', with an extreme, but short-lived nevertheless, star-forming episode, believed to be triggered by a major merger. Credit: ESA/GOODS-Herschel Team and R. Gobat
The paper behind the results discussed in the press release is Magdis et al. 2011, ApJ, 740, 15
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 740, Issue 1, article id. L15 (2011)
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Its hard to believe that the Pen & Paper Games community website has only been going for a little over three months now. Weve had a pretty excellent turn out, so far. As I write this, we have over 900 forum members, almost all of whom have profiles listed in the Player Registry. We have around 175 groups looking for players and over 370 players looking for groups, and the numbers continue to grow every day. So, I would say weve had a pretty good first showing, if you will.
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Kitzhaber announces he'll run for historic fourth term
PORTLAND, Ore- Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber declared he'll be running for an historic fourth term.
Kitzhaber chose Earl Boyles Elementary School in southeast Portland as a backdrop for his press conference, saying he hopes to focus on improving early childhood education if given another four years.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Negro College Fund has recruited a crop of celebrities to drive home the message that getting into college is one thing, but getting through it is another.
The 5th annual UNCF Empower Me Tour kicks off Saturday at George Washington University in the nation's capital. It is co-hosted by Grammy-nominated singer Ledisi, and actors Boris Kodjoe, Kim Coles and Lamman Rucker, among others.
The celebrities will participate in sessions on various topics such as seeking scholarships, financial aid, internships, networking and branding. There also will be professional resume critiques, healthy cooking demonstrations, interactive games, prizes and music by celebrity DJs.
"We're there to give, we're there to impart something to them, but the truth is I always leave inspired by them and by their view of the world," said Coles, who has participated in past UNCF tours.
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— The state Democratic Party on Wednesday will release a list of 24 "current registered Republicans and former Republican leaders" who are backing Democrat Mike Cryans in the Executive Council special election to succeed the late Ray Burton.
Cryans faces Republican former state Sen. Joe Kenney in the March 11 election.
Among the names on the Republicans for Cryans list are Herb and Fay Lloyd of Bethlehem, former Republican state Sen. Mark Hounsell of Conway, who, according to the state Democratic Party, is now a registered independent; former Senate President Ralph Hough, who served as a Republican but later changed his registration to Democrat, and Republicans Lynn Presby of Freedom, who is a retired New Hampshire State Police colonel and current Racing and Gaming commissioner, Lynne Whitacre of Hanover, Dick Hamilton of Littleton, former state Rep. Bonnie Ham of North Woodstock and former Carroll County Commissioner Richard Coggon.


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The Transform Now Plowshares protesters have released photographs reportedly taken at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge on July 28.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: All five photos released by Transform Now Plowshares can be viewed in "Our Photos" on this website).
The Transform Now Plowshares protesters have released photographs reportedly taken at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge on July 28.
That's the day, during the early morning hours, that three 'Plowshares' members reportedly breached the national security complex and vandalized the $549 million Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility located inside the complex.
Megan Rice, who is an 82-year-old nun from Las Vegas, Nev., as well as Michael Walli, 63, of Washington, D.C., and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, of Duluth, Minn., all face felony charges for their actions.
Their trial, originally scheduled to begin Oct. 10, was reset last month for Feb. 26, 2013, in the U.S. District Court in Knoxville. Federal charges include a felony count of "depredation of government property," which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of $250,000.
Information provided by Transform Now Plowshares indicates the photos publicly released this week were government photos acquired by the defendants through the pre-trial discovery process.
The photos show the spray-painted walls and reportedly "human blood" splashes on the HEUMF. The multi-million-dollar Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility stores the nation's primary supply of bomb-grade uranium, while the sprawling Y-12 complex of 800 acres and 500 buildings also makes nuclear warhead parts and provides nuclear fuel for the Navy and research reactors worldwide.
The self-proclaimed Transform Now Plowshares "resisters" state in an Oct. 21 narrative that the five released photographs "carry with them our message."
"We came to Y12 in a spirit of hope, not fear. We were authorized — even required — to act by the responsibilities placed on us as citizens. …
"In one sense, the pictures speak for themselves; but they don't tell the whole story. The whole story is about more than the fact we got through the ultra high security 'deadly force authorized' zone. The whole story includes why we went there and the message we took.
