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Devils make Cup finals after 3-2 win over Rangers

New Jersey Devils' Adam Henrique (14) scores during the overtime of Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals, as New York Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist (30), Brad Richards (19), and Carl Hagelin (62) defend, Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 3-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New Jersey Devils' Adam Henrique (14) scores during the overtime of Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals, as New York Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist (30), Brad Richards (19), and Carl Hagelin (62) defend, Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 3-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

The New Jersey Devils celebrate after beating the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime of Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Devils advanced to the Stanley Cup finals. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur greets coach Peter DeBoer after the Devils beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime to win Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Devils advanced to the Stanley Cup finals. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Members of the New Jersey Devils stand near the Eastern Conference trophy after beating the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime of Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals, Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, right, and New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, of Sweden, talk after Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals, Friday, May 25, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 3-2, and advanced to the Stanley Cup finals. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? The memory of missing the playoffs for first time since 1996 and the ghost of an 18-year-old wound were wiped out with a sweep of rookie Adam Henrique's stick.

The New Jersey Devils are going back to the Stanley Cup finals, thanks to Henrique, a 40-year-old goaltender and a coach who'd never been to the postseason in the NHL.

How's that for a turnaround?

Henrique scored off a wild scramble in front at 1:03 into overtime and the Devils defeated the rival New York Rangers, 3-2, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals to advance to their first Stanley Cup finals since 2003.

"It means a lot," Devils leading scorer Ilya Kovalchuk said minutes after reaching the Cup finals for the first time. "It's a great feeling. Last year was a tough one, but this year was totally different. We played well all year. The first round of the playoffs was a little tough but after that, I think we figured out our game and what it takes to win."

After beating Florida, Philadelphia and their biggest rivals, the Rangers, only the Los Angeles Kings stand in the way of a fourth Cup for New Jersey.

The title round begins here Wednesday.

This series win came against the Devils' most intense rival, and it was that much sweeter.

"That one was like Christmas," said Henrique, who also scored the series winner in overtime as Devils' first-round, Game 7 win over the Panthers.

It also was needed. The Devils blew a 2-0 first-period lead and didn't want to head back to New York for a Game 7 on Sunday.

"It didn't matter how it got to overtime, we were in a good position," Devils captain Zach Parise said. "We were at home. We just needed one shot."

Actually, the Devils needed four shots to win the game.

Henrique's winner came after Henrik Lundqvist stopped Kovalchuk twice and Alexei Ponikarovsky. The last shot lay in the crease and Henrique tapped it home.

"We caught them on a line change and their defensemen were tired," said Devils coach Peter DeBoer, who was fired by Florida after missing the playoffs in his three seasons. "We found a way to jam one in. That's the only way you're going to score on Lundqvist. You're not going to get a clean one. You're going to have to work for it around the net.

"And that's what we did."

Ryan Carter and Kovalchuk also scored for the Devils, whose biggest move this year was hiring DeBoer. He has more than proved his coaching ability.

Ruslan Fedotenko and Ryan Callahan tallied for top-seeded New York, which had a good flurry just before New Jersey scored to end it.

Henrique, who is nominated for the Calder Trophy ? given to the NHL's top rookie ? skated away from the crease and jumped against the end boards in the corner as his teammates hopped off the bench and mobbed him.

The six Rangers on the ice just stayed down in disbelief and frustration. This was very much like Game 5, which the Devils won 5-3. New York carried the play after the first period and had a 35-29 edge in shots.

But when it came time for a game-deciding play to be made, it was a Devil who made it.

"When they scored, it was such an empty feeling," said Lundqvist, who said the puck took a weird bounce on the final play. "It is shocking."

Henrique overcame injury to score this one. He seemed to take a stick from Brian Boyle in the groin area late in the third and had to leave the ice.

He felt no pain after the game winner.

All the Rangers could do was bow their heads and then line up for the traditional handshake after losing to their cross-rival rivals in a series that was close.

