By Patrick Schmidt - Apr 21st, 2014 at 6:12 pm

Promotional Image for the HBO Original Series True Detective. Photo Credit: HBO

Fans of the Boston Bruins and HBOs critically-acclaimed series True Detective are going to love this. Errol, aka the green-eared spaghetti monster and The Yellow King himself has narrated two videos for the winners of the Presidents Trophy to grow excitement for the playoffs.

You can check out both of the videos from ad company Arnold Worldwide via The Playlist and Ad Rants.

The only thing missing is his creepy accent from True Detective and his rider mower we first saw The Yellow King when he was introduced on the HBO mystery/crime/thriller when we had no idea the man mowing the lawn would be the man Rust and Marty were pursuing all along.

The Bruins and Detroit Red Wings are tied at 1-1 in their best of seven game series after the Bruins beat the visiting Wings on Easter Sunday by the score of 4-1.

Game 3 in the series shifts over to Hockeytown in Detroit on Tuesday with the puck dropping at 7:30 p.m. ET with television coverage on NESN for Boston fans and the NBC Sports Network for national coverage.

Topics: Boston Bruins, NHL, NHL Playoffs 2014, Television, True Detective

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Patrick is an experienced writer and hosts a weekly sports show for WISC-Chicago and Sportstownchicago.com. Patrick is a frequent guest on radio shows throughout the country to talk about college football and recruiting. He has produced minor league baseball broadcasts, done play-by-play for baseball and arena football, but college football is his passion. He is also a long-suffering Chicago Cubs fan, but don't hold that against him

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NEW YORK (NBC) If youve been diagnosed with infertility, a new report suggests living in certain states could provide better treatment and support than others.

An estimated one in five couples in the US has trouble getting pregnant the first year of trying and a new state fertility scorecard suggests finding help for the problem could be even more difficult.

Resolve, the National Infertility Association, graded each state based on three criteria: how many infertility specialists are available, the presence of support groups, and whether laws require coverage for treatments like i-v-f.

When you have those three things you have really good care, and when you dont, patients suffer, said Dr. Jamie Grifo.

Alaska, New Hampshire and Wyoming earned an F. Those states had few, if any, accredited specialists and no insurance coverage requirements. Illinois, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts, where laws require coverage of infertility, earned an A.

Resolve views infertility as a disease, actually the world health organization views infertility as a disease, and we believe as a disease it should be completely covered by insurance, said President and CEO of Resolve, Barbara Collura.

Without help from insurance the cost of infertility treatment can top tens of thousands of dollars. Also, experts say emotional support is just as important as financial.

When you see that other people are going through what you go through and understand what you go through. That helps, said Dr. Grifo.

Experts hope that raising awareness of the disparities between states will lead to actions that boost access to care and support.

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WASHINGTON -- Instead of chocolate and candy baskets, the horde of children who gathered Monday on the South Lawn for the White Houses Easter Egg Roll got an Eggtivity Zone and a Yoga Garden.

To mark the 136th annual Easter event, First Lady Michelle Obama threw in some exercise stations and healthy eating tips along with the traditional fun and games, which included egg-rolling races and storytelling.

Speaking from the Truman balcony alongside President Obama and the Easter Bunny, the First Lady said this years theme, Hop into Healthy, Swing into Shape, was an issue that is near and dear to my heart.

We want our kids to be the healthiest and the strongest they can be, so they can do well in school and live up to all of their God-given potential, she said.

Donning flowery dresses, petticoats and sweater vests, toddlers and children visiting from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were largely oblivious to the celebrities around them. Among those in attendance were actor Jim Carrey, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and Miss America, Nina Davuluri.

One group of egg-rolling contestants was joined on the lawn by the president and his wife, who cheered the participants on from the sidelines.

The children then got to salute the president. Eight-year-old Elisabeth Golton of Weston, Mass., was among the lucky kids. He was like getting high-fives from a lot of kids, she said. Then I high-fived him.

The White House expected more than 30,000 visitors during the day-long festivities, which it has hosted since the 1870s.

Amid the celebration this year, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals attempted to rock the Easter Egg Roll with controversy.

The week before the event, PETAreleased a videoof three young girls demanding that the First Lady end the traditional distribution of colored hard-boiled eggs.

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There are one million acres of lawn across the country. Many homeowners aspire to having a lush, green lawn as the showcase of their properties. The front lawn can make a statement and indicate to passersby the property owners personalities and design preferences.

Lawn care takes some dedication and hard work, but there are certain ways to cut down on the amount of effort required to maintain a landscape. By employing a few different shortcuts, you can have a healthy, lush lawn without spending all of your free time cutting the grass or pruning the trees.