"We carried with us a Bible, hammers, candles, bread, white roses and blood. We attempted to embody the prophecy God gave to Isaiah — to beat swords into plowshares."
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A raw and brutal crime shooter, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days follows two disturbed criminals, Lynch – an impulsive and reckless self-medicated psychopath and Kane – a tactical but disillusioned and desperate ex-mercenary, through 48 hours of hell.
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After a simple job goes wrong, Kane and Lynch find themselves wanted by the entire Shanghai underworld. Lynch is living the good life as a henchman in Shanghai, where he has settled down with his girlfriend. He's involved in a big arms deal but needs help to make it happen. Kane is a wanderer, an ex-mercenary with family problems who needs to get away. Despite their differences, Lynch calls him for help. Once together, they set-off a chain of events over two days, as the deal falls apart and Kane and Lynch face the consequences the hard way.
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Journey Set to Collaborate with Rascal Flatts
If you're a fan of both country music and classic rock, you'll love this: Rascal Flatts and Journey are set to perform together during an upcoming taping of 'CMT Crossroads.'
Journey frontman Arnel Pineda recently told ABS-CBN morning show Kris TV: "We will have a two-show crossroad thing with Rascal Flatts. It will happen on the third week of February in Nashville. They will sing a couple of Journey songs, then we will sing their songs."
After a dizzying 2011 schedule that included stops in Chile, England, Northern Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands, Journey will embark on another ambitious world tour this year, hitting South America with Styx, Loverboy, Foreigner and Heart, and touring the U.S. with Loverboy.
If that's not enough of an 80s band mashup for you, Journey's 'Any Way You Want It' is currently being featured in the trailer for the upcoming film 'Rock of Ages' along with hits from Night Ranger and Twisted Sister.


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Trane 3 ton XL19i, 2TWZ9036 two stage, dual compressor heat pump, TWE040 variable speed air handler, Trane residential zoning assembly ZSASSMAL0100, Master Scheduler Thermostat ZUSTATALMS10.
Had fault/defrost light on zone controller board go into a diagnostic indication mode: 10 separate 1-second flashes followed by a single 10 second period of continuous on, repeated ad infinitum. We were told to power system down, wait, then power up again to see if diagnostic cleared.
It did clear, but now were not getting any AC. Master controller display briefly shows compressor first stage on, but display goes off after 2 seconds and compressor never actually comes on. Our guy has us on his back burner since we dont really need AC at our altitude, but told us to see if our compressors will run in test mode. They do.
Just out of curiosity, we tried heat pump heat and aux heat as well. Again no compressor action on heat pump heat. Aux heat shows as if on at master stat display but never actually gets powered up.
Our guys have only seen one zoned heat pump in their life (ours). They have no idea what the 10 1 second diagnostic flashes mean, but will find out from Trane one of these days. They said something about a possible stuck limit switch, but Trane says it cant happen.
So what can make the test mode work but not the master stat? Bad stat, bad controller, bad something else? The system has been working flawlessly summer and winter for almost two years including summer highs of 96 and winters down to 15 below. (The heat pump supplies sufficient heat down to about 20 in stage 1 and 10 in stage 2). Any ideas on the 10 1 second flashes?


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Indiana police plan drunken driving crackdown
Indiana police plan drunken driving crackdown
Police throughout Indiana will take part in a 17-day effort to crack down on drunken driving starting Friday.
Indiana State Police say the campaign known as "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" is aimed at keeping people from drunken driving following a number of March sporting events and St. Patrick's Day. The effort runs through March 24.
State troopers and officers with more than 250 other Indiana law enforcement agencies will conduct high-visibility enforcement efforts including sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.
The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute says Indiana had nearly 6,300 alcohol-related crashes last year with 97 fatalities. During the month of March, it had 524 alcohol-related crashes and six fatalities.


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police found the burned body of one of the main suspects in last month's abduction of 12 young people from an after-hours bar in Mexico City, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The body of Dax Rodriguez Ledezma was found along with his girlfriend and another person in the town of Huitzilac in Morelos state. All the bodies had been burned, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement.
Officials said he was identified through DNA compared to his brother, Mario Rodriguez Ledezma, who has been arrested and charged in the kidnappings.
