MONTR?AL? ? Montreal Canadiens Executive vice president and general manager, Marc Bergevin, announced Friday the appointment of Jean-Jacques Daigneault as assistant coach.
?I am extremely happy to welcome Jean-Jacques Daigneault to our coaching staff. He brings a solid expertise, and his knowledge of the game will be an important asset to the development of our young players. Our group of defensemen will largely benefit from his experience and his solid reputation as a coach,? said Canadiens head coach Michel Therrien.
Jean-Jacques Daigneault, 46, was as assistant coach for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League (the franchise was renamed Connecticut Whale in 2010-11) for the past five seasons (2007 to 2012). He helped his team to seasons of 110, 99, 83, 88 and 86 points and a playoff berth each year during his five-year stay with Hartford. He took on coaching in 2005-2006 when he joined the ECHL?s Phoenix Roadrunners as an assistant coach, also working as director of player personnel.
A native of Montreal, Jean-Jacques Daigneault was selected in the first round, 10th overall, by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. He had suited up with the QMJHL Longueuil Chevaliers where he recorded 32 goals and 126 points in 144 games earning a selection on the First All-Star Team and the ?mile Bouchard Award as the QMJHL Top Defenseman in 1982-83. In the months leading to the Draft, Daigneault played for Canada?s National Team, recording 5 goals and 15 assists in 55 games, and the National Junior Team, finishing fourth at the 1984 WJC, tallying two points in seven games, before wearing the Maple Leaf at the 14th Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo where he amassed a goal and an assist in seven games.
The professional hockey career of Jean-Jacques Daigneault spans over 18 years, including 16 seasons in the National Hockey League. He suited up with 10 teams, including the Montreal Canadiens for six seasons, playing a pivotal role in the Canadiens Stanley Cup championship in 1993. Between 1984 and 2001, Daigneault participated in 899 NHL regular season games with the Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New York Islanders, Nashville Predators, Phoenix Coyotes and Minnesota Wild, recording 53 goals and 197 helpers for a total of 250 points. He also played 99 playoff contests collecting 5 goals and 26 assists. Daigneault also played with Hershey, Sherbrooke and Worcester in the American Hockey League and skated with the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the defunct International Hockey League in 2000-01. He would end his playing career in 2001-02 as a player-coach with the Biel team in Switzerland?s second league II.
Jean-Jacques Daigneault and his wife Janie have three daughters.
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Sgt. Maj. Stephin Kinzer 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command
Kinzer
The term? Back to Basics? has been heard often in our Army, but I think that, with reminding ourselves of the 11 principles of leadership, the reasons why we wear the uniform will be recaptured.
Also, these principles can remind us of why we recite the Noncommissioned Officers Creed: ?No one is more professional than I.?
When I initially entered the military in the early 1980s, many of my leaders and mentors applied these principles, which I believe were critical to the success of our organization.
My leaders at that time lived and breathed the 11 leadership principles. Often, I overheard my leader say not everyone can be a Soldier, and there are no bad Soldiers in the military, just bad leadership.
When referring to ?Back to Basics? and developing leaders, we should use these principles as a guide. These 11 leadership principles will form a baseline of character traits and values that will define our character as leaders. Also, these principles are an important tool for identifying our own strengths and weaknesses.
The 11 Leadership Principles
Know yourself and seek self-improvement. Develop a plan to keep your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.
Be technically proficient. Not only do we know our duties and responsibilities, we know those of our team members. We look to our leaders and concern ourselves with learning their duties and responsibilities.
Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions. We?re not satisfied with performing just our duties to the best of our abilities, we look to grow and seek further challenges. When in charge, accept the consequences of your decisions, absorb the negative and pass on the praise.
Make sound and timely decisions. Leaders must be able to reason under the most critical conditions and decide quickly what action to take.
Set the example. Our personal example affects people more than any amount of instruction or form of discipline. We are the role models, and no aspect of leadership is more powerful.
Know your personnel and look out for their well-being. Leaders must know and understand those being led. When individuals trust you, they will willingly work to help accomplish any mission.
Keep your followers informed. Our team members expect us to keep them informed. When possible, explain the reasons behind requirements and decisions. Information encourages initiative, improves teamwork and enhances morale.
Develop a sense of responsibility in your followers. Team members will feel a sense of pride and responsibility when they successfully accomplish a new task given to them. When we delegate responsibility to our followers, we are indicating that we trust them.
Ensure each task is understood, supervised and accomplished. Team members must know the standard. Supervising lets us know the task is understood and lets our team members know we care about mission accomplishment and about them.
Build a team. Leaders develop a team spirit that motivates team members to work with confidence and competence. Because mission accomplishment is based on teamwork, it?s evident the better the team, the better the team will perform the task.
Employ your team in accordance with its capabilities. A leader must use sound judgment when employing the team. Failure is not an option. By employing the team properly, we ensure mission accomplishment.
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TUESDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women who regularly eat a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet may be raising their risk of heart disease and stroke by as much as 28 percent, a new study suggests.
Although the absolute increase in risk is small -- four or five extra cases per 10,000 women -- many young women try the Atkins diet or similar regimens and could be setting themselves up for cardiovascular problems later in life, the researchers noted.
"Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets are frequently used for body-weight control," said lead researcher Dr. Pagona Lagiou, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Athens Medical School in Greece. "Although [the diets] may be nutritionally acceptable if the protein is mainly of plant origin, such as nuts, and the reduction of carbohydrates applies mainly to simple and refined [carbohydrates] like unhealthy sweeteners, drinks and snacks, the general public does not always recognize and act on this guidance."
The study, published online June 26 in the BMJ, does not answer questions about the possible short-term benefits of these diets in the control of body weight or insulin resistance, Lagiou said.
For the study, Lagiou's team collected data on the diets of more than 43,000 Swedish women who were between the ages of 30 and 49 at the start of the study.
Over an average of 15 years of follow-up, there were more than 1,200 cardiovascular events, including heart disease and stroke. There were more of these events among the women who followed a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet than among women who didn't, the researchers found.
