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February 10, 2012
The Small Business Administration has issued a final rule increasing the size standard for engineering firms from $4.5 million to $14 million in average revenues over three years. The rule will take effect on March 12, 2012. NSPE has supported increasing the size standard to allow more engineering firms to compete as small businesses.
February 9, 2012
NSPE sent a letter with the STEM Education Coalition to House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN-2) urging him not to strip provisions that support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. NSPE is a member of the STEM Education Coalition, which supports STEM programs for teachers and students at the Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and other agencies that offer STEM-related programs. The coalition is composed of more than 1,000 diverse groups representing all sectors of the technological workforce.
The Senate agreed by a vote of 85–11 to begin considering its transportation reauthorization bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (S. 1813). The bipartisan effort is a striking contrast to the House's American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012 (H.R. 7), which is also expected to hit the floor next week but has garnered no Democratic support and has come under fire from conservative factions within the GOP. With the current transportation funding extension set to expire on March 31, Congress must move quickly—but partisan rancor and election-year politics have raised doubts that Congress will be able to pass a long-term bill before November. A ninth short-term extension of current funding levels may be more likely. NSPE believes that appropriately funded infrastructure systems directly benefit the public's health, safety, and welfare.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved by a vote of 4–1 the first licenses to build reactors in more than 30 years. The reactors will be built from a standardized design that promises to speed construction and reduce costs. NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko was the sole dissenter, objecting on the grounds that the NRC has yet to finalize post-Fukushima safety enhancements. Nuclear energy currently provides about 20% of the United States' electricity. NSPE believes that the United States should lead the world in the advancement and use of nuclear power. Green, clean, renewable nuclear power systems will provide an important component in our nation's efforts to reduce reliance on foreign oil and to reduce the releases of harmful pollutants.
January 25, 2012
NSPE joined more than 1,000 professional, trade, and non-profit organizations; businesses; and labor groups in sending a letter to Congress urging expedient passage of a long-term transportation reauthorization bill. The current law expires on March 31. The letter, part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's campaign "Make Transportation Job #1," acknowledged the funding challenges Congress faces but stressed the benefits of infrastructure investment to the U.S. economy.
January 10, 2012
NSPE Senior Manager of Government Relations Sarah Ogden participated in a Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services meeting. NSPE is a founding member of COFPAES, an organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the Brooks Act (PL 92-582) and the use of qualifications-based selection.
December 23, 2011
NSPE submitted comments on the 2013 federal locality pay program at the request of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM solicits comments from NSPE annually, when the agency must prepare a congressionally mandated report to the president that compares pay rates for federal employees with rates paid to non-federal workers in each locality. The locality pay program provides federal employees with pay adjustments in areas where surveys have shown that the pay disparity between federal and non-federal workers is greater than 5%. The program's goal is to narrow the pay gap between federal and non-federal workers. NSPE believes that federally employed engineers must be compensated in a way that is comparable to the private sector to enable federal agencies to recruit and retain the most qualified engineers.
December 9, 2011
The Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Portfolio, a White House report cataloging all federal investments in STEM education, found that federal agencies are investing $3.4 billion in 252 STEM education programs, with only modest overlap in investments and no duplication in programs. The investments represent less than 1% of the $1 trillion the U.S. spends annually on education. The report, mandated by the America COMPETES Act, is a first step in formulating a five-year strategic plan to improve federal STEM education efforts.
December 7, 2011
NSPE signed on to a joint letter with the American Institute of Architects, American Council of Engineering Companies, Associated General Contractors of America, American Subcontractors Association, and other industry organizations asking Congress and the president to enact legislation that would help create jobs in the design and construction industry. The industry accounts for 5.7% of the Gross Domestic Product and employs more than seven million Americans who design, construct, and maintain the infrastructure on which the U.S. economy depends. Reviving demand for construction, particularly in the private sector, is essential to sustaining broader economic growth.
November 21, 2011
The president signed H.R. 674 into law, finalizing the repeal of a requirement that federal, state, and certain local governments withhold as tax 3% of all payments made to government contractors. Since the withholding requirement's passage in 2006, NSPE has been working with the Government Withholding Relief Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to repeal the mandate. NSPE also sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI-4) in support of the repeal. In addition to NSPE's advocacy of H.R.


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Army doc, 74, soldiers on toward 3rd tour overseas
FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) - Dr. John Burson balked when a skeptical Army staffer asked him to undergo a three-day physical exam to make sure he was fit to deploy as a field surgeon to Afghanistan.
The 74-year-old Burson pointed out that he was training to run a half-marathon.
Burson was declared fit for duty. The ear, nose and throat specialist from northwest Georgia wrapped up a weeklong training course this week at Fort Benning before his scheduled deployment for a 90-day rotation with a unit of the 101st Airborne Division.
He says the first of his two stints in Iraq proved unforgettable.
Burson was among several doctors assigned to keep watch over an imprisoned Saddam Hussein.
Several of Burson's uncles and cousins enlisted during World War II, and that inspired him to seek an Army officer's commission in the 1950s.
Burson retired from military service in 1985 and thought he'd hung up his uniform for good. Then an e-mail came a few years ago from the Army's surgeon general, who was seeking retired military doctors to volunteer for rotations in Iraq.
Burson sent a reply asking if he was too old. The answer led to his first war tour.
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Andrea L. Hollingsworth, Timothy D. Marshall
Published: Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.
Barry and Sonya Hollingsworth of Coronet Lane, Hendersonville, announce the engagement of their daughter, Andrea Leigh Hollingsworth, to Timothy Darrick Marshall of Hendersonville.
He is the son of Brent and Lue Marshall of Academy Road, Hendersonville.
The bride-elect graduated from East Henderson High School and Mars Hill College.
She is a fourth grade teacher with Henderson County Public Schools.
The bridegroom-elect graduated from East Henderson High School and Western Carolina University.
He is a probation and parole officer with the State of North Carolina Department of Corrections.
The wedding will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 11, 2005, in Mud Creek Baptist Church, Hendersonville.
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Nice hotel, centrally located to shopping and dining in Carmel by the sea. Very clean rooms, comfy beds, flat screen tv with partial ocean view. There is a heated pool, which we did not use but it looked well maintained also. Pretty quiet no noises coming from surrounding rooms. Only complaint is that it is not a dog friendly hotel, and Carmel is largely a dog friendly city. Even one of the restaurants directly across the street allow pets. There are 2 retaurants directly across the street Forge in the Forest and Carmel Food Company.So if you are looking to take the family pet, this is not the place for you. There seems to be plenty of parking although it is a bit tight. Other than that, i would definitely recommend for anyone visiting Carmel.
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I Want My Wife Back
What Can I Do?
"Become The Better Man"….
Going threw the experience of loosing a wife!
The woman you choose as your queen!
If I want my wife back after separation, and you do to. There are a some realizations that are imperative to understand, here are my basic facts of the COST of my wife walking out on me.
Is was a tragedy that had cost me my sanity for more than over year.
my wife and I have two very gorgeous girls, who I love with all my heart!
And a step son whom has been mine since he was one!
They were everything I had, that had any meaning to my soul!
