Then again, what harm is there in enjoying the moment?

Chris Tillman took a two-hitter into the seventh inning, Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 22nd home run and the Orioles blanked the Boston Red Sox 2-0 Friday night in a duel between the top two teams in the AL East.

Manny Machado had three hits for the Orioles, who have won five of six including the first two in this four-game series. Baltimore moved within 1 games of the division-leading Red Sox, the closest the Orioles have been to first place since May 13.

"Obviously you want to continue to play as well as you can, no matter if you're at home or on the road, if it's early or late in the season," Davis said. "But we know we're close. And any time a division rival comes in, you want to try to take as many games as you possibly can. I think we're pleased with the way things have gone so far, and hopefully we can continue it."

Tillman (7-2) allowed three hits and four walks in six-plus innings. The right-hander permitted only one runner to get past second base in winning his third straight start.

After bouncing between the majors and minor leagues last year, Tillman has emerged as Baltimore's most steady starter.

"I said it in the spring," manager Buck Showalter said. "Chris came in full aware that he was out of options. But he pitched like a guy who had three and didn't want to go to (Triple-A) Norfolk. And that shows a lot of maturity, because he wanted to be a guy for us this year and he has been so far."

After Jose Iglesias chased Tillman with a leadoff double in the seventh, Darren O'Day got three successive outs. Tommy Hunter worked a perfect eighth and Jim Johnson completed the three-hitter to earn his 24th save.

Making his first career appearance at Camden Yards, 36-year-old Ryan Dempster (4-7) gave up two runs and five hits in 7 2-3 innings. He was victimized by a lack of offensive support the Red Sox have gone 15 straight innings without scoring a run, and in this one they got only one hit after the fourth.

"The guy just pitched his tail off over there," Dempster said. "Sometimes you just get outpitched. There is really nothing you can do about. We don't get shut out very often. It's kind of a rarity. ... I felt good about my outing, for sure. I felt like I pitched well. The other guy just pitched better than me."

Boston has lost two in a row for the first time since May 28-29 against Philadelphia, and its streak of winning four consecutive series is over. The Red Sox are 1-4 against the Orioles this season and have won only four of the last 17 games between the clubs.

Davis led off the second inning with an opposite-field drive into the left-field seats, his sixth homer in the last eight games against the Red Sox.

"I think Chris knows he doesn't have to get into pull mode to be effective," Showalter said. "That's been good for him."

Baltimore made it 2-0 in the third. Nate McLouth walked, took second on a single, advanced on a fly ball and scored when Adam Jones reached on a two-out dribbler down the third base line.

Tillman issued a walk in each of the first four innings but kept the Red Sox at bay. After Boston got runners on the corners with one out in the fourth, Will Middlebrooks hit a short fly to right and David Ross struck out.

"We did get a couple of guys on base over the course of the game, but it was a night where we couldn't bunch anything together," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "He did issue the four walks to give us a couple of opportunities. Still, when you take (Iglesias) out of the mix, where he got two out of three hits in that ballgame, Tillman did a good job of keeping us in check."

NOTES: Machado hit two doubles to increase his majors-leading total to 30. He also extended his hitting streak to 12 games, a new career high. ... The Red Sox recalled RHP Rubby De La Rosa from Triple-A Pawtucket and optioned RHP Alex Wilson to the same club. ... The Orioles recalled RHP Jake Arrieta to fill out their weary bullpen. ... After being designated for assignment Monday, Boston INF Pedro Ciriaco was traded to San Diego for a player to be named or cash. ... John Lackey will start for Boston on Saturday against Baltimore and Freddy Garcia. Lackey is 11-4 lifetime against the Orioles and Garcia is 10-4 vs. Boston. ... J.J. Hardy went hitless against Dempster and is 2 for 30 lifetime against the right-hander. ... Iglesias has hit in 15 straight games in which he has a plate appearance. ... The Orioles reinstated LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (elbow) from the 60-day disabled list and optioned him to Norfolk. ... McLouth stole his 23rd base, tying a career high.

MELBOURNE, June 16 (Reuters) - The British and Irish Lions' hopes of victory in their last tour match before facing Australia will be tested by a hastily-assembled backline and an ACT Brumbies side keen to inflict a timely psychological blow in Canberra on Tuesday.