Compared with women who veered furthest from the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, women who followed the diet most closely increased their risk by 28 percent, even after other risk factors, such as smoking, drinking, hypertension, exercise and fat intake, were taken into account, the researchers noted.
"Reduction of body weight should rely on increasing physical activity and reducing caloric intake," Lagiou said.
The long-term health effects of special diets that are followed for long periods of time have not been adequately studied to allow determination of their safety, she added.
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, chairman of cardiovascular medicine and science at the University of California, Los Angeles, said low-carb diets such as the Atkins regimen have been touted widely and have become increasingly popular.
"This study raises concerns about the long-term effects on cardiovascular health of low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets -- particularly if there is not careful consideration given to whether plant versus animal proteins are consumed," said Fonarow, who is also director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center.
For their part, Atkins Nutritionals Inc. says their diet plan differs greatly from the low-carb, high-protein diet used in the study.
"The diet tested had 51 percent carbohydrates, while the Atkins Diet begins at 10 percent carbohydrates, and increases to 20 percent 30 percent over several weeks as the dieter reaches and maintains target weight," the company said in a statement issued Wednesday.
The statement continues: "It appears that BMJ, to draw public attention to its story, misleadingly inserted the false suggestion that an 'Atkins-style' diet was used in the study, and omitted the conclusion of the Swedish researchers that diets similar to the actual Atkins Diet do not necessarily harm cardiovascular health. Atkins has demanded an apology and corrective action from the British Medical Journal."
Another expert, Samantha Heller, an exercise physiologist and clinical nutrition coordinator at the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., said "the results of this study are not surprising."
Popular high-protein diets inevitably include an abundance of cheese and red and processed meats, and a dearth of healthy carbohydrates such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes and fruits, she said.
"What this study did not address is that research is finding that diets high in red meat and/or processed meats may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes; colorectal cancer; coronary heart disease; breast cancer; esophageal, liver and lung cancers; and chronic obstructive lung disease," Heller said. "[They also] increase levels of bad cholesterol."
More research is needed to pinpoint how and for whom these risks are elevated, she added.
"In the meantime, cut back on your intake of meat and other animal-protein sources. Start experimenting with beans, edamame, tofu, nuts and nut butters (such as peanut, almond and cashew butter), low- or nonfat yogurt, cottage cheese and milk," Heller advised. "Pick up the carb intake with 100 percent whole-grain breads, brown rice, quinoa and hefty doses of vegetables, legumes and fruits."
Although the study found an association between high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets and increased risk of cardiovascular problems, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
More information
For more on healthful eating, visit the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Clink family was one of the several families who have stayed at the Family House during it?s inaugural year. Samantha Clink, whose mother received a life saving transplant in January 2012, shared her transplant journey and how Family House staff helped her family through one of their darkest hours.
When my mom?s edema moved into her stomach and she was forced to resort to a wheelchair at the age of 41.
When did you first hear of the Family House?
When my mom was unconscious on life support at Temple University Hospital and my father and I had nowhere to go.
How long was your stay with the Family House?
Three Months
How has/had the Family House impacted your transplant experience?
Words cannot express the amount of pressure and stress this place has relieved from our family during this instrumental moment in our lives.
What is your favorite feature of the Family House?
There are a lot of wonderful features, but the most comforting is knowing we?re always welcome and we?re always met with staff who are sincere about making us feel at home. There is never any worries about finding a hotel during a time that is already stressful.
How is your transplant experience today? It is an ongoing roller coaster ride. It has gotten significantly better, but it is a treatment that is manageable, as opposed to a disease that is not. My mom?s transplant has given us a new respect for life. So many things are taken for granted, not a single day, a single word, or a single breath should ever be taken for granted ? we know that now.
How has the Family House helped you and your family during your transplant experience? They have provided us with the basic essentials for life and so much more. They have social workers on hand, and a team of staff members that care for your well being. Staff members that help you when you don?t have chocolate chips and you want to make cookies all the way to staff members who are willing to proof read your ?thank you? letter to the organ donors? family. A staff that is truly selfless.
How did you spend your time at the Family House? Well, they feed us very well here ? I feel like a huge amount of time was spent eating! Other than that, we exercised and built puzzles. We were also able to commute to tourist attractions nearby.
Did you have loved ones visit you while you were/are staying at the Family House? Yes. That is something this house has been so generous about. They let us have over 15 family members here at once. The doctors told us to bring family in, because we needed to say good-bye. The family house had no problem with us doing this.
How has your transplant experience affected your family and loved ones?
The transplant experience has given us all a greater appreciation for life. In one moment everything can be? taken away, and you have no control over that. It is best to attempt to control the things you can ? like your character. We have become a ?pay it forward? type family, because we have received more help than can? ever be repaid.
If you could give Family House a birthday present, what would it be?
It would be a video of all the people whose lives it has touched. An unscripted, unedited video. It would include the areas they are excelling in and would also have suggestions for its areas of improvement. It would include footage of the staff that goes above and beyond their job description. I would love to give it money to create more family houses, but that is something I do not have. What I do have is the capability to spread the word about this amazing place, and the ability to encourage others to become donors. In fact, we recently had a fundraiser for my mom. At it we printed out organ donation sign-up sheets. We included pre-stamped envelopes. We had several people from our community fill one out and we are now sending them in. Each person that signed those papers is an enormous victory. The community created by the Family House inspired us to encourage others. It is a community that can best be described by living in it.
What do you hope for Family House in the upcoming year?
I hope they expand. Not in physical size, but in national size. In other words, I hope more are built. I hope other cities can have access to a place like this. It is not only beneficial to the people staying there, but to the ? hospitals and community it is in. It raises social awareness. It creates a community network that becomes engaged in wanting to raise awareness for organ donation. It?s beneficial in more ways than can be explained.
How do you feel being part of the first year of Family House?
