The 65-year-old Lemaire took over for the fired John Maclean in December after retiring following last season, and led the Devils on an amazing run that got them close to their 14th straight playoff appearance before falling short.
"I still do think that I made the right decision last year, but I am really happy I phiten necklace took the job for the rest of the season," Lemaire said.
The Blackhawks will get a chance to defend their first Stanley Cup title since 1961, but they had to sweat it out until Sunday night. Had they missed the playoffs, they would've had only themselves to blame.
Chicago kicked off the final day of the NHL regular season with a home game against the Detroit Red Wings, who were locked into the third seed in the Western Conference. The Blackhawks knew one point would secure a place in the playoffs, and two would push them up to No. 5.
On Saturday, the New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils to stay alive in the East, and then got the required help when Carolina lost at home to the Tampa Bay Lightning when a victory would've put the Hurricanes into the playoffs.
The Rangers earned the berth that seemed unlikely hours earlier and will face the top-seeded Washington Capitals in the first round for the second time in three years.
The other Eastern matchups that were all decided by Saturday night. The No. 2 Philadelphia Flyers, who reached the Stanley Cup finals against Chicago last year out of the seventh-seeded position, will face the surging Buffalo Sabres; No. 3 Boston, the Northeast Division champions, will play longtime Original Six rival Montreal; and the injury-depleted Pittsburgh Penguins, who probably won't have captain Sidney Crosby in the first round and will certainly be without Evgeni Malkin for the rest of the season, will take on the fifth-seeded Lightning.
Out West, besides Vancouver's matchup with Chicago, No. 2 San Jose will take on seventh-seeded Los Angeles in the third playoff matchup between California teams; No. 3 Detroit will face sixth-seeded Phoenix for the second straight year; and fourth-seeded Anaheim will play No. 5 Nashville.
Three California teams reached the playoffs, while only two of Canada's six clubs (Montreal and Vancouver) are represented.
The Canucks rode the amazing Sedin twins to the club's first Presidents' Trophy win as the NHL's best club in the regular season.
Last season, Henrik Sedin won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's scoring champion. This time, twin brother Daniel took the title with 104 points — five more than Lightning forward Martin St. Louis and six ahead of Anaheim's Corey Perry, the goal-scoring king with 50.
Daniel Sedin is the 10th player to win the points race in the past 10 seasons and he did it with the lowest points total since St. Louis had 94 in the 2003-04 season. Sedin's win marked the first time brothers fashion trends 2011 captured the scoring title in consecutive seasons.
He led the NHL's top power-play unit by scoring a league-best 18 goals and 42 points during advantages. He was second among forwards with a plus-30 rating and could be in line to keep the Hart Trophy — given to the league MVP — in the family household after Henrik won it last year.
Either way, the Canucks (54-19-9) are surely focusing on a run they hope ends with their first Stanley Cup championship after they put up a team-record 117 points.
"We're having a lot of fun together," Daniel Sedin said. "We're looking forward to a great run. We've got to realize that we don't need to do anything extra. It's about coming to the rink and working hard and playing the right way."
Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins set an NHL record for save percentage when he finished at .938, surpassing Dominik Hasek's .937 set in the 1998-89 season. He wrapped it up Saturday, and his league-low 2.00 goals-against average, with a 31-save effort in a 3-1 win over Ottawa. He sat out the Bruins' season finale Sunday.
"To be completely honest, I had a hard time getting it completely out of my mind the last couple of days," Thomas said Saturday. "I think it's the most reflective overall (of a goaltender's season), but certainly not a perfect number.
"But, overall, it's still the most important number."
Perry wrested the Rocket Richard Trophy away from Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos and Crosby, who tied with a league-best 51 goals last season. Stamkos was the runner-up to Perry this season with 45 goals. Crosby was held to only 32 goals in 41 games because of a concussion that has kept him out of action since Jan. 5 phiten titanium necklace.
Perry scored 19 goals in his final 16 games to get to 50 goals for the first time in his six NHL seasons and fuel Anaheim's surge from 11th place to the No. 4 seed in the West.
He is the third Ducks player to score 50, and his 11 game-winning goals tied Washington's Alex Ovechkin for the most in the league. Half of Perry's goals tied the game or put the Ducks ahead.
Ottawa, which finished third-to-last in the East — just two points ahead of Florida — dismissed coach Cory Clouston and two assistants on Saturday after the Senators failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.
Edmonton (25-45-12) finished last in the overall NHL standings for the second straight season.
"You can't dress up a 30th-place finish by suggesting we did a whole lot right, quite honestly," Oilers coach Tom Renney said. "But what we did do is stay with it. We integrated some young people into the lineup. They got an opportunity to play and learn and grow and develop."
About 1,000 protesters were in and around Tahrir Square 2011 guess handbags at 2:30 a.m. Saturday along with a throng of riot police and army soldiers.