Like all the provincial sides thrown to the Lions, the Brumbies will front up with a starting 15 robbed of their best Wallabies players but under strict orders to leave the tourists bruised, if not beaten, after full-time at Canberra Stadium.

The Lions notched up their fifth win from five tour matches against the New South Wales Waratahs on Saturday, running out 47-17 winners at Sydney Football Stadium, but the emphatic victory extracted a toll.

Centre Jamie Roberts was left nursing a suspected hamstring strain and could join England centre Manu Tuilagi in the treatment room, leaving the Lions vulnerable in the one area they can least afford it.

With Welshman George North also nursing hamstring concerns and fellow winger Tommy Bowe injured with a broken hand, Lions coach Warren Gatland has padded out his backline with a clutch of fly-ins led by 36-year-old Shane Williams.

The former Wales winger, who toured with the Lions in 2005 and 2009 and retired from international rugby at the end of 2011, flies in from Japan and will slot in for just the one match before leaving the squad to do media work.

Englishman Christian Wade, shipped in from Argentina, starts on the other wing, with Brad Barritt landing from the United States and starting at centre in the side captained by Ireland hooker Rory Best.

England's Billy Twelvetrees starts at inside centre against the two-time Super Rugby champions.

The cobbled-together backline, albeit complemented by a still-formidable forward pack, offers the Canberra-based Brumbies arguably the best chance of the Australian provincial sides to beat the Lions -- or at least leave the squad with a few doubts before the first Wallabies test on Saturday.

"We realise it's going to be tough on a few players, but there's some combinations with experience we looked at," Gatland told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.

"Billy and Brad know each other pretty well, Shane Williams will obviously come in.

"Having worked with him for a long time, I think he'll fit in pretty well with our game plan and will understand what we're trying to do, so there's some combinations and players who been there, done that before and knowing what's expected of them."

'HUGE OCCASION'

Gatland has also offered all of the players, barring Williams, the additional motivation of a spot in the team to play the Wallabies at Lang Park, despite his earlier intention to have the test side settled by the time of the Waratahs match.

"They have to have that belief that they can go out and perform on Tuesday and put your hand up and get selected for Saturday," Gatland said.

"There's no way we're going out sacrificing the game, I'm sure those players who go out on Tuesday night will be incredibly motivated to continue this tour unbeaten.

"And there's still that opportunity for players to put their hand up and say: 'I want to be part of that test team, that test 23' - and that's what their motivation has to be."

The Jake White-coached Brumbies have no intention of being cannon fodder and need only watch footage of their 2001 effort against the Lions for inspiration.

The Brumbies were gallant 30-28 losers at the same stadium in the previous tour in 2001 after utility back Austin Healey saved the Lions' blushes with a late try.

"This is a huge occasion for us as a team, but also individually," said White, who coached South Africa to their 2007 World Cup triumph.

"The Lions are one of rugby's last romantic sides, there is plenty of history there and we know that beating the Lions will go down in Canberra's rugby folklore for many years to come."

White, touted as a possible successor to Australia coach Robbie Deans, has guided the Brumbies to their first playoffs appearance in Super Rugby for nearly a decade this season and has a clutch of classy backs at his disposal, including livewire fullback Jesse Mogg and winger Henry Speight.

Captain Peter Kimlin, who starts at number eight, and prop Scott Sio were also released from Wallabies duty for the match after earlier tour matches sparked criticism for offering the Lions uncompetitive teams.

Teams:

Brumbies - 15-Jesse Mogg, 14-Henry Speight, 13-Tevita Kuridrani, 12-Andrew Smith, 11-Clyde Rathbone, 10-Matt Toomua, 9-Ian Prior, 8-Peter Kimlin (captain), 7-Colby Faingaa, 6-Scott Fardy, 5-Sam Carter, 4-Leon Power, 3-Scott Sio, 2-Siliva Siliva, 1-Ruan Smith.

Replacements: 16-Josh Mann-Rea, 17-Jean-Pierre Smith, 18-Chris Cocca, 19-Etienne Oosthuizen, 20-Jordan Smiler, 21-Mark Swanepoel, 22-Robbie Coleman, 23-Zack Holmes.