I feel very honored to have been here during the first year. The First Year of anything is often met with turmoil, and usually incorporates the phrase ?try and try again.? The first year is when things are done wrong, and when lessons are learned from these things. These things that are done ?wrong,? are the moments that often lead to success. It is the year that a team is built. It is this team that has built a home for many people. To be a part of this team ? to fall with it, to rise with it ? is something that is worthwhile and it is something that will stay with me forever.
What do you wish other people of the community knew about the Family House?
I wish people knew how much volunteers mean to them, and just how important their cause is. It is embarrassing when I admit that I knew nothing of organ donation, the Gift of Life, or this place and what it did until my mom received her double-lung and heart transplant. Being on the other side of that is frustrating, knowing the need and not being able to explain why it is so important can be exhausting. If the community knew just how much it did for it, they would never hesitate to help.
What would you like to say to the staff and volunteers who work at the Family House?
This place is a home to many, it is beautiful, but it is simply a building; made out of brick, but you are what makes it a home. You are the people that fill it with joy and happiness ? which I might add is a challenging thing to do in your profession. What you do takes a certain type of person ? most of the time the people who are your guests are going through a world of turmoil, fear, and pain and you use your character and personality to bring smiles to their faces. You are selfless. Selfless is something I? always strive to be. It is not easy. I keep writing to try to explain why you?re all wonderful, but there are never enough words to describe my gratitude. So in this I will end with a thank you. It is a phrase that encompasses all you have done, it is simple and simple is beautiful, just like all of you. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Clink? family is just one of the families who will be affected by organ donation and transplantation in the upcoming year. By helping us celebrate our first birthday, you have the opportunity to assure families like Samantha?s have a place to call home during their transplant experience.
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The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, designed by Foster + Partners, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.
Keeping up with the Joneses.
It happens in many settings, from the classroom to the country club, and, perhaps not surprisingly, among cultural organizations, according to a new study that finds that many institutions recently expanded their buildings in part because everyone else had.
Other reasons that organizations will build too much are overambitious trustees, self-interested architects and unrealistic financial projections, according to the study by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago that is to be released Thursday.
The study, ?Set in Stone,? examined the cultural building boom between 1994 and 2008, when museums, performing arts centers and theaters in the United States got swept up in new construction or major renovations.
More than $ 16 billion was spent by cultural organizations on building projects during that period, some inspired by the hope that construction initiatives could do what a Frank Gehry-designed museum building did for Bilbao, Spain: transform a small city into a major cultural destination.
?This issue between confusing a want with a need is enormous in the sector,? said Carroll Joynes, a founder and senior fellow at the policy center. ?There are clear ways to avoid this. You can learn from what other people went through.?
A number of the lessons, the study suggests, could be drawn from its case studies of expansions like that of the Art Institute of Chicago over the past decade.
At first glance the project seemed daunting: a $ 300 million venture that would boost yearly operating costs by an estimated $ 4 million and would necessitate another $ 87 million in fund-raising to expand the endowment.
But with the Italian architect Renzo Piano engaged and several key trustees and the museum?s director gung ho, the expansion gained a kind of inexorable momentum.
Attendance did spike initially when the new wing opened in March 2009, but then it dropped back to normal levels. A precipitous decline in endowment income led to pay cuts, furloughs, a salary freeze and two rounds of layoffs.
?Instead of expanding its budget as expected, the Art Institute was forced to contract instead,? the study said.
The study examines not only what arts organizations got wrong but also what they got right and offers guidance for arts executives, civic leaders, donors and government officials about how to avoid pitfalls and how to grow intelligently and responsibly ? or maybe not at all.
?It?s lessons from the front lines,? said Adrian Ellis, an arts consultant who helped conceptualize the study. ?The stories aren?t told that often.?
The study was based on interviews with people in more than 500 arts organizations and drew data from more than 700 construction projects that ranged in cost from $ 4 million to $ 335 million. The New York region led the country in cultural building ($ 1.6 billion) after Los Angeles ($ 950 million) and the Chicago area ($ 870 million).
In many cases the researchers found that organizations failed to realistically assess the demand for their projects and their capacities to complete them: Do we really need this? Can we afford to build it? Can we support a larger operation going forward?
?All of the work fundamentally says, ?Don?t build what you can?t sustain,??? said Duncan M. Webb, an arts management consultant, who was an adviser on the study.
Architects can also run away with a project, the study reports. ?They say the building is for you, but the building is for them,? Mr. Joynes said. ?It?s for the pictures and for their careers. From their point of view it?s a real success if it gets built.?
The study found that the most successful projects were driven by a clear artistic mission and demonstrable need; had authoritative and consistent leadership throughout the process; controlled expenses during construction; and generated income after completion.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -Cristiano Ronaldo is the kind of player that can change a game with one moment of excellence, the kind of player every team wants to have when the game is on the line.
Until, maybe, when it comes down to a penalty shootout.
The Portugal captain was one of the best players at the year's European Championship. Some would argue he was THE best, while others wouldn't even deign to argue about something that so many believe to be pure fact.
But against Spain, on the big stage of the Euro 2012 semifinals, there was no shot from Ronaldo in the penalty shootout. No chance for the Real Madrid winger to lift his team to victory.
And not even a reason why.
After his team was eliminated at the Donbass Arena, Ronaldo said he told Portugal coach Paulo Bento he wanted to take the fifth kick. That's the same spot he was in back in 2006, when Portugal beat England in a shootout in the World Cup quarterfinals.
"He said to me, 'You want a kick?' And I said, 'Yes, in the fifth,"' Ronaldo said late Wednesday night, shortly after Portugal lost the match. "We missed two penalties so it's frustration."
Before the shootout, Ronaldo was improving with every match. He had scored three goals in his previous two games at Euro 2012, and had several chances to break the scoreless draw against Spain - including a 90th-minute shot from just inside the area that he sent high over the bar. He also sent a pair of free kicks into the same space way above the crossbar, somewhat closer to the top row of spectators than Spain's goal.
And then came the shootout, football's version of a coin toss.