"That's playoff hockey, and that's usually where you get an overtime goal," Rangers veteran Brandon Prust said. "Just whacking away in front of the net, getting rebounds."

Martin Brodeur, 40, kept the Devils alive in the third. He stopped a power-play shot by Brad Richards, made a save on Artem Anisimov between the circles and used his stick to deflect a pass from the boards by Carl Hagelin in the final minute just before it got to Marian Gaborik on the edge of the crease.

"You could tell he was in the zone. He led us," Parise said. "He made some big saves tonight."

Lundqvist's best stop in the third was on Dainius Zubrus on a shot from behind the circles.

Facing elimination and down 2-0 after 20 minutes, the Rangers found their game in the second period and tied the game at 2-all on goals by Fedotenko and Callahan in a roughly four-minute span.

Defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who assisted on both goals, made the big play to get New York back in the game. He collected the puck above the left circle, skated around the net and tried a wrap around. The shot didn't go on goal but it turned out to be a perfect pass to Fedotenko who a tap-in into an open net at 9:47.

Callahan, who had a New York goal go off his leg in the Devils' 5-3 win on Wednesday, tied the game at 13:41 when Dan Girardi's shot from the right point deflected off his leg into the open lower corner of the net. Callahan's sixth of the postseason was set up when Brandon Dubinsky won a faceoff in the left circle.

Carter, who scored the game winner in New York on Wednesday night after the Devils blew a 3-0 lead, put New Jersey ahead again at 10:05 of the opening period.

The play started with a bad pinch at the point by Rangers defenseman Marc Staal. Steve Bernier led a 3-on-1 and found Stephen Gionta coming down the middle for a solo chance against Lundqvist. The Rangers goaltender stopped the shot, but Carter swatted the rebound home for his fourth of the playoffs.

Kovalchuk's seventh goal of the postseason and fifth on the power play was a thing of beauty. All five Devils skaters touched the puck with tape-to-tape passes with Zubrus finding Kovalchuk alone low in the left circle for a shot that Lundqvist had little chance to stop.

The Devils ? as is the tradition for many Cup finalists ? did not touch the Prince of Wales Trophy that was presented at center ice. As the team skated off to their locker room, "Glory Days," the 1984 hit from New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen serenaded them.

The game was played on the 18-year anniversary of the Rangers' dramatic, 4-2, Game 6 victory over New Jersey at the Meadowlands, a victory that pushed that classic Eastern Conference final series to a Game 7 and eventually led New York to its first Stanley Cup in 54 years. That game, of course, was preceded by a guarantee from Rangers captain Mark Messier, who delivered three goals en route to the victory.

This time, though, there will be no Game 7.

NOTES: The Empire State Building's tower lights were lit in red and blue on Friday to cheer on the Rangers. ... Mogul and TV personality Donald Trump was at the game. ... Devils C Travis Zajac left the ice briefly in the second after being slashed on the left hand by Prust. No penalty was called. ... New Jersey is 4-1 in overtime in the postseason. New York finished 2-3 after regulation. ... This is only the second time the Devils have defeated the Rangers in the postseason in six tries. ... The last time New Jersey played in the Stanley Cup finals, the Devils also played a California team: the Anaheim Ducks in 2003.

Associated Press

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Casey Anthony, the Florida mom convicted of lying to police as they investigated the death of her 2-year-old daughter? has agreed to be on Dancing With the Stars!

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Dancing With The Stars season 15 reportedly wants to serve up an all-star edition this fall 2012.?? But the biggest shock is that they reportedly want to give Casey Anthony a chance to repair her image.

?We think Casey deserves a chance and she really wants to dance,? reportedly said a producer close to dancers on another show.? ?There was a hot, angry debate about whether to include her on the show, but ultimately we decided that the ratings would wipe away any doubts we had.

Casey Anthony will be the only new contestant on Season 15.? The show bringing back some fan favorites from the past 14 seasons.