Lions - 15-Rob Kearney, 14-Christian Wade, 13-Brad Barritt, 12-Billy Twelvetrees, 11-Shane Williams, 10-Stuart Hogg, 9-Ben Youngs, 8-Toby Faletau, 7-Justin Tipuric, 6-Sean O'Brien, 5-Richie Gray, 4-Ian Evans, 3-Matt Stevens, 2-Rory Best (captain), 1-Ryan Grant.

Replacements: 16-Richard Hibbard, 17-Alex Corbisiero, 18-Dan Cole, 19-Geoff Parling, 20-Dan Lydiate, 21-Conor Murray, 22-Owen Farrell, 23-Simon Zebo.

Referee: Jerome Garces (France) (Editing by Peter Rutherford)

Sen. Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, knew about the data-mining. Or at least that's what heMinnesota's WCCO on Tuesday. "I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people," Franken said. The senator also believes the data collection has saved American lives:

I have a high level of confidence that this is used to protect us and I know that it has been successful in preventing terrorism.

...

There are certain things that are appropriate for me to know that is not appropriate for the bad guys to know.

Last Thursday, Franken issued a  that expressed concern about the privacy-security balance in the NSA program.

Franken hasn't always been so forgiving of similar practices. At a September 2009 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the reauthorization of expiring components of the USA PATRIOT Act, Frankenthe Fourth Amendment to the assistant attorney general for national security as a means of questioning the act's "roving wiretap" provision. Franken would also eventuallya 2012 reauthorization of the FISA amendments that .

In an early 2006 AlterNet interview before he was officially running for senate, Frankenthe Bush NSA warrantless surveillance program, laughing off a similar rationale to the one he's used in part to justify the current program:

They're trying to justify these warrantless wiretaps by saying "Oh, it's al Qaida!" One guy is saying it's just al Qaida -- the Hayden guy, and then on the other hand, you hear from the FBI that they were inundated with referrals on all kinds of stuff with these calls, so much so that they couldn't get to their real work, and that none of the referrals led anywhere.

I think it's a Rove-ian strategy: "We win on national security; we'll scare people, and then we'll just win."

Uggla had two homers and four RBIs in an 8-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. It was the 18th multihomer game for the three-time All-Star and his second this year.

Since the start of the 2006 season, his first in the majors, Uggla leads all players at his position with 222 home runs 42 more than Yankees slugger Robinson Cano. He entered this four-game series hitting .183.

"The batting average is what it is," Uggla said. "I mean, it ain't the first time I've hit .180, .170, .160, whatever. But I throw those numbers out the door. The way I look at it, we're eight games up right now and that's without me doing anything at all. But I know what I'm capable of doing. And if I can be more consistent and help these guys out by driving in some runs, that's all that matters.

"You always want to feel like you matter and feel like you were a factor. There were a lot of times this year where I didn't. So to get some homers and drive in some runs feels good," he added.

Freddie Freeman drove in three runs with a double and Mike Minor kept the Braves' rotation rolling with six solid innings. Atlanta had an eight-game lead over second-place Washington the largest of any division leader pending the nightcap of the Nationals' doubleheader against Minnesota.

The Braves, who won the season series 5-2, grabbed a 4-1 lead with four runs in the third against rookie Matt Magill (0-2). All of them were unearned because of an error by three-time Gold Glove first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who fielded Justin Upton's dribbler a few feet from the foul line and dropped the ball while making a hurried attempt to tag him. It was his seventh error, two more than he had last season.

Freeman's single loaded the bases, and Evan Gattis followed with a sacrifice fly before Uggla drove a 2-1 pitch into the Dodgers' bullpen in left field. He led off the fifth against Ronald Belisario with his 13th of the season and third in two days.

"He's a veteran player, he's been around a while and he's seen every kind of pitch. So nothing can fool him," Magill said. "But if you don't have good command, you can't get anybody out."

Minor (8-2) allowed a run and six hits, struck out six and walked three while helping the Braves gain a split of the four-game series. The left-hander is 5-0 with a 1.76 ERA over his last seven starts.

Atlanta's rotation has yielded four runs in 37 1-3 innings spanning the team's last six games. The stretch includes eight innings of one-hit ball by rookie Julio Teheran who came within four outs of a no-hitter on Wednesday against Pittsburgh and back-to-back starts by Tim Hudson and Paul Maholm in which each allowed one run in Braves losses.

"It's just a friendly competition among everybody. You always want to top the guy before you," Minor said.