Ronaldo hasn't had the best of times in shootouts in recent years. While still with Manchester United, his spot kick against Chelsea in the Champions League final was saved. And this year, his attempt against Bayern Munich in the Champions League semifinals was again saved.
Two big misses for a big player on the big stage, and no chance for redemption in Donetsk.
"If it would have been 4-4, he would have taken the last penalty and we would have talked in another way (now)," Bento said through a translator. "We defined beforehand what would be the best conditions to succeed and now we didn't. I don't regret anything."
Ronaldo came into Wednesday's match on a roll. He was less-than-stellar in Portugal's opening two matches, but he scored both goals in a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands to guarantee a spot in the quarterfinals. Then he scored the lone goal in the win over the Czech Republic.
Those two displays certainly quieted the distracting chants of "Messi, Messi" that he endured earlier in the tournament. And they went a long way to easing the somewhat commonly held view that Ronaldo is no good on the international stage.
But his decision to wait - possibly only in the hope that he would be the hero - in the shootout did nothing to keep the team in the tournament.
And in the end, the lasting image from the shootout - maybe even more memorable than Cesc Fabregas' winning shot off the post - will be Ronaldo with his face hidden in his hands, probably wondering what went wrong.
"It's always difficult moments," Ronaldo said. "I expressed myself in the way that I feel."
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Contact: Andy Freeberg afreeberg@slac.stanford.edu 650-926-4359 DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Laser probes microscopic components of air pollution
Menlo Park, Calif. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the most detailed images to date of airborne soot particles, a key contributor to global warming and a health hazard.
The discovery reveals the particles' surprisingly complex nanostructures and could ultimately aid the understanding of atmospheric processes important to climate change, as well as the design of cleaner combustion sources, from car engines to power plants.
The study, published in the June 28th issue of Nature, also pioneers a method for studying a broad range of individual particles, such as cells or proteins, and opens up exciting possibilities in the study of aerosol dynamics using highly focused X-ray lasers, such as SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).
"Our study shows that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing us to look at them one at a time instead of using a composite of many different particles," said Duane Loh, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar at SLAC and Stanford University's PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science. "We now have a richer imaging tool to explore the connections between their toxicity and internal structure."
Soot and similar particles especially those 2.5 microns or less in diameter, which are the most dangerous to human health are difficult to image while airborne. When placed on a surface for examination with a microscope, they tend to clump together and lose their shape.
In this experiment, researchers wafted individual soot particles up to 3.25 microns in diameter into the path of the LCLS laser beam. Its laser pulses are so brief that they captured information about the particles, only millionths of a meter across, in the quadrillionths of a second before they blew apart.
They found that no two are alike. Like magnified snowflakes, soot particles exhibit similar patterns of complexity at different scales, which is characteristic of fractals. Other research methods have probed the fractal properties of soot, but the LCLS' ability to examine those of individual soot particles, airborne and in their natural state, revealed surprising diversity and complexity in their fractal dimensions. Such observations can help validate the various models used to describe these soot particles.
The results make scientists wonder what diversity of forms will be discovered if particles produced in real-world, "messy" environments, such as a car's combustion engine or a candle flame, are imaged one at a time. The team is analyzing data from experiments at the LCLS that examined soot from diesel emissions as well as other types of airborne particles.
A primary long-term goal of the research is to take snapshots of airborne particles as they change their size, shape and chemical make-up in response to their environment, said Michael Bogan, a staff scientist at PULSE and leader of the international research team.
"Scientists can now imagine being able to watch the evolution of soot formation in combustion engines from their molecular building blocks, or maybe even view the first steps of ice crystal formation in clouds," he said.
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The research team included contributors from SLAC, DESY, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Max Planck Institutes, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Cornell University, the University of Hamburg, Synchrotron Trieste and Uppsala University. LCLS is supported by DOE's Office of Science.
SLAC is a multi-program laboratory exploring frontier questions in photon science, astrophysics, particle physics and accelerator research. Located in Menlo Park, California, SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. To learn more, please visit www.slac.stanford.edu.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
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Laser probes microscopic components of air pollution
Menlo Park, Calif. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the most detailed images to date of airborne soot particles, a key contributor to global warming and a health hazard.
The discovery reveals the particles' surprisingly complex nanostructures and could ultimately aid the understanding of atmospheric processes important to climate change, as well as the design of cleaner combustion sources, from car engines to power plants.
The study, published in the June 28th issue of Nature, also pioneers a method for studying a broad range of individual particles, such as cells or proteins, and opens up exciting possibilities in the study of aerosol dynamics using highly focused X-ray lasers, such as SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).
"Our study shows that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing us to look at them one at a time instead of using a composite of many different particles," said Duane Loh, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar at SLAC and Stanford University's PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science. "We now have a richer imaging tool to explore the connections between their toxicity and internal structure."
Soot and similar particles especially those 2.5 microns or less in diameter, which are the most dangerous to human health are difficult to image while airborne. When placed on a surface for examination with a microscope, they tend to clump together and lose their shape.
In this experiment, researchers wafted individual soot particles up to 3.25 microns in diameter into the path of the LCLS laser beam. Its laser pulses are so brief that they captured information about the particles, only millionths of a meter across, in the quadrillionths of a second before they blew apart.
They found that no two are alike. Like magnified snowflakes, soot particles exhibit similar patterns of complexity at different scales, which is characteristic of fractals. Other research methods have probed the fractal properties of soot, but the LCLS' ability to examine those of individual soot particles, airborne and in their natural state, revealed surprising diversity and complexity in their fractal dimensions. Such observations can help validate the various models used to describe these soot particles.
The results make scientists wonder what diversity of forms will be discovered if particles produced in real-world, "messy" environments, such as a car's combustion engine or a candle flame, are imaged one at a time. The team is analyzing data from experiments at the LCLS that examined soot from diesel emissions as well as other types of airborne particles.
A primary long-term goal of the research is to take snapshots of airborne particles as they change their size, shape and chemical make-up in response to their environment, said Michael Bogan, a staff scientist at PULSE and leader of the international research team.