Casey? has been in hiding since a jury acquitted her of murder, manslaughter, and aggravated child abuse in July 2011.? It was just announced yesterday that she was being sued by Zenaida Gonzalez.

The Casey Anthony defamation lawsuit stems from a lie that Anthony told investigators: that a woman named ?Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez? kidnapped her missing daughter, who was later found deceased.

?Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez? was a made-up name for a non-existent person, Anthony later admitted. But a woman with the similar name of Zenaida Gonzalez does exist, and claims she?s been subject to ill treatment because of Anthony?s lie.

Will the lawsuit interfere with Casey?s preparation for Dancing with the Stars?

?Not at all, Casey is focused on getting into the best shape of her life and really showing off her talents,? said a source close to Casey?s ex-lawyer.? ?She?s really great with salsa and tango.? Fans of the show are going to love her.?

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Tribal elder's purported 'KKK' surgical scars spark protest

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Hundreds of people march from Memorial Plaza in Rapid City, S.D., to Rapid City Regional Hospital on Monday in support of a man who says the letters KKK were carved into his stomach during surgery at the hospital.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Hundreds of people marched in support of a tribal elder who says the letters ?KKK? were carved into his stomach by a surgeon at a South Dakota hospital.

A YouTube video featuring 69-year-old Vern Traversie, a Lakota man who lives on the Cheyenne River Reservation, has gone viral in Native American communities. In it, Traversie recounts his hospital experience. Though he is blind, Traversie says he was told by others that the scars left after his heart surgery make out the hateful letters, and he is outraged.

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Another video posted on YouTube purports to show a photo of the the scars, which he says?were left on his abdomen.

The problem is, not everyone sees it. Like those spotting the Madonna in a water stain, Traversie's advocates are staunch believers. Those who aren't include police who investigated his allegations and officials at Rapid City Regional Hospital, where the Aug. 26, 2011, surgery took place.

?We are deeply committed to providing excellent care to everyone, regardless of race. No one at RCRH would stand idly by and allow abuse to occur in this hospital,? hospital CEO Tim Sughrue said in a statement Monday.

He said he couldn?t comment on the specifics of the case due to patient privacy laws.

Rapid City police say they conducted an investigation but found no evidence of a crime. Craig Saunders, a cardiologist at Barnabas Hospital in Newark, N.J., said incision marks can take many different shapes, depending on where the doctor needs to get into the body. Saunders, who did not operate on Traversie, said surgical tape also can leave scarring and lesions depend on the make-up of the person's body.

The lack of clear letters hasn't deterred Traversie, his supporters or those who see the scars as?more evidence of continued mistreatment of Native American people.

"Rapid City ... we understand you have been carving up our people. This is going to end today," American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks said to a roaring crowd Monday before leading the supporters on a more than two-mile-long march from a Rapid City plaza to the hospital.

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While Traversie's story spurred the protest, many in attendance referred to broken treaties, unsolved murders and incarceration rates among Native Americans as their reasons for showing up.

"We're classified as second-class citizens," said Hap Marshall, 69, a resident of the Cheyenne River reservation. "But when they want our votes, we're their brother."

The protest was relatively peaceful. Officers from the Rapid City Police Department blocked off traffic as the supporters, many dressed in red shirts and waving American Indian Movement flags, marched to the beat of a drummer riding in a truck leading the way. Passing cars occasionally honked.

A group of about 15 people ? including Banks and Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear ? met with officials at the hospital, while police prevented other supporters from entering the building.

The march was largely organized by Cody Hall, who lives on the Cheyenne River Reservation, and Chase Iron Eyes, who lives on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which?straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border, in an effort to bring attention to what they say is continued mistreatment of Native American people.

"We have organized to send a message for once and for all that we are not going to stand for anymore hate crimes or racial violence in this region. It doesn?t matter where you are from; once you get to Rapid, when an Indian steps out of their car, they are labeled as a target,? Hall told Indian Country Today Media Network.

