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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Colin Kaepernick got tripped up and tossed down, then still nearly led the greatest Super Bowl comeback in just his 10th career NFL start.
Rarely rattled on an impressive path to the Super Bowl, San Francisco's second-year quarterback finally showed some inexperience on football's big stage. Not to mention some guts.
After a remarkable postseason run -- with those speedy legs -- by the tattooed play-caller, the Baltimore Ravens exposed plenty of flaws in handing Kaepernick and Co. a 34-31 loss Sunday despite San Francisco's second-half rally.
"We were ready for the second half," Kaepernick said. "We knew we had to score to get back in the game. We had good plays, we had bad plays in the red zone."
No team has come from more than 10 points down to win a Super Bowl, and Kaepernick had a chance to make it happen less than three months after becoming San Francisco's starter.
He regrouped during a 34-minute delay early in the third quarter because of a power outage, finding his groove and turning the Super Bowl into a wild game down the stretch - and gave yet more cred to the pistol offense designed by his old college coach that is so well suited for the NFL's young, mobile quarterbacks.
"Colin was cool the entire game," left tackle Joe Staley said. "Colin was the same he's been the whole entire season. He's never shown any hints of being rattled, any hint of being uncomfortable on the football field, and he showed that exact kind of character today."
Kaepernick directed four second-half scoring drives, throwing a 31-yard touchdown pass to Michael Crabtree and also running 15 yards for a TD. But the 49ers">49ers missed the two-point conversion that would have tied the game with less than 10 minutes left.
Crabtree didn't get much help in a mistake-filled first half by San Francisco (13-5-1), which failed to stop Joe Flacco and deliver the franchise's sixth championship that would have matched the Pittsburgh Steelers for most ever.
The 49ers' perfect Super Bowl record? That's over, too. They lost for the first time in the title game.
Perhaps it's a bit premature to begin talking Bay Area dynasty again - in football, at least.
Playing for a title for the first time since Hall of Famers Steve Young and Jerry Rice won with a rout of San Diego 18 years ago, Jim Harbaugh's Niners made costly mistakes on both sides of the ball early in the game. And special teams, too.
Yet Kaepernick did a little bit of everything in San Francisco's final drive, when the 49ers got the ball back at their own 20 with 4:19 remaining and trailing 34-29. He ran for 8 yards, hit Crabtree on a 24-yard gain and handed off to Frank Gore for a 33-yard run to the Baltimore 7.
But with three chances from the 5, Kaepernick threw three straight incomplete passes intended for Crabtree, who got tangled up with a defender on the final play but no holding was called - Harbaugh screamed from the sideline and signaled for a penalty.
Kaepernick's off-balance throw under pressure on fourth down sailed through the end zone. Kaepernick lowered his head slightly and walked slowly off the field.
"That wasn't the original option," Kaepernick said. "It's something I audibled to at the line based on the look they gave us."
No comeback this time in the Big Easy.
The 49ers had a pair of penalties in the opening 4:24 that proved costly, on each side of the ball - Vernon Davis' flag for illegal formation on the first play from scrimmage to negate his own 20-yard catch, then linebacker Ahmad Brooks' offside on Baltimore's third-and-9 from the 18. That gave the Ravens 5 yards, Flacco found Anquan Boldin for 13-yard touchdown the very next play.
Early in the second quarter, rookie LaMichael James made a 25-yard run in which he spun twice before losing the ball. And safety Donte Whitner received a 15-yard facemask penalty to give the Ravens first-and-goal on the 4. Flacco found Dennis Pitta for a 1-yard score two plays later.
Kaepernick wound up 16 for 28 for 302 yards with three sacks and an interception for a 91.7 passer rating in his outstanding Super Bowl debut. The interception was the first by the 49ers in six Super Bowls and ended a streak at 169 passes without one.
Kaepernick also rushed for 62 yards, joining Joe Montana as the only quarterbacks to pass for 300 yards and run for 50 in a Super Bowl. Kaepernick recorded the fourth 300-yard passing performance by the 49ers in the Super Bowl - Montana had two and Young one.
The 25-year-old completed 8-of-13 first-half passes, was sacked twice and threw an interception as San Francisco fell behind 21-6.
In the NFC championship game at Atlanta two weeks ago, such a deficit was no problem. Kaepernick rallied the Niners back from 17-0, while the defense delivered by holding the Falcons scoreless in the second half to win 28-24.
On Sunday, Kaepernick led his team into the end zone for the first time with 7:20 remaining in the third quarter after the power outage when he found Crabtree.
But a stingy San Francisco defense that relied on its ball-hawking, run-stopping play all season, couldn't consistently slow down Flacco and the high-powered Ravens.
Leading up to the Super Bowl, Kaepernick had handled himself beautifully in hostile environments - beating Drew Brees and the Saints right here in the Superdome on Nov. 25, and later guiding the Niners at New England. And, of course, the win against the Falcons on Jan. 20 that returned San Francisco to the Super Bowl at last.
"I was just sitting there watching Kaep with the ball and knowing that this whole team has trust in him and that he had everything in his hands," defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois said. "We just knew that the ball was going in the end zone, through Frank, through Kaep, even getting the ball to Randy (Moss) or Crabtree with the hands he has."
The 49ers were hoping for their own downtown victory parade and to have the World Series champion Giants take part after Harbaugh and quarterback Alex Smith drove in the San Francisco baseball team's parade last fall.
San Francisco would have become the first market to win a World Series and Super Bowl in the same season since the Boston Red Sox accomplished it in 2004 and the New England Patriots followed suit in February 2005.


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One of our kind wrote a great lengthy book whose primary message was summed up in only three words: Religion poisons everything. I thought I had encountered almost every manifestation of that axiom until I watched the Today Show this morning and caught excerpts of last night's Hannity Show on Fox. If anyone had doubt Sean is Fox News' most disgusting pundit, they'd see it vanish on exposure to the wacky Irish-American's interview with the man to be tried in Florida for the second degree murder of a young black man named Trayvon Martin. Having despised and detested Mr. Hannity every since I first watched five minutes of Fox News some years back, it was difficult to fight down my nausea just to find out what Matt Lauer and company were regurgitating. It goes without saying that NBC rarely reprises anything from Mr. Murdoch's news network.
My lower draw dropped to my chest and I almost fell out of my recliner when George Zimmerman referred to his outright murder of Trayvon as "all a part of God's plan." OK, so some wags would respond by saying Zimmerman did us all a favor by comparing his acts to the Divine Will. By Zimmerman's logic, Hitler was acting by Divine Will when he slaughtered six or seven million Jews, just as Ahmadinejad was acting with Divine Will when he denied that the Holocaust even occurred at all. Pol Pot murdered untold hundred thousands in Cambodia when he took a simple, agricultural native population there and tortured them into debasement as tools of a Communist regime. The illustrations are legion, but you get the idea.
But wait, it gets worse. Zimmerman, looking right into the camera, "apologized" to the Martin family, saying "I pray for them daily." Prayer is an insult to survivors of those on whom you've preyed. As if Zimmerman's prayers are going to assuage the sorrow of that young man's bereaved -- and properly incensed -- family. But the interview proved yet another problem with dialogue based on religious dogma: it turns the devout into hypocrites. The only possible answer to the question, in this instance, W.W.J.D., is forgiveness, and the Martins are hardly ready to do that. Zimmerman even debased religion to a greater degree when he told Spammity he was willing to meet with the family. The Martins declined, claiming the offer was a cynical farce.
In my practice, I find it routine for criminals, once incarcerated, to "find God" in jails and prisons. Zimmerman probably was a poor Christian before the crime, and he's going to go on being a poor Christian. It was just another in an endless, steady stream of those who hide behind faith to make one seem less guilty or more worthy of pardon: the crutch all Christians use to prop up their excuses for the vile things that they do. Because I do not worship his "God," I am free to say that once this jerk is imprisoned, someone, perhaps a black supremacist gang in the joint, will arrange to acquaint Saint George with that marvelous tool of Divine Retribution: the shiv.