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The clashes come a day after large crowds of protesters amassed at Tahrir Square, many of them angry with Egypt's new military rulers.
After Mubarak's ouster in February, the military took control -- riding a wave of popularity for refusing to fire on pro-democracy protesters during 18 days of anti-government protests.
On Friday, some soldiers joined the protests in a direct challenge to Egypt's military rulers. For long intervals, they took to one of the stages erected in the crowded square and called for the country's military rulers to be replaced.
"If they really wanted to prosecute these corrupt officials they would have done it immediately. That's why we are here today," one of the protesting officers said during the Friday protests.
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The ban will apply to any soil found to contain high levels of radioactive cesium, and farmers who cannot grow rice will be compensated.
So far, soil that exceeds the new limit has been found in only two places in Iitate, a guess handbags on sale village about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Fukushima Dai-ichi, the nuclear plant crippled by the March 11 tsunami.
"We had to come up with a policy quickly because we are in planting season," said Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano, who announced the ban Friday. "Following this, I want to hear the opinions of experts and local officials on how to remediate the soil."
Earlier in the week, high levels of seawater contamination around the plant prompted the nation that gave the world sushi to set limits for the first time on the amount of radiation permitted in fish. The contamination levels have since decreased after plant workers managed to plug a leak.
Japan produced 8.5 million tons of rice in 2010, almost all for domestic consumption. It exported just 1,900 tons for sale last year, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan the top recipients.
Rice is revered in Japanese culture, and the word for cooked rice, "gohan," also means meal. It's the key ingredient in sake, and citizens proudly buy locally grown varieties. Subsidies and restrictions on imports have made Japan largely self-sufficient as a rice-growing nation — last year it imported just 664,000 tons.
Fukushima, home to the radiation-leaking plant, produced 450,000 tons of rice and was the nation's fourth-largest producing prefecture (state) last year.
Yoshiyuki Ueda, a 47-year-old rice farmer from the town of Futaba, where the damaged nuclear plant is located, said he had already given up on trying to plant this year's crop because of radiation fears. For now, he lives in a high school about 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of Tokyo with 1,400 other town residents who were evacuated from a high-radiation zone around the plant.
"The ground is ruined," Ueda said. "I think it will be a long time until things return to normal."
Experts say people would have to eat enormous quantities of produce or dairy before getting even the amount of radiation contained in a CT scan, but cesium is a concern because it can build up in the body and high levels are thought to be a risk for various cancers. It is still found in soil in Germany, Austria and France 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is also found in wild boar in Germany, making the pigs off-limits for eating in many cases.
Officials also said Friday that they had lifted a ban on shipments of farm products grown in certain areas of Japan for the first time since the massive earthquake and tsunami, which killed as many as 25,000 people. Thesummer fashion shop ban was lifted on spinach and the leafy vegetable kakina grown in Gunma prefecture, as well as on milk produced in the western part of Fukushima, farthest from the plant.
Plant workers have spent the past month frantically trying to stop radiation from spewing by restoring cooling systems, but they still have a long way to go. On Saturday, they continued pumping nitrogen into the chamber of a reactor to reduce the risk of a hydrogen explosion.
Two 190,000-pound concrete pumps that have been retrofitted to spray water were on their way to the plant from Atlanta and Los Angeles. The pumps can be operated by remote control from two miles (three kilometers) away and will help reach parts of the plant that have been off-limits because of high radiation levels.
Also on Saturday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. continued pumping contaminated water into the sea. That operation, needed to clear subdrains under reactors and make room in a storage facility for water with higher levels of contamination, will continue into Sunday. It was supposed to phiten titanium necklace end Saturday but was extended because workers were taking extra care pumping the subdrains, TEPCO spokesman Ryo Shimizu said.
There were no new problems at Fukushima Dai-ichi from a magnitude-7.1 aftershock that knocked out electrical power to millions of people and brought a renewed sense of anxiety to northern Japan.
The morning following the aftershock, convenience stores sold out of basics such as water and snack foods, and supermarkets switched back to rationing purchases, though in a far less severe manner than in the aftermath of the magnitude-9.0 quake that spawned the tsunami. Some people have been without power ever since.
For tens of thousands living in shelters because they lost their homes in the tsunami or were evacuated from the area near Fukushima Dai-ichi because of radiation concerns, or both, the aftershock was an unpleasant reminder of what they have been through.
Matsuko Ito said she screamed when the violent shaking woke her up around 11:30 p.m. She's not sure she can take much more.
Portugal submitted an official request for help to the European Commission, the EU's executive, Thursday evening, officially kicking off negotiations for a bailout that had been anticipated for months.
Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos now has to convince his 16 eurozone counterparts that Lisbon has the authority to implement reforms and budget cuts designed to get the country's economy back on track.