"Scientists can now imagine being able to watch the evolution of soot formation in combustion engines from their molecular building blocks, or maybe even view the first steps of ice crystal formation in clouds," he said.
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The research team included contributors from SLAC, DESY, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Max Planck Institutes, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Cornell University, the University of Hamburg, Synchrotron Trieste and Uppsala University. LCLS is supported by DOE's Office of Science.
SLAC is a multi-program laboratory exploring frontier questions in photon science, astrophysics, particle physics and accelerator research. Located in Menlo Park, California, SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. To learn more, please visit www.slac.stanford.edu.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
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Yampu?s President, Jose Irauzqui, recently traveled to South Africa for site inspections and came back excited about everything the country has to offer. ?All of Yampu?s South Africa Highlights include a tour of Cape Town with Table Mountain. These itineraries also include international airfare from New York to Johannesburg.
South Africa?s Secret Season
South Africa has it all; remote safaris, beaches, beaches, wine tours and a gripping history. ?The peak season in South Africa falls during their summer months, from December through March. ?Leading up to the high summer season, the Cape is not yet overcrowded in October and November, with the beaches relatively empty.
The Features of Cape Town
While Cape Town?s history has blemishes, its landscape certainly does note. ?The city will take you to the historic center depicting the oppressive era of the apartheid before reaffirming the beauty in the world with a visit to Table Mountain, one of the Natural Wonders of the World. ?The Cape Peninsula offers overwhelming views and the popular Jackass Penguins at Boulders Bay.
The Winelands and Garden Route
The treasures in South Africa?s Western Cape don?t lie exclusively in its wildlife safaris. ?Featuring the awarding winning wine varietals of the Cape Winelands, the vineyards are appropriately termed the culinary capital of South Africa. Traveling along the Cape?s Garden Route, the scenery includes forests, coastline, beaches, game reserves and picturesque villages.
Google I/O, the search engine giant's annual developer conference kicks off on June 27. As usual, things will start with a keynote, which may include some product announcements. One blog claims that it already knows which gadget?Google will show off?? a tablet dubbed "Nexus 7."
Gizmodo Australia's Luke Hopewell writes that?the blog's staff has "viewed a training document detailing exactly what?s going to be in the new tablet and how much it?s going to cost."?
According to Hopewell, the tablet will be a 7-inch device built by Asus ??which fits with earlier reports???and contain a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM.?The tablet will be come in 8GB and 16 GB versions, Hopewell explains. Its screen will supposedly be an IPS?display "with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800." (This again matches a prior report by DigiTimes.)
Additionally, there will supposedly be NFC, Google Wallet, and Android Beam technology built into the device along with a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery inside the Nexus 7 will offer 9 hours of operating time.
Hopewell writes that the?8GB version of the tablet will cost $199 and that the 16GB version will cost $249.?(Previous reports suggested that prices would range between $149 and $249, for reference.)
While leaks, rumors, and vaguely sourced reports should always be taken with a large dash of salt, there's been a lot of consistency regarding this particular device. We wouldn't be surprised if we saw it in a couple of days, at the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, from where we'll be reporting live.
Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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ST PETERSBURG: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (HWT.UL), the world's No.2 telecom gear maker, has denied using Chinese subsidies to gain global market share after it was accused by U.S. lawmakers and EU officials of unfair competition.
Huawei and cross-town rival ZTE Corp <000063.SZ> <0763.HK> have come under close scrutiny by U.S. lawmakers and the European Commission, which say both are able to use subsidies to bid for contracts at lower prices than Western competitors.
Both companies rose to prominence rapidly over the past few years, clinching contracts with major telecom carriers and sometimes edging out European rivals Ericsson (ERIC-B.ST), Alcatel Lucent SA (ALU.PA) and Nokia Siemens Networks (NOKI.UL).
"It's not true that Huawei uses subsidies to gain market share," Chen Lifang, Huawei's global board director, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a business event at St Petersburg in Russia.
"We receive legal subsidies. Like European countries, China also gives out subsidies for R&D-related activities. Huawei has taken part in such European and Chinese schemes," said Chen, a member of Huawei's 13-person board.
Huawei, together with the world No. 5 telecom equipment maker ZTE, denied accepting illegal subsidies earlier this year, but this is the first time a Huawei board member has commented about the issue.
The head of the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee this week said apart from the investigation on subsidies, legislation could be proposed to deal with any related national-security threats.
In May, EU diplomats said the trade bloc would like to take action against Huawei and ZTE on the grounds that they receive illegal state subsidies that allow them to sell equipment at lower prices.
Analysts said Chinese telecoms equipment makers had also the support from policy banks, such as China Development Bank (CHDB.UL), which provided low interest rate loans for network infrastructure projects in emerging economies.
Chen brushed off rumors that Huawei did not need to pay back such loans.
"Our competitors even spread rumors that we needn't repay these loans. This is impossible and untrue," she said late on Friday.
She said Huawei usually worked with Chinese and foreign banks in project financing and loans, and was transparent in the process.
In 2011, Huawei borrowed $4.6 billion from banks, with more than 70 percent from overseas banks and less than 20 percent from Chinese lenders, Chen said.
"These banks usually make necessary risk assessments before agreeing to the loans. All of such loans have also been audited."
Huawei has been successful in selling telecom equipment in Europe and emerging economies in Asia and Africa, expanding its presence in the mobile phone and enterprise segments.
In Russia, for instance, Huawei has worked closely with major carriers and is in negotiations to possibly provide equipment for 4G LTE (fourth-generation long term evolution) mobile technology, Xiong Lening, chief of Huawei's Russia operations, has said.
However, the prized U.S. telecom carrier market remains elusive for the Shenzhen-based company that was started by its Chief Executive Officer, Ren Zhengfei.
Ren, who is also in Russia this week for the event, was a former military officer who was laid off by the People's Liberation Army in a downsizing exercise over 20 years ago.
Several years ago, Huawei and ZTE were blocked from taking part in a bidding process for a network project by U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel Corp (NYS:S) due to national security concerns.