Then, shall Divine Justice be done.
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I like your definition better than http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twizzler.
Ha ha ha ha I had no idea there was an actual definition!
Me either and I used to work for Temptations Parties! That's fantastic!
So that's why I got slapped! And all along, I just thought she didn't appreciate my offer of red licorice.
Okay, cleaning my monitor screen, Diet Coke is not good for me or it!
Wait a minute, that is what George does with his lovely wife, not to Trayvon, who didn't have that kind of goodie to grouse in.
HORSESHIT!!! I actually saw this interview, and my mouth fell open. Uneffing believable. Makes me wish we liked in RAH's Beuhlaland (sic) from Number of the Beast. Most all the religious people I work with also thought this was total bs. As in, he doesn't single out individuals for this type of treatment, yet they also pray individually to him for things they expect. What a disconnect. He doesn't, yet he does? Mental illness at its finest.
Tony, I agree!
Sheesh! You live in Palestine, Texas and I in Corpus Christi. We should lobby our city councils to change the cities' names; as it is, it's the Alpha and Omega of the Old Boy's life, as it were.
Hahaha! Count me in, my friend.
Beulahland, eh? They take the whole "eye for an eye" trip rather to it's logical [!] conclusion, as I recall.
Harsh, to put it mildly ... though in this case, one could argue that it's deserved.
I know, I know. But when I hear shit like this, it just comes out. I mean, I'm at a loss for words. And anybody who knows me, knows that's it's almost impossible to shut me up! lol. Still, in this case, Beulahland seems to be the right place for him.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed the fourth Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools in less than two years Friday, following the resignation of Jean-Claude Brizard.
"This is the time for new leadership to take us to the next level to achieve what we need to achieve for our children," said Emanuel during a press conference before introducing Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who he referred to as B3, the new CPS CEO.
Byrd-Bennett, who had served as the Chief Education Advisor for CPS, steps into the top spot of the nation's third largest school system.
"I am honored by the opportunity to further serve Chicago's students and lead the District in providing a high-quality education in every school and every neighborhood across the city," said Byrd-Bennett. "First and foremost, I am a teacher at heart, and my focus is providing the tools teachers and students need to boost student achievement and help them succeed."
Brizard announced his resignation early Friday in a press release.
Spokeswoman for the Mayor's office Sarah Hamilton said 62-year-old Byrd-Bennett would step into the role, but it was not official until Emanuel announced it during his press conference. However, the CPS website listed her as the CPS CEO ahead of the mayor's official announcement.
Byrd-Bennett, a New York native, has a wide range of experience in education that spans across three decades.
"She taught in the classroom for over 12 years; was a principal for eight; has put struggling schools on the path to higher achievement and balanced her school districts' finances. Most importantly, she has helped students in urban centers across the country succeed, and I know she will use that experience here to help our children learn and excel," Emanuel said.
She holds a Master's of Science from Pace University, a Master's of the Arts from New York University and a Bachelor's of the Arts from Long Island University, according to the CPS website.
She is married with one daughter and twin grandsons.


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Apple iMac G5 announced
Apple has unveiled the new iMac, mounted entirely in its display. The iMac G5 is, says Apple, the world\'s thinnest desktop compute, with a 17in or 20in LCD display, slot loading drive and G5 processor squeezed into a 2in thick casing.
\'Just like the iPod redefined portable digital music players, the new iMac G5 redefines what users expect from a consumer desktop,\' said Philip Schiller, Apple\'s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. \'With the entire system, including a gorgeous 17- or 20in display, just two inches thin, a lot of people will be wondering \"where did the computer go?\".\'
The 17in models come with either a 1.8GHz G5 processor and a SuperDrive or a 1.6GHz G5 processor and a Combo drive. The 20in model has a 1.8 GHz G5 processor and a SuperDrive.
The iMac has a completely redesigned system architecture, with a maximum 600MHz front-side bus, 400MHz DDR memory expandable to 2GB, AGP 8X graphics and 7200rpm Serial ATA drives up to 250GB.
The iMacs include all Apple\'s core applications - iCal, Address Book, Mail, Safari - as well as the iLife suite for managing digital images and ordering prints and books, authoring and burning DVDs, editing movies and making music.
The entry-level 17in Combo drive model is £919; the 17in SuperDrive model is £1,049; the top-of-the-range 20in model is £1,349.
The previous iMac range started at £999 rising to £1,749, so the new range represents a considerable increase in value.


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Cowgirls Cruise Past Regis, 76-45, in Second Exhibition Win
A 19-1 run to end the first half helped the Wyoming Cowgirls to an easy 76-45 victory over the Regis Rangers in exhibition action Monday night at the Arena-Auditorium. Senior Ashley Sickles scored 17 points, on 7-of-14 shooting, grabbed 4 rebounds and had 3 steals to lead UW.
Wyoming started the game on 16-4 run, but then went nearly five minutes without a point. That allowed Regis back in it, as the Rangers trimmed the deficit to 18-13 at the 6:50 mark. The Cowgirls ended a 7-0 spurt by Regis when Sickles connected on a 3-point play, which began the big run that ended the first half. Then Senior Chaundra Sewell and Junior Fallon Lewis scored 4 points apiece in the final 1:43, which helped UW to a 37-14 lead at halftime.
Sickles said, "I think we always tell ourselves to come out strong. If we start out making shots early, it gets us going." Sickles was aggressive, as she scored the Cowgirls first 7 points of the game and had 15 by half.
Sophomore Allison Gorrell poured in 7 of her 10 points in the first 6 minutes of the 2nd period, as Wyoming pushed out to a 48-19 advantage. The Cowgirls built the lead to 34 points on three different occasions in the second half. With 12 minutes left in the game, Head Coach Joe Legerski took out his starters and played the bench the rest of the way.
Legerski said, "What we were able to accomplish tonight was a better defensive effort. Regis puts a lot of pressure on you. They put the ball on the floor. They like to be able to cut, and I thought we did a nice job responding to it."
Sophomore Kayla Woodward contributed 9 points, while Lewis and Sophomore Kaitlyn Mileto added 7 points each. The Cowgirls shot 39.7 percent from the field (29-73), 36.8 percent from 3 (7-19) and were 11-13 (84.6 percent) at the free throw line. They forced 24 Regis turnovers, had 12 steals and out-rebounded the Rangers 39-38.
Regis was led by Sarah Feeney with 14 points and Nicole Brzeczek with 10. The Rangers shot 32.7 percent (16-49) in the game.
The Cowgirls open the 2012-2013 season Friday night at the Double-A, when they host Idaho at 7 pm. You can listen to the game on KOWB, as coverage will begin at 6:30 pm.


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The year 1954 was a big year for Mary and Joe Dobransky. So big their golf-cart license plate is 1954. Their phone number is 1954. The license plate on Joe's truck is 1954. It was also 58 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1954, that Joe and Mary Dobransky got married.
The years since then tell a story that has taken them from Cleveland, Ohio, to various locations around the country and, finally, to their home at The Landings where they have become known for their charitable contributions and their work with nonprofits in Savannah.
On March 22, they were among 19 civic and philanthropic leaders to be recognized during the annual Community STARS luncheon at Savannah Technical College.
"We had some rough roads to travel," Joe said, "but came through them all."
The beginnings
Joe and Mary were born and raised in Cleveland. Growing up Joe, and his brother, Bob, had a seven-day-a-week paper route with over 300 Sunday deliveries.
"Dad used to pull the sled or wagon on Sundays, and Bob would do one side of the street and I would do the other," said Joe. "And we had to collect, too."
Of all his experiences, Joe feels this one had the most influence on his life. Between the ages of 12 and 18, the paper route earnings paid for the brothers' clothes and other things they needed.