Many in the Native American community believe there are different standards of justice for them and for other races, said Stew Magnuson, who writes a column for a Native American newspaper and wrote a book about issues on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.

Prior to the 1970s and the American Indian Movement, Native Americans felt powerless without representation on juries. AIM changed that by marching into towns and demanding justice, which no one had ever seen before, Magnuson said, adding: "So, I think some of these feelings live on, rightly or wrongly."

Traversie didn?t attend Monday?s rally.

In a YouTube video interview last month, he says a home health care worker photographed the marks on his front torso when she visited him at home a day after his discharge.

?She said, ?Oh my God, I don?t know what they did to you,?? Traversie said.

The pictures and video were later posted? on a ?Justice for Vern Traversie? page on Facebook.

Msnbc.com's James Eng contributed to this report from The Associated Press.

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Exclusive: Boy aims to cheat for a 'Toddlers' win

By Ree Hines

It's boys vs. girls on the next episode of TLC's "Toddlers & Tiaras," as the wee ones face off in the International Fresh Faces Pageant. But regardless of the competition, there's one tyke in the mix who's willing to break the rules if that's what it takes to walk away with a win.

In this exclusive sneak peek from the show, 6-year-old Traven, who's been in pageants since he was just 10-months-old, reveals he's not interested in doing the typical pre-pageant work the girls on "Toddlers" so often do.

When Traven's mother asked him how he would win the pageant if he's not willing to practice, he simply replied, "I just want to cheat!"

Of course, barring a side deal with the judges, that's just not possible in a pageant, so Traven devised another easy out.

"For 'Beauty,' Traven just gets up there and dances," his mom explained. "He doesn?t have a routine; he doesn't want a routine. He just wants to get up there and be Traven."

And after seeing what being Traven entails, who could blame him? While pageant princesses often hit the stage with wigs, makeup, dental prosthetics and well-rehearsed performances, Traven simply channeled his inner King of Pop and put on a fun, freestyle tribute to Michael Jackson.

"Good luck, girls," Mom said. "My son is going to get it."

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359 elephant tusks smuggled in ship containers

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Some of the seized elephant tusks are displayed Wednesday at a customs warehouse in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com

Three shipping containers found in Sri Lanka stuffed with 359 elephant tusks came from Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service reported Thursday.

Trading in tusks is illegal, and Sri Lanka seized the cargo on Tuesday after it was detected by scans.

The containers -- which had been declared as only containing plastic waste and teak logs -- were destined for Dubai, India and Guatemala.

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A fourth container was detained before it left the country, Kenya's wildlife service said in a statement.

Poaching for elephant ivory and rhino horns has risen dramatically across Africa due to demand from Asia, where ivory is used for ornaments and horns used in traditional medicine.

The news came as the U.S. Senate held a hearing on the problem.

Last year was "the worst" in 23 years of collecting data on ivory seizures, the wildlife monitoring group TRAFFIC said in its report for 2011, with most large seizures coming from ports in Kenya or Tanzania.

The rise, said TRAFFIC's Tom Milliken, reflects "both a rising demand in Asia and the increasing sophistication of the criminal gangs behind the trafficking. Most illegal shipments of African elephant ivory end up in either China or Thailand."

Just days after Rock Center aired Harry Smith's report, "The Last Stand," on the growing epidemic of illegal rhino poaching in South Africa, three of the rhinos featured in the report were attacked by poachers. Rock Center's Harry Smith reports.

Once in Asia, the documentation for illegal shipments is often changed to make it look?like a local re-export, helping to hide its true origin, TRAFFIC stated.

"That?s an indication of the level of sophistication enforcement officers are up against in trying to outwit the criminal masterminds behind this insidious trade," said Milliken. "As most large-scale ivory seizures fail to result in any arrests, I fear the criminals are winning."