A stringent economic adjustment program is a key prerequisite for international help — serving as assurance that the bailed-out country will eventually garner the womens summer fashion 2011 strength to repay its creditors.
Most analysts expect Portugal to need around euro80 billion ($114 billion) cover its costs over the next three years without having to raise money on debt markets at prohibitive rates.
However, even though outgoing Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said help is necessary, it remained unclear whether his caretaker government — in charge only until elections in June — has the support of opposition parties to commit to a full adjustment package. After all, it was those parties' resistance to unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes that pushed Socrates to resign late last month.
Together with Portugal, a tough adjustment program needs to be put together to restore Portugal's competitiveness," Rainer Bruederle, Germany's minister for the economy, said in a statement Thursday. "In addition, Portugal needs a strict plan on how to heal its budgets."
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Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development who will be joining EU finance ministers at their meeting Saturday, said Lisbon's new creditors will look closely at whom they're negotiating with.
"If you are the EU and if you are the ECB, or if you are the IMF you say, 'Well, how much do I know about the future policies, about the future commitments?'" Gurria said. "You will have to have a very interesting group sitting at the other end of the table."
Robert "Bobby" Titcomb was one of four men arrested in anguess handbags undercover sting operation late Monday and later released on $500 bail, according to Honolulu police.
Titcomb, 49, attended Punahou School in Honolulu with Obama in the 1970s. The president graduated in 1979, a year before Titcomb. The two often play golf and basketball, go to the beach and dine together when the president returns home to Hawaii for vacation.
Obama's family has also attended barbeques at Titcomb's beachside home in Waialua, located on Oahu's North Shore about an hour outside of downtown Honolulu summer fashion shop.
Titcomb and Obama last spent time together in Hawaii during Obama's most recent vacation over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
The White House had no comment. Titcomb has not publicly responded to the charges, and he wasn't immediately available for comment.
Police said Titcomb was arrested at 9:40 p.m. Monday near downtown at the intersection of South and Pohukaina streets, which is next to the Circuit Court building and a large parking lot. He posted bail about two hours later.
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In 1987, he was arrested on drunken driving charges, which led to the 90-day suspension of his license and a $150 fine, according to state criminal records.
More than 16,000 people are still missing after the disaster, which officials phiten x100 necklace fear may have killed some 25,000 people. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami also ravaged a nuclear power plant.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan went to the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex immediately after the wave knocked out cooling systems, leaving workers unable to control overheating nuclear reactors and allowing radiation to seep out.
But Saturday marked his first visit to some of the dozens of villages, towns and cities wiped out in the March 11 disaster. Dressed in the blue work clothes that have become almost a uniform for officials, Kan stopped first in Rikuzentakata — a town of about 20,000 people that was flattened by the torrent of water.
"The government fully supports you until the end," Kan told the 250 evacuees.
Helicopters, planes and boats carrying U.S. and Japanese troops resumed a massive search of the entire coast Saturday. Altogether, 25,000 troops, 120 helicopters and 65 ships will search through Sunday in what may be one of the last such operations. So far, more than 11,700 deaths have been confirmed.
"Unfortunately, we've come across remains over the scope of our mission, so it may be more likely than you think" to find bodies at sea so long after the disaster, said U.S. Navy Lt. Anthony Falvo.
Some may have sunk and just now be resurfacing. Others may never be found. After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 37,000 of the 164,000 people who died in Indonesia simply disappeared, their bodies presumably washed out to sea.
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"I don't think the evacuation zones make any sense," said Tadayuki Matsumoto, a 46-year-old construction worker who lives in a zone 15 miles (25 kilometers) away where residents have been advised to stay indoors. "They don't seem to have thought it out and are making things up as they go along."phiten necklace
Radiation concerns have rattled the Japanese public, already struggling to return to normal life after the earthquake-generated tsunami pulverized hundreds of miles (kilometers) of the northeastern coast. Three weeks after the disaster in one of the most connected countries in the world, 260,000 households still do not have running water and 170,000 do not have electricity.
Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday ordered plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to review its latest measurements of radiation in air, seawater and groundwater samples, saying they seemed suspiciously high.
TEPCO has repeatedly made mistakes in analyzing radiation levels, and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it might eventually order a complete review of all radiation data collected since the tsunami.
Though the size of recent leaks is unclear, it appears radiation is still streaming out of the plant, underscoring TEPCO's inability to get it under control.
The company has increasingly asked for international help, most recently ordering giant pumps from the U.S. that will arrive later this month to spray water on the reactors.
In hard-hit Natori, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) down the coast from Rikuzentakata, dozens lined up to apply for funds as aircraft searching for bodies zoomed overhead.
Many people lost all of their possessions, including IDs, so the city has created software that compares neighborhoods before and after the tsunami. People point out where they lived, and if the house in that location has been destroyed, they are eligible for 100,000 yen ($1,200) in assistance.