Magill was charged with seven runs three earned and four hits over 3 2-3 innings in his sixth major league start, none of which the Dodgers have won. The 23-year-old right-hander from Simi Valley issued six walks, giving him 28 in 27 2-3 innings and a 6.51 ERA.

He was recalled Sunday from Triple-A Albuquerque to fill in for Ted Lilly, who wasn't able to pitch because of a neck sprain and was placed on the disabled list for the third time this season.

"It's tough not being able to have a set schedule and not being able to pitch every five days," said Magill, who gave up nine walks last Sunday at Colorado in a 7-2 loss. "But when they need you here, you've got to make sacrifices and still be able to compete. That's why it's so frustrating, because I'm not giving myself a chance to win games. I know in my head I can do it, but my body's just not hooking up right now the way I want it to and my fastball command hasn't been there."

Atlanta increased the margin to 7-1 in the fourth when Magill loaded the bases with his second walk of the inning and gave up Freeman's three-run double just beyond the outstretched glove of center fielder Skip Schumaker after getting a visit from pitching coach Rick Honeycutt.

"When you've got bases loaded and two outs, you just want to try and get at least one more run," said Freeman, second in the NL in hitting with runners in scoring position. "I'm not trying to do anything differently with guys on base. I just try to hit the ball hard every single at-bat, and for some reason they seem to fall with people on. I was fortunate to get one in the gap and luckily he didn't make that play. It's always nice to kind of blow it open a little bit and let Mike settle in."

Los Angeles loaded the bases with none out in the first on the first of three hits by electrifying rookie Yasiel Puig, a bunt single by Nick Punto and a walk to Gonzalez. Puig was forced at the plate on a grounder and Luis Cruz struck out, but Schumaker drove in Punto with an infield single. That extended his career-high hitting streak to 15 games, the longest by a Dodgers player this season.

NOTES: Puig completed his first week in the majors with 13 hits in 28 at-bats, four homers and 10 RBIs in seven games. ... Minor is 13-2 with a 2.33 ERA in his last 20 starts, a stretch that began after his 5-0 loss to the Dodgers on Aug. 19. ... Schumaker started in CF for the seventh time this season, with Andre Ethier getting the day off and Matt Kemp still on the DL.

PERTH, June 3 (Reuters) - The British and Irish Lions kick off their Australian tour in chilly Perth on Wednesday against a Western Force side promising a hot reception that will test the toughness of the "big slabs of meat".

Following a comprehensive eight-try rout over the Barbarians in humid Hong Kong, where the weather offered more problems than the invitational side, the Lions touched down in Perth on Monday to take on Australia's weakest Super Rugby team.

With skipper Sam Warburton's knee still an issue and not aided by the long flight from Hong Kong, Brian O'Driscoll will captain a side featuring seven of his Irish international team mates at Subiaco Oval (1000 GMT).

O'Driscoll watched from the stands in Hong Kong as his rival for a test starting place, Jonathan Davies, was one of several Lions who impressed in the 59-8 drubbing leaving the Irishman well aware of the need to hit the ground running.

"They set a good standard, it was very, very difficult conditions," the 2005 Lions skipper told reporters in Perth on Monday.

"We have a very strong squad with huge competition for places so you don't want to have any individual or collective bad performances at this stage. You want to build towards that first test match."

Jonny Sexton starts at flyhalf against the Force and will be looking to build on his scratchy display off the bench in Hong Kong where he missed three kicks.

Leigh Halfpenny's inclusion at fullback provides goal-kicking cover but it is unlikely conversions and penalties will affect the result too much on Wednesday, with the tourists highly expected to run in tries against a side that has won only three of 14 matches in the Southern Hemisphere competition.

The Force have also been shorn of their two Wallabies - loose forward Ben McCalman and winger Nick Cummins - and their plucky defensive line that helped them to surprise victories over the Canterbury Crusaders and the Queensland Reds is sure to busy on Wednesday.

PHYSICAL GAME

O'Driscoll's guile aside, it will be huge physicality that the Force will face with Irish wing Tommy Bowe, bruising English centre Manu Tuilagi and powerful Welsh wing George North all looking for tries on their first starts of the tour.

The size and strength of Warren Gatland's 37-man Lions squad led to Australia media labelling them "big slabs of meat" and sparky Force scrumhalf Brett Sheehan was looking forward to a first nibble at the tourists.

