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Jagr, Avery score 23 seconds in third period in Rangers’ 2-1 win
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers had the New Jersey Devils’ number during the regular season and nothing has changed two games into the playoffs.
Jaromir Jagr and Sean Avery scored 23 seconds apart in the third period, and Lundqvist made 26 saves in beating the Devils yet again in a 2-1 victory Friday night in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
“I don’t think Game 1 and Game 2 were complete opposites,” Rangers forward Brendan Shanahan said. “We improved in some areas. They improved in some areas. I don’t think anything has been black and white in this series, so far. We’ve just been fortunate to find ways to get goals and to find ways to get wins.”
The victory was the Rangers’ ninth in 10 games against New Jersey this season, and it gave New York a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series that will shift across the river for Game 3 on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
The Devils face a long road back after losing the first two games at home.
“They are definitely taking control of the series,” goalie Martin Brodeur said. “We feel that we are not far away. A bounce here, a bounce there and it could have gone our way today. We have to keep our heads up and try to do to them what they did to us in their building.”
The Rangers, who have never lost a best-of-seven series in which they have led 2-0, have gotten all the breaks in the series.
They won the opener 4-1 on Wednesday when Brodeur misplayed a puck in his own crease with the game tied 1-all in the third period. They took the lead in Game 2 after Devils defenseman Colin White nudged Brodeur while coming out from behind the net, giving Jagr the space to put the puck into the net off the goalie’s back.

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It’s his memory of the children with mutilated faces that Allan Rock can’t shake.
The former federal cabinet minister and Canadian ambassador to the UN has amassed an impressive resume as a lawyer, politician and diplomat, but Rock feels most transformed in recent years from touring wartorn countries.
The message of peace hit home at a mud-hut refugee camp.
“In the camps of northern Uganda you commonly come across people, sometimes children, whose ears and lips have been cut off,” said Rock, about a militia practice to rule by force and fear. “Going to Africa and working in the midst of conflict has changed me profoundly.”
In Sri Lanka, as part of a campaign to prevent the use of child soldiers, he encountered more ruined lives.
“People told me about armed men arriving in the middle of the night, ransacking the homes, taking the children, threatening the family if they tried to do anything about it,” Rock said. “I met with young men, 15 and 16, who had escaped after spending a year or two in the service of the Tamil Tigers. They were beaten to maintain discipline, forced into battle.”
Without peace, Rock said, horror prevails.
“I remember how stunned I was when I came back from Africa the first time and walked into a drugstore and saw 60 kinds of toothpaste,” said Rock, now a Windsor lawyer with Sutts Strosberg whose father served as a UN peacekeeper in the ’50s and ’60s. “Seeing the absolute poverty and violence in Africa makes it impossible for you to carry on like before.”
Peace is an elusive concept.
Experts say peace requires a change in societal thinking, though as the Rotary World Peace Summit this week in Windsor shows, the concept of peace resonates powerfully.
More than 1,000 people from around the globe have registered for the Windsor peace summit, the fourth and final such event Rotary has sponsored around the world over the last year in Sofia, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Turkey and Nairobi, Kenya.