Authorities didn't say when the bodies were found or give any other details, but 10 days ago the attorney general's office in neighboring Morelos state reported police had found the burned bodies of two women and a man on a dirt road in Huitzilac with their heads covered in duct tape.
Dax Rodriguez Ledezma was a co-owner of Heaven, the after-hours bar from which the group was abducted May 26. Another partner, Ernesto Espinosa Lobo, was arrested Friday for questioning. A total of seven people have been detained in the case.
Witnesses told police Rodriguez Ledezma was at the bar the day of the kidnapping.
Surveillance tape shows men herding the young people, a few of them at a time, into compact cars. They haven't been heard from since.
Prosecutors say the abductions are linked to a dispute between two rival drug gangs in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood, one of the city's most dangerous areas and home to most of the abducted.
The families of the disappeared, however, say they suspect a criminal group from outside their community is behind the kidnappings because they say they have never seen any of the suspects detained in the case.
"I don't know how important Dax is for police but for us the key person in the case is Espinosa Lobo," said Leticia Ponce, mother of Jerzy Ortiz, a 16-year-old who is among the missing.
No one apparently saw anything amiss Sunday morning when the abduction supposedly happened, even though nearby Reforma Avenue was full of people that day — for a 5-kilometer foot race, the city's weekly urban bike ride, and an international culture fair that had just opened the day before.
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What Are the Risk Factors for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia?
A risk factor is something that affects your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person's age or family history, can't be changed.
But risk factors don't tell us everything. Having a risk factor, or even several risk factors, does not mean that you will definitely get the disease. And many people who get the disease may have few or no known risk factors. Even if a person has one or more risk factors and develops cancer, it is often very hard to know how much they might have contributed to the cancer.
There are only a few known risk factors for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).
Radiation exposure
Being exposed to high levels of radiation is a risk factor for both ALL and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Japanese atomic bomb survivors had a greatly increased risk of developing acute leukemia, usually within 6 to 8 years after exposure.
Treating cancer with radiation therapy also increases the risk of leukemia, although AML is more often seen than ALL. The risk seems to be higher if chemotherapy and radiation are both used in treatment.
The possible risks of leukemia from being exposed to lower levels of radiation, such as from medical imaging tests (such as x-rays) are not well-known. Exposure of a fetus to radiation within the first months of development may carry an increased risk of leukemia, but the extent of the risk is not clear.
If there is an increased risk from lower levels of radiation it is likely to be small, but to be safe, most doctors try to limit a person's exposure to radiation as much as possible.
Certain chemical exposures
The risk of ALL may be increased by exposure to certain chemotherapy drugs and certain chemicals, including benzene. Benzene is a solvent used in the rubber industry, oil refineries, chemical plants, shoe manufacturing, and gasoline-related industries, and is also present in cigarette smoke, as well as some glues, cleaning products, detergents, art supplies, and paint strippers. Chemical exposure is more strongly linked to an increased risk of AML than to ALL.
Certain viral infections
Infection with the human T-cell lymphoma/leukemia virus-1 (HTLV-1) can cause a rare type of T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia. Most cases occur in Japan and the Caribbean area. This disease is not common in the United States.
In Africa, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been linked to Burkitt lymphoma, as well as to a form of acute lymphocytic leukemia. In the United States, EBV most often causes infectious mononucleosis ("mono").
Inherited syndromes
Acute lymphocytic leukemia does not appear to be an inherited disease. It does not seem to run in families, so a person's risk is not increased if a family member has the disease. But there are some inherited syndromes with genetic changes that seem to raise the risk of ALL. These include:
- Down syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Fanconi anemia
- Bloom syndrome
- Ataxia-telangiectasia
- Neurofibromatosis
Acute lymphocytic leukemia is more common in whites than in African Americans, but the reasons for this are not clear.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia is slightly more common in males than in females. The reason for this is unknown.
Having an identical twin with ALL
Someone who has an identical twin who develops ALL in the first year of life has an increased risk of getting ALL.
Uncertain, unproven or controversial risk factors
Other factors that have been studied for a possible link to ALL include:
- Exposure to electromagnetic fields (such as living near power lines or using cell phones)
- Workplace exposure to diesel, gasoline, pesticides, and certain other chemicals
- Smoking
- Exposure to hair dyes
So far, none of these factors has been linked conclusively to ALL. Research in these areas continues.