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On Wednesday, two suspected poachers were shot dead and 32 were arrested, the Kenya Wildlife Service reported, adding that the suspects had shot and wounded an elephant.

The service also listed four other suspected poaching incidents in the last two weeks.

"Tomorrow will be simply too late," Prince William warns as Africa's magnificent wild animals are mercilessly and illegally poached at a rate not seen for decades.

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Follow Your Passion: The Nonprofit Path to Personal Success ...

Listen to Your Heart and Discover the Rewards of a Truly 'Successful' Life

"Success." What picture comes to your mind's eye when you say the word? Is it the corner office with a personal assistant and your name in bold print on a fancy business card: the private company limo and a penthouse view? Is it an expensive foreign sports-car and lunch with all the "power players" at an exclusive country club? While some of the biggest and most well-known nonprofit organizations do pay their top earners as handsomely as many private corporations, only a privileged few will ever enjoy the kind of company benefits the word "success" usually brings to mind.

However, if your personal view of success involves living a life where you are free to follow your heart and live a purpose-filled life doing what you love, starting a nonprofit of your own may be your path to a more personal version of the truly successful life. As a middle-aged single mother, starting my own nonprofit organization was not the easiest way to a life of leisure - but it has certainly been one of the most personally rewarding experiences I could ever hope for. After working with underprivileged youth and single mothers who were struggling to make ends meet for most of my professional career, becoming a single mother myself was an eye-opening experience.

Suddenly I became one of those single parents who had to face all of the daily challenges of raising two great kids alone, while still putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their head without the benefit of a second paycheck. Fortunately, I come from a very supportive family and their Dad is still an active part of their lives - but I began to wonder what would keep me from one day becoming one of my own clients? What truly separated the "successful" people from the ones who were struggling to survive and losing the battle?

In the current economy, our local homeless shelters are filled with women and children who face this issue - some of whom are well-educated formerly successful middle-class citizens. I began to do my own research into the problem: if it wasn't a matter of education or social class, then what was the deciding factor in their present dilemma?... Resources. The one thing successful people had in common was access to a strong family support system and basic resources: someone they could call on in case of emergencies, reliabletransportation and dependable childcare. But how could one person with limited resources of her own to draw on possibly hope to make a difference for so many?

Over the next two years, the answer became clear - I couldn't: but WE could! Fortunately, I happen to live in one of the most collaborative cities in the country. Once I began looking for the answers to my questions, I discovered many of the community leaders and local organizations were already working on the solutions to my dilemma, but the organizations themselves were also in trouble.

Working with shrinking resources and underfunded programs, they were struggling to meet the needs of a growing number of unemployed and under-employed people: people who had always been generous with their time and money, but were now having to use those services themselves. My job was not to serve these people, but to funnel resources into the organizations who already had those programs in place: to form a nonprofit that could devote time and energy toward finding and developing all of the resources those providers needed in order to serve my clients - helping them to overcome their present circumstances and become self-sufficient productive citizens again.

Thus "Stone Soup Ministries" was born: a non-denominational nonprofit organization devoted to the acquisition and development of resources for other nonprofits that address poverty-related issues. Along the way, I learned several important lessons for anyone who wants to follow their own passion:

Do your homework. Is there anyone out there already doing what you want to do? What are the current "best practices" in your field of interest? How can you contribute your efforts to a greater cause? Never reinvent the wheel: it is always an easier and more effective use of your time and energy to help someone else than it is to start from nothing on your own.

Do it right the first time. Once you decide to form your own nonprofit, build a strong foundation for your platform. Find a mentor and possible board members who can help you navigate the pitfalls of starting your own business through Score.org. Use the free resources available at SBA.gov to create a sustainable long-term business plan and determine what business model best fits your objective. Search IRS.gov for possible names: don't invest all your time and energy into building a brand you will have to abandon later due to copyrights.