"It was a big help to our parents, but also us because we learned how to deal with people, how to communicate and accept responsibility," said Joe. "The other thing was, it was the end of WWII, and I would read the headlines, so I knew everything that was going on in the world."
Meanwhile, Mary attended a sight-saving school until the sixth grade. The sight-saving school had small classes and individual attention.
"It was a tough transition," said Mary. She was one of the first people to wear contact lenses.
Love at first sight?
In 1950, an emergency hernia operation just before high school graduation changed the course of Joe's life.
The school district's school absentee policy automatically failed students who missed more than 11 days, regardless of grades. Unable to return to school, Joe joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 18, which was, "…one of the better things I ever did."
After boot camp, Joe got his GED, the Korean War began and Joe spent the next two years on a destroyer tracking Russian submarines in the Mediterranean.
The navy was a good fit, and although he was encouraged to make it his career, he left at 21.
"I told my executive officer I was going to go home and raise a family," Joe said. "That's what I wanted to do."
One day out of the navy, Joe met Mary on a blind date.
"My girlfriend's boyfriend knew this guy just out of the navy," said Mary.
Already engaged to a Marine, Mary wasn't taken at first by this new guy and didn't want to see him again.
"It wasn't love at first sight for me," she said. Joe had a different experience. "The first time I saw her, I loved her."
Mary's girlfriend convinced her to go out with them again the next day. It wasn't long before Mary broke off her engagement, and she and Joe were married on Sept. 11, 1954.
Joe's first job out of the navy was swing man with Star Bakery in Cleveland.
"I had to go around and replace guys on their day off, so I got to know all the streets in Cuyahoga County," he said.
After a year, Joe applied for a job with UPS, which had just opened.
"When they found out I knew every street in the county, they hired me on the spot," he said. "It wasn't anything to put in 16-hour days, six days a week."
Joe started as a driver and quickly became a supervisor.
"We were growing so fast, I had the opportunity to do different things."
No one in UPS knew how to drive a tractor-trailer, so UPS sent Joe to the University of North Carolina to learn how to teach people how to drive them. Joe was assigned to Chicago and established and managed UPS's tractor-trailer school.
"Supervisors from all over the country would come in, and after a year or so, I knew people in all 48 states," he said.
While Joe was growing his career, the Dobransky family was growing as well. The first three children - Linda, Bob and Laurie - came within two-and-a-half years. The next three - Joe, Beth and Julie - arrived over a 14-year span. Joe traveled a lot, and once when he was gone for a year, Mary and the children joined him for the summer, living in a rented trailer.
"She's a tough lady. She has always been very flexible," said Joe.
"I had to be," Mary said, "because he was gone so much."
Over the course of his 30-year UPS career, they moved around. When Joe retired in 1988, he was the regional manager and vice president responsible for 19,000 employees in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.
To Savannah
In 1993, Dick Eckburg, a friend and fellow retired UPS executive who lived in Savannah, invited Joe to come up from Texas for a fishing tournament. Joe brought Mary, and they bought a small house at The Landings before they built their present home in 1995.
It wasn't long before they became involved in community organizations and local charities.
When Joe started with UPS, he got stock as part of his salary, but in his 30-year career, he never cashed any in.
"We were so paper rich, we were poor," said Mary.
Joe's first management job paid $350 a month. But they never sold any stock.
As Joe took on special assignments, he received stock bonuses, and the opportunity to receive more shares. Those shares fund The Joseph W. and Mary A. Dobransky Charitable Foundation and their children's asset accounts and trusts.
"My motivation is helping the less fortunate, but it's amazing. Every time I write a check, I get it back double," said Joe. "The market goes up, or something else happens. It's truly unbelievable."
In 2009, the foundation gave $50,000 to Park Place Outreach, a Youth Emergency Shelter, to complete the Dobransky Outreach Center, a safe place on the lower level of the facility for children to do homework and relax. In December 2012, they donated another $50,000, which will provide care and counseling for the children.
"We have always been interested in children's education," said Joe. "I'm a great believer that the only way this country is going to advance is to educate the kids."
In 1995, when Joe was on the board of America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, the food bank was located across from a housing project and one of its buildings had aluminum siding that had turned out at the bottom.
"I saw a boy come from the projects and sneak into the building under the siding and come out with a sweet roll," said Joe. "That was his food. It blew me away."
When Budweiser decided to sell its President Street building, which is Second Harvest's current location, Joe met with the company, negotiated a better price, went to the bank and personally signed the $1.2 million note. Once established, responsibility was transferred to Second Harvest.
From that beginning, Second Harvest has grown and now feeds between 5,000 and 7,000 children a day. In addition to meals, kids have activities, get coaching for homework and get exercise. Second Harvest also sends tractor-trailers full of food to outlying areas once a week.
Mary Dobansky has been active with the Philanthropic Educational Organization for more than 17 years. The organization sponsors women who, for various reasons, had to leave college and want to return to get a degree. Members work on fundraising projects for sponsorships and support Cottey College for Women in Nevada, Mo.
The Dobranskys also support St. James Parish, St. James Catholic School and the Bethesda Academy.
"We get lots of requests," said Joe. "People write us letters. We sit down with our financial advisor and decide what percentage of our earnings we can give to charity."
Of family and the future
The Dobransky family has grown to include 15 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Four years ago, they started taking one family at a time on a Caribbean cruise. Instead of Christmas gifts, they ask their children to make a charitable donation in their name to a charity of their choice.
"We have six wonderful children, and they are all great," Joe and Mary said.
Joe celebrated his 80th birthday last July. He admits to being "high maintenance," but says he's been following orders for the last 58 years.
Mary turns 79 in May, and this couple, who once counseled engaged couples through Marriage Encounter, are busier than ever.
"He looks out for you," said Joe. "I just believe you have to share. That's what life is all about."


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Halfway through, Big 10 has lacked luster but better games lie ahead down the stretch
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At the halfway point of the season, the Big Ten hasn't produced many highlights.
OK, Michigan beat Notre Dame and Wisconsin's running game is, again, about as good as it gets. Oh, and Ohio State's perfect start and No. 4 ranking has given the conference a stake in the national championship chase.
But the Big Ten had only four teams win all four nonconference games. Indiana's convincing victory over Penn State has been the only upset, a mild one at that. Against Notre Dame and the five other major leagues, the Big Ten went 9-8. Six of those wins were over California (1-5), Iowa State (1-4), South Florida (2-4) and Syracuse (3-3), non-contenders in their respective conferences.
The second half ought to be better, however.
Rivalry games are on deck and the September fluff of FCS and mid-major opponents has passed. Here are five things to know about Big Ten football, reflecting on the first half and looking ahead to the rest of the season:
BEST GAME: Penn State's fourth-quarter comeback for a 43-40 victory in four overtimes last Saturday against Michigan, all the missed field goals aside, will be tough to top. Penn State's biggest win in two years with coach Bill O'Brien bumped Michigan out of the Top 25 following its first defeat.
Rivalry games on Nov. 2 (Michigan at Michigan State) and Nov. 30 (Ohio State at Michigan) will be closely watched, but here are three strong contenders for a second-half winner, all involving the same three teams: Northwestern at Nebraska on Nov. 2, Michigan State at Nebraska on Nov. 16, and Michigan State at Northwestern on Nov. 23.
The Legends Division race is tight, and the Spartans, Huskers and Wildcats will be trying to put themselves in position for better bowl games. Nebraska's offense and Michigan State's defense are an intriguing contrast. Northwestern needs to make up for humbling losses to Ohio State and Wisconsin with a win or two over teams in the Big Ten's top tier.
WORST WEEKEND: The conference looked weak on Sept. 14, when Michigan barely beat Akron, Minnesota struggled early against Western Illinois and Penn State lost at home to Central Florida. The Big Ten went 1-3 against the Pac-12, with Ohio State's win over California not enough to counteract Wisconsin's bizarre loss at Arizona State, a defeat for Illinois against Washington and a 20-point loss by Nebraska at home to UCLA.