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Stk was the hot spot for dinner last night in Hollywood. The night brought out Oscar winners, ex models and Reality show rejects. Reese Witherspoon made it a night out for a good dinner along with ex-supermodel turned trophy wife Cindy Crawford.
Other stars spotted at this location included attention seekers Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt along with Brittany Gastineau and Paula Abdul.
Tennis ace Maria Sharapova celebrated her 21st Birthday at Tenjune nightclub last night with special guests Anna Wintour, Vera Wang and Dave Annable, among others.
Tuesday night at TAO Las Vegas saw actress Mena Suvari having dinner with two male guests including her new boyfriend Simone Sestito.
Okay for starters Spencer and Heidi are not stars, they are not celebrities. They are just to people that SUCK BALLS.
I was at Tao Restaurant having dinner when Mena Suvari was there. She looked awesome!
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NEW YORK — In full cadet uniform, Army’s Caleb Campbell sat upright in one of Radio City Music Hall’s plush seats. On his head was a Lions ballcap.
Cupped in his left hand was his ticket out of duty in Iraq.
It was the card the Lions turned in to take Campbell 218th overall Sunday at the NFL draft, changing his post-graduation plans to lead a platoon, one that may well have seen combat.
“I’m fortunate,” said Campbell, a defensive back. “Without the Army and the academy … I wouldn’t be able to do this.”
Campbell is the first Army football player to benefit from a new policy allowing athletes with a chance to play professionally to complete their service by serving as recruiters and in the reserves. Campbell will still be on active duty. He will serve as a recruiter on his off days from the Lions visiting high schools. If his career lasts more than two seasons, he will have the option of buying out the last three years of his active-duty commitment in exchange for six years in the reserves.
Taylor still a Dolphin: Defensive end Jason Taylor was the subject of trade speculation throughout the weekend. But when the draft ended, general manager Jeff Ireland denied that the Dolphins were eager to part with Taylor. “We want the guy back,” Ireland said.
Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said his team pursued a deal, but the Dolphins took Taylor off the trading block.
“They had a certain price in mind, and nobody in the league was interested in that price,” Del Rio said. “They like the player, and they’re going to keep him.”
The Bucs denied rumors they were close to acquiring the six-time Pro Bowl defensive end.
Motivated Bull: Former Durant and USF star Trae Williams was thrilled to be drafted in the fifth round by the Jaguars, going there with extra motivation after 25 corners were drafted ahead of him.

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Sony wasn’t kidding when it said the next PS3 system update was coming in mid-April. Just in time to take the edge off tax day, the version 2.30 of the PlayStation 3 system software is now available for download. As revealed last week, the software update adds DTS Master Audio decoding (to deliver the best audio from compatible Blu-ray movies), as well as a major overhaul of the interface for the PlayStation Store (as explained in the Sony video walkthrough shown above).
The question is: what do you think? Does the DTS upgrade make the PS3 an even better Blu-ray player? Does the PlayStation Store makeover finally put Sony’s online offerings on par with Xbox Live? Is all of this irrelevant compared with the forthcoming releases of Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4? Let us know what you think.
Beyond Binary by Ina Fried A look at how technology is changing our lives and at the people behind all that life-changing stuff.
Coop’s Corner by Charles Cooper Charles Cooper weighs in on Silicon Valley hijinks, and he doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
Defense in Depth by Robert Vamosi Covering the latest in computer viruses and computer crime.
Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman At the tech culture nexus of video games, fire art, and virtual worlds.
One More Thing by Tom Krazit Tom Krazit takes on the tech phenomenon that is Apple, and keeps a close watch on the chip industry.
Outside the Lines by Dan Farber When business and technology meet, that’s when things get interesting.
The Iconoclast by Declan McCullagh Exploring the intersection of politics and technology.
The Social by Caroline McCarthy Exploring all facets of social media and tech culture.
Underexposed by Stephen Shankland Coverage of digital photography, science, and open-source software.

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One of the things we discussed on the last Elite Tech News podcast was the newly acquired ability for border control agents to seize laptops, phones, cameras and other electronic devices that may contain material suitable for incriminating the owners.  The general consensus of the panelists was that this was always an option for folks in law enforcement but it would rarely ever be exercised due to the fact that there really isn’t a whole lot anyone can do in searching a computer at the border in order to determine whether or not criminal activity was evidenced on it.
Leave it to Microsoft to rectify that situation for us.  The Seattle Times today has profiled a new technology they’ve put together that can rapidly extract forensic data from computers used in the commission of a crime.  The technology is called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor), and is software built into a USB drive.  While the technology is just now coming to light, it has been in use since last June, having been distributed to 350 different law enforcement agencies.
The device apparently works by quickly sending around 150 commands to the machine in question that either gather data and copy it to the device or quickly analyze it and return the results of the queries.  It includes strong password decryption routines, scans of Internet activity and probes on the data stored on the computer.
Is Microsoft doing this to engage a new market and create a new profit center?  No, apparently this comes from an attack of conscience to the company.
“These are things that we invest substantial resources in, but not from the perspective of selling to make money,” Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith in an interview with the Seattle Times. “We’re doing this to help ensure that the Internet stays safe.”