"FREE" is always better. Take advantage of free websites and resources whenever possible: the less you spend, the less time you will have to waste raising money in order to just maintain your organization -- and the more resources you can funnel into achieving your real mission. Scour your local library and free internet sites for "how-to" information. Ask your board members to contribute their areas of expertise and resources.

Create your own free websites with "point and click" templates at websites like Tripod.com and Webs.com. Search Grants.gov for possible funding sources. Find local marketing students who will help you create a pro-bono marketing plan for your organization in order to add to their own professional portfolio. Apply for 501c3 status at IRS.gov so you can offer tax deductions to your supporters, and ask local businesses to donate the supplies you need rather than money - people are almost always more willing to give what they already have to a worthy cause. Stay focused. Determine what your real "mission" is, and then focus all of your time and energy on that: never allow yourself to get side-tracked. Develop a "mission statement" that contains everything you want to achieve at the most basic level, and then always ask yourself "how will this help me move toward that goal?" If the answer is "I don't know", it's time to find another strategy.

Don't quit your day-job. Start your nonprofit as a side business on a shoestring, and don't expect a pay-check in the very beginning. Determine whether you have a viable business model that will sustain paid employees first, and then have at least 2yrs worth of personal money in the bank in order to pay your own bills before you gamble on the charity of others.

Never, never, never give up. There is no such thing as a real "overnight success"? Persistence, perseverance and enthusiasm will carry you through the tough times and make up for a multitude of unknowns on your way to following your own passion.

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European leaders add to rising fears of breakup

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Greek Archbishop Ieronimos blesses the new caretaker prime minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, right, in Athens Thursday. Greeks will return to the polls next month after an inconclusive vote sent jitters across the eurozone.

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer

European officials are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Greece.

In an apparent signal to Greek voters, the head of the World Bank warned Thursday that if Athens were to depart from the common currency, Spain and Italy could well be the next dominoes to fall in Europe?s widening financial crisis.

After ousting the Athens government that agreed to deeper spending cuts in return for a financial lifeline, voters return to the polls in June after the winning parties failed to form a new government. Apparently hoping to convince Greek voters to return a pro-austerity government to power, European officials are now openly discussing the likely dire consequences if they don?t.

But the comments may have only served to heighten fears of a wider breakup of the eurozone should Greece exit the monetary union. ???

Investors backed away further from Spain's government debt Thursday, raising the country?s borrowing costs to levels that sparked the Greek debt crisis in the first place.

Bond buyers were also reacting to fresh economic data showing that Spain?s economy is beginning to shrink, which makes its existing debt load even harder to carry.

The growing crisis also has caused growing nervousness among U.S. investors. Since the inconclusive Greek vote May 6, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen in seven out of eight sessions and was down again Thursday. U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase send another ripple of worries through the market May 10 when it said it had lost at least $2 billion in a failed attempt to hedge against European volatility.

The recession is also putting more pressure on Spain?s banks, which have been saddled with bad mortgages as the country faces a deepening housing bust. Last week, the government took over Bankia, which holds 10 percent of the banking system?s deposits, after it reportedly suffered an large outflow of deposits.

The news follows reports that depositors pulled another $900 million out of Greek banks on Wednesday, extending a capital flight that could bring down Greece?s banking system. The fear is that those worries spread among depositors in other countries like Spain where the banking system is already under pressure.

Until very recently, European officials were loath to even discuss the idea of Greece?s departure from the compact binding 17 nations with a common currency. For one thing, the treaty that created the euro has no provision for a member country to abandon the currency or for its expulsion by the rest of the monetary union.

But central bankers and officials of agencies like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have begun to think ? and discuss ? the unthinkable. IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned this week that Greek's departure from the euro would be ?quite messy? and ?"extremely expensive."

Analysts who are looking at the potential impact say the losses and economic pain would be widely felt.

Replacing the euro with a new, devalued currency would wipe out much of the remaining assets on Greek bank books. Europe?s central bankers have already pulled back some forms of funding for Greek banks that have been hit hardest by withdrawals. Hundreds of billions worth of additional borrowing by Greek households and businesses would be in legal limbo.