Last Medical Review: December 2, 2014 Last Revised: February 18, 2016
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Minnesota Tobacco Tax May Give Boost to E-Cigarettes
ST. PAUL (AP) - A looming increase in Minnesota's cigarette tax is leading to new interest in electronic cigarettes as an alternative to traditional smoking.
Shop owners in the Twin Cities are seeing increased demand in so-called "e-cigs." They credit the $1.60-per-pack tax increase that goes into effect for regular cigarettes next week.
Sina War runs the Uptown Vapor Shoppe, an e-cigarette store she opened in south Minneapolis two months ago. She opened a second location in Maplewood last weekend, and other outlets have also popped up in recent years.
Customers say they like being able to get a nicotine fix without inhaling tobacco smoke.
Skeptics say e-cigarettes are still unhealthy, and some are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to play a stronger role in regulating them.


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On May 22, 2013, GOES-East, a key weather satellite that observes the eastern part of the United States stopped working normally. After initial efforts to revive the satellite failed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) engineers have put the satellite in storage mode for troubleshooting.
Losing one of the two geostationary weather satellites that National Weather Service meteorologists rely upon could have serious consequences at any time, but that is especially true with the 2013 hurricane season just around the corner. Fortunately, NOAA had planned ahead. The agency always keeps a "spare" satellite in orbit, ready to spring into action when problems arise. On May 23, the spare satellite—GOES 14—was active and had started to acquire images.
When GOES-East experienced a similar technical problem in September 2012, we published the image above showing the field of view of all three weather satellites. GOES-15, which has served as GOES-West since December 2011, is on the left and orbits at 135 degrees west longitude; GOES-14, the spare, is in the middle and resides at 105 degrees west. GOES-13, the malfunctioning satellite that has served as GOES-East since April 2010, is on the right and sits at 75 degrees west. The top row of images shows visible images acquired by the three satellites on September 15, 2012. The lower row shows the field of view of each satellite.
You can follow daily status updates on the health of GOES-13 by checking here and here. The latest GOES imagery is available here.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:
Jackson's mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of Jackson's planned comeback concerts didn't properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a criminal jury for Jackson's June 2009 death. AEG's attorney says the case is about personal choice, namely Jackson's decision to have Murray serve as his doctor and give him doses of a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid. Millions, possibly billions, of dollars are at stake.
—Jackson's mother told jurors she did not believe her son was responsible for his own death and broke down in tears as she described the difficulty of listening to negative characterizations of her son throughout the trial.
—Jurors heard from three of Jackson's former medical care providers, who described their treatments of the pop superstar. Nurse anesthetist David Fournier told the jury that he no longer treated Jackson after he stopped a surgery in 2003 in which the singer acted inappropriately during a pre-operation screening.
—Fournier told jurors that Jackson had a high tolerance for certain drugs, and that he felt the singer was dishonest by not disclosing that he had an implant that blocked the effects of opiate medications before a surgical procedure.
—Katherine Jackson break down in tears as she described the pain she experienced reading and hearing about emails in which corporate lawyers for AEG Live and its parent company described her son as "the freak" and an upcoming meeting with him as "creepy."
—Jackson's medical records from emergency room visits after he injured his foot and returned several times to request painkillers.
—"Even though he asked for it, he could have said no," Katherine Jackson said of Murray's treatments of an anesthetic as a sleep aid on her son.
—"He wasn't honest with me," Fournier said about Jackson, describing how he learned the singer didn't disclose having an implant that blocked opiate medications before a September 2003 medical procedure.
—A judge blocked a spectator who says he inadvertently snapped a photo that included jurors from watching the trial in-person. The judge required William Wagener, who posts trial updates on YouTube and Facebook, to watch the trial via video feed from an overflow room.
—Jurors will hear from Eric Briggs, a defense expert who says it was highly speculative to assume Jackson would have earned millions if he had lived.