This Saturday, with Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and Purdue on the road and heavyweights Ohio State, Michigan, Northwestern and Michigan State hosting, the slate doesn't look strong, either.
BEST COACHING: Tim Beckman has made Illinois more competitive so far after a rough debut in 2012, and Gary Andersen has made sure Wisconsin hasn't missed a beat. Considering the wealth of talent Ohio State has, though, Urban Meyer has been an unquestioned success. He was asked Tuesday if he found himself watching Alabama or Oregon this fall and thinking ahead to a potential national title game.
"Human nature is, especially when you have time on a weekend, a bye week, to watch a lot of games, to see how you match up," Meyer said. "And I kind of have these mechanisms in place just to stop thinking about it, refocus on getting first downs and stopping people because that's not really helping the cause at all."
If Minnesota can become bowl eligible again with a daunting October and November schedule and coach Jerry Kill on leave to deal with epilepsy, his staff ought to warrant consideration for such an award.
WORST START: Given the expectations raised by Northwestern's 4-0 start and No. 16 ranking, losses by the Wildcats to Ohio State and Wisconsin in consecutive weeks have tainted their push for a stronger-than-usual season.
"We'll come back and play well. I promise you that," coach Pat Fitzgerald said.
Purdue's schedule softens a bit in November, but by that point for the Boilermakers it won't matter.
BRIGHTEST STARS: Ameer Abdullah has made sure Nebraska's running game hasn't let up with quarterback Taylor Martinez injured. With due respect to Ohio State's Braxton Miller and Carlos Hyde, the Badgers might have the best players in the Big Ten in running back Melvin Gordon and linebacker Chris Borland.
There are seven weeks left for the next stars of the league to emerge.


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Mar 28, 2011
CLEMSON, S.C. - King College returned to cycling action over the weekend at Clemson (S.C.) University with numerous Top-10 rides.
The Lady Tornado duo of Ellie Ferguson (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Caroline Gentry (Bristol, Tenn.) each won an event. Ferguson took first in the women's "B" criterium with Gentry second and then Gentry won the "B" road race and Ferguson was runner up.
In the men's 45-mile "B" road race T.J. Killelea (Chattanooga, Tenn.) was ninth while Casey Stallard (Bristol, Va.) was second in the "C" road race.
Zach Nave (Gray, Tenn.) had a Top-10 in the "A" criterium.
King returns to action this weekend at nearby Mars Hill (N.C.) College.


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Nearly every day, worried Californians call a Pacoima hotline asking what lies ahead in healthcare reform: Do I have to get private insurance? Will I lose my Medi-Cal? How much will it cost? When does it start?
"There's mass confusion already," said Katie Murphy, managing attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, which runs the call line.
With the presidential election over and the nation's healthcare overhaul moving forward, California officials have less than a year to clear up widespread uncertainty about future medical coverage options.
"We are in our countdown period," said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's new health insurance marketplace that opens in October 2013.


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Contest Offers Prizes For CCD Redesign
Anne Zieger is veteran healthcare branding and communications expert with more than 25 years of industry experience. and her commentaries have appeared in dozens of international business publications, including Forbes, Business Week and Information Week. She has also worked extensively healthcare and health IT organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. She can be reached at @ziegerhealth or www.ziegerhealthcare.com.
When EMRs are the gossip of the week at TechCrunch (a popular tech startup website), you know our little EMR thang has gone mainstream. And TechCrunch is indeed one of a series of sites trumpeting the news of a design challenge intended to make the Continuity of Care Document more usable.
The White House's Health Design Challenge, working with a community of philanthropic angels and mentors known as Designer Fund, asks designers to transform the CCD (and by extension the Blue Button output) from a consumer-hostile mess into something easily used by the following groups:
- An underserved inner-city parent with lower health literacy
- A senior citizen that has a hard time reading
- A young adult who is engaged with technology and mobile devices
- An adult whose first language is not English
- A patient with breast cancer receiving care from multiple providers
- A busy mom managing her kids' health and helping her aging parents
The ONC and VA, which seem to be spearheading the effort, are providing for twelve winners. First place for best overall design gets $16K, second place $6K and third place $4K. They're also distributing $8K per category across winners for best medical/problem history section, best medication section and best lab summaries.
The design is expected to not only improve the visual layout of the record, it's also supposed to make it easier for a patient to manage their health, enable medical professionals to digest information more efficiently and help caregivers support patients. Tall order for a messed-up text file? Well, we'll see what design superbrains can do.
In part because the VA hopes to use the new designs to support its Blue Button initiative and its MyHealtheVet patient portal, all entries have to be submitted under a Creative Commons license. Curators will select a final design — which may include elements from various winning entries — and open source the code on code-sharing commuity Github.


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75. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallCheaptrick Feb 13, 2011 10:27 AM (in response to thejesse )
Sure you can. I would say that you use the 2 onboard SATA3 ports for your optical drive & SSD & use the SATA3 PCIe card for your 2 conventional drives. An example of a PCIe SATA3 card is below.
But if you really want what is fast & avoid any SATA bottleneck, I suggest that you get rid of that SSD & go with PCIe SSD such as OCZ Revodrive.
76. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallDoc_SilverCreek Feb 13, 2011 10:39 AM (in response to thejesse )
The 2 raid drives should be placed on the same controller, either the on-board or add in.
To configure a raid across different controllers, you are doing a software raid which is not as efficient as what you can get in hardware or Firmware raid modes.
any additional ports on the add in card can be left empty, or used to connect addtional devices.
Make sure whatever added in card you select is on the board supported list, especially if it will contain your OS.
Cards that have not beed tested may have issues or conflicts that could generate problems.
Some manafactures BIOS will not reconize booting from add in cards (or other PCIe devices)
77. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallCheaptrick Feb 13, 2011 11:30 AM (in response to Doc_SilverCreek)
On- board RAID is really not advisable as it's slower than an add-on PCIe RAID controller especially if you're running your hard drives on RAID 5.
78. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge Recallparsec Feb 13, 2011 11:01 PM (in response to rednekcowboy)
... why oh why am I doing this... it's not a discussion, or even an argument, just a flame-fest... but there might be some people reading this thread that will get the wrong impression, and the obfuscation is annoying, so...
Cowboy, you ought to stick with your own statements at least within the same post.
First you say: "The Sandy Bridge Processor is not usable in my opinion."
Fine, we are all entitled to our opinions. When the facts regarding a situation are not absolute and open to some interpretation, we have opinions. Quite normal.
You then explain the motivations for your opinion, again just fine, that is what is done in a debate in order to sway opinions and state one's case. Perfectly reasonable.
Then you state: " I don't know how you can argue against that and basically call someone a liar when those are the facts."
No one can state an opinion is a lie or the truth, since it can be neither. Also, your opinion has then seemingly become fact after one paragraph. Regardless, accusing me of calling you a liar does not make sense, if you statement is an opinion.
If you claim your statement is a fact, that PCs with this chipset are unusable, well, we know that even in the potential worst case situation, they would still be useable, since any SATA device could be connected to the SATA 6Gb/s ports, thus rendering the PC useable. Do you deny this?
Your style of argument will capture the minds of those who do not apply critical thinking to the arguments themselves, including the attempt to dishonor those that debate in opposition to yourself.
Your analogy about the car radio actually reveals, and attempts to pass as fact, what you use as the basis of your argument. That is, the radio (Cougar Point chipset) will absolutely fail, that is a given. I'll stay objective here and say, given the information we have, no one can claim that they will absolutely fail. No one knows that, or can prove it. That is what I claim to be false, that we know, a priori, that these chipsets will absolutely fail. That is the crux of your argument, without which it falls apart.
Then we have this statement: "This is only if you buy the whole story from Intel that this is all that is wrong with these boards to begin with, which I don't."