Any new currency ? or a return to the pre-euro drachma ? would be massively devalued, by some estimates as much as half the value of a euro. That would help Greece?s economy eventually get back on a growth path because it would make its products and services cheaper for buyers spending dollars and euros. A week?s vacation in Crete would cost half the price of a comparable trip to Sardinia.

But Greek households and businesses would bear the immediate pain. Imported goods and commodities like oil would suddenly cost twice as much. Households and businesses making good on outstanding loans written in euros would see repayment double in local currency terms.

European officials who engineered the costly plan to ?save? Greece -- led by France and Germany -- would also feel the pain. Much or all of the more than $200 billion in loans already extended to the Greek government by the IMF, European Central Bank and Europe?s private banks would be at risk. That would mean explaining to French and German taxpayers what went wrong with the grand plan.

It would also raise the political costs of extending further bailouts to weaker, debt-burdened countries including Spain and Italy. As Greece demonstrates that a once-unthinkable exit from the euro is now possible, other countries may follow. If investors continued to shun Spanish and Italian government bonds and depositors flee their banks, the choice facing Europe grows more stark.

Worries about the fragmentation of Europe?s monetary union have already sapped business and consumer confidence and brought the region?s economy to a dead stop. Government austerity measures imposed on weaker economies are driving them deeper into recession.

As that recession spreads, the pain of Greece?s departure from the euro would be felt even more broadly, according to Michel Juvet, an economist at Bordier, a Swiss bank.

?At the same time we have China, which is slowing down very, very fast, we have the U.S. economy, which is losing momentum, and we have this global slowdown, ? he said. ?All economies are so connected that when one country or one big zone is suffering, the others are suffering as well. This is globalization.?

Others see the crisis in starker terms.

?This is phase two of the global financial crisis," said R. Seetharaman, CEO of Doha Bank in Qatar. "That?s the reality."

What's happening in the global markets and how are the Europeans handling the euro crisis? R. Seetharaman, Doha Bank CEO, provides perspective on Middle East banking mentality, summer gas prices, and global economic trends.

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The History Of Swimming Pool Construction | Home Improvement ...

There are four main categories of swimming pool shell construction, each of which should be considered by a reputable swimming pool technician prior to installation. A swimming pool professional should be able to advise its customers on whether to install an indoor or an outdoor pool, and may discuss issues including heating, maintenance and the cleaning of the water.

Swimming pool construction was revolutionised during the 1950?s with the advances in plastics technology enabling the creation of the liner pool. Liners are an extremely popular style of swimming pools Gloucestershire, because they can be manufactured using specific dimensions, and are available in a whole array of colours and patterns. As liners are incredibly strong, reinforced concrete floors are usually not necessary which could save the pool owner a lot of money. Labour intensive tiling is also not necessary for liner pools, which can again be much more economical.

Liners allow speedy swimming pool construction, as the pool can be filled as soon as the liner is fitted. The liners are considered low maintenance, and many swimming pools Gloucestershire benefit from having quick repairs made without having the need to drain the pool.

Preformed pools are another type of swimming pool shell construction. Just like the swimming pool liners, these are produced in a factory, though are usually built to a standard size. The pool is constructed as a one piece pool shell in a mould and is transported as a whole to the customer?s premises. A large hole is created for the mould to be gently lowered into, and pea shingle is frequently used to backfill the pool whilst the pool is being filled up with water, this is to prevent settlement of the surround. Preformed pools have the huge advantage in that they are extremely quick to produce, allowing swift completion of the swimming pool.

Traditional swimming pool construction methods include permanent shuttering and sprayed concrete. These both create extremely strong pools, and are well suited for indoor pools, or if part of the pool wall is projecting above existing ground level. Sprayed concrete pools are perfect for confined areas where space is very limited.

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