More recently, Huawei was blocked from participating in a tender in Australia's $38 billion National Broadband Network due to cyber security concerns.
"It's supposed to be straightforward commercial transactions, but the U.S. likes to link economic issues to politics because Huawei has its roots in China," said Chen, who joined Huawei in 1995.
"Our competitors also take advantage of this fact to paint an unfriendly image of us."
Huawei has denied having any ties with the Chinese military.
After years of rapid expansion and market share gains in the telecom equipment and mobile phones sectors due to aggressive marketing and pricing, Huawei's profitability has been hit lately with rumors surfacing of massive layoffs.
Chen brushed off such concerns.
"We are not laying off staff in China or India. In Russia, we're expanding and might even add staff," she said, but stopped short of elaborating.
Some of London?s hippest bars pop up where you?d least expect them, say, behind a refrigerator door. That?s the way into The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town, the city?s latest password-protected underground bar within The Breakfast Club restaurant. Ask the staff to see ?The Mayor? for entry into this dimly lit brick and wood space with the requisite moose heads and vintage wallpapers. Drinks come strong, and the crowd is coolest on weeknights.
The Mayor is tucked away in Shoreditch, one of a few East London neighborhoods (see also Hoxton and Spitalfields) where creative industries have been setting up shop for the past decade, attracting Londoners looking for the next intriguing thing. Some eccentric underground bars live behind walls of bustling shops or restaurants while others take the underground concept literally.
One such basement bar and club, Vogue Fabrics, draws a raucous late-night crowd. Behind the unassuming fa?ade of this former fabric store is a door check and a set of stairs that lead down into the basement. Don?t come here expecting fancy drinks; the highlight of Vogue Fabrics is the cutting-edge music. Some of London?s finest young DJs show up to play a set or two for a mixed scene of hipsters and cross-dressers in exaggerated wigs and twinkly dresses.
If you are hankering after a sophisticated cocktail, garnished with some live jazz or cabaret, slip into one of the leather booths at The Nightjar, a speakeasy-style bar in Shoreditch. There?s no sign, but if you get to 129 City Road, you?re at the right address.
Among this nightlife haze, Lounge Bohemia may be the trickiest underground bar to reach. Behind an unremarkable slim door between a news bodega and a kebab takeaway, this by-appointment-only bar takes its design cues from a 1960s Communist hideaway; the ceilings are low and vaulted; the walls gray; the furniture a mix-and-match assortment of comfortable midcentury couches and chairs. Snack on Czech canap?s like bacon-swathed plums on buttered rye, and help yourself to a round of poppy-seed martinis served by a tribe of perky guys and girls in ?60s period costume. You?re in for a long night.
Source: topics.nytimes.com --- Saturday, June 23, 2012 In a labor Union case, the conservative justices broke court rules to insert themselves into a political issue. ...
Ogni giorno Apple ? sempre attenta nel cercare di rendere lo store online sempre pi? a portata di utente, ecco allora che in questi giorni ha creato un?apposita sezione in cui sono state racchiusi una serie di titoli organizzati secondo determinate aree tematiche. La nuova area prende il nome di ?Game Collections?, dopo il salto per maggiori informazioni.
Ogni giorno che passa ? possibile trovare sull?App Store una serie di nuove sezioni create appositamente per cercare di rendere l?esperienza utente migliore di quanto offerto e provato sino ad ora. In questo periodo l?azienda di Cupertino ha creato una sezione in cui ? sono stati racchiusi tanti giochi organizzati per determinate aree tematiche; la suddetta area prende il nome di Game Collections e pu? essere raggiunta a questo indirizzo.
All?interno della suddetta ? possibile trovare applicazioni organizzate in questo modo:
Starter Kit
Benchmark
Big Name
The Best Games You?ve Never Played
Quick-Fix
Hardcore
Turn-based
Game Center
Zombies
Racing
Platformers
Sports
Music Rhythm
Retro
Role-Playing Games
Hollywood Hits
Flight Games
Galactic
Games for Kids
Dinosaurs
La decisione di proporre una sezione di questo tipo pu? effettivamente risultare molto interessante per scoprire nuove applicazioni relative ad una particolare tema.
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'Our coming together after a 12-year hiatus is somewhat of a testament to our elasticity,' Cee Lo Green tells MTV News of the Goodie Mob reunion. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Felicia Morris
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Goodie Mob defined hip-hop's dirty south sound before such a descriptor even existed, mixing uplifting raps with bass-heavy funk. Cee Lo Green, Big Gipp, T-Mo and Khujo, along with their Dungeon Family affiliates OutKast, were largely responsible for making Atlanta rap's southern capital. The last time the Mob dropped an album as a quartet was 1999's World Party, but now they are back.
"The Goodie Mob, we definitely are reunited. And we've been working on that album really vigorously and it's coming out very well," Cee Lo Green told MTV News while at a Los Angeles taping for TV Land's new sitcom "Soul Man." "I think people are going to be very pleased. You know our core audience and also this new audience that we are aspiring to acquire."
The comeback LP, which is titled Age Against the Machine, doesn't have a release date, but in April the group gave fans their first taste of the album when they performed their new single "Fight To Win" on "The Voice." The televised performance showed a Goodie Mob quite different from what their day-one fans may remember. While singing the motivational ode, Khujo, Gipp and T-Mo donned gold battle armor and matching capes, resembling a squad of triumphant Roman soldiers. The song has been catching on: It was chosen as the official theme for the 2012 NBA Playoffs and ran on television spots throughout the two-month sporting tournament.
It's been over a decade since we've seen Goodie together, but Cee Lo says it was bound to happen. "Well, you know, it was just a matter of time, it's very faithful and we're a family," he explained. "And you know we were never separate from each other completely. So our coming together after a 12-year hiatus is somewhat of a testament to our elasticity if you will. That's what I call it."
Are you looking forward to the Goodie Mob comeback album? Let us know in the comments!