This statement attempts to use innuendo and over generalization to create concern and fear that any mother board touched by the accursed Cougar Point chipset will be fraught with misery and failure. Again, some critical thinking quickly reveals it is baseless. Intel makes CPUs and Chipsets for use specifically with PC mother boards. They make few, if any of the other components. The only component that we know has a potential failure issue is the Cougar Point chipset, and nothing else. How does that have anything to do with other things being wrong with the mother boards?
Intel manufactures PC mother boards, but is only one of many companies that do so, and is not the major purveyor of them in the world. Consider that of all the mother board manufactures, some of which have been in business for decades, with all their experience in design, manufacture, and testing, not one of them found an issue with these chipsets that stopped them from bringing them to the marketplace.
I certainly cannot say that I know more about this then they do, can you?
79. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge Recallrednekcowboy Feb 14, 2011 3:45 AM (in response to parsec)
This is your statement and the one that I have the objection to, one that you state to refut someone else's statement that the CPU is unusable:
Regarding the Sandy Bridge CPUs not being useable for several months, that is simply false.
Basically, you called the person that said the CPU is unusable a liar with this statement. The fact of the matter is that by Intels own admission, you are not to use the sata 2.0GB/s under any circumstances and if you must, only to use those ports with your least important devices. On many of these boards, that leaves only two ports available. With many people and retailers, this in fact, makes the board useless as we have multiple devices which requires, in some cases, all 6 sata ports on the board. If the board is useless to us, then that makes the CPU useless as well. The replacement boards won't be available until April sometime, at the earliest, which makes the CPU useless for several months.
That is not opinion, that is fact.
Another little tid bit for you. If Intel did not think there was a good possibility of failure, they would not have issued this massive recall that will cost them millions of dollars. My car analogy still stands. Maybe I'll re-word it for you if it makes you feel more comfortable. Would you buy a brand new car if you were told not to use the radio because it may overheat and burn out?
And no, I don't believe what we are being told about the cougar point chipset is, in fact, the whole story. It makes no sense for Intel to issue a recall that may happen in less than 5% of cases that no one but them has been able to replicate. It doesn't make any sense that they would spend millions on something like this rather than to make a statement saying "If this happens to you, do this." If they were really not worried about something going wrong with the majority, they would not be pulling these boards. That is just common sense, you don't spend millions "just in case," you spend millions on certainties.
Then again, like you, I could chose to deflect, deny and manipulate, however I would rather just tell it like it is.
80. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge Recallparsec Feb 14, 2011 11:06 AM (in response to rednekcowboy)
... and yet another example of poor rhetorical technique, to completely ignore your opponents statements that refute yours, and restate your arguments as if nothing was stated in opposition to them. There's a term for that, tautology.
As I implied earlier, I was afraid your debate would go no where, as you continue to circle back to the same statements endlessly. I have no interest in participating in a "... no it isn't... yes it is..." stubborn school yard debate, if that's the best you can do.
Your intent is clear, to simply flame away at Intel and run them down as much as possible. Enjoy!
81. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge Recallrednekcowboy Feb 14, 2011 11:51 AM (in response to parsec)
And you, rather than refute anything I say, you rather go on the attack. Proves my points perfectly.
82. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallSonny Feb 14, 2011 11:55 AM (in response to rednekcowboy)
Admin Note to all: This forum is to help solve technical questions. Please stay on topic. This is not the place for personal conversations, conflict or banter. Thank You.
83. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallWizardMasterNZ Feb 14, 2011 3:29 PM (in response to Sonny)
Alright... I read this forum. I understand it. I can't order the Intel Sandy chipset motherboard. Because they've put removed all brand motherboard of Sandy Chipset from Online order, today After since, I seen it on last week. Bugger me....
I will waiting for update correct 2nd edition of Sandy chipset or next generation "Bad Sandy" chipset. LOL...Kind joke !
84. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallCheaptrick Feb 14, 2011 3:53 PM (in response to parsec)
"The Sandy Bridge CPU is not usable." - This is a fact.
How can you use a CPU when there's no available motherboard for it? Unless you can use a CPU without needing a motherboard then it's not usable.
It's like in my situation right now. I bought a Sandy Bridge Core i7 2600K last month. The motherboard then stopped working just after the recall. I can't have it replace by the retailer I purchased it from 'cuz they pulled out all their Sandy Bridge motherboards from their stock as a result of the recall. You can't purchased a Sandy Bridge motherboard 'cuz there's no retailer selling it. Even those in Europe that sell Sandy Bridge motherboards priced like gold doesn't have it either. Yet you can purchase a Sandy Bridge CPU. If you buy a Sandy Bridge CPU now it would be like "buy it now & use it after several months".
I have a Sandy Bridge CPU now but no motherboard 'cuz I can't find any for sale. If the CPU is usable then it means that I can have a motherboard for it. For now there's no motherboard 'cuz it's been pulled out in the market.
The CPU is not usable. I don't know why someone will say that it's usable when it's not.
85. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallDoc_SilverCreek Feb 14, 2011 3:41 PM (in response to WizardMasterNZ)
There are a handful of platforms still shipping, but these are in systems which do not use the legecy SATA II connections.
Latest info is here: http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/processors/chipset.htm
86. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallCheaptrick Feb 14, 2011 5:00 PM (in response to Doc_SilverCreek)
There's none really. Newegg, Micro Center, Tigerdirect, Fry's, etc all pulled out their Sandy Bridge motherboards. There's some that still advertised Sandy Bridge motherboards as "For Sale" but if you really look at it closely it's out of stock, will deliver when available or pulled out due to the recall. I've been to a computer store here in Illinois that advertised their Sandy Bridge motherboards online as for sale only to find out that they pulled their Sandy Bridge motherboards off the market due to the recall. If you'll purchase it now you have to wait until April (the earliest) for them to deliver it to you (I'm talking of low to mid end motherboards). Those PC enthusiasts who purchased Sandy Bridge CPU for overclocking will have to wait longer.
Why would someone sells a motheroboard with a faulty chipset? Those retailers that sell those motherboards know the risk that the motherboards they're selling will eventually get returned for replacement motherboards with working chipsets. It's costly for retailers as they'll be forced to accept returns several months &/or even longer after those motherboards were purchased.
If you really think that there's still Sandy Bridge motherboard for sale, why don't you help me find an Asus Maximus IV Extreme motherboard here in the US. If you can find any, I will retract my earlier statement that the CPU is not usable.
87. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallDoc_SilverCreek Feb 14, 2011 6:03 PM (in response to Cheaptrick)
Asus Maximus IV Extreme has and uses the SATA II ports so the limit availability would not apply.
88. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge Recallrednekcowboy Feb 14, 2011 6:33 PM (in response to Doc_SilverCreek)
And where exactly would you find one of those boards in North America?
89. Re: I7 Sandy Bridge RecallCheaptrick Feb 14, 2011 9:05 PM (in response to Doc_SilverCreek)
You can't find one 'cuz there ain't any for sale. All the Sandy Bridge motherboards been pulled out of the market. It's costly for retailers to sell motherboards with faulty chipsets.
If there's no motherboard then how can you make a CPU work? You have to have a motherboard for the CPU. It's no rocket science. This makes a CPU non-usable.
I have a Sandy Bridge CPU inside my drawer. I can't use it 'cuz I can't find a motherboard for it.
Intel really fu---- things up. They just want to make money & release a chipset that's not been tested completely. This massive recall is the end result.


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OFA EXCLUSIVE: Secret Operations Plan Against Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Otis Moss & Trinity United Church
Recently, VR and OFA received a trove of emails and documents from a whistleblower who worked for Project Veritas. We have spent weeks authenticating, compiling and categorizing these documents. Over the next several months, we will be breaking stories, here and in other publications, based on these documents as they relate to matters in the public interest. Readers will be shocked by the revelations that will be made in these stories as well as the persons who funded, planned and participated in clearly unethical and criminal activity. And now to the first story.