My life was in agony and sorrow…
I would wake up some mornings with tears, and say "Lord, "I want my wife back"
The power of that sorrow was controlling the way I lived my life…
I spent so much my time with thoughts of what I could have done to keep the love of my wife, who I believed was my soul mate.
it was not until I lost her when I started thinking, only if I had done this,
or only if I didn't do that!
I Want My Wife Back From Separation Or Divorce Before It Too LATE!
There is an old saying that I used to ignore,
"you don't know what you have got, until it has gone"
That ignorance had cost me my life!
My only wish was for you to help me get me my wife back.
Stuck in love, the only feeling I knew, was that one of regret!
Anybody please help me win back the love of my wife…
There is only one fact that remains to be seen, I must do what it takes to be:
Every bit of advice that you read on how to get my wife back, they make it quite clear of one thing!
You need to be the 100% positive you, before you make any move.
This would be the best thing you could ever do for yourself, even if you don't get the results that you want!
I will not mention how much it has effect on my kids, but one thing I know is I have put them at risk, of learning to live the same!
My wife left me how can i get her back
Become The Better Man!
Life is something that we learn, and deep down I knew I was not the husband that I should have been. It takes the courage of 1000 men to to look into your soul, but I will tell you now, learning the strategies to get it in control, gives you that power!
The principle's of love are universal, as is the difference of being a man or a woman.
There are similarity's in the way we act, and react among all cultures and nationality's! All you guys who say, "I want my wife back after separation"!
You have got to get help, when you are feeling sad, because life is to short, for living when your love is bad…
Any MAN Can Get Back A Wife From Divorce Or Separation no matter what!
Taking time out can be a great thing, if you use the time wisely! There is another great saying that says, "all the best relationships, are those who fall in love many times" if she is worth it, the courage will come…
Change is the only hope for recovering from a broken marriage, along with learning to understand how females work! Learning this kind of knowledge, and having a plan, makes it so much more easier to get a wife back!
That guy is you, it wouldn't matter what any advice meant, if you didn't want help…
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Launched in October 2005, Feelunique is one of Europe's fastest growing online beauty retailers bringing you outstanding value beauty, grooming and health products straight to your door for free!
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a present for my daughter. the second one. very prompt dispatch and delivery.
Best lipstick I have ever used stays on all day.The colour is amazing.Would recommend .
Beautiful colour and so easy to wear
Colour was perfect. So bright and eyecatching. Worth the money
Just didn't do it for me, didn't last long at all and colour was disappointing
The colour of this didn't match the colour shown on the website
I really love feelunique
Its amazing, love the products. Btw, what about free samples??
Same as the modern mauve colour I also purchase.. I love them they just glide on your lips! I would moisterise lips beforehand.
I love anything Kardashian so I was over the moon when I realised you could get the kardashian beauty products in this country. Goes on amazing and really does give your lips a great shine.
My daughter was delighted with this gift to her for Xmas. She loves the colour and the product.
This is one of the best lipsticks I have ever used, and I have quite a lot! Colour stays on perfectly through eating and drinking and during long days, would recommend to everyone!
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I love this lip stick pen in Modern Mauve, it's my everyday go to lipstick.
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I have been looking to try this product for a while and I am very happy with it. Colour is great, nice and shimmery. Stays on and also smells fab! Looking forward to trying out the rest of the colours!
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Best brand I think I've used.. As some celeb make up lines can be rubbish but not this one..
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when an individual is only concerned with himself or his belongings (mostly $$). This kind of person is disliked by his peers. Ego-maniac.
That prickkk sure is a dalbianco.
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Running "powercfg -energy" under Windows 7 command line, I received a report with following three errors:
System Availability Requests:Away Mode Request
The program has made a request to enable Away Mode.
Requesting Process \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe
CPU Utilization:Processor utilization is high
The average processor utilization during the trace was high. The system will consume less power when the average processor utilization is very low. Review processor utilization for individual processes to determine which applications and services contribute the most to total processor utilization.
Average Utilization (%) 49.25
Platform Power Management Capabilities:PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) Disabled
PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) has been disabled due to a known incompatibility with the hardware in this computer.
I was wondering
- for the first error, what does "enable away mode" mean?
- for the second, what utilization percentage of CPU is reasonable?
- for the third, what is "PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM)"?
- How I can correct the three errors?
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Something's supposed to be fishy at Trident Seafoods. The
vertically integrated seafood business hauls in salmon, crab, and
assorted other fin- and shellfish from the icy waters of Alaska and
the Pacific Northwest. It then processes and cans or freezes them
for retail food and foodservice customers. Trident operates a fleet
of some 30 processing boats and trawlers, as well as about 20
onshore processing plants in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. The
company's portfolio includes Trident, Louis Kemp, and SeaLegs brand
of surimi (crab-flavored processed fish). Trident owns Port Chatham
Smoked Seafood, which smokes salmon and tuna under the Portlock
label. The company operates a single retail store in Seattle.
Geographic Reach
The seafood company's operations stretch across Alaska and the
Pacific Northwest. Its Alaskan plants include Akutan, Chignik,
Cordova, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Naknek - Bristol Bay, Petersburg, Sand
Point, St. Paul and Wrangell. The company's Northwest plants
include Anacortes and Bellingham (Washington), Newport, (Oregon),
and Pier 91 - Seattle, Seattle Shipyard, and Tacoma Shipyard. It
also has a plant in Motley, (Minnesota).
Aside from its fleet of about 30 processing boats and
trawlers, Trident boasts almost 20 onshore processing plants.
Trident provides harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood
products, including seabass, cod, crab, flounder/sole, halibut,
lobster, mahi, pollock, rockfish, salmon, shrimp, steelhead trout,
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The company serves foodservice and retail distribution markets
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Trident has grown in recent years by opening new locations in
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into the US market. The new location saves on shipping time and
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The company was founded in 1973 by chairman Chuck Bundrant.
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Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is a film that, as a fan of the series, I kept trying to like. It just wouldn't let me.
Jason Bourne is a film that, as a fan of the series, I kept trying to like. It just wouldn't let me.
A wrenching and ultimately inspirational film about college linebacker Steve Gleason's battle with ALS.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
The complete list of movie recommendations from writers at RogerEbert.com.
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite cinematic remedies to elevate their moods.
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite movies featuring star-crossed lovers.
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite movies featuring aliens and UFOs.
A table of contents featuring our coverage from the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con.
A report from Comic-Con 2016 on the various ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek."
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
Marie writes: allow me to introduce you to Travel Photographer, founded by Chris and Karen Coe in 2003 and their annual contest "Travel Photographer of the Year".After years spent working in the travel industry as a professional photographer and finding it was mostly conventional images making it into print, Chris decided to create a way to showcase great travel photography and broaden people's perception of what it can encompass - namely, that it can be much, much more than a pretty postcard image.The contest is open to one and all; amateur and professional photographers compete alongside each other. Entrants are judged solely on the quality of their photographs. There's a special competition to encourage young photographers aged 18 and under; Young Travel Photographer of the Year. The youngest entrant to date was aged just five, the oldest 88. The competition is judged by a panel of photographic experts, including renowned photographers, picture buyers, editor and technical experts.And the 2010 winners have now been announced. Here's a few random photos to wet your appetite - then you can scroll through the amazing winners gallery!