New data on hunt for elusive particle to be presented at Australia conference
Web edition : Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Unless you?re the Higgs boson, don?t expect much attention in July when the International Conference on High Energy Physics convenes in Melbourne, Australia.
Rumors of an impending Very Important Higgs Announcement at the physics meeting have already begun invading the Internet, ignited by blogs saturated with speculation and incomplete information about a possible Higgs discovery.
The two teams searching for the elusive particle at CERN?s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, are keeping quiet.
?Please be patient for a few more weeks,? says Guido Tonelli, spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid team. ?We have just finished data taking, and people work day and night including weekends to reach a scientifically validated result.? Tonelli expects that CMS will have results ready to present, but says that ?the pressure is huge.?
Tonelli cautions that the analysis is morphing almost constantly, saying, ?I am very surprised that rumors appear on a subject that is really evolving daily.?
Like Bigfoot, the Higgs boson has evaded detection for decades, despite repeated efforts to flush the particle from its quantum homeland. Physicists invoked the particle in the 1960s as a by-product of the mechanism that explains how other basic particles acquire mass. Now, among the characters in the standard model of particle physics, the Higgs is the last remaining holdout, the only particle still unwilling to reveal itself in particle accelerator experiments.
At CERN, scientists are looking for the boson by smashing streams of protons together, then searching through the debris for the remnants of Higgs bosons. A Higgs produced from the energy of the colliding protons remains intact for so short a time that it can?t be observed directly. Instead, scientists infer its presence from the rubble produced when it falls apart. If enough of these rubble piles add up to a particle of the same mass, scientists can conclude that they?ve seen evidence of the Higgs boson.
Although earlier results from the LHC teams, presented in December, hinted at a Higgs boson with a mass around 125 billion electron volts, there weren?t enough rubble piles to build a statistically significant result. Physicists would feel confident claiming a discovery only when the piles amass to something produced by chance less than once out of 3.5 million times.
So persistent are hints of the boson?s rumored unveiling that it even trended on Twitter for a short time. The social media site now contains a stream of tweets hashtagged #HiggsRumors, with such statements as, ?The Council of Troyes originally sanctioned the Knights Templar in order to protect the secrets of the Higgs boson.#HiggsRumors,? by user @seanmcarroll (the Caltech cosmologist), and ?The Higgs boson *does* give particles mass, except in North Carolina, where it is banned from doing so.#HiggsRumors,? by user @lukedones.
Maybe it really wasn?t Anthony Hargrove?s voice saying, ?Give me my money.?
The video/audio of a comment supposedly made by the former Saints defensive end during the third quarter of the 2009 NFC title game provides further proof of Drew Brees? point (even if it wasn?t articulated the best way possible) that the media has more power than anyone realizes.
The NFL, however, fully realizes.
And the NFL used the power of the media to make millions believe on Monday that Saints defensive Anthony Hargrove said, ?Bobby, give me my money? after being told by assistant head coach Joe Vitt that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre may have suffered a broken leg in the 2009 NFC title game.
The seed was planted and fertilized when a dozen members of the media covering Monday?s appeal hearing received an invitation to witness an encore performance of former prosecutor Mary Jo White?s summary of evidence.? The relevant excerpt from the transcript of the media session contains White?s explanation, comments from NFL Security chief Jeff Miller, comments from NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, and two of the members of the media ? Peter King and Jim Varney.
White initially explained that the video contains Hargrove?s ?voice and picture.?? After the video was shown once to the members of the media, Aiello suggested that the media pay attention to Hargrove winking and smiling after hearing that Favre broke his leg.? White later claims that Hargrove ?smiles and winks and states, ?Bobby, pay me my money.??
Varney asks White, ?How do you know it?s Hargrove?s voice??
White, perhaps not recognizing in that moment the ironic link to a very common lawyer joke, says, ?Because you can see his lips moving.?
But here?s the problem, and I didn?t notice this the first time I saw the video.?
When Hargrove?s lips can be seen moving, his voice can?t be heard.
Only after Hargrove?s face is fully obscured by the head and shoulders of defensive tackle Remi Ayodele are the words ?give me my money? audible.
No one has questioned this because the media present at the session was told ? and in turn told the rest of us ? that Hargrove said, ?Bobby, give me my money.?? Even Peter King, who seemed curious and a bit skeptical in the transcript, affirmatively stated twice in his article following the media session that Hargrove said what the NFL claims he said.
Watch the video.? At most, Hargrove is the one who says ?Bobby.?? By the time ?give me my money? comes out, Hargrove?s mouth and face and head are obscured by Ayodele.
Also, don?t forget that Hargrove didn?t apply the hit that resulted in Favre possibly having a broken leg.? Instead, Favre had been hit low by McCray and high by Ayodele.? So why would Hargrove be asking for any money at all?
None of this changes the fact that, barring evidence that the phrase was added artificially after the fact (I?m not saying it was . . . yet), someone said ?give me my money.?? Which supports the conclusion that there was a bounty on Favre.
But I don?t believe the video shown by the league to the media shows that Hargrove said it.? And I can?t believe that the NFL presumes conclusively that he said it.? And I can?t believe the NFL sold it as fact to the media.? And I can?t believe the media swallowed the hook.
And I can?t believe I didn?t pay close enough attention to figure it out before today.
And given Hargrove?s passionate denial that it?s his voice, I believe him.
This serious flaw in the presentation of the evidence necessarily undermines the league?s entire investigation, further reinforcing the importance of asking tough questions about the proof, the process, and all other aspects of the case.? Regardless of whether the players are guilty or innocent, the NFL has peddled to the public, via the media, a stream of inconsistencies, mischaracterizations, and embellishments that raise legitimate concerns about the competence and/or the motives of everyone whose fingerprints are on the file.