"We want it to be an extremely physical game," Sheehan told reporters in Perth on Monday.

"If it gets fiery, well that's good for us. They are stressing that they want to stay disciplined, there were a few little things that got under their skins."

Sheehan's remarks were aimed at English flyhalf Owen Farrell, who was guilty of losing his cool in the Hong Kong heat after copping a punch from Saracens team mate Schalk Brits and starts Wednesday's match on the bench in a side all changed from Saturday.

Warburton is one of only three Lions not to have been named in either of the matchday 23s as he continues to recover from a knee problem, while Irish fullback Rob Kearney is in danger of going home because of a hamstring tear.

Prop Gethin Jenkins is slated for game time against the Reds on Saturday.

Gatland has wisely chosen to save his captain for the harsher challenges to follow rather than risk him against an opposition looking to rough up the tourists to aid the Wallabies' cause in the three tests matches.

"I think any loss is going to be a blow to them," Force back rower Matt Hodgson said.

"So hopefully, if we can't get the win, we can put in a solid performance and hurt a few of their bodies," the former Wallaby said. (Editing by John O'Brien)

DUBLIN, Ohio, May 31 (Reuters) - Bill Haas readily admits that changing diapers is more difficult than facing a tricky putt on a slick green but the American's game has clearly benefited from the recent birth of his first child.

A four-times winner on the PGA Tour, Haas had missed the cut on his previous two starts on the U.S. circuit this month before returning home to spend welcome time with his young family.

Despite a few sleepless nights there because of his baby son, William Harlan Haas, Jr., the 31-year-old father felt rejuvenated and it showed at the Memorial Tournament on Friday as he charged into an early two-shot lead in the second round.

"I've missed my last two cuts before this week, so certainly my expectations were a little lower than they were earlier this year," Haas told reporters after firing a five-under-par 67 in tough, windy conditions at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

"But I had a great two weeks off. I had a son and I've been having great fun with that at home with my wife. I think I'm just in a better frame of mind than I was three weeks ago after missing my second cut in a row."

BETTER MINDSET

Haas, who missed the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship and then the PGA Tour's flagship Players Championship, knew his mindset was in better shape when he did not react badly to his first bogey of the day on Friday, at the par-three 12th.

"I caught myself angry, but quickly I realized things are going good in my life right now," Haas smiled.

"I don't really say that to myself, but I think that there's a lot more things important going on, so maybe I'm just a little quicker to rebound from being mad."

Haas conceded he had found it extremely painful to leave home for this week's PGA Tour event after being with his wife Julie and their young son for the first two weeks of his life.

"It was very difficult," Haas said. "This is a tough week to skip. Only way I would have skipped it if he (William) was born maybe last week and I felt like I really needed to help my wife at home.

"But she's getting a bunch of help. My parents and her parents both live in town and she's getting a lot of help. And I'm getting tons of pictures and videos. I feel very informed with what's going on."

Haas bogeyed his final hole, the par-four 18th, on Friday after hitting his approach over the back of the green before failing to sink a tricky 12-footer for par.

Asked what was more difficult, that par putt or trying to change a diaper, Haas grinned: "Easiest is the putt on 18 but both are very rewarding. Changing a diaper is very rewarding.

"It's been beyond expectations, you know, raising a child for only two weeks. It's been fantastic and I look forward to the rest of the challenge." (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue)

A corrected version of the story is below:

By RON BLUM

Associated Press

Various Artists, "Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances from The Metropolitan Opera" (Sony Classical)

Yes, there really was a golden age, and this was it.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth on May 22, a 25-disc set taken from the archives of Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcasts documents performances of nine of the composer's 10 mature works "Parsifal" was excluded. The recordings date from 1936-54 and while some of these had appeared previously on CD, these are the first authorized releases. The sound from the original lacquers and tapes has been improved and cleaned markedly, but don't expect the clarity, depth and width of the digital era, especially from the 1930s broadcasts. And the conductors of the day made cuts that would be unacceptable to the 21st century Met audience.

But, oh, the singing.

Hans Hotter's booming Dutchman from "Die Fliegende Hollaender" is paired with Astrid Varnay's excitable Senta under Fritz Reiner's baton from 1950. George Szell's "Tannhaeuser" from 1954 shows interesting tempi choices in the overture, which includes a sudden speedup in the Venusberg theme.