Enal is around 6 years old and knows this shark well - it lives in a penned off area of ocean beneath his stilted house in Wangi, Indonesia. Photo: James Morgan, UK (Portfolio Encounters: Winner 2010) [note: click images to enlarge]


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With six Battle Network games already clogging up the nation%26rsquo;s GBA bargain bins, you might feel that we need to import another Mega Man -based grid battle game as much as we%26rsquo;d need to import a plate of fish and chips, or a butler named Jeeves. Aaaaand... you%26rsquo;d be mostly right. But not because Star Force isn%26rsquo;t a significant improvement over Battle Network - it%26rsquo;s more down to language barriers making this about as accessible as Wario%26rsquo;s wallet.
Mega Man: Star Force [import] review
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- Classic Battle Network gameplay
- Meticulous storyline
- Very hummable music
- Horrendous graphics
- Same-old gameplay
- Random battles every six seconds
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|Just like the Battle Network games, only this one takes place in space and will be released in three different versions.
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Style Note
When you wear buckaroo shoes, you are making a style statement that is immediately identifiable and extremely trendy. With Mexican Cowboy roots, these shoes crafted from pure and high quality leather are comfortable and extremely sought after. Make the style statement that will leave a mark with this pair of slip on shoes.
Product Details
Square toed, brown slip on shoes with stitched detail around the toe box
Nubuck upper with branding on the tongue and at the side
Reinforced overlay at the heel collar
Soft footbed
Upper adhered to the outsole
TPU outsole with herringbone grooves in the forefoot and heel region, slightly extended at the heel
Material and Care
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As Tech Giant Calls For More Foreign Workers, Senate Hears of Displaced Americans
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, believes passionately that the United States needs more skilled foreign workers.
History lesson: President Hillary Clinton would be secretive, too
She came to Washington more than 20 years ago determined to keep secrets, and she's still at it.
GOP Scrambles to keep Obamacare subsidies flowing in case of Supreme Court victory
What happens if Republicans win the Supreme Court case against Obamacare? They might end up like the dog that caught the car.
White House traps itself in terrorism word games
Why has the Obama administration tied itself in knots over what to call Islamic terrorism?
Scott Walker's bumpy evolution education
It's almost as if Scott Walker knew he could get in trouble just by traveling to London.
Jeb Bush rolls out kinder, gentle candidacy
It worked for George H.W. Bush in 1988, it worked for George W. Bush in 2000, and now Jeb Bush is preparing to give it another go in 2016.
Public opinion left out of picture in Obama immigration drive
86 percent of Americans would like immigration into this country to remain at today's level or to decrease.
Obama trolls, talks trash with a purpose
President Obama has never been weaker.
Obama rush to empty Guantanamo alarms lawmakers
Now that it's clear Obama is rushing to empty the place, Republicans are stepping up efforts to stop him.
Can Mitch McConnell really make the Senate better?
Some of the changes new Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring to the Senate might seem like inside baseball.
Why attacks on Steve Scalise misfired
Not only has the Democratic Party attacked Scalise himself, it has also gone after the House GOP leadership and, now, the 2016 Republican presidential field.
Will Obama defy Congress on Gitmo prisoners?
Whatever the president does, he can't change the fact that Guantanamo is the best answer to a very difficult problem.
Future uncertain, Romney sits atop GOP polls
It can be hard to take the idea of a Mitt Romney 2016 presidential run seriously.
Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits program to illegal immigrants
President Obama's unilateral executive action on immigration will make hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million, illegal immigrants eligible for federal transfer payments.
Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits program to illegal immigrants
President Obama's unilateral executive action on immigration will make hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million, illegal immigrants eligible for federal transfer payments.
Obama edict raises questions about illegal immigrants' benefits
Republican concerns have been intensified by Obama's slippery language about other federal benefits.
Obama edict raises questions about illegal immigrants' benefits
Obama's immigration edict has increased the already high level of mistrust between the president and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
With immigration action, Obama moves to cement his coalition
As things stand now, President Obama will leave the White House with two legacies.
Dem's path after Obamacare: Down, down, down
January could be the start of a new phase in the years-long Obamacare war.
In defeat, Obama tells GOP: My mandate is bigger than yours
The president claimed a mandate on behalf of voters who didn't vote.


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To calm down or relax. To pass time idly. To keep company. Can often be used with "out."
After a strenuous day, Nathan and Makaela decided against going out for the night and decided to stay home and zope.
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To be gigafied beyond all belief.
After we saw that gigabuck I turned into a Zope
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I am using Snow Leopard 10.6 and every desktop manager that I can find and install won't work. What can I try or apps that you know that I can try that will work on 10.6?
I did a google search for "3D cube desktop manager" and I found this, which seems to me to be a Windows desktop manager which tries to emulate the latest Mac OS X features. So what you're looking for is already baked into Mac OS X.
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UConn Wins NCAA Dogfight
Minute-by-minute analysis of this NCAA tournament title game date between Butler and UConn. The Journal's Ben Cohen and Darren Everson are at Reliant Stadium in Houston and Geoff Foster is in New York to offer commentary on the game and the CBS telecast. Follow this blog, along with curated Twitter feeds of both teams and national media members, on the Journal's NCAA dashboard.
After another season of college basketball, and yet another March rife with madness, we're 40 basketball minutes away from crowning a new national champion. Here's the wonderful thing about the NCAA tournament: You're probably lying if you claim you projected a Butler-Connecticut final even three weeks ago, and yet you're also probably lying if you say you're heartbroken over this matchup. That's not to say the Huskies and Bulldogs are the two best teams in college basketball. They're not. But right now, they're the two hottest, and the last ones standing.
What more do you need to know about Butler? The No. 8 seed, hailing from the mighty Horizon League, is no stranger to the big stage: Brad Stevens' team lost one of the sport's all-time national-championship games last year, which is why the Bulldogs seem more like Goliath than David in tonight's affair. They're still a 3-point underdog – clearly, Las Vegas knows something that we don't – yet here in Houston, amazingly enough, Butler feels like the favorite. This mid-major has become so proficient at winning with the so-called Butler Way that it seems foolish to bet against them. "It has long since become abundantly clear that no team in college basketball performs better in the critical moments of a close game than this one," Darren Everson writes in today's Journal. "If the Connecticut game is close, which it figures to be, it almost goes without saying which side should be expected to make the crucial plays necessary to win."
Then again, No. 3 Connecticut also knows its way around the closing seconds – especially in the last 10 games, a postseason stretch in which the Huskies haven't lost. Kemba Walker, easily the best player on the floor tonight, guided the Huskies through a gauntlet of nailbiters in the Big East tournament, and the Big Dance hasn't been much more relaxing for Kemba and the Cardiac Kids. Arizona had two last-second chances to beat UConn in the West regional final, and Saturday in Reliant Stadium, freshman Shabazz Napier clinched the trip to the national-title game by sinking a pair of free throws with 1.7 seconds left.
All of this points tonight to a classic that's almost obligated to come down to the buzzer. We wouldn't have it any other way.