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Skip to comments.Beefburger from cloned cow? It is time to question that "Man is the measure of all things"
Posted on 05/18/2012 8:19:31 AM PDT by se99tp
Many now take up the theme of the religious leaders in calling for ethical behaviour based upon transcendent values in the public place and in the market and for government regulations based upon these ancient human values. We frequently hear from secular leaders in all areas of life including a few top scientists, for example, astrophysicist Professor Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College Cambridge, that Payback Time has already begun and it may be too late to change (Rees, 2003). We are on a course of self-destruction. The threats we create come from human actions motivated by greed and short-term benefits that erode sustainability in human institutions, in the environment and in the community of life. Most people agree intellectually but do little to change.... Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who, speaking at the 1978 Harvard University Commencement Ceremony, predicted the end of Western civilisation. .. His view was that our worldview of materialistic consumerism would fail. He noted that the West was already committed to humanism and had rejected the transcendent values of historic Christianity that had guided Europe and its cultural colonies for nearly two millennia. We now know he was right. Thoughtful leaders in the 21st century are asking for those transcendent values to be brought again into the fabric of life and commerce...We are dipping our toes into an ocean of integrated systems that will take decades to measure and to understand.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianconceptsdaily.com ...
Sanctimonious pessimists. Their wailing and gnashing of teeth is an act as they seek to control the commerce that has made them safe and comfortably positioned to snipe at things they do not understand.
The thought process is more than a little flawed.
There have been great strides in our ability to produce enough food due to various efforts at improving the food that we grow. Since Mendel purposeful hybridization has occurred with great success. It is a leap too far to suggest that somehow cloned animals are going to become the standard for food production.
I do not think that man knows everything for that is folly. But I do think that man has the God given ability to improve our every day life.
You'll probably get to top grade meat grown straight in a vat.
Probably not so very far off either.
A "clone" is a "twin".
End of story.
No problem.
Not likely since I only purchase grass feet beef and bison and I buy all my meats at the local ranchers before slaughter. I do the same with chickens
It is not that simple at all! For instnace: We do not know consequences of milk or meat from cloned animals for next generations. During experiments with less complex organism it was clear that clones are weaker than normally grown-up. Food produced from clones cause serious defects like lack of important elements of this organisms. Since an organism of mammal is much more complicated there is likelihood that deformed animals will be born. I am not sure whether you know that GM food is one of mayor of weakening of immune system of humans. Read carefully Dr Hodges article and check other articles of independent scientists and you will find that the quality popular knowledge on cloning is equal to the quality fo knowledge about so-called man made global warming. Have a good day.
same old hysteria that seems to keep people hoarding seeds that will never grow.....
Sorry, It is hard to talk to anyone, who seem to be wiling to look at the same point all the time...
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BOSTON – There seems to be no lengths Michael Ryder won't go to in order to win a hockey game once the playoffs start.
Ryder, a notoriously poor player in the regular season two years running now, did not score a goal or even register a point in tonight's Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Montreal two nights after his overtime goal tied the series at 2.
But in Boston's 2-1 TD Garden victory, he still made a giant impact that went well beyond the three shots on net he recorded or the numerous scoring chances he and linemates Chris Kelly and Rich Peverely created.
In fact, other than goaltender Tim Thomas' stop on Brian Gionta in the second overtime, Ryder made the most spectacular save of the night .
With 8:19 elapsed in the first period of a scoreless game, Ryder filled the blue paint for a moving Thomas and with his right glove slapped away a sure goal by Canadiens center Tomas Plekanec. Ryder said he'd played goaltender in ball hockey and even as a kid in ice hockey, but obviously he was never in a moment as big as the one he faced against the Habs.
"It was something like a 2-on-1, 3-on-1, and our D went over and they just made a pass in front and I knew Timmy was out of position and I tried blocking any way I can, and ended up getting the glove on it," said Ryder.
Head coach Claude Julien has stuck with Ryder through all his struggles this season and last. He talked endlessly about how Ryder could be a contributor in the playoffs because the winger has a knack for big situations. There was none bigger than that save.
"This is something that just shows some desperation. He knew where he was, he knew what he had to do and he just desperately made the move. And kudos to him for doing that and certainly not something you practice but desperation makes you do a lot of things," said the coach.
Thomas called Ryder's save awesome and joked: "He actually probably knows what it's like to be one of the old goalies without a mask more than I do."
There was more to Ryder's defensive game than even just that save. Late in regulation, he backchecked as hard as anyone ever has to get back and alter a Gionta shot on a 2-on-1. These are all aspects of Ryder's game we rarely see in the regular season. The backchecking, the hitting, the goaltending … who knew he had so much in his bag of tricks? Well, other than Julien.