Ramon Vinay's clarion tenor is featured as Tannhaeuser, this time matched with Varnay's sultry Venus, Margaret Harshaw's hefty Elisabeth and a young Roberta Peters as the Shepherd.

For a 1943 "Lohengrin," a fresher-sounding Varnay's Elsa is together with Lauritz Melchior in the title role under Erich Leinsdorf's baton that emphasized flow over energy. Melchior's "In fernem land (In a far-off land)" is a model of diction, breath control, pacing, color and inflection.

Melchior is a central part of the Ring Cycle, as Siegmund in a 1940 "Die Walkuere" with Marjorie Lawrence's Sieglinde, Kirsten Flagstad's Bruennhilde and Julius Huehn's Wotan (under Leinsdorf), a 1937 "Siegfried" with Flagstad and Freidrich Schorr's Wanderer (under Bodanzsky) and a 1936 "Goetterdaemmerung" with Lawrence (again under Bodanzsky).

Melchior's seemingly effortless soft singing in "Winterstuerme (Wintry storms)" highlights how often the role is shouted these days by tenors lacking his technique, and Lawrence's "Du bist der Lenz (You are the spring)" builds tension and pace along with Sieglinde's ardor. Flagstad combines iciness and affection in her opening "Siegmund! Sieh' auf mich! (Siegmund! Look at me!)" from the Todesverkuendigung (Annunciation of death). While Huehn's "Leb' wohl (Farewell)" is low on emotion, Flagstad and Melchior sparkle in the closing duet from "Siegfried."

A 1938 "Tristan und Isolde" with Melchior, Flagstad and Bodanzsky reveals an incendiary love duet that lifts the opera to an even higher level, and Flagstad follows with an ecstatic, mournful Liebestod (lovedeath), although here the thin sound of the recording detracts.

Finally, there is a "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" from 1953. Reiner carefully blended Hans Hopf's lyrical Walther, Paul Schoeffler's thick-voiced Sachs and Victoria de los Angeles' sweet and innocent Eva.

While Sony had released 20 individual sets of Met broadcasts in recent years, including a 1968 "Walkuere" and 1972 "Meistersinger," the historic recordings have far more impact when packaged together here. A similar Verdi set is planned for the fall.

SIZE: There are more than 50 million eligible voters in a population of about 76 million. About a third of the voters are under 30 born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. About 60 percent of the voters are in cities.

VOTERS: Voting age is 18, raised from 16 in 2007. Iranians abroad can vote in diplomatic compounds and other polling sites.

PRESIDENTIAL PROCESS: The Guardian Council, controlled by the ruling clerics, vets all candidates for high office. In this election, 686 names were submitted and eight were allowed to run. A simple majority 50 percent plus 1 of votes cast is needed for victory. Otherwise, a two-candidate runoff will be held. The winner will take office in late August.

OTHER ELECTIONS: Municipal elections will also be taking place alongside the presidential vote for the first time. Nearly 350,000 candidates are registered for some 170 seats on municipal councils.

TURNOUT: Voter turnout was reported at nearly 85 percent in the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. In 2005, turnout was reported as 63 percent in the first round and 60 percent in the second. In 2001, it was reported as 68 percent.

WHO RUNS THE ELECTION: The Interior Ministry oversees the election. No outside election observers are permitted. Protesters in 2009 claimed vote rigging denied reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi victory and handed victory to Ahmadinejad. The ministry data claimed that Ahmadinejad had strong backing in rural areas that overcame Mousavi's core support in Tehran and other cities. Mousavi and another 2009 candidate, Mahdi Karroubi, have been under house arrest since early 2011.

PAST PRESIDENTS: Abulhassan Banisadr (1980-81, dismissed by parliament); Mohammad Ali Rajai (August 1981, assassinated); Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now Supreme Leader (1981-89); Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-97); Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005); Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-13).

The longtime Calgary Flames captain waived a no-trade clause and was dealt to the Penguins in March hours after turning down a deal that would have sent him to Boston.

"I was very fortunate that both teams were interested and I was fortunate that Calgary gave me that chance," Iginla told the Penguins website.

"I know Boston is a great team and it was one of those situations that when I did it, I knew there was a big possibility that we'd be in this situation and here we are. I'm excited about the challenge."