Perhaps the biggest college-hoops news today – so far, at least – had nothing to do with tonight's national championship. Virginia Commonwealth's Shaka Smart, the 33-year-old dynamo who guided the 11th-seeded Rams to an improbable Final Four run, will still be VCU's coach next season. The mastermind of VCU's frenetic approach, which he calls "havoc," turned down overtures from North Carolina State, at least, and agreed to an eight-year deal to remain in Richmond, Va.
This is obviously good news for pretty much everyone but those poor souls in Raleigh, who have had a harder time snagging a coach than I've had scoring a respectable schmear of cream cheese in Texas. Well, scratch that. (Not the bagel part. I'm serious: Help me out, Houston people.) It's probably bad news for VCU's rivals in the Colonial Athletic Association, too. Not that Smart needs any further rationale, but there is precedent for sticking at a mid-major once it starts playing like a major power. That strategy worked out pretty well for one babyfaced coach on the bench tonight. And no, I'm not talking about Jim Calhoun.
A few Butler students in the front row of their section purchased this shirt for $8 at the Galleria today. I'd say that makes this trip to Houston pretty worthwhile, though I imagine they want to come away with a few more T-shirts.
If you're new to basketball (hi there!) or even if you're not, make sure you watch the battle inside tonight. The national champion will be the team that wins the glass.
Connecticut is one of the best offensive-rebounding teams in the country. (I say this with about the same confidence as Brad Stevens — well, fine, maybe a little less — because we both pored through the indispensable KenPom.com.) On the rare occasion that Walker misses a shot, Butler's going to have to stop the Huskies from doing what they do as well as anyone: bang inside for the putback. This is especially worth watching tonight, because Butler is a top-15 defensive-rebounding club. In the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, the Bulldogs beat Old Dominion and Pittsburgh, No. 1 and No. 2 in offensive rebounding this season. They were particularly ferocious against top-seeded Pittsburgh, holding the Panthers to their second-lowest offensive rebounding output of the year.
The anticipation of tonight's game made today drag even for me. If you're trying to imagine how Butler and Connecticut's players killed 12 hours, here's a hint: They basically sat around their rooms and did nothing.
Some players, as you can imagine, are superstitious about their pregame routine. Then there's Roscoe Smith, UConn's freshman forward. When I asked him what he planned to eat tonight, I expected the typical pregame smorgasbord: grilled chicken, spaghetti, fish, etc. "I don't know—they change it up every meal," Smith said. "I hope it's fajitas, though." Fajitas! Was he craving fajitas, like me, because of the area? "Just in general," he said. Then he sighed that he ate grilled chicken, pasta and fish before Saturday's game. No fajitas, alas.
I relayed Smith's gastronomical preference afterward to Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, who explained that Smith's a "picky eater." (I don't know, either.) Anyway, it's a good thing I brought my spare jar of shoe leather to Houston, because I'm not sure how else I would have pulled off this very serious and equally important investigation.
Geoff: You've watched a lot more basketball than I have, even if it is Big Ten basketball, so I turn to you for perspective. Where does Kemba Walker's postseason performance rank in history? It's safe to say that if UConn wins tonight, it will be because of Walker, a 4-to-7 favorite to win the tournament's most outstanding player award. The junior has averaged 25.5 points per game in the postseason, but that number doesn't even begin to capture his brilliance. Quite simply, UConn isn't here without Walker.
So what should we expect from him tonight? "Kemba's always going to be Kemba," said Roscoe Smith between fajita-related thoughts. "No one can really shut him down."
I really don't appreciate the cheap shot at Big Ten basketball. To answer your question, yes, if Kemba's Huskies cut down the nets, he will go down as one of the all time legends. Somewhere ahead of Carmelo Anthony but behind Danny Manning.
Meanwhile, Blue II will go down somewhere ahead of UGA VI but behind Jack the Bulldog in terms of all-time live English Bulldog sports mascots.
This UConn team is nothing but a bunch of mama's boys. No, for real: As he was walking out of the tunnel, Niels Giffey stopped to pose for a photo with his mom. (I couldn't quite see her spit over his shoulder, as he told me she does for good luck, but perhaps I just missed it.) Also, a few minutes earlier, the UConn students summoned a wave from Kemba Walker's mom. A clone would be more useful.
Where is everyone? Oh, right: I snapped this photo a few minutes before students took their seats in Reliant Stadium, not that the UConn student section is much more impressive even now. The Butler students outnumber them at least 5-to-1.
How dare you, Geoff! Blue II considers that an insult. I'll expand more on my pick later, but I'll bet you a Blue II martini that Butler doesn't go home empty this time. Actually, make that a Blue IV martini, double the hard stuff.
If Butler or Connecticut are anything like the North Carolina team that won the 2005 national championship, it might be best to avoid their locker rooms right about now. "Jackie Manuel used to throw up before games," UNC Greensboro assistant coach Wes Miller, a guard for those Tar Heels, told me this week. "Right after he came out, before warm-ups." I would fact-check this statement, but…
This is the last game of the NCAA tournament, which also means it's the last of CBS's studio shows. With that in mind, I want to offer a public stamp of approval for Sir Charles Barkley. (He's a knight in my book.) It's time to admit that Barkley wasn't such a terrible idea, after all. Geoff, tell me I'm wrong.
This game has the potential to be the greatest sporting event in Reliant Stadium history. But, remember it has some tough competition:
1) David Carr's Texans beating the Cowboys 19-10 in their inaugural season, a game that eliminated at least 40% of my survivor pool.
2) Texas beating Colorado 70-3 in the Big 12 Championship in 2005.
3) Man U. beating the MLS All-Stars 5-2 in 2010.
…..ok the competition is kinda weak.
We're guaranteed at least one outcome tonight: The national champion will have the most losses of any any NCAA tournament winner since 1997, since Butler and UConn both have nine losses. It's hard to remember now, given the way they're playing, but the Huskies actually lost four of their last five regular-season games, winding up 9-9 in the Big East. Their losses weren't coincidences, either. Other teams beat UConn three ways:
1. They shut down Kemba Walker. And by shut down, I mean held him to about 15 points. I'm sure Brad Stevens would love for his team to halt Kemba like that, but telling Ronald Nored, "Hey, Ron, go shut down Kemba Walker," isn't really a strategy.
2. They battled them down low, and Butler's trio of Matt Howard, Andrew Smith and Khyle Marshall might be able to keep the Huskies off the offensive glass, as we mentioned earlier.
3. They trapped them with a match-up zone. UConn faced 120 straight minutes of match-up zone in the middle of the season, emerging 2-2 in that stretch. Butler prefers to play a man-to-man defense, but I wouldn't be stunned to see Stevens mix in a little 2-3 match-up early in the first half. He's pushed all the right buttons so far this tournament. Why not this one?
It's time for predictions, and I don't think I'm alone in picking Butler. In fact, it seems like most everybody here is picking Butler. Well, not everybody. This morning, in the elevator, I ran into a kind gentleman who told me he likes Connecticut. "Not to take anything away from Butler," he said, ever so courteous, "but they haven't seen Kemba Walker." I should probably mention that he was also wearing a UConn T-shirt and sweatpants.
Then again, Ken Pomeroy forecasts a 69-65 Connecticut win, and he's opening their win probability at 61%. So what do I know?