This is a similar type of black bag operation that was launched against CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau by James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas organization. This project was designed to infiltrate the Trinity United Church in Chicago in an effort to gain their trust and then use that trust against them. As you can see below Ken Larrey was directly involved in planning this operation against Otis Moss and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright who used to be President Obama's spiritual advisor and Pastor.
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Welsh Breakfast Cakes
Are you looking for a delightful new breakfast idea? Something a bit different than a boring old pancake or waffle (as delicious as they may be)?
These unassuming little breakfast cakes just may be the answer.
While skimming through my King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion one Saturday morning, desperately trying to find an out-of-the norm breakfast idea for my family, I spied these little gems.
Similar to a biscuit in preparation, the butter is cut into the dry ingredients and a soft dough is formed by adding the eggs and milk.
The cute little cakes are dry-fried on a griddle or skillet and the result is a light and tender cross between a sweet biscuit and a pancake – divine sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and perfect with a drizzle of maple syrup.
I was thrilled with the puffed, sturdy texture and taste. They held together well enough to eat out of hand and the lovely, buttery texture was heavenly.
These keep excellently and warmed perfectly in the toaster the next morning. To say they were a hit is a complete understatement. I'm sure many future Saturday mornings will be seeing Welsh Cakes appear magically for breakfast.
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Welsh Breakfast Cakes
- 3 cups (12 3/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (7 ounces) sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, cut into pieces
- 3/4 currants (optional – I left out)
- 2 eggs beaten with enough milk to yield 3/4 cup liquid
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Cut in the butter until the mixture is a coarse, even consistency. Add the currants, then add the egg and milk. Stir to form a soft dough.
- Divide the dough in half and working with one half at a time (keep the other refrigerated, especially if your kitchen is warm), roll the dough into a circle 1/4-inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter or other small round cutter, cut circles of dough. Heat an ungreased skillet or griddle over medium heat (on my electric griddle I preheated to 300 degrees). Fry the cakes for about 2 minutes on the first side and an additional 1 1/2 minutes on the second, or until both sides are golden brown. As with pancakes, you'll have to adjust the heat if you find the cakes are browned on the outside before they are thoroughly cooked in the middle. Repeat with the remaining dough.
- Keep the cakes warm in a 200 degree oven until ready to serve. Sprinkle with granulated sugar or cinnamon-sugar before serving, if desired.
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Where are they now? (Championship Edition)Posted by nvr1983 on March 24th, 2008
We found an interesting piece in ESPN.com's Daily Dime last week. They decided to list players from recent championship teams that are still in the NBA. They happened to miss a few players who we added. We might have missed a player here and there. If we did, leave a comment with an update on their status since it's hard to keep track of all these leagues around the world.
You may notice that the number of NBA superstars from championship teams has decreased in recent years with the exception of Carmelo Anthony. We feel it is pretty clear that this is becasue a lot of guys who are NBA stars decided to skip college or not stay around long enough to win a title. We're pretty sure Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Dwight Howard (he would be a senior now!) would have affected the NCAA tournament a little.
The list:
2006-07 Florida: Al Horford, Corey Brewer, Joakim Noah, Taurean Green, & Chris Richard.
-All of the UF guys seem like they could end up being solid pros. Even Richard who is spending time in the NBDL could end up being a decent bench guy. Horford has exceeded expectations and is challenging the much more hyped Kevin Durant for Rookie of the Year honors. The real question is whether any of them other than Horford will become stars in the league. Noah and Brewer have a chance, but we aren't sold on them yet. We think Noah will end up being a solid contributor if he can keep his mouth shut.
2005 North Carolina: Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton, Sean May, & Marvin Williams
– All of the Tar Heels have turned into respectable NBA players, which isn't surprising to anybody who say this team play. May hasn't played this year due to injuries, but was putting up respectable numbers when he was healthy. Felton and Williams are definitely the studs of this group although McCants does show flashes of brilliance up in Minnesota not that anybody sees the Timberwolves play.
2004 Connecticut: Emeka Okafor, Ben Gordon, Hilton Armstrong, Josh Boone, & Charlie Villanueva
– While this group has turned out 3 solid NBA players (Okafor, Gordon, and Villanueva), we get the suspicion that none of these guys will turn into the superstars they were expected to be. It seems hard to believe that a lot of people thought Orlando made a mistake drafting Dwight Howard ahead of Okafor in 2004. However, this is a solid group of pros that will probably end up being the equal of the last 2 championship teams (UNC and UF).
2003 Syracuse: Carmelo Anthony & Hakim Warrick
– While Melo has lived up to the hype and is a perennial All-Star, it appears that Warrick is going to stay in the 10 PPG and 5 RPG range, which is probably worth a $8 mill/yr contract or a max contract if Warrick can wait for an offer from Isiah. Having seen this team play at the East Regional in Albany that year, this is one of our favorite championship teams particularly because they were the last team that was a big surprise winning the tournament. We knew that Gerry McNamara's game wouldn't work at the NBA level, but we always liked him and often thought that he was closer to Jameer Nelson in college than a lot of analysts were willing to admit.
2002 Maryland: Juan Dixon, Steve Blake, & Chris Wilcox
– The players from this team, which won the ugliest Final 4 in recent memory, have done just about what we expected as pros. Dixon has been a solid player who is often underappreciated by his team and has floated around the league but contributed everywhere he has gone. Steve Blake has provided solid if unspectacular point guard play and won a starting job in Portland for a time over the uber-hyped Sebastian Telfair. Wilcox has been somewhat of a disappointment. He puts up solid numbers, but has never turned into the star that his athletic ability suggests he could be. Of course, he was the same way in college so it shouldn't come as a surprise.
2001 Duke: Shane Battier, Chris Duhon, Carlos Boozer, & Mike Dunleavy
– It amazing that on this team with several college superstars (including Jason Williams), that Boozer turned out to be the stud of the group. While Casey Sanders's lack of development forced him to play the center position more than he probably should have, he was a guy who was routinely abused by Brendan Haywood. Somehow, Boozer grew a pair of huevos; so much so that he stabbed a blind man in the back. Just imagine what Boozer could have become if he had stayed in Cleveland to play with Lebron James. Battier, Duhon, and Dunleavy are all solid NBA players even if they haven't lived up to their draft status (Dunleavy) or hype (Duhon-"What a man!"). To be fair, Battier was selected after Kwame Brown and Eddy Curry, so maybe he wasn't taken too early. The most disappointing thing about this group is that we never got to see what Jason Williams could have become. Although he struggled adjusting as a rookie with the Bulls, he showed flashes of brilliances including a triple-double against a still-in-his-prime Jason Kidd.
2000 Michigan State: Charlie Bell, Morris Peterson, & Jason Richardson
– Jason Richardson has put up solid numbers even if we have a hard time considering him a star. He's a phenomenal athlete who has never really made the transition to the superstar (except in fantasy basketball) that many projected for him. Morris Peterson had a solid run as a consistent double-figure guy in Toronto before going to New Orleans this year. As for Bell, we never expected much out of him, but he has had a nice little career and actually averaged 13.5 PPG last year. That championship team's heart and soul was Mateen Cleaves who had a couple of nice seasons where he was one of the top cheerleaders in the league particularly when he was on the Kings. However, he never stuck and according to Wikipedia he is now playing for the Bakersfield Jam of the NBDL.
1999 Connecticut: Richard Hamilton & Jake Voskuhl
– This team, which we ranked as the best team of the past 10 years, knocked off an unbelievably loaded Duke team that might have been in the top 10 of all-time had they won that night in St. Petersburg. While Hamilton has been an excellent NBA player and one of the few guys in the league who can hit a mid-range jumper, the rest of this team has been a disappointment. We had no idea that Voskuhl was still in the league and barely noticed him when we knew he was in the league. The team's other star Khalid El-Amin played for a short time in the NBA before finding his way to the CBA and Ukranian Basketball League before end up with Türk Telekom B.K. of the Turkish basketball league. We weren't able to find much information about Ricky Moore, the star of the title game. We're assuming that he had a rather undistinguished career after that night in St. Pete.