Stop weeds at the start. Weeding is one of the most time-consuming parts of maintaining a lawn. Weeds can proliferate throughout the lawn if not addressed in a timely manner. Once weeds take root they can become a nuisance, so its best to treat weeds before they even have a chance to sprout. Apply a preemergent weed control product as soon as possible in the spring and then reapply it about three months later to ensure weeds are eradicated. That equates to much less tedious lawn maintenance during the season.

Plant a urine-resistant grass. Having a dog and maintaining a lush lawn has always been a particular conundrum for homeowners. Dog urine is high in nitrogen. While nitrogen, when applied in the correct ratio, can be a lawn-growth stimulant, in the large concentration that occurs in pet urine, it causes the grass to dry up and burn, resulting in bare spots. Replanting with urine-resistant grasses can help cut down on the level of damage to the lawn from your own pet or pets that happen to make potty stops on your property. The grasses most resistant to urine tend to be perennial ryegrasses and fescues.

Wake up and water. Watering in the early mornings saves time and energy in the long run by fostering a tougher, more drought-resistant lawn. If you water early in the day, less water will be lost to evaporation. Limit watering to a few times per week, and less if you have had adequate rain. Avoid watering at night, which can expose the lawn to bacteria and attract insects.

Mow when the lawn is dry. Its not adviseable to mow the lawn when it is wet. Slippery conditions can not only make it more dangerous to push a mower, but also slow down the time it can take to tackle the chore. The mower blades can become clogged and coated with wet grass clippings, necessitating stopping and starting the task. Another thing to consider is lawn diseases spread more readily through wet clippings. Stick to mowing when the lawn is completely dry.

Let clippings fly. Mulching mowers, or those that just distribute clippings on the lawn as you go, can be healthier for the grass. They will serve as fertilizer and redistribute nutrients to the lawn as they breakdown into the soil. According to The Organic Lawn Care Manual, leaving clippings on the lawn will fulfill about 25 percent of fertilizer requirements. Plus, you save time bagging up clippings.

Dont cut corners. Adjusting a landscape design to have arches and curves can reduce the time it takes to mow and edge a property. Hard corners in a landscape will require more time to keep straight and pristine.

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The process is called aquifer storage and recovery, and it involves capturing water during times of plenty, storing it underground and pulling it out later when its needed. Its a strategy used a lot in the western and southeastern parts of the country, where drought and water shortages are common. There are hundreds of these storage wells operating in the United States; the project in St. Michael is the first in Minnesota.

This is the first year where the project has been fully up and running, said Kelly Daleiden, project manager for Veolia Water, which operates the well and other joint water efforts for the three cities. The water will be pumped out of the aquifer this summer, when residents want it for lawn watering and drinking. Its interesting, she said. The water comes out just like it went in for the most part.

People across the country are managing groundwater differently as drought, contamination and other factors cause supplies to dwindle. Even in Minnesota, where aquifers were once thought to be limitless in their bounty, cities and regulators are bumping up against limitations and, by necessity, developing new systems.

In St. Michael, Albertville and Hanover, the problem wasnt a strained aquifer, but rather a strained water-treatment plant. In the winter, water demand is just over a million gallons a day. But during the summer lawn-watering season, demand spikes to between 6 and 8 million gallons, near the limit of what the plant can produce. City leaders looked at their rapidly growing communities the population in St. Michael rose 80 percent between 2000 and 2010 to 16,000 and considered building an additional plant.

But then they talked with a consulting company with offices in Iowa, a state with several underground storage systems, and realized that instead of spending $5 million or more on a new treatment plant and related wells and tower, the cities could spend just around $2 million to build a system that would store treated water in a bubble underground.

When we were looking at the best bang for our buck, building another treatment plant to sprinkle lawns didnt seem like the logical thing to do, said St. Michael city administrator Steve Bot. Thats whats great about (underground storage). We already have a plant that can produce well above our winter usage. We have all this extra capacity in the plant you are only using during the summertime. Now, we are able to use that capacity.

Here is how the process works:

Water is filtered and treated, with manganese and iron removed and fluoride and a type of bleach added. Then the water is injected 500 feet underground, via a stainless-steel tube, into the Mount Simon aquifer, where it displaces existing water and remains pretty much in one place until needed. The sandstone aquifer is akin to a bucket of sand and rocks that have been cemented by time. Water there moves slowly, perhaps only several feet per year. When its pulled back out, all it needs is a little added bleach and its ready for consumption.

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AKRON, Ohio Chances are your lawn is looking a bit bedraggled after this rough winter.

Thats not surprising. Between brutally cold temperatures and drying winds, turf took a beating this year.