I'm saying UConn 66, Butler 59. I'm basing my pick on Charles Barkley's theory that they have "better players." So that also answers your question on what I think of Mr. Barkley's opinions.
Led by their literal flagbearers, Butler just ran onto the floor with about 3:30 showing on the Reliant Stadium clock. That might be the latest I've ever seen a team make it out of the locker room. Guess someone really wanted to get to the next level of Angry Birds before tip.
We were courtside about two hours ago, when a petite blonde ripped a practice rendition of the national anthem. Turns out, it was LeAnn Rimes, and the country star just totally killed it again. I say bring her back for the halftime show, and keep her around for the Super Bowl.
I prefer Aguilera, I like my national anthems to be overly drawn out and lyrically inaccurate.
And Blue II struts off the court like a champion. I want to see that pooch at Westminster next year, even if he is 7 years old.
Sign in the UConn student section: UCONN'T BEAT THE HUSKIES, with the C, B and S emphasized. I see what he did there, but UCONN'T isn't a word.
Geoff, on that overhead shot of the UConn student section, did you see the kid in the front row wearing the neon pink hat? He's hard to miss. Anyway, he was wearing a Yankees cap before the game, so I'm glad to see him go back to the fluorescent attire.
The ball is tipped…
3-2 Butler, 1st Half, 18:50 left
Olander picks up a loose ball and lays it in for the game's first bucket, and after trading hapless possessions, Stigall rattles home a three over Lamb for Butler's first trey. Mack's first attempt was stuffed clean, by the way.
Why is he wearing a Yankees hat? Isn't Storrs technically in Red Sox-New England? Just saying….
Everyone in this game needs to calm down, both teams are playing like they chugged a 5-Hour Energy.
4-3 UConn, 1st Half, 17:00 left
But there's Oriakhi in the paint again. Remember what we said: UConn has lost when it's bullied down low. That's not the case tonight. Butler's Ronald Nored comes off the bench, so Vanzant gets the Walker assignment early, and the star misses his first two attempts.
4-3 UConn, 1st Half, 16:35 left
Forget the score. Here's the real tally: Butler 2, UConn 0. The Huskies have been whistled for two loose ball fouls on offensive rebounds precisely because the Bulldogs established position down low. That's how you make the seventh-best offensive rebounding team in the country look like my middle-school rec team: boxing out. It also helps when you're 6-foot-8, and not 5-foot-nothing, I suppose.
4-3 Connecticut, 1st Half, 15:58 left
Good thing Blue II isn't courtside. Judging by the bench's reaction, that Andrew Smith swat of Kemba would have made him rabid.
4-3 Connecticut, 1st Half, 15:58 left
Speaking of defensive assignments, it's been tough for Shelvin Mack to shoot with Jeremy Lamb's hand just about on his face. I might ask Darren to cover my eyes and see if my live-blogging gets any better. Don't dare me.
8-6 UConn, 1st Half, 14:09 left
The Huskies respond to a Howard three with back-to-back buckets from Oriakhi and Liffey. Looks like we have an answer to our question: Liffey's mom must've spit over his shoulder for luck.
10-8 UConn, 1st Half, 13:00 left
Walker's on the board after Howard runs into a vicious screen by Roscoe Smith at the elbow. That's karmic retribution: Howard was the one who leveled Duke's Kyle Singler before Gordon Hayward attempted his half-court heave at the end of last year's title game.
13-8 UConn, 1st Half, 12:30 left
Kemba Walker, and-one. Appreciate it while you can.
13-9 UConn, 1st Half, 11:58 left
When asked about how important it is that Butler was here last year, Kellogg just said you can't "quantify it" but you can "qualify it." I haven't been this confused since my freshman-year class on existential themes in poetry (I rarely did the reading).
13-9 UConn, 1st Half, 11:58 left
At yesterday's press conference, a reporter asked Brad Stevens about the designer of his eyeglasses. But given the way he's chomping on gum, I'm surprised no one asked him if he's made the switch from, say, Wrigley's to Orbit. The JumboTron here — and calling it a JumboTron is almost an insult — just flashed George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, to a nice round of cheers from the crowd. But then the UConn pep band was busy with the "Hey!" song, so maybe people were applauding for another reason.
13-9 UConn, 11:00 left, 1st half
Not that Butler isn't used to it, but it looks like scoring is going to be a real chore for the Bulldogs tonight. Pretty much everything is coming from the perimeter right now because of UConn's length inside. If Butler doesn't hit its threes …
13-9 UConn, 1st Half, 10:58 left
You have to worry a little bit about Kemba Walker's workload when he gets to the next level. The guy has only been on the bench for about four combined minutes this season.
13-9 UConn, 1st Half, 10:58 left
You have to worry a little bit about Kemba Walker's workload when he gets to the next level. The guy has only been on the bench for about four combined minutes this season.
13-9 UConn, 1st Half, 10:26 left
And Butler shows an alternate use of defensive rebounding: Howard rips down the board and outlets to Mack, who delivers a nifty entry pass to Smith with position on Oriakhi. The big man has no choice but to foul — his second of the evening. He promptly takes his spot on the bench. Kemba Walker has no idea what this whole "bench" thing is.
UConn 13, Butler 12, 1st Half, 8:41 left
Butler is an ugly 3 for 16 from the field. The theory that it's harder to shoot in domes in the Final Four has so far held true.
13-13, 1st Half, 8:00 left
I'm sure the fact that this dome is pretty much full isn't helping, either. The fear in Houston was that Kentucky's loss, coupled with a mid-major on the other side of the bracket, would result in a depression on the secondary-ticket market. Perhaps, but there aren't many empty seats here. Even the ones up top are occupied despite the fact that I'm pretty sure they're in Louisiana.
Butler 16, UConn 15, 1st Half, 6:48 left
Kerr just said that Butler plays better when they are playing poorly than any other team in the nation. Does that mean that they play particularly poorly when they are playing well? I'm lost.
16-15 Butler, 1st Half, 6:44 left
Two fouls on Lamb is going to change the way UConn defends Butler. Case in point: Stigall just buried another deep three.
16-15 Butler, 1st Half, 6:44 left
Butler is 4 of 18 from the field. Twenty-two percent. On top anyway.
16-15 Butler, 1st Half, 6:44 left
Wally Szczerbiak just leaned over our shoulder on press row to look at the shooting statistics. "Ugly!" he said.
19-16 UConn, 1st Half, 6:00 left
Well, I'm fairly confident this game isn't going to be enshrined in Springfield, Mass., anytime soon. OK, fine, I'm very aware that games can't be enshrined. You get the point.
19-19, 1st Half, 3:49 left
UConn's effectively had three possessions, but the Huskies couldn't open up the lead on any of them. Still, that's what happens with one offensive rebound and one guy like Walker, who can get to the hole and draw a foul seemingly at will. Butler, on the other hand, boasts Shelvin Mack, whose game-tying three-pointer is his first field goal of the game.
19-19 UConn, 1st Half, 3:49 left
Mack hits a three from the top of the key that ties the game. I'd forgotten what a shot that didn't clang off the rim sounded like.