Ryder is relishing the opportunity his coach has given him.
"Yeah, I feel good out there. Confidence is back up and I think playing with ' Pevs' and 'Kels,' we have chemistry together now," said Ryder. "We're getting more used to each other. This is definitely the time of year where you want to play well and try to do anything you can to make your team win."
Doing anything, even playing the one position no one but the guy in the pads should have to play, is just what Ryder is doing now when it counts the most for the Bruins.


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The Chicago Fire can't catch a break right now. Winless in their last four league games plus two friendlies, they were unable to get a result in a friendly against AC Milan.
Clarence Seedorf scored at the start of the second half, and the Milan defense made the former Dutch international's tally stand up, giving the Italian giants a 1-0 victory over the Fire in front of a sellout crowd of 20,356 at Toyota Park Sunday night.
Seedorf gave Milan the lead in the 47th minute. Fire center back C.J. Brown failed to clear a bouncing ball on the left side of the box and the Brazilian took full advantage. He pounced on the loose ball and slotted home from a tight angle past charging Fire keeper Andrew Dykstra.
By then, Chicago could've had a lead in the 35th minute, when Giuseppe Favalli nearly put one into his own net. The Milan defender accidentally headed Marco Pappa's driven corner kick on net, and goalkeeper Dida did well to save the low ball.
The Fire responded well, particularly through halftime substitution Julio Martinez, who nearly drew the Fire level on two separate occasions.
The first came in the 55th minute when forward Patrick Nyarko found midfielder Mike Banner near the top of the box. Banner played a square ball to midfielder Baggio Husidic, who fed the onrushing Martinez down the right side of the box with a through ball. Martinez ripped a shot toward net, but Dida deflected the ball over the crossbar.
"In the second half we kept the ball a lot," said Fire midfielder Justin Mapp. "We had a couple of chances and could have evened it up or taken the lead, but [Dida's] a good goalie and he made some good saves."
The Rossoneri almost doubled their advantage in the 80th minute of play. Substitute midfielder Mancini unleashed a 40-yard blast and nearly found the top left corner for what would have been a stunning goal.
Martinez's second close call came in stoppage time, as the Salvadoran redirected a corner kick toward goal. But, again, Dida was there to parry the last-ditch attempt at an equalizer over the bar, condemning them to yet another disappointing result.
Despite the loss, Fire head coach Carlos de los Cobos was proud of the way his team performed.
"I am very happy with our players," de los Cobos said. "They make a very big effort and we have good moments in the game… We put up resistance to this team. It was not was easy for them and I am very pleased about the game."
The match was not without strange incidents. Twice, fans ran onto the field. The first disruption occurred in the 32nd minute, when a fan clad in a Milan jersey ran toward Milan forward Ronaldinho. The pitch invader was able to kiss the Brazilian star's feet and give him a hug before security reached him.
The second trespass occurred in the 83rd minute, when security stopped a fan from harassing Seedorf.
The Fire get back to league play next Saturday, when the Philadelphia Union come to town for the first time ever.


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English Premier League soccer and Michael Jackson are synonymous with each other (just go with it) so it should come as no surprise that a statute in his honor was unveiled outside a stadium in London today.
Turns out the owner of the Fulham FC, Mohamed Al Fayed, was close friends with Jackson. He had originally planned to put the statue outside of Harrods in London, but he sold the store last year.
So now it is displayed outside of a soccer stadium in London. Perfect match.
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International News
Call for South Australia Jail Needle-Exchange Program
August 22, 2012
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Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform is calling on South Australia to follow the example of the Australian Capital Territory and introduce a prison-based needle-exchange program. FFDLR's SA representative, Sandra Kanck, said the National Hepatitis C Strategy has recommended that state governments identify opportunities to trial NEPs in prison, and "The ACT has taken up the opportunity, while SA has buried its head in the sand." She said that the SA Department of Correctional Services had rejected such a move, citing "the old myth" that an NEP would endanger prison staff. "FFDLR challenges Correctional Services to come up with proof of that claim -- they will not be able to because there is no such proof," she said. "It's a reality that prisoners get hold of drugs in our prison system and, because of the sharing of needles, hepatitis C is also shared."
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This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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