Probably it will come back just fine, but a little TLC can prevent problems, reverse damage and let your lawn green up faster, lawn care experts Melinda Myers and Joe Rimelspach said.

Heres what they recommend.

Prevent snow mold

Grass in the shade and other places where snow and ice linger is susceptible to snow mold, a fuzzy, pink or gray fungus that can damage or kill grass, said Myers, a horticulturist, garden writer and radio and TV host whose books include The Perfect Wisconsin Lawn and The Ohio Lawn Guide.

Snow mold likes moist environments, she said, so its a good idea to lightly rake grass in those vulnerable areas to fluff it and allow light and air to penetrate. A leaf rake will work fine, Myers said.

The crowns of the grass plants are still alive, so the grass can come back, said Rimelspach, a turf grass disease specialist at Ohio State University. But Myers recommended taking action now, before you see signs of fungus.

Most people notice it when the grass is dead, which is too late, she said.

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Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn has been recognized for excellence in the treatment of stroke patients by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, according to a press release from the hospital.

Christ Medical Center has one of the largest stroke programs in the state of Illinois and is designated a primary stroke center by DNV Healthcare, which works with national health care authorities and health care providers around the world to effectively manage risk and improve health care delivery, according to its website.

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has selected the medical center and its Neurosciences Institute for another Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award in recognition of the institutions ongoing commitment to evidence-based stroke-care guidelines under the AHA/ASA Get With The Guidelines program, according to Dr. Melvin Wichter, co-director of the Neurosciences Institute and chair of the medical centers neurology department. Get With The Guidelines provides the most up-to-date, research-based care standards to speed recovery and reduce death and disability among stroke patients, the release said.

To earn the award, the Christ Medical Center stroke team had to meet specific, quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period of time, the release said. The measures include aggressive use of medications, such as tPA, antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, and cholesterol-reducing drugs, and smoking-cessation education.

The medical center has also made the AHA/ASAs Target: Stroke honor roll for following stroke quality measures that reduce the time between a patients arrival at the hospital and the onset of treatment using the clot-buster tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke, according to the release.

People who suffer a stroke and receive tPA within three hours of the start of symptoms may recover more quickly and be less likely to suffer severe disabilities, experts say, according to Christ Medical Center.

With a stroke, time lost is brain lost. The Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award demonstrates Christ Medical Centers commitment to being one of the leading hospitals in the country for providing aggressive, proven stroke care, Dr. Franco Campanella, medical director of the Christ Medical Center stroke program, said in the release. We intend to continue our focus on providing care that has been shown in the scientific literature to treat patients quickly and efficiently with evidence-based protocols.

Advocate Christ Medical Center treats an estimated 1,200 stroke patients annually and offers a variety of advanced treatment options, according to the release.

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WUNC's Back Porch Music on the Lawn series is getting back to its roots. The series is moving back to the popular spot under the Lucky Strike tower in the heart of the American Tobacco Campus. There will be 8 free concerts on Thursday nights from May to September. The series is part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the American Tobacco Campus.

The shows start up at 6 p.m. and most feature two bands. Picnics and coolers are welcome but no glass, please. Food and beverages are available at American Tobacco restaurants that surround the American Tobacco Amphitheater.

Here's the schedule:

May 15 6 p.m. Southern Culture on the Skids The series starts out with a bang with the bards of downward mobility, Southern Culture on the Skids. May 29 6 p.m. Mandolin Orange These Chapel Hill up and comers bring the full band treatment for their first appearance on the Back Porch Stage. June 12 6 p.m. Balsam Range From Western North Carolina, Balsam Range are one of the hottest young bluegrass bands touring today. Their record "Papertown" was named IBMA Record of the Year in 2013.

Balsam Range plays live from the WUNC studio at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh on The State of Things from September 2013

June 26 6 p.m. The Lee Boys with Love Cannon The Lee Boys are a sacred steel, gospel, funk band that will get folks moving. They're paired with Love Cannon, a quirky bunch that re-invent 80s tunes with a bluegrass sound. July 31 6 p.m. Yarn This Grammy-nominated band has built a devoted following with their fresh original songs that are rooted in an Americana sound. August 14 6 p.m. Bombadil with Loamlands Rising indie bands from Durham, NC, team up for a great night on the lawn.

Take a look at this video we recently produced with UNC-TV. Bombadil as the inspiration for a puppet show.

August 28 6 p.m. Mipso with Victoria Lee This young trio came together as students at UNC-Chapel Hill and have since put out a series of critically acclaimed records. September 4 6 p.m. WUNC helps the American Tobacco Campus celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special surprise musical guest.

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The American Tobacco Campus where the concerts take place is located at 318 Blackwell St Durham, NC. Here's a Google Map:

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