In an unrelated note, I think I just noticed for the first time in my life that the husky is sticking his tongue out in the UConn logo. That's like the first time I noticed the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo. It changed my life.
19-19, 1st Half, 3:49 left
It's almost stunning that UConn isn't blowing Butler out right now, let alone leading at all. The Huskies are absolutely owning the glass, out-rebounding Butler 22-14, including nine offensive rebounds. All Butler's done is shoot 5-of-21 from the floor. I suppose that's the Butler Way: hang around, hang around, hang around until it's time to win. Throw that motto next to a Nike swoosh on a T-shirt and watch the money pile up.
19-19, 1st Half, 2:46 left
UConn is playing like the ball is covered in a thick layer of animal fat. They are getting rebounds but that can't seem to hold on to anything.
19-19, 1st Half, 1:58 left
There are only so many ways of saying the same thing.
19-19, 1st Half, 1:30 left
Kemba's 3-for-11 with seven points. Maybe that whole "Hey, Ron, go out and shut him down" strategy wasn't so silly.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Trench. Warfare.
Everything–everything!–is a struggle in this game. I'm having flashbacks to the Michigan State-Wisconsin Final Four classic of 2000, which the Badgers led by the mind-blowing score of 19-17 at halftime.
Fans behind our seats *really* let the referees have it as they came off at halftime.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Bill Raftery's sitting about 20 feet away, and I can hear him from here: Onions! Double order! Butler holds for the last shot after snaring an offensive rebound, and after dribbling the clock down at the top of the key, Mack strokes a three at the buzzer to give Butler its biggest lead of the evening. Last year's title game saw a 33-32 halftime score. That looks like a Harlem Globetrotters affair compared to this barnburner.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
The announcers just compared this game to a Steelers-Ravens game. I think we are giving the defenses too much credit with that analogy, I saw a lot of ugly misses on very makeable shots.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Dennis Rodman is … I can't even describe what he's wearing, and I'm not even going to try. Use your imagination. Or maybe don't. That might be better for all of us. All I'll say is that both teams could use him on the glass right about now, no matter what kind of glittery scarf he's rocking.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Let me get this straight: Butler shot 6-for-27 from the field, 5-of-8 from the line, lost the rebound battle 27-18, surrendered 11 offensive rebounds, gave up 14 points in the paint and scored none of its own… and the Bulldogs are winning? This is even more proof that I have no idea what I'm talking about.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Greg Anthony: "This is the worst half of basketball I've ever seen in a national champion game."
For the record, he may be on to something, the title game was more high-scoring when Oklahoma A&M beat NYU in 1945. And the Violets couldn't hit anything in that one.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
Don't even get me started on the 1945 title game. They're still talking about that ending in Washington Square Park.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
The real loser of that first half: anyone who bet the over. Las Vegas oddsmakers set the over/under for this title game at 130, apparently under the impression that this is just the front end of a doubleheader.
22-19 Butler, Halftime
The 1946 title game was Oklahoma State and UNC, which combined to score 40 points in the first half — the fewest in history.
25-19 Butler, 2nd Half, 19:30 left
UConn gets Stigalled again. After his first attempt hits iron, the sophomore grabs his own offensive rebound and cans a three, extending a 9-0 run for the Bulldogs. Granted, it's taken more than six minutes, but who's counting?
26-25 UConn, 2nd half, 17:37 left
Ok, I forgot about the Super Bowl in 2004 when I was naming great moments in Reliant Stadium history. I think I got food poisoning during that SB from some bad crab dip.
26-25 UConn, 2nd Half, 17:30 left
UConn's 7-0 run doesn't quite take so long. Walker and Lamb sink back-to-back jumpers, and just like that, the Huskies have found their bark.
26-25 Connecticut, 2nd Half, 16:57 left
Walker hits a big two point jumper, but I worry he's going to try and do too much down the stretch and chuck up some forced shots. That's called playing tournament basketball, Fredette-style.
26-25 UConn, 2nd Half, 16:45 left
Geoff, on TV, can you make out what Stevens is saying to the officials? From here, it seems to be something like, "Sir, I don't agree with that call, but I respect your decision to make it. And hey, how about we chat about it over some late-night barbecue at Goode's? My treat." But I'm not much of a lip-reader, so I can't say for sure.
26-25 UConn, 2nd Half, 15:54 left
Butler's Howard just missed a three. That was the first shot he's taken since 3:31 was left in the first half. I know Butler is tough and all, but the Bulldogs aren't winning without output from him.
27-25 UConn, 2nd Half, 15:54 left
Maybe there's a reason Butler has just one two-point field goal. (Yes, that's right: one.) The reason is that the Huskies are all kinds of big inside. They have seven blocks, including four in the second half alone, and Charles Okwandu just made Stigall look like a 5-year-old trying to dunk on his dad. It's not all bad for Stigall, though: his six points in the first half were more than he had scored in all of Butler's five tournament games combined. Maybe that's The Butler Way, too.
31-26 UConn, 2nd Half, 13:31 left
Brad Stevens always looks very cool and collected. It's like he is always thinking to himself. "I can't believe they actually pay me a lot of money to do this ridiculously amazing job and I'm only 34."
31-26 UConn, 2nd Half, 13:31 left
Butler's in serious trouble, all because the Bulldogs can't generate anything offensively. It's not a coincidence they only have one two-point bucket in 20 shots. The Bulldogs are stuffed anytime they try to hit the lane, and Mack can only hoist so many off-balanced threes. It's UConn's defensive pressure — not Walker's offensive heroics — that has the Huskies about 13 minutes from a national championship. Lamb's steal and breakaway dunk, flushed with a flourish, force Stevens to burn his first timeout. Of course, Butler down five cuts both ways. The deficit feels like 15, given the anemia of the offense, though this is Butler. Being down five is precisely what it prefers.
33-26 UConn, 2nd Half, 13:05 left
Butler's strategy of "let's miss all of our field goals and hopefully still win" is starting to catch up to them. I'm sorry, you can't go 7 of 42 and expect to win anything.
33-26 UConn, 2nd Half, 12:38 left
This is cruel by now. Stevens designs a play for Howard, whose banked layup somehow rattles out before Lamb swishes a short jumper on the other end. Then, on Butler's next possession, Marshall's short one also hits everything but doesn't fall. He misses the two ensuing free throws, naturally. Here comes Jimmer Stigall. Maybe he'll have the magic touch for a team that desperately needs some kind of elixir.
33-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 11:50 left
Vanzant snaps Butler's skid, so now the Bulldogs have hit two field goals. Hide your kids.
33-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 11:50 left
Brad Stevens spent the first 30 seconds of that timeout staring down an official. Looking at him, I almost thought about being scared, and then I remembered I was looking at Brad Stevens.
33-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 11:50 left
Brad Stevens spent the first 30 seconds of that timeout staring down an official. Looking at him, I almost thought about being scared, and then I remembered I was looking at Brad Stevens.
37-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 10:50 left
Stigall misses a WIDE OPEN three. There was no good defense there, just icy cold shooting.
37-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 10:30 left
Maybe Butler's best possession of the half sees the ball swing around the perimeter, then inside and out before Stigall's wide-open three in the corner … clank. UConn responds with a gorgeous possession of its own: an alley-oop to Lamb that gives the Huskies the largest lead of the title game.