1998 Kentucky: Nazr Mohammed & Jamaal Magloire
– The Wildcats, who weren't expected to win the title this year, were fueled by a big comeback against a very young Duke team in the South Regional finals. Looking back at this team's roster, we couldn't see anybody else on this team making a big impact in the NBA. Magloire had a run from 2002-2006 where he averaged around 10/10 and made an All-Star team (more the result of the lack of centers than his exceptional play) while Mohammed has had a slightly less distinguished career. His most notable achievement was helping the San Antonio Spurs win the 2005 NBA Championship (with an assist from Isiah Thomas).
1997 Arizona: Mike Bibby & Jason Terry
– Both Bibby and Terry have had excellent careers as was expected for them coming out of college. The more intereresting story is that of the team's star Miles Simon. Simon was never considered a top NBA prospect, but we at least expected that he would stick around the league because he could make plays. Instead he spent a year in Orlando then traveled across the globe, before ending up in the CBA where as his Wikipedia page states he became "the most decorated player in CBA history". Not exactly what we expect out of the MOP.
1996 Kentucky: Antoine Walker, Derek Anderson & Nazr Mohammed
– This was likely the last of the all-time great teams. This team was incredibly deep with 6 guys who had significant NBA careers (including Tony Delk, Ron Mercer, and Walter McCarty). This team just crushed the teams they played utilizing Pitino's press with their superior talent and athleticism. None of the players ever became a superstar, but all of their studs had solid NBA careers including a handful of All-Star appearances and awards. We'll leave Rick Pitino's stint in Boston for another post.
– This team didn't really have as many superstars as other championship teams did, but they played very well together finishing an impressive 32-1. They had 2 first-round picks (Ed O'Bannon and George Zidek) who had short-lived NBA careers. The team's other stars were Tyus Edney, Toby Bailey, and Charles O'Bannon, but none of them ever did anything notable in the NBA.
1994 Arkansas: N/A
– Nolan Richardson's "40 Minutes of Hell" team used a late Scotty Thurman rainbow 3 to knock off Grant Hill's Duke team, which basically consisted of Hill and a bunch of nobodies. Corliss "Big Nasty" Williamson had a nice career first in Sacramento then in Detroit even winning the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2002. Thurman ended up leaving school early, going undrafted, and playing in the CBA.
– This team didn't really have any guys we considered potential NBA All-Stars back in 1993. Of course, we were 10 at the time and were already learning to hate the Tar Heels. We'll let you look at the starting lineup and make up your mind: Eric Montross, Brian Reese, George Lynch, Donald Williams, and Derrick Phelps. Not exactly a murderer's row of talent there. To be fair, Montross, who hails from the same high school as Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr. (Lawrence North in Indianapolis), was selected 9th overall by the Celtics and had a decent rookie season before falling off the map. George Lynch was also considered a solid prospect coming out as 12th overall to the Lakers. He only had a mediocre pro career never averaging over 8.6 PPG and his main NBA achievements on Wikipedia are wearing 3 numbers (#24, #30 and #9) while with the Lakers and being traded to the Grizzlies to clear up cap space (and buffet space) for some guy named Shaq. Phelps played briefly in the NBA. And when we say briefly we mean 3 games and 1 shot, which he missed. Donald Williams, who is best remembered for being the MOP and having a huge game against the Fab 5 in the title game, spent his professional career floating around every league on the planet except for the NBA. The more interesting thing is that the Tar Heels actually had more talent the next year when they added Jerry Stackhouse and a young Rasheed Wallace (who in a sign of things to come got tossed from the McDonald's All-American game) to this nucleus. However, the 1994 team never really came together and lost to Bill Curley and the Boston College Eagles, which was famously captured on this SI cover.
1991-92 Duke: Grant Hill
– Along with the 1996 UK team, Christian Laettner's Blue Devils were the last of the teams that we consider truly great. To consider how big/great this team was, you have to remember that before this team, Mike Krzyzewski's boys were the lovable losers who couldn't win the big one despite multiple Final 4 trips. After this team, Duke became Duke. This team was really built around their 3 superstars: Laettner, Bobby Hurley, and Grant Hill. Everyone knows their college accomplishments: Laettner (#12 on ESPN's list; maybe the top college player since 1990); Hurley (NCAA all-time assist leader); and Hill (also led Duke to the title game with a YMCA team around him in 1994). Laettner actually had a decent pro career, which most people would realize if he hadn't been so great in college or if he wasn't the most hated college player of all-time (multiply Joakim Noah by 100 and you get Laettner). His career highlights include an All-Star appearance as well as being an original Dream Teamer (ok, I can't type that with a straight face). Hurley was selected 7th overall by Sacramento, but had his career derailed early with a car accident (signs of things to come for another great Duke point guard). However, we don't think he would have ever become a great NBA PG as evident by how Jason Kidd destroyed him in the 1993 NCAA tournament. Hill actually had the best NBA career of the bunch and was considered one of the top 5-10 players in the league before multiple foot/ankle injuries eventually turned him into a shell of the player that he once was. Antonio Lang was taken 29th overall by Phoenix, but never did much in the pros. Brian Davis played a season in the NBA before floating around the basketball planet and settling on running a Duke-based group that tried to buy the Memphis Grizzlies with Laettner (the deal fell through). Thomas Hill (best known for being the guy crying after Laettner's 1992 East Regional shot) was drafted 39th overall by Indiana, but never played in the NBA as he played in the Australian National Basketball League for a few years.
That's all I have on these guys/teams. If you have any more information or comments, feel free to leave them in the comment section.


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Administering the Student Mathematics League exam twice and providing prizes and refreshments for students.
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Providing summer administrative support, training, and refreshments in support of AmeriCorps programs.
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Providing students with supplementary academic assistance across the curriculum, as well as helping with personal statements needed to transfer.
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Arizona State Museum's basketry collection is the world's largest. As Mike Jacobs, ASM's curator of archaeological collections, notes, "We know of no other museum collection larger, more impressive, better documented, or more comprehensively representative of every major indigenous basket-making group in North America.
"Rare and outstanding baskets represent the bulk of this collection," he adds, "but there are other woven objects such as sandals, cradle boards, mats, cordage, and preserved fibers. It also includes weaving-related items such as twigs, seeds, and a myriad of botanicals used in the weaving process. The collection totals about 25,000 objects."
Diane Dittemore, ethnological collections curator, concurs. "Among the 25,000 objects are roughly 4000 historic and contemporary baskets from all over North America and northern Mexico. The overall documentation is extremely high. ASM's historic O'odham, Apache, and Seri basketry is unrivaled."
Which prehistoric cultures are represented?
- Basketmaker, ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, Mogollon, Salado, Sinagua.
Which modern-day cultures are represented?
- From the Southwest: Akimel O'odham (Pima); Western, Chiricahua, Jicarilla, and Mescalero Apaches; Chemehuevi; Cocopah; Havasupai; Hopi; Hualapai; Navajo; Pascua Yaqui; Pueblo; Quechan; Southern Paiute; Tohono O'odham; Yavapai; Zuni.
- From California: Cahuilla, Maidu, Mission, Miwok, Panamint, Pomo,Yokuts, Yurok-Karok.
- From the Northwest Coast and Alaska: Aleut, Eskimo, Salish, Makah, Nootka, Tlingit.
- From the Great Lakes/Eastern Woodlands: Micmac, Ojibwe, Passamaquoddy.
- From the Southeast: Chitimacha, Coushatta.
- From northern Mexico: Guarijio, Mayo, Seri, Tarahumara, Tepehuan, Yaqui.