The teams will open the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals in Pittsburgh on Saturday to determine who will play the Western Conference representative for the Stanley Cup.

The 2011 Stanley Cup champion Bruins entered the playoffs as the fourth seed but have stepped up their game considerably and boast the postseason's top scorer in David Krejci, who has 17 points in 12 games.

Pittsburgh, who last won a Stanley Cup in 2009, finished the regular season with the best record in the conference to earn top seeding and have Sidney Crosby showing solid form.

Iginla has fit in nicely with the Penguins and is fourth in team scoring with 12 points in 11 games through the opening two rounds of the playoffs while playing alongside reigning league most valuable player Evgeni Malkin and James Neal.

"Playing with 'G' and 'Nealer,' they have such a great chemistry," Iginla said.

"They really, really enjoy playing together. So you want to play with them and play hard, but not disrupt that and kind of just find different places to go and contribute to that.

"(Even) if that's going to the net and getting out of their way..."

Iginla, 35, had played his entire NHL career in Calgary since debuting in 1996, but with the Flames in a rebuilding mode he decided to seek a trade that would give him a shot at winning his first Stanley Cup.

The production from the future Hall of Famer, a three-time Olympian who assisted on Canada's game-winning goal in the gold medal game at the 2010 Vancouver Games, has not been lost on his current team mates.

"He's been great, a guy that's fun to play with and has a great shot and he can get it off all around him," said Neal.

"So, he's a tough guy to cover. He's been doing that really well and getting some rebound goals and helping our team win. So, obviously a huge addition and he's showing why we got him."

(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Larry Fine)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A proposed $20 million project to ship crude oil from North Dakota down the Mississippi River is unlikely to go forward as a result of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling Tuesday blocking the use of eminent domain by a port authority.

The state's highest court ruled that the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority cannot condemn 30 acres of private land in Scott County, because it produced no justification for taking the land other than economic development. The ruling was the first by the state Supreme Court applying a 2006 Missouri law that barred condemnations "for solely economic development purposes."

The port authority had resorted to eminent domain after failing to agree on a purchase price for some hilly land along Mississippi River. Port authority officials had hoped to lease the land to a company that would build large storage tanks. The intent was to provide a place to hold crude oil shipped by train from North Dakota until it could be loaded onto barges for a further southward journey, said Dan Overbey, the executive director of the port authority.

The $20 million project also would have included the construction of a rail line loop on existing port authority property that would have been large enough to handle the long oil trains, he said. All told, the project could have employed 30 to 40 people, Overbey said.

As a result of the court ruling, "I don't think that project is going to work," he said. "That will mean there are jobs and investment that will not occur."

In a unanimous decision, the Missouri Supreme Court said the port authority's action violated a 2006 Missouri law barring eminent domain solely for economic development. That law defined economic development as using the property to "provide an increase in the tax base, tax revenues, employment, and general economic health."

Missouri was one of many states that toughened its restrictions on eminent domain after a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld the taking of private property through eminent domain for economic redevelopment.

In this particular case, "the Port Authority's desire to promote economic development undergirds all of its actions in this condemnation," Judge Zel Fischer wrote in the Supreme Court decision.

The legal challenge to the condemnation proceedings was brought by Velma Jackson and Alicia Seabaugh on behalf of the Lambert Family Trust. After negotiations to sell their land failed, the port authority filed a condemnation suit in Scott County Circuit Court and prevailed. Tuesday's Supreme Court decision blocked that condemnation from occurring.

An attorney for the landowners said the state Supreme Court ruling ensures that the 2006 law is meaningful.

"If by saying this is not for economic development, it's for the purpose of improving river commerce, if those types of euphemisms are allowed ... then the statute might as well not exist," said St. Louis attorney Mark Arnold. "The court was willing to look through the rhetoric and look at the reality of what was going on here."

A separate Missouri law gives port authorities a purpose of promoting development and encouraging private capital investment.

As a result of the 2006 law limiting condemnations, the Legislature "made it difficult if not impossible for the Port Authority to advance its purposes through the use of eminent domain," Fischer said in Tuesday's ruling.

Overbey said the decision could have implications for the growth and expansion of all Missouri ports along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

"It really does limit you once you build a port," he said. "You can't really hop, skip and jump around to expand the port. If you have someone and they don't want to sell ... it leaves you with few alternatives."

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