39-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 10:05 left
Kemba time, folks. We haven't mentioned him much, but the best player on the court has 12 points, which, of course, is a game-high.
39-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 9:00 left
Now's the time to point out that Butler trailed Florida by 11 with nine minutes remaining in the Southeast regional final, and we all know how that ended up.
41-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 6:55 left
I once attended my cousin's middle school girls basketball game. The final score was 6-4. It was, like this, mostly a defensive battle.
41-28 UConn, 2nd Half, 6:43 left
Butler is shooting 8-for-50 tonight. That's not a typo: 8-for-50. I'm pretty sure I could do better from my seat on press row, even in this dome.
43-30 UConn, 2nd Half, 5:49 left
Smith's easy layup gets the old Bronx cheer. They hadn't scored in six minutes and have eight points this half.
43-30 UConn, 2nd Half, 5:49 left
Official attendance tonight is 70,376, which means 70,376 people are currently trying to remember the last time they saw an offensive performance this lousy. For me? Just this weekend: Charlie Sheen in Detroit.
44-32 UConn, 2nd Half, 5:11 left
Wisconsin lost 36-33 in the Big Ten tournament but at least they were trying to play at a slow tempo. Butler is just playing like a bunch of 10-year-olds playing pop-a-shot at a Dave and Busters.
44-32 UConn, 2nd Half, 5:11 left
Wisconsin lost 36-33 in the Big Ten tournament but at least they were trying to play at a slow tempo. Butler is just playing like a bunch of 10-year-olds playing pop-a-shot at a Dave and Busters.
46-35 UConn, 2nd Half, 3:17 left
Of everything I read, of all the reporters and fans and players and coaches I interviewed, no one thought UConn would be up 11 at the season's last media timeout. Conventional wisdom dictated that this game would be tight, even inexplicably, and that's what played out in the first half. Butler led by three, somehow. But now UConn has a double-digits lead, even after a Vanzant three, and the Huskies are headed to the line to seal this thing — all without another shot at The Shot.
48-38 UConn, 2nd Half, 1:50 left
Mack cans a stepback three, and the Bulldogs begin to foul. This will have to be the Butler Way.
50-41 UConn, 2nd Half, 1:31 left
Mack hits three pointers in back to back possessions, his first points of the half. Where has that shot been all game?
51-41 UConn, 2nd Half, 1:31 left
Another Mack three, and another foul. The Butler Way! Too bad it's The Kemba Way on the line. The Kemba Way doesn't much care for The Butler Way.
53-41 UConn, 2nd Half, :30 left
Walker hits two more free throws, giving him 16 points, and as the UConn student section chants "MVP!", you can put this one in the books. Well, maybe you shouldn't. I'm not sure if anyone besides Huskies fans will want to read about this game years from now.
53-41 UConn, Final
I'm currently drowning in a sea of confetti, which means the college basketball season is over: Connecticut is your 2011 national champion.
53-41 UConn, Final
What was Nantz's call? I had, "Houston, we have a champion!" in the office pool.
53-41 UConn, Final
Nance says "Huskies are the top dog!" He had that one in the can, I suspect. In fact, he knew he was going to say that regardless of who won. He may have practiced in front of his hotel bathroom mirror last night.
Wait, he just said, "Huskies win Best in Show". My goodness, I knew the dog puns would be bad, I didn't know they would be this bad.
53-41 UConn, Final
UConn's pep band just ripped into a hearty rendition of "All I Do Is Win." Who needs "One Shining Moment"?
53-41 UConn, Final
It's really a shame that there's no period after the No. 1 on the front of UConn's T-shirt. The way it reads, NO 1 won this year's national championship. Clearly, the NCAA needs more English majors.
53-41 UConn, Final
The Butler Bulldogs are halfway to becoming the Buffalo Bills of college basketball. Sorry, that was mean to both Buffalo fans and Butler fans.
And thus concludes one of the greatest postseason runs this sport has ever seen: Connecticut, a team that finished 9-9 in its conference, has won 11 straight games in March. The Huskies survived the Big East tournament, a wringer in itself. They beat San Diego State and Arizona all the way out in Anaheim. They beat Kentucky, the Final Four favorite, and then they beat Butler, the team no one thought would lose. That's all because of Kemba Walker, who needs no further description by now, was the country's finest player this month. The Final Four's Most Outstanding Player's 16 points were a game-high tonight. Of course they were.
What else is there to say about Butler? For the second straight year, the Bulldogs advanced to the national championship and, in the process, became America's favorite college basketball team. This year's trip to the Final Four was even more improbable, and for that reason, the loss tonight might just sting more than last year's. But then, anyone who thinks Butler won't be back here isn't familiar with Brad Stevens, Blue II or Matt Howard's socks. That Nike T-shirt won't be the last you see of The Butler Way.
The ladders are out, the court is covered in confetti and here comes "One Shining Moment." It's officially April.


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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
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- Progressive ossifying myositis
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connective tissue, such as tendons and ligaments, are gradually replaced by bone (ossified). This condition leads to bone formation outside the skeleton (extra-skeletal or heterotopic bone) that restricts movement. This process generally becomes noticeable in early childhood, starting with the neck and shoulders and moving down the body and into the limbs. People with FOP are born with abnormal big toes (hallux valgus) which can be helpful in making the diagnosis. Trauma, such as a fall or invasive medical procedure, or a viral illness may trigger episodes of muscle swelling and inflammation (myositis). These flareups lasts for several days to months and often result in permanent bone growth in the injured area. FOP is almost always caused by a mutation at the same place in the ACVR1 gene and is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. This condition occurs in about 1 in 1,600,000 newborns and about 800 people worldwide are known to have FOP.[1][2]Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a disorder in which skeletal muscle and
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- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Genetics Home Reference (GHR). August 2007; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/fibrodysplasia-ossificans-progressiva.
- FOP Fact Sheet. International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association. http://www.ifopa.org/what-is-fop/overview.html. Accessed 6/5/2014.
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- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- Support guidebooks published by the International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association contains information about research and treatment options, as well as articles by parents of affected children and adults with FOP offering insights into the condition.
- The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases, the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research, and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. Click on the link to view information on this topic.
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Rumination has been closely linked to risk for depression, whereas distraction has been hypothesized to decrease sad mood and to promote effective problem solving. This study investigates the hypothesis that it is not the use of specific strategies but rather their timing that is critical. Following a negative mood induction, participants were assigned to either immediately ruminate or distract followed by a second set of instructions to either ruminate or distract. Participants who initially engaged in distraction, compared to rumination, generated more effective solutions to interpersonal problems even when they subsequently engaged in rumination immediately prior to the problem solving task. In contrast, participants who engaged in distraction prior to the problem solving task generated less effective solutions when distraction followed a period of rumination. Importantly this effect was not due to differences in current mood state. The results suggest that the timing of the use of emotion regulation strategies is critical.