What is the oldest example in this collection?
Among the collection's oldest objects are hundreds of ancient Basketmaker (ca. 1000 B.C.E.–850 C.E.) sandals made by a combination of plain weave and alternate pair twining of finely spun yucca fiber cordage.
The raised, sometimes colored, designs on the soles of these sandals, in addition to being an expression of the makers' artistic sensibilities, may also have served to uniquely identify sandals and their weavers.
What is the newest example in this collection?
The museum's newest acquisition is a contemporary Tohono O'odham yucca basket by Loretta Saraficio. It was the winner of the Hartman H. Lomawaima Memorial Acquisition Award at the museum's 2011 Southwest Indian Art Fair.
What is the largest example in the collection?
The museum's largest example is a stunning Yavapai or Western Apache coiled olla that is almost 3.5 feet tall. It probably was made just after 1900 by an anonymous but extremely talented weaver who may have lived at San Carlos.
What is the rarest object in the collection
The rarest ethnographic basket may well be a Mescalero Apache twined tus, or pitched water jar, with remarkable documentation.
Pasted to the side of this jar is a hand-written note that reads: Esa hoya fue quitada a lys yndios mescaleros en la Sierra de Guadalupe, Texas en año de 1860 por Crecencio Roybal de San Elizario, Texas. (This jar was taken from the Mescalero Indians in the Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, in the year of 1860 by Crescencio Roybal of San Elizario, Texas).
What can we learn from studying basketry and other weavings?
Prehistoric and historic weavings can tell us a lot about what kinds of food the people gathered, stored and ate; where they gathered resources; what they wore; how homes were furnished; how they expressed themselves creatively and spiritually; and many other details of their lives. No two cultures produce basketry with the same technical skill, detail, or design. These attributes tend to be local and culturally determined. Deciphering the details of technology, material choice, and design on a basket can provide tremendous information about its maker.


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I was wondering what i should write about for my 200th blog post. And I'm in luck because Karma's got my back and that's why yesterday we had an interesting case of plagiarizing. So let's get optimistic! A relatively new blogger called SQLDigs copied this post of mine about new version of SSMS Tools Pack. Because there was no trackback or any other link back to my blog I had no idea until David Levy (Blog|Twitter) told me about it. As I've looked over the other content of the blog I've noticed quite a few familiar paragraphs of...
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This guy hurt his foot in the first game of the season this year and was out for the year but was having a great career for FSU. Maybe a possible 2nd or 3rd round candidate for Leo depth.
Brandon Jenkins, DE- Jenkins is certainly the more well-known pass rusher on Florida State's defense, but Werner is the superior prospect thanks to his size and strength. Jenkins has worked hard to add muscle to his frame, as he is currently listed at 6'3", 260 pounds and was only about 240 when he broke out as a true sophomore. His stats may have slipped last season as he "only" had 41 tackles, 4 TFL, 8 sacks and 1 pass break-up, but that was largely due to an increase in attention from opposing offenses in the way of double teams and screens to his side of the field. The attention offenses gave to Jenkins certainly played a role in Werner's break-out, but both are potential 1st round picks in their own right. Having that much talent at defensive end plus Tank Carradine, who would start on 95% of college football's defensive lines but comes off the bench at Florida State, makes Florida State's defensive line incredibly fierce even without considering the talent they have at defensive tackle. It will be interesting to see if Jenkins is actually playing at 260, my guess it he is in the 250-255 range. He might be able to get away with that at right end in the NFL, especially if he holds up against the run better as he showed the ability to do last year, but the best use of all of his athleticism might be at 3-4 outside linebacker. Regardless, he has all the burst, explosion and athletic ability you could ever want in a pass rusher, and with an 8-10 sack season this year he will likely go in the top 32 selections in April.


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IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#baseTable') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #baseTable
-- create a 10 million row base table
-- we need running totals for 1 million rows out of 10 million
SELECT TOP 10000000 -- 10 million row table
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY t1.Number) AS Number
INTO #baseTable
FROM master..spt_values t1
CROSS JOIN master..spt_values t2
CROSS JOIN master..spt_values t3
In SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions (CTE) were introduced. They work like a view inside your select statement. What is cool and not well known about them is that you can update, insert and delete their results without joining them to other tables. I used a TOP (Int Max value) trick because the TOP 100 Percent syntax is considered harmful. Because of this I didn't want to rely on it.
The next gem is the OUTPUT clause which was also introduced in SQL Server 2005. It outputs changed data from an update, delete or an insert statement into a result set so you don't need to do another select.
First we populate the temp table with the 1 million rows subset we wish and add an extra RT column which will hold the Running total value. Next we create an ordered CTE, update it with "the direct variable and column update at the same time" trick and directly output the updated rows into the returning result set.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#testCTE') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #testCTE
DECLARE @dtStart DATETIME
SELECT @dtStart = GETDATE()
-- create our temp table to return data from
SELECT TOP 1000000 Number, CAST(0 AS BIGINT) RT
INTO #testCTE
FROM #baseTable
ORDER BY Number
-- ORDER BY NEWID() -- also works just fine
-- declare helper variable
;WITH RunningTotals AS
SELECT TOP (2147483647) -- put a int max value here to get all rows
Number, RT
FROM #testCTE
ORDER BY Number
-- both of there work correctly
-- ORDER BY Number DESC
UPDATE RunningTotals
SET @RT = RT = @RT + Number
OUTPUT inserted.*
SELECT DATEDIFF(s, @dtStart, GETDATE()) AS DurationInSeconds
The query ran in 8 seconds which blew my mind. I tried various orderings of the column, putting clustered and nonclustered indexes, ordering insert into #testCTE table by newid() but I couldn't find any example where the ordering would not be honored. Even fragmenting the index didn't break it.
If anyone could provide an example when the order by isn't honored I'd be very pleased. Being proved wrong is kind of fun :)
UPDATE: Problems with clustered index
After playing some more and discussing this with Jeff Moden (hoped he would drop in :)) the problem with adding a clustered index is that the clustered index is always updated in the order of the clustering key. It doesn't matter on which column it is. We can verify this easily by doing this:
SELECT TOP 1000000 Number, CAST(0 AS BIGINT) RT
INTO #testCTE
FROM #baseTable
ORDER BY Number
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX CI_testCTE_Number ON #testCTE(Number)
If we run the upper CTE after adding a clustered index we can see that different ordering inside the CTE makes no difference since the update runs in the order of the clustering key. For this to work the #testCTE should NOT have a clustered index on it. Non clustered indexes are ok and they make no difference since the ordering inside the CTE is respected.
And please leave the running totals for the client to do. It's its job. :)
For completeness sake here are the cursor and correlated subquery solutions. Cursor solution took 48 seconds and I just killed the correlated subquery after 5 minutes.
-- Cursor solution
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#testCursor') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #testCursor
-- create our empty temp table to return data from
DECLARE @dtStart DATETIME
SELECT @dtStart = GETDATE()
SELECT TOP 1 Number, CAST(0 AS BIGINT) RT
INTO #testCursor
FROM #baseTable
DECLARE RTCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT TOP 1000000 Number FROM #baseTable ORDER BY Number
DECLARE @Number INT, @RT BIGINT
OPEN RTCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM RTCursor INTO @Number
SET @RT = @RT + @Number
INSERT INTO #testCursor(Number, RT)
VALUES(@Number, @RT )
CLOSE RTCursor
DEALLOCATE RTCursor
FROM #testCursor
ORDER BY Number
SELECT DATEDIFF(s, @dtStart, GETDATE()) AS DurationInSeconds
-- Correlated subquery method
SELECT TOP 1000 Number, (SELECT SUM(Number) FROM #baseTable WHERE Number <= t1.Number) AS RT
FROM #baseTable t1
ORDER BY Number
I haven't tried the SQL CLR solution for this so if anyone has any benchmarks I'd be glad to hear them.
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