UPDATE 8:44 p.m. ET:? A prior version of this item explained that, when Hargrove?s lips are moving, his words aren?t audible.? I?ve studied the video several more times, and it now appears to me that Hargrove is the one who says, ?Bobby.?? However, by the time ?give me my money? is uttered, Hargrove?s face and head and mouth are obscured.? Thus, the video doesn?t prove who said it.? It could have been Hargrove.? It could have been Ayodele.? (It would make more sense if the league were claiming it was Ayodele, since he hit Favre high when ?Bobby? hit Favre low.)? It also could have been someone outside of view of the camera, talking about something completely unrelated to Favre?s apparently injury.
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2012) ? One is a rocky planet 1.5 times the size of Earth. The other is a gaseous world nearly four times Earth's size. Together they form a spectacular system in which two planets orbit closer to each other than any yet discovered.
"We've never known of planets like this," said Yale University astronomer Sarbani Basu, a member of the research team that analyzed the system. "If you were on the smaller planet looking up, the larger planet would seem more than twice the size of Earth's full moon. It would be jaw-dropping."
Basu's research focused on determining the properties of the planets' host star -- work that was essential for discerning the characteristics of the orbiting planets.
The 46-member, international team, led by astronomers at Harvard and the University of Washington, report their discovery June 21 in Science Express, the early release version of the journal Science.
"These two worlds are having close encounters," said Josh Carter, lead author of the paper and a Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Located about 1200 light years away, the two-planet system -- now called Kepler-36 -- orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, but bigger and older.
The larger outer planet, Kepler-36c, is a hot, gaseous, Neptune-like planet. The smaller inner planet, Kepler-36b, is rocky and subject to quakes and volcanic eruptions caused by the interplay of the planets' gravitational forces on each other.
Like our sun, Kepler-36 pulsates constantly. Data on its quakes enabled the team to determine its size, weight, and age (all greater than those of our sun). Knowing the star's radius and mass enabled the calculation of the sizes and masses of the planets. From this information, astronomers could determine the planets' densities and characteristics: the smaller planet is denser than Earth and hence must be rocky; the larger planet is much less dense, in fact less dense than water, suggesting it is gaseous.
"The precise determination of the planets' properties was possible because the star around which they revolve could be characterized precisely," said Basu.
The planets' proximity to each other is astonishing, according to the researchers. The rocky inner planet orbits its star every 14 days, at an average distance of 11 million miles. The outer gaseous planet orbits every 16 days, at an average distance of 12 million miles.
Every 97 days they move into perfect alignment, a position known as conjunction. At that point they are separated by a mere 1.2 million miles -- less than five times the distance between Earth and its moon. By contrast, Venus, Earth's nearest neighbor, never comes closer than 26 million miles.
The research team identified the planets by analyzing data from NASA's Kepler satellite. Kepler detects planets by measuring variations in the brightness of stars; dips in brightness may indicate a planet passing in front the star.
This discovery poses new challenges to the theories of planet formation. Astronomers are now trying to understand how planets with markedly different compositions and densities fell into remarkably close orbit.
NASA and the National Science Foundation supported the research. The national research councils of the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands also provided support.
Eric Agol of the University of Washington is a co-lead author of the paper.
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BYDGOSZCZ, Poland (AP) ? A body found floating in a Polish canal has been identified by a family member as that of an Irish soccer fan who came to the country for the European Championship, an official said.
Deputy chief prosecutor Wlodzimierz Marszalkowski told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the family member confirmed the identity of the body as James Nolan, who went missing early Sunday in the northern city of Bydgoszcz. He would not identify the family member, but said it was a close relation.
Documents in Nolan's name were found on the corpse. Marszalkowski said an autopsy would be held on Thursday to establish cause of death.
James Nolan, 21, of Blessington, County Wicklow, disappeared early Sunday in the northern city of Bydgoszcz, sparking a huge search effort in the city. Police divers found a body early Wednesday and authorities were awaiting the arrival of Nolan's father, Jimmy, and other family members later to make a formal identification.
"There is a high probability that this is the body of the man we have been searching for," a spokesman for prosecutors, Jan Bednarek, told AP.
The body was found lying face down in fast-flowing water of the Bydgoszcz Canal and trapped by a weir that runs across it. The canal is an offshoot of the city's Brda River, and brings water for a small hydroelectric plant.
No signs of violence were apparent, Marszalkowski said. Robbery didn't appear to be the motive since 600 zlotys ($200) and a credit card were found on the corpse, he said. An autopsy was planned for Thursday.
The clothing on the body matched a description given by friends of what Nolan was wearing when he went missing, Marszalkowski said.
Police and firefighters, some in boats and others with dogs, had been searching along the river, canal and adjacent waste ground Tuesday and again on Wednesday. Moments before the body was found, two divers in an inflatable dinghy were seen speeding toward the site. A police cordon was quickly set up around the area, which is near a museum and a church.
In a sign of mourning, someone later placed two white candles near the place where the body was found.
Nolan was in Poland for Euro 2012 to follow Ireland, which has now been eliminated from the soccer tournament. He had been traveling with friends in a rented camper van, but was also registered at a hotel on the city's outskirts.
He was last seen visiting local bars after watching televised games in a fan zone Saturday night.
Two of Nolan's travel companions, 22-year-old Aidan Willoughby and 24-year-old Adam Cullen, described him as a "smiley, outgoing person with a very witty sense of humor" and known by the nickname "Jam."
Their group of seven arrived in Bydgoszcz on Saturday to meet with other Irish friends. They watched the Poland-Czech game in town and then went into a market square pub around midnight.
"There we enjoyed drinks with the locals, who had been extremely friendly all night," Nolan's friends said in a statement.
"Around 2 a.m., a member of the group (not James) was involved in a minor altercation with a small group of local men sitting in the bar," the statement said. "The minor altercation ended in a matter of seconds and all involved and the rest of our group remained in the pub. Shortly afterwards, we decided to leave the bar as a number of the group wanted to go home and others went to find a nightclub.
"It appears that Jam left the group or pub alone prior to this. When Jam failed to return to the hotel by late morning and was not contactable, we became extremely concerned and members of the group contacted local police at 2:30 p.m. Others drove and walked around the city area looking for him and contacted hospitals."
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Public release date: 27-Jun-2012
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