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- Is Timing Everything? Sequential Effects of Rumination and Distraction on Interpersonal Problem Solving
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Irish Lamb Stew
Lamb stew is Irish penicillin: a rich stew full of potatoes, leeks and carrots that'll cure whatever ails you. In traditional fashion, nothing here is browned first, just all stewed together. To keep it healthy make sure to trim the lamb of any visible fat before you cook it.Yield: 8 servings, generous 1 cup each
Active Time: 30
Total Time: 510
- 2 pounds boneless leg of lamb, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 3/4 pounds white potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 large leeks, white part only, halved, washed (see Tip) and thinly sliced
- 3 large carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 stalks celery, thinly sliced
- 1 14-ounce can reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 cup packed fresh parsley leaves, chopped
Combine lamb, potatoes, leeks, carrots, celery, broth, thyme, salt and pepper in a 6-quart slow cooker; stir to combine. Put the lid on and cook on low until the lamb is fork-tender, about 8 hours. Stir in parsley before serving.
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- Make Ahead Tip: Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days or freeze for up to 1 month. | Equipment: 6-quart slow cooker
- To clean leeks, trim and discard green tops and white roots. Split leeks lengthwise and place in plenty of water. Swish the leeks in the water to release any sand or soil. Drain. Repeat until no grit remains.
- For easy cleanup, try a slow-cooker liner. These heat-resistant, disposable liners fit neatly inside the insert and help prevent food from sticking to the bottom and sides of your slow cooker.
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|7 g (2 g sat, 3 g mono)
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|427 mg
|803 mg
Nutrition Bonus Vitamin A (139% daily value), Vitamin C (26% dv), Potassium (23% dv), Folate & Iron (15% dv).
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Comment from: Carter, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: February 06
I was snorkeling in Thailand when I stepped on a sea urchin. The guide had a 3" corroded snap shackle which he used to fairly forcefully tap on the area (4 spines). He alternated this with soaking the site in vinegar for about 15 min. The dark black spots faded over the next few hours, after which I have been able to walk. I gave him a generous amount of the folding stuff for saving my vacation!
Comment from: Rmcw, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: April 18
I was accidentally carried by a wave over coral reef in the Northwestern part of Puerto Rico. Along with several serious scrapes and bruises, I walked out with about 40 sea urchin spines embedded deeply in both feet. We used vinegar and a hot salt water soak, but were unsuccessful in removing the spines because they were too deep under the skin. After dealing with the pain for two days, I went to the emergency room. Most of the spines were surgically removed using a local anesthetic. I was placed on an I.V. and prescribed a heavy dose of antibiotics and pain medication. A week later I returned home and had a second surgery. I was put under and another 16 very deeply embedded spines were removed. It's been two weeks and I am still getting headaches and occasional excessive sweating possibly from the medication. My follow up appt. for the second surgery is tomorrow. What an experience. I hope to never have another encounter with sea urchins.
Comment from: Watersportsnomore, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: March 29
Yesterday I accidentally stepped on some sea urchins in south Maui. I was near shallow rocks when aggressive waves pushed me towards them while boogie boarding. I got multiple sea urchin puncture wounds on the soles of both feet. Ouch! It was very painful, especially after my adrenalin wore off. I had a hot shower, then tried to remove some of the bigger splinters myself but was unable to. Most were embedded too deep. I had to go to an urgent care clinic, where the doctor removed each one by lancing and digging with sharp forceps. No topical anesthetic, however he did inject local lidocaine on four different spots on the sole of one of my feet to get at the larger and deeper ones. That was even more painful than the original injury! I'm now on oral antibiotics and limping around...
Comment from: Dan, 25-34 Male (Patient) Published: September 11
I landed on a sea urchin after jumping off the top of a boat off the coast of Zanzibar. Four spines have punctured my heel.
Comment from: Traveller, 25-34 Male (Patient) Published: August 16
I got knocked by a wave into a rock full of sea urchins while fishing and took about 50 spines in the foot and butt. I was able to remove most spines but still have about 5-10 that I haven't gotten out. They're mostly in my butt cheek. They're not infected yet, and I'm hoping they will just dissolve without infection.
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I have just accidentally experienced a very large sea urchin spike.
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I accidentally stepped on a sea urchin by my both feet on the beach of the coastal town of Mombasa in Kenya, East Africa. The spikes were too painful. I cried for help and was carried to the Red Cross rescue cabin by my sister. I am still undergoing treatment as the spikes are not falling off after keeping my feet in hot water as advised by rescuers and the doctor. I still have a lot of pain and I cannot walk.
Comment from: mike1960, 45-54 Male (Patient) Published: October 17
I got the sting of a sea urchin on west coast of Ireland while diving. The needle from the sea urchin has infected the joint of my middle finger. I am writing this report from the hospital. I have already spent five days in the hospital on double dose of antibiotics to reduce the infection. They tell me that if there is no difference in my finger, I will be going for surgery.
Comment from: Loopssat, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: August 30
I was severely punctured by the spines of a sea urchin in Cozumel, Margaritaville. About 30 spines entered the sole of my foot while attempting to push myself up the ladder to get back on patio deck. Worse pain I've ever felt. I went into panic mode while my foot was feeling numb. Vinegar was poured on it. It didn't help too much but the suggested remedy was urine. I had to do anything to take this pain away. Don't be scared or freaked out because it made a big difference. I limped all the way back to my cruise ship. In about seven hours I was able to dance again with the help of tequila!
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RSA Insurance Group Plc has reduced its reliance on the U.K. motor market for earnings and cut jobs as Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester looks to boost profitability and shore up the balance sheet.
RSA reported a 39 percent drop in premiums in U.K. personal motor insurance in the first six months of the year as it ended relationships with some brokers and closed its eChoice brand, the London-based company said in a statement today. The insurer said it cut more than 100 jobs in Britain and is considering additional reductions in the second half.
"The U.K. motor market everyone knows has not made any money," Hester, 53, said on a conference call from London. "Our U.K. business is smaller than what it was so the company is not as reliant on the sector. We simply can't afford to write the level of unprofitable business."
A Towers Watson & Co. report last month showed that U.K. prices for new car insurance policies have fallen for a record 10 straight quarters amid regulatory changes and increased competition. Car insurers Admiral Group Plc and Esure Group Plc said they see no sign of a recovery.
RSA, which operates in more than 30 countries, reported a pretax profit of 69 million pounds ($116 million) in the first half as it reduced employment across all regions, including Scandinavia. That compares with a loss of 494 million pounds in the second half and a 250 million-pound profit a year earlier.
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The insurer also took another loss from its Irish unit of 64 million pounds as the company continues to repair an accounting scandal that led to three profit warnings in the fourth quarter and the resignation of Simon Lee as CEO.
"We are pleased to rebound straight back into profit after a wrenching and difficult loss-making year," Hester said. "Ireland is proving a bit more expensive than we had thought. We believe we can get Ireland more or less into profit by 2015."
The former CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said the company is looking to sell additional assets, including in Europe, after raising more than 600 million pounds from sales in eastern Europe, Canada and China. He said the company plans to restart dividend payments when it reports full-year results for 2014. The insurer scrapped shareholder payouts in February.
The shares were down 1.4 percent to 437.9 pence at 2 p.m. in London trading, leaving the stock up 7.9 percent this year. That compares with a 1 percent gain for the FTSE 350 Nonlife Insurance Index in 2014.


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