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It’s Walpurgis Night soon! This is a very special event and a great way to experience local traditions like big bonfires and old folk songs, especially in Sweden. Walpurgis (in Swedish: Valborg) on April 30 is widely celebrated in Scandinavia and is a public holiday in Sweden.
On the same date, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden also celebrates his birthday, making this day an even bigger annual event. And the best thing about those late-night bonfires during Walpurgis Night? The event is followed by Labour Day (May Day) in Scandinavia, a public holiday, so no one has to get up early the following day.
Yet if you can’t make it to Scandinavia this year, celebrate your own holiday at home by indulging in a few traditional Walpurgis Night / May Day treats. When bonfires light up the night skies across the Scandinavian peninsula, families and friends gather for the season’s first picnics, enjoying dishes like gravlax, herring salad, and fresh strawberries. Finns welcome Spring on May 1st by frying up delicate, bird’s-nest-shaped Fritters (Tippaleiv

T hey spent the first six months of the season making NBA history, and here they are, flirting with history again.
We know the highlights of their basketball blitzkrieg by now. They won 66 games. They beat every team in the league. Their average margin of victory was 10.3 points, best in the league by a wide margin. They earned the best record in the NBA, authored the greatest one-season turnaround ever, and entered the playoffs as the favorites to win it all. They appeared on more magazine covers than Miley Cyrus and received so much love from the national media that Obama was jealous.
Now they are four games into the postseason, and the Celtics [team stats] are staring their legacy in the face again. You don’t need cryptic hand gestures to understand what they’re up against: If they do not win two of their next three games, all of the above will be forgotten and the 2007-08 Celtics will be remembered for only one thing:
The worst collapse in Boston sports history.
Doc Rivers might want to mention this to the guys before tipoff tonight.
Fear always is a great motivator, and Rivers’ team has much to fear at this point. They have lost two in a row to lowly Atlanta; two more losses to these spunky Hawks and each member of this Celtics team will earn an asterisk on his career as ugly and indelible as the tattoo on Mike Tyson’s face. At least the demise of Roger Clemens took five months; the shocking fall of these Celtics could be complete in a week.
There is a bright side, though. If they lose this series, at least they’ll get to throw out the first pitch at a Red Sox [team stats] game in the year 2030. And it might take that long to get over this kind of collapse.

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SE Virginia begins post-tornado cleanup
SUFFOLK, Va., April 29 (UPI) — Storm cleanup began Tuesday in southeastern Virginia following a National Weather Service determination that the area had been hit by a total of six tornadoes.
Meteorologists doubled the tornado count in Monday’s storms, the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch reported. All touched down between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Bryan Jackson, an NWS meteorologist, said that a twister in the Carrsville area of Isle of Wight County gutted 11 homes and some farm buildings, while one in Claremont, Surry County, destroyed a double-wide trailer home. No injuries were reported from those tornadoes or another along the Matthews-Gloucester County line.
No deaths were reported from any of the tornadoes. While many people were injured, most suffered cuts and bruises.
In Suffolk, building inspectors condemned 140 to 150 houses, The Virginian-Pilot, a Norfolk, Va., newspaper, reported. Emergency workers were searching damaged and destroyed houses, looking for anyone who might be trapped.
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine declared a state of emergency, freeing up state resources to assist the areas hit hardest.
“There was a weird sound that I never heard before,” Diane MacKenzie of Suffolk told The Washington Post. “That scared me.”
The storm began with hail, followed by rain “so heavy you couldn’t see through it,” she said. An instant later, she said she saw “debris everywhere.”
Bush: Will consider gas tax moratorium
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) — U.S. President George Bush said Tuesday he is open to the idea of a gas tax moratorium.
Under questioning by reporters at a Rose Garden news conference, Bush stopped short of endorsing such action and refused to explain his thinking on the issue.
“I’m open to any ideas. We’ll analyze anything that will come our way,” Bush said, adding the White House is concerned “about high gasoline prices, high food prices, people staying in their homes and student loans” and he called on Congress to show leadership on the issues.

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As a special project, pupils at St. Catherine of Siena School collected numerous items to make Easter baskets for the local homeless shelter. Here some of the proud students show off their festive and gaily decorated holiday creations.
Whitehall Elementary School students recently enjoyed a night of relaxation and fun as the PTO hosted a “Western Hoe Down”, which included square dancing, crafts and delicious food. Some parents participated in the chili contest, the winner preparing the “Best Tasting Chili at Whitehall!” Parents and students were encouraged to wear Western attire. Yee Haw! Thanks PTO for such a great time!